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Minecraft is the new ANSI art.
Most people go through a period of time where they are 'dating' someone but not ready to move in.
Thanks for the correction.

But I'm not sure I agree with your diagnosis. I suppose it depends on how one thinks of engineers and software developers. Are we professionals, like doctors, with a bedrock responsibility to society and our users? Or are we just very well-paid gofers, who do whatever the bosses say?

In my view, responsibility isn't a zero-sum game. Sure, the managers failed. But the engineers also failed, and in the same way the Amazon thief did: they had reason to suspect consequences were coming, but they hung around because it was rewarding.
I mean, it makes a lot of money. But it's widely hated, and from what I've seen it's pretty bad at solving the problem it purports to solve. I guess some people call that success, but I wouldn't. My goals go beyond filling my pockets.
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We need a new deal here. If everyone with power is allowed to just follow their incentives, we end up with an awful place for everyone. What is the contract between people, government and corporations that we can make that allows for the freedom in society that we value? It seems like both the corps and gov are teaming up against team people here.
Sure but neither a startup nor raised in the current SF startup culture. Apple definitely has potential to transcend tech and leadership although we need to see 1-2 more changes in leadership to know for sure.
What changes are making all these apps incompatible?
This reminds me of a story I read once of a guy who bought a 1000€ GPU from Amazon and got a 100€ GPU instead, obviously from a return. When he got to return it to get his 1000€ back, he was told that he had sent the wrong GPU, that it had been destroyed by them (like you would shred a sheet of paper) and asking for the right card to be sent to them.
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Show HN: Boxtron: Steam Play compat. tool to run games using native Linux DOSBox
Features:

- Lower input lag (compared to DOSBox inside Proton)
- Steam features working as expected (e.g. Steam Cloud,
Controller settings or recording of time played)
- Better fullscreen support, especially on multi-monitor setups*
- Steam Overlay working out of the box*
- More configuration options and better defaults*
- Automatic detection of MIDI hardware, with software
synthesiser used as fallback
- Automatic MIDI setup for supported titles
(click Play and enjoy pre-configured MIDI music)

* - compared to vanilla DOSBox

This project is developed in parallel to https://github.com/dreamer/luxtorpeda - Steam Play compatibility tool for running games using native Linux open-source engines.
I've recently re-discovered Google app engine, together with firestore for any persistence it's truly a low friction MVP environment.

I usually use it together with go and Vue for the frontend.
hard to find a better value than the 3600/3700. and it's certainly going to improve a few percentage points as the drivers/bios mature.
I hosted a BBS in the mid 90's and it was a pain until OS/2 Warp and the 5th MB of RAM on a 486/66 that allowed me to run the BBS while still using my computer. Most of the traffic was photos of places abroad or girls. Every Christmas I left it without any ratio, the utilization was almost 100%.
Having your credit disappear overnight will disrupt your business.
FWIW, Apple's 30% cut doesn't apply. You can't use Apple's IAP system for physical goods.
I applaud this idea & hope it goes well. I'm always a little disappointed when I download a book from Gutenberg and the formatting makes it virtually unreadable.

I'd also like to mention feedbooks which have a very nicely set of curated ebooks:
http://m.feedbooks.com/publicdomain

(I have no affiliation with them)
Hong Kong protesters shooting lasers to thwart Chinese facial recognition tech
Would you pay tax out of pocket for this benefit in kind.
Not a joke. I asked him about that (quite) a few years ago, and he indeed is :-)
The source write-up for those looking to bypass Twitter: https://selectbutton.net/t/i-found-an-easter-egg-from-1977/8...
There are plenty of areas in Australian cities with older tree-lined streets, so that should be covered in the study.
> The realm of electrodynamics is pretty interesting, and it's where seemingly basic concepts like electric potential begin to fail -- it becomes path-dependent!

Not really. The problem is that we have sort of an "electron abstraction" which is incorrect in the Heaviside-Hertz pedagogy when fields start to store energy. I recommend "Collective Electrodynamics" by Carver Mead as a modern formulation without the silliness of an Aether:
https://www.amazon.com/Collective-Electrodynamics-Quantum-Fo...

> I only brought up ground (in the Earth ground sense) because I've heard people think that antennas in general work by using the Earth as a second conductor, with EM radiation as the first.

Really? Most of the time I describe antennas as sort of really long range transformers. And, while you need each side of the transformer to be a circuit, the two sides of the transformer don't have to interact other than through a field.

> My previous comment was written out of a reasonably common conception of a closed circuit being a loop with constant current flow, but capacitors break such a circuit.

Yes and no. Capacitors have the hand wavy notion of "displacement current" in classical electrodynamics--but most of the issue is with the fact that we use the Heaviside-Hertz pedagogy which was formulated back when everybody believed in the Aether.

The real issue is that to deal with capacitors you must deal with fields rather than just the notion of electrons. However, if we kind of squint and wave our hands the "electron formulation" can be kinda sorta made to work. (Side note: Capacitive dividers are even more annoying and you have to be really careful.)

Classical Heaviside-Hertz electrodynamics also has a lot of issues dealing with motors and generators, as well. Again, the key is that an "electron formulation" isn't really enough when fields start holding an appreciable amount of energy.
Is anyone else holding on to their years old PC waiting for ddr5 to come out before upgrading?
I have been stuck inside my house for a month, with a month to go thanks to some broken bones. The house sits across from a park with big trees, lots of birds and people playing sports. I can feel my change in mood and contentment when I look out the window or sit on the porch (weather and mobility permitting). There's also a general ambient pleasantness knowing I'm within the greenery even though I'm inside. It's been keeping me sane!

I'm lucky enough that most of our city is like that, incredibly green. But I have worked in some pretty grim buildings, and would never take an office without windows anymore.
It's 7th (ghost) month here in Singapore. Same thing happens here. Solution? Organize concerts (getai) for them.

https://www.todayonline.com/8days/seeanddo/thingstodo/hungry...
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Indeed.com throws a lot of IT related job postings my way. Create an account, set your criteria, and prepare for the deluge.
Sure, but there were also plenty of people who didn't leave.

And honestly, I think VCs are another good example of the problem here. They are notorious for being herd animals. They celebrate "pattern matching", by which they mean repeating the behaviors that previously led them to make money. If investors were all that good at thinking things through, they wouldn't have burned $1.4 billion dollars on Theranos.
Existing surveillance technology, as per the Snowden revelations, has not been deployed with 'transparency about what data is collected, and where it goes'. Even today it is very unclear what data exactly is being captured, and how it is being used. I do not see any reason why this proposed new technology will be any better.
I mean the same scientists built the V-2 rocket and the Saturn V but I'm glad they swapped the swastika out for an American flag. Looking at the Facebook name every time I open Whatsapp would be like looking at Donald Trump's face every time I select "English" on a website.
The 3900X is also a big hit. It's such a big hit, that stores in Europe have not had any in stock since launch.
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Indeed. My previous job was very Java-focused but wanted a more senior man on the team. So management hired a developer with 20 years of experience in C and Fortran.

Now in my country, when you hire someone, a probation period of two months is very common. In that period, you can be fired and/or leave without cause.

Unfortunately, he was not able to pick up object-oriented programming in those two months and left before the probation period expired.
Nit: Dark matter only interacts with gravity.
> In all of recorded history, has a malloc() call for more than 2GB ever actually succeeded anywhere?

Yes, on OS X 10.5, and on 32-bit Linux with Glibc until two days ago.

The article I linked, written before Glibc 2.30 was released, is from a period when every Unix had been allowing “malloc(0x80000001);” in 32-bit processes until recently; only OS X had had the courage to make that allocation fail. Sorry if the article doesn't make it clear enough that this is the context it is written in, but in its defense, you only needed to try it (and still need today to try it if you didn't upgrade Glibc) to see that it succeeds. Or do you think that the Glibc developers wrote a Changelog entry to explain that they changed something that didn't actually change?

Linux's default limit on 32-bit has been 3GiB for a while, i think: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5080778/139746

Windows's limit is 2GiB by default, but this is only a default and 32-bit processes can be allowed access to more memory, up to IIRC nearly all of the theoretical maximum 4GiB for 32-bit processes running on 64-bit Windows.
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I can't speak for anyone else but on my phone I adblock through the Hosts file and additionally have Ublock Origin and Noscript installed in Firefox Mobile.
Thanks! This is exactly what I wanted to know.

And now that you describe it, I suspect it's inevitable that anything bad in the first way becomes bad in the second. If the purpose and the use cases are clear, that can guide good design. But if the product is too complex for mere mortals to understand it, then of course the teams building it will eventually turn it into a frankenstein collage of UI issues.
What do we need to live?
Agreed. It's been sad to see so many sites fall into the temptation. These days even Ars Technica is quick to twist and contort their headlines for maximum flammability.
God is a much more complex explanation than "Something like matter, but it doesn't interact with other matter except via gravity". It's also much harder to design experiments to falsify different versions of God, than it is to design experiments that falsify different version of dark matter. For example we are quite sure that Dark matter is not just cool ordinary matter (MACHOs) because we looked for that and didn't find it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Detection_of_dark_...

Newtonian physics is still taught and used by almost everyone who needs physics. All engineers use Newtonian physics for structural calculations. It's a perfectly adequate approximation for everyday reality.
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A bunch of brand new junk whether it's teslas, electric scooters/bikes, or anything else that's new and green is obviously bad for the environment. What's bad for the environment is excess consumption of anything. All these new green products only offer marginal improvements over their "non" green counterparts and never address making the manufactuering process green, which counts for the vast majority of the emissions of almost all goods.

If you care about the environment cut back your consumption of new shit. Go fix that bike in your garage and ride that to work.
Depends on the task. I've used more new stuff in the last few years than the previous decade and I'm 46. But I fully appreciate the tradeoffs.

No shiny objects is the rule. But break it if it's an obvious (necessary?) improvement and you know how to inject new technologies safely.

When you only have one principle to worry about, life is simple. More than one, you're always trading something off.
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either way, it's good for the market that people choose AMD over Intel.
And yet the FDA was the reason why thalidomide didn't get approved and affected the US much less than elsewhere.

While I have lots of beef with the FDA and could easily write encyclopedic tomes on the subject, there is practically no other agency anywhere that actually makes sure before the fact that drugs or devices are actually better than nothing and actually fit for purpose.

The biggest problem is that the FDA could move much faster if they had a way to do detailed monitoring on things after approval. Alas, there is no incentive or system to handle that.
sounds like a very shady and likely illegal thing to do
Really enjoyed this blog post! This is the type of critical thinking which I'm missing a lot in recent years. The stuff which we are building in our little tech bubble is increasingly shaping and impacting the entire world in ways which many of us could have never imagined a decade or two ago. It's funny how many things which have been mentioned in this blog post are literally only one corner away from reality! In Singapore there are already lots of Grab only parking bays where a Grab driver can stop for you but not an Uber for instance.
The scooters are not replacing what a car would have been used for in the majority of cases. They're replacing walking or cycling.

So no they are not saving energy.
There's nothing fundamentally temporary about feature flags, even if that's the popular use case.

You can opt into using the reference implementation of a renderer with a flag.

You can opt into using a debug implementation of an allocator with a flag.

You can opt into your experimental hopefully faster renderer with a flag.

There's very little that's fundamentally different in these cases - maybe some get removed from some builds at compile time - and maybe your plans for the future are a little different.

But if plans change - perhaps maintenance of the reference implementation ends up being more costly and less beneficial than expected - you may very well end up deprecating, and then deleting, your reference implementation. To an outside observer not privy to your plans, this is identical to classic "I'm making my new work opt-in, then opt-out, then the only choice as development progresses" temporary feature flags.

EDIT: Heck, https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html even lists plenty of long-term and even static build-time configuration stuff under the category of feature toggles, so I really can't see what's hard to square, unless you're using a much narrower definition of "feature toggles" than is being used there.
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AMD had poor forcasts and a poor showing though at their last earnings release.
Well, you're not convincing anybody with a story about Ukrainians damaging roofs in Lithuania, because that's not what I'm talking about, and you knowing a guy in the UK that told you at a BBQ he was "conned left and right" doesn't mean anything to me since I've asserted your anecdotal stories are already not believable.
yeah, it feels good
I wish I could upvote you twice. Exactly describes my experience and it is soul sucking. It gets so bad that the work-planners actually succeed in creating faux importance and are valued more (and value themselves more) than the actual workers.
Plastic bottles are not banned; they are simply not sold onsite. You can bring empty bottles with you.
Both! Finland when I was small and I've done it myself in Sweden. Other Nordic countries do it too.

stevekemp posted a good BBC link.
I don't think your aunt should be driving.
What does "awake" mean here? If you mean do I need to explicitly wake it, then definitely no, to test this I just left it on a desk while I played Pulp's "Do you remember the first time?" and read a magazine, after a few minutes I'd read several pages and the song had stopped, I opened the phone and it told me I had listened to "Do you remember the first time?" by Pulp six minutes ago.

Does it in some sense "wake up" to do this? Yes, I assume so.
I like to put them in the microwave first for around 20-30 seconds depending on the number of eggs.
Current historians distinguish between religious texts and fiction for entertainment. Why should this distinction be lost in the future?
In France we have a contract: if people are unhappy they rise against. If there's no risk of revolting, the fox is fearless in the chicken hen.
From the manufactured spending strategy of "buy gift cards and sell them to people", the proper discount is more like 5-15%, rather than 1%, IIRC.
True, but I'm not a domain expert, so I can't make that call. But I'm sure someone did the math on this risk.

Mistreating a broken finger could also leave you with reduced function in the hand. Needless to say that's also a risk.
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I think each culture had different customs about choosing sacrificial victims.

For the Aztecs, they conquered most of their neighbors but left a few unconquered — these were the city-states they would engage in annual ritual battle where the highest honor was to capture an enemy warrior. When the Spanish invaded, many of these “over-fished” neighbors became eager allies.

So the “trade” in that case matured to something kind of ugly, a kind of Hunger Games annual harvest of your best warriors. I can imagine wanting some revenge after decades of enduring that from a hegemonic neighbor.
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Which may result in more death than necessary. You observe a failed harvest. Your foodstock is sufficient for a thousand days for one person. You expect the next food to be available in 100 days. Your population is 100 people. If you feed all people for just 5 days, 5 people might survive. If you pick 10 at the beginning and sacrifice 90, 10 people can survive.

Whatever you choose makes a difference in how many people die. It’s still kind of a trolley problem.
What's going on with this part server-side?
Aus dollar is lowest it has been for a decade. Pricing of everything is going to be ridiculous.
I suppose that's why the market cap is only 31.96B, less than half the value of Uber, although more than Snap Inc.
Can anyone knowledgeable comment on the performance? Are the recent AMD CPUs generally better for their price than Intel ones, and are there any downsides? My personal context is compiling programs, but I do get that gamers is the other big market. And I guess this is mostly a choice for desktops, since laptops have a pre-made choice of CPU.
> In USA if you pay $20000 you will be fully ensured and you will not need to pay anything for your finger check.

Oh my sweet summer child.
That doesn't make the surveillance useless. So they see a parasol come out of your house at one time and walk to your workplace. They still have 100% of the information that they had if you didn't walk to work with a parasol.
> they use "straight" quotes instead of “curly” quote

why care?
It's pretty much guaranteed it's not a representative sample of the total PC market but rather just the DIY/builder segment. The largest PC manufacturers (i.e. Lenovo, HP etc.) who ship the lion's share of the volume are slow to transition and they've only recently started adding AMD back as an option to their product lines, let alone really trying to move AMD boxes in volume.
Intel reveals final details on Ice Lake mobile CPUs
I suppose, 65W TDP was the USP of Ryzen 7 3700X together with performance for the price-tag.

My last desktop's MB(D865GBF) got screwed 10 yrs back. Since Ryzen 7 3700X happened, I've developed an itch in my mind to assemble a gaming Desktop.

Detailed analysis: https://www.anandtech.com/print/14605/the-and-ryzen-3700x-39...
By building with TSMC, AMD can ramp up production quicker than they could in their own fabs (since their orders are a smaller percentage of available capacity)
I can tell you unequivocally no AMD is not faster. I have both AMD and Intel CPUs and the latest AMD is still slower than last generation Intel CPUs on standard workloads.

That being said... I have SSD and like 800 billion GB of RAM so I hardly notice the difference, but I definitely do notice a difference.
Your claims are lacking sources and evidences.

If you own the reserve, everything is fine as long as your reserve is not empty or has still value to some people.

If you are an hardware supplier, there can be a way to repurpose parts of the hardware to customers from other domains. Building oil extractors but oil is not selling anymore ? Repurpose and sell water extractors.

I also do not have sources nor evidences.
I don’t think it was the 13mpg over which killed him. It was the lack of braking before impacting the semi.
An unbiased estimator is one whose expected value equals the true value. Its sampling distribution can be asymmetrical with median not equal to the true value. You seem to be referring to a median-unbiased estimator.
Well AWS has got now lots of "a" suffixed instance types, which didn't exists a year ago. And they are cheaper.
Exactly. One German shop with boxes. I don't think this is where Intel make the majority of their money - which I presume is in supplying FANG plus Dell, HP etc etc.
> Maybe we should just forget about global warming for a little bit and try to remember how dirty the air is from gas vehicles.

Scooters aren't displacing cars--it's bikes and walking that scooters are replacing. And, relative to those, scooters are a big loser.

The interesting part is the fact that scooters look like a loser relative to buses and mopeds. In particular, losing relative to a moped is quite surprising.

I would also point out that generally when I see scooters being picked up, the pickup truck being used is generally pretty old--meaning that it is contributing a not small amount to air pollution.
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