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I repair watches.

I don't work on newer Rolexes because they won't sell me parts. Actually, if the customer doesn't mind, I do repair with generic parts.

There's nothing special when you unscrew that back.

It's a whole lot of marketing.

Don't get me wrong, I love old Bubble Backs, Thunderbirds, Datejusts, etc., but under a 40x scope, a center wheel is a center wheel.

I can't tell the difference between generic, and factory parts most of the time.

In all honestly, it's kinda depressing. When I see a new Rolex on a guy's wrist, I just think about guts of the watch, and how he probally overpaid, and that o-ring probally leaks, but since the watch will never see water, it will be fine.

I probally won't get a Rolex sponsorship?
FYI Prof. Knuth presents the problem at 16:50 into the lecture[1] linked in the blog, then shows off his Sinterit trinket at 18:30ish.

[1] https://youtu.be/DjZB9HvddQk?t=1010
No, COM files had no header. [2] I think that's part of why they were replaced. ZM was for EXEs. I think that one was someone's initials. (Yes, looked it up. [1])

I think what parent is remembering were characters that effectively created a jump instruction at the beginning of the file.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_MZ_executable

edit: [2] Section 6 of the paper talks about that, just noticed.
You can also take a headrest of the front seat and use its prongs to break a window.
Nice hack I would say
Basically, the whole article is that cutting time of X by 90% makes X 10 times faster, not "90% faster".
Posted 3 hours earlier, 53+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16307956
The uncomfortable on point answer buried in the discussion.

VCs learned their dotcom bust lesson well. The cycle can drag much longer if you don't go public. The exit target now is a sale to an existing public buyer, skipping the market validation stage altogether.
Good idea, I was thinking it would be interesting if the species could turn asexuality on and off as conditions required.
Just because a lot of bugs were thought hard/impossible to exploit and were later proven wrong does not mean every single bug is possible to exploit. Most software bugs are not exploitable. You just generally read about the ones that are.
Whoof.

If these kinds of problems and design issues are still present when I'm ready to buy a 3, I'd probably reconsider.

Maybe they'll tighten their tolerances as they perfect their line, but some of those design decisions seem almost beyond explanation-- the double door handles (where one option shames the user for doing what should be the normal MO), the absence of mechanical releases in the back and in the frunk, and so on.
This is dystopian to me. I don't want to talk to a box recording everything I say. I don't want everything I say to be sent to some company in another country. I don't want Amazon involved in my life in any way.

It's not just that though. It's also just useless. Why would you want a smart fridge? A fridge is already smart. It turns on when it's warm and off when it's cold. A smart dishwasher? What would that even do?

A smart kettle would do what? Fill itself automatically? Make a cup of tea automatically? Not only is actually brewing the tea part of the point, but if I wanted a machine plumbed into my kitchen that made tea I could probably already get one. It would just cost thousands of dollars just like a pro coffee machine plumbed in costs that much.

A smart door lock is just silly. I need keys when I go out anyway. Losing my smartphone would be shit already. Imagine if I couldn't get into my house or my car either if I lost it.
My site doesn't have a cookie popup, but then it's one of the few that don't ship all the user tracking data to Google.
Tldr; we have no idea
And every extra little but that doesn't need to be there adds up to technical debt for templating.
I don’t understand. Are you claiming universities should throw themselves on the mercy of year-over-year changes in donations?

The most valuable asset an institution like that has is time. Mere mortals can only start to live on investment income in their twilight years, but universities don’t die. As they get old enough, they could even become entirety self-sustaining.
I don't follow the car industry but I did happen to catch this 2015 video of Munro talking about the BMW i3. He says things like "this is the watershed," "they invented new science," "this is the Model T of our time," etc. I got a whole new respect for BMW after watching that video. Munro even followed the production chain to Morocco while investigating the costing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDr4L6BzpP8
Is your issue specifically that I posted a link to urban dictionary or that I posted an accusation of gatekeeping?
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I'm a programmer in my mid-30s working as a lead developer in a local tech-hub. I earn good money (for the local market) but I'm worried that as a developer I will soon:

1. reach my wage ceiling.

2. start experiencing a tougher time getting jobs as I move into my 40s (still a few years away).

What's the best direction to move in in regard to both these points? I was already trying to do that by getting a job as a lead but I'm afraid that outside of CTO or moving to a huge company there isn't much more upwards mobility as a developer from here on.

I'm alright with moving to even more managerial positions (I'm already spending 50% of my time on none-coding tasks here) but I'm not sure how to get into such positions when my work experience has all been as a developer (and recently as a lead developer).
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Agreed — I’m not crediting him.

I’m also not blaming him. At least, not for this specific story that this particular thread is commenting on; there’s plenty I do blame him for.
Ah I see, makes sense.
I can't see this economist article - the usual paywall.

But this short snippet by the BBC explains that the market anticipates that interest rates will rise as wages rise faster than expected - http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-42955578/us-marke...
Sure! Perhaps I should have said iron curtain instead of wall.

My point was only that quite a few of these differences East/West of the border would have been unsurprising long before the war. Some long long before: bits of the west were part of Charlemagne's empire.

Likewise the US, where it's not so much of a stretch to map the culture war onto the English civil war.
Low genetic diversity can have unexpected benefits; within Argentine ants it has given rise to a global supercolony, because the pheromones of different hives have become indistinguishable.

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Just so everyone knows. I e-mailed them, they replied saying it's equity only.
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Decorrelation is a matter of degree, not a binary. VC funds are less tightly correlated with, say, the oil industry than the chemical industry is.
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This is why in realtime applications the correct measures are x times faster than realtime (relative throughput) or total runtime (absolute throughput) and a full histogram of response times. (absolute latency)

Relative latency would be used in games perhaps. (x times faster response than frame time)
What does it say in Knuth's response?

"Of course you could have used the ( <word here> font/foot???)"
Yeah, a shebang is required, and unfortunately it isn't valid C so you can no longer feed the file directly to the compiler. I just figured out how to whittle it down to 2 lines though! Thanks for the // idea. Here it is in both shebang (2 line) and non-shebang (1 line) versions: https://gist.github.com/jdarpinian/1952a58b823222627cc1a8b83...
Above. It's icy, wherever the ice cracks the new water goes through the crack, then freezes and as it takes more space than when fluid there is the protruding line.
For better or worse, your expectations do not match reality in some (many?) cases. I'm sympathetic to the idea that many early employees get screwed over by promises of riches through equity, but the solution to that is education. Sometimes these big bets pay off; most of the time they do not. If you're unwilling to place one of those bets, that's fine: there are plenty of more mature (or better capitalized) companies that you can choose to work for instead. Some people are willing to make that bet, or have at least decided that the work is interesting enough to take a lower salary. You're free to look down on them for their decision, but I suppose that says more about you than about them.
You like being complacent.
Am I an idiot for wanting to share what I learn even if I know I could make more money keeping the information away from others?
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Venture capital isn't just a few rich people funding all the startups. There are massive funds for regular working class people like California's teachers that invest in these things.

VC grew because it got mature and turned out to work well (for recent history) and it provided a way to avoid the stresses of public market oversight while a fledgling startup is pivoting every few months and making no money.

It doesn't appear to have anything to do with wealth inequality and you didn't really provide any evidence to back up that assertion. Maybe when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail?
And there's even a small spring loaded version, that can be carried with the keys. Look for resqme.
Care to explain the fallacy to people not well versed with those names you've thrown around?
Guys, here is my analysis (which, after reading this article, may shed more light on the matters).

We have had an asset bubble due to low interest rates. Because people don't want to keep money in banks. So we have had a bubble in crypto and stocks etc.

As interest rates rise - and they will, because the government will need to reload for the next QA or whatever - asset markets will keep taking hits.

The question is - why does the central bank really need to raise interest rates? Why not just keep things as they are and not load up on QA ammo?

That depends - are you an Austrian economist? :)
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If only i wasn't too lazy I'd buy a hat just to take it for the author.
It is a security issue. The exposure is limited, but as folks point out; Apple forces people to build iOS binaries on machines running OSX.

It'd be quite easy to DoS commercial build services with this technique and there seems to be no way to stop it and detecting it can be pretty difficult. Depending on how the logging for such a server is structured, it may even be hard to tell which customer did it.

This is also on the heels of a bug that's been discovered where it's possible to hang many types of system monitoring by abusing a race condition in the UNIX<->mach layer to block all process inspection tools on the OS.

Given that Apple forces us to run OSX build servers, they should take the integrity of basic syscall checking seriously. And that totally ignores the chaos one person with an agenda (or poor project security) can cause if they get code that does this into Homebrew.
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Why are design mockups done in photoshop, when HTML and CSS can be faster and easier once you have the basic components??
What this looks like is a useful step to exploit automatically restarting services.
execve compatibility is not easy at all, since it requires a shebang line which isn't valid C. However thanks to emmelaich's // idea I just figured out a way to do it using fewer lines than your #if 0 solution.

https://gist.github.com/jdarpinian/1952a58b823222627cc1a8b83...
The goal is a car that can drive itself, empty, or without a licensed passenger on board, that has disruptive potential. Being able to do the whole job in a limited geo-fenced area is better than being able to do half the job anywhere. There are hypothetical safety benefits to partially autonomous vehicles, but it's not a game-changer, it won't transform mobility.

Waymo was doing partial autonomy pretty well back in 2012, before self driving cars were even a twinkle in Elon's eye, and before anyone had ever taken seriously the notion of utilizing deep learning in autonomous vehicles. The real challenge is in fully validating the safety and reliability of these systems to the extent that a commercial robotaxi service becomes feasible.

I recall having conversations back in 2012 wondering *what if these things get pretty good, reliable enough that they can be counted on to be safe, but still subject to getting hung up or confused in any of the myriad situations drivers can get into where some sense of contextual awareness, creativity, and higher level reasoning is required, and there were big debates about whether Remote control, or remote guidance would be viable as a solution for tricky situations. It turns out that Both Waymo and GM are doing this. I'm not sure yet what the ratio of remote monitors to operational vehicles is expected to be for initial pilot deployments. It could be 1:100, or 1:10, or something else.

What's fascinating is that Analysts have estimated about $100 billion (not counting China) have been invested in the emerging self driving car industrial ecosystem that includes software development, chips, sensors, fleet management service, mapping, logistics and everything else. I don't think there's an historical analogue for something like that, where so much effort and value has been placed in an as-of-yet unproven technology.

For me the interesting thing is that it's all playing out according to a script (it's needed some revision, but not much) I wrote as thought experiment in 2010 just by asking myself "Well, what would happen if this technology actually came to fruition?" I've been following the development of Autonomous vehicles since the Darpa days, but at that time I never took it very seriously as something that might actually work in the real world, it was just a neat science experiment.
This is not a simple DoS as in a service hangs. This is a reliable kill and potentially restart, making it possible to use fault injection attacks (not 100% reliable exploits) and exploit start-up race conditions.
.COM files were straight binary, no header and loaded at address 256 (0x100) into any 64KB segment. All indirections were local to that segment, hence the 64KB limit of .com files.

The characters you were typing are (probably) the code for a jump to an entry point somewhere else in the file.
Here is a silly question

Why will everyone need jobs if so much stuff is automated? Why not just give out free money?
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I think you answered your question in the sentence above. If the fed keeps interest rates low, and we still hit another recession, they won't have the ability to react by lowering rates again.
I guess some people have borrowed to invest in crypto money, or worse in stocks, and so need liquidity to anticipate credit raise.

The reason the credit rate might be increased (my guessing) is because lending money creates vritual money and thus inflation. The other reason is because it would allow banks to profit from the european economy recovery. America has currently enough growth to absorb the negative effect of a credit rate increase.
It's not just a lack of necessity. Going public means being answerable in a different manner, to a different group of people. There are also less complications that arise to force out founders and executives. There's been many a case where a company will be bought, or a board will be brought in to shareholder demand, and the person or people behind the company are ousted with little to say or do about it.

Add to this that to go public, you must meet a great many requirements that staying private doesn't demand and you have a winning recipe for avoiding many complications should you decide to stay private.

So, there are a great many reasons not to become a publicly traded company.
>You are basically riding on a single unit test. You get a great view along the way, but the problem solving doesn't scale, nor can it handle situations where you need to consider multiple paths through the code.

Where a REPL starts to fail, I find integration tests start to shine and vice versa.
> Nor would genetic clones create a very interesting society.

One of the more interesting attempts at creating a human society made up of clones is the James Tiptree, Jr. story, "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%2C_Houston%2C_Do_You_R...
The tax cuts passed, sell the news. Tax cut hype subsides to actual technicals again.

Interest rates are going to be increasing, always dings the market and debt.

A re-trench helps the stock buy backs coming from the tax cuts, hedge funds probably helping engineer that volatility.
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That's really cool! It would be even cooler if you used a "typewriter-looking" font, like this one: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Special+Elite
I'm pretty sure Adobe is still making Dreamweaver.

I know that's how I built my first website way back in grade school.
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The bigger concern is on the interest rate hikes. Low rates were expected to help kickstart the economy and prices and wages to increase. What has happened instead is that all the cheap money has caused asset inflation. US companies now have record amount of debt.

Too fast increase in interest rates will cause their debt obligations to balloon and lower profitability. Though this will take couple of quarters to fully manifest. So, this is just a reaction in line with Amara's law applied to stock markets- We tend to overestimate the effect of a news item (technology) in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. I expect media to be soon cheering another round of upward zag.
HLT is absolutely used in modern systems, ARMs have the WFI and WFE (wait for interrupt, etc).
They're essential for dropping in to low power modes, though admittedly HLT wasn't used for that back in the day.
Mentioned in the article about the Swedish shop - more sale she in the afternoon than morning, so what was the am team doing wrong.

Turns out morning shoppers were happy, evening weren't (due to queues), and the way to increase happiness and revenue was more staff in the evening, rather than pushier sales in the morning.
If the article is correct that these species can go extinct easily, then it is probably a bad idea to develop it as a food source. It could lead to a situation where millions of people become dependent on it, and then it suddenly becomes unavailable.
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While telling my kids about the ridiculousness of this story about an emotional support peacock, and how awesome legitimate assistance and support animals are, my daughter told me the story of Rojo[1] the therapy llama.

It was from a book she has called Unlikely Heroes[2] about awesome animals. A very sweet story.

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[2] https://www.workman.com/products/unlikely-heroes
because inflation will start and we need to fight it with high interest rates
Or make them into "Fat Cakes" to feed birds my adding seeds: https://www.saga.co.uk/magazine/home-garden/gardening/wildli...
You could even hire a freelancer to do it. I guarantee you will find someone that can promise to do it at a great price.
> I think Alan Kay using the word "homoiconic" for Lisp was a mistake. The syntax of Lisp really is not the same as the internal representation, unlike the Tcl (which I understand actually executes by manipulating strings). This is a reason structured editors for Lisp don't seem to work out.

A Lisp interpreter executes internalized s-expressions.
But if reacting and lowering them will ease the recession, why not just keep them low in the first place? That way the recession doesn't materialize. Maybe raising interest rates is what causes the recession in the first place!
Yes, "mutant" and "mutation" are legitimate terms in genetics, and they apply here.
I'm pretty sure I've already read this, from HN. Oh well it's good enough that I don't mind re reading it.
Why do we need to fight inflation? Prices rise because people can afford to buy things at higher prices. So what's the problem?
A smart home that is reliant on the cloud is dumb.

Self-hosted is the only acceptable alternative here where even the raspberry pi has more processing power to run hundreds of homes.

A simple service to route mobile apps through the potential NAT is the only thing the cloud should be needed for. Obviously downloading "drivers"/configurations are a valid user case but that's part of the setup-process.

Not saying that everyone should tinkle with a RPI but it is trivial to create a more user friendly device. The fact that Amazon, Google, Apple etc. don't even attempt this is just a consequence of them being hell bent on making money from crap.
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