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VERY misleading headline. The article makes clear all the costs were covered by AppleCare, so the story here is (a) he got a lemon, which happens in literally every product category and (b) the vendor stood behind the product and took care of him.

So I'm honestly not sure what the point of this post is. The only laptops I've had that have handled the high-travel workload I traditionally subjected mine to remotely as well as Apple were pre-Lenovo ThinkPads. The keyboard thing was distressing, but it happened entirely between purchases for me so I didn't directly experience it; however, a good chunk of the outrage over it was precisely because of how rock-solid the products had traditionally been.
I think you're forgetting VAT, which in NZ, I think, is 13%. Not sure if there are import tariffs/duties to account for too.

Considering all these other costs, I reckon a 20% markup is great value for a 3-year warranty.

Like others though, I really all Apple products globally should come with a 3-year warranty - you pay over the odds for Apple hardware, and should get high-quality, reliable kit in return.
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Ahh I had the nonretina screen, which is even more repairable and I was able to upgrade the 4gb of RAM it came with to 16gb down the road.
Yeah. The attraction of Netflix was the ease of access to a lot of desirable content even faster than finding it online somewhere else*

But, nowadays it feels like Netflix’s catalog is full of its self made titles(Some of them are great), but less and less “popular” ones that we heard of somewhere and just want to watch.

If I am expected to shuffle around multiple streaming subscriptions, and pay for them individually, it is not that different from the cable TV model that these guys took on against.

Sailing the high seas indeed!
Looks really nice. The big blob of parameters in the kwargs looks pretty intimidating to get correct. Maybe consider a builder object for the config: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder_pattern. It would probably be easier to document, too (document the setter methods of the Builder rather than try to explain the nested dict). Feel free to ignore me.
There is a chicken pox vaccine. It reduces risk of shingles later in life compared with natural infection. My parents intentionally infected me early. I still got the pox a second time as an adolescent. Both times were painful.

Please get your kids vaccinated.
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Reminds me of the brilliant "On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines" [1].

We show that it is not only implausible that machines will ever exceed human size, but in fact impossible.

[...]

The term “supersized machine” implies a machine that has crossed some
threshold, which is often denoted “human-level largeness.” However, it is not clear what “human-level largeness” could refer to. Has a machine achieved
human-level largeness if it has the same height as the average human? If it
has the same volume? The same weight? [...]

When one begins to consider these questions, one quickly concludes that there are an infinite number of metrics that could be used to measure largeness, and that people who speak of “supersized machines” do not have a particular metric in mind. Surely, then, any future machine will be larger than humans on some metrics and smaller than humans on others, just as they are today.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10987
Why is Ray Kurzweil considered a luminary in this context?

Sure, he talks a lot. He makes grand statements. Is there any reason to take him seriously in this context?

He sure seems to believe, and to want to believe. But actual evidence that he's going to be right any time soon? That seems to be missing.
For what kind of work?
Climate change kills people. Each kilotonne of CO2 is calculated to lead to one extra death from climate change:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.0232...

So these protestors saved 26 lives.

Of course, the potential death toll from climate change is infinite, since we will never be able to remove the CO2 from the atmosphere in any meaningful way (we would need to recreate the Carboniferous period or the Azolla event).
The old macbook airs of that era were still light and just as repairable too.
Cool! Now do one where the user uploads the image and it tweaks it to find a collision on the fly.
Its easy to sit on a moral high horse but it doesn't help things. If you do not show a path from where people are now to where you want them to be, then you only have yourself to blame for no one making it there.

Telling people who commute 45 miles to work (because they're priced out of any home or apartment closer to their job) that they should bicycle to work to help save the planet is futile.

Petitioning for an improvement in public transportation that could help take cars off of the road and increase availability of transportation for everyone is a step in the right direction.
It's the Tesseract!:

https://screenrant.com/mcu-tesseract-space-stone-marvel-movi...
Especially if you're trying to clip your entire map to some boundary, rendering the ocean is hard. https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet/issues/32 has some examples of "flooded" maps when the heuristics get the inversion wrong. https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet/blob/9761373c4b215485... is my incomplete attempt to deal with these partial multipolygons.
Wow. Full time Mac user with a very, very high typing speed (consistently tested at 90+ WPM), and I have never had a keyboard lag issue with a Mac. Sure, I've had piggy apps -- usually web apps -- create lags, but that's happened on lots of systems, not just Macs.

If my Macs couldn't keep up with my typing, I'd have kicked them to the curb a LONG LONG LONG time ago.
So 30+ images get flagged and they run it against the real CSAM database and it doesn't match? Or let's say someone is able to somehow make an image that gets flagged by both and someone looks at the image and it isn't CSAM. Nothing happens.
> "everything's fine; I like it here..." and then leave because "I'm ready for something new."

However, often that something new is just the same type of work.

E.g. imagine that the tech organization is an orchestra. All you play is the same small set of Bach concertos. Your lead violinist likes it just fine, until she leaves because she is ready for something "new". Turns out to be some place where they play the same dozen Vivaldi concertos. Or not even that, but just a different selection of Bach.

E.g. an embedded developer leaves "for something new", where something new is working on a bluetooth driver, exactly like now, but on a different SoC, with a different BT chip, and two kernel versions higher.
This page directly links to the EFF:
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-apple-don-t-scan-our-phones

Please spend a few bucks on supporting them.

A bit of a background on why apple did this (this was flagged, but I don't know why):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28259622
Your position seems to be that:

1) If you have wealth, you are obligated to share your wealth with your extended family.

2) If you make a decision to not share your wealth with your extended family, they have a right to be mad at you.

This must be a cultural thing because I can't wrap my head around it. In my culture, money and family relationships are completely separate things. Our family connections are based on staying in touch with each other and spending time with the ones who are worth your time and attention. Money doesn't enter into the relationship at all. In fact, I'm reasonably certain that if I were to offer money anyone in my family, they would be deeply offended.

> If you love someone, you want to help them and make them happy.

This is a fallacy: money does not solve problems and it does not make anyone happy. You'll figure that out on your own eventually, though.
Moto has a stylus phone out now.
What I did was switch to firefox on my phone as well. No issues with passwords in my experiences really.
Yeah, its an overcomplicated, breakable solution. Just decide the minimum safe uncertainty, assign grid cells that provide it, and only report distance quantized to grid cells.
> That annexation of credit is an awful trait that most of us have experienced, and none of us respect.

not sure if I understand you here - you're not suggesting he annexed the credit - he quite clearly shared it or in that quote almost gave it entirely away.

>Sure, yes, lots of powerful people are awful, but one doesn't excuse the other.

yeah I don't know if most people, given the power, won't be awful some times. Also I'm not sure if almost all people are not awful sometimes, if given the right pressure.

So when someone is complaining about the awfulness of any one person I guess I actually want more than anecdotes of how rude they were, considering how awful people can be. (That money thing is one but well, I've also noticed people when they don't have money will sometimes be untrustworthy about it)
Annecdote: When I interviewed with Twitter in ~2008/09 the manager asked me about what I thought about my previous experience (I was already ~15 years into my career).. and how it would apply at Twitter

I replied:

"I've done a lot of neat things in my career, but I love to learn new things and I always hate it when one says "well the way we did it here was such-and-such, thus that must be the correct way"

and he literally replied:

"thank god, we have hired too many people from Facebook as their first job and they think that just because they did it at Facebook, that theirs is the only way - and they are like 22 years old"

---

When I was at FB, I noticed this - too many people wanted to be the Big-Swinging-Dick in whatever area... too much ego attached to their current position... not enough *wisdom*

---

Anyway - at 46 - I regret how much time I put into my career (meaning directly focused on work - rather than relationships - as my ~26 years in tech have garnered me nothing but lost relationships because I was too focused on "uptime" -- QUALITY DOWNTIME (in life) TRUMPS TECHNICAL UPTIME IN TECH.

---

Now with a ~1.5 year gap in experience... I am floundering looking for something to do, and I lament going to the fricken Nursery to buy mosses, and envy the guy watering them..

---

Anyway - if you need any (previously highly technicals) who are now relegated to PM as opposed to OPs -- I'd love to give you a try.
I wasn't mislead, his story is pretty much what I thought it would be -- I didn't think that someone would pay out of his own pocket repair costs that are 3X what the laptop cost to buy new.

I'm kind of surprised at the number of problems he's had, my 2018 MPB has has zero issues, despite a lot of travel in addition to bouncing around my bike's pannier on the way to work. The battery life is getting pretty short, but since I've been WFH for the past 18 months, staying close to a charger isn't an issue, no need to go to crowded meeting rooms where I can't plug in.
In my experience all software seems to slow down over time. Firstly, my expectations of "fast" change, but also all the various data structures a system needs to run grow and complicate. In addition we ask more of our software over time and run more of it.

For many, not even Ubuntu is immune. Hence articles like this:

https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-speed-up-ubuntu-1804
For a very long time in the Netherlands you could download movies and music from unauthorized sources, as you were indirectly paying content creators because of “copy taxes” on data drives, burnable discs etc. It was sort of a loophole but it was completely legal. Those were the days.

Then suddenly the highest court disallowed it. Guess what, we still pay the copy tax.

Clarification: The copy tax was meant to compensate copyright owners for consumers making copies (for private use) of purchased media. It was widely interpreted as to allow downloading from the internet as well (even from pirated sources).
You might be thinking of the iPhone SE, which is the budget offering that’s almost as small as the Mini and has lower-end specs.
Ugh, cmon. You are really straining to be outraged here.

That is not at all what I said. In my experience, older people almost always ask for above market compensation regardless of experience. We don’t hire people that ask for too much money regardless of age.
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That's a great point. However, whereas humans share their experience through the effective, but extremely lossy technology called language; machines can store and share their experience without loss. Sure there are scaling limits, but a brain dump back to the mothership is a lot quicker and more perfectly preserved than sitting around listening to grandpa's stories.
I agree, same with my MBP at home. And I have the same issue with my 2015 XPS 15 at work which first was really fast, especially with Windows 10 and now feels slow for everything. Even though it is still running "Windows 10" (with Windows Update).
Changed for the new XPS 15 with the new i7-11800H and couldn't be happier though.
Etsy would be another fine example: starting off as a platform for artisanal, craft and maker communities, then at scale opening the floodgates to become a market for mass produced factory knockoffs and junk, infuriating and adversely affecting their original user base.
I think they're talking about roam research
Since it easy to fool people with optical illusions I doubt that you will be able to train a computer to not be fooled by optical illusions.
I wouldn't put it so prudishly.

Or rather: Paradoxically, what's truly prudish -- and I mean this literally, "overly prudent" -- is to short-circuit your sex drive with porn, because you fear the consequences of real sex.

Lust is good. It helps you overcome social risk aversion, and bond with another person.

But that's the point: You have to have those relationships.

You'll be happiest if you have lots of sex, as part of how you form and participate in a committed relationship. And your "base" urges, far from being bad, can help drive that.
It works, but the number of peers and speeds decrease a lot. At least in my experience. I haven't deep knowledge on how the protocol works.
You are not really helping yourself if you desperately attempt changing established words in a way that it would fit your business. You just alienate people and give yourself a bad reputation people will remember you by.
I started making more use of reader more upon discovering that it can get around paywalls in many cases.
It's useful in settings where devices on the same LAN don't trust each other, e.g. coffee shops. I could see a similar explanation behind the iOS thing.
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Also have the 2015 and Big Sur was also a shitshow for me performance wise (no serious bugs otherwise though). Updated to the Monterrey beta and it’s back to silky smooth. No idea what they screwed up in Big Sur, but it seems like they fixed it.
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The older macbooks were definitely pretty good at repairability (though iirc you had to take the G4s apart completely to access anything, but the unibodies had easy access to most things, on the whitebooks I think the battery was even removable and that gave you access to the ram and hdd slots), but I was talking about the reliability (durability) not the repairability.
You're making an argument that is already in TFA. It's in addition -and only partially related to- the main point which is: The arguments that are commonly used to demonstrate the possibility or threat of "ASI" are made from claims presented _without evidence_.

This will invalidate fantastical accelerationist woo until such evidence is presented, and -in the current state of the art research within relevant fields- it's not even certain we can know what would constitute such evidence _in principle_.
Show HN: Heraldry in ClojureScript
I don't agree in this context. The author wrote an entire article about his position, and dismissing it entirely because some "luminary" disagrees is not an interesting response.

OP didn't even bother to point out how or why Kurzweil purportedly disagrees.
To make the computer smaller and lighter.
This. Same with my ex wife.

I’m now looking after the kids and have a full time job so there’s no option to take a flight or even go into the office.
This is very cool and something that appeals to me as someone does a blend of web and data work. A constant problem I run into is making good reports quickly. Like you mention, I don't have time to hand code it, but no code dashboards are both slow and tedious to make and the quality is terrible.

I have a couple questions.

1. I work in research and we use a lot of strange databases and query languages, how hard would it be to add support for new databases (or alternative sources like CSVs or API calls) and to include multiple sources in the same report?

2. I had trouble telling from the docs how hard it was to drop in hand coded components (say I have some D3 creation, or I have some requirement that breaks the model and requires JavaScript and CSS to change everything)?
Howdy, folks.

I recently got interested in heraldry and since I couldn't find tools for it that did want I wanted to do, I started writing my own. The site is now about half a year old, and might already be useful for anyone planning a DnD campaign. ;)

The (big, far away) goal is to support ALL the things and model heraldic concepts into data structures (EDN) and render them, build a DB, make them searchable, etc.

The main parts are:

- a charge library, where anyone can upload own SVGs and turn them into reusable charges

- a coat of arms library, which supports a lot of the main heraldic elements

- a collection library, intended for digitizing historical rolls of arms

- recently a ribbon generator to simplify and somewhat generalize the creation of ribbons/banners for arms mottos

The interface takes a bit of getting used to, and it isn't trying too hard to explain itself, but I think with some trial and error most of the parts should make sense.

It's written entirely in ClojureScript, and I doubt I could've done anything close to it in another language,
certainly not in the same timeframe.

The code is linked in the about section. Please be gentle if you look at it, big parts of it are due for refactoring and clean up, and a lot of it is explorative and experimental.

Let me know what you think.
Not sure what that means? Like to 'catch' CP posters? From what I've read the payment processing is mostly charge back %s, mixed with religious driven activism against sex work.
Another unpopular opinion here but cash grab or not the facts are clear - he was a baby, he didn’t consent to the photo, and a lot of people made a lot of money from it.

The only internally consistent solution I can see is that children below age of consent should not be allowed to contribute to commercial art in any form. That’d mean no more child actors, and that would sound heretical to many, but I see no other solutio.
What is ironic about your examples is that you had all these problems with unlicensed work in a place where licensing is still required. So whats the point of the license even if so much work is done that isn't licensed? People who will cheap out will cheap out no matter what the laws say, and people who pay for good work will continue to pay for good work.
I think the hybrid model (2-3 days in office, interspersed with focus days of remote work) is far superior to the once-a-quarter-retreat.

The hybrid model builds routine and trust, lets you respond to unexpected snags and complications quickly (~1-2 days latency), and allows for in-office creativity and then going home to execute on those ideas rapidly. It also fits reasonably well into existing family & daycare routines.

The retreat model could work for more established businesses in industries that don't change a lot, but that's not a startup. The biggest problem I see is that it encourages a high-latency, "go off for a quarter and work on this problem as your manager has defined it and then we'll all get together for show & tell and plan the next quarter" model. Since you know you'll see folks at the next retreat but it's a pain to schedule time with them beforehand, it incentivizes you to work within your silo and solve problems yourself and then have something to show at the retreat. We know this is a poor model for software development, from a few decades of experience. You lose the adaptability and low-latency communication of being in-person with your teammates on a weekly basis.

The big disadvantage of the hybrid model is that it doesn't do anything about the concentration of startups in a small number of hyper-dense metro areas, nor the exorbitant cost of rent in those areas. Arguably if that is the #1 problem facing the world these days (and it may be) the industry you want to go into is real estate, not startups, though.
Yep. I had to demonstrate competence in system design and scaling for my current role. We haven't touched that stuff at all as nobody has wanted to pay for that upfront and when scale has been needed, they have just added compute.
It really was that specific. My wife’s phone was throttled and mine wasn’t. You could run a benchmark to find out until they updated the settings for more visibility.

My wife never did get her battery replaced - she was just happy with her phone as it was. If it randomly rebooted she wouldn’t have been happy and would have upgraded.

The feature still exists in iOS by the way, now it just tells you when it’s doing it and you can disable it if you prefer reboots. The feature kicks in when a brownout happens, that’s how its “targeted” at phones with degraded batteries.
Not sure proves your point, but maybe doesn't disprove your point strongly enough. I am not qualified to argue from experience about how Rust is ideally suited in the ways you think it is not. But from everything I have seen, it can do a whole lot of what C++ is also good at. Rust safety is not all or nothing and a codebase could definitely prioritize ergonomics over correctness.

Two things that I saw in the last couple weeks that might start to sway you.

https://github.com/sslab-gatech/Rudra#readme

GhostCell: Separating Permissions from Data in Rust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIbubw86p0M

Even unsafe Rust can be as ergonomic as C++. But that unsafety can be mediated, moderated and controlled.
I wonder if low usage will lead it to eventually be removed (for example no one cares to maintain the feature code), much like the previous “reader mode” feature: RSS support.

Will we say “that’s fine browsers should only focus on one thing”?
So now they'll come back because OF still has the larger community.
> There is no FDA approval

Yet you still have to sign a liability waiver........
i basically can't use my ipad mini from 2012 anymore because the apps in the app store usually need a newer OS version than possible. A laptop from 2012 with Windows (whatever version) wouldn't have these problems whatsoever. I know it's another device type but it shouldn't really matter, both are computing devices.
>>Swedish customer support they informed me there was no way to get a repair outside of Sweden, since that’s where I had bought the laptop.

That's odd, I've had my UK-bought XPS repaired in Poland without any issue, just rang dell customer service and a local engineer came over the next day and replaced the motherboard on the living room table. It wasn't ever questioned that the laptop wasn't bought in Poland.
Maybe the article was AI generated? /s
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Please elaborate.

I am simply providing examples from my own experience to explain why I believe older people can have a difficult time finding work.

Put simply, I’ve found that when correcting for experience, older people ask for above market compensation.

If I can hire someone to do the same work at the same quality level for less money, why wouldn’t I do this?
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