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Money is a proxy. When one has a star trek replicator, money doesn't matter anymore.
This is also why Imodium is included in most thru-hikers first aid kits. It decreases the effects of diarrhea to keep you hydrated long enough to reach civilization if you get giardia in the backcountry.
That seems incredibly unlikely. The calculus doesn't get better for VP9 as they introduce support for qualitatively better AV1.
Yeah it is lucky. I have a odd body type, I'm 6'3" but only weight 170 pounds, so I really wear a XL-Tall but a lot of the XL clothing works pretty well. It's also a hit or miss every time I go in. Sometimes I will find 10 things that fit and are great, other times I leave empty handed.
> The window system itself was better-thought-out and less-confusing than Windows's was

I miss window shades so much.
The sense I get re: HomePod criticism is that people believe that Apple has built a better/the best home audio speaker at the price point, but that Apple is missing the boat on a larger connected home strategy. It's a matter of whether you favor a macro or micro POV.

Basically, Apple is making Sonos more affordable, while Amazon is making a bet that there is a new platform to be built/won in the form of voice and they're going to push hard into it with a bunch of low-cost appliances.

Apple's approach is fool-proof, but fairly limited. It could be worth a couple billion a year, but at their scale that hardly matters.

Amazon's approach is contingent on changing customer behavior and the development of an app ecosystem, but if it works it could be massive. I wouldn't be surprised if all this focus on voice doesn't eventually lead them back into making smartphones that tie into the hardware/services ecosystem they're developing. Apple could, of course, start making HomePod minis once the use cases are hashed out by Amazon.

At the end of the day, it's important to judge the product on its merits. It may not jibe with your macro view of the tech industry, but that's not the most relevant axis upon which to review a single product offering.
depends on the destination / trajectory of the object. This object has almost zero chance of ever hitting anything, so it doesn't have to go through the super crazy sanitizing that the Curiosity rover did.
I bought a widescreen 32" CRT back in the day. I chose that particular model because it was the only in that price range that had a VGA port (in addition to antenna, SCART and other PAL inputs).

It was advertised as handling a resolution of 640x480 via VGA. But I discovered that it could accept an 848x480 image from my desktop computer.

Coupled with a 50 GBP (~75 USD) Logitech wireless keyboard, I could surf the internet comfortably whilst leaning back on the sofa. In widescreen!

(This was maybe 17-18 years ago.)
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> It is true that programmer time is more valuable than computer time, but waiting for results to finish computing is also a waste of my time (I suppose I could do something else in the meanwhile, but context switches are such a killer of my performance that I often just wait).

In film CG production, we had a rule of thumb. If running an interactive program takes longer than about ten seconds, the artist (user) becomes more likely than not to get up and go get some coffee or talk to someone else. We consciously made an effort to keep anything someone needed to wait for to under ten seconds, and save anything longer than that for nightly farm renders. We were writing the code in C, btw.
You seem to have an axe to grind with mysticism, but rationality != measurement. Here you are totally constructing a straw man from whole cloth:

> "my values are complex and I don't know how to reason about them"

The article implies nothing of the sort.
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Here's one: when you get there and are looking for extra-terrestrial life, you won't know if the things you find are native, or if they got there on their own somehow, or if you brought them with you. Maybe you don't care, but I think that knowing the answer to that question would be super interesting.
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What's the end market driving all this commerce?

Current space industry is dominated by intensively manufactured goods (satellites) that provide enormous value to ground based users. Having literal tons of steel available isn't going to help with the intensively manufactured part.

I can see space hotels or whatever, but that is not a huge market, even with Musky launch prices.
From the link I sent:

> The United States is a signatory to an international treaty that stipulates that exploration must be conducted in a manner that avoids of the transportation of living organisms to celestial bodies.

First of all the US is part of a treaty, so if we do introduce organisms to other plants we are violating the treaty.

> We wouldn't want to go to Mars and "discover" life - only to figure out later that we brought it with us! Scientists also want to study the planet and any life that might be there in its original "pristine state."

Ultimately I guess it comes down to why you are sending something to space. If your goal is science then contaminating the planetary environment with organisms is not great. If your goal is colonization (which I guess is SpaceX goal) then you probably wouldn't care. But I still think it's something that should be considered.
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Except for, you know, all of them that are made in the US, Japan, Italy, etc.
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Yeah I live in a pretty big city and I live in a part of the town that is sandwiched between two very wealthy areas so it can make for very good thrift store shopping. It is still a very hit or miss thing though. Sometimes you find tons of stuff, other times you find nothing.
There's risk management involved.

Sanitizing is considered when you're planning a planet landing. Space is big, so on the timescales of human civilization, the probability of actually hitting a planet by accident is negligible. If that Roadster lands on Mars in a hundred million years, we won't care.
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It would be rather ironic if Elon's personal Mars lander got into a collision with his roadster. Hope he took out liability insurance on the roadster ;)
I watched a YouTube review that paired HomePod with Spotify via airplay and you could change songs and increase volume via Siri.

A lot of folks keep mentioning Apple Music but I don’t believe they understand that’s not the only option
Audiobooks are expensive to produce, and generally have a smaller market than written copy (whether ebook or dead-tree).

I know at least one author has written about this:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/06/cmap-why...
Agreed about the "HD craze", especially because of the following facts:

- "HD" in the context of laptop screens means "1366x768", which is unusable. It's funny that "high definition" means "the lowest resolution available on a PC". It makes explaining to family members which monitor is right for them very hard, because of course "HD" must be a good thing, right?

- Most entry level laptops come with said resolution (this may be starting to change in the past few years).

- Businesses, even software development companies, have a hard time understanding that higher resolution monitors are not for gaming or watching movies, but for actual work. In fact, they are more useful for working, because for watching movies a standard "HD" monitor is enough.
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Yes, but the same question applies for phones, tablets, and computers.
Even if it was sanitized is it worth it to have a car exploding on one of our celestial neighbors?

It's funny and cool to see a car in space as long as we're not hurtling garbage into other planets.
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do you have any idea how deeply subsidized farms are in the US?
They never were going to send it to mars. The plan was to send it out to a orbit that could reach mars if they pointed it correctly.

Now that they know its final orbit they can compute if it will hit anything for thousands/millions of years and slightly adjust it if it does.
I feel your pain. I was using BetterTouchTool to remap the default behavior of that green +, but eventually decided it was silly to use an add-on for something I should be able to change via `defaults`, so I just trained myself to hit Option when I wanted to maximize.
Python and CPython are the same thing for the majority of Python developers, just like the Oracle JVM is a synonym of Java.

Yes, there are other exotic runtimes, but only one official one and that's what people will use.
It definitely will be considered when they'll be actually aiming at Mars.
I know it's not popular, but I actually like MDI apps.
That was probably true of the original trajectory, but now it's supposed to fly quite close to Ceres and scientists want updated data to see if a collision is likely.
I get that, I just never thought it was very funny. Start might not have been the best name for that button, but the idea of having a single a menu to access all OS functionality and applications was good. Still is good, in fact, which why so many people got upset when they removed it in Windows 8.
All these explanations are rather complicated. I think the simplest explanation is the best: people don't have the free money to spend on clothing.

This is evidenced by the following facts: 1) Wages have been stagnant 2) Cost of living has been increasing well beyond the stated 2% rate of inflation.
Then making that consumption sustainable and reducing waste would be a far better investment than pipe dreams of asteroid mining.

Keep in mind scarcity of resources is not the only issue. If everyone on Earth really ever started consuming as much as Americans then it doesn't matter if there's enough surplus material in space, the ecosystem on Earth would be dead anyway and we'd have much bigger issues.
My son has been very interested in fast cars lately, so this morning I asked him what the fastest car was, and corrected him. Then we watched the launch together.
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Also where exactly this thing is going, do they even know? Just watch knocking few asteroids out of orbit and destroying Earth...
These might be tired cliches now but I've always known the joke of Bose's slogan: "Better sound through marketing" and of course the acronym "Buy Other Stereo Equipment".
Very real concern. A lot of effort goes into sterilising craft intended to land on or impact other planets. If we fail to do so, we run a real risk of seeding earth life on those planets and forever ruining our chances to test them for the existence of life prior to contamination.
SpaceX did do the analysis for NASA to show it had an exceedingly small chance of contamination.
AirBNB has their own version of a 'showrooming' problem as well - last time I went to Hawaii, I found a nice condo that I liked, then searched for that same condo online, found the owner's standalone website offering similar prices but no AirBNB fee. I booked direct.
This is the first time I've heard of either VRBO or HomeAway. I assume they have a much smaller presence.
Do you have any further info about this?
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Of course its low, but its still something that needs to be considered as more and more commercial organizations gain the ability to launch things into our solar system. Obviously an organization like SpaceX has a commercial focus rather than a scientific one like NASA. The more stuff gets launched by more people the more likely of contamination from something.

Between SpaceX, Blue Origin or any other space travel initiatives that end up succeeding we are going to end up with a lot more stuff in space which isn't necessarily going to be friendly to scientific efforts as in the past.
Well, I hadn't heard of them till this minute.

If they did bizarre things so they start getting mentioned more in HN or TechCrunch I guess it'd help their cause :P
I've heard a few times today how radiation will peel the paint off the car. Shouldn't that also sanitize it pretty thoroughly?
"your 100x more performant Go code"

Let me optimize that:

"your 100x faster Go code"
Right, you can use any audio source via AirPlay. But with more limitations to Siri interaction than Apple Music and of course requiring the device to stream from. Which to me is acceptable too, but it is important to point out in a review.
> 1) I'd really enjoy a "pause at the end of a chapter" button.

Audible has this feature, it's just hidden in the Sleep Timer menu. It has the exact functionality you describe, though: pauses the book at the end of the chapter. I've been using it nightly for a long time.

It also has timed options, of course, as well as pause at end of book part.
People don't have the time to spend on clothing.
The amount of tedious manual work required to resize and arrange several windows on MacOS (6+ to latest OSX) bothered me all the time I had a misfortune to have to use it. It does not even have something like edge snapping.

My WM of choice is now Xfwm, which allows to rearrange windows easily without gaps, make windows fill available space (vertical and horizontal separately), or tile them by dragging to corners.

On OSX, things like Spectacle and Magnet sort of help.
It's fascinating to me that two years ago, these folks would have been happily hired as "eng 1". Entire teams were composed of folks that had just completed boot camps. I'd love to hear from one of those current/former junior engineers about what they think of this new program and whether it feels like a slight.
> lots of people said Beats ( before they were acquired by Apple ) were great

Nobody said that :) The knock on Beats from the jump was that they're stylish, comfortable, and sound like shit.
The answer is: over 10 orbits - no. Over 10^3 orbits - no. Over 10^9 and more - nobody really cares. By that time the Sun will be halfway to going cold.
It certainly is: https://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/
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Agree on subscriptions. Audible is employing 2 dark patterns: carnival currency (credits), and the free trial / hidden cancel button. I'm not sure I understand why. I believe there is a recent (2017) class action lawsuit regarding some issues around expiring credits. I feel silly referring friends to the free trial, like I'm introducing them to a pyramid scheme. Its like Audible doesn't understand the psyche of their customer base.. optimizing for localized conversion metrics.

Otherwise, its a good product. The dark patterns represent short-term thinking. I'd be hooked on Audible if I could buy an Audible Prime-like subscription to purchase discounted audio books. Give me a deal on the latest recommended books and you can notify me all day long just like Netflix.
There is fast (optimization) and slow (the most straightforward thing with no consideration to perf) and then not-slow. I think not-slow is a happy medium. Fast code should and probably is, totally unreadable, looking like AlphaGo optimized your program.
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How often have you done that?
You could be surprise how resilient are the microbes against the harsh conditions of space.
> In lots of areas, "good code" doesn't matter much, if at all.

This is the received wisdom in biological science but I’m convinced that it’s trivially wrong. I’ve seen a lot of research code, most of it bad. I have no idea how many bugs are in this code, and I know for a fact that the original authors also don’t know. And it would be truly exceptional if these pieces of code were bug-free (in fact, there’s enough software engineering know-how to categorically conclude that a very high percentage of such code has bugs). How many of these bugs affect the correctness of the results?

… since the code quality is so bad, this is impossible to quantify. So, yes, code quality does matter in science, since it affects the probability of publishing wrong results.

Incidentally, there are cases of retractions of high-impact papers due to errors in code. Of course this will also happen with better code quality; but if conventional software engineering wisdom is right then it will happen substantially less.
Maybe there's merit in a Python version that compiles to JS where we allow engines like V8 to do the optimisation. The dynamic nature of JS maybe enough impedance-MATCH to allow this to happen?

Writing this up, I'll probably get someone suggesting that this is already a reality with some tool. Glad to be taught.
I keep hoping for a windows explorer with tabs with each release and each time I am dissapointed.
This "make it work" adage makes no sense at all when scrutinized.

Does anyone believe that other industries think like that? First let's invent a washing machine that washes, but occasionally sets clothes on fire and takes 24h for a washing cycle. Then we'll redesign it so it doesn't set things on fire, and finally redesign it yet again to finish in 2h.

It's incredibly wasteful. For any complex project, making it work and fast only at the end will either result in massive cost overruns or an outright canceled project.
So because it's not easy, it shouldn't be done?

Personally I would be ok with my device disabling it's UI while it emulated a mass storage device when plugged into a host.
Awesome. That's great to hear. I was specifically wondering since this isn't just a metal satellite, there are cushions and fabric and stuff which can probably hold a lot of microbes.
That would still be quantifying values against the tangible axes of time and/or money. There are still various other intangible factors such as happiness, goodwill etc which are immeasurable, yet contribute to the overall picture.
if it isn't too expensive to build 3 of your payload, falcon heavy could blow up twice and still be cheaper!

Obviously JWST does not fall into that category. I imagine if it blows up, it is just done forever?
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I still keep a CRT around for my C64 - a little 13" Sony Trinitron. It might see more use once I get around to replacing the electrolytic caps in my SNES and getting it working again.
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Haha :).

Well, if the recent progress in the space sector continues, I'm confident that in the next few decades someone will make a mission to rendezvous with the Roadster, just for the kicks.
>He then throws in salacious and irrelevant intimations about race and class

He's not totally wrong about those things (though I think it's class that matters orders of magnitude more than race). In enthusiast communities where the bar to entry is low (most outdoor recreation is cheap to do at a basic level) there's a class segregation effect. I can't quite put my finger on it or describe the details but there's definitely community/social pressure to make things needlessly expensive and develop an attitude of "if your wallet can't support going all out don't go at all" as a bar to entry.
Could infect the native population on the planet
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Some bacteria can survive very high levels of radiation. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans
one of the twitter astronomers says this orbit might be unstable because of jupiter:

https://twitter.com/AscendingNode/status/961085386650017798

Does that mean it will inevitably be pulled into a high gravity object and crash? Or does that mean it will just travel wildly through space?
Not sure about Mac but there's an option for that in the windows version at least.

Tools -> Preferences -> Playlist and Instances

"Allow only one instance" and "Use only one instance when started from file manager", uncheck both to allow more than one window at a time all the time.
> it would need to slow down once it got to Mars to stay in orbit around it.

I don't think orbiting mars was ever the plan. They were talking about a mars orbit, meaning an orbit of the sun at about the distance of mars.
My first thought is of the sheer quantity of extraterrestrial organisms which must exist in the incomprehensible vastness our universe.

Maybe the laws of physics and mortality will prevent us from meeting them, let proving their existence, but in such an ultimate vastness where we know that life does exist, life must exist.

I don’t get Fermi though. If you take the inconceivably large problem space that is “life finding other life in the universe” and cross it with the infinitesimally small amount of space-time we’ve occupied actively looking for other life, how is not having found other life yet a paradox?
Yep these things can actually survive in the vacuum of space as well as go without food or water for 30 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
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There's no capability to adjust the trajectory at this point.
Make the standard open, make it work, build a high quality reference implementation and market the hell out of it.

As far as I can tell Mozilla is one of the only institutions with the resources and incentive to do all of this. I'm not altogether convinced they won't fuck it up though - the way they handled firefox OS was not encouraging. They might spend all of their time stroking their beards and deliberating over where to put the comma in their specs rather than getting their hands dirty with no-brand Chinese hardware manufacturers and figuring out all of the subtle problems that can arise building a network of devices and the not so obvious use cases.

If I were running mozilla I'd put the office for this venture in Shenzhen and make sure that the employees visit often and work closely with OEMs because if you keep these people away from actual manufacturers then the result is going to be pretty poor.
>in Python it's quite difficult even to reason about what's going to be in L1

The interpreter's stack?
> (eg cosmic rays).

YouTube copyright violations?

The chance of getting a response from Google support?
I wonder if they start somehow "cracking down" on that. For now, it might not be worth it but eventually?
“Quite close” is relative, given how ridiculously vast space is. The chances that they fire blindly out into space and just happen to hit Ceres seems so unlikely as to be basically impossible.
That comment was really aimed at Tesla, not SpaceX.