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I think this distinction is a bit blurrier than you suggest. For my personal email I pay for and use Fastmail. I think it's a wonderful option and I'm more productive in it. However, when starting a new company recently, we ended up use Gmail because it's required for many SaaS tools. Sometimes you can use something other than Gmail, but it's painful, and in other cases you really can't at all. And that's before you get into the ancillary services like calendar and contacts -- very few tools working with either support either CardDAV or CalDAV.
Well, I'm not sure what to make of these "cores per watt of TDP" and I suspect few will. SPEC has the "power" benchmark, measuring the performance of a Java server and relating it to the electrical power needed for that.

Seems to me that systems based on AMD's EPYC are doing considerably better in this benchmark than those using Intel CPUs: http://spec.org/power_ssj2008/results/res2019q3/
Yes, this is very important.
I guess this applies to solo founders (like me) and micro teams but after making a decent livelyhood from SaaS too, my experience is that a lot of people confuse product and project.

I mean a project is something you do in your leisure time (like on a weekend) and it's meant more to show off your coding skills or scratching your own itch or maybe like gaining the pleasure a painter gains from drawing a picture.

A product otoh is a very different beast. It does need a project but that is like may 10-15% of it. The rest is a whole new world of selling, maintaining, growing which has things like content marketing, link building, SEO, optimizing Salescopy, sending out emails, building an affiliate program, recruiting affiliates, A/B testing, conversion optimization, reducing attrition, giving bonuses, doing discounts and coupons, cross-selling, upselling, funnels, analytics and a hundred different things.

The product makes you money, the project gives you pleasure of coding. For new founder and especially programmers trying to make a buck selling online services it can be a easy pitfall.
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Windows is inferior to MacOS?

Bold claim given Enterprise exclusively uses Windows.

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>You can establish institutions that are elected directly by the people, and/or are granted strong legal immunity from demands of the executive branch etc.

Any example you could name would be highly contested as to validity of the claim.

Specifically, "elected by the people" doesn't grant any immunity by and of itself; you would need a huge public protest or other such expression of public will. You may still be ignored by the media, which prevents you from getting anything done[0].
On the other hand, "strong legal immunity from demands of the executive branch" would take a constitutional amendment; anything less can be rescinded with a simple majority vote or a judicial decision.

>But this doesn't mean that private, feudal and corporate power is the only other option.

You would need to create a very strong legal shield around such institution. Right now the government (particularly the judiciary branch) considers every private contract to be in its purview, with ability & willingness to void, add, or rewrite any and all clauses it considers wrong. Even institutions like marriage are subject to retroactive change of the original terms&conditions. Even the media, with its oversized influence through gatekeeping the political parties & candidates, is still bound by various regulations regarding falsehoods, besmirchment, etc., while at the same time tied intimately to their insider sources. About the only exceptions I can think of is the internal dealings of the churches, and the diplomatic matters [1].

On the other hand, any NGO is subject to the wishes of whoever finances it. Whether it is public donations or corporate sponsorship (or outright corporate structure); whoever holds the spigot of the money gets a say. Another important say is held by the media; with ability to either prop up or sink any NGO or public figure.

As of recent, the social media mobs seem to be gaining the gatekeeping ability just as well.

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[0] quick examples of media keeping mostly quiet: weekly Yellow Vests protests, Paris, France, 45+ weeks; annual March for Life, Washington DC, US, 45 years.

[1] bit of a stretch, but also the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Ma...
This isn't "pirating"
The ability to produce viable offspring is generally considered the primary differentiating characteristic between species and subspecies. That's one of a number of arguments in the debate over whether Neanderthals should be named H. neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis.
The fundamental issue is that people have a right to privacy and information. Open sourcing the code and designs is cool, but what about personal customer information? Why should the Chinese government have that? The contents of the services, if you will. That's the scariest part.
Explorer crashing you say? You must not have had the incredible experience of using Windows ME :D

I agree on all of the quick access, recent etc garbage. I disabled at installs after I finally upgraded to Win 10.
>Isn't Steam full of games that would make Larry blush?

Yes, and also there's porn.

Larry was an actual game, and a great one, at that.

And it never took itself too seriously.
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It's not like things just work on Windows or Mac either. I use all 3 very regularly for many purposes and the annoyance rate for things like hardware is roughly the same on all of them. With Linux, I can at least get a desktop that behaves like I want it to and a package manager that handles _all_ updates: kernel, browser, CLI tools, etc. Why don't you just let other people form their own opinions instead of poisoning the discussion with this nonsense?
The airline industry also « gives up » under a lot of conditions.

Scenarios where a plane would refuse to takeoff or divest to another airport... are conditions where employers would still expect their employees to get to work, or their deliveries.
> I think I have talked my way out of having a dog. If so, that’s OK.

Yes, this person should definitely not get one. What good is scrounging up reasons not to get a dog? If part of your argument is "you might trip over the dog", just don't get one.

(Though I must admit I'd enjoy seeing this person's cost/benefit analysis for driving a car.)
You're confusing aerodynamicist's idea of stability with the regulatory idea of stability. I.e. You're in the wrong namespace.

To be said to be stable, and certifiable as a Civil Transport Aircraft, an airframe must pass all relevant prescriptive tests as specified in the FAR's.

FAR 25.173(c) is not demonstrated without MCAS, and therefore in regulatory parlance, not necessarily aerodynamic parlance, the aircraft is unstable by virtue of failing to demonstrate longitudinal stability as specifically prescribed in the FARs.

The fact that MCAS was added to minimize the risk of losing grandfathered type cert, and the terrible engineering that went into it is just icing on the cake.

The specific behavioral failure occurs during a wind-up turn. If you look up the procedure for the test, one of the independent variables is trim setting. That you have to adjust the trim (an input variable) during the maneuver in order to pass the test (preservation of control stick force response curve characteristics) kind of invalidates the entire endeavor. Never mind that the mechanism you leveraged to pass that corner case can doom the plane in case of false positive activation.

So yes. It may be aerodynamically stable in 98% of the operating envelope, but in order to eke out that last 2 percent, caution was thrown to the winds, and implemented a kludge that was never safely integrated.

Note I'm not arguing against the point you're trying to make. Just pointing out where the confusion in terms is likely arising in translation from technical to layman.

The layman only cares that the regulatory definition is hit, as the regulation is the compromise point between aviation and everyone else's interest in not having craters.
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Changes from Lua 5.3

- new generational mode for garbage collection

- to-be-closed variables

- const variables

- userdata can have multiple user values

- new implementation for math.random

- warning system

- debug information about function arguments and returns

- new semantics for the integer 'for' loop

- optional 'init' argument to 'string.gmatch'

- new functions 'lua_resetthread' and 'coroutine.close'

- coersions string-to-number moved to the string library

- allocation function allowed to fail when shrinking a memory block

- new format '%p' in 'string.format'

- utf8 library accepts codepoints up to 2^31

Prior HN discussion on Lua 5.4.0 (beta):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21145676
That's not self-serving argument, it's just plain true. Most of those who didn't support independence simply didn't vote. Parties against this movement sent this message to their voters.

It seems that only a slice from the non-supporters from the left showed up to vote.
> Suffocating oppression

If you’ve been to China, this is certainly not what the general population are feeling. There are enough entertainment and economic pressure to keep most everyone busy. And social injustice are _voiced_ and _acted upon_. As very few of those involve the legitimacy of whole CCP anyways, the lower level officials are mostly threading on thin ice.

I think there’s a huge gap between the perceived conditions in China vs the actual sentiment in China, and western media have only been widening it.
If you choose traditional vehicles you are also sacrificing lives... is that not clear?
Except when it’s selectively done with an agenda. Which seems to happen far too often.

There’s enough real bad stuff going on in the world. Inventing or purposefully twisting it only creates opportunities to completely dismiss the paper’s original point.

There’s a good reason trust in the media is super low and it’s not just because some influential people claim “fake news” at every chance. There’s plenty of real examples on a daily basis if you spend the time to look into what is being said.

The media is often their own worst enemy when it comes to holding bad guys accountable.
An independence based on a referendum arranged by separatists and which almost only separatists participated in, is hardly "pretty fundamental".

Take a look at the support for independence: it's not a majority opinion and it's getting smaller:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independence_movement#...
You don't get it.
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"there is no alternative at all"

If you don't want to use Google Pay, can you not just carry a credit card?
When you encounter your typical Bitcoiner, they'll do logical gymnastics and typically go the playbook, which is to deflect and talk about how much energy banks or treasuries use.

However, the true answer is always greed.
Do you not put your hands behind the car wheel with moral confidence, the confidence that you are okay with the sum of your action? Do you view the medical system differently?
>Violence is entertaining on some level... a part of human psychology

So is sex, but I'd wager there are people who would be against schoolkids playing video games simulating it. I think that's the same sort of argument that HN user 'kirindave' is making with respect to violence.

I make video games. Violent ones. But it's fair for people to question whether we, as an industry, can come up with something other than death as a metaphor for success. Particularly as we try to grow the tent and move games from being just video games to more, sort of, cultural artifacts.
Even if you offered me something like that for free, I wouldn't run it or use it...
My work threadripper was 128G @ $1100(usd) last month for non-ecc ram. Server at twice that decency is likely a pretty penny.
Yep, already did rule these things out — it also doesn't happen in Ubuntu 18.04 or Windows, only on Ubuntu 19.04.

My guess is that this is a kernel or GPU driver issue, since it doesn't happen in Ubuntu 18.04, but it will take time to find exactly which version of the kernel get this to stop.
Using the energy of a mid size european country for what is now essentially a pyramid scheme is just shitty.

It is all fun and games until you realise this is NOT a metaphor and that shitcoin does indeed consume as much energy as a country.
You may want to consider adding netdata user to docker group. It will allow checking Docker names of containers instead of numeric id.

Of course, it would simplify privilege escalation if someone successfully attack netdata service. If you want public dashboard, streaming is supposed to be quite safe (no way to send instruction to streaming instance of netdata).
Looks like HN has a new strapline!
Agreed, it's like the principle of Fitt's Law and screen edges having infinite width.

I made a version a little while back that takes this into account:
https://github.com/thomaspark/rotary
Why did Apple ever remove MagSafe? Makes no sense to me.
Contextualise, an open-source app for organising information-heavy projects
Thanks for sharing your personal experiences.
and being positive about it
http://archive.is/N3bF3
Can StackOverflow provide a technical solution?

When I write my question, answer, or comment, allow me to add markup such as <pronoun @CaesarM />.

And then StackOverflow will display the pronoun in the correct way.

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Or StackOverflow could take it one step farther. If I write a question, answer or comment with a pronoun, a dialog pops up asking me which username the pronoun refers to. The software does the rest.
Jason Scott here. Just want to mention that if you see any games with over 50 views in the collection, it usually means the game was around previously, but not working and was taken out of circulation, and now the configuration to make it work within the Internet Archive system was complete and it's ready. I also used it as an indication of what people were looking for.
It's still public as of now.
yes they are
I commented above, but this is not faulty hardware — the same issue do not happen in Windows 10 or Ubuntu 18.04, for example.

The whole point of leaving macOS for me was to be able to build my own hardware without spending an insane amount of money. You think MacBooks are expensive in the US, come to Brazil and try to buy one.
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"violating one of most basic rules of aviation"

This really illustrated how poor the articles about this have been. the 737 MAX was not violating the "most basic rules of aviation". We keep hearing the design is unstable. But no one can tell us where in the flight envelope it is unstable.
As predicted, the anti-Apple contingent, and right on time -- and with exactly the sort of paper-thin rebuttal I was expecting, too.

1. The argument he made was "plugging an external projector will most likely not work." All that is necessary to disprove this is to show examples where it does work. I do that all the time, in a variety of locations with a variety of ages and brands of projectors and monitors, and never see an issue, it seems that pointing out my experience is relevant. The author has made a blanket and unsupportable statement easily disproved with one counterexample, so there's not a lot that needs to be done here.

2. In point of fact, the author made NO argument. His (erroneous) complaint is "there is only one true way," but this is also easily disproved with a cursory survey of major vendors, nearly all of whom provide direct-download installers today just as they have done for 20+ years.

3. See #1. "only a small number of things work" is not an argument, either. He can claim this, but it's not true; as many, many other folks have pointed out, Mac hardware is broadly compatible with peripherals from a wide range of makers. In 20+ years of using Mac laptops, I've never had a problem with a peripheral not working.

4. Yeah, it is. Tech support with Apple, by phone or in person, is far superior than the support you'll get from any major hardware vendor without purchasing a pricey service plan, and probably better than you'll get even if you do. That the author contends it's no better than random Googling means either s/he didn't try Apple support, or that s/he is fantastically inexperienced with (e.g.) Dell or HP service.
I'll accept that.
> For me, the value they provide is curation of selection and filtering for quality

Yes, this is huge. They have pretty good buyers in many of their product categories. And while Costco does not always have the lowest price, they often do for many items. And, as you said, you have the benefit of usually being able to rely on them for having picked a set of products that more than "good enough" (and sometimes the best in their categories, too) so you don't have waste tons of time shopping around, reading reviews, and so forth.
> Violence is entertaining on some level

Maybe more generally, I learned through improv training that changes in relative status are entertaining to humans. It's interesting when a peasant pulls one over on a king.

Maybe we are inherently interested in things that threaten to change social hierarchy. Observing changes in it is important!
Dont forget Budgie. While not quite as polished as it can be its a newcomer so I am not surprised. It is otherwise a sweet DE for me.
> I have not read anything to suggest that a normally trimmed, MCAS-disabled Max would pitch itself into a stall from thrust application. That would be bad, but is also almost surely far from the actual situation.

?? Most aircraft will do this. Even docile trainers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZfOtvjJR-I
[edit: watch this instead https://youtu.be/6RtVdmsx4qU?t=71 ]

There's been a couple 747 crashes due to this exact scenario. Or regarding the 737 in particular, to quote "Mike734" in 2007:

> In the B-737 too much nose up trim can make a go-around very exciting. The under wing engines create a very large pitch up when adding full power for a go-around. The pilot has to really push hard to stop the jet from pitching too far nose up.

and "Cac737":

> Now in the Boeings for example, B737 and bigger with underslung engines, this situation is aggravated even more because when you push the power levers forward for go-around thrust, due to where they are and their thrust lines, that act alone will cause the nose to rise very noticeably, and if you are light you can actually find yourself pushing forward on the control column on a go around. now trim "back" as you say and forgetting you did so, can find yourself in a very nosehigh attitude if not careful.

https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/hangar-talk/17446-trim-la...
You should sign your name under the blog post. So many references to "I" and I didn't know who to be impressed by until I clicked through to the PR.
The games you're talking about aren't particularly useful for training, their only real use if for recruiting. And the number of games being funded by militaries is so small compared to the size of the market, that it basically has no impact as far as ease of funding goes.

That's not to say that violent games aren't easier to fund. As I said, they are certainly easier to make, easier to market etc...
It doesn't say it explicitly in the article, but I guess the idea behind people sharing this story is to laugh at the original reviewer's foolishness, ignorance, or arrogance for rejecting Nobel quality work.

But it isn't that simple. What was the context in which the original work was presented? Does the Nobel Committee know more now than the reviewer did at the time? Maybe the original paper wasn't written well enough to sufficiently explain the full potential of the idea?

Rejection is usually a case of 'I'm not sufficiently sure this is good enough given the information I have in front of me', not 'I'm positive this isn't good enough even with hindsight from the future'.

I think the tone is a little unfair and unreasonable.
> Games could recreate any universe we can imagine. Worlds without scarcity, worlds without conflict,

The thing is, all that is _boring_. If there is no scarcity, there is no progression. This can be OK if there is other sources of conflict like in Kerbal Space Program sandbox mode where you have an unlimited amount of parts and Kerbals to build with but you have to overcome environmental challenges inherent in flying a ship to another planet and back. Even so there are people (like me) that find sandbox KSP not very fun because there is no progression/scarcity.

If there is no conflict of any kind there is nothing preventing you from achieving your goal immediately without having to do much of anything, which isn't exactly very fun.

> worlds deeply simulating fantastical aspects of an alternative universe where any experience is possible.

This is a description of the environment of a game, not a game itself. Very few people want to play "games" that are solely experiencing the environment with no real goals. The only games I can think of that are like that are sandbox games like Minecraft, and TBH I don't think sandbox
Minecraft really counts as a game anymore than building a stick fort does in real life. (Also, survival mode in Minecraft is very popular. And guess what it has? Conflict with the environment and players)

> Weirdly, all those games end up with people pointing guns at one another.

Because (most) people need to have goals to work towards both in real life and in games. If you don't give a player goals, they will make their own, often being "make the most money" or "be the best at combat." Combat as a game is far from modern, the only modern thing we've added is making it virtual combat.
Can you give an example of a scientifically important problem that can be massively distributed in its calculation yet quick to verify?

The second part of that is the real hitch for mining. You must throw tons of CPU to "mine" the hash but it's a single evaluation to verify it for the proof.
Could you please give a single, credible source that explains how public money was spent to get the Guardian and The New York Times to publish separatist propaganda?

For perspective: the Catalan Government's spending has for a while been put under the microscope by a Spanish government that is more interested in jailing political leaders than solving a political problem. Hence that kind of spending is unlikely to say the least.
That's not what you need to do at one of those companies. I know this because I am at one of those companies and am somewhat likeminded from what I've read of your site and comments(though, if I'm a 7 on some scale, you might be an 11). As long as your actual performance is good, managers will not hassle you if you self direct.

And even if it is painful for you, it takes about a year to fire you for not communicating with your manager. Why not put up with maybe a year of pain if it lets you save up enough money to live 10 years at near poverty level, but choosing your own work and not struggling to earn money? I would write you a recommendation if you want that would get you an in person interview if you want.
Anyone who calls it a tulip isn't taken seriously.

I don't believe in the hype of altcoins, but I do see the problems Bitcoin solves.
Except even if there is a massive breach no one will know about it because it's not like the Chinese government is going to openly admit to it. Losing face and all.
He didn't provide examples for monitors or hardware, I suspect, because he cannot do so in a way that doesn't make it clear his claims are extremely weak and thin.