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> how much public hagiography is made over the Mac when almost no middle class family I knew of could afford it,

Part of the late '80s/early '90s revenue strategy for Apple was to sell into the educational market. The people who fondly remember the Apple computers of this period do so not because they had one at home, but because many of them were young children at this time, playing games on those Apples in school computer labs.
An awful lot of them are still running, like the one on my desk.
A friend who works in the restaurant industry says all the back staff have a social security card. But it's one that they all share.
When I type it sometimes stalls for a while and then dumps a whole bunch of characters at once (much faster than I actually typed them). Anyone else having that issue?
Please see my other comment and dial back the hostility a touch. You are in fact mistaken.

Here's a whitepaper on the driver technology they're using: https://www.tectonicaudiolabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02...

This is the first time I'm aware of anyone has used this class of driver for headphones, and they have novel properties that support their idea of a spaced nearfield monitor rather than an open or closed back cup.
> I disagree. There is an implicit contract between website publishers and search engines that it’s ok to do this. The website can set nosnippet in robots if they want to not have the snippet in search results.

Who made this contract? I never signed one. If I came to your place of business and copied your content and provided it somewhere else, I would be infringing your copyright. Do I have to put up signs specifying that at my place of business? Why is this any different? My web content is not the property of someone else and by publishing my information that is in no way an implicit grant of the right to reproduce it.
Now that's some grade-A FUD
The problem is that "26,000 years ago" depends on perspective. For example, if space aliens were on a rocket that took off thousands of years ago but traveled at nearly the speed of light, they might say now (where "now" is approximately equal to our "now") that this actually happened 21,000 years ago.

In other words, you can say "26,000 years ago from Earth's perspective", but it isn't the definitive answer for everything in this galaxy, and it definitely isn't the same answer for the rest of the universe.
The natural rate would be fluctuating due to time preference and expected risk, but even if the natural rate was low, it wouldn't be zero. That's absurd.

Central banks attempt to adjust interest rates to keep inflation at a target rate, which is a balancing act between maintaining a stable currency and stimulating (or resuscitating) an economy.
LGBT Group Threatens Johns Hopkins over Study on Homosexuality, Transgender
Keep in mind that the Amiga in 1985 was hard to get, due to production problems.

Reading the specs doesn’t give you much of a story. As the article talks, around 1986, software availability became the prime driver of platform sales. That meant taking a different approach to designing hardware. It takes a long time to figure out how to work with custom chips well, which is why the Amiga is still popular in the demoscene, but also a contributing factor for why there was not as much software available when it came out.

Macs and PCs are pretty boring by comparison. A CPU, some memory, interrupt controllers. But they had software. Macs had educational discounts back then (and still do, but not quite as dramatic).
The Apple II came out 5 years earlier, an eternity in tech-time.
They banned single-use plastic bags where I live. Now every place has "multi"-use plastic bags which are 10 times thicker and cost a nickel. I have yet to see one of these bags being re-used.
>Are we going to keep seeing this movement toward liberalism, or are we going to see children rebel against their parents and move toward more traditional and conservative values?

We've already had it, remember Family Ties, the Yuppies, that "hippie" had become a dirty word, the "stick it to the Man" type a caricature, and so on?

Those were still within the framework of Baby Boomers though. Now we'll see even more backlash. It's a tide, not a line...
> If you opt-out of snippets, it simply means somebody else claims the top spot

Citation? I thought snippets are just for display, not ranking.
I have no idea how you could think I intended that joke seriously. Do you work for Micro$oft or something?
I've done a measurement with a power meter and it's even 110W. (it includes ilo).
Thanks, chachachoney a lot for your feedback! Yes, privacy issues is the concern here. I mentioned that the site collects some information about users in the Privacy Policy page. Registration on the site not requires private data except email address. The Google Analytics code collects information about users' browsers, computers and their activity, nothing especially personal.
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I've always looked at not only languages, but libraries and APIs, as user-interfaces. It's not just about what it lets you do, it's about how much sense it makes. Interfaces should be shaped to guide the user into proper usage, to adhere to assumptions the user will make about the underlying behavior, and to leverage things like Gestalt principles to draw connections between different facets.
Like the_watcher said, a lot of times in reddit I will just look at a pic of a meme or something that isn't pure text. Sometimes it is a discussion post or something where I do read comments but it isn't a discussion of something on another site. On HN, I almost always click to read the article and if it is interesting I will read the discussion on HN. I rarely look at something that isn't primarily text on HN.
Besides when working with web workers I've actually had an overall better experience with FF dev tools in the recent couple of years. I recommend trying them out again if you haven't already.
> And they want the same laws to apply both where they live, and in densely populated urban areas where a single AR-15 can do a lot of damage.

A single AR-15 can do a lot of damage at a rural high-school all the same.

The reason for the second amendment is defense, of person and of society. The police have issues with response times in cities, and in the event of disaster. Let us not forget of police abdication of duty during the LA92 Riots and the "Roof Koreans."
512x512 is specifically for browser loading splash screens when the site is added as a launcher on a phone. It's required for Chrome to have an "Add to Home Screen" prompt and requires a 192x192 and 512x512 icon. I imagine most minimalist sites you browse are expecting people to add the website as an icon/app launcher on their phones. Not sure how common an experience that is for users, I sure as hell wouldn't but maybe other people might.

Was intended for web apps I believe but is usable by sites that aren't web apps.

Read more here: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/web-app-manif...
Understanding How Neural Networks Understand
From our perspective, it was 26,000 years ago - though for some takes on physics, it's easier to intuitively understand if you say "now, with a 26,000-year lag time on rendering updates".
> If all brands allowed their ads to appear next to adult content, then it wouldn't be any special association for any particular brand, just another outlet.

Well yeah. Brands aren't going to put in the effort to solve a thorny collective action problem just to open up a bit more ad space. They're trying to make money, not repair broken social norms.
I had an Amiga, I thought it was great, but it seems like they designed it without a clear focus on who their customers were and what they wanted.
Glad to know I'm not the only one experiencing this! VSCode+Vim has been driving me insane lately with the excruciating typing lag.

I've never learned vim proper (started with Atom and vim-mode-plus), but I keep thinking it might be time to dive in.
Summary: Lauren Hayward Sierens from the Perimeter Institute gives a pedagogical lecture to a group of high school teachers, walking through the very basics of feed-forward neural networks. A great talk for anyone just getting started with the subject.
Yeah. I personally like the feature, in theory, as an end user, but the signal:noise ratio for it has not been great for me.
Wow, what an incredible journey you're embarking on. Congratulations to you -- I'm vicariously thrilled and terrified as I read this post :)

Regarding consistent income, one of the companies I work for offers part-time, fully remote contractor work conducting technical interviews. I use it as a way to keep a stable income while I pursue riskier ventures outside of that company and a lot of the folks working on the platform have very young families. I plan to use it as my sole income when I start a family of my own. It might be a good fit for you since it sounds like you'd want to continue doing your own contract work.

It pays $100 USD per 90-minute interview -- if this type of thing is interesting to you (or anyone reading, for that matter) -- feel free to send me an email! Details are in my profile.
Whataboutism is another concept , say, take an hypothetical example, that French police did same thing and French media also make disinformation. Here the OP just claim that NYT report only one side story while hide another story. If his claim is true or not everybody can check.
Are there any architectural features from AmigaOS (whether kernel components, syscall ABI, or OS libraries) that would be an improvement even compared to today's OSes?

Or: if one were building a hobbyist OS today, what would be the key takeaways to pull from AmigaOS?
But you're missing the point, which is that it is more important to be right than alive
The other way to look at it is that the only people who deeply need to care about things like this are cloud providers.

Basically anyone who cares about DoS resistance is using a CDN and/or cloud load balancers, or has enough scale to build out their own CDN.

Otherwise you'll get soaked at layer 3 anyway, L7 DoS resistance is "nice to have" but not enough.
Usbnet: A story of networking and threads that won't stop pulling
Well before there were Twitterati, the Silicon Valley glitterati fell in love with the Mac as a concept: a computer designed from the ground up to be easy to use, present a single, consistent interface, and be an appliance with minimal cognitive engagement from the user. Like a Yoko Ono piece, the vision was the product -- even if the actual hardware was lacking and expensive. And in the Mac conceptual world of the time, generating interest in computers and programming was seen as an anti-feature. You shouldn't have to be interested in those things to leverage the full power of the Mac, and if large numbers of people were getting interested in those things, the wrong things were being optimized for. Programming is just a job, and computers are just a tool to enable you to do your real work. Such was the thinking of the day.

The Amiga was an entirely different class of machine, designed by and for engineers, and it was a bit rougher around the edges UI-wise but it did far more in terms of real, concrete advancements in the state of the art.
FWIW hedges are very easy. You build a wire cage in the exact shape you want, then plant the hedge inside the cage. Then you just trim anything that grows outside the cage. It's how they do it at Disneyland.

But for any other material it would be helpful.
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I'm going to hazard a guess that a lot of these cheapo microcontrollers have cores, uh, not developed in-house.
> My own impression for why the Amiga and every other machine of the era lost out to the IBM PC was that the PC was what virtually everyone used at work, so that's what they got at home.

And it was also what you were taught on at school. Even if the IBM PC advanced the standardization of personal computers, I feel it also set them back by a decade.

Well, a decade is exaggeration, but the design choices of the IBM PC shaped personal computing, and those choices were made by people who thought personal computers were for serious business.
I'm fairly certain this is a case-by-case kind of "remedy". A friend of mine had terrible tinnitus and this did not help him at all. I wonder if this has something to do with bone structure or, perhaps, depends on the severity of the condition. Still, it's solid advice that should be spread wide in case it helps some people.
>they can't find a plot that offends people anymore,

I doubt that is true. I bet that it is more like the people they offended could not really do much about that offense other than yell about it which just made the sows writers more popular in Hollywood.

Now, if they come up with a plot that offends, they are likely to get de-platformed and lose their ability to find a job in Hollywood.
Not an astronomer but my understanding is that at any moment life on earth could be totally destroyed by things from space.

* An undetected high velocity object
* Radation bursts

The thing is that since space is so big, we would have to be extremely unlikely to get hit. If a radation burst was directional it would still be like blindly throwing a dart and hitting a bullseye 24,000 light years away in this case.

I believe it's possible for our Sun to emit a solar flare large enough to kill us too (this is far more likely then radiation from a blackhole killing us because its magnitudes closer).
The broken window fallacy doesn't apply to software security for a couple of reasons. The first reason is that it isn't apparent that software is insecure until well after the sale, and depending on use (i.e. on a security network, etc), might actually be fit for purpose. In other words, measurement of window brokenness changes over time and with situation.

The other important difference is that the software vendor, unlike the glazier, doesn't directly benefit from folks breaking its software.

A better analogy is the introduction of the iPhone creating the iPhone accessories market. For lots of reasons, Apple decided not to make the iPhone crush proof, allowing Otter and others to sell protective cases for it.
I thought it was substantive. The "immediate family optimization" argument doesn't work when the "immediate family" is what's going to suffer.
This is the first deep fake I've seen that was good enough to fool a random Facebook user that wasn't looking for fakeness. Cool how far it's come.
I agree. The difference is that at large levels of wealth, levels beyond what most of us can realistically imagine happening, then storage becomes an issue.

No regular person is going to buy a bond with a negative interest rate. Just hold cash. But once you start to have large amounts of cash, different considerations enter the picture. How do you store it? Security guards. Guards to watch the security guards. Too much cash is hard to spend, so you want it in electronic form.

The market is now saying that for certain types of cash in electronic form, the risk adjusted fee for creating the electronic record and holding it for you is greater than the interest they will pay you for the money.

In that way, the net interest rate including all factors such as the risk of default, ends up negative.
Why can't someone build a non-blockchain Robinhood-style brokerage allowing teens in subsaharan Africa to buy stocks?
> BTW, I don't get the downvotes for dymk. It's certainly worth pointing out that this guy seems to harbor some ugly views.

It's irrelevant to the entire article, really. This story is indicative of a less common, one might say fringe, way of life in American and how it collides with a government not quite equipped to deal in it.

It helps to paint a complete picture of the man to be sure, but there's nothing to be gained by pointing it out in the comments other than virtue-signalling and flame-baiting, after all it's not as if his victim was a Muslim such that it gives rise to questions of motives.
I believe citing small pieces from a large text is covered by fair use.
Was the desktop thousands of miles away? I’d expect under an ms from the network for this sort of setup. Maybe ~2ms if it was WiFi.

Unless it was 2.4Ghz, I suppose; all bets are off then.
Mostly, for me, it's "so what?".

It's entirely predictable that any system that's truly private, anonymous and untraceable will be abused. That's simply because some people are wont to abuse others.

But that doesn't require that we eliminate privacy and anonymity, and make everything traceable. Personally, that would be intolerable. And unless people became hugely more tolerant, it would tend to enforce conformity, and inhibit dissent.

Also, perhaps ironically, "scams, Ponzis and other fraud" are reliable indicators that systems are truly private, anonymous and untraceable. Canaries, one might say.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breastfeeding for 1 year, and the World Health Organization for two.

> I know several men who have taken parental leave to be the primary caregiver for their >newborn but <1 year olds, while their wives return to work. It was cruel for neither the father, mother, nor child.

I hate the term 'primary caregiver'. Mom and Dad are primary caregiver, independent of whether they are working, staying at home, etc.

> Your argument, I believe, is that if the mother dies in childbirth, then it is cruel for the father to take care of the child. In that case, what do we do? Or does that follow under the "necessary" exception which allows cruelty?

Well no. This is a strawman. Above, in my previous comment, I said it is cruel to mom, dad, and child. I even mentioned the inconvenience of mom pumping milk. If mom is dead, then this arrangement cannot be cruel to her, and she cannot be inconvenienced by pumping milk. A straightforward and benevolent reading of my comment would have you believe that it does not apply to cases in which mom has died.

This is a rare enough occurrence that policies that seek to work well with the norm can't really be criticized for not addressing it.

> It might just be that it isn't actually cruel.

Or it might be that we as a society are used to being cruel to both women and children.
Patch Tuesday, August 2019 Edition
1) That is true. My storage is all SSD and I'm deploying everything through Ansible, I can always redeploy.

If I really need data backup, I can use one of the other SSDs or even the single spinning disk I put in as a backup target.

2) That's interesting, I don't think the noise comes from the PSU though, mainly the six case fans.

3) True point. I'm not too worried. The machine is fully supported by Linux (no drivers required) and the latest SPP is applied. I never expect to do hardware changes/upgrades down the road. And in five year's who then lives, deals with the shit ;-)
They confiscated 10k of the 1.5 million firearms which is 0.6% ... and they're happy with the results?
No dam at Boulder City in Nevada and the Los Angeles basin becomes a very different story in terms of habitability. The town of St. Thomas would rise again and we’d find that missing B-29 that ditched into what is currently the very artificial Lake Mead. The Colorado River would regain its natural flow.

Silicon Valley would die, though. Where on earth does its water come from? Yes, 85% of the water from Lake Mead. The Los Angeles basin is built up far beyond its natural sustainable water capacity. Unless there is a great leap forward in desalination technology some dams remain a rather necessary evil.
That black tie launch https://youtu.be/o3x00Pbs2K8
I disagree. For me, being barred by the government from making an investment is a bug, not a feature.

Although it isn't obvious, I would hold that this is true for any rational investor.

In reality, these sorts of regulations only exist to keep reckless people from losing money that they already treat as disposable.

That is not a valid reason to block the freedom of genuine investors.
Grubhub literally is an aggregator. Granted it does delivery for some restaurants now but the _vast_ majority are done by the restaurant.
So by that logic, US and like minded allies should ban their industries from working with China / Russia / Middle Eastern dictatorships? Are you advocating for complete trade barriers?

If not, why single out Google when Apple / Walmart / ... are allowed to benefit from Chinese market?
Carlos Rovelli has an excellent book called The Order of Time which helps a lot with grokking this. There is no universal clock. Time is relative.
Don't like the product? Switch. While you still can.
FTC Chief Says Willing to Break Up Companies Amid Big Tech Probe
> Teens in subsaharan Africa can own stock, so can most Americans

is that true? I thought most states had age requirements for trading securities, usually the age of majority.

Unless you're not trying to say that "most american teens can own stock".
>if you look at the roots of where the idea comes from, e.g. Andrea Dwokrin and S.C.U.M.

Toxic masculinity as a concept was invented by the mythopoeic men's movement in the 1980s, and later taken up in mainstream feminist critique. It was not invented by feminists, and certainly not invented by radical feminists.
So a photon emitted/reflected by some human weaving a basket may have just interacted with the Milky Way's supermassive black hole!
That's vastly oversimplifying the problem. "DLL hell" is a term for a reason. The vast amount of effort and complexity Microsoft has put into managing this problem is proof that dependency management for C and C++ is not a solved problem.
That's a good point but most people in the West don't realized that. I can not rule out CPP could use military in future but that's a stupid move.
That's not what I asked, that's a straw man.

Browser vendors have tested the efficacy of the current EV indicator, resulting in the current action.

If you feel that testing an alternative indicator consistent with other platforms is a good idea, then perhaps that's where the CAs should start their research.
most brokerages i think wouldn't touch underage trading with a 10-foot pole, for obvious reasons.
Not everyone goes out and buys a brand new reusable bag to replace plastic. Many people already had them lying around. Many people use their backpacks. Many people just carry things in their hands in situations where they would have otherwise taken the free plastic bag.
Ah, looks like you're right. I knew I should have looked it up before I made that comment. My bad!
Maybe I have to admit my purchase is not entirely rational.
But it's fun!
There is a neat physical argument that was made back when quasars and the like were just being discovered. Basically if the flash of brightness only lasts an hour, then you can argue convincingly that the source of the flash must be less than a light-hour across. The faster the flash, the smaller the bound on the size of the phenomena. This is what lead people to realize that quasars are wildly energetic but necessarily very small
Here in Australia, Domino’s has been using ebikes to deliver for about a year or so. On one hand, i've definitely noticed that deliveries a quicker, but the riders are often unsafe, cutting in front of cars, running lights, etc.
Enablement means having choice. Choice means using open standards and not closed proprietary platforms.

Often I see developers feeling trapped when they are unable to choose the best tools for the job.

Allow developers to be creative, period.