bjtitus

+1 to Fork. It's really an amazing client that has a "freemium" model similar to Sublime (you don't _have_ to pay to use anything).

It's still actively developed and I love the Branch favoriting feature (which I haven't see in any other GUI).

> But no data is shared with the government

> All that is shared is a randomly generated key

thinking face

I agree, though, it seems dumb to have governments anywhere near this.

Why? Their business model doesn't involve advertising at all.

> You're seeing what's wrong with centralized planning of things that don't need to be centralized

Procuring masks on the market sure seemed to work out great for states in the earlier days of this incident:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2020/03/30/i-spent...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1245501506205421570.html

We started out with decentralization and now we've switched to something in between. Neither have worked.

Doesn't really absolve the federal government in any way. The United States has a Federal Emergency Management Agency which historically has stepped up to the plate during these types of situations.

In what way is this case different?

There are plenty of cases where states have been trying to follow the approach you suggest and have had their orders seized by the federal government. It seems like it's still quite unclear which approach states are supposed to follow so it seems perfectly reasonable for governors to be pointing fingers where the blame lies.

Colorado: https://www.denverpost.com/2020/04/04/coronavirus-colorado-p...

Los Angeles: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-...

New Jersey: https://www.newjerseyhills.com/echoes-sentinel/news/somerset...

Broader piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/coronavirus-f...

On the other hand, many rural communities are vastly less capable of providing the care for even a small fraction of the big cities. Many rural counties in Colorado and Idaho have the highest rate of death and are most overwhelmed in their states because they have far less capacity.

> iMessage is fully E2E

To be fair, this part is 100% true, unlike Zoom's claims.

The iCloud Backups issue is separate and should probably be made more clear by Apple but the technology is certainly E2E encryption.

How is it pointless?

The article talks about trying to cut down on electronic waste:

> The regulator is determined to cut down on electronic waste being created by obsolete cables, which it estimates generate more than 51,000 tonnes of waste per year.

It's surely much less wasteful to extend the life of the cable standard than to ensure longer cable lifespans. Even if you had a cable that lasted 7 years, chances are the standard would have changed and you would be forced to replace it. You can always purchase higher quality cables that do have longer lifespans if Apple's aren't up to your quality standards.

> In fact it probably works against Apple as it demonstrates that the churn of innovation doesn't really exist if new advances only occur every 9 years.

I think you may have misunderstood the OP statistics. My understanding was that the industry standards have previously been churning at a higher rate than Apple's standards. So Apple's standards are often longer lived than the standard connections.

"it's also now opt-in."

I believe this is the improvement you are looking for.

The whole point of the original tweet was to point potential systemic gender bias in the algorithm. The argument here is that the black box algorithm may produce sexist results whether gender is included or not.

While there may only be anecdotes at this point, there should be some investigation and discussion into whether bias may occur toward particular classes outside of explicit gender checks. Seems like that would be done by comparing the allowed limits with gender, race, etc. and considering why the algorithm may unnecessarily limit those classes on a broad scale.

To be fair, there are strict FAA rules that tons of people completely disregard. It seems like it'd be in the companies interest to do its best to ensure their market doesn't collapse due to further regulation.

Seems like it could be an attempt to understand and police some of that activity rather than "appalling snooping".

No one said isolation solves all security vulnerabilities.

I'm not sure what else you'd expect from one of the most widely used software platforms ever made.

So iOS?

> I don't know if that matters very much. Unlike most fugitives, DOJ knew exactly where Assange is and that he'd have to come out eventually.

Sure, and that's exactly what they did. By waiting for him to come out once Ecuador dropped terminated their asylum. It absolutely matters in that they would be violating Ecuadorian sovereignty by doing anything but waiting for something like this to happen.

> But DOJ didn't wait until Ecuador dropped the asylum.

Well that's just flat out false. Here Moreno (Ecuador's president) says: "Ecuador sovereignly has decided to terminate the diplomatic asylum granted to Mr. Assange in 2012." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHVqbKgsnDw

> There was nothing preventing the indictment, there were circumstances that would prevent unsealing the indictment.

I get your point about filing and then unsealing but that's just mincing words. You can disagree with process but I don't think that makes it "political". I don't pretend to know why prosecutors decide when to file anything and I think you need to bring some proof that this would be improper if you are going to assert some wrongdoing here.

> There is nothing unusual at all about suspects going into hiding. This is everyday stuff for prosecutions, and the normal thing to do is to indict and keep it sealed, not wait years to indict for funsies.

Are there other examples of suspects being granted asylum by a foreign government? It seems to me like that wouldn't be very likely in a vast majority of cases. It seems just as reasonable that DOJ needed to wait until Ecuador had dropped asylum and given the green light.

It seems like a stretch to say that the timing alone proves this is politically motivated when there were extenuating circumstances preventing the indictment. If you think the political landscape or future charges have a possibility of swaying Ecuador into discontinuing their grant of asylum then this seems like a pretty reasonable course of events.

Apple Music does have a larger library. I also think both of the services have reached a point of "good enough". If you want to stream and play music, they both work well enough.

Facebook has offices all over the world and employees testing with devices on home networks all over the world (not to mention developers giving builds to family and friends, potentially).

I would hardly expect Apple to be scrutinizing the install patterns of an enterprise app. Those resources would be better spent improving the App Store review process and TestFlight.

I love the concept of the Touch Bar. In practice, I never use it and it's not uncommon for freezing to occur when I'm trying to adjust the volume which really colors my perception of the whole thing.

I think the target market should be for non-professional users (who don't otherwise use external keyboards and have shortcuts memorized) which is why it's weird that it's a top of the line addition (obviously, a cost issue).

Natural Atlas is trying to do this type of thing by pulling together data from USGS, USFS, etc: https://naturalatlas.com

I was working on something similar to add in to Perkeep. Any reason you decided not to use Google's Go implementation? https://roughtime.googlesource.com/roughtime/+/master/go/pro...

It does explicitly name them:

> Intel is committed to product and customer security and is working closely with many other technology companies, including AMD, ARM Holdings and several operating system vendors, to develop an industry-wide approach to resolve this issue promptly and constructively.

And why was this new weekly downtime not present during previous years?

When you combine this with calls by Trump to refuse to pay insurance companies (see https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-trump/trum...), it sure looks malicious.

I do think the "last 1%" may be a very hard problem to solve, but the majority of crashes are simply people not seeing things or making bad decisions. "Recognition Error" and "Decision Error" are the two most frequent categories of accidents which basically boil down to not seeing obstacles while performing a maneuver (changing lanes and not seeing a vehicle in that lane, turning and failing to see an oncoming vehicle) and driving too fast respectively. ( see https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...)

I don't see why the "last 1%" problem needs to be solved when we have hundreds of thousands of accidents every year caused by people not paying attention, not reacting in a timely fashion, and driving unsafely; all problems that computers are likely to excel at.

I always question whether humans are really any better at this calculation. In the gnome example, many people will probably stop to avoid damaging their property, not see the car behind them careening forward, and end up getting rear ended anyway. In an ideal world, ethical issues like the one you presented would be major hurdles but humans aren't going to be perfectly rational in the moment of many accidents, especially the most dangerous high-speed ones when there is physically not enough time to do ethical math.

> we all still get in cars believing we'll be better than other drivers. Who's going to get in a car when any given car has an equivalent chance of making a bad decision all on its own?

Given the fact that plenty of people take taxis, rely on Uber and Lyft drivers they've never met, and take public transportation like aircraft and trains with little knowledge of the operator, this seems like a non-issue to me.

On the capacitive touch iPhones these functions use a combination of the power button and volume rocker instead.

There is also the HORIZONS tool which has a web interface: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons

I've been using a huginn + pushbullet for this. It definitely lets you customize your channels (you can write your own in Ruby if you need full control).

https://github.com/cantino/huginn/

I've used Thinky on a few little side projects and loved it! Definitely check it out if you are using Node and RethinkDB.

You can work offline just fine. Notebooks will sync when you are back online. Seems like that covers all of your use cases just fine.

Not sure how well the merges work in practice, though.

Except this isn't a text editor and doesn't have almost anything in common with atom or brackets...

One thing I'm not 100% clear on who this is targeting. I have no problem using Bower and Grunt (or Gulp, or what have you) to set up my environment. It would be nice to see more support for those tools built in to CodeKit. I was excited to see Bower but it appears that it doesn't actually use .bowerrc files. Sounds like that may be coming but despite the claim that the author isn't trying to "lock in" customers, it definitely seems like he is by reinventing these things.

I'm sure the true target market are the same kinds of people buying Coda and other "simplified web development" tools. This tool just seems to start to drift into the "hacker" type who might quickly grow out of the capabilities of the tool and need flexibility on different platforms.