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The UI/UX design on the Zune HD is one of the best I've ever used on a handheld device. I also loved the contextual information that would be loaded on to the device for each artist. There'd be a short bio with links to different artists that were strong influences, and you could journey down a rabbit hole of discovery.
The hardware was also extremely satisfying for the time. I think it was the first oled screen I ever laid eyes on, and I was a big fan of the sharp angled metal body. The only thing I wasn't a fan of was the volume controls that couldn't be easily controlled while the device was inside your pocket. But other than that, the zune hd as a whole is one of the few pieces of tech that I felt joy interacting with every time I picked it up.
Is it better to be it's own site? People need to seek out a website, subreddits can be stumbled upon much more easily.
I agree with you.

However, I can't help but think that a shift in economics might be the method of changing over, maybe rather quickly.
That's the most distasteful thing of all for me.

15,896 people died that day, and no one (outside Japan) gives a shit because there was some radiation leakage and property damage.
I'm sorry, they what? How recently was this? I was on r/nosleep's mod team and I don't recall the admins ever mentioning this to us.

(They did reach out to us to try and organize a live, in-person r/nosleep Halloween event, only to eventually ghost us about it. Twice.)
I don't think that follows given that we already use hydrocarbon fuels which are far worse for flammability and explosiveness.

The higher retrieval efficiency by definition makes an equivalent volume of batteries lower energy density and thus safer than an equivalent amount of fuel. If you need to extract X energy at 25% efficiency you need to store 4X. If you can extract X energy at 70% efficiency you only need to store 1.25X. Both could wind up exploding but you want the one with only 1.25X the stored energy not the one with 4X.
I buy pickles at an Asian supermarket, they generally come from Pakistan.
The article is rather badly written, but the actual petition for rulemaking is broadly reasonable. The proposed language change to 97.309 is as follows:

An amateur station transmitting a RTTY or data emission using a digital code specified in this paragraph may use any technique whose technical characteristics have been documented publicly, and the protocol used can be be monitored, in it’s entirety, by 3rd parties, with freely available open source software, for the purpose of facilitating communications

As I see it, the essential goal is to close the loophole whereby theoretically-open but practically-closed protocols can be used on amateur frequencies.

There is a broader debate in amateur radio about the use of automated data stations and the possible increase in the bandwidth limit, both of which represent delicate balances. There's clearly a cohort of geriatrics who want to keep double sideband voice and ban data, but there are also genuine issues with the behaviour of some data mode users.

A significant number of WSJT users are now transmitting at high power, creating significant issues with interference. WinLink is an absolute nuisance - it has always been illegal in the UK and I really can't see how it's legal in the US.

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/100918881206/PETITION%20FOR%20R...

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/7521098786.pdf
Soon enough it won’t even make sense to buy an ICE, once the gas stations all start closing for lack of business.

IMO the bans are silly politics and really just grandstanding. We are barely into the adoption curve of EVs and already a base Model 3 is cheaper to own than an Accord or Camry.

Give EVs 10 more years (a relative eternity) and they will probably be the majority of new vehicles sold just due to market forces. 10 years after that gas stations will have trouble staying in business.

Any fleet will have to switch to EV to be cost competitive on a $/mi basis. Once you can spend $1 to save $1.10 (including interest on the loan) anyone with access to financing will go EV. Which with interest rates only going lower, is almost everyone.

The best way to incentivize the next wave of adoption IMO is dramatically reducing the cost of non-peak electricity. Generation costs are already dropping significantly but retail rates are still averaging over 10 cents for supply and another 10 cents for delivery. In MA for example, many areas do not even offer TOU billing, and where it is offered it only reduces the generation cost slightly, not the supply cost, so it barely even saves 25%, which is asinine. [1]

My impression is we should be able to deliver non-peak energy for under $0.08/kWh total, supply and generation all-in. That would significantly increase EV adoption!

[1] - https://www.eversource.com/clp/vpp/vpphistory.aspx#EMA
So what is your take on what seems to be the complete and utter failure for the cleanup and dealing with the aftermath?
In 2018, renewables provided 713 TWh of energy to the US electricity grid. Nuclear provided 807 TWh. They're already at the same scale, and renewables are rapidly increasing while nuclear has stagnated for decades.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
I find the Thai versions of sriracha sweeter than Huy Fong's version, which suits its original use as a dip for seafood. I prefer Huy Fong's sriracha with western foods.
Here's an easier answer: eat real food, not to much, mostly vegetables. Happy mr/mrs practically extreme lib?

You've just played the no true scotsman on me. Well done!

It's a pretty easy choice for me: I literally eat no food with added chemicals. I simply don't know what is good and what is bad because I've given up following research and meta-studies. There is literally no way to be informed, even if I had a PhD and spent a lifetime studying nutrition and the relevant sciences.

Know what the easy answer is? I'm vegan. I literally eat nothing with added preservatives or chemicals. Nothing. Except when I got to restaurants every now and then, and I don't know what's in the food I ordered. But it isn't 12 meals a year that change you, it is 1,000 meals a year.

It is trivial for me to bypass the good/bad chemical debate.
My wife and I spent a year not working and we got our grocery budget to about 30 dollars per day for a family of 3 without sacrificing anything. In fact that's not quite the right characterization, we actually _improved our diet_ compared to what it was before. More veggies, more meat, less sugar, less processed. And it doesn't even take that much time. About an hour a day is more than enough. Before this exercise we'd easily spend $2k+ per month for the same family.
Yes, the converter gets you eighty percent of the way there. Usually it is a bit too conservative and e.g. biased towards making all types nullable because it is hard to reason about nullability in Java. In the same way it attempts to turn any method starting with the prefix get into a property, which does not always make sense when it is clearly a bit of business logic instead of a property. Finally, it seems to slab a lot of redundant generic type hints on things, which don't always work. As soon as you remove them, Kotlin's type inference usually gets it. So I typically spent a minute cleaning up after converting a file.

After that you get to the idiomatic stuff like e.g. making properties read only getting rid of multiple constructors by introducing default parameters. Getting rid of the builder pattern (mostly redundant in kotlin), introducing data classes where that makes sense, using lateinit vars to make nullable vals nonnullable, etc. Technically you are at that point improving things.
> Then Fukushima happened, [...], and Andrea Merkel changed her opinion.

Didn't you say the same as OP, with a lot more words?
Personally it's the bundles and pinning. The bundles just worked more consistently than Gmail's tabs and made it feels fast (and safe!) to quickly archive a bunch of promo emails you weren't currently interested in.

Stars can be made to work like pinned e-mails, sort of, but it not consistent across the mobile app and the website and the UX just feels unresponsive in comparison. Pinned emails were much better separated than starred emails are today.

I think a bonus aspect was just design. Inbox didn't have to support as much legacy as Gmail and its design ended up being really sleek. Inbox overall just felt faster than using Gmail.
This is not black and white, many of us procrastinate in ways that are not always a healthy break and finding ways to curb some of that is not bad.
Replace 'years' with 'days' for this one.
St Sebastian is also the gay saint, boyfriend of Maximian or Diocletian or both. And while I imagine this is not the canonical myth, it is certainly more fabulous.
The biggest problem I see is this big push into proprietary digital modes is that it creates incompatibility. These digital modes splits the market up into incompatible segments that damages the ability to communicate. This splintering reduces the desirability of a new radio, and reduces sales. Reduced sales means vendors spend less on R&D.

Who wants to buy a digital radio that can only communicate with a small fraction of other digital radios?

I've talked to dozens of hams, and their most hated feature is accidentally entering digital mode on their radio and not being able to communicate with anyone. Similarly the majority of repeaters are analog only, because who wants to put up a repeater that only a small fraction of the radios can use?

If the FCC required only open systems being used then any radio could use open software to be able to communicate and help ham radio become a more modern radio system.
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Even Kubota cheap out on parts, too. The hydraulic filters are laughably tiny, they are smaller than most motorcycle oil filters. Especially egregious considering ~90% of the small yard tractors are equipped with a loader. But they are far better than the cheap Chinese tractors from places like Northern hydraulic.
Oh, true, thanks for pointing that out, apologies to lorcan, I was mistaken about which original-comment-writer I was replying to. I guess it was too late at night for me to be writing comments in a discussion like that.

To lorcan:

The problem with your original comment was that it is technically true, but handwaves away a whole lot of really important detail about how someone's circumstances (e.g., family/community environment and inherited attributes like genetics and innate behaviours) influence one's ability to do that. To your credit, you acknowledged this in a later comment, but the crappy discussion was well on its way by then.

Related to that is it conflates correlation with causation.

Comments like this inevitably set off bad discussions, because that missing detail is what really matters about the topic, so you'll get arguments at cross-purposes, with some people supporting the truthiness of your point, and others trying to point out the gaps, and so it's hard to reach common ground because people are focused on different aspects of the issue.

Anyway, as AnimalMuppet said, this is well past generating more heat than light, so I'm out and I hope others are content to move on too.
So in other words, nuclear is the faster way to slash GHG emissions... if you can reform the US nuclear regulatory regime. And how long do you suppose that will take to push through Congress?

In the meantime, we can put out an RFP for a new wind project today and have it online in a year.

Something that depends on hypothetical political developments in a country that shuts down its government because of political gridlock a couple of times a year cannot reasonably be described as the fastest way to do anything.
Gee, good thing I rely on GPS for absolutely nothing.

As a non-essential service, it mostly feeds into the mass surveillance panopticon, and little else.

You can get around just fine with a good paper map and observable defacto landmarks and street names.

GPS may be convenient, but it feeds the evil of systemic privacy erosion.
Yeah but it's hard to choose a widebody instead of a narrowbody, a narrowbody that has a non-circular cross section that you can really stand up in (not a 737) or a flight with fewer stops.

A big part of why the 737 experience is so bad is the lack of height, not the lack of legroom.
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Shorters also apply downward pressure that might not exist naturally, since they're selling borrowed stock. AFAIK they could potentially short more stock than is even issued by the company. It's understandable why some companies would be irritated by people doing that.
> generics are not used that often in production codebases anyway

no.
Ok? That's not an argument. We're just going in circles.

Bundling is just a stage in the cycle of payments that every medium goes through every few years and doesn't change the fact that most content still is, and always has been, paid for by advertising.
> most of today's major religions are monotheistic.

While certainly most people are monotheistic, it's really just two religions, and they worship the same god.

Polytheism seems deeply default.
> My point is that failure of nuclear energy provision is demonstrably worse than the failure of any other options we've tried.

No it isn't; when dams fail villages get swept away and everyone dies. Bad mining disasters can wipe out ~50 people too.

When Fukushima failed, basically nobody got hurt, and there is a lot of inconvenience and resources have to go to cleaning the thing up.

Obviously it is still awful for the people involved, but I'd personally rather go through a nuclear accident than a dam failure or have a mine fall on me, because I'd still be basically ok after a nuclear accident. The argument might be that it is uneconomic after accounting for the costs, but it is demonstrably safe and so a far better failure mode than anything else we've tried.

I mean, Fukushima has basically proven that the only question is economic cost/benefit.
> I honestly don't have the expertise to offer a solution to any of these

My father worked a life time in the mining industry for several Australian mining companies, and as a result I spent a lot of time growing up in mining towns.

By their nature those mining towns can and do feel isolated, but the lived experience of growing up in mining town can be enjoyable.

Move on to the modern day miner and they are predominantly FIFO and that then which creates the problems you have outline.

So my solution would be:

1. The mining company can not use FIFO workers to mine a resource.

2. Instead they have to existing town infrastructure complete with schools, medical centres etc.

3. If no such infrastructure can be found then it will need to be built.

4. If under these rules the resource can't be mined with a profit then it should be left in the ground until it can.

The resources being mined don't belong to the mining companies, but instead belong to the community and to the country.

By using FIFO workers these companies are just taking that resource without giving back anything to the community and if that is all they have to offer then the resource is better of not being mined.
Umatrix + FF Reader Mode works fine on it.
If we're still using this protocol 158 years on we've got bigger fish to fry.
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The problem is, those concerns still apply even if the owner is hiring the service done.

When I was working as a mechanic, we had a few customers with land rovers (most of our business was trucks & SUVs). The land rover owners had to pay roughly 2x for everything, simply because the cars are so much more time consuming to work on. And from family members who have owned them, BMW & Mercedes are just as bad, albeit slightly more reliable. If it is time consu3and a PITA, the customer will be charged more.
> I’m really surprised no one has come up with a reliable appliance brand

Speed Queen has done this for Washers and Dryers. https://www.speedqueen.com/
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Apparently they had a reformulated chemistry, that might help.

However, I think the climate you live in has a profound effect:

http://www.electricvehiclewiki.com/wiki/battery-capacity-los...

scroll down to the battery aging table depending on location.

If you live in Juneau, Alaska you're probably good for a while.

Maybe taking steps like not charging to 100% and not discharging below 20% will help.
I think it is a matter of both domain for how things fail and how reliability is defined. In some circumstances looser tolerances can be a bit less efficient but more fault tolerant and thus 'reliable'. Although its lifetime might also be shorter than a tighter toleranced device if both were fed 'clean' inputs.

Of course the fault tolerance (apologies for overloading the term tolerance) also isn't guaranteed in every domain. If a seal breaking would wreck the process it certainly wouldn't give /any/ reliability over a tight seal.
Any city building sim is gonna be inherently political, so much of city planning is the policies or agenda of one side or the other. What you appear to be arguing is that the republicans are always wrong and you want the dev to make a liberal-policy based game.

It's OSS so you can do that yourself if you think such a thing should exist.
I found an easter egg in Android's security and didn't land a job at Google
Failing cause of taking vc money seems to be a recurring theme..
I've been raising awareness in outdoor recreation groups about this. Many people rely on GPS for rescue and navigation in the backcountry, and it's likely some will see a software failure this weekend.
Serious question I have thought about previously:

Why is there not a singular global body that includes all nations to build out, manage and secure ALL nuclear power plants. Basically a single body, comprised of all the top minds and efforts of every nation's nuclear SMEs - which will create a grid of nuclear power all over the world and every country contributes based on their draw from the system?
We would love to. Trust me, we really really would.

But the is such huge amount of great mongering about corporate add mineral taxes that no major party will attack it.

The Minerals Council of Australia is incredibly well funded and hugely politically influential.
If you want reliability generally you want to go with the 'industrial' version - which may or may not be ideal for whatever you want to do.
I agree about the inconveniences of lugging around a DSLR kit. And for documenting a trip or taking amazing photos while out and about, high-end phones like iPhone or Pixel are the absolute best. But to me, this is a very utilitarian approach. Nothing can replace the experience and flexibility of a DSLR as a photographic tool. And while photos taken with a phone are comparable to camera shots in terms of quality or resolution, no phone can approach the optical capabilities of real glass at the extremes of the range (ultra wide or telephoto), and those qualities are not reproducible in software.

to be sure, I'm not trying to knock phone photography; it just for me personally achieves a different outcome than what I'm looking for.
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I'm coming from Gernsheim were they told us that, in fact, Peter Schöffer was responsible to making Gutenbergs invention usable for the masses.
BlackBerry.

You would get your mail instantly, and could effectively IM on it.

I'm still not even sure how often my iPhone polls or updates, that said it's been a while.

The 'absolute connectivity' of the BB I don't think has been repeated since.

I'm getting sick of features, and honestly I think that's what I want now - a black and white BlackBerry. Just smaller.
Then sure. But that's what game theory is about.

India announces that if China bombs Delhi, all options are on the table.

China mulls over the potential ASAT repercussions and decides the strike isn't worth it.

That's the inherent safety of MAD. It requires no trust in your counterparty -- only convincing them that you will extract a heavy toll if (and only if!) they take a specific action.
Marijuana. It’s not going anywhere and it’ll eventually be larger than tobacco and as ubiquitous as alcohol.
this is possible in base game of cities skylines.
Really? It has been quite a talking point for a while with Rust. Final binary performance is great, but compilation times hurt badly.
The old Skype.
Hi Brendan,

I see you maintain a list of tools for Linux on your blog [0]. Many thanks for that.

[0] http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html
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Does Sams club have large sets of 1-person lunch sizes? Or can you only get the 38 packs or whatever of different sizes?
that’s definitely a big factor for sure, at least in my experience...

maybe our definitions of “technologist” is different, but i think even with technologists it’s important to understand that just because something can be done doesn’t mean it should (e.g alan kay’s “reverse vandalism”), and is still a danger with regard to entrepreneurship/business vs what is actually “good” for the world...

i think there is a lot to re-examine about how and why we do things...
My questions are not posed to consumers, they are posed to folks here on hacker news.
I wouldn't want to work remote full-time, but that's because of the isolation, not a lack of productivity. When I do work from home now I'm far more productive than in the office. I can sit back and think about problems from a higher-level perspective without that constant itch to feel like I'm looking busy. Of course, the reason I don't get distracted is that I'm fortunate enough to enjoy my job, and I realize that doesn't apply to everybody.

Still, when I was freelancing I dealt with a significant amount of loneliness, such that I now actually enjoy the buzz of a workplace, so I could see using a service like this if I worked from home constantly.
You missed that they had Google apps, then MS threw out the platform and replaced it with something non-competitive and very confused about what an app was or could be.

The apps that MS made for third parties were rush jobs and poorly maintained over time, and because the Silverlight runtime was not up to the job, performed poorly. They did not well represent their respective brands. They were nowhere near the quality of Google Maps for WinCE circa 2009, to say nothing of how they stood against their contemporary equivalents on iOS and Android.

Would you really want a bad app, that cannot do what your real offerings do, out there representing you, with your name and logo?
> Have any disasters at coal plants rendered areas uninhabitable for centuries?

Not a coal plant per se, but there's the Centralia mine fire [1] in PA, which is expected to burn for over 250 years, resulting in the entire town being abandoned.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire
It's unfortunate, but unikernels are going to be the future - VS the present - until they beat containers in the only two things that matter: ease of use and memory consumption
That would include the DNA of all food items and microbes. Doable, but a costly waste of sequencing capacity, at least at the moment.
Tl;dr: When a hobby becomes a job it is no longer fun.
Lord no. In what universe would it make sense to let random people spam a channel you're using to coordinate an emergency response.
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> because nobody can

On my apple desktop, little snitch does tell me this information.

I think it would be totally reasonable to give interested users visibility and/or control over this sort of thing on their phone.
Crypto. It's either going to $0 or to trillions. It's more than survived for 10 years now so might as well bet on the latter.

Or therapeutic psychedelics
You are talking about naked short selling. I think except by a few vocal opponents (e.g., Overstock CEO) generally naked short selling is not considered a major concern in the market as Long as it is not abusive.