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>if you find yourself in an unfortunate situation, my main advice is to pay attention and learn as much as you can from it.

It seems to me that this is the function of pain.

If one could voluntarily embrace this process, would this make opioids less necessary and/or desirable?
This is what efficient markets do according to theory: capital deployed in areas not as productive relative to another move to the more productive one. Wait or is that just crazy investors hoping to get into the next bubble? Either way good. All these alt-coin save-the-world businesses can go the way of the do-do, I still need tools to help make Ansible not suck and learning K8s and figuring out how to scale MySQL. I’d rather see money and talent go into making tools that are actually useful even more useful than creating self directed businesses etc.
Yes, but for how long?
That depends on your definition of functionality. Don't assume the purpose of Beats is to produce accurate audio. If the purpose is to make people feel good because they own the same headphones they saw some celebrity wear, they are apparently quite functional.
> doesn’t seem to be sufficiently novel for publication in most journals.

The question is why you think novelty is relevant. Replication studies aren't novel but are critically important to real science. Novelty is not and should not be mandatory.
Unfortunately you've provided no contact information, so hopefully you see this reply. What you've mentioned is interesting, and I may have some leads regarding this in the future.

If you see this, please get in touch, my email is in my profile. I cannot promise when I'll respond (or, admittedly, even notice your message), but I can promise definitely will eventually see it, and respond at some point.
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I saw similar problems creating music and sounds: having “good” audio hardware means that every sound flaw you have is now obvious and annoying. I had to be much more careful. Frankly, good sound production and programming are both underrated, they are not trivial.
Gosh.. This foreshadowing the upcoming recession.
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I'll allow myself some generalization here.

I know several very smart and creative hardware technicians and system administrators. I admire them. I truly do. They are more independently thinking than most other programmers I know, are much more resistant to trends and fashion in technology, and rarely complain about the tech they must use. Throw Python, Perl, PHP, bash and what not at them, they can and will curse but will get the job done every time.

In that regard, they are hard-working and resourceful. And I have a lot of respect for them.

That being said, I cannot help but notice things common among all of those that I know or used to know:

- Apple hate without any regard for the advantages it gives you.

- They use 80-100% of their leisure time to tinker and work outside their main work hours. One of them recently got divorced by his wife. She said the guy barely spent any time with her. I don't know if their relationship wasn't sour before but still, it's partially indicative.

- Obliviousness how Android is not the end-all-be-all of free software -- because it's not; Android is PARTIALLY open-source and comes with a lot of strings attached. Flash a ROM and your warranty is voided. But to them, if you can tinker with your tech then you absolutely, factually, practically, and for all intents and purposes, are using free tech. Details like warranties and hours-long sessions to make basic functions work again be damned in the process.

- Complete disregard for convenience and utter lack of respect for others' time. As mentioned above, they usually spend most of their free time working, are not stressed out or burned out, are in good health shape, and find it mysterious that people might be exhausted and would just want to lie on the couch reading a favourite book -- or napping.

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I am somewhat saddened to say the OP's article confirms my bias towards hardware technicians. He's undoubtedly smart and good at what he does but also heavily biased and lacks perspective.

I believe such resourceful people should be more open-minded. If he's reading this, I hope he takes it as a constructive feedback from the sidelines and not bashing. All I am saying is that their attitude is not helping them being taken more seriously. If you turn a blind eye to nuances (case in point: Apple hate from his side) then you are not objective in your discussions.
While bitcoin can crash, like a cockroach it can hardly die. So if the tech is better than visa, it should prevail eventually.
Doraene doesn't work for Lightbend though.
Which phone (secure computing platform) do you trust to securely store your wallet key? All it takes to lose is an update to the wallet app that sends the key to a server.
It's true, but it's not just the SEC that creates this dynamic, it's selection bias. Companies that can take smart money would rather take smart money than mom-and-pop money, and so mom-and-pop investors wouldn't have access to the good opportunities even if the SEC weren't standing in the way.
I think not. The paper sucks the oil and it spreads. Ribbon ink has very special dry but sticky qualities.
I get a feeling of mild confusion after reading this article, because he keeps juggling between the Internet as a technology, the web as the sum total of linkable resources (or maybe the synonym for the Internet; I am not entirely sure), and specific internet companies.

> We need a free and open web for everyone.

Right. But at the same time:

> internet companies must play their part in making sure the web is safe, accessible and protects user data

So, when Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc. banned Alex Jones (probably in the spirit of making the web "safe"), how did they advance the cause of "free and open web for everyone"? Why don't deranged conspiracy theorists (who certainly belong into the all-encompassing category of "everyone") deserve free and open web too?

"Free and open for everyone" should also mean no more attacks on Russia for using Facebook or Twitter to influence the opinions of the American public. Because "free and open for everyone" has no concept of national borders. And yet, Tim managed to combine the rhetoric of universal freedom and openness with the rhetoric of state sovereignty, borders, and us-theming ("foreign" interference, etc.)

Also, as pointed out in other comments, the goal of "free and open" internet does not align very well with the purpose of many media companies or content producers in general, who want to be compensated for their work.

I am very much a child of the promise of free and open internet. So when I see articles like this, it confuses the hell out of me.
> In P6, every type that's created using any of its type constructors is a sum type with two sub-types.
> This includes types defined in the standard language such as Int. The sub-types are named D and U.
> For example, to refer to Int's D sub-type, use `Int:D`.

Probably your comment hints to this already in which case the following
will be redundant but I wanted to mention them more explicitly. This is
mainly for people unfamiliar with Perl 6.

Using the type smileys(:U, :D) are also ways to specifically match against
a type object (`Int`, `Str`, `Rat`, etc.) and an instance object of
a type object (-5, 'Hello', 1/5, etc.):

Int ~~ Int:U; # True
-5 ~~ Int:U; # False
-5 ~~ Int:D; # True
Int ~~ Int:D; # False

There is also the :_ smiley which is used by default whenever
the other two aren't specified:

Int ~~ Int; # True, same as: Int ~~ Int:_;
-5 ~~ Int; # True, same as: -5 ~~ Int:_;
In the 1800s, people would murder people in order to sell their bodies to medical schools. (The term is “burking.”)
Cell phone fraud rising sharply
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A recession is coming in the next 2-3 years due to demographics (peak baby boomer retiree is happening right around now). I think part of the housing boom is caused by the retirees.
I've noticed that developers more accustomed to backend work, or projects that already have a heavy backend, prefer Vue. It's easier to grok because they're used to handlebar template syntax and directives. I've also noticed that Vue is preferred by people coming from jQuery and/or Wordpress type work. It's less intimidating for some unknown (to me anyway) reason.

I've pushed production Vue and React projects and my personal preference is React. I haven't worked with React Hooks yet but it looks like a game-changer and would make my codebases a lot cleaner. I prefer JSX although Vue also has JSX support, but I've yet to work on a project with complete opt-in for it. React also sets you up for React-Native in some way, in case you're considering targeting native platforms as well.

At the end of the day, don't pick React or Vue for a frontend that doesn't need it. For example, your personal site probably doesn't need a UI library. Then ask what your coworkers feel more comfortable with, if you have any. Finally, check how easy it'll be to integrate with (or migrate to) the existing codebase, if any.

Both libraries and ecosystems are incredible at the moment. You can get a clean and reasonable codebase, performant frontend, and great pace of work with either.

If you do go for the Vue route for professional work, consider donating to Evan's [patreon](https://www.patreon.com/evanyou/overview) or [Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/vuejs). And similarly for [Nuxt](https://opencollective.com/nuxtjs). React et al have venture funding or Facebook behind them for the most part.
It’s not legal to void your warranty because you changed some software, unless the software change actually caused the problem you’re trying to get fixed under warranty.
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I've never had any problems with "explosions" using standard media players, even when plugged into my HD650s - anyone else have that happen?

HN is mostly engineering types, the poster clearly has that mindset, we should be filing or looking for a proper bug report for this instead of crafting hacks or talking about alternative products altogether right off the bat.
> What could be some reasons behind him doing so?

Giving his readers the ability to read the book without requiring them to install proprietary software.
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You can install from an apk and not get updates.

Besides, if all you're doing is some kind of chain of authority you could do it through fdroid which enforces a constant key. No need for a standalone phone which will anyway have the same components as any other phone.
In C# this would be easy to implement using an extension method. Not a bad idea actually.
Have you encountered concrete examples of such rejections in your field? Care to share some tales?
But we are told if we just give them enough tax cuts they will invest and "create" jobs.
Hmm, did you make the 240p vs FLAC strawman deliberately? Or is the bug (as you're able to reproduce it) really that bad? I know OP was using high-end headphones but I expected at least a slight hissle.

(My attempts to reproduce were with a PX80, S2PGFY-003, JBL Pulse and Bose Companion 50. I included the speakers because I couldn't get the headphones to do the trick)
Owning also helps close your natural short on housing. Your real cost of living gets eaten by inflation over time.
Does this mean that the price of video cards will fall ? or RAM ? I had to buy a video card 2-3 months ago and the prices were so high with the only explanation being "the coin miners".
> If I managed the funds I'd cut nuclear and redirect to wind and solar immediately.

Why? Research has shown that nuclear fission could be safer per kWh than wind and solar. Just because it's not as good as fusion doesn't make it worthless.
As I said, we will need to wait for for second/third year production run of any car before really being able to understand if something is offering value and that's when significant adoption will happen. Tesla, Nissan and BYD are very much getting into this zone in 2019/2020. No one else will really get to this stage till early 20s.

On VW specifically, "clean disel" was mind blowing too :-)
Links to whatever those are? I googled, couldn’t find
I'm not sure. Although it is an excellent interview it feels like some follow-up would be good on a couple of points, one of them being whether he believes that climate destruction is going to leave anything resembling a civilization behind. There is a slight suggestion that he believes that liberal pessimism is ignoring some wonderful new opportunities inherent in the complete destruction of a stable, predictable climate.

Also he completely ignores that the Corbyn manifesto and recent speaking tours have emphasized that a reshaping of the UK economy to emphasize green jobs in a low-growth, post-Brexit world is exactly the sort of inspiring leadership which claims is lacking.

I suspect he just does not want to look at what the left of the Labour Party is proposing.
> But I’m not officially a DevRel. Although I guess I fit the shoes.

Those are usually the best DevRel folks imho. Love the work you do!
He takes time to mention that Apple is bad because it “represents” social justice warriors? Is this article a joke?
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Hey everyone. I was literally blown away by this video. I can’t believe some of the things said here yet honestly it seems to make some sense. Like why would the liberal party promote all this biased and divide when it claims its goal is to unify everyone? Maybe this dudes just retarded. What do you guys think because I’m honestly torn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKDdbYoaVjw&app=desktop
I doubt that a train is significantly more energy efficient than an electric car with 3-4 people in it. Most people will probably use pool type autonomous cars which get you to your destination door to door much faster than trains.
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If you’re talking hijacking sure, i still think someone claiming “i have a bomb” will get commands through the door without it ever opening if they’re smart enough about it. The door is a good defence from immediate physical harm for sure, and probably the best change the industry has made in a long time, but i still think the security through stated obscurity element of the TSA could be improved to socially influence those considering any act against an air crew.
It’s not purely an excuse. If somone makes 100k on one of these projects but would have made 50k if they did not exist then the economy is out 50k worth of labor. But, some of that delta between 50k>100k is payed back in additional taxes.

There is plenty of waste, but it’s significantly smaller than the direct costs suggest. Especially when such programs reduce unemployment as the economy is not out useful labor, and taxes collect a significant portion of the outlay back.
I still do not know why Canada is carrying water for the USA on this. Trudeau just spent several billion of taxpayers money to build a pipeline to export dirty Canadian tarsands to the Chinese.

What is the USA doing for Canada apart from tearing up existing trade deals?
I remember that different people experienced those tests differently. It was possible to get through those tests by memorizing formulas, but also possible to get through by understanding principles and getting quick at what amounted to lightweight derivations. For instance I never memorized the cosine of pi, or anything like that, and still haven't. Often memorization occurred by accident, in the process of working through the problems.

In the higher level math classes, the formulas vanished and it was all derivations / proofs.

The problem with physics class was that the derivations were impossible without calculus, so the non-calculus students were actually handicapped and it was kind of an anomalous situation.
> If $50/seat is too much, the correct answer isn't "hey let's pirate it for my commercial app"

When did I say it was a correct answer?
That used to be an issue, but by now PayPal and CC are so common, you can even use PayPal to pay for gasoline at Shell stations [0].

Overall it's also more of a problem in physical retail, Germans who do a lot of shopping online usually have no issue at all with paying by CC/PayPal, often getting a prepaid CC just for that.

But it's not like you are missing out on some massive part of German customer base because paying online with SEPA is usually more hassle than paying online with PayPal, so most people prefer the later.

Particularly due to the fact that most "quick" online SEPA payment schemes involve giving a third party access to your banking account [1]. Which shouldn't be an issue, as most actions that involve sending money still require a TAN, but some banks have relaxed these rules, allowing smaller amounts to be transferred without supplying a TAN [2].

It's not difficult to see the potential problems here: If Sofortüberweisung ever has a breach, there's the very real possibility that the data could be used to trigger massive amounts of fraudulent money transfers.

[0] https://www.shell.de/autofahrer/smartpay.html

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofort%C3%BCberweisung

[2] https://www.comdirect.de/konto/tan-freiheit.html
I don't believe this is actually true for many consoles. Game Dev Kits where normally a more open version of the hardware that was either hard coupled with a PC, or able to connect to one and have game data essentially streamed too it.

See this video for an example; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH94fKtGr0M

Not that I'm trying to discourage developing for emulators. Just see how machine accurate the emulator you're using is first :)
> At least on android you can get rid of most Google code with Lineage + microg

...as far as we know. What about the baseband processor that has access to everything at any time?

> Why do you trust the Apple ones then?

Becase they took a stand and refused to introduce a security backdoor in the FBI San Bernardino case. And because iPhone hacks cost more on the net compared to Android ones. This to me indicates that iPhones are harder to crack -- so the demand is higher, suppy is lower and thus the prices are higher.

All circumstantial evidence of course, but it's what we have to go on.
My take.

These kind of things face the problem that they pump entropy out of one part of the system but risk creating more overall. In fact, unless you get all the details right you will end up worse than you started. The "minimal viable product" is not minimal at all if it is going to be viable.

For instance I was using Vagrant years ago and realized eventually that I didn't need 80% of what it did and that I hated the DSL. (eg. if it has to support five different ways to build your image, maybe that's a "bad smell" that none of them are good enough)

Even though I was using it locally to start, I wound up using it only in AWS and I also used it to stack up systems that I put in front of the public.

I wrote my own Java program that would set up a virtual server, networking, all that and write a bash cloud-init script that would run on the machine to set it up, then send a message via SQS when it was ready. If it passed tests, the system could then switch over the elastic IP to the new instance.

I looked at the problem of getting it to run on other clouds and it wasn't that bad but it wasn't that good either. In AWS you have to choose a region, availability zone, VPC, subnet, disk types, and a number of details.

In some cases those choices could be arbitrary but sometimes you have infrastructure that you have to hook into and you have to match that.

In GCS or Azure it's basically the same but it is different, and if you want to support those platforms you have to also embody the differences in the platforms and also the differences between customer's environment.

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Being involved with software vendors, "hybrid cloud" has a special meaning. My biz dev guy and I picked it up as part of our pitch a few years ago because we needed it. We knew we needed to support customers wherever they were, but of all the messages we tried that was the one that confused customers the most and resonated the least.

"On premise" is a special case BTW, because there are many customers who have issues with privacy, security, etc. and they don't have a choice or perceive they have a choice to use public clouds. (eg. Bridgewater thinks that it is better to safer to desktop virtualize into AWS then risk people walking out with laptops, physical destruction of their HQ, etc.)
Pro tip: There are enough PCB shops now that small designs like this can just be done in free EDA software in minutes, 10 boards in your hand with a stencil 9 real days later for less than $50 shipped. The stencil lets you paste the board all at once, you place parts and hit it with a heat gun until everything sets. For audio stuff you get the advantage of keeping everything nice and tight with lower noise. I barely bread/proto board anymore since it is so cheap and easy to get boards made now.
The problem with this kind of stuff is how do you keep these up to date. Visa policies change all the time and generally don't get a lot of publicity. There is a reason there are specialist visa agencies like CIBT
It's a very good point. A lot of smart people jumped into an area that if I'm feeling very generous I would call "unproven". And I'm all for startups trying new things, but we could have learned just as much about the possible utility of cryptocurrencies with 100x less resources.

My main worry now is that some of the people will have been damaged by this. Some of the interest we can write off as irrational exuberance; hopefully some will have gotten their fingers usefully burned and will be more careful choosing what they work on next time. But a lot of the field was somewhere between chasing a bubble and outright scammy.

It reminds me of people I've seen burned by MLM schemes. Some say, "never again!" But some really buy into the get-rich-quick thinking and will keep on making the same mistake in different forms. "This time it will be different!" But it never is.
Probably, I have spent 100s of hours to make my iPhones better when in reality they would have worked just as well without the modifications. I frequently see people complaining and finding issues just so they can try to fix it, rinse and repeat.

This also leads into his statement. I own an iPhone and I kinda know what's going on beneath the surface. I can open up disassembled binaries and anyone can look at the headers from google within seconds.

That in turn would lead into that 99.9% of Android users have no knowledge of how Android works, so his whole statement is kind of odd.
> nuclear fission could be safer per kWh than wind and solar.

Sounds completely improbable. Care to provide some reference to back that statement up?
Sounds like a perfect watering hole attack to make a "cryptocurrency phone".

Think of it like selling a mail-order gold bar cozy. 100% of your customers have a physical item that's vulnerable to crowbar enhanced recovery.
GPU prices have been at pre mining craze levels for a while now
I'd be curious to know where you got this data from.

Also note: Many, many countries have a different policy if you are flying in (some kind of e-visa) or if you are driving in, where you need a physical visa in your passport.

Ethiopia is exactly that right now for many passport holders.
They've been low for months, with nvidia sitting on a huge amount of unsold inventory.

https://www.techspot.com/news/77566-nvidia-share-price-plumm...
I was getting tired of replacing batteries in another device
and after some searching located the SanDisk Clip Sport. It was also only around $40. USB rechargeable, FM radio, and a micro SD card for my music. I've been very happy with it.
Good riddance. Hopefully this will serve as a reality check for regular people who are tempted by the siren song of quick riches. Crypto never provided any real economic value, so this was bound to happen sooner or later. With a bit of luck crypto will stay dead this time. Fingers crossed.