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> Is a shapeless creature even logically coherent?

Do you see how your argument is self-defeating?

According to logic that humans have developed, there is such thing as a "shape". But Western philosophers have pondered the innateness of a "shape" or an "object" from very early on (Plato, through Leibniz, beyond).

"Shape" and "logic" are both human constructs articulating "structure", another human construct.

A shapeless creature doesn't need to be "logically coherent" to exhibit intelligence; logic, truth, and structure are features that have emerged from human intelligence. I wouldn't accept the argument that an entity must exhibit the same features to qualify as intelligent simply because humans have.
> Agreed that the processor might be overkill but also who cares

Lower income consumers who would appreciate lower prices.

Apple is a multi-trillion dollar company at this point. The only way for them to grow another 50% from where they are today is through mass market adoption by regular people.

Or maybe these high end devices aren’t meant to drive revenue as much as they are meant to keep power users happy while focusing on other revenue streams for meaningful revenue growth.
So this file access permission at most gives access to the whole /sdcard, which does not sound to me like it has to be a bad thing, right?
I read this and dream of the day where the common cold is cured. And it makes it all seem worth it.
> Every non-chrome browser has to answer the question "why use me instead of Chrome" and for Firefox it's the activism. you might not like that but it's what Mozilla's got.

The problem is that Mozilla's raison d'etre used to be about technical merit and user agency, including privacy and customization features. Chrome doesn't set a particularly high bar here, so Firefox could still be about this (and in fact Firefox is still the better choice despite themselves), but over the last few years they've gone in exactly the wrong direction.

Browsers were themeable 20 years ago. Everything used to be themeable. Things like CSS show these roots in their design, but Mozilla thinks that user stylesheets are a "legacyUserProfileCustomizations" instead of a fundamental design feature now.

The whole idea of limited time marketing is to create anxiety and FOMO. It's completely anti-ethical to user-focused design.
> Car based hellscape.

There is a generation that sees it this way, and for the life of me, I can't understand it. Is it just that the internet has enabled a level of local entertainment that wasn't available before and now the absolute personal freedom that cars and roads bring don't seem as appealing as they once did?

What's the strategy for emergency ambulances in a strictly walkable town? What's your evacuation plan during a natural disaster? What accommodations will be made for the elderly? A town without roads can just as easily be a "hellscape."

Maybe there's a more rational "middle of the road" way to look at this problem?
At the federal level they instead opted to side with union special interests, and therefore instead give those subsidies to union shops like Ford.

Therefore it's likely Tesla wouldn't benefit as much as you might suspect...but either way it still is corrupt.
Apple services are very much tied to Apple Hardware and iOS/OSX
Can't a lot of things automated and operated at distance?

After all we can do lab experiences on Mars, why not at 200 miles (300km) ?
It uses FSEvents on the Mac. It can do dumb polling too.
Kids who don’t know better might become accustomed to it and, unless they are power users or interested to become that, they might prefer to scrape by with the iPad.

There is pretty strong evidence that people aren’t great at using full fledged operating systems and feel much more comfortable on a slate with a dumbed down UI
I don’t have any source to quote — but I believe a driver if HOA costs is insurance premiums. Canada/Europe likely less exposed to liability law etc
I got a question. I started doing that about a year ago.
One thing that worries me is how it looks on the CV, that you quit a job after a month or two.

Even worse, when you have more of those in there.
It was a teeny tiny house; 850sqft and two stories.

The roof only hit me back about 5k.

Flooring was only about 3k, I did cheap laminate because carpet gives me allergies and I have kids.
In your opinion, how does TypeScript fit in to the sentiment expressed by this quote?
Oh dear. Have you talked to an economist about this idea? From what I gathered, most economists think that taxes should only be specifically targeted. That is, the government should tax things that they want to reduce.
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> Adding a second grounding rod anywhere else would violate code in most states and potentially create a grounding loop and fire hazard.

Can you cite the relevant portion of the code? Or, for that matter, can you explain why exactly a ground loop is a fire hazard? If this was a hazard, then buildings would burn down when a grounded metallic conduit was buried underground (perfectly legal and very common, although dubiously wise if the conduit is galvanized steel), when anything conductive and connected to building ground (an outdoor appliance, a person touching a switch, etc) touched the ground, or in any building with an associated ordinary in ground swimming pool (which is extensively bonded and generally grounded at the pool equipment pad).

Now you do need to avoid connecting neutral to ground in more than one place if you are a modern NEC-following project or a utility in California, for quite good reasons, but those reasons aren’t a “ground loop” or really a fire hazard — it’s because intentionally running current through a circuit that parallels a path through ground will make a fraction of that current flow through the ground, with potentially unfortunate consequences.
> That said if they made a cheaper version with a 12.9" screen I would have bought that instead.

I bet you can find used ones for much cheaper. I still love my aging 2nd generation 12.9" iPad Pro from 2017. Of course we would all love products even more if they were cheaper, law of demand and all that.
This is my sense too. But I like the domain enough to at least try and see.
The Wire will ‘suspend’ its Meta stories until it carries out ‘internal review’
Textio, an augmented writing platform that de-biases language in text, especially for recruitment listings and emails to attract diverse candidates.
#sr.ht is an on-topic channel for end-user support and development discussion. Since Docker/k8s has been rejected upstream, it's off-topic for #sr.ht. The channel needs to keep quiet and keep a high signal:noise ratio to make sure that users get attention when they need support. That said, you could discuss it on the off-topic channel, #sr.ht.watercooler, if you like.
Elevator Saga: Elevator programming game
I recently got a logitech combo case. it works great with pro.
I assume that PG was talking about "intelligent" aliens, which, for the sake of argument, let's say are those capable of interstellar communication (building radio telescopes and whatnot).

I cannot fathom such a civilization not having discovered Boolean logic.
I hate this idea. I am not going to throw out my keyboard, earbuds, touchpad, iphone, etc just so that they will all have USB-C connections.

Given that, it will take me at least 5 years to replace everything so I only need to use USB-C cables. 5 years where I will have to use two different sets of cables.
Right you are, thanks

:facepalm
On the contrary, I have owned MacBook Pros from the first to the last 17", then again every model since the 16". I also have iPad Pro with magic keyboard and touch pad. I don't travel with the MacBook any more, as I can do anything from the iPad. But it's not just me.

I've also been CTO at mega bank and hedge funds where we've rolled these out along side laptops. I've found that after initial objections, folks tend to agree. After a month or two, white collars who are not devs generally have switched to carrying the iPads, not laptops. Then the support costs basically go to zero, which matters a good deal at scale.

Users do have to think differently. That's ROUGH. Employees will ask for their old thing back if it changes their workflow, period. (See the book "Who Moved My Cheese?")

If they just use it, they generally find out it's fine. Could even be argued the Office / Teams ecosystem is superior.

Bonus: Letting employees have TWO screens (MacBook + iPad) also gives them two retina class monitors, portable, fantastic for hoteling or remote work or work from home. Two screens are better than one, and two that go with you are amazing. The new keyboard/cursor sharing while each device runs its own apps, with copy paste and drag drop between them is even cooler. In this model, the iPad Pro can become a Teams or Slack device, for instance, while other work stays on Mac, so you just wander off to a meeting with your collaboration tools intact. Instead of picking up where you left off, you just pick up and go.
The Elevator Programming Game
I have an old iPad pro (2017)

I like the fact that the base models are getting better, so in future I'll likely just replace with the lower end iPad and still get an upgrade, although the price seems to be slowly creeping up.
I remember reading years ago that the average American adult puts on 3 lbs during the holiday season and then never recovers by dropping that excess weight, so it just accumulates every year. For the people whose fitness routines and health were negatively impacted by COVID (e.g. people who had young children at home, in my experience, and people who got really sick), I think we might be seeing a similar effect. You can't get back lost time even after life "returns to normal."
Most EVs have wait times in many months to years. There's 0 reason to subsidize them at this point.
Did they discontinue smart folio keyboard? Magic Keyboard is almost 2x as heavy.
Mozilla's Firefox is the 'Google' of the FOSS world. Too big, too data (telemetry) hungry. They have even experimented with doing ads. I could go on and on.

You cannot be preaching about privacy and refuse to provide a simple toggle to opt-out of all telemetry in your software.

FYI I do use ungoogled chromium as my main browser.