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I agree, we should ignore the gender politics of this movie and it's detractors and that whole argument entirely. That has nothing to do with whether the movie is any good.

> But "a great action flick to go see if you are bored on a Saturday night" is what a Star Wars film is supposed to be.

Yes, but it's also supposed to be a continuing story. It's a serialized, epic, swashbuckling space opera. While TLJ is still a space opera, it doesn't follow the same tone and the story doesn't follow the same beats.

It's fine if you want to tell a story like TLJ about disillusionment and being disappointed with your heroes and discovering that the real world isn't about one ship destroying the Death Star. But taking that story and putting it in the Star Wars universe as a main entry in the series doesn't work. That's not what people want to see in a Star Wars movie. People go to a Star Wars movie to see the hero destroy the Death Star! You can't take any story with any characters and any plot elements and place it in the Star War Universe and magically have a Star Wars movie. It's the same reason you can't just have a movie with a Deloran and time travel and make a Back to the Future movie. It's the same reason the Ghostbusters remake was bad. It's the same reason the Mad Max remake was good. It's the same reason Infinity War was good. It's the same reason Batman v Superman was bad. You have to have some respect for the tone, themes, and plots of what came before. TLJ disrespects it's audience's desires by disrespecting the draw of the source material.
Thats an expensive and dirty solution to a solved problem.

Many opera houses have subtitles in the backs of seats. While not as ideal as in your glasses, it is certainly more comfortable, cheaper to buy and maintain, and clean.

I get that you have to glance down now and then, as compared to the glasses, but I really think that's a cost worth living with.
Some manufacturers do X-ray boards.

Typically this is done to check that BGA devices (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_grid_array) are soldered properly. Usually not done on every board, but only if there's a problem suspected. When it happens they tend to focus only on particular BGA components or suspect copper traces rather than the whole PCB.
That's incorrect. They invented the term. Contrary to the public belief, the term open source did not exist before open source definition.
The reality is some companies simply wouldn't contribute open source projects if they didn't have the flexibility afforded by requiring contributors sign a CLA. Maybe you would consider that preferable, but I don't. They have a right to require a CLA, just as I have a right to not contribute if I don't want to sign a CLA.
When I started wasm-pack was still moving pretty rapidly and it took a lot longer to do builds when I was working interactively. Now that the split went through I've been meaning to revisit that.
i gave you the benefit of the doubt when i read your earlier comment, but this doubledown shows you're extremely naive / have no experience with the space. you realize there are entire industries (plural) premised off the fact that you can't just throw up "any firewall" and detect this kind of thing, no?

can you imagine how it would go down if a major corporation like apple experienced a hardware hacking based infrastructure breach, contracted a cybersecurity company, and the tech heading their case asked them like "well were you making sure to check which ports were open?"
Compared to a heat pump, that computer is still costing money, cause a heat pump can add more heat to the house then an electric heating element using the same amount of energy.
Amazon offers the exact same product for the exact same cost, I don't see the problem. Do you have any examples where Amazon is selling a product for "outrageously higher"?
They hate selling it for less than what they payed for it as well. Even if the market will not support that price any more.
> despite a minority’s desire for it to be only used to describe a precise circumstance.

The vast majority of the software industry uses "open source" correctly. A small minority of people and companies with a vested interest in sowing confusion to promote their "source available" business models misuses the term and creates FUD.
After a stint working in a related industry I see red flags every time I read "citizen journalist", and Higgins is no exception, his day job is closely tied to US government. That's not to say he's some government shill, his investigative output is excellent, but put in context I personally can't believe there isn't some reputational blemish to be noted. People rarely achieve anything working alone, and these investigations are achieving a lot.

Although I won't link to it, you may be entertained by the paranoid ramblings RT.com shares about him. Higgins is most certainly neither an altruistic white knight (western view) or amateur propagandist (Russian view), the truth as usual is a bit more complex and lies buried somewhere in between.
> I'm sorry but I just can't buy that. Generics in the supermarket and drugstore (at least the ones I go to) are directly next to the name-brand and clearly compete directly.

Many store-brand generics are manufactured by the exact same company that manufactures the name brand. The arrangement works because the manufacturer know that some consumers are cost conscious, some are brand conscious and willing to pay more. If they lower the price of the name-brand to get the cost conscious consumers, they lose out on the name brand markup. The solution is often two slightly different brand from the same company at different price points. For this to work, it's important that the store brand packaging have zero connection to the name brand.

Costco is especially known for doing this. IIRC, Kirkland batteries are probably Duracells in different packaging.
Specs seem almost identical to my Moto Z Play I paid $150 less for over a year ago.

Seems mid priced but not a bargain.
Dalvik hasn't been used on Android for more than 4 years (since Android 5): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_(software)
> Windows 10 has been the least disruptive Windows OS I've ever used.

As someone who used to like Windows, you must be living in some alternate reality. I can't tall you the number of things that routinely break in Win10 and then cannot be fixed without an in-place upgrade. Do a search for "Windows 10 start menu doesn't work". That one has happened to me a number of times and none of the "helpful" suggestions from MS ever work except reinstalling the entire OS.
These denials match up exactly with what was in the leaked documents. Greenwald and Snowden, out of incompetence, made a bunch of unsubstantiated accusations that were not supported by the documents that the companies denied.
"Would you really want to work for an organization that plays those sort of mind games?"

I would like to work for an organization that pays me so I can buy food and pay rent.
Mexico’s new science minister is a plant biologist who opposes transgenic crops
Lojban is the inverse of Newspeak.
I phrased that badly, these aren't individuals inside the company but people we play against or play with if we don't have enough for full teams.
Software is software, even Linux updates break things. Nothing is perfect. Let's be honest though, as an avid windows user i'm thrilled with all these quarterly updates, fixes, new features and functionality add. It sucked when service packs were years apart and nothing changed and you needed new OS's to use new functionality.

Now with a free update we have the linux subsystem, have docker support, Hyper-V updates, improved notification center, dark mode, improved store with books, edge PDF/epub reading is absolutely amazing (and it works with remote syn /page read updates on ios & android!), PowerShell improvements, timeline support across devices and if you use android you get SMS integration, image backup/sync and shortly remote android display on your desktop and many fixes/improvements/refinements

It's never been a better experience to be a windows user..

Everyone updates their iPhone and Android - and deals with the inevitable quirks of that upgrade and they move on.

But with windows...

I believe most of the people experiencing missing docs enabled storage sense integration where if you're low on disk space it moves your docs to onedrive - it prompts you to enable this... others are people with non standard configs that probably break in every update anyway and you're told not to do.
> Good will takes a year to earn but a second to lose.

Indeed. My "never again" moment is from 10 years ago, and is missing from your list: The DRM used on Spore bricked my Windows install, in the middle of the semester. I was just lucky I'd switched to Ubuntu a few months before.
> Windows 7 is just prettier XP

Windows 7 has a completely revamped driver model and network stack compared to XP. They aren't really that alike.
Regardless this attack is real or not, this exposure and assessments (just like Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek did for exposing the car hacks) raised good awareness of how vulnerable BMCs are and hopefully the baseboard hardware security and firmware security will be securer in the future when they evolve.
BRB, buying stock in Stanley Black and Decker[1]

[1]https://www.supermotors.net/getfile/801863/fullsize/7824_103...

Seriously though, why was this ever a law in the first place?
>I don't get my stuff within the 3-5 day period

That's crazy because I'm in Canada and it's the reverse. I don't care about the free 2 day shipping because I usually get it quicker using their actual free shipping.

I used the free 2 day shipping of Prime a few time in the past using the student discount but each time, they ship the day after, which still means I receive it in 2 days. When I get the free shipping, more often than not, they ship it the same day and I receive pretty quickly. It's like on Prime they still hope I'm going to buy the overnight shipping while not on it they just ship whenever they can.
How would you quantify the “productivity” of a single-family home that isn’t rented?

IMHO, it’s genuinely difficult to establish the underlying value of a property beyond comparing it to similar recent transactions (which doesn’t answer the original question).

It’s possible you meant looking at rents in the area as a baseline of how “productive” my SFR is.
The writing in this article reminds me of Jon Krakauer (of Into Thin Air fame). Actually, this article got me into reading about extreme sports, which got me to Krakauer, who I consider one of the finest American non-fiction writers.
Out of curiosity, how do you deploy new versions of your without downtime (start new containers, wait for new containers to be ready, switch traffic to new containers, shutdown old containers)?
People just have to be told what direction we can head in.

I like the way Yanis Varoufakis frames the matter - do you want a Matrix style future where the machines control you or a Star Trek kind of future where the machines take care of all the mundane BS and we get to go places we haven't gone before.

I don't think there is a big debate about what people will choose. We just have to get the mindlessly ambitious minority of the population with god emperor delusions to behave themselves.
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I thought folks on HN were smarter than the Reddit ones. Looks like not.
Redbox has done this. I mean, they're still cheaper than Blockbuster ever was for a "new release" movie. But they have just about doubled their price.
Whose side is HR really on?
There are plenty of places where I wouldn’t mind using one now. Anywhere where the speed is under 30 miles an hour, for example.

Have you ever been at the Las Vegas airport at the start of CES? I’ve waited an hour in line for a taxi. Of course they should have built the metro to the airport.

If you commute by train, this type of car would be perfect to get you to and from the station, especially if it could drive itself back home during the day.
The last time they changed architectures, they stuffed a new motherboard in an old case, to let developers get ready for the change.

I think it's unlikely they'll update their flagship Mac to a new CPU architecture without notifying developers first. On day one, all existing apps would perform poorly, and that's not how you promote a new top-of-the-line system.
I wish Netflix had the equivalent of Prime's x-ray.

I'm also very surprised that X-ray does not hi-lite items on the screen that you could click to buy on Amazon (I assume someone is working on this), not saying I want it, just surprised the feature doesn't exist.
Yeah no thanks.

"jstaney you are under arrest - remain calm your vehicle will deliver you to the nearest processing facility. Do not attempt to control the vehicle. Do not attempt to exit the vehicle. Any action deemed as attempting to exit the vehicle or prevent it from arriving at the detention facility will result in your immediate admission of guilt and the appropriate sentencing will commence. Have a nice day, thank you for using GovCloud Services."
How does this compare to using notmuch-emacs? And can someone say whether notmuch or mu is preferable these days?
Add a push button transmission to that list. They were a bad idea in the 1960s, and they're still a bad idea today.
Seems like Honda dumped Waymo due to the tech sharing issue (that was presented as the breaking point, I guess you could say Waymo dumped Honda because they demanded sharing Waymo was never going to give, but it was Honda that signed a new deal with another company.) Perhaps Waymo would have been willing to bend on sharing if Honda were geared up and ready to provide EVs. It's not clear.
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The Sierra DNA is there, but on a much, much more accessible level (for better or worse depending on how you want to take on the narrative or the game.)
Yeah, if there is no way to mechanically control the car, then that's kind of a problem. In that case, I'd have to be given some pretty ironclad indemnification before I'd get in one.

If the car runs down a pedestrian in a crosswalk while said pedestrian has the right of way, on whom, exactly, does the civil liability fall? The manufacturer, or me, the occupant. Even more importantly, on whom does the criminal liability fall?

If the answers to those questions are not spelled out, explicitly, in the regulations congress puts out, then I agree, it would be hard for me to get into one of those things.

Especially if they said you were at fault because you told the car, "Take me home", or something. I can hear it now, "Your honor, the occupant was obviously exercising control over the vehicle!"
So elevators vs stairs then?
Please don't share AMP links, especially since they provide a really misleading view of what you're submitting.

Brex (google.com) looks like the announcement of a Google product, but it's actually a Forbes article.

I would've also preferred a longer title (like the article headline) that told me what I was clicking on.
> I generally find your comment such quality that you don't deserve downvotes

Thanks. I attribute that mostly to some poor wording on my part, where I said "But I do not think he has a right to that position" to mean "he's not entitled". Unfortunately it's easily misinterpreted as "so should not get it".

> the chances of any investigation having any guilty/innocent resolution, given that the alleged crime happened 35 years ago and even very recent rapes basically boil down to he said/she said, is very low

That may be, but accusations such as this deserve to be investigated. In the general sense because someone is accusing someone else of (what is usually charged as) a felony assault, and this specific case because we do not want someone like that in power, for multiple reasons (even if we assume he's entirely changed, the blackmail potential if proof does surface is problematic).

> I've seen no blow to credibility to anyone, despite there having been quite a few highly-publicised rape cases that were proven to be false.

I think it's a matter of opportunity and reason. Most accusers probably aren't linked to (or more importantly and accurately, able to be implied as linked to) a coherent adversarial cause backed by an organization and ideology.

What that basically means is that next time, instead of a nominee on the stand talking about what sounds like a conspiracy theory about the Clintons and Democrats doing a concerted smear campaign that isn't true, they'll be able to point at a specific prior instance as evidence. That's extremely powerful.
The thing is - self-driving cars fundamentally change the structure of the automobile market in a way that negates many of the advantages of existing automakers. Instead of private ownership of cars, they encourage ride-sharing services, because the car can pick up a different passenger on the return trip and no longer has to park. Instead of internal combustion engines, they encourage EVs, both because of the power-draw of the self-driving hardware and because refueling becomes the responsibility of the service, which can program them to return to base and not pick up any new passengers once they're getting low on charge. Instead of servicing being a huge pain that encourages buyers to put a premium on reliable cars, maintenance is handled by a centralized maintenance department full of professionals. Instead of family cars, they encourage small motorcycle-like "pods" sized for a single occupant (with a smaller number of family cars or trucks available for family trips).

Already, that negates the advantages of consumer brand, reliability, dealer networks, internal combustion engines, ergonomics, and bodywork. There's not all that much left to the auto industry, once all that changes.
> Contributors threatened to remove their code from the kernel.

No. Random fringe anonymous emails from non-contributors claimed (incorrectly) that developers could do so.

See https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/sep/26/GPLv2-irrevocabil... and https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidech8.html#x... for details (incorporating actual legal analysis).
One respect in which I can imagine the x86 ISA being a real problem is in decode bandwidth. To issue 6 x86 instructions per cycle, either the front end needs to decode 6 per cycle, or it needs to cache decoded instructions. And x86 can’t be decoded in parallel without massive complexity because the instructions are variable length, and even determining the length requires mostly decoding the instruction.
Have you tried the new Steam Play (Proton)? In short, steam will now automatically wrap all windows games up with Wine and DXVK. Many many games are now working out of the box without any faff.
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/donnafusca... and the title from “Brex”.
It is extremely challenging, perhaps impossible, to find a MOND theory that fits all available observations.

For me, a modification of gravity would be more aesthetically pleasing than dark matter, but that does not appear to be how Nature has chosen to be.
RAVE.DJ and Such
The fundamental problem with rave and the other AI DJ tools is their inability to do proper phrasing. Once they get that solved the market dilution for DJs will be real.
Having the best tech isn't a predictor of success. Just ask BetaMax and LaserDisk...

What matters more is the business strategy, and articles like this are suggesting that Waymo's business plan will keep it from dominating the market.

It turns out that trying to compete with your suppliers is very, very expensive, especially if you try to make them shoulder the risks without sharing the upsides. And very expensive business plans require very good execution, which Waymo hasn't managed so far. They've already been rejected by 3 automakers (Ford, GM, and Honda).
Just wait. If they are out there they will be found. Of course you could ask why none of the ANT Catalog software implants have been found yet or why Juniper/Cisco/Fortinet have not (publicly) announced tools to detect them.
GDPR is worse, actually. Both laws are making site owners liable for hosting certain types of content (personal information and copyrighted materials, respectively). However automatically detecting copyrighted materials is relatively straightforward compared but automatically detecting personal information is probably impossible.
Containers can be easy to use, once you drop devops. Containers are simple, a much more flexible alternative to VMs.

Unfortunately the devops community always wanted to promote themselves as the only option for containers and even though they were based on the LXC project they did not explain the technical decisions and tradeoffs made as they did not want users to think there are valid alternatives. And this is the source of fundamental confusion among users about containers.

Why are you using single process containers? This is a huge technical decision that is barely discussed, a non standard OS environment adds significant technical debt at the lowest point of your stack. Why are you using layers to build containers? Why not just use them as runtime? What are the tradeoffs of not using layers? What about storage? Can all users just wish away state and storage? Why are these important technical issues about devops and alternative approaches not discussed? Unless you can answer these questions you cannot make an informed choice.

There is a culture of obfuscation in devops. You are not merely using an Nginx reverse proxy or Haproxy but a 'controller', using networking or mounting a filesystem is now a 'driver'. So most users end up trying Kubernetes or Docker and get stuck in the layers of complexity when they could benefit from something straightforward like LXC.
I agree that sometimes Windows can be puzzling. Though I think most of the 'black box' problems I've encountered in windows have been my own damn fault. I notice people try and "fine tune" it too much. I used to be this way too, because it used to be necessary. It's really not anymore IMO. Yes you want to turn off some things (O&O makes a good list, and backs everything up before changing stuff, which is why I use it) but 99.9999% of users don't have any reason to go into the registry for instance.

And if you really care about the 3MB and 0 resources you're saving by tweaking the features/apps/etc installed be VERY careful. Do not trust random 'security' and 'debloat' scripts to not completely mess up your OS. Even if you understand the script, you may not understand that uninstalling X causes Y problem. I really do think win10 is hated on quite a bit because people have caused their own issues thinking they know more than they do.
I'll humbly admit I'm probably on the lower end of the intelligence distribution as far as HN is concerned.
His problem won't be Amazon price matching. It will be the drove of other arbitrage drones moving in on his products.
I'll accept that it may seem infeasible. But so did something like Stuxnet [1] seem infeasible, until it was discovered.

Perhaps the lesson is not to underestimate the resources of a determined nation state with an economy the size of the USA's (or China's).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
Please avoid personal swipes in comments here.
Refuelable liquid batteries
The point about hacking away at the code needs to be couched heavily. It's too easy to conclude you've got negative or positive results when what you really have is a silly little bug. The lack of focus on implementation skills in data (or even "real" science) is frightful. The one take away anyone trained in software engineering could share is that if you aren't very sure if it is working as intended, it's very likely not. Code review is very applicable here when making major pivots, even if unit or other testing is decidedly too time consuming for the train test improve loop.

Edit: typo "of" to "if". Somewhat serendipitous if you think about it.