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The article says that consumers are discouraged by the cost of repair.

A few weeks ago, I repaired an eltronical appliance and was surprised to see that all screws were screwed into plastic. As I unscrewed them to access the inside of the device, the plastic around the screw broke.

I think there should be laws that prevent screwing into plastic. That just makes no sense appart from upfront cost. Once the plastic is broken, there is no way but to throw the broken device away. Unless you can somehow glue everything back together, but that seems unpractical.

It's like devices are not even planned to be repaired. They are designed to be sold and then abandoned. That's the real issue. Not cost of repair.
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I am at a company of 70 and we seem to still be not-stupid. But I think the general rule is correct; we don't have stupid here because nobody has time for it, and anyone who isn't pulling their weight is conspicuous and gets cut loose eventually.

My guess is that once headcount is over 100, the organizational details start to become too large to fit in any one person's head, and that creates blind spots in which stupid people can go unnoticed.

And if you get even larger than that, at some point stupid people just become part of the cost of doing business that shareholders are happy enough to put up with as long as the stupidity is contained and doesn't obviously diminish their returns.
So what should we do to end this massive abuse of js in places where it isn't needed?
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I find it a little ironic the way W has slowed, softened and become more contemplative and introspective with the still life paintings and whatnot. Sort of counter to the narrative in the piece all these years later.
A Tesla has all the same bearings, bushings and whatnot holding it off the ground and putting power to the road.

EV gets rid of a ton of leak points compared to ICE. All the normal wear and tear stuff is exorbitantly expensive with Tesla because of how few shops can service them and you usually have to go through Tesla for parts.
People have done some absolutely crazy things with Excel as well. To some people its like an OS.
Are you sure that undefined, instead of merely unspecified?

Ie function arguments are still evaluated in some (possibly changing) order. C++ undefined behavior allows to eg format your hard disk or launch the nukes.
You could probably have gotten the stand they were displayed on for only another $5.

I remember the Circuit City liquidation - the prices were insane. But it was also sort of sad.
It seems like a good idea to rule on this: I always used to fix my electronic products... Up to recently it was sometimes difficult to find the issue, but always fine with opening and closing.

I had my very first anxiety thrill ungluing an iPad window to replace the broken microphone; and I look with anxiety at my S7, thinking of when the battery starts aging.
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Extending the minimum warranty can help to make more durable products.
If you're having bourbon for breakfast to cope with the current death march, you should have left months ago.
One issue that is sort of addressed in this that I've been trying to find a solid answer on is how do you strongly ensure a given NPM package and its dependencies are safe to use?

So far the only real solution I've come up with is to do a signals review (github? issues? downloads/day/ etc...) and then review the code block by block carefully examining any complex or potentially dangerous code.

It works, and you learn a lot about the packages and why they depend on each other, but at the same time this process is exhausting.

What would be a godsend is some major security brand who can vouch (even at cost) for a given version of major packages including their dependency tree.
Just switch often until you are sufficiently paid and found one that doesn't suffer from dysfunctions like employee/manager churn. Then use the capital you built up to work less, focusing on other things in life than work. Every time you switch you have to prove yourself again, you'll have to prove you are worthy the perks (working from home etc).

My recipe was switching around and then back to my first employer later in my career. A place I knew had good climate where I could stay 5-10 years with ease.
Well, in the Netherlands and I think most other European countries, they are banned on car-only roads (i.e., motorways and expressways; autosnelweg and autoweg in Dutch). Elsewhere, including cities, they are allowed.
These are some great comments; thanks for these!
Oh my. Can anyone confirm this? It removes on upgrading or just doesn't include it on clean installs?
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It does support RSS quite pervasively. Tag ".RSS" to the end of any URL (before the arguments), and you'll get a feed.

Subreddits, users, posts, searches, and a number of other elements.
Given the ever increasing amount of garbage on the Western internet being pumped into peoples minds 24*7 I find it incredulous that people believe the western internet is an healthy environment that fosters creativity. People including the best in society seem to be spending much more of their time reacting to information overloading their minds. At least the Chinese are doing something about it. The west has it head deep in the sand.
Superintelligence is a free lunch and there are no free lunches
+1 to this. The most important part of any job for me is "do I feel like I'm smarter at the end of the day because of this job?"

I had a job at an advertising agency, which, by most objective measures was a pretty decent job. However, I felt like about 95% of my work was "copy-paste, tweak-slightly". Eventually it got to a point where I wrote a script that could generate most of my work, and I realized that it was time to move on.
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It's not "like", they are and they've got a term for it; planned obsolescence.
I didn’t mean that literally. The biggest idea that the CCP specifically wants kept out of China is open elections. Anti-nationalism is not really on the radar, and the CCP itself has some anti-nationalist roots from its Marxist heritage.
>The build cost of the ISS arrays was around $300 million (space PV is way more expensive than terrestrial).

That was 20 years ago, on a government contract, for panels that must survive the rigors of actual space.

Panel manufacturing costs have dropped almost 10x since then, and the environment (assumed under the protection of martian atmosphere) which they will operate will be far less extreme than Earth orbit, necessitating less expensive materials. I'm not so sure your numbers account for this.
That was an upgrade. I think this is the right call though, sending a clear signal, yet `brew install ftp` or something might come soon enough for those that need it.

Sidenote: ruby was updated from 2.0.0-pSomethingPastOfficialRubyReleases to 2.3.3-p222
Depending on local regulations, you may of course be fined if you don't clean up your horse's mess.
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Any recommendations on best practices for JS?
Maybe I quit before I got to this, but I would add:

4. Time-sensitive pop-ups: things that force you to act NOW instead of ignoring them.
Nah, with some help from the programmer, you can produce those proofs. It's not too hard.

The halting problem is impossible to solve for arbitrarily evil programs, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible to write programs that are easy to analyse.
If we're going to have roads built for cars then a smooth flow of traffic is beneficial to everyone. The cars that are most dangerous to pedestrians are the ones making dangerous moves to escape gridlock (in my experience)
Then there will be much bigger things than getting email to worry about, especially if you have a .com or any of the other main ones.
China will consider democracy only when the credit bubble pops which will delegitimize the Communist party. Tianamen square was at the inflection point when Investment flooded into corrupt post maoist china, democratic movement was everywhere but was quashed by increasingly belligerent communists apparatchiks.
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I just don't get Facebook anymore, and I've never enjoyed Twitter. I understand they can still be useful tools for finding out some news quick, or sharing pictures of your kids with grandma. But is there anything online that is even close to what Myspace and early facebook were like? People seem to have forgotten what it was like when these were tools to augment your actual social life.
> someone is able to calculate the trajectory

The result is the similar if one was to calculate such trajectories, but I am not sure what happens in the mind can be called calculation. How can it be properly tested that brain indeed calculates trajectories when catching a ball? Would practicing catching ball improve their relevant mathematical abilities demonstrable on paper?
I fully agree that newer designs are safer, but ignoring the human factor in the equation is IMO not very reasonable. Without the human factor, driving a car is very safe. That argument is valid, but it doesn't reflect reality.
If I recall correctly, I responded to your comment before it was flagged. Did my comment help you understand at all?

You seemed like you were asking in good faith, unlike a lot of other commenters in here, so I tried to legitimately engage you. But you never responded to my comment to let me know if I missed the mark or not.
I immigrated to Switzerland from the US back around 2000 for a technology job. It was actually fairly easy to get a temp worker's visa which was valid for 3 months. Once I was there, my employer went with me to the "Bureau d'Etrangers" to get my actual work visa which was valid for one year. It would be renewable each year as I proved I was still employed.

It's possible it's much more difficult now 17 years later with lots of political and social change around the world. But, I think the Swiss love for people to think it's a lot harder than it is. It requires diligence and some paperwork on a regular basis but if you are skilled technology worker, they tend to let you right in...in my experience.
> It's like devices are not even planned to be repaired. They are designed to be sold and then abandoned. That's the real issue. Not cost of repair.

Absolutely. Smartphones are the best example, the software makes the hardware unusable or insecure because of the lack of updates pretty quickly.
Amazon does host the product images, but the sellers (or 3rd-party services used by the seller) can upload/update those images by providing Amazon with a spreadsheet/feed that contains URLs - I'm guessing those pointed to Photobucket in these cases.
Education in India has become a 'commercial commodity'
How predictably can we locate Uranium ore using surface topography? Like can we choose a site with a high probability of ore being find near by?
5 years? China has been closing ever since the Olympics ended in...2008. Its been almost a decade now. Theory is they'll start opening up again in the run up to 2022...they can't really hold an Olympics while blocking all the major worldwide internet sites, too much face lost.

This definitely isn't just Xi's fault.
They actually switched to native notifications as of about two weeks ago.
>Now if only it displayed the register values in hex or binary.

I assume that's as easy as adding a few more cells with =DEC2HEX(A2) or whatever.
So it looks like you end up with two syntaxes for the same feature, one of which you can use without any extra declarations. From a user's perspective, why not just use the "do catch" syntax everywhere? What happens with that syntax, is it eventually deprecated?

It seems like you end up with an 'ugly' way and a nice way, under the assumption that the ugly way will be temporary, but really both ways end up sticking around, and users can and will use them interchangeably.

I see the motivation, but realistically it may be better to just stick with the not-so-nice syntax everywhere. Or at least have a good way to unambiguously namespace future keywords - instead of "do catch", say "futurerustkeyword catch" or something. Or maybe a per-file declaration like "use __future__::catch" ;)
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We haven't developed anything with GraphQL yet. I wasn't even sure if there are best practices out there. If you have a link that lists them, I'd happily put it in the doc. You're more than welcome to make a pull request as well.
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My first thought on this is that EPUB is not fully portable either ... it's just non-portable in a different set of circumstances. If you want to publish on the internet, for general consumption, just use plain html. That's about as portable as you can get without moving into raw text.
The CCP has only been able to eliminate dissent by eliminating moral hazard. They promised that the bubbles won't pop, so when they do, it isn't going to be pretty at all.
>"The department of Homeland Security initiated the ban in March. It came into effect covering all flights to U.S. destinations from 10 airports in the Middle East, including major travel hubs like Dubai, Abu Dabi and Dohar."

So how would a ban at flights originating at these airports prevent someone from exploiting this on a flight with a layover in this airport i.e while the plane was in route to one of these 10 airports?

>"While administration officials didn’t comment on any new and specific threats, ..."

This is used to justify every questionable action or inaction in the "Endless War on Terror." The claim is always "we can't comment because its an issue of national security." Do people of that "Nation" have no right to be informed about decisions being made on their behalf? Especially where safety is concerned?

Shouldn't this information be shared with the citizens of that nation so they can make up their own minds and make informed decisions? This level of infantilizing is just completely unacceptable. Those in the U.S security apparatus seems to take the view that they are parents and everyone else is a child.
I did levenstein a few time at that job, indeed, anything with operator input will have errors
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What about moving to old stacks like... PHP?
The original history of O'Reilly Animals from 2000, http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/ediemals_0400....

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Good points. They do need to be tough enough to withstand Martian dust storms, but apparently they aren't as bad as they look due to the low atmospheric pressure. I read the biggest problem is cleaning the dust off them.
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This is an absurd situation, having a military minder that tells you what you can and can't say in a production. It is hard to avoid some kind of interference if you want to borrow military equipment though. There is always some standard that you want to uphold that is probably higher than what is allowed by the first amendment.

The solution is to not allow the military to lend any assistance to movie productions. Frankly, it's not their job anyways. This is the only way to avoid the kind of influence described in the article.
They're lower. Not by a lot if you just look at the median, especially relative to CoL (lower rents, lower taxes), but on average, the Bay Area has some 300k tech workers (?), several companies that make over $1m in profits per employee and drive the salaries up.

In Zürich Google will make you a 250k offer, and if you aren't happy, too bad for you, nobody else is going to pay that in Europe :)
Sure, I still believe it's easier to lie for emissions than to produce hybrid vehicles.. it's simply harder to hide a DC module. I see this as the best middle ground for manufacturers that don't want to do more effort for emissions and sales.
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Most devices include a PDF reader, but not an EPUB reader. Yes, you can download one, but as a publisher, you can't expect your readers to jump through that hoop.
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Does not work for Safari, each click loads page and it takes a fraction of second, definitely not less a frame. With Google it seems to work faster, but still far from frame. Full page reload, relayout, etc and it's visible. Good SPA would be more smooth. This site is fine as it is, though.
It's going to happen.

Many (most?) designers will avoid code like the plague and stick to visual tools like Flash.
Your comment sound like you think Linux isn't appropriate for 9-14yos ... could you explain, all major OS are pretty much equivalent for simple uses AFAICT.
That was my thought too, not a great argument. I don't pay Oracle because my Bluray player runs Java, Sony pays Oracle to use Java and I pay Sony for the Bluray player. I don't even need to know it runs Java, it's included in the purchase price.

Likewise I shouldn't need to know Netflix uses FreeBSD, or the PS4 uses it, or Nintendo uses it. My users don't know my software runs on Heroku, they're not being asked to give money to DHH for Rails or become a Postgres sponsor or donate to the Linux Foundation just because they use a product that uses that technology on the back end.

If you make a product that directly profits from the work of a non-profit, you should consider a donation to keep the project around. But if you just use a product that's built on an open source project in a non-transparent way and don't actually use the open-source project yourself but you're still donating to it, you would be a very generous citizen.

If FreeBSD didn't exist, Nintendo and Sony and Netflix would use something else. If companies that use FreeBSD want to keep using FreeBSD, they're the ones who should be paying for it.

It's a little much to ask that everyone donate to every open-source project they happen to use in an incredibly incidental way. I'd be spending half my time hunting down projects and the other half cutting checks to them. I donate to projects I actually use.
By that token, china isn't socialist at all. It is an autocratic corporatist state that relies heavily on capitalism.
> Can you imagine Salon tweeting something that started "Memo to black people?" People callously adopt this disrespectful tone when talking about or writing about white people that they would not when discussing any other race.

I think if you want a public dialogue that's not completely vapid, you're going to have to accept this kind of double standard. There is a class divide here in the US, and that divide squares up precisely with race. Speaking to one side of a class divide in a certain way becomes more or less acceptable over time.

I mean, like it or not, white people have built up generational wealth on the backs of black people. This continued long after slavery ended and we subconsciously will do everything we can to maintain that wealth. This tone might look and feel disrespectful, but what it is is a memo to white people that if they don't wake up, they're going to lose it.
You are correct. I updated my post with some battery calculations. Only enough battery energy for one night adds another Falcon Heavy of payload. The dust storms will be a huge intermittency problem too.
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What is the optimal speed of email response?
Because

while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {
//
}

Is considered more idiomatic and readable than any alternatives that's not assigning to c within the conditional.
You'll see similar idioms in many other languages, e.g.

while((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
}

But if you're talking about e.g.

if (foo = (bar & 0xf)) {
}

It's just bad style ...
I used to work in adaptive skiing, mostly with visually impaired kids and adults, and met a couple of blind develoeprs and people working on screen readers and other equipment.

They lived in California which helped with a lot of expensive Braille and other equipment, but mostly they achieved at a high academic and industry level thru sheer determination. Academics: degrees from MIT, Berkeley, other top programs. One critical skill was to crank up their browser readers to unbelievable speeds, I couldnt understand anything at that speed. I think most of them used the emacs-speak interface from Cornell. There weren't any tools to make schematics and similar dense graphic representations approachable, tho.
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I can't tell if this is serious or not (admittedly without reading the white-paper). A reference to 'tokenized quantum signatures' (what the hell is that?), and a new cryptocurrency without the crypto part and without the decentralized part. Basically its just contracts as a service with some token setup thrown in?

There are so many buzzwords in this, I can't make sense of it.
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(We eventually found out Hunt was a person's name).