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Someone on the site asks about helicopters and I wonder the same thing. I know helicopters are hellishly expensive to use, but they are used occasionally - eg for ski lifts.

Helicopter Installs Ski Lift Towers at a Private Ski Club:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83MPTPNXhTs
> ... Or if they start looking for a new job within a few weeks of starting (the idea of getting 3-4 jobs in the first 2-3 years with increased compensation each step).

This is half tragedy of the commons of so few companies offering training and half companies being so god awful at offering raises as employees gain experience.
Denim killed denim.

For a time, I could buy jeans that fit. That's now all but impossible. Skinny jeans doing much of that.

Prices and fabric quality have gone, respectively, through the ceiling and floor.

I'm approaching a decade denim-free, having broken in my first pair sometime in the 1970s.
Removing screen time is new science and has not been widely propagated.
In fact, I am not even sure if it’s been published. I have been working with one of the Australian leaders in concussion (Perth based emergency doctor) who strongly advocates this, at most its 12 to 18 months old
From what I remember, the blasted virtual escape key is also not flush with the top/left corner of the touchbar -- like the escape key is on ~every other keyboard in existence.

I had to use one of these machines for work recently and I hated every minute of it. Going back to my ThinkPad T430, running Debian and i3, was _such_ a relief.
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When the battery dies on the Surface Book, you won't be able to repair it even at a Microsoft Support center. They will just take it back and offer a cheaper price on a replacement. With an iFixit repairability score of 1, it's ridiculously difficult to do the replacement yourself too.

Having to throw out a fully functional device once the battery goes weak should be a practice that gets banned at least for the sake of the environment.
There is a whole country of serious bike riders who don’t use bike helmets (the Netherlands). It turns out that if you design your biking infrastructure well enough, it isn’t really a problem.
That's never going to happen. The US government is a huge Microsoft Office customer, and national security-sensitive documents cannot be placed in a cloud that's not completely controlled by the government.
Even though many would say Cantonese (Even HK people do)
It's actually HK variant of Cantonese with many HK unique phases
The Cantonese in Guangzhou is quite different

But I guess no one call it HongKongese yet
I recall an American football study looking for concussion symptoms and impairment.

They found people with a history of repeated concussions, and then as what they thought might be a group to compare to some American football linemen with no history of concussions to compare with.

They found linemen with the same issues despite no concussion history.

This raised the possibility that worrying about severe hits that result in a concussion was possibly missing a larger issue.

It seems our understanding of brain injury and even how it comes about may be inaccurate.
How can you say an airline that is 35 years old is clearly better than one that is 52 years old based on total anything?
> But it is not true for embedded systems. And the industry disagrees too, and continues to use C because of this.

What resource constrained embedded systems even exist? Fucking lightbulbs run JavaScript these days. SmartCards have been running Java for 20 years. What is the actual market you're so up in arms about that you think is choosing C on technical merits instead of purely inertia? What is this "performance constrained embedded" market to you?
Most mutations are entirely harmful. Those are included in the ones that we're promoting by saving young children. We've evolved to this point without saving children from them. So have all species. Surely the continual re-guiding of the evolutionary path is important to prevent a species from degenerating into something that's worse in every way? If we were to remove all selection pressures, the species would surely lose all kinds of qualities we like - not just less able to stay alive but less intelligent, more often deformed in painful ways, less tolerant to various foods, shorter life, less fertile, etc. I think some ever-present evolutionary pressure is needed to fight off entropy.

You're talking about specialization, which is quite different from random damage. Accordingly, we should keep the races distinct if we want to preserve those qualities, in the same way ecologists try to prevent closely related species from interbreeding and diluting their advantages. Though perhaps it doesn't matter anymore with housing, clothing, medicine, sun screen, etc. that allow blacks to safely live in Norway/etc.
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So you can't fab your own power9, but you can spend the R&D to make a new chip and have it be compatible with the Power port of linux, gcc, etc.

Right?
Yeah, in-orbit fueling will be a game changer. I'll bet good money that early on, SpaceX runs a ride-share program to send landers/orbiters to Mars for every space agency on the planet.

How cool would that be in 10+ different countries had rovers on the ground, collecting different data, different experiments?
Leaf logging is also susceptible to attackers deleting log files. Central logging is effectively append only from the leaf and thus provides a security benefit.
Hong Kong residents should stay there & put pressure on the CPC. With the trade war, the CPC is under extreme stress. They will be forced to either open up to reform which exposes their corruption & sabotage or face massive economic disruption when their exports & tech transfers collapse.

https://youtu.be/nxyVZh_fVVw

Also note food issues with pork diseases & the army worm ravaging their crops. The CPC is facing an existential crisis.

Note: I think the CPC can & should reform. Same with the US government. All citizens of the world would benefit from transparent governance & overall wealth, health, & prosperity will increase for all. I just want to point out the apparent issues that the CPC faces & the game of international chicken being played.
>...technical people in the U.S. get along quite fine thinking in the units best suited to the task at hand.

More like technical people in the U.S. get along quite fine thinking in the units traditionally used for the task at hand. I'd much rather actually use the units best suited for the task, which tend not to be imperial.
If the Path bar is visible, you can right-click at any point along the path of the selected file and select "Copy Path." You can also just drag an icon from a Finder window into any window that accepts text, including Terminal, and it'll paste the fully qualified path right in.

I always used to find Windows File Explorer to be the one that was less feature-rich, but I haven't used it in... we'll just say a shamefully long time. But as someone who got used to Macs an equally long time ago, I've wondered if it's because the Mac seemed to make drag-and-drop such a central way of manipulating files and Windows emphasized "select object - select operation" as its central metaphor. If you're used to one way, moving to other system feels weird and clunky.
I believe part of the problem is that there were many variants that were all translated to the same English word "wine", at least from Biblical history. [0] My understanding was that these could have an equally varying range in alcohol content even though they all received the same translation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_in_the_Bible#Hebrew
I've read pretty much everything on the site and between the high level marketing speak and generic wireframes, I have no idea what it does or what problem it actually solves. There's even a link if you hover over about that says "Learn about why we exist". I thought for sure that would have something, but it's just a list of all the employees. It looks like the only way to figure out what it actually does is to sign up.

If had come across their site without any context I would have assumed it was a generic marketing site template that needed to be filled in. I'm sorry for being so negative, but I am interested in documentation related technology and it bugs me that I can't for the life of me figure out what this is after seing things posted about it on Hackernews for the last few years.
Solar might not be such a dream clean energy https://twitter.com/datarade/status/1101744267444142080

I don't know the chemistry behind it, but it's interesting to hear the counter argument that it will actually create more polution to build a solar panel relative to its lifetime. Would love to read more.
I've had a bunch of these (at least 4 on various work/personal machines IIRC) and I've had no usability issues. I believe in the failures people have reported, but is this guy just saying he can't type properly on these keyboards? Because that sounds like a problem on his end.

edit: I do hate the touchbar.
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Meh. That’s an incredibly high end reference monitor targeted at a niche set of high end video producers that already overwhelmingly prefer to rack mount their reference monitors.

Most of the target market doesn’t need or want that stand.
> They can get away with it because it’s such an easy marketing sell- most people think their life is worth more than $250, so any helmet tech is a bet on the order of Pascal’s wager.

I think this is basically accurate. Even if you have zero expectation that either this or MIPS or whatever works, I don't see how anyone who has seen Crash Reel or any of the football-related concussion documentaries could possibly not spring the extra few bucks.

Someone should put together a list of the cheapest or highest expected-value Pascal's wagers. Even things like flossing your teeth are a good example, where it's clearly good for your gum health even though the Cochrane research is equivocal. (Although using a WaterPik is probably better, especially if you do so in addition to flossing.)

Anyway if you haven't seen it, this movie will change the way you think about sports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1hxtjlbTHI
My reading is that you can now make a simple CPU compatible with the power ISA which gets you compatibility with power ports like gcc and the linux kernel.

But to be competitive with Epyc, Xeon, and the Power 9 you'd have to spend a pretty huge amount of R&D. It does sound like there's some IP related to the memory controller which is available, but there's much required for a high end CPU that is not available.
Out of curiosity– why have you considered it? It seems like cool tech, but I have no practical use for it.
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American football involves constant collisions. That type of research suggests that even without a “concussion” the same type of damage can occur from repeated, more mild collisions.

Cycling seems like a different order entirely, it’s extremely unusual for a cyclist’s head to hit anything and only happens during an accident or mishap.
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1. That "thin" line runs up a $686 billion tab every year. It's one of the thickest lines in the US budget.

2. Tech workers help pay a lot of that tab by working in productive sectors that generate the profits needed to keep the war industry going.

3. A very tiny percentage of the service members are ever deployed. Of those, only a tiny percentage ever see combat. Those that don't see combat are paid very well for their time. Why does this matter? Because $686 BILLION pays for a lot of software engineers.

IMO: if the military needs more technical expertise, then:

1. Get good management! Open up leadership positions to non-officers or, god forbid, civilians. No more officers who majored in Theology at bible colleges or History at an academy running "Cyber" teams. The business world stopped hiring blank slate MBAs to manage software projects a LONG time ago. Time for the military to catch up.

2. Especially in the Army, stop running pointless rural jobs programs and reallocate that headcount to salaries for skilled professionals in more productive locales.

We're spending 680 BILLION employing enormous numbers of people to run around in circles (sometimes literally). There's more than enough money to pay people for their work and more than enough patriotic talent willing to take the jobs. What's needed is competent management and headcount.
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Rust is a huge help with exactly this problem. The compiler will clearly tell you exactly where you've made a mistake if you give it code that violates the ownership rules, like trying to keep a reference past its valid lifetime.

It took me a little bit to get used to, but learning this definitely helped me learn to think about ownership and lifetimes better. I highly recommend you try learning some Rust.
I went to Staples (store chain here in Canada) to play with the new butterfly keyboard shortly after it first came out in the MBP years ago, and the MBP they had on display had a non-functional Enter key (it would register once every 2-4 clicks). What is really shocking to me, however, is that it took so long for them to announce they were ditching their flawed design. This delay is a good reflection of the Apple brand mindset at work...
A very interesting statement. The Hong Kong ISP Association makes a number of very good points. Much of Hong Kong's economy relies on the open internet (like most of the world) and censoring it would do it much harm.
Rather than disappear it from the Store entirely, it would be nice if Google could leave a placeholder with a warning; at least it would serve an educational purpose.

Also, does the Play Store app have a way to notify users of a banned app that is still installed? I decided to check my wife's phone proactively, but I don't think she would otherwise have had a clue of malware (but has been getting weird and annoying pop-up ads).
And (based on a very brief scan read of the OP) the app is called CamScanner and is used to create PDFs.
Completely agree here. Apple sacrificed the user experience in pursuit of thinness of the laptop. I just got my first Windows laptop in years because I didn't want to put up with the keyboard, touchbar, etc.

Windows also now includes a Linux subsystem that works great as far as I can tell (though I'm by no means a power user), so I don't feel as though I've sacrificed anything.
Hey! We do API documentation, plus a bunch of other tools. All the logos are click-able (for example: https://developers.intercom.com/) if you want an example.

So, basically, we sit at developer.whatever.com, and take care of everything from reference guides to marketing pages to tutorials to support forums. If you have any more questions or feedback, feel free to email me at greg@readme.io!

We're always updating the homepage, so we'll definitely do our best to make it more clear in the future!
I can't be the only one. I just don't see a lack of features being a feature.

You can easily statically link most languages by passing switches to the linker.

Python like simplicity is a far stretch. Golang basically just C with co routines and some of the annoying syntax cleaned up.
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No, modern consumer Christmas was invented by John Wanamaker, who also invented the department store.
Apple is replacing these keyboards for free...

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/keyboard-service-program-for...

I get that it is hugely inconvenient to go without your laptop for any amount of time - I depend on mine for work at a 2 person startup, so really I do get it! But if you are this fed up with it, then I'd say go for it.

I finally bit the bullet and found a local certified apple repair place (NOT THE APPLE STORE) that allowed me to take my laptop home with me after they ran diagnostics (10 minutes) and ordered the new keyboard.

I emphasize not the apple store because they will try to keep your laptop for the 24-48 hours it takes your replacement keyboard to ship.

The repair actually took around 3 hours, which I spent playing with my kid! Woot! The place I went through text me when the keyboard came in and then again when my laptop was ready to go - was super easy.

Because of the way the keyboard is bundled into the laptop, they have to replace the battery too - so that was an added bonus.

edit - just want to add that the replacement has had no issues ~1 month in (++spelling)
I think the reality is that the largest group on the planet is in China and lives under this authoritarian paradigm or whatever it is exactly.

There is good reason to expect China's global influence to continue to increase. HK is basically a front line.

If you look at countries like Australia you can see that this style of government is already starting to spread in some ways.

The US population is only 23% the size of China's yet the US has much more territorial and resource control globally.

My concern is that Chinese people will eventually not want to tolerate this disparity in resource control anymore.

At the moment the Chinese military is not capable of doing anything about it as far as I know.

However, if that changes, it is unlikely that the US will cede control voluntarily. In that case there would be a war.

However, since war involves mass killing, and people do not do that without some moral justification, people will need to find this ethical cause. What scares me about the protests is that "freedom" is the type of cause that people will commit mass murder for.

I think that the people who might push for a war do not really care about freedom or anything other than money and they do not respect human life.

I think it may be necessary to find non-violent ways to integrate Eastern and Western cultures and logistical controls in order to avoid a war. So I believe that should be a national security priority.
In many cases they’ll be paying 1% of e.g. $40 either to avoid having to think about this any more or because they have extremely toothy consequences to not having the cash today. e.g. The implicit interest rate on an NSF fee if they don’t fund the $10 overdraft currently happening on their checking account due to the rent check being deposited, which they have 3 hours to cover before the cutoff, is on the order of 3.8e200%. ($35 interest to borrow $10 for a day.)
Those are bugs and the compiler developers' refusal to fix them is precisely the user hostility you are complaining about.
Here's mine, from a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16836336

Fortunately it wasn't me who hit their head hard in my original story, because she's now dead as a result.
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You could use the same questions to attempt to sow doubt about whether or not human slavery is wrong, and I think that is the most disturbing thing about this line of argumentation.
I dunno, the context was around mr Xi (not the Chinese pop at large) and in that context poster could have a point.
If you have long hair, MIPS will eat it and not let it go.
I don't get how MIPS is different from just wearing a cycling cap
> ACH is not a common jargon term

It is for anyone involved with money. However, it is a noun, not a verb.
When you start a draft comment on this story and your China-made device chooses this time to reboot without warning O_O;
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I slide on some sand when riding a 10 speed as a teenager. my body hit first, taking the brunt of the impact, but my forehead did hit the pavement.

I credit the helmet for protecting me and not ending up with a crushed nose.
For my use cases we can ignore the case of self-referential structs. Slapping "unsafe" on everything isn't equivalent to C++ because Rust is less expressive in some important ways.

I mostly work on high-end database engines, which appear to violate assumptions of Rust about what a sensible memory model can look like. In a modern database engine, almost all of your working memory is unavoidably paged, opaque, and directly DMA-ed. The concept of a lifetime cannot be attached to a memory address and virtually all of your data structures are "unsafe" in a Rust sense. You have to consider implications like destructors being effectively non-deterministic.

Fortunately, schedule-based safety models are transparent to developers, do not require "borrowing" so it works well with references not visible at compile-time, and all references can be mutable. To be clear, these models don't generalize to all software either, they are just well-suited to the requirements of high-throughput server engines. High-scale database engines are effectively single-threaded, so the only cost is a relatively trivial number of non-atomic ref counts. The underlying C++ to make this be handled automagically from a developer perspective is not trivial though.

Rust's memory safety model looks like it was designed for more traditional applications, like web browsers. Modern server software that is I/O intensive is going to look pretty similar to the above if performance matters, and that is a rough fit for Rust's memory model.
Was it though? Did race relations improve during his 8 years. I guess, but I am not too sure...
If you're signed in as a subscriber then they can track you though.... So you can't without being tracked period.
They should. Often, they aren't. There are a number of reasons there - some don't have the time.

> Because startups need to bring their products to market quickly, applications are built iteratively, with rapid prototyping. The timing of the product release is crucial because it has a direct impact on acquiring customers and affects the bottom line. Significant delays can put a company out of business. While time to market is also vital for large companies, their software releases are typically for established products, and if they run late, such companies usually have the money to survive.

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Some don't have enough people to properly mentor and train a new hire.

The page for the startup of the engineer featured in the article: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datarista/about/

> size 2-10 employees

I would contend that any company in the 2-10 range hiring a new grad is a mistake for both particles.

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Some acknowledge the "they get a job, they get trained, and they go on to greener pa$ture$." In this case, the mentoring is a lost ROI in many cases.

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My reading of the desires of the person featured in the article... they want to hire a person at new grad wages who knows how to debug a legacy code base, architect a cloud solution, come up with new product ideas, do market research, and be a participant in the "devops means we give developers root" culture... and be able to do this within single digit number of days.

Those are things that come with experience and failure. No class or boot camp will teach those things to a point where the person is competent in them without some good time to work on those skills (side note: this is where college often produces better candidates than boot camps - they've got more time to learn the tools).

Rambling on the above... I now have a one question that will distinguish a good candidate from a poor one: "How do you set a breakpoint in your preferred debugger?"
All Typescript does is highlight how bad the Higher order Components pattern is. Don’t do it, use hooks or render props instead.
I am curious too. I presume it is due to better sand boxing and a more transparent system to request resource access.
Completely disagree, keys were too heavy and keyboard was too far back. Love the new keyboard. Eh to each their own I guess.
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