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The thickness argument (i.e., excuse) came from Apple, not users. They did the same with the 3.5mm audio jack on phones, claiming they needed the space to make things thinner. Meanwhile, phones like the LG V35 were thinner with the same IP rating but still had an audio jack.
If the bug is bad enough (for example, breaking the VM in a way where even a bug-free smart contract becomes vulnerable) Ethereum will fork again. I agree on how hard it would be to coordinate it, so the issue would need to be existential for Ethereum for everyone to agree.
It was obvious for me when apple released the m1 13 inch pro next to the air that the 14 inch would land at the higher price point. That’s why I immediately bought the air. If I were buying a new macbook today, I would be tempted by the 14 inch pro but I would probably still buy the m1 air.

The air is still a very nice laptop. It is really fast, faster than the 9600K in my imac. And it has a beautiful screen with rich colors that I never use at max brightness indoors.
I know this won't matter to your fuzzy memories, having a few similar ones myself. That said, Morrowind is a province in the game, that was named in TES: Arena, released in 1994. ICQ was released in 1996. In-game maps in Arena show it: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Maps (topmost one is a fan map, note)

I did some searching for something similar, but the only thing I came upon even vaguely related would be The Morrow Project, a tabletop RPG.
Sales are around $2 mil/year for oral and suppository combined [1].

For that you have regulatory upkeep, cost of manufacturing, and legal liability.

It seems pretty clear why several of the past owners of the brand have gone bankrupts or sold off the product line.

https://s28.q4cdn.com/742207512/files/doc_presentations/2021...
Music producers are using an external interface regardless, and if they are on the go and just using headphone jack, it doesn't much matter because they know they arent getting a true monitor grade signal to judge the mix with.

This is just great for headphone nerds, audiophiles.
There were rumors that it was supposed to be today. Given that it wasn't, I now expect it to be quite a while before they do. I was really looking forward to it.
Sure but Lenovo has been offering some AMD models with 90Hz 2880x1800 panels for some time now
At least it is a USB-C terminated on the charger end. That means you can reuse existing USB-PD chargers while only needing to replace the cable.
I still marvel that they've built such a big company around a SQLite fork.

>Expensify is built on Bedrock - a private Blockchain-based data foundation atop a custom fork of SQLite, which we believe is the fastest, most reliable and most widely distributed database in the world. This fork optimizes SQLite to operate on extremely high core density servers, concurrently executing thousands of page-locked transactions per server, with robust conflict detection and resolution. Bedrock further extends SQLite -- which is a local database with no networking component -- with a WAN-optimized, Paxos-based self-healing clustered replication engine designed to conduct atomic two-phase commits over high-latency / low-reliability internet VPN links, using the world's longest continuously operational Blockchain (since before Bitcoin began). Our design is optimized for global scale, speed and reliability.
Building on soil in Big Sandy: Regenerative organic farming in rural Montana
Hey HN! This is Part 2 of my regenerative/organic agriculture series, Common Ground. You all had such an interesting, in-depth conversation about Part 1 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27809279), that I wanted to see what you think about the next installment. It's a combo of solutions journalism and a profile (always trying to break things over here), in which I explored the 40-year career of pioneering organic farmer and entrepreneur Bob Quinn, who also has a PhD in plant biochemistry.

Quinn encounters a lot of failures, and I kept thinking how unlike a place like Silicon Valley, failure isn't necessarily celebrated in rural farming culture, where during the homestead era, failure might have meant death. Nonetheless, Quinn told me, he's seeing a potential sea change in food and farming:

“I’m not pushing uphill quite as hard against so much tradition that says there’s no reason to change anything. Thirty years ago, fewer people had already gone broke. Everything was really rosy with industrial ag.”
Seems like par for the course nowadays for companies to issue two classes of stock with the second class having little to no voting power.
Heh, if push comes to shove, I reckon games will have to add support for `safe-area-inset-top`
Touchscreens are the big missing feature on macOS.

It's not useful as a primary input method, but after using a Windows Surface computer for some time I'm surprised how often the touch display is useful.

Lots of websites are optimized for touch / mobile first. Wether you are filling a form or watching Netflix or Disney plus, touching the screen is just much more convenient. Keyboard navigation is increasingly an afterthought on many websites.

Macs now support running iOS apps. Using them without a touch screen is going to be a very poor experience.

And finally, some things like annotating PDFs are things that are really cumbersome without a touch display -- when I need to do that on a Mac, I just print out the page because using the track pad or mouse for annotations is just not an option for me.
Uhhhh can the MacBooks charge via USB-C? Because I’ve been investing heavily in usb-c chargers (they are $80 and I bought 5 of them for traveling, different room etc). If they can’t be used for charging anymore I’m going to lose my shit for real
Same wish here. Last I tried a few months ago, I was unable to compile UE4 as well. These machines would be great for UE4 dev if only the compatibility was there. I wonder if the politics between Epic and Apple has made efforts in this area a lower priority.
I definitely can think of examples of free -> paid being enormously expensive (Dropbox?). But is it a required result of bifurcating the customer base?
To do this in Python, couldn't you just fork the Python process after initializing the web framework etc. and handle the request in the forked process? Optionally keep a pool of pre-forked worker processes so that the request doesn't have to wait for the forking. Sort of like Android's zygote process.
>iPhone killed the iPad.
I think you meant iPod here.
And GUSD.
The notch is awful. But the prices are worse. I really wanted to buy something today but those two factors are very off-putting.
> Whenever I see stats like this that don't account for age, I ignore them. They are worthless.

This, this, 100 times this. I wish I could upvote you 100 times. Yes, exactly that. I agree with you 100% on this.
I'm with you. The only thing = delete means to me is that I'm happy C++ isn't part of my dayjob.
In another commercial, a child walks near the edge of a cliff, loses balance and grabs the one thing in his reach: a laptop charger cable. Unfortunately, it's MagSafe, and the child falls into the abyss ...
Howdy! Well we absolutely need more open source CAD tools.

That said as a mechanical engineer for going on two decades now, I really get no value from this kind of mechanical design. I grew up on Solidworks and now use OnShape. That kind of physical modeling is very important. Being able to click on a face and sketch some geometry and then extrude it really feels like the right modality for me. I’d really love to see more investment in that kind of parametric visual CAD.

EDIT: An example of one of my recent projects:
https://twitter.com/TLAlexander/status/1450001567088713730
Collecting juicy tax credits for installing solar power. Carbon credits.
Very good. I'm looking forward to having to switch back to Gopher at some point to evade the lawyers for another couple years.
Why not consider a used one previous model with ports if you need them so much, but unwilling to pay extra for overpowered machine?
Except for when those market makers also do a bunch of other things... such as holding and speculating.
These laptops are very impressive, but until there is clarification on their CSAM scanning plans/their future intentions with that, it's going to make me wait. The thought of my OS being integrated with ANY government database with only the assurances of 'trust us, we will say no' still repels me.
I did think one of the replies was intersting:

"What is going on is that thousands of "reporters" blame FB for the collapse of their industry, and this is payback. Forget the truth, they want blood. Fortunately they have spent a lot of time discrediting themselves so nobody believes them anymore anyway."

https://mobile.twitter.com/OCCosmoCat/status/145015967808043...

It does seem worrying how coordinated they seem in their attacks this time. I guess FB has made one too many enemies, and we're about to see how much influence old media has over the people.
ISPs are only required to forward the DMCA notice to you (unless they suck and just want to drop you). The only reason the DMCA notices took down Napster et al. is because the requests are valid.

You could build Content ID for the real internet but it would only as much as you can intimidate each individual creator/site operator. They are free to at least decide to defend themselves if they wanted to. Under the Youtube ContentID that really isn't an option. Plus non-US creators could care a lot less since enforcing DMCA/copyright internationally is going to be even more costly.
Ignite looked intruiging when I checked it out recently - but I need to import rootfs tarballs directly, without going through any registries. Any helpful pointers are appreciated :)
Try Baseus USB C Hub Adapter for MacBook Pro 2020/2019/2018/2017, a 9-in-1 USB Type C Hub dongle with 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports (40Gbps), 4K HDMI (60hz on USB-C, 30hz on HDMI), RJ45 Ethernet, USB-C data port, 3x USB 3.0, and audio:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0872V4LFP/

Unlike single pigtail all-in-one dongles, this two piece no pigtail thingy supports 2x TB3 or 2x USB-C/DisplayPort displays since it is tapping both sides of laptop. (Incidentally this also lets you charge on the right to prevent potential issues with charging from left.)
Surely that kind of use would have been fine. What they're trying to do with that questionnaire must be to determine if you're making money from the venture. You can share your diary with others and still call it personal, after all. (Once you get a publisher involved, not so much.)
Is a company not beyond reproach? Can't I like the product but still criticize its flaws?
But do you need to play those games through rosetta? Does that make a difference?
Thanks for the links, I'll have to take some inspiration from wireguard-go!
I think you've identified one of the essential parts of the design of Forth: it makes it very easy to implement simple systems, and very difficult to implement complex systems. In other words, polynomial O(n^a) complexity, where "a" is large, but the hidden constant k is small.

Making good use of Forth seems to be contingent on identifying situations where you want to implement a very small and simple system (embedded systems, firmware, OS bootloaders, tiny IoT devices?), and using Forth there - and avoiding it like the plague in all other cases.

I very much doubt that implementing a VLSI CAD program, where you want as many features to help your design as possible (features which necessarily incur a complexity cost), is a good use of Forth, for example.
> unless the whole of MacOS is redesigned to be used with fingers

People use a lot of web apps that were designed mobile first, and using them without a touch screen sucks.

You wouldn't use the touch screen as primary input, but it would make a lot of things much easier.
Idea: Write a utility to add in a software bezel for folks like this. We can call it distraction free mode. We'll take the extra space back and replace it with a black bezel. The webcam and front facing utilities are now within that space. You can toggle it on and off.

> I can spend days in clearing the white space between glyph/kerning of typography and this notch will distract my eyes constantly. Call it OCD or professional deformation, the notch will drive me crazy.:)

As an aside, most designers I know use external monitors. Do you find yourself doing this type of work on your laptop display?
Dude this is Hacker News. I'm surprised when I meet an engineer who doesn't have a maxed out laptop.
Gnome actually always render a full framebuffer at integer scales and then downscale in GPU with bilinear scaling.

4K output, 1.5× scale means 6K framebuffer scaled to 4K.

That's sadly how it works at least on Gnome, and Gnome says they've copied it 1:1 from MacOS.
Lift the min wage, employment still rises? Anger the establishment, win a Nobel
Apple isn't trying to push a dongle ecosystem. they're trying to push a "thunderbolt/usb-c for everything" ecosystem. In typical Apple fashion, they're willing to be pretty radical about it on the computers themselves, and let donglepocalypse be a side effect.
Surely the shared ram between cpu and gpu is the killer feature - zero copy and up to 64gb ram available for the gpu!
Just making the SSD (the only part that wears) replaceable would greatly increase the lifespan of these systems, and while supporting M.2 would take up more space in the chassis, it would not meaninfully change performance or power.
No he's right, it renders to a 2x resolution off screen with hidpi assets (2x resolution icons, double-size text, etc) and then does downsampling back to your screen resolution 2560x1600 for 13 inches, 2880x1800 for 15 inch, 3072x1092 for 16-inch MBPs.
Ketamine's antidepressant effect doesn't require any dissociation or psychedelic effects to work.

Many of the legitimate clinics keep the doses low enough to produce only mild dizziness at most.

Unfortunately many of the alternative-medicine style providers have gone to the other end of the spectrum, embracing excessive doses and promoting the psychedelic component as part of the therapeutic process.
Yet there still is no support for writing HFS (not plus) formatted floppies. Yeah, not really everything I could want...
I'm having trouble contextualizing your response with regards to the article. Where did the author say anything about the human condition?
If you want the truth, talk to an engineer, not a scientist.
Part of the phenomenon in the 2nd paragraph might be the way the data is picked, in the same way you might find that a basketball team averages 8 more points per game in wins vs losses.
And how will the crafty HW people replace the SSD storage on my 2020 Macbok if it bites the dust?
Well, the 13" Pro already has the M1 chip and will probably be gradually replaced by the 14", so there's no reason to update it. Where's the trolling?
That's a debate between OSX and alternatives, the M1 has little to do with that. Except maybe the Rosetta for unsupported x86, but I doubt that'll cause you any issues.

Edit: C# support is there on OSX, Rider has Apple Silicon builds and .net core is cross platform now.

ML is probably a let down and you'll be stuck to CPU sized workloads, that being said the M1 does pretty well compared to other x86 CPU
>Its interesting to me that at one time the idea of separating politics and work used to be standard decorum

it's a mirage of sorts. Exercising sovereign power and drawing the line where politics ends is in itself political, in fact it's arguably the most political act there is. What's changed is not 'how much' politics there is but where the power lies.

tech workers in contrast to a lot of people in the past have significant leverage, because they're relatively few in numbers, in high demand, and have fairly homogenous views which happen to conflict with the people who own all the stuff. Which makes for a fairly combustible combination.
I have to think Dell and others could have put in a notch if they wanted to make that compromise. They clearly felt it better to either do it right (and find a way to nestle the camera stuff into the bezel) than to go full notch.
It is a limitation we want to lift where we can and that we are working on. I'd love to hear more about your use-case. Email is in profile.
In an average city block, I'd expect that ~99% of displays—TVs, monitors, projectors—would support HDMI-in. Plus A/V receivers, for that matter.

Maybe, maybe 5% would support DisplayPort over USB-C (or anything else that lets you use USB-C for video in), and that's after a few years of Apple pushing it as The Next Big Thing. I fully expect HDMI will be more common than DP+USB-C in five more years, and quite likely in ten. For one thing, it's really nice to install in offices and houses because you can have long runs of it (50+ feet), with relatively cheap cable (compared to video-capable USB-C, certainly) and it'll still work. If something replaces it, I think it'll either be wireless or some other cable, not USB-C.
Just because you're not getting that panel back doesn't mean it's destroyed and wasted. I figure that these policies simplify their front-line technician jobs, getting faster turnaround times and higher success rates. Then they have a different department that sorts through all the removed/broken parts, repairing and using parts from them. No idea if this is what they actually do, but it would be the smart way to handle it.
You mean like (I'm guessing but I think it's a safe guess) the vast majority of "pro" users who videoconference? The opinion that a laptop maker should take out a webcam in 2021 is... interesting.
As a developer I agree with you. I try and use DDG for most of my every day stuff. However on complex coding issues I almost always find myself back on Google after a couple frustrating minutes on DDG. I feel like a lot of this has to do with what historical search data Google stores vs DDG.
Pro tip: if you can switch some tests from using JSDOM to Node as the test environment they will run significantly faster.
On mobile devices - definitely

On desktop - missing what, 2% or less? Checked Steam stats - yep, about 2%
>Anything that's "death soon or guaranteed cancer later" levels of energetic won't be lasting centuries because physics.

I don't know which "physics" you're referring to, but here are the half-lives of just the most common isotopes (out of OVER 100) released in Chernobyl.

iodine-131:
8.04 days

caesium-137:
30 years

strontium-90:
29.12 years

plutonium-241 (decays into Americium-241):
14.4 years

Americium-241:
430 years

Remember, these are HALF-LIFE numbers, meaning half the isotopes will still be radioactive after these time intervals.
Thank you so much for sharing the ballpark numbers/percentages of the free->paid funnel. I'm not starting a competing mail application (haha) so my use case might be different but it's very useful for comparison.
Yeah, and also cuz they kinda sucked. 1st-gen iMessage, or even old-school Trillian, was loads better than Google's graveyard of shitty chat products.

Google had no overarching chat strategy, just threw gobs of money and different teams at reinventing different spokes of the wheels, never thinking about the cart as a whole.
They charge what the customer would pay. As long as people keep buying, the prices will keep increasing.
I've been using x86_64 docker containers with the QEMU emulation just fine, and most open source available docker containers are ARM compatible these days.

I don't push containers from my laptop to anywhere, instead those are built on CI/CD... and we are building both x86_64 and ARM containers these days as we are launching new workloads on Amazon's Graviton because it is cheaper and more cost effective.

The eco-system is not just x86 anymore.
Isn't C# quite available on mac?
$50M in revenue on 130 employees seems quite remarkable, no? Not to mention they grew to $88M with the same headcount.

Are they uniquely able to outsource a large number of functions? I've worked for firms with far less revenue and far greater headcount, and the road to IPO seemed inextricably dependent on orders of magnitude more headcount.
And this has made flameshot not able to work under Gnome: https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/1910
> There’s optical digital line out up until the 2015 Macbook Pro, sending light out of the headphone jack.

Yes, that's what I wrote was dropped in G4.
I disagree, respectfully.

The main target audience of MacBook Pro started with designers, writers and musicians (just looking on the shelf towards my old Titanium PowerBook G4).

There are not so much professional use cases which will agree on removing screen estate and adding visual distraction. Screen estate is the main difference in professional UX.

One of the reasons that I mentioned the Framework laptop is that a small company can get super-close to professional audience when searching pro solutions with common sense.

The Mighty Apple with trillions in bank cannot come-up with something "innovative" and chooses the "trade off" approach?
I build them using Buildah, then mkfs.ext4, mount, cp, umount. It's a little bit annoying that I'm still using root at least for the mount part.

OpenWrt's build system has a method of building rootfs ext4 and squashfs images without any root, it's somewhere in that large Makefile mess.

(sorry, reposting this as I first replied to the wrong parent)
No touchbar, I'm sold
More memory bandwith = 10x faster than an i9 ? this makes no sense to me doesn't clock speed and cores determine the major part of the performance of a cpu ?
I don't think the 'old' M1 13" Pro is long for this world - for £100 more (16GB+1TB spec) you get a much better machine in the 14" model. But independent comparisons will follow.

I'd love to see a Pro/Max Mac Mini, but that's not likely to happen.
Revenue for 2020:

Amazon 386B USD

Google 183B USD

Microsoft 143B USD

Cloudflare 431M USD

Similar story ...
Anyone else think the new cross section looks a bit odd? Very flat on top.

I am glad they did not copy the rounded off corner keys from the new iMac keyboards, though.
I think that's a proxy for inflation hurts lenders and helps people with debt.
> Just properly setting up and maintaining a small k8s cluster looks almost like a fulltime job.

The managed offerings floating around these days (DigitalOcean, AWS, and Google all have them, probably more) are insanely easy to set up and maintain. A managed cluster at DigitalOcean starts at $10/month. I definitely wouldn't recommend standing up your own cluster.

For new projects, I actually find it easier to whip up a deployment.yaml and toss it in my shared k8s cluster (DigitalOcean) than setting up a new VPS where I have to manage updates (including migration when the support window for my OS ends), service restarts, etc.

Github Actions for CI. Makefiles for deployment (`docker build+push` and `kubectl apply`).
If repairability was important to consumers, it would be a selling point for competitors. But it's not.
Sure. Under the private system, health providers are incentivized to suggest more expensive treatments over better treatments. Even your expensive care isnt as good as it could be
macOS does in fact do this kind of non-integer bitmap scaling. It's got nothing to do with what the GPU is capable of; Apple's UI framework can't do layout or text rendering at anything but "1x", "2x", or "3x" densities.

This is also why the first Catalyst apps looked really blurry and bad on non-Retina displays; Apple applied a non-integer scale to the final rendered frames to work around UIKit not being able to draw the right size widgets.
...or just released the full documentation for them. Apple being Apple and wanting full control over its users, I don't see that happening. I really don't care how fast or efficient these are, if they're not publicly documented all I think is "oh no, more proprietary crap". Apple might even make more $$$ if it wanted to open up, but it doesn't.
Working in undergrad isn't a common thing?