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> we need to force the rest of the industry into a more ephemeral mindset

What a despicable position. 5–10 year stability is something the tech industry should be aiming for, minimum—not trying to stamp it out as if someone who achieves it is doing something wrong.

Consider the Dell Chromebook 13 (7310; Lulu). It blew me away last summer to realize that this 2015-era notebook which could be had for $200–300 was still the best option among everything else I evaluated in 2020. Five years to make progress in hardware and yet _every_ other option promised only to be a step backwards. (A phenomenon separately documented here: <https://drewdevault.com/2020/02/18/Fucking-laptops.html>) Manufacturers of course do offer systems today are offering systems with slightly better CPUs or more RAM, but invariably they demand compromising on the ergonomics of either the Lulu's MacBook-quality touchpad, the 67Wh battery that lasts 6–10 hours, the form factor of its 13-inch matte screen and carbon fiber body, the silent fan, or on price—these are companies that expect you fork over at least $1000 more than the putative value of the one already unpacked sitting on the desk—just to have a system that is worse!

Against every signal saying that it would be a mistake, I actually swallowed my reservations about paying the price for a newer system. I was partially reassured by the support lead of one prominent Linux laptop vendor saying that they "promise" that I'd be happy with the purchase, and that it would be better than the Lulu. Sure enough, it gets here; the touchpad is dogshit, the fan is only able to modulate between "screaming loudly" and "screaming very loudly", and I'm left feeling a mixture of horrible dread/remorse while asking myself "is this a joke?" It got packed up and sent back and refunded, and I promptly turned around and spent 1/3 of the refund on a second refurbed Chromebook 13 and left the remaining 2/3 in my bank account.

Aside from the goofy Chromebook keyboard layout, the only downside to these devices? It's that, despite being on par with Purism's flagship notebook at the time (that also sold with a 50+% higher price tag in comparison to this notebook's original retail price), Lulu went largely unnoticed by the community. So newer Ubuntu releases silently broke the graphics, which means upgrading to 18.04 and 20.04 is a non-option. In the midst of this, we get unqualified opinions in the comments here that implicate people who want to stick with 16.04 (because a system that boots is better than one that doesn't) as threatening to "hold back progress" (clearly we've got different definitions of progress) and others cluelessly pontificating that upgrading is "easier and saves you money and pain in the long run" (again, somehow we have a different ideas of how to measure which numbers are bigger than others).
Has this been implemented? What kinds of hashing functions are you talking about? How would you guarantee the same hash for all the augmentations?

It seems like the approach you describe just moves the complexity of the task solved by neural networks into the hashing function.
FWIW, I also remember this claim being made, but yes, it may have just been Apple apologists in comments, or perhaps Apple wrt the iPhone battery, ages ago.
The Framework laptop is 1mm thicker and 200 grams heavier than the 9th gen Carbon. We've gone long past the point of diminishing returns when it comes to size/weight vs repairability trade offs.
I don't see how that follows, either,to be honest. There is no shortage of immoral parents
I think this organization is a part of opposite world.

- More censorship of things we don't like == Freedom

- Required reporting of every bank transaction == More security

- Vaccine mandates == Civil rights
They were making over $200k a year and probably had stipends for living expenses. Money will make you blind.
Many moons ago I was browsing in the school library, just wandering around the stacks to see what was there, and came across a shelf of The Journal of Graph Theory, or some similarly named publication.

I picked up one sample. The cover listed a few articles, with many Hungarian-sounding names among the authors. The insides had plenty of mathematical formulas, but nary a picture of a graph - not a single one.
on a fixed income because covid took out my business, how would buying this over what it looks like be any better? granted mac has already a ton of PR issues involving privacy, i guess this laptop would address that?
Like album covers in a way. I so hated feeling like I had to ditch mine, only have 2 left.
USA is literally an evil empire
The "progressive left" has no real power other than whining on social media (some of which is owned by Theil and his disciples). They are reeling from historic losses in the last election and now they are back to wandering in the woods which is where they have been for decades. The real fear of Theilism is that he and his disciples have already amassed an unbelievable amount of power and I don't see any way to counter him.
I'd had Ratta Supernote A5x for an e-writer. Really loved it. Bigger storage than reMarkable 2, better software and cloud integration than reMarkable 2. The pencil response time is somewhat slower than reMarkable 2 though.

I'd used it extensively. And lost. I instantly changed my Ratta cloud password. But any taker can see my notes in the device. No way to block the access remotely. The only protection from theft is to set the 6 digit PIN.

Now, I am hesitant to buy another Supernote A5x. Maybe I just admit the device can be lost, so that I just copy old notes and delete from the device regularly.
His problem is with meter-wide ones, which yeah, are a bit of a stretch. But like I said I think it'll fix by itself - they're not the kind of vehicles you take on a forest pleasure ride anyways. They're probably more useful for business use.
It's not a technology limitation to withhold root access from the user.
Panfrost achieves OpenGL ES 3.1 conformance on Mali-G52
> Or if you like browse the web in a VM.

What if you just browse the web in an up-to-date web browser? In both cases, the browser has a sandbox that should keep you safe.

Multiple layers of defense are of course better—but in both cases, someone would need a zero day to escape the sandbox, right?
That's the Vimes' boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
The economist publishes a Big Mac index of currency over/under valuations.

I’m sure unions play a factor, but many others do as well.
I love the F-91W and wore one for years before switching to an Apple Watch. I don't see myself switching back to the Casio, but I do miss it sometimes and wanted to bring as much of it over to the Apple Watch as possible, so I put the Casio band on it [0], but I haven't been able to put together an Apple Watch face that resembles the Casio. Has anyone else tried this and had any luck?

[0] https://jamesbvaughan.com/casio-f91w-apple-watch/
This is why I get so excited about increasingly realistic simulators, like Microsoft Flight Simulator https://medium.com/@jmugan/microsoft-flight-simulator-2020-i...

Edited to say that was a blog post I wrote
W58 Smartwatch -- Smart-WatchX
My next desktop build will require entirely new parts, and the prior build will be demoted to other uses, or given to someone else who has a better use for it. As a whole unit, it still has utility. If I scavenge an essential piece, all the rest go to waste.

If it were a big energy hog (it's not), then it may make sense to put it out to pasture and scavenge the parts for others.

The exception is my keyboard, is like my toothbrush, if toothbrushes could last for two decades. That I will keep and move to the new computer, as keyboard technology is not advancing.

For laptops, I see even less utility for upgrades than for a desktop, but perhaps that's just me.
Screen size: 1.3 inch IPS color screen

Resolution: 240 * 240

Operation mode: Touch + button press (on-off function button)

GPS: Yes

Sim card support: No

Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.0

Battery capacity: 130 mAh

Standby time: about 120 hours

Use Time: about 7 days

Charging time: about 2 hours

Dial diameter: 40mm

Dial thickness: 11mm

Band material: silicone

Band width: 20mm

Band length: 128mm

Band Color: Black White, Blue, Pink

Band Interchangeable: Yes

Case material: Metal case

Case shape: Square

Waterproof: Yes IP67

Watch diameter: 42.5mm

Watch thickness: 10.8mm

Watch weight: 38.3g

Watch width: 46mm

Product Type: Smart Watch

Compatibility: Compatible with iOS & Android

System requirement: Android 4.4 or higher / iOS 8.5 or higher

Function:

Passometer
Sleep Tracker
Barometer
Heart rate tracker
24 hours instruction
Fitness Tracker
Message Reminder
social media features
interactive music
Calendar
dial call
push message
alarm clock
Remote control
Answer call
Calendar
Call reminder
Multi-sport mode
Remote camera
Languages:

Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, English, German, Arabic, Japanese, Indonesian, Polish, Korean, Russian, Italian, Turkish, French

Package contents:

1 Smart Watch
1 charging cable
1 user manual
Cost Explorer does not give per resource cost analytics outside of EC2. So you are unable to see specific resource costs in AWS Cost Explorer without making a very, very large investment in tagging each specific resource with something different.

Vantage Advanced Analytics will now show all customers not only total accrued costs per AWS resource but give you day-by-day trends broken down by editorialized category (i.e. Data Transfer) as well as specific AWS billing-code subcategory ("i.e. EU Egress Charges"). Additionally Vantage will show cost trends for each resource so you can plot month-over-month how specific resources like S3 Buckets or SQS Queues are trending in cost.

AWS Cost Explorer does not show any of this information.
I use the built in ereader software, called NeoReader. It's pretty fast, and after a small ramp-up of figuring out how to customize things (for instance, the font size wouldn't go small enough for me, so I had to learn that the "pinch-to-zoom" gesture could make the font size even smaller than the font size slider could go)... I've been really happy with it. I've also played around with KOReader, which works very well, too -- I'm just more used to NeoReader at this point, so I haven't switched over.

Drawing is very good in my experience, though I haven't tried the reMarkable or the Kobo Ellipsa. Maybe I just got used to it really quickly but it doesn't lag enough for me to actually notice when I'm writing on it, and hasn't slowed down at all since I got it.
I'm not an Ubuntu user (CentOS 7 on my server, will probably move to Rocky 9 when that releases), but it's easy to see why Ubuntu has been successful.

RHEL has 10y support, but historically has released their OS every 4-5 years, which is far too long. Imagine you're releasing a new product 4 years after the last RHEL. If you're doing anything with an area that has a lot of kernel/OS innovation, you're miles behind.

With Debian, I believe it's confusing what their extended support is. They don't guarantee more than 3 years, but usually extend it later. That makes sense for Debian, but not for businesses that need to decide on an OS for their project.

Then comes Ubuntu. Totally free without having to resort to third party rebuilds (like Rocky) with 5 years of support. And you can pay for 10y support. It's not surprising Ubuntu is way ahead of RHEL on public clouds. Red Hat should be doing more to target the startup scene. Those are the enterprises of the future.
To expand the scope here a little, personal electric transport will take over city centres over the next five to fifteen years and managing that transition will be tricky and divisive.

The fundamental driving force of this change is that electric vehicles scale much better than fossil fuel power vehicles. A 500watt ebike is perfectly quiet, clean and reliable whereas a gas engine of similar power and weight is messy, polluting and loud.

Start with bike paths. In North America, the standard is becoming 20mph/32kph. I ride an ebike often and I find this is more than fast enough and probably equal to about an automobile's 40mph with traffic lights.

Vehicles allowed on these paths should have a limited width and the allowed speed should depend upon its weight. It's not necessary to restrict motor power since speed is regulated by weight. So yes, if you're on a pedal bike you still have to follow the speed limits even if it's down hill. Some jurisdictions already follow this scheme with police and speed guns (Calgary is one as I recall).

The next step is to transition fossil fuel traffic to electric traffic in the city core. The most effective approach here is to initially allocate an entire lane on say, every fourth road, to electric (but not pedal only), vehicles of all sorts. The reason for excluding pedal only, ie normal bikes, is that their acceleration is too slow when starting from a dead stop at intersections. Whereas electric bikes have excellent acceleration, even better than cars from a dead stop.

Allocating a full lane to electric traffic (even Teslas) will be a big incentive for commuters to switch to electric transport. Another benefit is that it's much cheaper to do it this way than to create bespoke bike lanes. Just the low concrete dividers on top of the lane lines is enough and they can be laid down or removed very easily and cheaply for flexibility. As more commuters adopt electric transport more lanes can be allocated to them. Before you know it the city core will be all electric excepting delivery trucks.
TV Shows Subtitles and Torrents
I can't find a quote from Apple, but here's a 2012 article by Kyle Weins (iFixit CEO) basically claiming that's the reason

https://www.wired.com/2012/06/opinion-apple-retina-displa/
Nope. I was making my point using a reflection of the language in the original blog post, where the author was talking about the free software "home" being free of surveillance. This was apparently different from the "home" of Apple and Facebook etc, where the user is buying into surveillance. My point is that it isn't, there are still vectors into installations made of free software.

Free software being out in the open makes analyzing it to find zero days easier, but also can be analyzed as a group. some companies, Google being a very notable case, are quite public about their efforts to evaluate and improve free software. So no, your distilled point is not the one I was trying to make.
Introduction to Polynomial Regression
Ha ha! No, I didn't.
Include an option to include a software defined radio and I'm in.
I was wondering how CO2 shortages could affect meat production. A companion article from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28606951 claims CO2 is used to "stun" cattle for slaughter.

1. How does CO2 stun an animal? Wouldn't it just suffocate (painfully) the animal? My understanding was that most beef production used something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_bolt_pistol to brutally but effectively destroy the poor animal's brain before it could suffer

2. The article also mentions needing more renewables. I imagine the UK doesn't have much land and sun for solar effectiveness, but is offshore wind a 'mature' technology yet? It always still in development.
I would guess that MacBook Airs, especially the current ones, are sufficient for the needs of 80%, maybe even 90%, of the entire laptop market, who I presume just need to be able to use a browser and spreadsheets.

And they last for years and years, and I doubt the cost:performance:longevity ratios can be beat.
It's very, very normal for wealthy people to replace their daily-use tools every year, or even more often.

I replace my phone and laptop and iPad every year. I know people who replace their car and wardrobe and luggage every year, too.

In laptops and mobile devices in general, annual updates make a lot of sense as power efficiency is still regularly increasing. The M1 Air, is, for example, a fucking marvel. It's been out for way less than a year. I have an M1 Air, and will upgrade it again in less than a year when the Mx (where x > 1) Macbook Pro comes out.
The author, Cory, links to a previous explanation of when he quit smoking he converted the cost into getting a new laptop annually. As he mentioned in the article he typically finds a new home for the used device. Laptop appears to be his primary device and critical to his work so updates annually makes sense, though a new device is partially due to the construction framework elimates(i.e. riveted or glued components).
Why are you growing unhappy? (I have a X1 Extreme Gen 1, and Legion 7, and Legion 5 Pro, so I'm curious)
I wouldn't be interested in fixing myself but if I know that I can have my laptop repaired or upgraded for cheap, that would be amazing.
New Zealand police arrest pair entering Auckland with ‘large amount’ of KFC
200g is 15%.
Been on the phone with Apple a few times
> i always see people complain about AMD's linux support

I've always heard the opposite, that AMD's linux support is amazing and that it's windows drivers are lacking. Especially in the GPU department where it struggles with minecraft.
I feel like I agree. And the dumb thing is that all our work does is make it more efficient for everyone to go about wrecking up our planet.

I mean, we think of PCs, internet, tech, as the start of a new revolution of efficiency, which sounds like a good thing. But this just makes consumerism so much easier: products are there when you want them to be, you can make hundreds of impulse purchases a day without leaving your home, etc., which is the demand source of all these problems.
Definitely true on color! I think the long battery life of an e-ink device at 10.3 or 13.3 inches would give the iPad a run for its money in terms of usefulness, but totally agreed -- if you need color, e-ink is probably not the best choice.
I love the one he made for the BYTE "Smalltalk" (the one with the air balloon)

Apparently here's some signed artwork:

http://www.smalltalk-80.com
They can also easily sell it for 80% of the retail price if it's outside the return window.
Been extremely happy with mine the past couple months. The little modular port attachments seemed like a novelty at first, but now it feels absurd that you'd buy a laptop with a bunch of "hardcoded" ports that you can't ever change.

The only real Linux related quirk I've run into so far is that you have to disable panel self refresh (it's on by default and causes stuttering). Other than that tiny thing I pretty much just installed my stuff and started using it.

One little anecdote: I got a card in the mail from Framework saying that there was a problem with the cable for the touchpad, and it had instructions on how to fix it. Contrast that to my experience with Apple where they would delete forum threads for laptop problems and spend years denying issues until legal action forced them to acknowledge it.

Anyway, I'm a fan. I'm really looking forward to when the marketplace opens up with some new parts. I really want my blank keyboard. I'm hoping 2021 will be the year I can own a laptop without a god damn windows logo emblazoned on the keys.
Perhaps you should read the two preceding paragraphs to see the problem with that expectation instead of assuming the third paragraph was written in isolation.
What “work” does capital do? Like honest question, what do they do all day? Just scheme up ways to replace workers with robots? Chat on their Bloomberg terminals? For how much shit they talk on the worthlessness of labor, I don’t actually understand what work they do.
They are pretty much just making this all up now. There is very little relevance to the effectiveness when measured in double digit days.

It's all fudged to say you are protected a month or two after your last shot.
If it killed you without tying up hospital resources, and you couldn’t transmit it to anyone else in the meantime, yes, absolutely, like riding motocross without a helmet, go for it.

But since your choice is to mess any number of other people up and tie up ICU resources for a week or more, that kinda shows everyone else the kind of citizen you are.

Because contagious diseases aren’t just “your body”
Anyone know why ereaders are so bad with this stuff? Rendering latex math is like 40 year old techology. You'd think there were a dozen open source libraries that these companies could utilize to do this. Maybe they figure only 1% of readers look at math formulas and its not worth the developer time to make a reasonable solution.
Typing the Technical Interview
>The last desktop build I made 5 years ago hasn't had a single component changed in that entire tim

I upgraded my monitor and changed 2 keyboards(I am hard on them) with a laptop if you fuck your keyboard you probably have to use an external one or hope that replacing your laptop keyboard is cheap enough and you can find a spare.
Also a Casio fan. I have the GW1701D from 2006 as my daily driver and have not had to replaced it's battery. Some of the newer models that sport MIP displays are beautiful but is hard to compromise in not having at least a solar element and atomic timekeeping as the standard minimum of features.
Every single time Firefox updates, it pops up a page telling me how great Firefox is, how great it would be if I donated. Updates happen weekly. It's effectively shareware at this point.
We need more data, but the silent generation did not seem to be that concerned during the cold war.

I think this article points to a culture shift and the success of liberal pro-choice propaganda if anything.
I just don't remember what DOS game it was that had actions linked to all of CTRL, ALT and DEL.

It were some actions that one wouldn't usually use together. I, as a bad gamer just didn't at all, but some people were able to put more commands per second there...
> replace the CPU

I believe you cannot replace/upgrade the CPU. At least that’s what I remember reading.

You’ll have to buy a new one, but you can always use the old ram, wifi chip (if it’s still supported) and SSD.
6. NetLogo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetLogo & https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
Many companies do heavily promote the thinness of their device on launch. How many of them also say that it is thin and customizable? (And customisable doesn't mean choosing between 8 gb of soldered ram vs 16 gb of soldered ram). There's your answer.
I think it's a little more nuanced than that.

If I'm building something new, I generally want a new kernel/OS underneath. Especially if what I'm building can take advantage of it (improvements to filesystems, networking stack etc..).

After I've launched my service, I want stability over everything else. So here, I'd launch on the newest Ubuntu available, and stick with it for quite a long time.
Thanks for correcting me. I know there is a way to do something similar to what I had in there, but I don't remember what it was. Any idea?
What I don't know about this is a lot, and I will admit to having a bias since I have ~25k in cryptocurrency on Gemini, but from a high level does this actually make sense?

If someone hires a hitman for $9,000, and then that person goes to Bank of America to withdraw money from their account, we don't typically hold BOA liable unless we assume that they know that the reason you're withdrawing the money is for something illegal.

Similarly, why sanction the crypto exchange?
Do customers care though? Perhaps customer advocates do. And that's probably the best place for it, since it's such a niche and wonky idea.

And that's why "free markets" will never solve this. (And that's whether the "free" in free markets means freedom from regulations, or freedom for people to participate in the market).

IMHO this is why the European system of strong regulatory bodies tends to work better than the US system of "wait for a customer to experience damages, then recoup through the courts, and then the companies learn their lesson."
You can check instanceof of course, but the idea behind doing this is that object literals and raw data from JSON/whatever can be treated as a first class entity, rather than mucking around with all the boilerplate dataclass junk a lot of languages get tangled up in.