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Yes, I ordered a moving van and started working from home again… the only way to win is not to play.

Besides audible noise there is visual noise too. And you can’t exactly demand that people leave you alone, not unless if you are jwz [1]

[1] see tent-of-doom
Thanks for your thoughts, they're very helpful.
If you ball up a sock, and stuff it into the offending mouth, that tends to cut the sound level quite abruptly. Your mileage may vary on how ridiculous this will make you and how much money it will cost.
Rome fell.
Automating customer support: do humans really need human help?
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I think the point was that it was lean (didn't need 100MB to draw a screen) because it /wasn't/ cross-platform - more tools are cross-platform by default now because it's easy (which leads to the abstractions that give you requirements of 100MB to draw a screen).
As a shareholder, I'd say the best way to put this to use is to buy back shares. Although it's tempting to see them enter new product categories, I'd be afraid they would just blow money on things that ended up failing.
> what we have now

x86 processors still boot into real mode…
> Within Apple's current platform strategy, Apple does not have any alternative for the MacBook.

They can open source or license OS X. Not within their current strategy, but that has to be one of their backup plans.

That said, slower sales doesn’t mean less users, because replacement times are just getting longer. I’m using a late 2016 MBP, and Apple isn’t expected to have a meaningfully better one until late 2022 or so.

Even the iPhones have really only changed cosmetically since the 6S came out three years ago. This year’s model will be the first one since then that will actually be noticeably faster.
I would posit that the vast majority of fiction writers test well, but very few people who test well become writers.
I’m not really sure what you think would look different about it if they used pages.
This dovetails into an idea I had [0]. Basically just client side scrape the web as it's used and deliver people this plain text and simple forms. It would have a maintained set of definitions and potentially even logic to put a better "front" on all this bullshit. It's like reverse ad block where you only whitelist some content instead of blacklisting it. You could argue sites will get good at fighting it, but if used enough by the common user, they'd just alienate them (e.g. my scrape/front for Google search makes it clear which results the app has a friendly scrape/front for).

0 - https://github.com/cretz/software-ideas/issues/82
I want universal healthcare, but I want to use technology/common sense and end bloated programs. Military for instance could be cut in half or more (close the bases, keep the carriers, but dock unless during war). Focus on domestic defense, and let the rest of the world figure out their own shit.

End income tax, move to consumption tax/vat. (A modified version that would be sort of a negative tax). Basically, you'd have basic income making everyone who has a physical address (must spend some of the $$ on residence) would receive a check for whatever the poverty level is divided by 12.

Then everyone is a tax payer and pays consumption tax, we'd also have a land value tax, which would be more even on what land is 'worth' regardless of if you're using it for it's total 'worth'.. E.G. -- 2 people own same amount of land, same location, one builds a skyscraper, one doesn't, they both pay what the land/property would be worth if the area was 'fully developed', encouraging people to not just 'hold' land but 'use' it, or pay as if they did, so they might as well develop or sell it to someone who will.

We'd have to figure out ways of getting more off the top of the pile, as consumption does take a bit from the lower classes and funnels it up, but they're getting it back in terms of GBI + Healthcare.

Consumption tax could be tied to a citizen ID, ID = 10%, no ID = 15% tax rate. Could work in a +5% for college grads who used free education grants, until they're > 30 to pay for free college (State/Community schools). This way they pay back when they shop, but it's not permanent and it hurts a lot less than normal loans/etc...and doesn't affect credit. Or could just have a 'twenty's' tax of +5%, whether you go to college or not you pay an extra 5% from 20-30 to on goods, to pay for those who 'took' the advantage to go to school.

I like to believe that there's 'out of the box' ways to do things... I'm a social democrat with some techno-libertarian ideas, I feel the government needs to work and support all people, but it needs to do so in a way that can eliminate the most 'bureacracy' as possible, and drive down costs. I'd be happy if govt could be ran completely by AI and have maybe 10 people over-seeing / auditing the machines.

I'd like to see bills submitted like github issues - small, easily enacted/reversed 'pull requests' that only change small bits of law/codes. Instead of 10-100+ page omnibuses, everything would need to be < 5 pages (or something rudimentarily agreed upon - I'm not a lawyer/politician), and it must only effect a specific item or items that relate to each other. No combining other things for political 'fancy' or posturing.
I’m not using JK Rowling as an example of persistence here.

She’s my example of a novice author who started with nothing more than an idea, a story she wanted to tell, and wound up writing a game-changing series.
Their definition of wilderness area is quite broad and includes areas within national forests that are "de-facto" wildernesses:

> Four categories of Wilderness area were considered for this analysis:

> - Federal Wilderness Areas, designated by the 1964 Wilderness Act and subsequent congressional action. These are by far the best known and most numerous of the wilderness areas in the USA—there are about 750 of them, preserving federal land managed by the Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management.

> - “De-facto” Wilderness Areas in National Parks: In most large National Parks (e.g. Olympic, Yosemite, Rocky Mountain), the bulk of the park’s backcountry has been officially designated as wilderness area. However, three large parks—Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Glacier—have large undeveloped tracts that are managed by park staff as wilderness despite lack of official designation. For this analysis, the large primitive areas of these parks have been included, since park regulations in these areas are essentially the same as in officially-designated areas.

> - State Wilderness Areas: In New York state (Adirondacks and Catskills) and Maine (Baxter State Park on Katahdin), large wilderness areas are managed by the State government. Large parts of these parks have been designated as official state wilderness areas and are managed in a similar fashion to federal wilderness.

> - Tribal Wilderness: Finally, a handful of large Indian Reservations have designated large areas as Tribal wilderness. Perhaps the two most notable are adjacent to federal wilderness in the Wind River Range of Wyoming and the Mission Mountains of Montana. These are included in the overall wilderness areas.
Major congrats to them and to the late Jobs. I'd be in the Ballmer category... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycUOENFIBs Making telcos "subsidize" it, must be right there with the "pay just the minimum on your credit card" business wise. Brilliant.
Ask HN: How to find work for cheap to learn a new stack?
I'm curious if anyone has done this before. You're already experienced in an existing stack, but want to gain experience in a new stack. So you find a company to hire you part-time for below market rates. The value prop being that you know how to write good code, but with the knowledge that it will take you a bit longer, hence the cheaper rate.

I've attempted to do this, but thus far have had little luck when reaching out to companies. Has anyone done this successfully? If so, how were you able to convince companies to get on board? Did everyone end up pleased with the setup?
I felt the same way when Apple discontinued the $499 Mac Mini. It's vital to the platform that "anyone can afford a Mac."

But since then, there's the iPad. Apple's line is "the Mac is a truck, but most automobiles aren't trucks." And I hate to admit it, but for web browsing and word processing, the iPad is just fine. I don't like it, but I get it.
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Yes, though I would like to buy their newest 15”. A better Air model would be more my style. Their prices are just way too steep. I’d rather have an ultraportable with just enough power for UI and a Linux box somewhere for my projects.
Did customers really think it was going to work as a lasting enterprise, or did they just jump on to get some cheap movies before it went under?
you know how we castigate dumb rednecks for being dismissive of science and technology? this is exactly the same thing reproduced. so the question becomes are you wrong or are they right.
The question is why do you care if Mac sales are down? When the Mac was my primary computer in the 90s, I cared very much about Mac sales because if the Mac died, Apple died. But Apple doesn’t live and die by the Mac.

I doubt Apple will discontinue Mac sales in the foreseeable future.

I plan to rejoin the Mac fold next year and by the look of things, it will be a 5K iMac just because I want to do some Unixy things and you can develop anything on the Mac - iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows.

All of the third party software I care about is open source except for using MS Office occasionally, JetBrains Rider, and Plex. As long as the software support is there, I don’t care.
Yeah, that proprietary sdcard technology has no place on the side of a new computer in 2018. Instead, we should use a generic USB-C hole which leads to cable which leads to this sdcard thing.
As long as these questions are focused on projects the candidate already worked on before, then yes, they can be good.

When they are canned questions, there is at least one small issue and one big issue.

The small issue is that people will research and memorize solutions for common questions like “how to make Twitter” or “how to rank a newsfeed” or “how to ensure fault-tolerance in a distributed file system” (yes, the memorization even covers how to respond to questions in a ~45 minute open-ended conversation). If someone looks good on a design question about e.g. a Twitter clone, it doesn’t tell you much. If someone does bad on it, it probably also doesn’t tell you much unless they totally can’t parse the basic concepts (which should have been weeded out way earlier).

The bigger problem is “Guessing the Teacher’s Password”[0] and applies even when you ask non-standard questions that someone couldn’t have memorized ahead of time.

As the interviewer, especially if you were prepped in some interview training or team meeting, you will have preconceived expectations about what the “right” answers are and what the right progression of concepts, features, and details would be like.

As a result, you’ll favor candidates who happen to “guess” your preferred way of looking at the discussion, even though there could be many perfectly valid alternative ways to think about or discuss the problem that approach it differently, with a different sequence of questions or iterative enhancements.

At best this introduces some unnecessary arbitrariness into the pool of qualified candidates. At worst, you are unwittingly self-selecting for people who approach problem solving the same way you do, and are therefore reducing diversity of thought. If the big design question is also unrelated to the day to day job, then this arbitrariness is even worse: rejecting or self-selecting entirely based on your preferences about a toy exercise.

[0]: < https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NMoLJuDJEms7Ku9XS/guessing-t... >
What is this sorcery!?
Yeah, people under 33 seem to have a romanticized view of the internet. They believed there was no ads and it was flush with the kinds of content we enjoy today. Nope. Content existed but it was scarce/thin. Many of the internet users just stayed on AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve and never left to explore the WWW side of things. Those service providers were essentially national level BBSs.

There was no youtube, wikipedia, itunes or reddit. No instagram, twitter or google earth. The internet was basically geocities where most webpages were fan pages or pages/forums about niche interests.

I think people want to believe that because they believe that if ads were to disappear off the internet tomorrow, nothing would change. They don't realize that ads subsidize the content they consume, whether it's a youtube video they're watching or a reddit thread, ads are paying for that content. Nothing is free.
Well, at least I appear to have got half the point across so let me spell out the other half: unlike all mainstream languages (apart from Fortran, depending on your definition of mainstream) Common Lisp interprets "normal" floating point literals as single precision floats. Technically the standard does not specify this, but in practice all implementations do it this way these days. To be precise the standard says that SINGLE-FLOAT is the default, but implementing SINGLE-FLOAT as IEEE double precision float is allowable, because only a minimum precision and exponent size are suggested for each float type. CCL used to do this, using SHORT-FLOAT for IEEE single precision floats and, IIRC, both SINGLE-FLOAT and DOUBLE-FLOAT for double precision.

If you don't want this (and I almost never do), you either need to explicitly specify that you want double precision, using d as an exponent marker in your literals or ensure READ-DEFAULT-FLOAT-FORMAT is bound to DOUBLE-FLOAT (not it's default SINGLE-FLOAT) when you read them (which can go wrong more easily, so the former is typically better). The coercion problem is harder to work around.

So in the light of these facts what exactly is false and ridiculous about my claim that single precision floats are the default floating point type in practice in Common Lisp?
That would count as publication.
I've been in at least a couple of the places in that list, and probably about as far from civilization as possible in those areas. I'm willing to believe their numbers are technically correct.

But I bet cityfolk have a reeeeeeaally different notion of "road" than is meant here.

Take the Trinity Alps complex for example. It's got, still to this day, my least favorite approach ever. You go way up the north coast, then along 299 (if I remember right), then through a reservation, and then you get on this lovely little road that's several miles of 15-mile-an-hour white-knuckle less-than-single-lane rough gravel, with steep granite on one side and a drop straight down to a river on t'other, and a whole lot of blind corners. You do that for a while, then you see the yellow sign posted that says, "Road Narrows", and whaddaya know, it sure as heck does.

It's a road that started as a trail and never really had any ambitions beyond that.

There are a ton of logging roads and fire cuts all over the place too. Lots of dusty hill climbs. Other rarely-trafficked routes where the macho advertising for your 4WD meets a grim reality.

Maps aren't necessarily current, either. I once bailed off the Wonderland Trail in Rainier after a partner took a bad fall. According to the map and the GPS, there was a road just a few miles out that led to a paved road that led to civilization. Great. Well, we get there, and after swimming through dense, wet vegetation for a while, start finally seeing signs that, yeah, there was a road there, about a hundred years ago.

18 miles as the bird flies can easily turn into two days' hiking in some of that terrain, too.
What I wouldn’t give for a ‘Macbook SE’- just like the iPhone SE, same model as a proven favourite, no touch bar, with new innards and lower price (I don’t even need the lower price actually) I would buy THAT in a heartbeat.
It’s great on paper but rife with problems of its own.
My Macbook is 4.5 years old by now. But why should I upgrade when their lineup is just plain bad? I've always loved their design and features. But they've stripped all of the good stuff from their lineup except for the design and OS. I want my port selection back, a proper keyboard, and a normal price tag again. I thought the original price was expensive, but it was worth it. It has only gone up because the cheaper models just aren't viable anymore, it's a complete rip-off imo.
A central bank can really only do two things: adjust the amount of money it prints, and adjust the amount of debt it buys. With only two variables to adjust, even thoughtful economists can make mistakes.
Apple didn’t discontinue it. You can still buy a $499 Mac Mini with - 4 GB RAM. God help your soul if you buy it though.
It's substantially the same interview.
Okay, which countries are directly going to an orwellian system of pervasive monitoring? There is one leader, China. What's number 2?
We collectively pay, as a society. Credit card fees are a tax on commerce.
In science if a theory doesn't work in practice then the theory is wrong.

In economics if reality does not conform to theory then it's reality thats at fault

No I'm not saying bitcoin is the future but millions of users are freely choosing to use this system seems to count for nothing against some theoretical failings in Krugman's eyes.
Even Debian Stable (9.x, at this point) can install kvm and virt-manager and just run at this point. I have one VB installation that came in under the license smackdown a couple of year ago that I need to migrate. There is no point in using virtualization software the current owners don't want you to run.
Lol what. There’s a gas station near my house that has a sign on the pump “cash $2.30/g, credit card: $2.45/g”. Consumers always are passed the cost because it’s they are the ones holding the purse.
> It's vital to the platform that "anyone can afford a Mac."

Now it's "anyone can afford an Apple product." Get an iPhone for $125 a month or whatever it costs to lease and get a voice/data plan.
> If you like, fiat currencies have underlying value because men with guns say they do. And this means that their value isn’t a bubble that can collapse if people lose faith.

Until the value does collapse that is, just look at <how many?> examples of hyperinflation in my lifetime.
You must admit that there is a very large difference between a friend doing something for me and a corporation doing the same thing.
You do. The store just gets higher margin on cash-paying customers.
Ive been recommending that same thing for a while. Microsoft, too, if you can get away with it. It's why I won't build stuff on .NET and Java. They were already big on patent suits, BS licensing, and Business Software Alliance looking for snitches. Then, Oracle went for API's are under copyright ruling. Then, I definitely wasn't gonna touch Oracle software.
> “De-facto” Wilderness Areas in National Parks

National Parks, not National Forests. I wouldn't be certain that all remote corners of National Forests are necessarily Wilderness Areas.

[ADDED: But from what I see, this probably encompasses all the remote areas although others have calculated remote spots using different criteria.]
So what happens when a domain registrar seizes your domain because they don't like your speech? (This has already happened.)

What happens when your host and cdn shut you down? (This has already happened.)

What happens when your isp shuts you down? (Only a matter of time.)

Private companies control the Internet. If we decide social media doesn't constitute a commons, the same argument applies to the rest of the Internet.

And so, like the gp said, your practical right are greatly curtailed.

Moreover, you're giving Mark Zuckerberg immense, uncontrolled power over American discourse. Sure, he has to use his power carefully, but as long as he and other tech ceos do so, they've essentially become the gatekeepers of allowable thoughts.
Ethanol has a higher octane rating (113 RON) than petroleum, but is less energy dense (so lowers mpg.)
> Create a simple iOS backup and restore program for ios devices.

Isn't this iCloud Backup? I've used it to restore our iPad several times and it worked great with no fuss.
Because to get good at anything, you need to do a whole lot of it.

You probably have to write a few bad books before writing a good one.
That's because up until recently credit card companies required merchants to charge the same prices. They had the power to do this because they are basically a cartel.

But yes, you're right. You would be paying twice, just like you're still paying once even if you pay with cash. This is a real problem, but it's not an inherent flaw in cryptocurrencies, IMO. Just a practical consequence of our existing financial system. That doesn't make it any less real, but it's "not Bitcoin's fault" so to speak.
Getting 4 bytes or a full cache line: same speed or not?
Some of them were only used a few times a year. I don't know exactly how remote you can get in NM but I know plenty of our marked roads go to mines that haven't been active in a century.
"The gains to the working class is seen in the lowest unemployment numbers ever"

Which isn't being accompanied by wage gains, and were going up long before the tax cuts happened.

"That’s because that extra 33% in our bank balance means more marketing spending, more inventory, more open reqs for hiring sale, marketing, support, and engineering, etc. etc."

Which is great, except the vast majority of companies are using that 33% for stock buybacks.
Sorry, outdated knowledge. I know somewhere around 2010 they revamped the line to start at $799, I was under the impression they never dipped back down.
Took me a second to figure out after looking at the assembly that it's possible because of base64.
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Do you see a solution to the energy use problem that doesn't involve a massive devaluation of Bitcoin?
> credit card fees

Credit cards are the highest transaction fees and almost entirely due to the need to keep paying users to use them (ie all the rewards points and cash back).

Debit card transactions are much less (due to legislation).

And bank transfers are a dime.

Companies like Starbucks have brought the costs even lower by bundling up transactions.
> I'm sorry if my assessment has offended you.

It's not a matter of offense, it's just a matter of the (unstated, with parameters only inferrable from your examples) definition you are using being radically at odds with any common use or published definition of “white supremacy” (including, but not limited to, the one I specifically cited upthread, in part in hopes that if you disagreed with it you'd provide an equally specific alternative), and your claims about what other people propose as an alternative to your preferred definition also being similarly disconnected from anything I can find in use anywhere.

I might be offended if you embraced the ideals of (actual) White supremacy. Your embrace of a weird definition of white supremacy that makes it a belief regarding a pure fact question rather than a value system—along with the idea that there is a rogue group pushing an alternate definition which makes it about a different fact-not-value question—is baffling, but not in itself offensive.