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There was a great idea from Audi designers where they said that light communication should be enhanced and in the future would be used for deeper level of communications. Perhaps, in this context it makes a lot of sense and developing a beautiful system of communication through light would be used for more than just auto, I always think how we've been sending radio waves and other audio messages into space, but never heard about alternative communications, such as light.

Also, the hardest part won't be the actual communication, it will be the standards that have to implemented through all manufactures who don't want to agree and potentially give up their advantages.
It wasn't that he "lost it", just they way he did.
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So the fact that Shopify succeeds doing that in Rails, not in C with assembler optimized code, is even more impressive!
“3factor” strikes me as a bad name. In IT, 2-factor universally refers to login security/multi-factor login. “3factor” sounds like you’re adding another security method to the login screen.
Because IT for the masses is not a game anymore. In nearly all countries of the world you need to get a license witch means prove you know how to drive before get a car, a plane, a motorbike etc, in nearly any countries you have to attend schools before being "adult" simply because we need to have a certain common knowledge ground for ourselves and for live in society.
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Taxation is already swindling (ie: theft)

Did yoi really think the thieves will gice you something back in return?

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Uhh, given that anti-abortion politics goes hand-in-hand with opposition to any sort of public benefits for healthcare, its hard to take seriously the notion that pro-life is anything more than pro-birth
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I'm not sure why you think that striving only to achieve business objectives could be considered to be a moral duty. Are you perhaps perhaps thinking of fiduciary duty?

If a company decides that technical development of engineers is good for retaining engineers and you as a manager refuse to do that, then no moral argument is going to help you when you get dinged in your performance review.

edit: Upon rereading the thread, I suspect that we may agree more than we disagree. My comment was directed at asknthrow's comment and I wanted to make the point (which other posters have more eloquently made in the meantime) that if technical development is part of your job as manager, you don't have a choice in the matter and your job is not just "to lead the team in the most effective direction in order to fulfil business objectives" (to quote asknthrow).
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Question about public service projects, may make it an Ask HN or a blog question as well:

The Agile or iterative model, coupled with the sec/devops CI/CD model that includes "own what you build," means that developers and highly skilled devops teams are available to manage a CI/CD pipeline throughout the lifetime of the product.

There is an underlying assumption that you are building to support the growth and revenue model that SaaS companies require to survive and in turn pay for continuous developers.

In public services, there is no such revenue growth. You have a budget for developing it, then hand it over for production, and then you manage it over the long term with more cost effective operators who are largely unionized employees, engaging developers only if needed to reconcile the code with an infrastructure change.

Keeping developers engaged and maintaining CI/CD on a product that does not have revenue or growth means that the cost curve diminishes much more slowly than in the waterfall engineering model. It means we have to ask whether the additional cost yields commensurate benefits, and what budgeting for a service supported by CI/CD truly costs without hockey stick revenue growth attached to it.

I contract to an agency that would benefit from an 18F.gov or gov.uk like digital service, but I have not seen this particular cost issue addressed. Has anyone in gov.uk, 18F or another digital service run up against this, and found solutions?
Hello everyone, we also have the supporting code we used on GitHub [1] as well
as a higher level blog post published on Medium [2].

[1] https://github.com/mortendahl/tf-encrypted

[2] https://medium.com/dropoutlabs/experimenting-with-tf-encrypt...
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But it is a privilege.

I suspect that it's mostly down to undervaluing our time. Although we all complain about the hell of driving in traffic or riding on a busy train very few people are willing to compromise their income to avoid it. We probably get what we deserve.
Good luck getting those in the next MBP. Once a company exceeds a certain size, the normal rules of designing a product for the users stop applying.

Mag safe, headphone jack, multiple USB ports, escape key - why were they removed? Who made these decisions?

I might add a lack of dedicated PgUp/PgDn/Home/End keys on larger laptops. There's plenty of space, but no, we are going to use the same keyboard for all of them (makes sense from a supply perspective!)
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We have software engineering diplomas, and CS majors at large are indistinguishable from them in their output.

We also have certifications. They're not evidence you are a good software engineer.
The title could really benefit from an Oxford comma.
I really enjoyed the book, "Thinking in Systems: A Primer", because it expanded my horizons and gave words to concepts I had for systems behavior.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828902-thinking-in-syst...
Keep reading. The upgrade guide has two parts: the first part that assumes the common configuration (you have console access and are using the OpenBSD boot loader), and the second part[1] in the event that you do not. If you have console access and can boot from iso, you can also use the cd64.iso image to boot into the install kernel and follow the common upgrade procedure on the console.

There is an in-between case where you have a console, but do not control the boot loader (so cannot boot bsd.rd) and cannot boot an iso. It sounds like maybe you are in this situation? In this case, you can still follow the upgrade directions as if you do not have a console[1]. Alternately, sometimes when I am in this situation I just download the install kernel (bsd.rd), move it where the boot loader is hard-coded to look (/bsd), and then reboot. The boot loader will boot the install kernel and you can follow the usual / common upgrade procedure on the console.

There is also autoinstall[2], which can automate the upgrade procedure for you and reduces upgrades to just rebooting into bsd.rd and waiting a bit. There is a bit of effort to create the response file, etc., so this may be overkill for a single instance but is very useful for upgrading fleets of machines quickly.

[1] https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade64.html#NoInstKern
[2] https://man.openbsd.org/autoinstall
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I live 2 blocks from one of these areas and used to live in one. I was immediately able to find a 400 sq foot studio for $3,250 per month inside one:

https://streeteasy.com/building/235-adams-street-brooklyn/14...
As a macOS/iOS developer who more or less does things the “by the book” Apple way, using Apple HW, Xcode, etc. I don’t know whether to give you a high-5 or shake my head! It’s fascinating to know there are developers like you out there, doin’ it the hard way just to target “legacy” hardware. Very interesting setup.
My dad! :-P

For non-technical people, I think there's not much difference between using a computer with Ubuntu, Mac or Windows, for regular tasks like browsing the internet, online shopping, sending email, doing stuff in spreadsheets, sharing photographs, etc. Software's mostly the same, in fact. And with this trend to make everything browser based, even more.

Of course things can go wrong, but it doesn't really matter which OS they're using. For example, should this last week botched Windows 10-HP upgrade happened to my father, there's nothing he could have done on his own to restore his computer.
I've always criticized Tesla for the decision to add the hardware to every car, even before we knew they can't seem capable of producing a $35,000 model right now or before we knew how far away we still are from safe full autonomy.

It just seemed obviously unnecessary to me to add thousands of dollars in cost to every car in the hope that a small portion of the Model 3 owners would also later upgrade to get the software for it, too. Just focus on making EVs mainstream first and foremost Tesla. Forget the still 10+ years away autonomy gimmick.
You're confusing the source of that -- the typical relationship between the two is a belief in personal responsibility.
Going to go out on a personal opinion limb here, but I think we dismiss far too much in archaeology and ancient recorded history, even with the evidence all around us. I predict one day there will be a great revival in archaeology as we start to cast off our erroneous assumptions about native peoples stories of their history.

A few Examples that have really stuck in my mind:

The recorded history of the Egyptians says their dynasties go back FAR longer than is accepted by modern Egyptology, yet we dismiss it. The water erosion on the sphynx, as well as the change in flow of the Nile away from some of thier earlier cities, backs up their claim. Techniques to "carbon date" stone have been dismissed largely because they tell us some structures are much older than we think. Not possible therefore the science must be wrong... but what if its the other way around?

Plato describes Atlantis in great detail, which was passed down to him from his elders. We actually know of a site that matches his description exactly in Mauritania, deep in the Sahara, which would have been an island 12 thousand years ago when seas were higher. It has all the exact dimensions he described correct and geography correct, has the same stone color as he described their buildings, has the springs on the central island, is beyond the straits of Gibraltar, and has plenty of artifacts strewn everywhere, yet we still dismiss it as a tall tale and no one will dig there:

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

You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to take this stuff seriously. More than likely they were just a civilization advanced for their time (maybe Roman era advanced) but something happened to them. The Richat is likely a natural volcanic anomaly that they simply built on.

Plenty more where that came from that challenge our recorded history:

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

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

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

And to top it all off, I think most likely the Younger Dryas Impact Event described by Randal Carlson (great Joe Rogan Podcast about this out there) is the "Flood" event recorded by multiple cultures and responsible for wiping out traces of civilization past 12,000 years ago. This 12,000 year number recurs over an over when we talk about these sites that defy the narrative that it all started in Mesopotamia:

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

Again, personal opinion here, but it sure as hell all lines up.
Curiously I can't install it on a laptop so I've hot to go back to 16.04. None of the new versions want to install, get stuck at Installing grub2...
Been using it for two months now.

Pros:

+ Useful info on how many ads are blocked

+ Tor is the really useful for private mode

+ Metrics on hours per websites is cool info too

Cons:

+ Importing bookmarks/passwords from FF didn't worked

+ Sometimes it blocks, only keys work, not the mouse scrolling

+ Pressing X on the last tab sometimes doesn't work
I completely agree with you but just for the sake of completeness, there is one Armenian MP in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garo_Paylan This doesn't change much though since MP representation/population ratio is ridiculous, and the whole system is corrupt (and biased against minorities) anyway.
I (and probably the person you replied to) take all these words for granted. It didn't occur to me someone hadn't heard of them.

Check out the thesaurus entry for cantankerous for some more useful, related, and probably less common than I think terms: https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/cantankerous
Reality is also confusing.

People can see that in a one day hackathon, the same bunch of people can produce more stuff than they do in a year otherwise. Why? Are they lazy? Did they use better tools?

My niece Shelly added address book integration to her hobby app in an afternoon, while drunk. WhyTF are we 640 man hours deep into "identity architecture coordination" meetings?!! Just do with Shelly did!

Those things don't make total sense, even to even the saltiest of developers. They know to expect it, but can't understand it. Neither can I, honestly. It's not surprising this gets so many people.

A lot of the hairy, abstract rabbit holes we climb into (whether organisation, like agile, or architectural, like microservices) are an attempt to solve the "100+100=6, wtf!" problem.
> Caring about "unsightly" things is universal to rich busybodies worldwide. It's not about freedom, it's about doing things that inconvenience poor people so they don't move to your neighborhood.

it might have that effect in some cases, but I don't necessarily think that's the intent. people put a lot of effort into making their home and yard look nice and they want to live with other people who also care. I live in a quiet lower-middle class neighborhood and people will be all over me if I don't cut my lawn for a few weeks; it's not just a "rich people" thing. I don't call them busybodies though. I get to enjoy the product of their work every time I sit on my porch, so I don't mind doing my part to make the street pleasant.
I'm with you. I went through the whole dynamic and weak typing love fest but my thinking has evolved. I much prefer static and strongly typed languages now because I don't view lines of code or the number of key strokes as the limiting factor in the development process. The bottle neck is always reasoning about code (new or existing) and debugging.
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I will, anonymously, in a few months. It's going to be good fun, both for the readers and for me.
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That's true only so far as using MS Office is not needed...

Most people's computing needs would be adequately served by an iPad -- but those who aren't are typically doing more with their computers than can be met by any OS.
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Tom Hodgkinson used to edit a periodical called The Idler which was always full of thought provoking articles.
I think some are bristling that Racket is the way to go, but Typed Racket is certainly a good way to go. https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/

You can start without types and later convert parts of your code to typed without too much headache.

But, as the GP has mentioned, SBCL allows you to add type annotations which is similar in spirit to the idea of progressively adding types.

Even as a Racket fan (and Racket’s performance is pretty good), I covet the blazing performance of SBCL, so the calculus is not cut and dry.
Under that definition, can Turing machines produce output at all? It seems that the Church-Turing thesis is about representations and not outputs.
What does a Linux machine do better than a Mac, if price were not a factor?
What about power usage? One of the things that drove me from Chrome to Firefox on Android was the insane power draw from Chrome.
Or maybe guile?
If someone were to directly buy a distressed property in one of these zones using money from capital gains, and fix it up (and even live there for 5-10 years), would they realize the same tax benefit as investing in a "fund"?
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> I was surprised that is not the norm in the US for example. It's the AC that is always blasting instead

Most of the US is hot and humid enough for most of the year that this would just end up creating damp, musty-smelling sheets.

If Eastern Europe had the same climate as most of the US, AC would be more common there too. In the parts of the US that have a milder climate, AC is much less common.
Yeah, agreed. We've got to figure out the humanitarian side with basic income or something else, but those kinds of jobs are a waste of life. Let them do literally anything else.
Think back to your geometry class. Mathematical geometry works with infinitely small points and has infinite precision.

I suspect that the proof is that geometry is uncomputable.
Isn't Neon the bleeding edge release for plasma though? Or would you just call it 1st party supported
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India is a location as well as a nation. "Native Americans" were around before "America" existed.
Much of the maintenance of Britian's infrastructure is still done by the government. Rails, for example, are government maintained but we just don't get the profits anymore.
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Sure- if you have access to exact real numbers, you have something more powerful than a Turing machine. But there's no evidence that that's physically possible. The Church-Turing thesis is about actual computation that could happen in the world, not theoretical models, of which there are many that can perform hypercomputation.
>If you can write down the Turing machine for anything, then a person with pencil and paper can simulate its execution

What you're describing is the reverse direction, simulating a TM with pencil and paper, and this is doable so long as you are allowed two stacks of paper to work with, and an unlimited supply of pencil/paper. The question of simulating TMs in the real world really doesn't have anything to do with the Church-Turing thesis, though.

>Despite the generality of what I wrote above, the only feasible counterexample would be one that people can do on paper but a Turing machine somehow can't.

If some dimensionless measurable physical constant were a non-computable number, then the Church-Turing thesis would be false. In fact, if we think that certain quantities are in some sense random or arbitrary, rather than something that could be written as an equation, we should expect the Church-Turing thesis to be false with probability 1.
I live in louisiana, it's actually really nice today compared to most days since we're in that nice 3 days of fall season. I was just giving an example of why AC is always blasting here. Your comment backs up my point that it's HOT in the USA
Ohio seems pretty similar. The salary ranges are pretty close to this survey and it has some of the lowest housing prices in the nation -- although this secret is out and housing prices have begun their ascension.
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Gopher and HTTP had a similar situation. Gopher had a lot going for it, but the future licensing situation was unclear. HTTP was free, clear, and widespread by the time Gopher became GPL.
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Although I have built Darwin 0.3 and it does run the DR2 userspace and UI. I never did try going with the later versions + 10.4.1 ...
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This 1960 program is much better looking than pretty much all 2018 programs I saw. There definitely are some exceptions, but it's hard to get lisp wrong whereas it's too damn easy to get most 2018 languages wrong.
I love the command line for some things and would never trade it, but like anything, I believe it's about using the right tool for the job, and frequently, humans work well with shiny gadgets over memorizing spells.
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Being there at the right time helps as well, there were lots of low hanging fruit waiting to be picked.
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My 2011 mbp is doing very well with a new battery, ssd and some extra RAM. I will still receive security updates for years if I'm correct but no more mayor updates indeed.
Only if it's measurable to infinite precision, and doesn't break down at e.g. Planck levels
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Maybe on some models - I've been doing it for years and I have no issue.

I don't put a ton in, and I imagine most of it is neutralized by leftover soap residue and a relatively hard water supply.
Under Firefox 62.0 (64-bit), setting security.ssl.disable_session_identifiers=true, I also see "Session tickets" change from Yes to No. Thanks!
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If your job is sufficiently badly managed, they simply might not notice you leaving.
Not quite:

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

"- It consists of a finite number of exact, finite instructions.

- When it is applied to a problem from its class:

- It always finishes (terminates) after a finite number of steps.

- It always produces a correct answer.

- In principle, it can be done by a human without any aids except writing materials.

- Its instructions need only to be followed rigorously to succeed. In other words, it requires no ingenuity to succeed."

"Several independent efforts to give a formal characterization of effective calculability led to a variety of proposed definitions (general recursion, Turing machines, λ-calculus) that later were shown to be equivalent."
> When Apple first launched MagSafe, the company loudly proclaimed they did so because customers kept breaking the connectors that plugged into the laptop. You know, like what’s in the current MacBook.

I have a new MBP and I don't miss the MagSafe, to be honest. Mostly because I have the USB-C power cable connect through a USB-C hub -- what I lose in the usability of MagSafe, is mostly made up in flexibility. And with Apple using the USB-C standard, I can buy any USB-C cable I want, including ones much cheaper and more durable than the Apple-branded cords. I have 3 MagSafe adapters from previous MBPs and they are all worn out at where the wire connects to the adapter block, with no cheap way to replace them.
I think Digital Ocean should have come up with RDS competitor a long time ago. A managed database is probably the most imp. criteria why I recommend AWS to my clients.
Davies would probably have an objection to that term as well.

After all, the people who we now call Native Americans, besides not being unified in culture or origin or time of migration very much at all such that a singular term like that is not accurate anyway, started migrating to the western hemisphere about 7 - 15000 years before Amerigo Vespucci was born.

Remember, these arguments are from a historian's / archaeologist's viewpoint. I am sure they dramatically prefer the academic designations for various cultures.

They certainly didn't call themselves 'native americans'. That's a label we slap on them post-facto.
> allowed consumers to decide if they wanted to spend money

This makes assumptions about one's ability to even make such a decision given their environment/situation. There's a theoretical vs practical difference in taxing consumers for otherwise cheap yet harmful products. Theoretically you'd be right, but practically it's regressive.
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Frankly speaking I was expecting I could get paid through this. Right now it seems like giving away my advice for free and you making a profit out of it in the long run. Or am I wrong?