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I don't think that is necessarily true. Whatever rain falls evaporates again. If you increase the amount of rain in one place then evaporation also increases. You have increased the capacity of the water cycle at least in a local area. Also most of earth is ocean so increasing rain on land does not necessarily take from other land.
Unfortunately, it cannot power the dock. That was a bit of a letdown for me
Typically with solar panels you reduce the power output by 30% when you reduce the panel size by 30% ;)
I love the idea of USB-C - Being able to have one cable which can do everything is great.

But I've become very leery about actually trusting it in practice - There are so many examples of bad cables, or devices which don't quite follow the specification, causing things to break badly.

If you end up having to follow a defacto "Only use 1st party tools" rule for safety reasons, I'd almost rather manufacturers went back to proprietary connectors. Those aren't inter-operable, but at least they don't pretend to be and risk me breaking everything.
What would such a ban look like? No wire brushes for BBQs? What about the wire brushes they have in the hardware aisle? Do they need to add 'not for BBQs' to the label?

Seems like good fodder for tabloid evening news and then just let it be.
Amazon was mainly conquered by Portuguese, so no, Spaniards are not to blame.
Belated thanks for the really useful link! I hadn't looked into these opt-out/review requirements before. But, FWIW, I still think there's an important difference between a user-driven opt-out (which I also don't read as a guarantee of explanation) and proactive publication of the personalization criteria. It's still possible for an uninformed individual to never even realize content is being personalized for them, much less pass the threshold of asking how.
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In watching the evolution of USB-C over the last few years, it seems like it's extremely hard to implement correctly with the huge number of modes, alternate modes, and power delivery in the spec.

When you connect two USB-C devices today, you have almost no idea what is actually going to happen, which device is the master, and which way power will flow.

While having one connector and cable type for everything seems like it would be a good idea, in practice it's turning out to be a giant mess. Maybe it'll clear up in a few years, but given the race to the bottom in price and quality in the accessory market, this seems doubtful.
Kubernetes is great for those that are ops-inclined, OpenShift is a much better experience for your typical developer though.

Personal anecdote: We've had OpenShift Origin running in production for a year and a half, I'm the DevOps guy and know how to poke around in the internals but the developers on my team are just that, developers. They just want to say "here's my code, go make it work", S2I, templates and Jenkins pipelines let them do just that - they go paste the URL of a git repository into the web interface and watch the project build and automatically deploy. It's a pretty magic experience watching a Junior developer deploy 13 applications over the course of a year with no supervision or hand-holding from a more-senior developer.
Apple's USB-C chargers skirt around some standards, as well.
Thanks. I use it as I would a normal mind map, to organize ideas and sometimes visualize trees of data. I just find the text-based approach to creating mind maps a lot faster and simpler than using the various other online tools, even though it's a bit more limited.
the switch is advertised to only work with official nintendo cables and accessories. Anything else and you're just risking damage to your console/tablet/thingy.

I don't think they have ever claimed that their USB-C connectors were compliant with the spec.
If you're into robots, festo makes some of the coolest. Here was a previous one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxVf9QY_TFs
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Growth rarely lasts forever, and Snap had more employees than generally considered reasonable with such a single-purpose app. I'm surprised they aren't laying off more engineers though, personally.
Well this is exactly what I was wondering last week after noticing the USB-C port on the switch dock is labelled "Power Adapter". I thought it was a little off that there is no mention of USB-C, either not to confuse the users or perhaps because they didn't have much confidence in their hardware compliance.
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I have never heard that cooked potatoes cause cancer. Do you mean fried / browned potatoes (acrylamide)?
Yeah, they aren't restaurants, just places where people pay to sit and eat meals that are cooked and served on the premises.
Just a chunk of wood works quite well. If you want to get fancy you can use a file to round out some grooves but that will happen naturally.

https://www.amazon.com/Scraper-Natural-Barbecue-Non-bristles...
This is exactly the situation I'm in. My storage unit is about 200 yards away, and the size of a small walk-in closet. I visit it about once a week. It's, essentially, a detached closet for my wife and me. Mostly seasonal items,
camping/backpacking gear, and a small number of keepsakes.
I was told to try cutting an onion in half and dragging it up and down the grates (after warming up for a bit). After trying it I would say that it’s not perfect but does a decent job of removing the big stuff. I’m still looking for a more reusable solution since I like to grill a lot.

Maybe just a wet rag would work? I’ve seen hibachi chefs use them on a flat grill along with a scraper.
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Based on a phase I went through involving getting rid of almost all my possessions, you can get rid of ~50% of your stuff and barely notice. But that last 10-20% is so amazingly critical, you come to appreciate it and the work that must have gone into it more. That said, having things that are useful and last never gets old, just make donating something you do as often as shopping. Also that is a pretty strange but interesting hobby.
> It almost feels like this product was conceived by someone's kid

Could it be the output of some Amazon version of Google's "20% time"?
In summary, you're upset that a business is, largely correctly, assessing the value of their service to you and adjusting the price based on your willingness to pay?

You do know that this happens constantly right, just usually by overpricing it and giving out discounts based on your willingness to pay.
This was also dramatized in the film The Lost City of Z to some extent. It's worth a watch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film)
I have a feeling I'll be buying one of those fancy USB-C amperage/voltage meters. I hit issues with the charging spec on a GPD Pocket (tiny laptop). Its maximum supported charging voltage is 12V, which is now optional in the USB-PD 2.0 standard. So most chargers I see now are 5V/9V/15V

Macbook charger for instance is missing the 12V, so it charges slow off that charger since it ignores the 15V rail. Has to fall back to 5V or 9V in theory...
Regular USB had all the same problems. I can't charge my JBL speaker with my iPad charger. And I can't charge much of anything with my older Toshiba laptop USB ports.

Why anyone thought it would be different this time around, I don't know.
As we have all learned from reality-TV, a good quarter of the units are choke-full with anything but junk: you will find sculpted furniture in pristine condition, civil war artifacts, expensive professional equipment and tens of thousands of dollars in rare baseball cards. The industry must be really struggling to provide adequate security.
If you're able to read in German I can highly recommend Haberfellner's Systems Engineering. So far I couldn't find the book translated.

https://www.ofv.ch/lernmedien/detail/systems-engineering/145...
I've imagined a company (cable phone or some other long term service) that signs everyone up at their full rate, and for every month you stay with them, they add 1% discount till after 50 months you are at 50% of full rate and stay that way. No coupons, no special just for you! offers, just an honest straightforward "we need to collect money to keep things running, but we value our loyal customers most".

Fantasy I know.
Personally, I would answer that question by telling you how the HTTP protocol works because, in my mind, that's what you're asking for. If you're going to ask that question, I think you need to be more clear about what you're looking for. I don't think there is any value in interviewers being intentionally vague in order to test if a candidate can guess what they're thinking.
My favorite is I have an HP Envy USB-C monitor to use with my Macbook, and using the HP factory supplied cable, every time I power it on I get a warning that I should use an "official HP USB-C cable". It's literally the one straight from the box!
You could certainly fit that much solar in places in Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. I think the bigger issue would be getting the capital and permissions needed to build high voltage transmission lines to take that much power to where it is really needed throughout the country.
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I can't find it at all, in the app or the web site. Either they decided to launch it dead, or they haven't really launched it yet.
I wonder why they would even use the same shape then...

Nintendo (and up until recently, the videogame hardware industry at large) has a long history of making their own connectors...
The distinction here is powering the Switch in portable mode vs. powering it via the Dock. Per discussions on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/87vmud/the_...), portable mode draws the expected 5V so it should work with USB-C compliant chargers, but the dock draws more. (although the article says the 87W charger crashed the Switch, I haven't seen that either)

There's also discussion about the new 5.0 update being buggy and compounding the issue.
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How is this at all surprising? Controlling what third parties are allowed to make accessories and games has been part of Nintendo's business model since the 80s. They truly believe (and you can argue this if you want) that the Nintendo Seal of Quality is part of their success.
I wrote my own CLI (in C, just for the hell of it) for JIRA. It’s the server that’s the problem. Responses take seconds to return over my 100Mb/S connection. Horrible.
It's not selfless; it's mutually beneficial. Someone looks at the existence of Facebook's core platform, Google+, GMail, and Facebook Mail, and concludes that nothing is amiss, since the bigger products have well-funded competition.
Sadly a very accurate statement. US allies are encouraged and sometimes required to buy US weapon systems even if they have no real utility, need, or capability to use them. Often they purchase them directly from the US government (versus the manufacturer), this is one way the US government directly makes money, provides a form of corporate welfare (for the defense industry), and subsidizes its weapon system development.
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https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12061

"Mark termination does not have to rescan stacks that haven’t executed since the last scan"

With pre-emptive scheduling of OS threads, you potentially dirty a ton more stacks, and have to scan them all for pointers to heap memory. I'm not sure how VMs using lots of OS threads deal with this.
I would have to assume, coming from that sort of background. College makes you take classes and learn skills that "you" don't care about or don't see immediate value to, but you have to do it anyway. Maybe not all of them are CS classes either.

It's possible for a self-taught to developer to learn a lot but stay in their safe bubbles of expertise, work or school can push you out of your comfort zones quite frequently and force you to expand your horizons. In a way that you might not do for yourself, at least not all the time.

Individual experiences may vary. I'm not saying there aren't some amazing talented self-taught programmers just you have to be very careful in assuming that they all are.
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On the other hand, you can wait like that for a very long time, and you have a problem to solve now.
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Ask HN: Do you agree with this statement about US phone market?
The author of [1]'Huawei’s P20 Pro is a hugely promising phone that will upset Americans' way saying that

"The US phone market needs a respectable third player more than Huawei needs the US market."

Do you agree that this "duopoly" between Apple & Samsung is hurting the customer?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/29/17174840/huawei-p20-pro-apple-samsung-us-absence
While this is more of an interesting fact than anything: The Nintendo Switch website [1] does not advertise that the Switch has a USB-C port. It has HDMI and USB 2.0 on the dock... but no USB-C anywhere.

[1] https://www.nintendo.com/switch/features/tech-specs/
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> The various agencies have without doubt been probing their phones for years looking for any backdoors, and they would have announced it concretely if they'd found any

Unless it would be useful to them as well...
And as an aside, one of the most important experiments for next Mars mission will be MOXIE. It's a proof of concept in generating oxygen from atmospheric CO2. It won't be ground breaking or exploring unknown territory, but it will advance society by proving yet another critical step in the process of getting people on Mars. And I think these things, if people understood the implications, are how we start advancing civilization and simultaneously also getting more people interested in science and technology because if people actually understood how close we are to things like actually colonizing other planets, it's incredibly exciting - and I could think of nothing more fulfilling than playing a role in this critical evolution of our species.
Out of curiosity which standards? The only one I can think of is providing a slightly higher voltage (but still within USB-C spec) to account for resistive losses in the cable. That's why it says 61 watts instead of 60.
There's Gett as well.
Weber and other companies make stone and nylon scrubbers, Home Depot sells them. You can find wood / bamboo ones online too.
To a first approximation, every employee at google works in advertising. Google search is at its heart a publishing source for serving ads. If every one in advertising loses their job google search goes away.
My answers:

> What are your thoughts on nationwide healthcare then, as an extended version of CHM, but where the values (aka, rules of elegibility, and what is covered/not covered) are those of the nation instead of those of specific Christian organizations?

I don't like it for a few reasons. First, government is famous for inefficiency and bloat. I am certain the government would do a poor job of good, affordable healthcare. (Rational people must concede this given the evidence today.)

Secondly, cost will be a problem for any system that covers existing conditions; it's the equivalent to buying house insurance when your house has already burned down. That's not insurance.

Third, and most importantly, nationwide insurance is not a self-maintaining community. In small groups that share values, when someone no longer lives according to the community's standards, they're removed from the community. This is not possible in nationwide healthcare.

So, someone abusing the medical system or living a lifestyle contrary to standards of our community cannot continue abusing the system.

This self-maintaining socialistic system works well in smaller communities with shared values, where abusers can be removed from the community. In a nationwide system, this isn't possible, driving up costs further.

> Is it really important for you for it to be an opt in system?

Yes. I do not wished to be coerced into government programs of any kind. That this is both private and optional makes this attractive to me from a libertarian standpoint.

> Is it really important that it be based on a specific interpretation of Christian values instead of the larger US values?

Not a specific interpretation, no. Just the basic interpretation of caring for the sick; a plain interpretation of Jesus' words[0].

[0]: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+25%3A35...
I couldn't agree more with the connection and inspiration of the visionary being one of the most valuable pieces.

To give a bit more backstory, I have been the visionary time and time again. I found that my connection to the use case, passion, and vision helped me build great products. After all, I'm a developer and I love building out the passion projects that I want to see in the world. But even as the passionate visionary, I kept finding myself hitting the same wall. I have a full-time job and I love building software, but I'm not a salesman. I'm not a marketer, and I certainly don't have time to do all three jobs. This led to a bit of burnout, loss of inspiration, and eventually a bigger github graveyard.

Don't get me wrong, I know that without a visionary the project is dead before it even began. My whole goal with this app is to help fellow developers and visionaries find help to bring their projects to life.

It's tough being a one-man (or one-woman) show. Developing, selling, marketing, getting feedback, among other jobs is tough! Especially for your passion side-projects.

Let's get you visionaries some help.
Let's get those projects out into the world.
Let's stop adding to our github graveyards.
Let's make some money while doing it.

PUT AN END TO GITHUB GRAVEYARDS. LET YOUR PROJECTS LIVE. GET PAID FOR YOUR WORK.
This is very helpful. Just yesterday I was using mindnode and thinking it is overkill for 80% of my mindmapping tasks. Thank you.
Personally I think one of our biggest problems is universal voting rights. Only people who make a net contribution in taxes should be able to vote. Otherwise it becomes 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
But they show only the cream of the crop. never gonna air that episode where they found water-logged bundles of newspapers, old Byte magazines in mouse-chewed boxes and a raccoon mummy.
Stone or nylon scrubbers. There's also wood and bamboo ones.
Because price discrimination is the producer's attempt to poach part of the consumer benefit of trade for themselves, to take more than their fair share of the economic specialization. (To be explicit, "fair" is when the whole area below demand and above equilibrium price goes to the consumer, and the whole area above supply and below equilibrium price goes to the supplier.)

And it requires that suppliers be able to know or discern things about their customers. If it becomes too severe, then the consumers that were overcharged have an incentive to either deceive their suppliers (as in the article) or to discriminate in the same way for the good or service that they supply (such as by adding a 50% surcharge to whatever it is you sell, just for known Uber owners).

It is economically more efficient for suppliers to always sell at the same price for everyone, and to not know anything about the customer other than the color of their money, but that is not a Nash equilibrium. A supplier can always get ahead by discriminating, if everyone else is not. It is therefore beneficial to discourage the practice by statute or by social approbation.

Income tax is often progressive, but doesn't affect any one good or service in particular, beyond financial instruments. We basically charge richer people more to have a higher savings and investment rate.

And mostly, people don't want to have to haggle, use coupons, and read sale flyers every time they buy anything.
I'm not saying that you're wrong, but most CBD oils on the market are not derived from hemp plants...they just don't contain enough THC to legally prohibit interstate shipping.
I expect freeway driving to represent more than 0.1% of all driving.
Here's how to avoid it: use Lyft.
Thanks, free market!
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Read Peter Senge's work.
True enough, but then deciding to use a usb-c port on the console is asking for trouble.
I think it's important to take your time. Learning to code software require patience and perseverance. It's important to experiment on your own and learn where the pitfalls are.

Another problem junior coders have is not knowing what to name things. Coding is just as much about writing code others understand as it is about writing correct code.

Finally, I'd consider self-doubt as one of the big obstacles. Your colleagues may seem so much better simply because they've worked on a large code base longer. This ties into my first point-- if you are patient, you will also learn the code base and become proficient at it.
Efficiency is on the eyes of beholder.

For me, efficiency is a synonym of Xerox PARC’s vision of computing, not improved teletypes.
Ask HN: Why wouldn't Uber release the settlement amount?
Fantastic launch. It's intuitive, responsive, interactive, understandable, and cross-platform. Thank you.

I'm a longtime user of a piece of Mac software called Tinderbox which I've used use to create mind-maps (linked knowledge trees) and Text2MindMap compares very favorably in that its directness and intuitive workflow allows for immediate and direct visualization.

There's also something about the animation implemented here that for me seems to stimulate my thinking as I add nodes.

Really good stuff here.

Kudos to you for so polished a product.

Good luck.
they still need them to make a ui change that users might actually like.
Why does USB-C have such terrible failure modes? I'm sure that the people behind it are bright engineers, so why do I have a fear unlike anything I've ever felt when buying a USB-C cable or charger or device?

Is this just a "tragedy of the commons" where every manufacturer expects the others to follow the spec so that they can skimp, or is there some kind of fundamental flaw in the USB-C spec that is making it so seemingly dangerous and difficult to use correctly?
It might encourage people to walk out in front of their cars.
it's not a DSLR, but some recent Panasonic mirrorless cameras have this
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It's insane to me that you can have two USB-C cables that look exactly the same externally yet provide different(and incompatible!) connections. You can have a USB 2.0, USB 3.0, USB 3.1, Power-only, Display-only, Thunderbolt-3-only "usb-c" cables that all look identical outside yet won't work for your use case. Prime example to me was that the USB-C cable supplied with the MacBook Pro cannot be used to connect the LG displays sold by apple which also use USB-C, and the user gets absolutely zero explanation as to why it doesn't work, no error, no warning - just a blank screen. That's nuts.
I think they already had a round of layoffs focused on engineers.
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I've been using a small square of chainmail to clean my grill (and occasionally my cast iron pans) and follow it up with a damp paper towel It works well but is kind of a PITA compared to a wire brush.
Cabs can be next to impossible outside downtown core. Calling in advance had minimum half hour wait in Hamilton, even an hour wait when when you're only 10 minutes outside the downtown. And street pickups have massive discrimination. Everyone except cab drivers was happy for Uber.