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Agree, have got good service from Dell.

Had lots of trouble with Dell hardware - but excellent support in most cases.

(I think 25% of our Dell motherboards broke in the spring of 2006 because of a batch of bad capacitors, and I think I heard rumours that more broke after I left that place, but service was always great until recently, and I'm now so far away from hardware I don't know if it is Dells fault or the sysadmins fault in a recent case I think of.)
One thing I really love about Sandi Metz's POODR is how readable the code examples are.
But there's a gap between what the advertiser knows and what the intermediary knows.

Often even when the advertising account is directly held by the advertiser there is an intermediary managing the ad spend.

And the intermediary is incentizived to spin the numbers as best they can.
Neither Revolut nor Monese do that. Not sure Revolut supports SEPA payments at all.
I think extreme examples are useful. The Neo-Nazi's marching in Skokie is an extreme example of Free Speech, and the ACLU fought to allow it because the First Amendment is extreme. On the other hand, I believe that when you are dealing with a quasi-public space like a university we shouldn't be as absolutist with free speech claims. The question then becomes on where we draw the line. If on the other hand you believe that we should be extreme on free speech when it comes to universities and let the Nazi's march at University of Chicago as well as Skokie then clearly you would disagree.
And here I thought this was going to be a better way to to test my gql components...
Let me make sure I'm understanding this right: It's not merely enough for it to be culturally taboo to criticize spending $20 billion a year on space missions -- we now have to watch out for accidental microaggressions?
Apple are just vile. Is there a dimension in which they are not just an utterly vile company? This is apple innovation all over. The fraudulent pretence of quality and honesty wrapped in shiny.

But at least they're not selling their surveillance data about you you never willingly agreed to provide like google do, right? They're storing it and keeping it and can sell it as soon as it suits them, but they're not right now as far as we know. So we're paying them not to be the product just like we pay them for quality hardware and good service. The fact we're paying them for it doesn't count for much. iPod customers found out how paying apple not to be the product works when sync deleted their collection. No not me, not you, but people we know who aren't stupid had it happen, you remember, loads of people found out they were product like that. Just buy everything from apple, then when it doesn't work, pay more, and more and more because user friendly and "microsoft are actually worse" and google as though that would be a defence if it were true and maybe it is. ugh.
1. Their team didn't have expertise with JavaEE.

2. JavaEE??? What has the StackOverflow team done to make you hate them so much? :o)
If your business model is selling $50 bills for $40, it's not sustainable.
> How do people put up with it?

When I talk to people like this, I hold back. They get the first layer; everyone does. I can sense the attitude and I give them nothing after that.

It is quite possible that is why you see nothing. Nobody wants to show you more.
Four levels of decision making:

Consensus: everyone agrees. Most time consuming.

Vote: have two or more appealing options. Majority wins, but everyone is relatively happy with the outcome.

Consult: get everyone's input, but ultimately you decide.

Dictate: you decide, no external input. Fastest.

If you start a meeting by outlining which process you intend to use it helps. All are valid approaches, and depend on the context of the situation.

I use consult quite often when deciding on a technical direction.
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Is there an advantage to that approach over the more direct wkhtmltopdf?
I know someone who converted one of these into a home-made terminal, so they could connect to the computer at school and work from home. They drilled a hole into the TV, added a socket for video input which bypassed the antenna/demodulator, and hooked it up to a home-made 8-bit computer. 32 columns!
The economics might suck for Apple but they can easily afford to pay the lawyers. The customer on the other hand probably has a much tougher time missing work for court sessions.
I included it in my reply to see what you thought of it :)

I hadn't considered it in the context of disagreement; I think I can see how that could rub people the wrong way.
With climate change, we still have to get to the stage where the problem becomes so bad that most people agree to do something about it. The question is if it will still be possible to "fix it" at that point...
WHat was communicated at the time was that EQT was going to be "hands off", and allow the current management to continue operating SUSE as is.

Even under Microfocus they enjoyed a level of freedom usually associated with independent companies.

If the board was left as is, and EQT is just a shareholder, that could be considered independent - more so than RH + IBM where there was some integration, and RH was becoming a wing of IBM.

But this is all speculation on my part, so YMMV
Bullshit on the drained in a few hours. IPhone xs have quite fine battery life. See https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re... for example.
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Biggest in terms of market cap afaik.
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Isn't the argument that there is nothing inherently wrong with OOP but like all things, it shouldn't be used exclusively?

For instance, working with language like Kotlin or C# it's fairly straightforward to get the best of both worlds: Use inheritance where appropriate, favor composition in all other cases.

IMO being dogmatic about not wanting inheritance altogether will result in friction as well: The fact that Rust eschews inheritance altogether will increase boilerplate whenever you want to do something that is 'inheritance-like'. Sure, people will argue that in 90% of the cases this is bad design, but for the cases where it IS the best approach it's a shame it's not part of your toolbox.
I did the exact same thing. Can also highly recommend both. The beginning of the Clarke book was more interesting to me because it was a broader history of laying cable. The second half is more of a personal history of comsats, which, while interesting, goes a bit far into Clarke’s life while leaving out the nasty bits he is known for.

Worth reading either way!
> We value specific output, not the time that went into it, and so we're prepared to pay nothing for the bulk of what is created, but a lot for a tiny little proportion.

The hard truth is that most aspiring artists are not particularly good. The finished art, no matter the medium, varies in quality by a gargantuan amount, with only a tiny proportion of artists possessing the talent and skills to make something that a sizeable number of people will pay to experience.
I hate kids and I hate talking about sports. I don't know anything about wine.
So I let them talk for a bit and then change the subject. I find something that we can talk about that we are both interested in.
If all they want to talk about is kids or sports then get better friends.
Agreed, there is absolutely no point going further after reaching a certain reliability level. However, one thing is eliminating risks, the other is limiting the consequences of said risks. I strongly prefer 99.9% reliability where that 0.1% means some insignificant problem over 99.99% reliability where the remaining 0.01% means total disaster.
My point is that doing "too much" automation gives diminishing returns (which is not bad in itself), but might also disproportionately increase the consequences of that 0.xxxx1%
This is exactly what I'm after. Thanks a lot! :)
That reminds me of that episode of The Office where Jim realizes he can't just choose a single cake and his "idiot" boss has a really difficult job of balancing everyone's needs, applying the right touch and keeping the whole ship running smoothly.
But it's always very specific universities that attract a small and specific subset of students. Where are the examples of this happening at community colleges, or rural land grant schools? As I said it comes off as the only college students the author actually meets are people who go to small elite schools and get an internship in journalism.
Perhaps from crime reporting aggregation like how heyjackass[0] does it.

[0]: https://heyjackass.com/
When these posts on the site say 'cold pitch', what does that mean? Contextually I am picturing someone literally writing up a contact off the publisher website, saying 'Hey would you pay me to write this?' and they get back a 'yup, send it in and we'll pay you something'.

I have no awareness of this but I am fascinated by it.
Huh. So you are saying if I have 2 pairs of identical shoes, A and B, if I wear A for T months, then B for T months, by alternating every day I should get >2T months out?
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So a CS degree is half or even more a math degree. I am yet to find a popular "learn c++ in 24 hours" course that teach you the math needed to think correctly.

The core problem with programming is not the syntax or even the tools, but complexity and abstraction. I.e. programming do not scale well. A 1M LOC program is much different than 100K LOC which is different from 10K LOC, and you need intellectual tools to analyse at different scale.

A non CS programmer usually lack the intellectual tools to analyse problems logically before programming, and jump to code too fast (which is actually encouraged by the "agile" methods, TDD etc).
I think the biggest difference is that I am using the chromium embedded framework (java-cef), so you get e.g. the chrome debugger for debugging your HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

My goal was to use java-cef, but hide all the weirdness.

Also, there's no pre-defined data binding, so a bit less opinionated in this case.
Better luck next time, right?
Sadly not! It’s also worth pointing out that not all of the talks are hosted on YouTube.

Maybe `youtube-dl` can help you anyway, though!
Alternative explanation: it's a hyperbole that recognizes, rather than mocks, the Apollo program.
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The Twizy is vey nice, but it is not an electric car (it is of course, but not one would think of that being an electric car).

https://www.renault.co.uk/vehicles/new-vehicles/twizy/dimens...

It is more like a bike with 4 wheels, or if you prefer it is as much a car as the Isetta was a car:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isetta

While it does surely fulfill the needs of someone living in a small EU city (and that needs not to commute for work) it is not IMHO really comparable to a car.

BTW, I guess it depends on the country, here in Italy you surely cannot get on highways with it (as much as you cannot get on them with an Isetta or with an original FIAT 500), but the issue - at least in theory - is that a number of "main" motorways have the same highway limits AND that a number of city by-passes are categorized as "urban highway":
Italian but understandable via Google translate:

https://twizyblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/limiti-di-circola...
I tent to consider database querying as constraint oriented programming, so indeed it does not fit either OOP or FP model. However, I do think that mapping database records to objects can be useful once they are in the program space.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190723130144/https://cacm.acm....
As-is, it would only work on platforms where java-cef (the chromium embedded framework) works.

But one could probably add other HTML renderers too (Android, JavaFX WebView, ...).
What is the difference between 'Git pull' and 'Git fetch'?
It kind of boggles me that a real analysis of the problems with naming conventions in manual process got massively downvoted. But no one ever got rich counting on the analytical sophistication of HN.

I'm not saying the original approach is bad. I'm saying it's not the simplest thing that can possibly work. I'm talking about how to move to automation, not how to reduce errors on the manual process. Both are needed.
Being a jerk might help get what you think you want (money, success) at the price of what you actually need (self-respect, warm relationships).

That is, of course, if it doesn't backfire. Then you get nothing.
Or you, just get to used to heterogeneous monitoring tools like DataDog and Prometheus.
What kind do you like?

I agree that a polyester blend tends to last ages. My Uniqlo 100% cotton socks tend to wear out at the sole and big toe quite quickly (those were rubbish), but my military-issued $1/pair polyester socks last me months, and are comfortable enough for daily use.

Maybe I just haven't tried the really good stuff.
I agree with your statement in general (including the distinction between backwards regions and more advanced places), but I do think that India is doing much better than other countries in the region in this regard. It's only notable because India tries, unlike other countries that don't.
You do sound like nice guy and like my "Aspie" friend, very intelligent and fun to talk to.

But my Aspie friend felt genuine discomfort around new things and people and he tried to rationalize it by saying he didn't care. But I think he did care. He even cried for a full room when he left us (almost making many others almost cry as well)!

I think he would be better off admitting his feelings and accepting them trying to work from there. He even told me once he read some research where over-expressing some gene would make people feel less need for control and how this could free him in a way.

But who am I, I may be completely mistaken and project a "Vulcan-like deep emotional life that needs to be controlled" -picture onto him, while this is not how it is. But I felt a bond with this guy, I think we did share very similar thought routines. We both felt a need for control but I felt less fear for unexpected things and human connections, though we certainly both felt the need.
Finally, some respect!
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While true in a lot of cases, the answer is still not a binary yes or no. AWS/Azure/GCP still add a lot of quality of life improvements to workflows. Performance is not the only metric to compare on. There’s also productivity, time and opportunity costs. There are real benefits in outsourcing or buying off the shelf.

Second, it also depends on wether you are write or read heavy. SO is primarily read heavy and they can get away with most requests never hitting their main servers but instead being handled by a CDN.

But overall I do agree. Dedicated would give you a performance boost compared to virtual machines. And sometimes it might be worth it to bring stuff in house and do it yourself.
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A lot of people would not buy an electric car if it meant they would have to rent a car to do long trips. Why would I pay for a car and then have to rent another car?

My wife and I need a car that can travel 6 hours (350+ miles\550km) 3-5 times a year. There is a super charger out of the way where my wife’s sister goes to college. It would make a 20-30 bearable so we can make the journey with some charge leftover. One of our vacation spots has a destination charger at an Embassy Suites nearby. Its likely too busy on holidays to use.

Tesla Model 3 is the only one that fits our needs and budget. I’m very carious about a Tesla and we might end up with a Q5 instead.
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> Teller's pragmatic, iterative, product-driven approach to innovation is the exact opposite of what the U.S. did after Kennedy charged it to "commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." Letting Silicon Valley steal the term "moonshot" for projects with quite different management styles, success criteria, scales, and styles of innovation hurts our collective ability to understand just what NASA achieved 50 years ago and why nothing remotely comparable is actually under way today at Google, or anywhere else.
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That was me! Component level fetch !== no Redux, that's not what I described; using Redux does not _mean_ you have to use one of the many libraries built to wrestle asynchronous fetching into Redux.

I've got nothing against any of them, I've used almost every major one in my jobs over the last few years. But I (and the person who replied to me) both seem to feel the same way, that in many cases just fetching in React, in the component, is all that is needed, let the Redux application deal with marshalling the resultant state (which it is very good at)
Haigh is right. Unicorns, Moonshots, ... these days it's even considered "disruptive" if you offer a couple of scooter for rent. Whom are you disrupting exactly?
Puppeteer is really really good. I just discovered it and used it for something and it’s a blast to work with.

I’m seriously thinking there is a cloud api play in the near future — a puppeteer Page is a pretty awesome container format ... a Puppeteer Page or BrowserContext per request would provide an awesome cloud-function-like programming model I think...
Companies pay what you can negotiate with them. This is based on value add, and alternatives on both sides of the table. If you can pitch the value you create, you can get paid accordingly.
In such a case, where SVG markup code is MIT licensed, would a generated png count as the compiled binary?
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The world is full of fairly nice people who will spill anything you said to them to anyone for any reason in the workplace. And I'm not cynical about people, I just think it's the truth.

There are no warning signs. Just pretend everything you say to a coworker is on a public ledger.

In some cases the true, actual friends you make in the workplace, the ones you'd still hang out with years after your employment, ca be trusted. But it's still probably better to not tell them anything that could make you look seriously bad either.
Modern usage of words are abused in all sorts of formats. I don't think moonshot is going to get any special treatment here any more than "all out blitz", "hate", "nazi", "socialist", etc.

Social media in today's culture is almost built to destroy the meaning of words by overusing them for everything.
Nice, I especially appreciate all the examples in the Readme.

Would this be anymore performant than electron? Or smaller binary sizes? etc...
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If it’s wildly uneconomic for its customer, it’s also wildly uneconomic for Apple.
He is planning on using LeanPub and they support specifying what programming language code snippets are written in so listings tend to look pretty good.
At least to some extent, dating sites have made the opposite. The more people know about each other, the greater the variance in their assessments of each others' attractiveness. ISTR a study that showed that the less people know each other before starting dating, the more likely people are to end up with partners who are about as physically attractive as themselves.
> If you try and peel back a layer of what you think is most important, but they don't care about it at all, you won't find anything worth hearing.

I came looking for someone who'd already said this. I think you hit the nail on the head.

Even the stoners I worked with in food service could have some interesting perspectives on, say, why different video games have such different communities.

I mean, yeah, I get it. Kids make me downright uncomfortable, and that alone is often a huge chunk of what people talk about. There are quite simply differences in interests. But then the question is, what are you trying to get out of an interaction?

In this context, I'd say, find out what that person's goals / difficulties are. Are they trying to switch to a different department? Are they trying to get their kid into a particular private school? Remodeling their house? I think keeping track of this sort of information, checking back in on how their efforts are going or giving any small useful anecdotes/advice ("Yeah, I really got screwed by that moving company -- I wish I'd packed my TV more carefully,") does way more, I think, thank talking about sports.

And the great thing is, even if we were all machines, those would be great things to talk about. I've gained incredibly useful information about home ownership just from listening to my coworkers.
I'm guessing this is because some people only think of python as being a prototyping language, for performance reasons.
Architecturally, microkernels and unikernels are direct opposites.

Unikernels strive to minimize communication complexity (and size and footprint but that is not relevant to this discussion) by putting everything in the same address space. This gives them many advantages among which performance is often mentioned but ease of development is IMHO equally important.

However, the two are not mutually exclusive. Unikernels often run on top of microkernels or hypervisors.
A list like that is not very useful because there is a wide variation in quality between refills of the same size. Better to find a comparison between refills of a given size, like this one for D1s.

https://penpaperpencil.net/comparison-of-d1-refills-part-two...
Normal flow of traffic?
> Maybe, they are focusing on other things like thinness and light weight which results in making gadgets less repairable instead of a big planned conspiracy.

... And suing customers like crazy to support a less repairable product strategy.
Oh boy. I grew up in a family of PhDs and professors, and was immersed in intellectual academic culture from a young age. I love my family, but most of that culture is a bunch of insufferable twats stroking off their egos. After moving out and skipping college, working service industry and 'blue collar' jobs, I realized that (outside of their narrow specialty) PhDs aren't nearly as smart as they think they are. Your philosophical musings are just mental masturbation.
Modularization improves maintenance overhead, it does not reduce privilege.
Generally internal instability from internal competition by discontent men, attempts to retain power by trying to "burn off" excess discontent fighting aged men with wars against some sort of external threat/scapegoat, or flat out exogamous raids to seize women - that has been an ancient dubious tradition since at least the bronze age.

How applicable it will be in the modern context is another story as ancients didn't have the degree of interconnectedness, offense/defense asymmetry of weapon superiority, or the "play nice or else" of Pax Atomica which has kept Pakistan and India shockingly civil even with terrorist attacks, border skirmishes, and similiar incidents.
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It's not that they mock Apollo, it's just that they're not talking about Apollo at all. Had the expression been "starshot", or "uranusshot", it would have been understood as mocking the Voyager story?
Who are SUSE's main customers these days? Self hosted SAP shops?
This is a fantastic point. Let's be real, Pakistan is hardly a paragon of virtue but you're not going to get any real reporting out of that country. The openness of Indian society relative to much of the rest of Asia is pretty amazing and doesn't often get credited well enough.
You realize that qualcomm's ridiculous licensing terms entitles them to a percentage of the sales price of the end device, right? At $2-3k per laptop that's not exactly chump change and would likely lead to a noticeable price increase on a laptop that's already considered "overpriced" by the general public.
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