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Why does nobody care about the janky Bluetooth mouse that's only janky on macOS?

Why does nobody care that my USB 2.0 ports on my external USB-C docks die in about 20 minutes necessitating a reboot--again, only on macOS (and only on newer macOS versions--old ones work fine).

How many years did it take Apple to (sort of) fix their shittastic keyboards?

How garbagey is Xcode relative to any other IDE nowadays?

I can go on ... and on.

Macbooks may look pretty, but the software has been becoming increasingly garbage. And I use software to get my job done--the hardware merely needs to be sufficient (I generally customize my laptops to use an i5 (including mac)--which ducks a lot of the idiotic thermal issues).

I'm sitting on a Lenovo Carbon X1 with Linux full-time now. I finally got tired of fighting craptastic software from Apple. If I'm gonna fight software, I might as well be on Linux.

And, surprisingly, my experience on Linux has been better than the last year or two on macOS.
Have you considered serving a proof-of-work challenge to clients accessing your website? Minimal cost on legit users, but large costs on large-scale web-scraping operations, and it doesn't matter if they split up their efforts across a bunch of IP addresses - they're still going to have to do those computations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
Qualia is your subjective experience of your senses - how can we discuss whether we see the color red the same way, or whether we smell a rose the same way? The core concept we would discuss is qualia.

Qualia is not plural qualities so I’m afraid I don’t see the connection, or the downside to using an expanded vocabulary for that matter.
I think you missed the gist of the comment, so I am not sure I will be able to clarify further, but I will try one last time.

A salary raise of around 40%, is an outlier for most "at will employees". Maybe with the exception of when transferring jobs. For the composition of expenses of most households, energy, transport and housing, are some of the biggest part of most households.

With rent costs increasing in the 40 to 45%, energy in the 30 to 35%, and other costs in similar ranges, AND still increasing, what normally would be a
great salary increase is supposed to be diluted in the current inflation figures. These are STILL a up trending direction ( Can hardly wait for the April figures)

I provided the data to support it, and you seemed focused on the fact I did not ask xxpor to layout his private life, before making the comment? :-)

For most families in the US and Europe salary increases in the 35% to 40%, still mean loss of purchasing power if you take an analysis looking at a the last 3 years and the next 3 years. Assuming that is a one off event every 3 or 4 years.
With the current increases, even that type of salary change would be already diluted.

That is what the highest inflation of the last 40 years means, and that was the gist of the comment.

European reference: "Strongest inflation in almost 40 years"

https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2021/49/strongest-inflation-in...

US reference: "US inflation highest in 40 years, with no letup in sight"

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-inflation-hit-40-year...

"More Than 40% Of Companies Say Workers Have Asked For Higher Pay To Offset Inflation. Few Have Revised Salary Budgets."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenamcgregor/2022/03/14/more-th...
tell ya what i really wanna see from pinephone: AGPS lockdown.

Currently ive learned from HN there are numerous 3GPP protocols that provide direct, clandestine monitoring of the GPS location of the phone. the feature lives unchallenged in the firmware, so if you can give me a phone that cannot report its GPS data to the carrier without my knowledge, id be ever grateful.
My family and I avoid this entire problem by simply not buying laptops. Our desktop computers--assembled for a fraction of the cost of buying a retail laptop and much more powerful--are more than serviceable. If you need mobility, then prepare for extreme tradeoffs, relatively speaking.
>His point stands up completely. You can follow handmade hero and have your own 2D game engine up and running in roughly 1 week's time.

No, Casey can follow Handmade hero and have his own 2d game engine up and running in roughly a week, at least in "get it done" mode instead of educational mode. I'm an engine programmer myself and I sure wouldn't have my own engine spun up that fast because I'm 20 years behind Casey in that regards (as well as any other non=professional years he's spent tinkering with low level code... where I learned what programming was at 16 years).

And even then, like most education these lessons don't take into account the time needed to go back and either expand on features or maintain bugs that pop up during game development.

>it's pretty disgusting to call an educational project that's had hundreds of hours poured into it "spending a billion years writing his game engine, and then whining about all these 'bloated' tools."

To be fair, this is a result of Casey himself dissing on the most popular engine and suggesting an ultimatim that it's either UE5 or make your own engine. I'm sure Casey's been around long enough to know that his words would spark yet another unnecessary "debate" on what tools are the best for the job. When the answer should be "whatever you and your team is comfortable with".

>Do you know how many people his educational videos have helped?

To be honest, no. That's the tricky thing about edTech. It feels like they help a lot in the beginning, but many people outside of a govt. sanctioned school environment will drop off quickly. That's not Casey's fault, but it does make me doubt that his videos will bring about an era of homespun engines.
Everybody is pointing to the government because yeah, Spain bad. I have a different candidate for you. Why not Interpol?

A lad involved in crypto trade and online voting travels to Switzerland, from a place notorious by recent suspicious money movements linked with Switzerland banks. I bet that this particular combination of keywords would raise some eyebrows and trigger a discreet interest by any police working in anticorruption or money laundering.
I have worked with a few. It made my job much easier. I’ve worked with a couple that were neutral to my job, but I’ve yet to work with one I hated
Universal Analytics will be going away
I think he went to jail for being in a fight.

I don't know much about gangster's in Japan, but I'd say from my limited experience that they manage basically gray-market and black-market businesses. E.g. hostess clubs and adult entertainment, some of the general entertainment industry, maybe drugs to a small extent, loan sharking, gambling and other related things.

I would say that the violence typically doesn't bleed out to the general population unless you get invovled in some way, but you will get ripped off if you do business with them (again, I have very limited experience with this).

As a low-level gangster, he probably was trying to get people on the street to attend an adult entertainment location (or scouting new actresses) and do general gopher jobs for higher-ups.

Edit: Yeah, Kabuki-cho isn't that bad to be honest. To see the real dangerous Yakuza part of town, you have to go to Yoshiwara. I went there with a local and there was a dude walking around with no shirt and carrying a sword over his shoulder. He told me to not look anyone in the eye. There were police on each side of the street.
I'm not suggesting that the federal system would print out the state taxes complete, I'm saying that just having access to the federally prepared information would greatly simplify the state filing.

Like my taxes are relatively simple, so my state taxes are just a few calculations using my taxable income from the federal 1040, and then also I have to attach any federal schedules I filed. Having the completed 1040 and printable schedules would reduce the state filing down to a few minutes of work.
No. I also don't think Buddhist monks are strategizing a big-brain play to convert people to Buddhism. It's more hilarious to see people not getting the idea that this is just his thing and I admire it, even if I ain't doing it.
But that was in military context, with higher risk tolerance to loss of human life. (for getting intel, way more dangerous methods are applied all the time)
It is worth noting that Scrum, for one, does not require (or even recommend, at least according to the latest Scrum Guide) story estimating or pointing.

I would agree that in practice all of those anti-patterns related to story estimating/pointing can work against the values of the Agile Manifesto.
Kanban was originally designed for production lines in car factories, so it works. If you go to any McDonalds and look at the screens in the back you'll see orders represented a lot like tickets.

In Agile, "points" are just an abstraction around work to try to normalize it in the same way that every burger+fries combo should be roughly equivalent.
Abstract:

The level of technological development of any civilization can be gaged in large part by the amount of energy they produce for their use, but also encompasses that civilization's stewardship of their home world.

Following the Kardashev definition, a Type I civilization is able to store and use all the energy available on its planet.

In this study, we develop a model based on Carl Sagan's K formula and use this model to analyze the consumption and energy supply of the three most important energy sources: fossil fuels (e.g., coal, oil, natural gas, crude, NGL and feedstocks), nuclear energy and renewable energy. We also consider environmental limitations suggested by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, and those specific to our calculations to predict when humanity will reach the level of a Kardashev scale Type I civilization.

Our findings suggest that the best estimate for this day will not come until year 2371.
I've had a M1 Macbook pro (13-inch) display shatter on me within 10 months of purchase for no reason. The cost of repair is $800 which being around 80% of the cost of the laptop, was untenable. Since then it has been gathering dust in the storage closet for the past five months.

Looking online, it seems like there was a quality issue with their displays for the first few batches of production.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-facing-m1-macbook-cracked-s...

It is a shame. I did enjoy using the laptop very much.
Dont be sorry
People like Elon are pretty untouchable as long as his political cover retains.
All true, but why is the culture and aesthetic of computers inherently trashy?

Look at all the fields where superior quality is a completely natural criterion (whether it exists may be another question): Watches, cars, pens, paper notebooks, furniture, fashion, jewellery, architecture, bikes, coffee machines ...

What's more - if you look at the visual representations of computers - i.e. marketing material, art, illustrations, unix porn etc - all that highly values aesthetics and beauty. But the actual products are a disgrace to all of that!
Dex is just a fancy window manager. With Termux and an Alpine or Ubuntu proot there's very little even a Kindle Fire can't do on the device. It's even possible to run X11 and a desktop environment like XFCE4.
Cool. Do you integrate with eBird at all? I've done quite a bit of work in this field and would love to chat with you guys. Email in my profile.
> Why does nobody care about creaking plastic? About sticky-feeling texture? About uneven weight distribution? About the sound that materials make when handling them?

Because the value of a laptop is the parts inside, not the presentation. Why would I care about those things? Or at least why would I care about them enough to make me spend more than I have to?
> What is the point of stealing this money then? Presumably the "thief" thinks they will be able to cash in on it in some way.

Yes, exactly, and that is distinctly different from your earlier hypothesis that the whole thing may have been a conspiracy to money launder on behalf of the people who lost money.

> Can these "losses" be used to avert taxes on the part of the "investor"? If the pain of the laundering is less than the potential tax avoidance then you might have a profitable laundry outfit.

Look, if this was a single person who claimed to have lost a bunch of crypto to a hack, then you might plausibly weave this story, but it's not a single person. It's a bunch of random people. This bunch of random people didn't collude together to fake a hack to create tax losses to offset their realized capital gains from somewhere else. And even if they did do that, that wouldn't be called "money laundering", money laundering is something they would have to do later, to hide the origin off their newly-ill-gotten wealth.
> In fact, it impressed Jobs so much he literally just offered them an OSX license (which they didn't bite on).

I just googled this and it's based on an unsubstantiated boast by Sony's president in 2014, I'd be skeptical:

https://www.appleworld.today/2021/01/06/from-the-vault-did-s...

Although this article seems to think it holds water:

https://9to5mac.com/2014/02/05/sony-turned-down-offer-from-s...
If you use the smallest version number that fits your device, then you avoid confusion.
Google is just one of many companies that are too big to actually communicate (like Verizon, AT&T, Amazon, Microsoft) and have to be forced to do anything if you're not paying them tons of $$$. They do what they want.

If your livelihood is tied to your email / phone, then you really should consider a company with which you can communicate.
Not sure where you get that RAM cap from. I have 32GB in my X1.
Is it Earth? I think we mine all of our lithium on Earth right now.
Now I'm wondering how we developed Hall thrusters if they weren't able to simulate or calculate a realistic amount of thrust.
On a very related topic I received my Purism phone recently. Worked great... once. Now it's bricked after recharging. I haven't had time to reach out for support and certainly need to do that, but after waiting a very long time for the phone I'm too demoralized to make this a priority. Perhaps I should've bought the Pinephone, or installed Lineage on my old pixel... but time is a scarce commodity.
Indeed.

Reusable SpaceX rockets have 30% small payload compared to non-reusable ones, as they have to carry extra fuel for landing.

Catching the rocket instead of landing it could be significantly more efficient as you wouldn't have to carry much more weight except for the parachute.
Inkscape is close to that. An Inkscape save file is a valid SVG file, but some SVG processors don't display all things correctly, so it also allows you to export it as "Plain SVG". But most browsers would read an inkscape save file just fine.

(Note that if you want to serve the SVG file, you should still "export as SVG" it, since Inkscape embeds a lot of semi-sensitive informations into the SVG like file path etc.)
Did you misread the title? This would encourage more chargers, which helps EV drivers.
A federal judge strikes down the mask mandate on planes and public transit
Backups are important, but what I also think is important is that an entire laptop shouldn't become garbage just because a soldered component on it fails.
Maybe he just didn’t have the spine to keep Twitter free.

Maybe he was actually honest in his second Joe Rogan interview, and he really didn’t understand what was going on at Twitter.

And maybe now he sees a chance to return Twitter to be a free speech platform again.

Anyway, I wish them all the best.
Likely not.

Convergent evolution. As soon as you get animals you get resource competition, violence, and a food chain with a predator at the top. In more sophisticated species you also get dominance/submission hierarchies.

It's possible at some point a species might transcend that and become wholly benevolent. It's also possible that some species are cooperative colony organisms which somehow evolve intelligence, self-awareness, and technology.

But at a guess it's more likely that most species remain aggressive and competitive for a very long time, and they'll only ignore humans if we aren't complex enough to be a threat - now or in the future - and have nothing worth stealing or harvesting.
The Kardashev classification is "not even wrong".

No civilization harvests 100% of the sunlight that falls on a planet because you'd kill the planet. (Type I)

Nobody is going to build a Dyson sphere around the Sun (Type II) because there is not enough mass even if you cut up the inner planets.

(That's not to say you can't build something really big... Like a habitat with more land area than the Earth.)

It is similarly unthinkable that you'd build a shell around a galaxy. (Type III)

Because people are thinking about this they aren't thinking about more interesting (if impractical) ideas like "Could a civilization smooth out the energy output of a quasar and live off it somehow?"
If the PinePhone had a halfway decent camera I would still use it as a daily driver; but because I had to pocket a separate camera for the few months that I did use it, the device now collects dust in a drawer.
There is a third option :)
USB 3.0 also specifies lower speeds. They didn't need to use "Gen" then, and nothing changed to make them need it after.

Nobody cares if multiple speeds are "introduced by USB3". If 3.0 introduces one speed, and 3.1 introduces a different speed, people can understand that just fine.

Even if you do want to focus on "introduced by USB3", then you just need "3.[generation]" or "3 Gen [generation]". Not "3.[spec revision] Gen [generation]"
The experience is much better as you've mentioned; the question in the article is whether a company needs to exist around making the experience better.

Now that the ideal experience is available, the question is whether people are willing to pay for it.

Right now - it's being paid for (all salaries, etc.) by shareholders as the company runs a massive operating loss.

The question these articles lay out is that - at least in theory - this can't last forever. No one's hoping Uber fails - they're just saying that a company eventually needs to make money, and they don't see a path forward for Uber to do that.

A bank wouldn't keep lending to a borrower that could never pay them back; at some point - without a fundamental change in economics - this situation will happen to Uber.
Also, "farther", unless it means you move again.
I think the keyboard issue was overblown given what we saw at work with those machines. That said, the one person on my team with a failed keyboard was able to get it fixed very easily.

One thing that makes me tend to prefer Apple is the stores and support. I recall support for HP and VAIO computers being extremely painful. PC manufacturers have so many models they don’t even have parts available for a computer that was being sold last year. That was my experience with a Samsung laptop.
I don't think the author is envisioning anything that compromises privacy and data protection. "Immunity for maximizing interopability" means the right to ignore anti-interop ToS, not privacy.

There are many use cases where either there is no privacy concern in the first place (think public Facebook pages locked behind account creation) or the user explicitly consents and enters their login information (e.g. in alternative WhatsApp clients).
Same here. Once over 50 I found my ability to learn anything is several orders of magnitude efficient and faster. Most college and graduate academic knowledge and works appeared suddenly rudimentary albeit I've never worked in academic field.

However meanwhile I found my ability to learn new language has dramatically diminished. Unless it's something naturally appealing to me, any hard memorization has become extremely challenging.
On a somewhat related note, I distinctly recall in the mid 90s running Doom for the first time (DOS 6 I think?), and its text-based load screen that initialised everything said “refresh daemon”.

At the time I thought it was something to do with refreshing the baddies in the game! ^_^
My 2nd biggest[*] gripe with TurboTax (and Intuit) is that their software quality is low!

I filed my taxes on January 30, and still can't print out my tax return. They tell me that the tax return is not "finalized" (or something like that), along with the "helpful" comment that usually forms are ready by end of January... it's April now, FFS!!

[*] Biggest gripe being their effort to undermine auto-filing.
Isn't that because management of a company are required to act in the interests of all share holders? It seems like this kind of structure needs similar safeguards but I doubt that it actually does in any relevant jurisdictions at the moment.
Bandwidth isn't free.
> All true, but why is the culture and aesthetic of computers inherently trashy?

Because it needs to be affordable to the masses as a whole, and not just the upper middle class and up.
> There were also his comments about Minsky and Epstein. He is entitled to his opinions, but as a leader of an important org with such stringent beliefs, delving into other topics was a distraction for the org. Being a leader requires focus and direction, inviting controversy with comments on unrelated current events is the opposite of focus.

You're likely aware, but I wanted to take this opportunity to surface that a lot of the coverage of his comments on Minsky and Epstein was misleading if not malicious.

Notably, articles from Vice and The Daily Beast accused him of defending Epstein and asserting that victims were willing, and both of those accusations are false, as can be reasonably discerned from careful reading of the quotes that appear in the articles themselves. Rather, Stallman defended Minsky and said that victims probably appeared to Minsky to be willing even if they were being coerced out of his sight.

In addition to any judgement we're applying over his choice of whether to talk about it in the first place, we should be sure we're judging him for what he said (which I do believe deserves criticism) and not for what some people want to pretend he said.
I wish Sailfish OS had a mention. If someone tries to escape the Android/iOS duopoly, it's probably the most mature linux based distribution out there.

It's not fully open source that's true, but it can be daily driven on a number of modern(ish) compatible hardware. The most prominent of them being some of Sony's Xperia's line(official) and a slew of other older devices through the efforts of a community of enthusiasts.
I do a quick overview of the syntax - I check out a syntax book, cheatsheet pages or the language documentation. Then I do the "Getting started" section. After that, I try to build a project. If it's a new one, I reduce the scope to be about one or 2 days worth of tinkering and a lot of readings of documentation and other codebases.
I'm surprised this isn't a major diplomatic incident between the UK and Israel too, since the Israeli intelligence company was supposedly "closely monitoring how their customers were using the software" or akin to that.

Like, yeah, blame the UAE mostly for this but let's also have a discussion about why this was sold to anyone who would pay with no oversight at all. Western countries need to do better.
> People deserve to have self-determination now

Sentences in passive voice always obscure the true meaning. For example when people say “everyone deserves healthcare” that means “taxpayers should pay for other people to have healthcare.” So what do you mean in this context, expressed as an active voice sentence?
Nah, my iPhone is okay. The day it stops working or getting updated I will throw it away and buy another.