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It's not like all T-34s were necessarily bad, it's just that Russia had to build so many of them that they had to accept poor quality tanks.

At the start of the war, Russia had a lot of very different tank designs. Many of those were crap, a few were really good. The T-34 was one of the good ones: it was fast, had a powerful gun, and armour that the German tanks at the time couldn't penetrate. On top of that, it was fairly simple and easy to produce, unlike the heavier KV-1, which was another very successful, but more expensive design.

Once Russia realised they were fighting an existential war, they had to churn out as many tanks as possible to stop the German tide, and the T-34 was simply the most obvious choice. Simple tractor factories were quickly retooled to produce T-34s, and unavoidably, the people making them weren't always properly trained. There just was no time. If it could drive and shoot, it was needed at the front.

And having something that looks like a T-34 but isn't as tough as a good T-34 is not necessarily a bad thing; the Germans can't see the difference from a distance, and they're going to treat it like any other T-34. Swamp them in good and bad T-34s, let the Germans waste their time on the bad ones, so the good ones can kill some panzers.

If you think this is stupid, look at how Russia fought some of the early infantry battles. Desperate measures for desperate times.
The British Sherman Firefly fixed that particular problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Firefly
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I really enjoyed this article, but I want to point out something:

> to regard themselves as customers who are always right

I encountered a lot of awful professors in college. (A private, 2nd tier school.) Some were outright incompetent, and others adversarial towards their students. The admissions process also portrayed the school as career prep, not education for the sake of pursuing knowledge. The disconnect at times between how the experience was marketed, versus what the professors wanted to do, was shocking.

The reality is that a college education is expensive, and ultimately funded by a customer, either the student or the student's parents. Quality must be demanded by the paying customer.

Or, to put it mildly, when every student is a customer paying a quarter million dollars, they need to be treated as such. That doesn't mean fabricating grades, but that does mean going the extra mile to please someone who ultimately is funding your paycheck.
I'm not sure what you mean by your use of "survive" here - are you referring to the feature where you could pin certain emails and then "sweep" the rest into archive with one click?
It’s a lot of cranking to do by hand[1]. You could use the electric trim to reset back to zero and then disable electric trim. (But, that isn’t the procedure.)

1. https://youtu.be/xixM_cwSLcQ
I think some people are extroverted enough, and arrogant enough to love this sort of fame. I don't mean this comment to be negative, but I'm not sure how else to describe the trait. Have you ever walked into a room and thought "These hundred or so people should really be listening to me." Maybe not verbatim, but I suspect Will Smith has had that thought in one form or another.

Since HN is titled so heavily towards introverted logical (logical as opposed to emotional) thinkers, it's no surprise that the perspective of a celebrity would be hard for the community to grasp.
There, i made that a couple of days ago, have fun :-P

http://runtimeterror.com/games/dino/

(and i think the main runtimeterror.com site has a bit of a late 90s/early 2000s style, but it is just that i prefer it that way)
True, but that’s still a surprisingly progressive stance. Not 18 months ago I got rejected after crushing the interview because “no one at this firm would vouch for someone without a college degree”. This still happens to me now as often as when I began my career in the early 00s.
I'm in my 40s and went to one of them Ivy schools. There were legacies. There were affirm action kids that clearly weren't at the same level as others.

But I didn't mind. They all studied hard, and harder than others because they knew. They knew how they got it, and they knew that even smart kids flunk out.

IMHO, this is more of a broader trend that has more to do with poor parenting.

I went through schooling systems in HK, Korea, America at very different ages. Parents didn't dare meddling with how teachers taught. Teachers were the rule of law.

Got B+? Well, tough shit. Did you take advantage of all the professor and teacher assistant office hours? Yes? Sorry but maybe you're just not as good as others taking the same course. (My own experience taking Comp sci 100)
just like I'm a sr engineer but still basically do a tech's work. Inflated titles at companies is a joke
Or, best method is to block all ads, beacons, 3rd party cookies, and trackers. Keep it simple, just block anything that is not actual content. Everyone knows online ads are now the major vector for malware online along with bad apps.

Pi-hole, uBlock Origin, Privacy badger, Decentraleyes, Tracking Token Stripper, Neat URL, and No Coin. Set browser to block all HTTP/S referers, disable geo, css links history, fingerprinting, and you are well on your way to never having or seeing an issue. uBlock Origin also kills dead the adblock blockers.

Editing to say that it was my children's absolute frustration with waiting for ads in videos that led me to adopt the Pi-hole. Nothing so far has escaped the event horizon of the Pi-hole. It's great for TVs, too. Everything on the network benefits from the Pi-hole. Setting up a VPN will allow you to pass your mobile device through it while away from home.

One of my upcoming projects is to get a DO Droplet, set up the same and have less "infrastructure" in my house. Benefits remain. Google Cloud also allow this in the free tier. Why not? There is nothing to lose except annoyance.
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It states it depends on bandwidth, sometimes 720 is served. I certainly receive 720p in aus.
As a game developer who sometimes uses Ruby, Crystal is appealing but a non starter.
How to Protect Pilots from Laser Pointer Attacks
Sounds a lot like Scala's underscore (or at least one usage underscore can mean a few things depending on context). Haven't used Kotlin myself, but I'd agree that sounds like a good thing
I think the "waste" aspect of it comes from the crowding-out effect of capital allocation. Large sums going into the on-demand economy businesses means that there's far less available to invest in other types of business models.

That in turn may incentivize some businesses to "pivot" to an on-demand model purely to get their foot in the door with some investors, regardless of whether it makes business sense. Remember Kodak's stock skyrocketing in 2017 when they released KodakCoin? [1].

My opinion is that it is worrying that the line of thinking is that "the profits will come once they're a monopoly". The actions you take to be profitable are different from the ones you take to be a monopoly. Uber and Airbnb have used their millions to circumvent local laws and lobby for their interests. Microsoft in the 90s used their OS monopoly to prevent OEMs from bundling rival's software on their machines.

Monopolies might be great for shareholders but they're not good for consumers and they don't incentivize innovation. And here, I'm not talking about "natural monopolies" like utility companies and telecom network infrastructure.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/technology/kodak-blockcha...
USDA Ends Program That Led to Deaths of Thousands of Cats
I'd imagine that a body of content that's largely from the pre-ecommerce internet isn't of any use to Google.
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> Does someone high up in Google have an embarrassing usenet history?

I don't know if that's true (it probably is), but personally I am glad that almost all of my old Usenet posts have vanished. I was horrified when Deja News started up. That was the moment I realized the internet is forever and decided to never use my real name or to upload any pictures of myself to anything connected to the internet.

Of course, I'm still screwed because I use a smart phone and probably several entities have that data and could connect the dots, but the average person I encounter can find out very little about me with just my name.
Transfund does this now. I tried complaining to their support and they just don't get it. Account/routing number should be enough, they don't need access to my transactions, etc.

Add that on top of increasing fees and I'm seeking alternatives.
For sure - and digitizing that data would take a very long time so it wouldn't be a drop-in replacement for title.

It wouldn't be easy, but it is a good use for the tool.
FWIW old web pages do look the same as they did in 1995, with the exception of the default background color changing from silver to white at some point for some reason. But, at least under Windows, the default fonts, colors, spacing, etc are 99% the same.

Flash also works if you are using Chrome. Sadly, Firefox does not support Flash plugin anymore (and i say sadly because just yesterday i was trying to find some files from an old site that was made using Flash and i had to use Chrome just for that).
Facebook also asked users in Australia for their naked photos. This isn't even the weirdest privacy invading request that they've had recently. This is business as usual.

https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/technology/2017/11/08/new...
"Deprioritizing elite universities" would be more damaging than helpful. We are talking a smallish minority of students.
> sounds like you dodged a bullet there.

My point is that I never went back and fixed it, because often people do not do that.

I, however, can still read that code perfectly fine and well because it has variable names. Not @1 and @2 for hashes, etc.

> now renaming it for the _third time_?"

Things get renamed from time to time (and less than you're making it out to be, typically). It's part of programming. You will be fine.

It's better to be oh-so-inconvenienced than to have to read other peoples' codebases where they just use @1 and @2.

Why have any variable names at all then? Just use 0-999, if it's so annoying to have to think for a few seconds to a minute and pick an apt name.
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This is really exciting! Can't wait to try it out. I'm glad to hear that it abstracted out stacks, that will definitely lower the barrier of entry for use.
No. No it’s not. They just rode Uber’s tailwind and let them take the punches.
This is going to contain errors, one would have to be a professional to get this right, but the gist is that formally, no, but in practice it kind of does.

If the decision was made by one of the higher courts, a precedent will be created, which while not formally binding is essentially treated as such. In general the precedents can't create new law, only interpret. However this turns out to sometimes be a difference without significance, as effectively new law is created due to how heavy lower courts are leaning on some such cases.

One I have some knowledge of regards agency of company representatives where the interpretation made it essentially legal for a company to use third party sellers to act as representatives for the company write and sign contracts, which then the original party could renege on at any time, with no penalties by simply stating that their agent had overstepped their bounds. This was a case of a house builder backing out because the agent had given a price that the house builder deemed a little too low. This is described in the relevant literature as a clear precedent for all manners of company agency, while if you read the actual judgement it was clearly marginal. But it has effectively created new law. You now have to make sure to write contracts with an employee of whomever you are dealing with if you are to be able to trust in your contract.

All courts also have a right to judicial review, thus in theory a single local court can nullify any law if it doesn't follow the constituting laws, either completely, or for a specific case. If this happens, then that case becomes a precedent. This is however somewhat rare as far as I understand it, as it's somewhat of a joke that the best way to loose a case is to refer to the constituting laws, as they are essentially completely ignored.

Yeah, I'm amazed it works at all.

At least on the surface it seems our judicial system really has some deep flaws that nobody has really dared to address.

To little real oversight, no binding checks on the constitutionality of new laws - although the advisory committee tends to be respected, and no formal way afaik to revoke precedents that turn out to have bad consequences.

It seems to work a lot based on some form of "gentlemen's agreement", and tradition. By now I guess we all know how quickly those can crumble.
To the entire thread below this, to understand what people around you are doing, you need to understand that there are elements of human communication in which people are deliberately ambiguous. (Not always conciously, but quite deliberately.) It's a huge element of all of the standard human courtship rituals (all the real ones, not the ones that people claim to be using), it's used to speak in plausibly deniable ways for everything ranging from crimes to minor social incidents. The ambiguity itself is part of the message being sent.

Most people actually are very precise in their texts and speech. It's just that the message-carrying layer isn't in the denotations or even the connotation, but the way in which connotations are used. (Humans are amazing things at times.)

(I'm practicing. I have two high-functioning still-pre-teen autist children that I fully expect to have to convey to them an explicit model of human social interactions as they get older. I'm already having to start; the younger really, really wants to be funny. We're actually making some progress. Not, I mean, necessarily a lot of progress... but there is some progress. I'm not saying everyone below is autistic; I have no ability to judge that from here. I'm saying I need practice trying to explain this stuff because I personally definitely do have some autists in my life who will have this problem in the future.)
Yes, in Holland students know they can simply fail an exam and usually know that’s on them.

In the US, students can literally complain to the dean who then puts pressure on the professor. And they do, so professors know to err on the lenient side.

In fact: the average grade at Harvard has been an A- for some years now. So grades from Harvard are basically meaningless.
The real problem is that society is more and more treating universities like companies that sell a product instead of educational institutions. The idea that "I paid for this, so I deserve it" is toxic.
"It's your problem now!"
One little thing: after watching the demo vid, Youtube suggest some related content. You can disable that. (I caught myself youtubing inside your landing page :D )
If they see a treatment working, the placebo group is almost always given the treatment.
At least a few gigs on a modern computer before you start running into issues.
I know of Eternal September, but is there much life left in Usenet other than for binary distribution?
This is almost correct.

People imagine that diving training agencies has police power to allow or forbid you to do something. That's not true.

When you get a certification, the agency certifies that you have been trained to go to 18m. That's all it does.

After the training you can do whatever you want. But if you're not stupid and don't want a quick death or a painful life (wheelchaired due to bends), you will stay within the limits of your training.

So it's not only a recommendation, but at the end it works like one.
that's a story and a half you could tell. No buses? And I wonder why blablacar hasn't taken off in the UK
When the DNS (Domain Name System) first entered into operation in 1983, only the characters in the Latin alphabet were allowed to be used. With this system, although the characters of different alphabets could have a place in the DNS, web browsers and e-mail clients were not supporting such usage. By way of IDN (Internationalized Domain Name), that was first introduced in 2000, characters in non-Latin alphabets began to be available to use. Thereby, domains in almost all languages started to be registered. Until today 4 million IDNs were registered.

Read More: https://blog.dofo.com/internationalized-domain-names/
I am almost serious in saying this: nastaliq is basically unreadable to me. It’s like trying to read super decorative cursive writing.

How can someone well versed in naskh learn nastaliq? Just keep trying to read it so that one gets used to it?
> This makes me think more and more that the right way to handle too many applications to a school is a lottery system. Simply put, all students with (grades/scores > X) qualify for the school get put into a lottery. The winners are admitted.
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> Lotteries are hard to bribe, hard to accuse of racial bias, and hard to call unfair.

That strikes me as very naive. Having "grade > X" (presumably you mean high school grades, right?) is entirely based on how your high school grades, for which there is voluminous data that it is extremely racially biased based on districting, etc. This simply passes the incentives for corruption one step earlier in the process, to people who are even less invested in the outcome than the universities themselves are.
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> They put in less effort into teaching (why wouldn't they, it's less important to them)

To be clear, it's not just less important to the professors, it's less important to the school as well. Just look at the tenure guidelines to see this: Publications and grants are by and large the biggest part of your tenure portfolio. At a good school, you can get tenure while being a mediocre lecturer, but you will never get tenure being a mediocre researcher. So can we really blame professors for reacting to the incentives they are given?
If the government's records were up-to-date and perfect, the title industry wouldn't really exist. Having publicly-accessible digital records would make the concept of property ownership simple and deterministic to figure out.

And "my computer got hacked" is kind of a blanket argument against using technology in general - by that same argument you should probably never use digital banking/investment or anything online to manage your life, and nothing should ever be digitized.
"The interface of the OS"--what interface? I promise you I'm not being pedantic. The OS doesn't/can't know what "the interface" is for you. Yours, to that box, is Xorg. My interface to all but two of my Linux boxes is SSH/zsh. Somebody else's might be SSH/bash. Changing the package management tools such that I have to do something nonstandard within my configuration management tools on the off chance that you fire a footgun is pretty lame, yeah? (Ditto the reverse. If I uninstall zsh, I expect something to break next time I try to SSH in.)

Choices imply the ability to make a bad one. And it's a fairly recoverable one in your case, so I gotta say the criticism feels weak.
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Sports and legacies are different. They bring money, and lots of it. New buildings, better facilities, better equipment, etc. Thousands of other students benefit if I admit the daughter of a philanthropic billionaire.

These "lesser nobles" who just give some women's sports coach a bribe, or pay to get a higher SAT score are doing nothing for any of the other thousands of students. It literally ONLY gives THEIR kid a leg up.
> I, however, can still read that code perfectly fine and well because it has variable names. Not @1 and @2 for hashes, etc.

If I do {@1 + @2} exactly once is that really harder to read than {|x, y| x + y}?

If I'm doing it everywhere all over my code, sure that's a problem and it will make unreadable garbage. But then again it was already possible to make unreadable garbage code.
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They rolled it into Google Groups iirc. Then it just vanished altogether.
Context: https://blog.garrytan.com/goldman-sachs-sent-a-brilliant-com...

And this is why people are saying to exercise caution around this stuff!
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Well, that's a whole different discussion.

Assume that the criminals are 100% irrational, random, and not influenced by external inputs; even then, inprisonment has a value to society of containing the possibility of bad actions by those bad actors during the prison term.

The fact that the recidivism rate is far less than 100% also tells us that criminals are not 100% random, irrational, and unresponsive to external inputs. A significant number do actually rehabilitate, whether by taking advantage of counseling, rethinking their choices, or simple fear of re-inprisonment.

So yes, it seems that until we come up with something better, making the system more accurate is the way to go.
Perhaps the novelty of the Internet faded away and access is now viewed in the same light as "dial-tone" was in the decades before--it's just there when you need it.

The web platform evolved into a much more complex space. In the early days (late 90's) you could spend an hour in "HotDog Web Editor" and build a page that looked somewhat close to a mainstream website. Those days are long gone and most people now opt for platforms, templates and/or site builders, which make total business sense and are the right decision for most, but they lack the fun and excitement experienced by the early Internet "webmasters".
Reminds me of Steve Ballmer touting Windows XP as the "Most secure operating system ever" - on the day it was released. Claims that a code is unbreakable or hacker proof are big red flags.
The article is misinformed. The Superpond at APG, Maryland run by the DoD is 46meters (150ft) deep.
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When I was growing up in Calgary when buses bunched the lead bus would linger at a stop specifically so the other buses could pass and even out the ridership.

The transit system even employed this on purpose at busy times since Calgary is such a suburban city. It's fairly rare in the morning for people to need to get off until a major intersection or light rail station. Buses were sent in pairs (sometimes three) to run the same route, leapfrogging each other at every stop. If someone did ask for a stop the driver would radio ahead and the lead bus would skip the stop. Taking the bus route at a leapfrog time really did cut the journey time down significantly. The technique doesn't work quite as well coming home since you can't predict when people will need to get off.
I'm confused by your expert tradesman analogy. Surely the first step to hand-carving a beautiful wooden chess set is to throw away parts that have knots and cracks and won't carve well?
I agree with everything you said except the part about rich content today. Maybe I'm nostalgic, but I think there's a much lower percentage of that today. Unless celebrity gossip and political self-promotion is considered rich content.
Actually, PC sales increases in 2018.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/13/17567760/pc-sales-growth-...
About 15 years ago in comp.lang.lisp Scott McKay (a coauthor) was asked and says that PLDI didn't accept it, so they didn't finish the paper.
https://comp.lang.lisp.narkive.com/9qf4g9bV/looking-for-full...
http://www.emuvm.com
And they haven't stopped, they just recently built the surveillance system for Duterte that would identify 'drug users' to allow them to be targeted for extra-judicial killings.
The Superpond at APG, Maryland run by the DoD is 46meters (150ft) deep.
Anyone who's seen or read American Psycho should be aware of that.