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PLT Racket lets you use images and other rich objects in their editor, and provides a framework for rich editors which that editor is written in. So there are pieces there.

Block oriented Forths used to use "shadow blocks" for documentation. You had a block that was code, and a fixed offset to a corresponding block that was documentation, with a keybinding to switch between them.

Various tidbits of this have been done in Smalltalk (of course).

But if you have already invested in a world of tool chains that assume ASCII or Unicode text streams as source code representation, then it's hard to get out of it.
Let them repair but it should void any warranty.
Has anyone tried building aircraft AoA sensors other than vane type sensors?

For example, when I was designing a home weather station for myself, I wondered if the anemometer and wind vane could be replaced with ultrasonic sensors and emitters. If you take four ultrasonic emitter/ultrasonic sensor pairs and arrange them in a square, and measure the time of flight of four pulses, one from each corner emitter to the diagonally opposite sensor, you can determine the component of the wind vector along that diagonal. Combine the components from the diagonals, and you get the wind vector.

A bit of research turned up that this was not an original idea, and it does work. There are commercial anemometers and wind vanes (are they still called wind vanes when they don't have a vane?) for terrestrial use that work this way. There have also been many home made ones, such as this one [1].

Offhand, I don't see why such a thing would not work for an airplane.

[1] http://embedded-lab.com/blog/making-an-ultrasonic-anemometer...
Google's Sarbanes-Oxley compliance should verify that this works exactly as described. I don't expect those to be public.
> It is a sign for abysmal factory operations.

Not really. It's just a sign that their paint shop needs some work.

> And the first time pass rate is really bad compared to other OEMs.

For a few weeks in June. Great work taking isolated incidents and generalizing across the board.
Sometimes I feel like I'm too paranoid but then these things keep happening that seemed like they would happen years ago which uselessly vindicates my position. Is there some critical threshold where they have enough DNA data to track everyone not in the database? Maybe any amount is helpful since it narrows a pool down.

Why do people keep giving out their information so freely?
https://www.programmingsimplified.com/c-program-generate-fib... in combination with writing tests for the output.
The tradeoff here is between right to repair, and users having secure, trustworthy devices that will not spy on them.

I disagree. I suspect (but cannot prove right now) that right to repair would lead to devices becoming more secure, more trustworthy.
Oh yes, separated and put in cages should be more precise
I was referring specifically to C and C++ development, for which JetBrains CLion is supposed to be pretty good, but still nowhere near as comprehensive as Visual Studio, particularly when it comes to debugging. In fact, concerning gaming specifically, one of the reasons why DirectX won the API wars is because Microsoft included a GPU debugger for DirectX with Visual Studio. I think Vulkan might have comparable tooling, but OpenGL emphatically did not.
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Yep, Google Maps still shows my home and work locations on the Commute tab from before I disabled almost everything in my Google account, but won't let me change the work address since we moved locations. So I guess when I change houses (the only one I really care about, since I use it to send an ETA to my wife) I can just turn everything on, change the address, then turn it all off again. It's illogical dark patterns like this that made me start detaching from Google, and will probably drive me to buy a non-Android phone next time, although I detest Apple UI even if their quality is usually great.
The imitators always catch up to the innovators.

Nissan was making (to quote parent) "boring and reliable" electric cars before Musk showed up. I don't know what you're on about with the rest, it's pretty non-sensical.
:) Neat. Sadly, setting that youtube video to 720p-ish conveys my experience of reading text in a consumer VR HMD, which makes them hard to prototype with. Years ago there was a Java (research?) IDE (which I'm currently failing to quickly find), with a big window as workspace, and on it, assorted task-specific little windowlets, like an individual function and datastructure and bit of call stack. I wonder what a 3D/VR IDE might look like if the "windows" were similarly disaggregated and bitesized?
"Blew up" in the context of the nuclear industry could be not the best choice of words...
I'll chime in here (like I do in all these threads until it's fixed) but Google Home and Android Auto require all of these settings to be enabled last time I checked.
A great post, it's good to see how Hedera is already been applied to important industry like healthcare. I will keep monitoring the work they're doing with Open Pharma.
Do you think the instances “fleeing” is the bulk of the cases? Mostly it’s economic migrants. We know if they were fleeing they could just stay in Mexico or if not from The Americas, in a neighboring country.

Also, in many of those countries there isn’t a tradition of adoption, so that would be pretty rare.
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Guy made world record
He drive car on two wheels
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Yes, but the design of a nuclear power reactor and a nuclear weapon are pretty different - for a start the really nasty bit of most nuclear weapons is the fission of the secondary tamper by neutrons from the fusion component of the secondary.

Nothing like that happens in a nuclear power station.
After two days of protests in Venezuela, who has the upper hand?
Do you have a list of these strictly-better things to do and a plan on when to implement them? Do you let them pile up? Mostly asking about your decision-making process.
> The few challenges I've encountered seem solvable

I see a lot of people saying this.

I never see anyone saying "We have solved these problems"...
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OK it's true there are also more issues at play.

Since you mention battery, that's a big one. When Apple cannot control which batteries get swapped into their devices, their brand is at risk due to fires caused by bad batteries.

You can generalize this point to other components and quality in general. If people swap out third party parts, which some repair shops and end users will do to save money, the products end up looking bad and it damages Apple's reputation, which is valuable to them.
> There aren't any new paradigms, techniques, or languages that (realistically) promise even a one-order-of-magnitude improvement in programmer productivity

I am doing 10×. It's possible.
may i ask what your day job is?
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Possible, but from the inside as a Microsoft Partner, it feels like most of the world is just starting to move to the cloud, and when they do, they go Azure, because they are already dependent on Exchange.
Use a code block:

(* *)

Then the asterisks show up as literals. Two leading spaces for each line in the code block.
>Well the west couldn't and most likely won't stop the muslim religious extremism and China tries to do things on their own.

These are Chinese citizens within China's borders. What does the west dealing with it's own problems with Islamic extremists have to do with it at all?

Just to be clear, you created an account to make excuses for putting people in concentration camps.
That isn't what he was saying, nor is what you are saying true. There isn't an intrinsic reason for code to be a text stream. There are environments that are in broad use where it is not, such as Simulink, LabView, and some of the big game engines today.

It's easy to be parochial about this when Unix like environments force everyone into a lowest common denominator of text streams, but don't take the limitations and bad ideas of Unix as laws of the universe.

Edit:

Summarizing the list of non-text mode programming languages in general use that people have mentioned in this thread:

ANSYS SCADE

Sikuli

Unity

LabView

Simulink

max/msp

SynthMaker

Kyme

LUSTRE
The question then becomes whether or not they can prove you are lying. They still have the burden of providing proof. For someone who is not a US citizen it would not help as they can just be denied entry, but I imagine it would be much more difficult for them to reasonably hold a citizen for something they suspect but cannot prove for more than a few days.

I think about this issue sometimes, and it always ends up coming back to how much power enforcement has if they do not yet have proof. If they can torture you without any sort of proof, then no hardware or software solution can protect both you and your data.

It sucks that it has come to this, but short of legislative changes I don't think there is any other practical way to guarantee security of data at the border other than sticking it in the cloud and downloading on arrival, or using hidden volumes and not mentioning them. Even the cloud isn't really safe compared to hidden volumes - they can always ask about those too.
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You may want to read this, you appear to have a couple common misconceptions about what is going on based on some highly publicized smears:

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/debunking-all-the-assange...
There's a growing list of topics I just entirely avoid online now, and it's a damn shame because I enjoy most of them.

Cryptocurrencies, "smart" things or IoT, anything Google related, anything even slightly related to or made by Facebook (the other day Facebook released info on their rewrite of Facebook.com and zero comments were about the tech on HN, it was just a bunch of people arguing over how awful Facebook really is), and many things that deal with JavaScript (at least on HN).

Sadly I'm going to be adding Tesla to that list now, something I should have done years ago, at least on this website.

Every topic related to those things quickly devolves into a bunch of people just yelling at each other over semantics, and it's very hard to have any real nuanced discussion.
There's a Firefox extension I often used before installing Pi-Hole that would do exactly this on every page. It was called AdNausium. Not sure if it's still a thing, but it was pretty great at obfuscation.

By the end of using it I'm pretty sure Google thought I was a middle-aged woman with an obsession for patterned summer dresses. There were a few other ways I obfuscated data using this guide :- https://web.archive.org/web/20181107150700/https://iotdarwin...
>So you have to build new baseload capacity...

No, you don't. The coal plant in another Alliant Energy area has been around since roughly 1900? or so. It's been updated several times. Never was there a need to rebuild from scratch any coal plant. (This is Madison Wi btw.) Now we stopped using coal there in 2011, (all gas now). But the point is, all the renovations are much cheaper than building a nuclear plant. Utilities around here, (the midwest), are run by old, stodgy, conservative guys who are generally not prone to rash action. There are very few executives around here who are going to build entirely new plants because the machinery in the old one has reached its end of service life. They are going to replace the machinery, at a fraction of the cost. I don't think executives in other parts of the nation are all that different in this regard. Now all that said, even if they did completely tear down and rebuild their plants, which they wouldn't, but even if they did, it would still be cheaper than building a nuclear plant.

So the coal plants are fine. And as I mentioned elsewhere, whatever you use to fill gaps will be a transitional technology. Wind turbines will become more efficient. (Work at lower windspeeds.) Pumped hydro storage will be built in new and innovative ways. What will fill the gaps in 2069 will bear little resemblance to what is filling the gaps in 2019. Because the new methods will likely be not only more clean, but much cheaper to boot.

And incidentally,

>You can't say that electricity from renewables is cheap without accounting for the cost of that standby capacity renewables require...

the 2 cents per kWh people see on their bill does factor in every source in the dispatch stack.
It's really funny how all of the "failures" demonstrate more innovation successes than the impacted industries have had for decades. It's also apparent from the swarms of histrionic, doomsaying sponsored content out there (i.e. most contemporary "journalism", sadly) that the established companies have been very disrupted and are choosing to wage a media war. The fact that so many resources have been directed to making a furor over every Tesla crash (as if people don't literally die every day in fiery car crashes, often due to faults that necessitate recalls when the settlements get too expensive) and missed deadline does not necessarily mean that the other car makers won't also expend resources to catch up in actual material competition, but the sheer scope of it indicates that strategically they are in a panic. If you think you can directly compete with someone, you do so. If you cannot, then sow FUD.
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Why exactly should a vendor not be responsible for the quality of its product just because they weren't hired to repair it?
> "When an electronic product breaks, consumers have a variety of repair options, including using an OEM's [original equipment manufacturer] authorized repair network."

Yeah, it's called taxing users for the defects you engineered in the first place. Look at how ridiculous the glued keyboard fiasco was with Apple, which refused to admit any guilt in their design for several years and charged users several hundred bucks for official repairs if they did not subscribe any special warranty.
You are incorrect, he is a journalist.

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/smear-1-he-is-not-a-journ...
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Sure, but Tor is overkill for any real or imagined threat in this case. So frankly, I don’t see the reason to single that aspect out.
'justcodebruh' your comment is marked as dead, but to answer your question I work on Google's privacy engineering team.
somewhat similar: I used to occupy all my "down time" with podcasts or audiobooks. While mildly interesting, I found that it removes all "cognitive introspection" opportunities, so that the only time available for tat is when I'm trying to fall asleep (meaning I had trouble falling asleep!)

So over the last few months I've stopped audiobooks and podcasts (I already don't watch TV).

Kind of counter intuitively, I find this "REAL down time" combined with other physical activities such as jogging and a few minutes of gardening each day provides me with greater self-control.
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The goalposts seem to be in fine shape this morning, look at them go!
Honestly, people have to be fools to think this is anything more than a feel-good placebo. Google is only doing this because public sentiment is starting to grow restless regarding data privacy. But given the pitiful, embarrassing grasp (judging by the Facebook/Google hearings) Congress has on the issue, I guarantee there will be no kind of followup to ensure Google actually deletes the data as they say they will. And honestly, why would they actually implement the feature? Who's going to hold them accountable? Won't be the federal government, they're a wet sock. Won't be shareholders, it's actually against their interest to provide data deletion. Won't be the media, they'll move onto another news narrative soon enough.
was indeed very surprising to hear that snow condition wasn't been specifically addressed yet, and yet they talk about robotaxi for next year.

I've never yet seen a city with a taxi service which is reliable in heavy snow - things usually fall completely apart. (Not to mention buses, trains, planes, etc...)

Even if the robotaxis are shown to not be able to operate in snow, it's not necessarily an indictment of the whole robotaxi concept. If they can work in snow-free conditions, it's still covering the majority of time, in the majority of potential markets.
If hit by rocket debris, I do not believe Chinese people have standing to sue the government for damages, per Chinese law. Take away people's civil rights, and you can launch rockets from just about anywhere.

Saudi Arabia and much of the middle East is like this too, where the government can get away with just about anything, expect too lazy to work on rocket science
It's an optimization problem - you lose X% of people if your trial is long enough that they don't prioritize evaluating it before it expires. You lose Y% of people if your trial is too short for them to evaluate it against competitors. If X > Y, shorten your trial. If Y > X, lengthen it.

The problem comes in the fact that it's really hard to identify what X and Y are - there's some voodoo involved in properly attributing actual reasons for not converting a trial.

This is why I like the idea of going immediately paid with a very-long money-back guarantee, though that comes with its own optimization problems.
There are really two different things in that quote.

Being out of the loop on decisions is a combination of a company with a mix of remotes and company locations who would benefit from better documentation/communications practices. In practice, it's also something remote workers often just need to be more proactive about.

The latter is really about separating work as social activity from work as work. You arguably lose something in the process but, if you're remote in a different location, you're not going to be at work happy hours, other gatherings, or software league. What you can do is join other local groups of your choosing.
Signals are fundamental to the unix design. That'd be like "I want a car, but without any wheels, because wheels are often implicated in crashes".

Depending on OS internals within threading is a problem. Libraries that implement their own signal handling are a problem. Trying to get thread-local signal handling behavior when signals are process-global is a problem.

Threads are not a wholesale substitute for processes. Signals work just fine, as long as you plan for ways they can affect your code's behavior.
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I've always been curious why Stripe doesn't have LA offices. It seems (superficially, at least) to be ideal: same timezone as HQ, multiple top-tier colleges, a desirable climate, and a large engineering pool to source from.
I had that experience (not myself) with a former girlfriend.

She vocalized how she thought it was "so indulgent" to lie about for an hour on a late-summer Sunday afternoon in the city.

I grew up in a small, small town and remember a time even in the 90s before there was internet access. And then a time when there was, but it was far from readily accessible.

Entire days could be consumed by riding your bike on country roads past cornfields and sitting at the foot of waterfalls. There was nothing else to do. I read a lot. If that's indulgent I must be the most ugly glutton!
If you're already locked into msft, then yeah msft makes sense.

But one thing people often forget is that AWS is cheaper than everyone else. This matters to most companies.

Also, Azure is a pretty miserable dev experience for many of their services. Many of AWS smaller services aren't great, but better from what I've used/general sentiment.
It's not that uncommon.

> Many of the migrants are asylum seekers fleeing political violence in their countries of origin, especially Congo and Cameroon. Many of the Congolese lived for years in Angola, where they learned enough Portuguese to get by in Spanish. Angola last year expelled more than 300,000 Congolese refugees.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/hundreds-o...
Office Snapshots (https://officesnapshots.com) here.

We switched away from ad networks ~5 years ago in favor of selling and hosting our own ads which are static jpg/pngs.

Our ads are matched against the content (office furniture ads on office design content) which still targets the reader in a roundabout way in that they will likely be interested in the ads if they are interested in the content.

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We have also been removing 3rd party scripts (share buttons, etc) over the last year or so and only have Google Analytics and a Google Font left. The site still works if you block them.
Complaining about whataboutism being called out is even more tangential and thought-stopping than actually calling it out.

Whataboutism is not a valid defense, it's a deflection in the form of a red herring.
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> Re-usable rockets that land? Electric cars? Cars that drive themselves? I'm willing to tolerate a little shenanigans in exchange for this kind of innovation.

The only problem with little shenanigans is that its market manipulation- even if it appears to be legitimately accidental.
I think kanban was primarily for interrupt driven projects, but this works too for pipeline like stuff.
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In what way was MS sinking under Ballmer? Maybe they were not exciting but they were super profitable every year. I think it's more about better PR.

Not everything is golden at MS now either. I am working on creating a platform for our medical software on Windows 10 and it really makes me want to switch to Linux or iOS. Windows is a big mess of old and new code and attempts of sandboxing like iOS but only half-hearted. Keeping up with the semi-annual channel is also insane. I would much prefer annual or biannual releases that are actually stable. It's a very developer unfriendly platform now.