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(1) The president doesn't control "the purse", only Congress does (even when it delegates that power to The Executive).

(2) The economy and the federal government were already at all-time highs. Proportionately speaking[1]:

* Reagan increased the debt by 186% in 8 years,
* George HW Bush increased it by 54% in 4 years,
* Clinton increased it 32% in 8 years,
* George W Bush by 101% in 8 years, and
* Obama by 68% in 7 years (article not updated to include his last year)

(3) Most federal spending is allocated towards non-discretionary expenses (Social Security and MediCare) and Obama can't any more than Trump can (which is to say they neither can nor will). The growth of health care costs has far outpaced inflation in the USA for 30+ years now

(4) The baby boomer generation began retiring during Obama's tenure, which no other president had to deal with

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/us-debt-by-president-by-dollar-an...
This just saved my ass. I only play Diablo 3 occasionally, but Blizzard doesn't offer their client on Windows Phone, which would have been great to know prior to switching over from Android. Fortunately I didn't have the same issues getting it taken off of my account as the parent comment , but I was stuck using SMS as a 2FA after that, which is no beuno. I just used your python script, imported the 'secret' into Microsoft Authenticator via the generated QR code, and now it is working just as if I was using one of their auth dongle doohickies. Fantastic, thank you sir/madam!
This article came out before GTAIV. It enabled permanent 'drunk mode' on pirated copies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSL_x-TKnvM
Ask HN: What are ways to get back into engineering
I have been a software engineer for 10+ years however around 2012 I moved into a less hands on technical role (think technical program management) I want to get back into more hands on technical role and would like get the community's help to identify strategies to adopt to accomplish this. Also would be great to understand which technologies to focus on. For context - Back in the day I worked largely on middleware and backend - Java and various RDBMS was my bread and butter.

Thanks!
The message, in Spanish:

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Furthermore, people wring their hands over the gig economy mostly in some specific contexts like Uber drivers. They’re shedding
far fewer tears for their plumber who isn’t available for another month.
Exactly it just seems like a strange sub doesn't it. Even has nice mascot - the cute Reddit alien with a mask on.

Are there subs for other crimes like medical malpractice, robbery? What about more serious ones say rape or contract killing. I am sure assassins would "benefit" from sharing tips and tricks of the trade.

At first I thought, oh maybe these are people who are hungry and have to feed their family so they are stealing an extra bag of rice or potatoes. But I see them bragging about electronics, media, expensive clothes. The one that caught my attention is bragging about stealing thousands a month from Whole Foods. They justify it by saying Whole Foods treats their employees badly.
Much more on Chinese solid fuel lvs from X-Space and Russian second hand, repurposed icbms
On the other hand these same thieves could choose to shop at a place with a person attending the register and probably paying slightly more to enable the store to hire this cashier.
Atlassian employee here. We moved much of our development efforts to Stride, our next gen team chat software. Be sure to check it out: https://www.stride.com
I agree. Still our issue and our issue alone as individuals. Nobody’s forcing anybody to use something designed to steal their attention. And if someone is being forced to in a work environment, that sounds to me like a cultural issue, not an issue with the attention stealing tool itself.
> That's why my ideal solution has always been to basically say 'by signing up with this service, you grant us an irrevocable, unlimited right to use your posts for the purposes of the community' with a nice 30 minute or so editing window set for content.

Soooo, HN?
> Without it, days are calm, purpose-driven and productive.

Like you can't distract yourself with 40 other apps if not slack. Slack isn't the problem, they're ALL the problem. Anyway, Slack is mandatory if you're remote.
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> Keep in mind that console dev kits of past were devices produced almost manually in very limited numbers

You might be thinking of the alpha dev kits. Those were basically gigantic metal wirewraps, and if you were at a large game dev you might get one or two locked away in a conference room. I can't remember off hand if those cost anything actually? You had to be a substantial game studio to get one in the first place, and Sony took them back.

Either way, that's not what I was thinking of. The production PS2 dev kits (called "TOOL") cost $thousands and were not manually constructed. A game team would have a lot of these. I can't imagine these cost as much to build as they charged, especially years after the PS2 launched.[1]

[1] - I wish I could remember/find the price for the TOOL, I want to say it was like $10 or $20K, even 2-3 years after PS2 launched?
two great projects combining their magical power together, just amazing!
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Depends. At least for EE there's a big difference between the courses that are supposed to filter the students (usually years 1 and 2) and those that don't. For the latter a high grade like 5.75 or even 6 was doable, for the former the time limit and amount of material to study is so harsh that I wouldn't even know where to start to achieve that.
That's gold, Jerry!
"As a German", I think the crimes of the Nazis, as well as the horrors of war in general and that particular one, should never be forgotten. As something humans did, excusing it in the ways they did, perfecting it with the rationalizations they used, but first and foremost and as something they did to other humans. Insofar as exploitation, distortion or even glorification go, if anyone should be asked, it would be the victims.
Not GP but I've had 5 jobs since coming to SF in 2014; walked off the last 2 within months. I was innocent and naive when I arrived, now I see how my late brother receeded to him bedroom for the final years of his life. People are horrible when they can get away with it. You can bet job quality goes down with each notch. When I was at the top I told him to smile and try harder. Back stabbing is fine, at least you feel that one and it ends. Once you're down the spiral I don't know how to get up, but you're blessed to not understand.
Resistive power losses in the battery pack, drive inverter, motor, and associated wiring are proportional to the square of the current. Doubling the motor current doubles the torque but quadruples the losses.
Here's a nifty counter of Slack activations per day: http://focuslist.co/escape2/

Kinda eye opening.
Do you realize that when you get a sufficiently large or diverse group of people together there will invariably be politics?

Even within a family or group of friends there are politics in people promoting their own interests or vying for affection/time of others.

This is not an inherent flaw in the system. This is how the system was designed to work.
While this may be great for him, this is probably counter-productive for the org -- and he's preparing to be left out of a lot of decisions and conversation.

I've been in an org where there were stragglers who didn't want to use Slack for whatever reason -- "I'm too old" for it was one I found particularly retarded.

Communication is key -- get your whole team on one tool - silence notifications if you have to, but you should aim to participate.
The PCEngines APU2C0 is their most stripped down APU2 model, it's $99.

https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2c0.htm

Quad-core, 2GB RAM, 2x Gigabit Ethernet, m-SATA, 12V DC power

No audio port, no HDMI port, this model leaves off the GPIO headers, no camera, 2 total USB ports, 1 MicroSD connector.

It's about $99 and the case is another $10. I have several.
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Slack is not hard to ignore. As I've mentioned in previous threads:

* Mute all channels.

* Take long periods of time to respond to people. Trust me, this isn't ever going to lead to any sense of shame.

* Set yourself to away most of the time.

* Disable gifs.

* Set notifications for keywords like "lunch" and "meeting".

* Disable the icon badge. (the red dot if you're using macOS)

Now you can be productive with Slack.

I know all these things are designed to grab our attention but, seriously, have some agency in your life. Deciding to go "offline" is perfectly legitimate, but I do think Slack can be easily used in a way that doesn't waste time.
If you want to contain the nutters, build a nuthouse. Every message board admin in the world learns you need dumping grounds and pressure relief valves to keep the population in line.

My team has "General" for company wide announcements and "random" for dumping gifs and whatnot.

There's also stuff like #sysadmin if something goes down or you spot a security bulletin and want to make sure the admin team sees it. Keep those rooms going as necessary. Low traffic, but the right people want an unread marker on them.
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How about documentation then? Let's say Allwinner releases C header files, plus high level descriptions of what each function does. Do they still maintain plausible deniability if the hardware design infringes on patents?
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Working with the kind of person that OP seems to be is a pain. Sometimes I need your help, a code review, feedback or advice. Sometimes I even need it ASAP because I am dealing with something time sensitive. I do my best to be respectful of people's tome, but sometimes a distraction to help a colleague is unavoidable.

I'll send an email when appropriate, but in most other cases I'll look for you on Slack. If you're not there then that means I'll just have to walk over to your desk to find you instead.
> Instead of new minds and new experiences, human society would be dominated to an even greater extent by old minds and their established patterns

I doubt very much that any viable longevity treatment will not also increase neuroplasticity like when you were young and idealistic. As such, I'm no longer convinced of the same conclusion you reached.
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I used Slack over IRC for a while. Other than group chats and downloads/gifs, it worked pretty well. The private messages thing is solved if you have one machine that stays connected to IRC 100% of the time and you connect to that.
What OS you prefer is highly dependent on what you emphasise. From your examples, I don't care about paging in Terminal, and word-jumps work throughout MacOS using alt-arrow-left/right. Preview is indeed crashy and slow but it's still the only one that gives me the editing features I want out-of-the box without installing Adobe Creator tools. More importantly, MacOS (and its predecessor NextStep) is AFAIK still the only system that can create lossless PDFs out of anything you see on screen. The fact that I can open a PDF, make a rectangular selection and copy&paste to native MacOS applications while keeping images, vector graphics and fonts at full quality (i.e. you can zoom in without aliasing forever!) is a big part of my workflow when documenting stuff.
The Banana Pi M2 Berry fits the bill, unless you mind all the extra stuff it has.

http://www.banana-pi.org/m2ub.html

(Costs around $40: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/New-products-BPI-M2...)
Aren't all of the gauges from speed, temperature, tach, fuel, etc. meant to show engineering ranges and not optimal ranges? If you designed a car that couldn't go faster than 100KMh, I assume driving it 100% of the time at 100kmh would be more detrimental to the car's longevity than operating a more capable car at a lower percentage of its capability.

I realize I'm making some assumptions here, but maybe the maximum speed of a car is an design artifact of maximizing for multiple variables (longevity, fuel consumption, maintenance costs), not just speed.

I'm not an engineer so I have no idea what I'm talking about.
Ballet dancers are trained to do turns (fouette [0], pique [1] and pirouettes [2]) by "spotting" (i.e. picking an object in the near distance and spotting it until the next turn). I'm not sure the chicken video does this term justice, hence the links below.

[0] https://www.instagram.com/p/2ZOLkkHMKU/?taken-by=devon.teusc...]

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/BeoYE2DlTXF/?taken-by=tilerpeck

[2] https://www.instagram.com/p/BT4WSbmDMKM/?taken-by=devon.teus...
I don't think that mailing lists work well any more. I've tried to subscribe to some, but they get buried in my inbox, and I'm so tired of emails by the time I get to the list messages that I usually just highlight them all and delete them without reading, unless there is an interesting title.
It doesn't require a want to backstab, just incentive to get ahead.
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Pretty sure I had some kind of slack PTSD after my last two dev jobs.
I had an extremely disappointing experience with Backblaze's support team (documented here - http://www.cederman.com/2016/12/tracking-down-rogue-bandwidt...), and in the process of researching the issues I was having, discovered a rabbit hole of reports of folks having issues restoring their data.

Backblaze have not acknowledged my issues at all, even though I have tried to engage with the team numerous times.

I switched to CrashPlan, and have had to do two full restores since doing so, both of which went flawlessly and quickly. The Java client is a bit cumbersome, but it's reliable, and I am much happier with the performance and support I've received from them.
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It seems lecture 27 is not available. Can anybody check that out?

Second question, is this graduate level or undergraduate?

P.S. Thank you so much for providing this.
what kind of heat efficiency you mean?
I thought the two methods described in this video were both good:

http://youtu.be/Qaq9vlfoGnA

Also, the method described here, even though it didn't result in a financially successful game, was pretty clever (pirating the game meant your game company would be defeated by pirates):

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/30/game_dev_tycoon/
The secret is buying from goodwill and reselling online. It's a great side hustle and easy.
Interestingly enough, the same famine confirmed gluten as the cause of coeliac disease. Death rates for children with the disease dropped during the famine, as flour was unavailable, and the children relapsed once they were given the first supplies of bread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease#History
Pre orders are not the same as cars sold. The preorder costs 1k and you can cancel it, while a new model 3 starts at 35k. The Mazda CX5 which accounts for 128k units sold in '17 costs $25 to 28k.
> That the world can't sustain an undying, continually growing population?

Except that won't happen, because population growth or plateau or start falling within the next century die to spreading affluence. Native population growth in every first world nation is already negative.

The end of aging is probably inevitable, but it won't necessarily a yield a continuously growing population.
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There's a certain network effect, at least for some people: you can just take your business on the road and work in a different city every week.

With the name recognition they're getting, they may also get really good deals on office space: I've personally witnessed a co-working space gentrifying a whole city block. The whole block was also owned by the same investor, who apparently gave them a 50% rebate on a ten-year contract. She has easily gotten a 10x ROI on it, since rents in the rest of the buildings tripled within two years.
That’s actually not true. This article doesn’t show it, but they are doing a ton of good for the whole island. There are projects for the good of the whole island focused on power (solar + Blockchain), agriculture, healthcare, real estate, and education. You don’t need to take my word for it - you’ll see in the coming months. The people of PR and the gov’t of PR love that these people are there, and the whole island will benefit,
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I have some thoughts on why this is the case.

First, speed limits vary from place to place and manufacturers don't need to change the speedometer for each one. For instance, in the US, there are places where the limit is as high as 137KMH, and it used to be unlimited in places. I don't know what Germany is like these days.

Also, the Mazda3 is said to have a governed top speed of 190KMH* so the speedometer reading up to 260 is a red herring with respect to actual performance.

Finally, a high top speed is a side effect of having the acceleration that consumers would like.

*It's a governed speed in order to preserve the tires, but it's unlikely it would make 260KMH even without the governor; maybe 200-220KMH at best - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda3
Where did you get that "messages and posts" are included in data that falls under the regulation? Not contesting, genuinely interested. I was under the impression it only covered personal data in a very strict sense (names, addresses, personal info like gender, etc)
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You need to get out if your bubble. The only complaint I’ve geard from literally hundreds of actual users about the new MBPs is they don’t like the shallow key travel on the new keyboards.

I do, but I’ve always preferred less travel.

Outside of the moaning online bubble (like HN) the MBP is a raging success.
> If everyone suddenly lived on average another 40-50 years, when do you retire?

You retire when you can for however long you can afford, then eventually go back to school and start again. That's the whole point of multiple lifetimes. If that doesn't interest you, then you can live your one full life, retire and die like all of your ancestors.
who the fuck are they designing these things for?

The Germans.
Yea, this seems to support my point.
Slack lowers the friction involved in communicating. Depending on the kind of communication that it is, maybe that's bad or good.

In many corporate communications platforms, it is quite effortless to ask an idle question, use an emoticon, paste a giphy image, write a bot to push notifications into your team channel, express a witticism, or vent complaints. It was my experience that Slack made it easier to do all of these things more than any platform I'd previously used. I've been off of it for 3 months and hope I never have to return. The worst problem seemed to be the number of ad-hoc channels I could be automatically invited to, and it was not often clear whether the information exchanged there was something I needed to pay attention to (although in retrospect it is more so).

Different organizations will utilize it differently, and feature-wise Slack seems to have gotten pretty far ahead of the competition. But if there's any truth to the medium being the message, then I think that it can be inferred from much of what transpires on Slack is that as a platform it is a big time sink. There don't seem to be a lot of important degrees of urgency between an email, a phone call, or a drop-by. For me about 90% of the value in corporate messaging is pasting web links to resources, which doesn't require the other bells and whistles.
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Your characterization might indicate a different incentive, but I suppose everyone knows (and accounts for?) that…
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It's easy to mock the aesthetics and trends in such a community. But, honestly, focusing on quality of life was long overdue, and has since spread far and wide. For many of the dot-com boom's startups, it may be the most permanent, and beneficial, legacy.
That pretty much requires you to use something like 1password which if hacked (your error or theirs (who knows how good some random companies security is)) then you are completely screwed as all of your accounts are now compromised. To make matters worse, you don't know any of your passwords so you cannot even log onto any of your accounts to change them (this is also a big problem if you have a customer service problem as it will lock you out of all your accounts).

I'm not a security engineer but this sets off all of my internal alarm bells when my entire identity relies on the security of 1 unrelated company that I pay a few bucks a month for.
Glad it helped!
For me I'd say part therapy, part responsibility.

That Germany wasn't just razed to the ground.. non-withstanding all the criticism I have of the US, NATO, Russia, and pretty much everybody, that's dumb luck rather than deserved. To get another chance after something like that is not to be taken lightly. If I just try to take in the reality of what happened in places that I can still physically see, try to realize that from some of the buildings from before the war, people were dragged screaming, surrounded by gleeful displays of sadism from their torturers, while the neighbors were either scared and crying, or grinning and thinking about how they could profit from assets that no longer have an owner, that alone is enough.

> The highest what one can achieve [in regards to this past] is to know and to bear that it was like this and not different, and to then wait and see what follows from that.

-- Hannah Arendt
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The trouble is that a lot of home builders end up putting a Ferrari engine in a Volvo body with a Yugo drivetrain & wheels from a Reliant Robin.

Yet they’ll think they have a better car, because it’s got a Ferrari under the hood.
That's strange, I get a sponsored content like every 5 to 6 pictures.
It's annoying to the point that it's about to be the last straw for me.

While there are talented photographers on Instagram, the app is really poor as a way to appreciate photography (can't zoom, no iPad app to better view content) and it's also poor as a community, favouring instead over-consumption and poor engagement (low quality comments, if any).

Then there are the shenanigans that game user engagement, like delaying likes to force people to check the app more often or nagging me to enable notifications every single time I open the app.

It has become little more than an ad-delivery platform.
See this thread for the real problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/oilshell/comments/7tqs0a/why_create...

Sorry I got to this late -- I might do a blog post on it. I think your response, along with the 3 or 4 others i got essentially proves my point: "Perl is not an acceptable shell".
Well they run a business and you just use your time to generate random comments. Why would I believe a bunch of stinky gasoline-drinking engineers?
> small slices of lost life

"A micromort (from micro- and mortality) is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death."
How did you get your contact?
Most offices have bad cultures that don't foster good communication. The odds of people blaming a tool because they don't have good communication is very high.

I think the bit about "my team is starting to notice I'm offline" is very telling. Oh you're so fancy, you special person who doesn't tell your team when you're not available and you aren't checking your messages. You sure showed them. I bet you're just the best facilitator of communication.

Personally, I tell my team how they can and can't expect to contact me when I'm changing methods of communication. Call me crazy.
> Native population growth in every first world nation is already negative.

No, it's not; the US is, notably, among the first world nations with a positive rate of natural growth.