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>Tim Cook doesn't have a clue about what made Apple special and is slowly destroying it by not making sure to keep those qualities

Well their shares have never been higher so as long as that's the metric by which a CEO's performance is judged then you can forget about Apple caring about SW QA and other such "nonsense".

Also, before Jobs passed away, Cook was Apple's supply chain mastermind so it makes sense his strengths are with the HW side of things, which, during the current silicon shortage, is an absolutely killer skillset to have, as proven by how little Apple was affected by it in comparison to other companies.

When it comes to quality SW, Cook might not be the ideal CEO for the job (like notifications on the new MBP can get hidden behind the notch; WTF, how did this pass QA?! Pretty sure Jobs would have sent them back to the drawing board) but Apple can always rely on the faithful developer base building great quality SW instead of them and then taking a 30% cut on their sales on the Apple store. Basically another win for Apple.
Shift + /, when using fr-CA, does return É. Is that what you meant with "two keys". For œ or Œ, I use Option+Q or Option+Shift+Q (Mac Big Sur).
Desktop Linux is absolutely riddled with bugs unless you have a suitably generic hardware configuration and even then you will very likely still have problems with:

- Audio

- Wifi

- Bluetooth

- External monitors

- Suspend/Resume and power management in general

- many other things

I abandoned it years ago. I just don't have time for that anymore.
On a ISO layout (with the inverted-L "enter" key), you also get ù between left shift and z.

Accolades ({}) and brackets ([]) are on alt-7-8 and alt-9-0. A bit annoying to type, but manageable. At least it's somewhat logical (pairs are next to one another).

What's nice is that this is the default French layout for Apple computers in Canada, so you can order one with the correct keys printed on it:
https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/MK2C3LL/A/magic-keyboa...
How to flash firmware to Rockchip devices in Windows and Linux (2021 Edition)
Shouldn’t this legitimately be in the domain of management? Documenting, building a framework for understanding how work is accomplished, interfaces with other departments, etc.?

In which case each manager is documenting their own process and knowledge.

When this person leaves they take their notes with them?
That’s insecure today anyway. Containers are not a security boundary. (If you don’t use a VMM like gVisor, Firecracker or go the Drawbridge way)
On an E2E encrypted chat how are these companies able to track what is being shared, by how many, and how much? Surely that's no visible ? Admittedly I'm no expert on these platforms or cryptography, but as a layperson I would expect the content of my E2E encrypted chat to be opaque to outside observers including the company who offers it.
> I take it that you are not aware of Dr. John Snow[1] who in the 1850s demonstrated that Cholera was a water born illness that came from drinking contaminated water.

The fact that they did not understand germ theory does not mean that people in general did not have access to clean (enough) water, this is a non sequitur. Your point is not refuting the parent. There were in fact places without cholera epidemics, though cities were pretty dire overall.
It’s not evenly spread, though. It’s concentrated along the cable. It won’t heat up the ocean much as a whole, but it will create “hot spots”, which may change the balance of ecosystems in the regions of the ocean the cable passes through.

Worth it to stop carbon emissions? Absolutely, in my opinion.

Something that should be considered and minimized if possible? Also yes.
It needs a lot of planning. You can’t consistently do these trips.
One thing that would be beneficial: A version of Visual Studio strictly for .NET 6 and zero backwards compatibility with other versions of .NET. That code has to be so bloated with compatibility in mind that it's 10x bigger (and slower) than it needs to be. And no, VS Code is no substitute for VS.
3x is not based on 80s interest rates. And the mortgage is only part of your expenses, you need to budget for home repair, taxes, and insurance. Plus any other savings that are needed, like putting yoyr kids through college or retirement.
The official release announcement from the git project is also in the very first sentence of the very first paragraph of the github post.
And yet for centuries we've had *"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which insists that you're wrong.
Clearly, you never owned an 2016 MBP
The distance^2 applies, but it's most pronounced for isotropic source (i.e. emitting across a sphere). If you create a tight beam (think columnated laser), you vastly reduces the overall system loss. The bigger problem for microwave links is converting electricity to RF & back -- you get big losses in the amplifiers, radiators & rectifiers.
But this doesn't seem to be happening. Very well off people in the US still have very very modest vacations and parental leave, very expensive day care etc.

What's even the upside if you're just trading universal tax to paying a for-profit corp monthly instead? Skipping the queue through wealth instead of need?
Frankly if the drivers didn’t suck hot shit I think many of us would.
My understanding is that it was a loss of institutional knowledge that came from the passage of time and from arrogance. The engineers who knew why the additive was required were fired or ignored or both. Could also be a lack of documentation?
> It's only the people who are not able to take responsibility for having their own money, that are the ones that are really better off.

some people don't have the liberty of that privilege. being poor is very expensive.
The responses to this thread are amazing. This video [0] summarizes most opinions about dotnet from outsiders.

[0] https://youtu.be/AFNujHJfMtU
>I would be interested in seeing the numbers on prop guns fired in filming vs injuries.

I had a boss try to bring this up at lunch last week. "I was watching an old western and they have prop guns everywhere, how come no one died back then?" Pulling up a Wikipedia[0] listing on movie accidents brought up quite a lot of old western and war movie accidents.

Although it seems vastly more animals got hurt on set than people. A lot of early war/western movies seemed to be extremely detrimental to horses used on set.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_and_television_ac...
You ignored the rest of the comment where I explained why EV isn't the only thing that matters. In a hypothetical neutral EV casino people will still lose money.

> The loss results purely from the EV

This is true for a single spin, it is not true for a sequence where once you run out of money, you stop playing.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but a vanilla Windows 10 install isn't very bloated imo. Did you perhaps start with an image provided by the laptop vendor? It's not Microsoft's fault that they're usually full of trash.
Isn't the cat already out of the bag?

Are you going to outlaw E2E?
If you detect flips you can send it back, it's violating the advertised interface.
Given Juniper released basically nothing about their investigation, I'm not convinced this is a valid example.

Notably, I'm not just asking if there ever was a bad commit that was investigated - but that the commit came from someone who later claimed she/he didn't do it.
I use Apple home and want to like it, but it mostly sucks.

I think the main cause of this isn't so much Home, but the available third party hardware. I wish Apple would make a smart switch (I know that's fairly out of scope for them), but one high quality smart switch that actually worked reliably would resolve 90% of home tech issues.

Homepods are similarly bad with basic actions. I have five of them in multiple rooms. If you want to adjust the volume on all of them and say "make volume 50% everywhere" it fails. I have to whisper the command to my phone so the homepods don't hear me and then it can adjust volume on all of them.

Volume and playing on homepods generally from the phone is a shitty experience. Often the homepods lose the phone connection and then I can no longer control them from the device. Really it feels like nobody at Apple actually uses these things in their personal life.

I also have a gigabit network connection with a stupidly fast access point in a two bedroom apartment so it's not an issue of network speeds or signal.
It's much cheaper than decompressing a JPEG
I am not sure about these birds but some migrating birds reduce their brain sizes significantly during these trips. This saves a lot of energy.
Does Your Company Suffer from Toxic Positivity?
Summarizing my comments with the conclusion that "some art is better" and you, Paul, or anyone else can reliably judge which it is, does not come anywhere close to my meaning.

I have to conclude that we are not in disagreement, because we are not even communicating.
Biology is basically alien technology that we've been studying but can't figure out how it works.
Flint switched water supplies then failed to properly treat the new one. Severe budget constraints would have had them staying with the already not-poisonous supply.
I think part of it is how much other music you've listened to, and how much you know about music.

For example I watched Shang-Chi the other day, which is basically pop music in film form. As someone who's watched a fair amount of films, it's easy to see how it follows all the usual generic story beats - it's good but formulaic and relatively predictable. But if it was the first film you'd ever seen it would be amazing.

You have films that intentionally subvert expectations, relying on the fact that the audience knows how the story usually goes. That's jazz music. Classical often as well. But that relies on people both knowing the usual tropes and also wanting something different - there's some comfort in the known. Many people just want the superhero film. After all, the simple formula is the most inherently powerful regardless of the audience's internal knowledge of narrative or notation - that's why it's so commonly used.
Apple uses Swift. Swift uses ARC which is a kind of garbage collector (the naive and eager reference counting kind).
Even more incredible since the article points out that "Unlike albatross or other long-flying seabirds, godwits are active flyers, not gliders—their wings are moving the whole time." I wonder if they can use the active-flying equivalent of regenerative braking in favorable wind conditions to actually generate energy while flapping their wings. Not sure if any animals can generate energy while walking downhill.
Sea water is highly conductive, with potential close to ground, so the high potential cable cannot be allowed to touch it. So the cable has to be well insulated from the water. Discharge can happen in this insulation, that's why it has to be thick enough.
It's really, really sad the lack of good information people have about just how amazing .NET 6 is. Microsoft needs to jettison the cruft and the legacy; .NET is bigger than just corporations now. There's a huge open-source ecosystem. Places like the C# Discord server (with 24k+ members) exist.

.NET is bigger than Microsoft in some ways. The recent kerfuffle with the .NET Foundation shows that.

Please, Microsoft: invest in marketing, especially to corporations who don't know anything about the tech stacks they use. They need help understanding why .NET 6 is so amazing and why .NET is no longer .NET Framework + ASP.NET Web Forms + IIS.
_Microft linked to a great paper saying that 99.99% reliability can be achieved in 42 different countries using a mix of overprovisioned solar, wind and 3 hours worth of batteries.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z
Most traffic is not QUIC yet maybe in the future.
> What is a stock Linux?

Anything considered stable.

I wanted to avoid OS flamewar so I wasn't too specific. But we are already there I fear…

Nobody it answering my question. Instead people point out Linux isn't without bugs either. Even I never claimed that.

It's without almost daily catastrophes. That's a big difference!
> Owners never have influence on the price of land.

One of the most frustrating thing about property tax discourse is that people feel like the fact that they hit the jackpot by accident is grounds for a tax cut. As if getting rich by the work of other is more deserving of a break vs. earning your own wealth.
Last I checked Facebook Messenger has yet to use RNW: https://twitter.com/Eli_White/status/1422790525694844928?s=2...

RNW actually has about three teeny tiny customers that no one has heard of except for the Microsoft Store on Xbox. So much for Microsoft's "Universal" Windows Platform! Lmao
Have you ever taken antidepressants? Are you speaking from experience?

Because I haven't heard of antidepressants making everything look beautiful.

What they do is give you some control over the "play dead" response to give you an ability to get out or at least do something about that life of trauma.

The meds aren't for coping. They are for helping you do the work needed to be in a better place.

There's just no fucking way that the voice that tells people that they may only ever be a burden is coming from outside reality.

There is zero truth in the voice that tells you that your untimely death will not negatively affect anyone else.

There's zero truth in the voice that tells you that it's your duty to the world to make that happen sooner rather than later.

>People who are not depressed treat it as a disease

So do people who are depressed. Illness is what it is.

We're talking about different things.
Best means different thing to different people. I have opted to define exactly what best means to me, so that we can get comments like yours to further the discussion.
Serious Windows developer here - I want nothing to do with COM or WinRt!
Congratulating Yourself with Pipedream and Microsoft to Do
Are you actually proposing that as a solution? Are you against paid parental leave?
I have a question. How did you make it through more than 5 pages of that book? It reads like an 8th grader that is trying his hardest to let you know he's cool and smart enlightened as fuck bro and has to curse every other line.

I was cringing so hard in the first pages there is no way I could read it. It reads as a sort of pop culture, edgy (and trendy) mindfulness / Buddhism comboniation in a self help package.

The slew of self help books with sht and fck in the titles after this books success is amusing though.
Interesting, although the existence of this research actually suggests that normal Bayesian opt by itself is not safe and needs to be modified to be so.

A relatively unique trait of Bayesian opt is the modelling of unexplored space. The attraction to exploring that space makes it actually less safe than other methods that do not explicitly care.

One could go through similar steps to model and generate safe steps in other methods. It doesn't seem specific to Bayesian opt. It might even be better since it's less likely to be so computationally expensive as the auxiliary opt within Bayesian opt tends to be.
> Equally, there's no Hibernate for Python, no Spring for Python. And FastAPI looks basically like JAX-RS to me.

Of course there is. In fact, SQLA is easier to use than Hibernate, and the ecosystem around is as rich. As for Spring, crossbar fits the bill.

> I don't think the lack of any of these things is because they're impossible, or even particularly hard. It's because the community did or did not have the need and energy to build them.

I've never say they are impossible. I've said they require less energy to build them in python :)
In the movie, the pilot (Steve McQueen) is a psychopath who is venting his anger at being sent on a leaflet dropping mission rather than a bombing one.

Buzzing the field is against orders.

BTW, B17 crews would sometimes buzz fields in WW2 to celebrate having completed their tour of duty and they could go home.
>I think it's funny how often I see "I keep running into this bug, why haven't they fixed it!" on HN, considering how software developers should know, better than anyone, how often bugs are hard-to-reproduce edge cases.

We (software engineers) usually aren't any better than other customers despite having the same issues ourselves.

Everyone ships bugs that seem obvious in retrospect. Everyone has some small % of customers who hit a bug yet scream loudly about how terrible quality is and how stupid we are for shipping something so obvious. Everyone has had to make last-minute calls "fix or ship?", knowing that every accepted fix has a chance of introducing a new potentially worse bug. Anyone who deals with hardware understands what delaying software can mean.

If you haven't experienced these things then you just haven't operated at large scale yet.

IMHO I think it is perfectly fine. When you're the customer complain about whatever bothers you. That's valuable feedback.
Would their competitors be Microsoft (Windows, Office, etc) and Android?
So instead of fixing the system they want to "fight back".
Keyword here: Neglected.

At this point, my decision to use a particular piece of software or a specific feature within an OS/App/Website/etc based on perceived risk of that software being neglected.

Usually you can make this call based on features being added, but most of the time it's a gamble.
I am thinking of starting the young man with Ubuntu, rather than Windows or OSX. Since his (not) gf only uses iPhone tech, I won't be able to accidentally interrupt any calls.
China already is a trend-setter, where as the US are on the declining trend.

It's already there, just look at how much attention is made in the us no tk upset chinese economic forces.
The frequency of people on HN who think that paid parental leave isn't important is frankly disgusting. I'm so disappointed with this community.
Privacy-first document editor has a wild new way of storing files
Are the bugs something you've personally experienced?
From (1)

> Some services … share your WLAN access data with your facebook contacts

Is that true? There’s no citation but seems a lot more flagrant a violation than I’d expected from Windows.
> forcing women back into work

This is not what happens. No one is being "forced" to do anything. Rather, free individuals (speaking from a U.S. centric viewpoint) make a choice to become pregnant and birth a child. It seems reasonable to me that the result of this private choice should not be the burden of others. Note that FMLA (again, U.S.-centric) grants unpaid leave. In other words, you can't be fired for certain finite length absences resulting from certain medical occurrences. But you're not entitled to payment for non-work.

So, when Mom gives birth, she absolutely has the right to say, "You know what, I can't/don't want to work." She just isn't entitled to force a company to pay her for the privilege of her non-work.

I may be in the minority on this, but I find it really weird how people, more and more nowadays, believe the consequences private, personal choices should be borne by everyone else. The entitlement is really hard to stomach. This idea seems to be coalescing with a belief that "stuff just happens". But the reality is, the economy–any economy–is powered by labor.

People need to work. If enough people don't, we go back to the default state of reality: poverty, starvation, etc etc.

> The employer gets half an employee back

This is a self defeating claim. Under your (implied) proposal, the employer would just not get any employee back for an even longer period of time. Or, worse, they have to hire a temporary employee to fill in, and are now paying two sets of wages, all as a result of decisions over which they have absolutely influence!
> Um, how concerned should I be about this?

Not at all. It is another one of the Chicken Little's security theater that sound sexy and sophisticated but in practice mean nothing.

If you are concerned about this issue you should first ensure that you never type "npm install" or copy something off Stack Overflow into your code.
> Naive question: is it viable if we started using [a Turing-complete programming language]

This is actually a good question. The people who are not asking and going right ahead with that plan are doing a dangerous thing. <https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sergey/langsec/occupy/> It's not viable because a subset of people would like to have the following properties upheld:

• Parsing configuration should be decidable and finish in finite time.

• Parsing configuration should not be a security exploit.

• I should not have to implement the Emacs runtime just to parse its configuration file.

> something that's both more flexible but still strict and unambiguous. I wonder if it's possible?

This really depends on what you mean by these words; I'm interested to hear your idea in detail. Meanwhile, have a look at Dhall <https://dhall-lang.org/> and the other languages mentioned in <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29221643> and compare.
I completely agree. It's time to leave the legacy of .NET Framework behind forever.
some countries understand that healthcare and children are a matter of national security.

perhaps pentagon should get involved in parental leave policy. they could probably fund it outright out of their black budget.
> Is it time to turn off javascript in the browser?

I've been browsing with Javascript off-by-default for years and recommend it regardless.

Sure, perhaps a site I trusted and whitelisted will try to hack me, but I feel it's far less likely than some random typo-squatting site or advertising-broker logic.
There are lots of engineers in the Seattle area that do not work for Google, Facebook, Amazon or Microsoft. I make about 150k / year. I have 10 years experience. Were I a senior, it'd be 180k. Still not much more. It's also the most I've made at any job I've ever worked. My previous company, I was one of the highest paid employees at 115k.

Forgive me, but I think you need to check your privilege when you speak about regular matters for people like millenials trying to buy houses.

And I can't imagine a place on the planet where 800 thousand dollars is a reasonable price for a 2 bedroom, 2 bath. In the Work-From-Home days, 2 bed, 2 bath is decidedly a 1-person household (the other room is an office), *maybe* a married couple that get along well.

edit: typo
It is very reassuring that there is such an agency as the Computer Security Group ( this article). Run by and funded independently by a multi national science agency. Likely without oversight by any industrial organisation (read lobby group.)
It would be nice to have similar scientific bodies for other livelihood and security threats, such as health, and logistics, most especially food, drugs and environmental issues( chemicals for example.)
Will this agency become corrupted as those have been over time?
"The weight is irrelevant when you already have to find ways to make the bike heavy enough to meet the minimum limit."

Exactly, and the minimum weight limitation comes from :-)
> To the best of my recollection American Football does not wrap the playing field in animated ads like European Football/Soccer does. I assume that's partly because everybody just hates the idea for every possible reason...

No, just that ground-level perimeter displays are too pedestrian for American football.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29868399/sofi-stadium-vi...
I can write you a memory leak in any language you want. No GC strategy can solve that as doing so is equivalent to solving the halting problem (at least that's my intuition).
Right, the question becomes: if you have `(a + b) + c` and one of the `+` operations allows re-association but the other one doesn't, then what happens? The problem being that associativity is a property that only makes sense for an entire tree of associable operations, not individual ones.
Yes yes. But the experts are consistently 90 percent plus accurate. Check out the videos! They elucidate their reasoning quite well. It's not hocus pocus