> To learn more about the scale of the global arachnid trade, the authors of the new paper used a handful of search terms — “spider,” “scorpion,” “arachnid” — in nine languages to identify websites that might be selling the animals.
It is clearly possible to find workaround, but it seems weird to need one on a $2000 laptop when other companies manage to fit it on cheaper, thinner laptops.
Your requirement of a USB Aport to satisfy an esoteric accessory is a niche use case. They are not going to include A USB A just like why they won’t add a firewire port to satisfy that 1%.
Pretty much all new keyboards, even niche ones, now come with Type C standard. Plus you are making a huge deal out of the graceful degradation of attaching an adapter to your keyboard. If we’re going to permanently retrofit something its going to be your keyboard—not the macbook.
I upgrade my gear regularly. And because of that I pretty much never use USB A. Apple designs their products for people who upgrade their gear. If they add a USB A to my shiny new laptop it’d be quite annoying because it is 1 extra port that I will never use that is probably there at the expense of another Type C port.
I think we might just be posting from different universes or something. Where I'm at USB-A is not really a niche interface. I don't know what to tell you.
Yes obviously, if I get all new peripherals with USB-C compatibility (other than things like my keyboard and mouse, which don't have USB-C versions, and which are actually my favorite peripherals) then I won't encounter USB-A. Unless I leave my house, where the rest of the world hasn't upgraded to USB-C yet.
There are $3 versions of the adapter. Yeah this USB shit is annoying but I bought 10 of each. 2 sets in backpack, 2 in computer bag, 2 in desk and a few permanently attached where they’re used most often.
Annoying but fine. Don’t think about it much.
Edit: YMMV but Macbook is not the only offender. Comes up with random combinations of things because cars, desks, cafes, etc all have a mix of USB A/C charging ports. And so do my various devices. The adapters are useful all the time.
You can also scan a document from your iPhone and insert the image anywhere from the context (right click) menu. All it’s really doing is removing a few steps from the need to unlock your phone, open the notes app, select the scan document option and share/airdrop the result. It’s simple and effective.
I’ve seen so many students upload images for online exams via things like cam scanner unaware that they don’t need third party solutions. They complain about the time needed to get the images off their phones and onto their laptops for exams because of these supposedly hidden features.
(On Windows you can browse your android’s phone’s photos via the photos app via USB)
Similarly they go to extremes with various oddball apps to make PDFs with cam scanner images in all sorts of orientations with nasty watermarks because they’re unaware of the power of Preview.
Highly underrated, and highly unknown feature. If someone emailed you a PDF, you can literally sign it and reply to the email all within Mail. Using you saved signature. Quite heavenly.
Also most people don’t know that when you Screenshot a webpage, there’s actually a tab at the top to capture the entire webpage (even if it’s way taller than your screen) as a pdf. Essentially “print to pdf”.
You do not need a computer for the setup. You’ll need your mobile phone instead.
You may, if you wish, hook up the Q2 to a a PC to play steamVR and Oculus Games. The oculus quest 2 has a separate store (in VR) in which you purchase new games.
I’ve always been puzzled by the “You accept these cookies” banners. Some have an ‘accept’ and ‘don’t accept/let me choose’ and some even come with a ‘X’ to close the banner.
So what does it mean when I either click the ‘X’ or simply do nothing and leave the banner there while I read the article? What does it mean when I use reader mode and basically ignore the question whether I accept them or not?
Hi, I'm one of the co-founders and core devs of Ethereum.
Ethereum wasn't build/implemented for or on Azure. Microsoft showed support for Ethereum by offering BaaS (Blockchain as a Service) and have now adopted our in-house programming language Solidity within VS. Solidity is our higher level smart contract language that can compile down to EVM byte code (EVM - Ethereum Virtual Machine).
I can't tell you whether Ethereum will take of or not, to me it already has. Consider me highly biased being the original author of Ethereum's most used implementation :-)
To get a good feel of Ethereum and the community; take stroll through our community reddit [1], github client repo [2], solidity language [3] and some more documentation [4].
Warning: 2 & 3 are for our technical enthusiasts, 4 is very interesting. Enjoy! :-)
We're making use of the standard Go tools + Godep and as such with any Go version below 1.6 you can run the tests with "godep go test ./...", anything above 1.5 with "go test ./...".
Madness? Tackling problems (consensus, protocol, etc) early on a "stupid move"? You believe that copying bugs (as something you'll have to do if you want to create a new btc node from scratch) is something we should strive for? Having another client to fall back to if there's a bug in one of the others is, again, "a stupid move"?
"Many have tried such as bitcoin-ruby (ruby) and btcd (go), but they are plagued by almost constant issues of them having different states and getting forked off the network."
This is _exactly_ why you should have multiple, clean room implementation from the start.
Oh btw, we've already got consensus with 3 full nodes for quite a while.
Hi guys I'm one of the core developers and will I'll answer some the questions. There seems to be some misguided information and claims that are, fortunately, not true.
> but speaking to core developers it turns out that this isn't really significant at all.
I'm one of the 3 core developers and I'm pretty certain I've not met or talked to you, and I can't imagine the other two making such claims either.
> Ethereum has already raised as much money as the BF spends in a decade
We are a different tech but so happen so share and exist in the same space. Comparing us to the BF or Bitcoin in general is just downright wrong. You're comparing apples to oranges.
> For one it's still pretty much vaporware, little has been released
I've been relentlessly working on this for the past 7-8 months and so has Gav & Vitalik. All 3 of us have made remarkable progress if I may say so. Right now we have 3 clean room implementations with 99.99% consensus and operate on the same testnet blockchain. Vaporware? I beg the differ.
* Go - myself
* C++ - Gavin
* Python - Vitalik
The Go, C++ and Python implementations have full interoperability. A 4th, Java, implementation is being developed by Roman but hasn't got full consensus yet.
> Obviously the Ethereum team is not going to release "all the code" immediately
All of our code is available on GH actually (https://github.com/ethereum)
> Are you allowed to create TPC/IP listen sockets? This is undefined.
We have been _very_ explicit regarding I/O (in any form), it's simply not allowed, period.
> Specifically, arbitrary code execution by strangers.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with the model we're using but arbitrary execution isn't a problem considering we do not allow any form of I/O.
The arbitrary code, or contracts, are "triggered" by sending it a transaction. Once triggered it will run according to a set of rules that have to be goverend at all time. It's part of the consensus engine; it's "all in or nothing". Once mined, the miner will announce the new block, node's will verify the transactions and execution and can accept or reject based on their findings.
> Obviously it's not vaporware but there are many discussions about their implementation behind the scenes such as "Ethereum “Dagger” PoW function is flawed"
Vlad is currently working on the PoW. For code see https://github.com/ethereum/mining
I don't mind a good bit of scepticism but the amount of false claims and downright incorrect information that some of you have been posted really is below the HN standard. Most (if not all) of the answers are available online, just put a bit of research in to it.
