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I'm not very convinced.

Nvidia has been very commendable by breaking new ground with the RTX technologies, but it seems that at least ray tracing has a huge performance impact, therefore, I wonder how this card will fare, given its (relatively) low-level position.

Moreover, with the RTX series, Nvidia has "pulled an Intel": they raised the TDP for each model, so that they on generic (non-RTX) benchmarks, they look good, but they actually have a negligible performance per watt gain compared to the previous generation.

GTX x60 cards traditionally had fixed power requirements (6-pin); this doesn't apply anymore.

My suspicion is that GTX 11x0 cards (1160, 1150) are not yet showing, because Nvidia hasn't figured out a way to show a performance per watt improvement yet.
This is an extremely good point. I don't know why the Republicans were so against "death panels". I'm not sure disability should be paid to anyone who is obese.
Also economies of scale have an impact too. An expensive eco-friendly product might be produced in smaller numbers causing more waste through the supply chain.

This is all speculation -- but products made a scale are often made with high efficiency.

What surely works is when we ask big corporations to do the right thing. Or if we managed to tax environmental impact.
I started paying a year or two ago when I wanted to make a private side project that I didn't want open source. It's nice to keep the same UI between other projects and this one. $7/mo or whatever it is was worth it IMO. Plus I like their lightweight project management tools.
It's kind of frustrating how much vocal (often outraged!) C++ criticism comes from people who haven't seriously used the language in years, if ever. It's just noise.

Like a few days ago I saw a bunch of complaints about how C++14 and beyond were adding so much stuff and it's just bloat or overcomplication. No! Using that stuff makes my life so much easier, whereas C++98 was indeed a miserable nightmare.
> started learning C++ in November 2018

> blog post in January 2019

> "learnt" in past tense
Hybrids are a stupid hack, but a necessary stupid hack. I'm no tree hugger, but I went straight from ICE to EV. I don't want to haul around a battery pack in addition to a gas motor (or vice versa), but it's insane that everyone* drives around cars that simply turn their kinetic energy into heat every time you want to slow down. I've always hated the hybrid driving experience, but it's a necessary evil in the bridge to full EV world for those who can't go EV today.
I'm also sticking to Nvidia GTX 970 for now but would be nice to upgrade at some point. I was hopeful about AMD's offering but after trying Ryzen 2400G APU on my Linux media box I am not going to touch new AMD hardware again with a ten foot pole any time soon. Their Linux drivers are a nightmare, freezing display all the time, requiring power cycling. Nvidia works nicely and I don't really mind the bigger price tag.
I think this might be a case of something like "hedonic adaptation". Nick Shabazz has an interesting video talking about this with respect to collecting gear that's worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuwCTi2DbBc&t=10s.

The short version is that "better" becomes the new "normal", but it doesn't necessarily make us happier. I guess this may also be part of the reason why issues such as privilege and entitlement can manifest themselves, and start causing problems.
"Due to a scheduling error, we published this story one day before the embargo lifted. This feature isn’t live yet, but Github will formally unveil it tomorrow. When that happens, we’ll update this post with a link to the official announcement. "

Well played @The Next Web :D
It's also much better for the platform that there isn't such a wide range between screen sizes. It's incredibly hard to make UIs scale from the SE to the XS Max and both be as functional and good looking on both.
It depends on the person and mindset.

I switched from dev to ops fulltime (as in not "DevOps") and I'm perfectly at home here. If anything, I'm the one bridging the gap between us and the development teams. My team thinks I'm an ops person who does development, but I don't really find that to be true.
The original post in the thread basically said that Linux support is easy if you just make a new release every time the libraries you depend on make a breaking change. (Or a GCC update breaks binary compatibility for everything.)

Even if an initial release of a Linux game is flawless, it tends to stop working with the next major distro release. (Unless it's statically linked to everything, or uses something like Flatpack to distribute all its own dependencies. Both options have their own disadvantages.)

You also have to understand that, from a business perspective, game companies have much more in common with a Hollywood studio than a normal software company.

Movies don't get patches. Occasionally they get re-releases for new formats, but at that point consumers are expected to go pay for it again.

None of that applies to today's slot machine^H^H mobile game companies that rely on in-app purchases, or MMOs that rely on monthly subscriptions. The former would never survive in the Linux world anyway, and the latter are often quite successful on Linux, even if it's only in the form of official support for Wine/Cedega.
Twitter had this some problem and went with the same solution of cutting out 3rd party apps. This is the age old piracy debate relived. People aren't using 3rd party apps because they want to skip ads, they are using them because they provide better functionality/user experience. Companies stupidly allow a 3rd party to take over all of their market share on mobile, and then make up complaints when they finally get around to making their own app.
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Is it a popular folklore or there is actual, comparable to others advantage in regard to laws?

Britain lately became known for lack of law enforcements towards dirty money. I also not sure how one can manage to claim strong laws and be a surveillance capital of, say, Europe. I'd assume that's because the situation is even worse in other places.
Did any of those sources make a big announcement that they have super-duper incriminating emails about a candidate and then slowly release them in a trickle over the course of 30 days leading up to the election?

Emails which, by the way, were so boring and mundane and contained so little evidence of misconduct that people determined to hate Clinton needed to treat "pizza" as secret code for "child sex slaves", to extract a scandal from them.
From my experience dealing with upstreaming, it has become more of some sort of priesthood that is required to go thru the proper mantras and speak the proper language. And most of the priest no longer have any real idea of what's the real world is doing with the kernel.

I've spent a few months upstreaming a subsystem earlier last year, something that had been tested in the field, at customers, and I had to literally gut it to fit the priesthood's way of doing things. Ultimately the result that went into the kernel was technically /inferior/ to the original source, and any rant about /that/ was pointedly ignored.

I'm not even going to mention the device tree binding, which has become as bad as the high days of XML where the format took a life of it's own and requires it's own maintainers. It's completely bonkers.

I think since a lot of maintainers became 'professionals' they no longer use linux. They just juggle patches all day and talk between themselves and their clique. And as long as it fits the big tech company that pay them, it doesn't matter if it's actually /useful/ to anyone else.
It's a little more nuanced than that ... the SE of England was generally the area most in favour of Remain. Pretty much all of rural England outside of the pull of London voted to Leave.

I see Brexit as the losers in the globalization push taking their revenge on the winners.
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> Generally they are poor and impoverished, yes. Or they have a deal with the EU and US. Or are tiny exceptions like Singapore.

This idea that the UK is inevitably doomed outside of the EU is such a canard - fact is, it cannot be known either way until it happens.
> It is absolutely competitive with cores at the same gate count. That goes beyond stuff like RPi level cores.

He may also have been thinking about things like toolchains and debugging tools. There are several professional IDEs geared towards ARM embedded development
Yes, that was my point. It isn't that we don't have well funded public programs, it's that we don't bother with sensible regulation.
So you regularly do not use your airplane seat belt, haven't experienced any real pressure to comply, so the other rules are a bother too?

Seriously? :D (Plz laugh in good spirits. I am. That is good entertainment)

Take off and landing portions of the flight plan are not large amounts of time. Surely you can manage to entertain yourself with one or more of the many options during those times?

The car related info, regarding the potential for trauma is valid. Have you been on a flight where something major has happened? (You may be asked to stow things, for one)

I do not believe you have, by the nature of your questions.

Also, given the nature of your questions, your perception of risk is well below actuals. That does make your position on all this perfectly understandable. I get it. No worries. I think you need answers and should take in the information the FAA and others gladly provide.

Like cars, seat belts are law because of the metrics and analysis done over years of travel. I do think some of those laws could be improved. Many will over time.

Unfortunately for you, other far more qualified people than us have assessed those risks and have come to diffetent conclusions.

Let me just say a model passenger would comply and be ready to assist others, should the need arise.

Fly safe!

Edit: doing that, by the way, is it clear priority over entertainment and other minor things we are talking about here. Let's keep that in mind.
Can a Github.io website be freely hosted with a private repo?
Sure, but with C++ there's fewer reasons to do so.
Every time someone tries to prove this by doing an unbiased economic investigation, it concludes that the negative effect is either nonexistent or tiny.

Housing competition is fundamentally local - everyone in the world wants London property, regardless of living there. Nobody wants houses in Stoke on Trent.
As if death by hanging is an instantaneous atomic act, you're very likely conscious for some time both during and after the irreversible moments.
Agreed, there definitely no magic bullet hate. At the end of the day it's all about being pragmatic.
Customers still prefer Apple’s flagship iPhones, no matter how expensive they are.

That sounds an awful lot like the wishful thinking that was around Apple in the early 90's when Apple was going bankrupt and almost got bought by Sun.
"In Chrisman’s case, Thrush failed to obtain one critical piece of evidence: a discharge paper from a hospital that stated Chrisman’s cancer was inoperable and had metastasized. The prognosis clearly qualified him for disability, even under the complex rules set by the Social Security Administration. The mistake was discovered only after Chrisman hired a lawyer."

Sounds like the doctor screwed up.
Thanks for the clarification, I have corrected the text.
I actively avoid using GitHub private repositories for this very reason since I have too many 7-9/month subscriptions it all adds up fast. This actually will encourage me to start some fun project ideas more now that I know I can rely on the private repos.
Many countries are now sharing this info, with stiff penalties for non-reporting.

It's worth mentioning that this only affects the middle class. There's a 100k deduction on the low end, while the rich have staff to hide the money at the top.
> I seem the logic in your statement, but you forget so many others - by 'decriminalizing' you still have users buying unknown products at shady corners, from organized crime that is pure net loss for society on so many levels. We still talk about a simple plant that used to grow everywhere.

The fact that the plant used to grow everywhere helps my point: there is very little risk of people getting bad stuff if they buy it from a shady source since it's so easy to obtain the good stuff (or growing it yourself). Again the goal here is to reduce usage as much as possible without ruining lives for those who don't follow the rule. Getting the stuff everywhere, with referral, marketing, promotion, ... . will increase the consumption. Just like cigarette makers have developed a battery of technique to get teens/young adults hooked up on their product, so will MJ stores. Just not allowing the stuff to be so openly sold in the first place is _so much easier_. I can get the whole tax dollars argument, but I am willing to bet the cigarettes and alcohol cost way more in public health than they bring in in taxes, no reason to add more to the list.

> Decriminalization is a (self)lie - when the question is 'what about weed' and the answer is 'we don't know', 'its illegal, just less'. US model of the recent past is one of the worst in human history, as seen on long-term results, but decriminalization is some temporary state, nothing that makes sense long-term. In Netherland, coffee shops can sell but they can't legally obtain weed (something along those lines) - what sense does this make?

It is pretty simple actually: it is never OK to have/sell/consume MJ, just like now. The only difference is if you get caught :

- Before: appearing in front of a judge. Getting potential prison time. Maybe losing your job. Having a criminal file, and basically paying your blunt for the rest of your life.
- After: Here is a $250 ticket.

The idea is just to stop clogging the justice system, and destroying lives for something as insignificant as weed, while preventing widespread distribution of the product, which has known and proven long and short term harmful side effects.

> If I can buy a beer at local pub to wind off after long day, I sure as hell should be able to buy a reefer to do the same (or ideally something not requiring smoking for the same effect). Any deviation from this basic logic I've heard so far was flawed.

The issue is simply: where does it stop ? Psylo mushrooms are fully naturals too. Is MDMDA OK (it really, really winds you off) ? I have heard good echoes of microdoses of LSD ? Cocaine as a booster is popular as well.

We already have two well known psychoactive substances in wide circulation (alcohol and cigarettes). Both can be (and are) used responsibly by a lot of people. But we also know from experience that they pose significant additional health problem , and are abused by a lot of people. We also know that the producer will do everything they can to increase consumption without regard for the consequences. I don't see how adding more to the list is better for the common good.
The piece explicitly rebuts that idea, most especially in its conclusion but also as the premise for why the market in China was poorly served by the schedule for the XR. You can disagree with it, but you can't reasonably claim that it's a long-winded way of saying the market is saturated.
Right, and there's no guarantee I'd be able to keep my job (and hence my health insurance) during that scenario.

Having my illness would cause the rates for health insurance to sky rocket for my company the following year. I wouldn't blame them for letting me go since that would cause hardship for the rest of my coworkers.
In fact, I've found that Apple's software is significantly worse than the alternatives. People used to ignore the fact that app start up time was worse on iOS devices compared to Android devices released two generations earlier, despite costing way more and running on four generations better hardware. App start up time is the performance metric that affects the vast majority of users the most. They finally fixed this in iOS 12.

Some things iOS users still can't do:

1. Develop applications for their own phone without paying a yearly tax or re-building and re-installing weekly.

2. Have a driving mode that works well when used in a phone mount.

3. Automatically route phone calls and texts through Google Voice or a secure phone app.

4. Multi-user support for sharing a device with family or temporarily sharing it with a stranger.

These are not niche features like playing games in emulators or using offline maps by default for privacy (both of which are also not possible on iOS). These are software deficiencies that affect normal daily use cases. The Chinese market has even more features that users need that are simply not supported on iOS.
Sorry, but job ads aren't allowed here except as part of the "Who is Hiring" thread on the first of each month, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18807017. Complete guidelines are at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
CMake has fantastic support for Qt. Decided to add a Qt GUI to a personal project with an existing CMake build setup and the integration was very painless, just ~4 lines added. Finding the solution was a little tougher, however, since nearly all documentation assumes a QtCreator + qmake configuration.
Not exactly. The FEIE limit is $100,800 USD, but you still MUST file a tax return every year, no matter what, and no matter where you reside. It is extremely expensive to file that return and you pretty much must retain an accountant who understands the tax laws of the US for non-residents and your resident country's tax laws. FEIE only covers situations in which you can prove non-residence, and only makes you whole for the amount of difference between the tax you would have paid in the US and the tax you paid in your resident country for that time period. If you make over $100,800 USD, you will need to pay taxes in full to the US in the brackets above that amount, regardless of FEIE.

If you make say $135k/yr as a senior engineer for a US company, you will actually pay so much in taxes abroad and to the US, even with FEIE, that it's better to ask for a salary reduction below the $100,800 USD FEIE limit.
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> requires substantiation.

From the linked series of tweets:

"In the end they accounted for <0.1% of sales but >20% of auto reported crashes and support tickets (most gfx driver related)."

"So yes, fragmentation is still totally an issue."

"We eventually laid out a guide with known good versions of Linux and graphics drivers, but it didn't matter. Part of the allure of Linux is the customizability, so few actually stuck to it, and generally wanted to run the game on older hardware we didn't support."
Do you think this is because the larger screen is inherently better or perhaps it's because the iOS and the whole app eco-system is geared toward larger screen? Perhaps a little of both?
Old guy here.

I don't think you'll find the answers to the questions you're asking. Or, if you're like me, you will find answers. but they might change with each new chapter of your life.

At the risk of sound like a broken HN record, I urge you to check out Derek Sivers' FAQ at https://sivers.org/faq

I am also finally reading through Cal Newport's immensely popular So Good They Can't Ignore You which directly addresses and challenges the questions and assumptions you've asked about.

Sivers has some of his book notes online at: https://sivers.org/book/SoGood. Those notes give a good summary, but I'm getting a ton out of the book, too.

TL;DR: Stop looking for The Answer -- it effectively does not exist. Get busy with something/anything, make small, iterative adjustments to your trajectories. Forgive yourself, don't beat yourself up. Don't get stuck in the tool/methodology churn trap. Pick something and go.
> You can't project power across the globe with tiny ships

Agreed, and currently a modern Navy and it's ability to "projct power" is unmatched.

I just see a lot of commentary about how these large boats would be sitting ducks for modern missile systems. I'm not arguing that they are, just that it's been suggested and I'm wondering if Israel's decisions regarding defense are effected by this (probably not)

Your other two points were good as well - thanks for contributing.
Right- definitely when discussing anthropogenic issues. (Also worth considering sulfur aerosols and their cooling effect, and lots of other stuff too.) Historically, though- IIUC- atmospheric methane levels have varied less than CO2, at least after some clever organism figured out how to photosynthesize, so, with solar output controlled for, the biggest hunk of temperature changes can be explained by the CO2 concentration.
But that was exactly Farage’s plan.

How did you miss this?
Now I'm just waiting for GitHub CI. :)
How is there any reduction in tax if expats must still pay US taxes?
The majority of people in London (where prices are most inflated) live in rented homes, with an average rent that is about the same as in San Francisco, for example, but with salaries that are about half or less.

Foreign property investors shifting away from London will be bad for people whose primary contribution to the economy is buying up properties, and good for everyone else who lives or works in London.
Furthermore it's a 64 core design, so aimed at massively parallelized workloads and high bandwidth applications, which is why they bang on about it's impressive set of interfaces. Not surprising for a company that is mainly a telecoms operation and only incidentally makes phones.
Does anyone really think Apple hasn’t done market research to determine which size phone would be best for them to sell?

As mentioned in one of the other comments, SE was using the production lines of the 5/5s. It probably isn’t worth it to keep those going for an older phone and the R&D for a new smaller phone is a huge cost. I’m sure it’s been proven that most people want larger screens at this point.

I mean, even the newer cheaper phone they have, XR, is larger than their standard XS.
If we're talking about "a company that only deploys rarely and requires many manual steps with many people involved to do it", then I've worked with a few.

Typically they're shops that got very big very fast. They deal with problems of scale where schema changes are very expensive and data migrations can require weeks without heavy optimization.

They typically have tried to automate some stuff, but the crush of feature work to support the massively expanding business always came first. They usually have CI, but never enough tests (unit, integration, or functional) to deploy with any real confidence.

They used to deploy (by hand) every couple of days because it was easy. Then they just kept getting bigger and it became every week. Then maybe once a month.

Typically they'll talk about why they don't do continuous delivery or deployment because deploys are RISKY and the business depends on deploys being perfect.

I've seen this situation in video games (twice), a mobile app that had reached the 100 million user threshold, and an old school data marketing company.

It definitely is a thing that exists.