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> Clickbaity and completely misleading headline.

Probably right.

> and still to this day isn't close to being as practical as using the combustion engine.

Wrong. A lot of people prefer Tesla today. Their cars are very much close to being as practical as the ones using combustion engines.
Hot take: Subscription models actually reflect the costs of software development better than an one-off purchase. They link the value provided by updates/maintenance to a tangible cost. If we agree that software isn't ever finished, shouldn't the economics reflect that?

Adobe expects businessess to pay for the tools of their trade, not hobbyists.
Consumers are better served by a front-loaded buy-once model that includes free updates, but Adobe doesn't want to be in the B2C space.

The author also describes Adobe's products as "basic tools". As someone who doesn't use them, they seem anything but.
Yea, I don't disagree at all!
Author here. What advice is "bad" in your estimation?

As for not following my own advice, that's not quite right. I'm using picture and img tags rather than div's with CSS background-image, which is the main thrust of the article.

I'm also using srcset for performance, and webp as a progressive enhancement for browsers that support it.

The only thing I'm not doing is using the new loading="lazy" because the website was creating long before the article.
Is it me, or was the lip syncing pretty off?

Cool tech though.
> How do I tell the difference between myself achieving enlightenment and merely having an opinion that I have achieved it?

How would you describe a state of mind in which you remain thoughtless as long as you want? Thoughts will only arrive in your conscious mind when you summon them and you can hold a thought as long as you want. You remain perfectly peaceful, tranquil without blabbering and urges of the mind without exerting as in meditation. Meditation is no longer an act but a state of your mind.

When your mind is perfectly under control without effort, you have become awakened (or enlightened), because now you truly possess a free will in the truest sense of the word. Earlier when your mind was in control, your innate tendencies were driving your actions, based on external stimuli. Anger, greed, lust, envy, fear and other negative emotions thrive in such a state of mind naturally and one has to exert to check them.

I'd urge you to try concentrative meditation, wherein one tries to hold a thought (could be visualizing a form, or listening to a sound ETC) and see the power of conditioned mind. Observe how long you can hold it. For instance, if you're visualizing a form, you may discover that within matter of few seconds it starts fading, dancing or completely gone. Similarly If you are meditating on sound, you will find that within few seconds your mind has distracted and you have to exert to retain your focus. The mind is not in your control and such a conditioned mind can form opinions and dilute you. But an enlightened mind, perfectly in control cannot have delusion and ever lives in present moment. Opinions and judgement are tools of a conditioned mind, ever fearful and constantly striving to ensure survival of the body.

That said, I'm not yet an enlightened being; I'm striving for it by walking path of meditation, kindness and chanting [0]. I do have experiences and glimses confirming most of what I've written, but I have not attained the final state yet. If you're truly curious and want to read, learn and practice more about this, I'd encourage you to read Om Swami's books. The one on meditation [1] takes you through the journey of a meditator with states and stages of mind and awareness that you'll find intriguing and hopefully interesting to pursue. Simple yet precise methods and practices have been given along with a method to measure one's progress.

0: I use Black Lotus app for logging and measuring my meditation and chanting sessions as well as random acts of kindness (RAKs) (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rt.pinpric...) - inspired by same author
1: https://www.amazon.com/Million-Thoughts-Meditation-Himalayan...
The Los Angeles Metro solved the clock problem by showing the day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, …) in a large font, with the time hidden away in a tiny font [1]. The time is usually wrong, but nobody can read it anyway. It's been like this for years; that photo is from 2016. Since the trains don't run on a schedule, I guess it doesn't matter.

[1] See the top photo here https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/design-and-architecture/e...
I don't think popularity means it's the best option. That's the point of the blog post.

I'm also the first to recommend Kubernetes as soon as you need it as it's a solid platform, but most apps stay small and don't need all that upfront complexity. However I stand by Knative being the best of both, have you had a chance to look at that?
The same way you do with house contents for an insurance policy? Photos and other documentation are useful.And no insurance policy is going to be unlimited. Specific very high value items will be enumerated.
It's that kind of lawyering that makes the world a crappy place. While you can always fall back to strict rules, it's a shitty excuse for people to use all the time when they simply want to create an us-versus-them construction.
The mass market is use to paying little up front and expect updates and fixes forever for that one time fee which of course is non sustainable, subscription software is/can be. I certainly hope we are not a place where something should be illegal because you disagree with one company/person. How is this on HackerNews?
Author here. Yep, this is exactly my point! Don't use CSS background-image for "content images". There are significant downsides for doing so.
I’ve noticed Siemens’ trains out of London have quiet electric motors, whereas even the other new electric trains have noisy humming motors.

I believe the AC motor wave forms maybe smoothed out, I was very impressed by it. To the UK train companies just not value it? To me it was an impressive quality improvement. It is a detriment to all the other trains I travel on.
then it's not a free-association relationship

Why ? You can test the trial for free and discover for yourself that you'll be locked in -- or not.

BTW Photoshop's .psd can be opened in others software. You can export FCP XML from Premiere Pro for Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve (and probably others NLE). You can open Premiere Pro's .prproj, unzip it, extract the XML and edit it yourself; The same goes for After Effects projects, based on RIFF https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Form....

Please educate yourself little bit about the products you're criticizing
You seem to prioritize parents instant gratification. The fact that you may service large volume of them does not make it more right automatically.

I do not agree that photographing a child is certainly faster.

First you have to position your child and only your child in front of the object. This means that at the same time other parents and also tripod guys and girls can't take the picture.

So now instead of letting tripod users to take the picture and move on, they have to endlessly wait for the moment where no parent is blocking the view.

Naturally these two groups are in conflict and it is up to event organizers to realize this and organize two different kind of events.
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I think parent referred to Ocsigen, which produced a several Mb js payload for a hello world when i played around with it
Did you consider starting a self storage business that happened to have excellent security?
"A lot of people" would have to be > 50% of the driving population for that to be the case.
Only as a second vehicle for daily driving because it’s still a huge headache to take one on a longer trip.
Thank you for calling out the real cause of this issue. Greed. Let's make greed illegal
+1 for Lisp. (Common, Racket, Scheme etc).
I'm also in NL but use DeGiro, and I compared the two back when starting out on my first investments. Maybe I missed something but it seems DeGiro is much cheaper in terms of fees, and it's straightforward to set up a portfolio that's similar to any of Meesman's offerings. For something a single ETF that's globally diversified I buy Vanguard's VWRL monthly, which is also on DeGiro's list of "free" ETFs. The only drawback I've found is it's not automated like with Meesman and it's very "Doe Het Zelf".
Remotely powering on/off my SBC via an ESP8266 and some modern C++
Living somewhere else (say overseas) for a period of time.
Have you tried learning Chinese.
That sounds amazing but I’d be terrified to attempt this. Any good beginner resources you recommend?
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

(Charles Babbage)
While I almost definitely agree that it's a bit far fetched to imagine the batteries and bus electric engines we're truly good enough 100 years ago... I do know that crooks in the oil / transportation industries have set us back X years, where X is unacceptably large.

But don't get me started, the whole suburbanization of America and the rise of cars and cheap gas are foundational to a lot of the problems we are facing today.
Performance per watt isn’t too important on the Mac Pro and the low volumes mean that developing a purpose-built chip would be extremely cost-prohibitive.
Wish I hadn’t read that Prime is going to $119 from $99. Maybe I’ll start doing the free shipping thing instead.
Hitachi Italy make robot trains used in Rome and Copenhagen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnsaldoBreda_Driverless_Metro
I'd started writing a longer reply, then thought "you know what, it's Sunday night here, I've just started drinking a really nice glass of wine and my partner is about to serve up the home-made pasta we've spent the past couple of hours preparing... life's too short for this" and wrote a low-effort reply. As your previous comment began with "your example is comical" didn't exactly make me feel like a good-faith effort at serious discussion was likely to be worth the investment, and you came right though and asserted that I'd said things that I did't say at all. So here we are.

For what it's worth, I don't think "big tech" or "big grocery" is "evil" or "not evil" in any binary sense. People and organisations respond to incentives and societal standards. Sometimes those incentives and standards are healthy and lead to broadly beneficial outcomes and sometimes they are perverse and lead to negative outcomes. Countless economists over several centuries have explored these topics far more deeply than I can in an HN comment late on a Sunday evening.

For some people it's really important to think that the big tech companies are evil and to blame for all society's ills, and now people are claiming that means it's really important to go easy on people who shoplift. OK then, they're welcome to that view.

I still think society is better if people - both individuals and corporates of all sizes - act ethically and morally and don't steal or defraud, and I don't think individuals can expect politicians and corporations to act ethically if we're not willing to act ethically in our personal lives.

That said, I'm not a law-and-order hardliner, and I have actually shoplifted in my life, at a young age, though not for any reasons to do with waging any just war against supposedly evil corporations. I was just in a bad place in life. So I have plenty of compassion for people who end up doing wrong due to being in bad circumstances.

Anyway, like I said, it's late on a pleasant Sunday evening and life is too short to spend any more time talking about this, so I'm out.
> If this is in reference to the copyright comment, it doesn't matter -- you're still transmitting/redistributing the content, which is what matters.

I'm pretty sure this would be covered by fair use.
Show HN: ClimateGuard
In the long run electric will be more practical. We're at the point where normal, day to day range is acceptable for a majority of drivers. But the practicality electric has over ICE is that maintenance is practically nothing compared to it's counterpart. Also electrics (drivetrain) will outlast even diesel due to simplicity and inherent lack of wear parts.
Yea this article made me a little sad. First of all, it's potentially interesting history, but told without enough detail (to be expected I suppose), and b) no facts from the current state of the art. How can something be set back by 100 years if we don't have a now to reference?
Because we would have more honest competition (and from that possibly better outcome for the consumer).

I find that a great example is Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD where the later did not have region restrictions but the first belonged to Sony who also owned a movie studio allowing large portion of the content to be never released on HD-DVD.
I do not agree with the premise that software is never finished.
As soon as there were multiple boxes with the same number in a single vault, this course of events was pretty much inevitable.

If the bank is not competent enough to assign unique numbers to each box in the first place, of course they aren't going to be competent enough to only ever empty the correct one of several boxes numbered #105, or to handle to contents safely.

It's difficult to comprehend how the bank thought having non-unique numbers would be workable. If non-unique deposit box numbers seems ok, why not non-unique bank account numbers? Or why even go up to #105, just number them all #1?

I'm always fascinated when people find a way to undermine a simple, workable system and end up with something worse than no system, or the state of affairs before the system existed.
I mean.......look, I was against electric cars for a looong time. I currently drive a Mercedes AMG and would consider myself a "petrolhead". Few years ago a car that didn't have a raspy exhaust just wouldn't make my list at all.

But nowadays.....I can't deny that the Tesla Model 3 is a very attractive proposition. 330 miles range on a single charge? 4.4s to 60? That's more range than my AMG(I'll do ~200 miles on a tank if I'm good), and 0-60 time is nearly as good, I'm sure it's good enough to always be first at the traffic lights anyways. And finally driving it daily will cost me nearly nothing - with 99 octane petrol being something like ~$8/US Gallon switching to an electric car looks more and more appealing every day, and I think I'll take the bait next year once my PCP runs out and I need a different car. As much as I love the craziness of a good old petrol powered AMG madness, the benefits of an electric car are undeniable. And 330 miles range is enough to drive it all week without charging daily, or drive down to London on a single charge if I fancy, or it I want to visit my family in Europe I can easily charge it at superchargers across the Autobahn - really I think my range anxiety is none existent at this point.
You are in Europe yourself I take it? In the Eurozone?

I'd forget bonds personally. With negative real interest rates, bonds are just the safest way to lose money slowly.

You mention elsewhere you want to avoid currency risk in an ETF. You won't be able do that completely, but to keep it to a minimum you'd need an ETF composed of smaller European companies which have less of an international presence.

I'm unexpectedly in the market for a good European ETF myself as the provider of the two I currently hold (iShares) have just announced they're both being delisted, so I'll have to sell those and re-buy something else, with all the cost and risk that entails, which is pretty annoying. I'm currently considering the "iShares Core MSCI EMU UCITS ETF", which tracks 252 Eurozone companies, but again, these are generally big multinational companies so you're not really protected from currency risk.
I used to live in NYC and there is an amazing network of public pools that were very inexpensive ($25/6 months I think). I’d bet most major cities have something similar. Definitely worth a search.
Do you have a public archive for the newsletter or a directory site for those conferences? The telegram group looks like everything I wouldn't want to see in my inbox.

Maybe I'm just not in the target market for this, who is it aimed at? Recruiters and marketers?
Excuse me I believe you've mistaken "a lot" with "a majority".

There are clearly still trade offs, but even ignoring the environmental benefits, the cost of fuel is much less, and for many people charging in the garage meets their needs on a daily basis. The gas stations are in many ways a redundant fuel network. And electric vehicles can still be very powerful and fun.
Wow, someone is doing it. Glad to see.

I look forward to this trend continuing and spreading.
>fwiw, they didn't solve the issue during that session

Sure, that's normal, they could not.

It is anyway (even if caused by a different issue) a case of "homocody".

These can only be solved by the Agenzia delle Entrate or - in some cases - they cannot even be solved by them and you need to resort to other means.

And yes, being on the wrong side of bureaucracy is never a good place to be in, the Italian one (but more generally that of any nation with a similar approach, let's call them "Latin", I have personal experience with Spain and Portugal besides Italy, and they are rather similar) is a bit more complex than corresponding anglo-saxonish or germanish ones, but it depends a lot on the specific cases.

The Italian Motorizzazione Civile suffers historically from lack of personnel and the intertwining of "traffic Laws" with "General Law", things - recently - are getting a little better because of simplifications on the legal definition of car as property, but until a few years ago a "simple" change of ownership of a vehicle (what you normally do in the UK by mail and in Germany by going to the nearest Police station) was a terrible experience, usually taking months to obtain the new certification.
How many hours per month are you planning to spend on proactive and reactive maintenance?

How much is an hour of your time worth?

Is there a hosted alternative that ticks all your boxes? If so, how much does it cost?

I've run mail servers for small and medium companies, and for myself. It's been a long time since I've done that, but:

- If you're coming in from zero experience, but with generic sysadmin experience, then you might expect to spend 10-20 hours in month one getting it working how you want, and then 1-3 hours per month

- Having a single MX record isn't a good idea; you should have a second server, or pay a company to provide a 'store and forward' backup SMTP server, and set that as your secondary MX

- It's significantly more tricky to maintain high delivery rates than it was when I last ran my own mail server, so I may be underestimating the effort required

- Don't forget backups. You don't want to lose any/all your mail.
Voice recognition is so good I wrote this story without typing
I don't think it's trivial to identify a bad hire in 3 months. Some are obviously bad, some are not.
No, Eitland did.
>Emulation adds overhead of course, but it's worth noting that most ISAs are effectively emulated through micro-operations

That's not even remotely the same thing because that micro-code is optimized to the ISA of the processor and it's obviously specific to the microarchitecture of the processor which is again optimized for a specific ISA. It's like translating a Wikipedia article from normal English to simple English. You didn't cross a complicated language barrier.

If I may add my own comment: It's not worth noting at all because your ARM CPU still only implements ARM optimizations and your x86 CPU only implements x86 optimizations.

If you had proposed adding hardware acceleration to make emulation of a specific architecture faster then maybe one could have squinted and said it's emulation instead of secretly implementing a x86 CPU in your ARM CPU.
Art imitates life (or vice versa):

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-califor...
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> Could you drive to Sweden and store them there if you don't need them that often?

Someone mention Sweden isn't much better:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20546346
Reading this I suspect you are not the typical audience for anything transportation related.
> Amazon Prime subscriptions have topped 100M

I'm not surprised. I had trouble stopping them giving me free subscriptions for a week or a month at a time. The kicker is it automatically rolls over into a paid subscription so I need to keep my wits about me in case I've been signed up.

I wrote to them many times saying I don't want to be signed up to Prime. They always apologise and cancel my subscription but then it happens again. The only thing that seems to have worked is removing my credit card.
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>I can't help but feel T2 chip is just another cynical ploy to gradually kill off third party repairs by baking software functions into proprietary hardware that only the manufacturer have access to.

Not very cynical: Apple is against "third party repairs" period, and wants to sell you the whole thing as a black box.

They also believe that's their whole value proposition: that software and hardware comes as much as possible as a black box, and works well together (not perfect, but better than if it wasn't a black box for the aspects that they focus on - simplicity, integration, security, sandboxing, etc).

That's their stance, and they got to where they are from near bankruptcy, sales wise, in pursuit of that.

>It also goes against a wider industrial trend of moving from ARM to RISCV and other architectures.

What "wider industrial trend"?
Also:

"(State-owned) German bank is dubbed 'dumbest' for transfer to bankrupt Lehman Brothers"

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/business/worldbusiness/18...
I've never told anyone this, but Bill's next bit in that clip about customer service, I actually did that last year.

I had this big mess with my whole flight itinerary, and I was stuck at an airport for like 30 hours with nothing to do.

I got the airline's customer service on the phone. They were refusing to compensate me, I was livid but I just did exactly what Bill said: Don't curse and they can't hang up.

I talked really, really slowly. The intercoms in the airport would sound off periodically and I'd just wait until they stopped then ask the rep to repeat himself. So he'd repeat a point that he already made like 15 times. And I'd just keep feigning that I misunderstood the point he was trying to make.

I just kept talking in an infinite circle about common law, and the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and running through all these increasingly ridiculous hypothetical scenarios of overbooking and flight delays and which party should be liable in those scenarios and for what reason, and on and on...

Bill is right about them not being allowed to hang up. I had him on the phone for over an hour.

He kept it together for a while, but toward the end I could tell that he was starting to crack. Then he made some unprompted comment about how he didn't care because he was getting paid to deal with me, and shortly after that, the line just abruptly cut off mid-sentence.

I got a callback the next morning offering me a $200 airline certificate, a hotel voucher, and a meal voucher.

True story.

At the time I was just really angry about my travel getting screwed up, and especially about not having a place to sleep, and being stuck in an airport terminal. And all that anger just channeled into this game of calmly wasting that guy's time.

But in hindsight, what I did was a very unjustified and shitty thing to do, and I was rewarded handsomely for it. And that guy may have been reprimanded through no fault of his own. I don't feel great about it and won't be doing it again.