In other news today...
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macOS 13 still supports Intel-based Macs, but only recent ones, made in 2017 and later.
Damn, 5 years. That's shorter than the usual 6/7 years.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
LEGISLATE
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@loopback0 given that that's also 'the other entire processor architecture ago', that's not quite so tragic as it might seem.
And don't forget that Apple has repeatedly been pushing back on the pro end of the market, it's not like they give as many shits about the folks who buy the expensive gear any more.
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Interesting approach to the current job market.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
given that that's also 'the other entire processor architecture ago', that's not quite so tragic as it might seem.
It excludes the 2016 Macbook Pros despite them being basically the same as the 2017.
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
And don't forget that Apple has repeatedly been pushing back on the pro end of the market, it's not like they give as many shits about the folks who buy the expensive gear any more.
Ventura cuts the non-Pro stuff off sooner than the Pro stuff. But either way it's sooner than it used to be.
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@loopback0 I don't pay nearly enough attention any more to Apple's bullshit, too much involved.
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waist-deep
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I do wonder what temperature the chocolate was at, but apparently they were unhurt, so.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
Unless "public charging stations" are public in the sense that a public pool is public (the government owns it), I'm not sure how he plans on pulling this off.
Or public in the sense that Federal highways are public.
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
Unless "public charging stations" are public in the sense that a public pool is public (the government owns it), I'm not sure how he plans on pulling this off.
Or public in the sense that Federal highways are public.
The government owns Federal highways too.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
@Watson said in In other news today...:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
Unless "public charging stations" are public in the sense that a public pool is public (the government owns it), I'm not sure how he plans on pulling this off.
Or public in the sense that Federal highways are public.
The government owns Federal highways too.
Well...it's complicated. A government owns the Federal highways. But not the Federal government. Each piece is owned and maintained completely by the state in which it finds itself, with some segments even semi-privatized (turned into toll roads operated by private hands). The Feds do fund a lot of it...which comes with buckets of strings. As a (less-politically-charged) example, the seatbelt requirements are based on a rider on a highway funding provision--if states don't mandate seatbelts be worn, they lose a chunk of their highway funds.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
All of which take tons of cash. And the ability to build stuff without decades of bureaucracy. Neither of which are in heavy supply currently.
But we have a plentiful supply of bureaucracy, an overabundance, even.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Heck, Texas. You can drive an entire day and still be in Texas.
Yup. Last time I drove it, I hit the border just west of El Paso at night, and stopped for the night at some motel maybe an hour or two east of there. I drove all the next day — with fuel, food, pee, and rest breaks, so not really continuous driving — and got home around midnight the next day. Admittedly, I was driving a moving truck that wouldn't go the full TX speed limit, but it was probably at least 12 hours of driving, possibly several hours more, and that wasn't all the way across the state.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Interesting approach to the current job market.
NCCs are already limited in a handful of states, including Microsoft's home state Washington, where they're unenforceable against employees earning less than $100,000.
I knew they're not enforceable in CA and WA, but TIL about the $100k limit in WA. OTOH, they're fully enforceable in TX, as long as they're "reasonable". For example, I'm prohibited by my contracting agency from working for a former client for 6 months, and that is considered a reasonable restriction, since it doesn't prevent me from working for any tech company except (typically) the most recent client.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
waist-deep
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I do wonder what temperature the chocolate was at, but apparently they were unhurt, so.
Considering the quality of chocolate used in mass-market candy, the chocolate was probably unhurt, too.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Since the power lines parallel the freeways most of the time, getting electricity near isn't the problem.
Looking forward to the transmission line tesla/trolleybus hybrids
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
In other news, MacOS improving support for running Linux applications even across architectures.
It might not be that far away that Apple runs Android apps.
All Linux distributions have ARM builds, and there are no x86 Androids any more, so this is actually completely orthogonal to the actually useful things.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
waist-deep
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I do wonder what temperature the chocolate was at, but apparently they were unhurt, so.
The recipes for making pralines usually say 42°C–45°C (107°F–113°F), so I'd assume that would apply here too. And it's all fat, which has much lower thermal capacity than water, so it heats you much less than water at the same temperature.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Since the power lines parallel the freeways most of the time, getting electricity near isn't the problem.
Looking forward to the transmission line tesla/trolleybus hybrids
You laugh, but...
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@JBert I've seen that before. I've also heard it contested, stating that it cannot possibly be safe when the overhead
wiresmetal bars inevitably come down in an accident or storm.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@JBert I've seen that before. I've also heard it contested, stating that it cannot possibly be safe when the overhead
wiresmetal bars inevitably come down in an accident or storm.Yeah, that's one of, like, 5 million reasons this is stupid.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
You laugh, but...
Needs bigger bushings.
330500 kV or go home!
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Yeah, that's one of, like, 5 million reasons this is stupid.
All that sudden hate towards what's essentially a here on WTDWTF. What gives?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
You can drive an entire day and still be in
TexasManhattanď‚
Thanks to traffic jams, even such short distances may take days.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@JBert I've seen that before. I've also heard it contested, stating that it cannot possibly be safe when the overhead
wiresmetal bars inevitably come down in an accident or storm.If only there was some prior experience with running road vehicles from overhead electric power.
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@cvi those don’t run over thousands of miles. If you want that, use a train.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@cvi those don’t run over thousands of miles. If you want that, use a train.
Sure, but these things have more autonomy than a train or trolleybus (EDIT: And they have no problem skipping from segment to segment, so they don't have to be continuous tracks either)
In any case: at least it's not solar fucking roadways and not that thing with the expensive road surface to allegedly charge your car by driving a "receiver" over it.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@JBert I've seen that before. I've also heard it contested, stating that it cannot possibly be safe when the overhead
wiresmetal bars inevitably come down in an accident or storm.We have had such overhead wires in most bigger cities—for trams and/or trolleybuses—for decades, and the wires coming down is rare, and them hurting anybody is completely unheard of.
Sure, they will occasionally fail, but since the trucks will be hybrid or have batteries, they will be able to bypass the damaged segment, making it no worse problem than a bigger collision.
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You know what other vehicles have overhead power lines?
Bumper cars.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
If you want that, use a train.
Some places *coughUKcough* don't have electrified trains. (Or at least they have a whole bunch of trains that aren't.)
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
If you want that, use a train.
Some places *coughUKcough* don't have electrified trains. (Or at least they have a whole bunch of trains that aren't.)
There are plenty that are though. East Coast and West Coast Main Line, some of the regional mainlines.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Yeah, that's one of, like, 5 million reasons this is stupid.
All that sudden hate towards what's essentially a here on WTDWTF. What gives?
You haven't noticed all the discontent directed at the before?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@cvi those don’t run over thousands of miles. If you want that, use a train.
Cars are a perfectly cromulent application of this technology!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
peeks out from rock Dafuq is that?
Sorry. I misspelled it. It's supposed to be "Diablo Immoral". It's Blizzard's new mobile money transfer service, which you can use to transfer money to Blizzard.
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Status: Apparently Atom (a text editor I use) is dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGMl8c0Cmzs
What does he suggest to replace it?
Vim. And Emacs.
Yeah no.
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San Francisco apparently isn't one of the cities with the gunshot locator microphone system. So the cops are baffled over what's causing the noises. Could be just jets doing supersonic passes, of course. But apparently nobody knows.
On the bright side, it's a frequent phenomena.
I have no idea what these are, but they happen A LOT. At least once a day, and usually at night.
So anybody in roughly the right area with a couple of sound recorders and a handful of microphones could triangulate the source in just a couple of days.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
waist-deep
:‍sad_but_relieved_face:
I do wonder what temperature the chocolate was at, but apparently they were unhurt, so.
Considering the quality of chocolate used in mass-market candy, the chocolate was probably unhurt, too.
Fun fact: in EU, the stuff cannot be legally labelled as chocolate at all (35% of cocoa mass is required). The usual term is something like "chocolate-like confectionery"
Funnier fact: the rule above has one exception, for UK (of course). Well, actually, it does not anymore.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
There are plenty that are though. East Coast and West Coast Main Line, some of the regional mainlines.
There's an electrification programme going on. It's slow because they're also using the opportunity to redesign junctions to reduce congestion (and running wires through a tight — and sometimes rather wet — tunnel is very awkward in some cases).
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
EU [...] chocolate
Oh no, please don't resurrect that one! We have enough ing going on now without needing to bring back the of the past...
inb4: , "go to " , ,
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Vim. And Emacs.
Hedging his bets in a religious war? Guy's got balls.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Apparently Atom (a text editor I use) is dead.
There was no will left to maintain it, given that most of the people who used to do that have moved on to VSCode.
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@dkf not to mention that Microsoft has a vested interest in not having yet another editor it is paying for.
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@Arantor That would drive the lack of will, yes.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Status: Apparently Atom (a text editor I use) is dead.
I always thought Atom is just a slow clone of Sublime with a shitty JS back-end. Since VS Code is a continuation of that, it makes sense to drop Atom in favor of VS Code.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Status: Apparently Atom (a text editor I use) is dead.
I always thought Atom is just a slow clone of Sublime with a shitty JS back-end. Since VS Code is a continuation of that, it makes sense to drop Atom in favor of VS Code.
Also, it deserves a painful death just for unleashing Electron onto the world.