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Seconding Hardcore History and The History of Philosophy without any gaps.

Adding Mike Duncan's (same host as Revolutions) The History of Rome.

Lots of substance in all 3 and continuous stories with conclusions you can learn from, and just enjoyable to listen to of course especially Hardcore History.
US and France reach a compromise on France’s tax on tech giants
GM and the Big Three in general have a huge aftermarket and good parts availability likely due to the prevalence of the modding/tuning culture at the peak of the "car era" (1950s-70s). In fact you can still buy all the parts for the running gear of the stereotypical American car (V8, 3-speed auto/4-speed manual, RWD, IFS) entirely from the aftermarket, and they'll perform just as well if not better than the original parts.

Auto manufacturers don't design a new pump/bearing/condenser/etc... for every make and model of their vehicles, they take one off of the shelf.

...unless it's a German car. Or so the stories go...
TRS-80 Trash Talk Podcast
Y Combinator graduate PredictLeads helps VCS hunt for unicorns
There were hardware ISA boards that purported to provide boot-sector protection e.g. ThunderByte Antivirus which I found from a Google search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThunderByte_Antivirus
Russian agency reveals details of radiation levels after 'weapons' explosion
Apple keeps a much tighter grip on their supply chains than the rest.

If you're willing to search around on Ebay/AliExpress, you usually can get individual parts: either gray market from a service centre, 2nd shift or overruns. The big exception's for Apple parts.

Contrast with Sears: Here's 250+ parts available for each fridge they distribute, shipped to you direct, with manuals:

https://www.searspartsdirect.com/category/1234589/refrigerat...

I bought repair parts for my parents' 20 year old garage door opener from them. PSA: open it up and grease the nylon gears every decade so they don't turn into a snowmaker.
SVR4: UNIX System V Release 4 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V

UNIX: Actually Unix. Not an acronym. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
I disagree. More likely than not the parent commenter will now be her tech support when x doesn’t work or is finicky, which is ALWAYS the case.
> And I remember calculating the number of hours wasted in that one meeting, and how much time would have been saved had Esperanto been part of the company onboarding.

One thing I'm not sure of is whether someone who doesn't speak a Romance or Germanic language natively can get better communicative skills in Esperanto with 100 hours of good instruction than in English with several thousand hours of bad (or informal) instruction. I think it's possible, but very far from certain. Remember that vocabulary is still an issue¹, and also that Esperanto will contain some phonemes that non-Europeans will likely have trouble with.

Those bad English speakers in your conference call are already coming in with a lot of prior English experience, which the company in most cases didn't have to pay for. It's just experience that wasn't especially helpful at making them good at using English the way the conference call demanded.

Another challenge is whether the Esperanto lessons for your hypothetical company will be available in all of the prospective employees' native languages (which will make the training a lot more expensive), and still another is whether employees will follow the policy and use Esperanto regularly even in offices where 90% of the staff are native-level speakers of some other major world language.

¹ It's true that it's far simpler to learn -i -as -is -os -us -anto and -j -n -jn than the dozens (or more) of verb and noun inflections in a typical Indo-European language. But your new colleagues will still have to learn thousands of new morphemes in order to have a fluent conversation, and if they're not already fluent in a European language, they won't have any easy mnemonics, nor easy cognates to use to guess at meanings.
I have to confess, that function, even though I always call it Y when I write it so people will get what it's about, isn't a combinator at all. Writing a real Y combinator in an applicative-order language is possible but complicated, so I never do it. :-) (The difference is that this function takes a _two input_ function as input and supplies itself as its first input. Really it should take a one-input function and magick that into a two-input one first.)
thankS!
Growing up I worked at a local pizza chain.

Decades later vividly remember the smell and how the ugly white and green polo felt on me. I was not a fan of the uniform.
Video Conferencing (we're using zoom). The "time to conversation" routinely take minutes of idle time or raging about the miserable state of technology.

Simple annoyances such as opening the laptop when using with an external monitor (1 out of 10 times making macos unresponsive for half a minute), to changing your bluetooth noise cancelling headphones for music to airpods, reconfiguring airpods tethered to your iPhone to macos. Making sure the wrong input/output audio is selected in macos...

People working from coworking space or a regular office, usually want to switch to a phone booth/meeting room, that takes them 2-3 minutes to walk to the next phone booth and get set-up.

Once you're up&running too often audio/video is unreliable, or simply airpods running out of battery.

I'm experimenting now with a tablet (with its own headset) dedicated to voice&video calls. While the audio/video setup now works seamlessly, there's still some usability issues that need workarounds.
Also the beta version of the new Windows terminal
Working at home, the existential dread and feeling of meaninglessness in my tasks increased with remote work for a time, given my separation from the distractions of workplace politics, drama, etc. that pervaded office life.

It is hard to make connections with coworkers, and it is so important to build a social life outside of work if you do not have one.

I find I work less hours in front of the computer, accomplish more, and have to spend more time "screwing off" to fill in that void of losing office banter, work lunches with coworkers, etc.
Rails 6 raises ArgumentError for invalid:limit and:precision
BTW, with Debian buster and later, you won't have to copy the qemu-arm-static binary around, since the Linux kernel will now use the file from outside the chroot/container.
The Amazon Cannot Be Recovered Once It’s Gone
[sigh]

Steve Gibson, the man who claimed Windows raw sockets would destroy the internet and doesn’t understand how SYN cookies can stop DoS attacks has a solution for all my authentication and authorization needs? Well hot damn, let me click past his impassioned plea that the world needs hand coded x86 assembly disk utilities in 2019, and see what he has to say...

...And 2 pages into the PDF I’m out.

The sole thing keeping Steve Gibson from being this weeks Dunning-Kruger poster boy of technical security bullshit is that is someone decided to sue Blackhat after claiming numerology breaks modern crypto.

Snark and bitterness aside, Please stop giving this man a platform. It’s hard enough getting organizations to make a rational cost benefit analysis based security decisions. His noise is making things worse.
This assumes different games are perfectly interchangeable. Would you make the same argument about books? Why does anyone bother to write a new book at all? My answer is that we're really all different: devs and players both. A game developer can compete the same way an author competes: by offering something only they can make, and only to someone who would buy precisely that sort of game.
Isn't some of this due to Texas' Amish approach to the national grids? What I mean by that is that Texas has little interconnection with the rest of the country. Like the Amish, they mostly only use electricity they make themselves [1].

Unlike most of the rest of the country, this means that when demand is much higher than local capacity they can't import from other states, and when demand is lower than capacity they can't export the excess. So they get big price swings.

[1] It's largely a myth that the Amish do not use electricity. What the Amish avoid is tying their infrastructure too closely to the outside. Tying into the grid would be too close, but they generally are OK with electricity generated locally by solar panels, windmills, or gas powered generators.
In structural engineering we call this plasticity "ductility", but you're exactly right. We want ductile failures not sudden brittle ones, and that can only be achieved with yielding reinforcing. Ceramics generally will fail brittly, or cause the concrete to crush if the member is over-reinforced.
As good as that sounds for consumers I think the cost would mean we would see less innovation. And it would be harder for small companies to bring products to market. Caveat emptor.
"Bringing back an opponent's satellite for examination"...
That’s what encourages companies to pull stuff like this.

They know that at worst they’ll have a small hit on quarterly profits, but stocks won’t change and nothing serious will happen because nobody wants to hurt those poor job creators.
Can’t you just go to one of the dozens of windshield replacement businesses in your area? You drive it there and they plop in a new windshield for very reasonable rates. They will often even come to you to fix it.
Unpacking Conway's Law
Are there any of those that are 5%? If so I’m very interested.
Dogs are banned in most or all national parks where large wildlife is present. In Glacier National Park, for example, they’re banned because they can easily turn a grizzly sighting into a grizzly attack.
Just type Git next or Git prev to checkout the next or the previous commit
Sure, but that doesn't change the fact most consumer electronics are not user-serviceable by design and are also designed in a way that most of them don't require service in their useful lifetime. That's the 'philosophy' at play here, if we can call it that.

The other thing is making a small-run weird and pricey car and then mostly ditching it as a supported product. Putting aside any value judgements about the practice of making and selling products in either of those ways, I still don't see any 'philosophical' connection to Apple or really, you know, anyone else not-making bespoke custom products.
Yeah fair point.

I suppose for non Americans like myself, we would naturally put far less weight on the secondary discussion. Also I hadn't watched the documentary in question, so wasn't referring to its arguments directly.

I do have some vague hopes that California's upcoming privacy regulations (the ones that from the outside look a little GDPR like) will prod the tech giants enough to take this shit seriously.

And I hope you're right about what this has stirred up in the US. I'm hoping that my view (ie the apparent nonchalance) from the outside is inaccurate. For the rest of the world, we rely on American sentiment to influence these companies.
You get more than just the eco system which is must just part of the experience. The hardware is that much better. It boils down to you get what you pay for. I value the convenience of what I need or want just working as well as the quality of the devices, especially compared to the alternatives. It's also not 5x as much, but I'm thinking you were exaggerating.
I suspect the arguments about how much launch mass to devote to self destruct explosive and mechanism - compared to useful payload or manoeuvring propellant - would be interesting to see...
I like that idea. But of course developing and marketing that capability would take time, and so would be another kind of risk (albeit one that could pay dividends for all future games).
I think the important point here is that Waymo is testing a dangerous technology on public roads. Putting the public at risk for their corporate benefit. If I'm a test obstacle to see if your car stops in time to avoid hitting me, I should probably get something out of the deal.
It's not that it's unaffordable, it's the subscription as "full product cost, every year". I object to the sheer greed of that pricing model. I wouldn't buy a Compact Oxford book set every year, just as I wouldn't buy MS Office every time. That's the price that counts as it's the same content as the full multiple volume OED without the extra paper and bindings. Besides, Office used to get updated every 3-5 years, not annually. Online as means for 500% price increase isn't something I'll ever support, even if I'm easily able. :)

Much as I might like access to the full thing, the book might last me in the home 10-30 years, or life. Now were the sub £20-£30 a year I may well have, while the kids were at school...
On Open Source Hardware
You might have different social circles from the person you're replying to.

For what it's worth, a large number of my friends also seem to be obsessed with making bread.
Are you a lobbyist? Do you not realize that these opiades have caused a Reduction in life span? Sure, some people may need them but pushing them to everyone like they did, was that necessary?
That's some pretty insane energy density for a prototype vs. years of R&D into a mature technology.

Hope they can improve the charging cycles. Anyone has a clue what the numbers on the matured Lithium-Ion tech is for comparison?
You could also walk into the Apple store. Go to the back corner. Pick up a box with a new battery in it for $119 (iirc). Buy it and walk out with a new battery. All in a single day. You could also order them online.

Mind-blowing.
> the failure mode of rebar rusting is usually visible to inspection and slow enough that action can be taken to ensure that the structure remains safe. The failure mode of a brittle reinforcing member suddenly failing is much more worrying from a safety perspective.

That is an excellent point!
Yes. Someone failed you.
This is great - until you need to replace that one specialized part and you can’t seem to find it.

...or when that multifunction part fails and renders much of the car inoperable.

Odd that that article about the Superbottle mentions "increased modularity" as an advantage, when it clearly decreases modularity to integrate so many functions into one monolithic part.
Interesting. I wasn't aware I could get home access via our library membership. I guess I just assumed I'd have to either visit library, or "virtually" borrow it like with CDs and audiobooks.

Something to look into, soon. Thanks!
So you’re almost his customer base?

The ones who buy these games are the people not turned off by the “style, color and lighting” deficiencies.

I looked at his games for the first time after the earlier post and am also not representative of his customer base.
Is eating behavior manipulated by the gastrointestinal microbiota? (2014)
So I’ve been listening to Security Now for years, and SQRL has been something I’ve followed along with. But I never see it discussed elsewhere.

Is there some fatal flaw with Steve’s idea? It sounds great to me, but I’m no cryptographer.
I thought this was standard-it happened to many properties after Katrina
I think there are a few lessons that we can look into if we want to be indie developers:

1) Need to be "cheap", i.e. to save a lot for daily spending and others, and definitely try to get as many free stuffs as possible. Because whence we go indie, we have to pay our own insurances and benefits.

2) Try to find a niche market, best if it doesn't require expensive investment. E.g. flight simulation is also a niche market, but we definitely need a LOT of investment to make it work. For Jeff's games it is tile-map (easy to replicate and make new maps for), small size and interesting story and game system.

3) Stay WITHIN comfortable zone but evaluate our situation every year. If we can stay in comfortable zone and make easy money, why not? Players pick an easy table in poker if they are professional. They don't play for fame or excitement, but for monetary reasons ONLY. Indie gaming is one area that are pretty sticky and our users usually don't go away unless we make bad games, so evaluation once per year should be good enough.

4) Like any other business, better know something before diving into. Jeff is lucky. He started early and had the talent. Most people are not that lucky so some industry experience would be appreciated.
> You are game devs. You are Jeff's peers.

I am pretty sure the critics are not so much other game developers. It's armchair developers and people who don't actually sell games for a living.

Indie game developers that make a living from their games have a huge tendency to give other developers the benefit of the doubt.
My peeve is not the slow progress: My peeve with self-driving companies, Waymo and Tesla alike, is their constant misrepresentation of their capabilities and their timelines for the benefit of stock value and public opinion. The technology doesn't really work, and Google's marketing for the past five years has claimed regulations were the only thing holding them back.
> If any of you have this figured out, I'd love to hear tips. Most of the other aspects of remote work are fantastic.

overcommunicate. Share like you do IRL. Kvetch. Cheer. Share interesting finds. Say good morning. Ask team-mates how they're doing.

I find I build pretty good rapport with my team mates because I _don't_ limit communications to required transactions.

You build relationships by communicating about life and sharing feelings. So, communicate about life and share feelings.
You're comparing the use and trafficking of illegal drugs with the (alleged) mis-marketing of a legal product.

Of course the punishment isn't the same.
Right?! Six months for a windshield replacement is ridiculous, especially for such a name brand
Thank you for that. That was really interesting.

Have you seen any data on conversion rates for native podcast ads? They may not be targeted but given the amount of money being thrown at podcasters these days I wonder if there's a particularly strong advertising rationale for supporting them.
This is painfully accurate, and in my experience working at large companies it will always be a "pet feature" of some executive, who is pushing it through ignoring all the data, user research or any other process that the company has in place. And all the rank-and-file employees have no choice but to roll their eyes and spend time and energy working on it while ignoring actual bugs and highly-requested features because it couldn't get prioritized high enough.
The twist was to determine which was the A and which was the B drive. IMO a lot nicer than the jumpers you had to set properly on both IDE drives.
Oracle files new appeal over Pentagon’s $10B Jedi cloud contract RFP process
> Some people truly do just want to get through life and feed their family without the bs of others trying to coopt their minds and bodies

Sure. Everybody wants that. But not everybody gets it. And if some people are getting paid because other people are getting exploited, then their peace is coming at the expense of other people's pain.

If the Facebook guy is comfortable with the fact that he is making a living working for a company that is morally dubious (even ignoring that they make their money selling their users up for manipulation), then he should own that. But we aren't all obligated to pretend that isn't happening just so he feels better about his fat paycheck.

I used to make a lot of money working for financial traders. But I don't do that work any more because it was at best zero sum, but in practice I think it was mostly parasitic on society. Now I do work that I think is more valuable, even if it pays less. Nobody owes me the difference in pay, just like if I had stayed, nobody would have owed me participation in the fiction that I was doing something worthwhile.
Yes, and as he said, the majority of the impact is from illegal opioids, not the ones being prescribed.
In his previous post, Jeff said that better art styles would increase his sales. So he doesn't feel that this would be gambling his future.
I am also almost his customer base, along a different axis. I have very fond memories of Exile, and every time I am reminded I go to buy something new and remember that none of it is for Linux, and don't quite manage to check whether it works fine on wine.

This isn't a complaint, really - I have plenty to fill my time - just surfacing my experience. The art has never been an issue.
How does that work? They still manually reversed the disassembly right?
Is the market really being fooled? Tesla's stock price falls pretty often, and in a universe where the hype was real it would be a lot higher.
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around 4g of CO2 per email. That's a lot!

That's like driving a car for 50 feet per email!
> What more can you ask of someone?

To take responsibility for the effects of their actions? That doesn't seem like too much.
> NASA began the X-37 program in 1999;

Maybe officially, but I definitely know people who were working on a Space Plane program in the early 90s.
I question the claim that you need to predict the immediate future. Human reaction times are pretty slow, to the point where when our feet hit a pedal in response to light that hit our eyes two seconds ago, something that is prediction for us could be reaction for a machine. A human has to live two seconds in the future because our appendages and lower faculties are lagging behind in the past.
I never considered the potential social side to this problem. Thank you for commenting.
Thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14239942
Something like this was bound to happen. We can’t keep treating these libraries as a public utility and expect it to keep going. I have zero problems with ads if it leads to a more sustainable open source ecosystem. I draw the line at adding telemetry or other data gathering nonsense, but again, it’s not like I’m paying them so all I can say is I hope this ends up being enough.
The 76B is over 6 years.

And it's by dosage units, so if your doctor says "take two every four hours", you'll be consuming 12 each day.

The number isn't that shocking.
When most of us worked in the office, we did the cliché foosball table. Since our team has become more and more distributed, we've been playing TagPro (https://tagpro.koalabeast.com) a time or two per day.

We typically hop into a video conference while we play to make it more personal. It's better than foosball in that more than 4 people can play (we generally play with 8-12) and it's got a much shorter path to proficiency.

Rookies always suck at foosball for their first few months, so getting them involved with something less intimidating has been helpful.
It always amazes me how many authors I personally find to be unreadable, awful and repugnant in the genre, that others absolutely love, and I see that as good thing. Aesthetic is not fact. The diversity in sci-fi is awesome.
This is just hyperbole. Again, wildfires are within the average for the season as reported by both INPE and NASA.

You have to think in terms of geopolitics, not in terms of “forest good / fire bad”. The reaction against Brazil was unjustified and disproportionate, as can be clearly seen by the total lack of similar attacks on other countries with similar or worse situations. Why is that? What are the motivations and incentives? Who benefits if economic sanctions are imposed against Brazil?
This really depends on a lot of factors. You might get a lot out if illustrated works, such the Cartoon Guides ... series. You might benefit from kid-friendly, fun books, like The Number Devil or Alice in Quantum Land. Or you might benefit enormously from looking for "chapter books" on the subjects -- books filled with paragraphs of actual English instead of endless formulas. This might include something like A Tour Of The Calculus or various things about math history or biographies of mathy people.

It depends on why you seem to be "missing" something and your post doesn't actually give any insight into what seems to be missing for you.