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There is le editor. F10 brings up a menu. Shortcuts all around. It's nearly like an old turbo c/ pascal app, but it's available with a simple apt install le.
I’m glad we changed each other’s minds
What makes you think there is?
What I mean is that it's a sample size of 1. I can go through the 9980xe results and cherry pick a dozen iterations that crush this single sample.

Even looking at the leaked 3600 benchmarks listed on Geekbench and there's some pretty gnarly variance. The benchmarks are extremely promising, and I'm likely going to be an AMD customer in a month, but these articles are not grounded in statistical significance. Wait until the embargo is lifted before posting stuff like this, imo.
Ok, forget about Macs …

Is there any factory left in US or Canada that produces plain blankets for example? These are actually strategic goods ...
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Evernote is a great case study in lack of (or very poor) product management. They even have "The five percent problem" attributed to them. Their product lost any semblance of focus. What they sell obviously has _some_ value, or they'd be gone. But by making their software not particularly good at anything, they made it really hard to love.

Evernote lost me almost ten years ago. They somehow managed to lose about half of my data. Devices would sync and have merge conflicts, even when none of those files had updated (leading to an explosion of notes that were just duplicates). Search never seemed to produce relevant results. Google Keep came out and solved at least my most immediate needs, and I never went back.

At the end, I remember having real trouble trying to find features that I knew existed. The UI would change and I'd be lost. They had an explosion of features (like Office pre-ribbon) and nobody knew enough to (or had authority to) put their foot down and fix it. It's a real shame, but underscores the need for a smart product org and talented designers.
The poles of the moon. Have 3 "legs", and the alternate being the hot and cold areas.

Yes, you need equipment that can swap being hot and cold, but it's a lot easier to get to :)
99% of the population don't take notes with a fancy paid for application. In fact most people don't take notes at all.

Out of those that do there are perfectly good things like paper notepads that are fit for purpose. Then there is Notepad.exe in Windows that actually does it for some. I have met someone at the other extreme, using git and 'vi' for notes including 'must buy milk' type of things.

To most people who have some system - bookmarks in the browser, a paper notebook, emails to themselves or whatever, there is no seeking out of the superior Evernote solution. Or even OneNote. I used to work with a guy who was teased for using OneNote and wanting the company to pay for his special program (when there was a perfectly good stationary cupboard).

It is just a hard sell. And now people can just take pictures on their phones it is an even harder sell.

Some things are table stakes with an operating system. A clock. A calculator. A means of taking a screen shot. A web browser. An image viewer. A document viewer. But once upon a time people tried to make people pay for these things. As it turned out nobody needed the MS-DOS TSR calculator with as many memory stores as hotkeys. Evernote is a bit like that in that it has features most but not all don't want to pay for.

We probably would never have heard of them had they not taken the VC money and rammed the product down our throats with the marketing budget. To some extent it is a remnant of a product that never was going to happen - the handwriting input. This had been the dream in the 80's, 90's and 00's. Palm, Apple, Microsoft and everyone else with a dog in the game wanted it to happen. But it never did.

Note taking and search should be an operating system level thing. And it kind of is already.
Please don't up the flamewar ante like this. It doesn't help—it just destroys the discussion, at which point no information is being exchanged and no minds or hearts will ever change.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If something is a fundamental part of society, then it's necessarily linked to essentially everything bad in society.

And if something is linked to power and wealth, it's linked to everything bad that people can do with power and wealth, which is everything.

You casually use the term "developing world", but I think that term implies those countries have the goal of becoming more like the US and Europe, and that that's a good thing. Do they need more wealthy and powerful corporations of their own, or is there another path?
There's more than one way to burn out. Some employees will push themselves to burn out. I know first hand.
The US (same as all countries ever) fought their wars to push forward their interests, no more no less. Of course the narrative the country tells itself is different (same as all other countries who fight wars), but the narrative is false.

The American War of Independence [1] is how the country was founded. If you think that narrative is false, how did the US come to be?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War
I think surplus food production capacity is a good thing to subsidize in case of unexpected, sudden supply decreases. Relying on market forces to respond to such events would be too slow. That said, maybe there's a better implementation than the current one.
the most effective way I've seen is to have a specific data eng team which builds core tables, drawing on data from different teams. they work with producer teams to ensure data quality and completeness, and work with consumer teams to understand what they need to see from data.

but this depends on what your use cases are (e.g. online vs offline).
Open a terminal session on pretty much any platform. If it defaults to being 80 columns wide, guess where that width comes from.
> Not sure if that’s what the photographer was going for

Interesting that the photographer was the author here.

Some of these poses strike me as downright bizarre, but they also remind me of the kind of thing you'd see in magazine shoot.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological battle, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. It's not what this site is for—and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Macbook Pros have passed their peak

There's this weird idea that the quality of Apple products has just always steadily increased over time until this most recent MacBook Pro.

If you've been using Macs long enough, you'll remember various iBook debacles, the horrific 2006 MacBook, the utterly bizarre 3rd gen iPod, and other past missteps.

They'll bounce back (even though I actually love the current MBPs).
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IMO that situation is not exactly ideal, but it is campsites working as intended. They concentrated the human impact into a small, actively managed area.
I'm not surprised. I figured when they announced the Mac Pro would be produced in the US it was a test with a low volume product with high margins. That experiment failed (on many fronts), so they're reverting back to what they do for the rest of their products. Tim Cook has been pretty explicit about why they do production in China and it's not just the cost.

What's ironic is that only a week ago reports were that Apple is looking to move production /out/ of China (which is mentioned in the article):
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-examines-feasibility-of-s...
> The constant, this is the only way to do it from so called seniors in this industry is so so frustrating.

Apologies if I came across saying there is the only way to do it. Let me rephrase - if there are multiple stakeholders in a product, I have found it really valuable to have them, physically or virtually in the same space as the work gets done and feedback gets provided in real time dissipating confusion and questions as soon as they arise.

In my experience, fixing an issue at the source is cheaper than discovering it later and running to fix it then because the wrong assumptions were made just because everyone is too busy banging out code.

Creative blocks as real. Rubber ducking is effective and real too.

> I think most companies have no time to have 2 or more programmers working on the same thing even if it produces some decent, soon to be legacy code

1. Why do you think that is? If this question totally flummoxes you, a narrower question could be "what is the objectives of these companies with the code", but try answering the broader question if you have the time

2. Do people generally solve problems better when working in isolation or as a team?

Now, did the companies you have experience with not have more than the programmer who wrote the code review it?

Or test it?

Who wrote the requirements?

Who checked whether the deliverable(s) met the requirements?

In my experience, more than one person ends up touching the code in one way or another until it actually reaches the customer.

I have found, the overall quality is much better when everyone is working together instead of in a waterfall model, in strict sequence with lots of back and forth and meetings with subset of stakeholders until the product actually behaves the way its expected to. Reliably.

The risk of this happening goes up as removed the programmer is from using the product themselves. So if dogfooding works on your projects, by all means do it.

Looking forward to your thoughts.
Easy to VPN from another location. Just ssh to your remote Virtual Machine in another country.
> Is it some kind of monarchy?

Bueno de Mesquita makes a compelling case for modeling most corporations as dictatorships in The Dictator's Handbook. So as long as succession is planned at the Corp, then yes, I suppose monar hy would be the correct model.
>The vowels of English are pronounced as narrow diphthongs.

All of them?
Genetics Affect Susceptibility to Phthalates
Is there any way to minimize exposure to plastics in modern society? Modern homes all have PVC water piping, too.

I'm guessing even the "safe" plastics will turn out to be not that good for us.
>I gotta eyeroll pretty hard when some internet expert points out the basic design mistakes in something.
None of those things were mistakes, they were choices made as a result of tradeoffs that people agonized over.

This is something I have had a hard time with over the years... I even emailed Jony in hte past abt some of the design "choices" that were made that REALLY irkd and cost me and MILLIONS of users too much money.

The overall body design of the iphone has been "sleek and slick" -- meaning that it was WAY too easy to drop and break.

The physical phone should have been more heartily designed from day one - and allowed for a lanyard attachement bracket on all models.

Screw the people who claim things like: OH that was a design decision to keep the 'vision' blah blah blah -- esp. and including specifically Ive.

The reason is that 'aesthetic design decision' cost consumers billions over the years.

I have a 6S+ -- my ~27th iphone

The argument is "why dont you go get a case!"

Why should such a 'perfect' design, so perfect where it doesnt want a lanyard or other safety features interrupting its elegance, require a case?

So, Fuck Ive worship.

I like the phone, I've had every iteration up to the 6S+ (which is my favorite, and I have had many of them. but I am not going to praise the shortcomings of the device and hero-worship the guy.
Ask HN: Best tool kit for Android and iOS smartphone development?
As per title. The sdk should support UI and library development.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20302906.
This was expected because the 3900X is optimized for fewer faster cores (12 at 3.8GHz) while the 9980XE is optimized for more slower cores (18 at 3.0GHz.)

A better and far more impressive comparison would be the 3950X vs 9980XE which have comparable number of cores (16 vs 18). And in that instance AMD still beats Intel in both single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads! And by wide margins! And with AMD being 62% cheaper ($750 vs $1950)! And with AMD's TDP 36% lower (105 vs 165W)! And despite having 2 fewer cores! And despite the 3950X engineering sample below being clocked under final specs (3.29GHz vs 3.5GHz)! See this leaked 3950X engineering sample codenamed "Myrtle":
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/13612629?baseli...

Intel has never been so thoroughly defeated since the 1999 K7. Interesting times...
If, as clock A nears the speed of light it appears that stationary clock B is slowing down, doesn't that mean that at the speed of light is no time? Does a photon in a vacuum arrive instantly at its destination? If a photon looks at another photon, does the other photon appear not to be moving at all, or... Ouch my brain.
I didn't say it didn't work. I was attempting to express some curiosity about the mechanism of action. It can be useful to know why it works, so I was curious.
NASA has been using nuclear powered probes for 50 years. It is called a redioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG).

https://www.space.com/13709-plutonium-shortage-nasa-planetar...

Unfortunately, there is a shortage of plutonium-238 to run these RTGs (see above story). I guess that will get resolved somehow.

The current Mars Curiosity rover is powered by an RTG. Since this is the first flying (post-landing of course) probe I suppose it will be the first nuclear powered flight of a planetary probe.
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This is due mainly to our tilt, not our sphere-ness
I remember trying out GEOS on the C-64 back in the late 80's and thinking "why all this when you can just type in commands?"

Command line vs GUI is like going from covered wagons to the space age but it's good to have the knowledge to "rough it" if you have to.
That was an incredibly clever comeback.
Would you please not take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents? They are predictable and therefore uninteresting. They also quickly get nasty.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20302240 and marked it off-topic.
If we took the same amount of money which is used to subsidize corn and used it to fund research on batteries, solar cells, etc, or used the money to upgrade our power grid, or subsidized energy efficiency in homes, the money would have a far greater effect.
Ask HN: At 9 cents/GB downloaded, how can any company afford cloud computing?
I get it if you generate little traffic, but for any site that generates any substantial traffic, it seems like costs would rapidly go through the roof. Or am I missing some key understanding?

Or is it just that companies pay attention to pricing except for that critical little 9 cent line item?

So if your user watches a 1 gig video, that costs your company 9 cents? Seems like a lot of money.
Safari 13 is awesome, but 1Password 6 users need to upgrade to enjoy it
Been there, done that, would recommend.
> If the requirements change then the code should change.

That's the nature of the term "Legacy", that you are using. It met requirements that are not the same today (sometimes it's just standards of coding). It didn't change, hence it's legacy code.
Drink more water for the headaches. Water drinking patterns tend to be habitual not weather related &people just don't drink enough for extremes
now that's a great test case that could easily be tested using mocks.
European heatwave: France hits record temperature of 45.9C
The Q&A link does not work here: https://www.startupschool.org/help
The capitalization in the title made me originally parse this as about Apple's former headquarters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Campus).
> Obviously this will change over time as engines continue to adapt.

They're already fairly well adapted - Xbox One and PS4 both have 8 cores for a reason.
Pretty much all of the related documentation is publicly available, AFAIK, and freely accessible on the internet from what I can tell. This availabilty is actually a legal requirement from times past, IIRC.
Personal attacks, flamebait, unsubstantive comments will get you banned on HN. Can you please not do those? We're hoping for a site that's a bit better than internet default.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I love how when you apply basic logic the abuse taking place is shown for what it is.

Of course, people will point to X law or precedent and say "see that justifies it'. They don't see how that law should be invalid by the very logic that the state created for itself.
> I thought that Microsoft had a somewhat better QA program.

They did. In 2014, they eliminated their extensive and effective separate testing positions as part of a large layoff/restructuring. Supposedly, testing was going to be consolidated in engineering, and not eliminated, but the proof is in the pudding: Windows releases since then have had big problems that feel like they should have been caught and fixed before release.
In have 12k notes (stuck) in Evernote. Every now and then I look for alternatives and come across products like Notion [0], Bear, Apple Notes, Emacs+Org, Notability, and many more.

All of these tools have their strengths and use-cases. But none of them has the power of Evernote (API that lets me access my notes via Python, boolean search, ocr search, saved searches, folders and tags that I can jump to, local copy of my notes on my Mac). But Evernote is old. I would love to use markdown in my notes (see BearApp!), more flexible and nested folders (see Bear or Notion). Also my gut feeling tells me that this company won’t exist in a few years from now. So I need to move on someday.

There are a few companies that shouldn’t have pitched VCs that expect billion dollar valuations. Evernote is one of those companies. Soundcloud is another.

[0] Notion: too slow, does not keep a local copy of my notes, search is not comparable to Evernote‘s search capabilities)
Falsehoods programmers believe about time:

The fundamental one is: "I'm so very clever, and I've dealt with dates my whole conscious life, I can probably think of all of the edge cases off the top of my head!"
Made good money off that one :D
My next CPU will hopefully be RISC-V.
Plenty. One example is voice or video conversations. You're going to have a bad time if you try to Skype on conventional satellite internet.
Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers
I don't know if a specific script but you might be able to make something with python using the requests, beautifulsoup and markdownify modules.

Requests to fetch the page. beautifulsoup to grab the tags you care about (title info) and then markdownify to take the raw html and turn it into markdown.
"Did you even read the article" is a cheap shot that commenters routinely take at each other. It has nothing to do with the topic at hand, so it adds noise, not signal. Since it's a putdown, it provokes others and degrades discussion. If you take out the cheap shot and preserve the correcting information, the comment becomes better in every way.

You can think of it as a special case of this rule: When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." But it's a special case worth singling out, because it's so common, and it's bad for HN in two ways: mean and predictable.
On a spherical world with no tilt, what time is sunrise at the north pole?
I'm all for reproducing results, but given the relatively deterministic nature of computers (especially for new hardware) I feel this is an unwarranted criticism. How often do people get significantly different results when running identical tests on identical hardware?
Bill Schneier Leaving IBM
Most of my career has been working on legacy projects (or fixing broken ones), I like greenfield well enough but I’ve no preference for it over maintenance.

There is as much pleasure in making something broken work properly as creating the thing (imo).

It’s a steady career as well, most programming is maintenance outside of the fail fast world of startups.
> At some other point after the client has marked its window as being updated, meaning that you have around two frames of latency (first frame is your input being sent to the application while the application is drawing itself, meaning that the input will be processed later so the response to your input is a frame late and second frame is the application notifying the window server that the window is outdated while the window server is drawing the output, meaning that the new contents will be used in the next frame).

Not every action takes an entire frame. The timeline can easily be like this:

0ms: old frame starts to output
4ms: input happens, application wakes up
9ms: application finishes rendering
15ms: compositing happens
16ms: new frame starts to output

There's nothing about compositing that requires it to add any significant lag on top of rendering time plus transmit time. If input shows up while you're already drawing? That could happen without compositing. Just draw again or do whatever you'd do without compositing.

> Yes, wasting resources with every application having to maintain their own buffer for each window's contents even though those contents will not change for the vast majority of the window's lifetime for most windows is crappy.

Why waste time redrawing it if it's not changing? And a full-screen window on 1080p is only using 6MB for that buffer. Compared to the processes I'm running, the frame buffers are quite lightweight.
> It comes out in 10 days, does it really matter?

Yea it does, because no one in the public can reproduce the results to verify them.
Because adjectives come before nouns. The first word is almost always is a descriptor of the second word. A "pig flier" is clearly something that flies pigs, not a type of pig that flies.
Been there, done that. It doesn't always work. It's particularly annoying with deeply nested terminals eg, xterm -> ssh -> tmux -> tmux -> ssh ... etc).
https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/verify
Ivy League Endowments Face 1.4% Levy Under Tax Overhaul
And I answered your question to the best of my ability -- in spite of your track record of first attacking and dismissing me elsewhere before asking questions about the mechanism.
This serves as a pretty good example of why "smart" kids (or adults) can be annoying. Useless pedantry is not an enjoyable thing for most people. Yes, the Chinese had printing, but it was done by hand. Movable type (which, yes the Chinese also had) plus the mechanical press (which they did not) is what allowed printed material to flourish and change the course of history.

It's like saying "James Watt invented the steam engine" and the kid in the back chiming in with "Well actually, the Romans had an Aeolipile". Sure, they did, and no one cares.
My understanding is that for commercial rice production, the paddies are drained both for planting and before harvest. I may be wrong on that.

Either way, the machinery used for planting corn and soybeans is developed for use on relatively dry ground. And the plants themselves cannot survive submersion for long periods of time.
got accepted instantly. either they are accepting every applicant by default, there's a bug, they were analyzing what I was typing in real time and my responses checked off boxes to an acceptance, they're accepting HN folks who's account age is pretty old which signals something?, or I'm going to get a "we're sorry we made a mistake" rejection. o_O
It's hard to believe an explicit error check could be more lulling than the invisible exceptions most mainstream languages use.
https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v12.x/docs/api/worker_threads...
Consider also: Water commissioner. Is it sentient water that got a job? No it's obviously s normal person specializing in water.
Does that mean a nuclear powered cruise missile could stay airborne until mechanical failure? That would make future warfare... interesting.