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Ask HN: How do you optimize your shower-thoughts?
I have wondered a lot about the kind of thoughts I have during shower. On most days, I find the best alternative solution to the problem I'm stuck upon for hours (personal or professional ones).

How many of you go through the similar experiences everyday? And if it's a common phenomena, how do you make sure that you're thinking on the right problem at the right time?
The rest of the world will fund the technology and scale necessary, then in 10-15 years when renewables plus storage and electric cars are cheaper than the existing technology US Republicans will have a volte-face, deploy at scale, and claim they saved the world through unregulated capitalism. And the rest of the world won’t mind.
I am not aware of the Overstock case in detail. I was making a point that just because the short position is larger than outstanding stock does not mean the naked shorting was taking place. It is entirely possible, but we can no make that conclusion based on the fact that there were more shorts than longs.
This uses font-variation-settings CSS property

https://caniuse.com/#search=font-variation-settings
As a favour I made a one page website for an electrician I knew eight years ago when he started out on his own. He returned the favour by wiring my shed office years later.

The webpage is terrible but it has brought him a lot of business :-)
> If judges make decisions which don't represent the mandate of their constituents, they can/should be removed.

This collapses separation of powers, is against the idea that "law" and "politics" are separate things, and paves the way for removing judges who don't support the views of the Party.
While idealistic, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a partial factor in Japan’s economic flatline.

Rapid transit is a huge boon to the economy and productivity.
Year 2018, price 2000euros, specifications: 8gb RAM (non-upgradable) and just 256GB of SSD. Most smartphones have higher specifications. That is just a rip-off, imo. Shame on you, Apple!
Well, most version control systems can be used outside of coding too. I know a few authors who use Git to track and handle multiple revisions of their technical or fiction book writing.

No reason you couldn't have a text file with setup notes on a system and have commit any updates so you have a trackable log.
The .panel on the right doesn’t do overflow, so on not-enormous screens, some of the sliders are hidden from view. Decovar with fifteen sliders is the easiest to see this on—if the viewport is less than about 1550px high, you’ll miss some of them.

I won’t offer suggestions on fixing that, because the straightforward solutions do damage in other ways; a more carefully thought-out solution will be required.

(Firefox Nightly, Windows.)
I do the same thing, directly in the ticket comments. It turns into a nice journal, interconnected with other issues, and laid our in time.
Every corporation which does SNI scanning for web
filtering will require every user to insert the
company's CA cert in every client they use.

Just require your employees to route port 443 traffic through a proxy, making a CONNECT request.

It doesn't prevent domain fronting, of course, but neither did SNI scanning.
I am not sure about "much more efficient". It was not an uncommon view to see a strip of land with no snow on it in winter when everything else is covered. The secret? There are hot water pipes underneath. I have no idea how much energy was lost in transport.
IIRC after ServerHello the cert was given to client in clear text.
I hope one day I can run linux on my phone so that I can use these tools everywhere.
> Nobody asked for USB ports when they had serial/parallel ports, or for the floppy drive to disappear, or to lose the VGA connector.

I remember all of these technologies, and they all had major pain points. Serial and parallel ports were slow and needed tuning to work with IRQ/DMA (don't quote me on this), floppies were slow and unreliable and VGA was blurry on LCD monitors.

There's no current replacement for USB that does the job better. Nothing for HDMI. Same for SD cards. Nobody was asking to get rid of these ports so that they could use the next big thing. Apple had Thunderbolt 2 co-existing with USB on their older laptops, they could do the same with the newer ones. In fact, USB-C charging is limited to 100W, so 15" MacBook Pros run at their limit could power-throttle or lose charge when running intensive workloads.
"why does my window go up all the way when I just touch the button"

hmmm, in many cars the window dongle has two states. Half pull moves the window only as long as it's pulled, full pull makes "the window go up all the way" even after releasing the dongle... and it might depend on whether the keys are inserted and whether the doors are open. Took me some time to figure it out in my car.
> regulating speech that makes people uncomfortable does have a very provable slippery slope effect.

Yeah, I can tell you hate speech laws don't work well, since any group with an agenda can push for those laws to be used against the common good, or even injudicious application of it, such as we see in the GB, where a woman has been sentenced to community service for quoting song lyrics, or the moronic laws of my country that make the denial of the Holocaust illegal.

However, I'd argue that from a moral standpoint, these laws are even more reprehensible. Language (and thought) are how we test ideas, and when you start to limit that because they're the wrong kind of language or ideas, you limit not only our capability to discuss ideas, but also our ability to talk about these ideas, but also our ability to test them, and therefore, if it is really such a repugnant idea, find out the arguments for why it is so.

There are other reasons why I believe that hate speech is a toxic idea. For example: hate speech is a term used by the small-minded to shut down anything they don't agree with. Serious discussion on any contentious subject is immediately rendered moot by the new Godwin that is calling something hate speech.
It can be as sensitive. But in the best case, shared IPs provide more anonymity.
Curious too. Have been giving away "fart pillows" (don't know the name, like a flat balloon that you're supposed to hide under a chair seat) on my daughters birthday parties. It's been a blast so far :)

According to the site, it's 2 for $12.95 now, hopefully 50 would make it worthwhile with shipping and customs.
But I thought we need immigrants to do the low paid jobs we don't want to do, not the hard well paid ones? /s
> I don’t want a thumbprint reader on my notebook.

Have you used a thumbprint reader on a notebook. It so convenient that its hard going back to a notebook without one.
Remember your words when Apple introduces a USB-C to Lightning cable with the next iPhone.
> ~5 fps encoding @ 480p

How does this compare with the reference encoder?
Indeed it seems weird - search Amazon for "secret diary" and you'll find a whole lot of products aimed almost exclusively at girls.

I think the question is whether it was seemed to "cross over" into "spy gear" - while secret diaries are very much a "girly" toy category, spy gear is very much focused at boys.
Hahahah. The whole point of “shower-thoughts” breakthroughs is because your not actively pushing to an answer, background processing.

Going agro and trying to maximize defeats the whole purpose.
There was this one time when we had trouble finding some errors on Cloudwatch logs. This one library was helpful, https://github.com/jorgebastida/awslogs
The issue is that the fire constantly moving around the area. By the time you build something it would not be burning there anymore.
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How about trying https://hackmd.io ?
I started HackMD few years ago with similar reasons (but for hackpad), hope you enjoy and feel free to tell me more about your opinion!
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Jeff Dunham and his humorless xenophobic racism ruined ventriloquism for me, much like Gallagher and his paranoid right wing homophobia ruined smashing watermelons for me.

How Jeff Dunham's offensive puppets became the voice of Trump's America.
From José the Mexican immigrant to Achmed the dead terrorist, his foul-mouthed puppets have made him one of the richest comedians on the planet. How will the ventriloquist go down in Britain?

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/may/08/jeff-dunham-of...

Gallagher Is a Paranoid, Right-Wing, Watermelon-Smashing Maniac.
The Decline and Fall of a Comedy Legend.

https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/gallagher-is-a-paranoid-...
Paper beats silicon.

The computer is a gateway to a billion distractions, my most productive days are the ones where I manage to write down the most on paper. The physical act of writing helps memory, and it works everywhere.

Physically checking checkboxes is also fun, as is crossing out plans that become irrelevant during the day.
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I have a laptop and two external monitors on 18.04. I had to ditch gnome for unity to return workspaces to a good place.

You can chose unity at login over the new default gnome which I thought was a nice touch by the Ubuntu developers.
>There are still limits in the US

This is true, but your examples are pretty bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...
If they can't boot up the machine they won't fix the keyboard since they can't test it.
I look forward to hearing how blockchain technology could have prevented this.
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I have to agree. While I have a good example from the country with a good cycling culture—I saw a cyclist standing at the crossing and patiently waiting for the green light at 2a.m. on the empty street—in my country cyclist are by far the ones with the least respect for the traffic rules. :(
This has to be sarcasm.
It's archival of public information. If this is a concern, then maybe that information shouldn't be made public in the first place.
Me and my wife decided for a second child (he's 2 months old now). I'm curious what you feel is hard about raising a single child? before deciding for the second, we were close to staying with one. If anything we feared it'd be hard for our first son growing all alone. Is that what you meant? hard for the kid not for the parents?
Apple is not doing you any favors by charging more.
Relevant - AI Progress Measurement page by the EFF: https://www.eff.org/ai/metrics
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll take a look.
Rather than doing a one-time copy of the data, we have applications continually writing to our on-premise MySQL. This data has to reactively reach our datastore on AWS. Also, this is not a 1-1 copy. There are several transformations and cross-validations in play.
Yes the only way we would "catch up" from that perspective would be if Europe were to keep increasing its output, which is unlikely. But really this detail seems unimportant. We're back to 1992 levels, and there is still room for improvement. We'll be perfectly happy never catching up to Europe in this sense.
> Yeah, I personally think this feature-removal is just plain sexism.

It probably had nothing to do with sexism per se; rather it probably was a business call made by people who suspected that while some percentage of girls would like that feature, a certain percentage of parents wouldn't find that feature appropriate or scary or simply not something they would consider as suitable for a toy. These people are paid to know their target demographic and to make choices that maximize profit for any given product.

Their assumptions might be rooted in sexism, but I suspect that most of their frame of reference consists of simply knowing how parents and relatives view these products, their sexist attitudes included. That is to say, if these people suspect that a significant percentage parents want to stimulate exact thinking and problem solving skills in their girls, they will translate that to market decisions (which is slowly happening now).
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In my opinion, you're doing things backwards.

Your modus operandus means you cannot share your e-mail address whereas my spam filter is so good that the amount of false positives and false negatives is negligible.

> (They also have the side benefit of a little added security when someone hacks Site A's account database and tries to use the email addresses to log in to Site

Using a password manager plus randomly generated, complex passwords mitigates that problem entirely insofar that your accounts can be used on different websites.

Both our solutions do not mitigate the doxing issue. A way to deal with that is removing your personal details whenever they're unnecessary (e.g. changing/removing them after you ordered something). Artifacts might still remain though, and faking them is probably illegal. It can lead to issues as well. My mother always gives a fake DOB akin to her own when she doesn't trust it, or gives a slight variant of her name. Then she knows something is wrong. Pretty clever, esp before this century.
This is what stops me: "OpenStreetMap data is free for everyone to use. Our tile servers are not."

https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/
For the curious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livermore,_Pennsylvania
> Basically everything that doesn't go to git, and you have to keep somewhere while you're working on it

That way I end up with 100+ unnamed files in notepad++. At least it is searchable.
It does sound a lot like STEM-washing (cf. greenwashing).
You don't need that Bastion host
Apple's laptops were "thin and light" enough 10 years ago. Nobody was bitching that Apple products are "too thick."

Apple's continued mania for "thinness" is a lame excuse to continually degrade its products, and betrays a total lack of direction or vision. The pathetic keyboard debacle is just the latest example.

Apple had already hobbled their glued-together computers with soldered-in RAM and drives, and forced idiotic glossy screens on customers. The no-ports computer was another insult. The "touch bar" is such an embarrassing gimmick that it hardly warrants further comment.

Jony Ive should be fired and replaced with someone who has real ideas for IMPROVEMENT, and not simply eliminating functionality and usefulness. Ive is the Trump of product design: Lacking any productive ideas of his own, he seeks only to destroy the achievements of better men.
Forcing the installation of a root CA isn't a viable option for all but the largest authoritarian governments (China and Russia).

Kazakhstan attempted [1], but abandoned the idea, likely since it was unrealistic to expect widespread adoption of the certificate.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10663843
If it's appropriate, would it be easier to use a clipboard enhancer that writes everything you copy to a file?

I use ClipX at work (Windows), fairly sure it has a logging feature, and I think it can be told not to record from password fields; and Flycut at home (Mac) but Flycut doesn't seem to have logging.
I always wondered if in practice it really checks out, is rust code really safer? Did the bugs just shift to different ones? Is there anyone who wrote about that already?
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Horses for courses. I've used Mac, Linux and Windows. Multiple generations of each. Getting work done is not a problem, unless it's something like not having an app be available for the platform at all. Which affects Linux the most, and Windows the least.

After getting used to the cross-platform OpenShot video editor I miss my MacBook Pro even less.
That's not the case - the 32gb config in these machines is regular DDR4, not Low-Power DDR4 as the lower-spec ones. This possibility was already there two years ago. Apparently they just ship a bigger battery to compensate for higher power requirements - something that was suggested when the 2016 model came out (and promptly dismissed by the Apple faithful as wishful thinking).

Intel only shipped their first LPDDR4 big-ram chips last May [1], and they are not the type Apple would use (not powerful enough). It's possible that Apple decided to go ahead with this configuration as a temporary solution, and will eventually swap-in "real" LPDDR4 chips when they land.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/intel-makes-its-firs...
Falsely yelling fire in a theater. Plus that was only a rhetorical point used to justify a ban on pacifically protesting the draft, by emotionally appealing to recent (at the time) tragedies.
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You're bitching that it had a "mechanical hard drive" 10 years ago?

Get over yourself.

By the way: SSDs wear out, or hadn't you heard?
> If you can chronicle improvement, that is progress.

Yes, but not a scientific one.
Vimwiki diary, `\\w` to go to today's file, and even get syntax highlighting blocks for anything vim knows about.
Depends on the checklist.

At work, auditable, is online control function checklist and needs to be filled out at multiple times during the day plus weekly and monthly various check-points. Saved to a database with timestamps for any submission. Non-editable.

At work, non-auditable, a huddle board with post-it notes and quite fluid, small tweaks mean it might be the same board day-to-day but never the exact same board month-to-month. What stays constant is it's always always visible and mainly pen-based.
You have to differentiate the Sunni and the Wahhabi/Salafi (which Wahhabis may call themselves Sunni.).

To know who are exactly are they: You may need reopen the history books for 19th century history about Muhammad bin Abd Wahhab, how his father and brother opposed him, what Ottoman's Muhammad Ali Pasha tried to do, etc. connection of the said events with Arab Revolt, T.E. Lawrence, the Saud family, Palestine, Fall of Caliphate 1924, ...Things pretty much went out of hand in Muslim world

From theological perspective (aqeedah) and approach in studying the religion, you can see how much Sunni and Salafi differs.

Probably the only reason Sunni today have diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia because they control Makkah and Madinah.
> Know that you likely have a problem.

> Do you own a smartphone?

> That's it.

I disagree.

I think a better question might be "Do you own a smartphone and use social media?"

A lot of the comments I see around this - especially on the comments here on this page - is around feeds from Instagram and Facebook and the like.

Yep - groomed social media posts are an unrealistic view of society. Just like movies and magazines are an unrealistic view of society too. "Man, everyone else is running around blowing up cars and shooting bad guys, but I am just a loser sitting here in the movie theatre." I guess people need to get a literal reality check.

Personally I just turn notifications from email off (and I dont use social media), and have the Do Not Disturb feature in Android on so that only calls & messages from starred contacts (wife etc) makes a noise. Zero issues about feeling like I am being disturbed by my phone. I dont think I am in denial about this...
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A lot of STEM toys have been dumbed down to the extreme irrespective of gender.

Growing up in the 80's there was a lot of ads for e.g. chemistry sets that at least allowed for some proper experiments advertised even in comics books targeting relatively small children (I grew up in Norway; I remember ads like that even from comics like Donald Duck & Co which mostly targeted pre-teens), but I instead got handed my dads set from when he was growing up in the 60's, with full set of suitable glass ware, and the books he had, which outlined full sets of experiments "for young boys" that included making gunpowder and assorted proper fireworks, and stuff that included (genuine) warnings of what to avoid to prevent the experiment from exploding.

Nothing outrageously dangerous, but some of them were the kind of things you might expect the teacher to demonstrate in a high-school science class with appropriate care and safety equipment, rather than the kind of stuff you'd even in the 80's expect a hobby chemistry set to actively encourage the way the 60's books did.

And indeed, my main limiting factor in carrying out many of the experiments was that in the intervening years it had become a lot harder to buy a lot of the chemicals listed without being 18 or buying via a business. Though there were still other fun things to do with them. For example, I did find it very amusing when I managed to add a layer of lead to one of my moms silver spoons via electrolysis (the books did have appropriate warnings, so I did know that continuing to use said spoon afterwards would not have been a particularly good idea; but not sufficient warnings to make me consider that perhaps I shouldn't have used the silverware) - my mom was less amused.

Move forward to today, and the 80's children's chemistry sets looks fantastic compared to most of the stuff on sale.
A number of Nordic cities do this on purpose to keep pedestrian streets free of snow and ice.
I don't understand how that works. Can you give some more details?
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/climate-denier...

“American Enterprise Institute (AEI) has a long track record of distorting the science and solutions of climate change. Its arguments tend to de-emphasize the environmental and economic risks of climate change, exaggerate the costs of addressing the problem and question the value of putting a policy in place at all.”

Now they, not surprisingly, intentionally confuse the readers using only the numbers that support their agenda.
Sold my Mac to pay rent, using Windows now. The pain is real.
How thick is the atmosphere? A derivation of the Boltzmann distribution
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Thank you. Having temporarily fallen for Diamond's all too "logical" fantasy reasoning in the past, I always recoil a bit seeing it cited in intellectual discussion.
... and other useful info such as office location, phone number, etc. Those were the days before corporate directories.
It's probably not quite equivalent but I believe Frederico & al found & fixed a number of issues when they converted librsvg to rust. You may want to check the archives on their blogs (IIRC it's split between Frederico's own and the librsvg one) for more, or specifics.

But "safe" rust at least intrinsically protects from use-after-free, double free, dangling pointers, null-pointer dereferences, out-of-bounds accesses, … You may still have logic bugs of course (though the richer type system expressivity also allows better static encoding of application & domain logic), but these baseline memory-safety issues will only be a problem in specific and tagged `unsafe` blocks rather than throughout the application.
Serious advice: Learn to live with it.

It's so much easier to say "oh yes, sounds like a nice idea" than to actually sit down and try things out. How often do you act like this on your own?

The most difficult things to deal with as a founder / creator IMHO is not to deal with criticism, but to deal with indifference. People just don't care. You can't change this.

Hence, learn to accept it.
Will AV1, or even VP9 for that matter, ever be suitable for realtime encoding, or is that just not their target market?
The same is true in much of SE Asia, because in hot and humid places, showers are much more useful than bathtubs.

This is also reflected in bathing habits: broadly speaking, hot countries shower off the sweat in the evening, while cold ones warm up in the morning (or at night before bed).
Section 127 prohibits "sending by public communication network an offensive / indecent / obscene / menacing message / matter". It's unspecified in that article how many were arrested specifically for offensive messages (as opposed, say, to menacing ones).
It's quite a politically heavy article, on a Technology first board.