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The father can do everything except breastfeeding, so there’s no reason (except illness) to divide labour on exactly the thing that evolution built the mother to do.
Sometimes it feels like everybody wants to work in tech, but ain’t nobody want to write all this damn code. People will try everything except learning to code, even when they are starting a whole business where the main product depends on code.

We simply don’t see this kind of thing in other industries. Imagine a mechanic working on your airplane but… they just want to use an AI to tell them what to do, not really get to deep in the technical subjects.
Similar quirk that irks me in English is 'horseback riding': it's just 'riding' - or 'riding on horseback', 'horse riding' - the whole thing's coming!

'horseback riding' to me sounds like it's supposed to be a humourous phrase along the lines of 'driving a desk' (a sort of blue-collar self-deprecation for having moved up from driving whatever vehicle) - like you're still in training and haven't been given a live horse yet or something.
> several services provided by the Deno company experienced a service disruptions in our us-west3 region for a period of just over 24 hours.

'"JUST" over 24 hours', no big deal of course /s

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

no mention of that issue

either nobody uses Deno so 0 complains

or people use Deno and for some reasons 24h+ downtime didn't impact anybody, wich is surprising, to say the least
> Also, it would seem there’s a simple lack of context: would she have a fundamentally different experience at a gathering of, say, biochemists?

Do you mean a conference for biochemists, or a party? At a party, I'd bet she wouldn't have the same experience, even if she wouldn't get the occasional joke.
To be fair a lot of code is just unnecessary.
There’s a lot of ground being covered and I feel like as soon as we have a semi reliable setup that Apple devs are going to switch to, they’ll see a flood of open source and hardcore nerds switch to Macs just because it’s common hardware that will make Linux on the laptop just fucking work.
I'm quite sure that there is no one in the world whose job is only and specifically to assist you in being declared un-deceased and that, even if their were, they wouldn't have the authority to entire enact the process. Any person you interact with is going to have additional considerations beyond fulfilling your immediate request and the organization(s) they work with or for also will have additional priorities. How could you possibly expect everyone else to drop all other work to complete your request totally without regard for any of their other priorities?
This applies to most computers sold. A lot of PC hardware has components, which might not be supported by Linux nor drivers provided. Fortunately, there are more and more manufacturers, who officially support Linux on their machines and of course a huge user base, which tries to make it work nevertheless.
Can you please elaborate on your experience with it?

Previously, on HN I remember seeing this post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31134534
There's something to be said for respecting others' beliefs, no matter how incredible. I wonder if your wife's mother would be singing a different tune if we replaced Santa Clause with God in your example.
> The more likely scenario is Samsung and others running on their own, in that case. They already have their own store, and crap clones of many Gapps.

And did that work for... anyone? Ever? At all?
Don't pressure leaders in software development to follow your rules and regulations without their consent. It never goes well for the community.
The problem is that unsafe data structures are often less safe (harder to avoid UB) than in C, because in the presence of pointer aliasing and cycles (found in unsafe data structures including BTreeMap's node.rs https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/alloc/collections/btree/node.r...), Stacked Borrows places strict conditions on constructing &mut T (they invalidate some but not all aliasing *const T). And the user of an owning or intrusive linked list generally expects to receive &mut T, which is not always safe to construct because of Stacked Borrows. In fact, Gankra, a major contributor to unsafe Rust libraries, standards, and documentation, doesn't solve this problem through axiomatic reasoning, but instead an "oversimplified" "heuristic" (IMO hopes and prayers): https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/fifth-stack... (written 2022-01).

In practice, I find that unsound libraries frequently get written and used unknowingly in the wild. I've commented on this earlier at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31897503.

In short, I believe that Stacked Borrows places unreasonable and unattainable requirements on authors of unsafe structures and algorithms, which serve as the foundation for practically all safe code (outside of the vanishingly rare case of code operating on tree-shaped fixed-size variables allocated solely on the stack, and never creating aliased mutable pointers).
> It’s not a premium laptop, it is an entry-level Mac

As if those two things are mutually exclusive.
> Conventional vaccines are sterilizing

Many vaccines do not provide sterilizing immunity. Just to give one random example: flu vaccines do not provide sterilizing immunity.

> have good safety records

The various SARS-CoV-2 vaccines have very good safety records. They've been administered to billions of people, and the rates of serious side-effects are on the order on one per several hundred thousand - orders of magnitude lower than the rate of serious complications from infection.

> The new Novavax vaccine, which is a conventional vaccine

I don't know how you're defining "conventional" here, but Novavax also uses a new vaccine platform.
I would say docker for macOS has always fallen significantly short of "incredible" and it's even worse on M1.
Reading strips like this as a kid, it was easy to look at them slightly negatively: https://i.imgur.com/zBko5hB_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...

Now, though, I get it. Parenting is hard, and it's not only thing going on in their lives. And despite it all, they put up with Calvin's behavior, encourage his imagination, keep him fed and warm, and comfort him when it matters. What more could you ask for?
It might just be rational. Famous people have to guard their time carefully, or it will be eaten entirely by the demands of others. I'm not famous and I don't mind taking time for the 1 person a day who asks me to think about something. But if there were 100 people a day doing that I might have to prioritize.
she was wealthy and trashy. how is a description of behavior a class in society? anyone at any moment can stop being white trash, just stop acting trashy. Youll still be poor, sure, but not white trash.
A lot of businesses are unnecessary.
I feel like Apple was in a different position at the point at which Gruber came about. He played this 'independent' reviewer who 'understands' Apple and explains them in a world of sleazy sensationalist tech/gadget reviewers. His minimalistic website and personal take felt appropriate and sensitive to the people who work on these devices. It felt like he was defending things that felt worth defending.

Apple has become what it is today as the years have passed though. So the background around this guy has shifted. His writing and quality has remained the same, but you're right - it has become harder and harder to take him seriously. In part that is because he's defending positions which don't need defending anymore.
How many "general purpose computers" are out there? There are a few vendors, which explicitly support Windows and Linux, but many computers are just designed for Windows, Linux might or might not run on them.
Asahi Linux is making nice progress and I actually hope, that Microsoft decides to support Windows 11 on the Mac too.
I think you're right. Bureaucracy has become a term of abuse so we tend not to realise that the good stuff can also be bureaucratic (code reviews being an example that springs to mind).
Don't really see the appeal for that, seems like it leads to more fragmentation and very few benefits.
> As always, HN seem to look at things through a very specific lens. The Air has never been marketed as the purely performance machine for purely performance needs

It's not a "specific lens". It's a laptop that costs over a thousand dollars. Somehow it doesn't deserve a native resolution display, not-cheap keyboard keys, support for more than one external display etc.
Yes, once you have 23 words, there is a finite set of possible words that can be used as the 24th to make checksum valid, and you could pick one at random.

But as I understand the private key can be any number, so you do not need to even use the seed phrase technique to create a private key, or if you do it isn’t required that it has a valid checksum in order to operate on the network.
Or they have people constantly approaching them and burned out on being nice to all of them.
We eat horsemeat in Italy as well, though not very commonly. I did a few times, eh, nothing to write home about. Also donkey meat ragu once, that was pretty good.

AFAIK rabbit meat is not viewed very well across the pond either, like in the US. Correct me if I'm wrong.
> people are very aware

I think so too: I found this article fake. There is no way the author can be so self-aware and yet so confused.
In written communication, it’s hard to express tone of voice and emotions, or something like sarcasm. So, instead of writing lenghty sentences just to express emotions for three words sentence - I use one emoji, thus I save everyones time and avoid misunderstandings. And sometimes using emoji like "Grinning Face with Sweat" is just cleaner than trying to express the emotion.

Works fine in startup, probably not that well in huge corporation.

As for understanding emotions - I struggle to understand them in-person too…
I don't think it's required by law.

Edit: I guess a fair number of states do have laws for that, though unlimited vacation still gets around that.
> If demand is highly inelastic - as would be expected for something like culinary preferences

Demand curves, regardless of elasticity, are always downward sloping: Higher prices lead to fewer units demanded.

Your statement implies control over prices: Firms with market power do not operate along the inelastic portion of a demand curve. This is a logical implication of profit maximization.

Before one can understand that, one must internalize the fact that as a seller, you cannot choose the price and the quantity sold independently. If you pick a price, you can sell the quantity demanded at that price. If it is too high, can't sell any. If you pick quantity, you can only sell all at a price people are willing to pay.

Assume a firm has market power (can pick price) and is operating along the inelastic portion of the demand curve.

If it charges a higher price, it loses some sales, but total revenue increases (that's what demand being inelastic means -- quantity sold falls, but percentagewise not as much as you increased the price, therefore, revenue, price x quantity increases). In addition, because cost is increasing in quantity (offering more for sale costs you more) and now you are producing less, costs go down. Therefore, profit, which is revenue minus cost, must increase. Therefore, if you were operating along the inelastic portion of the demand curve, you could not have been maximizing profits.

Therefore, firms with market power (can pick price) can only operate along the elastic portion of the demand curve.

If you are claiming demand for horse meat is a vertical straight line (which is not a thing outside of being a limiting case in econ 101), then lower demand means demand curves closer to x axis origin, i.e., price is determined simply by the supply curve. With a given supply curve (which are always positively sloped due to the fact that cost is increasing in output), lower demand means lower equilibrium price,

> then price actually has to increase when demand is low.

Demand falling cannot cause higher prices (keeping everything else constant).
The " CONtinuous/disCRETE" might be useful as a mnemonic device, but you should be aware that there is no relationship between "concrete" and the "-tinuous/dis-" part.

"Con-" from "concrete" is indeed the same prefix as the "con-" from "continuous" and in both cases it means "together".

However, "-crete" from "concrete" is not the same suffix as the "-crete" from "discrete".

"-crete" from "concrete" means "grown" (it is the participle of the Latin verb "crescere", to grow), so "concrete" means "grown together".

"-crete" from "discrete" means "sifted" (it is the participle of the Latin verb "cernere", to pass through a sieve, to separate), so "discrete" means "sifted away", it comes from the same source as the verb "to discern".
>[In Ruby] There is good support for functional programming with first-class functions, anonymous functions, and closures.

This seems like a blatantly false claim to me since as a Python programmer forced to use Ruby for Sketchup, I have been frustrated by the lack of first-class functions in Ruby.
If you keep up with the various revelations coming out about the trials it isn't surprising at all. They seem to have been deeply and fundamentally flawed to the extent that nothing they told us was true. Quite possibly due to deliberate fraud, judging from some of the events (search for details of people who died or were severely injured immediately after taking the shots yet were mysteriously not recorded as such).
"C essentialist" is a line very hard to hold, because C via ISO is moved towards an horrible language like c++ (generic,__thread,etc). So, it is not C anymore, it is simple and lean C which should be the target of an essentialist line of conduct.
Whatever, a good new language would first and above all be easier to write a compiler for than simple C.
"shit show of cascading shit shows" ... When you come across a phrase that decribes a feeling so perfectly ...I will be using this!
Sharp's a different thing, ♯ against #, it always amuses me that Microsoft's version of Java should be called C♯ when their OS has such dreadful support for Unicode that it's almost universally written C#, so C-hash (or C-pound for you left-ponders).
JWST is not particularly well suited to testing homogeneity. Survey telescopes that observe a large fraction of the sky are much better suited to that task.

Homogeneity has been very well tested out to a redshift of a few by surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Dark Energy Survey, each of which have observed thousands of square degrees of sky (there are about 41k square degrees in total). And as another commenter notes, the CMB (at redshift 1100) is homogeneous (to one part in 10k).
It appears to have an Apple Silicon native version available, so it is likely to run quite well; I haven't used it for over a decade, so I can't speak to its usability and whatnot, but unless things have changed significantly, I imagine it's still nearly identical between OSes.
“Just over” 24 hours. As in slightly more than 24 hours. Which is different than “just” 24 hours.
@encryptluks2

I did, have a look at the link to that submission...
Another catch is that you cannot install Linux (at least Asahi Linux) without first booting macOS, opening up a GUI terminal there and installing Asahi via a shellscript downloaded from their website.

Also, saying that "lacking GPU support" is the only drawback, is minimizing the issue a bit. Here is the following components that don't currently work with Asahi Linux:

- DisplayPort

- Thunderbolt

- HDMI on the MacBooks

- Bluetooth

- GPU acceleration

- Video codec acceleration

- Neural Engine

- CPU deep idle

- Sleep mode

- Camera

- Touch Bar
Depends on the region. You can buy here in every shop rosbif Alsacien which is horse meat.
I was wondering about that as well. Aside from drugs and productivity, do some of these people simply have a lot of passive income where they don't have to concentrate on a "job"? Must be nice.
Aella is a personality, author and artist to watch. (Not referring to her sex work.) She is on the cusp of a literary masterwork, and has all the necessary components for becoming a seriously respected culture artist. Her canvas is society, and she is one of the few people writing today with a voice peer to the beatnik literary greats. I expect to see her in New Yorker soon.
This is very good timing for me, I just left my python dev job and am starting a job where they use Ruby. I’m very excited to be using Ruby again, it’s a much nicer language to use for a variety of reasons I can’t possibly enumerate. Ruby’s stdlib and surrounding documentation is pristine, I vividly remember being appalled when trying Python for the first time and thinking where the rest of it was. The major issue I find with Ruby (and that I saw mentioned elsewhere in this thread) are imports / requires, which is much too magical in Ruby; Python’s import is way saner
Last I heard he paints landscapes.
This comment shouldn't be downvoted. People have just forgotten what a general purpose computer is. We used to take much more pride and spend a lot more effort making hardware cross compatible with each other. It was never perfect, but more and more these days we seem to be given vendor locked, non-general devices.
> It is an expensive process so it must have an evolutionary advantage

It does, it means that newborns don't have to be born developed enough to get their own food.
> Unix has lots of weird cruft littering its dark corners

Indeed it does -- try logging in to your Linux machine with your username in all-caps :-)
They play Minecraft.

Which I think is a great game, or was when I played it, I bought when I had no money, it was I think $40, and was very satisfied. I wanted to play it again see what had changed but Microsoft didn't honor my purchase, they wanted me to buy it again. Obviously not in so many words but dude they have hundreds of UI UX people they A/B test everything. They fucking know. They fucking know. It may have been a mistake (there is literally a 0 probability of this), all the same, I went through the whole protocol, did the backup option, the works. Totally agree that piracy is a service problem. Self-service.

If I feel like playing Minecraft again I won't steal it, wrong word--seize it, take my own property back for myself. I own Minecraft in the specific capacity I agreed to--just a perpetual license for myself, no more than one person playing at a time, no piracy, never even looked it up on all those sites only the Russian search engines can parse.

Yeah that's what "must have happened", someone put a ж in there, it didn't compile, Минкрафт. MS database failure, that's the mistake they didn't make. Yeah that makes sense it's a Russian plant getting children to play indoors only, fake TNT fake water fake fire, play video games and become overweight in elementary, obese in sophomore year of High School. US Army complains about this, all these recruits are busted, nearsighted from screens, fat, flat-footed, everyone has a 1-in-1000000 condition that requires favoritism, never gotten burned, never scraped their knees, nothing.

When I was a kid I had some wound somewhere most of the time. Like they even made the clothing with patches in the elbows and knees not because that would be any protection but to get the clothing to last the year.
Can we get a bigger screen Air? I'm well over six foot and these Apple devices are way too small, they look built for middle school kids or petite people. Working on these tiny screens and keyboards seems like cruel punishment.
Got to respect Mr Watterson's stance, but I was a little bit gutted to learn he had turned down Pixar - surely a safe set of hands that could produce something incredible from his creation. Would he turn down Hayao Miyazaki as well?
Yum. Horse is in every Swiss supermarket. At least in the French part.
For some reason it reminded me of _why's unholy:

https://github.com/devyn/unholy/blob/master/README

> You know, it's crazy that Python
and Ruby fans find themselves
battling so much. While syntax
is different, this exercise
proves how close they are to
each other! And, yes, I like
Ruby's syntax and can think much
better in it, but it would be
nice to share libs with Python
folk and not have to wait forever
for a mythical VM that runs all
possible languages.
Off topic: I'll be visiting Rome & this beautiful structure in a couple weeks (extended layover). Does HN have any recs, historical or otherwise?
You are allowed to define your own constants.
If by "general purpose computer", you mean "runs any OS I could throw at it", then broadly speaking any Mac is more general-purpose than any non-Mac, since they can run macOS plus whatever other OSes will run on the architecture they're built for.

If, however, you actually mean "a computer that runs Windows or Linux"...why not just say so? Rather than passive-aggressively pretending that all you're looking for is "general purpose", with the obvious snide implication that macOS can't provide that...
> but horses and cows are same family of animal

How do you mean? They're not, taxonomically.
I don't really need a laptop at the moment. If I did I'd buy an M2 MBA in a heartbeat.

I'm really pleased to see the return of the MBA. From 2011 it was really the perfect laptop with a good compromise of size, performance and cost. But it languished for years just needing a Retina display upgrade and then it got killed by the awful 12" Macbook in Johnny Ive's crusade for thinness at all cost (which also brought us the terrible butterfly keyboard to save 0.5mm). But Johnny Ive is gone (yay!).

The only issue I've seen people talk about is thermal throttling under high loads. Given that the RAM is shared with the GPU then 8GB in the base model seems low. I think I also read there's a difference in the SSD between the base model and the upgraded model?
> On July 13th, at around 18:45 UTC we started to receive reports of an outage

> On July 14th, at 19:14 UTC we were able to identify that the problem was within our us-west3 region

So yeah, 24 hours and 29 minutes.
People think selling out is bad when you're a punk rock band.

I dont think anyone really ever thought selling your company, particularly a speculative tech start up type company, is the same type of bad.
Buy an anthology book and just read it from the beginning. There’s no “bad season” and he stopped it well before it was showing signs of going off.

For me it’s hard to give a critical review since reading the strip every day in the newspaper is both nostalgic and sentimental as my dad and I both loved it. And then it was gone and that was that.
An entry level laptop at that price point definitely is a premium product. It happens to be plenty powerful, but what most people will probably do on it would work just as well on a machine less than half the price. I'd put it in the luxury segment of laptop computers, which is why Apple can get away with the markup. You're not just buying the hardware metrics, you're also buying a design, aesthetics, finish and status. Yes, a Macbook signals status in lots of places, most people aren't SV software engineers (and even there, not getting the option may be perceived as a loss of status).
I know what you mean, because of those 3 species, dogs are the only ones to be commonly kept as pets. But what is it that puts horses, dogs, and cows in the same/different categories?
For a species that has given so much and has been pivotal in the development of humanity, it's time we repaid the debt and granted them freedom in perpetuity.