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I can skip tracks, pause, adjust volume without taking out my phone

There's absolutely no reason why wired headphones can't do that, you can buy ones with three-button inline controls. Ye olde Walkman could do it.
Exactly. And it works very well.

I recommend PostgREST to export a RESTful interface to a single PG schema's VIEWs and functions, and RLS and INSTEAD OF triggers as needed.
It's the good old "pit of success" story. When doing the right thing is extra work, you will find countless examples of people doing the wrong thing. The only way to always do the right thing is to make that the easiest possible way.
It shouldn't do. Estimations should be based on FTE (full time equivalents) of the broken down tasks. An estimation shouldn't be guesswork of a delivery date based on your current teams situation but rather a calculated value of the number of days of effort (eg it would take 1 person 82 days if they worked on it for 7.5 hours a day) with a little margin added for any unforeseen technical hurdles that will inevitably crop up.

If estimations are based on FTE then you can factor in meetings, holidays, and even other projects that might suck up resources ("resources" in this case being your engineers work time) into your delivery date. You can detect very early on if your deadlines are slipping (assuming your team are logging their hours against tickers or a timesheet) and you can also make informed judgements ahead of time about whether you need more resources (were that's an option / the work can be scaled across more engineers).

Obviously this is harder if you're tackling a significantly larger "green field" project - you might have to start making some educated guesses in those instances. But most of the time you should have some idea about the work involved.
I mean first fines pretty much have to scale with total revenue to deter behavior

second 5 billion won't even lead to an unprofitable quarter at 2018's numbers so there's a loooot of room between 5B and an existential fine, we aren't any where near the slippery part of the slope.
This is exactly the information I was looking for when I opened chromium blog post. Technical and to the point. Is there a reason why this couldn't be appended to the blog post?
TCP/IP over AWS CloudWatch Logs
I have so little faith in Google producing code that us usable by mere mortals. Could I please be proven wrong?
New Type of Dementia Identified
Apparently there's not as much evidence as you'd think that ergonomic keyboards make a difference for wrist pain. I used to think I could only use an ergonomic one, but I've been I've been using a brown switch CODE keyboard for almost 3 years now and it's been no better or worse than my old ergonomic keyboards. As long as I don't overdo it, my wrists are fine.

https://codekeyboards.com/
Site Tests Whether You Can Spot AI-Generated Faces
The juniors are usually terrified by prospects of being responsible, so they get frozen or stuck

The estimating for juniors should be optional by default, but progress self-tracking mandatory. This way it yields facts without guilt and overpromiss. The team should estimate, the team should deliver.
Wolfram don't make matlab. They make Mathematica.
I’m not sure why this is downvoted, as it summarizes Flutter pretty well. Flutter’s “Cupertino” theme is obviously an emulation if you use it for more than a minute. If you want your app to look like an Android app on both platforms, though, I think it does pretty well at that.
My experience with Android has been one of declining "helpfulness" and usability in general. I stuck with Android for a long time, (Nexus One - Pixel 3) but with every release Google made pure Android a little worse, and simultaniously made it just a little bit harder to work around the "new" Ad delivery technologies ("Features"). Google Now, the Google search bar, Hangouts with full SMS integration (those were the days), all lost to the Big-G's quest for Ad revenue.

iOS isn't dramatically better, but it is dramatically more consistent as far as an everyday phone goes. I still keep the Pixel 3 on Fi around, hooked up to my car because Android Auto hasn't been entirely ruined yet and CarPlay leaves a lot to be desired.
LEDs last a long time. Apparently some other critical supporting component inside LED bulbs fail within 1-2 years.

Nearly every brand I've tried started flickering or dimming or failing in some way after 2 years of use despite the box touting 10+ years of life. Disappointing to say the least.
There are basically two options:

- learn how to and design a PCB with relays or FETs or whatever, following all the best practices for it to not catch fire.

- buy off-the-shelf rail-mounted relays/contactors, then design a driving circuit that will be all low voltage.

Assembling it all on a breadboard won't cut it (as in will blow up sooner or later), that's for sure.
> I also think it's weird that everyone has to learn these (and other lesson) themselves in their 20s/30s/40s/whenever -- why is there not a compendium of reasonable/decent ways to approach interpersonal relationships and society in society today? Like a farmer's almanac for human interaction.

The college I went to had a great comm course called "Sex, Relationships, and Communication" and it covered many things in this area. Really should have been a required high school course.
Which of course only makes a stronger argument for keeping the longer lasting sodium lamps. :)
Adding a battery to something that didn’t have one previously literally decimated the expected time until it ends up in a landfill/the ocean.
> Off the top of my head, I'd say that it's likely that increases in minimum wage resulted in a greater increase in economic performance than increases in welfare distribution, but I'm not certain and I'd have to look back into it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit#Impac...
People say "zoning problem", but should we really solve the problem that 1 in 6 residences in Edinburgh is an airbnb by building skyscrapers in a World Heritage Site? I suppose it would repel the tourists.
I don't think it enables cool stuff. There's no reason why it has to be tied to be good. But if it is good, there's no reason for Apple not to tie them to squeeze the most out of it.
watermelon0 has the correct answer: [most] hobbyists should stick 100% to low-voltage low-current applications and use off the shelf certified hardware whene interfacing with high-voltage (i.e. mains) power.

MEE hobbyists, disregard.
I agree with you that Malta may be not as vivid as London. However, its citizenship is still good for moving anywhere else in Europe, isn't it? I mean, it takes 1 year to "buy" it and then there is no need to reside there. (You may check it yourself, there is a detailed brochure here https://www.greenlion-immigration.com/countries/malta/)
Waste heat can always be reused, but the problem is that the lower the temperature difference the lower the efficiency is, and what you don't extract to do useful work gets converted back to waste heat

At some point it becomes uneconomical to use this waste heat rather than discarding it.
Is it ownable (rootable)?
I've been using InfluxDB for ~3 years now for storing metrics (almost exclusively via Telegraf, a few custom ones), and it has been great! It replaced a collectd setup and dramatically decreased load across my fleet.

When I first started using it, it was pretty early and had some issues. In fact, I nearly trashed it. I also didn't like the pull vs. push model from Prometheus. They ended up resolving the InfluxDB issues I was having right as I was about to give up on it, and it's been solid since. I use it with Grafana to generate graphs of system use. I set it up before TICK was a thing.
The color rendering index of low pressure sodium bulbs is vastly inferior to that of a typical white LED. High pressure sodium bulbs are even worse in that regard.
You seem to be confused about meaning of "CSS tracking". Detecting that user clicks on the link, that you have shown him, is harmless — as demonstrated by Google, a website can always track it's own outgoing requests by replacing all it's outgoing links with redirects. This is inherent part of hypertext.

The infamous "a:visited" tracking didn't simply track your visits from Google — it tracked all your visits across entire Internet. Browser vendors are bunch of lazy hacks, who can't even implement per-site link history (just like they failed to implement per-site cookies). All "a:visited" states are source from single SQLite database, that stores your full web history. THAT is the "CSS Tracking", because it can tell a page about visits from completely different domains. Instead of separating your web history per-domain those <censored> have crippled :visited selector in several undocumented ways.
See also this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19843464
For me it works pretty well if I imagine someone else (another team member who is less experienced) doing the job, and myself reviewing the code. It turns out my estimates about other people's work are much more accurate... :)
You comment reminds me of what a friend said about Venice.

Venice is as real a city as the Magic Kingdom. Because tourists ate it completely. There have always been tourists going to Venice, but since the jet age so many that all the old families that used to make it their home have been kicked out.

Probably the future is everyone not wealthy gets kicked out and put on the equivalent of an Indian Reservation. Enforced by rents, toll roads and congestion pricing.
The uno format is exactly why I like it. It means I can use screw shields made for the UNO on it. Also lots of other shields that will accept 3.3v logic.
So you are on to something. Why build big one missile that the laser will zap? Do it like your body does with sperm. Send a whole swarm of tiny missiles, overwhelm this huge engineering project, and one might get through.
Paying them will make it that much harder to prove the information was false.
Ah! Yes, I wondered if part of the disconnect was that we speak different native languages, but I did not want to assume. (Though perhaps I should have just asked.)
I'm not a trader either, but I have non-zero knowledge about it...

> do they need experience with trading?

That's a yes. You don't get to put a lot of money onto an investment without some experience on how it's done. This is true for all forms of investment, not only trading.

How do you even evaluate to robot if you don't know the market? What do you do if the robot breaks? What do you do if the market breaks (happens once in a while)? How much money you leave under its supervision?
How about just jail the programmers and engineers since they are the only ones who ever have a record of what went on.
Man, after getting beaten up in some recent reviews, I needed to see that.
Another key point. It should not just deter Facebook but OTHER companies considering the same action.
Sure! Use "hackernews" for a 23% off :-D
I found 90% of my issues with Android were resolved by switching out the launcher. No more unhideable 'home' screen of toxic news and ads, no forced google search bar, and I can make it behave any way I want w.r.t. gestures (or not).
The dirty secret of LED lighting is that while LEDs themselves last a long time, they only do so in the presence of good power supply design and good thermal design. If you cut corners on the power supply or thermal management, LEDs will burn out much quicker than older lighting technologies. The majority of consumer-grade LED "bulbs" available today are shitty on both counts, AFAICT.
It's on my list, this will bump it up. Thanks!

Off the top of your head is there similar data on getting too much sleep? It makes a lot of sense that (past a certain point) lack of sleep could be harmful, since going without sleep is eventually fatal. However this could easily be compatible with too much sleep being harmless.
I’ve had excellent results with Phillips LED bulbs. Been using various models for years and I don’t think a single one has failed.

Also, the IKEA ones seem fine.
I don't know the details of the law, but I would bet that Teslas don't qualify on a technicality of the law rather than the fact that Tesla simply has not operated an autonomous vehicle on a public road in the state of California. You might be right that they are doing it to save embarrassment, but that is a rather cynical mindset considering it can also be explained by just not wanting to publicize their progress.

It is also worth pointing out that Tesla's ability to run software on its fleet of hundreds of thousands of cars gives them a huge advantage regarding data collection. If their cars are truly as safe as they claim (a huge if and one we have no real public proof of yet), the lack of having this report on disengagements in California is not going to be a stumbling block in getting regulatory approval.

EDIT: Since I am being downvoted, I looked up the regulation [1]. Teslas likely don't to qualify as "autonomous vehicles" according to definition b. Although that is a pretty bad definition in my opinion. Also I am not praising Tesla here, just pointing out that their ability to avoid this regulation is not an indication of the quality of their self-driving tech.

[1] - https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/d48f347b-8815-458e...
(research) Full Text : https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5089783
> It's really not clear.

So, to be clear: I consider anything that involves government generally to be avoided, and government should be involved only in things where such overreaching involvement (and its morally/ethically unsound ways - personal freedom and privacy breaches, financing through taxes...) is absolutely necessary - e.g. the end (people not dying) justifies the means.

Code sharing is not that, and having such entity run it in a centralised way would defeat the point - such database of code absolutely should be distributed, potentially blockchain-like decentralised.

> The meaning is consistent in English, it's just condescending. But I do appreciate your elaboration.

It's not in Czech. It's something a teacher would say to a kid as a joke.
Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/formal-methods-amazon....
That said, a lot of people (myself included) buy Google flagship phones because they get Android OS and Google Service upgrades (like Assistant) the fastest. Many of us have been burned by other Android vendors who put a layer of turd on top of stock Android.
No, brute forcing 2^256 is not the starting point of anything.

Again, after seeding with initial entropy, /dev/random and /dev/urandom are the same, /dev/random is not better entropy.

Attacking a single 256 bit key is exactly as equally impossible as attacking a 256 bit RNG pool used to generate 100 keys.

There is no actual scenario in which using hardware RNG to generate 100 keys would keep me safe while using a hardware RNG to initialize a deterministic RNG to generate 100 keys would lead to compromise.

If your attacker model includes brute forcing 2^256, I can't help you. If you're trying to prove that Aleph-one is greater than Aleph-0, perhaps, but the number of atoms in the universe is less than Aleph-0, so it's irrelevant to cryptography or to information security.

People who say "maybe an advance in math will break 2048 bit DHE" are at least theoretically correct. But no advance in math is going to break that RNG. If you can't trust that RNG, you can't send secrets using CTR, GCM, CHACHA, etc. because they will all break using that method.
So a thermoelectric generator? Saying this is using the "coldness of the universe" is technically true, but it's a bit of a grandiose way of describing the fact that nighttime is colder than day. It would be pretty neat to harvest the natural nighttime cooling of panels though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_generator
Tough modern polymers are generally more durable in drop tests. Plastic, when it doesn't crack, just springs right back. Metal bends, and stays bent.

If you look at military guns these days, almost all of them have polymer magazines. This is one of the reasons why.
I feel good and bad about this.

I invested several years at coming up to speed with Java 8+ (using templates, rx, streams, the new time APIs).
It was not hard, but difficult to unlearn some C++ idioms around templates, consts, reference model and object lifecycle management.

Clearly this driven by Oracle's continuous poisoning of Java ecosystem (eg https://headcrashing.wordpress.com/2019/05/03/negotiations-f... )

And I think Kotlin is a solid step forward from the Java without the baggage of pre JDK 1.7 idioms.

But for a small (often single dev) shops trying to compete in Android marketspace, it is quite hard to maintain this rate of change (plus incorporating all the new (and better ways) of doing android with androidx )
Somewhat unrelated but I would like to also mention Maxima (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/), which used to be maintained by the late Dr. Schelter and is still updated. Here is a link to an old comparison between it and Mathematica: https://luckytoilet.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/beginners-compa... .
I think the evidence for streetlights deterring crime is not clear.

That said, I think it is clear that people feel safer with lights, and removing that stress seems worthwhile.

Although I do hope we keep pushing for lights that produce less light pollution; it has become unbearably hard to see a proper night sky.
I'm confused about the mentions of Chrome OS here. In particular:

> You can also publish Flutter apps for Chrome OS to the Play Store

Do they mean, you can publish an Android app and then run it with Chrome OS's support for that? How else are you supposed to run Flutter apps on Chrome OS? The only other way I see is "web" unless I'm missing something.
That’s close to the same energy solar panels should produce from starlight. So, hard to find a useful application.
> you need to spend planning a thing is waaaaaaaaay longer than we’ve ever spent planning a thing. Orders of magnitude longer. And you plan it multiple times over, with rounds of stakeholder engagement, rounds of risk analysis, rounds of breaking it down and analysing each component and figuring out what it is and how long it will take and what can go wrong and the dependencies and so on and so forth ... and then going back and doing it again until you’re sure it’s correct.

Yuck. I think the agile approach might be better here. It's better to expose your plan to reality ASAP and adapt along the way.

Except, that's not how agile really works. How agile works is "bosses" have an hour planning meeting, and then act as though they have a veeeeery robust plan (like you talk about) and get upset if things do go according to their quick one-hour plan. So much for adapting along the way.
I completely agree. The problem is the report linked is one of the few pieces of public data so people tend to inflate its importance and value.
Challenging but fair bots are by definition not supposed to treat the game as totally algorithmically solvable. They can work fine on heuristics rather than algorithms, the same way that players do. There are moments when a player needs to think through all the possibilities available in the game state, and other moments when they just use a rule of thumb, like, "use this card to destroy the greatest threat currently out because time is not currently on my side to wait for what they might play next".
That model is too complicated for tiny minds. Just tell me when it will be done, man!
Seems reasonable.

A lot of ORMs are built in layers so you can use the foundational bits or the higher level bits at your discretion. Which is why I don't understand the binary argument. "It depends", but a lot of ORMs span the entire "It depends" spectrum..
Well, lets look at Bluetooth itself as an example - an open standard that tries to enable cool stuff, but which is widely loathed as unreliable and a mess to develop for because all of the vendors got involved and tried to add their own special use cases / protocol variations / etc...

I'm not saying a closed ecosystem is somehow "right" by design, but Apple's proprietary augmentation of Bluetooth sure makes me forget that the watch is using it to talk to my phone or laptop. Maybe its less that closed ecosystems enable cool stuff and more that end-to-end control makes it easier to ensure your cool stuff works properly most of the time.
My understanding is the current climate science (IPCC 2018 report) is that we have around 10-20 years maybe to turn things around, i.e. radically decarbonise to avoid global warming rise above 1.5C and now this report by IPBES about mass extinction event.

How are we going to achieve what is necessary to turn things around when governments and people are asleep at the wheel and just continue business as usual.

Are people willing to change their destructive habits, i.e. willing to drastically reduce their meat & dairy intake?

Are organisations willing to become more sustainable rapidly and not just do drip feed changes over the next 30+ years.
Do users care? It doesn't feel exactly native on Android, but is still fast and looks great (it might indeed be better than native).

Afaik the main alternatives, RN and Web (for fully reusable UI) are both heavy and don't feel that native either, yet are popular with developers.
You could try _enforcing_ zoning laws and arresting the people running illegal flophouses. That would be a start.
>The sodium lamps use roughly the same amount of energy

That doesn't sound right, source?

edit:
https://www.stouchlighting.com/blog/led-vs-hps-lps-high-and-...

Why would LEDs put Sodium vapor lights out of business?
Sodium lamps have the worst color rendering of any bulb. They produce a dark yellow glow which is generally a very low quality light. Additionally, there are serious waste disposal issues with sodium lamps. In particular, they have been known to start fires in the event that the lamp is broken and the sodium metal is exposed. The sodium can catch fire even in the event that the lamp is broken on the ground. For this reason it is safest to break sodium lights under water and then to subsequently dispose of the destroyed bulb. Lastly, HPS and LPS lights are monochromatic, so they can mess with your color vision if you look at them for an extended period of time.

Perhaps more importantly, in the last few years LED efficiency has surpassed that of even LPS and HPS lights and its efficiency improvements are progressing at a much more rapid rate. The largest selling point of LPS and HPS lights is the cheap selling price, the high energy efficiency (low operating costs), and the relatively long lifespan. LPS and HPS still retain these advantages over most conventional bulbs but they lose on all three counts to LEDs. In some areas (e.g. lifespan) they are drastically inferior to LEDs. The extremely low maintenance and replacement costs with LEDs is actually a major cost benefit over the long term. LED lifespan can be greater than 100,000 hours (more than four times that of LPS or HPS). Having to purchase one bulb versus 3 or 4 bulbs over the course of time is a significant selling point for LEDs. The bottom line is that having lost their traditional advantage of being the most energy efficient bulb on the market, there’s very little reason to use a sodium vapor light when LED lighting is available.
Would love to see your current setup - I also have the same issue with TypeORM and am sticking with sequelize.