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> Apple is basically the BMW of computers at this point.

> it's a shame, it would be nice to go back to a point where there was more quality/durability inherent in the product.
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Apple has always had hardware reliability issues.

The unibodies had suicidal GPUs (pretty much every dGPU model between the 2007 and 2013 had a service program at one point or another) as well as battery issues, the retinas had delaminating antiglare coating, the polycarbonate unibody macbooks had cracking issues through the entire case, …

It's possible that the pre-Intel models had less issues (that's when I switched) but I doubt it, I was always told to avoid first gens of new design like the plague (not that taking later revisions was a sure bet, but the first gens have always been full of flaws).
Not only is it viable, but it's already happening.

On a domestic level, countries like Germany have legislation that targets accelerating internal grid connections.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netzausbaubeschleunigungsges...

On a supranational level in Europe, the EU has targets to increase grid interconnections between countries.

https://ec.europa.eu/energy/topics/infrastructure/electricit...

On an intergovernmental level, outside of the EU the UK is building an underwater cable to Denmark, to share hydro and wind energy.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/13/work-beg...
They have a 14 day return on all laptops, you can pick your own loaner off the shelf.
CD, DVD and BD are all ROMs too. In a computer (and therefore videogame console) sense, these all are technically called CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and BD-ROM.
Not only mice, but genetically engineered mice non existant in nature.
I found this site from the torrentfreak link below and thought it was pretty cool.

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/annual/2021
If you flip thru the years at least the top movies in 2018 have more downloads than the top movies in 2021. I think that can somewhat safely answer your questions.

EDIT: WRONG because as a comment points out below older movies also might just have been downloaded more over time.

From this site, it doesn't look like their was much of an uptick in top downloaded movies from 2019 to 2020. And in general torrenting has been growing less popular.

However, the numbers on this site in general don't sanity check very well for me. For example, the End Game Avengers movie, which was incredibly popular, was only downloaded: 2,890 times in 2019? That doesn't seem high enough to me.
Proper abstraction can have a huge upside by allowing people to understand a part of the project without the need to understand all of it. We're using abstractions all the time really, you don't need generics for that. An iterator, a collection, a file, a network connection, a database table are all abstractions. You don't have to read N millions of lines of database code to learn how to use a database. Abstractions like these are good.

Abstractions where the description of the usage (API) is just as complex as the implementation are bad, and I bet you can create them in Go quite easily without generics. At least I know it is possible in Java, and also was before Java 5.
the problem often is, the only career ladder in most companies involves management. Some people just don't want that track, and despite whatever hand waving and speech making, there really is no non management career paths. You can hand out arbitrary titles that sound more important, and you can give salary bumps, but most companies are not set up to care about the opinions of technical people from a leadership point of view. So if you are a person who is a technical person, not interested in management, you are likely not interested in the 'talk', as it always is just talk.

So your choices are learn to enjoy where you are, or have an endless chase to find a company that listens to technical people at a strategic level.
Why did you keep buying macs then?
This is no different than a massively popular movie coming out and everyone quoting it in the following weeks.
I can't speak to Bhad Bhabie's Only Fans, but I will say her song Gucci Flipflops is a good jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsp7IOr7Q9A
I’m just as capable of adding tech debt as a younger engineer is!
Coincidentally, my lag issues got a lot worse since upgrading to Big Sur. As did my thermal throttling.
org-roam should have made the list.
Not only does he run the ads (though I suspect spotify reaps those benefits), they're randomly inserting them in the podcast now and it's annoying. Sometimes it's mid sentence.

Annoying to both pay for spotify and get hammered with ads. Granted I pay for the music, but it's still annoying as all.
As a non-apple user you could be impacted indirectly by people you know being directly impacted or by Apple's practices being imported into the law. E.g. laws that attempt to outlaw encryption lacking apple-like backdoors.
in this context the only thing relevant is the fact that he's an adult man, so it seems appropriate.
The licensing process helps make sure that the electrician that has 10 years of experience in El Salvador understands American wiring codes and practices before he does something that'll burn your house down.

For sure there are common skills that all electricians share regardless of country, but there are still significant differences between countries, like in the UK ring circuits are common, but are against code in the USA.

licensing process that doesn't care about relevant unlicensed experience

The problem with unlicensed experience is that it provides no assurance of knowledge of code or safe wiring practice. Like when I found that my house had several MWBC's, but on one of them, the previous owner (or someone he hired) had replaced the tied-handle breakers with untied breakers, which leads to a very unsafe situation (another common mistake with MWBC's is moving breakers around and putting the hots on the same hot leg, which can lead to an overloaded neutral). Or worse, when I mapped out my outlets and found that the owner had put a 30A breaker on the 12 gauge wire leading to the garage outlets, presumably he was tripping the code compliant 20A breaker and "solved" that with a bigger breaker.
I've found the opposite. Before that computer bricked itself I noticed capacity was fading fast. Apparently apples threshold was if you are under 85% within a year of ownership you have a defective battery, according to the customer service agent I was chatting with. So they had me open up system profiler and we confirmed my battery was well within threshold for replacement, and they set me up with an appointment. I took it to the apple store and told them what the Apple customer service representative told me about the battery being defective. They ended up running a battery test using their internal tooling and surprise surprise, it turned out a different capacity number than system profiler said I had, and it happened to be just above the threshold for replacement. 1 year of use for full time work should not mean losing 15% of your battery capacity, but evidently according to apple this was in spec.
I'd like to see numbers on how many companies actually have beer on tap, or foosball/ping-pong tables at work in 2021.

I worked at a place with a foosball and ping-pong table in 2018, but they were infrequently used, and when they were in use, it was always the same three guys.
The classic quote: "Poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine."
I map it the same way to caps lock and experience exactly the same you describe. I noticed after the last patch a few weeks ago it went away for now. Been driving me nuts until.
Agreed - I've used virtually all the variants starting back with Powerbooks. I think the 2015 MBP Retina was the most durable, reliable machine I've personally used.

My only complaint is non-upgradable RAM - if it had upgradable RAM, I'd keep using mine well into the future.
First time I've seen Linus described as mild mannered.
Surveillance of the Internet Backbone
I am not very knowledgable about security bounties, but 2k seems laughably small. Every female using the app was gravely in danger because of this bug. There are a lot of creeps on dating apps. That it got awarded just 2k and no resignation of CTO is a joke
I'll have to keep in mind the $1200 deposit for loaner computers next time I am in need of a critical repair
T. rex’s jaw had sensors to make it a fearsome predator
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> I don’t see a legal quandary at all and, unless you think all minors’ likenesses should not be able to appear in commercial material, I don’t see a moral or ethical quandary. Plaintiff’s destination for their complaint is with their parents, IMO.

Its not a moral quandary it is a contractual quandary which the lawsuit accurately details.

If his parents didn't sign the likeness then anyone using the image has a liability issue. It doesnt matter if its the photographer, Nirvana, the record label, etc

Yes, your edit covers it and I would also say he has a case. Spoonjim has been correct the whole time. Somehow that opinion isnt seen as popular right now but the accuracy is not in question.
Apple charges more like 15% for extended warranty.
This is not true at all. This whole discussion is pretty confused. All of the mitigations we apply to passwords are premised on passwords being (1) cryptographically weak, (2) irrevocable, and (3) infectious to other systems. Nerds are, for reasons I will never understand, hyperfixated on "salting". Randomized password hashes primarily address an old attack that is more or less irrelevant to any modern hash or KDF. But that attack, too, mattered because (1), (2), and (3) hold for passwords.
It's not hard to believe. First, the big caveat, what I'm about to say ignores the possibility of huge catastrophe (environmental collapse, world war, meteor hits the earth) because if such a catastrophe happens, most of this won't matter a whole lot.

Barring catastrophe, it will almost certainly go up if your time horizon is longer than 10 years. If you are in a big city, the populations are growing faster than new housing is being built. On top of that, there is no space to build many new single family homes so those will go up even more if you own one instead of a condo or townhouse.

I bought my first house at the peak of the last bubble. Ten years later I sold it for more than I paid for it, and those last few years my mortgage was a fair bit lower than rents for a comparable place.

Most people simply haven't wrapped their head around exponential growth. Our economy grows exponentially, and our population has historically (there are signs this might be changing). Unfortunately, I think our environment can't sustain that, but as long as it does, things will go up if your time horizon is long enough.

Edit: also, I’m not suggesting that your home value will double in 10 years. Not sure where you got that idea. My point does not assume or require doubling in 10 years.
I don't have it anymore but I used to (like 2 years ago). It was genuinely one of the most well-made apps I've used. Everything was just so smooth and well-optimised for touch control.

One of my favourite features were the summaries (like ther hover cards that sometimes appear on desktop now) and reading lists, which are basically bookmarks but hyper-optimised for Wikipedia articles. All of it was something you could already do with a browser, but it was just way more streamlined.
They are really beautiful. I wonder how hard it would be to draw them in xkcd sketch-style.

https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot....
OP seem to pay this premium indirectly anyway. So I guess people would pay that premium.
Like they pay premium for mac's anyway. The regulation for warranty just means sellers need to actually provide the quality the brand induces
Thats why apple would eat most or all of the cost without passing it on to consumers or would make more reliable laptops. The laptops are already priced at what the market would bear and apple makes huge profits.
Let me use a straw man to make a point: what if instead of that photo shoot and it becoming the cover of an album he was actually sexually exploited as a baby and a photo of that horrific act became widely seen. Do you think it would still fuck him up to know that it happened to him as a child even if you or I couldn’t recognize him? That is to say, I don’t think his issue is so much that people recognize him as the baby on the album cover but the fact that he recognizes himself as that baby.
Not only that but the 12 Pro Max sells substantially better than the 12 Pro, according to the chart.
I prefer m.xkcd.com because the alt-text is easier to access
He should have sued his parents.
It seems like we're rapidly converging on the idea "websites could be dumb content, and the browsers should decide how it should be laid out." Perhaps we can have something like this, maybe in the far distant future of 25 years ago...
You don't need the global variable (at least, the Scheme equivalent does not - I'm not going to lawyer over how variable capture would work in a hypothetical dialect of C++ that added call/cc). Any variable in scope to be captured by 'g' will do. There may be some misunderstanding in your statement "all local variables remain the same as they were before" - the same bindings will exist, but the values are not restored to their values prior to the call/cc, such that any subsequent changes to those variables will be preserved, permitting exactly the sort of thing you used as an example (albeit using a global variable).
I had to have my HVAC system repaired and I got to talking to the guy who was working on it and during the course of our conversation we started talking about pay... 100k-200k USD/yr he said wasn't unusual once you were done with school and got a little experience. I was floored, I called a family friend who does HVAC and he said that was about right. If I didn't love CS I'd be working in HVAC right now.
Tokens are secrets.

Passwords are secrets.

Ed25519 private keys are secrets.

We hash passwords.

Thus we must hash tokens.

Should we therefore hash our Ed25519 private keys?
Something like 40 percent of people use the default browser installed by the os.

We're just in an echo chamber of people who know what JavaScript is, and that distorts our perception of the world.
HN is managed very conservatively from a UI/UX perspective.

I share several of your concerns. You can contact the mods directly at hn@ycombinator.com

One suggestion that is apparently in the pipeline is for a user-provided custom CSS which could be used to fix font, contrast, and other aspects.

The underlying structure of HN pages (nightmare table-based layout) makes more substantial revisions difficult.

There are numerous alternative-interface projects using the HN API as well.
Advice for Building Self-Respect
Street Direct Connect Record's/Street Media Entertainment Music
https://www.music2deal.com/site/register/PvsAsEN7UfIXROxwVW+...
I think wikipedia would be smart to add a quick switch button at the top. both versions have value IMO
Flexible Microprocessor Could Enable an 'Internet of Everything'
> … a Go developer would write the extra ~dozen lines…

And a C# developer could write a program that would avoid GC, and a Java developer…, and…

It feels like you're hell-bent on using this thread for your personal programming language holy war…
Nope, there are others. Prolog, for example:

https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=delcont
Albeit when the solar panels reach the end of life... Not to mention the batteries.

Many turbine, coal, gas plants lived for more than 50 years with some maintenance. That's longer than nuclear, and both solar and wind are perishable in comparison.
That does not excuse the use of fossil fuels, just highlights that we'll have another problem to deal with soon enough.

We'll see how good recycling and refurbishing is on these installations.
Since when does Mastercard / Visa care about minor backlash like this and why would they? Most of the hysteria died down pretty quickly, and it's not like people were going to boycott the biggest payment processors by far.
They do viral marketing all the time. Go to any meme page and even some newspapers and you'll find "wow this mother who has an only fans is causing trouble at her school because other Dad's have been caught out!!! Dads! sign up here"

Watching people fall for their marketing is like being in a state of depression with the human race.
>> Where would those creators move?

Chaturbate has existed for time, existed through this; was the OnlyFans before OnlyFans, and continues to seem to thrive. Simple answer.
Charging the battery over 80% produces more heat and degradesvits lifetime, did you ran it plugged in all the time? My phones manufacturer stops at 90 but i installed an alarm to pull the plug earlier.
As long as we're having a big bitch-fest here, I'll throw in my $.02. Other than expanding batteries, my laptops have generally been trouble-free. But the problem I do have is that the older my MBP, the slower it becomes when I upgrade the OS. When I upgraded my 2015 to Big Sur last year, it essentially became unusable because it ran so slowly. It now sits in my closet. Apple should stop nagging you to upgrade the OS if your hardware wasn't built to support the newer versions. Just give us security updates and leave the rest alone. I think that would make a lot of users happy.
I think it is clear they have a strong personal opinion about something that want people to recognize.

I think this is clear from the title of the paper: "Stop that! It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness"

I don't think that is inappropriate. Mass sociogenic illnesses are recognized and generally thought to be related to stress and psychological conditions. It makes sense that they would opine on what these stressors and conditions are, and back them up with a dozen references.
That’s what models are for.
Many systems are too complex to be fully understood as a whole.

But by modelling them, we can still understand why they behaved they they have, and predict how they will behave.

There is no need for any one individual to fully grasp a process for it to be modelled.

It really is the whole point of modelling.
An adversary who can see your vpn traffic can use traffic analysis [1] to correlate known protocol packet patterns and timestamps to netflow traces to known destinations serving known content with matching timestamps from vpn termination points.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis
I'm not really disagreeing with you on the value here.

Just saying the target market is the kind of people who can just drop 10k+ and not care. 6k isn't realistically in the same price category.
Found the Nirvana fan.
Never know how dark the song "Polly" is about until recently.
They want to have the option to resell you the exact same game emulated on the new systems too, see Wii Virtual Console I think it was called, and NES classic system, all of those.
Have you applied the 11.5.2 update? The Caps Lock slowness/beach ball issue seems to be related to the high WindowServer CPU issue and has gone away for me since I applied 11.5.2.
Does it really matter? The evidentiary standard is "preponderance of the evidence" so it's pretty much up to the defendant to prove that they had consent as long as the plaintiff can prove it was him on the cover. That's why some states even require the release to be in writing rather than a verbal agreement.
I'm old as well and I'm uncomfortable with it. The tone is kind of passive-aggressive and although this extended temp-to-hire thing is paid, it also rubs me the wrong way; like you, I can't completely say why. I'd be curious to see if it works for people, though (I kind of suspect it won't because of the time investment involved but who knows).

It's also hard to explain but by coupling the "we hire old people" with "but we're not actually hiring you, just putting you through an extended probation with no benefits, security, or investment" it kind feels like the opposite of inclusive. It's a whiff, you know, it's their company, they can hire how they like, but it's weird to focus on one form of illegal discrimination they don't engage in and follow it up with extra hiring hoops.
Same here. It's what I'm typing this on. The only thing I've done is replace the battery about a year ago. 7 years was a good run. Works 100% as well as the day I bought it and the last Apple product I've purchased. Took 10 minutes from walk-in to walk-out at a non-Apple branded Mac repair store for 70% of the price using the identical official replacement battery. No appointment.
> So, you don't like competing with older people? They say they hire young people too, so I'm not sure why else your age would have any bearing.

Huh? No, not what I said.

They seem to try to say they don't bias against a group of people, and then turn around and be passive aggressive against younger devs in Silicon Valley.

Age clearly has a bearing. They bold "We hire old people". They're already primed to think about the age of their candidates, and potentially bias towards older people.
My 2011 MBA needed a new battery a few years ago, but still works amazingly well as a daily-driver computer for my wife
I feel like you could just sell an access code that allows you to download content rather than the content itself and be perfectly within paypals acceptable use policies.
They’ve made it simple to skip ads because each ad pops up as a track that you can scrobble to the end of. I assume they’re satisfied with this because my dragging my finger across the name of the advertiser is probably a better signal of impression than hoping I was actually present during the ad roll.

But Apple podcasts “skip 15sec” is still easier, I can do it without looking while driving.
Kirby is the CMS that adapts to you
It is a little different in that they admitted to the medical system and being treated with different drugs including antipsychotics.
Maybe it has something to do with the year 2011. My 2011 Macbook Pro 13" is still alive and kicking. With max 16GB RAM and replacing the spinning rust with an SSD, it's remarkably nimble as well. It's done a lot of travelling, and I've replaced the battery 3 times due to battery life going down too far.

I finally upgraded to an M1 Macbook Air, which is also really nice, but the number of miles on that old axe was impressive. I still have it, and the kids use it for various school things. My only complaint is it is now at EOL for OS updates.
Authorization is authz, for what it's worth. "authn" means authentication.
The point is that they agonized pointlessly. The result sits on a shelf, obscure.
That's the thing, Canada, at least, doesn't even evaluate the cost benefit. They (and NZ and some other commonwealth countries), are pretty ban happy when it comes to those with disabilities, even if the condition is stable and easily and cheaply treatable. I'd pay an order of magnitude more in taxes in CA than my medical costs, but they don't really care.
I think good design/UX is more important than originality, so I have no issues with this.
And that's fine. This working strategy is likely to work for some more than others. Flexibility in travel is a hard requirement for other fields.
Meanwhile in software land it's either great pay at 60+ hours a week, or nothing

This is just not true. There are loads of FAANG developers making well into 6 figures with 40 hour weeks.
Not a single-video-file like solution, but you might think e.g. Youtube, Spotify etc could sync a separate audio file and stop the video streaming when a tab is hidden. Such a predictable waste of bandwidth, as you observe, that it might even merit browser support.
In fact I subbed one couple on OF just few days ago because I thought OF was going to kick them out and I wanted the content before that happened. Anecdotal, I know, but I wonder how many other people did the same.