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I literally chuckled when I saw your message because I actually thought about using dom/sub when I saw the '"dominatrix"-"submissive"' message, and there's the bonus of it being more symmetrical and less typing than master/slave.

The deal killers being that it's less readable due to the lack of established usage and that it doesn't define the relationship as clearly as master/slave. It feels like "dominant" might imply that it has authority in most cases, but not every case.

I think it does if you consider "speed" as meaning response latency and perceived speed, not data throughput. From what I've read here so far, it feels fast, while not killing your battery with bulk cat'ing of text. That's my take on it anyway. Just now going to download and try out...

EDIT/Whinging: Welp, scratch that, kitty requires an OS X one version higher than what apple will allow me to install. And while it is an older MBP from 2010, at least it's fast and reliable. AND it has the multitude of ports that I like. And the magsafe.

I'm sure I'm venting into an echo changer, but, here goes. Why won't Apple simply provide me (an option to buy) a modern solid mid-level 15" rMBP for under $2000. I bought mine for $1700 and it came with a $200 ipod as a gift (sold on eBay).

Give me that. A rMBP, with all the ports, plus the new USB-C. They could leave out some of the stuff that's pricy.

Ya, give me a new version of what I have, and will last at least another 8 years (fully supported by MacOS releases), and price it under $2000. That I would buy. When I replace this one, I'm just going to have to buy something to linux or Windows (probably both, realistically), since I've been priced out the product I would have normally purchased and recommended.

That went in a direction I didn't expect! Very interesting, thanks :)

I'm a 16.04 user, too, and I've been running 18.04 in a VM for a few weeks. Basically seems ok to me, but, I do have some gripes. Not deal-breakers, just dislikes:

* When copying a file in the gui, a progress window doesn't pop-up for the operation. Took me a little while to realize there is now a little icon on the window's titlebar that shows a pie-chart style of progress. Until I look for that icon, it feels like I don't know if the copy even started. * The "start menu?"/launcher thing blows up into a big, full-screen, icon menu. Seems mentally jarring to have all of my current work overlaid by the launcher. * And, my biggest gripe is the least consequential, but, I want my wobbly windows and 3D desktop cube back! There, I admitted it. I used them and liked it :)

Thank you! This, along with my sibling replies, is some great information. Nothing that most of us couldn't accomplish without it, but it's going to save a lot of time. Multiplied by all the others that find it useful (I can't be the only one, right?), you have saved a LOT of time :)

I used to support a product with a similar fix. We had a bunch of desktop PCs in the field that were only used from January through April of each year, and usually powered-down the other eight months.

Apparently, after several months of no use, the hard drive bearings had a tendency to stick, and the temporary solution that often worked was to have the client lift the front of the box a few inches off the desk and let it drop, unseizing the bearing.

A lot of reactions along the lines of "I can't believe that worked!"

I get the same result (the calculator), but it consistently takes 5 seconds for the calculator to appear with the result. There's also no side card on the right side or search results underneath the calculator.

That looks really nice. When I clicked the link, I wasn't expecting a good looking page and all of those docs, it was a nice surprise. I look forward to checking it out :)

I was going to say "Man, that'd be terrible to work with!" And immediately realized I'm no different than those 8088 guys in that class :) You work with what you have.

When I was about 14 I was enthralled with programming my new Commodore 64, first in BASIC, then 6510 assembly. I had the opportunity to accompany my mother to a one-day class on programming. Being just an intro on the subject, I was well ahead of what they would be discussing, but thought it would interesting to talk to some adults that were also into programming.

I was talking to a couple of guys about what I had been doing on my C=64, and when I mentioned the assembly stuff I was writing, one of them said, "How can you possibly write anything with only three registers?!" (just the accumulator and x/y registers). I was wondering what the big deal was since that was the only architecture I had known at that point. Every game and utility I had were only using three registers, so it was already proven to me that three were "enough".

It's funny how you can just adapt and work with whatever is available, and that becomes your norm. Especially when you don't even realize there are other options out there.

Those were the days!

Agree 100%. Mine is a mid-2009 (MBP 15" x64 Core 2 Duo), but with an SSD and 8GB, it still runs perfectly fine. It's not a Retina screen, but it's good enough that I don't notice pixelation.

It's still my daily driver for dev work, email & browsing, but El Capitan is the furthest I can take the OS, and I'm already running into some software that requires the newer OSes.

I've just been hanging onto the hope that a suitable MBP replacement with proper ports will be available by the time I need to upgrade, which will be 1st quarter 2019.

Agreed

If I remember correctly, the senators were originally not elected, but chosen by the state to represent the states' interests, while only the representatives were elected to represent the people's interests. That's why the number of senators doesn't jive with the populations. Each state is then equally represented and of equal importance in the senate.

I agree. When I initiate an action like "delete" and a dialog pops up, my mind is already assuming it's asking the question "Are you sure?" regardless of what the text says, and my eyes are just scanning for a "Yes" or "No". I would give preference to it being on the left (probably because "yes or no" is so ingrained... when's the last time you heard someone say "Answer me, it's a simple no or yes answer!"), but, realistically, if the buttons are close together I'm reading them both at the same time while my eyes are still moving toward them. As in many reading contexts, my brain knows the shape and length of the words I'm expecting so I'm mostly on autopilot until the very last moment.

If the action is to move forward with something or not, I think I prefer the "next"-type button to be on the right, and "cancel" or "back" on the left, probably far left.

But, my thinking does violate the "pick one and be consistent" suggestion. So... I dunno :)

> For cats it's better to fall off a higher floor than a lower one because they have more time to turn feet down and increase their air drag thus getting under the terminal velocity and allow them to survive the fall.

True, and there's been at least one, probably many, actual study done that came to that conclusion.

Small nitpick (I'm sorry, I couldn't stop myself!), their action doesn't get them "under the terminal velocity," it lowers what their terminal velocity is. It's just the speed at which the wind resistance is enough to prevent further acceleration by gravity. It's terminal as in the end of something (acceleration), not terminal as in the predicted death of the something.

Doesn't matter to me what he got paid. If he wanted royalties, too, he should have negotiated that into the agreement, and he probably would have been paid even less of an upfront amount. He's not the one exposing himself to the risk involved with creating the project. By taking the fixed rate, he had a guaranteed return on his investment and didn't have to worry about the success or failure of the album.

>> He was paid what he had agreed to.

> Easy thing to say. But imagine Zuckerberg had hired you to code the first version of his site, paid you a few thousand bucks, and then he went on to be one of the richest men in America?

The GP still has it right. Paid for a task. Done. It would be different if he toiled away for 100 hours/week for no pay, with the hope of having a hit. As originally described, he has no more of a claim than the guy that made Zuck a sandwich at the food truck.

I still keep holding out for the MBP that probably won't appear (with lots of ports and a magsafe charging connection, and while I've never tried the newest keyboard, I love my current one). My current MBP is a mid-2010 (2009? maybe? can't remember), and it still runs great, especially after replacing the HDD with an SSD several years ago.

However, El Capitan is the last OSX that will install on it, and this year even the Turbotax software gave me a warning that their software for next year will not run on my system and I'll have to either get a newer one or use their web product.

I actually miss the 3D view. Anyone know why it was discontinued? I imagine it was simply too expensive in dev-hours to maintain compared to the benefit.

One of the ways can be through poetry. Since many poems tend to include rhymes, the pronunciation of a word can sometimes be gleaned by comparing it to its rhyme pair (there's probably an actual word for that). Of course, that presupposes you know the pronunciation of the other word.

Edit: Pretty much what edanm said. I really should do a page refresh before replying when the tab has been open for a while :)

Yeah, it felt it a little weird that my first response was to look for a fixed-width version I could try in my editors.

I did that very thing and it's working out nicely. Bought a big box of bulk socks. I haven't even opened half the pairs after two years. And that was the only mistake: I should have opened all of them and dumped them into a FIFO sock drawer. As it is now, I'll open a new 6-pack and they will be new-level black while the older pairs have faded to an off-black. And then you're back to matching pairs of dark black vs light black.

I think I got them from www.bargain-bulk-sock-sales.com. Someone here mentioned them (don't remember if they endorsed or merely named) in a previous sock thread.

Auto-played for me, too.

That'd be cool, but as it returned closer to Earth, wouldn't the tides resume and start the cycle all over again? (Assuming the oceans are still present and liquid, of course.)

Ostensibly to prevent them from using the techniques on yourself, or so that they don't recognize when you are using the techniques on them.

I'm kind of curious about the "suivi", too :) I assume it was a typo, and not the French word for "followed" (from what Google tells me, anyway), since that didn't make any sense either.

That's pretty cool, bookmarked :) I also like the design of the site. Well done!

Do enough people take off the day after Thanksgiving that it's considered a holiday? I don't get Black Friday off unless I specifically request it. Otherwise it's just a normal workday (though often the office is empty that day, so I guess it's a distinction without a difference).

And I enjoyed the conversation between two people that obviously know the field pretty well.

I don't know if changes were made on your end or if my VPN host rotated to an unblocked IP address, but everything is working for me now, with or w/o the VPN connected.

If it was something you guys did, awesome, thanks!

Same thing happens to me. I've noticed that it works fine if I'm not logged in, but if I am logged in or I try the login page, I get a blank page if my VPN is on.

The Chrome network panel shows a 403 code (Forbidden).

Edit: I can write this up in an email to hn@ycombinator.com if requested.