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A $120 price increase for the base model? Unbelievable. Couldn’t keep the 5 year old $330 price forever but that’s ridiculous at the volumes Apple moves. All while we’re going into recession and consumer tech spend goes down…
They are not retaking Taiwan. They never had Taiwan. Taiwain is the last bastion of the democratic government of china.
> If that's your only issue find a school that is leaning toward your own political tribe

Your statement sums up the problem nicely.

Schools are places children go to get an unbiased education.

Politics have no place in schools.
> I need a minimum number of people around, preferably people with whom I am doing some work, to get anything done.

Doesn't seem like you need an office for that, though? You can invite your coworkers over to your home, go to a coffeeshop/bar, even the library. I went to the local library the other day and it was effectively vacant. I bet they would welcome your group with open arms to find some use for the space.

Work from home doesn’t mean work from home, it means work from anywhere.
It depends on what you're looking at. I develop electronics hardware, and it is still incredibly difficult to get a lot of ICs.

Texas instruments still has not caught up, and their chips are used just about everything, including on graphics cards.
Blink.sh is my favorite ssh app for the iPad.
So pay them a little more - enough that you can ask them to live there for 6 months at a time to reduce risk of pathogen escape as much as possible. If this type of dangerous research is actually valuable enough to keep doing, then it is valuable enough to implement protocols like this.
No it doesn't, not for me. I don't work at MSFT and I own both a Windows machine and a Mac M1 for work. Simple things like my gaming mouse and wanting larger fonts on my 1440p monitor don't work without cumbersome hacks through buggy hobby software. My windows computer works flawlessly among other advantages such as a large software library right out of the box.

I respect people who prefer Macs to PCs, but stop speaking about it like it is some universal truth.
>Weird decision. I am in Germany and no one cares about Covid anymore.

Maybe that's part of the problem...
How and Why I Programmed the Big Trees in Minecraft
ECC in common desktops/workstation/servers will correct all single bit errors and detect all 2 bit errors.

So sure you can run dimms every so slightly faster and fix the occasional single bit flip, but even a single double bit flip and an process or your kernel crashes.

Seems much saner to go for a safe, robust, and reliable system at standard clocks in ECC instead of trying to get slightly more performance which increases the chances or errors, corruptions, crashes, and shorter service life.
Show HN: Differentiable Programming on Discrete Stochastic Programs
> . it's pretty rational to wonder if there's some social or selection barrier coming up

That's a very modern take

Where I am from 90% of the people were farmers or worked in construction

I liked math and then I discovered computers, nobody in my circle knew about 'em, except one of my youngest uncles

People used to refer to it as "wasting time in front of a screen"

I have become a computer programmer nonetheless

People must understand that bubbles are much older than social networks and they were real bubbles, like people that never moved farther than a 100 kms from where they were born.

If this "theory" was true, we would all still be hunter gatherers.

People evolve despite the odds.

Columbus parents had a small shop that sold wine and cheese in a small city called Savona.

He became an explorer

Science as a profession is still not mainstream, there still an high chance of failing at it, it's pretty obvious that it is more common among people who are less risk adverse: young men.
Seems silly. The value of something like a book, or in days past a game cartridge or a CD, was greater if there was a resale market. Producers could charge more. Seems like the possibility of a return is the same. If I can't return something, I'm going to think harder, and therefore want to pay less, before purchasing.
From the article, the comparisons were made between classroom exams (graded by the teachers) vs national exams (standardized grading), not homework assignments.
> on fedora its systemctl instead of service because they are all systemd up

Fedora (and its derivatives like RHEL/CentOS/etc) still has the "service" command, it forwards to the corresponding systemctl command. The same for Debian (the comments in Debian's "service" command even mention it's a modified version of the RHEL/Fedora one).
I still don’t understand why this mutes functionality like this page’s, but not web video or audio players or the like in web pages.
I have the original (from 2014?) and it is still in use every day. I bought it for sketching but never really used it for that too much. For note taking (with a pen) it has been in use every day. I used to go through stacks of notepads and it was nice to replace them with a digital tool as it makes storage and retrieval much easier. It was an extravagant purchase at the time, but $1100 has started to look relatively after 8(?) years of use.
When is a slice of any not a slice of any?
I use Chunky. It still works great.

I've heard Panels is decent as well.
>We may need this, but the stakeholders holding the purse strings don't. And they are the ones who will decide what gets built.

It has never been easier to build a business(software). Labor is abundant, and the tech boom has created a million Medicis willing to throw money at wild things. Look at FTX fund for example.
Amazon launches in Belgium with an unconventional domain
We don't want our creative work to be funneled into killer robots fighting proxy wars against artificial enemies. As long as I've been alive, America has used its military not for defense but for bullying other countries to its will, benefiting our elites but hurting civilians everywhere. We're not the good guys anymore.

Much respect to those who serve, but their corrupt political leaders have misused their sacrifices for greed and profit, not country.
+1 for the recommendation for "The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to
Digital Signal Processing" by Steven W. Smith. I spoke to Steven many
years ago about his putting all of the book PDFs online for free and
since then have recommended at least 5 university libraries to buy it
because the students could get free copies of a great book that can be
referenced in the library.

FWIW the The Scientist and Engineer's Guide doesn't actually cover a
lot on sound. It starts in a particular DSP way with frequency domain
definitions and convolution - and I actually think Steven's background
is in medial imaging, though I could be mistaken.
Professionals and audiophiles (not the audience of the base iPad) use an external DAC, etc.

Regular people these days use Bluetooth audio.

That leaves people who just want wired headphones. Plenty of cheap USB-C to 3.5mm adapters out there.
And it's still on SourceForge. I'm still mad at SourceForge for bundling adware in things you download from them.
The problem is that HR, IT, and accounting hold the financial and technical power. And of course their primary concern to use that power will be for the perpetuation and benefit of HR, IT, and accounting.
Can California's electrical grid even handle more electric cars?
That’s nice for you, but you will not be dragging me into the office just because you need people staring over your shoulder to get any work done. I’m not your motivation coach unless you are paying me to be. Seems you want your coworkers to provide this service to you for free even if it hurts their productivity.

Incidentally there are virtual office zoom call services where you can get on a call and work with other people who have the same issue of not being able to work on their own.
> File management is still a sick joke.

I don't know if it's just me, but it seems like every time I go to save or open something on my iPad it defaults to iCloud. I don't have a paid iCloud account and find this supremely annoying, especially because the default folder names inside iCloud are the same as in local folders. It's as if they're trying to cause people to accidentally save stuff to iCloud, to get them in the habit of using it (and then paying for it).
This guy is delusional to the point that it makes him useless as an analyst or strategist. It's called logistics and morale. It's too late for Russia to catch up, it's a gas station run by corrupt oligarchs, and now with the sanctions and the brain drain they have nothing to build a future on. Their genocidal rapist horde is not going to magically turn into a competent army. Corruption is the way of life in Russia, and they have not much to show for all the talk they are talking. Terrorizing the Ukrainian population with Iranian drones and holding the world hostage with nuclear weapons is as good as it will ever get for Russia, which is now destined to join North Korea in irrelevance.
Nothing so extravagant, just highlighting the "Vibrant colors!" part of the press release and remembering the days when colored (and transparent!) cases were popular. Aka the late 90s / early 2000s.
There won't be _one_ remote event again, but multiple decentralized ones.
How is it that highrise/midrise buildings in other metro areas where suites aren't going for 3 million manage with HOA fees that are half as much?

Just because the land is more expensive doesn't mean your elevator maintenance contract should be.
>> If only we were hellbent on building communities where you don't need to get in a car every time you leave your house.

> Not everyone lives in dense cities, nor does everyone want to.

I may have missed the part there were the original post said otherwise.

We could check the history books on this, but I'm pretty sure before cars everyone did not live in "dense cities". ;-)
Do you have an image or link of which one this is?

> Seriously, they should bring smart folio back. The one that doesn't have the unnecessary backside but only the side and the front cover.
It also ignores the twenty billion dollars in subsidies the United States government provides to the fossil fuel industry: https://www.brookings.edu/research/reforming-global-fossil-f...

...which has been turning in record profits: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/08/oil-companie...

In the first quarter of 2022, US oil industry profits TRIPLED: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/these-top-5-oil-com...
I almost always use only programs that I compile from sources (with few exceptions, like the NVIDIA drivers and libraries or some commercial EDA/CAD programs). I also strongly dislike systemd (not based on hearsay, but after testing it for a couple of months a few years ago, while using Arch Linux). These 2 conditions disqualify many Linux distributions for me.

So I most frequently use Gentoo or some distribution derived from it, e.g. Funtoo.

I have switched to Gentoo around 2002/2003, after using a few older distributions, including Slackware, Redhat and SUSE.

During the first decade of using Gentoo, the Portage collection was better maintained and I would have never had problems with upgrades, except that when I have tested KDE 4 I was astonished by how the team which hijacked its development had been able to remove all the features that I liked in KDE 3.5, so I have wiped KDE 4 and I have reverted to KDE 3.5.

Then, for a couple of years I had to fight more and more at each upgrade to avoid the breakage of the preserved KDE 3.5, until that became so difficult that I gave up and I replaced KDE with XFCE.

Then for a few years there have been no problems with upgrades, but during the last decade they have begun to appear sporadically. In many cases the upgrades still work without surprises, but every few months there is one that fails because some package does not compile for various reasons, e.g. because some library is not listed as a dependence so it has not been updated, or because there is a circular package dependence that appears only with the specific combination of USE flags that are set on my system, or because there is some conflict between the dependencies of some packages that prevent them to be installed together without certain workarounds.

What I like at Gentoo is that it permits an extreme customization of the system, but that is what makes very difficult for the package maintainers to test their package build instructions, because it is hard to generate all the combinations of options that might have been chosen by some user.

The breakages are not frequent, but because they happen sometimes I am not confident to allow them to be performed automatically, without supervision, like I allow them to be done on FreeBSD.

I would prefer a package system like that of Nix, but I have not found yet enough time to play with Nix, or maybe with Guix, to evaluate which will be the consequences of converting to it.
It is, but Ben pronounces the "tech" in the middle as it's pronounced independently.
New colorway themes are a limited time offer because that will create seasonal excitement and users will be more likely to customize their Firefox theme if they know the other options will be taken away from them in a few months. Or at least that's product management's hypothesis for increasing user engagement.
noob question: why is there still this sort of energy/effort put towards C++ when Rust is available?

edit: thanks for downvoting a genuine question!
Sure! I started off using the Termius app for ssh, but ended up moving to Blink. It's been so long that I can't really say why I stopped using Termius, but Blink works really well. It has a lot of built-in bash commands, but honestly I don't find those that useful since I'm not working on local files. I think if Blink had vim built-in I'd use those commands a lot more, but right now I just open Blink and immediately ssh into my home machine. I have a couple ssh aliases set up for that -- one that uses my local network if I'm at home, and one that connects to my home IP address if I'm out on the road.

The only special setup that I had to do on my Mac was allowing ssh connections and adding the public key that the Blink app created for me. When I was on Windows I found that I had to map the command and option keys from my iPad keyboard to my custom vim keybindings, but now that I use a Mac as well that's not necessary.

Edit: here's a picture of my iPad ssh'd into my Mac and editing some F# code. It works well! https://www.dropbox.com/s/ilh16cesqj8ovi9/IMG_7535.jpeg?dl=0
> absolute personal freedom

This association between personal car ownership and personal freedom is one of the most absurd things to me. Think of this the next time you're sitting in traffic - is that freedom you are feeling now?

Of course, this situation of waiting for other people in cars to move (by far the most common situation by quantity of time for people who drive in cities) is not found at all in any car ad. Nope, it's all empty city streets and beautiful roads in the forests. It's one thing to be sold something and realize you've been had - quite another to persevere for years afterward that no, the beautiful experience you were sold really exists!
I think the biggest part of this announcement is the fact that for the first time an apple Magic Keyboard for iPad now comes with an ESC key.

Could indicate future plans to support coding/sysadmin on an iPad
If they would just allow UTM to run, that would be good enough for me.

https://getutm.app/
If they're competing against Chromebooks, they're maybe better actually.
You could run them exactly how they are structured today if you want. Youd reap savings by not having shareholder profits to maintain and could use that money that would otherwise be wasted on luxury spending for major shareholders for more R and D.
Collapse in Prospective Home Buyer Traffic
I realized while reading your comment they actually do have the perfect button for "I wish to disable browser telemetry": the DNT checkbox

Its whole premise is "I, as a user of this browser, do not want to participate in tracking activities." I don't see why mozilla should be exempt from that intention. I'd be some top shelf :chefs_kiss: if mozilla.org honored the DNT but the browser itself didn't
Labour of Love
The Birth of Something Small
Can confirm, reacting with gifs is 100% a boomer thing. And when I say boomer I mean anyone born before 1995.
> I'm so over this deconstructionist "reality is your perception" line.

Kant would have a field day with this statement
£369 to £499. Ouch
TikTok chases Amazon with plans for US fulfillment centers
> We're talking about a device that most people use to watch video though, so they're not going to really be revving it beyond 24hz.

Interesting. I don't use my iPad for video much, but I'm going to assume you're right and I'm in the minority. In that case, a nice benefit for cinephiles is that 120 Hz is an integer multiple of 24 Hz, while 60 Hz is not.
The people who write these papers and their reviewers don't take such elementary facts into account.

The actual answer is that US infant mortality has stayed almost constant during those 26 years, and was so low to start with that even reducing it to zero wouldn't have made much change in overall mortality.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-al...

The linked article also goes into more details.
saas ui is great!
Fortunately there are other nuclear powers in the EU.

It was one EU country in particular that was very vulnerable for a few separate reasons for the Russian gas politics, but they have seen the errors of their ways at long last.

Dependence on Russian energy is significantly reduced and there more than every intention to reduce this to zero. Note that the intention was always there, gas was only ever a stopgap between now and fully renewable.
I spent roughly a tenth of that on new water heaters; two half height to fit in the crawlspace. Electric, not gas.

Is labour just that much more expensive in the USA?
Oh, neat.

How does this kind of GUI work on a 4k monitor? Has anyone tried?
If an opinion reduces down to some form of I shouldn't have to... its either due to a regulatory constraint, ethics concern, or whining (entitlement). My thinking is if people wanted to work by watching a clock they would be hourly employees doing hourly work.
You should check out Mailinator's new free tier... You'll get a private domain, access to the API, and avoid the filters that come with the public mailinator.com domain.

Here's a link: https://bit.ly/3cs4v5E
Microsoft is "early" to VR because it was already a player in VR and has very long been "early". Microsoft has been investing in AR/MR/VR research since before the original Surface, not the tablet one but the giant table that got rebranded and then sold off, and since before the original Kinect. Microsoft is still making plenty of HoloLens devices (some on huge contracts) despite them not being "sexy". Windows 10 has had AR/MR/VR apps bundled for a long time despite most users never using them.

It's hard for it to be a "full circle" when for the most part it looks like a straight line. The surprise shift here isn't in Microsoft but in Meta finally asking for help and partners after seeming to believe they could do it all on their own.
Ok NIMBY.
It seems reasonable for "desktop-class" to refer to the basic features that have typically distinguished desktop personal computers from alternatives like smartphones and tablets. What else would you expect "desktop-class" to mean?
It says it was right here: https://votenoprop30.com/get-the-facts/
Counting numbers are such a basic foundational aspect of all life that it's hard to imagine any "intelligent" being not understanding the concepts of 1, 2, 3, etc.
I'd love to see this explored more, it seems we have such power in our pockets, all we really need is devices to attach this too rather than more devices with the same cpu/memory and gpu's.

Particularly when you look at Apple devices, if you own multiple apple devices you have several devices with A or M series CPU and GPU's.
Right, a reasonable person would understand that in order to map the pronunciation of "strategery" to "stratechery", you would substitute "TEK" for "TEEJ".
It’s a better way to say it. For you and me it might be better to say “WebKit renderer”. But for a non programmer, calling out the parts they wrote themselves is more reassuring, and highlights all the ways other browsers have to spy on you.
I don't know if I should be amazed at how 1-person can contribute to an OS ... or if I should be saddened at the current state of OS's given the 10,000s of developers working OS's.

(Another person who comes to mind is Matt Dillon of DragonflyBSD and his huge contributions)
You will then increasing get LESS sharing and MORE silos. There is a reason copyright laws exist, it's because they are a NET PLUS to society. It's not just 'for the benefit of EVIL corp'.
Everyone's creepily staring into nothing anyway. Except those of us who try to look at the camera instead of the screen most of the time. Which means we're not actually looking at anyone's face, even though it looks like we are, which is another problem.

Being a bit off-center is the least of the problems with video calls.
Very nice little article! Learned some new terms.

To anybody dabbling as I do in syntax design, who may be looking for an extremely minimal representation for trees (even more minimal than S-exprs!) I would like to introduce my little project called Jevko: https://djedr.github.io/posts/jevko-2022-02-22.html

It is pure distilled treeness. Its grammar fits into one line, if compressed well:

Jevko = *("[" Jevko "]" / "`" ("`" / "[" / "]") / %x0-5a / %x5c / %x5e-5f / %x61-10ffff)

This took me years of syntax golfing to figure out. I think it's turned out pretty nice. It's complete, formally defined, with a few simple parsers written, except it has no users. ;D

To relate back to the article, an interesting and AFAIK original feature of this syntax is that newlines or other whitespace are neither significant nor insignificant nor "possibly significant" in Jevko. I'd call it whitespace-agnostic. Various whitespace rules can be laid on top of it, producing for example a Lisp-like language with native multiword identifiers with spaces, e.g.:

define [sum primes [[a][b]]
accumulate [
[+]
[0]
filter [
[prime?]
enumerate interval [[a][b]]
]
]
]

here "sum primes" and "enumerate interval" are two double-word identifiers. It's the only right_solution to the identifierWars, I-tell-you!
We only need to evaluate what is practically useful. At the end of the day that's all science does - it's a methodology for generating guidelines for what actually works in the real world and for which accuracy, or truth, can be verified. We call those guidelines scientific 'laws', but truth in the absolute sense is less critical than is often made out by both proponents and critics of science.

Newton's laws of motion strictly speaking are not true, Einstein proved this, but they are incredibly useful as is the mathematics we use to formalise them. We know that the quantum mechanics and relativity theories we have now and not complete, but that's beside the point.

PG is simply pointing out that since aliens, if they exist, live in the same real world we do they will discover a lot of the same practical results we do, and then goes further to suggest they might agree with us about a lot of the less strictly provable ones as well. Going "Oh well but this obscure question here would still be in contention" is, well, somewhat sailing past the point by a little smidgenette. It's criticising a claim I don't think it's reasonable to think PG is making.
And those still exist! And any “small town” is walkable almost by definition-but people move away from them to the outskirts of the cities.
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