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There's lots to criticize re Tramiel's performance at Atari, especially on the console side where he sat on the already-finished 7800 for two years while letting Nintendo redefine the marketplace. But Atari had been failing in many ways up to that point (mostly management failures), and all of those chickens came home to roost in 1983. What Tramiel took over in 84 was a company that had already fallen, and was on the brink of utter collapse.

They drove away many of their best software developers, forming competitive software companies such as Activision and Imagic, and then spent resources trying and failing to sue them out of existence. Also departing were hardware folks like Jay Miner and Joe Decuir, who would be major contributors to the Amiga, an opportunity that Atari would later have in their hands and throw away. They completely muffed the next-gen console release with the Atari 5200, which was basically nothing more than a repackaged Atari home computer (already 3 years old at the time of the 5200's release), crippled by a terrible analog joystick that didn't self-center and was prone to breaking. They rushed VCS games to market assuming they would print money regardless of quality issues. After 9 months of raking in over $300m in profits in 1982, they ineptly handled the warning signs of Christmas 1982, leading to over half a billion in losses in 1983.

There was no way the crash of 1983 wasn't going to hurt Atari, but IMO a company which had been better run could have survived. As it was, without somebody that had Tramiel's level of discipline at the helm, Atari probably would have died in 84 or 85.
Summary:

Diets that replaced carbs with fat burned an average of 250 calories a day more, in a study whose methodology wasn’t described or skeptically analyzed whatsoever. Author then goes on to repeat “not all calories are identical” repeatedly.
You may say, "but 'non-typesetters' will use it!" No, they won't. Authors will use real writing tools to create (non-legible) articles. Type-setters will bring those articles to print. That procedure works. It'll keep working. These systems are diversions, not improvements. Worthy of investigation, but not practical.
quick glance, looks interesting.. but without "won't let you export apps " - I would never buy in.. if you can export, then it suffers from the same lack of easy to understand that webflow has suffered from it's initial launch.

I liked the tree view that netobjects fusion had years ago, it makes bigger sites easier to work with.

Still trying to carve out time to try pinegrow to see if it's got enough drag and drop and resize to make me no longer miss netobjest fusion.
I think it was something like this: https://image.ibb.co/nsz4x0/puzzle.png The goal is to separate the string with the beads from the rubber piece. The rubber has 5 holes in it. The beads cannot go through the hole.
So if the game is "fair" America wins. That sounds more like a rigged game to me.
The US has always been addicted to serfdom.
Americans amaze me-- they always need to find a villain but always fail to find the villainousness in themselves.

Trump could be more rightfully blamed in the combination of:

- A Democratic Party that failed its middle and lower class

- A media industry obsessed with growth and sensationalism

- A cultural obsession with money and so called "success"

- A deep-rooted racial problem

- A population trained to not be skeptical, and be responsive to advertisement

- A shared obsession to "be the greatest country on earth"

- A two-party political system with sports-like irrational rivalry

- A democracy where the popular vote of the majority doesn't seem to matter

- A tradition of long-standing political dynasties disconnected from the people's needs

Just to name a few big and complex systems that played into the election of Trump. Yet, it's hard to find the villain in those or to introspect, reflect and accept that the US has deep flaws and in some aspects is rotting from inside.

It's easier to just not talk about all the rest, and fully blame it on the few thousand dollars Russians spent on advertising.
Generalists are the first ones to be laid off. Eventually there is cost cutting and management says, "what does that guy do again?".
That money would be better spent lobbying government to fix the education cost disease in the US. A billion dollars can do a lot of lobbying.
Oof, I hadn't read the whole page. Interesting, thanks!
Indeed, the society is so divided, just sowing a little bit of doubt would be enough to prevent the huge decision of retaliation. Merely some anonymous accounts on influential forums could be a very cheap way to make strides in that direction.

So cheap in fact that I'm not surprised if we witness exactly that very, very nearby.
Starting easy is definitely sage advice, but I like recommending bouldering for the simple fact that you can just go. You don't have to start by scheduling ahead and paying for a class, coming back the next day to get a belay card, and then finding a partner with an agreeable schedule (or scheduling and paying for a gym-staff belayer).

Most gyms are catering heavily to beginners nowadays and offer tons of beginner problems. If you've never been bouldering before and curiosity strikes on a Saturday morning, you can literally drive to a gym, sign a waiver, rent shoes, and start climbing the walls, usually for about $25 or less depending on your location.

Of course, this isn't without risk. If anyone reading this decides to do it, take at least a few minutes to learn the gym etiquette and start slow!
This is somewhat like downloading an open source Android app from github, and saying it's scary that you need to go into settings and enable sideloading.

Microsoft has somewhat ridiculous driver signing requirements. I become angry about this perhaps once every four months.
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Yes, but 9th gen has fixes: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13400/intel-9th-gen-core-i9-9...
Is it though?

I think the Republicans just made it a tradition first, so companies want to be a part of that. I don't think it means anything, it's just how it happened.
You are correct! It is a false equivalency. My comment's goal was to remind people that being mindful of one's time, and reallocating and juggling it could lead to more productive outcomes. I was too sloppy in how I phrased it.
Yeah, that makes sense (:
Greater passive revenues for the government is just a bandaid for a symptom.
It makes his perpetual low tax burden unquestionable when he releases his returns :)

Its a non-zero sum game, why worry about such binary events of completely charitable or not.
> dpkg needs to force file synchronisation across all mounted filesystems and it can only do this robustly by issuing fsyncs

Not if file-change notifications were supported robustly by dpkg and the kernel (to a lesser extent). Getting to that would, however, require massively restricting the compatible-kernel-versions set of dpkg, and would also probably require undoing some of the more . . . misguided pieces of history with regard to file-change notification systems in Linux.
I had quite a few VGA video cards over that period of time and I think I only ever had one each that could do composite or svideo. I think at best it's something you could go out of your way for if you wanted but I don't remember it ever being the default. And definitely not on any integrated graphics on a motherboard that I can remember in the 386 to DVI/HDMI era.
Interface Builder has been building complicated and resizable UIs for literally decades.
I'm sitting here waiting for you to realize "unsecure" is not a word.
Is block pointer rewrite actually coming? It seems like it has been stalled for years and years...
Perhaps but entrepreneurship sounds quite fearsome for people that neither feel really sociable (and I doubt many generalists do) nor have a serious financial capital they can risk safely.
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> The assumption is that in a fair game, American's will find a way to win.

So, if America fails to find a way to win, the game is rigged? I mean, if this über country doesn't find a way to win, game being rigged is the only explanation... Where did I hear this before?

> This is like you and me playing a game, and I find out you're a cheater...

No, this is like you and me playing a game and if you don't win, you accuse me of being a cheater.
Lol, nutty HN thinks 9/11 was the direct product of a nation state do they?

So let's leave the larping conspiracy world for a second and actually talk about a 'cyber 9/11'

All someone needs to know is a 0 day that could brick a lot of computers (or phones) remotely and have a small botnet that could do it. The complexity won't/can't be much more than lets run a plane into a building.

It'd be pretty funny, millions might die in the immediate aftermath depending on how good the brick is (GFC killed millions) but I could see a lot of strength in the aftermath.

But as 4-chan says - for the lolz, one needs no reason.

I just don't get why it hasn't happened yet?
My insurance company mailed me a pdf to make a claim but they made me snail mail my printed copy with signature on it to them, they said they would have accepted a fax but would never accept an email with a photo of the same documents.
Although I imagine the first target of this unnamed adversary will be Estonia.
A lot of the top tier schools like Harvard provide a very fair financial aid package structure, so no, it isn't a joint effort. It is a myth that most students can't avoid high tuition costs. SUNY schools are very cheap for in state. There is always the route of spending 2 years in community college and then transferring to your state school. That is a very successful model in New Jersey.

The problem is many kids want a luxurious college lifestyle where they do a little work, play a lot of beer pong, and live in nice dorms. Our student loan structure allows for some bad actors to take advantage of this.
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I can't edit my comment, but if you're interested in trying out a Dracula theme, check out https://github.com/hello-party/Gmail-Basic-HTML-Dracula

Its still not perfect, but it does show potential for better themes for the basic HTML.
I don't even really understand why ZFS being outside mainline is such an issue. On Debian Stretch, I installed ZFS like any other package, and didn't even realize the kernel was getting recompiled until I read about the licensing situation later on.

I did think it was odd that installing the ZFS package took such a long time, but that was a one-time wait.
> Authors are now essentially internet marketers who also happen to write books.

For better (anyone can get started from their bedroom with just a laptop and an internet connection) and worse (less time spent on actual writing, likely no correlation between being a good marketer and a good artist), isn’t that true of all creative endeavors nowadays?
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I disagree. Good behavior starts at the top. When all the best universities go need-blind and start offering only need-based scholarships, the bad actors in the education system will be left out on their own and we can start dealing with them separately.
Thats 36k people for a year....

Also you probably need to factor in living allowance if supporting underprivileged and once you give a scholarship you're looking at a 3-6 year commitment to that person.

Plus if you want the scholarships to run in perpetuity you can only spend at a rate that keeps the endowment at certain payout rate that does not reduce its value + inflation

So at say 6% being spent a year, divided by $80k to cover tuition and living cost, average 4 year course commitment your looking at 338 new scholarships a year.

That whittles down fast doesn't it....
This pattern of behavior by China has been happening for a long time, the activity itself is nothing new. My theory is, Trump is extremely good at getting attention, especially of the many that hate him. He has put the USA's relationship with China in the spotlight, and when any American actually looks into it, right or left, it's pretty clear we are getting a bad deal.

Now more people know about it, more people care about it, or are unhappy about it, so it gets more clicks. Plus the government is going to encourage this stuff instead of try to sweep it under the rug like they might have done in other situations when trying to smooth out relations. So yea, I think the zeitgeist is definitely heading towards a confrontation with China, whether that is by design or not. There also seems to be a sense of urgency as people are realizing (too late) that the longer this lopsided relationship goes the less chance the US has to salvage anything short of actually going to war, which would probably be a near world-ending situation.
I may be in that demographic, but I prefer to be around young people (I volunteer a lot with youth). Being around nothing but old people all day would make me old and depressed. I prefer to be around the future not the past.
To save those who don't climb...

I've climbed most of my life...

I boulder three times a week and run 30 miles worth of trails a week . I can do pullups from my finger tips on a 'hangboard' (it's a training tool).

I climbed a V5 last week and was so happy I nearly cried.

These people are freaks in the most awe inspiring and amazing way I can possibly imagine.

Climbing competitions are worth watching just for the sheer amazement at what the human body can be trained to do. I use them at the beginning of classes because students usually just stop talking and watch in stunned silence.
Thanks! You can do those things if you create a free account - once your account is set up, you can exclude recipes by ingredients or keywords, as well as customize the layout of meals or create your own meal types (there's a big "Edit week" button in the top right of the planner).

There's a lot of customizability, but it's been a long-time problem of ours figuring out how to make all the options intuitive to find/use without overwhelming the user. If you dig into it any more, let me know if you have any other feedback!
China abandoned that requirement initially few months after Trump's trade war.

But things got escalated.
Thanks for the link, but would it be more accurate to call it the "LA Times euro-block" or something like that?
What impresses me most about TBC is how fast they were able to dig a tunnel.

I'm in Seattle, and Bertha was digging for about five years. And it's been an incredibly expensive effort, with lots of setbacks and budget overages.

Granted, it's digging a much larger tunnel, and the ground it's digging though is probably different than a stretch of land in LA.

But TBC was whipped up what... a bit more than one year ago? And from scratch, they've already completed a 2 mile tunnel, and I'd be surprised if it was at a cost-per-mile anywhere near what Bertha ran.
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>entrees (in the Australian sense of the word, not the American)

Despite traveling pretty extensively, I somehow never noticed this.

For those that are as lost on this as I am, it looks like this is a result from the compression of meals from 5-15 courses down to the more standard 1-3. At the time, entree would not match its current use anywhere in the world - your meal would have both fish and a roast, and the entree would be the course in between the two. Something like chicken, lobster, ragu, etc.

When meals became less elaborate affairs, a lot of food items that would historically be the entree became acceptable to be the main course. In France and much of the English speaking world, to keep what was called the entree more in line with the French meaning of the root word (Apparently, specifically the entrance to a theater or musical performance), it became what Americans would call a starter or appetizer. America and most of Canada instead kept the word in line with the type of food item being consumed, which had shifted the previous pre-roast courses to being the primary course.

And no one uses it how it was originally used in France, to refer to a stage and related set of courses for the dinner, rather than for any one course.

(Sorry for the tangent, but hopefully this clears up the confusion for anyone else reading this)
Do you speak Chinese fluently? I'm guessing this would be difficult to do if not...
This isn't an argument either side is making. No one is under some delusion that China is playing a fair game. Even China themselves says they need more time to make reforms. Why do you need to make reforms if you're already playing fair?
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Back when I first started working in tech, in the early 90s, up to when I left enterprise IT in 2011, email-to-fax gateways were a thing. You just emailed a specific address format, something like: 999-999-9999@your.fax.gateway, and the email server would send an image of the email and attached documents to that number, via a connected fax machine. Likewise, incoming faxes to your number were received as images in an email.

Do those things no longer exist? You would think, if anything, that would be easier today than it was 25 years ago.
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The last paragraph has something lovely to take home:

"Stravinsky, in discussing ''the art of combination which is composition'' quoted the mathematician Marston Morse: ''Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and in which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.'' Morse, Stravinsky says, could as well have been talking about music. It is not only in the clarity of things, but in their beauty and mystery that the two arts join."
That's not what I said. Americans assume american companies are capable of competing. If they fail, they fail.. as long as the rules were fair, no problem. There are millions of failed american companies that no american is shedding any tears over.
Hah, yacht. He needs a bigger island.
I'm in the same boat as you.. me_cleaner.py
How very fair are these financial aid packages they offer? I went to a low tier university compared to the "elite" named ones and still think it was expensive compared to previously what my parents paid when going to school. The first years at a community college for two years before stepping into university wasn't really a well known thing like today when I started. I don't think people are living luxurious lifestyles at college unless they have rich parents. It wasn't even possible to take out loans that would cover everything if one would choose from my knowledge. Everywhere now a days for anything higher than min-wage requires a degree for an interview. I'm not even sure how med students manage to keep their mental health sane.
Yea I was checking it out and mainly focused on voting members for my post. Who knew? It's something I'd never even thought of until now. Seems like something that might be worth looking into as a New Yorker considering these fifteen or twenty people are making decisions that affect six million riders a day along with countless bridge crosses and ferry takers.
I feel that's beside the point. The vendor can no longer sell it as a new book. You've deprived them of some value, and you refuse to pay for what they've lost.

I feel there's in inherent risk in any trade. You rarely know for certain that you'll love what you're paying for, and you should accept that risk.

One shouldn't feel entitled to 100% satisfaction when one makes a purchase, and certainly shouldn't deprive the vendor of money just because you decided after the fact that you didn't like what you bought.

I suppose this is to be expected from people raised in an environment where multi-billion dollar corporations compete for customers and can afford to offer "just because I didn't like it" returns free of charge.

It's foreign to me.
> I don't use web fonts.

Well, actually ... yes you do (Proxima Nova). Some of it is even thin!

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It can go beyond just simple incentives as well. Uber was effectively driven out of China by the government 'picking' Didi. They wanted to reduce the size of their military but didn't want unemployed soldiers and transitioned literally millions of them into Didi drivers. You can't compete with that.
If I could go back in time, I would have chosen to fail rather than pivot. At the time (of the pivot) what made the choice to fail difficult was that we had _some_ success aka revenue, and so could just carry on. What I see now is that I could have still shut that thing down, paid back investors with the trickle of remaining revenue, and in parallel started a new thing.

Hindsight is always 20/20, but I think the article is broadly right. If you need to pivot, it’s probably better to fail gracefully instead.
Already reported and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453665
>Our program requires no contribution from Harvard families with annual incomes below $65,000. About 20% of our families have no parent contribution.
Families with incomes between $65,000 and $150,000 will contribute from 0-10% of their income, and those with incomes above $150,000 will be asked to pay proportionately more than 10%, based on their individual circumstances.
Families at all income levels who have significant assets are asked to pay more than those in less fortunate circumstances.
Home equity and retirement assets are not considered in our assessment of financial need.

https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works
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https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/jsonenc...

Also, as already said, CodingKeys.
Both you and the comment you are responding to are wrong because in international trade there should not be one loser and one winner. There should only be winners and no losers. That is not only possible but that is the normal state, and why the world has been increasingly prosperous. It is not a zero sum gain when two nations trade, they actually create wealth by each doing what they do best and trading.

With this understanding, if any side finds that they are on the "losing" end of a deal, they should be upset. The United States has increased its wealth partially by increasing everyone else's wealth (as have other countries) and that is the way it should be.
Australian scholarship and media has substantially changed it's tone on China in the last five years.

While there are undoubtedly some forces from "above" pushing for this change, I think that government and corporate interest is still largely aligned with China. Both out parties are fairly comfortable with Chinese investment and lobbying despite a couple of scandals in the last three years. Sam Dastyari is on of the few cases where a politician was burned for it.

The bottom up forces include several University Chinese student clubs being ousted as both funded and influenced by the Chinese government. The Australian (centre right paper) is also focussing some of its limited investigative resources on this now too. Scholarship is also showing signs of changing directions, with many of the students I know working on the soft power and sharp power tactics of the chinese government. Things like Chinese Pacific Island nation investment and debt and the influence of Confucious centres in Universities.

I'm sorry that I can't provide sources—I am at work at the moment.
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>>> In the most difficult challenges of the event, the setters wanted to do more than just test the competitors’ forearm muscles; that’s a recipe for a tie, because all these athletes are ripped. Rather, they wanted to create a men’s problem in the realm of V10 or V11, but one that was inscrutable enough that there would be a few successes (“tops”), a few falls, and one hell of a show.
me too, so I just tell people that I know node.js :/