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> 1. M1 is a super fast laptop chip. It provides mid-range desktop performance in a laptop form factor with mostly fanless operation. No matter how you look at it, that's impressive.

Get an x86-64 laptop with a recent fastest Ryzen, install Linux on it. You're gonna see better performance for most practical things than your Mac M1, practically fanless. For half the price.

Power-per-watt remains Apple's competitive advantage and therefore battery life is 1.5-2x there.

I think the question remains, like it had before these new chips: do you want MacOS and the Apple ecosystem? If you do, they're obviously a good choice (even a great choice with these new chips). The less value you get from that ecosystem, the less you will get from these laptops. For nearly everything else, Linux will be the better choice.
> they sent a takedown for the documentation

TFA seems to be referring to http://101.132.96.154/:

> What is Atlas?

> Atlas is a toolbox of common software components for the development of calibration and test stations. Atlas is not an out-of-the-box sequencer; Atlas provides the tools and building blocks to build many types of sequencers.

I'm not sure I'd call that "documentation" given how vague-to-the-point-of-uselessness it is, though.
As a mechanical designer who has quite a bit of machining experience, I'm the person sounding like a broken record about chamfers when doing design reviews. Blondihacks quote will be going straight into my repertoire of quotes.
It's an unskilled job, and yes it is.

If you transport goods from a boat to the shore, you make a junior software developer level salary.

If you transport goods from a truck to a warehouse, you make $12 an hour
A new programmer is not a bad programmer, in a normal setting their responsibility is limited. A new programmer if bad will mess up code style, a bad senior will destroy the project.
There a couple of nice coding apps in Android and iOS, naturally they are mostly for coding on the train/plane, or tying out ideas at the local coffee shop, but that is good enough for me.
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From technical standpoint, what is the problem with FTP/SFTP? They seem good when transferring several discrete files from websites.
Why not? Several programming languages in the olden era did get localised.
> As the 'author' of several large numbers, such as 126972017 and 2331855400

Piss off, copyright troll.
for Intel to not go out of business...?
The issue is to not create a tower of Babel that can only be rendered by one specific piece of convoluted software.
Even VIM is super slow on my mac book, this amazes me most hahaha
Donald Trump to launch social media platform called Truth Social
I hope someone is paying you to post this stuff. If not, you’re working for free.
This is a well known PR tactic, described in Merchants of Doubt and most recently in The New Climate War by Michael Mann.

Interesting enough, this tactic can also be deployed on strong believers in climate change in several ways. For example, the very idea of a carbon footprint is invented by BP in order to shift responsibility towards the consumer, which deflates pressure on corporate action and regulation. The gun lobby, tobacco companies and softdrink industries have employed similar campaigns - such as inventing recycling.

The very term 'climate change' is a friendlier and successful rebranding of global warming by the way. It suggests something natural, maybe even benign. That's why I prefer climate crisis.

Another example is the idea that renewables are not 'green', like wind turbines kill birds, EV requires lithium etc. The proposed alternative is always either some future technology or a complete non-starter like dismantling capitalism and just stop using electricity.

Yet another tactic is to make the case that we are doomed and no action can be taken.

All these serve the interests of the fossil barons very well as they divide, cast doubt on, delay or otherwise frustrate the efforts to genuinely decarbonize our economy.

Thus, one needs to be careful to distinguish between actual science and marketing disguised as science, or more insidious: bits of science employed in a psyop campaign.
Yeah, I don’t expect ordinary users to make that decision. But I have no ability to fix this stuff, so I just make decisions for myself in order to minimize unnecessary risks.
> the best course of action would be to change my name

That's usually easier than getting a company to fix their software.
I repair them to keep them in play, impossible to get some of the parts so I tend to use one that is too far gone to repair a number (usually three or so) of others and then I still end up with some more spares that might come in handy later.

They are incredibly durable, one that I got had been in a fire but it still worked, even though more than half of the keyboard had been burned off. The mainboard went on to repair one that was otherwise good but had a fried CPU. Another one I got had been owned by a touring musician, who apparently didn't know about flight cases :) There wasn't a lick of paint on the outer case. I got it for free because it wouldn't turn on any more. Turned out that the voltage selector had somehow been moved in transport and got stuck between the two settings, leaving it disconnected. That was the fastest fix ever, there simply wasn't anything wrong with it. (And good thing that voltage selector had not been pushed a tiny little bit further because then it would have been end-of-story for sure).

So, I have a pretty large collection of spares, looms, main boards, display boards, keys (they do break, especially as the plastic ages it can get more brittle, more so in synths that have been in the sun), switches, PSUs and so on. Every now and then I put an ad out to get people to sell me their broken ones or to help them out and then a new batch of working DX-7's goes back into the world. It's never going to make me a dime, especially not when counting the time but it feels pretty good to keep these oldies alive, and to see how happy musicians are when their baby works again.
I would complement it with:

- Scott Wlaschin's Railway Oriented Programming (ROP): https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/ and https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/recipe-part2/

- Scott Wlaschin's The "Map and Bind and Apply, Oh my!" series at https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/map-and-bind-and-ap... and its concept of an "elevated world".

- And for Elixir Programmers, Zohaib Rauf's "Railway Oriented Programming in Elixir" at https://zohaib.me/railway-programming-pattern-in-elixir/ based on Scott Wlaschin stuff.

- https://wiki.haskell.org/All_About_Monads. The introductory part (7 first pages of the pdf).

- Brian Beckman: Don't fear the Monad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhuHCtR3xq8

- Philip Wadler's "Monads for Functional Programming" at http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/ba...

- HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16446139

ROP is a good way to introduce the Either monad without ever talking about monads, functors and co. Moreover it is highly useful.
Have you thought about including an additional identifier for the day too? That might help in addressing the edge cases that fall on different days.
Have you ever compared it against Notepad++ or Sublime Text?
Consensus is self-reinforcing, by the rejection of papers that contradict dogmas. It's also relatively rare to go into "Climate Science" as a field. I would expect no more than 1 in 20 physicists becomes a "climate physicist", if that. I also feel that it does select for those who are more convicted that humans are changing the world for the worse. You need motivation, and alarm is a good one. From all this, it would not surprise me if the field is a monoculture, with human caused climate change as the central dogma. That doesn't mean it's wrong, but pretending that the consensus measure is objective in any way is definitely flat wrong.
You can, but you don't have to. With some self discipline, Perl can be very readable. The only problem is that actually requires skill and agreement in development team. Perl Best Practices helps with that.
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28932206
I'm from England (North East) and we also tend to use "like" when it doesn't make total sense, but mostly in speech and not in writing.

It's used as a bit of a filler word ("There were, like, a lot of people, like, just standing around") or as a way to soften the end of a sentence ("That show was really good like!").
Better than dying
As they describe in the paper, "at least the choice will be a conscious one". If someone wants a wide variety of sources and opposing ideas, there will be a goggle for that. If someone wants only anti-vax articles, there will probably be one for that too.

This is probably much better than what currently happens, where search engines become personalized but users don't realize it. That anti-vax person might think they are searching the whole web when google has quietly flagged them as a user who enjoys anti-vax articles and continues suggesting those sites, taking them further down the rabbit hole.
It greatly depends on both the font and user settings. As an example of the latter, iTerm2 has the relevant configuration in the session preferences: "Ambiguous characters are double-width".
I’d love to see some pictures of the super beat up ones that still work :)
> about half

Exactly, no 100x, no 10x, just half. That is very noticeable but "extreme" sounds like much more.

> I don’t even think Sandybridge (Intel 2011) CPUs support h264 decode-

Correct, but unrelated to CPU speed and instead an additional hardware component. That is a fair argument, just like missing suitable HDMI standards, usb c, etc.. However, again that is not about speed but features.
UTF-8 is much less to ask for than IPv6.
> You can have the best and cleanest JS that targets FF, and have it fall over one million ways in other browsers (I'm looking at you, Safari).

Conversely, you can have the best and cleanest JS that targets Safari, and have it fall over one million ways in other browsers (I'm looking at you, Firefox).
We are back at UNIX/VMS/mainframe timesharing infrastructure.

SaaS direction is the only way people have found out to extract money from open source tooling that devs don't want to pay for, it is either SaaS or hardware, so there you have it.
Mostly to drive subscriptions.
The asymmetrical warfare of bullshit "science" is demoralizing. It seems to take so much effort to get the bad stuff taken down, compared with the apparent ease of made-up stuff to be published. This one is pretty crazy: a paper alleging paranormal time-reversed causality still not retracted 10 years later https://replicationindex.com/2018/01/05/bem-retraction/
That hypothesis is a little dated, but it should be noted that the exome (the thing being discussed in this article) is 1% of the overall human genome.
I think the larger issue is the lack of credibility. Having read many of the papers, been involved in some research myself, etc. I thoroughly believe the field has no credibility. We simply don't know and it's unknowable depending on what we are attempting to measure, predict, etc.

Here are the criticisms I have seen and share myself:

1. Define "climate change"

2. Funding tends to be provided to those who agree politically

3. Funding is typically tied to particular research objectives. Because of that, outcomes are often per-determined, particularly when we're looking at trend lines in particular predictable ways. For instance, we are likely funding research into "what are the human causes of climate change" -- which implies an outcome.

4. While there may be consensus that it's human caused, that doesn't necessarily mean there's consensus on the reasons, outcomes, scale, etc.

5. Journals / Reviewers actively block publication of counter points.

6. There's significant evidence climate change will benefit humanity, aka the characterization from politicians misrepresents the actual data. This reduces the credibility of the field and influences desired outcomes.

7. Many of the predictions from scientists in the field have been wildly off. If you go through old papers you can see there were predictions of an apocalypse every few years, which never comes. This makes it seem like a giant grift.

8. There's a MAJOR sampling issue. Where are the data samples taken to determine "warming", there are many papers cherry picking data. Certain regions are getting cooler, others warmer, etc. Additionally, we only have data reliably for a hundred years and we're exiting an ice age. We see correlations at that scale, causation are not discoverable; at least for what most people consider climate change (global temperature change & weather patterns).

9. Obvious counter examples exist. Per-industrialization, North Africa went fro a lush land to a desert. It wasn't human industrialization that did that. North America was covered in a sheet of ice a mile thick 20,000 years ago. These events are rarely considered in papers examining human influence.
The sort of behavior people capable of pattern recognition have come to expect from any corporation. But I'm sure the next supposedly-not-evil corporation (Cloudflare, maybe?) will totally be legit, right?
PSA: Tech employers circumvent the law prohibiting asking current/prior salary
Yes… only half as well as modern laptop. Back on the era of Moore’s law, a new machine would be 32x as fast as a ten year old model.

That was a real difference.

But in 2021, people still buy laptops 1/2 as slow as other models to do the same work. Heck people go out of their way to buy iPad pros which are half as slow as comparable laptops.

Considering that, I think a ten year old machine is pretty competitive as an existing choice.
I don't think there is a conflict between gravity being a force (and therefore having an associated gauge boson to mediate the force) and mass causing deformations in spacetime.

IIRC, Einstein's Field Equation equates the stress energy tensor to the spacetime curvature - so I think logic is that if the stress energy tensor has quantized levels, then the spacetime curvature should as well.
I do "love" how a wrong, one-sentence comment spawns so much argument.

So many person-hours spent arguing this point online. So much of our lives. I'm as guilty as anyone.

Yes, "someone's wrong on the Internet", haha. But really. This guy isn't arguing in good faith. Frankly at this point nobody arguing online that climate change is not real is arguing in good faith.

Can we find a way to channel our collective energy towards productive climate action? Serious question.
Yes. In Hungarian, ly is pronounced like y, the l is silent.
Agreed. At least in the US, we really seem to love base 2 denominators on our strange measurements.
If M1 chips have better performance per watt, then they are going to put off less heat. So however "practically fanless" the x86-64 chip you choose is, the M1 is going to be more fanless.

And for a laptop chip those are pretty much the two things that matter (not melting your lap and not being crazy loud).
The changes needed to meaningfully change our trajectory of our society are massive and systemic. The entire present fleet of electric cars isn't going to have a substantial effect let alone one scientist doing so.

People in many parts of the US especially can't afford to give up driving and keep cars for 10 plus years. Buying one will set you back 30k+ now and EV have only recently got so "affordable" along with infrastructure becoming slightly more prevalent.

One would therefore expect those scientists making enough money to afford an EV to be more likely to choose an EV as they naturally upgraded as opposed to the ridiculous hypothesis that anyone who believed in their research ought to have them.
That’s amazing. How does a person learn to repair older electronics tech like that?
Here's a back of the napkin calculation I'm using:

( Yearly Salary - taxes - (monthly rent * 12) ) / months (or days or hours) worked

This lets me know how much I'm getting per unit of time once I deduct all the expenses (tax + CoL). If you commute, add that to the number of hours worked - those hours aren't paid, but they should still be accounted for.

What I've often found out after running the numbers:

1. Taxes + CoL have a very big impact, more than most people realize. If you can keep your taxes and CoL down, you can draw half the salary and still come ahead.

2. Remote work means that you can structure your affairs in such a way that you're making more money per unit of time than you might by being on-site, even if on-site pays more.
If you define the enduring scientific consensus on climate change, probably the most-researched question in history, as 'extreme', and if you give denialists false equivalency with it, then the middle ground is between them.

The scientific consensus isn't extreme and there is no equivalency, in any serious examination, between evidence and baseless claims (and complaints of victimization). You can find plenty to debate within the science, by addressing the evidence. I note that none of the denialist arguments, including this one, discuss any evidence.

Also, if we look for 'middle ground' by reflex, we reward people for taking more extreme positions: You say the Sun rises in the east, I say in the west; let's look for middle ground! Finally, this kind of rhetoric is often a way to distract people from the evidence and the real issues.

> Of course extreme views exist, and a lot of times it comes from the same political side, precisely because the other political side is pressing with the sense of urgency

They are victims. Even their own actions are blamed on the other side! They have no responsibility for their actions, their world, or the outcomes. That's up to the scientists and people doing honest work, I suppose.

What happens when there is a catastrophe? Bad things happen. If you deny that reflexively, then you are going to have a lot of trouble. A lot of people have died of Covid.
If you understand Bessel Basis Functions, or the design and tuning of motorcycle carburetors, then it makes perfect sense. If you are uneducated on these and similar arithmatic summations of wave functions, then it will make no sense.
There's nothing special about a username vs any other string. If there is, that is a problem.
The official settlement memo says that key information is all in Attachment A. However, Attachment A was not attached, and as far as I can tell, is nowhere to be found. If anyone should find Attachment A, please inform us of its location.
Ah, that's a missed chance. I never thought of that. That one chassis is long gone (I took off it what I could) and the burned keyboard I took apart outside the house. The keys that were still good went into the spares bin.

Next time I have one of these die-hards I'll be sure to take pictures.
So no evidence.
5 drinks/week is a lot.
Precular design choice to change the aspect ratio of the main graphic/photo based on the browser window width.
I’d love a source for this.
Many of the Leetcode stuff is tribal knowledge by now. You know them by practice not general expertise in DS/A.

On other side, many college grads practice a lot for this specific type of problems, even if they don't understand fundamentals.
Why not use libredd.it? It's a privacy friendly frontend for Reddit without any JS. You can host it yourself or run it off a docker container.
This one is a proper JIT, whereas the former generated C code, called the C compiler on it, and then loaded the generated code as shared object.

You can imagine how much it actually helped in the end.

Whatever the native code might help was let down due to the lantency of doing all that work.
Really? If someone asked you if exclamation marks in usernames would cause problems before you were aware of this, would you have said yes? It's a very common special character, it's not like it's a control character or some obscure unicode thing. Besides, it's a common thing to add to usernames outside of services where you use your real name.
Did the 360 not drag things into multicore very similarly? Pretending its CPU has one core is a pretty similar experience to pretending a PS3 has no SPEs.
Please note this is total doses, i.e., adding up people who've got the first dose and the second dose, so it's double-counting people who've got both.

The more accurate number is 290 million, which is how many people have got both doses. Our population is 1.3 billion, so we're still a long way away.

https://dashboard.cowin.gov.in/
I was comparing 2 computers I have (read the comment I replied to). But if you are saying that passively cooled Apple notebook should be compared to last-gen Intel desktop CPU with powerful cooler - Apple enginers would be honored to read it ;)
The trade in value for my 6 year old MacBook Air is 150 dollars. Old computers depreciate so fast, that you can afford to buy ten of them for the price of one new computer.
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> there's really no reason to buy an apple laptop short of bragging

That seems like a simplistic view, and honestly, I'd figure you don't value much what the Mac delivers for me, mostly aesthetic and lack of tinkering. For instance, this Mac has a nice, large trackpad, and even high end laptops from other manufacturers tend to feel a bit clunky by comparison. I don't like fan noise, and the Air performs well for a fanless machine. With a Dell laptop, I still had problems with audio drivers and bluetooth devices--I just don't want to mess with that crap, at all, ever, and even from the manufacturer, I'm dealing with driver issues and bad configuration. I don't want the ability to de-crapify my PC with a fresh install of Windows, I want to open the box and not have an OS loaded with 3rd party crap, and that's not something you get with a PC.

I could probably go on for a while if I thought about it, but I don't even consider an Apple laptop anything to brag about. Generally, I'm tech savvy, but so far over it that I want an appliance machine. I find visible logos, products, and brand identities tacky, so bragging doesn't even enter into the equation. Visible Apple logo counts against the machine for me.
Richard Tol is a professor of economics, not climate science.

"Craig D. Idso is the founder, former president and current chairman of the board of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, a group which receives funding from ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy and which promotes climate change denial."

Shaviv is an astrophysicist who claims that passing through the arms of the milky way are what caused climate change in the past. As far as I can tell, he's merely generated theory after theory, with no experimental evidence to support his claims. He's also the darling of the Heartland Institute. If you haven't heard of them, they are a conservative "think tank" whose two purposes are denying climate change and disputing that smoking causing cancer.

Nicola Scafetta is a statistician who has never produced the code used to generate the models he's touted as evidence of the same milky way-induced-climate-change nonsense.

Try again.
It's the level of tech that I grew up with so I'm not sure where you'd learn it other than just to get your hands on one and to start digging in. Very few tools required if you stick to the test-and-replace-subsystems level, a screwdriver, a good DVM, a soldering iron (a good one, preferably one that is isolated from mains), a lot of spare time and a notebook so that you can keep track of what you find and build up a store of knowledge over time to help diagnose problems faster.

About 200K DX-7's were made, which is enough that you can find them and not so many that there is no value in repairing them, on top of that the degree to which people are attached to their synths is something that still amazes me. The level of emotion when a dead synth comes back to life with the owners is always quite gratifying, it's some of the best time spent for me.
https://web.archive.org/web/%2a/http://101.132.96.154/%2a
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