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> Living in Zurich

I live in Bern, so I know what heavenly security feels like.

> The famed coffee shops must have quite advanced logistics

They do, but that starts with the (ridicules) law that (permited) coffeeshops can not hold more then 500 grams of the stuff they sell at any given moment. This means there is a constant flow of new material coming in from safe houses, which are prime targets for rippers & pissed of police.

So the quite advanced logistics start there. Know where to hide your surplus, protect it, transport it and on return take the money to a safe place.

> It's weird: Nowadays I visit Amsterdam for museums and culture

That dates you. The (Amsterdam) locals recognize 3 age & target groups. <25 coffeeshops, >25 Red light district, >35 the arts ;)
Then it is a police matter...
No, but also kind of yes. That is, if there's a carbon task, the financial system may very well distribute its load among many people (perhaps even indirectly onto regular people through their retirement benefits or what-not). If the plan does not absolute positively require emission reduction, period, then it's not good enough.
We basically have common ancestors with all animals, but:

* We are way closer to a bird than to an amoeba, so our shared ancestors with birds are closer in time than our shared ancestors with amoebas.

* We are way closer to a cat than to a bird, so our shared ancestors with cats are closer in time than our shared ancestors with birds.

* We are way closer to an ape than to a cat, so our shared ancestors with apes are closer in time than our shared ancestors with cats.
I fall into the another category. I use Linux because I like how I can customise heavily how it looks and have control over when updates are installed. I do some programming as well which does admittedly work better for me on Linux.
I don't really care about the ideology. I use a Nvidia graphics card with closed source drivers because I want the best performance. Free and open source is nice, because I like how that works as an ecosystem but I'm never going to turn something I want down because its closed source.
I considered dual booting for gaming but honestly enough works and as you say about rebooting just to open an office document, I don't feel like doing that just to play one game and then go back.
We don't know how he's using C# there. What are the clues that you base your guesses on? I don't know a lot of C#, but it can probably be used responsibly in a high performance setting.

It seems he's still working on the same ideas and themes that his (in)famous talk from CppCon was about. Check this out, for example: https://twitter.com/Icetigris/status/1116771416072806401 . As far as I'm concerned, that's basically C.

Btw, have you updated your idea of ECS and "Data-oriented design" in the meantime? (Man, I've really started to be annoyed by this buzzword!)
This is a bug, not optimization.
One doesn't even need to bother Betteridge and his law of headlines to answer: no.
Scary, does this have a chance of introducing security issues in (mis)compiled code?
I hope you wear a helmet in the shower and when you drive a car.
Never experienced it. I don't advertise Win10, so no need for aggressive "no thank you", I don't give a fuck if you will use it.
Would have worked in 2000; nowadays, files >2 GB are an everyday occurence. (And don't even start with "but multiple-files archive"! This is not 1995, either.)
Would love to see a similar listing for bank fees on transfers. Some banks have free transfers, others charge a fixed sum, others charge a percentage.
> instead of outright banning them

Come work with us but if you fancy someone then prepare to upend your work just to see if that relationship is worth pursuing.

I don't think I want any company to dictate what way my love life unfolds.
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Earlier after certain amount of backlash Google employee reading HN used to help. Now I think this is also banned/discouraged by Google. Google New policy: Let's just ignore these type of posts and let it disappear from front page in few hours. What option developers or user's have ?
Shun Android or Google services. I think for vast majority of developers and Users this not an option.
Just as a data point, I really like the keyboard on my MacBook Air 2019. I prefer it to the 2015 MacBook Pro chicklet keyboard. No reliability issues so far. We'll see if the latest gen is an improvement in that respect.
I love every single tool this guy builds
> wait 3 days for a repair

My 2015 MBP is affected by the battery recall and they want 2-3 weeks to send it off to a repair centre to have the battery replaced. No chance to have it done in-store owing to safety concerns (which I'm not sure I entirely buy given that it's an overheating issue, but it's hard to tell without the full details). And no budging on the timeframe or possibility of a loaner. One of the more frustrating customer service experiences.

Not that I'd like to be in charge of organising a recall of 500,000 laptops.
> There are plenty of people in hospitals with zero brain function.

Legal death is defined as brain death in many (most?) places. I think you mean these people are in a vegetative state, but their brain is still on autopilot so the body doesn't completely shutdown.
Use uBlock Origin or an equally-good content blocker on desktops. Use a mobile content blocker like Purify.

Opt out of data retention and sharing basically anywhere where opting out is possible. I made a public service to make this easier: https://simpleoptout.com/
I think "validating quality" here means "you always get the same expected quality", instead of "branded product A is better quality than unbranded product B", so I'd say it still applies.

In other words, unbranded cereal can, and most of the time is, better than shop brands, but that does not remove the fact that, when buying Kellogs in any shop you get exactly what you expected.
In fairness though, a lot of Alex Jones's detractors probably have never _actually_ watched him though, aside from selected clips from their media outlet of choice (likely bashing him); so I think having him on something somewhat mainstream like Joe Rogan's podcast gives the average person a chance to listen to him and decide for themselves that he's batshit crazy without having it spoonfed to them by another source.
> To be honest, everything in Rust looks a bit ugly to me.

I write a lot of Rust code at work, and I admit that it can sometimes be pretty noisy. There are several major contributors to this:

1. Rust offers fine-grained control over pass-by-value, pass-by-reference, and pass-by-mutable reference. This is great for performance. But it also adds a lot of "&" and "&mut" and "x.to_owned()" clutter everywhere.

2. Rust provides support for generics (aka parameterized types). Once again, this is great for performance, and it also allows better compile-time error detection. But again, you wind up adding a lot of "<T>" and "where T:" clutter everywhere.

3. Usually, Rust can automatically infer lifetimes. But every once in a while, you want to do something messy, and you end up needing to write out the lifetimes manually. This is when you end up seeing weird things like "'a". But in my experience, this is pretty rare unless I'm doing something hairy. And if I'm doing something hairy, I'm just as happy to have more explicit documentation in the source code.

Really, the underlying problem here is that (a) Rust fills the same high-control, high-performance niche as C++, but (b) Rust prefers explicit control where C++ sometimes offers magic, invisible conversions. (Yes, I declare all my C++ constructors "explicit" and avoid conversion operators.)

Syntax is a hard problem, and I've struggled to get syntax right for even tiny languages. But syntax for languages with low-level control is an even harder problem. At some point, you just need to make a decision and get used to it.

In practice, I really enjoy writing Rust. It's definitely not as simple as Ruby, Python or Go. But it fills a very different ecological niche, with finer-grained control over memory representations, and support for generics.
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>If you think you can solve it, come apply for a job at Google.

Parent poster isn't advocating the "fix it from the inside" route, he's advocating you leave.

>This kind of thing is a seriously hard thing to police in a fair and reasonable way.

It's so "seriously hard" that you had to use a different example that's more favorable to google's position (identifying a bot user without data access) in a thread about a different topic (your distaste for manual, thoughtful app reviews)?
Yeah, we can't just remove the app and think that would fix the issue.

Otherwise this is bound to happen again.
Actually, that story shows how the CIA did their job well...but politicians and President Reagan didn’t want to hear it and used their oversight role to force their intelligence experts to fit their narrative. For the last 40+ years, political forces in the US are increasingly trying to distort facts to fit narratives instead of accepting facts and then spinning / competing over what to do about it.
UEFI partition is FAT32 (or EFI-FAT; EFI has their own specification of FAT, frozen in time, with it's own identifier), if not for other reason, that most UEFI implementations would not be able to boot from NTFS.

Windows installer creates several partitions: System (ESP), MSR at the beginning of the disk and Recovery at the end of the disk.
There are bugs in my software
which I will never discover
on my own. [...] The bug report
is a form of contribution.

Well, there are at least two ways of viewing a bug report:

1. A bug report is a helpful contribution towards more perfect software, giving the developer new information but no obligation.

For example, pointing out a security bug.

2. A bug report is a request for support, asking the developer to work on a code path they themselves don't use (as if they did, they'd have triggered the bug themselves).

For example, asking them to fix graphics support on 3dfx on Windows NT 4.0 :)
Linux killed off the RISC vendors only after AMD produced a 64 bit x86 (2003).

Sun was doing quite well with Sparc prior.
That's not true anymore, for notifications it's now mandatory.
Reading external flash media becomes hard if you don't have FAT support. But agreed, anything internal should have used a sane filesystem (I know that's hard to find. At least an open one: I see ext* used internally, but FAT32 for removable flash).
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also interesting: https://github.com/lrusnac/hn-notifier
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

Lord Acton

source: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/absolute-power-corrupts-...
I'm not betting my whole stack on it, but I would bet some on the idea that an imminent breakthrough/killer-app for consumer VR will be exercise. Could be VR gyms. Could be home use.

Take a current-gen oculus/etc. Add a heart rate monitor, foot tracking, maybe weighted controllers... you have some excellent workout potential. If price can get to <$300, they will sell

A lot of the top games atm (beat saber, superhot, boxvr) are pretty exercise-ey. Combining gamified fun/addictiveness, in-home convenience & all the advantages of digitization (eg adjust speed in response to heart rate)... I reckon it will be effective. We're not far from it.

An exercise-centric home VR console and/or VR gyms...
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John Carmack is the perfect ultra nerd for this format. He's so good at communicating complex ideas, to the point that even less-informed people will enjoy this podcast. Dude's a hero.
This sounds like exactly what you'd expect from a company that is bleeding talent and morale.

Note: I do not have any information that that is what is happening in Google; I'm just saying what my guess would be if I were presented the situation as "these are the symptoms at Company X. What is the problem?"
And they just happened to engineer our DNA to be almost exactly like that of great apes.
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Linux is pretty terrible for vision impaired users since at minimum OSX 10.3.
No Javascript analytics software can do this. It has to be log based.
> A company with more money in the bank than several countries combined.

That's one problem with big companies: they start to behave like countries, with their indifferent governments. At that point even media attention will not help.
> People who work at Google know they are working for a terrible company doing terrible things

I work at Google, and I don't think it's terrible. Neither do most of my coworkers. There are things I wish were better, and things I'm working on improving, but overall I think Google's impact on the world is strongly positive.
I find Will Wheaton's audiobook narration very annoying.

Stopped reading Red Shirts because of his childish voice acting.
In that segment? I would wonder something is wrong, if they didn't.

Ideapads are in market segment, that is extremely price sensitive, but not quality-sensitive. If the competition would cost 10 bucks less, it would be a huge win for them, so everyone tries to minimize price while preserving margins as much as possible.

In the end, these devices do ship with Windows, which has privacy problems anyway.

All this is moot, when you put Linux on it, which was the context we were talking about.
so i guess you're mailing a check in return for services provided?
Agreed. I love that he doesn't dumb himself down but still manages to make the content relatable/understandable.
In my opinion that would defeat the purpose of the tool. I like to have a postman suite file that I can share... using other tools and integrations would kind of break that.

Postman best thing is that an easy enough tool for beginners and customizable enough to be a test suite for an API. The cost of leaving the tools for it's pretty high.
> What I mean to say is that I think "vegan food" is defined by the eater, not the makeup of the food.

A lot of the debate under your comment is stemming from the difference between vegan people and vegan food.

In French we have three words. Vegatarien, Vegetalien, Vegan.
Vegetalien means vegan but it's only used in the context of what food the person eats. While vegan was more about the lifestyle and not wearing leather/fur, etc. Although recently the term vegan is used for food more and more, it's simpler.
I had an on-site with Google last year and didn't quite make it in.

Since then I've noticed HN has an aggressively negative opinion on Google's general affairs, and most of it makes sense on the surface. It almost feels like I dodged a bullet.

But comments like these shine a completely different perspective. The OP's story is extremely frustrating but it doesn't seem to stem from a lack of care, in your eyes.

If someone were really motivated to solve problems in that area, do you really feel they would be given the time to explore it? I get the impression these sort of projects would be underprioritized.
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Can't you use some distributed amplifier principles to increase gain?
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Because there are business where it is natural for customers to cluster. It is not natural for car customers to cluster since nothing stops you from purchasing from a different brand, there is little or no vendor lock-in.

On a social platform or online marketplace there is a natural tendency to cluster, customers do not want to maintain multiple social profiles or bookmark 10 "amazons".
Thin laptops do suck. Give us ports and keyboards! Is there a single instance of high-quality laptop on the market with a generous key travel these days? Thinkpads don't quite reach the feel of MBP 2015 keyboard for me.

(Typing this on a 101-key NMB I restored which, I think, is close to typing nirvana.)
I've just spent a few days debugging somebody else's raw SQL. My conviction that good ORM is better is stronger than ever.
I guess the working class buyers knew they were buying cheap stuff. They just don't want to be humiliated or joked for doing so.

Often people buying these women's jewelry are men. A lot of women care more for their men who take time out and care to buy anything for mush more than the price itself.

Why humiliate them this way?
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'Closeness' (whatever you mean by that) doesn't really imply ancestry without some hefty presuppositions.
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> Do the rust developers not want to emulate what ipsc and cuda do?

Of course, which is why the language already allows you to do that if you want to, and it often performs better than ISPC, while being memory and thread safe.

However, because Rust is a low-level language, it also allows you to write low-level code that uses assembly-like intrinsics for specific instructions manually, which is what this blog post shows.

I personally think that if your goal is to teach a new programming paradigm, like data-parallel programing (SIMD/SIMT/..), using assembly is a pretty inefficient way to do that. If you already know a data-parallel programming language like ISPC, then there is a lot of value on learning to which assembly instructions your code should lower to on each hardware and getting an intuition for that.
That strikes me more as the "100% literally correct" wording common of technical people, rather than the "just about honest enough that it's not fraudulent" wording that you seem to be suggesting. I think his app is genuinely not deceptive.
I made the jump to a Thinkpad T series and Ubuntu. The keyboards are better than them current macs but not what i remember from the 90s with IB Thinkpads.
Or go Dell XPS.
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If by "ads in start menu" you mean the lame app suggestions, it's trivial to disable the thing.
I'd suggest you start with identifying and quantifying the areas of improvement.
Tools to analyze code quality, unit test coverage and defect leakage could give a sense of what the problem areas are. From there, you can build a consensus on the to-be state. This apprach would shine light on the relevant problems and would reduce resistance.
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Reading it now! I also recommend reading his .plan files, archive on github.
You would think so, but many folks are under the impression that you have to get special pots and pans for it or that they are expensive - which isn't the case. Many will find that their current pans will, indeed, work on the induction hobs.

As far as the second... yes and no. IIRC, some of the reason for the decrease in enamel cookware was that it couldn't be used on some burners. The same goes with glass saucepans: I don't think you are supposed to use them with gas cook tops - even though these were popular for some time. Making sure the material was suitable for your cooking surface has been a concern for quite some time. It just happens that most cookware can be used on most surfaces.
Ah, found the American.

Firstly, it's certainly not 80-90 of those 200, that's preposterous if you look at more detailed analyses of the results. About 70 of those 200 deaths are from irresponsible use of ebikes by old people!

Furthermore, bikes are the primary mode of transportation for most people I know here - elderly, young, weak, strong, you name it. The USA's main mode of transportation is cars (unnecessarily large ones!), which (aside from killing over 40,000 people a year directly) also kill the environment, the bodies of those inside, and a truly horrifying number of other people by proxy of countless wars waged over oil. If you count the 40,000 direct deaths alone, you get 129 deaths per 1M Americans per year and 11 deaths per 1M Dutch people per year. Take into account the other issues involved in driving and I'm sure that number will increase by (at absolute minimum) a factor of 10.

Helmets may make sense in America, where biking is a sport dominated by 30-55 year old men on $1000+ bikes wearing criminally tight pants, sunglasses, and aerodynamic helmets. But in the Netherlands they are a preposterous idea. Wearing helmets decreases bike use, which kills in far greater numbers.
We has a small niche product in Google Play, worked 100% offline, so quite secure for the user privacy and so on, had ratings of about 3.7. The service had generated about $30.000 and would have generated another $30.000 in it's lifetime, unless Google had, quite unjustly, taken it out spring 2019. When we tried to discuss about it, we got what we understood was a threat to close our account. Obviously we talked to some person, I wonder if he had been told to treat us like sh or if there was some other reason. Obviously, for the next apps, we are thinking furiously on how to not be dependent on app stores.
Structured meetings only communicate information collectively known to be important. Information you didn't know needed to be communicated is often the most important part of meetings, so having meetings meant to be "derailed" is useful.
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so? That still doesn't make an ape my ancestor. Or are you saying that every specie I see is ending up being a human? Or is it only when a specie has been 'a good boy'?

I am a software developer, dealing with logic all day. This idea is flawed all over. Because we don't know how and why Earth and the ecosystem were created doesn't mean we have to come up with some theory because we need one. Especially not build upon a theory that originated in a time when people believed there was an end to the earth where you could fall off.

Simply say to the kids at school that this is something we still don't know. Nothing to be ashamed of.
LSD printed on bits of paper with images on it predate that.
How is it a bad thing that he promotes the free exchange and presentation of ideas?
Play Store developers are not users - they are customers for the Play Store product. Nobody is forcing them to develop for Play Store; or to use Ad Sense or any other Google product.

When you're starting your relationship, it's very clear (in the ToS) that they can reject your apps or terminate the relationship however they choose. If they would start quitting developing for Play Store because of these opaque rules, perhaps Google will listen to them. But reality shows that this problem doesn't happen often enough, so the opaque filters work as intended.

So yes, I advise that, if you don't like the rules of Google, don't go play with them. It's the only thing that can change the rules of Google. (and FB, Amazon, etc).
Everything you said rings true, except the part about proprietary license. That's orthogonal to enforcing updates. That is a contractual issue, not a licensing issue.

Google could for instance not allow the manufacturer to connect to their Google Play store unless the manufacturer played ball.

But where does this all put us? We are OK with crap, insecure devices being shoved all over the markets? What can be done.