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Here's the original John Steinbeck quote it's paraphrased from, if anyone's interested:

>"Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.

>"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew — at least they claimed to be Communists — couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves."
Screw it. We're going with USB6.
The lamp is mains AC, and is only powered when the door is on.
Is there any chance of Brexit being stopped, instead of just delayed?
I wish my high school had covered parliamentary systems. So many things about it seem batshit insane. The government can expel MPs who vote against it? The prime Minister can seize power by suspending the entire parliament?
Not to mention they are still getting updates, I'm installing Android 10 now.
> Is it something about cost?

It's hugely about: cost, and the desire of the USB forum to ship a single "does everything" protocol that keeps a large chunk of the industry from choosing to stay on some old version of the spec forever.

Tons and tons of manufacturers of cheap low end devices out there aren't willing to replace a $0.10 USB controller with something that costs 30x as much when they have no need for the high-end speeds of Thunderbolt 3, fast charging, DisplayPort alternate modes, etc. Consequently the spec can either contain a lot of optional features they can choose to ignore, or it can mandate support for all of the 40 Gbps active cable fast charging etc options, and watch as devices partition themselves between the few the need all of that stuff, and the majority that ship simple micro-USB 2.0 hardware.

If they did the latter, then USB 4 is essentially pointless: that's the exact situation we were already in 5+ years ago, except the cheap side was called "USB 2" and the expensive side was called "Thunderbolt". All we've done is rename the expensive side to "USB 4".

If they do the former, they ship a "spec" so full of options that it's already nearly impossible to tell exactly what devices or features any given USB C port will support without recourse to a specifications sheet.

Fundamentally, "one port and protocol to rule them all" is probably just a bad idea. Trying to serve the needs of both cheap slow devices and expensive fast ones puts the forum in a contradictory position, and the only "benefit" from combining the standards that serve each niche is opaque ports and cables that consumers can't easily reason about the compatibility of.
You seem to be making specific, narrow arguments to cast doubt on a much wider claim.

Care to state your belief about the relations between the TLAs and the larger networking and communications firms in the US?
Wasn’t there already an election? Can you explain why there is a second proxy referendum and what the two outcomes would be?

I assume it’s Wait for Deal Brexit or Doing It Now Brexit, ya?
Governments should be heavily subsidizing public transit, it provides extremely good benefits to city growth, health and the environment.

I don't personally object to private mass transit, but it can't compete with a system that can be afforded to take a loss year after year unless:

1. The privatized portions are the high profit portions of the lines - so essentially the public is subsidizing these private companies by paying for the last mile coverage without the marginally profitable backbone.

2. Privatized transit companies use regulatory capture to hamstring public transit (i.e. Comcast and municipal internet)

3. The public company is so unbearably inefficient that a private company can make a profit through direct competition - as stereotypical as it is to think of government organizations as being poorly run this still usually doesn't leave enough of a gap between public funding and corruption to find a profitable region that the public company can't match.

So, I'm fine with private mass transit so long as the companies go bankrupt, in any other case I would suspect that some pretty massive corruption is happening either within the public corporation or of the private one influencing the government.
The USB-C Standard explicitly forbids use of USB-anything to USB-C adapters. Buy a USB-C to USB-other cable instead of trying to light your computer on fire.

The reason it is forbidden is because using two adapters you can convert a USB-C cable into a USB-A to USB-A cable. USB-A ports are not required to handle exciting and unexpected voltage on the wrong pins.
Given that Apple are still managing to roll out operating system updates to iPhones that are 5 years old, a potent question is why Google and Android device manufacturers are either unable or unwilling to attempt to do the same. Planned obsolescence isn't just an attack on your customers, it's also environmentally irresponsible.
I'm not able to read your post; is that normal for flagged posts?
USB-C is not a protocol. It's just a connector spec.
Looks like it's been... Repurposed?
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Yep same here, I didn't understand what went wrong at the time, but I did read here on HN a month or two ago that it was a known issue.
Only one operator in UK (Vodafone) so far.

There are about 800+ mobile phone operators around the world and based on reports about 50 or so have signed up. Not a great percentage after 10+ years.

And I think the lack of encryption is going to kill adoption in many parts of the world.
No two parliamentary systems are really the same. And the British system is uniquely erratic.
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People can always work on open source software for their own needs... in that case, you can treat the developer themselves as a business 'funding' the development by working on features they desire.

I guess I just feel that the currency for funding open source is developer time.... you either contribute your own time or the time of developers that work for you.
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Wow...The drama just keeps getting wilder...
The tags serve as an additional way of showing what the given film is used for the most. It does not indicate if it is good or bad.
A poor example indeed. I'm a globalist so I don't personally care, I just truly want to believe the Americans extreme capitalist model has accelerated global development. Their impact after WW2 has been hard to deny, I also sometimes think that the rest of the world was decimated so they had a long period of insulation and defacto dominance simply because the rest of the planet was beat down.
TBH, I don't do this very well, so I don't have any suggestions. I typically travel to the same places, so I stick to tried and true favorites I've discovered over the years or learned about from coworkers.
We have all seen a lot of accepted but impossible patents but is there any known refused patents of valid invention because the examiners didn't understood the science behind it ?
Reminds me of a bug in macOS 10.1 (?) which recursively deleted /tmp on startup. So far so usual. But it also followed mount points in /tmp to other drives.
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I do. This is my 2nd Nexus 5X from craigslist, but when this one dies I plan on replacing it with a Pixel 3a.
Public transit also shouldn't be required to turn a profit as it's something that's been demonstrated to provide clear societal benefits. The loss that public transit suffers is helping to subsidize all sorts of local businesses.
Capacity and congestion is the wrong way to think about traffic planning. The natural response to capacity increases is to accept a longer-distance commute in exchange for lower housing costs. Instead, it's better to think in terms of accessibility - people need to go to work, buy groceries, etc, and the system must be able to accommodate those goals within reasonable amounts of time.

Crucially, this means that it's just as valid to ensure that people live within a fifteen minute walk to a grocery store as it is to ensure that traffic can allow people to drive five miles to the grocery store within fifteen minutes. Density itself can help traffic, so long as it is properly located with respect to jobs and various amenities.
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Corbyn just said he wont allow it (and they need him due to the FTPA) unless they vote for blocking no-deal first.

This is starting to be like one of those trading card games like Magic the Gathering or Pokemon.

Special ability: Prorogue. Interrupt with special session. FTPA.
After reading your comment, I went through my most commonly used apps and found that they all have a hamburger button in the top left corner that brings up the same menu as a swipe from left gesture. Somehow I never noticed those buttons before, leaving me feeling a bit spooked. How is it that something I look at dozens of times a day could go unnoticed for so long?
How? The BMC can intercept and inject any ethernet frames that it cares to inject.
Compared to effectively zero penalty, probably.
In a word, yes. Would require another postponement and then followed by the election as a proxy second referendum. Which could lead to scrapping Brexit alltogether.
Please do note the difference between me answering "Why does it matter?" and a review of your article. I have made no comment on this specific article.

I don't make the assessment by looking for affiliate links. I make the assessment on undisclosed affiliate links, which I believe the article was at the time. It's one of many things that could indicate an article written around affiliate links and nothing is perfect.

You've since added disclosure so it's a moot point now :)
> Why does USB have two seemingly unrelated versioning schemes? There's USB 1, 2, 3 and now 4 as well as Type A, B and C.

They decoupled the standards for the protocol and the connector. "USB C" is just a port/connector shape -- there's no guarantee that any cable or port that is USB C shaped supports any version of USB-the-protocol. This is the case with eg) dedicated Thunderbolt 3 ports and cables.

It's every bit as silly and confusing as it sounds in practice.
They're expelled from their political party, not from parliament.

In fact he probably can't even do that in all cases, as the local party branches might not let him.
Next revision of the pi will fix it.

It was an example of "layman has no idea which side is up"...but yes the rasp is the culprit here...for not following a rather complicated standard.
I believe the idea here is that people would vote for MPs who are for/against Brexit rather than voting directly for/against Brexit themselves.
It certainly is faster than Firefox for Android.

There are benefits to adblocking of course.

But there's no point lying.
Ban me? You would get mad and defensive too if you have been called a nutjob for the last 10 years while you know something is horribly wrong.

CFS =/= feeling tired.

"The most prominent symptom of chronic fatigue syndrome is an unexplained feeling of fatigue, which is not relieved by rest. This fatigue is severe enough to decrease a person's activity level at home, work or school by 50% or more. In addition, the diagnosis requires that patients should have at least four of the following symptoms that also are present for at least six months:

- Impaired concentration or short-term memory, severe enough to affect routine activities at home, work, school or social functions

- Sore throat

- Enlarged lymph nodes (swollen glands) in the neck or underarm area

- Muscle pain

- Pain in several joints, with no redness or swelling

- Headaches that are different in some way: a new type of
headache pain, a new pattern of headaches or headaches that are more severe than before

- Sleep that doesn't refresh, or not feeling rested on waking

- An extreme reaction to exertion: feeling sick after exercise or strenuous activity, often not starting until the next day

People with chronic fatigue syndrome often have other symptoms that are not part of the official definition of the illness, such as nausea and difficulty tolerating alcoholic beverages or medicines that act on the brain. Many people also have allergies, such as hay fever (allergic rhinitis) or recurring sinus problems.

About half of people with chronic fatigue syndrome develop depression in the months and years after their illness starts. However, available evidence indicates that chronic fatigue syndrome is not a psychiatric illness. Rather, it appears to be a physical illness that leads to depression in some people."

https://www.health.harvard.edu/a_to_z/chronic-fatigue-syndro...

Edit:
I want to apologize to fortran77. My temper got the better of me.
Back when I wanted to do Computer Engineering, I more-than-skimmed-less-than-read the USB 1,2,3 specs and the PCIe 3 specs. The contrast was startling. The USB specs were a complete mess. The PCIe specs were not. This extended from the highest top level decisions (understanding the benefits of packet switched networks) to the lowest (missing figures, ambiguous and redundant terminology, etc).

Something was systematically different between the USB-IF and the PCI-SIG, and whatever it was persisted over many years... and likely continues to this very day, if outward appearances are any indication. If anybody has insight into what makes these groups different, or even just speculation, I'd love to hear it.
Some percentage are mixed in with the government pretty tightly, though, and the ones who aren't can effectively be assumed to pass any kind of data to them, or be forced to do their bidding if the occasion ever arises. That's true in the US, too, of course, but at least in the US the companies can (secretly) fight it out in court, and actually sometimes win.
Did HEIC support ever come to Android? I recall it being announced for Pie I think, but cannot find any evidence of people using it.

I’ve been hoping that Android adoption of HEIC would increase the availability of software to view and manage such files.
I'm personally looking forward to the Jurassic Park iteration with giant chickens.
> It's not a syndrome.

So we're clear - you're saying that the phenomenon referenced in this article, "chronic fatigue syndrome", is not a syndrome? I'm not sure that argument is even cognizable. A syndrome is just a set of correlated symptoms or effects. How can we even discuss this if we can't agree with this designation?

> There are very specific symptoms you need to have for it to be cfs.

Wait... so now you do recognize this syndrome?

> Did you even read the article?

Asking this question, particularly in the demeaning tone which you have adopted, is against the guidelines, which expressly discourage the precise wording you have chosen: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Boris can allow the blocking bill and still has time to repeal it if he wins the election.
The people voted for it. Just give it to them. If the outcome is bad, that's just a lesson in consequences...for everyone. Hope they vote better the next time...if you feel that it was the wrong choice.

The amount of contempt being expressed, from many sides, for democratic process is disgusting.
Is the new book any good? I heard bad reviews, and it turned me off. I usually love everything NS does though.
That's assuming you're making the equivalent of "beautiful pieces of furniture". There are quite a few people with open source contributions on their resume or their github account with repos that is not helping them, quite the opposite in fact.
An army of small toy drones or large army drones? (ie: localized poison spraying VS large area)
I'm pretty they just forgot. MINIX is under a license that does actually still require a copyright notice, and I'm pretty sure that after the news came out about it being used, they went and fixed the fact that they'd apparently forgotten to include it.
In parliamentary democracies there aren't any formal barriers to having elections as often as people feel like it. It's unusual but far from unheard of for countries to have several in a year during difficult times.
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I found it interesting that while everyone says it’s a democracy and the Queen is an entirely symbolic position... she suspended parliament which happens a lot but not lately and the timing was unusual, IDK! So it seems like a Democracy With Assistance, but also some sort of Revokable Representative like you said?

I’m with you man, makes no sense to me.
In reality, if the UK does not have a trade deal in place by the time it leaves the EU, it will still need to get one later and it will still contain the same requirements on respecting existing commitments to the the Irish Border. And this also happens to be a condition of getting a US trade deal through.

No Deal Brexit, is in fact, No Deal until utterly desperate for Any Deal.

The idea that the UK could just not have to ever agree to a trade deal with the EU is the purest of fantasies, and the idea that leaving first and kicking the can down the road will strengthen the UK's negotiating position is almost as delusional.
Eh, I don't agree at all. Maybe that's the case if you don't use adaptive brightness and your whites are max intensity. I prefer a dark theme I can use all day and let the brightness setting modulate the contrast. That way, direct sunlight kicks in the high contrast capability to make the theme usable during the day (which destroys these gray "dark" themes), while dropping the overall contrast ratio to something similar to these gray themes and emitting less light overall at night.

Pure black doesn't feel like I'm looking at a box light and makes transitions between text and media much more consistent. I end up futzing with the brightness for mixed media (like embedded videos or images) far more when using a gray dark theme, since the true brightness will be much more intense for "media white" than "text white", and the perceived brightness between them will be even higher than that.

Dark themes used to be about practicality and health. Current gray dark themes seem to be born from poor contrast ratio LCD limitations and justification for the aesthetics around the old Holo theme. As someone that has religiously converted their most common sites to dark themes with custom CSS (a few hundred as of now), gray on gray themes feel foggy and I only use light-but-still-dark gray backgrounds on sites that change frequently so I can see if there's a new text element that needs to be styled.

(But, I'm probably in the minority. I also drop font sizes to reasonable levels, delete rounded corners on elements, and remove the miles of whitespace from sites unwilling to accept that a two paragraph "story" isn't worthy of the engagement metrics they get by wasting the reader's time scrolling.)
I don't know where you get this idea. Just because this essay is hosted on License Zero's blog doesn't make the content less interesting or useful.
There was one over who should carry out the negotiations, the result of which was that the tories lost most of their advantage.

There hasn’t been any election that is close to being about the actual leave conditions, on account of the only concrete deal being written down in spring this year.
I think the chromebooks are excellent if they are going to use computers, and they basically do everywhere. They don't have to worry about os upgrades, or virus, they are very safe for browsing. They work great with minimal resources. If the district wants to allow it, they can allow linux apps in a controlled safe way, supporting bash command line or whatever else they want to support.
> That strikes me as a highly undesirable future.

I imagine that is largely because the corporations here bring to mind faang and their ilk who use software to ensnare their users to whatever purposes they need.

But what if the corporations were of wider spectrum, more Fortune 500 and less silicon valley, whose goal is to create a good computing environment for their companies to flourish in. Then I think the scenario should seem much less dystopian.
It seems like it's well past time for a 2nd referendum. And I don't buy this hogwash about undercutting democracy and the people having spoken.

If my partner and I decide together to buy a car, and then find out later that we can only get financing at 20%, then it is no way disingenuous to have another talk about whether we really need a new car. On the contrary, I would be quite peeved if my partner went ahead and blithely signed a 20% loan for a car without further discussion, and defended that decision by saying, "We already talked about this."
The UK stopped "standing in the way" of private rail, and the result was a royal mess (and an overpriced one to boot).
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> Are we supposed to be happy with two years? The environmental impact of e-waste and the production of electronics should not be understated.

Can you elaborate on this? Because I'm thinking of the amount of garbage I put in the bin over a period of two whole years, and the size of my phone, its packaging, chargers, cables, and manuals all together is just not even comparable. Even if you add in the environmental cost of the manufacturing I can't imagine it's even a drop in the bucket compared to other waste.

I'm sure it is a good idea to optimize for waste in some respect, but cell phones seem like they must contribute such a minuscule relative amount so as to be safely ignored for now.
Parties can expel members who vote against the party; this is normal. The suspension of parliament trick was not normal, is currently subject to legal actions, and may be rendered moot by Parliament having taken control of the order paper this evening.
> A USB4 host and USB4 peripheral device may optionally support TBT3 -Compatability.

That sounds good from an implementors point of view, but offers another area of possible incompatibilities for connecting USB4 and Thunderbolt 3 devices. Imagine both devices support tunneling DisplayPort signals, but the USB4 device doesn't support the Thunderbolt 3 compatibility layer: As in the example before they won't be able to establish a DisplayPort connection, while other USB4 devices, which offer Thunderbolt 3 compatibility might.
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I guess the only good thing that could come out of this whole drama is - if any other country wants to leave the EU, they'll think twice (hopefully). At minimum there'll be a good discussion, instead of a bunch of asshats lying to the public and the public taking their vote casually.