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According to the spec a USB 2.0 to USB C cable must have a resistor that tells the USB C end to max deliver 0.5 A.

If another resistor is used to signal higher currents using that cable could fry peripherals that follow the USB 2.0 spec.

Also, I don't know much about USB 2.0 but I thought we had a whole slew of proprietary solutions for fast charging and all were incompatible with each other. So it was quite messy even before USB C came and made everything even worse.

For charging though you generally wan't to slow charge as it greatly reduces wear on batteries anyway.
Yeah, we’ve got two big projects (one embedded, one desktop) and tons of toys, and multiple tutorials. Still much smaller than C, for sure.
I have a new MacBook Pro, an external USB-C HDD for backup, and an Android portable music player, also with USB-C. I got a cable to connect the HDD to the MBP, and it works fine for that purpose, but when I use that cable to connect the PMP to the MBP, it doesn't work: the MBP doesn't mount the PMP's filesystem. But if I use a C-male-to-A-female adapter, then an A-to-C cable, the PMP mounts just fine. Anyone know why?
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I've been teaching myself programming for the last 10 months, and it seems to think I am an SWE II.

I feel as though that's a huge overestimate of my skill level.
Apple's USB-C dongle...

Which dongle do you mean? Apple has about five different USB-C dongles, each for a specific purpose.

Do you mean the $19 USB-C to old USB dongle? How is it less functional than any other USB-C to old USB dongle? It seems to achieve its stated purpose. What functionality do other USB-C to old USB dongles have that it lacks?
How long are we going to accept, "Oops, the computer was racist!" as an excuse?

Its about as transparent as Roseanne on Ambien at this point.
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I wonder if I did a poor job asking the question. What I'm getting at is, I wonder if common & reproducible brain patterns that might not formerly have been noticeable (perhaps due to a lack of precision when observing them in isolation) might reveal themselves when running assisted deep learning on a large number of subjects' results across a broad but "strictly defined" set of mental experiences that are known to produce "extreme psychological reactions". Might we discover associations (at the brain wave level) between experiences where our current understanding of the brain would not suggest there might be any? Would this type of analysis even need high precision?

Out of curiosity, was it you that downvoted my question? I'm struggling to understand what has changed on HN lately, where purely unopinionated and relevant questions are now very commonly downvoted. It's this type of thing that has caused my curiosity in this area, I'm interested in finding an underlying reason why people increasingly seem to be offended or disagree so strongly with things that only a few years ago were generally considered completely innocuous?

Perhaps it was the tone of the question? But again, I don't think that would have garnered any downvotes on HN 5 years ago - what's changed? Might we be able to detect something in brain activity that could lead us to some new paths to study to explain this widespread behavior?

Possibly related, but not necessarily:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting

https://www.quora.com/In-machine-learning-is-more-data-alway...
Reminded me of playing Moon Buggy[0] during Gentoo installations ~12-13 years ago.

[0] https://www.seehuhn.de/pages/moon-buggy
Good citizen. Now sit back while we mine all of your purchases for suspicious data in which to hang you with.
Ever since the Palm V, I've wanted a handheld device with a second charging port built into the side. When LiPo batteries came into production I was hoping for the day where the flip cover had a supplemental battery built in instead of cardboard.

Apple went exactly the other way and built a data port into it. And did the same thing with the Apple Watch (the prototypes had an extra set of contacts in the band slot that people were excited about). Disappointed.
> Mark Zuckerberg, the wunderkind who rose from the designer of an app for ranking women by attractiveness into the autocrat of the parallel world through which we receive all our news, is gearing up for new technological initiatives to reshape education and dating. Do you feel cyberpunk yet? Good. If we must terraform ourselves, let’s demand a say in what we become, and make it something warmer and humbler than anyone’s utopian dreams of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.

Published on: June 1, 2018
Alexi Sargeant is a theater director and cultural critic who writes from New York City.

huh?
Some relatively recent examples

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/us/politics/times-reporte...

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/PA-arrests-five-Pal-journa...

https://cpj.org/2017/08/palestinian-security-forces-arrest-f...
Every year when I go to nerd conventions I like to make a costume out of cardboard and spray paint. I've gotten pretty good at making robot armor out of cardboard, and my friend's job gives me easy access to huge amounts of the stuff.

Cardboard really is an amazing medium for making toys that don't have to last forever
Slack just launched custom actions and we love it
Cashless societies should never exist - it would be far too easy for rogue governments to turn someone's life off
Just referring to around the house or my shop really. I leave my phone just lying wherever, texts still come in. If it knew I wasn't nearby and I left it on the dining room table at home, at least it wouldn't buzz to disrupt the rest of my family.
Diesel was always popular due to high fuel efficiency. Since diesel also has lower CO2 emissions they really took of in the 90s. However, gas engines are catching up in both areas.
Modern small diesels are also turbo, they just more efficient than the gas ones.
Is there a secured card with cash back? Seems like a good option for such people.
Sure, I may be an edge case. But I come to work, I need to plug my laptop into power and my work monitor is a 4k tv, so I need to plug that in. Often I like to close the screen and just that monitor. They could at least put two of them on there.
Diesel has a much lower tax than gasoline per liter. The car manufacturers just serve the higher demand for diesel cars, because it is cheaper to operate monthly.
Same as my neighbor when ve wanted to buy $20,000 at $20,000.

(Just wanted to add an example where the based saved some people)
> I haven't really managed to do anything (the same problem I had when I was working for other companies)
> I haven't managed to release any software or do any consulting

First, don't seriously think of suicide helping anything. You leave a wake. Second, based on what I quoted above, I'm wondering.. Why? Why have you done anything? Are you preoccupied? (Relationship, socially, etc). Do you have ADHD? If it's something that can be fixed/treated then focus on that. If it's just a reality, find ways to work around it or consider other options.

I must say, this sounds incredibly familiar and the way I've always seen it played out is the person realized that "knowledge work" just wasn't for them. For some reason, some people aren't wired to sit at a computer and crank out work. Their minds wonder, productivity falls, depression sets in, they feel like a cubically caged animal, etc. I know people that drop out of college, or don't mesh with the post college corporate world, and albeit a few years later they have pivoted to start a commercial/residential service business. Landscaper, plumbing, HVAC, etc. These all can pay well (in the US) and are entrepreneurial if that's what you're after. Not saying this is right for you - just examples I have seen other people go through.

So, my recommendation is you do some soul searching. If you're not writing code, and have a history of being unproductive at that, don't start/build/focus on a software consulting company. It will fail or make you incredibly unhappy. It sounds like both are happening right now. Also, maybe talk with a life coach. I think you need to explore some options and be realistic with yourself, they can help you with this.

Best of luck.
Man, that sucks! I managed to trickle charge my 15" MacBook Pro with a 12W iPad charger once when I forgot the laptop adapter. Took overnight but it worked!
Without a rule saying you can't charge for the same thing twice, there's only law, convention, or competition to prevent it from happening. Since the ISP industry is famously uncompetitive, we're left with law and convention. Now, just convention.
Do people that vote against it not get to pay for it?

Democracy is not a justification for payment. 51% can vote to rob the other 49%.
I disagree. If you make a mess, you have a mess... but at least your intentions were at one point clear enough to encode as a computer program. While painful to pick apart during an emergency, it's easier than finding the one person in the world with that knowledge and getting them to explain it to you. Having your business depend on a messy pile of scripts is better than having your business depend on someone who died a few months ago. Having your business depend on clean well-maintained code is even better... but great is the enemy of good.
Neovim is a breath of fresh air compared to Vim

A lot of things "just work". Still, it still uses vim plumbing so it's quirky.
I actually like this. I build serverless apps all the time, mostly manually.

Serverless framework is alright, but I felt it was really bloaty. There was just so much going on. Too many variables and it confuses the user. This looks clean. I might give it a try. I didn't find a link though in your blog.
$700 is closer to the midpoint of the historical price.

Source: someone who should have sold at 1400 and joined the millionaire club.
Here in the Netherlanda everybody is rapidly switching to iDeal based payment request for such uses. Fintech companies like bunq were amongst the first to offer this (with traditional banks rapidly copying): I can share a link that opens in your banking app, apply finger to fingerprint reader, done. I can also generate a qr code for you to scan or share said link with a group and they can all pay me. Transfer is instant and I get a notification, in these respects it's quite like bitcoin (in the good old days). I can have up to 25 bank accounts (each a unique iBan) and couple any to any of my passes (instantly). Cash is really getting obsolete quick.
The value of being a part of NATO seems at best fluid with the current US president. That means that your NATO membership might not be as valuable as you thought it was. I'd even go to say as far as saying that Denmark and Norway are being complacent in case they depend on the US for reinforcements - with Trump at the helm.

On the other hand we all know that Trump will be gone by the next US election.

(Besides the current context I am incredibly frustrated with Sweden's unwillingness to join NATO. And just when were gaining some momentum to join, Trump goes and does his thing.)
The most vexing part of this is how long it took for others to notice. Did no competitor try to legitimately meet emissions requirements, fail, and immediately turn to Dalimer/VW to see how they "met" those requirements?

If the answer is collusion, then that only raises more questions on what else they could all be working to sweep under the rug.
Color me dumbfounded, but does "won't charge at all" mean it accepts 0A inward or that it takes in only 100W while still draining itself at ~30W?
OT: I wonder why Bloomberg is Bloomberg LP instead of Bloomberg LLC.
I didn't mean to say that you wanted socialism/communism. That was just the most obvious example of nationalizing such a basic need, food. I don't mean to say that a capitalist society has no costs. Capitalism definitely has some tradeoffs for sure. I'm not certain that environmental destruction is as much a capitalist thing as it is a human thing. Human history leads me to believe the latter.
If the majority is big enough it bloody well can. And it will. Protection of minorities only exists because the majority wants it.

Not that it is relevant in this conversation: “people who value privacy” are not a group considered a minority who need protecting from the majority. If you want people to help you protect your privacy, you need to convince them, plain and simple. Asking the electorate for help in electing privacy conscious officials and telling them to fuck off when asked why is going to get us absolutely nowhere. That’s the plain truth of our privacy debate today: we are losing, and we need help but we can’t convince people to help us. Ideas of civil liberty are not cutting it. Evidently.

If you need any more convincing, look at how the public sees Snowden. And weep.
The resistor in the USB-C cable to identify its current carrying capacity is still a passive component. And of course you can omit this resistor but your device will fall back to the minimum current.
Sure, his accomplishments are immense. But that doesn’t change the fact that he shipped an incomplete Autopilot and then tried to blame the guy who died using it.
How would they stop blockchain transactions?
If a founder focus on terms instead of value add VCs then we shouldn’t be surprised that most VCs are not all that helpful.
> It's also pretty bad from an ergonomics (not to mention performance) perspective if the programmer has to manually switch to by-value copying of structs in order to keep escape analysis happy and avoid allocation.

I kind of like that Go's escape analysis is simple enough that I can reason about it reliably without profiling. I also tend to pass and return values unless I have a compelling reason to pass pointers (like mutation or rarely performance in the case of large structs), so I don't think I experience the sort of ergonomic issues you cite (and incidentally, I think this habit of mine makes writing Rust feel quite unergonomic to me since it seems to prefer egregious use of pointers). And I haven't noticed a significant speedup by switching from value copying to pointer dereferencing (but I've only tested this a handful of times).
Even then, you often don't need any adaptors — the Dell U2415 I use at home has both DP and miniDP ports, and packed a miniDP to DP cable — I could use that out of the box both with my macbook (by using a DP port) or my desktop computer (by using the miniDP port)
Not a one of the dozen or so that I have, between work and home.
When it was new or when it was old?

Cars from the 80's only needed to warm up if you lived in the upper Midwest, or when they got old and started falling apart.

If you were a kid in the 80's or 90's and your neighborhood wasn't well off you might be forgiven for thinking all cars had this problem, because everyone drove used cars until they fell apart.

[Edit] Looks like OP is going to a University in Turkey. The possibility of cultural disconnects with SV and PNW is not surprising at all.
I mean, USB-C seems to be the direction we're going anyways, plus it offers a lot more flexibility for audio eg. allows for active components like a higher-end DAC or amp on the headphones.

Most people probably wouldn't really care for this, and the ones who do probably have portable media players already, so I would prefer to keep the headphone jack. The reality is, though, that USB-C appears to be the future.
Having tasted it I would say people would have their expectations met.

My biggest gripe with this whole soy/wheat meat is the price. It is literally more expensive then using a chicken to turn the wheat and soy into meat. How is that even possible? Obviously it just milks the vegetarians for what they are worth. Otherwise it would be a great substitute for chicken nuggets style meat products. They have no texture or natural flavor anyways
Maybe try to write to this guy: https://www.youtube.com/user/wybuchajacebeczki/about He's pretty famous Polish Youtuber/entrepreneur/Video maker who has companies in Poland & Japan - maybe he will be able/willing to help you.
Exactly, global warming is the main environmental target in the news and laws. NOx is secondary.
Consider that it’s entirely possible to mandate that POS systems, ending machines, etc. check the serial numbers on your bills against a blacklist. Cash is no refuge if a government wants to turn enough people’s lives off badly enough.
> Not putting enough ports on devices is a crucial problem.

With USB-C the reality is you have to pick two of: cheap, supports every USB-C standard, and has lots of USB-C ports.
Sweet... I feel like someone should do this for a Jython program as a joke.

Then you'd have Python code executed by an interpreter written in Java compiled by Graal to produce a native binary which will be registered on AWS as a Go executable and will communicate via Go's net/rpc.

... as opposed to switching the runtime to Python ;-)
Thanks for bringing the naming up. I wasn't aware of these other tools. SonarQube looks interesting, though! Just to clarify, I don't contribute to Sonar development, I'm just a heavy user. I think the team is aware of your concerns now though (Emil is the OP and works on Sonar development).
The irony is that everyone knows a bit too much about RMS and exactly how he behaves online or in interviews. His efforts at privacy have backfired.
Why Can't We Hate Men?
They can be passive - thus the resistor to incidicate the cable's rating.
I did my homework after expressing my deep desire
And find rust very compelling

match (state) {
_ => println!("my state")
}
Diesel emissions standards are lower in Europe than in US. So that makes diesels easier to produce and sell in Europe.

I believe, as you said, diesels also have lower CO2 emissions per mile than gasoline engines. The problem is the increased SOx and NOx emissions as well as soot emissions that contribute to smog.

In theory, Diesel engines should have much lower smog than gas engines because Diesel engines require excess oxygen rather than stoichiometric ammounts like in gas engines. The problem is that diesel fuel doesn’t vaporize nearly as well as gasoline, so you end of with tiny droplets of diesel in the engine rather than pure vapor. So even though there is excess oxygen, the O2 can’t get to the inside of the droplets and the engine heat basically cooks them into soot.
There's at least few EU countries where Diesel is much more expensive than petrol at the moment. People like diesels because it's actually hard to get huge fuel consumption with those, while if you're not particularly careful any turbo petrol will drink fuel quickly. I had a 1.6dCi Qashqai and that car would not burn more than 10L/100km, no matter what I did or how aggressively I drove. Zero chance. I also have a 1.2TSI petrol Polo, and you can easily make it use 20L/100km if you drive it like a maniac - you have to be actively careful to keep it in the 6-7L/100km range, while the 1.6dCi would easily do 5L/100km without really thinking about it.
This is why I like polymer money. I have yet to hear of any fake plastic notes out there. One documentary said that buying that special plastic film is harder than getting military explosives.

I did hear about people passing paper printed fake notes instead of polymer ones, but you have to be at a whole new level of carelessness to be fooled by this one.
> The ObjectStudio VM engineers used to lament over the advantage the VisualWorks GC had: VisualWorks only had to garbage collect one thread.

I'm not sure what this is trying to imply. Modern generational GCs use TLABs to solve this exact problem.
You also have the private companies running these payment services to worry about. Paypal has a horrific track record.
One way to reconcile these seemingly contradictory statements is the following.

The actual programmer & designer of the software is the supplier of the engine control units (ECUs), in most cases Bosch. The software that they supply actually already contains these cheating routines. These routines are delivered as a part of the software packages, and can be turned on/off with some flags.

It is up to the auto company how to set these flags.

Source: Close relatives working in the car industry.
Yup, serverless works quite well. have used it myself.

Albeit, I'm not fully sold on this whole fake-serverless architecture.

A major part of it is that AWS is arguably frustrating, since the docs are __clearly__ written by marketing people, not engineers. Every aspect feels non-dev friendly.

I would love to see something like Captain Duck Duck, so you can host your own serverless platfrom, sort-of a personalized AWS?

(Captain Duck Duck is a personalized Heroku)

Link - https://github.com/githubsaturn/captainduckduck
I have personally been moving to a more cash-based lifestyle after I realized that I used my card so often that my payment history could be used to construct a reasonable map of my location history.
> Betting on crypto with your credit card is a bad idea, full stop.

Because it's gambling, and a lot of the currencies won't work at scale, so it can be considered a 0-sum game.

> But I remember in 2013, I read about someone who was planning on maxing out their credit cards to buy Bitcoin at $90. I was exhorting them not do it...

Hindsight is always 20/20. If I could go back in time I'd run the earliest Bitcoin miner on my PC for as long as it generated coins, and then sell them at the height.
They probably look at the data and not many people do what you suggest.
Same in Canada! We got this cool plastic money with clear windows. I've handled it on occasion but I'll have physical cash maybe once a year. I don't remember what's on our money either.
Agreed... 16-bit physical addressing was very limiting. (x86's 16-bit segment offsets were bad enough.)
As an expat living in Sweden, who does not have a Swedish bank account, Sweden has a few steps left to make changes if it wants to be completely cashless but still not be unfriendly to foreign visitors.

Most of the friction I run into is related to the banks themselves - sometimes it's quite impossible to do business with them unless you have a Swedish bank card (or personal number). Examples of things I currently can't do without the above:

1. Refill my train/bus card online or buy train/bus tickets online

2. Use Swish, the Swedish half-answer between cash and cards. This is the bank-to-bank transfer protocol which is only supported by Swedish banks. It is quite convenient if you have it, you can enter in a 10-digit number which many storefronts display next to the register and it otherwise works very much like Apple Pay Cash (which is not supported here yet unfortunately)

3. Have a phone plan. I have to use prepaid and cannot top-up online. I have to always go buy top-up receipts from Pressbyrån

4. Buy from several various mom-and-pop shops that also only for some reason have card machines that support Swedish cards. They also always have a Swish number as mentioned above.

#2 and #4 are usually the most problematic. When I go out with people from Sweden and someone covers something I inevitably end up withdrawing cash as the path of least resistance.

#1 and #3 are related to a popular payment processor in Nordic countries known as DIBS, who currently likes to reject foreign cards but I suspect will eventually support them. I'm hoping Sweden's banks and other payment systems finish integrating with the rest of the world before eliminating cash entirely so as to not alienate outsiders.
I happen to be reading Brothers Karamazov at the moment! I don't really bake or cook anything, but this was lovely to see nonetheless.

And, Zosima is best character.