I like the new keyboard too. Iâ(TM)m on my third retina MacBook Pro (due to work, not the laptops fault) and I really like it. I am not a Vim user so the escape key is not a big deal, although I would remap caps lock to ESC in that case. I do not eat crumbly food over my laptop and I do not bring it to the beach so I have no issues whatsoever with stuck keys. I have had keyboard go bad on me in the past so I can understand the frustration of users that actually have problems but if you insist on using it in dusty environment or want to use it as a food tray, well add protection to it. There are nice keyboard covers that will do a good job at keeping dust out.
Actually i think the touchbar would be better if it had the haptic engine that the trackpad uses, it really works well for the trackpad and I think it could Work for typing. I guess they kept that âinnovationâ(TM) for a future release since releasing innovations over time is good for business.
Joke aside the impact of the robot mistake is much greater but it is worth it for several reasons. First the probability of mistakes is much lower with the robots than with humans, so for a million cars manufactured, the total number of mistakes by human vs robots will be higher for humans. So thatâ(TM)s the first win. Second if humans make mistakes this will be much more random and less likely to be detected, even with quality check sampling. Which mean that more end users will receive the faulty product. On the other hand, with robots since the mistake is consistent it is very likely that it will be noticed on one of the end products so it will be easier correct the issue and to track all of the defective units. Which is what happened here.
Cars manufactured before the advent of robots were much more temperamental and failing in various inconsistent ways from one car to the other even when coming from the same factory, the same week.
I do, I have used DuckDuckGo on my computers and phones for many years. It is actually quite trivial to switch the default search from Google to one of the other options. Once in a while I will try an actual Google search, but this is becoming rare.
Deliveries are crucial to planemakers because that is when airlines pay most of what they owe for the aircraft
Aren't deliveries crucial to *any* manufacturer? There are not many cases I can think of where a manufacturer stays viable by never delivering their product. I know first hand that it is an actual business strategy at some companies but that's never sustainable. Theranos has tried to pull it off, it did not work so well.
Thatâ(TM)s why Iâ(TM)m sticking with Kaiser Permanente. Yes I have heard bad stuff about them but bad surgeries do not seem to happen more frequently than at other places. The thing that never happens with them is a giant magical bill out of nowhere. When our son was born he was premature and in breach position. We had to do an unplanned c-section and we stayed 4 days in the hospital after the surgery. The total bill was $750, in the middle of Silicon Valley. We then had daily follow ups on how to feed a premature baby, free, including the seringues and tubing. Sometimes, rarely, they charge us more than we are supposed to for a visit and then they mail us a check without even us asking or mentioned ning anything. So Iâ(TM)m actually less worried about medical malpractice there, since the doctors have no incentives to do useless exams or surgery, they are less stressed because they donâ(TM)t have to deal with external insurance paperwork, and I never have to worry about a magical high bill in the mail.
French side of the French/Belgian border, there's a village just about every other mile. To be fair I would not expect this coverage anytime soon in Montana, but California could do much better. Please stay away from national parks, one of the reasons I love these places is because it is impossible for me to check on work and as such I can truly disconnect.
Case in point I'm visiting family in Europe with a T-Mobile plan from the US. I get unlimited 3G speeds all over Europe for free with the plan, but I would have to pay 25 cents per minute for calls. We use FaceTime for all our calls even when in the countryside which seems to have pretty decent coverage.
One of the problems with DevOps is that the term has completely become an overloaded marketing Buzzword that has little to do with the original intent. I wrote a long article about DevOps last year explaining that it does not mean a new team or role, but rather a culture between the Dev and Ops groups to work more closely together. The 'toss over the fence' model that is traditional with Waterfall is not working well when doing 'Agile'. Agile itself is often a pure excuse to justify 'anything goes without planning'.
Are you saying I can take a Swift app designed for macOS or iOS and recompile on Linux with almost no effort? If most of the frameworks are not ported as well it is not really a viable solution. For C# there is Mono and even this is not getting a huge traction beyond a few projects.
My California driver license has one and a few places will ask me to pull it out of my wallet in order to swipe it. I believe my green card also has one. I never thought of demagnetizing it... after the Equifax breach I'm not even sure why I would bother.
Oh that's awesome, I vote for the "I already bought everything and I'm not ever shopping for anything else in my life" option. I just use adblock software, that's more effective.
Actually this does not make much sense to me but I'll admit I do not know much about the invisible flow of credit card transaction money. I pay a most things with credit card and I always pay them as soon as they are due and never pay anything more, than what I paid the merchants for. So by your logic the CC companies should want to avoid me, yet they keep on raising my credit limit to high level. If the merchant fees were not enough to cover the point systems then why would they entice me to spend even more money with no interest rate?
My guess is that as others have stated they are more worried about people buying one bitcoin at $20k and then not paying them back when the value has dropped down to $9 just a few weeks later. When a wannabe investor sees something jumping 1000% in a year thinks a 25% APR is a safe risk, that's when the CC companies start to freak out and ban that option. It's not like they can repo the bitcoins easily.
I'm actually wondering.With https://letsencrypt.org/ letting you automagically get a SSL cert that is trusted by the browsers without warnings wouldn't anyone with control over your domain be able to look good for most browsers?
No landlord is going to charge your LESS THAN THEIR COSTS, unless they are truly dumb. It doesn't make sense.
Not really true. If the choice Is between leaving the house empty, paying mortgage and property tax, have to no-one notice water leaks and have the property degrade, then having a renter at 80% loss is still better than 100% loss as long as the rental covers the additional cost of having a tenant (occasional repairs, and whatever other taxes and fees).
There is plenty of reasons why a landlord might want to rent at less than cost, especially if the rental market is temporarily low. Say you need to move out of town for a couple of years due to a work assignment or some family needs, the market has slumped and you are underwater, but you want to come back in the area eventually. You can either leave the house empty, have a friend come look at it once in a while in case the roof gets a leak and make sure skaters do not start using it, or you can have renters for x% of your cost. Especially consider that the mortgage payment is 2 parts: principal + interest. Principal is actually going to equity, back in your pocket in a way. So if the rent covers the interest, property taxes and the insurance, then you basically want to cover that plus some other maintenance fees.
Say your mortgage is $400k at 3.75% that makes your mortgage payments to be around $2400, $600 for principal, $1800 to interest. Let's say property tax is around $900/month, $100 for insurance per month. Then you could rent for as low as $3500 and still be much better of than not having a tenant as long as $3500 is more than what having a tenant costs you. In the meantime if your house is going up in price, you have a very profitable investment. Sure it does not pay your actual living bills but it is less costly than being forced to sell the house with the associated fees and buy an other one later. This applies if you are underwater, you are better off riding the wave and sit tight until the prices go back up.
As on other poster mentioned in real life, high inflation areas, mortgages are 2-3 times the cost of rental, yet speculator rent 'at loss' for a few years to cover some of their costs until they cash in with a huge profit a few years later.
Bottom line it comes do basic fix cost vs variable cost. You shall not rent the house if the cost of having a tenant is higher than what the rental market will let you rent. Your mortgage and insurance have to be paid anyways.
Google did it on the first Android: the G1 (aka HTC Dream). The plug was a non-standard mini USB style, and they did not provide an adapter for regular headphones. The headphone jack came back in the next version though.
I do know that the hardware was done by HTC but considering it was the very first commercial Android phone, Google had a lot of input on these 'details', and they're buying the hardware side of HTC, so it might as well be a 100% Google phone retroactively.
I do have an iPhone 7+, and I simply have the small adapter, provided with the phone, pretty much always attached at the end of my headphones. I would prefer the plug to be present but to my surprise I have not been frustrated one bit by the lack of it.
The SF Bay Area housing prices are going up and up and everyone is happy with the weather and pollution seems relatively ok compared to other industrialized places. It will be interesting to see the impact on housing. I live in Sunnyvale and there is high density housing popping up near high traffic roads which means cities might be concentrating new inhabitants were there is more pollution. I live in a relatively quiet neighborhood but surrounded by major roads, and I got freaking planes from 5 airports flying over.
I'm hoping Google will map the area soon, after all a lot of their employees live around here.
Why didn't they just clone the Azure repository to somewhere on the East Coast? Git is designed to handle this type of replication, so why did they write a "proxy server" (not entirely sure what they mean by that).
Maybe to avoid merge conflict resolution required when you are decentralized. With a proxy model at least you can guarantee some form of locking. As you pointed out they do not truly embrace the full decentralized nature of git since in a corporate environment it is not appropriate due to the need to lock read and write access to certain sensitive files if only for government compliance reasons. Yes you could split the repository in multiple small chunks that are independent but when the system in the end needs to be monolithic things get a little harder to track since you need to track unrelated histories. Google (not Alphabet) uses a central repository with a single commit index (they use a in house Perforce re-implementation to support the scale), this is very much opposite to the Git way but works well with their development practices. Note that Perforce provides a Proxy server and it only proxies content, mostly to reduce bandwidth usage, while the transactions still go back to the central server (yes that include every single file update since the server keep s track of every single file you sync down).
What Microsoft has done looks very similar to what Google implemented internally when they deployed Blaze and Forge internally almost 10 years ago.
I don't usually grow tomato plants myself but it is a common practice for tomato growers to trim the plants to reduce the number of branches and flowers so that more energy will go toward less fruits that will be stronger, bigger and more flavorful than if the plan had been left alone. I guess here the gene selection is to create a better balance between the number of total flowers and the marketable quality of the fruits.
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I like the new keyboard too. Iâ(TM)m on my third retina MacBook Pro (due to work, not the laptops fault) and I really like it. I am not a Vim user so the escape key is not a big deal, although I would remap caps lock to ESC in that case. I do not eat crumbly food over my laptop and I do not bring it to the beach so I have no issues whatsoever with stuck keys. I have had keyboard go bad on me in the past so I can understand the frustration of users that actually have problems but if you insist on using it in dusty environment or want to use it as a food tray, well add protection to it. There are nice keyboard covers that will do a good job at keeping dust out.
Actually i think the touchbar would be better if it had the haptic engine that the trackpad uses, it really works well for the trackpad and I think it could Work for typing. I guess they kept that âinnovationâ(TM) for a future release since releasing innovations over time is good for business.
Joke aside the impact of the robot mistake is much greater but it is worth it for several reasons.
First the probability of mistakes is much lower with the robots than with humans, so for a million cars manufactured, the total number of mistakes by human vs robots will be higher for humans. So thatâ(TM)s the first win.
Second if humans make mistakes this will be much more random and less likely to be detected, even with quality check sampling. Which mean that more end users will receive the faulty product.
On the other hand, with robots since the mistake is consistent it is very likely that it will be noticed on one of the end products so it will be easier correct the issue and to track all of the defective units. Which is what happened here.
Cars manufactured before the advent of robots were much more temperamental and failing in various inconsistent ways from one car to the other even when coming from the same factory, the same week.
I do, I have used DuckDuckGo on my computers and phones for many years. It is actually quite trivial to switch the default search from Google to one of the other options. Once in a while I will try an actual Google search, but this is becoming rare.
Deliveries are crucial to planemakers because that is when airlines pay most of what they owe for the aircraft
Aren't deliveries crucial to *any* manufacturer? There are not many cases I can think of where a manufacturer stays viable by never delivering their product. I know first hand that it is an actual business strategy at some companies but that's never sustainable. Theranos has tried to pull it off, it did not work so well.
Thatâ(TM)s why Iâ(TM)m sticking with Kaiser Permanente. Yes I have heard bad stuff about them but bad surgeries do not seem to happen more frequently than at other places. The thing that never happens with them is a giant magical bill out of nowhere. When our son was born he was premature and in breach position. We had to do an unplanned c-section and we stayed 4 days in the hospital after the surgery. The total bill was $750, in the middle of Silicon Valley. We then had daily follow ups on how to feed a premature baby, free, including the seringues and tubing. Sometimes, rarely, they charge us more than we are supposed to for a visit and then they mail us a check without even us asking or mentioned ning anything. So Iâ(TM)m actually less worried about medical malpractice there, since the doctors have no incentives to do useless exams or surgery, they are less stressed because they donâ(TM)t have to deal with external insurance paperwork, and I never have to worry about a magical high bill in the mail.
I call it the Scotty Principle, explained in Star Trek 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Blaming my Apple twice, eh?
French side of the French/Belgian border, there's a village just about every other mile. To be fair I would not expect this coverage anytime soon in Montana, but California could do much better. Please stay away from national parks, one of the reasons I love these places is because it is impossible for me to check on work and as such I can truly disconnect.
Case in point I'm visiting family in Europe with a T-Mobile plan from the US. I get unlimited 3G speeds all over Europe for free with the plan, but I would have to pay 25 cents per minute for calls. We use FaceTime for all our calls even when in the countryside which seems to have pretty decent coverage.
One of the problems with DevOps is that the term has completely become an overloaded marketing Buzzword that has little to do with the original intent. I wrote a long article about DevOps last year explaining that it does not mean a new team or role, but rather a culture between the Dev and Ops groups to work more closely together. The 'toss over the fence' model that is traditional with Waterfall is not working well when doing 'Agile'. Agile itself is often a pure excuse to justify 'anything goes without planning'.
Are you saying I can take a Swift app designed for macOS or iOS and recompile on Linux with almost no effort? If most of the frameworks are not ported as well it is not really a viable solution. For C# there is Mono and even this is not getting a huge traction beyond a few projects.
I use to joke that Microsoft marketing strategy was to tell customers "stick with us the next version sucks less" and then underdeliver.
I looks like they are applying this marketing strategy to their employees as well. Well, it worked for a few short decades.
My California driver license has one and a few places will ask me to pull it out of my wallet in order to swipe it. I believe my green card also has one. I never thought of demagnetizing it ... after the Equifax breach I'm not even sure why I would bother.
Oh that's awesome, I vote for the "I already bought everything and I'm not ever shopping for anything else in my life" option. I just use adblock software, that's more effective.
Actually this does not make much sense to me but I'll admit I do not know much about the invisible flow of credit card transaction money. I pay a most things with credit card and I always pay them as soon as they are due and never pay anything more, than what I paid the merchants for. So by your logic the CC companies should want to avoid me, yet they keep on raising my credit limit to high level. If the merchant fees were not enough to cover the point systems then why would they entice me to spend even more money with no interest rate?
My guess is that as others have stated they are more worried about people buying one bitcoin at $20k and then not paying them back when the value has dropped down to $9 just a few weeks later. When a wannabe investor sees something jumping 1000% in a year thinks a 25% APR is a safe risk, that's when the CC companies start to freak out and ban that option. It's not like they can repo the bitcoins easily.
I'm actually wondering.With https://letsencrypt.org/ letting you automagically get a SSL cert that is trusted by the browsers without warnings wouldn't anyone with control over your domain be able to look good for most browsers?
No landlord is going to charge your LESS THAN THEIR COSTS, unless they are truly dumb. It doesn't make sense.
Not really true. If the choice Is between leaving the house empty, paying mortgage and property tax, have to no-one notice water leaks and have the property degrade, then having a renter at 80% loss is still better than 100% loss as long as the rental covers the additional cost of having a tenant (occasional repairs, and whatever other taxes and fees).
There is plenty of reasons why a landlord might want to rent at less than cost, especially if the rental market is temporarily low. Say you need to move out of town for a couple of years due to a work assignment or some family needs, the market has slumped and you are underwater, but you want to come back in the area eventually. You can either leave the house empty, have a friend come look at it once in a while in case the roof gets a leak and make sure skaters do not start using it, or you can have renters for x% of your cost. Especially consider that the mortgage payment is 2 parts: principal + interest. Principal is actually going to equity, back in your pocket in a way. So if the rent covers the interest, property taxes and the insurance, then you basically want to cover that plus some other maintenance fees.
Say your mortgage is $400k at 3.75% that makes your mortgage payments to be around $2400, $600 for principal, $1800 to interest. Let's say property tax is around $900/month, $100 for insurance per month. Then you could rent for as low as $3500 and still be much better of than not having a tenant as long as $3500 is more than what having a tenant costs you. In the meantime if your house is going up in price, you have a very profitable investment. Sure it does not pay your actual living bills but it is less costly than being forced to sell the house with the associated fees and buy an other one later. This applies if you are underwater, you are better off riding the wave and sit tight until the prices go back up.
As on other poster mentioned in real life, high inflation areas, mortgages are 2-3 times the cost of rental, yet speculator rent 'at loss' for a few years to cover some of their costs until they cash in with a huge profit a few years later.
Bottom line it comes do basic fix cost vs variable cost. You shall not rent the house if the cost of having a tenant is higher than what the rental market will let you rent. Your mortgage and insurance have to be paid anyways.
Google did it on the first Android: the G1 (aka HTC Dream). The plug was a non-standard mini USB style, and they did not provide an adapter for regular headphones. The headphone jack came back in the next version though.
I do know that the hardware was done by HTC but considering it was the very first commercial Android phone, Google had a lot of input on these 'details', and they're buying the hardware side of HTC, so it might as well be a 100% Google phone retroactively.
I do have an iPhone 7+, and I simply have the small adapter, provided with the phone, pretty much always attached at the end of my headphones. I would prefer the plug to be present but to my surprise I have not been frustrated one bit by the lack of it.
Welcome to the 21st century!
enter bios, make the USB stick the first boot device
On my shiny MacBook Pro I want to run it under a VM.
https://saltstack.com/
Without going into the details SaltStack is similar to Ansible, Chef or Puppet.
The SF Bay Area housing prices are going up and up and everyone is happy with the weather and pollution seems relatively ok compared to other industrialized places. It will be interesting to see the impact on housing. I live in Sunnyvale and there is high density housing popping up near high traffic roads which means cities might be concentrating new inhabitants were there is more pollution. I live in a relatively quiet neighborhood but surrounded by major roads, and I got freaking planes from 5 airports flying over.
I'm hoping Google will map the area soon, after all a lot of their employees live around here.
Why didn't they just clone the Azure repository to somewhere on the East Coast? Git is designed to handle this type of replication, so why did they write a "proxy server" (not entirely sure what they mean by that).
Maybe to avoid merge conflict resolution required when you are decentralized. With a proxy model at least you can guarantee some form of locking. As you pointed out they do not truly embrace the full decentralized nature of git since in a corporate environment it is not appropriate due to the need to lock read and write access to certain sensitive files if only for government compliance reasons. Yes you could split the repository in multiple small chunks that are independent but when the system in the end needs to be monolithic things get a little harder to track since you need to track unrelated histories. Google (not Alphabet) uses a central repository with a single commit index (they use a in house Perforce re-implementation to support the scale), this is very much opposite to the Git way but works well with their development practices. Note that Perforce provides a Proxy server and it only proxies content, mostly to reduce bandwidth usage, while the transactions still go back to the central server (yes that include every single file update since the server keep s track of every single file you sync down).
What Microsoft has done looks very similar to what Google implemented internally when they deployed Blaze and Forge internally almost 10 years ago.
I don't usually grow tomato plants myself but it is a common practice for tomato growers to trim the plants to reduce the number of branches and flowers so that more energy will go toward less fruits that will be stronger, bigger and more flavorful than if the plan had been left alone. I guess here the gene selection is to create a better balance between the number of total flowers and the marketable quality of the fruits.