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>Welded by danish design principles.

Looked that little gem up: "Scandinavian design represents a design philosophy that's characterized by functionality, simplicity, and clean lines."

Functionality and simplicity... that's already what a weld is... it's extremely functional and simple, melted metal to join metal. Clean lines? As in a welder who can do their job? I mean... duh? Really feels like someone saying "atm machine" and trying to make it seem like they art holy than thou.

I really hope they don't understand what "iron" means. Because an iron back tv... god have mercy on your spine when carrying that shit. Tvs don't have to double as barricades in case of a shoot out with the cops at your house. Tvs don't have to be sturdy. They're not gym equipment. You put them somewhere and they stay there like a glass vase. You look at it, not fondle it. Now, if it was really a Scandinavian inspired device... made of viking axes that have tasted blood... or get enough of these and they snap together to make a long boat. That's Scandinavian. Not "simple and functional clean lines". Bauhaus pre-dates that and whatever the Japanese call their style of design pre-dates that even more. Chill, ya' ain't the first. Stop making up silly names to feel special about your snowflake selves.

No remote... that's the problem with newer tvs that it's "solving"... by making the same mistake? The fucking remotes are useless and do the "handy little mobile app" which is always trash. Tactile people. Tactile. Smooth surfaces suck when it comes to remotes.

One HDMI... and they feel high and mighty for it... fuck you and your Apple design principles. Along with anything else they stand for. I bet they'll release a tv stand that costs a grand as well.

Why? Why are people doing this? This is crazy. It's crap like this where I go "Don't fix global warming, let's burn more coal! Humans need to learn the hard way of their mistakes."

It's the morning and I already need a drink...

A true dumb tv: no boot time because all it does is take a signal and spit it out. 3 HDMI ports minimum. Blueray player, a streaming device and game console. A real fucking remote that fits in my hand comfortably and the buttons stick out of the plastic so I can feel them and never have to look down. Extra points if they make one with Cherry MX keys. That'd be cool. Don't know if it's practical, but I'd definitely give it a try. And the inputs have separate buttons. None of this cycling crap with just a single "input/source" key.
"Learn to use Powershell and Powershell scripting language."

YMMV. I tried PS for a few years and just couldn't get into it. Installed WSL as soon as that came out and haven't touched PS since.
The jump is huge. Web development has a completely different model than mobile development. In web development, losing a connection is a failure case. Developing for mobile it is expected. Especially for enterprise apps. Logic is usually distributed, syncing is required, knowing which is the source of truth etc.

This is really an example of hiring someone who has experience and hiring someone who thinks “it’s easy and just like what I did before”.

Then I could get into all of the old netops guys who think AWS is just like what they did on prem and end up costing the company more...
Deposit and return has been the standard way of achieving working reuse and recycling, pretty much forever. A century ago including Coca-Cola and all the milk, pop and beer bottlers. Just about everything that wants something back puts a deposit on it - otherwise people have no incentive to bother.

So the question becomes why do they oppose a fee that is unlikely to hurt overall sales? Ah, because they would have to do something with those returned bottles...
I like this detour into economics:

>Bezos’s enterprise upends long-held precepts about the fundamental nature of capitalism—especially an idea enshrined by the great Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek[, who] argued that no bureaucracy could ever match the miracle of markets, which spontaneously and efficiently aggregate the knowledge of a society.

>Amazon, however, has acquired the God’s-eye view of the economy that Hayek never imagined any single entity could hope to achieve. [...] With its logistics business—and its growing network of trucks and planes—it has an understanding of the flow of goods around the world. In other words, if Marxist revolutionaries ever seized power in the United States, they could nationalize Amazon and call it a day.

Perhaps we need to break up Amazon because communism? /s
There are projects like this one, which add ligatures to non-ligature fonts. Maybe it will help.

https://github.com/kiliman/operator-mono-lig
That's not even implied. I said Google/fans seem to way overestimate their influence.
You have also an option to use a docking station.
My thinkpad x1 carbon is running Linux very well (better than Windows I might add). Battery is great, keyboard is acceptable, and it's significantly lighter than my old MacBooks. I've grown to like the plastic Lenovo uses.
I stand corrected!

I really should get the DRAM working on the G2. How hard could it be?
It’s like saying “well, we’re an agile company, so we prefer to hire people who know standups and sprint planning”. In principle they will ramp up faster, sure. But it’s just not a useful thing to select on, and if you do select on it you’ll end up with a weird monoculture.
I don't think so, as that categorisation can't be perceived by them. Like, they can't see it.

I'm saying that once 2 categories had been conceptually distinguished, I could split them apart immediately because the difference had been explain, whereas they were amorphously lumped together in my head before. Typically those categories had different words, but even without that the distinction became evident.
> The phone […] will have proprietary blobs

That statement is hard to reconcile with the fact that the phone is allegedly compliant with, and is being submitted for, RYF certification¹, which it would never qualify for if the phone has binary blobs.

1. “And we are compliant with, and submitting for, the “Respects Your Freedom” certification from the Free Software Foundation.” — https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-shipping-announcement/
You're suggesting koreans may be biologically different enough that they see more shades of green than everyone else?
A lot of the problems you’re talking about have been solved for years now. A common setup might be Forestry CMS, Gatsby SSG, and Netlify to build+deploy. And Tina Teams will be the future of that:

https://tinacms.org/teams
It seems like what you’re saying makes terseness seem worse. If you’re only writing once as you say, then the terseness will make any debugging or going back to the code much harder.

The only gains you’ll get are the minimal speed gains with terse names.
I'm thinking they really don't know what the word "iron" means. Or it's some new hipster phrase that refers to old stuff. I don't know. Because who the hell thinks a tv made of iron is necessary? The 90s called, they said you're an idiot because they tried that and are sorry for it.
First of all, tone down the aggression. People are constantly harping on about how much better HN is than everywhere else on the internet. Your reply lends the lie to that complete fiction. Take a moment to reflect on your own communication style before dismissing others' comments "pure garbage".

Second, I agree with the post you're replying to.

Regarding accreditation, the point is that it effectively makes no difference whether QS or THE ranks your university as No. 6 or No. 106. They're both pretty good. But everyone knows that there's variation in the quality of graduate of any given university, and they take that into account.

It will make a difference, however, if the university is ranked in the 600+ category. That institution would probably be grouped in with "the rest".

If you're looking for certain jobs in finance, law or academia, then the institution matters much more. Those areas are perhaps not quite as meritocratic as they should be.

However, if you're applying for a graduate tech job in the EU, it really, really doesn't matter that much if you got a 1.1 from Cambridge or a 1.1 from Dublin City University. Both will probably get you an interview, depending on what else is on your CV. And at that point it's a level playing field - the interviewers won't be dazzled by the name of your college, they'll just grill you to make sure you know what you need to know and can learn fast enough to be useful in the company.
Quick google shows that recycle rate is ~30% for PET bottles in US in 2015 [0]. Not obvious if the problem is that customers not returning/recycling bottles or that garbage just gets landfilled.

Compare that to Nordics, where Norway achieved 95.4% return rate of PET bottles (~0.3 USD return cash-back), and Sweden 84% (~0.15 USD return) [1]. Most countries in EU have landfill ban [2], so most of waste is either burned or recycled. Diverting bottles/cans to return scheme solves garbage sorting problem, which makes it possible to process/recycle 100% of it just by improving recycling facilities.

In my personal opinion, closed loop systems (full ban on landfills) are better for everyone, but require deep systematic changes, potentially using "dirty" psychological tricks, to get done what's really needed. Adding deposits may sound negative from NIMBY/corporate, but it leverages human psychological on last mile (where garbage sorting is easiest) and from empirical evidence achieves what needs to be done.

- [0] https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-...
- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container-deposit_legislation
- [2] http://www.cewep.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Landfill-taxe...
ThinkPads tends to be pretty solid. When they fall, it's not uncommon there's a dent in a wooden floor, but no scratch on the laptop itself...
I would consult an attorney to get a serious letter sent to her, and at the same time have them advise of other recommendations.
That depends on who you want to be hired by. Some companies already know exactly what they need - they need some specific software written so they are looking for a programmer.
Not this particular motor, no. But you can bet people will be swapping these into racecars all the same. I'd love an electric powered track car.
I was certain this was a parody site, but after reading the hilarious comments on HN I am no longer confident.
Because not more than one person can live in a house?
You’re not worried about their mobile experience until the app fails to work in a tunnel because they are expecting an always on connection or they have half their records on their mobile and half on their server and need to figure out which to use or they never had to figure out a syncing algorithm because you usually don’t have to sync things on the web since you never expect long periods of not being connected.

Edit: and I forgot to mention the biggest UI failure I made when I did mobile development a decade ago on WinCE ruggedized devices. I didn’t even think about actually taking the device out into the sun where are all of the field service techs would be working and seeing how the screen, colors and contrast looked.
I officially suck at this game, but it is pretty cool :-)
So, Rev C is G2 [Edit: nope]. What's the cutoff between G1/G2? Is "Rev B" G1 or G2?

(Granted, I mostly see Rev C.)
Difficult to implement, how do you know if a given person is obese due to soda or to, e.g., genetics?

And even if it could be implemented, it's still not the point of universal healthcare. In most European countries we'd rather take care of everyone, even those who are guilty of their own health problems.

For example, and even from an egoistic point of view and leaving ethics aside, I'd rather have drug addicts treated and sheltered with my tax money than having to encounter dozens of them, homeless and stinking from bad hygiene, every time I walk the street, as I have seen in many US cities.
Wot: 63% cyberbullying occurs after the player’s death. Scientist ofer solution
It's basically the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which has long since been disproven, but the soft version is still kicking because it's much harder to disprove and part of it is necessarily true (but I think it's mostly tautological).

Don't know if that's in the article, sorry if I'm just repeating stuff.
That would be inconsistent with generally accepted social values in western countries.
I can’t tell if you’re kidding, but this is a slippery slope that doesn’t end well, especially for addictive behavior. “Oh, you’re addicted to opioids? Sorry, no treatment for you. Maybe you should’ve been more responsible.”

It’s not the job of a doctor to pass moral judgement on you. They can recommend healthier habits, but doctors deciding whom to treat and whom not to treat based on some arbitrary moral judgement is really scary territory. It’s punitive and more importantly, it doesn’t work. Punishing people for their self-induced health problems doesn’t make them better, and it opens the door to some really scary discrimination.
This was well covered in the NPR podcast Throughline:

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757539617/the-litter-myth
Because most languages are highly similar and Google + your IDE is powerful enough to make up shortcomings. E.g If you have solid background in dynamically typed) languages (e.g. python, J's), GC static typed (Java) and lower level (C/c++ and/or one flavor of ASM), you've basically seen all ways of thinking. E.g. picking up something like Go can be done in a matter of weeks. Languages with more novel concepts though (e.g. That's memory model) will be much harder to onboard to.

> Is every C++ programmer a graphics programmer? Can a C++ programmer become one overnight? Highly doubt it.

That's different. It's the domain jump (be good at graphics) that is hard, not switching languages.
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As someone who would buy this TV: the point is that it's not a TV, it's just a display.

I have external speakers, I never use the speakers in my TV. I have a streaming device, I never use the streaming features built into my TV. My streaming devices have their own remote controllers which interact with the TV using HDMI-CEC, I don't use my TV's remote controller.

All the "features" built into my TV are obstacles that I'm happy to pay to have removed. Due to the speakers being built in, the TV likes to randomly switch to those instead of my external ones. The streaming apps lead to the TV having an entire operating system of its own which causes it to take longer to power on, longer for me to get to the things I want and more complex to interact with and configure.

I essentially just want a really big PC monitor. Just give me something that takes a digital signal in and beams corresponding coloured lights into my eyeballs.
>It's also hard to consider dumb when it requires a smartphone to even use.

RIGHT?!? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
I was worried for a moment that a fake account that uploaded the extension (since it's such a new account), but links from the official website point to the Firefox extension too.

https://snowflake.torproject.org/

This also has a Chrome extension linked.
There's actually an open source DDR4 controller[1]. To my untrained eyes it looks quite complex. It's written in Python using Migen[2] to generate the HDL.

[1] https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litedram

[2] https://github.com/m-labs/migen
Valid concern, just addressing this:

> How about the fact that Cloudflare-issued certificates are for dozens of domains? If the US wants to snoop on foreign domain X, a US order for US domain Y, also on the same cert, would give them the private key.

Caveat 1 is that they've started to issue 1 cert per domain (I believe only for ECDSA certificates, aka ones that use their own CA), and caveat 2 is that you don't get the actual browser-trusted private key (of course the NSA could demand they turn it over).
To their direct competitors, yes. To water from the faucet, home-made iced tea, and other substitute goods, the deposit does not apply equally.
Why would a streaming provider not offer the customer an equal cost to not be advertised to, that the advertisers are paying to advertise to?

Plus, I would still expect ad free to allow an ad before the show starts, although its often an ad for other content, a la Disney Channel only playing ads for other Disney channel shows.
The revs that are posted on eBay are useless, even though that’s what’s advertised. Rev C is usually G1, rev B usually G2. But not always. ;-)

The only reliable indicator to check which one to buy is looking at the pictures: VGA is G1, DVI is G2. (Some G2 are photographed with a DVI to VGA dongle plugged in, adding to the confusion.)

There are 2 G2 versions: one with an LX100 and one with LX150. You can’t know which one you’re buying...

LX100 is still a gigantic FPGA for hobby stuff.
Yes, a monitor - a product that at 45”+ is missing for consumers and your only option is commercial screens.

Remotes - I find that I want one simple remote for 90% of the time.
Having vendor specific remote apps in my phone is vastly better than having three of four separates on the rare occasions I need to tweak something.
I prefer the apple remote to harmonys et al.
Right and then pay with increased crime and homlessnes.
A new Apple fruit has been designed by scientists – “Cosmic Crisp”
> It's also hard to consider dumb when it requires a smartphone to even use.

I think that in reality you don't even need to use the app. The TV should be powered on/off by your AV receiver or Apple TV or whatnot using HDMI-CEC.
I make this same comment every time this topic comes up, but Sysinternal's lightweight utility Desktops is far, far better than the W10 window manager. Its orders of magnitude faster and requires fewer inputs.

I have a couple config changes i make to use W10, and Desktops and f.lux are must-haves.
Or the same when you returned your previous bottle or can while purchasing the next one.
As a kid in Michigan during the late 70s, we scoured everywhere looking for cans we could return for the $0.10 (inflation adjusted $0.39 today) deposit. They were very difficult to find while they seemed to inhabit every ditch, roadside, and park in other states when visiting relatives. Obviously most cans were returned and the deposit refunded in Michigan.
If you want to come up with a way of saying deposits increase the cost of the product, focus on the cost of administration for collecting and refunding deposits rather than the deposits themselves.
The administrational/bureaucracy seems to generally be a problem with the US healthcare system, even for more affluent people.
But for homeless people it needs to be close to zero. For moral reasons (it would and does effectively prevent them from being treated like the humans they are) but also for efficiency reasons. If there's clearly no money to be had from someone, minimize your handling losses by giving them what they legally deserve without making it a lot of work for everyone.
You're right they do, just not on the lowest speed grade devices [1]

[1] https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/data_sheets/ds1...
I never was a fan of the Zilog Z80 (its instruction set reminded me too much of the idiotic intel 80x86 family), but seeing someone running the Control Program for Microcomputers on a whopping 25 MHz Z80 is incredibly cool... just imagine what kind of scene demos could be coded on this monster for the next demo party...

I wonder if it would be possible to retrofit an MMU onto a Z80 design and port a real UNIX to it? 25 or even 50 or even a 75 MHz UNIX server on a Z80 processor, that'd be a nice perversion...
I’m very excited about Google's Pixelbook line and ChromeOS. With Crostini (Linux integration) it has the potential to become my preferred OS for doing dev work. Crostini is still in beta and does have a ways to go yet.

The Pixelbook itself is excellent hardware with a top notch screen, trackpad and keyboard.
Easy Model Validator C-Sharp
Taking the opportunity to mention Spleen, which I've been working on for the past year: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen

It is a monospaced bitmap font available in several sizes, ranging from 5x8 up to 32x64.
I understand why an 8 bit number would be used for counting...

But that limitation makes no sense for WhatsApp user limit count. Presumably every user has an id number identifying them (maybe a long integer). You need to maintain a list of these users so your array is already way larger than 8 bits.

Can someone intuit why the 256 limit in WhatsApp?
On Micron’s website for most of their parts. Worked very well with Alteras’s memory controller some time ago. I needed to evaluate read write throughput for specific read/write patterns before designing printed circuit boards. I don’t unterstand what you mean with cross-platform.
Don't self-medicate. Not with pills, not with CBD, not with weed, not with anything.

Talk to a mental health professional.

Take care of yourself.
Interesting; I didn't know that was a movie reference. I had usually only seen it used in conjunction with "kill it with fire" (eg when fire wasn't enough).

The first recollection I have of it is this reaction gif (which must be 15+ years old by now): https://tenor.com/view/stickman-nope-funny-crazy-destroy-gif...
How to create a product demo video for your landing page
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A tiny macOS tool Hungrymark, bookmark your local file and web url
OP here - just a note, that "tverbeure" is the Tom I mention in my blog post.

None of this would have been possible without you, Tom! Thanks for everything.
Interesting article. I thought Bezos was just another greedy, power-mad megalomaniac. That he's also a dewy-eyed Trekkie who rationalizes his greed with dreams of space colonization makes it even sillier. Who knew Gene Roddenberry was more dangerous than any economic theorist?
>How will there be a race to the bottom on price, when companies like Netflix are barely cashflow positive right now?

I think netflix is in a bind cash wise, it costs cash to make content and they down own decades of library paid for in the past. The big 4 I mentioned are the ones that can race to the bottom. Disney might want to raise prices in 3 years but itll be right as ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal go into full swing.
I'm not sure about this anymore, my 2016 MBP has gotten some gnarly body dents all over it and it lives in my backpack and on my work desk. I've never actually dropped it. The 2016+'s seem incredibly soft.

You're likely talking about the internals which on mine seem ok. Except my right speaker makes crackle sounds 100% of the time. It's so distracting that the few times I've brought it on trips and used it to watch movies I've gone out of my way to find speakers and an aux cable.

My 2015 definitely seemed like a work horse.
I would argue that this isn’t solely the responsibility of the programmer. This is where testing and QA comes in. Also, these are pretty basic considerations when building mobile apps and I would argue that they aren’t language specifics.
your intentions are certainly nice, but do you want to get Soviet Union? Because state-controlled housing is how you get Soviet Union
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