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IPad Air 9.7". Notification centre on lock screen used to have two columns. I used to fill the screen with widgets and have it as a dashboard. Now due to various updates I'm stuck with one column and half the screen wasted. It's even worse on iPad Pro 12.9".

There's no apparent way to fix this bad UI design.

So now I have a raspberry pi do the same task with no issues. Bonus feature is that no update can remove this functionality again.

Most likely some kind of signalling behaviour.

Status signalling is what a particular kind of "rich" person does to indicate they are rich or high value. Often also used to bolster social capital. You see it when women buy extraordinarily expensive designer brand hand bags. Men buying sports cars but have no clue what is under the hood. The key element is not the actual product but the visible cost involved in actually purchasing it - expense as a feature.

I work in devops. So I can easily have quiet developer time and operational issues appearing out of nowhere. We're used to this mixture. "Crunch time" is only for short term thinking.

So, in a perfect day, do you want to be an employee mashing the keyboard all day with no break? Or just sitting there staring out the window? Logically both extremes are unrealistic.

Now, choose a reasonable mixture. Does that look like 75% mashing of keys / coding / meetings / etc and 25% staring out the window? Maybe it's 90/10? Or 60/40. No perfect answer exists: the only answer is "it depends".

A work week is not a sprint. It's more like a marathon. Each checkpoint is to be met. Slow down or speed up as necessary. This is how I experience dev ops. Some hours of a week are "get it done NOW". Others are "do nothing - all is calm". A few are "we'll need this next month, need to make some progress today". Plenty are "end of week" or "end of day" style tasks.

Results matter.

What is dark energy?

My free advice is : Pack your parachute before you need it - at least two years income saved to call yourself "financially secure".

Contentment is important. Figure it out.

Learn at least weekly. Better daily. Not just monthly or yearly.

Creepy. But then again if you make analogies for most web sites/services they get creepy real fast. This is how far things have moved since the previous "analog" days.

Protobuffers always seemed like an interesting approach but every time I've tried to use in a prototype I've ended up deciding against the added overhead of including them. And then I use JSON because I simply wanted versioned serialisation when messaging or persisting data.

Agreed. Games aren't the only thing people do with lots of cores / HEDT. Give me a 128 core machine and I'll happily keep them busy all day with work. No need for a heater either.

Does Intel really think this approach is good for them? As a technical person, all I see is a company in trouble with products they need to lie about. This goes beyond market speak - it's deceptive.

Looks good. Time to brush up on my websockets and glue this into something.

Another submission about cobol. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17979417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18110054

Guru meditation error.

When you write "modern" how long ago would that have been installed?

/me trying to get a handle on optical development.