TheRealSteel

I find it very interesting that due to the existence of the Emoji Bar, and the lower performance and worse battery life due to Apple Silicon, the MacBook Air is now a far more Pro machine than the 15 inch MacBook Pro.

Try making a React Native app using Expo. You write JavaScript on your PC (but you can access native functions) and the app will automatically refresh on your phone near instantly.

You can later eject it to an Android Studio/Xcode project if you want.

This is untrue. There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that masks reduce the spread of Covid.

Isn't labour cheaper now, since wages haven't kept up with inflation?

Someone you know signed into WhatsApp, which uploads all your contacts to Facebook without their permission.

Civil aviation is 2% of global carbon emissions. It's also one of the hardest things to make clean. Flying is not something people should feel guilty about. We actually can, and probably should, keep civil aviation -- especially seeing as we need to implement carbon capture anyway.

Heating your house and eating meat contribute far more to your personal carbon footprint than flying, unless you fly much more than usual.

>Nobody is making a career out of being a warehouse associate.

The majority of people on Hacker News, yourself included (I can tell from your comments) have privilege that means we never had to consider something like making a career out of working in a warehouse. But this is absolutely a reality for alot of smart, hard working people, because they didn't have the opportunities you and me had.

If unionization didn't lead to better outcomes for workers, Bezos wouldn't care about it. If it was going to be so bad for workers, he would just let them do it and let them fail. The fact that Amazon is doing anything about it is proof that it will benefit workers.

People have rent to pay. The "you agreed to it" argument only works if the person genuinely had other realistic options available to them. Nobody would work for peanuts and pee in bottles if they had another realistic option.

False dichotomy - they never said he was inconsequential, just that his workers have done the majority of the work - which is objectively true.

If Bezos didn't need those workers - if he genuinely created every cent of value in his empire on his own, picked and boxed and delivered every book himself - why did he ever hire anybody?

Does this have anything to do with why Google Keyboard/Gboard doesn't have the Scottish flag? It's by far my most used emoji and my keyboard not having it drives me nuts.

>I get difficulties with banks, because I have no Google playstore and we live in a world worse than Orwell's 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 could imagine.

It's such a shame we're locked into platform-specific apps. If only there was some way banks etc could make some kind off app that runs on any platform.

What if we had some sort of... app like thing - documents with interactive elements and media, even code that runs (safely sandboxed), but not tied to any one platform.

We could have one central app, a platform within a platform, that fetches and displays these documents, which are made according to a set of specifications and standards that can be implemented freely by anyone. It wouldn't be easy or cheap to do so, but the engines could be open source so that new OSes could still run them.

I don't know... it's probably a crazy, unrealistic idea.

Sadly, since no such thing exists, the banks have no choice but to lock us into the Android-iPhone duopoly.

I'm on your side. I love the low travel and the clickiness. I don't like how easily it breaks, and I don't like the Touch Bar, but I actually really like typing on the butterfly keyboard itself (I'm typing this on one), I find I'm very fast and accurate and it feels quick and clean.

That's what I've done, but I hate having to adjust my typing habit. It's annoying enough that thanks to the touch bar I'm now incapable of typing escape on any other computer (because I'm in the habit of merely touching escape, not pushing it), now I have to adjust again and I'm going to be in the habit of pushing caps lock.

I don't believe the Air got rid of the Touch Bar -- it never had it. It was only on the Pro. What's so "Pro" about replacing the useful function keys (including the escape key) with a bar that does nothing but pick emojis is beyond me.

I strongly dislike the Touch Bar. I'm typing this on a 2019 MacBook Pro whose Touch Bar died yesterday, leaving me with no escape key, no volume buttons, no keyboard brightness buttons, and no play/pause button -- leaving me to do all of those in software -- including escape.

I never found a single useful purpose for the Touch Bar's main mode, so from about two weeks after I bought it, it's been set to simply show function keys ("expanded control strip"). This means I have function keys that accidentally activate when I'm trying to type numbers, that timeout and disappear to save battery, that can't be 'hovered' (touching without pressing) and that have no tactile feedback, slowing you down by forcing you to look away from the screen. And now - I've lost the entire row.

"Just don't use it. Just quit your job, stop paying your rent". This advice is precisely as useful as people that scream "move to Canada" at anyone who suggests we make any political progress.

It benefits everyone if we improve software. It benefits nobody if everyone never reports their problems and simply quietly disappears and quit their job when something in the software they use needs to be fixed -- and I think it's pretty obvious that course of action is unreasonable and unworkable.

I believe to properly conform to the USB specification, the device must be tried one way, tried the other way, then tried the first way again before it plugs in properly.

The whole point of the article is they were spending ~42,000$ per month per inmate. If they were instead spending 1,000$ per month per person, they could afford to be paying that to ten times as many people and still be spending a quarter of what they are now.

Plus with the added bonus of (hopefully) less crime.

I'm not claiming those numbers are accurate, but as presented, it's a saving to keep people out of jail, not a cost.

Besides, right now there's obviously a financial incentive to keep people out of jail, yet here we are, with the US having the highest portion of their population in jail of any country in the world. The financial incentive to the state obviously isn't working now.

Interesting! One of my first thoughts was use in an AR headset, which has a particular use-case for a reflective, rather than refractive, lens.

This is precisely my problem, especially with the new Model S that guesses whether you want to go forward or reverse. I'm sure at least a few people will die for the sake of this "feature", and as a pedestrian I can't simply opt out of that risk by not buying a Tesla.

That's really interesting!

I don't know anything about holograms, or about optics (I'm currently implementing code that takes advantage of OpenCV's camera calibration and don't even know some of the basics).

But I've read recently that some companies are trying to make better cameras (for phones etc) by making a meta-lens -- a single, flat lens with a highly detailed surface that can do the job that currently requires multiple curved lenses.

Do holograms have anything in common with surfaces like that?

If HOEs can direct light like several optical lenses combined into one, with a reflective enough surface, could holograms theoretically be used as some type of reflective (rather than refractive) lens like that for a smartphone (etc) camera? Can they reflect all wavelengths of visible light like you would need? Is anyone doing work in this area now?

There are even periscopic cameras in phones today - could we one day have a high quality camera in a slim device with one or two reflective lenses and no refractive element at all?

What's the difference like between something like LitiHolo and a machine required to make an HOE? What are the main relevant spec measures? I'm not sure if holograms have some equivalent of resolution, or similar.

This is anecdotal and I don't have anything to prove it, but I really feel like my old spinning-hard-drive 2010 MacBook Pro woke faster from sleep running Snow Leopard, than the Retina models ever did (or the old ones did after a few software updates).

Of course for general tasks it was slower, but I really remember that thing waking up instantly when I raised the lid, every time.

The article has been updated to note that Rockstar gave him ten thousand dollars :)

Did you seriously forget that we're a year until Covid and it didn't disappear last summer?

Yes, but to be a disorder it has to meet specific criteria.

My bank (ING) just cut me off completely when I was outside Australia. Couldn't get my replacement card sent to me (was just lucky my listed address still had my family living at it), couldn't ever log in to the app again, I was just done. They have no system for people outside their home country and their solution to any problem is to fly home. Unbelievable. Especially for one of the biggest multinational banks in the world.

How in the hell is that not racism?

You said that people not being shamed enough about sex and their bodies leads to people speaking up when they are the victims of sexual violence, and that you view that as a problem.

Isn't that basically what Android Runtime does?

Are you... are you blaming victims for being raped and sexually assaulted? Excuse me?

They didn't declare the likelihood of the result, they declared what they believe to be the likelihood of the result.