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Thunderbolt is the reason for me.

I'd own a 12", but no Thunderbolt limits my usage (I do a lot of audio work, and the Thunderbolt sound cards are my current favourite)

Solid. Socketed memory, good connectivity... I'm getting one.

And it's _super_ sexy in black.

We still exist, yo.

Fruit's delicious though.

> Dont worry, Apple is hard at work implementing parts blacklists

Source?

We get iPhone repairs out of Apple very often - If we mention it's urgent they'll swap it for a refurb, which is a good thing: It's allowed me to be in-and-out in 15 minutes versus dropping an iPhone off and picking it up the next day.

We have a business account - I've not broken my personal iPhone in years so I can't speak as a consumer. I did have a MacBook Pro 15" keyboard (pre-butterfly) fail WAY out of warranty and they replaced that for free too. Maybe I'm lucky, or maybe Apple aren't so bad to deal with after all?

Stallman's still upset that people use singular "they". It's bad grammar, or something. https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html

I go by "they" on a day-to-day basis and generally I don't have any issues with it; it's fairly obvious when someone's referring to me singularly, and people will sometimes use my name a little more often if it's ambiguous.

It's not a big deal except when people elect to make it a big deal; I've had Stallman's blogpost thrown at me on IRC a few times by people who also like dying on the vanishingly small hill that is "People who don't identify with any gender in particular shouldn't be able to use the existing non-gendered pronoun because it's BAD GRAMMAR and that INFRINGES ON MY RIGHTS or some shit"

Tom Scott put it well in an older video of his; "Some people are "They", get over it!"

I am a strong believer in kids having access to technology, but also creating the frameworks in which they can learn how to keep themselves safe.

I grew up around a software company and I was exposed to computers and the internet from a very young age; I had my first computer that could be considered "my own" at about five years of age (a little hand-me-down desktop from my father's company) and cut my teeth on that, building little static websites, stuff like that.

It's definitely what lead to my lifelong interest in computing (as much as I can't stand this industry sometimes) and a healthy career in IT infrastructure.

Hear me out here; Apple's Swift Playgrounds on an iPad.

I'm involved in an extracurricular thing in Scotland focused on giving kids an environment they can figure out computers. We've seen a lot of different approaches to the problem of "how can we get kids to code", and Swift Playgrounds is consistently where we see youngfolk making the most progress.

It gives you a nice, guided framework to get the very basics of programming, and slowly gives you more and more "rope" to play with, ultimately leading you to move your projects to Xcode on a Mac.

Swift may not be your favourite language, and Apple are totally doing this with a view to people becoming iOS/MacOS developers (not necessarily a bad thing), but Swift Playgrounds is definitely best-in-class when it comes to having kids teach themselves how to program. The integration with real-life robots and drones is really impressive, too; the kids absolutely love being able to write real code that makes a real robot do things, it's exceptionally motivational.

Comment; I find myself using Nexmo and Mailgun a lot. Perhaps there's an acquisition that needs to happen there, too?

Wasn't the classic joke two things, because zero-indexing?

Apple don't maintain contact centres per se; instead, in the US have a fleet of teleworking contact employees who handle calls, online chats, etc.

From what I hear it's a pretty good gig, minus dealing with the public.

Really? Stock Postgres is faster than a well-optimised Mongo deployment, in my experience.

(Apples to oranges, sure, but Postgres has the capability to be a great document store as well.)

> Especially if your data model is document orientated.

You shouldn't be using MongoDB for anything but documents.

Then you don't have the resources to run the business.

The technical side is pretty cheap compared to the legal manpower you need to protect your end users.

Aye. I care slightly less about this from my perceived threat model (if you go into the business then you know what's coming to you, whereas your end users are a lot less likely to understand the risks) but it's still worth thinking about.

The term "electrocution" means "death or serious injury caused by electric shock", "electric shock" being the thing a taser is designed to create.

They're obviously not designed to cause death or serious injury so in this case saying tasers are designed to electrocute people is probably not appropriate (depending on how cynical you are about the western world's increasingly militarised police forces). It's far more accurate to say a taser is designed to deliver a "non-lethal electrical shock", and make a note of the absurdity of expecting non-medical personnel to consistently deliver painful electrical impulses to a person without killing them.

At any rate; the amount of energy the taser attempted to deliver was exactly the same as every other taser; however, due to the significantly decreased resistance of moist skin, the voltage drop across the body was a lot lower than the "normal person" the taser is designed to hurt therefore more energy made it to the victim's heart, thus killing him.

... This comment got a little more political than I expected. Sorry about that.

By and large, people are interested in VPNs because they're vulnerable, in some way or another. By becoming a VPN provider, you become a "pinch point" for the connections of a number of vulnerable people.

That way, a hypothetical bad actor only needs to compromise one entity (you) in order to gain access those people who rely on you.

Aggregating vulnerability makes you a target, and puts your customers at risk - Especially when you're relying on third-party virtualisation providers for your infrastructure.

Cubesats are disposable; they're launched in a way that their orbit decays towards the end of their usable life, at which point they re-enter the atmosphere.

I work for an ISP. We filter packets spoofing their IP source address.

SPF, implemented by most major email providers, helps to prevent FROM: spoofing.

Hell, I'm pretty sure our VoIP product drops external calls where the Caller ID matches one of its' own numbers.

These are problems we are solving. These are problems we should be solving in telephony too.

I don't buy an iPad because I like Android...

I'm glad. It's been a long time coming.

If the person I considered least capable of not being an asshole has developed self-awareness and has shown a genuine desire to change, then we have so much hope as a wider community.

It is definitely possible to retain the unyeilding attitude that Linus is famous for without being an asshole, and... I really hope he can pull this off.

I'm genuinely a bit emotional: this was wonderful to read.

(VM fixes are welcome, too!)

I can't comment on cheese slices, but as somebody who lives alone and has an appetite resembling a small rodent, I very much appreciate individually wrapped perishables, especially when said wrapping is recyclable/compostable.

I throw out a lot less when I can buy large quantities of smaller "perishable units" at once, vesus shopping little and often.

I wonder how long until Wikileaks denounce this leak as "irresponsible", or whatever?

In isolation, it's probably not, but most of the compute-intensive researchers I know also have a need for a reasonably powerful laptop anyway. From there, it's not a particularly expensive hop to getting desktop-grade performance at your desk without needing an entire different machine. That, for me, is where the eGPU value proposition makes sense.

I've been considering going back to having a desktop on my desk and carrying a lightweight laptop; versus using a desktop-replacement at both my desk and on the move.

I was considering a 5K iMac (and I may still go for one; it's still a great 5K display with a decent computer thrown in) but I'll admit, the Hackintosh route intrigues me.

I remember in my last few years of Highschool I had an original EeePC running Lion: worked great, until the SD card decided it didn't like being thrashed and went a bit melty on me.

Roughly what did your setup cost, and how much of a pain is it to maintain?

Maybe it's just me but if you're submitting something to Show HN then it's helpful if your "Examples" navbar link doesn't send me to a `//TODO`!

PuTTY's been a thing for almost two decades at this point. That's quite a lot of inertia; It will take a lot more than three months for people to migrate, nevermind the people who aren't on W10.

Yup. It does entertain me, especially as my own experience of HN is center-right at best.

Appropriate as ever.

I dunno, I appreciate Apple's focus on compactness and portability. I have a fair few laptops, Apple and non-Apple and I always find fitting the Macs into my bag the least hassle.

It was an absolute lifesaver when I used to carry around two: one for general purpose computing, and a second dedicated to a certain work function. For a while the second was a Thinkpad, but it rapidly became a second MBP!

Hell, I carried around the two MBPs and a MBA for a while.

>Chrome is even worse than before with this change.

That's disingenuous.

Chrome is 1) more secure, but 2) less accessible.

These are separate metrics and you can't really roll them into one.