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It is a lot of work, but there is litterally an order of magnitude in time and energy you spend to get the same result, depending of your technic. And when you start, you usually do it the hardest way.
Expectations have increased in multiple dimensions.

1 - Users have been trained by Apple and Google to expect endless upgrades for $2. When I grew up, Eudora, an email client, retailed for $100-ish, with an incremental $50 for ugprades every couple years. You can make a living on the latter pricing, but require hugely popular software for the former.

1a - as software has moved to mobile devices and web, the OS updates more often. ios does annual releases, android does the same, and chrome has a 6-week-ish update cycle. There's simply more thrashing, and it's no longer good enough to ship to a copy of Windows that updates every 4 years.

2 - There is a lot less end-user only software that just runs on a users device. It's far more common for software to require running servers to provide part of the service, and/or to code against apis that regularly change and require ongoing updates.

I'm aware no eng is owed a living, but if they can't make a living, the software becomes unavailable: either not written or not maintained.

see eg Sketch's rationale for not building an ipad app.
https://www.designernews.co/comments/173706 quoted in case the link disappears:

> We don't have plans for an iPad pro version at the moment. Yes, it has a beautiful screen, but there's more to consider, such as how to adapt the UI for touch without compromising the experience.

>But the biggest problem is the platform. Apps on iOS sell for unsustainably low prices due to the lack of trials. We cannot port Sketch to the iPad if we have no reasonable expectation of earning back on our investment. Maintaining an application on two different platforms and provide one of them for a 10th of it's value won't work, and iPad volumes are low enough to disqualify the "make it up in volume" argument.
It's not bad for your employer. It's the truth. Your employer is bad for your employer if they let someone remain at the company for 10 years, paying salary without investing in said employee nor treating them like an investment.
It makes sense if you don't report or aren't a US taxpayer.
That's because media people cannot do their jobs without Twitter. Since they have the megaphone, everyone hears about their gripes.
It was really interesting to me the way the one doctor described her difficulty even discussing bunk science it with her "chronic Lyme" patients:

> Chronic Lyme becomes an identity, being anti-vax becomes an identity, and once a belief is incorporated into someone’s identity, it’s very hard to counter.

I think it echos a lot of issues we're dealing with today. Once a person "identifies" as something - political party, illness, anti-vaxx, etc. - it's like the brain becomes impervious to any information that might challenge their identity.
Matt Stoller has some harsh things to say about this, saying this is only happening because of Trump's friendship with Masayoshi Son: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/trump-antitrust-going-aft...
And why are these build systems necessary in the first place? They mostly exist to work around the lame library ecosystem, where you never know what's installed or where to find it. Solving the "library problem" would presumably render these tools and their horrible complexity obsolete.

If there were some type of system where library A says it depends on library B (via a URL or some other non-centralized thing), and the compiler knows how to resolve this, then you don't need 90% of the features these tools provide. You still need build parallelization and maybe detection for non-standard compiler features, but this is a much smaller and simpler problem.
"They" don't want you to know how and why they are brainwashing your kid. When you take it off him/her to check, it will revert to some "safe" default show.

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No matter what the IRS does, "tell us every year if we owe or not and how much" can only apply for standard sources of income (e.g. salaries) which get fully reported to IRS by someone else - even in countries where "tell us every year if we owe or not and how much" is the main system, if you'd get some nonstandard income (like getting paid for some goods in bitcoin) you have a duty to file that.
>Here's one situation where it is very different.

It's not.
Right. I should not have to pay again, or subscribe to some “service” to have the company fix their product’s defects. If I buy a vacuum cleaner that randomly rips up my carpet once every 100 sessions, or a garage door that opens by itself in the middle of the night, I should not have to pay the companies to fix them. This is why we have warranties and product recalls, which are conspicuously absent in the software business.
I couldn't imagine having a new developer go several months without looking at a single bug. Sure, I'm not going to give them something that I know is going to be really difficult and frustrating, but I generally try to get people in the swing of development within the first week.
Yes but according to most western countries where abortion is legal it doesn't matter.
Crossing over from thinking something is one way to testing that something really is that way is certainly a line held within the purview of science. I think you are reading my statement too literally.
Going into a PhD in genetics this fall. I think it's a good analogy, but it's more akin to say, "Factories that are closing don't have steel." To which, I think we'd all say, "Of course."
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You talk to them and the people they work with or whose work depends on them. How quickly, autonomously and completely do problems get solved?

Metrics are a distraction unless in the service of answering that question.
yes, i forgot to add "anthropogenic" to climate change. ie – this climate change is the direct result of human activity
It's less about single-core vs. multi-core, and even then, it's really not about quad-core vs more-cores.

My thought pattern through all of this (and maybe I'm completely off base) is that, for instance, having a 4-core part with high single-core performance might be preferable to a gamer/enthusiast (depending on common workloads) than an 18-core part with less single-core performance, and that maybe this is all a reason to consider why the weighting of UserBenchmark's "overall" score changed instead of immediately attaching the change to some anti-AMD bias

Maybe my idea that the most common workloads of UserBenchmark users (I don't claim to know their demographics, but I figured one could make assumptions based on the types of individuals that would look up benchmarks in the first place- very common among gamers) would see diminishing returns after, say 4 cores, is wrong- but that was how my thought process was going.

And a related point I'll concede (I admit my thinking maybe is just too old-school, biased, too filtered through my own experience and needs updating) is maybe there are more games and programs than I thought that actually take advantage of more than four cores.
It's on the homepage:

https://mixedreality.mozilla.org/static/kid-03fadfdcdaaabce0...
This situation is treated the same as the following:

Say I get paid $10,000 for doing a job, and buy bitcoin at $100/BTC. Now, say BTC drops to $1/BTC. I owe income tax on the $10000. Let's say I owe $2000 (20%) in taxes. However, I only have $100 now.

The smart way to handle that would be to deduct approximate income taxes "immediately" and convert to USD. This scenario is part of why income taxes are deducted per-paycheck instead of just once at the end of the year.
I'm confused, since a widow's peak is not related to hair recession and you're talking specifically like hair recession. What you're describing just sounds like MPB from the temples, which is one of two common ways men go bald.
There are two separate matters here. Defining the law and enforcing the law. Misreporting capital gains on crypto violates existing law and is illegal today. Tax evasion by legitimate means (401ks, IRAs, writing off losses) is perfectly legal, and if you or I have complaints, this should be taken up with policy makers and at voting booths.
What I said was much milder - "A lot of small companies that were selling shrink-wrapped software have shuttered down - for various reasons no doubt, but the effect of a steady revenue stream on any business cannot be dismissed"

Specifically, I did not say that the subscription model is the only way to make money or stay in business. You're needlessly polarizing the issue and at this point, I'm gonna have to set the troll flag on you, and this conversation has stopped being productive. Bye.
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T mobile has 600 MHz now (band 71) which has really helped in rural areas as long as you have a new phone.
The law on stocks is that if you'd barter one stock for another, then that's a taxable event and you'd have to declare capital gains on the stock you traded away - which is the same for a BTC->ETH trade.
If you are targeting Europe, you could give Hetzner a shot. Starting at 2,50€/Month with 2GB RAM, 20GB NVMe and 1 CPU Core.

As of my knowledge, the ping isn´t that bad in the US neither.
Sure, but at some point describing it as a 'subculture' becomes appropriate.
You mean like this one? https://www2.meethue.com/en-us/support/dimmer-switch

I know about it. I have it. I've used it as a trigger before. I've replaced it with NFCs because they are less of a hassle to repurpose. The dimmer still serves its original purpose, while NFC tags are used for everything else.
Are you being serious?

I have no idea what you're talking about.

"Only a few hours a day for plants."
About half the day is decidated to sunshine, give or take. It's been this way for ... since plants.

"Huge swaths of the earth..."
Don't grow there. Don't live there. People don't live in volcanoes for a reason. It's too inhospitable. OTO, you could import your goods via plane/copter/whatever if you're brave. Good on you.

We're already able to grow tropical fruit 1,500 feet up in the freezing Alps with no (artificial) chemicals/fertilizers/pesticides and effective (natural) water management. Can't imagine it will be much more difficult in growth friendly places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQdCkPR6ZCw
#1 and #3 can be solved by using TypeScript types to define the schema of your JSON.

IMO they're readable enough to serve #2 too.

Before someone mentions "JSON schema" - I've tried to use them, and they're difficult to write and impossible to read. Reading/writing TypeScript types are a dream in comparison.
I imagine this came up partly as a result of the recent alpha compositing discussion.

We desperately need some research, based in user studies and using modern display technology, to settle some basic questions:

* What reconstruction filter gives the best results? Is it the same for vector (text) and natural images? By "best" I do mean contrast (sharpness) and lack of visible artifacts.

* For rendering of very thin lines (relevant to text), what gamma curve gives the perception of equal line thickness across the range of subpixel phase? How does it vary with display dpi? (Hint: it's likely not linear luminance)

* What gamma curve yields the perception of equal width of black-on-white and white-on-black thin lines (also relevant for text)? (Hint: likely not linear luminance)

I've seen a number of discussions where people feel they are able to answer these questions from first principles, and corresponding arguments that doing these in a "correct" way gives results that are less visually appealing than the common assumptions of treating a pixel as a little square (so doing a box filter for reconstruction) and ignoring gamma so effectively using a perceptual color space for the purposes of alpha compositing.

I posit that these questions cannot be solved by argumentation. I think user studies might not be very difficult to do; you could probably get "good enough" results by doing online surveys, though this wouldn't pass standards of academic rigor.
The votes also fluctuated a bit before settling. It's unclear to me why it got flagged. To me, my comment is an obvious and factual correction. Maybe it was flagged because I corrected someone tersely who has been downvoted a lot already. But then, other short corrections in these situations don't get flagged. Maybe there is a special sensitivity towards the topic of US-American exceptionalism and neo-imperialism. Who can flag? Only Dang?
How are 0% interest rates 'handing out cash'? I thought bonds worked in the following way: Buy bond at N% interest. When it matures, government pays you original price + N%. So 0% would be bond buyers handing cash to the government, no?
It's a substitute for a strategy: in reality, it is a wishful thought masquerading as a strategy. It doesn't give you any strategic framework for achieving that by hiring, mentoring and retaining in a competitive landscape. I find it of limited use and anachronistic.
Kids in my high school used to drink birthday cake vodka out of a water bottle in the middle of class too...
How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?
> People believe technology will solve the day because it has every time single time so far.

Huh, your dataset must look very different than the one I can see.
>One version of the letter recently uploaded to the IRS website asks recipients who believe they have followed the law to sign a statement...

Just a word of advice to anyone who may be receiving letters like this in the future. Do not, under any circumstances, sign a statement that you have followed the law without consulting with qualified counsel first. You should know that every time you sign off on something to the federal government, if it turns out not to be true, they got you on a count of Lying to the Federal Government. (Yes, each signature is a separate count. At least that's the way our lawyers explained it to us when advising us on FDA approval for our product.) So you can easily rack up years behind bars in this situation right? There's the original forms in you return. How many times did you sign papers there? Then there's this statement that they want you to sign. That's another potential count.

What's worse, you may have made an honest mistake, and you really do believe that you are in compliance. So you go ahead and sign such a statement. Only you weren't in compliance. Now what? I hate to say this, but just don't. Don't sign it. Get everything looked over by the experts first. Maybe they can even negotiate with the IRS on your behalf if you have made a mistake.

But you don't want to be in the position of having signed something like that with honest mistakes potentially out there in your documentation.
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>There's no reason to restrict a control protocol to only things that normal users can do.

The selenium maintainers seem to have a very strong opposite opinion.
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This is pretty standard language for most warranties. Apple used to make the same claim, although I'm not sure if they still do.
We need adequation. Timing or at least clear path toward improvement.
And easily mitigated by converting the amount you owe in tax at the time your are paid. I don't see how this would be different than getting paid in any other currency.

The problem in your scenario is not really to do with tax, it's that one has effectively expended $10,000 worth of effort for $100.

If someone was worried about this, they shouldn't be accepting BTC as payment, or they should convert it to fiat currency immediately upon receipt.
Oh boy! Yes, I have done this personally and I have had teams where I brought people back. I did this in 2011 actually, I joined a team that I had built most of the original systems 7 years prior but now a whole new team of people were working on them. Only people that were the same were the CIO, president and a few others from different departments. So it was an interesting challenge because everyone thought I was a threat to the director/manager level people, when the reality was all I was there to do was write some code.

Best thing for you to do is to make sure the current lead sees you as an ally and source of historical knowledge that can prevent her from looking stupid or hitting preventable issues. The way you can work on that is to show support for her and provide background or knowledge but be open about changes and don't get defensive over changes. The worst thing you can do is become defensive which even if you are right in a stance will isolate you, or worse fracture the team into factions of them and you. So instead of saying we can't do X, say something more like, well if we do that we will need to likely address X, Y and Z. The point being you don't want to be a roadblock or a naysayer, you want to be a team player and of course you want to try and prevent stupid from happening but do so in a non-confrontational way. Also, when discussing issues don't always reference when you were there before. Just use your knowledge to help but not as a crutch or stick, and ask lots of questions so people will feel you value them regardless of if they are new or been there the whole time.

Hopefully that makes sense. The goal is to make yourself valuable to the team lead and team overall, but do so without using your past knowledge as a hammer. Use your knowledge as historical information that can help the team but don't be an obstructionist which is what I have seen a lot of in the past with people.
The wider quote makes a lot of sense:

> The company goes on to say the Pinebook Pro (and its low price) are being provided "as a community service to PINE64, Linux and BSD communities." Pine64 adds, "If you think that a minor dissatisfaction, such as a dead pixel, will prompt you to file a PayPal dispute then please do not purchase the Pinebook Pro."

This isn't some big commercial operation...
I don't really consider that to be "simulator sickness" fatigue - it's just exercise and fatigue in general due to the course of the simulation, not because of technical flaws in the implementation of the hardware.

Though I can understand where you're coming from; I recall really "playing" Dactyl Nightmare in the mall (most people would just stand around and stare in the game - it was kinda stupid), and I would walk away fairly sweaty from the "workout" of playing the game (crouching, moving, shooting, aiming, etc).

I always thought that was one of the best aspects of VR gaming - that I could actually be in the game, and not just viewing it through a window semi-passively.
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> Why Hakunacloud?

Having #000 headings on blue background while using #fff text without shadows or borders on that same background looks really amateur.

And the "read more!" is blue text on a blue background. Barely readable.
How does the human part affect cognition? A stem cell for example is before it "decides" to be a specific cell right? If that is the case in terms of embryo development, then how do they coax only specific cells in embryos to only express themselves in parts of the body excluding the brain. Complicated but I really am not understanding some basic principles here.
Speaking from a European country, employers are reporting salaries to the revenue service. The banks are reporting capitial gains from taxable accounts.

So basically the only reasons for filing taxes are for exotic revenues (for example crypto !) or to ask for exemptions. Free lancers still have report their revenue themselves but I would say that for a very very vast majority of people, they already have all the information needed.

Actually we receive our forms with some fields (salary for example) pre filled, you only have to check if this is correct.

The tax form is just some kind of confirmation, most of the time.
I've also been quite happy with DigitalOcean for the last 2 years. Pricing is good, and I've had 0 downtime.
I can personally recommend Vultr, Linode, and DO for reliable VPS services.

All of them have pretty competitive offerings, great support, and are just generally on top of things. You won't regret any of those hosts.

The problem with the hosts on lowendbox.com and the like is that they will very likely work, but they don't have the history for me to trust business critical tasks. Many are just resellers offering over-allocated machines.
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I mean, if you're just doing it to learn, you can use a hosted tutorial like mines here: https://codeorc.com/learn-web-development-by-programming-a-r...

It takes you step by step. Every step of the way, it can automatically sync the example code to a working running example, so you don't have to worry about setup and can just worry about learning.
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You didn't mention the type of business, so I'll throw out a question: do you need a VPS host? Is Wordpress hosting enough? Static site hosting? You said web app, but I just want to double check.

If you have to have a VPS where you get a bare OS and need to install your custom web app, there are some great suggestions already in here. I personally use DigitalOcean because my company's budget is super small as well.

If you just need a business website, there are cheaper options than DigitalOcean or Vultr.
>and new currencies would be invented to deal with those issues

That seems like a pretty big hassle.
... or get different sets of dyslexics for your experimentation, until you find one that validates your hypothesis!
Enter a new Dimension ... or just be disappointed for the fact that you need a VR headset.
Autophagy is the self-cannibalisation of cells to give up their molecular components. Are senescent cells capable of doing this? They have at least stopped producing nucleotides, and the double nucleus suggests they have broken down toward the end of mitosis.
It would be interesting to see the valuation-weighted average.
Yes, Sepp Holzer! It's refreshing to see other people, especially among the HN demographic, to know of work like his and permaculture in general given the general obsession with specific myopic forms of technology (like to whom you're replying here); i.e. I still see permaculture as a kind of technology, just a different kind than what most modern conventional farms use.
Why is that what you were thinking of? I know a guy who put on his socks and shoes to get to piano practice, wondering why his mom and sister were laughing during the whole car ride...
This is exactly why defined benefit pension plans need to be eliminated. They're just too risky for everyone concerned and create a huge moral hazard. Defined contribution plans like 401(k) with named individual accounts are much safer.
Yeah the IRS is treating it as unsecured paper. Which is essentially what it is.
His Dark Materials trilogy? Definitely yes. Bump it to six and add Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon.
> a currency that has no real value other than the faith people have in it

this is how all currencies work
How is this any different than selling a house for $1 million, putting that $1 million into a different house, and then the value of that new house falls to $100k?

If you sell the second house for $100k, you're on the hook for the tax on the net capital gains.