If it's really 10 then they should label it as 10 not 7. That would be misleading to most people. Thanks for the insight.

I am an Apple and Linux fan and use both RHEL and OSX daily. Apple products work better for me than other OSs, and when I get home I don't have the patience to deal with Windows. YMMV and all that. We need OS options, a monoculture OS is as dangerous for everyone as a monoculture with seeds and for mostly the same reasons.

Apple / TSMC is already at 7nm in their Bionic 12, does that not count?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A12X

I played Falcon (3.0?) with my friend over a 9-pin serial cable made by Cables To Go in college... it was something like a 116 foot cable and I held on to it for many years afterward... good times :)

Apple products work for me, saving me time and frustration. They may not work for you. I am primarily interested in their benefits for me, and if I had to pay another 20% I would do it without much thought. YMMV.

I don't see the reason for all the bitterness that substitutes for real discourse around here. Sure it's funny at times but I really feel more often that I am wasting my time here with a quality of discussion that's on a downward spiral. And that's fucking sad because I've had some really interesting conversations here over the years.

Indexed annuities are one way to avoid the downside. One of my current investments capped out at 13%... then 11%... then 9% and I think today it's 8% for a 2-year point-to-point. That means your max is 8% credited every 2 years, with a minimum of 0%.

If you aren't familiar with how they work (from a consumer's perspective), you invest money in a particular stock market (Russell 2000, S&P 500, etc etc) and that day's level is your baseline. For a 2-year point-to-point the end level is compared to your baseline. If it went up, you get up to the max percent credited. If it went down, you lose nothing. Either way the new level is your new baseline.

What you really want is the new Snapdragon XRi. With eleven cameras built-in, it truly goes up to 11. Imagine being the envy of all your friends...

You can get pictures of yourself. Pictures of your friends. Pictures of that scary guy looking at you from behind. Pictures below you. Pictures above you. Pictures so you can watch yourself walk and make adjustments to really get your groove on. You will have so many fucking pictures you will need 2 Dropbox accounts just to keep your Camera uploads manageable.

Eleven. Cameras.
Is there anything better?

These are jobs in a place where jobs aren't plentiful. The workers can do this task indoors, which is more comfortable and inclusive than jobs which require physical labor. In an area where opportunities are scarce, this is a good opportunity and will lead to more tech jobs later... you have to get people around computers, and teach them not to be afraid of them, and familiarize them with how computers work. The more curious will want to study more, and there may be more computers available in the area... every little thing helps.

Instead of shooting it down because it's not up to your Western standards, look at it from the point of view of a smart person getting to put their hands on a computer and learn more about them. Yes it may be trivial work to you, but this gets them indoors where it's relatively safe and gives them a real positive opportunity.

It's wonderful to see that even in such harsh conditions, technology can give people an entirely new path and help them become free of some of the limitations of their situation. So much has depended on where you lived for the chances you had. This is just a start, eventually we will see tech jobs in important positions within every society. Anything helping people is great by me.

I would be constantly turning the page. I don't see the benefit for most people. Onionskin is not easy to turn, tears too easily... so many problems with this.

Put it to market and see what happens. Just because I don't like the idea and won't get a benefit doesn't mean it won't work for someone else.

I use an iPad to VPN into the network and RDP into servers to do what I need. I had an app for SSH awhile back but it was too quirky and I was actually less productive than just RDPing into a Windows server and SSHing from there to the various Linux servers I support.

The 10.5" iPad Pro has a very long battery life, connects to the VPN as fast as I can key in my password, and RDP has been solid. I have a Brydge keyboard which works well with it.

There are days at work where I want a 4th screen and the iPad Pro works well in that situation also.

Really for me, my MBP is taken out when I have a ton of typing to do (and want a big external keyboard), I need to work on a document type that can't be edited easily with the iPad Pro, when I need more than 1 monitor, and when I need to handle printing (my LaserJet, while networked, doesn't support wireless printing).

YMMV and all that.

Depending on who's involved, I might pay a few dollars to watch Charmander have a go at them. Maybe that can be the new basis upon which lawsuits are settled, a portion of the pay-per-view earnings. I'm not sure if this pushes us toward Mad Max or more towards Idiocracy, lately I feel as if I'm living in both worlds.

I make a judgment call on how much something costs and how likely I may need it later. For a faucet, you need to know the make and model so you can replace the cartridge 5-10 years later and sometimes the handles don't come off in an obvious manner. So yes I would have saved the faucet manual, it's just that I didn't purchase this one.

I think that's a great idea, let us pay the $5 for the printed manual. I would go a step further and have a kiosk at print shops / office supply stores that could print bound books on demand from online content. Printing / hole-punching / binding a 300-page RHEL course so I have something to scribble on would be great. Home laser printers don't produce great output for this especially if you're doing N-up or work with many gradients. A manual for a shop tool is no different -- some environments aren't great for electronics, and I'm getting too old to see tiny print, so printing it is worth a $5 charge to me.

How long must the manufacturer retain manuals online? All too often you can't see the manual for Rev A, they only have Rev D online. I'm not against electronic manuals but there are real conditions where a printed manual is of benefit. Maybe manuals could be treated like accessories, and you could buy the manual and have it shipped to you separately. I am aware that some manuals are available as replacement parts but it often isn't straightforward / cheap / simple to get these quickly and easily.

There was a project I read about some time ago, where a person could choose a book from a list and have it printed on demand -- this tech could work, maybe put a kiosk in an office supply store or print shop with this functionality. A Makers moment of some import, yes?

You bring up a good point, that is many modern manuals lack organization. There just isn't as much thought put into it when searching the entire content is easy.

Conversely, sometimes context matters and a search through a large tome reveals dozens of hits for a term. It's in those cases that you appreciate the time and effort someone put into properly arranging and indexing the content. It's almost a lost skill.