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IME this isn't really true on desktop machines. I've had a few crashes/issues over the years:

* Trying to open a KDE app halfway through a KDE upgrade - crash.

* Trying to open a new tab in firefox after an update - crash.

* Updating an arch system - sound broke when rebooted, that was a frustrating holiday.

I usually reboot after an update if I see anything big like KDE/firefox/gnome/system being updated just in case.
There's really no need for more than one hand on the wheel unless you're turning, in which case you shouldn't be using radio controls anyway.
It is a way at least if not the only way but I agree that it is a decent counterforce.
It doesn't matter if Firefox has caught up if their usage share is still dropping. With Microsoft moving to a Chromium based browser as well, Firefox is very close to being irrelevant. More than 90% of the market will be Webkit or Blink.

In my opinion, despite their technical achievements, Firefox is currently headed down the same path Opera went down before they became essentially a Chromium reskin. Their dropping usage share is negatively affecting sites compatibility with Firefox, which is the only reason I went back to Chrome after giving Quantum a try.
It will be a hit with business people.

Blackberry and before that Nokia Communicator were hits. When you need to work with the phone, like write emails, instead of just browsing the social media, small keyboard is great.
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> I think OP was trying to say that stuff with more moving parts has more points of failure than stuff with no moving parts

That's a reasonable point, but it seems they've chosen to illustrate the point with an example that isn't true.
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This attitude might have some validity if updates were of higher quality, and they could be rolled back at will.

But the truth is, these days, updates are rolling the dice with your computer. Major features are removed, and new bugs introduced. Not just with Windows 10, but with other software like Chrome.

Why not allow updates to be rolled back? Surely, if updates were so desirable, then nobody would want to undo them. It is because it would be admitting that some people might not want updates, among other reasons.

And so we live in a world where we can no longer rely on our computers. A setup that worked perfectly for you yesterday might be completely different when you wake up. Some bugs get fixed, new ones are introduced, except that I don't know what they are. It creates a kind of learned helplessness with computers.
Is Japan’s population currently 1/10th of its peak?
Love the feedback about curated book store with staff recommendations.
Authors interviews is something that I already have on my list so you just ensured me of heading into the right direction. Appreciate the comment.
Material Design was an evolution from the flat design wave (it's still flatter than peak skeumorphism, but it's not really flat.) I'm not sure that the continuing flat design trend is so much of a bad copy of MD as a trend which preceded MD and continued outside of it.
The BicycleDutch YouTube channel is great: https://www.youtube.com/user/markenlei

He covers lots of bicycle-oriented infrastructure projects and history throughout the Netherlands.
Looking back, growing up in/near Delft was probably one of the best experiences in my life. Being able to get anywhere in our smallish (100k population) city within 10 minutes (and usually less) by bicycle had some great advantages when I was in my teens. Without the infrastructure, I arguably wouldn't have had the same level of independence that lead to some of the best experiences in my early life. Like biking to school independently, frequent games of DnD with friends across town and other social activities, going to library daily to play with computers, drinking alcohol for the first time and being able to (safely) get home, etc.

In contrast bringing up my own kids in car-centric California seems quite more limiting. I like to brag to my American friends how I would bike to school by myself at age 9 and how it would be completely impossible here. Now, I don't think we should necessarily try to compare or convert every place to one like Delft but experiencing this increased/free mobility early on in life definitely changes ones perspective and arguably stimulates greater independence.
Indeed; they clearly haven't solved accuracy. But they've done a remarkable job of cleanliness. In particular, the close-in phase noise (e.g., at offsets from carrier < 1 KHz) these BAW-endowed parts are amazing.
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Steve Jobs answered this question back in 2007[0]

> Now, why do we need a revolutionary user interface. Here’s four smartphones, right? Motorola Q, the BlackBerry, Palm Treo, Nokia E62 — the usual suspects. And, what’s wrong with their user interfaces? Well, the problem with them is really sort of in the bottom 40 there. It’s this stuff right there. They all have these keyboards that are there whether or not you need them to be there. And they all have these control buttons that are fixed in plastic and are the same for every application. Well, every application wants a slightly different user interface, a slightly optimized set of buttons, just for it.

> And what happens if you think of a great idea six months from now? You can’t run around and add a button to these things. They’re already shipped. So what do you do? It doesn’t work because the buttons and the controls can’t change. They can’t change for each application, and they can’t change down the road if you think of another great idea you want to add to this product.

> Well, how do you solve this? Hmm. It turns out, we have solved it. We solved in computers 20 years ago. We solved it with a bit-mapped screen that could display anything we want. Put any user interface up. And a pointing device. We solved it with the mouse. We solved this problem. So how are we going to take this to a mobile device? What we’re going to do is get rid of all these buttons and just make a giant screen.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN4U5FqrOdQ&t=323
Why, though? Let's say I'm making a game. Browsers web workers and WebGL. Why shouldn't I target that universal platform that will allow people to play on Macs, PCs, Linux and all major mobile platforms?

It just seems very odd to draw lines in the sand that don't need to be there. How is any of it bad design or an "anti-pattern"?
How did you manage to use emojis on HN?
I know a bunch of ladies who did LuLa Roe.

It's not that they are more prone to falling for the business side of it, it's that they were attracted to the company for reasons besides the money they could make.

All of them were extremely happy LulaRoe customers BEFORE they became sales people.

I think if an MLM targeted the people on hacker news with a product that could make a solid side income through Programming meet-ups, mechanical keyboards, or video games, it would get a lot of us. Even if 2/3's of the people who attempted to make money the same way lost money on the MLM.
jolla has an "other half" keyboard like that for their phone but it's running sailfish not android.
Thanks for commenting. My comment was meant to to be slightly exagerated but since your response is grounded, I 'll rephrase mine too :)

The evangelist tweets (I won't dig them because it's not cool) are 100% real, but keep in mind they were meant to be humorous and not official stance.

Firefox 3 got released in 2008, but firefox 3.5 (arguably the best browser at the time) was released a year later. Mozilla released many firefox updates in the meantime I believe they did so even after firefox 4 was released (no forced update from 3.5 to 4).

Firefox 4 was delayed to my understanding due to the whole html5 hype and trying to support as many of the new standards as possible (this info is from twitter so it might be wrong).

Lots of projects in limbo, not much different than google pushing NaCl, Dart, webkit prefixes. It looks bad only when paired with the general low activity. There were some chat logs leaked of mozilla people talking about adding webkit prefix support to firefox. Some where getting very angry over this. Today firefox supports the webkit prefixes :p must have been a multi-year argument.

Lack of mp4 support was due to MPEG LA owning the rights to h264. Mozilla didn't wanna pay the patent owners, in the end cisco created openh264 and mozilla used that, in 2014 nonetheless.
Webm was not added because it wasn't a web standard. In my opinion both h264 and webm events got dealt in poor judgement but whatever.

The Yahoo change was due to an expensive multi-year contract between Mozilla and Yahoo. Money before users. I remember people defending it by saying that yahoo search is powered by Bing, not by yahoo themselves.

In general mozilla used to be this awesomely perceived company... no not company, foundation! They organized things like place giant firefox stickers in your city and gain online fame, and sending a cake to the IE team with every major release they did. Spearheaded the whole open web movement. It was Richard Stallman with Charisma 10! And then.. kinda suddenly stopped and became more like the Apache Foundation. Cool and all but slow and old.
Pilot Wave Theory has been disproved as a valid basis for the dual split experiment. https://www.quantamagazine.org/famous-experiment-dooms-pilot...
Here’s the thing, you’ve got a bigger phone anyway, look at the size of iPhones now compared to iPhone 5. I loved the smaller form factor as it could be used with only the thumb.

I’ve surrendered and now own a “manbag” so u can bend at my hips properly when carrying my phone.
I also would prefer a phone with a slide out physical keyboard. But due to economies of scale, manufacturers now want to produce a single hardware design for worldwide sale. It's just too expensive to produce separate models for every language.
It has been done but I can't find a link to a modern example, only those before Snowflake IDs.
I'm not sure an anecdote about about a software project failing twice and succeeding on a third try can be used as evidence the the language of the third try enabled something to be pragmatically possible. I'm sure rust helped, but I'm also very confident that I could architect even a large scale project in C++ well enough that it would remain modular and progress could remain steady.
Really? No one going to mention brave.com. It’s chromium based.
While true, the larger generators used in power plants are usually more efficient than a standard internal combustion engine, burning less fuel for the same power. Additionally, there are fewer pollutants because you get a lot less partially combusted hydrocarbons. Furthermore, a lot of power plants are going to natural gas, which emits less CO₂.
The example in the article appears to have the same screen size as a current-gen flagship phone. If you're going to keep the same screen, battery, etc and add a keyboard, it pretty much has to be bulkier.
GPU drivers are insane complicated beasts. While doing my advanced graphics, OpenGL with my nvidia card has locked my machine many times.

WebGL propagates that. There’s nothing chrome can do, since those webgl calls are essentially proxies to the GPU which is also used to display the rest of OS

Most GPUs don’t have a strong sandbox, and things blow up.
The problem was I was so used to Firebug after using it for so many years that I just kept using it out of inertia up until the day Mozilla dropped it from Firefox entirely. Then I just moved over to Firefox's developer tools (still out of inertia).
That explains pretty much any follow up questions I could have had. It's a really nice offer from you.
I don't work 24 hours but my computer often work while I sleep.
The HTC Tilt 2 is still my favorite phone ever. Superb keyboard and the slide/tilt mechanism was rock solid and quite pleasing to use too. WinMo, being as hackable as it was, allowed me to remap keys at will, which made it a great mini ssh device.
> For me, the problem with your remark is that it's proposing some kind of alteration of message (lying, in essence) by "a group" which is not really identified, but might be "climate scientists" - but with no actual evidence.

So you disagree with the grandparent post's statement that "But it seems this fact is usually omitted so as not to complicate the intended message."?

There are plenty of large, prominent climate activist groups making prominent public statements. I've never heard a single one of them discuss this aspect. (Contrast with scientific papers, many of which do mention it and which are not what we were talking about).
Oof, didn't notice that. The 2% penalty seems to be relative to the entire chip's power consumption with the radio on and heavy CPU activity. If you compare with the 680 uA specified typical power consumption with the radio off and CPU idle but no other power-saving features activated, that extra couple of hundred microamps seems like a much bigger deal.
Aside from it not working very well for the reason dbt00 mentioned, wouldn't it only work on captive portals that don't block a DoH server? That seems unlikely, at least until DoH is much more widespread.
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The team said it, not me. (I realize I didn’t make that clear before) There was a talk at a Rust conference about it in detail.

Modularity was not the issue. Complexity combined with concurrency was. Rust’s compile time checks was what made it feasible to be so aggressive without the bugs.
> Put any user interface up. And a pointing device. We solved it with the mouse. We solved this problem.

They solved the problem... by putting "exit, maximize, minimize" buttons at the top-right (or top-left) of every window. By putting "file, view, edit" dropdowns at the top-left of ever application. By putting "back, forward, refresh" at the top of the browser.
I used to be able to type in a lightning-fast way, while looking ahead (not down!) and walking quickly, on the Sidekick. I had every Sidekick model including a big bag of parts since, well, the older ones weren't super reliable. That said, I'd give anything for that experience again. In fact, as I typed this on an Android phone, I probably hit backspace at LEAST 50 times, corrected about 10 words due to typos (wprds showed up, with words as an option, etc.)

The size of my thumb covers about 8 keys.

The lack of physical keys may be amazing from a UI perspective, but for people who type quickly it absolutely sucks.

What's a shame is there's no choice.
That's only for some of the cold war tech; modern missiles don't use a ballestic trajectory but instead actively fly a path optimized for avoiding point-defense
As a long-time owner of HTC TyTN II and Sony Xperia Pro, both with sliding keyboard which I absolutely loved, I don't think we need them anymore.
Back then, it made sense. Displays were smaller and less accurate. But now with larger displays and smarter autocompletes, I'm not willing to trade sliding keyboard for additional weight and higher price.
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I really like the concept...but where do people pronounce algebra that way? It sounds like a computer trying to sound normal (to my ear. I'm more of a Al-Ja-bra kind of guy, not Al-Ga-bra)
I'm surprised! I know at least a few friends that have enabled the accessibility mode home button because their hardware button is broken. Obviously way, way more people have their screens break but in my anecdotal experience a broken home button is not uncommon.
Puffery is a form of lying to consumers, Musk's problem is with laws around lying to investors.

“Capitalism” wasn't named “capitalism” by it's opponents because it protects consumers and leaves capitalists out in the cold.
No I think it's scored like the stories are in that new comments get a bonus to get to the top but as they age they're weighted on upvotes.
I would love a slider keyboard phone again.
As a long time Firefox user I think the change in its extensions APIs is one of the greatest moves they did and I’m glad they did it.

Chrome’s extensions were isolated, easy to develop and had a permissions system in place.

To this day Firefox is still lagging behind in its isolation. For example Chrome can disable extensions in Incognito, but Firefox does not.

Also if you’re not paying attention, Chrome won and it’s nearly a monopoly. This means browser extensions get developed for Chrome first.
Having similar APIs helps with migration.

I view the change as a good thing because I can finally develop my own extensions without headaches.
You can learn to type very quickly on a touchscreen keyboard and work within and be helped by the autocorrect. If you’re typing a couple of sentences why does it even matter that you’re not up to full keyboard typing speed? Sure, if you’re typing an essay, but why would you be doing that on your phone anyway?
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It seems to me that the explanation of why average individual wage growth is higher than AHE (the reported number) makes total sense. You have to weight it based on worker age because as they point out, wages grow faster early in working life, and slower late in working life. That means that the adjusted and weighted etc AHE is the correct measure.

Why does the headline slyly contradict the article's conclusions? Seems weird.
Windows is my main dev environment ever since they came out with the Ubuntu vm and shell. I'm surprised your updates are so infrequent. I have some reboot event mess with me every couple weeks. Granted I tend to roam away from my computer when I'm thinking, but it's much more common for me.
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This is great! Ever since I briefly worked with .rmd files in combination with RStudio I had it in the back of my mind that it would be nice to have something like it (but lightweight) for Markdown with Python and pipe the output through Pandoc. Jupyter Notebooks are nice, but it gets hacky to use your own editor and the file format is bad for git diffs. I'm definitely going to give Codebraid a solid try.
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I worked with this guy for a few weeks well before he started his criminal organization. Seemed bright but odd.
>Starting with a document engine and bolting-on a language hasn't worked so well.

Even given the flaws of javascript as a language and the ugliness and perils of the web app model, it's still easily the most successful and widely used application platform ever. It's a stretch to say it hasn't worked very, very well, despite itself.

And it wasn't really "bolted on." The script tag was introduced in HTML 4, it, and the use of scripting in web pages, is as valid an element as everything else. People can reasonably disagree about the utility of javascript in the web, especially since it goes way beyond simply being a way to add simple interactivity to the DOM, but running applications on the web is not a violation of the web's intent, it is a part of the web's intent.

>I think some kind of emulator wrapped inside of a full-blown VM (...)

If we don't screw it up, I hope this is where webassembly will lead us in a few years.
This was great! I can't imagine how many quarters I dropped into those things when I was young.
You're right, but I also had health in mind that high of a work load over a period of time.
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> Lakes can't sue but people could.

People can sue, for damages to the people, not to the lake.
I suspect I don't understand exactly what you are distinguishing here.

If your identical twin has schizophrenia, there is a 48% chance that you will have it too. This is compared to the chance of the general population, which is something like 1%. This feels like something is physically wrong in those who are schizophrenic. I don't know how else you would get that kind of result.
Yeah, a lot of the work on average-case SAT is directly informed by what industrial benchmarks look like.

Further from "core complexity," a lot of the work on machine learning primitives is also directly informed by instances from practice. See the "manifold hypothesis" :

https://deepai.org/machine-learning-glossary-and-terms/manif...
Even Rocket Scientists - https://www.npr.org/2011/07/11/137677198/end-of-shuttle-prog...

Always plan for a rainy day, and don't take it personally.
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This is a pretty big change for digital design. With high accuracy 48MHz clocks on chip, parts that do USB become that much cheaper and more reliable. Single chip USB-3.1 chips become possible as well.

The low phase noise is something that makes them very useful for wireless systems that are all software radios these days anyway. Phase noise, or clock jitter, results in difficulty in receiving closely spaced signals. And since many (if not most) of the modern wireless protocols today are multi-channel, it means you can make wireless protocols that support more clients in the same spectrum, or more data to clients in the same spectrum.

I am hoping that as a minimum TI releases a series of 4 pin oscillators to replace the ones like from Vectron that can be very finicky to keep working precisely.

The only thing I didn't see was what is their vibration resistance standard? The small 'can' oscillators can be pushed of their center frequency by yelling at them ;-) It is a really hard problem to both secure a quartz crystal from outside vibration influences and still allow it to vibrate at its intended frequency!
I think that we've gotten some fantastic UI/UX designs that came from having to work within the limitation of pre-existing controller inputs. You also have the benefit of being able to assume that the user has some level of competency with the controller. Even with Jobs' example, UI/UX on computers generally remains the same within a given ecosystem as changing them forces your users to re-learn things that they already knew how to do. Individual products on that system mostly congregate to using the same patterns too so that they can reap the benefits of users being pre-trained to look for things to perform specific actions.
10 tons of boiling hot water? What could possible go wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
Yes. Unfortunately that term is taken by some cryptography thing. A proof assistant or interactive theorem prover to be more precise.
Prisencolinensinainciusol, by Adriano Celentano (he's Italian).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yj_N5_P5qI (skip ahead to 1:37)

Incidentally, this song turned up in one of the more recent episodes of Fargo. I had to explain it to my daughter, who is a big fan of the show and was impressed that I knew of the song. Meanwhile I was impressed that I was able to find the original for her on YouTube almost instantly, despite my not having even thought of it in decades, probably.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yttuyIy9z-E
Great idea.

Learners can interact with book.