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Hm. I hesitate to defend Boeing here, but I think the outset of this article is a bit unfair.

> Pilots start some new Boeing planes by turning a knob and flipping two switches.

> The Boeing 737 Max, the newest passenger jet on the market, works differently. Pilots follow roughly the same seven steps used on the first 737 nearly 52 years ago: Shut off the cabin’s air-conditioning, redirect the air flow, switch on the engine, start the flow of fuel, revert the air flow, turn back on the air conditioning, and turn on a generator.

So? What does this have to do with anything? Is the goal to produce an airplane where pilots press a button "fly to destination", and the plane does it?

> The strategy, to keep updating the plane rather than starting from scratch, offered competitive advantages. Pilots were comfortable flying it, while airlines didn’t have to invest in costly new training for their pilots and mechanics. For Boeing, it was also faster and cheaper to redesign and recertify than starting anew.

> But the strategy has now left the company in crisis, following two deadly crashes in less than five months.

How was it the strategy to keep updating the plane that left to this crisis? The strategy itself is not to blame here, and I very much like the idea to gradually improve a proven model. It was a bad execution of this strategy that left the company in crisis.

In Germany, the national train agency Deutsche Bahn (and its predecessors) basically had a policy for nearly a century to order rolling stock that was designed to be produced for around 40 years. During this production run, the model was gradually improved. Some of the rolling stock designed in the 50ies is still in use, and quite reliable at that [0]. During the 90ies, agency and industry switched to a policy where basically every train generation was newly developed from scratch (for example, the ICE high speed trains). Guess what - you can channel a lot of public money into private hands that way, but bleeding edge technology is not what you want or need when you are trying to build a reliable transportation system.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Wagen
That was brilliant! Thank you for making me aware of that video.

It would be great if someone could translate that into J, then I might have a chance of understanding it properly.
Conversely, I’d never use a hosting provider I assumed would deplatform me in response to the slightest outrage or corporate coercion. That’s why I’ve been avoiding GoDaddy ever since 2007: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2661752/myspace--godaddy-s...
Currently going through your course, thanks for taking the time to make something like that.
Maybe it could if Google didn't own so much of the web and it's surrounding ecosystem. I'm not aware of any challenger to Chrome in the browser space.
Have you actually read the links you've provided?

You can start from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria_War#Involvement_o...
I think you might love rock climbing, esp bouldering. It’s hard on the body, but your mind is engaged like a game of chess - to be fair more like solving set chess problems, it’s so satisfying when you figure one out.
They were bought up by some Chinese firm though and thus a lot of people lost trust in them. Not sure if anybody has done extensive research into what type of telemetry they gather. I would recommend FireFox but I never gave up hope for FireFox so you could consider me a fanboy. However FireFox Quantum has changed a lot of people over to it.
In Norway you max out your copay at around $250/year for everything except some prescriptions. Once you hit the cap, they send you a card in the mail that you show your doctor, pharmacist, etc. so they don't charge you a further copay.
Ah, thanks! PDF link:

http://nano.caltech.edu/publications/papers/Matheny-2019-Sci...

Looks like they did simulate it, and the experimental results differed from the simulation due to number of harmonic terms used: “To obtain quantitative agreement between the phase model (Eq. 3) and the experiment, additional terms in the harmonics of the magnitudes would need to be included in the phase model.” Which I suppose implies that very weak, distant harmonics might play an important role in these patterns.

Also an earlier paper from the same group that discusses infeasibility of other approaches: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/81293/1/acs.nanolett.7b0...
Offscreen canvas is disabled by default on Firefox because it's still experimental, you can enable it though.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OffscreenCa...
Not an engineer so maybe someone else will have to chime in but i doubt the radial heat from a GPU is enough to heat an element which in turn can flash water to steam.

Surely you cant get the density needed before the GPU's themselves burst in to flames?
Aseprite is not free software. But it is not "closed-source" either, hence my clarification.
While I agree with you that most if not all sites should offer some sort of no JavaScript fallback, the development resources required to offer such a thing is just generally unpractical when it's such a small minority of users. Government or not, they still have to choose between spending their limited departmental resources on an extremely small minority, or the greater userbase as a whole.
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Yes but we're talking about thousands of GPUs here and each one radiating 70ºC
No. It has been audited and shown insecure. There's still a chance that other providers are not as bad. They can't be worse, unless they're actively malicious.
If it's great at destroying viruses, it's probably great at damaging human tissue as well.
Because new diagnostics mean new pilot training, meaning the new plane is not economical to buy when compared to the competition, meaning no plane at all.

Those other Boeing jets required costly new training. Boeing were trying to build an update to the 737 that did not require this.
"When America invades with the intent to steal a country, let me know."

Because invading oil-rich countries, installing a puppet government, seeding chaos leading to deaths of hundreds of thousands of people is so much better than bloodlessly reuniting with a piece of your own territory stolen during the dissolution of the USSR.
I sometime wonder is heavy handed policing has always been common in major countries and we didn't have the mass communication tools to share it or if its a newer phenomenon
> just run cmake . to get yourself a fancy makefile.

Well most instructions I've seen start of with "mkdir build && cd build && cmake ../src", which is a bit more complicated than just "make" with a default build dir. I'm not sure why they're all like this, I would have though supplying a default build directory is something cmake could handle.

My last and only big project with cmake we ended up with a makefile anyway to drive all the things cmake couldn't do, or that we couldn't do with cmake due to inexperience or some combination of the two. So we ended up with make calling cmake calling make, all because it apparently made it easier for IDE users (it didn't but that was definetly our fault).
I read it like the author moved out with six months expenses in the bank. After six months they hadn't been able to make money off music and weren't having luck finding a job. So while OP was in the hospital they terminated the lease and GTFO. The roommate sounds like a crappy person, but the author has now also made them homeless.
So when they say they removed these they mean source code wise not just some compiler flag? Thus making it a proper fork that will deviate over time, not some simple Chromium renamed project. So we may or may not see them pull in Chromium changesets depending on needs.

My biggest hope is that no matter how much Microsoft changes (Chakra instead of V8 would be very interesting to see) that it will remain fully and properly open source moving forward. I wanted to see the original Edge go this route but at least now they can.

Funny how these are now all browsers derived from work by Apple.
Seeing opportunities doesn't mean plucking out and leaving your critical eye at the door.
Repost are usual https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and sometimes the same link is ignored one time and gets traction other time. It's matter of the day of the week, the hour of the submission, the other post that are trending, the number of users reading the newest page, the phase of the moon, and many other factors. Just assume that it's a mater of luck.

Linking the old post is useful when it has some interesting comments (I sometimes quote partially the most interesting comment.) But in this case the older post got only 2 points and no comments.
Thank you for the links. I've been toying with the idea of building a yahoo, seeing your post has rekindled my interest in it again.
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It could change via legislation. The more Google owns, the more it’s opened to potential anti-trust drama.
good, let's go ahead and promote colonism. Imaging if Germans won the war and rule the world. Yep! What a world we are living in now!
FYI, if you get service from a reseller on top of att, you’ll still have att level wait times for service outages since sonic will have to call att. In some areas your wait times will actually be longer because att deprioritizes support for resellers. It’s a mad world.
There was no democracy under British rules, period.
Interesting. So I suppose culture is important. Do we want to build a culture of sameness which allows for this kind of pivoting? I'm not so sure.
If Cantonese is really Chinese, why they the mainlander want to destroy it even in canton. They cannot practically read the “chinese” newspaper here or Taiwan as it is quite different. We do not eat dog and cat.

I think sentiment many hker is not really want to be chinese under the communist rule. Not even the establishment camp looking at the recent law enactment issue.

Back to the fundamental. Humanity with a sense of liberty would not sacrifice human and let them fall into the regime that have social credit system, no freedom to access internet, no freedom to worship both Jesus and be Muslim.
After, of course. Before that most people didn't have access to Internet.
Yeah, this is specifically pointed out here: https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/best-practices#acknowledge-...
Citation needed.

I dont think that the NHS is utter garbage - sure there is room for improvement, but it seems that it is not "garbage" at all according to recent research: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/default/files/2018-06/NHS...

That report has some very interesting charts. E.g. Figure 9 shows that almost 25% of people in USA skipped going to the doctors due to cost, or almost 20% of people in USA skipped prescription medicine due to cost. For comparison on the NHS it was 5% and 2% respectively. Mind-boggling.

I'd agree though that anyone on 150K plus (and probably anyone in a job from the 40K range upward (if not lower)) would have private medical cover. As others have noted, private cover basically just means you get seen quicker/at a more convienient time and the waiting room is nicer - the care is no better or worse than the NHS IME (although I dont have any data on that - just a personal anecdote)
To this poster, and the above edit - I live and work in HK, and was in Hong Kong during the protests.

There are incredibly distinct Hong Kong foods. You'll never find yuanyang (tea coffee mix) in mainland,like you'll not find Rua Jia Mu (Chinese snack burger) in Hong Kong.

Obviously HKers have Cantonese roots. I wasn't arguing who was more traditional, I was pointing out that HKers consider themselves Hong Kongese, not Chinese.

The OP alludes that HK was kept under the yolk of British rule, and is eager to shed its shackles to return to the mainland. This is simply not the case.
Agree, point still stands though. There's pros and cons to everything. Why focus on the latter?
Naïve thought of the day: What if instead of replacing c with another c-like language, there was a c library that you included in your code that overloaded operators and functions into safer ones? You would gain some of the benefits and retain the ubiquity.
Why not start a service that does this?
Meat has inherent risk when compared to plant derived foods, and this is about "persistent toxins" (PTs). These toxins "build up" in our tissues and thus may become a threat after consuming small bits of them over a long time span. Since these PTs build up in our tissues, they usually also build up in the tissues of animals. Thus eating animal tissue is exposing us to the buildup of PTs.

As an example: it is observed that then some PT got into the environment the small animals did not suffer from it, the slightly bigger animals that eat the small ones also did not, but the larger predators (owls and hawks, iirc) were dying because at their point in the food chain the build up of PTs reached lethal levels.

Like another comment said: dose matters. But I like to add that understanding persistence matters probably just as much.
Liberty.

Can read reddit, Facebook, google and hacker news.
They do that but not forever: https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/best-practices#retry-logic
> I think a more intellectually interesting debate to have is whether or not Bitcoin is useful to society, and whether or not its utility justifies the costs.

I honestly don't think it's an interesting debate. It's been done to death, and neither side will ever make any headway in convincing the other.
Similar experience yesterday in Coco Rico in Val D'Isere. There seemed to be two types of people: those who were there to have a good time, and those who were there to look good on Instagram or YouTube. (I was in the latter category, obvs.)
A euphemism, by which i meant "hard wired". Human's are like every species pre-disposed in so many way to be driven by the negative rather than the positive.
Cloudfare has removed support of at least one right-wing website. And CF support orgs from all across the board.
Taiwan and a bit Hong Kong show there is a third way out of communist or colonisation.
They indeed entered Norway through Russia but the reason is that Norway has (had?) much more liberal policy in regard to middle-eastern migrants compared to the EU countries that already had enough of them. I doubt there were many.
Granted it would have been nice to have a mining tax in collecting money for Australian social expenses.

However if they would introduce such a tax now then it might encourage new mining developments and let them be sped through the environmental checks faster than they are now. So there is a danger we would have many more Adani like mines popped up.

Though yet again maybe having a high enough mining tax would possible discourage such endeavours?
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Interesting suggestion. Have you put any of this into practice? Do you have any observations, learnings, or things to watch out for to share as to how this goes in practice?
This seems reasonable and might be true, but they didn't study how often people exercise. They had study participants wear accelerometers and tracked their total physical activity during waking hours.

What they found was that people with a high need for cognition were less active overall, including when not exercising.

I think at least part of what they are observing is that people tend to sit still while thinking, so if you think a lot you spend more time being sedentary.

In the full paper there is also an interesting conjecture that high NFC people may enjoy exercise less because they are more sensitive to the physical discomfort it causes. That one seems reasonable to me too but it is just a conjecture.

I suspect I'm high NFC and that's why I enjoy sitting and reading and programming like a thoughtful lump, and spend most of my time doing these things. But it's not good for health, so what's a high NFC person supposed to do, schedule in time doing things they don't enjoy? Or can they somehow reframe low cognition activities as enjoyable? Or can they add cognition to activities that normally don't require it, or combine them with high cognition activities? (E.g. using a treadmill desk while you work, or listening to podcasts while you jog)
With regards to the bit about plugins, will Apple make exceptions for their own software like Logic Pro X? I'm not entirely sure what the hosting/execution model is for AudioUnits and VSTs, what I do know is that many of them will never be updated to meet any new security requirements. I bet we're in for a few more years of terrible advice like "run this command that disables security in the Terminal, then reboot in order to use the product you bought."
This whole "Google is killing their services" rambling should be downvoted to hell for each Google Cloud Platform submission.

Sigh.
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>> Or can they somehow reframe low cognition activities as enjoyable?

You could simply try pushing your exercises to a point where you’re almost vomitting from exhaustion. Let’s see how boring that is.
That's a pretty roundabout way of thinking. Plenty of countries have troops but an unstable currency (e.g. Venezuala). Plenty have a stable currency but no significant troops (e.g. Iceland).
None of them are umbrella protestor core. They are OC which the Umbrella core may respect but sort of ignore. The localist and the young one are not these. Those have been jailed in previous sentence.
We can see an example about xmake.lua

https://github.com/tboox/tbox/blob/master/src/tbox/xmake.lua
> Only a tiny minority of Web developers test on anything other than Chrome and mobile safari

I work in a web dev shop and nearly everyone here uses Firefox as their main dev browser. We do run tests on other browsers as well but we mainly develop with Firefox and its tools.

Although part of the reason could be that we know most of our customers use it instead of Chrome. Don't ask me why, but if I had to venture I'd guess it's because Firefox is quite popular in my country for some reason.
I'm fairly picky about the terminal emulator I use. Dealbreakers for me are broken true color support and broken multi-lingual support.

For a while I have been using st, but have been underwhelmed with how it handles input modules, like IBus.

Recently, I came this repo: https://github.com/anarcat/terms-benchmarks, which describes itself as "Reproducible results for LWN review of terminal emulators: https://lwn.net/Articles/749992/ ."

I'd love to use mlterm for it's excellent multi-lingual support; however, true color support is pretty bad. From the results of the review above, I've decided to give Terminator a whirl.
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Gnome Terminal. It's simple and easy. My runner up is Konsole from when I used KDE a lot. It has the quake style drop-down feature and introduced me to my preferred keyboard shortcut configurations for navigating terminal tabs.
Unfortunately, I don't know much about that. The only such guides I've seen were internal documents.
Ad revenue is so attractive that no one is willing to just provide a simple fucking paid service.
Because then mouse, keyboard and other devices will not automatically work when you plug them in and 99% of users will hate that.
> COM/UWP

Assuming with COM/UWP you mean "UWP's flavor of COM" instead of "COM and/or UWP", is anyone actually using that outside of mobile trash and game engine backends for XB1?

All the Windows software i use and see people make are either Win32 or (much more often) built on top of Win32 (well, UWP is technically also built on top of Win32, but you are supposed to ignore that and act as if it isn't the case).
This doesn't get said enough.

Within days of the Lion Air crash, MCAS was strongly suspected to be the problem. And yet Boeing management allowed 157 more people to die in the Ethiopian Airlines crash. And then the Boeing CEO still tried to tell everyone that it was a safe airplane.

The entire top management of Boeing, and the entire board of directors, should be perp-walked out the door.

Of course, that will never happen.
Firefox still has some UX deficiencies on macOS, I do use it on Windows though.

What really turned me off is how long it took them to implement video autoplay blocking. I sent them about four dozen requests, reports and outright pleas, and they didn't even add it to the roadmap until after I had given up hope. They were about two to three years late on that one.

Chromium's dev tools are still ahead by a mile as well, the Performance inspector has saved me days worth of debugging time.
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Open any techcrunch article and wait it to load completely. Now try hitting the back button. It would just reload the same page from histroy

example link https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/08/secret-service-mar-a-lago/?fbclid=IwAR0DXelpIhExCcYJbxFUnutH0Zhy4aSZ3ZQ4HXBzGswJ0-NUcL-NS5pBrLk
Transcript please? Or is the future of SWE voice operated (God forbid)?
It's 2019 and Bluetooth still has massive latency problems if you don't use Qualcomm's proprietary aptX LL extension. In theory it is possible to have a good wireless audio experience. Stock Bluetooth doesn't give you any of that and pretending so doesn't make the problem go away. Meanwhile almost any crappy Chinese $2 earphone won't suffer from this problem.

We've had 200ms (roundtrip!!!!) video live-streaming via WebRTC from one side of the globe to another for more than 3 years now but stock Bluetooth still cannot accomplish that same task within the same room. If all you're doing is listening to music on your phone you might not care. But audio latency during video games or even just learning vocabulary via Anki (which is basically the thing I use my phone for) is annoying as hell.

There is no clear upgrade path in which wireless is always better than wired. aptX LL is "adequate" but it's not the default. It often requires 50€ transceivers for specific devices like your switch console, desktop/laptop, etc. It's even less common than the headphone jack.

In comparison solid state storage is superior to CDs in almost every possible way. It's more compact, faster, less prone to scratches, can be rewritten and it is cheaper ($0.10 per GB for SSDs, $0.20 for a 700MB CD). There is no reason to still use CDs.

Meanwhile wireless (= stock Bluetooth), needs to be recharged (acceptable sacrifice), has worse quality, suffers from latency and there are multiple proprietary extensions that substantially improve the user experience but they are not guaranteed and even cost extra compared to regular wireless. The audio experience is not better in every case! There are enough substantial reasons to prefer wired headphones over wireless.

I'm not saying wireless can never be good. I'm saying that it's completely squandering it's huge potential but yet it keeps getting pushed down our throats before it's ready. But why on earth is it not ready? It's 2019. Why isn't "wired < wireless" true in every case?
A few minutes before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19613221
Thanks for taking the time to point this out, especially since you're swimming upstream.

> I think a more intellectually interesting debate to have is whether or not Bitcoin is useful to society

Exactly.
We use USB drives as installers and, in some cases, as boot volumes. (And of course keyboards and mice on crash carts and USB serial ports for laptops.)

We’re not a cloud provider, but I’ve been in lots of DCs and seen plenty of USB devices.
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