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>Well, I wouldn’t actually call something like having competent window management, something that macOS is sorely lacking, a “hobbyist” feature.

I've used Windows and Linux (several wms), I wouldn't call their window management any more competent (if not less).

If you want a tiling wm for macOs, there are a few.

But managing windows is mostly bikeshedding, and for that something like Linux would serve better...
Pelican and Jekyll - Optimising the output is bit hard because most of the tools for that exist in the JS ecosystem. If you are not that concerned about stuff like inlining critical CSS, image optimisation, CSS and JS traspilation, these could be good choices.

Hugo - Pretty much the same issues with Jekyll and Pelican, and the templating language also leaves a lot to be desired. If build speed is paramount to you, choose this.

11ty - I just benchmarked lego against this and it looks like there is only a couple ms difference performance wise. The only real difference is that 11ty lets the users configure everything and decide what kind of optimisations they want(or if at all they want it).

lego supports the templating languages of both Pelican and Jekyll and is reasonably fast as well. It also optimises the output build as much as possible. If at all you decide to use it, please share your feedback.

Another important factor, in your case, might be the availability of templates. Pelican, Hugo and Jekyll should have readymade templates for most use cases and should save you time spent on designing the layouts, writing CSS, etc. I am not sure if 11ty has such an ecosystem. lego definitely doesn't have any templates and you might want to factor that in your decision.

I hope this answers your question. Also, all the best with your dissertation :)
Gallium3D is a framework for building drivers, not a graphics API. The intel drivers do not use gallium3d (yet), and neither do nvidias.
Parents implied point is that something like miles for functional equivalence / energy unit denaity is much more telling. The ICE is like 37% efficient while battery is >90%, so while hydro carbon fuel is more energy dense, the usable density is considerably less than it's raw energy content due to waste.
Current Columbia Student. Columbia's administration is absolutely terrible at cultivating any sense of school spirit. Some of this is a function of the fact that we're in NYC, but some of this can be laid at the hands of decisions like this, which are utterly tone-deaf. I love going here but I've had to work hard to create a sense of community.
I'm skeptical that the labor differential is as big as this article implies frankly. This strike is pretty straightforward in cause, GM wants to pay less, and wants their employees to cover more of their healthcare costs, the Union isnt okay with this.

Working in an auto plant is hard, backbreaking work that will leave you physically broken by retirement - and while the transition to electric cars may slightly reduce the amount of labor needed, it won't change how hard or backbreaking the work is.
The note on Apple seems implausible. Apple (among other top consumer electronics OEMs) have fairly robust quality control processes that are specifically designed to catch falsification/errors in testing on an ongoing basis. Components and modules are inspected and tested both outgoing from a supplier and incoming at the final assembler, and the full product is also tested at multiple points (usually with both built in self tests and external automated fixtures or operators). In addition to that, units will get pulled on a sampling basis for much more thorough inspection, usually by people employed or contracted by the OEM separately from the final assembler. In addition to that, field failures are tracked. In all of this, each step is fully traceable down to which individual operators and fixtures went into each assembly and test step. You can be sure that if a supplier is found cheating the spec, they’re not getting business from that OEM again and may have additional damages depending on the contract. YMMV if you’re buying stuff from brands you’ve never heard of from Amazon marketplace sellers, but any major OEM works like this.
Uhm, the OpenPanel changes basically crapped on a whole group. Apple does not keep its examples updated. Heck, now its hard to find examples at all.
I remember the 80386 where the pushad/popad instructions could go wrong, up to locking up the whole cpu, but only if the next instruction did something specific to eax. So at least i386 had enough complexity to make the next instruction relevant for the previous, even if the thing had almost no pipelining.
> here's the catch, verification is nearly impossible. what is a prototype, what is in production, what is just a rough sketch idea of something that was never implemented, what is wild fantasy.

100% agree.

I learned this as well. For example, if you search the U.S. Patent system, you can find a lot of crazy things, because the patent office never actually verifies them! One example is a mind control patent by displaying a certain images using Visual Basic, making the CRT to emit electromagnetic waves at specific frequencies. It even has some code! Nobody cannot tell if it's just a work by a fantasist engineer, or the surface of a deeper real project. I bet my specific example is the former one. I also believe the remote mind control stuff is bullshit.

But nobody can differentiate every single thing in general. We cannot tell.

This process also effectively makes conspiracy theorists be able to claim they're always correct: If you try to interpret all actions by the governments to be huge conspiracies, naturally, many of your predictions will be true! Unfortunately, things like the shape of the Earth or vaccines will be victims as well.

I think this is a very effective strategy by the governments in an information age with relatively free flow of information: You don't need to censor anything, you simply misdirects all, to the point that the SNR is so low that almost no one can decode the real signal successfully.
They forgot to add more modern day energy drinks.

Rockstar, Raze, Monster, and Bang have variants up to 300mg per can. Image how many cans people consume to stay awake during a long day or just on a daily basis.
That's just people repeating Milton Friedman's blathering about things he knows nothing about.

You don't want licensing and regulation of hair dressers? Enjoy your Hepatitis.
It's no different in the US.
This isn't actually true, because 409a valuations (where your options are struck) sit at what most would consider a meaningful discount to the actual value of the company (often 30-50% of the preferred, below where secondary is even happening in late stage companies).

That said, the strike does reduce the value of the options vs something like RSUs, but less than this comment infers.
Yeah, let them eat cake I guess ...

It's painfully obvious you have no idea how life is hard down there for people that can't do better than a factory job.

There's surely a third way, and we should at least hear them (if you don't want something even worse than Trump in 10 years).
I don't want to spend money on craftsmanship if it's going to be obsolete in a few years - what good is the most well-crafted 1360x768 30hz monitor in the world today? You can definitely find higher-end products if you seek them out still, anyway. Just find what's recommended on enthusiast forums.
Mass transit should pay for itself. A bond issue that is paid back out of the revenue generated. Money generated from congestion pricing though has (in NYC) simply been funneled to the increasing Port Authority operating budget with no impact on congestion as there are more cars than ever. If it was genuinely used for capital improvement to mass transit I wouldn't mind as much.
I was thinking recently about whether it would be useful for people to start thinking of things in terms of $/mi instead of mpg. Would make it much more explicit that it costs money to go places.

Also as a bit of a side tangent, one of my big pet-peeves is people who state their mpg in best case scenario and not day to day. "Oh my SUV gets 45mpg cruising down the interstate." Yea sure it does. but overall you're still getting low 20s if you measure fill up to fill up.
As a society we need to make sure we are taking care of people when their industry is destroyed. The whole “learn 2 code” thing that was directed toward coal workers was exactly the wrong thing to do. If we want those coal plants to shut down we should have offered to pay off the workers until they reached retirement age. If you “take away” someone’s job for the sake of progress, then you’ll make enemies of progress and leave people behind and cause generations of anything ranging from hatred to apathy to loathing.

Here in this case I don’t think it’s quite the same, but this sort of thing is NOT going to go away, and we need to figure it out. Just retraining of “find another job” isn’t good enough.
That would be labeled socialism. Seemingly all it takes to defeat a proposal in US politics.
I was watching this Youtube video of Audi electric motor production. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zttC2x9nMEw Pretty crazy how much of the motor construction can be automated. There is just no way around it. Union or not, a lot of jobs will disappear. If GM and Ford don't do it then one of the hundred electric car companies around the world will progress in that direction.
> Then their next answer would be that it doesn't matter, and then they're in for a treat when they see that they should choose to be Player 2!

But player 1 can make the edge of player 2 as low as he wishes so it really doesn't matter.
Got it. Sounds like you did pretty well then! Congrats!

It is still rare to be given such good terms on equity, and also rare to be knowledgeable enough to take advantage of the opportunity.
What makes a language "more productive"? I feel like this term first appeared in the age of Ruby on Rails, but I've yet to see any sort of study. Now when i see the term, it immediately raises suspicions and has the opposite effect that the writer intended. Obviously the best tool for the job is the one you know how to use proficiently, but is there a magical computer language that can turn average programmers into high-performing ones?
This is true in hindsight and seemed obvious at the time, but in fact Apple insisted that Carbon was a long-term solution and treated it as an open-ended commitment. They dogfooded it internally, using it to write the Finder and iTunes, two first-party apps so central to the user experience that novices confused them for the OS itself. There were working betas of Carbon 64, and Apple's decision to reverse course and deprecate Carbon on 64-bit platforms in the middle of the release cycle caused significant developer whiplash.
Elon would say that nuclear power has a "high PITA factor."

PITA factor is "Pain in the Ass" factor and refers to technologies that look great on paper but explode into a fractal of non-obvious design and operational difficulties when put into practice. He used the term to refer to hydrogen as rocket fuel for example.
>Crucially, if you give one person a check, you're giving that information to one person (and their bank).

Well, them, and every other person you've ever written a check to or who has processed direct deposit paperwork, etc.

Sending check images by email isn't a good practice of course, but it's really not exposing especially sensitive information given the way checks work in the US.
I assume more success will be had as suffering reaches a tipping point. Change happens slowly, and then all of a sudden. I’d just like people to be able to avoid the interim suffering, but empathy seems to be in short supply compared to capital.

Transitioning to electric mobility is necessary, but if you’re treating workers inhumanly (possibly contributing to deaths of despair in middle America), what is the point of progress? We can treat citizens humanely and deliver on the progress we desperately need, I have no doubt about this.
That is not the only way technical debt gets introduced.

Often, teams cut corners to release a feature earlier/on time, and only make it work for the MVP use case without restructuring the codebase to fully accommodate the change. In this setting the term debt is pretty fitting.
The article does explain how they inflated the prices, they sold them to each other at increasingly higher prices, which kept bumping up the recorded last sale price. At the risk of violating HN rules, I have to say that you didn't read the article.
Modern manufacturing accounts for this. Any brand worth their salt expect a certain yield to cover bad parts, assembly line faults, etc. There are often multiple QA test stages to account for this. Brands/manufacturers also expect a certain number of RMAs, and set up an RMA process. A good RMA processes can reveal pathological issues (like falsified QA reporting), so good brands/manufacturers will be flexible with their customers as long as they're not being defrauded.

Part of the problem is the big contract manufacturers (like Foxconn) are impossible to compete with on precision/cost.

In a past life, we moved a product from German manufacturing to China, as the German tooling wasn't fine enough to hit our (admittedly insane) tolerances. Whether or not the China MFG lied, they signed the contract and produced the parts. Though, we had to spend a lot of resources on additional testing rigs to weed out the tolerance misses/assembly line faults/bad parts over and beyond what the MFG caught.

Not to mention that exporting stuff from China even 10 years ago was a lesson in geopolitics. Not for the faint of heart. We ended up having Hewlett-Packard (who we were a very large customer of, and white-label resellers for them) export our first thousand or so units in HP boxes. Like night and day.

The overall competitive advantage is hard to capture. Time, money, ethics, work ethic, efficiency. Having an entire country's incentives aligned with extracting a cut of almost all consumer electronics in the world is hard to challenge.

I wonder how the next 15 years will look now that the part seems to be over.
At least in those cases they’re eating their own dog food. They’ll have customer expectation on the startup they’re financing, and they know there’s a market, and the company will be able to deliver ( not to mention the fact that those are fields on the border of national security, which means you can’t just rely on private companies on the market)
Except outrage mobs, you mean?
Maybe people need medallions? If you don’t have a medallion then you have to return to the place from which you came. There would be fewer people on the roads and sidewalks. NYC sidewalks are too crowded and we should limit the number of people allowed to use them. The people-medallion system could be used in the Bay Area as well since housing is scarce. You could also require such a medallion to work and access public benefits.

It seems like we do have such a system but we’re not enforcing the law properly.
Occam's razor is a heuristic, not a commandment. The simpler explanation is more likely to be true, but it isn't always.
Have you read "Super Pumped"? I'm pretty comfortable putting them in the same bucket: which is "genius/asshole founder hyping an unlikely future to get gobs of venture capital". Uber still hasn't turned a profit, and may never because it has no moat. I expect that in ~15 years, Uber will be in the same bucket as Groupon: things that everybody was excited about for a while but are at best minor players in their space.

I also think you're giving Uber way too much credit. They are the dominant player because Kalanick was unusually terrible and because his investors gave a terrible person a lot of money. He didn't invent remote taxi dispatch (which was a telephone-era innovation) and he wasn't first in the anybody-with-a-car-can-be-a-taxi game (which was Lyft). He was just more willing to break laws and be a dick to competitors.

I believe that if Uber hadn't appeared on the scene, things would be about the same (by which I mean we'd have people ordering rides via smartphone) but in a healthier way (by which I mean not burning billions per year, less worker exploitation, fewer negative externalities, and healthier municipal regulation).

So I'll give plenty of credit to the smartphone pioneers, especially Palm and Apple. But not much to Kalanick.
I've come to appreciate the pragmatic utility of faxing, because many businesses will accept a faxed signature and/or notary stamp in place of a mailed hardcopy.

On the other hand, the image quality is terrible. I'm in a three month long process to recover a check lost due to a fax image quality issue, presumably between two document management systems - a "5" was transmuted to a "6" in a postal address. The receiver of the fax has said it is a clear "6" - I'm not sure if this is due to that well-known glyph-based compression bug in one of the document management systems or something else.

I've also had occurrences of businesses accepting faxes, only to have the person actually doing the work request a higher resolution scan be emailed. Some businesses have moved to plainly announcing the acceptance of scanned documents by email, but really everyone should.
One of the early applications was pattern matching for LHC. I was in one of the groups in which some (not myself) worked on this and put the neural networks, using the just developed theory, in hardware with FPGA's.

After a few years the three (post-docs) left and founded a startup. I lost contact with them. I think they were too early for broader applications, and had left the field completely in the early 2000's, when it really took of.

Here is a book that the author of the referenced article , and the people from my group (Utrecht University), contributed to: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4471-0877-1
Without creating any new ones? I have quite a lot of questions for our erstwhile intelligent designer...

If you're happy to entertain a causeless cause to explain life, why make it an intelligent designer, a very complicated object? Why couldn't life itself be the causeless cause? A cell is much simpler than anything capable of inventing the universe. All 'intelligent design' does is move the problem (and amplify it).

I think an intelligent designer feels simpler to a human because "conscious entity" is implemented as a conceptual primitive in our minds, for obvious evolutionary reasons. The idea of a non-corporeal mind spontaneously arising feels more plausible than a single-celled organism spontaneously assembling, because we need many more symbols to represent the latter. But it's a misleading perception.
That wasn't actually Uber's innovation. Ubercab's notion was to use limos, etc.
There's a huge difference between "under-investigated" and "doesn't live up to the initial hope/hype".

It's possible for something to be over-investigated and also not produce results. See also: the build up to AI winters.
"dharma is “group-centered and group-oriented."

Yes, I think the 'duty' that is being referred to is 'dharma' in the sense of 'true identity', and Arjuna's identity is a Kshatriya (warrior), as are all sons of kingly descent; and he's also trained as an archer. He was born and trained to fight.

"Dharma" also means 'truth'; the implication is that there is a kind of falsity in not being true to the identity you inherit, or that has been given to you (e.g. by military training).

FWIW, I don't agree that people get any permanent identity at birth, nor that they can acquire some kind of permanent identity by being trained as a soldier (or a thief, or an artist, or a comedian). Krishna/Vishnu is misleading Arjuna: we're all fluid, we can all change. Krishna knows this, and in fact he shows it, because he changes himself.

[I confess I'm not closely familiar with the BV - I think I read it in my teens. It's not that long, by comparison with other classic Vedic texts; or with western religious tracts, for that matter]
You are correct- probability of success is (in my opinion) the single most important factor when evaluating options. Even if on average employees did well with stock options, the fact of the matter is that the distribution of payouts is very lopsided, not unlike professional athletes or actors. So most start-up employees will get nothing at all for their hard-earned options.

From personal experience, I have worked as an employee at 3 start-ups, and in only one of them did I get any payout at all from my options. And the amount of value I got from that one "success" was trivially small after multiple rounds of dilutive funding (financially, I would have been far better off flipping burgers in lieu of all that overtime). Most of my peers have had similar success rates with start-ups, with a few notable exceptions.
or they make the toaster to slightly and unpredictably vary the quality of the toasting - not enough for you to notice anything specific, yet enough to make you start the day with a bit of puzzled annoyance and undermining your confidence in your perception of reality - "was the toast different yesterday or is it just me?" - and leaving you with something bugging at the back of your mind through the day making you a bit impatient, a bit more easily frustrated, distracted and having some unspecified resentment building up deep inside you more and more with every day...
The word socialism has lost the sting. Considering one of the top presidential candidates has been running in the platform for decades. And the DSA has made large gains in liberal cities.

Simply calling something socialism isn’t the scarlet letter it used to be.
McDonalds accepts USD in other countries?
I'm sure that fraudesters have attempted that trick and that they have a procedure to authenticate it.
According to a slide at WWDC this year, there’s always going to be a way to do this.
Every part of that is wrong:

- Status signaling is the only way of impressing other people.

- Signaling is sending any message by any means. Signals that are difficult to fake are more effective than signals that aren't. But easy-to-fake signals are obviously still signals.

- Status is anything that impresses other people. Money, strength, talent, and character are all forms of status that are valued differently by different groups. If you're very strong, then you have high status among groups that respect strength -- as long as they know you're strong. Which is why you have to signal it.

You appear to have confused the concepts of "status signaling" and "conspicuous consumption".
Yes, but companies can eat these costs relatively easily, or they harm the consumer. These costs should really be baked in at manufacturing time.

RoHS is a good example, but China somehow turned it into a competitive advantage.
The 90 day post-employment exercise window is a requirement for them to be treated as incentive stock options, which have significant tax advantages over non-incentive stock options.

It's not a clever thing that startups do to try to increase retention.
Long term systems evolution and management might be a better way to think about it. Lehman at Imperial looked into it in the 90's (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220902836_On_Eviden...) but no one has done much since, and yet we are increasingly dependent on platforms and 20+ year systems.

No one knows how to run and manage these systems, yet we do it all the time!
I haven't seen either a decrease in congestion or an increase in mass transit infrastructure spending in NYC as a result of congestion pricing. And congestion pricing applies to busses as well, increasing mass transit cost. So commuting to NYC by car costs about $300 a month, but busses are still about $240 a month. Really not enough to strongly incentives mass transit.

Maybe what it boils down to for me is that congestion pricing, in theory, may be a valid option. But in its implementation it accomplishes very little except increasing bloated budgets for organizations that focus too little on their actual mission.