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I think window management in Mac leaves much to be desired (hot key and snapping floating windows). But associate fullscreeen window/split with a new workspace is actually one thing it does right. I installed an addon on Gnome just to emulate that.

Split is kind of useless with an ultrawide monitor though, I wish it was 3 columns
A consultant I worked with compared the organization we wanted to measure to an air mattress: If you press it somewhere, i.e., measure a specific point, the air goes elsewhere, and another part is inflated. He used this analogy to explain the importance of taking the entire situation into account, by applying full cost accounting.
Honestly sounds like you might want an iPad.

I recently got one to use as a secondary display just for Slack /Discord/etc, but after connecting a trackpad & keyboard I totally fell in love. It's a very simplistic environment, but it's actually quite nice as an alternative to the full-blown macOS.
An entire article about a cactus and not a single photo of it?
Unqork
Just having functional bluetooth would be nice? Bluetooth on my MBP recently decided to turn "off", and clicking/sliding the on/off slider just does nothing. The slider doesn't move to "on", and I get no feedback, errors, information or anything about why I can't re-enable it.

Prior to that BT devices would just drop the connection, AFAICT.

Bi-directional file transfer has never worked properly.

And that's only BT…

IDK what's actually that bad about the BT menu UI though? The recent UX changes on notifications have been bad, though. Especially where sometimes clicking the X doesn't dismiss the notification. (There's some bait&switch b/c there's like multiple notifications stacked up… or something.) And that (for a while now) Calendar hasn't reliably notified me, which has been great, as it results in lateness to meetings, since there's no longer an office mate to say "hey, it's time".
As you say, we're getting exactly these advances with phone and tablet OSs. iPads are becoming a dream appliance in the ways you mention and capture 90% of the average person's computing needs.

Regular computers have to maintain some backward compatibility and it's nice for power users to still be allowed to fiddle with file extensions and system internals.
This is the key ingredient missing from most online fora that is not missing in most face-to-face fora and the actual halls of government (well, most of them): equal time.

In a public physical venue, it's much easier to allocate one person, one time slice to present their views. There are exceptions (lobbying is a huge hack on this, and indeed, there's a reason many see lobbying as anti-democratic). But in contrast: online speech is dominated by whoever has either the most leisure time to toss at an online forum or the willingness and resources to sock-puppet up and turn their one voice into an echoing hydra. Factor in state spending on those hydras and the situation turns pretty un-democratic pretty fast.
This just saved me several minutes every day. Thank you!
1) Its the latter, iPhone remains bigger than Android in fb ad spend.

2) The whistle-blower stuff will have no effect at all on FBs numbers. Opinions on FB are set at this point.
Behold why UIs get super bloated over time. Users can want entirely different things. =)
About showing their products in the best light, it seems they also chose to limit the view of the notch of their brand new MBP to one (kind of small) picture... among pictures of 30 devices.
I can't agree with that. I can advocate for transparency in government and expect my right for personal privacy to be respected at the same time. The whole nature of what government and NGOs are makes points like "you should adopt it yourself" completely moot.

EFFs transparency is regulated by it being a 501c charity. It has full right to demand transparency from governments while not being any more transparent than strictly required by law themselves. You may wish for them to be more transparent if you want to support them - it's your choice - but that has no bearing on their advocacy at all, because it's completely irrelevant. The reasons why governments should be transparent simply don't apply to entities that are not governments, because they don't hold the power that governments do. The worst thing that may come from lack of EFF's transparency is my curiosity not being fed with board minutes, possibly causing me to restrain from supporting them in the future - which is hardly comparable to how my country's government influences my life.
It's brilliant. You could add gesture support for selection and extrapolation
iPhone 7 plus runing 15.0.2, my biometrics unlock was disabled until I put in the password.
Tesla pulls Full Self-Driving update after sudden braking spooks drivers
> That RAM is DDR4 while the MBP uses DDR5 (low power). MSI has stated that DDR5 will cost at least 60% more. Known prices are actually 3x higher.

Naturally it's DDR4. The 5950X only supports DDR4. If it had DDR5 it would be twice as fast on all the things the M1 Max is doing well on as a result of having more memory bandwidth.

> That SSD is 2600mbs while the MacBook is 7400mbs. The Samsung Pro is the only SSD in that territory.

This is kind of fair, but then that's the other problem. For most workloads a 2600MBps read speed is already going to move the bottleneck somewhere else, especially on a machine with 64GB memory to use as cache. If you're the rare exception who actually benefits from it, the Samsung one is available, but for everybody else they get to save $170 by not coupling the fast CPU they actually want with an expensive SSD that wasn't their bottleneck and has a poor cost benefit ratio.

> Buy a cheap motherboard and you'll pay the price later.

How do you mean? At best it won't have some ports you eventually want and then you buy the add-in card later and spend half as much on it because by then the price is lower.

$155 is a fairly high price for a motherboard. $300 is a severe price. The most common ones are like $70.

> A keyboard with a fingerprint reader will set you back at least $50 with a Surface keyboard costing $100. A comparable trackpad would be over $100, but even a midrange $50 mouse.

The logitech keyboard and mouse are perfectly serviceable and on par with anything you get when you buy a complete PC from the store. I would take them over the chiclet thing that Apple makes.

You can have a $100 keyboard and a trackpad to use with your desktop, but now you have an advantage over the Macbook, because you get to buy it once and use it forever instead of it being permanently attached to a machine that will be obsolete before the keyboard is. So you get to amortize the cost over several hardware generations.

The same goes for the monitor for that matter.

> A non-garbage case will be around $100 plus or minus a little.

How is the thing provided a garbage case? What am I not getting from it that I actually care about?

> A decent air CPU cooler that will keep your CPU from throttling way back is going to run close to $80-120.

That was a decent air CPU cooler. It has copper heat pipes and a 92mm fan. The crappy ones are like $13:

https://www.newegg.com/cooler-master-air-cooler-series-rh-a3...

A really great one is $39:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005O65JXI

I went to see what you would get for $120 and for that price some of the coolers included a CPU.
As a fellow Christopher -thank the IT overlords of my state (MO) that my driver's license uses my name in its entirety and not cutting off the 'r'.
I guess I should have used the word lecture. Maybe they do lecture now, it's been awhile since I was involved.
you lost me at pay per play... also your pricing page doesnt actually give a sense of cost at all? 9 plays per what? 5 euro? 10 dollars? .0000005 eth?
Expert Excel proficiency is mostly useful in data heavy roles such as finance, which is just one subset of MBAs. For other roles, it's useful to be able to calculate simple sums/averages/vlookups but going beyond that is outside of their required skillset
I'm beginning to see that now. Its just like the aggressive down voting shootin from the hip. People here cant even entertain the technical challenge of it - eventho the problem is [apparently] assumed to be impossible. I knew US police had a bad rep but I never imagined the service to be this worthless.

I often think we need to bring back something like monks who selflessly deliver a service in exchange for an isolated life of study and meditation.

We have way to many shit people who cant be trusted with anything and make poor company.
> I consider getting all our eggs out of one basket to be the single highest strategic imperative for humanity.

On a side note, I'm kind of disheartened by all the negativity in this thread. Isn't it good that companies other than SpaceX are trying to go to space too? Why put all our eggs in one company? Especially one run by someone as mercurial Musk?

Do people on this site really want Bezos to give up and spend his billions elsewhere so Musk can have a near monopoly on space access?

I get that Bezos isn't the nicest guy but Musk is no saint either.

I'm starting to get the impression many on this site aren't really pro-space, they are just pro-Musk.
Yes, I really am curious.
And NO, your assumptions about what I would do if I really was curious aren't correct.

I had a mac book pro around 2011 (OS X snow leopard). half a dozen happy years with it until it was stolen. But these days since Apple is forbidding running MaxOS under virtualization, that's a deal breaker for me.
The "which components do you want to install" page feels like the end result of 45 years of "one customer wants this feature, let's add it to the product and maybe somebody else will buy it too!"

I'm sure they're all useful to someone (or they were at some point), but boy am I glad to not be in charge of managing that license.
Hmm. Not a crazy idea. simplification is appealing to me. But I’m guessing it’s still not really a computer? Can I get iterm2 with bash and vscode and rust?
Just kinda spit balling here so forgive the lack of empathy, but it seems to me like the overall System is perfectly capable of correcting itself when people succumb to "misinformation" to the point it harms them. Yeah we don't want anyone to get harmed, sure sure, yeah, of course, that would be simply... awful. Yet... we learn best from failure, correct?

In other words, at some point every concerned individual needs to let those insistent/destined to fail to do so, and let others learn from their mistakes.

Everyone's gotta stop trying to save everyone else.
Of course, like programming, there's also something to be said for adhering to readability guidelines. ;)
I'm talking 1st stage decoding actually. I'm ignoring the uOp cache.

The 2nd stage uop can go 6-per or 7-per clock tick. But 1st stage (which executes in practice when the uop cache is thrashing) would still go 4-instructions per clock tick just fine.

> This is the length that Intel has to go to in order to keep the EUs fed.

Yeah. And the task described is O(n) total work and O(log(n)) depth. So... not a big difference? I'd have my doubts that the instruction-length portion of the decoder was taking up a significant amount of power.
I think it does: First, their response doesn't vary with the facts, suggesting it doesn't depend on the facts. Second, it does strongly match plain old megalomania and lust for power.

Look at the language: "samizdat", very clever, as if they are revolutionaries. They aren't revolutionaries, they are the vested powers, the most powerful business-people in the world.
Terrific. Before the Maker Faire died some of the favorite things I saw there were homebrew CPU projects like the Magic-1 and BMOW TTL CPUs, and the MOnSter 6502 "dis-aggregated" CPU board with LEDs on the data lines.

One thing I liked was that many homebrew CPU projects also included writing their own assembler, OS, and language system (perhaps BASIC.)

Making it 8080 compatible to run CP/M is a nice idea though, as it unlocks a ton of software like WordStar (favored by George RR Martin) - though sadly not Turbo Pascal (favored by HN) since it apparently requires a Z80.

Magic-1 can apparently run lcc and Minix and connect to the internet (!)
> let's do what we can to take advantage of the pros they offer

Serious question: aside from not being required to be in the same physical place at the same time, what are the pros?
Self defense gun usage occurs very regularly. I'm fortunate to not have to have resorted to that myself, but the same goes for using my seat belt to protect my body.

Also, the biggest dodge I see "studies" take in trying to discount defensive gun usage is to require a bullet to have been shot for it to count. This is very rarely the case for it to be effective at stopping a situation.
To me, there is no such thing as an index bubble. There's no positive feedback loop. If anything, more people investing in indexes decelerates the incentive to invest in them because it reduces your chance at price discovery (high returns). So the traders are actually having an easier time now more than ever.

Of course, the indexes will always match traders' decisions, but they'll always be slightly behind. Which is a fair exchange.
Our solution to anything like this has always been copy to notepad and back again. Old people knows exactly what is meant but people 25 and younger usually don't understand why or how. Seems to be a generational thing. Lately even notepad preserves utf8 so the method is starting to break together :)
That seems plausible, but as this story was related to me over a decade ago, I can't remember if he said he clicked on anything in particular.
> Is there any language other than English that can be written 100% by ASCII characters

Indonesian and Malay languages.
Vim uses something similar to this which it calls digraphs (see :help digraph). http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/digraph.html

Ctrl+k a e = æ
I like it too, enough that I'm thinking about whether I could make a pair of electrostats that small.

The keyboard suggests some kind of awesome galaxy brain user experience like the Space Cadet keyboard, but would probably be more like operating a phone switchboard.
There is a parable something like this:

The child looks at the forest and sees the forest. The adult looks at the forest and sees all the trees and plants and wildlife and features of the land. The old person looks at the forest and sees the forest.

It's possible to lose sight of what really matters when overwhelmed with nuance.
Safe? Probably.

It has negative temperature coefficient without need for control mechanism, water or any other medium supply. When everything around fails it just sits there at its nominal temperature which means it is inherently safe. That is as good as it gets.

Economical and safe? I am not 100% convinced.

On the economical part, this is using air as a medium to remove energy. Air is pretty poor way to transform large amounts of energy. Compared to water it is tens of thousands times less efficient. Not only it is a lot less dense, it has less heat capacity, but it is also not possible to use state change as with water turning to steam.

You would need to produce a huge reactor to move useful amounts of energy which would mean you would need to build a lot of reactors or huge reactor farms with a lot of actual nuclear material involved.

You could try to build larger reactor, but you can't scale it easily because the pebbles cannot be subjected to too much forces.
> Are you optimizing for any experiential aspects of your tomatoes, like taste or texture?

Yes - but this mainly comes down to the varieties that you grow. You can grow varieties that are very tasty and are usually sold in the premium tier. And you can grow high-yielding tomatoes with less taste.

>Personally, in my area tomatoes are cheap enough to not think about the price, but the products widely available from supermarkets taste like water

Where are you based? High-tech greenhouses already supply a lot of premium-tier produce in Europe but there is an undersupply in the US/Asia.
"The canard of the armed civilian mass-shooting hero "

A premise like this just proves you're not interested in any sort of truth discovery, nor discussing this issue in good faith.

Guns are excellent tools for self defense.
> Meetings, for me, were "one-off" events, with focus on a particular, singular goal.

I could not agree more. We as a culture do meetings entirely wrong.
I think it was a home device, I don't think this guy was super savvy though.
If you don't want to take the credit for it, you could call it the Pareto-Goodhart Law of Optimization, and state it something like this:

"The closer a system gets to an optimal state, the greater the propensity for the agents attempting to further optimize it to externalize the costs of the system."
I have to admit that I am relieved this appears to be merely a difference of belief, and not related to disgusting behavior of any kind.
https://github.com/luxeengine/alpha
Interesting, but not that dissimilar to the United States. I grow a couple thousand acres of tomatoes in California, all of which are for processing into juices and pastes. These tomatoes are all transported in open-topped trailers by semi, and the losses have always bothered me. There is a tight turn just after leaving our property and the pile of tomatoes there grows steadily with the season as they roll off the top of the trailers. There isn’t much option for us though, and those losses are taken by the processing company.

Interesting fact about tomatoes: if you grow tomatoes for multiple years on the same field your yields will drop to zero due to fusarium fungus destroying the crop. We rotate one year tomatoes with one strand of alfalfa, which lasts 3-5 years and regenerates nitrogen into the soil.
I wasn’t calling for moderation. I was suggesting that it would be good to repost the other HN article too. Reposting another article to give it another opportunity to be seen has no impact on this one.

This is an additive action. This is not moderation.

There is a standard HN practice of sometimes reposting articles that didn’t get much traction the first time around. Given that this article that we’re commenting on right now reached the top of HN’s home page but the original (barely credited) work garnered only a handful of comments, I thought it might be worth the original being reposted.

You’ve thrown around some name calling and brought up the word “toxic” here. I won’t respond in kind other than to say I find these comments a little ironic.
> Can I get iterm2 with bash and vscode and rust?

Not really. The best dev experience I have with the iPad is using Blink to mosh into (the mobility mosh offers over SSH is key for me) a server, which lets me run whatever I want on it. But if you're developing GUI applications, it's not really that great.

You can use something like Working Copy for git and Textastic for editing programs on the iPad, but it's not really a proper IDE (even a light IDE) just a syntax aware editor. If I'm not using emacs on the server, I use those for my code editing purposes.
Good on this consumer for dragging the bank through this. I'm sure the consumer probably got crap from friends/family about why they were doing this but this is sheer laziness on behalf of the bank and they deserve to be dragged through this to force them to uphold reasonable tech standards for all their customers. Glad that the EU has this option, I'm in the US and would use it more for stuff here :/
This is so limited. Where is the boldness? Five years ago I thought we would be at MaciOS by now. Precision with a gestural capability.
Rogan is supposed to be the polarizing source.
Start with what you want from the interns (honestly).

Cheap labour? New ideas? Cheap labour to throw at new ideas? Your new talent pipeline? Vacation coverage in summer?

Have seen all the above been uses for interns.
"Accidental leak reveals US government has secretly hit Google with 'keyword warrants' to identify ANYONE searching certain names, addresses, and phone numbers"

This is historical - it is disclosure.

Talk about the constitution all you like, but was anyone in any doubt that they were already doing this? That they suck up all the data from media companies to have a mega-graph? That they are running accurate simulations of us (Sentient World Simulation), in order to better manage us?

And don't expect anything to change - Google et al could change this is a minute - they have the lobbyists to get whatever they want. They don't want. This is good for the government and the corporations. In fact, what's the difference? We are living in technocratic fascism.
I completed Lambda's part-time web program about a year ago and while I did come out with more knowledge than when I entered, I do not think it was worth the time or the money I have invested.

I was not the target Lambda student in that I already had web dev knowledge but wanted to delve deeper and felt like I was spinning my wheels on my own. The accountability created by the program is what I was after.

The curriculum was adequate and, with one exception, the instructors were engaging and knowledgeable. While we did have some limited interaction with the instructors themselves, digging in to individual problems was the job of the team lead (a student further ahead in the program who went through an application process) and this is where things got grim.

TLs changed frequently and their quality was all over the place. Some followed the meeting protocol, some let their group run the meetings, others missed meetings regularly. Multiple times my TLs were unable to help much because the curriculum had changed and we were learning something they hadn't been taught. At best, they made sure we all understood the lecture by being thorough during our 1 on 1 meetings. At worst, they were a hindrance.

The final for the web dev curriculum is what they call "labs" and the TL for your labs group has expanded responsibilities. In theory, having gone through labs already, they are supposed to be kind of like lead devs - offering architecture suggestions, helping with deployment snags, shepherding us through merge conflicts, etc.

My labs TL was, more than anything, an obstacle. Mostly they forwarded our questions to the section lead and they weren't a particularly efficient go-between, so after a few weeks of deflecting our follow-ups we started messaging with the SL directly and were receiving timely responses. Our TLs only contributions to our project were the initial heroku projects and an unfinished code climate integration.

In the end, having projects and due dates was helpful for me but in no way do I feel it was worth the cost of tuition.

Another Lambda alum here mentioned feeling like student wellbeing took a back seat to marketing and PR and nothing encapsulates this more perfectly than the photo at the top of their homepage of a student who dropped out after repeating one of the early sections once or twice. Who cares what became of them as long as it looks good on the website!
> the actual video game performance is much much worse on the M1 Pro

This is a workstation. For games one should look for a Playstation ;-)

2x power also means half the battery life. Remember this is a portable computer that's thin and light beyond what would be reasonable considering its performance. Also, remember the GPU has full 400GBps access to all of the RAM, which means models of up to 64GB won't need to pass over the PCIe bus.
I don't think the H-89 had a QBUS, and you couldn't have sold it to DEC customers who used PDP-11s, because it wouldn't have been able to run either their software or their peripherals. I don't know what kind of display hardware the H-11 used.

Terminals of that epoch were full of missed opportunities. Woz was smart enough to see them and avoid them, but most companies didn't even have a position where someone would have been in a position to do what Woz did. And that's a major (necessary but not sufficient, of course) reason that Apple is bigger than Datapoint, Olivetti, Tandem, Heath, Kaypro, and Hewlett-Packard today.