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Not entirely correct. I've run into this problem on Catalina as well, and very often it IS a bug with the phone syncing (yes people still sync, we're not all backing up our phones to iCloud).

The phone appears to be done syncing, there's no progress bar/circle/spinner anywhere, the phone might even be disconnected from USB (though some syncing can happen over wifi), and YET, and yet! The Mac refuses to let go and reboot.

Unlike the blog author though, I figured out that 'sudo reboot' works very well in this situation...
It rained earlier and it looked like papers were getting stuck on the damp slide into the dumpster. Later on things were going a little more smoothly, except for one that caught fire but then made it out of the dumpster. I don't remember what it said, but it was my favorite.

Anyway, this is basically the epitome of 2020 development work for me. I wrote a whole bunch of well-tested code ahead of an event last weekend. At the last moment, a director changed the layout of the event in about the only way I hadn't foreseen. All my careful tests passing didn't make my code work during the event, which led to a bunch of manual correction the code was meant to avoid. I imagine the Hey team feels a little similar when tests work great and then the humidity ramps up.

Both are working now, though, so all's well that ends well :)
Qualcomm has been at the Windows laptop market for a while and has yet to come out with anything nearly as performant. I'd like to see it but they've been behind for many years in the mobile space compared to Apple as well.
We're talking about non-GC apps on x86 vs. the same non-GC apps on Arm.
Yikes--that's not good. You really do need those security updates; they're not optional if your Mac is connected to the internet or has any form of communication with the outside world. There have been some nasty vulnerabilities over the past year.
It depends upon the office. Where I work, we rent space in a building, and the restrooms are shared by multiple tenants on the floor (each floor has a set of bathrooms), so I (and my fellow coworkers) have to badge out and in to use them.
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Nothing they said indicated that in any way.
THANK YOU, brother!

I really hate this (not so recent) concept of having to ask my computer “pretty please, with sugar on top, do this thing.” When I command my computer to do something I expect it to do that thing immediately. Not ask me if I’m sure, not do it later when it’s not too busy, not do something else because AI. Do it right now! Even the wording has changed. We used to command our computers, now we issue requests. And maybe if the computer feels like it, it will actually listen to the user.

On PCs it all started with the “shutdown” button. Used to be, when you wanted to turn your computer off, you flipped the mechanical switch and it’s off. Now we have all these buffers to flush and caches to sync, and inscrutable background tasks doing god knows what that you have to wait for. So now instead of the switch you need to ask very nicely: “Please oh wise computer, do this thing that was instant and reliable before!”
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I honestly feel like they won't do this for one simple reason: Why sell one devices when you can force consumers to buy two? Apple is keen on somehow making customers buy more things, more accessories, etc. They aren't the biggest company in the world for nothing.

They say it's some fridge and microwave whatever excuse, but the real reason is money. The M1 chip itself lowers their costs by almost $3B.
In general, no need for histograms, if you learn to love cumulative distribution functions (or CDF for short).

See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_distribution_functi...
Can you comment on the specific setup of this kaggle competition? Versus other finance/trading related challenges?
I had one of those! The Libretto 70CT shown in the Wikipedia photo. Loved that little thing, right up until the screen failed.

I think it sparked my love of tiny computers, which I have far too many of today.
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Apple never did a good job with this. Probably because their GUI machines always came with a mouse. Microsoft Windows was always mouse optional; the 'settings' panels are a lot harder to use with a keyboard than the 'control panel' settings were though.
Well, if there's demand, supply often follows.
This is great; emojis to entice younger generations into the world of math. I love it!
A sync should be an atomic operation. Or at the very least, reversible if it gets interrupted. In that case, a reboot should be able to happen at any time.
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Or, as the late-great Christopher Hitchens said - “Picture all experts as if they were mammals.”
A less clickbait-y title would be, "How to Run Our Database on AWS at a Reasonable Cost".

"Reasonable Cost" comes from the conclusion, and I omitted "Better Performance" since they never compare to alternatives (although they do mention Aurora).
There's more like over 200 logical fallacies.

A good starting point is https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Z-Nigel-Warburton-ebook/dp/B...
suggest the landing page state what problem you're solving so people know they're in the right place; without that context it's difficult to understand what this is and why it is different. good luck!
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> I also pointed out that Rust has to win the mindshare of C++ programmers first, before even reaching other ecosystems

C++ is just a tool, as is Rust. Rust does not need to win the mindshare of C++ programmers first to become successful. It only needs to itself as a viable alternative in whatever fields people find it useful. I believe it has.

Between WASM, embedded, and even Web development, I see a lot of "mindshare" being attracted to Rust.
You no longer need to use their DNS because they can put branch deploys on their own domain now.
And how much of the US’s population is concentrated in and around cities?

Most people in the US doesn’t have fiber internet because the rent seeking monopolies have no reason to make capital investments to provide better internet, not because of the population density.

If anything, you’re more likely to find fiber in more suburban less dense areas with new developments. They will spend to put fiber down on new construction, but for existing urban areas, no one wants run fiber through existing buildings and pavement.
The faster 68040 motherboards were available as an upgrade for the older 030 models. So it's not like a "NeXT Computer" couldn't have the 040 inside.
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Can you forcefully stop the sync or[0] reboot the still-trying-to-sync computer if the OS doesn't want you to? I'm not up to date on the material these sorts of posts are Hallmark-style-loosely-inspired-by-true-story-esque based on. Edit: FWIW, weikju seems to claim that `sudo reboot` still works correctly (forces a reboot regardless of what the OS wants) as of Catalina; I dunno about `kill -9`-ing the sync.

But other than that, yes. I was expecting this to be a legitimate problem like two-factor authentication on the computer.

0: by which I mean that both options are available, and you choose which, not that at least one is available.
I would simply like to have it since I love having all sorts of status displays and windows open at the same time.

But I'd cringe a bit folding out all those displays in public, and wouldn't want the attention it would draw, if people thought I tried to be a 'cool' member of the aforementioned groups.

At home, I could just have my seven regular displays.
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The average population density of South Korea is 507/km^2 (1,313.1/sq mi):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea

Plenty of US communities are higher than that:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
I doubt this is relevant, but a typical desktop has 2x64-bit channels and the M1 has either 4x32-bit or 8x16-bit channels.
Yeah that is exactly my point:

“ History is written by the victors” as I wrote top of thread.
Can you actually do that? ":" is the separator in the password file.
Edit: It looks like satire. My bad :)

Doesn't your article here go directly against what you're saying? https://neil.computer/notes/hacker-news-design-is-ugly/

Specifically, you redesigned HN to have more "pop" and have rounded corners and padding: https://neil.computer/content/images/size/w1600/2020/07/Scre... which is exactly what you were saying macOS looks like...

Isn't that hypocritical?
And also rule the world.
You don't need to know them all for them to be useful (this falls into what the poster calls the "black and white" fallacy.
Obviously the Bronze Age Collapse is not nearly so historically attested, and there's a lot we don't know. But your proposed series of events is not plausible. Temples, palaces, scribes, etc. are the sequelae of a highly productive economy with a lot of surplus. They disappear when the surplus disappears, which is not good for the common people either. People don't usually revolt in order to intentionally destroy their own standard of living.

Likewise, there was in fact a "Dark Age" between antiquity and the Renaissance. It's the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the high Middle Ages proper, around 500-900 (whereas the high Middle Ages are more 1000-1400). This Dark Age is marked by the collapse of population centers, long-distance trade, economic activity and standards of living in general, just like after the Bronze Age Collapse. And neither of these have much to do with the Europe of the High Middle Ages, which was a thriving civilization with plenty of surplus and thus effort to spare on science, the arts, etc. (albeit not yet as rich as classical civilization).
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By this logic should McDonald’s be worried if I start making burgers in my apartment and giving them to my friends for free?
> Remarkable how cheap the comments on stories like this tend to be. The regurgitated "Apple is bad, mmmkay" low effort posts.

It offsets the "Everything apple does is good because it’s for the betterment of humanity"-posts.
The USA plans for unleashing its atomic bombs went beyond Hiroshima and Nagasaki
How scarce resources are allocated:

free markets - whoever is willing to pay the most

socialism - whoever has political connections, corruption, whoever is willing to wait the longest in line
Think of this guaranteed bonus a retention tool (we see some churn after bonus period) - I also have 3 tiers/ratings for individual accomplishment and 3 for group. If you bag top tier for both, you are getting promoted plus the bonus is bigger than your base plus you get serious chunk in stock. It is nearly impossible to get top tier across and in my team of nearly a thousand people, I had three that did it.
Totally agree. I was rather intentionally using examples from more than a decade ago, where I was using the progress bar to observe whether or not the whole system was hung.

This was back when my best computer had a 500 MHz CPU and 512 MB of RAM.
It's an online algorithm. It's meant to be used on essentially infinite streams of data, such as a live dashboard of latencies of a running server. In that context, providing a 5 element, or any finite list as an example seems like a non sequitur.

Your examples do relate to problems the algorithm actually has in this application, but they manifest as things like "extremely large warmup time" and "adjusting to a regime change in the distribution taking time proportional to the change". For instance if your data is [1000, 1001, 1000, 1001...] then it takes 1000 steps to converge, which may be longer than the user has patience for.

However, the algorithm does always converge eventually, as long as the stream is not something pathological like an infinite sequence of consecutive numbers (for which the median is undefined anyhow).
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Apple also said they weren't going to make a phone while they were working on a phone. A denial by Apple doesn't mean much (in either direction).
You're probably correct, but there is more.

Take a 200 pound payload, add some rocket to it, let's say 10x the weight to be generous, then spin it in a circle 200 feet in diameter. You're looking at 18 thousand tons of force spinning it at 5000mph. So you're spinning 4 navy destroyers worth of force in a circle, which means you need a latch mechanism that can not only hold that much force, but release it at the exact moment to exit the biggest vacuum chamber ever created through a door that just opened at the right time, generating a mach 6+ shock wave at about 0 meters distance from the door and somehow not destroying it in the process. I don't know that it is impossible, but it is highly improbable. They'd probably have a burst disk rather than a door, because that would let you use the capsule as a bullet to penetrate the exit.

In the article they mention the payload experiencing 10000g, so they must be planning on a circle greater than 200 feet in diameter. I can't find numbers on existing satellites, but I remember reading that rockets typically top out at 6g acceleration and figure on a 10x momentary acceleration due to vibration. To tolerate 10000g the payload being launched will need to be built like a tank, rather than the relatively light current designs. To ease that requirement you could submerge the payload in liquid, but that would decrease your usable payload accordingly.

It would be impressive if they could actually pull it off. I think it would be useful for limited applications. I have watched science fiction shows where mass accelerators could basically nuke planets without radioactive fallout. Maybe this would be something similar.
> "It is illegal to install structures or art without authorisation on federally managed public lands, no matter what planet you're from," the department said.

Is that really true though? Does earth rules apply to life from other planets? And what if the extraterrestrial life are magnitudes of order stronger and technologically advanced than us? I mean we could demand it but in effect it would be nothing but words. The only reason that laws work is because of the threat of what happens if you don’t obey. If we are not in a position to threaten the extra terrestrials then we are also not in a position to dictate rules for them to follow.
Because humans today, especially the cyber-anglosphere, have a lot of issues about race and its often easier to avoid talking about it than to risk offending one group or another.
Not OP, but perhaps they are referring to secure voting systems in general.
Here's a video of the CEO at some ground breaking they did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmO0k7Nv30g&feature=emb_titl...

Maybe it's a minor thing, but it's a big tell to me. He says: "My team and I", in the possessive, and to me that always betrays something in founders that I don't like.

The best founders I know usually focus more on the team than on themselves. It's subtle, but I think it's meaningful.
Seems like I was hearing my Seattle friends brag about their Centurylink Fiber quite a long time ago -- I want to say 5 or 8 years. Maybe the initial rollout was small and it took awhile to get going?

I'm a Seattle native, down in the bay area now, and JUST got gigabit fiber. Couldn't be happier.
It's not all bad. 2020 non-M1 MBP is definitely the safe bet.

M1 machines have ways to go if you're going to use it as a developer. I hope they are worked out by the time the 16" M1 MBP gets released later next year. But I'd certainly get a non-M1 machine if I was replacing my daily driver today.
I've started to just own my ADHD as a way to destigmatize it. I'm your go-to for breadth-first search, latest tools and frameworks, creative solutions, and wielding everything from soldering irons to cloud deployments. But you might need to ride my ass a bit to stay on task.

It also has pushed me to a very CI/CD-centric and statically typed workflow (in a python-heavy AI/CV department), because I need to be able to reason about stuff I wrote on a bad brain-fog day. My philosophy is if it's easy for undermedicated me to reason about it, it's easier still for my coworkers.
This is the most infuriating part of progress bars to me. When it hangs I don’t even have a jumping off point for Google. I can only search “foo hangs during install” which almost always results in issues that are not the problem I’m experiencing because usually the most common reason isn’t the reason the majority of the time. “Foo hangs during ‘reticulating splines’” usually has far more useful results.
As a human, when I have many tabs open, I observe that everything gets really slow. All applications get slow, but especially the browser.

So I put on my engineering hat and pull up Activity Monitor and further observe (a) high memory pressure, (b) high memory consumption attributed to Chrome or Firefox, (c) high levels of swap usage, (d) high levels of disk I/O attributed to kerneltask or nothing, depending on macOS version, which is the swapper task.

I close some tabs. I then observe that the problems go away.

Swap isn't a silver bullet, not even at 3Gbytes/sec. It is slow. I haven't even touched on GPU memory pressure which swaps back to sysram, which puts further pressure on disk swap.

It's slow.
Is it market dynamics in action? Someone above said that women hate the idea of having a weight filter, and they tend to have the power on the market here (because they are more "in demand"). I know many men hate being subjected to a height filter, but they tend to have less power on the market (because most are a dime a dozen).
I would have done the same thing SpaceX does great work! They just had another successful launch with astronauts!
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What the hell is going on here? Digging through someone's post history to figure out if there are contradictions in what someone says? Can we not just evaluate what people say on its own merit and instead of putting people under the lens for hypocrisy?
That doesn't make him a feminist icon.
I had WebPass in my first two apartments in San Francisco and it was my favorite ISP. I paid $500 for the year up front for 300/300 service.

Then I moved to a different unit where the absolute fastest option was 20/3 DSL for $70/mo.

Thankfully I’m now on Gigabit cable, but I can’t wait to get off Xfinity for something better.
Maybe, but also If developers are forced to use slow machines to develop, then they’re less likely to build. Full stop.

I'm actually in this situation right now. I develop a web application for event management. In some cases it's being used on older Chromebooks, where speed is, well, not there. While I'm testing on Chromebooks, I'm definitely not building my front end bundle on one. The faster machine I'm on, the faster I can iterate on building fast data tables, making intelligent choices about asset loading, etc.

So yeah, I think something like the Network Conditioner prefpane should exist to simulate a slow CPU for testing (does something like this exist?). But I very much enjoy my fast dev machine and I think it'll have the best overall outcome.
Zoom out. You are a tree. You need to see the forest. If you can get you & twenty of your friends to cut emissions 10%, that's far better than becoming a net zero human, and if you can get a thousand to cut 5% that's better still.

This is a collective action problem. You need to do better to lead by example, but spend most of your brain cycles on influencing others.
Why would anyone put an SSN on parler? I certainly wasn't asked for one to sign up.
Could even call it a ducking toggle.
I'm signalling more virtue than either of you two by saying I've never even heard of Birkin bags!
I like the elevated walkways present in central Hong Kong, I’d never seen a system like that to keep pedestrians away from the cars passing below for congested areas. It’s not like Las Vegas where there are a few bridges over the large streets; in Hong Kong one can walk blocks on walkways above the streets in the busy areas.
This was especially nice for US visitors since the traffic comes from an unexpected direction.

In contrast to this, I find Amsterdam, one of my favorite cities, to be full of street crossings with cars, bikes, and trains to worry about.
Awesome, I'll look into. Are you able to quickly buy/sell contracts whenever? I can live with market-timing risks, but not with risks outside of my personal decision control (e.g. i want to sell a futures contract but the platform says I can't for w/e reason, or they can't find a buyer, etc)
I wonder how many of the people who always complain about this and that every time MacBooks are mentioned will actually put their money into this thing that supposedly takes care of everything..
At the hardware level, does this mean they have a much faster TLB than competing CPU's, perhaps optimized to patterns in which NSObjects are allocated? Speaking of which, does Apple use a custom malloc or one of the popular implementations like C malloc, tcmalloc, jemalloc, etc.?
I think the suggestion is that the best OS developers were allocated to producing M1-compatible OS rather than maintaining x86-compatible OS.
> Just because in some abstract mathematical sense they're fair, doesn't mean lotteries are equitable or just in the way people care about.

On the contrary, I think most people would say that this kind of lottery is equitable and just. It's fair in a very obvious sense, which feels better than other ways of allocating things.

> Besides, the idea that it's wasted or neglected, it's crap. The government has basically unlimited resources. How much money did we borrow, how many checks did we cut in the last 7 months, and what were the implications really? It is never about making the most of a scarce resource, there is never really scarcity. And maybe it's not justice either.

Apartment space in NYC absolutely is scarce. A lot more people want to move there than there's space for; you can move numbers in bank accounts round all day and that will still be true.
That would just cause even more problems with air resistance. We've flown at 5,000 miles per hour before, but nowhere near ground level.

This thing is going to tear itself apart as soon as it leaves the centrifuge.
Surely you don't think those two types of posts come anywhere near parity, numerically?
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If you want to see cities that never sleep, you'll probably have to head for Asia.
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