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It on iPad 6. I think if I had an iPad Pro (that also has a 120Hz screen I think?) it would be the same.
They still lock features out if you do. You can't set your home location in google maps unless you allow them to track and store your location 24/7. Meanwhile ios manages perfectly fine keeping that data on your phones local storage.
Yeah, sorry, it's a fair enough way of phrasing it, I just thought the implication of it was funny.
The default is smaller text than native, not larger.
I suspect the team responsible for the capsule heat shield will get their first good night's sleep in a while.
It goes back to well before 1985. In fact, Ken Olsen explained DEC's Unix "strategy" very clearly back in 1984:

"One of the questions that comes up all the time is: How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX?

Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many years ago. Today, much of UNIX being done is done on our machines. Ten percent of our VAXs are going for UNIX use. UNIX is a simple language, easy to understand, easy to get started with. It's great for students, great for somewhat casual users, and it's great for interchanging programs between different machines.

And so, because of its popularity in these markets, we support it. We have good UNIX on VAX and good UNIX on PDP-11s.

It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run out of things they can do with UNIX. They'll want a real system and will end up doing VMS when they get to be serious about programming.

With UNIX, if you're looking for something, you can easily and quickly check that small manual and find out that it's not there. With VMS, no matter what you look for -- it's literally a five-foot shelf of documentation -- if you look long enough it's there. That's the difference -- the beauty of UNIX is it's simple; and the beauty of VMS is that it's all there."
-- Ken Olsen, president of DEC, DECWORLD Vol. 8 No. 5, 1984

And I can, in fact, verify that what Olsen said about five-foot shelves of manuals too.

And VMS was (and OpenVMS still is) an impressive operating system, some features of which the Unix/Linux ecosystem is just gaining parity with.

That said, It was commodity microcomputer hardware that doomed DEC, not it's faint hearted support for Unix, IMHO.
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A 13,000 kg lion battery would be around 2500-3000 kwhr. That's enough to drive heavy truck across the US without stopping.
DEC had such a great branding and design language. They did merch like no other! So many different things from keychains to jewelry boxes and giant "d i g i t a l" name plates. You can still find old swag on Ebay.
Amazon also tends to hide options until you "try" connecting to your network. My device refused to work without internet until I "tried" connecting to my network using an incorrect password. When I did that and the device failed, an option to skip network setup appeared. In small font at the bottom of the screen, of course.
libc is much smaller than other libraries, and as another has pointed out, compiling it statically will get you only the symbols you actually use, so it doesn't even equal the total size of libc. Which makes more sense? Bloating your executable with ~100+MiB of Qt crap, or bloating it with 100KiB of libc symbols?
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1. The amount that you "borrowed" is a fake number, though, with no correspondence to the true cost of the course and is non-existant for e.g. Scottish students in Scotland.

2. Your salary will (is expected to) inflate; the repayment threshold currently does not, so the "time value of money" has something to say about how much you repay. Someone whose salary remains constant on the equivalent of £40k will find their repayments an increasing burden.
My post ends with /s and was a snarky way of saying exactly what you just said.
You may be thinking of OSIRIS-REx, the similar NASA mission which collected its samples a few weeks ago. That's still on its way home.
It's actually in vogue. Continentals attempt to internalize Analytic tropes like mathematical formalism to give more precision to their concepts and speculations. Analytics are wrestling with problems posed by Contintentals like postmodernism, resulting in new and productive avenues of research (particularly in social epistemology).
You can dim the whole OS expect the video being played. This can’t be done anywhere else at this point.

That video can have a very bright sky, for instance. You can have a bright sky and a blinding text box or neither in other OSs.

It’s also a very bright display in its own right, with 1600 nits vs the 300-400 of a regular one. And 1,000,000:1 contrast as well.
There was nothing, yes. But if Austalian mail providers joined the fray, the same excuse would apply to them as well. At what point does it become "genuine" censorship on your scale? Even in China, there are ways to get past the firewall, so if the ability to pass information somehow is sufficient to have freedom of speech, then China has that.

The Russian example doesn't work out the way you think it does, though. Yes, it's by definition democratic, and it's also oppressive - but saying that the propaganda that led to its popularity should be censored to prevent such laws amounts to saying that democracy is a sham, because people should only be allowed (by whom?) to hold "safe" opinions. If that argument were made openly - that we should abandon democracy in favor of rule by the enlightened elite, because people just can't be trusted to make the right choices unconstrained - I'd still disagree, but that would be a different conversation. But advocating censorship of political propaganda for the purpose of maintaining the illusion of democracy is just hypocritical.

My actual takeaway from that story is simply that nobody should have the power to do such things on a large scale. In a more decentralized political system, there can still be localized hotspots of oppression - but they don't suddenly apply to tens of millions of people at once, and with no easy way to escape.
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I had noticed this on my iPhone 11 Pro and I hate it. HDR doesn’t give you “whiter than white”, it just adds more steps of gray.

White is white. White on a display is the brightest point the display can display.

What Apple is doing, as the article explained, is showing regular white as gray. That’s not cool, that just stupid. It’s exactly what TVs at Best Buy do when showing SD vs HD content: They ruin the regular image just so you can see the difference.

The issue is that my monitor is not a demo display, it’s what I use sometimes in daylight, and I’d very much appreciate that extra brightness that Apple takes away from me.

You know what this means for you? Everything you see and watch on your computer is not a bright as it could be. On an LCD screen that’s a big deal because suddenly your blacks are brighter (because of the backlight at 100%) and your whites are dimmer (because Apple saves brightness on the off chance that you have HDR content)
Give me a break. Some of the world’s most stable democracies have both a high level of taxation and a significant social benefit system.

In America, in 2017, there was a group who decided that they could “vote themselves largesse from the public treasury” and it was not “voters”. The end result is referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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The issue isn't network filtering, it's encryption.

Standard DNS is unencrypted. DNS-over-HTTP is encrypted. Or DNSSEC or any number of newer standards that secure the DNS lookup. At that point, filtering will require MITM proxies, whether it's for DNS or HTTP or any other protocol.

It's a trade-off with security on the open network meaning harder penetration and control in your internal network. There's no easy answer.
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You've got the whole process the wrong way around. First you decide on the software that you want, and then you choose the hardware to run it. I want LG WebOS and there's only one platform on which it runs. Plugging some PC into the same panel without the software doesn't get me there. In fact, I'm sure it would be an endless mess suitable only for people whose time has no value.
I haven't seen an M1 Mac in person yet. Does the hardware actually switch resolution on the M1 Macs? Or does it only change the software scaling and leave the hardware alone? I suspect the laptop panels just stay in their native resolution. What about external monitors?

MacOS sends a notification to each app that the screen size changed, so fast CPUs speed that up. Lots of cores can process those notifications in parallel.
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My dad traveled fixing PDP and VAX machines. Still has some of his test gear and lots of manuals.
Getting re enrolled next year will be twice as hard?
> A lot of ideas from DEC operating systems are due for resurrection.

I know a lot of ideas have been incorporated. Which ones that haven't are still worth it?
The alpha was a screamer, that’s for sure. This article ignores another influential architecture that arose from Gordon Bell’s 18-bit PDP-1: the 36-bit PDP-6 that turned into the 36-bit “mini mainframe” PDP-10 and later -20 series that were the default research machines for major research universities corporate research labs, and in particular ARPANET development. In fact network byte order is big endian because these machines were.

The PDPD-10s were also the first “lisp machines”: two 18-bit addresses fit in a single machine word, and several lisp primitives were single instructions. The instruction set was compact, regular, and fun to program in.
> conformism is good when it comes to vaccination or social distancing

Not necessarily. Back in early March of this year, "conformism" with respect to social distancing and wearing masks would have meant not doing it, because practically nobody else was doing it and all of the public health authorities were still saying it wasn't necessary for the general population. Based on how the pandemic spread during that time period, that conformism was not a good idea. (And my wife and I did not conform; we started social distancing and wearing masks and gloves when making unavoidable trips to crowded places like the grocery store, at the end of February. Neither of us have had any health issues.)
As sibling comment wrote, the "do you want to review $location?" prompts come from you enabling location history, which is a Maps feature they offer to users who want to keep track where they've been.

You can enable location services (needed for apps like Maps, Lyft, Tinder, Find My Device) without enabling location history. Whether they still record your history, who knows.
The article says that if you turn your brightness up, the effect goes away. Is that true for the iPhone as well?
Didn’t the Firefox DevTools team get pretty hard with layoffs?
Yawn. “Thou shalt not kill” is a property right?
These are flaws depending on your goals.

Compared to dumb animals, these are fantastic. They keep man alive, help him thrive.

But for advanced civilization management and the modern world? They don't work quite as well.
A lot of automakers seem to be making electric cars because they have to instead of embracing it as a gift. I understand it's more expensive (batteries) and there is potentially lower margin, but it's also an opportunity to create a second tier in a strong brand (pricing, experience, etc), or re-invent a failing brand (new dealers, new design language, etc).

For companies like Aston Martin, the sound of the engine/exhaust are a large and visceral part of the experience. But again, this is an opportunity to create something different. Audi took the opportunity to create a really cool sound for their e-tron:

https://youtu.be/MUcbXplAvSc?t=74

Admittedly, it doesn't sound that great in the video, but I heard one drive past me as I was walking and it sounded very natural, like it was the noise the motors were making. It's not annoyingly loud, it's very subtle, and it really adds the same thing a great exhaust note can.
Read this paper. Then read his book, The Relational Model for Database Management: https://codeblab.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/rmdb-codd.pd....

It’s mind boggling how much he anticipated about data management, and was absolutely accurate about. As someone who unfortunately learned databases via ORMs, I started to dive into his writing directly and learn more about the relational model itself.

It’s amazing how much power is in the model that I was completely unaware of, like domains: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/sql-createdomain.html.

It also inspired me to learn more about math, specifically set theory. Set theory is the most practically useful math you can learn as a programmer. It’s a shame that it’s not common to communicate in terms of set theory more at work, considering how much we intuitively use it. You can’t work in a complicated data model without talking about unions, and the relational model itself is just an extension of set theory, very clearly defined via set theory.

It’s funny. Almost every popular tool or technique we use has a clear and direct lineage from math, yet we have a huge anti-math sentiment in our industry at large. I mean. It’s not funny. It’s tragically ignorant.
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> I think that one of the fundamental principles of software engineering is to code in such a way that future change is contained

Uff...that's a heavy statement. There is no such hard and fast rule. In fact its mostly the opposite, I argue. 90% of the abstractions don't ever get used. Write twice and then make an abstraction.

I think you're doing software engineering the wrong way, sorry to say.
We're literally _still_ fighting this battle between VMS and Unix. E.g. WSL2.
Ah, okay -- that I did not know. The effect of the policy over the past decades has still been to allow the value to dramatically increase relative to the taxation.
I'd rather be hurt by my safety razor than by my chainsaw though.
this thread made me feel bad for you dang. Keep up the hard and good work!
I totally agree. I walk 5 miles a day, usually 6 days a week. It helps me in many of the ways described in the article.

For me, a big catalyst was the acquisition of a Fitbit. Having an easy way to count the steps is a big help.
There is none and after having used Elixir for a year going back to Python for anything non-trivial input/output parsing feels really cumbersome now.

Other comments have mentioned that functional idioms make code harder to read for devs unfamiliar with the concepts but the pipe operator IMHO has no downsides (I am not even sure what it really has to do with funcational programming, other than that it happens to be used in more functional languages).
Aston Martin never has to go electric. They can offer what they offer now at the super luxury prices they charge.

They aren't pushing enough volume to matter.
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Reminds me early of 2000s when I taught code-rip techniques by extracting and fine-tuning a shuffling algorithm from a popular mp3 player, then re-assembling as PIC and inserting back to the binary.
A government didn't create them in the first place, at least not in the US. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were drafted by small committees, and later ratified by each state outside of the existing (paralyzed) governmental process.
> you present it as if the non-eurocentric world is more conducive to the continental tradition

Ah okay, I see the confusion: I mean "western philosophy".
Could have sold info to short sellers no?
VLAs are a bad idea and nobody doing modern C should be touching them. It's alloca() magic and introduces all sorts of stack destroying risk.
Interesting, the article says that screenshots look fine. Are you using a third-party capture tool?
Personally, I think R as a language is absolutely beautiful. The libraries have tons of warts, and many different styles. And there are perhaps too many object orientation systems built on it. But that you could even build multiple object oriented systems points to how powerful the language is.

I think it's functional orientation and the way that for loops are neglected make it seem completely insane to many people. But this is a far smaller fraction of people today than it was in 2000. back then, Java and C++ didn't even have lambdas. Since then, procedural languages have gained a lot the "mind-breaking" functional features of Lisp-derived languages. Python and JavaScript have become far more common. All the things that made the language of R "weird" and unusable to the Java/C++ crowd have been adopted elsewhere.
Nothing is more frustrating than having a colleague who never gets things done and are constantly writing abstractions for days. Like bro, you ain't gonna need this - I know you're flexing your abstract methods but it is fucking useless if it will never have more than one overrides.
I believe parts of German law enforcement works like that. Copyright (or did 25 years ago when I was there). Lawfirms exist that just look for violations and "take them to court" to get part of the damages. Kind of like bug bounties.
I took the same path. Smoked for 30 years, switched to vaping, mixed my own e-liquid and tapered down to zero. Each time I dropped the nicotine level, I would get a headache for a couple days. But once it was down to zero, I picked up the vape a few times out of habit then noticed I was picking it up less and less. Like yours it sits on my desk and I might take a drag on it once or twice a week for the flavor, but there's no need like there was when nicotine was part of the equation.
I’ve seen lots of reports of interference with WiFi and/or Bluetooth on the older models (I believe since fixed). Recent models have lots of reports of bad backlight uniformity: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/lg-5k-ultrafine-27md5kl...
He was right... Enter Windows NT.
read the article looking at a blue dec-10 rack header I have on my bookshelf. If I'd read it at work, I would have been looking at a Dec-10 Core-plane
Here’s the thing. I’m very harsh about criticism of DRY. On the one hand, it does make sense to question your beliefs and to avoid being dogmatic. On the other, it’s very clear that DRY is an absolute prerequisite for any kind of software quality. In fact, it’s the absolute bare minimum. You cannot have quality software with duplicated logic. Not even duplicated twice.

So software engineering is really the art of learning how to properly create DRY code. We should focus more on how to better create DRY code and not talk about the few times where the abstractions we created didn’t work out.

We need abstractions to survive as an industry.
On Amazon, I have almost no way to guarantee I'm actually going to get the edition (print, that is) I intended to purchase. Barnes & Noble lets me buy the particular edition.

Amazon lumps in rip-off photocopy books with the actual print editions and calls them all "hardcover" or "paperback" with different prices. You get an ISBN for some edition of the book, but not necessarily the one you have selected when you add it to your cart.

I've taken to buying more print books from B&N for this reason. (War and Peace, Shogun, Moby-Dick... it's hard to find proper hard cover editions of these books, especially if there's a particular translation you're looking for, like in the case with Tolstoy.)

I have this silly hope that the market will begin to swing away from Amazon as consumers attempt to avoid the rampant counterfeiting, and the lack of specificity and control for what you're actually buying.

Time will tell.
Why would wifi be more concerning? The access points would presumably be broadcasting the same subnets as are available on ethernet.
Does this exist but applied to industrial/aerospace/military interface design? The extreme example that always comes to mind for me is the Apollo Command Module [0], but all different kinds of more complicated/advanced interfaces exist, and I think that a joint learning effort between designers of those types of applications, and traditional software design, could yield amazing improvements for both sides, and every user of both types of systems.

xipho described a similar idea between video game designers/developers, and the scientific community here in this thread. [1]

[0] https://www.si.edu/sites/default/files/newsdesk/fact_sheets/...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25316420
Something I was missing on that page was that walking can also be used to get from point A to point B...

In the last couple of years, one of the ways in which I've been trying to get extra exercise is to take a bit of extra time and perform errands partially or entirely on foot instead of relying on public transportation or driving. I generally try to do all my trips shorter than 2 miles or so on foot.
Probably thinking of this one https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex
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This is very wrong. I worked as an intern at WhatsApp in 2013 and they had over 30 employees, a lot were actually customer support. And “customer support” doesn’t do it justice. Every feature shipped was translated across 30 languages and CS was made up of people who could do a lot of the translation in house as well as provide actual support. I was an engineer on the website that dealt with all the support articles and translation, but the platform teams were all two engineers per platform, and then the backend engineers who worked magic with erlang.
It has always fascinated me how many of the most famous architects and overall aesthetics of early computing and networked infrastructure began/occurred at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, yet few of my fellow students/coworkers that I've discussed it with over the years were aware of its existence/contributions to computing before I brought it up.

- Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson's idea for DEC (from the article)

- J. C. R. Licklider's Intergalactic Network

- Wesley A. Clark's TX-2/light pen/etc.

- Jay Forrester's SAGE consoles (which Margaret Hamilton worked on from 1961 to 1963, btw)

- Roberts and Marill's TX-2 <=> Santa Monica Q-32 circuit-switching proof of concept

- Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy founding MIT CSAIL in 1959, a year after he joined the Lab staff

- the 1965 packet switching experiment between two Lincoln computers

- Robert Fano's work in the Radar Techniques Group (yes, the Fano from Shannon–Fano coding)

- etc. etc.
I used to walk a ton when I lived somewhere with nice walking trails and it was close enough to enough things (i.e work). I used to go to one of the parks in the early evening when it was cooling down and not as many people. I twas conveniently located right outside downtown separated by a river. I used to spend hours just thinking and would come back up after dark walk into town and grab me something to eat. Sadly now, I live somewhere with an even worse climate than before and the only parks remotely to me are a bit out of the way and close extremely early, so I don't get out as much anymore.
Is that true? I don’t know what COVID policies are but back in my day you could generally take a year off and come back without needing to reapply. Of course if everyone did that this year, it would create problems so I imagine colleges are trying to disincentivize it?