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For me, Windows XP was the last version of Windows I found the need to reinstall regularly. I skipped Vista, and from 7 onwards, I never felt the need to do a reinstall.

I set up my current desktop with Windows 8.1 more than 5 years ago, upgraded to Windows 10, and still use the exact same installation to this day. It even survived a migration to a new SSD when I upgraded the PC a few years back.

The “needs regular reinstalls” meme had merit 10+ years ago. These days, not as much.
What is the likelihood that someone who requires this funding also has acquaintances with the ability to supply it?
If you use gmail, you can add a + followed by anything and it goes to the same mailbox.

For example, if signing up to drop, I might use myemail+drop@gmail.com

Makes it very easy to see which services are selling the address you provide to advertisers
Thanks, I do own it, laziness on my part not to correctly forward.
Webkit itself is very likely to die xD. Who uses safari nowadays?
Yeah - 5 Ohm is the bit that matters. I’m in the process of installing an off-grid solar energy system at my home, which the previous owner had wired up, ungrounded, with a generator.

I am not exactly following code, as my earth comprises a 5 meter RSJ left over from construction buried 30cm down under a dirt road - we have very little soil over bedrock, but the soil is full of iron. It’s only half buried but I’m at 2.2 Ohm, so it should do the job - have soldered a nice fat cable to it to be my common ground.
Yes, these may be very inhibiting factors. It's a bit of a chicken/egg problem too, because once bycicle culture grows, road safety also increases significantly:

> Despite the relative safety compared to automobiles, the number of fatalities and hospitalizations from cycling is significantly greater in the United States compared to other western states such as Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands. In a 2014 analysis, incidence of cycling death took place at a mean rate of 4.7 deaths per 100 million kilometers cycled in the U.S., compared to 1.3 deaths per 100 million kilometers in Germany, 1.0 in the Netherlands, and 1.1 in Denmark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_safety#Crashes
Millennials are turning to astrology to cope with an uncertain world
They do, but not enough to ensure longer distances are inefficient.

And especially the "ingress" roads do not block - from suburbs and further districts.

Now that is Poland, Warsaw, the city is designed to be more car friendly than most capitals in EU, more spread out, while still keeping strong public transport and bike as options.

The parts that block up are near choke points, City center, bridges, some big intersections.
The curious thing is that sun gives most energy near green color so plants evolved to reflect the most energetic part of sun's spectrum.

And nobody knows why.
The margin between 200 seconds and 2.5 days still exists
I must be some kind of unicorn then. I used iOS 13 betas since beta 1 and never encountered any problems. In contrast, I recall having all sorts of problems with iOS 9, 10, and either 11 or 12 (but not both). In one of these other betas, GPS was effectively completely broken on all AT&T iPhone X for the two week beta.
This isn't just using the axioms of geometry, though, it's trying to prove the Pythagorean theorem using the Pythagorean theorem as an axiom. Hence circularity.
That's nothing compared to their losses when cities start suing them for littering and causing accidents.

In some places the city has started gathering abandoned bikes for destruction. I wonder if you can buy these from the city and build something with the motor and the battery...
> A lot of micromobility advocates also seem to really hate public transit for whatever reasons

I haven't observed this, but it makes zero sense in the US.

The only way you could get 25+ bikes on a road in most of our cities is if they're in a very dense place with great public transit.

Otherwise, average commute distances are going to be too long for most people.
One of the problems was the original design Caltrans developed without any input from Oakland and San Fransisco was aesthetically an ugly piece of shit. Unsurprisingly the mayors of SF and Oakland wouldn't sign off on it.

Part of the reason for that is Gray Davis wanted the bridge construction to start as soon as possible because he wanted to show the voters he was competent and effective instead of the hapless fool he is.
Just wonder how you guys got the idea? Any Sharing?
They found me. I created the app, and people searching for certain phrases started finding it. There was some word-of-mount from hobbyists and makers, but not that much.

To this day I mostly rely on search engines for customer acquisition (before you ask: yes, I tried, and measured carefully: every attempt at advertising had a net zero effect, e.g. I was putting money on fire for no good reason).
Definitely put a number on it! And track how close you actually are. I think 10% of revenue will be deemed too much for most organizations.

Usually Support is seen as a distraction to new product development or whatever the strategy is, but often I see management overestimate how much time and money is spent on it. So, just tracking that cost/time will likely increase it and improve customer satisfaction.

Unfortunately, improving Customer Support is not rewarded in organizations as much as cutting costs, creating new products or expanding revenue, so you'll probably need the CEO to care a lot about it to improve matters. And CEOs can't really put a number on improving customer support, so it is optimized to cost less over the near term, not deliver a better service.

I also see the worrying tendency to keep only Customer Service or equivalent responsible, as if they can fix the bugs and improve the design.
> And they paid twice as much for their electric bikes ($2000) than they did for their pedal bikes. Let that sink in: The Dutch are already starting to abandon their pedal bikes.

This is nonsense. Those ebikes are pedal bikes, they're just electrically assisted up to 25 km/h. You still have to pedal to move forward. And you have to ride them on bike paths/lanes just like normal bikes. So they certainly don't enable getting rid of bike paths: mixing those 25 km/h (often elderly) ebikers with car traffic would be a disaster.
I just wanted to ensure you about my total support as a paid user, and patience during that bad year. Thanks for your product!
Of course I would forget that.. that's kinda' the point of storing it somewhere where I could go back to it, many years later (also I wanted somewhere where it was stored with a verifiable timestamp so that I could share it X years later and make it obvious that it's not something I made up on the spot, but something that I truly predicted years ago)

(I'm pretty sure one of them was around the idea that "data science will be the new 'computer science' in terms of job attractivity", but I honestly forgot the others. There were something like "20 things" or anyway a fixed number of predictions, some that I felt were bolder and some that were "safe bets").
Some are pretty good, I think the last one I rented had 80 to 160km range depending on the power setting/terrain. I used it to visit around my home town, climbed hills (paved and in the woods), visited small towns 35km away, climbed the steepest road (7km, 600m height difference) in the area on full power, &c. and never worried about the battery. If I ever move back to the country side I'll get one for sure. You can even remove the 25kph limit and make it go up to 50kph if you get a license plate / insurance.
I haven't processed the blog, but considering IBMs resources wouldn't it be simpler to refute it by actually doing it in 2.5 days?

Or is there some catch that undermines that headline claim?
>> The employee and jealous ex even made up, got married, and have children now.

/s if not for the app, that ex would never be able to get over their jealousy
Yeah I know, and you're unfortunately correct that I use Gmail, but it's something I'm planning to change soon.

Also, if someone was targeting you with spam that won't help. They'll just remove the "+..." and you're back to the same problem.
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> Humans will relocate, and lose a lot of wealth, but why would they die en mass?

What a wonderful world you live in. Do you genuinely believe it's that simple?

What do you think happens when 1 million people move from one country to another? They do not simply relocate, they are parked in camps (if you want current examples of that look at the Rohingya people, or Syrian refugees in Lebanon) until they can go back home, as you can guess the sanitary situation of these camp is more than precarious (cholera is a big threat for instance). With climate change, their will be no way back, and it's not going to be one million of people, but hundred millions.

What do you think would happen if a country, let say Italy for instance, had to park 10 million people in camps for years? Don't you think people in camps would eventually revolt violently to get out? What would Italians do then? Don't you think European countries would anticipate this outcome and just block refugees from entering, shooting the one trying to? Because it's already in the political agenda of most far-right parties here in Europe, and most of them are not that far from power (Salvini and Orban and just the first of a long series coming…). Due to the fight against illegal immigration, there already been thousands (around 17 000) of death in the Mediterranean see since 2014. And you can be sure it's not going to be better when all central Africa is uninhabitable …

And when people fleeing their countries are not accepted (as in “parked”) in neighboring countries, they just wander in the wild until everyone is dead. That happened for instance to people fleeing Rwanda to Congo.

Large scale population migration are incredibly difficult, and they almost always go wrong, and least a bit. Expecting 1 to 10% of the refugees dying isn't that pessimistic. From the figures discussed earlier, that mean between 2 and 150 million death. Which comes in the same ballpark as the biggest humanitarian disaster of the 20th century…
I agree. I looked through that list and there's nothing in the list that doesn't apply to previous releases
Windows 7 Party
> You are writing this based on gut feeling, big companies simply can't go over every bug report- it's not scalable.

I often hear this repeated, and I keep wondering: why? Why is it not scalable?

Apple had 265 billion dollars of revenue in 2018. I'm spending 10% of my budget on QA. So, in the case of Apple, if you had a 26 billion dollar budget (give or take a few billion) for your QA department, why couldn't you go over every bug report?

It's definitely possible, it's just that companies are making a different tradeoff, assuming that bugs will not influence buying decisions that much. And to a certain extent they are right.
DIY Ambilight Using Arduino and Hyperion
The Positive Impact of Human CO2 Emissions on the Survival of Life on Earth [pdf]
Cool! I used to run an ecommerce website a few years ago, 50K usd/month revenue.

We used to get our customers from seo only.

If I had to do it now I will probably try Facebook ads + email list.

How do you acquire your customers?
Ubiquity -- Uber works in London, but it also works in Manchester, and Cardiff, and New York, and Sydney

Addison Lee works in London.
I was also curious so I've taken a look at it (but not in detail) and it looks to me like it sends what you type to the server that generates an image in real-time using the font, so you don't have the font itself, just what it's going to look like with your text.
Ebikes have improved a lot in recent years. Bosch makes a large amount of the batteries used in ebikes and they have a handy website indicating what kind of range you can expect:

https://www.bosch-ebike.com/au/service/range-assistant/
Nobody needs this. Nobody should need to enumerate low-level things like devices from a fucking web-browser.

Make a real native app all the other decent people if you need this. Let the user assess the risk that way, and see how the market votes.
> In reality App Stores are bad, too much enforced centralization.

This holds for any kind of store, from supermarkets to Amazon.
Due to responsiveness. When i move or resize a window, the UI feels too sluggish with the window (or its edge) being several frames behind the mouse cursor (which is composited by the GPU on top of the most recent framebuffer state).

Without a compositor running (which introduces its own lag due to having to draw all toplevel windows in its own backbuffer) and v-sync, everything is up-to-date.

There is tearing, of course, but the only time it bothers me is when i watch a video - in which case i enable vsync in the video player. But other than that i prefer the responsiveness.

FWIW it is the same in games too, i always play with vsync disabled and i always notice when a first person game (where i have direct control of the camera with the mouse) is rendering behind the current state (some games use previous game state(s) to keep the GPU busy). And yeah it annoys me when it happens.

Some people suggest high refreshrate monitors, but to me that feels like a workaround that lowers the problem's impact, but doesn't make the problem go away.
The most important update is this, which was not in the draft: "The datasets generated and analysed for this study are available at our public Dryad repository".

In coming days, I am sure many will perform the independent analysis of these datasets.
I agree with you completely. I agree with the conclusion, but the way the author gets there just looks wrong to me. I feel the scientific method is mischaracterised throughout, for example when the author says it's one of "intentional ignorance" where scientists only look at certain facts an leave out others, the point is they aim to include as many as they need to capture the phenomena they're looking at.

Elsewhere, the article's just wrong. It claims "the concept of temperature lacks clear meaning" amongst scientists. This isn't true: temperature has a perfectly clear meaning through statistical mechanics.

I came away with the feeling the author doesn't really understand the science under discussion, which is frustrating because I share the conclusion and I think it's an interesting question
To me there's a big difference, in terms of urban transport, between a pedal bike and an e-bike, mostly because of the acceleration capability of the e-bike, which is even better than fossil fuel engines.

My feeling is that initially the 'e' revolution will start with e-bikes but ultimately will end up with electric mopeds (no fiddly gears) and electric tricycles (two wheels at the front) with seat belts and modest roll cages.
It is always a pleasure to see that something is already on HN when I'm going to submit a post,

We honestly could not have gotten back on track if it was not for the persistent support of this community, so please let us know (on GitHub or Slack @kittybot or @boros) if you feel we missed to add you to the listing in the post.

May the Thinker be with you,
Cheers
This is the first time I see temperature defined as "an emergent property of molecular motion". I agree that this definition is vague, but I've always seen the temperature of an object defined as the medium kinetic energy of the particles that form that object, and I don't see this definition as a vague one at all. Now we should see if and how this medium kinetic energy can affect a person's health, but this is a different problem (and one that has been already studied and afaik produced not too vague results).
They switched from floats to rationals falling back to floats when the numerator or denominator gets large. And I don't see that Javascript deserves any particular praise or blame for that choice; it would be a perfectly reasonable way to implement a calculator in any language.
And the iPhone is still around, whereas Symbian isn't.

Possibly proving that iOS (and the hardware it runs on) was what consumers wanted in the mid-2000's and onward?
I think the quote from IBM means it'd take 2.5 days to run. That doesn't include actually implementing it.
How the fuck is that possible? It was one of the largest film franchises at the time.
“Special register groups” invaded computer dictionaries for decades
I was building a workshop last year and as I have few old 3-phase metalworking machines and the power comes through a 50m (150ft) buried cable I had to install proper ground for the building and another two independent ground connections for the lightning protection. I have no bedrock, but my soil is pretty much 100% clay plus a football sized stones here and there around the building. The code around here is that the ground connection should be no more than 4 ohms resistance. I was lucky with two lightning protection grounds. For one a single 2.4m rod was enough and for the other two rods (I had the type that screws into each other so you can make the rod longer and longer if necessary) were required.

However, I wanted to locate the electrical ground few meters away to avoid the possibility of a lightning strike raising my ground potential. I ended up having to install 6 rods to get down to 4 ohms. The first two rods were 7 ohms, the next two 2 meters away were 15 and the final two were 25 if I remember correctly.

The take away from that story is: always measure your ground resistance. Never assume 8ft is enough if you have a certain type of soil.
Presumably the idea is that the reporters can prepare a story on them that's live as soon as the numbers are out - kind of like early screenings of movies for reviewers (who are also sometimes sworn to secrecy!) But seeing how much financial value the information has, maybe it isn't worth the risk.
Designing algorithms and implementing them on quantum hardware is not straightforward.
Yes Brexit is a real mess for plant collectors (and for almost everyone else, but that's just my opinion).

Looking forward to send you plants, make sure to say you're from hacker news in the notes of your order ;) I don't have a mailing list yet, although that is a good idea and I will look into it for the next season!
Recent NTSB video:

https://youtu.be/hBjntrebxj8
Automotive companies do, though.
We have a car. My wife and I still cycle to work each day.
You sometimes see them going faster so you know they've been modded or aren't compliant.

Well, except when going downhill. Or just because the cyclist puts some effort into it and rides faster, which isn't impossible at all on flats.
Top Reasons Why Google Sucks?
Sure, we'll still need bike lanes for pedal bikes.
You can if you really, really want. Turn off SIP and remount / as rw. You can create a launchd plist to redo this every time your os boots.
> The "FBI" didn't lose their son. Their son got lost on his own.

The FBI didn't give it their best shot to bring back their son. However, that is also not necessarily in the FBI's primary interests. The parent is mistaking the FBI's primary interests to be in line with their own.
> Things like these were common in construction before software engineering was a thing

I read in an architect's memoirs that when he was a student back in the 1940s whenever his Architecture faculty teacher and his students visited a construction site to maybe change some small details (or at least they were perceived as "small" by said architects) oftentimes they were met with very angry construction site workers who would make the above architects think again about trying to force the implementation of those small changes. A similar story was told to me by my father (also a civil engineer) as happening in the 1980s, though the level of implied violence coming from the construction workers was a little more subdued. Wish that we in the software industry would be like those construction workers from time to time.
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If you run i3 inside a gnome-session [1], you get gnome-settings-daemon running, which will set your dpi according to the preferences set in gnome.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332778
It's not strange many interesting people want to visit Joe Rogan podcast.

First, he is willing to give a voice to many who won't be able to tell their stories on mass media.

Who other will let speak people like James Damore? What major broadcaster is willing to interview Jordan Peterson without protraiting him as a villain?

He respects his guest, when in disagrement. His interview to Jack Dorsey (not much of his liking, I presume), was criticised for not being aggresive enough.

The interviewed is not afraid of a headline out of context.

Given the current political climate, I'm not suprised a MMA guy is capable of doing what most journalists don't.
MacOS people problems
The blurple lighting ended up being substandard for growing. Although you need to match the [Chlorophyll absorption spectrum](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Chloroph...), it isn't the only thing in a plant that absorbs light, and the proper spectrum is closer to [this](https://supergrowled.com/wp-content/uploads/Plant-Light-Abso...).

The best performing LED grow light designs are essentially conventional full spectrum white light, sometimes boosted with additional far red, not the blurple lights that just make short unusually dense, flavorless plants.
It's not the most accessible, but it's pretty interesting. Turning a problem into its dual has always been a bit of a dark art to me, but this article makes the benefits of doing so reasonably clear.
I read that case study - really cool stuff!
How does one justify giving $1.7B to someone who looses $219k/h?
I mean of course you do, they give you app review for free. The question is if it's sustainable for the market.
Running Costs of a SaaS
I think that’s where the

> and with far greater fidelity

comes into play.
Parse the definition a bit more here. The things you describe are "characteristics of fascism", but the part that actually _is_ fascism is "far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism". Authoritarianism is one part of fascism, but not the defining characteristic.
Isn't sunlight much more powerful in terms of energy than these lights? Couldn't we use a "one-way" mirror to reflect the led/lights inside, and still allow sunlight in during the day? The additional reflections inside the greenhouse might more than make up for the "shade" provided by the "one-way" mirror?

(now, AFAIK there are no actual one-way mirrors, simply semi transparent (both directions) - question is if we cut 70-80% of the leds escaping, would 20-30% sunlight entering be enough?)
Release candance is once per year, your company is just being conservative.
Current quantum processors are not useful for anything, so it can't aid design of classical computers (among other things).
Sure, no disagreement there. I’m not arguing against bikes but we should also be heavily investing in other forms of mass transit.

You bike in during the dead of winter, and that’s amazing. But how long is your bike ride in? How far out of the city do you live? Would you still do it if your commute was double?

Additionally, in Ottawa, many people live far out of the city and commute in via the highway for 30-40 minutes by car because it’s more affordable than living in the city. The bike ride is well over two hours. They will need other solutions as well.
youtube-dl -f bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a] -o "XBox One Story by Tony Chen.mp4" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo
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