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I think it's easy to criticize their leadership from the outside, but I would assume that they make their decisions with great care, and aren't going to throw around "pandemic" or other words easily. If they do that, people stop listening.

It's akin to people not caring about a major hurricane barreling towards them because they've heard the doomsday scenarios before and nothing has happened.

They have to be careful, and that they were.

Also a weird thing to say. VS is on Mac, and not everyone uses VS to develop. Mac also has brew, which is a great package manager that can replace apt and the like.

Sounds like you have a specific use case that requires you to use Windows and are projecting that on every other use case. There is a reason why Macs are used in a lot of development shops.

I've watched enough of Succession to know that everything is for sale.

I doubt Stadia will replace computers for people who take gaming more seriously than the average gamer. It's a large market segment that isn't going away.

Anecdotally, as someone who games regularly, I never even looked at the Stadia. It was of 0 interest to me. I suspect most people in my position feel the same.

I have a nagging feeling THIS comment won't age well.

Hopper is an app that will do it got flights, and I think Google Flights will also tell you if the price of a flight is good or not.

Dunno about hotels.

They've said for a while that 5G wasn't coming to this generation. I think it's good they left it off. Apple doesn't bring in halfbaked features. They wait for the technology to be stable.

5G is far from that. It requires reworked battery technology, antenna systems, and we don't even have a complete picture of the effects on our health. The phones that have 5G currently have terrible battery life and are hundreds of dollars more expensive than their non-5G counterparts. All for the 20 or so cities that have it.

Once the technology is actually ready for primetime, Apple will include it. And it will work way better than anything you're seeing right now.

Sadly, Taiwan probably wouldn't get protections from outside nations.

Doesn't sound like it.

From the article: > “As these facilities could be rendered useless by precision strikes in the opening hours of a conflict, the PLA missile threat challenges America’s ability to freely operate its forces from forward locations throughout the region,”

Nuclear weapons probably don't fall under precision strikes.

No, why would you? Attaching a cost to someone unable to visit the gym due to "overcrowding" wouldn't make business sense since you're unable to determine if that is actually the case or if they weren't coming for another reason.

A customer with a gym pays a monthly rate... That rate is paid even if they use it. The running cost of the gym remains the same whether or not someone comes to the gym.

This comparison, then, doesn't make sense. MoviePass is paying directly each time a customer uses the service. While both services are better off with people simply giving their money for something they don't use, only MoviePass actually LOSES money if people are using the service. The gym, on the other hand, doesn't.

And become a nonprofit? So they can do fundraising drives where people will complain about them asking for money? I don’t think that will/should ever happen.

If anyone is interested in OMSCS, I recently wrote up some of my thoughts about being in the program:

https://medium.com/@mycahp/thoughts-on-the-omscs-program-at-...

Which adblocker are you using?

If anyone is interested in this, I wrote up my thoughts on my first year in the program:

https://medium.com/@mycahp/thoughts-on-the-omscs-program-at-...

Code for today's problem has an issue... uses 'const' on something that it redeclares... Also couldn't get my solution to run.

You're right -- if they don't feel like they need to have clean, maintainable code on their own personal work, why would they feel like they need to do it at work? That's a red flag.

What are the best ones?

Why?

This means that the US Government, which issues the currency, basically has less power than Visa and Mastercard. It's the currency of the nation... They should be required to take it unless they have a legitimate reason not to.

I agree that -- all things being equal -- the market could probably sort these things out. But, the point is that things aren't equal.

I could definitely see a situation where a company uses a cash ban as a facade to reject a certain clientele (namely, poor people that can't afford the technology or don't have the means to get a credit card).

OK -- but no one specified that, and I'd argue that Apple has the most complete and polished ecosystem available. So I think it's very fair to compare that cost of Apple products.

iPad sales in 2018:

Q1 2018 13.17 million Q2 2018 9.11 million Q3 2018 11.55 million Q4 2018 9.67 million

I think a few people still buy them...

So if you spend $2500 on a MacBook Pro, $800 on an iPad, and then $1000 on your iPhone, boom, you're over $4000.

$4000 doesn't go very far.

I know it's not open source, but Cities Skyline is a fantastic game that carries the torch for SimCity type games.

Can’t stop it from happening but sad that most of the links are broken. Would be nice to go back on a link and actually read it.

It's also on the front page of CNN... Which editor decided that this was big enough news that it deserved to be on the front page of their site?

I think that you are mistaking me explaining other people's opinion on the situation as me saying what is right and what is wrong. The two can be (and are) two independent things. Being able to comprehend multiple sides of the argument doesn't mean that I am entitled, it just means that I don't think it's as black and white as you seem to.

So you wasted more time by writing a meaningless comment on an article you didn't enjoy? Think about it.

I think the outrage is more so that Spotify thinks it can tell you how your computer is operating. Other companies have found ways to circumvent adblockers, which is the route they should be taking here... Not telling users that their computers have to conform to some set of standards so that they can inject ads into your experience.

I think the thought process on this is that you have control over this, but don't have control with AdGuard DNS.

Is higher education free?

I got some good advice that I will never forget:

Always make sure you understand what is being said before you respond.