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What is the draw of wireless charging? What is it that I'm missing?

If you haven't figured it out and you're happy with a cable, stick with it. There is no greater disservice in life than relieving yourself from something you're happy and perfectly content with in search of something better. In the worst case you become acutely aware of the downsides of both methods and you're no longer happy with either.
> You can turn off notifications to sms or instant message services too.

That's absolutely right, but then you can turn them right back on again. That's the factor that makes all the difference. With Pony there's no way to turn those notifications on and off, so you don't have to regulate yourself.
> A lot of people aren't aware of their options.

Then I'm happy to inform you, and you can pass it along.

> That starting a business is super simple is something that I had no idea about

It can be even simpler. Go door to door and offer to mow lawns, or clean, or tutoring. When I was a kid I'd mail order candy that wasn't available locally and sell it at school. My brother would tune up peoples' cars in their driveways.
LOL!

Just leaving this here:
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Aligning a Lightning cable in the dark without scratching the stainless steel iPhone frame is a pain in the butt.
They can answer whenever they like, but when I choose to read their reply I will have lost some of my train of thought or maybe lost interest in the topic. It doesn't allow for the same quality, or at least type, of discourse in my experience.

>IM is not a good medium

It certainly was a good medium - I had lots of great conversations on old IM services and so did countless others. See this related thread from the other day [1]

You could talk to many people at the same time, unlike a phone call. You could more easily do it at the same time as your homework, watching a film, or doing something else on the internet.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19370281
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well just today i sped up a simple algorithm by a factor of two or three on larger data sets by simply turning on parallelism in a for loop, which distributes iterations across cores and then merges them afterwards. so multicore performance came for free.

in other instances, when programming concurrent programs, i have no worry of performance losses because, again, multicore support comes for free. that is more qualitative, but it is important. and it means my concurrent programs are actually concurrent.
Since HN guidelines don't seem to discourage, here's the video of the shot: https://youtu.be/8-sWzC56df4

It's mostly SFW as it shows a police officer firing one riffle shot from quite afar (20m I'd guess). But knowing that man died, it's sensitive.

From wikipedia:

A Wichita police officer standing on the other side of the street fired a single round from a Colt AR-15 at Finch, piercing his heart and right lung.
This is what I never understood, even slightly. Why not just give an iPod / iPhone dock without all the wireless bullshit? I prefer a dock as it holds phone at a handy angle, syncs, and doesn't have the myriad of drawbacks of bluetooth.

Smartphone battery life is so shit, on every model, that I always plug my phone in. Even if the cable / socket is only going to be around for minutes. So no saving here. In the days of docks, I dropped phone on dock every time I was at my desk.

My first few phone models (Motorola StarTAC etc) had a battery life in weeks, and I usually had a charger/dock with space for keeping the phone and a spare battery fully charged.

So from here it sounds like you've made a feature of going backwards at a rate of knots.
And that ain't for everyone.
There're so many loopholes:

> Spinning ferromagnets (such as the Levitron) can—while spinning—magnetically levitate using only permanent ferromagnets

> Pseudo-levitation constrains the movement of the magnets usually using some form of a tether or wall. This works because the theorem shows only that there is some direction in which there will be an instability. Limiting movement in that direction allows levitation with fewer than the full 3 dimensions available for movement (note that the theorem is proven for 3 dimensions, not 1D or 2D).
Just chiming in to add a similar but different experience. Been freelance for nearly 20 years and I've always lived in major US cities but very rarely do I take on local clients. This is absolutely intentional. I don't care if the client is on the other side of the planet or 6 blocks away, I work when and where I want with no expectation of "on-site".

Of course, if I happen to like the client personally, that's another story. But those visits are off the clock.
I believe it's a particularity but french speaking people use `++` to end the conversation.

It comes from `À plus` which roughly translate to `See you later` but uses plus sign because of the sound.

It's even funnier because you used to write a single `+` then the other party replied with `++` but that usage has fallen and I only see the double plus sign these days.
I first discovered air charging many years ago. I was in the office, and outside wad a digger working on the road, and its engine noise was causing the walls to vibrate. I thought, i could put some kind of capicitor on the wall positioned to exploit the vibration, and charge my phone with that. Brilliant i thought. I got to work immediatly on the invention. And then realised that running a noisy tractor outside everytime i charge my phone, is going to cost me significantly more money than using the supplied usb charging cable and adapter.
> Always having access to all kinds of online content makes you constantly exercise your self control by itself.

Oh I think I understand now: yes, exactly, and that can be pretty tough. I don't understand why everything needs to demand your self control. Specifically, why do these technologies that purportedly help us actually force us to discipline ourselves? I think that should be our first clue that these technologies aren't actually doing what technology is for, which is helping us, making us better, increasing our various capabilities. Instead many of these technologies quite literally have the opposite effect. But I love technology and believe in technology in principle, so I created an email platform that, unlike basically everything else, does not make you exercise self control and actually works to improve you.
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Apropos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
well, trade offs are trade offs because then one has to worry about intraprocess communication. can you elaborate on security exploits? i would assume a closed off system with interprocess communication would be less vulnerable than that with intraprocess communication, which seems like it could be intercepted. but i do not know much about security.

process crashes are of course a problem in terms of bringing down the whole process, but that generally isn’t a problem for me.
Thanks for clarifying.

Do you have a blog or is there another way to contact you? I'm interested in what you wrote in your profile.
The very first line is: "Head of state, Hitler" I think that says enough?
The bottom of the article confirms that there was no meningitis, just a "respiratory illness".
If you want to be the best cyclist in the world, training for it isn't enough, you need that extra 1% advantage genetics.

But for most everything else in life, you can be plenty good at what you want to do if you're willing to train for it. You don't have to be the best programmer in the world to make quite a good living by programming. It's hardly necessary to be the best businessman ever to run a good business. Etc.

Oh, and on the internet, you can be ugly as a mud brick and it won't have one iota of influence over your success or failure.

Maybe take inventory and look at what you can do, rather than obsessing about not looking like Keanu Reeves. Even so, Peter Dinklage, Danny DeVito, Kathy Bates, Bette Davis, are not the beautiful people. I've met a few movie actors in person, and without the makeup, lighting, and director, they look like ordinary schmucks.
I have a quad lock desk mount with Qi charger attachment I use at my work desk. It's wonderful and fulfils a similar use case that you have specified here. I can quickly attach the phone and it's charging... often charging all day as I work. I also have a Qi Ikea charger next to it that is often used while I am doing other activities away from my desk. The Quad Lock desk mount is great for seeing notifications coming in, and the Ikea charger is handy if I need a quick top-up during the day and I'm in a rush and drop it in place.
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But there are red/green dots in the chat pop-up on facebook.

I believe mobility and the smartphone made it asynchronous because every knew you could be answering on your phone but not be with your phone in your hand all the time whereas old school messaging app expected you to be sat down in front of a computer and it usually meant you'd be available for some time.

Concerning invisibility I always thought it was a cool factor: "I am not here, don't need to be" combined with "I am not wasting time on messenger" and a lurking/stalking thing.
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Nah.

Some questions are time relevant. I need an answer before x, unless y, if z. I don't want to write all the caveats every unnecessary time. Then how long do I sit around in case you certainly, maybe, probably, possibly got it?

Since texts and earliest days of ICQ just about everyone I know opens with ping, answer with ack or nack / silence. Super easy to decide whether to even ask... :)
Your argument could equally apply to some kind of dock/cradle. With the added advantage of it being propped up into a better reading position, and the possibility of a wired data connection.

They never seem to have taken off though. My only guess is because it would only fit one phone/ trap a manufacturer into a form factor.
I think the extremeness of content is just another anti-free speech talking point. I'm sure there is vile stuff on youtube but if it actually comes down in these threads are are videos by Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan and Tim Pool. These people are simply not extreme and smearing them this is way is only about shutting down opposing ideas.

I also don't doubt that you can (sometimes) get to really extreme content within four clicks but we have to keep in mind that the recommendation lists can be 40 videos long. So just roughly estimating it: if 1% of videos was extreme content because 1% of the population are extremist you would expect, on average, to see roughly one and a half extreme video if you sampled 4 * 40 random videos.

In addition, just doing a quick test with Jordan Peterson in incognito mode I get the following very telling result.

If I click a video called "Jordan Peterson EDUCATES College Professors In An Epic Q & A", I get mostly other Jordan Peterson videos with some Ben Shapiro sprinkled in.

If I click on "Jordan Peterson Destroys Q&A | 25 February 2019" I suddenly get a wide range of people suggested with the common thread being that the title also contains "DESTROY", "SNAP", "OWNS" and so on. This makes me think the 'problem' might just be that people who keep clicking on the most outrageous titles will eventually see the most outrageous videos. From a technical perspective I would say that is working as intended.
Nice! It looks like it reduces your steps to:

- Encounter a status code in some code

- Go to https://statuses.now.sh/

- Type in the status code

- Read the explanation

That's 66% of the steps. It's harder to remember that URL than wikipedia though. You could remove a step if you could easily put the number in the url without having to remember the "code" query param. Just go directly to https://statuses.now.sh/418.

I live in the terminal. If I'm investigating a status code then I have a terminal open. That's not true for everyone, but it'd be super cool if I could `curl https://statuses.now.sh/418` and get plaintext information about the status right from my terminal! You could implement that by checking the user agent to see if it's curl/postman/etc.. or requiring a .json or .txt extension at the end. Either way, it'd cut my workflow down to three steps:

- Encounter a status code in some code

- `curl https://statuses.now.sh/418`

- Read the explanation.

It also allows me to set an alias/function in my bashrc so that I don't have to remember the url.

As for the svelte part, I haven't used it and don't really do frontend dev very often...but I bet you'd get more specific feedback on the code itself if you listed a git repo people could use to check things out.
I really wonder that FORTRAN is so bad - I think that they didn’t try good compiler, like Intel’s
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I wonder if anyone here will be working hard in April to implement the new era in software?
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Yes. The distinction I made was meant to be between calls that end up calling into the system and ones that do not (like strtok()). I agree with what you say and my statement was exactly that the stable APIs into the system offered by POSX are mostly unproblematic.
> I think another contributing factor to the decline in quality of IM conversations is the use of phone keyboards. They are so much worse to type on than a real keyboard that I believe it changes the nature and quality of conversations people have considerably, for the worse.

I am not so sure about that. I remember conversation from my 3310 and it was way shorter blip of words. I love word drawing, it speeds up my writing by a 5x factor (or 3x or 10x, don't know).

The thing is you never really know if the other party is up for long sentences because you can't tell if he's behind a computer keyboard or a phone (or god forbids, a tablet). It usually means "I am on the phone, talk to you later")
Quicksearch for Germany for some political parties:

SPD: 880 adds

FDP: 96 adds

Grüne: 3 adds

Die Linke: 2

AFD: 2 adds

CSU: 1 add

CDU: 0 adds (?!)

Obviously there's a lot of subpages (youth organisations, state organisations) as well but I found it interesting that only one party (or two if you want to count FDP) seems to actively use FB adds linked to their official pages. Will be interesting to poke around in this dataset.

Looking for something downloadable. The dropdown for weekly CSV-files only shows USA, India and UK. I'm not sure it's that useful because it only contains "Page Name", "Disclaimer", "Amount Spent", "Number of Ads in Library".
The actual adds would be much more interesting :)
> They may be lucrative but since the same people were denied access to the more lucrative investments

Do you realize how much MSFT and AMZN went up since their IPO?

> neither do they have the right to restrict investment by rhe poor.

We can agree on that point, at least. Ironically, the government encourages the poor to invest in lottery tickets, which are not even investments, but straight up gambling.
Recreate your account using same email but with a different password, then file a formal erasure request on newly created account. That will result in deletion of both old and new accounts due to how Facebook's shadow profiling works.
Sure but even a language neutral ballpark could be useful to compare relative sizes. Is network or disk energy used insignificant wrt CPU or ram ? Is it roughly equivalent ?
Yeah, always funny to think about the fact that tyrannosaurs are much closer to iphones than to stegosaurs.
EDITED: She can also smell Alzheimer's, even before a person is about to develop it.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1107030/dementia...
The big news seems to be that makecontext et al are deprecated. Does anyone know why that happened? Lots of "green threads" / coroutines implementations are based on it.
In Don't Starve you can adjust the world generation parameters to turn off all the things that turn your game into misery: the hounds, the giant monsters, the meteorite rain in the end of the Dry Season in the Shipwrecked DLC, etc.

The only problem is of course you then don't gain any experience and can't unlock new characters. And you don't get materials for some advanced recipes (e.g. no Iron Wind without the Sealnado).

I think, the game goes out of its way to realise its creators' vision, but, like all game creators, the people at Klei who designed Don't Starve, have spent a lot more time designing and implementing than actually playing their game, at least compared to their players (players/ designers - play/design 100/00-20/80 percent of the time). So the end result is full of little details that are meant to add to the fun, but only contrive to make the game really annoying in places.

For instance- with the meteorite rain, the only thing you can really do is pick up enough light and food, move far away from your base and start running around like crazy to avoid the meteorites hitting you. You have to move away from your base because the meteorites home in on you so if you stay home, they'll obliterate it. And pray that the hounds don't pick that moment to make an appearance. I don't quite understand who is that supposed to be fun for. The designers, thinking of you running around like an idiot trying to avoid fiery death from the sky, I presume.

Also:permadeath (but, then again: savescumming). I'm OK with permadeath in Nethack, but in Don't Starve I make a serious commitment of time and energy to build a base, then something stupid happens, like a hound takes a lucky bite or a spider poisons me and I die a stupid death and lose everything I've built. That's not funny.
What you're saying seems to argue for a different corporate tax structure.

Tax a some based net employee pay and per employee (cover municipal costs like roads and such per employee).

Tax by land area usage (everyone should be taxed this)

Also by how much of the commons is affected (noise, exhaust, etc).
LastPass is also a subscription, but they technically have a free option as well which is not a subscription. At this point I'd buy any password manager that isn't a subscription, but in all likeliness I"ll just start using Apple keychain as it improves.
The sole reason I rooted my pixel 2 was to install a simple app which disables charging when I reach 80%. I get all the wins of not killing the battery by constantly saturating it, together with being able to leave it plugged in whenever I am at at my desk.

I so wish manufacturers would offer this option, for those primarily deskbound who do not relish ungluing their battery after a year
Well, 10-10-7 is outdated, code peasants are now joking about themselves as Double O Seven
> lol, my reply to you was too long. http://dpaste.com/3H8SRNZ

No problems. Simply split your post over multiple replies. There is a 2000 character limit per reply.
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I'm fairly certain the exception is Hong Kong. Japan, Taiwan, all allow returns under the standard policy.

Hong Kong probably does not allow it for other reasons. Maybe the policy gets exceptionally abused there.
All I really want is for Youtube to stop recommending me videos that I've already watched, or at least show the watched indicator on them consistently. It has always annoyed me to no end how Youtube seems to "forget" about videos that I've watched after a while, even though they're all still right there in my history.
I don't think they will like Factorio.
No, it doesn't.

"Because Hitler" is way too vague. It doesn't tell anything about which events seem similar to OP and how the situation in the country is evolving. Unless he means Putin is acting and thinking like Hitler which is a gross generalization and still doesn't tell much about what's happening.

By that reasoning it follows that OP should have left the country when Putin was first elected president in 1999.

edit: Also, Hitler became head of state in august of the previous year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_in_Germany

So, why 1935 and not 1934 ? But that's okay, OP clarified things https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19521632

I am curious why this is downvoted and people seem to be OK with the Hitler rising to power comparison when we usually have political conversation here that are going much much deeper in the details of things.
I actually think it's a good policy that while emotionally one may be hesitant to offer, but in reality it generates more profit for the retailer so long as they're not doing anything shady or anti-consumer in the first place.
I (an Apple fan) do not consider this a failure. I love it when companies take chances and go all in on pushing the envelope. Great products do emerge from these sorts of products.
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Many people are not like you. I personally don’t plug in at my desk even though a cable is there, as it’s one more thing to do. It’s also then tethered, meaning I have an extra step if I want to walk away and bring my phone with me. It’s also tethered meaning I have a loose cable now dangling in my way, which aside from functional issues is also ugly to look at.

I know many who almost never charge their phones, essentially always living at 5%.

Having a clean looking mat that’s permanently located where I can throw my phone on, without regard to position or orientation, would be awesome.
Good work! I think your blog is beautiful and the story is illustrative. I enjoyed reading it.
I suppose it depends on what your concept of threads is.

If you're designing a complex system, you're more likely to look at what platforms you must support, and then make up your own (less abstract) notion of threads such that it can be implemented on these systems and that it lets you take more advantage of the capabilities of these systems.

I'd be surprised for example if Postgres used pthreads and not its own abstraction, supported by platform-specific implementations.
TCAS[1] doesn't rely on GPS though, it builds a picture of the airspace around it through triangulation and radar-style ranging - I believe it only relies on altitude to be reported by the other aircraft, which is generally very accurate.

I suppose anything is possible, but I've never heard of it actually getting plane positions wrong due to sensor malfunctions. Far more likely is pilots not following, or improperly following, its warnings. It's not capable of assuming control over the plane, as far as I know...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...
This dude is amazing. Did not know about him. Thanks!
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This is the same Joy.
Well -Os can be a bit better. However I doubt program size is very significant compared to data size in Compiled languages by example.
That and the fact that GPS is not a primary navigation source for commercial aviation.

Just shows that being an expert in one domain means that ... you're an expert in one domain.
But the high taxes merely a symptom of high property values, which are the root cause of the problem. Taxes are necessary or there would be no incentive to repurpose properties for maximum utilization. In fact SF property tax rates are lower than most other states.

The problem is some sort of artificial constraint on property supply, making land both under-utilized and increasing its value to enrich the incumbent landowners! The bulk of the benefits goes to the landowners still—before, and during growth.

Taxes ensure that current landowners cannot keep all the profit, but if they owned the land before the prices skyrocketed, they're still the main beneficiaries of all the cash flowing in.
You just listed 2 more bits of proprietary crap though.