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Microsoft's Devices, Find My Device, Lock Screens Are Completely Irresponsive
My father's got his business laptop stolen from his car. My best bet was Microsoft's Find My Device. For straight 4-5 hours or more, I've been constantly trying to do this ridiculously simple thing, and the followings are my estimated success rates:

1. View registered devices to the Microsoft account (https://account.microsoft.com/devices), 5%

2. View device page for laptop, 5%

3. View Find My Device tab on laptop's device page, 5%

4. Get the device locked via Lock button modal window, 0%

I'm not asking for a miracle. It's a feature available for devices registered to Microsoft account. It's a emergency security feature, and it doesn't work right now. I'm disappointed to say the least. The idea is cool, the feature would be useful. Just because the interface is horribly crippled, unusable, dysfunctional, it is all a junk, rubbish, a joke.

The error I get for the 95% of the time failures for the 1, 2 and 3 is: "Try refreshing the page, something's wrong on our side." You really can reach to the page just by refreshing, around 20 times. It is completely stupid how being stubborn helps resolving this.

The error I get all the time for the 4th step is: "Try again later, cannot reach your device right now", as far as I remember, because I couldn't reach the page for over 30 minutes trying. It is unbelievable, incredible, bizarre how Microsoft does not repeat the lockdown request by itself until they manage to reach to the device, expecting me to try it day and night, getting so lucky to hit the probably-narrow timespan where they will try and power-up and connect the device to the internet.

All the other Microsoft account pages I have tried work just fine. Only this critically important emergency feature page works like the cheap web pages from 1999 on a dial-up modem.

All I can say is, forget about the Find My Device feature offered by Microsoft, as if it has never existed. It is a true false-sense-of-security feature, void, worse than nothing.
Succinct! Great reply.
> hmm, aside from the BS that the model s fits 7 people....

With the rear-facing seats, it does. Although uncomfortably. You're better off with the Model X for that many.

> “normal” car = 20k

Yes, let's compare a value car with a luxury car. Brilliant. How much does a BMX X6 or a Mercedes AMG GLE cost?

Here's a hint: https://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/vehicles/model/class-GLE/mode...

After you subtract government incentives and fuel savings, the costs are identical. That's why Tesla actually sells cars.
There is additional proof, from his sister's Facebook page, but I'm not sure I want to link it here because it seems rude to link his family's pages to random people. Is there a moderator here whose email address I can message with the proof?
But the gauge cluster screen is connected to the infotainment system.
As tragic as the Soyuz 11 incident was, it's hardly similar in any of its aspects:

"The fault was traced to a breathing ventilation valve, located between the orbital module and the descent module, that had been jolted open as the descent module separated from the service module, 12 minutes and 3 seconds after retrofire. The two were held together by explosive bolts designed to fire sequentially; in fact, they had fired simultaneously. The explosive force of the simultaneous bolt firing caused the internal mechanism of the pressure equalization valve to loosen a seal that was usually discarded later and which normally allowed for automatic adjustment of the cabin pressure. The valve opened at an altitude of 168 kilometres, and the resultant loss of pressure was fatal within seconds."
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Then there was economics that also complicated things.

Crude steam engines were already constructed in the ancient world. From what we know, those people couldn't figure much need for them, beyond spicing up your temple experience with magically moving statues. They lacked both the necessary knowledge to make good use of their invention, as well as an immediate practical use for it.
My guess is that the “top 5” companies are more about right place right time and execution than understanding a market.

A less experienced person doesn’t know the “rules” they are breaking.
Likewise, I had a brief conversation with the fascinating Dr Lewis Dartnell where we discussed the origin of barley farming. Did our ancestors grow it for food, and accidentally discover that you can also make beer with it, or did the beer come first and bread second? I had assumed the former, but now that I think about it...
If we unbundle the courses and/or make MOOCS minimally OK - what's to stop students hiring their own TA to help them through. So long as you pair this up with a nationally recognised micro-credential framework you could see the development of a "faculty" led small-school revival. Add in some sort of matchmaker service at critical mass, some sort of pedagogy credential (how to teach well, not what to teach) and education becomes a nice small business opportunity for PhD holders.
I think an important aspect not mentioned in this article is the environment in which the computer and internet wunderkind founders got their starts.

You had a perfect storm of brand new, super powerful tools (the internet providing dirt-cheap distribution, cheap computation, beginner friendly programming languages -- php for facebook, java and python for google, etc.). There was so much low-hanging fruit with relatively little competition.

A very similar thing happened in physics in the early 20th century, and led to the same notion that genius is a fleeting trait concentrated in the young. To quote this BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37578899

It was like discovering a new toolkit which could quickly yield discoveries. Or, less charitably, as one scientist said: "mediocre physicists could discover great physics".
I'm sure you'll admit though that probably < 0.01% of smartphone users care about that. Most people don't even know what ssh is, nor do they need to.
Another helpful comparison is Lisp syntax versus Forth syntax. If you actually want a simple, terse, unstructured language, Forth is the way to do it: Words will consume and return any number of inputs or outputs to the stack, and you get entire classes of error when it's unbalanced that would surface as syntax errors anywhere else.

Just adding s-expressions is actually a huge jump up in syntactic complexity and structure, since now you can define a whole hierarchy statically, "on the page", instead of having to use a series of stack operations to manipulate memory from afar. And then as you lucidly put it, going from s-expressions to a practical Lisp dialect adds another level of context on top of that.

(And yeah, it's possible to bolt structure onto a Forth dialect, too, but the "Chuck Moore way" is that you do that custom every time you need it, instead of trying to generalize. Generalizing a concatenative structure leads to something like Factor.)
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ has historical data going back to 1988. (Presumably they used a different methodology for the older data.)

But I remembered wrong. They list Lisp as #2 in 1988.
The focus on tech companies seems to be, I don’t think a red herring, but mostly misplaced when compared to the extreme damage being caused by other companies. Oil, pharma, telcos (no, telcos are not part of the cohort of tech companies being talked about here), all of whom are actually using the platforms of the tech companies to deeply undermine the basis of Western society by attacking the fundamental concepts of evidence and reason. Sure, they’re using twitter to do it, but why not attack the source?
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Yes Renault Zoe may well be a good city car, like Smart fortwo, but it's not in the same class of Model 3.
You can use heuristics if/when the problem becomes ugly due to various constraints you may impose. The trick is to select heuristics depending on the problem at hand and in a way that their hyperparameter values are selected properly.
> On the other hand, I hate the demonization of “other” and immigration enforcement has turned into being more openly racially motivated than it ever has been before and this isn’t a Democrat vs Republican thing. None of the other Republican administrations have been like this one.

"Racially motivated" is a misnomer. Trump uses "Muslim" and "Mexican" not in the way that Confederate politicians used "Negros" (or worse), but in the way that older Republicans used "Russian" or "Communist".

It's obviously not used in a sympathetic way but it's not about racism any more than Nixon was racist against Russians. Trump isn't threatening to expel the ethnic Mexican with US citizenship operating an auto repair shop in Alabama, but he's also not offering citizenship to low-income people from neighboring socialist-leaning countries who would probably vote for Democrats.

Democrats hate this with a burning fire because it's the exact opposite of what they want. But it's not actually about race, it's all politics and the culture war.
Then perhaps you should point to one that isn't 25 years old!
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You can email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com.

Though Wikipedia already has such a link confirming it. I don't think you need to prove it.

Edit: Or did. I can't find it now. I was sure there was a really short page for him on Wikipedia when I looked the other day. At the moment, he only appears on their disambiguation page without a page of his own. It also shows a death year of 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Davis
Try hn@ycombinator.com, it's actively monitored by the moderators.
Depending on how bad your disks are that can really add up.
More than that probably. At 36% margins you don’t really have to worry about cost efficiency - there’s probably a lot of cost savings to be had hiding behind all that free cash flowing around (and if that 36% margin disappears, it won’t take long for the CFO to find them).
> could run on a blockchain

git is literally a "blockchain", and has been since before "blockchain all the things" was cool.

I honestly have no idea what you are talking about in the rest of your comment.
It's my wife's car, she's attached to it, and I paid it off rather quickly. The car did not hold its value and therefore the equity wasn't worth selling it and going into debt on a new car. I've kept a running total of how much the car cost to fix and over time it's still been cheaper than buying a nice new luxury auto, albeit not much cheaper.
I would assume every diff has a timestamp. And since you can diff properties separately then it works correctly.

I would be curious about another scenario: what about several devices generating a new password for a website? Or instead - creating a note with the same name?

The one that is going to be saved is the last one - that is true. But it implies there's some transparent data loss in the background (you could still get those from the log, of course).

How do you deal with those "soft" conflicts in the UI? Is there any learning curve for the user to accept that any changes could be rolled back? How do you display that so that the user wouldn't assume the data was lost?
Not judging by the sales numbers:

https://www.motor1.com/news/238839/vw-sales-record-q1-2018/
I was not the one who compared them, op did
I refer you to: https://www.tesla.com/gigafactory
Compiling TempleOS in its native environment. RIP.
> Programming/Computers doesn't mean anything to them, it's just a day job which helps them provide for themselves. This is the main differentiation between the US/European workforce and ours.

How is this not the case for software devs in the States? There's plenty of people who joined dev bootcamps because of the possibility of a six-figure salary. Considering how financially-driven many developers in the Bay Area are, I think their interests aren't too different from our Indian compatriots. We're all looking for a way to pay rent, hopefully buy a house, and pursue interests outside of work.
> The algos is presumably a straight up string compare with some url decoding

Well, except it fails in some cases to straight up compare two strings that are identical, so there must be some other 'secret sauce' in the algorithm that makes it unnecessarily complicated and error-prone.
So don't do it.

If I found myself continually grousing about my low pay relative to other professions, and all of the indignities and hardships I suffered, I'd find another job.
interesting and educational article
What was the license on TempleOS? I know a lot of people thought it had clever language features. Will there be any continued development?
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That website urgently needs to add error estimates on these numbers. It might also be interesting to look at repair cost relative to car cost.
I appreciate what you're trying to say, but you can't just claim to have 20 years of industry experience after starting in that industry 10 years ago, right? Do you put 20 years of experience on your resume?
I went to put in the OPML and I got a 500 error after I pressed the button.
My aunt opened an unlicensed orphanage in northern Ivory Coast after WWII, and she had the Queen of the Netherland as a donor. Every year around Christmas the Dutch diplomatic mail service would come, heavily armed and very serious, to deliver boxes of sweet treats for the children.
The old AT&T I think would count as retail.
Parts availability doesn't have much to do with dealerships. That's just Tesla being crap at inventory management, which would be the same story regardless of their sales/service structure. (Also, dealers don't generally do body work, and Tesla already supports 3rd party body shops.)

They do seem to have velocity problems with service scaling, and dealers and independents may be able to help with that, but I see no reason to expect it to be a problem once growth levels out.

I don't particularly like the lack of 3rd party general maintenance, but most of Tesla's target customers probably don't care.
It's released into the public domain.
It appears he committed suicide by train [0].

His last youtube video from the local library made it sound like he wasn't having a particularly good time there.

He's suffered so long from his mental illness, frankly I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier. I can't begin to imagine how difficult it's been living such a challenging life for all these years.

From what I saw, occasionally watching his streams, there was a significant amount of internet bullying and general predation going on with Terry and it really messed with his already strained life.

It's all a huge bummer.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/TempleOS_Official/comments/9c63qr/t...
Feediary is definitely coming along nicely!
His Facebook page shows his account is memorialized.

(I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to log in to FB and search for his name.)
It's still strange, doesn't the death rumor predate the website being updated?
> That's a salary better than the national average.

Not only that, but that assumes single income, with mandatory union membership and three months of vacation a year, during which time one can pursue higher education, work a side job or relax. That's a better deal than most others get at the finger-chopping factory or slaving away in a call center.

Thanks to recent education initiatives over the last few decades everything is about teaching to a handful of standardized tests so the job is automated to the point of being glorified babysitting anyway.

It's a cushy gig with benefits most would kill for. I don't have sympathy for teachers anymore.
I would guess, that they simply do not have enough information to come up with a reasonable estimate of their cost of insurance, so they err on the side of making it affordable because it is such a low volume car that is often (but assuredly not always) a second car that gets less use. I further predict that insurance costs are going to rise dramatically in the next few years. All the anecdata (I know I know) I have seen suggest Teslas are comparatively expensive to service for minor bodywork and other repairs.
Then you were being ripped off on the BMW.

The cost of insurance is more related to how often certain cars get into accidents or get stolen and then adjusted for he driving record of the person driving the car. It has almost nothing to do with repair costs of the car itself.

Source: a Mustang GT costs more money to insure for me than a Mercedes C63 AMG. Repair costs on the AMG are borderline criminal and yet according to the actuaries it’s a lower risk.
Maybe one day. Right now it's really messy. It uses crawler[0] and rethinkdb[1] FYI.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/crawler
[1] https://rethinkdb.com
It's public domain, and seeing as Terry was the sole author it's unlikely to have any sort of official continuation.
> Calling someone a butthead is rude, calling someone a racial slur is also rude but also much worse.

But we are talking about racial slurs and not just "rude" language. I don't agree that there's some hierarchy of racism where changing the race moves you up and down the offensive scale. All racism is equally bad, yes even that pointed toward white people.
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A teacher's salary breakdown in the state of Nebraska.

50,000 * .65
= 32,500 / 12
= $2,708.

$700 for health insurance, dental, life insurance.

Home in a neighborhood where you feel reasonably safe : $900 month. Hopefully in an OK neighborhood, because you can't afford a private school.

$300/month for a car that actually starts reliably in the winter for the next five years.

Child care for a couple of small children ($500/mo per child).

You won't teach in the state of Nebraska without a four-year degree. $18,000/year*4, $72,000 of debt.

Let's hope nothing major comes up.
We are taking this story too literally. China isn't going after video games in fear of eye health. This is an attempt to save their youth from video game addiction, and the affront of video game influence on their culture.

In America we would bristle at the thought of our government asserting control in how our time is spent. It's clear China has done investigation into the health effects of video game addiction has on their people, and this is the first step in correcting it. They are simply being careful to control the perception as they impose limits.
You may formulate it as a multi-objective problem where you minimize the estimated time of the trip and your uncertainty of this estimate. Often, the two objectives are conflicting. As a user, the software should show you a Pareto set of optimal solutions where each solution has its duration and uncertainty. Then it is up to you which solution to pick. I hope they have this feature at optibus.
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Is that all that's being transported? Communication? Those bags seem to be holding more than just text.

I'm not sure the government is actually authorized to spy, per the US Constitution. It seems that it (spying) would only be authorized as part of a military operation.
I can understand why we got here, but I don't understand why there are any reasons why we must stay, other than to keep dealers in business.

You don't need a real estate agent to buy a home. Do they make it easier for some folks? Yes, but you definitely pay for that convenience. You always have the option of doing it yourself (again, which saves a lot of money). Buying a car should be the same way. If you need help selecting a car (or whatever it is that dealers do), pay extra for the service. For everyone else, buying direct from the manufacturer makes more sense.
Implicit implementation of interfaces is a disjoint concept from allowing third-party users to implement new interfaces on first-party or second-party structs.

The latter is wonderful, and other languages support this without needing to resort to the former.
Got an alternative?

The trouble here is that lots of programmers want/need a language that is like a portable assembler. It's all well and fine to say that C isn't such a language, but then what language shall we use?

Since there isn't an alternative, C needs to be that language.
Perhaps you and I use different terminology? Parent comment refers to "full coverage", which I believe includes the costs of repairs no matter whose fault it is.
Yeah you have 3 months out of the year to prep and job search.
That page is potentially a fake: https://www.reddit.com/r/TempleOS_Official/comments/9c63qr/t...
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