I have a Moto G, first generation. It was released in 2012 and gets weekly or fortnightly updates from LineageOS and runs almost the latest version of Android (8 hasn't been ported yet, but should appear soon) and still runs all of the apps that I've tried.
It isn't going anywhere, and there won't be any cat 5 hurricanes hitting California anytime soon.
You seem awfully certain. Only Tropical Storm Lida has hit California of the 2017 Pacific weather events classified by the National Hurricane Center as part of the 2017 PAcific hurricane season, but historically there have been several that have wandered over California.
Debt isn't necessarily bad. Debt to fund operating costs is (almost) always bad. Debt to fund capital investment is only bad if the interest on the debt is worse than the return on investment. If one person rents a house and the other takes out a mortgage at 3% interest to buy a house in an area where the house value appreciates at 6% per annum, which do you think is more fiscally responsible?
Baby boomers were born in the post-war years, mostly in the '50s. They became able to vote in the '70s and became the group with the highest voting turnout in the '80s.
They were a party set up explicitly to try to prevent working class people from joining the various communist parties in Germany at the time. They had some anti-capitalism rhetoric early on, but that was entirely gone by the mid '30s.
Which doesn't say very much about their interaction with the filesystem, especially when you consider that the most complex filesystem interactions on macOS come from system services that are shared with iOS, not from third party apps. The one thing I might worry about is Time Machine, which is by far the most complex FS user (and has permissions that normal user code doesn't have for precisely this reason) and has been largely rewritten for APFS (fortunately, simplifying a lot of what it does and reusing code paths in the FS that are well tested in iOS).
How much RAM do you have with ZFS? Actually, I would expect things to be a bit worse with APFS, because ZFS keeps things in small regions so often the random reads don't involve horizontal head movement (which is the killer with spinning rust). This adds a fair amount of complexity to ZFS and if APFS is designed for SSDs then I'd imagine that they wouldn't bother with it, so you're likely to end up with thinks scattered all over the disk (which can actually make things faster with some SSDs, because they end up in different flash chips and so can be read in parallel).
It does that for mail marked automatically as spam in Sierra, but it doesn't for mail where that wasn't marked automatically and you flag manually. Did they fix that? If so, it's probably the most compelling reason for me to upgrade to High Sierra.
No free lunch? The banks that bought high-risk derivatives without bothering to properly investigate the risk and were bailed out didn't get a free lunch? The investment bankers that were making 6-7 figure salaries making poor decisions with other people's money didn't get a free lunch? The people who bought up real estate at rock-bottom prices when a load of banks had to foreclose and sold them for a 50% or more profit (often a lot more, if they had good credit and could buy them with a fairly small downpayment) a few years later didn't get a free lunch?
There were lots of free lunches in the housing crash, but oddly enough they were only available to those who had a lot of capital at the start.
Really? Because the changes predicted by Marx seem to have largely happened during the 20th century. The places where 'Marxism' has failed have been places that tried to jump from mostly feudal to communist, without any of the intervening steps that Marx predicted were required for establishing a communist country.
People still use GPG? Mail.app supports S/MIME out of the box, which is a lot more useful. I'd be happy if they fixed the stupid decision in the last version to replace 'mark as spam' with 'move to spam mailbox, without giving you an option of specifying which mailbox is the spam one, and don't run any of the rules that you've defined in the preferences pane specifically for specifying rules that apply to spam'.
there's nothing special about SSDs that makes APFS any more attractive than on a spinning disk
Yes there is, APFS is a copy-on-write filesystem. This means that you end up with a lot of fragmentation for frequently modified files. This doesn't matter for SSDs, because random reads are not much more expensive than sequential, but it can really hurt performance on spinning rust.
iOS and macOS have the same kernel. They run the same libc, the same C++ runtime, almost the same Objective-C runtime, the same low-level frameworks, the same media frameworks, the same power management, the same init system, and so on. iOS apps make pretty heavy use of filesystem features and make much heavier use of the MAC framework integration with the filesystem.
The current problem is not making them smaller, it's making them cooler. Denard scaling ended a decade ago. Even while Moore's Law is giving us a lot more transistors on a chip, the number that we can keep powered at the same time is going up a lot more slowly. This means it's actually the first time in a few decades that it's actually been fun to do computer architecture research: in the '80s and '90s, if you came up with something clever to do with transistors, someone like DEC or Intel just throwing a bunch more ALUs on their next generation processor would let software emulate whatever you were trying to do, faster. Now, you can actually make a difference. Take a look at the number of specialised cores in a cheap SoC and you'll see where this has started going.
Yes, for the 99.9% of iPhone users who will never care about installing software from a source other than the App Store, the App Store is the only option.
iOS isn't even a serious option as long as it forces users to use Apple's repository
It doesn't. As an individual, you can install anything that you build yourself. As a company, you can set up your own internal distribution if you enrol in the iOS Developer Enterprise Programme.
Wireless charging? Meh. Until it can charge from across the room, it's not that important
Wireless charging is a convenience, but it's only a convenience once the industry can agree on one standard for wireless charging. Until then, I'm not going to bother with it. Every phone and every tablet I've owned can charge from a USB port. There's going to be a slightly annoying migration to USB-C, but it's pretty much standardised now. Wireless charging has a bunch of competing standards.
Nope, just the Office 365 stuff (and their associated cloud file store thingy). I don't use it personally (except to get the bundled version of PowerPoint, because DARPA does so love PowerPoint slide decks), but it's popular in some other departments. My understanding is that the Android and iOS versions of Office give you a fairly seamless transition from their Windows Phone equivalents: just log in with the credentials and all of your files is available. We don't use their mail system, because our mail admins have been running our internal email system since before email went over the Internet and have more experience than any cloud provider is likely to have.
If i was being uncharitable, I'd say it looked like you had already made an incorrect conclusion and were trying to come up with data that supported it, and got the math very very wrong.
Sorry, I was trying to reconstruct the example from memory. I did a detailed analysis of the corner cases of various voting systems for an assignment about 20 years ago, but it turns out that 5 minutes starring at a Slashdot post wasn't enough to reconstruct the examples. It is possible to construct cases where someone is everyone's second choice but is eliminated in the first round fairly easily, but I was trying to show a more complex example where tactical voting backfires.
You don't need a solicitor to do conveyancing, you can do it yourself quite easily. You need them for two reasons when buying a house. The first is to act as escrow for mortgage funds. The bank will pay them before you own the house, on the condition that they can return the funds in full if the sale falls through. They won't transfer the funds to you, because you could just give the money away and file for bankruptcy instead of buying the house.
The second reason is that houses come with a load of covenants and so on and it's meant to be the job of the solicitor to tell you if there's anything suspicious here. In my experience (having bought two houses) they're pretty useless here. The second time, mine didn't notice that the searches were in the wrong county and that the covenants she was looking at were for the wrong property (she drew my attention to the clause saying I couldn't have exterior lights lit during the Farnborough Air Show, which was a surprise given that Farnborough is over a hundred miles away - it turns out that the sellers also had a development next to the Farnborough Air Field and had just given her all of the documentation for everything that they were selling and she hadn't noticed).
The problem with the second part is that there seems to be no legal liability if the solicitor does a bad job. In France, for example, the estate agent fulfils a lot of this role: they are responsible for making the buyer you aware of everything that you should need to know and are liable if they failed to do so.
Only if you correctly salt them (i.e. a different salt for each one). SSNs are 9-digit numbers. That's about a 30 bit search space. It's possible to generate a rainbow table for MD5s of all possible SSNs very quickly and store it in memory on a moderately powerful system.
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I have a Moto G, first generation. It was released in 2012 and gets weekly or fortnightly updates from LineageOS and runs almost the latest version of Android (8 hasn't been ported yet, but should appear soon) and still runs all of the apps that I've tried.
It isn't going anywhere, and there won't be any cat 5 hurricanes hitting California anytime soon.
You seem awfully certain. Only Tropical Storm Lida has hit California of the 2017 Pacific weather events classified by the National Hurricane Center as part of the 2017 PAcific hurricane season, but historically there have been several that have wandered over California.
Debt isn't necessarily bad. Debt to fund operating costs is (almost) always bad. Debt to fund capital investment is only bad if the interest on the debt is worse than the return on investment. If one person rents a house and the other takes out a mortgage at 3% interest to buy a house in an area where the house value appreciates at 6% per annum, which do you think is more fiscally responsible?
Baby boomers were born in the post-war years, mostly in the '50s. They became able to vote in the '70s and became the group with the highest voting turnout in the '80s.
They had many leftist ideals.
They were a party set up explicitly to try to prevent working class people from joining the various communist parties in Germany at the time. They had some anti-capitalism rhetoric early on, but that was entirely gone by the mid '30s.
Which doesn't say very much about their interaction with the filesystem, especially when you consider that the most complex filesystem interactions on macOS come from system services that are shared with iOS, not from third party apps. The one thing I might worry about is Time Machine, which is by far the most complex FS user (and has permissions that normal user code doesn't have for precisely this reason) and has been largely rewritten for APFS (fortunately, simplifying a lot of what it does and reusing code paths in the FS that are well tested in iOS).
How much RAM do you have with ZFS? Actually, I would expect things to be a bit worse with APFS, because ZFS keeps things in small regions so often the random reads don't involve horizontal head movement (which is the killer with spinning rust). This adds a fair amount of complexity to ZFS and if APFS is designed for SSDs then I'd imagine that they wouldn't bother with it, so you're likely to end up with thinks scattered all over the disk (which can actually make things faster with some SSDs, because they end up in different flash chips and so can be read in parallel).
It does that for mail marked automatically as spam in Sierra, but it doesn't for mail where that wasn't marked automatically and you flag manually. Did they fix that? If so, it's probably the most compelling reason for me to upgrade to High Sierra.
No free lunch? The banks that bought high-risk derivatives without bothering to properly investigate the risk and were bailed out didn't get a free lunch? The investment bankers that were making 6-7 figure salaries making poor decisions with other people's money didn't get a free lunch? The people who bought up real estate at rock-bottom prices when a load of banks had to foreclose and sold them for a 50% or more profit (often a lot more, if they had good credit and could buy them with a fairly small downpayment) a few years later didn't get a free lunch?
There were lots of free lunches in the housing crash, but oddly enough they were only available to those who had a lot of capital at the start.
Your post reads like someone who didn't make it past the first page of Wealth of Nations and could do with another go.
Really? Because the changes predicted by Marx seem to have largely happened during the 20th century. The places where 'Marxism' has failed have been places that tried to jump from mostly feudal to communist, without any of the intervening steps that Marx predicted were required for establishing a communist country.
You're paying $35/month on mobile phone service and you're lecturing other people about financial responsibility?
People still use GPG? Mail.app supports S/MIME out of the box, which is a lot more useful. I'd be happy if they fixed the stupid decision in the last version to replace 'mark as spam' with 'move to spam mailbox, without giving you an option of specifying which mailbox is the spam one, and don't run any of the rules that you've defined in the preferences pane specifically for specifying rules that apply to spam'.
there's nothing special about SSDs that makes APFS any more attractive than on a spinning disk
Yes there is, APFS is a copy-on-write filesystem. This means that you end up with a lot of fragmentation for frequently modified files. This doesn't matter for SSDs, because random reads are not much more expensive than sequential, but it can really hurt performance on spinning rust.
iOS and macOS have the same kernel. They run the same libc, the same C++ runtime, almost the same Objective-C runtime, the same low-level frameworks, the same media frameworks, the same power management, the same init system, and so on. iOS apps make pretty heavy use of filesystem features and make much heavier use of the MAC framework integration with the filesystem.
The current problem is not making them smaller, it's making them cooler. Denard scaling ended a decade ago. Even while Moore's Law is giving us a lot more transistors on a chip, the number that we can keep powered at the same time is going up a lot more slowly. This means it's actually the first time in a few decades that it's actually been fun to do computer architecture research: in the '80s and '90s, if you came up with something clever to do with transistors, someone like DEC or Intel just throwing a bunch more ALUs on their next generation processor would let software emulate whatever you were trying to do, faster. Now, you can actually make a difference. Take a look at the number of specialised cores in a cheap SoC and you'll see where this has started going.
you might want to give some thought to what the word "Nazi" actually stands for
And you might want to go and look at why they chose that name and when they abandoned their pretence of any left-leaning ideas.
Aside from the Millennials/Hipsters, the Baby Boomers are well known for being the most left wing generation ever.
Yup, that's why the ones in the US voted in Ronald Reagan and the ones in the UK voted for Margret Thatcher - because they're so left wing. Oh, wait.
Yes, for the 99.9% of iPhone users who will never care about installing software from a source other than the App Store, the App Store is the only option.
iOS isn't even a serious option as long as it forces users to use Apple's repository
It doesn't. As an individual, you can install anything that you build yourself. As a company, you can set up your own internal distribution if you enrol in the iOS Developer Enterprise Programme.
Wireless charging? Meh. Until it can charge from across the room, it's not that important
Wireless charging is a convenience, but it's only a convenience once the industry can agree on one standard for wireless charging. Until then, I'm not going to bother with it. Every phone and every tablet I've owned can charge from a USB port. There's going to be a slightly annoying migration to USB-C, but it's pretty much standardised now. Wireless charging has a bunch of competing standards.
Nope, just the Office 365 stuff (and their associated cloud file store thingy). I don't use it personally (except to get the bundled version of PowerPoint, because DARPA does so love PowerPoint slide decks), but it's popular in some other departments. My understanding is that the Android and iOS versions of Office give you a fairly seamless transition from their Windows Phone equivalents: just log in with the credentials and all of your files is available. We don't use their mail system, because our mail admins have been running our internal email system since before email went over the Internet and have more experience than any cloud provider is likely to have.
If i was being uncharitable, I'd say it looked like you had already made an incorrect conclusion and were trying to come up with data that supported it, and got the math very very wrong.
Sorry, I was trying to reconstruct the example from memory. I did a detailed analysis of the corner cases of various voting systems for an assignment about 20 years ago, but it turns out that 5 minutes starring at a Slashdot post wasn't enough to reconstruct the examples. It is possible to construct cases where someone is everyone's second choice but is eliminated in the first round fairly easily, but I was trying to show a more complex example where tactical voting backfires.
You don't need a solicitor to do conveyancing, you can do it yourself quite easily. You need them for two reasons when buying a house. The first is to act as escrow for mortgage funds. The bank will pay them before you own the house, on the condition that they can return the funds in full if the sale falls through. They won't transfer the funds to you, because you could just give the money away and file for bankruptcy instead of buying the house.
The second reason is that houses come with a load of covenants and so on and it's meant to be the job of the solicitor to tell you if there's anything suspicious here. In my experience (having bought two houses) they're pretty useless here. The second time, mine didn't notice that the searches were in the wrong county and that the covenants she was looking at were for the wrong property (she drew my attention to the clause saying I couldn't have exterior lights lit during the Farnborough Air Show, which was a surprise given that Farnborough is over a hundred miles away - it turns out that the sellers also had a development next to the Farnborough Air Field and had just given her all of the documentation for everything that they were selling and she hadn't noticed).
The problem with the second part is that there seems to be no legal liability if the solicitor does a bad job. In France, for example, the estate agent fulfils a lot of this role: they are responsible for making the buyer you aware of everything that you should need to know and are liable if they failed to do so.
Only if you correctly salt them (i.e. a different salt for each one). SSNs are 9-digit numbers. That's about a 30 bit search space. It's possible to generate a rainbow table for MD5s of all possible SSNs very quickly and store it in memory on a moderately powerful system.