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> Of course hiring a car for a weekend costs a couple of hundred quid, but realistically you're going to do that what, ten times a year at most?

Nice. The “at most” is an interesting rhetorical (and grossly dishonest) trick you used there.

Interfacing a brain sounds quite complicated. Instead, the mechanical box could just be a human body since we have over 1000s of years interfacing that with various vehicle controls.

We could probably harvest these fully functional units in less economically productive parts of the world, like Africa.

I’ve seen no evidence that Fuchsia is bringing much more than 90s era embedded OS design. Just because it’s not Linux doesn’t mean it’s new.

Not that this is a bad thing, but someone please correct me if there is something fundamentally recent in Zircon.

Euler lived in the 1700s. Not sure how that would have affected your training unless you’re much older than average.

Cauchy and Taylor both formalized many concepts, again in the 18th and 19th century.

What are you thinking is ad box?

> Most apps would do better to 100% avoid the problem and just say "No Internet Connection" if there's no WiFi or 3g.

Lol we are in such a bubble.

So the article is probably correct that trade has been a bigger issue than automation. Well let’s assume that’s true, to be charitable to the mentally challenged Slate authors.

So what happens after you put the screws to trade? That certainly isn’t going to decrease automation as an alternative. What happened from 2000-2010 doesn’t really matter, they should save their breath.

There are plenty of academic and academic center trained physicians that understand study design and are competent in research. They aren’t typically primary care/general practitioners so you just don’t encounter them as much. And yes they are the minority. But it’s not the totality.

Clinical research that isn’t making ridiculous claims tends to get much less press.

Furthermore, of all places to lap that crap up... this hacker news site is frankly one of the worst.

I mean look at this submission. Yes it’s true people are pillorying it here (including some doctors), but i don’t recall much interesting well designed medical research being discussed here (though arguably maybe not the place for it)

It requires flash. It’s annoying but not enough to stop me from using it, as it has saved my ass countless times.

Needing flash is an annoyance, I wouldn’t call it “extremely difficult” (especially on HN) though.

Luckily Citi still offers the service. It also requires flash. However the feature is worth the inconvenience. I’ll run a small windows vm for the purpose if I had to.

Right. Because external monitors and installing software are things no longer relevant in 2019.

Most credit card companies it would be no problem at all. It shouldn’t be necessary though, a quick call to the merchant should be all that is necessary for them to void it.

Yep for 3 days before Linux! And then most of the later betas were Windows only.

It wasn’t the final full featured release of Quake III though. And as stated in Carmacks .plan it was because these gaming communities were so tiny so I’m not sure this is a strong argument for the macs viability as a gaming platform, which was the context of this thread.

I guess in a technical way that counts as a very brief Mac exclusive..

“MacOS still sucks” lol

http://fabiensanglard.net/fd_proxy/doom3/pdfs/johnc-plan_199...

I think you’re reaching a bit. I’m aware of this. Most of all because what this article doesn’t mention is that q3test was also initially released for Linux before Windows and you better believe that was a huge deal on slashdot at the time. The beta was basically a Mac OS exclusive for 3 days. (I admittedly was quite the Linux fanboy then but even I think calling this a Linux/Mac exclusive for the first “alpha” as they said in the readme silly as compared to something like Myst or Oregon Trail)

It was also like a week and change gap for Windows. And then the later beta releases were Windows only. The final Mac release ended up being delayed until after Christmas.

http://fabiensanglard.net/fd_proxy/doom3/pdfs/johnc-plan_199...

> Also, wasn’t Quake III very briefly a Mac exclusive?

Where the hell did you hear that? In any event, it isn’t true. Quake 3 was released shortly after Jobs was turning them around from circling the drain. They’re lucky somebody was porting it at all.

8 bit software still works on OS X Catalina?

Last I checked just as this guy is nursing his old ass pre CC adobe software along nothing is stopping them from continuing with an older OS X.

> I guess calling it directly would even be poor form by itself so who knows.

The point being that there are limited cases where it is justifiable. For example, a VM or language interop would likely be justified. Those types of cases mean the absolute number of call sites should be small though. In other words, the problem is somewhat self-limiting. Probably, in appropriate use, the function would be called extensively, but likely not from many sites.

> Apart from the fact that earning six figures still isn't the norm for most Objective-C developers.

I have no horse in this race.. I don't work in the industry for years.

This was also a somewhat tongue-in-cheek remark that I think you are reading too deeply into. The real point is, software engineers are generally paid well relative to median incomes and have a cushy job. On the scale of pain, this doesn't seem like a big deal - not even a Python 2 to 3 transition.

BLS average salary for software engineers is $103k, not including bonuses and stock, etc. I would think the average engineer that would justifiably use msg send directly is being paid greater than the BLS average - which includes all the enterprise LOB app slaves that don't do incredibly well.

They could have bought the company if necessary. Frankly it just wasn't worth buying. That is the market speaking. The market said it was better to develop the thing in house.

No that’s not right. The implementation is not changing. The prototype is changing to break code that was poorly formed in the first place. If you had cast to the correct type in your code as you always should have, this change shouldn’t break anything.

As far as code breaking changes go, the impact should be low. How many times in a code base should you need to call msg send? And the risk of problems is low. Only if your code was silently relying on float corruption would you notice a change. Anybody making six figures should be able to analyze such a thing without too much whining.

Well there isn’t any better spreadsheet software in 2019. Like what even comes close in terms of features and fit?

Photoshop. I think it’s a tiny little more mixed opinion of the overall program in terms of UX, but again, the closest replacement might be Affinity. And that is too new.

It doesn’t require much memory to shuffle, essentially just an integer permutation generator and possibly an index of block pointers. You could store the latter in the NV storage. This assumes no storable “playlist” at all. If you have playlists then shuffle is trivial.

That doesn’t mean multiple long running processes will share memory though unless they actually create a shared mapping, which I think the gp is referring to. In addition to tremendous memory waste this also kills cache performance.

I think this is still versioning. You just end up versioning with the endpoint URI. Eg many names that end -2 or -3.

> because by assuming she may or may not be a woman, you look like you're not accepting her as a woman.

Listen to yourself. Repeat that sentence to yourself slowly. "Assuming she may or may not be a woman..." Why, yes, I assume everyone I talk to may or may not be a woman!! And there is where everything you say falls apart. It does not follow that I am not accepting "her as a woman" simply because I assume they are human (which is essentially what "may or may not be a woman" encompasses).

Also, everyday I refer to people as "they" without even thinking about it. I have never heard anyone feeling insulted by that outside of these "woke" mobs on the internet. This "think of the cisgenders" argument does not hold water. Most people, trans or not do not go nuts if you simply use a neutral word.

I have probably said "They left the keys on the table" or similar when referring to my own damn best friend ("he"/"him") and wife (a very clearly "she"/"her"). Why do you think I'm going more out of my way for someone that is attention seeking.

> Finally, it all boils down to what it costs you not using the preferred pronoun of someone, when you know it. What are you winning for doing this? What's the expected outcome of this "active and voluntary refusal" for you?

I answered that. The refusal to engage on a topic that is not germane to a discussion. I don't mention your race, likewise I don't mention your gender. It does cost me something, having to keep track of this additional piece of information. If I am on a first name basis with you, I'll use that and I'll probably use your preferred pronouns, or I might use "they" like I do for my own wife and friends all the fucking time.

> It gets yet more offending if you're doing this for a transitioning person. The change of pronoun is their first way to make their transition known, well before having expensive surgery or getting a court order for having their name changed. Refusing the use of their preferred pronoun means you don't accept their transition nor their new gender.

It is not the world's burden to acknowledge a trans persons gender change hardships. You can still have meaningful, respectful conversation and relationships with people without acknowledging all their life troubles. All sorts of people are marginalized or have terrible hardships. I don't refer to AIDS patients as "HAARTs-men" either (those drugs are expensive too), and I haven't been asked to lately. Trans people often need a support system - friends, family, professional caretakers. Expecting everyone they deal with/society to use language in a very regimented and new way is immature and inappropriate.

Again, it doesn't follow that not using "preferred pronouns" and just using "they" or "them" means I don't accept their new gender, it just means that it is not something I care to discuss.

> I don't think you assume all people you encounter on HN are bald and blind just because you don't know the color of their hair or their eyes. Why would you be so adamant doing this specifically for their gender?

You have totally lost me. I don't refer to people as bald or blind. Likewise I don't refer to gender either most of the time.

Edit: oh I get it... you seem to be equating blindness with unspecified eye color and baldness with unspecified hair color, is that right? That’s nonsense. This took me a while because it is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. Blindness, eye color? Where to begin with that one?

> You could be as insulting when talking about ethnicity or religion, in some way. But gender is special because it finds its way in every conversation at some point. Pronouns are used everywhere and every time, you cannot escape it.

No it doesn't. It doesn't have to any more than ethnicity or religion. I agree, it can. It can be used by people like you to drive wedges into productive discourse and make trouble. But you can escape it if you want, just use a neutral pronouns.

What do you say about languages like spoken Chinese that don't even have gendered pronouns?

Yes! I absolutely can refuse to use someone's "preferred pronoun." I summarily reject your assertion that using the gender neutral and grammatically correct "they" in place of "he"/"she" (not them) to refer to anyone is ever insulting or demeaning. You can say it's insulting and I just don't agree that is true in general. Yelling loudly and with outrage doesn't make your claim stronger than mine.

I am not rejecting anyone's gender, I am simply not acknowledging it because it is usually not germane to the discussion. It's not that I don't believe people deserve respect, trans or otherwise. I just don't think it is an appropriate point for discussion in most instances.

If a white man says they wish to always be referred to as "the white guy" am I also obligated to do so? Is it not "accepting" of their whiteness if I don't use language to refer to it everytime? Especially so if they are on the internet and I can't even see them?

I don't know what color you are. I really don't care. I have no interest in referring to your race when addressing you, likewise your gender. I communicate with people everyday and gender, race, creed, and nationality just never come up.

And if someone insists on sharing their pronouns or their race or creed unsolicited, that is on them. That should not obligate me to do anything with it.

Edit: I've been downvoted. But would anyone actually like to explain how referring to someone in a gender neutral way is somehow more insulting than referring to them in a race, religion, ethnicity, or any other identity-forming aspect neutral way? Things we take for granted all the time when we use the neutral (not just gender) pronouns them/they?

Perhaps I just don't want to fucking be bothered with a gender label and will use the perfectly acceptable gender-neutral pronoun. God tells me that this is a reasonable thing to do.

Somebody recently referred me to this nonsense: https://www.mypronouns.org/how

It's funny that this pronoun debate in the US is so anglocentric, too. Just shows the level of critical thinking these agenda pushers really have. Why? Why is it only the 3rd person pronouns that are special. Why are 1st and 2nd person "as-is"?

> big pharma pushes hard for newer and more costly meds.

Lithium is not perfect. It causes permanent kidney damage and is a pretty bad teratogen. Also overdose is pretty bad, which is never ideal for a mood medication.

There is actual value in investigating new medications for bipolar beyond big pharma profits.

You don't have a constitutional right to operate a vehicle in the US.

> For software like wine, if something works in version X, you can expect it will work in X+1.

Anyone that expects this is setting themselves up for disappointment.

My actual experience with this has not matched yours. Wine is extremely fragile. There is a reason why things like winetricks and using dedicated wine prefixes exists, for one.

This is not a knock on wine really, but the complexity of the problem at hand.

> These are not random features they'll decide to remove from time to time.

Emulating windows APIs is extremely complicated. Even with the best intentions of not breaking something it happens, quite a bit.

You are extremely naive.

> You can get very far with Gimp and or Inkscape.

> I'm going to suggest that the majority of Adobe users will get by just fine with Gimp.

Well, frankly, your suggestion is useless. Not even the maintainers of gimp have the temerity to suggest that Gimp is a suitable replacement for Adobe photoshop. I don't care about the "users" of Adobe that pirate it. The tools are expensive and people pay for it. The majority of people that pay for Adobe Photoshop have very good reasons for doing so.

You are clueless if you think Gimp can replace Photoshop. You can do a little research to see why, it's well documented. Morons have been suggesting Gimp as a PS replacement since the late 90s and there is now nearly 20 years of responses for why that is untenable.

No, you cannot. You cannot run Excel 2019 flawlessly or even close to it with Wine.

And https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...

A garbage rating for the latest installer also means that even if you could run things, the workflow is not seamless.