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You're being snarky, but you are totally correct. The US could certainly just shut down all exports, and pretty quickly all trade would cease, and the economy would totally implode. It's completely doable, if that's what we want to do to ourselves. Lately, we Americans seem to really like shooting ourselves in the foot, so this would just be more of that, except with a bigger gun.
I've used Etcher a bunch of times. It's pretty and gets the job done.

But it's also heavily recommended within the Raspberry Pi community, and used by Balena's customers for starter IoT applications. We can assume most of the users of this application are beginners.

So, do you think these beginners would care about the size of this "app" that they'll probably delete as soon as it finishes? Do you think they'd care about 200MB of RAM when they're almost certainly running it on any modern PC instead of some ancient EeePC from hell? As a beginner, would you feel more comfortable in front of Etcher or dd?

The crux of your argument basically boils down to "a GUI takes up more RAM than a CLI." Which is obviously true, but it doesn't invalidate the need for more GUIs in the world. Could Etcher have been built with a native GUI? Sure, but it's free software, there are no expectations. If you wanted to, you could clone the repo and build it natively yourself.

But why would you? Etcher already exists, and it would save you from hundreds of hours of debugging and learning new frameworks. Knowing HTML/CSS/JS, you could build Electron Etcher in a fraction of the time it would take you to build Qt4 Etcher, and the compromises are acceptable given the target audience.

And now you understand why the Etcher devs chose Electron.
The local web view is the bloat. The rest of electron is not the problem.
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Why is this titled this way? This is not inherent or specific to iPhones. The title should really be "Apps can do whatever you let them including send your data to unknown servers". This is the worst kind of piggyback article out there. It's piggybacking on another, more detailed source and it's using the term "iPhone" just to be more sensationalized.
Of course they did. That shit's expensive! And have you ever tried to get support out of Oracle? They only fix symptoms, not problems.
No, but very similar! I made mine as a product you could attach to any board, as opposed to the strips being embedded and shaped into the board like the one in this video (which normally cost thousands to buy...) A few of my friends rode them at a contest in France though [1]

Alas, at the moment it's just a kick-starter pipe dream I'll never have the time to put into production.

[1]https://www.adventuresportsnetwork.com/sport/surf/night-surf...
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A huge amount of person-to-person sales take place through FB marketplace. If FB can drive some % of those people to use Libra that will be a good start to adoption.
You're probably being downvoted for the time of your post but I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually true. E3 demos are notorious for being pre-rendered moonshots far removed from reality once the game hits the market. Some more egregious than others. That said, if the actual game is only half has gorgeous as this video, it's still crazy good looking.
Truly, ignorance is bliss.
These things are generally already tweaked way into the region of diminishing returns. Easy gains are all taken.
In the trailer, I saw multiple planes flying alongside. I was wondering whether this meant multiplayer (no idea if this is common in flight sims, they're a genre I still want to get started in), but it could also be a computer that flies alongside?
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One of the main things Pi-hole does is give you transparency into what domains are being contacted and with what frequency, so you can identify and block relevant domains manually.

https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/uploads/default/original/2...

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/uploads/default/original/2X/5/...
Most diabetics, not pumping take two kinds of insulin. One that provides a basal dose that covers the glucose your body produces. One to two injections a day for that. In addition, there is the bolus dosages that are taken with any carbohydrates. So most people on average, eat 3 meals a day, plus any snacking. We are up to about 6 a day here.

The cheaper insulin in the US is garbage and should not be used. period. The problem is the companies are have no pressure to reduce prices. the customers are captive and must pay or die. They make money in other countries that have price controls on the same product.
Ask HN: How to Build Likeable Product?
I have failed multiple times to build a successful product.

What are the solutions, tricks, and methods you are using to build a likeable product?
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A more direct motivation is recent U.S. sanctions on Chinese companies, the state support in semiconductor section has been boosted significantly, since decision-makers in China is now seeing the lack of state-of-art semiconductor manufacturing capabilities a critical threat to national security. Plausibly, developing the domestic semiconductor market to reduce foreign reliance is going to be a major goal.

As we see, SMIC has already withdrawn from New York Stock Exchange entirely [1], and purchased a 7nm EUV lithography machine from ASML for $120 million [2]!

[1] https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3011737/chinas-biggest...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/13941/smics-14-nm-mass-produc...
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It sounds like a generally good approach for keeping the UI process responsive at all times. I wonder if the serialization cost behind all those IPC calls becomes an issue at some point, especially when passing large structures back and forth, have you found this to be an issue for your use case?
Hope someone tries this and lets us know how it goes https://liliputing.com/2019/02/this-app-lets-you-run-windows...
rocketbook is an amazing tool.
It kind of is, management theory (both in business administration/MBA and public administration programs, and IIRC also in political science and certain sociology programs) devotes quite a lot of attention and research to all these issues e.g. the agency problem, governance structures, patterns of organizational politics, incentive (mis)alignments, etc, I recall a bunch of such case studies from my college courses targeted at this, so it is taught to college students - just not to most of them.

Perhaps it should be, but it's hard to squeeze everything useful in everyone's study program, and I'm not sure if compressing all these topics in e.g. a single short elective course designed for people majoring in other disciplines can be done reasonably well, it's a complicated topic.
https://github.com/ecomfe

https://github.com/shadowsocks
So you're imagining the insurance companies aren't somehow benefitting from the high cost of healthcare?
The optimal diet problem was the first problem ever solved in the field of operations research. Get ready for some navy beans.
>Sure, you can do that. Or, you could simply list the price that lets you have some margin while still being competitive. Why would you do the former rather than the latter? Only because of a clear intent to abuse the customer.

JCPenney tried it, lost a ton of business, and had to reverse course. Turns out, buyers like being given a fake marked up price and then buying at a "discount". See my other comment for source, it was a very famous example of a famous Apple executive trying to do what makes sense on paper, but not in practice.

>Words have meanings. I can't tell you what exactly "quickly" is defined, but I believe everyone reasonable would assume it's something around minutes to hours in this particular business. Ask yourself, what would you assume?

I wouldn't assume anything, because there is not enough information given by the seller. I also know that a seller's incentive is to sell, and that as a buyer, the only thing I need to be concerned with is how much I'm paying.

>I.e. until there's a clear and unambiguous statement that turns out to be purposefully false, you don't see a problem? Most lies aren't using clear and unambiguous language precisely because that makes them easier to spot; it doesn't change the fact that the intent is malicious towards your fellow human beings.

How are the courts supposed to prove intent? Especially when a seller has the legal right to change the price of their goods anytime they like. Intent also doesn't have to be malicious. As I showed in my earlier example, the sellers that use discounts make more money...because certain people like shopping at places that give big discounts, they like the feeling of getting a discount. I don't think the harm to society rises to the level of involving the courts in this case.
> Why did Microsoft let the Flight Simulator franchise go to the back burner for so long? I know these vast corporations have to focus but it is still a mystery to me why they let it go.

The ACES Studio was dissolved in its entirety in 2009 while Don Mattrick (best known for his blunders during the Xbox One's launch and his failure to turn around Zynga) headed up Microsoft's gaming efforts. Despite the fact that it turned a small but steady profit, the thinking seemed to be that PC gaming was dead and that consoles were the future.

As for why it stayed on the back burner so long, the terrain mapping team, the flight physics experts, and all the other specialized expertise in the studio was scattered to the four winds. Did Microsoft rebuild it? Who knows? While the new FS has pretty graphics, the true test will be whether it has the accurate flight physics and global map that FS grognards have come to expect or whether its a merely a coat of paint over a hollow shell.
Okay, my apologies then. That's pretty cool and IMHO exactly how languages should do it. Give people a good GC and a way to switch it off when needed while keeping it safe. That's perfect!
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Insightful commentary about the trailer by Tim Stone at Rock Paper Shotgun: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/06/14/the-flare-path-f...
All taxpayers should, because the entire US economy would collapse without cost-effective export shipping. Also, the issue is less of who pays and more of the strict liability. I don't think FedEx would mind implementing commercially reasonable measure to check high-risk packages--like customs does--but the issue is that they are now in the business of interpreting the law, and if the government disagrees they get in trouble.
Way more than that many people couldn't care less about Gutenberg though. Point being the bible is the most read book in the world.
"Some people seem to think that unused ram is good, quite the contrary actually."

Bubkiss. Using ram is an inherent negative that is justified by saving cpu time or disk access.

All things being equal if you could do the same job with a fraction of the resources the user would be better of because someone else's bloated app can use that ram or it can be used to cache files. It certainly isn't "wasted"

Now using ram to cache files is unequivocally good because as the file exists on disk we can at any time evict it from memory and read it again later.

"Laptop and battery-driven devices is a whole other matter though." Wherein a whole other matter is the majority of computers.

"If you have 50 of these apps running doing work while playing a game while having a pc from 10 years ago, then I can actually see a problem"

Complete strawman. There are probably more people that are poor or cheap running slow devices than fast, This is by no means limited to a tiny number of very old devices. Likd 80% of computers are constrained in terms of battery or ram.

"electron is just terrific and is a trade-off that is worth it in the end"

What you are actually saying is that you value one developers time over a million users time. The challenge is that it doesn't scale very well. If the user runs 10 apps that use a gb per app a typical 8gb ram machine will be swapping when switching apps and a 4gb which still exists will have stopped working.
> I throw all my notes out as soon as I finish writing them.

I do the exact same thing, and haven't met anyone else that did it. I thought I was a weirdo all this time! My learning process is (as theorized by me):

1. Hear/see instructor say something

2. Mentally digest and understand it

3. Write down the product of understanding it

I think #2 is the most important step, and the big purpose of step #3 is validating that I actually performed step #2.
Any opinions on whether this practice continues to serve the general good of the society? The comment above about austerity has a ring of truthiness to it that is very difficult to ignore.
Even if he isn't an avatar for white supremacy, his reaction after Charlottesville was rather slow, as well after the New Zealand massacre this year. I see the same problem in my native Germany, populists and conservatives aren't taking domestic right-wing terrorism as serious as they do with the much rarer left-wing terrorism.

Who did David Duke support during the presidential campaign? Trump. Who did applaud when Trump put up that Muslim travel ban?

It doesn't matter much what Trump claims he is or isn't: The problem is the extreme fringes of society that support him and feel empowered by his election. Empowered so much that they get out on the street more openly with the hate speech.
You do realize horseless carriages were also expensive toys for rich people when they were first introduced?
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Nice, I'll have to look into this further!
I think there is a very good argument to be made for nationalizing drug production in the USA, at least for generics. The idea that private companies have the power to gouge people just for the privilege of staying alive, in the name of profit, is reprehensible.
> Meanwhile, the scenario described in this blog post is shared by virtually every mainstream implementation language other than Rust.

I don't believe that TypeScript, which is mainstream, has zero values if strict mode is enabled. (I could be wrong though; plugging all the "undefined" leaks is hard in JS.)
" those same entities would absolutely prefer that their product does NOT in fact kill their customers or potential customers as that would just reduce their maximum potential profit."

But since their products or their production methods kill people they prefer more profits over less profits. I can't find any possible excuse for lobbying against safety regulations in coal mines other than them being greedy bastards.
Thank you. It was a total shock. Even more so as it was my wedding day so I found out in the evening :(

He had been trying to get healthier for the previous two years after being diagnosed with diabetes and high blood pressure but the damage was already done. The thing is though he wasn’t huge. Yes he was larger than he should be but you didn’t look at him and think heart disease or diabetes. He thought he could make up for the years of unhealthy lifestyle by exercising and eating well once he had a problem but it doesn’t work that way.

I am in my mid-thirties and it was a slap to the face that I needed to sort myself out now before I end up the same way.
Reminds me of https://www.xkcd.com/530 .
The discussion is regarding the legality of it, hence the relevance of defining quickly. It has nothing to do with "hiding behind equivocation".
And the SPARC/Solaris/Oracle stack is arguably one of the things that brought down ArsDigita a few years later. They couldn't reduce costs to accommodate lower-end customers.
Could it be that people aren't _just_ becoming more sensitive, but that aspects of modern society are _causing_ mental health issues to appear at higher rates? I won't say 'capitalism is making everyone mentally ill', but it does seem that a large blind-spot in most discourse around mental health is environment. In this sense, 'medicalising' everyday does, in fact, provide a useful lens to examine mental illness.

Just food for thought.
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Well, first of all, only certain professionals are licensed to administer those tests, and for good reason, because otherwise people would self-diagnose too much or too little.

> […] I don't consider myself to have anxiety.

Everyone has anxiety. Some people have anxiety disorders.

> Isn't it normal to be anxious in stressful situations […]

People with anxiety disorders are anxious in normal, non-stressful situations. They can panic when asking a bus driver which stop they should get off at, when talking to a new coworker, or in other ordinary circumstances. People with depressive disorders are depressed at times even when things are going well. People with severe depression can have a hard time just getting out of bed in the morning, feeding themselves, and going through the motions of ordinary life.
It's the civilized discussion of the past that has created this problem, and you're right, dead people are the result.

The only solution that works every time is for enough of us get angry and voice that anger in concrete ways that shame and vilify those captains of industry (and henchman politicians) who blithely choose to harm other people because there's more profit in it than giving a damn.
I've read tons of books on synthesizers, I've built my own in Max/MSP and Reaktor (this drum synth for Ableton Live I still maintain https://github.com/robenkleene/thwomp).

The best resource I've found for learning synthesis is Welsh's Synthesizer Cookbook (https://www.synthesizer-cookbook.com/). And it's not even close: A few years ago I went all in on ebooks, I got rid of everything. I recently went through a bunch of PDFs trying to find a replacement resource for this book (which isn't available as an ebook). Let's just say I gave up and now I own a physical copy of exactly one book.
Amazon made considerable efforts to get off Oracle which proved hard as Oracle seem to provide some features for large users that are hard to match. However they got there and are using AMS services. Presumably other large users may be able to go the same route. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/02/amazon_fulfilment_o...
(Aurora Postgres and DynamoDB are mentioned)
Long periods of sitting are actually very hard on your system and one of the reasons why so many quit doing what they love.

Also tight deadlines and other maybe less obvious constant stressors might exacerbate pernicious effects.

For that reason even junior and intermediate developers should think twice about fair/sustainable remuneration.

Ageisim diclaimer: That doesn't mean that there aren't lots of people with exceptionable health and/or consistent exercise / eating discipline of course.
I think a lot of this is also slack (not the chatapp). Its the idea that a company need some idleness to maximize overall efficiency. If you are occupied 100% of the time and you always have a queue of work, then you cannot respond to changes in capacity or urgency. Its a bit like a company keeping you on retainer. Sure most of a department sits around 3 weeks a month, but they are all needed during the last week of crunch time.
It's likely going to be more stringent than that. I doubt Visa/MasterCard would allow their logo next to Libra without knowing what they're signing up for.
I use VS Code too and it's extremely sluggish compared to a text editor like Sublime. I use it only because the plugin experience is much better than Sublime and the responsiveness is infinitely better than JetBrains' products.
This has got to be one of the coolest uses of pi ever. Amazing !
Again - the point I was making was.
IF mobile networks were sending out a cell broadcast of an alternative number to use upon `their` networks.
THEN why didn't they just do a routing change upon `their` networks.
`their` networks were working - hence they was able to send out a network broadcast. They equally sent a new emergency number that was not upon KPN and as such worked.

As for large network configuration changes - pish, it really isn't that hard and would literally be a simple update upon their network only that they could just as easily change back. Not talking a global change update, just a per network (mobile) that was working (or the ones that were and able to push out a cell notification).

Hope that made it clearer for you.
? A local webview usually means that it reuses the user's already installed browser and uses that instead.
> I don't mean to sound insensitive here, but... last I checked it's possible to pick up insulin (without a prescription) for $25 a bottle.

You don't sound insensitive, you sound ignorant.
> You are being disingenuous when comparing spending too much money on your credit card to spending "too much" on education.

Nothing disinenguous about it when 'student loans' can be used for 10s of thousands of dollars worth of 'cost of living' type expenses. I refuse to take any student debt proposals seriously until someone puts forth one that excludes non-tuition expenses.
If you’ve read the stories on some of these foreign manufacturers, you might reconsider trying to bypass the FDA inspection requirement.

Here’s just the first hit I saw on Google, there have been quite a few exposés on the topic.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/12/7222165...
You guys don't do minute notation (5')?
I don't think you're far off. The IPCC panel will probably adjust their models to take into account the Siberian, Canadian, Alaskan, and Greenland permafrost all melting. And then we may be more certain about how fast we're accelerating towards the worst case scenarios.

I agree that we're already beyond the point of no return. It's sad that popular coverage of climate change still makes the claim that we can avoid a 2C increase and that implies we will continue to live as we do now without having to change anything.

The 4-5 year mark is a hypothetical amount of time we may have to survive the worst scenarios if we can mobilize and co-ordinate a vast amount of resources and effort to do so.

But I don't think it will be modern life as usual in the decade to come. If we can accept that the worst outcomes are likely to happen then imagining what life will be like may help us do something about it. Maybe people will change their attitudes towards consumption and re-organize our social structures around our local communities. Maybe we'll change the way we eat and manage food. Maybe we'll stop pretending that our lives will be an endless parade of novel devices, entertainments, exotic foods, and limitless supplies of fresh water. Maybe we'll stop wrapping every damn thing in plastic.
Generics do work to lower prices, at least over time. I've been on two medications that, when started, their patents were about to expire. They still cost a small fortune, $700 to $1000/month on retail cost without insurance. Over the course of about 6 years, the generics were introduced and were also initially very expensive, but the competition gradually lowered prices and they're now sub-$100/month for the generic, and maybe 3x that for the Brand name (still expensive for the brand, but significantly cheaper).

The problem with the astronomically escalating drug prices tends to be those where there's a bottleneck of a single producer. Two manufactures would help this, and syprine is an excellent example:

According to NYTimes [0] Syprine was about $21k when Teva introduced a generic, which was priced around $18k. In the roughly 2 years since though, the price has dropped significantly down to about $11k [1]

I suspect it will continue to drop as the two manufacturers gradually undercut each other over & over again. It's a slow process, and it could be much, much better, but it is one avenue of attack against these abusive pricing tactics.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/health/valeant-drug-price...

[1] https://www.goodrx.com/syprine