Posts by JLV

'Evolution of the PC ecosystem'? Microsoft's 'modern' OS reminds us of the Windows RT days

Re: That's what Plinston said

Interesting. Where is this behavior observable? In the OS proper? Or is part of Window's dominant file system, NTFS? Could they fix it by changing file systems? Longhorn2...

On macOS (maybe even Linux), mandatory reboots do happen, but they are quite, quite, infrequent.

At least one good thing with the Windows 10 is that they no longer bother telling the press that they are minimizing reboots. Even journos as cynical as the Vultures tended to fall for that old chestnut when 7 and 8 came out and wrote coverage to that effect.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride

Says the company who still can’t perform many updates without one or more reboots.

Nay, says the company whose update mechanism is such a mess that will not even commit to HAVING to reboot on any given update. Only that it MAY have to reboot.

There's a scarily good 'deepfakes' YouTube channel that's quietly growing – and it's freaking everyone out

BBC had a recent article on how John Brunner was one of the best predictive SF writers ever. Not sure if its in Sheep Look Up or Stand on Zanzibar, but this stuff reminds of a bit where some politician or other is shown doing something in a video.

To which the narrative adds that, of course, a properly funded fake campaign could simulate said politician perfectly, down to individual pubic hairs. For something written 50 yrs ago, not too shabby. Too bad global warming wasn’t really a thing back then, he’d have had a field day.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190509-the-1968-sci-fi-that-spookily-predicted-today

Why telcos 'handed over' people's GPS coords to a bounty hunter: He just had to ask nicely

Re: Freedom!

Yes, yes, we know that slavery isn’t just “white people”. Although, one of the poster boys for ancient slavery is Rome. Quite white too, no?

But, even as a white dude fairly dismissive of SJW zealots, it is in disingenuous to fail to recognize that the African slave trade to the America deserves special opprobrium and censure.

First, again as a white guy who sees no problem with being white (or another color too), our forefathers should have known better. This is Renaissance/Age of Reason, dude. Not effin Ancient Rome. Maybe trading in slaves was endemic in North Africa at the time, but that’s on them. Shouldn’t have been on us. Especially with Christianity supposedly an ethical watchdog.

We should have been better than that. Saying that Mauritania or Saudi still practice watered down slavery is no defence.

Second, the sheer scale and nastiness of what happened. The number of people who got abducted. The number who died on transport.

The scale of the forced labor that was deployed, which basically rebuilt the Americas (not just the US) to European preferences. I grew up in St Maarten, whose Dutch-side economy was based on salt ponds. Let in salt water, dike it, dry it. Now, if you like skiing, imagine working outside on a lily-white snow field of salt, in sunny 30+ C weather, probably without sunglasses. Raking in, not snow, but salt all day. Probably without a shower to wash off the grit at end of day. Hell on Earth.

The sheer lateness at which Abolition took place in the US. The lack of legal protection during slavery followed by lingering legal discrimination after.

The fact, that, at least to some extent, it still influences how black people live and are perceived or perceive themselves in modern day Western societies.

So, yes, slavery is not just us whites. By no means. I don’t get hysterical about it or support restoration monetary awards. If you’re black and we’re discussing politics over beers, you’ll get way more sympathy from me regarding police shootings or modern issues than if you insist on focussing everything on misdeeds perpetrated by people of my ethnicity 500-150 years ago.

But a sign of a clever, ethical and just society is the ability to own up to one’s past wrongs, recognize them and try to do better. That’s something Germany understands about the Holocaust. And a major reason why modern Japan, otherwise fairly exemplary in many ways, is failing so badly at getting along with its neighbors.

Saying sorry, and meaning it, is the right thing to do. Putting it in the larger context of historical slavery and pointing out that a 2019 white person has little to do with the slave trade are all fine. But none of this avoids having to admit our society behaved shamefully.

BTW, the OP should clever up a bit on his Capitalism & Slavery linkage. Southern US slave plantation society was in many ways the antithesis of 1800s worker-exploitation capitalism and this mismatch largely contributed to starting the Civil War. Haiti’s slave revolution wrested it from Imperial France in the early 1800s. And Brazil and South America, under Portugal and Spain, used slaves extensively as well: only a true idiot would claim 1600-1800 Spain to be capitalist.

Re: Slavery is terrible

Not really. It depends on the congregation.

The New Testament is quite chill and peacenik, with all that turn the other cheek, let who has never sinned..., meek will inherit... I believe the only time Jesus blows his temper is the merchants at the Temple and all he does is flog them a bit. If you really buy into this, you could be a very nice believer that’s a boon to people around you. It’s an ideal I have no problem with, despite being areligious.

The Old has Sodom, pillars of salt, Caine, dead Egyptian firstborns, razing neighboring nations, dilapidation.

If you’re an fire n brimstone, eternal damnation kinda preacher, your goto for quotes is the Old. It’s all one Bible anyway so you can damn gays and Muslims to the 9th circle. Reverend Phelps and co.

The cleverest is that you can bait with New and switch to Old.

Basic core Jesus-based Christianity is pretty harmless, in theory. Applied Old Testament can lead to Crusades, 30 Years Wars, the unexpected Spanish Inquisition and thinking Trump is an agent of God on Earth.

Not sure how Jewish version works because in theory they’re all Old-based but they’re usually less strident than Evangelicals and seem more forgiving. Maybe it’s from being a minority. Unless you’re Palestinian in which case it’s largely about Greater Israel and back to razing the neighbors, baby.

Programmers' Question Time: Tiptoe through the tuples

Awesomely funny.

Drawing on my French, where a ‘secateur’ is a garden shear, I absolutely nominate my favorite git command ever: ‘git bisect’.

Bug-hunter reveals another 'make me admin' Windows 10 zero-day – and vows: 'There's more where that came from'

Reading lucid, elegant and eloquent, flowing prose like Bob’s makes me really, really, wonder why seemingly no one else has picked up how useful CAPITALIZATION is at convincing others.

Re: Cui bono

> forecast later developments pretty accurately

Which ones? Stalin? Pol Pot? Mao? Gulags? Katyn massacre? Great Leap Forward? The systematic rejection of individual choice in how to be governed, i.e. democracy, as implemented by his subsequent followers? The total failure of planned economies, past occasional initial success phases, time and again? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Unfettered power, by corporations, individual or governments has an extremely high risk of abuse. Dogmatism and the claim to know better than everyone else is one way to get there.

On the other hand, whatever you think of modern capitalism, it has had to tone down, or at least cover up, its greed a bit since the 1850s and Marx was very much a driving force behind things like unions or paid holidays getting adopted. Sure wasn’t the robber barons’ first choice.

Backup your files with CrashPlan! Except this file type. No, not that one either. Try again...

>upload from Program Files, where a lot of applications store important data

Not defending the aptly-named CrashPlan in the least. But moving to Linux or OSX has the delightful effect of never commingling your data and executables again. Or indeed your executables and their configuration. And let’s not even bring in the supreme configuration isolation clusterf**k that is the Registry. Backup and security become much enhanced.

~, sweet ~.

Wanted: Big iron geeks to help restore IBM 360 mainframe rescued from defunct German factory by other big iron geeks

On the plus side, she probably wouldn’t nag you to hang it up in the hotel lobby.

if developer_docs == bad then app_quality = bad; Coders slam Apple for subpar API manuals

FWIW Erica Sadun was the author of a fairly complex and in depth iOS book. Not always the easiest to grok, but she clearly knew her way around much better than Joe “Hello World” Author, esp when it came to deep API subtleties.

So if she’s struggling, a certain very lucrative corporation is failing. Not that another, even more market-capped corporation, doesn’t also have many atrociously outdated user docs, but I digress.

Oh and don’t get me started on the utter shite doc wrt ‘mdfind’ which is the bash API to Spotlight. In theory it can do much the same as ‘find’, like finding all files changed in last 10 minutes. In practice? Utterly abstruse parameter names and no doc whatsoever.

* past tense because I read it years ago, in Objective C times.

It's 2019 so now security vulnerabilities are branded using emojis: Meet Thrangrycat, a Cisco router secure boot flaw

I wonder. In the human world, very sensitive activities need to be carried out by multiple people at once. For example, the nuclear launchers 2 key systems. Or multiple signatures on large bank withdrawals.

Has there ever been any thought on using something like a 2nd auth on computer systems in cases of extreme sensitivity? Like, gee, modifying a trust module’s settings? Possibly even a physical jumper?

I know, most likely unproductive and impractical. But just curious if any theoretical work’s been done.

BTW I agree that the article makes it clear you’re already on a root-compromised system. But the ability to go dark, in such a system-supported way, from the initial breach is something extra problematic.

AI! Databases here we come, yells Huawei as it preps software you can fling your Arm around

Re: @JLV - Who told you

Read up about the detention conditions. Bright lights 24 hrs a day, solitary, 8 hr/day interrogation.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-two-canadians-detained-in-china-are-prevented-from-seeing-the-sun-or/

Is this the behavior of a country priding itself on 5000 years of civilization? Is this the type of civilization we want as the world’s future superpower? Where normal people are pawns to further the interest of the princes?

And what if they spied (which they most likely didn’t - Canada doesn’t have the “weight” to make military spying on China worthwhile). We are also frequently catching Chinese nationals in industrial spying and we don’t treat them like this.

We didn’t get suckered, we are respecting extradition treaties we have with the US. There are frequent domestic and greed crimes across our borders that make having mutual extradition necessary. We also have policies that prohibit extradition when the death penalty or torture are possible. On Iran, I am a bit split. The US seems hysterical about them in general, and Trump’s reneging on the nuclear deal was stupid. And I generally dislike US extra territoriality habits. But Iran is also not a nice country - witness their recent plans to assassinate dissidents in Europe.

2 wrongs don’t make a right and you should be ashamed of yourself for supporting the death penalty just because the US is involved.

You, dear sir or madam, profoundly disgust me with that last.

Re: Legal advice from Saudi America?

Totally, totally, germane to the Chinese government's handling of the Huawei case, eh?

Even assuming that the state law in question won't be overturned as unconstitutional, as countless other wacko anti-abortion laws in the US have had happen to them in the past.

Oh, wait, it's not even a law, it's a bill being proposed for a law by some rabid jackass that has as much chance of getting passed as two neurons connecting in Trumpo's cerebrum.

Better luck coming up with a cogent argument next time ;-)

Hey Meng, does it bring you to tears too when when your government has imprisoned 2 Canadians in fake spying charges on your behalf?

How about the 2, admittedly somewhat low life Canadian meth dealers now on Chinese death row?

We can bitch and complain quite a bit about the political heft and un-democratic impact of Western mega corps.

But the idea that an executive of one of our big fish getting charged with a serious crime in a foreign country would trigger a European government or Canada to trump up some spy charges, throw people in jail and most of all put others on death row? Even, gasp, in the US? And be quite open about it? In 2019, not 1950?

That brings bile to my mouth. And certainly doesn’t lessen any concerns one might have about overly strong bonds between Huawei and its not always very nice government. This is not to say I’m not cynical about the US economic-cum-security handling of the Huawei affair.

Ship her off to the US ASAP, as soon as her legal recourses in Canada have been addressed and let them sort out the Iran aspect.

What's that? Uber isn't actually worth $82bn? Reverse-gear IPO shows the gig (economy) is up

Re: Efficient Market

Vocabulary too complicated for you?

Moats is a common investing term which means a defence against competitors copying you.

Uber’s been struggling with a lot of cities’ taxi lobbies. Some of it is due to vested interests in taxi licenses (each going for 500$k easy). But it’s easier to cover up any lobbyist-based resistance when the company you are dealing with is a byword for toxic corporate hubris.

I dare guess that my “ESL” is considerably better than whatever your dumb ass can speak as a second language, if you even know any.

I can type more slowly if it helps ;-)

Re: Efficient Market

I think the market is overpricing it right now. Nothing they have is heavily moated, except for their drivers who they eff over, and their first mover advantage has mostly consisted of folks thinking they’re a**holes.

But theirs is still a valuable service so it will be fought over. Companies with nicer PR may have an easier time w municipalities. Their biggest advantage is brand awareness in a context where that is paramount above all (even if brand is toxic). So they could something off. Just m

aybe not 70B$ worth.

Talk about a ticket to ride... London rail passengers hear pr0n grunts over PA system

In the interest of safety I am not sure I’d feel happier about the train driver watching Little House on the Prairie. Or The Wire.

Tech giants get antsy in Northern Virginia: Give us renewable power, there's a planet to save... and PR to harvest

Re: Money Talks

Most backup systems, gas and hydro apart, don’t ramp up quickly and/or don’t like being idled.

also check out how much seasonal variation there can be. California as example, no idea how UK lines up *

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611683/the-25-trillion-reason-we-cant-rely-on-batteries-to-clean-up-the-grid/

* it probably was in the highly recommended “Sustainable energy without the hot air” which is very much UK-centric.

At a closer look, turns out that 18% is lower than the average +-30% of US leccy that comes from coal. Canada makes do at 9%.

Before ragging on the US overmuch, Germany 2013 numbers were 45% coal. 35% now apparently.

Dominion seems to get 18% of its energy from coal as well, something this article should have mentioned.

(Googling it shows 18% on search results for wikipedia, but numbers are missing in actual page. White wash edit?).

You're not still writing Android apps in Oracle's Java, are you? Google tut-tuts at dev conf

Re: Says more about your C++ than his.

Captain Obvious says

Dense is 8 line haiku

Whoda thought, genius

Re: Says more about your C++ than his.

since you were such a cutey with your C++ (damn, this is one time all you {} lovers have a point):

s = "not so much a god as fear less cut ter and pas ter of .h fi les".split()

def grab(num):

. grab.start = getattr(grab, "start", 0)

. res = s[grab.start:grab.start+num]

. grab.start += num

. return res

di_haiku = {"line %s" % ix: (grab(num)) for ix, num in enumerate([5,7,5])}

for k, v in di_haiku.items():

. print("%s (%s): %s" % (k, len(v), " ".join(v)))

Guess what it says when you sed /^\./ / or somesuch and run it?

I'm tired but I think a iterator with smart splitting in it would sillable-split "fear-less" as 2 from the base string, but yield words and allow for a proper join of those words in the representation. No need to store anything on grab.start, the iterator will do manage it without state. And, yes, storing data on Python functions is hardly idiomatic Python. But it safe :-)

Re: Says more about your C++ than his.

Yes, but most of the time you don’t need C++ speed but you always need security. You need a certain level of skill at C++ to reliably not screw up security. Saying that C++ is a prereq to application coding, which is what you are implying, is unrealistic.

There’s only a certain level of complexity developers can handle, so specialization comes at the expense of wider skill sets. Mine are ANSI SQL, Python, dynamic code generation, automated regression testing, Ansible and dabbling in JS and HTML as well as more esoteric crap. Plus, a lot of what I do relies deeply on runtime introspection and dynamic object composition.

C++, C and perhaps in the future Rust, are all perfectly suited to system level coding. I still want to learn Rust someday, but I don’t have the time to become a safe C++ coder.

The reason I fancy Rust is that they seem to have aimed squarely at fully leaving memory allocs to the dev (no GC) coupled with tasking the compiler to reject memory mismanagement. It seems most of your pain is in dealing with the compiler, but then you can expect safety.

BTW, I am not actually calling you a god. Blowhard, perhaps ;-)

Re: Says more about your C++ than his.

This brilliantly misses the point. Kotlin is being used as an application programming language, not as a system language.

_You_ may be brilliant enough to have the discipline to avoid common bare metal C/C++ coding bugs leading to buffer overflows and ilk.

But I know I sure as heck don’t want to have to rely Joe Random mobile coder’s skills matching your claims of brilliance because his mobile platform _requires_ C++.

edit: yes, game coding is C++ based. But that’s because performance is key. And I consider good game coders a large cut above the rest of us, me included.

I wonder if Rust can have a cross-platform role here. I suppose it depends on its suitability and on the vendors propensity for lock-in.

Re: Lock-in

(disclaimer: IANAL).

The Oracle Google lawsuit has had many incarnations but Oracle’s current legal advantage is tied to Java language API copyright, rather than Dalvik vs JVM considerations.

If Google moves to Fuchsia (OS) + Kotlin and Dart, they’re effectively out of reach on their new platform.

Take my bits awaaaay: DARPA wants to develop AI fighter program to augment human pilots

Interesting. DARPA’s just articulated why I think committing to 1.5$T in spending on F35 is a huge risk on a 40-50 year time frame.

BTW, there are some indications F35 is maturing and unit cost dropping. It might not be an automatic failure at the tactical level for the next 5-20 years. It may even dominate, maybe. But spending so much leaves us with massive sunk costs once autonomous weapons tech matures.

US minister invokes Maggie Thatcher, says she would have halted Huawei 5G rollout

I have no special fondness for Huawei. Or indeed Xi’s government. But at some point the US needs to put up or shut up some hard data about these allegations, otherwise they’re going to run out of credibility. Which would be doubly unfortunate if these allegations turned out to be true.

These are also times when having a POTUS who is perceived as basically shittng on everyone not in his 48% of US voters is a liability.

I'll, er, get the tab? It's Internet Edgeplorer as browser pulls up chair to the Chromium table

Re: We've Seen this Before

Yup and while we’re at it I remember the security holes from that and ActiveX.

But does the damn thing have a menu or not is what I want to know.

Blockchain is a lot like teen sex: Everybody talks about it, no one has a clue how to do it

Re: Get burned?

+1, but a hot teapot filled with very hot water may not be the world’s ideal first invisible household item ;-)

If the thing you were doing earlier is 'drop table' commands, ctrl-c, ctrl-v is not your friend

You know, in an extremely rare case of cross pollination java.util.logging was ported to the Python standard library. In theory it does everything and makes coffee too.

In practice, I have found it one of the rare corners of Python where I just can’t seem to grasp how it all ties together. Change one setting somewhere to log errors to email and now console logging stops in another module. It’s a big ball of nested factories, strategies and dependency injections. Typical Java enterprisey approach to stuff. It’s not so much the language as the deliberate architecting for complexity.

I know I should just sit down start with a simple case and play with settings while building up complexity. Life’s too short so I mostly put up with larger logfiles.

And, face it, using Mysql for anything else than a basic CRUD system (where it shines) is almost as bad as corporate “devs” thinking Access is suitable for real business systems because they are too lazy to do grunt dba work. Postgres is just as free and has a much richer, very stable, feature set.

And it being yet-another-social-network startup, it was probably defunct 2 months later anyway. So he didn’t have to live off cannibalising wandering interns for very long. Now, no one remembers or wants to own up to working there.

A day in the life of London seen through spam and weak Wi-Fi

May I nominate the sysadmins and lawyers at UBC campus (Vancouver) guest Wifi for a swift and merciless eternal banishment to Dante’s 13th circle.

Theirs is the usual compact and informative set of disclaimers and notices about what you can’t do. About as short and clear as a MS EULA. Nothing as simple as “don’t do anything illegal’, no sir. Kim Il Jung himself couldn’t sneak anything past these lawyers.

Thankfully there’s the ‘I’ve read and agree to terms, let me in’ button at the top.

Which doesn't work. Retry. Nope. No message.

Slowly dawned on me, (without help or messages): how could you have read if you didn’t _first_ scroll down that exciting bit of lawyerese _all the way to bottom_. At least 7-8 mobile phone pages’ worth.

Then you can scroll back up to finally truthfully state you've read and agree.

Taylor drift: Finally, a use for AI emerges? Cyber-smut star films fsck-flick in Tesla with Autopilot, warns: 'I wouldn't recommend it'

Re: Deep

odd. ‘Ytics’ seems precisely the part that would get dropped.

Re: Tesla now, SpaceX next ?

I for one have always wondered if there’s not been zero grav sex yet. The ISS has been up there for a while and has often been coed (more interested in the hetero end of things). I suppose many of the folk up have steadies back on Earth. And it’s govt-run and not exactly privacy central.

But what’s a little sacrifice in the name of science? Or to be 1st?

Has anybody kissed and told?

Having a bad day? Be thankful you don't work at a Russian ISP: Kremlin signs off Pootynet restrictions

Re: @Kabukiwookie - I don't why I got down voted

>Maybe some of the down voters could come here and prove you wrong.

Says Comrade Anonymous ;-)

Re: Go, Putain, go

Wait, ain't yours also the country where some poor folk got nerve-gassed by, rather inept, Russian thugs?

Anyway, I was in no way expressing support for Theresa Maybe. But there's a whole lot of difference between usual run in the mill Western democratic corruption and stupidity. And P's level of nastiness.

And that includes even the Orange Buffoon who, even trying his darnedest, doesn't hold a candle to P. With the possible exception of his long term impact to CO2 emissions.

And if you really believe Sochi turned a $2B profit, I have a nice bridge to sell you ;-)

Re: Go, Putain, go

A votre avis?

Go, Putain, go

This a country where many families can’t afford shoes*. But which can still spend $50b on Sochi 2014 winter games. Prop up a gas-happy fellow autocrat. And invade the neighbors.

Guess ya gotta keep the plebs from complaining if bread and circuses don’t work.

The IPS-to-ISP link boxes is really quite the thing. If I understand correctly, that affords unlimited wiretapping.

Wonder how long Russian paranoia and nostalgia for days when they mattered is gonna keep them blind to this clown’s habits.

*

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/04/04/official-poll-shows-russians-too-poor-to-afford-shoes-puzzling-kremlin-a65083

NASA fingers the cause of two bungled satellite launches, $700m in losses, years of science crashing and burning...

Re: Self certification?

That’s one economic view of it. Another is that most people, most of the time, are honest. If you double-check every purchased item yourself, then you will duplicate what your (likely) honest supplier has already done in QA.

For easily qualifiable criteria, as here, “Trust, but verify”, would be a better model where you carry out random spot checks and the legal framework provides for recourse when the test fails because it’s a sign of fraud

For things like 737 Max where there are complex aspects to fitness for purpose AND hefty risks, self-certification is more hazy. You want a 2nd opinion, the same way it is inherently risky to allow a programmer to self-QA. So self-certification is really abdicating your responsibility as a government.

For things like drug qualification tests it’s actually a bit easier even if the risks are high: you want low impact side effects AND recognized efficacy. But both of those are quantifiable in nature and given a suitable validation protocol self-cert can be relied upon, barring fraud.

Sufficiently egregious fraud should be assumed to run to the top of a company, meaning hefty _personal_ legal risks to C-levels. Add the risk of big corporate fines and you would make not cost-effective to cheat.

But saving money by systematically dismantling regulatory oversight, as you see with the FAA or the US PTO is a fool’s game. There’s more than enough fat in the overall bloated US Federal budget to trim to cover these departments' ultimately small outlays. Trimming elsewhere would interfere with pork however, as well as the US electorate’s tendency to vote for high services (6-700$B defence among others) and low taxes.

Pork, graft and corruption happens happily under capitalist or socialist systems BTW. Under communist systems it is almost guaranteed.

Guess your acquaintance with Soviet-era quality controls ain’t quite worth writing home about.

this would have been a great scenario for principled, and lucrative, whistleblowing.

icon cuz closest to rocket science, which is appropriate to the subject, (rather than my input).

A real head-scratcher: Tech support called in because emails 'aren't showing timestamps'

You forgot the part where the contents are held to be that particular employee’s views and opinions and do not engage their employer’s responsibility.

We dunno what's worse: Hackers ransacked Citrix for FIVE months, or that Equifax was picked to help mop up the mess

Re: Password spraying

https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/password-spraying

Hey, this makes me think of something. There are basically 3 credit bureaus, at least in N America, right?

How about, instead of 1 year free monitoring on their system, the law is changed to require 1 year free on their competitor’s system? Might focus corporate attention on security somewhat.

But still like jail time for gross negligence. From peon to CEO, if warranted.

Yup, given their offerings Citrix falling for password spraying and mislaying 6TB of data transfer over 5 months is a bit like an accountant failing 3rd grade math. 8-/

That’s one domain AI ML might help: spotting anomalous network usage patterns. Seems like a number of vendors are aiming for that.

Apple iPhone sales down by double digits, Mac sales knifed by Intel CPU 'constraints'

Re: Planned obsolesence ?

not even. an iPhone SE’s screen goes for about 60-70$cad, installed

as a matter of fact it pays to be a generation or 2 behind as 3rd party repair shops are much cheaper on older iPhone screens.

and I don’t know if they handle the X models yet, one shop seems to stop at iPhone 8s. anyone know?

Let’s see what the new model MBPs look like.

There’s been rumors of a 16” screen. Possibly the accumulated gripes about various components such as the mandatory Touch bar and the iffy keyboard will be dealt with. Perhaps even, gasp, repricing and/or a renewed focus on modularity and maintenance over thin-at-all-cost? Entry level 15 model at 512, not 256?

Off to duct-tape my 2011 17” 16RAM 512 Samsung EVO 860 once again. And feed my pet unicorn some of my stash of dream lotus that I’ve been smoking. Powerful stuff.

Re: Nobody wants to acknowledge

You forgot the Touch bar

I touch-type and have to look up because of the lack of tactile keypress. Paying extra for it (it was $500cad for that and the fingerprint sensor when the model line up allowed you to pick at same feature set) sucks.

Pssst.... build your own machine learning computer, it's cheaper and even faster than using GPUs on cloud

the video of it has verbal components aplenty

wonder if he’s a Johnny Cash fan ;-)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ