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Or, it could just switch the default shell to Z shell. First thing I do on a new Mac, is chsh -> zsh. Ships with an up to date (enough) version of that.

NZ's UFB network has always been FTTH (meaning it terminates inside your house), there is no copper in this picture.

This is why, for example, last month people who qualified for 200MB can now get gigabit plans.

I beg to differ. I had an encrypted USB HDD hooked up to Thunderbolt display, and lost all data on it because it does indeed power down its USB hub :)

I have a Thunderbolt display from Apple, it also powers off the USB devices when it goes to sleep.

Uh, nope. You've just ensured Dropbox will never be installed again on any of my machines or devices. Ever. You fuck up like this, you never earn that trust back.

With non-stock headphones? I'm not so sure.

You forget how much Apple likes to nickel & dime people on storage and memory, it's where a lot of margin comes from. Expect to pay a few times market rate for 1TB SSD.

I am of Dutch descent, but I have never set foot in the Netherlands. Somehow, though, I am much taller (6'1) than my dad and his father, who were both pretty short (5'2).

Some of your neighbours' rights may include not having a 100 floor tower go up next to them blocking all their sun, as an example.

Well, you can still pick up an AR-15 online in NZ if you have a valid firearms license, difference is the police are going to know you have one, and will do a background check as well as have an interview with you.

I've transited through the USA a few times. Might be coincidence, but every time I complained on Twitter beforehand about the security theatre, I was "randomly selected" for special treatment.

It will be interesting to see if Swift Playgrounds on iPad changes the landscape here.

Simple intro courses, but it's got real Swift compiler + runtime, and you can call straight into all the native APIs if you jump out of the guided tour.

Have you tried Iosevka (the Slab variant is serif)?

Not a bitmap font, but pretty customisable. With hints of PragmataPro, it's my go-to font at the moment. Looks especially nice with OS X font hinting.

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

My command-line for building is:

$ make STYLE_COMMON='v-tilde-low v-asterisk-low v-underscore-low'

This gives the vertically centered asterisk and tilde, and puts the underscore below the baseline.

$99 is when you want to distribute via App Store. You don't need that to do the development or use the tools.

A similar deal was Naspers buying 45% of Tencent for $34 million (current size of stake is around 34%), worth roughly $70 billion.

Open a file with everything on one line in Atom, and you can bring it to its knees, even if the file is only a couple of kilobytes.

Ask people from Brasil how much they enjoy the high prices they pay for consumer electronics some time.

how is an Apple service provider able to bypass this? if they can, so can an adversary, no?

In the US, perhaps.

After having had my original XBox fail once and XBox 360 needing to be replaced three times, and eventually still dying, with Microsoft refusing to replace the third, I switched to PS3, and now PS4.

I will never buy Microsoft hardware again, ever.

So, yeah, that is definitely a factor in my case.

Very similar in NZ, except most employees don't have to do a thing, and if you do, you can do it all online using standard HTML app, no plugin.

I had do a return once in 12 years - I had earned contract income over and above regular salary and share sale capital gains in the same year. That's it.

New Zealand is a state of Australia, so if you could enable it here too that would be great.

Freight forwarders are how most of us outside of the US get stuff from companies that only ship to the US - There must be a market for such services that ship to Russia too.

The first C++ compiler produced C. I think this qualifies...

Likewise. Although I was kind of dreading seeing my company show up when I visited every morning...

Let me know how those safeguards work for you if you're black. Or any other at risk group in any country really. Come on now.

Do you mind sharing a hint of how you got started?

I find the idea of working similar hours as you but still being able to provide for my family while spending a lot of time with them incredibly appealing.

Whereas at the moment, during the week I'm lucky to get more than 2 hours a day, the commute and workday eating up the balance.

Yeah, just because one tiny fraction edge case might be affected, we should do absolutely nothing. The status quo of land ownership being an enabler of a rentier class pales in significance to the plight of subsistence farmers, which I have a hard time believing exist in any substantial number in developed countries.

It's not like we could define classes of protected persons to balance out such effects?

But no, it's better to do absolutely nothing on the off chance someone, somewhere might be negatively affected in the next millennium.

Better the devil we know, right? No matter the imbalance and injustice to society, property rights and protection of capital derived from ownership, are sacrosanct.

I hear this argument all the time, and without fail it's a Boomer who benefited from massive capital gains, or someone who bought when it was low. The Fuck You, Got Mine crowd.

FWIW, I'm a homeowner, so in theory if I didn't care that we're creating a disenfranchised group on a massive scale, I should be against such a tax.

But don't come here and pretend you really care at all about this contrived population of people who would suffer unduly.

Have a look at OnShape. That future is coming faster than some people think.

I deleted my Facebook account 4 years ago, and I still don't have enough time for everything I'm interested in. Please send help.