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Definitely a product description error.

The product description field should never comment on the new/used/refurbished nature of the product being purchased because different conditions can (usually) be sold on the same listing.

What probably happened is someone copied and pasted the description from somewhere else where the listing was specifically for refurbished chairs, or the very first seller of this item was selling it refurbished and wanted to call it out explicitly.

Amazon detail pages are confusing, but honestly, I don't know how to improve them. I get loads of returns for people claiming they bought something used that was sold as new, even though the condition is clearly marked as used and a lengthy description next to it about the condition.
3 Nest cameras and streaming in 4k (Netflix, YouTube, Amazon) use up quite a bit. Since I started tracking last April, 736gb a month has been our lowest. Most AAA video games are 40-80gb, and my partner and I both can work from home with always on VPN.

So downloading random Steam games to play or taking a few videos of the kids for family can easily result in an extra 150gb of incidental bandwidth.

Over Thanksgiving we hit 973gb with guests in the house. I reduced all the camera and Netflix quality settings the last week of November to avoid the penalty fee.
You're really reaching now. People were regularly using phone cameras long before smartphones. By the time smartphones were a few gens in it was ultra common, and a big benefit of them (that even non-technical people could understand) was that you could use wifi whenever possible and avoid data charges (which really weren't much higher then than now in most markets; "unlimited" plans were more common too). Also the 3g has a 2mp camera, so we're talking about pictures that are 2-3MB at most. The suggestion that people were shy about uploading relatively small photos to Facebook circa ~2008, and that this supports this flimsy story in any way, is sheer nonsense.
I'm no fan of Facebook - am a long-term outright refusenik actually - but the conspiracy theories are getting out of hand. There is zero substance to this article, it's wildly speculative clickbait.
When I discovered this as a youngling it totally opened my mind to the crazy possibilities of computers and the internet. Love to see it posted here after all these years!
Actually a properly seasoned cast iron pan is about as non-stick as it gets, but it’s heavy and people worry about dealing with it. For getting crusty stuff off pans though, nothing beats a thick layer of bicarbonate of soda, sprayed liberally all over with white vinegar and left for 5 minutes. Very little doesn’t wipe right off after that!

Mostly though I agree with your point that it makes little sense to spend big money on an omelette pan. The coating is going to be pitted within a year or two, and that’s that. A good guide to how you should buy these things is found in the restaurant industry which does what you do now; buy them and toss them.

That also leads to the best advic I can give here... buy your pots and pans from restaurant surplus stores or closing sales! I bought half a dozen omelette pans from one of those for $35 bucks, and I just swap them out every two years.
The different GUI app stores are pretty much equally easy to use. The problem is when you want something that's not in it.
Try running OSX on the same hardware and see how well it works of if you encounter problems too.

I experienced some standby/resume issues a few times along my years with linux, sometimes the fix was simply to upgrade/downgrade the kernel, sometimes using a different distro did the trick, sometimes it was a matter of configuring things correctly and sadly sometimes the hardware manufacturer was hostile to linux.
I would think its compression rate would be pretty good too.
Low grade iron scrap goes to Nucor Steel. Nucor started in steel making rebar from scrap. Then they figured out how to continuous-cast better steel from scrap. Now they're the biggest steelmaker in the US. If it's steel or iron and you can get it to a scrapyard, it's going to be recycled. If it was a car, it's going to be recycled. If the magnets at the recycling center can pull it out of trash, it's headed for a steel mill.
We may be running out of suitable sand to use for concrete, but that doesn't mean iron dust is more abundant.
Sounds like a good idea. Transport for London already does this.
how does it compare to React Native?
This also works for stuff like switching off the stove or locking the front door. If you find yourself second guessing whether you did it...just narrate the activity as you do it. Sticks much better
Sure, but internet is a basic necessity at this point regardless of if you choose to stream content.
Following the lead of Brussels that was doing it for decades. And the yearly (sic!) STIB-MIVB subscription costs 50€ for students between 12 and 24 years old.
I can access from my VPN hosted at hetzner
Maybe it's due to histamine.
How long? How long have we known Facebook was evil evil shit?

5 years?
10?

And we just kind of joked about it.
Or told our family to get off it.
Or bragged about how we didn't have accounts.
And we let them keep fucking the rest, all those poor people who didn't understand.

That sense of contempt.

Welp, now we're all going to get painted with the same brush.

I've been posting for the last two years about this tech backlash. About stuff like the fall of retail (hint: it may or may not be related but people will think we're responsible!), about how programmers are the new witches... about many important things that are all soon to come to a head.

Hope you've been paying attention.
Putting your application inside your company name was (is?) part of the guidelines from Microsoft. Also applies to c:\Program Files and the registry.

I can't remember the rationale, but it does make it hard to find things.
I can't comment on the other points, but I can reply to this:

>The other big problem is that they now want each return put in its own box — even if it was shipped to us with multiple other items that are also being returned. We have been Prime customers for years, but perhaps not for much longer

The reason for this is because each seller can set their own return address. I receive all returns to ensure that they are destroyed and that no customer accidentally buys something new and receives a customer return.

Beyond minimizing costs for Amazon/sellers, this also reduces waste and environmental impact because each good only has to be shipped once.
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In my experience most companies lack common conventions and automations.

Kubernetes "done right" is almost a part of your application.
It becomes this "machine" that you throw stuff into and good stuff happens.

You'll need a team to integrate it into the pieces you require (auth, secrets, loadbalancers, permissions/app identities, monitoring and logging) but many places lack bits and pieces, and in my opinion k8s gives you a fast track to create a uniform application delivery platform.

What I don't like is that it kind of is the opposite of "the unix philosophy" and in that regard I prefer the hashicorp stack.
I do understand where are you coming from, but there is price to everything.

Most distributed systems have eventual consistency. Very few can achieve strong consistency. Postgres sacrifices a lot for a strong consistency and predictable performance.

I'm not saying that PG has the best model, but for the wast majority of users, out of connections is just not an issue. Most clients have now direct pooling and they are very easy to setup. There are a few who need more connections, but there are poolers for it.

What you gain but separating connections is much easier monitoring and debugging process. You can examine each connection, its impact on resources, state, what locks they need to acquired, ...

Additionally, because each connection opens a file descriptor, you gain a lot of operating security from the underlying OS and its kernel.

PG contributors spent almost 3 decades building on this system. I'm pretty sure the gain would be so minuscule in comparison to the effort that would have to be put in to rebuild the connection model.

I for one would appreciate server polling built in, better HA including simple discoverability, handoffs, ...
no snark meant, but do you have a family? How close have you converged to becoming a digital nomad (which is what you seem to imply your chase is all about)?
I didn't even know that was running. I'm going to remove it.
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The scenarios linked to from the GitHub page are not only related because they deal with serverless technologies. They're akin to one another because, in every case, testing was flawed.

In the first, there was no testing, aside from the trivial. Oddly enough, a lack of formal testing is described as being a symptom of not having "a local version to play with." In the second, the test environment was used in production ("So that we didn’t have to wait for the timer to fire “naturally” when we were testing, we were using RunOnStartup = true"). And in the third, there is no test environment.
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Alfred does have such a workflow: https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/10231-faster-menu-search/
your problem here is not linux, your problem is probably ubuntu and lenovo.

ubuntu is notoriously buggy and lenovo thinkpads are more and more hostile to linux since 5-6 years.

Try something like manjaro instead of ubuntu and see if you still experience the same issues.
When I bought my first computer (which came with Windows 3.1), it didn't come with a mouse. User interfaces back then were designed to be usable without a mouse, because many people didn't have a mouse - it was optional, and used up one of the serial ports.
I just thought it was weird because the HN article says that a disclosure is required by the FTC.
The BoA article has the same title so I assume it's the article they were talking about.
Lisp compilers have been written in Lisp for the last 30 years or so...
How can the book industry benefit from artificial intelligence?
It also sends your keystrokes outside, in order to get the "Search suggestions" as you type.
I've had my eye on Nava for a while. I applied last year but didn't get an interview. I just applied again - 2nd time's the charm, right??
The reccurring issue people seem to have with linux is that they use ubuntu. Just use a decent distro instead and see if that fixes your issues.
A ton of those are just shows that Netflix have the right to distribute.
> I understand this is HN and people here achieve more than the normal crowd

Citation needed?
Urs Hölzle: Reconciling High Performance with Exploratory Programming (1994) [pdf]
previous studies done showed that making it free did not result in significant uptick in usage[1].

It really comes down to, does it go where you want from where you want when you want and all this on a timely basis. Hence the big reason buses always win over rail as they can adapt to changing needs.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/why-can...
You may even figure out what they want, but they still will need to find it out by themselves.
I'm not, really. Before they moved to the crowd (I refused to follow them there), I used to be an Office expert. I knew the software inside and out. I still use Word 2007. But no, I never did install Office 365 (I see my mistake now!).
Source of your claim? Lisp compilers have been written in Lisp for the last 30 years or so.

I don't care about Ruby or Python, both toy languages.
Strengthen. Many Christian apologists would look at things like physics as "proof" God exists. Then again I'm Catholic which tends to treat science (at least these days) more as the how rather than the why if that makes sense.
It's not meant to win over an average Joe. It's meant to maybe win over the sort of people who read my blog--technical or semi-technical, intelligent in any case, capable of thinking outside the box...
Nothing to add just wanted to say great story. Thanks for sharing.
you can try to find likeminded people on Mastodon (also currently on HN front page, an open source, federated twitter clone) or scuttlebut (imo more decentralized even, but quite focussed on solar punk in New Zealand) I guess. Also the Pirat Party (actual political party in case you don't know) uses a similar system IIRC.

And you can probably just start with the community around Decidim and work your way outwards to a wider community by participating in discussions and learning to know people.
I fully understand it's about the storytelling and not about the actual fix, but expecting another cool, Linux success story, I did come away a little disappointed they just restarted the router.
> Normal-sized widgets which left enough room for content vs. the huge widgets we use today for some reason (it's weird for me to say this, but Linux desktops are the worst offenders here)

This is one reason why, on Linux, I prefer KDE/Qt applications above all others.

Ever since I first started using Linux in the early '00s, I've noticed that GTK+ applications have excessive padding, and the widgets just look huge, regardless of what GTK theme you're using. Qt, on the other hand, has a number of theme engines with small, tight widgets.

Personally, I'm a huge fan of QtCurve. You can customize it exactly how you want it, and it's a godsend. I just wish the GTK devs didn't torpedo the possibility of making a GTK3 version available.

For some examples, I opened up a KWrite window and took a couple screenshots of the main UI and the settings dialog: https://imgur.com/a/bx1dk8h
An open source having complexity of an enterprise monster - this is what generates the half million plus salaries. An old enterprise software trick. Simplification of it would serve no interests of anybody in the position to do the simplification.
You may be interested in looking into borg to replace rsnapshot.

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg-import

https://github.com/borgbackup/borgweb

https://github.com/borgbase/vorta
Did I suggest that people follow my precise route? I'm not sure I did. I was just reporting how I did it.
`dpkg --get-selections` also lists explicitly deinstalled packages, so you'll want to grep the list first.
> A 2002 report released by the National Center for Transportation Research indicated that the lack of fares attracted hordes of young people, who brought with them a culture of vandalism, graffiti, and bad behavior—which all necessitated costly maintenance

Interesting. So making it free actually increased costs.
No idea but definitely javascript. My Nextcloud server uses OnlyOffice in the browser so I can edit my documents like with Google Docs or Office 365. It's the same code I'm sure in the browser and on the desktop.
My understanding is/was that if you decide to change managed host you then still lose your formed identity - is this no longer the case?
Well, strictly speaking, WASM and JS are two different things, but basically yeah.
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I heard that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth, so we could use stars instead..
Or you could just learn how to manage infrastructure the old fashioned way, which was never broken for small business and mid-sized enterprise environments. The only time you need the complexity and overhead of something like kubernetes is when you are truly large or when you have caught the in-fashion disease.

It's quite simple for a 20 year SA to stand up a highly integrated environment with modular monitoring, directory service, virtualization and hybrid cloud options for all services in a week. Why don't you hire one of these for the job instead of recipe/containering yourself into 'doesn't work, I dunno' posts.
One of the major issues around offering free public transportation is funding. Public purses are pretty strained everywhere and additional taxes are unlikely to be accepted. Physically, there's also a problem in that systems are simply not geared for the expected increase in ridership which in itself is sufficiently large enough to cause problems but not meaningful enough to cause a significant dent in car use. I believe this was one of the rationales behind the decision of Paris not to offer free public transportation to all.

In France, Dunkirk apparently does offer free public transportation for all but it's a small city [0].

[0] https://www.france24.com/en/20171109-france-french-cities-pu...
Idea that some species have stopped evolving is finally going extinct (2015)
Both your comment and the article use the phrase “real work”. What do you meany by that? And is there “fake work” that Windows fails at?
I wrote some code that does something like that. Learned very quickly that it's essentially impossible without a lot of manual data capturing - specifically is this a pack of 6 or 10 etc.

Still for the bits where it worked I was surprised how big the variances per unit were
Localism is a good thing. The benefits outweigh the costs here.
Despite what you write in the manual or advertise, your business process is your IT system workflow. If it cannot be done in the IT system then its not going to get done. Its amazing how few companies think up and game the unusual scenarios when designing or accepting a system. If you don't get input from in the field, then you really are missing something.

Heck, your example isn't even unusual for a chain: customer returning item - item originally purchased online - origin store different from return store. Simplified, the only thing that matters is "origin store different from return store". Get that right and it fixes a lot.
What baffled me is that if you have a mouse with side buttons you just cannot use them in any type of shortcut.

Mouse support is generally terrible in OSX.
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Good point.

My support person was my 12-year-old son. ;-)
Having been locked out at annoying, inconvenient times of day I started follow the same process a few years back. I feel like I'm going mad when I'm doing it though, stepping out of my flat stopping, staring at my keys and consciously placing them into my pocket. I'm so glad someone else does the same.
Also not a native Markdown speaker I see :P
I'm surprised that this made it to the HN front page. Stories critical of big corporations tend to get suppressed somehow. I guess it's Sunday in most of the world so Amazon's PR police/voting rings must be off-duty.
> leaving no option but to move somewhere else

Many of the major infrastructure/platform vendors are rolling out their own distribution of Kubernetes either as a cloud service e.g AWS, Azure, GCP or on premise e.g. RedHat.

So I suspect they are going to try and differentiate on features and ease of use and make it as hard as possible to move anywhere else.
No doubt. However, we are moving to Germany because of my spouse's job.

My lawyering requires a significant amount of court hearings, which I will be unable to do from Germany. I do very little transactional work that I might be able to continue in Germany, so a career change is a realistic and logical move. It just happens to coincide with wanting to make the change as well.

Family income, as long as she keeps her job, is pretty much a solved problem for us. She makes a lot of money. Waaaaaaay more than me.

I do not need to work necessarily for income but because I want to work. This has been the case for us for many years now.

But I do appreciate your sentiment.
In 2008 Facebook itself was in its infancy. Orkut was still the largest social network, only toppled around 2011. The majority of the world was definitely not uploading any phone pictures anywhere.
TE have a staff of less than 50. They do everything themselves (outside of fab) end to end. They are trying to build a new way of making music, like lego, more accessible for more people, they are a startup, building a platform. Chill.
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Yes. It checks all the green boxes (CO2, Native American nations, EPA, etc.) but not the structural engineering boxes. Now if the tensile strength were 5x greater, that would be something. An alternative to concrete with rebar would be useful. Rebar corrosion is a huge problem and the limiting factor on the life of modern concrete buildings.

Some way to use up recycled glass cullet has potential. There's a glut of that.
In the back of my mind I always hope that a new technology I'm using will fail in a spectacular, obvious fashion as soon as I use it wrongly, because that means that a great number of resources will soon appear to cover all the gotchas.

It's the ones where spotting and debugging the source of the problem depends on fine-grained conceptual understanding, that leads to documentation that gives you a metaphorical blank stare and shrug.
Ditto on ski gear and watches or other jewellery. For any kind of outdoor gear the counterfeit vs. genuine problem becomes a serious safety issue. As you say, Amazon aren't taking it nearly seriously enough.
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>> I don't understand why the hype around it is so big

Probably because it started at Google, if it was created by IBM then we'd only hear about it on TV ads.
> Unless what you want to run is, for example, "Internet Explorer": "Inte" will auto-complete to nothing useful if you have a bunch of apps, "Interne" will auto-complete to Internet Explorer, but "Internet" will auto-complete to Edge. Not exactly convenient.

I realize this may not be very intuitive for most people, but in the case of Internet Explorer I would instincitively just type "ie" because I know the name of the executable.
At least Merkel has a sense of humor about it: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/06/europe/angela-merkel-shit...

:-D
It's pretty normal these days to keep at least submix stems if not each individual track as plain audio files, not only for future-proofing but for shifting to other software to do the mixing or mastering.

Admittedly any processing not burnt into the tracks is lost but that was true of analog multitracks too.
That was my view too whilst researching the subject. The only information I could find on Ferrock was very hopeful marketing material.

We need new materials here urgently. Ideally something which, like plants, would pull the carbon from the air during the curing process. Whoever creates such a material is going to get very very rich..
I'm not familiar with Docker Swarm, but the Kubernetes API is the major strong point for me (not saying that it's perfect): it has the right abstractions (CronJob, StatefulSet, ..) and is extensible (Custom Resource Definitions). There are many ways to run containerized workloads (ECS, Mesos, Docker Swarm, ..), but the de-facto agreement on the Kubernetes API is a game changer: now we can start building things on top of it :-)
Re configuration: ksonnet is an option (although I personally find jsonnet a “lipstick on a pig” kind of solution).

There’s some work going on to have something more user-friendly (think Google’s Piccolo) - https://github.com/stripe/skycfg (disclaimer - I contributed to this project)
Toronto (TTC) is also free for kids 12 and under.
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That the costs increased seems obvious. The causes here are a bit interesting, but well-known to anyone who's run a free service.