I think the responses you got immediately kind of go some way to your crazy pill point.
What gets me is that most denialists don't really have anything to gain by their position. If climate change is wrong and we switch to renewables then our imaginary economic system might take a few percentage point hit. If its right then we're buggered. The people who lose out if we cut back on our overconsumption and pollution are a small minority with a lot of money and power.
What seems to drive it is the idea of being told what to do. But this is a trick from above, because you don't get to do what you want to do anyway. I don't use the electricity I want, I use the amount that makes sense economically, given the supply, the items I use, and the type of electricity that comes to my home. I don't choose to buy an ICE car, that is what is available. If we had had electric cars only ever, or governments had banned the use of private vehicles before they became ubiquitous, then these conversations would never take place. We'd probably have these same denialists hopping up and down shouting "You cant' let people drive around in tons of metal all over the place, it'd be murderous" (and they'd be correct for once).
It's not high sierra, I have the same issue with Sierra. And I don't know why its slower, because on a per task basis it is faster... it's just laggy when switching apps / windows / spaces.
I really liked the new keyboard to begin with, but now I hate it. I like it for the extra clickyness, the old ones feel spongy by comparison. But it goes awry very often, the keys lose sensitivity, or change travel distance. I think its just too low profile.
Touch bar - fun for a few minutes, then completely pointless. I never use it now.
I cannot wait to move on from this laptop. I'm not sure what to get next, I've been using macs for many years.
I was in Denmark when it happened. The sales may have dropped to zero after, but they were artificially high for months running up to date because everyone was buying before the subsidy was removed.
The goods we buy is a large part of the problem. I don't think the lifestyle we have/desire is compatible with being sustainable for those of us who currently have it, let alone the other 6B people who want it. Thus why we're fucked.
I have one of these laptops and I'm quite frustrated with it. The touch bar is the least of the issues - although I appreciate Touch ID for my password manager, the rest of the bar is meh. It's everything else that's wrong. The keyboard is pretty bad. I started off really liking it for the extra clickyness, but it just isn't stable, sometimes keys fail to register in certain places, which changes as the laptop warms and cools. Yesterday the 'k' key just stopped working, which you'd think would be a hardware issue, maybe a crumb. But rebooting fixed it?!
Compared to the previous model the new mbp has poor battery life. And it's oddly slow. Maybe that is due to the higher screen resolution it's pushing - jitter and odd delays here and there.
I used CrashPlan too, so I spent some time researching what to do yesterday. There were good features that aren't easy to replace. I only have about 100g to backup, having whittled it down over the years to only what is important to me and irreplaceable.
Right now I'm testing arq to s3. That should cost about 3usd a month, but arq itself is 50usd. Good feature set though, and fast.
I wouldn't have minded if CrashPlan had either raised their prices or added caps to make their business viable. I'd pay their 10usd a month cost for the small business plan but it doesn't have feature parity and I no longer trust them.
I used to think that but I no longer do. The graph I'm reminded of is the one showing the ratio of women to men attending computer science compared to other topics. They all rise at the same rate and then computing falters and falls. This suggests to me that the assertion that women just make different choices is not true.
I'm surprised to see this story picked up by the BBC and slashdot, it seems like too niche of a product. Anyway, I ended up giving it a 1 star rating too. Firs they removed most distinguishing graphics so it looked like some text hanging in a white sea. Then they made the main point bigger and removed other bits of text (like the title, so you couldn't tell what the number was for). And then finally, what really irritated me, they removed the bit at the top that indicated it was connected and syncing with the device. What did they replace it with? Whiteness. Didn't even both moving the existing stuff up a bit into the space, just a white blank space where previously there was something useful.
The headline is clickbait. But radiologists could use AI to analyze the images faster and better. For example, I imagine there might be interesting results if you used a training set that was not "images that radiologists have flagged" but "images of patients who then later developed a disease" to see if it comes up with some unknown analysis.
You can't have got very far into the conversion process with that kind of issue. I would have thought it'd be a case of isolate those components on their windows environment with some kind of api.
A few years ago I was working for a power retailer who were the first to start pushing smart meters in my country. The first meters were still read by human meter readers, and the data was downloaded. We were also collecting meter readings from customers who wanted to track their usage on a more regular basis than the meter readers would come round.
Anyway, what we discovered from these various collection mechanisms was that the human meter readers were making up an awful lot of readings and not actually visiting the meters at all in many cases. If they're not going to bother going it'd have been better for our customers if they just didn't report rather than making up a number, we could model a more accurate number .
Well you can answer at least one of your questions. I've seen the 1900 era thermometer question come up before and the answer is to within 0.1 of a degree, and typically more accurate than a a modern electronic one. You could probably even get hold of one to test that assertion.
And then they won't be able to move their taxable profit from EU countries to Ireland. I doubt the EU splitting up will be beneficial to Apple's tax position.
Yes. I didn't purchase Dash through the App Store originally and I'm pretty glad of that. I've seen the App Store bugginess with other apps, and I wish I'd had the foresight to not use it with anything.
Saying that though, Dash has been driving me mad with it's own bugs and slowness recently.
My wife and I have moved every year since we got together in 2003, 4 of those times internationally. Had our first kid when I was 25 in 2008. Yes you're correct, we'd be wealthier and could have afforded our own home by now had we settled. I don't think it's a swap I'd want to make though, money isn't the end goal.
Looking at my peers now, some have managed to purchase places, others not. Usually the determining factor is having had help from their parents, which was never coming our way. We've now scraped together enough to consider buying or building a house in a rural location. But I couldn't say if we'll be settling, my wife is already talking about getting friends to live there to care for our animals while we take off again. It's far easier to move your kids than your cats, although we managed and must have had the most well travelled domestic cat, 1.5 times around the world and 17 US states.
Funnily enough I just switched from using Chrome to Firefox dev edition for development because Chrome kept being slow and doing weird things with my console logs.
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I think the responses you got immediately kind of go some way to your crazy pill point.
What gets me is that most denialists don't really have anything to gain by their position. If climate change is wrong and we switch to renewables then our imaginary economic system might take a few percentage point hit. If its right then we're buggered. The people who lose out if we cut back on our overconsumption and pollution are a small minority with a lot of money and power.
What seems to drive it is the idea of being told what to do. But this is a trick from above, because you don't get to do what you want to do anyway. I don't use the electricity I want, I use the amount that makes sense economically, given the supply, the items I use, and the type of electricity that comes to my home. I don't choose to buy an ICE car, that is what is available. If we had had electric cars only ever, or governments had banned the use of private vehicles before they became ubiquitous, then these conversations would never take place. We'd probably have these same denialists hopping up and down shouting "You cant' let people drive around in tons of metal all over the place, it'd be murderous" (and they'd be correct for once).
> all warming is a result of data manipulation by IPCC
Are you suggesting the IPCC controls the climate via spreadsheets?
It's not high sierra, I have the same issue with Sierra. And I don't know why its slower, because on a per task basis it is faster... it's just laggy when switching apps / windows / spaces.
I really liked the new keyboard to begin with, but now I hate it. I like it for the extra clickyness, the old ones feel spongy by comparison. But it goes awry very often, the keys lose sensitivity, or change travel distance. I think its just too low profile.
Touch bar - fun for a few minutes, then completely pointless. I never use it now.
I cannot wait to move on from this laptop. I'm not sure what to get next, I've been using macs for many years.
you could move out of the USA. The It's being shown on Netflix here.
I was in Denmark when it happened. The sales may have dropped to zero after, but they were artificially high for months running up to date because everyone was buying before the subsidy was removed.
The goods we buy is a large part of the problem. I don't think the lifestyle we have/desire is compatible with being sustainable for those of us who currently have it, let alone the other 6B people who want it. Thus why we're fucked.
So once these signs were stolen was the opposing team no longer able to use them? How were these signs returned once the thieves had been caught?
Apart from the use of technology, which might be banned from the field, this seems like a perfectly legitimate tactic.
Why not put it in the opposite pocket? Phone on the left, keys on the right.
I have one of these laptops and I'm quite frustrated with it. The touch bar is the least of the issues - although I appreciate Touch ID for my password manager, the rest of the bar is meh. It's everything else that's wrong. The keyboard is pretty bad. I started off really liking it for the extra clickyness, but it just isn't stable, sometimes keys fail to register in certain places, which changes as the laptop warms and cools. Yesterday the 'k' key just stopped working, which you'd think would be a hardware issue, maybe a crumb. But rebooting fixed it?!
Compared to the previous model the new mbp has poor battery life. And it's oddly slow. Maybe that is due to the higher screen resolution it's pushing - jitter and odd delays here and there.
I used CrashPlan too, so I spent some time researching what to do yesterday. There were good features that aren't easy to replace. I only have about 100g to backup, having whittled it down over the years to only what is important to me and irreplaceable.
Right now I'm testing arq to s3. That should cost about 3usd a month, but arq itself is 50usd. Good feature set though, and fast.
I wouldn't have minded if CrashPlan had either raised their prices or added caps to make their business viable. I'd pay their 10usd a month cost for the small business plan but it doesn't have feature parity and I no longer trust them.
I tried it with my home wifi and it worked... for an address I lived at 2 moves ago.
Why is this story here? Did the byline change to "News for idiots, they stuffed up"?
I used to think that but I no longer do. The graph I'm reminded of is the one showing the ratio of women to men attending computer science compared to other topics. They all rise at the same rate and then computing falters and falls. This suggests to me that the assertion that women just make different choices is not true.
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/pkZPrOI
I'm surprised to see this story picked up by the BBC and slashdot, it seems like too niche of a product. Anyway, I ended up giving it a 1 star rating too. Firs they removed most distinguishing graphics so it looked like some text hanging in a white sea. Then they made the main point bigger and removed other bits of text (like the title, so you couldn't tell what the number was for). And then finally, what really irritated me, they removed the bit at the top that indicated it was connected and syncing with the device. What did they replace it with? Whiteness. Didn't even both moving the existing stuff up a bit into the space, just a white blank space where previously there was something useful.
The headline is clickbait. But radiologists could use AI to analyze the images faster and better. For example, I imagine there might be interesting results if you used a training set that was not "images that radiologists have flagged" but "images of patients who then later developed a disease" to see if it comes up with some unknown analysis.
Yes, they could have their employees work from home. Can I have my $5,500 now?
If only the EU was more like France, getting 75% power from nuclear. Oh wait...
You can't have got very far into the conversion process with that kind of issue. I would have thought it'd be a case of isolate those components on their windows environment with some kind of api.
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A few years ago I was working for a power retailer who were the first to start pushing smart meters in my country. The first meters were still read by human meter readers, and the data was downloaded. We were also collecting meter readings from customers who wanted to track their usage on a more regular basis than the meter readers would come round.
Anyway, what we discovered from these various collection mechanisms was that the human meter readers were making up an awful lot of readings and not actually visiting the meters at all in many cases. If they're not going to bother going it'd have been better for our customers if they just didn't report rather than making up a number, we could model a more accurate number .
Well you can answer at least one of your questions. I've seen the 1900 era thermometer question come up before and the answer is to within 0.1 of a degree, and typically more accurate than a a modern electronic one. You could probably even get hold of one to test that assertion.
And then they won't be able to move their taxable profit from EU countries to Ireland. I doubt the EU splitting up will be beneficial to Apple's tax position.
Yes. I didn't purchase Dash through the App Store originally and I'm pretty glad of that. I've seen the App Store bugginess with other apps, and I wish I'd had the foresight to not use it with anything.
Saying that though, Dash has been driving me mad with it's own bugs and slowness recently.
My wife and I have moved every year since we got together in 2003, 4 of those times internationally. Had our first kid when I was 25 in 2008. Yes you're correct, we'd be wealthier and could have afforded our own home by now had we settled. I don't think it's a swap I'd want to make though, money isn't the end goal.
Looking at my peers now, some have managed to purchase places, others not. Usually the determining factor is having had help from their parents, which was never coming our way. We've now scraped together enough to consider buying or building a house in a rural location. But I couldn't say if we'll be settling, my wife is already talking about getting friends to live there to care for our animals while we take off again. It's far easier to move your kids than your cats, although we managed and must have had the most well travelled domestic cat, 1.5 times around the world and 17 US states.
Funnily enough I just switched from using Chrome to Firefox dev edition for development because Chrome kept being slow and doing weird things with my console logs.