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Business users are not going to learn SQL. They're not going to move all their data into the cloud, setup access, manage resources and spend money to run queries that take a few seconds on their laptop. They're not going to use 20 different services to break out scratch work, analysis, charting, and BI from what runs in a single portable file that they can manage and backup and extend in unlimited ways from meeting to meeting.

There are billion dollar businesses that run on Excel, and many workers in all kinds of industries live in it all day because nothing else comes close. Those macros and automations are what empower them to get things done and drive business forward instead of worrying about the "right way" to do something.

This perspective that they're all naive and should use better tools just fails to understand how people actually work, and explains why G-Suite as it is today will never beat Excel.
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There is technically a penalty, but it's unlikely to be enforced - if one party breaches their commitments, they could be considered in breach of the agreement and the other party would have license to break it.
> If every kind of exception was checked [...] When you solve the halting problem

Hold it: I said nothing remotely like that. You have begun ranting against an absolutist straw-man of your own creation.

What I DID say is that:

1. Type-checked exceptions are just as valuable as type-checked returns.

2. The "problems" you listed with checked-exceptions are baseless: Each of them is identical to an architectural decision or task you already regularly complete for happy-path return-types.

3. The fundamental driver of complaints is that people don't like to spend time on the unhappy-path, and aren't as rewarded for it either.
It doesn't, they "paywall" features, as they get better data and can better monetize you.

In order to have youtube app work when the screen is off, you have to pay for youtube. Its something they could provide but if they can force you to pay or give up more data (paying in a round about way) they are going to do it
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Investigations teams and politics were left alone.
The only folks with this skewed perspective on the issue already donated their DNA to a company and simply want to convince themselves that it was a great idea.
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i dont understand, no one is forcing you as an individual to use any of these services or buy any of these devices. they also don't produce news, they just offer a better solution for advertisers. it's not like these media outlets are altruistic truth seekers anyway, although some journalists are. the NYT is a publicly traded business, Buzzfeed built whatever legitimate journalism it does on the back of clickbait gossip trash, and vice has devolved into a caricature of what it once was.
> I certainly don't want random people inside my car when I'm not around

It's not your car, it's Waymo's car.

Waymo outfits the cars, provides continuous monitoring and support, operates a fleet of field techs for repair and cleaning, takes responsibility for insurance and regulatory compliance, provides dispatch and routing services, collects payments, etc.

The cost is justified by high utilization of the fleet. The economics don't work for a single car doing nothing 95% of the time.

Why would anyone want to own their own self-driver?

> Utterly backwards. Make something cheaper easier or better, and we use more of it, not less.

Yep, it's impossible to make anything cheaper, easier or better, because it instantly goes to shit when people want more of it.
Only the sample collection is “at home” using a kit mailed to the customer with instructions on how to collect the sample. The analysis is done in a (hopefully good and clean) lab where the sample gets mailed to by the customer.
Internally, Facebook has always struggled with infrastructure capacity throughout their history. They still have growing pains as far as physical space for equipment goes.

When Amazon got into the cloud business, they actually had most all of the non-software challenges solved already. It turns out that datacenters and distribution centers go in the same kinds of places and have very similar kinds of challenges. They benefited significantly from knock-on effects from running their existing business.

If Facebook got into the cloud game, they would have to learn two new businesses at once: cloud hosting and industrial real estate.

I don't think that they would be able to obtain good pricing on either real estate or server hardware. Their current hardware vendor can't absorb that large of a scale out.
I think that most code benefits from better variable names. For ease of typing and for historical reasons, abbreviated variable names are in the C and makefile domain:

BIN = BINary executable

SRCS = SouRCe fileS

OBJS = OBJect fileS

DEPS = DEPendency fileS

CFLAGS = C compiler FLAGS passed as arguments to the C compiler

LDFLAGS = linker or Link eDitor FLAGS passed as arguments to the linker
I think "into" is the new part as opposed to "onto".
Serial killing is the extreme example, but is police ineptitude and prosecutor's fallacy more common in this world than rape, murder, assault and battery, burglary, etc?
That seems even less reasonable to me. You're saying that you use snopes regularly, presumably because of their dedication to accurate reporting, and are frustrated that you can't correct on "something as trivial as 'shaking a soda can'" because the only thing you were able to provide them was anecdata?

It sounds like the reasons why you happily send "you're wrong because snopes" links are the reasons why you're unable to correct them and to me this sounds like the system is working correctly.
I actually think Martin Shkreli is right to a degree. A business has to profit to be successful but not necessarily profit by any means necessary. As this can be a short sighted strategy.

The reality is that these news outlets abandoned their stakeholders and instead decided to push an agenda for a myopic few. The reality is that these news outlets should be seeking truth and not pushing an agenda. Truth will always build you wider coalition and thus profits will ensue.
What if I want to use makefiles on a mac? Make of macs is not gnu make.

/edit: bugger, after a make --version on a mac, i've got:

GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Back to the begining, why is this bloody thing not working...
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There's also an asymmetry of information and of control. In a downturn, Bezos has full visibility into where all of Amazon's COGS is going, and a number of levers he can turn to axe some of that spending, reduce future investment, or shed unprofitable business lines. Wall Street has virtually zero of that information (they get the consolidated financial statements, but none of the detailed breakdown) and zero of that leverage. Therefore, it's significantly less risky to Bezos to run on razor-thin margins than it is to an Amazon shareholder.

Same reason that founding a startup is significantly less risky for a world expert in its problem domain than for a random investor in that startup. The founder has full knowledge of the domain and a lot of levers they can pull to adjust strategy; the investor has none of that. That's also why many VCs require terms to reduce their risk (liquidation preferences, participation, anti-dilution, warrants) or increase their control (board seats, voting rights, information rights).
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Do you have any link handy to elaborate on this? Because when I create a K8s cluster I define their size and number (and autoscale, same as with AWS autoscale), I don’t know how k8s can spin up smaller nodes in a different way than say, AWS
Traditional stereolithography is layer-based like FDM printers. Per the article, this solidifies the whole object all at once. If I understand it correctly, it does this by rotating the resin vat and controlling the UV light to expose the whole object evenly.
Is this a reference to the journalist harassing meme that is based on a lie that journalists some how dismissed coal workers by saying it's their fault for being poor and they should just learn to code (this never happened)?

The meme that's used by far right 4channers as way to aggressively spam and harass journalists to the point where they want to kill themselves, while maintaining a way to step back and say "stop being so sensitive, I'm just giving career advice!" Is this what you're referencing?

Sources:

1 - https://angrywhitemen.org/2019/01/30/learn-to-code-the-alt-r...

2 - https://newrepublic.com/article/153019/fetid-right-wing-orig...
I didn't imply it as a reference to today's Iran, but specifically to e.g. Parthian Persia.
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i think the moment Apple moves beyond stopping the violation to "punishing offenders" is the moment anti trust suits become likely. they need to tread lightly and they know it.
I didn't realize that CBC News was offered in the Detroit metro area. When I was a child growing up in the Canadian prairies, our CBS, NBC and ABC affiliates were Detroit based. Consequently, I watched a lot of Detroit news when I was a kid and names like Chuck Gaidica, Bill Bonds and Diana Lewis are as familiar to me as Canadian broadcasting icon Knowlton Nash.

I feel like I gained a lot of perspective and a different sense of the world through my exposure to Detroit news. And now, I'm happy to hear that kids in Detroit have the same opportunity, though in reverse.
Err, over an hour for a low resolution, 4” tall print? With what system?

It’s a neat evolution in resin printing, but not quite revolutionary (yet).
I disagree completely. That's the equivalent of saying property restitution is stupid because the real problem is why thieves steal.
Some titles have been popular due to tying into some trendy stuff (The Walking Dead), but really anything other than Disney comics (which are actually largely European) is invisible. It's funny how Don Rosa is a classic master here and Americans don;t even know the guy.
I think it could get worse but that’s just me.

I prefer an aggregate. Then I can derive what I think is the truth.

Trust is learned, anyway. Except for children— they often do as a default until a point in their lives.
Because the free movement of capital and goods is much more limited than that of EU or EEA members.
> G Suite is a joke compared to desktop Office

If there is one area where I've been consistently wrong, it is betting on "powerful/serious tools" rather than simple, ubiquitous things that handle most of what people need. 'Simpler' tends to win vs 'better'.
I confess, as a reformed English major, that I don't care much about authorial intent. If I did, then I'd probably have to destroy the joy that books like Ender's Game bring. To me, it's much more useful and no less true to pretend that books are independent of the author.

If your point is that Crichton is a jerk or a climate change denier, I don't disagree. It jibes with what I've heard. Much beyond that, I'm not sure it's possible for us to interpret his motivations accurately.
Small change proposal for the UART<->USB bridge: make Vio selectable between 3.3V/5V
> There's a feel-good statement elsewhere in the document about how the company won't disclose your info to third parties

Can a lawyer answer whether or not such promises apply to an acquiring company, should they ever be sold?
The point your making is that those with power have power. Which is a tautology. The point I'm making is that the qualifications for having power change constantly and unpredictably.

I do not think power being concentrated has anything to do with human nature, just the difficulty in taking action as a group. If you've even been in a meeting with a dozen people roughly of the same standing it takes a long while to decide anything. If this was a revolutionary situation you'd have the authoritarians already taking over the tv and radio stations before you've read the minutes from the last collectivist group meeting.

Even Athens and Rome realized this and would elect or appoint people with extraordinary power in a crisis.

When direct brain communication is invented I doubt we will see single individuals rise to power again.
That is effectively a decision to not have a family.
Light-powered 3D printer materializes objects all at once
> With a touchscreen or keyboard, allowing microscopic cameras to see you input it or read the thermal signatures off your input device afterwards? With your face or voice that are continuously being recorded from hundreds if not thousands of angles? Plugging in the future equivalent of a yubikey that someone can just steal from you? You're lucky if fMRIs don't become good enough to just pluck the information out of your brain as you think it.

You're basically describing a totalitarian Panopticon. A society like that should be fought by all means available, including physical force, so the question of legality of encryption is somewhat moot at that point.
Yes. The "Trusted Web Activities" (TWA) API referenced in this article is just a convenient way to turn a web page into an Android Activity. (An Activity is a screen in an Android app.)

They don't let you paste an URL into the Google Play Store and convert it to APK automagically. You still have to install Android Studio, build your app as an APK, and upload it.

You could do this before by coding up a full-screen WebView, but TWA is just nicer in a number of ways.

If your app is a paid app, you'll pay Google 30% of that. TWA offers no convenient way to do in-app purchases; if it did, you'd still have to pay Google 30% for those IAPs.
If I already have a web app with a built-in recurring subscription functionality, I shouldn't be required to abandon it just to get it published on the Google Play Store.

The entire idea of allowing PWAs on Google Play Store seems to be a part of Google's wider product strategy, which includes ChromeOS and Android Go, where using a native app is not always the best choice.

Microsoft Store has already been doing this for a while for a different reason: a lack of Windows alternatives to the most popular mobile apps.

Apple, on the other hand, has no business case for integrating PWAs into the App Store, because they would just reduce its revenue.
I already have a day job but have enough free time to be able to work additional hours during the week. So basically trying to complement my income to be able to support my sister through college.
Nio smart car comes to a halt leaving the driver stuck inside
> You might also rely on sites that are built with Microsoft technologies (Stack overflow for example)

... which is also reliant on HAProxy, ElasticSearch and Redis, but that part doesn't get quoted so much.

https://stackexchange.com/performance
I will say this, their customer support was top-notch for the Win 1. They were known to send replacement keyboards, fans, and even system boards, well past the original warranty date. They also still give out proper Windows 10 license keys for devices that came with invalid keys, even years later. I know this because the one I bought from eBay was not activated, and when I tried to activate with the supplied key it refused. I emailed their support and within a few hours had a working valid key.
That is literally the exact reason why ever storing such data nonanonymously is a bad idea. It can and will be used.
Nope, and by toy I really mean toy. It can handle a single type of query and that's it. Maybe one day I'll polish it up.
>>I don't necessarily want to be a rank-and-file developer at a startup or big co

If above is true- is paying $10k+ giving up 3 mos. of salary worth it to you especially if you can learn same material a bit slower at a community college for almost free?
> damage to the computing industry

What are you talking about? Citation needed.
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> TWAs work only with Chrome today, but the API might be also cloned by other browsers, such as Samsung Internet, Edge or Firefox in the future.

It's too bad it's Chrome-only now. But very good that using another engine is even possible.
Not so much that, just a bit of curious wonder / hope / sadness about the fact that I personally have interpersonal resources that took careful observation to learn that other people do not.

By other people I am including my mother, who is the nicest lady you could imagine, but regularly gets shamed and embarrassed by the medical establishment. This stuff affects her.

It doesn't affect me. I will either escalate all the way to a physical fistfight if I have to or just suddenly decide all of a sudden it's not worth my time and just walk away and forget about it. Usually a bit of both because I typically find that the dynamics I thought I was dealing with going in weren't really there and I'm just acting silly.

Either way I get answers, darnit, and I don't stop until I get them. Same hacker mentality applied to the interpersonal realm. I don't really know how to articulate this mindset, that you really don't have to put up with this behavior, that you can have power over the situation, not even to my own mother.
That’s why only the annually vesting RSUs are counted in total compensation, not the total grant. If you make 200k base and get 400k/4 years of equity, then your TC is 300k, not 600k.
The whole reason this works better in "traditional" SLS printers do it layer by layer is to remove any accuracy issues caused by partially cured resin from existing passes. If you're shooting UV through a bunch of non-homogenous resin, you'll see some really bad warping, distortion.
If you're a new hire, getting a $300k/year offer is rare for L3 and possible for L4 if you negotiate. If you've been around for a few years and performed well, it's possible to cross $300k/year as L3/L4 given how much FAANG stocks have grown.
For what it’s worth, I got my start by learning from good hackers that I found via IRC.

Nowadays you might want to look into various Discord servers like CodingDen. It’s nice to have someone to ask questions of.
Spoiler warning! They go into RDR2 plot details for anyone who’s currently playing it.
Whenever you see the governments touting this 'public private partnership' this is exactly what it is.
I hope you are enjoying dystopian orwellian today of monopolistic surveillance capitalism.

Maybe these publications devolved into the caricature because they are starving for the income, they just can't support good journalism? They are walking dead of journalism. Do you even realize that there is no creation of content on the internet outside of youtube, FB, and legacy publishers? No new smart websites for kids. No new media networks. No VC investments in media. It's a wasteland of journalism.

And yes, people are forced to use Google and FB because they are no alternatives. Don't tell me duckduckquack is just a click away.
Ask HN: Vultr resolving non-existent domains?
Hello, everyone! By chance, I happened to notice that my vultr server, and many new ones deployed solely to test this, resolve non-existent domains as long as the hostname and label end in some TLD (tested .com, .net and .org). This issue does not happen for dotless or blank hostnames.

For instance:

$ ping sjdisdji.net
PING sjdisdji.net.net (34.250.90.28): 56 data bytes
$ ping doasidjaoidja8dy78y7ahduh.org
PING doasidjaoidja8dy78y7ahduh.org.net (23.23.86.44): 56 data bytes

The seemingly random resolution also happens with some CC TLDs, such as uk, fr, ar. Depending on the server it may or may not resolve .com or .org. It happens at least with OpenBSD 6.4, Ubuntu 18.10, and at least choosing London or Amsterdam.

I reported this (OTH-21BCZ) and was pretty disappointed with their response. First they asked me whether the issue persisted upon changing `/etc/reolv.conf` to

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

It did, and their conclusion was that "This is an issue with software running on your instance and not the infrastructure. I have been unable to reproduce this issue on my end on my own instances." Just to be clear, I tried this all on brand new deploys, with nothing on them, so I can't conceive how this could be "an issue with software running on my instance"...

Can you guys check if you see the same thing? If so, please let me know your location and OS.

Thank you very much in advance!