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> Why would you want these then? What about your current headphones isn't good enough that you are willing to pay $600?

Can't speak for others, but I simply want good quality over ear headphones for sitting at my desk listening to music while coding. I have a set of decent AKG over-ear headphones, but I'm tired of the cable and there are times when ANC would be nice. It would also be nice to have a set for watching TV in the evening.

Not sure why so many people have their panties in a twist about this. Apple makes arguably the best wireless tech in the business. People keep comparing these to high end wired headphones (without ANC) which completely misses the point.
For most of the software on my computer, the developer certificate is enough information to know what software I'm running.

All your ISP can see is certificate hashes, OCSP lookups and DNS queries. It can't know what certificate hash is connected to what developer application…
Both AirPods that have been released have already been wayyyyy better than every “established” earbud product in their price category. Don’t see why you would assume that AirPods Max would all of a sudden be worse.
That's in comparison to these $550 ApplePods Max.
Open the page in new private window. The home page for non auth'd users has changed.
this might be a reflection of dark traits if you're blatantly harming your coworkers, say, by doing this. But otherwise I'd say no, it's not evidence of a dark trait to work at the minimum required level. You don't owe a corporate entity more than that.
I can't help but find this a little funny, because I consider Sennheiser the least risky purchase in the audiospace, but at the end of the day, the market for Senn is very different from the market for Apple. That point just typically falls on deaf ears in the audio crowd.
The dream of many a disgruntled intellectual teen is to have a dark personality, yet be so good at the hard skills that people put up with it.

The most unproductive form this can take is when dark personality traits are seen as a signal of brilliance... “Well if they’re such an asshole they must be good at their job or they would have been shown the door already”.

See also: the idolisation of Rick from Rick and Morty
USPS barely breaks even plus or minus a couple percent any given year while also being financially prudent with its pension obligations and substantial federal oversight that keeps it from doing particularly slimy things to make a buck.

All the "hurr durr it should be nationalized" and "hurr durr it should be privatized" noise is just the partisan hacks from both sides doing their thing. It's pretty much fine as it is, even if its service level for parcels is slightly worse than the private carriers
lol fair point.
>How many trucks are available for rental? Can every shipper get one?

Isn't the car rental industry in shambles due to covid-19? There's probably plenty of trucks (or similar vehicles such as SUVs/minivans) available for rent for cheap.

>Can small shippers organize cooperatives to get access to them?

Small shippers likely won't face issues with volume, and even if they do they can use their own personal vehicles.

>Who's going to drive them?

All the people unemployed from covid?
In a nutshell: client encrypts to proxy, which decrypts & removes client info, then asks resolver.

> “What ODoH is meant to do is separate the information about who is making the query and what the query is,” said Nick Sullivan, Cloudflare’s head of research.

> In other words, ODoH ensures that only the proxy knows the identity of the internet user and that the DNS resolver only knows the website being requested. Sullivan said that page loading times on ODoH are “practically indistinguishable” from DoH and shouldn’t cause any significant changes to browsing speed.
Are you saying the bar for "playable" (for Metro Exodus in this case) is 144-165 FPS @ 1440p or what's the pre-condition you would define for the label?

Perhaps multiple labels other than just "playable" make sense (runs, playable, enjoyable, excellent, …)? Appreciate any input to make the info on the site relatable for people who care about gaming on Macs.
Extended yes. And has been for years without a single issue. Immediate family all on Fedora. Very little maintenance, automated updates. Desktop software installed through flatpaks. Easy remote management. Users don't care about the OS as long as they know how to open the browser, email, word processor, Skype, Zoom, etc.
CentOS Stream is going to move at the same pace as RHEL, just ahead of it.
Another potential misuse of Kafka I've been wondering about is how a single Kafka instance/cluster is often shared by multiple microservices.

On one hand the ability to connect multiple microservices to a central message broker is convenient, but on the the other hand this goes against the microservice philosophy of not sharing subcomponents (databases, etc). I wonder where the lines should be drawn.
There is a long legacy of EL integration and know-how in various particle physics experiments (and research computing clusters, for that matter...).

If RH doesn't release some "Academic Version" (but who would even trust that at this point?), then I suspect revival of Scientific Linux or adoption of shudders Oracle Linux is more likely than a switch to Debian. FreeBSD is probably a non-starter.
It's great that Nim is pushing boundaries in the memory management space. I remember reading how Java and Go were able to scan large heaps faster and faster. But what if you don't even scan the heap? Brilliant.
Moving off TravisCI was a good decision. A couple of months back their support stopped responding even though we were paying TravisCI significant sums of money. Their service had all sorts of glitches and wasn’t very reliable.

If they were walking away from people who wanted to give them money, I can imagine they don’t give a shit about OSS projects where they lose money.

TravisCI taught me a hard lesson. Relying on 3rd party for CI is a losing bet if you care about reliability and guaranteed capacity.
Congratulation for choosing a free License like BSD/Apache/MIT.
They don't let engineers design and implement UX/UI's but instead have them create properly designed UX/UI by UX/UI people who know what they're doing? It does make sense, I have no idea where does the notion of engineers doing UX/UI came from, would we want UX/UI people to actually code the software delivering their designs? ;)
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> US tries to ban 1 app that is being used to spread propaganda, farm user data, and is considered a national security threat. And everyone loses their shit over it.

Everyone loses their shit over it because it's a direct example of the US government potentially violating the first amendment. They may claim that the app is being used to spread propaganda, farm user data, and is a "national security threat", but they've done very little other than raise the specter of "China" to prove that. Their claims of justification have been met with significant push back and, as far as I'm aware, they haven't provided any meaningful proof of their claims.

So yes, it's well-worth it for people to get up in arms about the US government censoring and shutting down access of US customers to a phone app. That's a hugely dangerous precedent to set and one that shouldn't be done lightly.
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And something "too big to fail" like GM or the big banks aren't...?

As soon as the state decides to prop a failing business up, it's no longer capitalism and the state gets control of the companies decision making process.
It feels like the courts are our second failsafe mechanism. Its pretty unnerving to be relying upon that.
I don't think you need to be an audiophile to notice that my $160 Beyerdynamic DT880 would blow any AirPods out of the water in terms of sound quality. And also comfort honestly.
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CentOS is dead, long live CentOS Stream
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> The mechanisms of Apple fanboyism work like a religion or a cult

OK buddy. Lemme go find you a soap box. BRB.
https://uk.pcmag.com/headphones/3341/the-best-noise-cancelli...
Lots of alternatives and with not so heavy price tag.
But reading comments here I regret posting my reaction.
Obviously the new age Apple users deserve everything that they get. I am happy that this company has nothing to do with me, and my office macs are not T2 and will run Linux for years to come.
Enjoy your overpriced vertically integrated shiny nonsense and don't forget to buy collectable ear cushions, only 70 bucks.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ0E3ZM/A/airpods-max-ear...
In my experience - as both a player and listener - minimalism is really difficult to do well! It's a lot of work to avoid becoming repetitive white noise. But to be fair, even Mozart and Beethoven had their occasional duds.
Thank you! I don't own any, and they wouldn't go well with most of the music I listen to, but I'm glad to see someone actually defending Beats on HN.

One of the weirdest myths around audio is that it's possible to objectively rate specific speakers/headphones/etc - while there's no such objective rating for music, which is _the thing that you are playing_ on said headphones! I've listened to a number of very high end setups, and frankly for a lot of music (most pop, for example) you're better off with a pair of AirPods. Yes, with the $2000 setup you hear all the details, but did anyone ever ask if you wanted all those details? And while bass with more "oomph" might not be the most accurate, it often makes the music more fun to listen to.

In my opinion, the entire debate around audio has been focusing on completely the wrong thing: some sort of objective measure of "quality", as if it's some measure you can put a number on and simply compare A to B. Many of my favorite songs, in my experience, lose their power and emotion when listened to on an "audiophile" setup. Sometimes you don't need the details: maybe a bit of distortion and bass is a good thing. And that's just talking about the sound! Getting into the actual experience, there are a ton of non-audiophile products that provide a far superior experience. The actual sound quality of some beat-up 70s rock records and an old turntable isn't great, but the experience is lovely. And the user experience of AirPods + an Apple device is wonderful. Meanwhile the user experience of audiophile products is often (not always, but often) terrible. I've tried a couple of those portable hi-fi players and they are incredibly frustrating. And I love my Etymotics earbuds, but they have to be inserted so deep into the ear that they freak out your average Joe that tries them.

That is to say: I feel the whole audio world should stop with the obsession of some weird measure of accurate, "high quality" sound over everything else. Imagine if other things had the same obsession - people looking at art based solely on some weird measure of "picture quality" and "crispness", or buying extremely expensive, ugly, uncomfortable cars because some Internet reviewer made some graphs showing they had better "drive quality".
While true, that's largely ortogonal to why China is so very much a dictatorship.
Examples of assholes abound, sure.

Einstein was, by all accounts I've seen, a pretty nice fellow. Being an asshole isn't a required characteristic.
Maybe you should spend more than 10 seconds Googling?

You could, for example, read the story you linked, which states: "Despite health officials knowing the man died in a motorcycle crash, it is unclear whether or not his death was removed from the overall count in the state."

So it's a nothing story, with no statement of fact included at all. Just "unclear whether or not" against repeated statements by state officials that "not."
In China it's referred to as 中国特色社会主义, which means "socialism with Chinese characteristics"
Sure, but SF is temperate year-round. Winter weather cycling's definitely doable but I immensely prefer cycling in SF year round, where I don't have to plan ahead or remember any warm gear. And I find not being able to bike for errands surprising, unless you lived outside of SF proper? I exclusively ran errands walking/biking/by bus for several years.
Nice, I was looking at your project the other day but couldn't use GPL. Now we can give it a try.
They've basically ceded the entire ecosystem to Canonical with this move and haven't realized it yet.

And we're all worse off for it.
I'm sure they work for some ears but you have to admit that Apple itself has categorized rubber tips as a premium feature even though much cheaper competitors have had that design.
They should spell it as StateOfTheArt.AI, I can't do anything but read it as "state of t-heart" all the time..
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Sounds like a business opportunity for Security experts to consult for journalists.
This is a very good point. If transportation through space becomes routine, does that affect the ability to detect nuclear first strikes, and what does it do to the calculus of mutually assured destruction?

Hopefully this can be solved with comparable improvements in monitoring and/or adjustments to second strike capabilities.
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If the US is doing it, then China must be doing it too.
Well, you're not wrong, but to be fair, the US is known to engage in covert activities and it's foreign (and some domestic) activities are often diametrically opposed to what the US claims to stand for.
Only in the sense that the lion is a specialized type of mammal, rather than king of the jungle.

Caches are global state in sheep’s clothing. In many languages and implementations, they can be mutable shared state, which leads to unexpected side effects and concurrency bugs that may cross transaction or user boundaries. It’s a covert channel where code interacts without ever talking to each other. In languages without static analysis you cannot determine quickly which pieces of code talk in this fashion. It’s all secretly coupled instead of overtly coupled. You only learn by vast experience, and in the interim you make mistakes, which makes the oldest team members appear capable and the newest unworthy of trust. But it’s the people who tilted this playing field that you can’t trust. In a word: toxic.

Done right, memoization shows up clearly in your sequence diagrams, near the heart of your architecture. The top level of the code knows what’s going on, and orchestrates communication. People walking in off the street can figure out what the hell is happening, and be productive in short order.

It can often force you to think about when your system of record and your source of truth diverge. Usually I see people cache low quality precursor data for a decision, and then they have to cook it every time.

The thing I liked most about AngularJS was that you were meant to fetch all of your data fairly early in an interaction, mis-en-place style. If the data you got was a little garbage, you cooked it before any interface code ever saw it. The view just saw the nice version.

Doing so affords another architectural tool. All of that cleanup code can be moved to the backend or the database in a single refactoring, getting it out of the client. And the overt coupling makes you contend with the fact that a piece of code talks to too many hints to get its job done. It’s a mirror some do t want to look in.

The problem is, all of this involves making decisions, and a lot of developers either never learned, or learned to distrust their decisions. And rather than finding way to mitigate a bad decision, far too many of us have instead spent years or decades learning how never to make a decision at all. We’d be a lot better off with strong opinions loosely held.
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Almost every comment in this thread against the subscription licensing model is addressing a legitimate issue. This comment is not—it's misinformation/FUD. That's not how the LGPL works. The cavalier attitude of people who just utterly make up bullshit, like what's in the comment above, is something that we should have a lot less tolerance for.
I don't understand the higher end audio space and may be that's why, I don't quite understand your statement.

What makes these other companies good at audio that Apple cannot match? They are a huge company that have been making audio products for a really long time and (no matter what one thinks of them) they own Beats too. So I actually say, if Sennheiser and others can do it Apple can do it better, not just because of their approach but also because of their SW/HW integration story.
If you get a truck, that would be 100 for the truck, and the driver is most likely on the payroll already. Being a big enough shipper, you should get the loading equipment from UPs, if you don't have it already. Preload the goods, roll them on your truck, deliver them to depot and roll them of again. Or use pallets, if UPS is ok with that.

Getting the slots at the UPS depot might be tricky, so. It shouldn't be such a huge cost driver, so.
I don't think this is necessarily new with Qt 6.0. The details and pricing may have changed, but as far as I know, the commercial Qt Embedded product has always required a distribution license. This means you have to pay a royalty fee for each product that you sell that uses Qt. This is on top of the license you pay per developer to develop the software. If development is "done" but you are still distributing the product, presumably you would have had to pay the distribution license but could let the development license lapse. Has this changed with Qt 6?
That's why you partition by some id. Say stock SKU id for stock control. Then you can handle other SKUs in parallel. It's only in serial for a single SKU. That's probably the maximum performance potential your going to get in a traditional db anyway.
> I mean, so would a really great pair of headphones that costs $200 less. Also, if you are giving out $600 headphones as gifts, I would like us to be friends.

Also, please get me a line on these wireless over ear headphones with good sound and ANC you can pick up for $200.
I don't like the concept of not owning anything anymore. I don't like paying subscriptions for everything to big companies.

It's detrimental to consumers.
I like to think of it as "permissionless" license vs "permissioned" license.
The weird part is that you were always violating your contract with Mapbox by circumventing their billing code[0], so now you just have a copyright violation added on top of that. The way to bypass it is identical to what it was before.

But, the big change is in their issue[1] they opened about it:

> Can I still use self-hosted map tiles?

> Yes. Developers simply need a Mapbox account and access token to use this v2.

>

> Can I use data or tiles from Google Maps or other non-Mapbox services?

> Yes. GL JS is fully interoperable with third party map sources that provide vector or raster tiles in supported formats. Usage of v2 is billed by Map Load to the Mapbox account owner. The license terms make no distinction between data sources.

They're charging for Mapbox GL JS, even if you don't actually use their tiles.

[0]: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/blob/c7ed000f6d628531...

[1]: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10162
I didn't imply that whatsoever. But given that the US is awash in Chinese equipment and software, using that argument for this pernicious attempt at a ban is foolish sophistry. It is a farcical foundation for a justification.

It's telling that one of the most common, and earliest, comments to justify a TikTok ban is "well China banned/blocked XXXX". It is similar to this administration repeatedly justifying super-spreader events by citing looters. Is that really the standard you are striving towards?

"Would you feel different if TikTok were software of Russian origin?"

No, I wouldn't at all. That is absurd. Russia actually has a fairly healthy software industry, including many games and even security tools like Kaspersky.
Plus some of the latter Beats headphones got neutral/positive reviews, even from audiophiles. For most people who buy Beats, they meet expectations.
Lol it’s a Chinese company and the ceo admitted it censors anti china content.
0-20mA or 4-20 mA loops are super common in industrial automation for analog sensors (pressure, temperature, etc) as they're very resistant to electrical noise unlike those using voltage. The nice part is they can be easily converted back to voltage at the point of terminus using a resistor.
When determining whether a certificate has been revoked, is an Error<T> really more desirable than a segfault? Would you even expect a "is certificate revoked" function to return an Error<T>?
I really wonder how Tesla thinks I'm going to replace libQtCore.so, given that I'd presumably need to root the OS first...?
It might be a bit of a hot take but from my point of view audio is mostly a solved problem. It's not like video where we still have trade-offs in terms of quality due to the huge bandwidth and processing involved for very high resolutions as well as the difficulty of reproducing very high dynamic ranges and framerates.

None of this is relevant for audio. Despite what some audiocultists would have you believe CD quality is basically as good as it gets, you cover effectively 100% of the (normal) human hearing range, both in frequency range and dynamics. Ok, ok, technically not 100% of the dynamics, but few people care to listen to "distant ventilator on a quiet night" followed by "Airbus A380 taking off from the point of view of the jet turbine".

Of course the quality of reproduction matters a lot, playing a CD through cheap $5 earphones is not going to sound great. But even there the cost of decent quality electronics keeps dropping and dropping. You can get a good quality DAC for a trivial amount of money (and stand alone DACs are still usually overpriced because they're for the niche/enthusiast/pro market, everybody else uses whatever their smartphones/laptop/desktop has integrated).

Buying ultra high-end, ultra-expensive "audiophile" equipment these days is effectively like buying mechanical watches. It's because you like the luxury and craftsmanship, or you're making a fashion statement. Apple knows that, hence these AirPods. If you're about function over form you'd sooner get a cheapo Casio quartz watch.

And there's nothing wrong with that, it just annoys me when audiophiles try to justify their fashion statements with pseudo-science.
I admit to having owned a Glass CD or two. Even so I once heard a joke that goes "Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Knock, knock. Who's there? Philip Glass." and felt that right or wrong adequately covered some of his work.

To be fair musical tastes change over time; I found myself bored and restless relistening to some old Tangerine Dream favorites.
The problem is that the things you most want to block can trivially bypass your local DNS filtering - DoH is just standardizing something which has been done for decades.

The only effective measure is to block outbound network access and require use of a proxy, possibly optimized by allowing direct traffic only from clients with functioning endpoint monitoring agents.
>At one project, I'm convinced the decision to rewrite was political (the existing application was a C#/.NET application, the new manager Decided to have the new stuff made in Java on AWS.

When my startup was acquired, they eventually landed on rewriting our C#, AWS-hosted software so it would be in Java and ran on in-house data centers.
AFAIK GitHub isn’t losing money. They have a ton of enterprise users and that’s where the big money is. I could be wrong since they don’t publish the numbers. I wish GitHub IPOd and remained independent. Not a huge fan of Trillion dollar corps gulping everything that threatens them.