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I guess I'm in the 1% again. 95 was horrible, but ME or 2k never failed to install for me and even handled then-legacy drivers w/o any issues. Was there the occasional BSOD? Sure, but I experienced much more on my Windows 10 machines over the last few months.
I'm sure you're sick of getting asked this, since it's asked every time someone who makes some money from photography mentions it, as there are many wannabe photogs out there, but how do you monetize your photos? Stock photo marketplaces like Dreamtime? Event photography (i.e., getting paid to take photos and provide prints of said photos, not getting paid for photos directly)? Online marketplaces for more artistic-oriented photos like 500px?

Personally my photos provide indirect value. People don't pay for them, but they drive traffic to a property that people pay to use. I've dabbled with the concept of selling them directly or taking more stock-style photos, but never really gotten serious about it.

Again, I know this question is annoying, so if you don't wanna answer, no biggie. :)
That's because Tesla's supercharger system is designed to work more like the refueling system people are familiar with and comfortable with; pull up, plug in, wait for it to finish and then drive away.

One of the beauties of EVs is not having to use that style of system. The superchargers are nice but most of the time you won't use one unless you're regularly driving over 200 miles a day.
This kind of thread is exactly the reason I read HN every day. You folks all rock. You just cost me a lot of money, but it's for all kind of fun stuff I can probably use at work as an entertainment electrician.

Thanks for the Hacker Box rec too, just subscribed. My crew at work is already excited.
I just tried out the new version. While I suspect the older ones also had the options there but now I confirmed that the demosaic controls in DT are as good as in RT.
you are already paying a tsa fee on each ticket. and you not only accept the crappy and ineffective service you paid for, but you pay extra just to not be subject to what you paid for in the first place.

you are a genius!

California should try this model for the next drought.
We've only recently started writing migrations using knex because we know the future of our platform is not Rails, as its past has been.

I would like better abstraction for the up and down, as Rails has provided. Additionally, the documentation is fairly weak around explaining topics like changing charset, chaining methods together, etc. In its current state, knex requires users to have a fairly strong understanding of the database being used for the sake of raw queries. Lastly, the debugging process in knex has consistently proven difficult due to the various scopes, objects, and templating within the library.

Despite my critiques, I still recommend knex because once you get going, you can overcome them with little to moderate effort.
This idea of "making up the difference" comes up in every convo on tipping. The counter point is usually that it doesn't happen. (Debate ensues...)

But even if it happened FOR SURE EVERY TIME. What an inefficient system! Rather than just paying the minimum wage up front, with predictable, projectable costs, businesses spend person hours on calculating tips, hours worked, per employee, etc. And then have to pay (potentially) widely varying amounts at the end of the cycle.

I get that some customers and some servers like the practice of tipping. But why not require employers to pay (at least) the minimum wage, period. You could still tip if you want to, and an you can still try to earn a tip if you want to. But now it's more like a bonus, gravy, than the difference between rent and no-rent.
At this point drilling is objectively evil. Climate scientists have been saying for a while that we can't afford to burn our existing reserves, let alone burn what comes out of new wells, if we're to have any chance of averting catastrophic climate change.

Smoking bans are probably debatable.

But to be fair, it wouldn't be political neutral even if it weren't for those particular statements. There are plenty of people in the world (and the US in particular) who think it's a debatable political statement to say that anthropogenic climate change is real, or that evolution and the big bang are science fact. In fact there are people in the US who would think that whole article is a perfect example of everything wrong with the "evil liberal agenda".

There's no such thing, really, as a politically neutral statement.
‘In God we trust, all others bring data.’

I love that quote, I can't remember seeing it before.
It takes considerably more time than simply swiping because chip payment transactions ivolve much more communications between the card the POS terminal, the bank entity, payment provider, etc...

Encyption/Decription times are neglible.
Nobody suspects the gardner, or the cleaning staff...
I wonder what the Tesla charging contacts are rated for. Assuming they keep the straight-to-battery model, 350kW is around 1000A. I think Tesla chose the best available contact for its size (I forget the brand name), but 1000A is a lot for that size contact. They may have to devise a way to actively cool it.

I doubt that they want to start supercharging at higher voltage. A DC-DC converter at that scale will be fairly large. I suppose they could add some contactors internal to the battery pack to change the cell wiring to double the voltage and halve the current for charging purposes.
This has been a pattern that has been seen over and over in Iraq. Contractors come in an build "state of the art" infrastructure to repair or replace existing infrastructure. This in itself is not a problem per se. There are two issues.

One is the local population lacks the training and expertise to run and maintain this "state of the art" infrastructure. Not that they couldn't become capable because they certainly could but their frame of reference is maintaining 40 or 50 year old infrastructure.

The second issue is that they don't have the financial means of maintaing this newly installed infrastructure. Their operating budget often can't accommodate the maintenance of such state of that art infrastructure. What's good for a first world contractors bottom line is not necessarily the best fit for a third world country's utility company.

This book details a lot of this and is worth a look:

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Money-Wasted-Billions-Corporate...
Obligatory link to one of the most thought provoking Radio Lab episodes I've listed to: http://www.radiolab.org/story/rhino-hunter/

Corey Knowlton was eloquent, made his point well, and really made me reconsider my conservation views in light of my opinions about how the world actually works.

tl;dr: Without an economic justification, species are destined to go extinct. Ecologically managed trophy hunting (e.g. culling older animals) provides one such incentive. Hand wringing and then subsequently forgetting about {insert endangered news species of the day} provides zero incentive.
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You still need to manage them. All "cloud" saves you really is the effort of racking'n'stacking, which is 1 day out of a 1000-2000 day lifecycle.

I concede that cloud lets you get up and running very quickly - just like staying in a hotel lets you live in a foreign city very quickly too. But if you want to stay longer than a few weeks, you'd be looking at an apartment instead...
>> "If they do the above and keep your water glass filled constantly without need to ask, if your meal, drink orders and dessert come out promptly and correctly

This shouldn't be considered exceptional. It's what I'm paying for and should not require tipping.

>> if they ask if everything is ok throuought the meal at appropriate times

I understand you included 'appropriate' but this is honestly the thing that irritates me most about tipping culture. When I visit the US the barrage of 'how is everything etc.' throughout every meal drives me insane. Leave me alone to enjoy the food and conversation, stop interrupting it.
Is this your understanding from intuition, or are you aware of kernel developers who have made this same argument?
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053535700...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296301...

While tipping is not an enormous driver of service quality (primarily for the reason you mentioned—that tips are expected even when service is poor), it does appear to be correlated with better service to some degree.
A great list to read through, when one thinks that there is no hope. Not through any miracles, but through dedicated work, a lot of issues have been improved at least. While there are no magical solutions, it shows that a lot is achievable and being achieved, by just working at the problems.
we live in amazing times. now you can simply read the article and find out!
Win2k was a very different beast from 95/98/Me. I guess it depends how long you used Me for but my 95/98/Me machines regularly had to be reinstalled from scratch, usually about once every year or so. Whether my gaming machines or work machines.
No the article doesn't show that. It just shows there is a correlation of increased weight gain for both chickens and humans that come in contact with Ad-36 virus.

The mechanism to how the virus works is unclear as stated by the article (3 possible ways were alleged) as well as how so many do what you just did: assume that a virus has little role and that it is the patients fault:

Atkinson says, “I remember giving a talk at a conference where I presented 15 different studies in which Ad-36 either caused or was correlated to fatness. At the end of it, a good friend said to me, ‘I just don’t believe it.’ He didn’t give a reason; he just didn’t believe it. People are really stuck on eating and exercise as the only contributors to fatness. But there is more to it.”

Did you actually read the article?
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This seems really similar to 15Five[1]. What is the main difference between the two of them?

[1] https://www.15five.com
The problem is that two equilibria exist. The equilibrium of a tipping culture is reinforced by high-performing wait staff. If one restaurant or one city adopts a no-tipping policy, the well-tipped will move, the poorly-tipped will stay, and quality will suffer. The other problem is that the tipping culture has created many extrinsically motivated workers. Cultures without tipping require people who intrinsically perform well, but years of living under the carrot and stick of tipping has produced transactional workers.

The no-tipping equilibrium perpetuates because most customers don't like the math and decision-making required after every meal. And most workers don't like being put into a Skinner box. And finally, the best wait staff in no-tipping cultures don't realize how much they're subsidizing the worst wait staff.

We as a society simply fell into the worse equilibrium. The only solution is a national edict, but this likely won't happen because there isn't the political will, and the beneficiaries of the current system know who they are and what they'd lose.
I'm okay with that extra 5 bucks for their inventory cost if they allow me to opt out of permanently saving my details on their servers. No matter how many times I unsubscribe from their emails, they always start a new list and I'm strangely on it again.
Maybe you don’t have a problem
It doesn't matter. People will _still_ tip. While the vast majority of us _hate_ tipping, there are some out there who absolutely live by it emotionally (I'm talking about the tippers here), and maintain a healthy amount of guilt if they don't tip.

Case in point: One of the biggest wins of Uber was to remove the tip concept from getting a ride. It made the whole experience effortless and seamless. Portland being Portland, however, has drivers who post placards in their cars suggesting tipping (against what I thought was company policy), and riders buy into it, as you can't possibly exist in Portland without constantly trying to be the nicest person on the planet.

Mark my words: if this happens, restaurants will charge 15-30% more and we will simply start tipping on _top_ of that.

Hell, even during my last trip to Germany, I noticed an expectation for tips.
While all of this is true, charging time is an issue because it limits range. A gasoline powered car is just a 5-minute detour away from doubling its range, which compares terribly with the sort of vehicle you're going to want to walk away from to do something else while the charging does its thing.

Apparently people leaving Teslas longer than necessary in the supercharger spots is already an issue [1] that they are trying to rectify by charging for overstays.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204120#13204455
>It took literally one google search

Is this observation addressed to me or to you?

Because it that's the kind of photo you wanted, it would have literally took one google search to find it when you asked for one. If anything, it seems like you cheer for finding evidence that speaks the contrary of your argument yourself.

I was referring to having the crew to take several long exposure captures so that you can see both earth and the stars properly exposed in the same photo, despite the limited dynamic range of film. Which this is not. If you don't accept the other stuff, why would'd accept some light dots near another light dot is a real picture of the Earth?
What happens if Jabouri gets hit by a bus? I love a good craftsman as much as anyone, but when the lives of that many people rely on one person, you're just asking for a disaster.
98SE was much more stable than Me or 95 though
Might I ask what some of these services are? This sounds intriguing.
That's at a nice restaurant though. It's more common than you think that there are restaurants just using paper tickets. I think Waffle House still does paper checks only and that's a huge chain. And most mom and pop restaurants too.

I've waitressed before and when I was a little short of minimum wage several times due to us being a slow/cheap restaurant the management just said "Some weeks you make more some you make less" and didn't try to correct it. I couldn't risk loosing my job. Sure, if they fired me for reporting them they'd be in trouble, but how long would it take for me to get justice and force them to pay? I wouldn't be able to eat while I waited for some kind of justice to be doled out.
Thanks. Yes I'm familiar with the great stuff on Adafruit. Unfortunately though since I'm not based in the US, It always amounts to more than what the item would be worth considering customs in Sweden and shipping cost.
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There's go.com, a game called 'Go'. Should Google change the name of its programming language? Probably not because there isn't any actual confusion. Not like between the synaptics package manager and the synaptiks touchpad utilities for Synaptics touchpads...and that's not that important because it causes confusion for a just handful of people and only for a brief period of time despite both being present on nearly every Linux system.
Would he?

I mean, the people that blew up the airport in France had formal training at the Al'Qaeda camps. The guy that tried to explode his underwear had most of those traits, and his father calling the authorities on him before the event.

It shouldn't be hard for a police force to keep control of everybody that gets enough tools to make a bomb that passes the older airport scanners. Instead, we get the government reading our email and that joke of security.
Neat. I'd love to see some resources explaining SVG like I'm 5. They aren't something I've ever had to work with but I continue to see articles and discussions talking about SVG rendering, etc.

Anyone have a resource they think is awesome re: SVG?
I used my ME machine for office, some gaming (with some external peripherals) and some Q(uick)BASIC programming. I never had to reinstall it, having used it for at least 3 years basically every day.

The 98 PCs were used in an SMB with older printers and cash registers. They worked great. 95 never managed to run for more than a month without some catastrophe.
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It uses lensfun. See http://www.darktable.org/2015/02/on-lens-detection-and-corre... and http://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch03s04s04.html.php#lens....
It's true, if you are the type of person who often drives >200 miles a day EVs today are not as convenient as gas cars for those trips.

But that is a very small percentage of people. If only those people bought gasoline cars in 2017 they would sell fewer than the number of EV cars sold in 2016.
kind of related question:

why are trains, especially freight, not being automated?

seems like a far simpler problem than autonomous cars, no?
You're describing these two concepts as if they were different things. Why?
> Less smoking is very good for the population health.

But what is population health good for if not enjoying life? Including (for some people) things like smoking a cigarette.
I think this will change. Those small towns don't look so hot right now, and young people are leaving for the closest city because that's where the jobs are. The 'burbs will be fine but things don't look good for "small town America", a lot of towns could decay and disappear. Just because it's a deliberate lifestyle choice doesn't mean it's a sustainable one. Just look at the quality of housing stock, infrastructure, basic services like drinking water and jobs (or lack thereof) in these places, it's not a pretty picture.
terrible?
600 KW is some chunky wattage. It's unlikely you can charge very many cars at the same time without having a power station next door. Delivering, for example, 10 megawatts to handle 15 cars simultaneously, requires some very heavy electrical and safety engineering, which would be very costly. You could run pylons along the highway, but then you'll need an high-wattage electricity substation next to each charging forecourt to bring the voltage down.

A gas fuel tank under a service station, however, is cheap, and is limited only by the size of the forecourt in how many cars it can simultaneously service. And we still have the problem of charging time. You'd probably talking a forecourt capable of charging 100-200 cars simultaneously during peak times. That's 60-120 megawatts on Musk's fast charge. That's enormous. It's an entire small power station.

For any long distance, my sense is that electric cars are still at a heavy disadvantage to the ICE for the foreseeable future, even assuming Musk's optimistic charging cycle projections.

Let's face it, gasoline still has some miraculous energy storage density / transportability advantages.
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That's a good one. I love that using free Sidekiq works just fine and that Pro is nice-to-have but not essential.
Racial profiling is the opposite of a random search.
Tipping is also extremely inconsistent in at least three ways.

One is the idea of a percentage: how does that make any sense? When I go out for a rare nice dinner and the tip alone ends up being $20 or so, I ask myself: did this person/restaurant really do any more than the server of the last entire meal that cost $20? Of course not, and yet somehow it would look weird to pay $40 for a $20 meal with tip, for the same service?

Another inconsistency is where to tip. Yes, tip at restaurants but what about the zillion other places that sometimes explicitly and often implicitly expect tips? Do we have to slip a dollar to just about everyone in case they expect a tip?

And finally, the inconsistency in who tips. Sometimes I tip generously because I assume there will be other people who just don’t tip at all, or tip poorly, and I feel some obligation to balance the pot. I don’t know why, it just seems like the right thing.

It would make a lot more sense to end all these charades and just show exact prices. (While we’re at it, let’s make sure utility companies do the same, up front, no fees.)
It's more insidious than that, since cash tips are self-reported income, it's also a great way to shield income from the IRS and reduce taxable income
I think this is a difference in the point of view between the Java/C# word and the Lisp/Elisp/Scheme/Racket word.

In the Java/C# word, you are expected to get some libraries or shared code distributed as bytecode, without been able to see the source code. So the bytecode must ensure safety, so an application can run untrusted code.

[I'm more familiar with Racket.] In Lisp/Elisp/Scheme/Racket word you usually don't get shared code as bytecode, you get the source code. (An executable can be actually some bytecode packaged conveniently with the interpreter/JIT, but an executable can do whatever it likes, like formatting your hard disk.) So it's enough to ensure safety in the source code.
Commission is different because it's included in the price and the customer gets no say in it.
True. But they're also very simple.

It's okay to lean on the hardware a bit, provided you're careful: most programmers don't have to squeeze maximal performace out of the hardware, just good enough performance. The extra code you need to make arrays work may not be worth the speed boost.

Also, if you're working in an HLL, investigate your implementation details. In Common Lisp, for example, a lot of work has been put into making LLs as fast as possible: If you create a list with QUOTE (such lists are immutable), then thanks to an optimization called CDR-coding, you'll get a data layout very similar to an array under the hood.

OTOH, it is important to understand why LL perf isn't actually what the textbooks claim, and to consider using a different structure in contexts where performance matters. Just don't go too far the other way, either: LLs aren't dead just yet.
Interested to see how Transfix will stand up to this: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/transfix
TSA pre-check is actually a good honeypot for finding bad people. Regular TSA is a joke, so having these people skip it is fine. But coming up with a shortened list including most evil doers is golden.

I'm sure they scrutinize the heck out of anyone that's trying to avoid detection.
Didn't work in mobile, I wasn't able to highlight anything by long-pressing like I normally would.
You had the DPMI spec, DOS protected mode interface, to manage the potential mess. It was strange that you could install Borland DPMI host (as a TSR) instead of firing win.com and then launch krnl386.exe and it booted (!).
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The choke points are definitely an issue at airports but also at sporting events, where masses of hundreds of people are crowded around a gate getting in to the stadium.

I think they need to setup a maze system where passengers/fans queue in to a system where can be scanned as they go through and directed to lower and higher risk areas something bullet/blast resistant where people can be physically isolated from each other (and from gaining access) as they pass through security and everyone can be locked down (or automatically directed to exit the facility) if an event happens so there isn't a free run through security. And make it large enough where people can get in to the system quickly so you don't have large groups of people standing waiting outside. Something with lots of angled areas as you enter and get you isolated, scanned directed in to the facility or over to higher security area for further processing.
That was one of the argue points in some of the recent emacs-devel drama about the object dumper.
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Honestly not trying to be rude, but is this satire?

The job is demeaning because it's made to be so. Cooking in and of itself isn't demeaning. I love to bake. I don't love to bake and be treated like crap and get paid like crap and have no financial security.