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I've had a USB-C capable device (MBP) for a few years now, and it originally was extremely annoying. Needing dongles for _everything_ was annoying, and getting rid of Magsafe meant a lot of my existing chargers that I'd accumulated no longer worked. My work laptop (at the time) didn't use USB-C, so I had to keep two chargers around, and I couldn't charge my iPhone from my laptop at all.

Fast forward a few years and I think it's great.

I have a dock at home that I can plug both my work and personal laptop in and have it work seamlessly with two 4k monitors, gigabit ethernet, mouse, keyboard, speakers, etc.

After biting the bullet and getting some USB C -> Lightning cables, I actually need to carry fewer chargers, fewer cables and everything sort of just works. The new iPad Pro helps a lot with that as well. USB PD means that everything charges faster, as well.

USB-C is sort of a nightmare until it's not, and that transition is basically an entire product cycle (or two) for people, which means a lot of time. At some point, I hope that issues like this become more identified in software (as mentioned), and cheap USB C cables that only have 2.0 support are less common.

Furthermore, while there was once a point where the physical layer matched up well enough with product support, actually connecting a display has always been a pain in the ass. Devices are still shipping with VGA ports because of it - USB-C is no panacea, but I think it's a huge improvement in aggregate.
In the posted video, they said it was required for Medicaid.
Thanks! It was important to me to include that in an article intended to teach the skill.
> I'm talking about actual research, conducted on large colonies of ferals, not a couple cats at grandma's farm.

i'm talking about close to 10 years observation on 8 farms each usually having 5-10 ferals. I kind of doubt that all of the research you refer to can match that.

The links you point to is mostly fear mongering opinion pieces by the people with agenda (see the link below on animal cruelty criminal conviction) - "cats kill!" - we've been there with wolves killing caribou. And cats playing final shot for 33 species - well, among all those multitude of species disappearance and wildlife population decimation humans caused it is kind of surprising that it is only 33. I mean, statistically speaking any minor factor related to humans can be accounted for final shot for a hundreds and thousands of species disappearance.

And specifically about those cat hating Smithsonian "researchers" what you so eager to link to - https://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2011/11/a-dc-bird-rese...

"A postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian's Migratory Bird Center at the National Zoo was found guilty Monday of attempting to poison cats in her northwest Washington neighborhood.

...

A District of Columbia Superior Court judge convicted her of attempted animal cruelty, a misdemeanor. "

It is like a convicted murderer coming out with a research showing that the homicide of the kind he committed is good for society. Would you trust to and post links to such a "research"?
Define "properly"
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I recently read the book "Oxygen, The molecule that made the world" by Nick Lane. Roughly the first half talks about the geologic aspects of oxygen in world history. The second half talks about biological processes relating to oxygen.

One thing he gets across is that dietary anti-oxidant intake is often ineffective, and in some cases can be harmful. Also, vitamin C isn't just an antioxidant -- it it involved in a number of different reactions and having too much can be as bad as too little. In fact it can be a pro-oxidant.
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What is driving up the cost of highway construction?
I have never encountered a C-to-C cable with only USB 2 support. Are they are really a thing?
It's happening but that doesn't mean a) we should just bend over and accept being fucked over due to some vague robot threat in the future or b) make jokes about workers having to bend over.
The point is that you dont have to go to a source owned by someone. For example, the DMV has your driving record. Blockchain allows the history of a vehicle to be stored and accessed easily. Mechanics all have their own records. Why not tie them directly to the object?
think you could make yourself happy, by selecting a screen & scaling that allows default sizes to be readable. If I browsed from a Blackberry on a selfie stick, the onus wouldn't be on the developer to make me happy.
> I don’t think horses explain it either. A bicycle, from what I’ve read, was cheaper to buy than a horse, and it was certainly cheaper to maintain (if nothing else, you don’t have to feed a bicycle).

I don't think this is so simple. A horse can haul a lot more than a human can. How much human bicycle power is equal to one horse power?
Yep, there’s a bunch of late-Victorian enthusiasts who ride them around London every year: https://pennyfarthingclub.com/

They have obvious faults of course, but they were around for 15-20 years, were better than their predecessors, and didn’t kill off the concept of the bicycle in general to stop future development. That’s enough to give them some credit at least!
I wish they would have also discussed how this relates to Thunderbolt 3, which I believe would add at least two cable types: "7 (TB3 passive)" and "8 (TB3 active)"... of course I'm probably completely misunderstanding this crazy labyrinth of lookalikes.

Here's a lovely statement regarding TB3 from an online FAQ:

Are all Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) cables created equal?
No, in fact, there are two types of Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) cables, passive and active. Passive cables cost less and can reach up to 40 Gb/s data transfer if the length is 0.5m or less and 20 Gb/s if over 0.5m. Active cables can reach up to 40 Gb/s data transfer with a length of up to 2m.
Google's been stinking a long time my friend. The other companies you mentioned are also dealing with one bad publicity piece after another. Amazon strikes going on today for instance. 5 Billion dollar fine to Facebook etc...
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Yeah let's get into the weeds on this WWII stuff when there are currently concentration camps in the USA where people are being tortured and dying. Out of here with this.
This has been discontinued: https://news.microsoft.com/europe/2018/08/31/microsoft-to-de...
I don't know but I did a search:

"Power adapters for Mac notebooks are available in 29W, 30W, 45W, 60W, 61W, 85W, and 87W varieties." [1]

Maybe you'd want your laptop to power external monitors via the other USB-C ports?

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201700
>Yet it was a simple mechanical invention

As a mechanical engineer, this statement baffled me. All manufactured technology exists in the context of the manufacturing capabilities available to the designer. The manufacturing tech had to be tremendously complicated before a decent bike could be made. Hollow steel tubes aren't simple. Ball bearings aren't simple. There is a reductionist viewpoint among "theory" people that misses the trees for the forest.
You ever wonder what the purpose of keying connectors is? I'm curious, because it's one of those time-tested ways to ensure that things get plugged into the correct ports and avoid costly accidents. Really simple too.

Why on earth is a standard as ridiculously complicated as USB-C a better idea? What is the practical value of an "everything" connector when its spec is so complicated that it really doesn't support "everything" at all?
i think this is off base. Don't forget the cost to own a car with depreciation, insurance, fuel, maintenance etc etc. Not even mentioning the cost of infrastructure required to drive said car.

I don't recommend it, but you can buy a bike from Walmart for $78.
I paid $800 for a bicycle in 2008, have put thousands of miles on it, gone through three chains, two cranks, perhaps a half dozen tires. All that for maybe $200-$300 of total cost. That’s equivalent to four or five low-end car payments. And the bike is in great shape and has thousands more miles in it. Doesn’t seem to bad when you compare actual quality bicycles meant to last.
Yes, can anyone explain why concentration camps are even remotely controversial?
The places these warehouses are at usually have low CoL, and $15/hour is GREAT wage there. People line up to get jobs there!
1. I think NoETL products are complementary solutions. NoETL can be a great option for ad hoc queries and when performing a one-off analysis.

But for your company's analytics, you want to build a suite of well defined, reliable and documented datasets that power you dashboards and your regular analytics.

Another way to say it is that with NoETL, you write one query to answer one complex question. With ETL (actually ELT), you define core datasets with which you can answer many questions.

2. In terms of adoption, products like Dataform are helpful from the day you start having data in your data warehouse and have a full time analyst. It's basically giving superpowers to your analysts.
Aqua was insanely good. Everyone else rushed to replicate it. Windows Vista/7 were “Redmond does Aqua”. The Linux DEs had craploads of Aqua-like skins. Given a choice, I’d love to get Aqua back. The “material” school of design is brutalist, sterile, and unloving, whereas Aqua was human, sexy, and comforting.
Yes, yes it does. But not something I could do anything about, other than voting for single-payer if it ever came up for a vote, which it won't.
Intended link may be https://medium.com/@balidani/cities-skylines-is-turing-compl... -- an edit link was posted by mistake
many people also insist on getting antibiotics when they have a viral infection. We have a more measles cases now than a decade ago because of fake news.

You might be right that many people would be better off not knowing but I’d rather we took a step forwards than backwards.
> If you really give a shit about the people working at Amazon, write to your congressman/congresswoman and voice your support for social programs that would positively impact them.

It's not either/or. In today's political climate, unfortunately, pushing the market is the only thing that seems to ever accomplish anything.
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It's not really a risk that an air bladder or anything like what OP was suggesting will fix though. It was powerful enough to break the window it would probably be powerful enough to break the bladder and the window. It's generally better to just fix the direct problem instead of a weird patch to catch the failure.
If their overhead is reasonable to start with, sure. My personal threshold is 20-ish%. St. Judes and Shriners meet that threshold with their massive TV ad spend. Certain veterans charities have been exceeding 60%. They are money grubbing scum.
This is extremely wrong-headed. To begin with, you're stating "downsides" which the original article specifically said "hey, people think this and they're wrong". Downthread you bring up worries like "spending money on advertising", but as I understand it most advertising that charities get, especially non-national level charities, is donated by the companies that own the advertising space (in-kind donations), so they're also not spending money on that.

I've volunteered at the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Do you want to know where your churches and local groups get their food? They come to a central food bank like the ACCFB, where they can load up. The ACCFB does not directly distribute food to people in need, instead trusting smaller groups to know their community's needs better, so they invite those groups to come get food. Staples, fresh produce, baby food and formula at exactly zero dollars all day long, more "premium" products at a heavily subsidized price.

Do you know what the ACCFB spent money on that wasn't food? A gi-fucking-gantic walk in fridge and freezer, so that they don't have to worry about bulk donations/purchases spoiling. And a large warehouse so that they can take in fresh produce from farmers (often stuff that cosmetically won't sell well) and re-sort it in a way that local organizations can use.

You can see what the executives of non-profits make. The Executive Director of the ACCFB was paid $256K in 2017, for overseeing an organization with $64M in revenue. The rest of the individuals on the Form 990 were in the $103K-$150K range. For full-time Chief/Director work IN THE BAY AREA. In case you've been living under a rock, that's not a good salary.

Every "benefit" to donating food is that you get to feel like stopped someone from tricking you and you're smarter than "all of those rubes" who gave cash. Turns out you're actually being the least helpful donor, and now write smug comments bragging about how you're the least helpful donor trying to reduce the helpfulness of other donors.

ACCFB's Form 990 for 2017: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/942...
Most are in fact. When I searched for "USB C cable" on Amazon just now, I had to scroll to the 16th result to find a non-USB2 C-to-C cable.
It's perfectly reasonable and wouldn't be noticed by the overwhelming majority of users. There is a point of diminishing returns for most uses, and this is far beyond it.

Further this sort of single-sample analysis of a vendor like Apple's products is always folly. Apply doesn't advertise specific SSD units, speeds, etc, and we know that they often vary them within a product, sometimes with multiple variants on the market at the same time with slightly varying performance.
I would advise everyone to be actively paranoid about security/privacy issues. Nobody is on your side. Every corporation and state actor will screw you over if it comes to that. It is human nature to feel comfort knowing that "someone" is on your side. Nobody is, however attractive and privacy-hip Apple pretends to be.
Essentially, Emacs + makefiles :)

Lyx is great for shorter things. I use it for presentations, where being able to see the images, colors, etc really helps.

For longer stuff, with a lot of text, a nice editor has its advantages. And you can split of chapters in extra files easily and all that.
Azure is not office products, do you assume because they are both Microsoft products that it would be feasible or easy to use facilities designed for Azure and also use them for handling Office products?
I wonder if the 19th-century emergence of mass urbanism wasn't a factor. If you're a farmer living in the countryside you already have the space and supplies necessary to keep animals, so keeping a horse along with all the others isn't a problem. But if you're an industrial worker living in a city where space is at a premium, keeping a horse becomes complicated and expensive -- you have to maintain a place to stable it, have to find a way to keep it fed and watered, etc.

Even if you could afford all that it's still a pain to deal with, and outside the aristocratic class I doubt most people could afford it. So urbanization meant there was a steadily growing market for some non-horse alternative that fit the facts of urban life better.
You're right that just "volatile" isn't enough; typically you'd declare the variable sig_atomic_t to be portable, which makes the necessary guarantees since C89 so predates C++11. (It does not guarantee anything regarding access from multiple threads, of course.)

The problem with std::atomic<T> is that it may be implemented with a mutex, in which case it can deadlock in a signal handler. But as you say, you can check for that with is_lock_free.
As far as I can tell, it suggests one token at a time and uses its model to help rank these tokens. This is useful, but there is a lot to be gained by suggesting multiple tokens at once.

TabNine has always included a logistic regression model to help rank completions. It uses features such as the occurrence frequency of the token and the number of similar contexts in which it occurs.
That or it's a spectacular example of committee design failure.

I can't tell what runs deeper: evil or stupidity. :D
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Forgive me if it's a case of mistaken identity, but I seem to recall last time we talked you started harassing me on other social media sites demanding I answer your arbitrary questions and attempting to solicit distributed harassment.

Don't you think it's better for both our mental health and the tone of HN if we not argue about this, and perhaps agree both companies do bad things and scheduled boycotts of both can be a good example of collective action?
Seeking asylum in America IS legal. What's happened with the Trump admin is they've essentially made traditional routes for seeking asylum nonviable, so people cross the border, and if they get apprehended then instead of being released and assigned a court date like they used to, they're being held indefinitely in concentration camps.
He also innovated the engines processes, using heat efficiently and reducing waste. Effective machining and manufacturing then scaled his innovations.
If they aren't, they will be, once the value engineering kicks into full gear :)
Professors tend to act more as managers/grant proposal writers/reviewers. The vast majority of individual contributor work is performed by grad students and post docs. This work is often intellectually challenging (well, in as much as moving science forward is), so there is a strong benefit for selecting the best prepared candidates. Chinese students that come to do their PhDs in the US tend to be very well prepared/selected (especially once you look at non-ivy league research universities, it is easier to get a super qualified chinese student vs a US native student). Now, there might be a price point at which you could attract more locals to go pursue a PhD, but right now it is just not a very financially attractive proposition. PhD students typically get a stipend in the 30-40k range, but perform the kind of work that on the outside would pay 100-200k (let's say for people after masters). Similarly post docs make 40-70k range, but if they went into industry they would make 100-300k (depending on field).
Came to the comments to find this line. You didn't disappoint,
If you are building a startup, knowing how answer to the "Why now?" question is quite important, this article might be a good inspiration.
I'll counter with

"It was the day my grandmother exploded."

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Argh! That's my bad, I can't seem to edit it now.
Do insects count in vegetarian diets? They are an excellent source of protein.

I tried some "cricket flour" brownies (which like most edibles taste like brownies). Their sales pitch was the yummy taste of brownies, twice the protein content of eggs. Presumably targeting the muscle building folks.

Conceptually it shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. Bugs as food being perhaps the biggest marketing challenge you can come up with.
Found this[0] some while ago on reddit. It shows the mess that is the USB-C cable market in a spreadsheet with every feature each cable supports.

It’s crazy.

[0]:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vnpEXfo2HCGADdd9G2x9...
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Interesting! Trikes make sense. Better stability and have cargo hold capability making them pretty useful for light transport of goods. Alternatives were porters or an actual cart; horse, ox or human drawn.
1) Because it's not an Amazon problem, it's a fulfillment center/warehouse employee problem that applies to just about every company in the industry I'm aware of.

2) Because Amazon is a for-profit company, not a charity, and its responsibility is not to pay employees more than it has to or give them more benefits/easier working conditions than are necessary. Are you also demonizing your own employer for not paying everyone as much as it possibly can without going bankrupt?

3) Because in many areas where Amazon warehouses operate, they are a significantly better job prospect than other options, working conditions be damned.

4) Because competitive markets don't let companies pay their workers whatever they want to. If you pay your workers too much, a competitor will pay theirs less, pass the savings on to customers, and take market share from you. Amazon is one of the wealthiest companies in the world because it doesn't pay all 600,000+ of its warehouse workers an amazing salary and let them work in better conditions.

A lot of people who are angry at Amazon are really angry at the outcome of unchecked capitalism. These are the frustrations that should be applied to voting, not to perfectly legal corporate policies.
Which is in an of itself an entire set of problems to sort through, but I don't see what actual point you're making other than spewing do-gooder derogation.
If you're defining the 'channel' as 'local copper pair', then, sure?

But the other end of the local copper pair switched and became digital, which changes the channel in my eyes at least. There was then a series of bandwidth increases in the digital realm, giving significantly more efficient and effective use of the channel.
And there wasn't enough water pressure for the upper floors.
My mistake, it was an edit link I posted, it should be accessible without Medium, I also opted out of the monetized content thing.
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I will be sending password resets, invoice reminders and that sort of thing. I will not be doing mass marketing or anything like that. I am primarily interested in ease of use (standard smtp), cost and reliability.

I am thinking of using sendgrid.com for this. Does anyone have any experience with them or better suggestions?
So, in other words, you have no idea what the end to end latency is. That is a non-starter for pro audio professionals who need to compensate for latency to keep things in phase.
Anyone who had tried to make anything, especially anything original and with mechanical components knows this to be true. Even simple machines require a lot of forethought, planning, and iteration to be able to perform consistently and reliably. When we see an every day object like a bicycle we take it for granted and think that it must be obvious. But that couldn't be further from the truth.

Take even just a single part from it, like the chain for example probably represents centuries worth of technology. Each link has to be uniform to operate smoothly on a chainring or sprocket, which indicates some form of mass production.

Chains must be hardened to withstand stress, resist stretching. Soft steel would wear and deform too quickly.

Each link is in itself a complex component composed of a uniform bushing and pin shaped oblong symmetrical down the center and also quite small. It must pivot smoothly.

I doubt there are many people, even skilled people, who could make a complete bicycle from raw metal stock.
This is a fine plan if you're not the one suffering. Democracy takes time, and you can (and should) use leverage against corporations at the same time when necessary.
No, it's a comically terrible idea. Feral cats are one of the worst invasive species for birds. It would be much, much worse than the rodents.
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> i'm talking about close to 10 years observation on 8 farms each usually having 5-10 ferals. I kind of doubt that all the research you refer to can match that.

So, to a Fermi approximation, what's that, a hundred total animals, tops?

Some of the research I'm talking about involves individual colonies that are easily an order of magnitude larger in number.

EDIT: Re: that researcher's behavior and your shadow-edit about murderers: one person's bad behavior doesn't change the facts. That anecdote is irrelevant here, and bringing it up is a form of ad hominem.