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I think it's all aesthetics.

While iPhones are sleek and stylish, the only thing that they are replacing are convergent previous technology devices without much stylistic precedence (unless you count the late 90s early 2000s "slightly ergonomic plastic" as a style) so nobody puts up much of a fuss. The Apple Watch is clearly an Apple designed product and it serves its function, but its replacing what has long been a style accessory with its own traditions and norms (particularly roundness), something you wear on your body and is visible to others at all times. When I see an Apple Watch, I don't think "Cool, that person has a smart watch.", I think "That's an ugly watch.". Round watch faces at least return to the classic shape.

My ideal smart watch would be round with mechanical arms and a mechanical crown, but with a color eInk dial/face with a high refresh rate (I'm not sure if there is current eInk tech which meets these specs yet). I do not want to look like I'm wearing a compass on my arm, though.

(I got curious, this is similar to what I'm describing, but still way too large and not quite the same: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gligo-e-ink-smartwatch-ha...)
Other languages' releases do get submitted. I just checked Ruby, Python, and Node, and all their last releases were submitted and got some upvotes, but not a ton of discussion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753132
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18264462
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16370792
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17412695
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15269723
...
Companies being shitty and prioritizing quarterly margins over long-term success is like the entire basis of the modern economy
Hm, do you sell them before or after they re-issue the set to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the mission?
That was my sentiment exactly. I couldn't tell 100% from the article, but it looked like the professor only looked for items that had been on sale in the secondary market, and then looked back at the original retail price to gauge the return. Worthless (or near worthless) items wouldn't be put up on EBay at all. This invalidates the entire study.
Congress already signed off on giving everyone back pay and I've read that they will be giving out a 1 day's pay and a $500 bonus to all TSA officers. It helps cushion the blow of having a $0.00 paycheck but it doesn't fix the situation. You have people not being able to pay rent and mortgages. The bank will be fine but a landlord might not be so fine, they will have to dig into savings to make mortgage payments. Thankfully the employees affected by the shutdown is mostly spread out across the country and not isolated to things like military bases where entire communities could suffer without paychecks coming in.
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You can, actually. At least in x86 asm, you just have to add an int3 instruction to get a breakpoint (requires OS support of course).
In my experience, it gets better. After a while you know everything you need to not only do your job, but to understand and resolve common issues. After a couple of years you'll be at the point where the only time you have to dig through manpages is when you're trying to do something esoteric or clever.
That's kind of tragic. Out of curiosity, do you know what happened to the cards?
Kim Stanley Robinson does it well. I highly recommend the Mars trilogy, it's the definition of hard sci-fi in my mind now.
> I see a lot of people get promoted and keep doing their old job, the one that they were so good at it and came so naturally.

This tendency is very common, and it results in the Peter principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
lol so true!
The 2016 discussion on this very article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579757
I'm not an expert, but for anyone who would like to get more info on geopolitics, I recommend the "Geographical Challenges" videos from Stratfor, which can be found on YouTube. Whether you like or dislike Stratfor, I find the geographic and historical analysis of various countries are spot-on and highly valuable.

This is especially relevant for understanding China in the context of 21st century geopolitics. China has many of the same geographic advantages of Europe and North America. It's likely that China will want to extend its influence in its region, just as the US did when "The Monroe Doctrine" was formulated. On the other hand, China, when viewed on the longest historical time scales, seems somewhat metastable. My guess on the future: China will try to become a rival to the US for global dominance, and there will be naval conflict over who is in charge in the far east -- unless China follows another long term pattern, destabilizes and changes regimes. The former is far likelier than the latter.
I’m waiting for async/await... that will start the party!
The company is slowing down revenue growth to ramp up more security measures. Zuck seems committed to fixing Facebook even if it hurts near term investments.
look i'm not saying they are in a desirable position, or that they are not entitled to pay that they earned, what i am saying is that if you asked a private sector worker which would you rather: 1. work without pay, but knowing you will have a job and eventually get paid (TSA) or 2. find out you no longer have a job and that you will never get paid for the work you performed (the private sector example)
Greg Bear is a good option if you like hard sci-fi. I really liked Forge of God and Anvil of the Stars. There are a few of the themes you talk about but in a more realistic sense.
The best person to talk to about this is @Ultrabug (Twitter and Github), CTO of Numberly, who moved from MongoDB to Scylla:

Fixed link: https://www.scylladb.com/tech-talk/numberly-on-joining-billi...
With a $5000> card (MI50) AMD is forced to sell at a loss to be able to meet the same performance levels NVIDIA had for the same amount of money ($700) 2 years ago.

If this is getting closer I think they need a better tape measurer.

With 16GB of aquabolt HBM2 on a 7nm node there is no way AMD is losing less than $150 per card without even accounting for opportunity loss.

In fact this card is the reason why the head of the RTG was fired when suggesting to sell it at $749 at a loss.

The 2080 for all intents and purposes is a mid range die.

The only thing AMD is competing on atm is price and for them it’s a lose lose situation until Navi comes out and that is only if Navi could actually be competitive above the $300 price bracket as it’s a Polaris successor its not clear if AMD will have anything on the level of the 2080 not to mention the 2080ti based on Navi.

AMD had to drop the prices of VEGA to around $300 due to the RTX 2060 they are likely also losing money on that front, they are losing money on Radeon 7 and hopefully they will finally make money with Navi.
Not everyone is equipped to start and run a company. It's not a universal skill or anywhere near it. If more people invested their retirement savings in businesses, you'd mainly have more ill-conceived restaurants and T-shirt companies going bust.
Upsides:

1) I came to like DDG's grouping of results by site. See a result and think that page's site might have more results? Click the favicon.

2) DDG is faster now than it was a few years ago. (At least it seems that way, for me and the things I typically search for).

3) Extensive bang shortcuts: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

4) Different, non-personalized search bubble. I like the idea of non-monocultures, which I guess extends to my search results.

Downsides:

-1) Some time ago DDG changed to requiring the same stupid quoting behavior Big G began mandating for required search terms, replacing +.
I've been spending the past year working on a space opera comic told with cartoon animals, so whatevs. I roll my eyes every time someone comes up with a manifesto for their new microgenre and dubs it "somethingpunk".
The places that pop into mind are Lexmark, Big Ass Fans, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Johnson Controls. There are lots of smallish places doing factory automation, particularly near the Toyota factory.

Salary seldom keeps up with real estate costs. The real estate cost difference can be a factor of 10, but you won't see that difference for salary.

Lots of low-cost areas will specialize in an industry. You shouldn't expect to pick a random low-cost area and find the industry you want, but the industry you want is probably in at least one low-cost area. Find that area, move there, and do well in life.
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I was so convinced that this was inevitable I went ahead and studied Japanese in college and did a foreign exchange program there, since I figured I'd surely end up working for a Japanese company. Now I'm a little disappointed that I've never been able to use my Japanese.
We have procedures now to have individuals declared incompetent and have guardians appointed. I agree, we don’t want the cure to be worse than the disease or to have corrupt institutions take advantage of people. Therefore, it would be best to error on the side of non-interference, which is about what we are doing now with the homeless.

I’d further suggest that only a portion of their UBI go to the institution, while the balance would be available to assist with the later transition out.
To what extent does the mostly single party state of California influence the world economy?
Time to get a more useful minimum wage job. TSA is just an occasional contractor enrichment scheme that senator's can't roll back just in case something happens.
It's weird that I've had the exact opposite experience, but you aren't the only person posting that quotes always work for them on Google. I've definitely had them return irrelevant results that did not include quoted terms, but can't remember an example off of the top of my head.

I think it would be helpful if I (or anyone else reading this) saved some examples for the next time this discussion comes up.
He's kidding.
Flying with one in your carry-on is illegal for regular people. You can check one in your luggage but there's some special rules that sometimes the TSA and airline staff aren't familiar with (you must use a lock that is not TSA approved, you're not allowed to let TSA or airline staff borrow the key, stuff like that). The only time I traveled with a gun it was simpler (and cheaper!) to just mail it to myself.
Just to share another perspective, doctors, and especially surgeons, save lives by the hour. Every minute they're not working, they forsake compensation of course, but more saliently, they are letting people die. Wouldn't you feel at least a bit compelled to work the extra odd hours here and there?
One difference is that Blind requires you to verify your account through your work email address. So users of Blind's Facebook section are presumably Facebook employees, while (most) 4chan users are not.
If you are a point-an-click DBA you should be worried about your job even without this or any future products from any vendor.
LOTS of people still use Kaizen outside of Japan. TPS is alive and well.

“Kaizen as a way of life” is the motto for a largely US centric fortune 200.
Facebook. No thanks
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I believe you have been tricked by survivor bias. There is a great deal of evidence of against what you say.

Your statements are absolutist; I believe you are speaking from ideology.
Not everyone has, or is able to (easily) have enough slack in their budget to endure something like this.

Edit: To adapt Keynes: the market for payday loans can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
> I myself am a print debugger

In Rust, everyone is a print debugger. The only thing that really goes wrong in normal code (once it compiles) is "why is this value not what I expect?". Dropping down into GDB is way overkill.
Square watches do exist e.g. Cartier Santos and they do have ergonomic advantages. Smartwatches are not alone in the trend of watches being huge. Most watch brands have started making more 43mm+ size watches which I find far too large. Smartwatches also have it a little harder as well since it is going to be really hard to get much info on a screen at 40mm or smaller, especially when you cut off the corners. Most smartwatches are around 45mm, Apple making the smallest at 40mm, but I prefer watches that are in the 36mm - 39mm range.
Google. Nope
Why is my keyboard connected to the cloud?
Hey, that’s my library! I’m glad to see a similar macro getting added upstream, so you no longer need to install libraries like this one for easy print debugging.
It sure felt like a parody when I read it in 1992.

I know there was a foreword or afterword about how it originally began as a comic book script, which would certainly push it towards being over the top.
They're not bulky, but there's something about them which seems to keep them from disappearing from my awareness

It's like a wedding ring or any other piece of jewelry — you get used to it in short order.

I didn't wear an Apple Watch for a very long time because I though they were too bulky looking. But I got was as a gift, and failed to even notice it was there after just a few hours.

I assume an Apple Watch gains most of its size and shape to maximize battery space.

FWIW, an Apple Watch is less than half the size (and 1/10th the price!) of some of the watches worn by a certain class of "celebrities" these days.
I started to enjoy reading stuff from the solarpunk movement. And the memes, they're awesome.

Hopefully someday there will be a landmark solarpunk movie/book that will definitely set it as a recurring theme and general direction for new thinkers to embrace.
The problem is that here you are optimising your test for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah.

Which is great and all, but it it's not a quality which correlates particularly well with the stated problem you are hiring for.

Now if you were hiring for the marketing department…

Repeat after me:

A good hiring process is one that will not be affected by the luck of the draw nor the personality of the candidate.

I've been doing this for a quarter of a century and I will tell you right now that the best engineers of my generation would indeed thank you for your time, never come back and quietly advise the extensive network of young people they mentor to avoid your company like the plague.
Rust is just doing more that's interesting for folks here to talk about.
Well shucks.
Here's an example of her behavior before the 1 hour screen time limit. If we would be out doing family activities and it would be getting close to bed time she would have literal panic attacks because she "didn't get to watch enough Youtube today."

>Or is your actual goal that you want her to enjoy screen time less than she currently does?

The word "enjoy" takes on a twisted meaning once addictive behaviors set in.

Here's a list of "screen" activities that do not currently count against her hour of screen time. Any group screen activity. So if she is playing a video game with friends or family, that does not count against screen time. If she's watching anything educational, including but not limited to videos on how to complete a craft she is performing. Video games played alone but which incorporate physical activity such as "Just Dance" games do not count against screen time. If the family is watching her favorite TV show together, that does not count against "screen time." But she will leave even her favorite TV show to not miss out on her addiction fuel. And she only "willingly" participates in any other activities because her isolated screen time is restricted.

I frankly couldn't care less that she enjoys watching vlogs or videos of kids opening packages. The problem is the social isolation and lack of variety in activities.
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Isn't TSA just Airport Security ?
I know, I know. To my defence it was more to see if it could be done than anything else. I have actually used the very same nmap technique in an argument with a "I have nothing to hide" coworker.

It is a great example of how a simple concept like "I can see other devices connected to the network" can be transformed into "I can log who is at work when". This could be done with a $45 device. With $500 I could make something much more nefarious with regular arduinos.
> UX discussion here. Is there any UX/design/functional reason to have a round watch face on a smartwatch? Analog watches were round to fit the display technology available at the time, the watch dial, which is inherently round. RGB pixel displays are naturally rectangular.

Ex-Lead UI developer from the ex-Microsoft Band here.

UX wise, rectangular and square form factors make a lot more sense for the types of media consumption smartwatches are used for. Every time I see a text message clipped on the sides with only 3 lines showing on a huge circular display, I cry a little inside.

Apple went with square-ish for a lot of good reasons.

You can do some cool, innovative, and impressive looking things with circular form factors of course, especially when it comes to graphical displays of data. But humans are very bad at judging magnitudes in pie shape forms, and at the end of the day, a lot of information is textual. This limits you.

> My wife thinks that even the smallest latest Apple Watch is way too large for a watch.

Honestly the Microsoft Band being worn on the underside of the wrist was brilliant (I may be biased). It is much easier to hold up in a comfortable reading position, and the dual body design meant the mass was split across the top and bottoms of the wrist.

The problem of course was fitting all those electronics in a much narrower form factor. The entire device ended up being too wide for some people's wrists. At the end of the day, all those electronics and sensors, and of course the display, had to go somewhere.

In regards to the article, I'm guessing Google is buying a team for the factory contracts, supply chains, and perhaps the ME/EE talent. Having all of that come in one big package is nice, building up those supplier relationships especially can take years of painful miscommunication.
If that's the case (not convinced it is) then the obvious answer is to remove sobriety requirements. bonus points for putting safe consumption sites onsite in shelters.
Not really the competition. Fossil group is Google's strongest partner for Android Wear - as everybody else is ditching the platform, Fossil is still making new ones.
You and many others... the lang team has been hard at work. We want it to ship, but we also want to get it right. It will be a huge deal, for sure.
Sure, and for most people these speed limits are inappropriate. Forcing everyone into the worst common denominator is not a good idea for automated systems.
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For sure, you may have very well got a good mattress at a good price. However, things you did like price-matching don't work in mattress-land because all the companies release the same mattress under different models, brands and SKU's, precisely to defeat those tools.

Online mattress sales became popular precisely because of those scummy tactics, as well as very generous return policies, where you can actually use your bed for a significant amount of time before you make a decision on it.
I guess they think they're law officers or something. They're more akin to security guards. I hate that individuals are not able to go to work and earn a wage but I really thing the TSA is full of themselves.
Great, now it's possible to create a "party detector" that will change the music and lights if there are enough people at home or in specific rooms.
> you are agreeing with him.

Not really. For 2560x1440 resolution you don't need so much VRAM (that's what makes Radeon 7 so expensive). So it is an overkill and not very practical for gaming. It's probably a really good 3D rendering card though.

> I need every watt of performance out of 2080ti to approach achieve a consistent 180-240hz

I think 144Hz is more than enough. More would be an overkill as well. And Vega 64 and upcoming Navi should handle 60-144 fps well at 2560x1440.
Just recently I was looking at example code of an edition 2018 crate and what I feared actually happened: I didn't know any more which crates this example code used, because extern crate statements were missing. So yaay more manual figuring out I guess...
> what i am saying is that if you asked a private sector worker which would you rather

I was saying, regardless of whatever position I might take in a thought experiment, the US government has acted irrationally and violated an implicitly (and often explicitly) defined contract within our society: I give you my labor power, you give me cash. It currently stands that many government workers are without pay because that contract was violated and they have yet to be paid for their labor, so WP saying they are without pay is a valid statement.
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Seems to matter a lot for IPv4.
Yes it does, good reading skills. That's the point. Human incompetency, related to DNA forensics.

I didn't outright say that, though; the idea was that I would prepare you for a story of a serial killer so well concealed that her existence could only be inferred from trace DNA, but THEN there's the surprise twist - there is no serial killer, it's a trick of human incompetency. BOOM!

The twist has a much greater effect because I didn't give it away at the start, but the twist also ties back in to my original statement about human incompetency - but NOT where you may have been expecting, and subverted expectations are a key part of surprise twists - and the story is also about DNA forensics. That's the previous subject again, the reader having been led around in an interesting and surprising circle.
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The null hypothesis is like the empty set: there's no claims inside it. The negation of a claim is another claim independent of the first.

Suppose I show you a jar containing a large number of coins and I claim the number of coins is even by just looking at the jar. Do you have evidence that I am correct? No! Just by looking at it I can't possibly know the exact number of coins. But this means that the logical negation of my claim is true ( the number of coins is odd?). Also no! Again, I can't know the exact number of coins by just looking at it.

So although there are only two possibilities, I have no evidence at all. And this means the only claim I can make is the null hypothesis: I don't know.

Absence of evidence is not, itself, an evidence of absence. In other words, if I don't have evidence that you committed a murder, it doesn't mean you're innocent. It means just that: I don't have evidence to convict you, and I must dismiss the case.
Indeed. I believe there is an upper limit of comfort for most people (somewhere in the 80-85 mph) and if the limits were raised to 80mph and then enforced at that using automated methods I would support it.
> Studies from 30 years ago screamed about health and TV, corelating bad eating and sleeping patterns with screen time.

Since you're a computer scientist I suppose I don't need to remind you that correlation != causation.

People who already have bad eating habits and sleeping patterns for other reasons, might also be the kind of people who enjoy spending more time in front of 80s/90s TV.
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Any performance difference will be similar to if you were running on any other platform.

So, if for your particular application, Go has a faster startup/cold start time than Python or Node, then yes, it'll be faster, overall.

Very difficult to speak about performance in general terms, though.

I will say that there is no kind of wrapper library or wrapper runtime like some other serverless platforms might depend on.