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166,253 | null | null | How do you know it's "very very fine" if you've never had it? Is that something like the emperor's very fine clothes? | null | dwringer | null | 1,504,550,882 | "2017-09-04T18:48:02Z" | comment | 15,170,118 | 15,168,866 | null | null | null |
166,254 | null | null | It's actually faster than using BankId. And BankId is not a requirement, there's usually always an alternative. | null | beshrkayali | null | 1,628,665,771 | "2021-08-11T07:09:31Z" | comment | 28,138,982 | 28,132,984 | null | null | null |
166,255 | null | null | I wonder if there's an equivalent "hardcore" curriculum for computer science and/or software development and programming vs a softcore "US" curriculum. Would SICP be the hardcore version vs HtDP/PAPL be the softer "US" version? | null | 8589934591 | null | 1,628,665,746 | "2021-08-11T07:09:06Z" | comment | 28,138,981 | 28,112,797 | null | null | null |
166,256 | null | null | I downvote every comment that complains about being downvoted, for what it's worth. Let the chips fall where they may, the place to discuss why something is or isn't downvoted is somewhere else, never in the replies to a comment that's purportedly about something substantial. | null | savanaly | null | 1,504,550,879 | "2017-09-04T18:47:59Z" | comment | 15,170,117 | 15,169,489 | null | null | null |
166,257 | null | null | Bitcoin has chosen consistency with its original principles over "innovation." A good choice, in my book.<p>What we should think of as constituting sound money has not changed since 2008.<p>That is what bitcoin is supposed to be - sound money.<p>Ethereum is supposed to be something else - and it makes sense for Ethereum to "innovate" much more than bitcoin does. | null | javert | null | 1,628,665,821 | "2021-08-11T07:10:21Z" | comment | 28,138,987 | 28,138,877 | null | null | null |
166,258 | null | null | Anything over 100 and I'm feeling uncomfortable. Practically speaking what happens is you stay inside and get good air filters if you have to go outside. | null | yosito | null | 1,628,665,796 | "2021-08-11T07:09:56Z" | comment | 28,138,985 | 28,137,990 | null | null | null |
166,259 | null | null | FYI, there are a variety of Org parsing libraries outside of Emacs. Some of them even appear to be robust and well-developed. I collected a list here: <a href="https://alphapapa.github.io/org-almanac/#Parsing" rel="nofollow">https://alphapapa.github.io/org-almanac/#Parsing</a> | null | githubalphapapa | null | 1,628,665,787 | "2021-08-11T07:09:47Z" | comment | 28,138,984 | 28,101,246 | null | null | null |
166,260 | null | null | If you believe Mark Zuckerberg is a saint. | null | babesh | null | 1,610,450,769 | "2021-01-12T11:26:09Z" | comment | 25,745,407 | 25,745,342 | null | null | null |
166,261 | null | null | > The Republicans have issued a rebuttal. I assume this means they support torture.<p>> Clapper has issued a rebuttal, claiming that the report isn't neutral. I assume he also supports torture.<p>If I write, 'cryoshon eats babies,' and Jimbo replies, 'no he doesn't; he eats eggs, and besides he was starving,' then that doesn't mean that Jimbo supports baby-eating: it means that he doesn't believe that eating eggs is eating babies.<p>There is a minority report which rebuts this one, and the CIA itself have issued their own rebuttal. Now, those could be non-rebuttals entirely of the form, 'doesn't matter, it worked' or they could be rebuttals of the form, 'the worst stuff you mention never happened; the rest of it is unpleasant but legal, and effective.'<p>They could also be true, or false—as could this report. | null | wtbob | null | 1,418,168,758 | "2014-12-09T23:45:58Z" | comment | 8,726,638 | 8,724,234 | null | null | null |
166,262 | null | null | If that were the case, then it wouldn't be embraced by the ever more intelligent public. | null | douglaswlance | null | 1,538,141,115 | "2018-09-28T13:25:15Z" | comment | 18,093,093 | 18,093,056 | null | null | null |
166,263 | null | null | > But if I was presented with a game of similar magnitude today I'd have a pretty muted reaction<p>Or maybe not. I'm yet to see any modern game that would even remotely approach the magnitude of SC2. So far, the closest competitor was the original Mass Effect game, itself clearly influenced by Star Control games, but even it failed to surpass it. | null | Andrew_nenakhov | null | 1,614,974,258 | "2021-03-05T19:57:38Z" | comment | 26,361,314 | 26,360,930 | null | null | null |
166,264 | null | null | We keep finding new ways to make fission safer and reducing risk of runaway scenario but I'm pretty sure we'll never reach zero risk. Sure we might reach it on paper but human error can always happen. Chernobyl operators thought their reactor design had zero risk of exploding, current reactors are much safer but I'm pretty sure the risk isn't zero. | null | Ixio | null | 1,614,974,280 | "2021-03-05T19:58:00Z" | comment | 26,361,315 | 26,361,147 | null | null | null |
166,265 | null | null | Only public symbols and unwinding information is extracted from Arch packages because they don't have debuginfo like other distros. It's better than nothing. | null | gsvelto | null | 1,621,486,716 | "2021-05-20T04:58:36Z" | comment | 27,217,548 | 27,215,336 | null | null | null |
166,266 | null | null | Can you get fiat money from the decentralized exchanges? It was my understanding they would only work to swap one token for another. | null | riffraff | null | 1,621,486,729 | "2021-05-20T04:58:49Z" | comment | 27,217,549 | 27,217,262 | null | null | null |
166,267 | null | null | Trying my best! This is really confusing stuff, and I probably shouldn't have come out so hot with "This is false." Safari's rollout of ITP broke my company's code three times over, so I've been in the weeds on this for a while.<p>I think you're missing that setting cookies alone isn't what allowed evil.com to sync identities. They needed to set the cookie from one site, and receive that same cookie when the user visited a different site.<p>With CNAME cloaking, it's true that EvilCo can set cookies on both evil.foo.com and evil.bar.com. But when a user is on evil.foo.com, there's no way to make a request to evil.bar.com that includes evil.bar.com's cookies. This is the mechanism that stops syncing identities.<p>Does that help? | null | thrwwy0304 | null | 1,614,974,243 | "2021-03-05T19:57:23Z" | comment | 26,361,310 | 26,358,784 | null | null | null |
166,268 | null | null | I wonder if the facility will be called a SPARCstation. | null | reaperducer | null | 1,614,974,248 | "2021-03-05T19:57:28Z" | comment | 26,361,311 | 26,360,458 | null | null | null |
166,269 | null | null | The political scientist Morris Fiorina is who you want to start with. His book "Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America" provides a great overview with lots of data.<p>A central finding is precisely that people appear polarized when you measure badly, but when you really delve into their nuanced beliefs with better surveys and more accurate questions, the bell curve is apparent everywhere and polarization disappears.<p>And I don't know where one sees non-normal preference patterns. Regulation is a great example -- very few people believe in zero regulation, and very few in extreme regulation. People overwhelmingly prefer a moderate amount. Of course, whatever the objective measurement is, you may need a logarithmic scale or something else for it to show up as truly Gaussian -- as well as not limiting the range of responses. But on any modern issue of society-wide disagreement, one virtually always finds it to have a single central peak (as opposed to two peaks or more, or increasing/decreasing monotonically). | null | crazygringo | null | 1,614,974,249 | "2021-03-05T19:57:29Z" | comment | 26,361,312 | 26,361,139 | null | null | null |
166,270 | null | null | You are misrepresenting my comment, which I wrote only because you said "I feel like I've learned literally nothing from any of them".<p>I indicated that affect, not consciousness, is imagined. Furthermore, I indicated (which you entirely overlooked) that consciousness is independent of affect. Take that as a working theory, and you just might discover something new.<p>Discard whatever you've read in the last 10-15 years, and start afresh; otherwise, you'll just be rehashing the same old same old. | null | cobraetor | null | 1,614,974,251 | "2021-03-05T19:57:31Z" | comment | 26,361,313 | 26,347,792 | null | null | null |
166,271 | null | null | As of some years ago, Asterix, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's more specialized software nowadays. | null | rhizome | null | 1,621,486,655 | "2021-05-20T04:57:35Z" | comment | 27,217,542 | 27,217,516 | null | null | null |
166,272 | null | null | RSS didn’t completely die, it’s used for podcasts still for example. | null | willio58 | null | 1,621,486,675 | "2021-05-20T04:57:55Z" | comment | 27,217,543 | 27,210,819 | null | null | null |
166,273 | null | null | Pay for it and stop being greedy. | null | DSingularity | null | 1,621,486,642 | "2021-05-20T04:57:22Z" | comment | 27,217,540 | 27,217,321 | null | null | null |
166,274 | null | null | >A few lines down in your link you have this: "At about Mach 2, a typical wing design will cut its L/D ratio in half (e.g., Concorde managed a ratio of 7.14, whereas the subsonic Boeing 747 has an L/D ratio of 17)".<p>Do you not understand what that means? It's literally proving my point. Thanks for agreeing with me.<p>>Sure, at trans-sonic speeds the coefficient of drag is horrible, but a supersonic commercial jet doesn't spend more than the minimum time necessary in that speed range.<p>And the wave drag is still bad even at super sonic speeds. The jets still have to spend a significant amount of time subsonic even if it's minimalized, it's still a significant amount.<p>>What's more, improvements are possible even for the trans-sonic range. The planned Concorde B was projected to have dramatic fuel consumption improvement of 25% at Mach 1.2 [1].<p>Still worse than subsonic at that time. Since then, subsoni, high bypass engine design has made that gap even wider.<p>So still, no, it's a matter of physics. | true | throwaway00127 | null | 1,621,486,647 | "2021-05-20T04:57:27Z" | comment | 27,217,541 | 27,216,744 | null | null | null |
166,275 | null | null | 1) Real juries perform exactly as you describe. The vast majority of people want to get out. This is not different<p>2) That's exactly the point. If a group of random people can't agree that some post is hate speech, then its not hate speech beyond reasonable doubt. | null | IG_Semmelweiss | null | 1,621,486,708 | "2021-05-20T04:58:28Z" | comment | 27,217,546 | 27,217,502 | null | null | null |
166,276 | null | null | Well, Facebook is free to ban anybody from using their services, since it is a private platform. If Rossmann wants, he can start his own billion dollar social network and post whatever he likes over there. | null | perryizgr8 | null | 1,621,486,713 | "2021-05-20T04:58:33Z" | comment | 27,217,547 | 27,216,631 | null | null | null |
166,277 | null | null | Everything is a numbers game. Taking revenue from phone companies allowing this to happen is the only way to squash it. | null | spicybright | null | 1,621,486,689 | "2021-05-20T04:58:09Z" | comment | 27,217,544 | 27,217,530 | null | null | null |
166,278 | null | null | Fiat is intentionally worthless in the future to encourage you to spend it. | null | arcticbull | null | 1,621,486,699 | "2021-05-20T04:58:19Z" | comment | 27,217,545 | 27,217,355 | null | null | null |
166,279 | null | null | Okay, so pay those poop-doctors double salary? They're basically gastrointestinal plumbers. | null | dheera | null | 1,637,516,776 | "2021-11-21T17:46:16Z" | comment | 29,298,105 | 29,292,394 | null | null | null |
166,280 | null | null | This story is incredibly common amongst my age group (40) in tech. What is the common story amongst those that are 30? 20? | null | spullara | null | 1,365,280,907 | "2013-04-06T20:41:47Z" | comment | 5,504,967 | 5,504,401 | null | null | null |
166,281 | null | null | I had a case where using the "for free" academic HPC cluster was <i>so</i> inconvenient that we used only in very few cases when we needed very large amounts of compute, and for any smaller tasks using the commercial cloud solutions saved enough time/salaries so that they were worthwhile even purely from cost perspective. Also, for academic purposes it was possible to get quite large amounts of cloud computing for free, so most users never bothered to even try to approach the academic HPC environment as it had no advantages whatsoever. | null | PeterisP | null | 1,637,516,772 | "2021-11-21T17:46:12Z" | comment | 29,298,104 | 29,295,740 | null | null | null |
166,282 | null | null | The frustrating thing about this is SO has the potential to be much more valuable than a blog post. An SO answer will get a lot more eyeballs than a personal blog, and has built-in and well-understood capabilities for community collaboration and updates.<p>Say you find a bug with Product X v1, create a workaround, and post it to your blog. In V2, the problem has been fixed, or exists in a slightly different incarnation with a slightly different workaround that someone figures out only after reading your content. Maybe they'll leave a comment on your blog about it, but you don't really have any incentive to update it. If your post was an SO question, they could post another answer or make an edit, and the page becomes the canonical source for information about the bug. | null | nlawalker | null | 1,436,629,573 | "2015-07-11T15:46:13Z" | comment | 9,870,176 | 9,870,052 | null | null | null |
166,283 | null | null | It's simple: no laptop compares to the mac. Believe me, I want to use a different laptop. There is nothing on the market with the build quality, touchpad, screen, and operating system.<p>The developer community for macs has completely dominated the market for so long that virtually everything I need is first-class supported. | null | qudat | null | 1,542,947,361 | "2018-11-23T04:29:21Z" | comment | 18,514,359 | 18,511,540 | null | null | null |
166,284 | null | null | Wondering why again SAP isn't even mentioned... | null | erikb | null | 1,542,947,360 | "2018-11-23T04:29:20Z" | comment | 18,514,358 | 18,509,465 | null | null | null |
166,285 | null | null | 1. For <i>inventions,</i> several U.S. states have law protecting employee's off-duty rights in a manner somewhat similar to California. See:<p>Del. Code. Ann. 805 <a href="http://delcode.delaware.gov/title19/c008/index.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://delcode.delaware.gov/title19/c008/index.shtml</a><p>765 Ill. Code 1060 <a href="http://law.justia.com/illinois/codes/2005/chapter62/2238.html" rel="nofollow">http://law.justia.com/illinois/codes/2005/chapter62/2238.htm...</a><p>Minn. Stat. 181.78 <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=181.78" rel="nofollow">https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=181.78</a><p>N.C. Gen. Stat. 66-57.1 <a href="http://law.onecle.com/north-carolina/66-commerce-and-business/66-57.1.html" rel="nofollow">http://law.onecle.com/north-carolina/66-commerce-and-busines...</a><p>Wash. Rev. Code 49.44.140 <a href="http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=49.44.140" rel="nofollow">http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=49.44.140</a><p>(This list is taken from a treatise on software law I published a number of years back; more states may have enacted similar laws since then.)<p>-------------<p>2. For <i>copyright</i> ownership, in the U.S., and I think in quite a few other countries, a company's ownership of an employee's "work of authorship" would depend on whether the work was either:<p>(i) a work made for hire, usually meaning created "within the scope of employment" - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire</a> ; or<p>(ii) assigned to the employer - which an employment contract might require the employee to do. | null | dctoedt | null | 1,291,500,468 | "2010-12-04T22:07:48Z" | comment | 1,970,276 | 1,969,979 | null | null | null |
166,286 | null | null | Yes, I've lived in Paradise many years and was in town for the 2008 fire. I heard that since the 2008 fire the town debated making bigger roads but instead decided on breaking the town into zones and evacuating by zone. This fire was very unusual in that within a couple of hours it seemed to have spread to many location across town. At my location by 745am (the fire begin 10 miles from town at 630am) there were many bits of burnt bark and leaves raining down all around. Many of these were likely falling in different locations as embers. The town is in an area of frequent fires, it's not uncommon to have nearby fires, they generally move in the order of a day so a zoned evacuation in many normal cases could work. I've never seen a fire that moved this quickly. | null | psynch | null | 1,542,947,227 | "2018-11-23T04:27:07Z" | comment | 18,514,351 | 18,513,673 | null | null | null |
166,287 | null | null | I've heard (and understand) that print a touchscreen in a Mac is never going to happen. iOS is their touch platform, and they have no interest in changing that. | null | sircastor | null | 1,542,947,204 | "2018-11-23T04:26:44Z" | comment | 18,514,350 | 18,513,503 | null | null | null |
166,288 | null | null | How dare they meddle in our election, said the country who has meddled in hundreds of elections and set up countless coups. | null | ehsankia | null | 1,542,947,303 | "2018-11-23T04:28:23Z" | comment | 18,514,353 | 18,514,292 | null | null | null |
166,289 | null | null | Except I live neara wildfire zone and there is a nearby college where their plan is to shelter in place, and this plan worked for a wildfire that burned down several buildings on the campus.<p>Though i was wrong about the no vegetation zone; it's 200 feet, not 20 | null | aidenn0 | null | 1,542,947,332 | "2018-11-23T04:28:52Z" | comment | 18,514,355 | 18,513,455 | null | null | null |
166,290 | null | null | Git design is surprisingly clean and simple. The main issue of git is its CLI and commands naming. They are indeed unclear. But again, concept behind is absolutely amazing. You just need to understand that git repo is a series of snapshots and after that all other details become clear. | null | sigsergv | null | 1,542,947,319 | "2018-11-23T04:28:39Z" | comment | 18,514,354 | 18,512,989 | null | null | null |
166,291 | null | null | > <i>A senior marketer for a large American bank says Facebook has made mistakes on measuring engagement, reach, views and other data for no fewer than 43 products. All of the mistakes, he notes, worked in the social-networking giant’s favour. “If these were true errors, wouldn’t you expect at least half to benefit marketers?” he asks. He expects to reduce how much his firm spends on Facebook and predicts that other marketers will as well next year.</i><p>I chuckle at how repeatedly human nature leads to surprise when “our son of a bitch” [1] turns out to be its own son of a bitch.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasio_Somoza_Garc%C3%ADa" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasio_Somoza_Garc%C3%ADa</a> | null | JumpCrisscross | null | 1,542,947,342 | "2018-11-23T04:29:02Z" | comment | 18,514,356 | 18,514,322 | null | null | null |
166,292 | null | null | make boobs | true | PornAddict | null | 1,585,933,387 | "2020-04-03T17:03:07Z" | comment | 22,771,485 | 22,767,842 | null | null | null |
166,293 | null | null | Are you suggesting it wasn’t known that battery replacements were available for iPhones? I know I personally replaced several batteries over the years in iPhones, I don’t think that was a big secret. There were shops you could drop your phone off at and have anew battery put in for fifty bucks in an hour overseas at least. | null | jki275 | null | 1,585,933,375 | "2020-04-03T17:02:55Z" | comment | 22,771,484 | 22,770,150 | null | null | null |
166,294 | null | null | Yeah, I teach python to elementary and middle schoolers. The first lesson is getting everything installed and maybe explaining the basics of how files work on computers. PythonAnywhere is a really good idea though, I should look into that... | null | totemandtoken | null | 1,585,933,400 | "2020-04-03T17:03:20Z" | comment | 22,771,487 | 22,771,242 | null | null | null |
166,295 | null | null | Research In Motion (RIM) later renamed to BlackBerry Ltd. 37Signals renamed to Basecamp. I wonder if at some point Apple Inc. would rename to iPhone Inc. | null | smnrchrds | null | 1,585,933,368 | "2020-04-03T17:02:48Z" | comment | 22,771,481 | 22,771,397 | null | null | null |
166,296 | null | null | Seems safer to me to park CPUs in known safe spots where they can spin until modification is complete. CPUs could check if there's a pending patch when they attempt to reschedule, and when all CPUs apart from the patching CPU are safe, then the patch can go ahead.<p>Trying to retry an operation (so it's transparent from the user's perspective) or reset state to the way it was at the time of the protection fault sounds harder to my mind.<p>PS: I looked at the ftrace doc linked above, and it's architecture dependent of course, but for ftrace's purposes, they use generally use breakpoints on the place being modified. | null | barrkel | null | 1,585,933,364 | "2020-04-03T17:02:44Z" | comment | 22,771,480 | 22,770,708 | null | null | null |
166,297 | null | null | It's hard to be like "omg everyone should have food, shelter and sanitation" and "omg climate change from overpopulation"... There's even a national security memorandum from back in the 1960s discussing various population restriction methods.<p>Just throwing that out there. | null | kyuudou | null | 1,585,933,374 | "2020-04-03T17:02:54Z" | comment | 22,771,483 | 22,770,514 | null | null | null |
166,298 | null | null | My guess we will be out of quarantine by memorial day. | null | ipunchghosts | null | 1,585,933,373 | "2020-04-03T17:02:53Z" | comment | 22,771,482 | 22,770,779 | null | null | null |
166,299 | null | null | PPE is very hard to get right now and obviously it is not possible to protect everyone perfectly. Demanding change without a solution is not reasonable. Nor is it reasonable to expect things to be perfect in a difficult/fast-moving situation, with various constraints like limited supply chains and inability to alter physical spaces significantly in warehouses. I for one am very happy that online shopping is available, since it enables social distancing more broadly. Amazon also seems to have made a large number of changes, and the evidence is that they've been doing so for weeks, well before recent news media focus on them.<p>See <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/02/amazon-begins-running-temperature-checks-and-will-provide-surgical-masks-at-warehouses/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/02/amazon-begins-running-temp...</a><p>> Employees will also be provided with surgical masks starting next week, the company says, once it receives shipments of orders of “millions” placed a few weeks ago.<p>From <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm8bx/leaked-amazon-memo-details-plan-to-smear-fired-warehouse-organizer-hes-not-smart-or-articulate" rel="nofollow">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm8bx/leaked-amazon-memo...</a><p>> Zapolsky’s notes imply the company’s attempts to purchase N95 masks from China fell through. “China has deemed N95 masks as ‘strategic,’” Zapolsky wrote. “They’re keeping them for optionality. They also want to use them for ‘diplomacy.’ The masks in China that we thought we had probably got redirected by profiteers.”<p>And <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-warehouse-essential-goods-only/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-warehouse-essential-goods...</a> for changes to stock essential goods.<p>> “We are seeing increased online shopping, and as a result some products such as household staples and medical supplies are out of stock,” reads an announcement on Amazon’s official forum for sellers. “With this in mind, we are temporarily prioritizing household staples, medical supplies, and other high-demand products coming into our fulfillment centers so that we can more quickly receive, restock, and deliver these products to customers.”<p>And <a href="https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/update-from-amazons-operations-network" rel="nofollow">https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/update-from-amazon...</a><p>> To date, we’ve made over 150 significant process changes to ensure the health and safety of our teams. We’ve shared details on the safety precautions we’ve taken to date on the Day One Blog, and today, I want to give an update.<p>> Disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer are already standard across our network, and the procurement teams have worked tirelessly to create new sources of supply to keep these critical items flowing. The millions of masks we ordered weeks ago are now arriving, and we’re distributing them to our teams as quickly as possible. Masks will be available as soon as today in some locations and in all locations by early next week. Any N-95 masks we receive we are either donating to healthcare workers on the front lines or making them available through Amazon Business to healthcare and government organizations at cost.<p>> We’re conducting daily audits of the new health and safety measures we’ve put into place. We’ve shared some of the photos of these measures here. We also assigned some of our top machine learning technologists to capture opportunities to improve social distancing in our buildings using our internal camera systems. With over 1,000 sites around the world, and so many measures and precautions rapidly rolled out over the past several weeks, there may be instances where we don’t get it perfect, but I can assure you that’s just what they’ll be—exceptions.<p>> Finally, I can’t stress enough how much I appreciate our teams for serving their communities. If someone would rather not come to work, we are supporting them in their time off. If someone is diagnosed or comes to us who is presumptively diagnosed (but unable to get a test), we are giving them extra paid time off. In addition, we are also contacting people who have been in close contact with a diagnosed individual and giving them time off as well, for 14 days, to stay home with pay.<p>There's even more that Amazon has done in response to COVID-19 at <a href="https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazons-actions-to-help-employees-communities-and-customers-affected-by-covid-19" rel="nofollow">https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazons-actions-to...</a>. I really don't get what all the outrage is about. It seems like a manufactured crisis, amplified by a series of biased news outlets, in order to push a narrative against big corporations, presumably in favor of unionization. | null | throwawaysea | null | 1,585,933,421 | "2020-04-03T17:03:41Z" | comment | 22,771,489 | 22,770,092 | null | null | null |
166,300 | null | null | The lowest common denominator I had to deal with were some quite expensive, for the hardware, Arris devices. Roughly 10 times slower than a 2 core skylake and similar. I wish I was joking. As you say, people have no idea what slow is until they have to code for these.<p>I've played with some fairly decent machines as well. Quite a bit faster and cheaper but you can't just magically replacement millions of devices every time something new comes along | null | beebeepka | null | 1,631,041,809 | "2021-09-07T19:10:09Z" | comment | 28,448,619 | 28,437,490 | null | null | null |
166,301 | null | null | Is backend code for this and the design for the server architecture backing it open source? It's quite a feat to host a computing experience like this for so many people for free. | null | fny | null | 1,432,783,118 | "2015-05-28T03:18:38Z" | comment | 9,615,879 | 9,595,579 | null | null | null |
166,302 | null | null | In a relatedly similar way, you can define fractional B-splines. The nth order B-spline is the n+1-fold convolution of a box function. n+1 convolutions turn into raising the fourier transform of the box function to the n+1 power in the fourier domain. This generalizes to non-integer powers. Then you just invert. Cool stuff :) | null | chestervonwinch | null | 1,432,783,105 | "2015-05-28T03:18:25Z" | comment | 9,615,878 | 9,613,048 | null | null | null |
166,303 | null | null | > Are the sanctions against Russia meant to change Russia's warmongering behavior, or are they meant to save the environment?<p>it is, as I said above, not an either-or. The environmental benefits (which might be a good step, but will not be in themselves enough to "save" anyone) are outside of the consideration, and not the matter at hand. I thought that was clearly phrased.<p>Rather, removing Russia, or other petrostates ability to blackmail with energy supply, makes them less likely to warmonger. Russia's warmongering is very much supported with oil and gas leverage - i.e. threats of "don't interfere or you'll go cold". Like the other reply says - if bullies no longer have a hold over you, you'll get less bullying. It's a poor assumption that Russian leadership will be better or even different in nature any time soon, Putin or not. And it's good for European domestic politics as well, to be less concerned with appeasing other powers, especially dictators. | null | SideburnsOfDoom | null | 1,664,224,099 | "2022-09-26T20:28:19Z" | comment | 32,987,917 | 32,987,861 | null | null | null |
166,304 | null | null | The elites in the UK won't invest in the UK. They'd rather invest in the USA.<p>Its time for a Land to the Tiller type manifesto. | null | theironhammer | null | 1,664,224,095 | "2022-09-26T20:28:15Z" | comment | 32,987,916 | 32,980,022 | null | null | null |
166,305 | null | null | <i>>If it is considered whining to expect some compensation for what amounts to another full-time job, then we should not expect anyone to stick with it for very long.</i><p>It's whining to expect compensation when a person knew what they were getting into or decides to stick with it even after it becomes more than they thought they were getting into & complains about compensation.<p>Not sticking with it for long is exactly what I think people should do when it grows beyond their desire to devote so much time to it. If I created a charity and it grew to the point where I didn't have enough time to run it, and couldn't get enough donations to cover my financial needs if I stopped my normal job, I wouldn't write blog posts about how "The model for running charities is broken because volunteers can't get paid enough to keep them running!" If no one else was interested in running it I'd scale things back or gently, perhaps regretfully, wind things down.<p>An OSS project is essentially a charity organization. And, while developers may not like it, charitable organizations that reach even modest sizes have to spend a significant amount of time soliciting donations & volunteer time. St. Jude's couldn't function and wouldn't be such a highly successful charity without having built up such a newtwork and put in that effort.<p>OSS doesn't need a compensation model because one already exists-- that of other charities. For projects that get large enough to start experiencing problems like this I'd encourage them to incorporate as a charity, a 501(c)(3) in the US. That gives them an excellent pathway towards covering labor or other costs and provides an excellent pathway for corporate users to contribute financial resources in formal & tax deductible fashion than when someone puts up a paypal donate button or similar. | null | ineedasername | null | 1,664,224,088 | "2022-09-26T20:28:08Z" | comment | 32,987,915 | 32,983,988 | null | null | null |
166,306 | null | null | The biggest problem is not support for the instruction set in the silicon, but the performance penalty it brings.<p>SIMD hardware is the most power hungry block on Intel CPUs, and the frequency penalty it brings is never completely disclosed in the tech docs. Even Intel doesn't share that information with you (as a serious customer) sometimes.<p>In HPC world, no instruction is too obscure or niche to use. However, when you use these instructions too frequently, the heat load it generates can slow you down instead of accelerating you over the course of your job, so AVX512 is a pretty mixed case in Intel CPUs.<p>Regardless of this penalty, numeric code benefits from wider SIMD pipelines in most cases. At worst, you see no speedup, but you're investing for the future.<p>On the other hand, we have seen applications which run faster on previous generation hardware due to over-optimization. | null | bayindirh | null | 1,664,224,086 | "2022-09-26T20:28:06Z" | comment | 32,987,914 | 32,987,192 | null | null | null |
166,307 | null | null | Java's type safety is far far weaker than Rust's and it doesn't have the borrowing system, so you don't get the "if it compiles it works" experience you do in Rust and (so I'm told) Haskell.<p>It does have a very mature server side web ecosystem so it's a perfectly reasonable option. I've written Java web servers before and it was fine.<p>I wouldn't use it for client side though (a la GWT). Debugging nightmare. | null | IshKebab | null | 1,664,224,085 | "2022-09-26T20:28:05Z" | comment | 32,987,912 | 32,984,580 | null | null | null |
166,308 | null | null | Ah yes, selenium is definitely too much overhead for load testing. You will get much better cost, performance and control with jmeter. There’s also much less to develop once you know how to use it. You can also play back recorded sessions and parameterize variables if you want to design traffic in the browser.<p>There are a handful of great technical manuals in the way of books about JMeter. Search Amazon for jmeter and you will find some current ones. I read one and it was really helpful, just can’t remember which. They all look pretty good though. | null | i_like_apis | null | 1,664,224,076 | "2022-09-26T20:27:56Z" | comment | 32,987,911 | 32,987,133 | null | null | null |
166,309 | null | null | Hate away, but in this case I'm on Apple's side here. The author may be the exception where no updates are actually needed, but that does seem to be the exception. In my experience, most iOS apps I've tried downloading that were last updated 2-3 years ago simply don't work.<p>Apple requires an update in the past 3 years or else a minimum threshold of downloads. Presumably the latter is required so there are simply enough newer reviews to indicate whether it's broken (lots of 1-star) or not. These seem like pretty reasonable indicators that it's still working.<p>> <i>My old code simply did not work anymore with the latest versions of Xcode. So I had to spend four hours on Saturday upgrading all my platform libraries simply so that I could compile the damn app.</i><p>Honestly that's just good hygiene. Because if they waited another 2 years, it might have taken 4 days to get the thing working. New versions of libraries come with all sorts of improvements, whether it's for accessibility or security or a hundred other things.<p>It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that if you're maintaining software in a public app store, you should be able to compile it semi-regularly with new versions of packages. | null | crazygringo | null | 1,664,224,074 | "2022-09-26T20:27:54Z" | comment | 32,987,910 | 32,987,028 | null | null | null |
166,310 | null | null | The general idea is real: Abstaining from an activity for a while can make it more enjoyable.<p>But the "dopamine fasting" trend has evolved into a weird extremist version of this where people try to avoid <i>everything</i> that might be enjoyable for a while.<p>The catch, of course, is that you don't have to avoid <i>everything</i> enjoyable to rekindle that feeling of enjoyment for returning to <i>specific</i> things.<p>These people would be far happier if they simply used their downtime to go exercise, or go for a walk, or socialize, or volunteer, or call up old friends. You don't have to be miserable to restore the enjoyment of something. Just do <i>something else</i> for a while instead of being chronically online all day every day. | null | PragmaticPulp | null | 1,637,516,780 | "2021-11-21T17:46:20Z" | comment | 29,298,106 | 29,297,655 | null | null | null |
166,311 | null | null | I think players (and coaches) are breaking tablets because they are upset, not because they are trying to make a political statement. | null | fred_is_fred | null | 1,664,224,104 | "2022-09-26T20:28:24Z" | comment | 32,987,919 | 32,986,973 | null | null | null |
166,312 | null | null | > It's amazing how quick Google picks up changes to Wordpress.com blogs.<p>Via PubSubHubBub, right? <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/03/03/wordpress-pubsubhubbub/" rel="nofollow">http://mashable.com/2010/03/03/wordpress-pubsubhubbub/</a> | null | Maxious | null | 1,317,224,874 | "2011-09-28T15:47:54Z" | comment | 3,048,459 | 3,048,316 | null | null | null |
166,313 | null | null | Reading can be passive or active. As an active reader I highlight and annotate my books, so the keyboard is invaluable for me. | null | achompas | null | 1,317,224,873 | "2011-09-28T15:47:53Z" | comment | 3,048,458 | 3,048,119 | null | null | null |
166,314 | null | null | It's powered by a WebKit engine. Amazon Silk jobs are asking for Webkit engineers [1]. Presumably, they've modded the underlying Android browser.<p>[1] <a href="https://us-amazon.icims.com/jobs/152694/job?in_iframe=1" rel="nofollow">https://us-amazon.icims.com/jobs/152694/job?in_iframe=1</a> | null | cshenoy | null | 1,317,224,817 | "2011-09-28T15:46:57Z" | comment | 3,048,452 | 3,048,383 | null | null | null |
166,315 | null | null | On the page I link to, Amazon says "We've refactored and rebuilt the browser software stack to push pieces of the computation into the AWS cloud. This lets Silk do more work, more quickly, and all at once. We call this “split browser” architecture."<p>Computation (in the context of webpages) indicates JS to me, though they concievably could mean DOM construction. I'm fairly skeptical that transmitting a serialized DOM and unpacking it could be more efficient over mobile network connections that is using our time-honored DOM serialization, HTML.<p>I do hope I'm wrong, as I can't see how this sort of proxy can be healthy for the web, but I don't think my speculations are out if the realm of reasonable given the information. | null | moxiemk1 | null | 1,317,224,808 | "2011-09-28T15:46:48Z" | comment | 3,048,451 | 3,048,275 | null | null | null |
166,316 | null | null | >> Go and actually read Popper and you'll find he was close to a free speak maximalist his views on when you shouldn't "tolerate" intolerance was an incredibly high bar that almost nothing ever hits.<p>> So, I should read 25 books to verify that your one sentence claim is valid?<p>> Why not back that up with some relevant quotes to support your thesis, friend? That seems a decent thing to do compared to the litany of homework you callously threw at me.<p>Your snark isn't warranted. The Wiki article you yourself cited says where Popper introduced the concept and even speaks about what his limitations were.<p>I will let you read that again to find them, rather than providing a quote. | null | tablespoon | null | 1,631,041,806 | "2021-09-07T19:10:06Z" | comment | 28,448,618 | 28,448,015 | null | null | null |
166,317 | null | null | What I want to see is how the app market will pan out. I can only assume (and didn't previously consider) that this will not carry Google branding at all - that means the Android Market, Gmail, Maps, etc, apps will all be missing.<p>The Android Market would be the big loss here. Amazon seems to take more control over the selling of your product than you do once you submit to their Appstore, but if you want to show up on their tablets, you won't have a choice. | null | Batsu | null | 1,317,224,870 | "2011-09-28T15:47:50Z" | comment | 3,048,457 | 3,047,786 | null | null | null |
166,318 | null | null | Again, ask an average person, and they won't recognize even 5 products in that list. The only things in that list they <i>might</i> recognize is Google+ and Inbox, both of which aren't even dead yet. | null | ehsankia | null | 1,547,321,080 | "2019-01-12T19:24:40Z" | comment | 18,892,817 | 18,888,703 | null | null | null |
166,319 | null | null | To reference back to the article about Goldman Sachs analysts from yesterday, I think this helps explain why investment bankers can always change jobs. You market yourself off of deals you have worked on and offer a nugget from each one to a potential employer. “This IPO showed that investors value growth over cash flow right now, I can help position your company for growth investors”. That resonates if you are interviewing for a Corp dev, c-suite role or if you want to be hired as their banker. | null | chrisgd | null | 1,616,352,485 | "2021-03-21T18:48:05Z" | comment | 26,532,813 | 26,531,297 | null | null | null |
166,320 | null | null | As someone with a blog, the size of my audience matters a lot, knowing I actually have people reading what I put out there matters a lot. Having people interact with my content or tell me it helped them sure does motivate me as well.<p>If I lost my search engine traffic that'd account for half of my daily traffic. (only around 500-600 people so not huge) If that happened that'd be pretty demotivating. | null | mfjordvald | null | 1,403,107,734 | "2014-06-18T16:08:54Z" | comment | 7,910,878 | 7,910,672 | null | null | null |
166,321 | null | null | Where's the source code? Creating a closed-source cryptosystem is generally a bad idea.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle</a><p>> You may not distribute or redistribute this software without permission.<p>This is a turn-off. MIT/BSD/GPL/WTFPL licensing is more likely to gain rapport with hackers than non-free software.<p>> The keyfile is secured by a password using PKCS #5 (PBKDF2) with a SHA512/Whirlpool based HMAC using 100000 iterations and also AES and Twofish.<p>This sentence makes me greatly question the implementation of this system and now I <i>really</i> want to see the source code before I even think of trusting it for any reason. PBKDF2 is generally performed with ONE hash function and doesn't require block ciphers at all. | null | sarciszewski | null | 1,424,707,990 | "2015-02-23T16:13:10Z" | comment | 9,095,036 | 9,094,862 | null | null | null |
166,322 | null | null | That's not your problem. Your problem is that some of the older colleges have vast holdings of property and they are very, very good at exploiting them. They know every trick in the book, not least because several chapters of the book are case studies of tricks pulled by the colleges in the past. Solicitors dealing with conveyancing around Cambridge hear that a college has land anywhere near the site and tremble with fear. | null | Silhouette | null | 1,547,321,063 | "2019-01-12T19:24:23Z" | comment | 18,892,816 | 18,891,665 | null | null | null |
166,323 | null | null | I agree, but good luck defining it. You will also get the hordes of people defending their right to be exploited. | null | izzydata | null | 1,555,343,752 | "2019-04-15T15:55:52Z" | comment | 19,666,212 | 19,666,051 | null | null | null |
166,324 | null | null | The for-profit colleges are the worst segment of the already degenerative upper education system. That fact alone indicates we should pause on full-on free market vouchers.<p>I think the problem is that, at least at the high school level, a school under 1000 kids starts to suffer in terms of services: not enough smart kids, not enough activity participants, not enough special needs for the special teacher. Perhaps "specialty" schools would help a bit ... | null | AtlasBarfed | null | 1,639,674,217 | "2021-12-16T17:03:37Z" | comment | 29,580,497 | 29,577,559 | null | null | null |
166,325 | null | null | because it requires introspection, its intentionally a dig at people that rationalize why someone's windfall is "not actually a windfall"<p>like the people who say<p>"$X is not that much these days" (it is and they want it)<p>"That billionaire doesn't <i>really</i> have that much money" (billionaire then sells 10% of their holdings in 3 days for billions of USD)<p>"What about after taxes?" (pay for an accountant, you'll see its better than you think)<p>and the reality is that liquidity changes faster than the culture. especially across all markets over the last 2 years. so its time to force that introspection. | null | vmception | null | 1,639,674,214 | "2021-12-16T17:03:34Z" | comment | 29,580,496 | 29,580,443 | null | null | null |
166,326 | null | null | >routinely<p>And they routinely admit that some cases are not clear cut. But crypto has no grey zones, by design - you either have the keys, or you don't. And that is the explicit agreement code-contract signers agree to when they go out of their way to DeFi their agreements.<p>Obviously legal precedents and statutes are not fitted for this purpose yet, because they are reactive, not proactive. | null | Jerrrry | null | 1,639,674,208 | "2021-12-16T17:03:28Z" | comment | 29,580,495 | 29,580,381 | null | null | null |
166,327 | null | null | I'd use preferences if my accounts didn't keep getting banned from the ever-increasing censorship. | null | the_doctah | null | 1,639,674,204 | "2021-12-16T17:03:24Z" | comment | 29,580,494 | 29,580,410 | null | null | null |
166,328 | null | null | ><i>Stop trying to shame people for expressing a common, reasonable and fair opinion that you don't like.</i><p>I realize the dangers of posting something remotely pro-crypto on HN, but I have to say this is a pretty rich comment. Shame is all that is doled out to the many people who have reasonable and fair opinions about cryptocurrency that you don't like (such as thinking some cryptocurrencies are reasonable or worth speculating over). | null | ziddoap | null | 1,639,674,203 | "2021-12-16T17:03:23Z" | comment | 29,580,493 | 29,580,339 | null | null | null |
166,329 | null | null | I'm the poster. I think you misunderstood the followup post -- the same library is definitely used in the Cloud (same as the standalone Mathematica). | null | fdej | null | 1,639,674,196 | "2021-12-16T17:03:16Z" | comment | 29,580,491 | 29,580,422 | null | null | null |
166,330 | null | null | Agreed.<p>Think about the fact that the result of a low birth-rate with better medical tech keeping older people from dying when they otherwise would have. The result will be a far higher percentage of voters in democracies will be beneficiaries of the work of people younger than them. They will increasingly vote to expand the benefits they receive, at the expense of the younger folks who have to pay higher taxes to fund them.<p>Perhaps one of the most distinct, and deliberately obfuscated, characteristics of COVID is its steep risk stratification by age. According to the US CDC data here: <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics" rel="nofollow">https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics</a>
Roughly 94% of all COVID deaths were in people age 50 and up.
28.2% of deaths were in people over the age of 85, 7 years past the average US life expectancy (for men).
If you look at the response to COVID in western nations, you can see that the cost/benefit analysis wasn't being evaluated in the context of the vast majority of people dying (and therefore benefiting) were past retirement age, and the vast majority of people bearing the cost of these policies were younger, lower risk people who were put out of work. The government programs that used debt-financed payments to alleviate these issues for the young generated debt that, again, will hurt the younger generations far more than the older.<p>Even before covid, the USA has universal health care for people over 65, but not for younger people or kids in working class families who aren't broke enough to qualify for Medicaid. I'm 40, so I'm no spring chicken, but western democracies routinely fuck over young people to help the old. It's going to get far worse until it hits an unsustainable level.<p>I've paid Social Security and Medicare taxes for 25 years, since my first paycheck, and it's not likely I'll ever receive anything from these programs based on current projections. | null | JPKab | null | 1,639,674,192 | "2021-12-16T17:03:12Z" | comment | 29,580,490 | 29,580,016 | null | null | null |
166,331 | null | null | But it is bad for Westerners. The construction boom drives up the cost of steel and concrete for everyone, for example in San Francisco increasing the cost of material for the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge by 18% in a single year.[0]<p>China's construction boom has been contributing to China's ability to buy Western debt and Western products, so when it all comes crashing down, it will be bad for your lifestyle.<p>Also, it significantly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.<p>We all pay the cost of China's construction boom, so it's rather disappointing when it isn't used for anything.<p>[0]<a href="http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/10/from-250-million-to-65-billion-the-bay-bridge-cost-overrun/410254/" rel="nofollow">http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/10/from-250-million-to-...</a> | null | Decade | null | 1,448,201,253 | "2015-11-22T14:07:33Z" | comment | 10,610,079 | 10,609,595 | null | null | null |
166,332 | null | null | Previous discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10598065" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10598065</a> (301 points, 1 day ago, 210 comments) | null | gus_massa | null | 1,448,201,187 | "2015-11-22T14:06:27Z" | comment | 10,610,078 | 10,609,879 | null | null | null |
166,333 | null | null | They appear to have signed a deal with YCombinator startup Prometheous Fuels to supply the SAF fuel, with carbon offsets to cover other carbon costs.<p><a href="https://www.prometheusfuels.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.prometheusfuels.com/</a><p>(very cool website, not sure if thats a good or a bad thing) | null | ZeroGravitas | null | 1,660,662,500 | "2022-08-16T15:08:20Z" | comment | 32,483,790 | 32,483,524 | null | null | null |
166,334 | null | null | This project is still reliant on Debian to build all the packages. This project merely selects a set of packages that Debian has built. | null | catern | null | 1,507,322,942 | "2017-10-06T20:49:02Z" | comment | 15,420,365 | 15,415,992 | null | null | null |
166,335 | null | null | I'm really curious how they accounted for many color names being relatively recent, including basic things like "blue". | null | vanderZwan | null | 1,660,662,525 | "2022-08-16T15:08:45Z" | comment | 32,483,796 | 32,478,492 | null | null | null |
166,336 | null | null | For most of what Apple does, I'd expect that the ratio of in-person time to remote time needed is pretty low.<p>I wonder if an approach like that used by some TV series might work? They have a writer's retreat for each season, where all the people that were going to be writing episodes, the showrunners, and I think the directors would get together for several days and pitch episode ideas to the group. They work out what episodes they were going to do, outlines of the general plot, and which writers and directors would do each episode.<p>For a tech company maybe have a quarterly retreat that lasts a week or two. Hold it at some good vacation destination (changing each time), and for the well off tech companies maybe even pay for the employee's family to come too. Leave some gaps in the meeting schedules so that the employee will have some time to do vacation-like things with their family while at the retreat. | null | tzs | null | 1,660,662,534 | "2022-08-16T15:08:54Z" | comment | 32,483,797 | 32,477,828 | null | null | null |
166,337 | null | null | Its a good thing that it did not take off. Using something for free without source code is the bad thing that could happen to pi wrt to its mission. | null | throway453sde | null | 1,639,674,227 | "2021-12-16T17:03:47Z" | comment | 29,580,499 | 29,580,072 | null | null | null |
166,338 | null | null | It's actually a separate package on Fedora called passmenu. Maybe because dmenu is not standard for Fedora users by default. | null | INTPenis | null | 1,639,674,227 | "2021-12-16T17:03:47Z" | comment | 29,580,498 | 29,578,230 | null | null | null |
166,339 | null | null | There is a difference between getting the colors subjectively wrong and replacing the entire texture of the material | null | ClumsyPilot | null | 1,640,923,392 | "2021-12-31T04:03:12Z" | comment | 29,744,745 | 29,744,501 | null | null | null |
166,340 | null | null | I like the fact that you can expand the content of link submissions. I wish my fav HN reader app Octal (iOS) had this feature. On the other hand, to read comments with HackerScroll you have to go the original page ( which is less pleasant to read), whereas with Octal comments are laid out really nicely. | null | d4rkp4ttern | null | 1,640,923,387 | "2021-12-31T04:03:07Z" | comment | 29,744,744 | 29,738,195 | null | null | null |
166,341 | null | null | I'd really like to see Sciter take off to mainstream. If I was asked to do an application with specific custom designed UI, I'd use Sciter.<p>I have given it a go some months ago, alongside with Delphi and it's really really easy to get started.<p>It's not open source yet, but... hey! it doesn't have to be to be to be successful.<p>Of course, Terra Informatica doesn't have the same level of marketing budget than Microsoft/GitHub to promote it as Electron, but a project can rise to relevance by its own merits I believe. I usually err on the side of naïvety for these cases. | null | ivanmontillam | null | 1,640,923,400 | "2021-12-31T04:03:20Z" | comment | 29,744,747 | 29,742,670 | null | null | null |
166,342 | null | null | Here comes gating copy and paste behind a subscription. /s | null | shostack | null | 1,640,923,399 | "2021-12-31T04:03:19Z" | comment | 29,744,746 | 29,742,701 | null | null | null |
166,343 | null | null | C: No matter what the newest hippest toy will be, it will be running on a large layer of C code.<p>COBOL: No matter what where how, the airlines and banks will still be running on COBOL. | null | dmitrygr | null | 1,640,923,351 | "2021-12-31T04:02:31Z" | comment | 29,744,741 | 29,743,181 | null | null | null |
166,344 | null | null | > <i>It doesn’t make him (or Filo) someone who gets it.</i><p>I don’t know what this means. If “gets it” means “capable of growing a $40 billion company “, then the set of people who “get it” seems exceedingly small. | null | dpark | null | 1,640,923,344 | "2021-12-31T04:02:24Z" | comment | 29,744,740 | 29,742,688 | null | null | null |
166,345 | null | null | > I’m not sure who should get to decide the definition of a “normal” car. You?<p>The definition is something that comes from the NHTSA and the legal statutes of each state. | null | tristor | null | 1,640,923,385 | "2021-12-31T04:03:05Z" | comment | 29,744,743 | 29,743,700 | null | null | null |
166,346 | null | null | People have speculated that he is not one person.<p>His/thier history is documented on Wikipedia, but its possible just one representative has shown up to events in the past.<p>Even for a small team the output would be incredible, but I choose to believe it is just one super-human. One day I hope to meet him. | null | teruakohatu | null | 1,640,923,352 | "2021-12-31T04:02:32Z" | comment | 29,744,742 | 29,744,702 | null | null | null |
166,347 | null | null | Yeah, that felt like a weird and very out-of-place insult. I also thought this was an odd assertion:<p>>In fact, computers can’t “win” at anything, not until they can experience real joy in victory and sadness in defeat, a programming challenge that makes Go look like tic-tac-toe.<p>It seems like when it comes to AI advances, there's always a shifting of goalposts as soon as an AI is able to do a task that was once thought to be a defining characteristic of human cognition. Why does it matter if a computer "feels good or bad" at the outcome of a competition for that competition to be somehow valid? | null | DanAndersen | null | 1,399,907,942 | "2014-05-12T15:19:02Z" | comment | 7,733,209 | 7,733,036 | null | null | null |
166,348 | null | null | Could you use the "bytes" type instead of the "string" type for that low-level stuff? | null | sp332 | null | 1,399,907,926 | "2014-05-12T15:18:46Z" | comment | 7,733,208 | 7,732,825 | null | null | null |
166,349 | null | null | For practical purposes, I get you. But if it is the same essence at its very core, maybe we <i>shouldn't</i> separate them so vigorously when we think about it philosophically. | null | retrac | null | 1,630,709,958 | "2021-09-03T22:59:18Z" | comment | 28,410,384 | 28,410,372 | null | null | null |
166,350 | null | null | MacOS does support tiling. You can tile exactly one window across the entire screen by pressing the green button. If you want to tile more than one window, you can buy additional monitors.<p>(This is sarcasm.) | null | rcthompson | null | 1,640,923,402 | "2021-12-31T04:03:22Z" | comment | 29,744,748 | 29,744,447 | null | null | null |
166,351 | null | null | I don't get the outrage. In fact, I think it's a brilliant parody of post-structuralist jargon, self-contradictions and pretentious verbal mannerisms. If you take this repo as a serious attack against feminism I have to point out that as far as I can see the whole thing has no substance and offers no comments on real-life issues. Zero.<p>It satirizes a certain vacuous <i>style of writing</i>. Saying that it threatens feminism is like saying that satirizing jargon-heavy research papers threatens science. Is the jargon really all that matters?<p>I went to Slashdot through the link above which led me back to HN. The reactions just seem bizarre. Even if offensive to some, the readme.md is fully within the traditions of American comedy. You don't get all angry about Jeff Foxworthy's You Might be a Redneck, right? You don't proclaim that he misrepresents the rural poor and trivializes their hardships? Or do you? | null | colllectorof | null | 1,438,232,347 | "2015-07-30T04:59:07Z" | comment | 9,973,243 | 9,972,831 | null | null | null |
166,352 | null | null | What you call turbulence is really just a mass of air moving at a different speed or in a different direction, and the plane moved out of one into the next.<p>So, e.g., the plane passes into a downdraft near a cloud, and then into an updraft under the cloud, then into another downdraft, and then out. You feel four lurches. The pilot might be looking for a path that stays away from those, but you won't feel anything the pilot does. | null | ncmncm | null | 1,599,542,107 | "2020-09-08T05:15:07Z" | comment | 24,405,392 | 24,404,825 | null | null | null |