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Nor does it appear to be a photograph. It looks very much like a 3D rendering with false coloring.

There are 2 major assumptions with your argument:

1) That the pesticides/fungicides are bad for humans. You haven't shown that. Some fungi are bad for humans, so it might be better to eat something with a fungicide but no fungus than to eat it with a fungus

2) You're assuming that applied pesticides/fungicides can just be washed off. But it's also possible that the plants absorb them and that the man-made ones are worse than the genetically engineered ones.

I agree. And most art these days involves quite a bit of science. Photoshop's image processing algorithms aren't just sloppily thrown together, for example! It takes a lot of science to make good artistic tools, and artists often do a lot of science when creating their art. (Checking audio levels, figuring out when the light will be just right, etc.)

You're thinking of the Lytro light field cameras.

https://lytro.com/

They already have some Swift projects [0], which I think is kind of cool. Not sure I would want to use code named "Bro" or "Conman" though. lol.

[0] https://code.gov/#/explore-code/agencies/DOL [1] https://code.gov/#/explore-code/agencies/DOE

iCloud did _not_ become the consumer's single hub for all devices

Are you sure? I now keep only a small portion of the music I own on my phone. The rest is in my iCloud account. I don't keep any video on my devices (other than what I record with the camera). It's all on iCloud. I use my AppleTV to watch movies, television shows, and listen to music, and it all streams from the cloud. While I don't keep my photos in the cloud because I value security, most iOS users do.

iCloud has its issues, but people using iOS are using it for most of their digital media.

I find web fonts so annoying, along with images that don't load until you scroll to them. I usually read in Reader mode, and it takes the loaded page and re-renders it without web fonts in a normal style. But when the site doesn't load all the images, I end up missing half the article because I can't see what they're talking about. So annoying.

So this seems to be the problem. You're definition of Pro includes "all the ports". The author's definition of Pro includes "avoid HDMI, SD slot, Display Port". It can't both have and not have all the ports.

The author's definition of Pro also includes 16GB RAM, but most posts I've seen complain about not being able to order 32GB RAM. It seems that Apple can't win no matter what they do.

Can you post some names and links? I'd like to check them out.

If you're doing video editing with FCPX and/or Motion, those dual GPUs in the MacPro help a lot!

Apple doesn't seem to know or care.

Oh nonsense! They showed like a dozen ways that the new touch pad alone makes using professional apps easier, faster, and generally better in their keynote. They are clearly thinking specifically of the professional market. Whether they hit their mark or not is up to the market to decide. The new computers are already back-ordered by 4-5 weeks, so clearly someone's ordering them.

I concur. Not to mention, this code wouldn't pass the automatic static analysis we use for all commits to our repository, so it literally would never come up as is. We turn on "warnings are errors" and turn on most warnings. I literally wouldn't think this code could compile (or at least get committed) as written, so would assume there was stuff missing for the sake of brevity.

Nobody's saying you can't test their ability to program. You can ask questions about programming without having them solve some problem from freshman data structures class. You can ask them how they do their current job, and ask for specifics about code they've written. You can ask them to review pieces of code to see how they would improve or change them. You can ask them for a code sample, and then have them walk you through it to be sure they understand it as well. There are many other less insulting options that still give you the chance to "hear the musician play." As an analogy, you probably wouldn't hire Wynton Marsalis and ask him to play "Happy Birthday" in an interview. You would probably ask for some samples of his music, or links to videos of him playing, etc.

For some reason that makes it way worse in my book. It isn't some scumbags running a sketchy website you were tricked into clicking on - it's the very people you've entrusted to give you service.

Though inevitably the privacy one will be an asterisk and written in 3 point font in light gray text against a light gray background.

we all understand the need for them due to no better monetization strategy for much of the valuable content on the web.

This just isn't true. There are plenty of other monetization schemes on the web that work for different types of content. (Subscriptions, donations, subsidies (both corporate and governmental), patrons, etc.)

Would love to see this extend to things like online music / video as well

It pretty much already exists in the form of Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Apple Music, etc.

This is a really cogent description of what I've felt about fit for a while but was unable to articulate. It's also written in an non-combative way.

My impression from having tried it briefly is that it's not great at real-time stuff because of its lazy evaluation. Do you find that to be true, or is that not an issue in real life?

So if I'm in a private session and clicking the link in my email opens a new page in a different session, then I can't reset my password? That's lame.

I've even had a situation where I was on my desktop machine and clicked a reset link on the web site. I realized I didn't have my email set up on that machine yet, so I went to my phone and did it from there. In your scenario, this wouldn't work. That seems problematic.

I've got a hybrid method that works pretty well for me. May not be for everyone. I have:

L1 cache - stuff on my desk that needs to be paid or read in the next 30 days.

L2 cache - Bills that have been paid and docs that have been read, but things that might need to be referenced in the next year - in a banker's box next to my desk, completely unfiled. Just drop them in when paid/read.

RAM - At the end of the year, file the stuff in the banker's box into a small set of folders in a file cabinet or drawer.

Disk - At the end of the year, move last year's files into a banker's box and put it in the basement/garage/storage.

Also at the end of the year, take the box that's 7 years old to the professional shredder's place and destroy it.

I do have email folders for mailing lists. I find that if I don't, then searching brings up too many hits, and if I can narrow the search to a particular list, that will reduce the number of false positives. I have a rule per mailing list, so it's very easy to maintain.

Just curious - why so extreme? There's never been a time in my life where there was "no music" and "no movies." Back in the 1970s we had record players and 8-track tapes and the radio. We had movie theaters and they even showed movies on TV from time to time.

As a musician, the "no music" part is really disturbing to me. It sounds like a strict religious cult at that point. I mean, even before I could walk or talk my parents would sing to me sometimes (I'm told).

Other people have legitimate concerns about others knowing what they bought on Amazon or do with their friends. In some jurisdictions, buying what seem like normal products to you and I is illegal. Some people live in areas where others knowing they are gay, transgendered, conservative, atheist, etc. will get them fired or literally killed. It's great that you don't have to worry about that. But others do, and it's getting to the point where, "Then just don't use the internet" is simply not possible. Even, "Then just don't use Google's services" is impossible when their ads and tracking are on literally half of the top 1 million sites on the internet.

In typical Google fashion, I can't tell if this will actually work or not. Some of the settings were in-between "On" and "Off". WTF did that mean? And then some of them seemed to imply that I had to accept a cookie to make them not work. Well I browse privately and use ad blocking, so does that mean they'll track me across a single session but not multiple sessions? (I ask because cookies work in a single session, but when I quit, they are deleted.) It also seemed to imply that the settings were only for that one browser on that one computer. I want it always off for everything. WTF? I don't think a typical user can understand the implications of these settings and make informed choices about using them.

She very often talks about how attached garages make houses much uglier, and ruin the aesthetics in a lot of cases. Check out the rest of her articles!

And? You'll fill it out, possibly lying, possibly not, and hand it back to them. They will not read it, they will serve you, and then they will attempt to get payment from you at some point in the future.

Having lived there and assuming they had an upbringing similar to the OP, then yes, I would. Like any city, there are parts that are safer than others. As long as I felt my children could understand the difference and were informed enough not to do anything too stupid, I'd be comfortable with them roaming around the city on their own for some things.

as in "connecting with the other side during deep meditation"

The other side of what? (Serious question - I don't understand what you're talking about.)

Here in the US, users avoid Verified by Visa (which I believe is the same thing) because it moves the burden of fraud onto the end user. Whenever that VBV page comes up, I immediately abort. I don't trust companies to keep my card data safe, so if the burden is suddenly on me, I'll just go without whatever I was going to buy if I can't get it elsewhere. It's that big of a deal. This is before we even get to technical issues or the UI/UX flow.

I tried to do this with Citibank a few years ago and couldn't get it to work. I don't know if the issue was something in my browser, or what, but it just wouldn't generate the numbers for me. After that, I gave up. Maybe it works better now?

Anyone know what's nearby there at about (32.92669, -111.922201)[0]? It looks like some sort of strip mine a few hundred feet to the north, so I assume it's related, but was just curious what it is. It looks like a painting!

[0] http://maps.apple.com/maps?ll=32.926699,-111.822201&spn=0.00...