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80x25 comes from VT100's 2 kilobytes display memory limit.

>Then in 1983 the Apple IIe was introduced, the first Apple computer to natively support an 80×24 text display, doubling 40×24 of previous Macs.
Also, (almost) all humans have two feet because shoes come in pairs of two. /s
Isn't that a standard arbitrage mechanic? They're providing a service by storing and stocking items that the general market has decided are not worth producing more of, and people are willing to pay more for certain odds and ends.

It would only be predatory if the items were produced in insufficient quantities on purpose to specifically make money on the arbitrage mechanic, which isn't sustainable for any serious business who wants to maintain its reputation.

It seems like a valid strategy, and I'm failing to see how it's predatory. Could you elaborate?
We generally don't nationalize industries over here.

As to breaking up, it might make sense to split of the civil aviation portion of Boeing so that it could fail or be restructured without affecting national security interests.
I agree. Most legal docs could probably be better captured in markdown or asciidoc rather than MS Word (and all the bloat it brings with it).
Also the fact that signing in to any google website automatically signs you in to the browser now.
Poor man's lazy evaluation. I'm sure they'll try to shoehorn monads in somehow with C++23
This article is complete nonsense.
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Correct, this is explaining that prior to the Mac terminals used then-current TV tech which had these limitations, and that the limitations were even more severe on display of color text, as was the case for the Apple ][ (intended to show that it's not even true that terminals were 24x80 or 25x80, it's that black and white terminals were that size because they could be and color terminals had even fewer characters because thats all they could have).

As they say, correlation does not imply causation. It's a coincidence that Black and White tv screens from long ago had just enough pixels to display 80 columns of text.
I worked on that code. Sorry.

Originally it was a dutch isp that wanted the feature. They wanted a pop up that would ask the customer if they would like to buy more gigabytes when the costumer began running low on data.

There was a large back and forth. The general thought process at the time was, "If technology can be used a certain way, it will be used that way." So, we went back and forth over hypothetical situations of how an ISP or business could use javascript injection. Like, "Could an ISP use this to steal personal data?" Ultimately, browsers were beginning to default to tls at the time, so it seemed like it would be a short lived feature.
> 2 kilobytes display memory limit

That too
yeah there is randomness but the companies that tend to go away often have a fatal flaw, such as being dependent on a single customer, or are fads, or have cut throat competition and tiny margins. This is why clothing companies are such bad investments compared to information tech. Tesla has none of those problems.
If you apply pressure to your eyes, you'll see phosphenes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene).

You can also see them during meditation, and as hypnagogic hallucinations while you're falling asleep (but you might not remember this).
The issue is certified aircraft. I think the 'certified' USB charger was around $300 for the part when we installed one - in addition to the certified mechanics time. The experimental side is cheap.
"As a founder, I have a personal goal that's just as important and just as core to our culture: I do not want to sell this company. I have opened nearly every meeting by telling potential investors and potential employees this, so I guess readers should know it from the beginning as well."

https://pando.com/2012/01/16/why-i-started-pandodaily/
But wait, I thought CRTs don’t really have resolution per se. Especially for horizontal, I’d imagine things are quite flexible. The same might not be true of an NTSC signal, where 80 columns probably would not work terribly well, but why would it matter for 72 vs 80 vs etc.?
When I started conforming to it, my code became a lot more concise.

I'd advocate every developer conforms to PEP-8 rules (80-char, nesting limits, etc), at least for a 3-12 month period. They'll be a better developer for it.
It is really hard to determine what qualifies as trauma in this article.

It seems like a spectrum of course, but it is hard to tell what region of the spectrum is being focused on.
A better link imho:
An article with links to the original papers ..
https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-rats-drive-tiny-car....

posted to earlier submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21340128
I will remember your comments should I ever feel the need to call it.
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For those not interested in a tremendous amount of meaningless piffle about the article author, skip twenty paragraphs in to get the actual interview with Calvino.
but the person who buys telsa instead of an index fund is likely anticipating increase volatility and has higher risk tolerance
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I think the main error I see when developers try to create a lot of docs, vs the most common "uniformly underdocument", is to get twisted in a pretzel over what point or detail to include when, eventually splattering all of it into one form(whether that be tutorial, API reference, or some other idea) while still not covering everything because when you explain everything you eventually end up crossing over into being a programming tutorial.

The more systematic approach which I've really caught onto recently is to assume it has to be atomized a bit to get any breathing room. Make distinct spaces for the narratives, spaces for basic concepts and references, spaces for formal overviews, and spaces for single tasks, features and APIs. Then have them link to each other, using the link as the leverage to let each part of the documents use the necessary vocabulary without overexplaining. While it's possible to overdo that and produce documentation that is a thicket of links, just clarifying that you have a distinct purpose to the space makes the writing process much more systematic - no confusion over what the writing needs to concentrate on.
This is a point in his favor, isn't it?
Sounds interesting. I also have some minor but unsettling symptoms which I think could be related to such things. Would you mind sharing what kind of symptoms you experience?
I'm not sure what lazy evaluation had to do with it... but it's something that will be much easier when concepts are in the language with C++20.
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But wait there is more keep following Twillio... I will reiterate Twillio!!!!!!!!!!!!!! INVESTIGATION ITS TIME!!!!
Surprisingly one of their corporate values is "earn trust" with the exception of all these products they sell that they aren't responsible for. Hopefully this announcement is representative of a meaningful effort to establish that trust again.
>In a legal document negotiated between parties you don't want to keep track of every version of the file, just the latest version of the offered terms and counteroffered terms.

Not true, at least from the point of view of a litigator.

The changes to an agreement can be crucial, especially in the absence of an entire agreement clause. There are, of course, rules about using evidence outside the agreement to construe its meaning, but many exceptions to this rule exist - eg, mistake. The biggest exception is ambiguity, where previous additions/deletions serve to highlight what the parties' intentions were at the time of agreement.
Get custom molded IEMs. Alclair Audio will sell you a pair for $250. They sound so incredible you'll wish your phone had a headphone jack. Mine block 30db of sound. You can quite literally forget they're in your ears.
Verge has anti big tech bias. anti amazon anti Tesla, anti anything or anyone that is big and successful or rich.
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Limmy ...still trippin'....https://youtu.be/BHbZD68SGoE
Why doesn't anyone seem to be interested in this?
We can almost always tell what a given piece of software will do, we just can't tell what all software will do in all cases.
I think everybody using Feedbin, Feedly, Newsblur, The Old Reader, Inoreader, etc. would wonder who your "everybody" really is.
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Pretty good quote at the end. I’ll have to remember it next time I think I know something.

>As a personal aside, my two great frustrations with doing any kind of historical CS research remain the incalculable damage that academic paywalls have done to the historical record, and the relentless insistence this industry has on justifying rather than interrogating the status quo. This is how you end up on Stack Overflow spouting unresearched nonsense about how “4 pixel wide fonts are untidy-looking”. I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: whatever we think about ourselves as programmers and these towering logic-engines we’ve erected, we’re a lot more superstitious than we realize, and by telling and retelling these unsourced, inaccurate just-so stories without ever doing the work of finding the real truth, we’re betraying ourselves, our history and our future. But it’s pretty goddamned difficult to convince people that they should actually look things up instead of making up nonsense when actually looking things up, even for a seemingly simple question like this one, can cost somebody on the outside edge of an academic paywall hundreds or thousands of dollars.
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Senate prevents true democracy aka mob rule.
I expect the standard would be something like 80x25 regardless, given the size and resolution of early terminal monitors and how small you could make text before it's unreadable. Whether a different sized greenback ends up making a 70 or 90 column punched card, it's not that big of a difference from what we got. The 4:3 aspect ratio is probably the bigger influence.

It's like how rack mounts are 19 inches wide because the Bell System made that the standard for its telephone relay racks 100 years ago. In the long run it's more important that there is a standard than what it is.
So are pull requests to this repo going to have to be implemented with rebases and force pushes?
Wha tech do you use for your site?
And so this is a good example of what has been predicted to happen in a surveillance state: operators will use access to information to whatever ends they desire, whether it be part of their work assignment or not.

I've seen it plenty in the past: police officer and judges who use their access to "private" information to find the name & address of an attractive woman, or of an informant who later ends up dead.

Build it and "they" will use it to whatever ends "they" can think of. It seems to be part of human nature. Nobody, but nobody, can be trusted if a system can be accessed in any way without an audit trail and active measures.

This is why true encryption should be a right.
I think we can get them on board. Need to rebrand some things with latin terminology, that's all. Let them file a petitio tracto instead of making a pull request.
In your case you could convince others online to stop using Adsense while you look for another platform.

People will either find out the hard way this is not a full time job, or the company will be convinced to raise wages.
> It's not clear to me what the distinction is you're trying to make here?

If the uptake timescale is longer, uptake will catch up to emissions over time (I realize I didn't make that sufficiently clear in my previous post), so CO2 growth does not indicate that uptake has reached "maximum", which is what the post I responded to was claiming.
In what way positive?
DP/DR is like that.

Psychedelics are a tool that can be used to remove psychological disorders, but in the same vain can be used to create psychological disorders.

In an ideal world, if psychedelics were legal, they'd come with an instruction manual.
> The trouble is not that the AI can be wrong, it's that we will rely on its answers to make decisions.

It's not clear to me how this is different than the current standard?
Technically Win7 was already EoL almost 4 years ago... it's the extended support they're killing at the end of the year.
Such ridiculousness in posts like these. You want to stop climate change? That effort needs to include China and India, which between the two, are good for much of climate changing exhausts. You want truly renewable energy, with high yields and limited need for resources, go nuclear. Oh that's right, our climate zealots, who would have you punished for using your internal combustion engine auto, are afraid of nuclear, so that's off the table. Is climate change real? Yes. But stop with the sensational Green New Deals and the banning of air travel and such. Start with China and India.
“ At least on Android, it is possible for apps to periodically scan the nearby Wi-Fi networks in the background and send it to servers. This functionality is often seemed important for companies that monetize data for advertisements”

Is this true? If so I hope it’s not true for iOS/other mobile OS
It may be because I am running a Windows Insider build (19008.1), but this registry tweak doesn't seem to work for me. Any other tips?
Scaling that up to rats driving your "self-driving" car, I don't think I'd feel safe with less than 5 rats and a consensus mechanism in-place.

Perhaps some of these rats could even be replaced with sensors and Machine Learning. Just imagine the possibilities
So it gets moved to arbitration. If anything, it will move quicker and cost him less than a court case would.
As in, as far as I can tell, maybe like 1 month in 2015 to now would get you superior returns to the S&P, with like, 3x the volatility.
Unless you bought Tesla before like, 2013, the returns(especially risk-adjusted) in general are not great.

That definitely grinds my gears a bit when it comes to Tesla. The cars are fantastic, but the equity isn't quite the product. You can dismiss the haters, but that volatility is pretty intrinsic to Tesla.

They're doing a lot of great things, but that alone does not a great investment make, and I think that doesn't get discussed very honestly.
One thing it does have going for it, very low correlation.
Seems this has been vouched out of its shadowban, so I can reply now.

I'm extremely proud to be sponsoring Simon's open source work, and I'm looking forward to sponsoring others. I don't intend to turn SourceHut into an Uber-esque business where a veritable army of developers is sitting around and doing nothing. Most SourceHut users who have been keeping abreast of my plans have known that I wanted to re-invest the profits in open source, and this is how I've chosen to do it. This does benefit SourceHut users, by enriching the open source community in a way no other company is doing.

>(throwaway account because Drew holds grudges for years when people question him)

I don't know where this came from, but it's not really appropriate. It seems more likely that you have a grude with me.
> we cared about the increase in the speedup as D-Wave upgraded its hardware, and the trouble was that we never saw a convincing case that there would be one.

Is D-Wave still doing useful work in the field?

I've been meaning to read up on them and recent progress quantum in general... I still see D-Wave in the news often in the tech press and Canadian media.
I cannot praise this book highly enough. Every single person who has ever experienced depression or anxiety should read it.
I don't understand how "trauma is universal" is a reasonable interpretation of the facts that are related there. I'm always wary of an argument that hinges on the meaning of a word being changed (the subtle expansion of "trauma"; the standard definition being called "acute trauma" instead), but in this case I don't think even the expanded definition of trauma supports the conclusion that trauma is a "near universal human experience".

The ACE study mentioned ([0]) suggests that about 2/3 of people have 1 or more ACE, but after looking at the definition of ACE they used, it appears to use a significantly weaker definition of trauma than even the expanded one given explicitly in the article: it includes having a parent with a mental health issue, having a chronic health condition while young, or being chronically separated from a parent (due to eg divorce).

Further, it looks like there is quite a bit of clustering: people with ACEs that qualify as classic traumas tend to have several.

Perhaps trauma is much more pervasive than I thought, but it looks to me like the definition of trauma was changed quite significantly to make the claim hold.

[0] https://www.aap.org/en-us/Documents/ttb_aces_consequences.pd...

There is more info on the wiki page here as well:

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_Childhood_Experience...
I'm not aware of any API in iOS that exposes the list of nearby WiFi networks to an app.
Most early terminals were actually 80x24. I know the DEC VT series were. I remember being surprised when the IBM PC came out with an 80x25 display.
The rain tax thing makes sense to me. Storm water has to go somewhere. If it hits the ground then some of the water will soak into it. Covering the ground with a solid surface increases runoff. Which in turn increases the amount of infer structure needed needed to deal with the water and prevent flooding.

Covering the ground creates an externalised cost, basically someone else is being made to pay for the economic cost of that persons decision. Without a proper price signal externalised costs result in a net loss of wealth.

This is not a new thing. Laws dealing with the fact that rain water flows from property to property are in some of the oldest recorded regulations.
Yup. Weather, flight planning, most of the interaction with https://www.aviationweather.gov/
Ironic that the pain clinic doctor who recommended this book to me was also the most abusive doctor I've ever met. They caused trauma through emotional abuse and gaslighting to multiple patients before they were fired.
Might want to check your refresh rate, because I think your brain is lagging
Those Opterons were terrible which is why AMD was practically giving them away at low prices. They only got on the right track five years later when they ditched that architecture.
Make your editor worry about long lines. In vim:

set wrap
set sbr=\

In Visual Studio:

Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All Lnaguages. Select word wrap and Show Visual Glyphs.
It's rather sad that Canadian banks still view SMS as the best way forward. They'll text you, they'll email you, they'll validate over the phone... all of which are really this same problem.

I'm waiting for the days our banks will accept multiple 2FA solutions.
Sorry, with the first point I wasn't very clear, but what I meant was editing a document from a SSH'd shell, using a CLI text editor like vim, emacs, nano, or any of the plethora of existing tools that work out of the box to edit documents. Editing which can then be checked into version control like git. That is obviously very different from "you can build a CLI for LibreOffice which is currently compatible with the Track Changes implemented by MS Office but might not always be".

Having to use MS Word in the cloud doesn't really scratch the itch I'm talking about either.

That's cool about Office 2019, I did indeed not know about that. Can I perform these Sharepoint-enabled changes while offline? It seems like all of the things you are talking about require a centralized online server in order to do. Regardless, I do not think there is a conflict between the statements "you need Sharepoint to do these things" and "Track Changes cannot do these things".
No. The fact that he harvested way too much was all they needed to prove. He needed to prove it was all for his own private consumption and could not.

Interestingly enough, he won at the trial level on different grounds (challenging the process by which the limit was set) but lost at the appellate level.
I guess I'm not sure exactly which product you're mainly referring to. The steambox/link product appears to have been a flop. If you're referring to some type of on-demand gaming product that they're developing I'm unaware of that, but in general I'm very bearish on cloud gaming. It very much feels like a solution looking for a problem. Most people interested in console/pc-style games will have a hardware budget anyway, and the whole idea seems like a revenue/subscription money grab. Who knows, maybe I'm wrong and that's the way gaming is going in the future, but I know for a fact that latency issues are a big stumbling block and it just doesn't seem like a reasonable use of bandwidth compared to, say, streaming video. That Google "pre-emptive" rendering thing sounded like pure marketing double-speak to me.
Wasn't the case for the recent one with Tyson. Man, that was annoying.
That's a great idea. Have an opinion about the standard from experience, not gut feel.
I thought this aside about how Wikipedia has been taken over by extremists was even more interesting:

> It’s difficult to research anything about the early days of American currency on Wikipedia these days; that space has been thoroughly colonized by the goldbug/sovcit cranks. You wouldn’t notice it from a casual examination, which is of course the plan; that festering rathole is tucked away down in the references, where articles will fold a seemingly innocuous line somewhere into the middle, tagged with an exceptionally dodgy reference. You’ll learn that “the shift from demand notes to treasury notes meant they could no longer be redeemed for gold coins[1]” – which is strictly true! – but if you chase down that footnote you wind up somewhere with a name like “Lincoln’s Treason – Fiat Currency, Maritime Law And The U.S. Treasury’s Conspiracy To Enslave America”, which I promise I am only barely exaggerating about.
Your being downvoted but you have a valid point.
People should look up the NTSC/PAL standard for how analog TV screens worked. There were only ~560 scan lines in the raster pattern (vertical and horizontal blanking intervals notwithstanding). With a character height of 7 pixels/scan lines + one for spacing that gets you 70 lines of text on screen. Even if the punch card machines gave you more memory, actually using it would have required buying a special purpose TV. Eventually we did get CRT monitors which were specific for computers instead of television, but that wouldn't be economically viable at the time.
No, the sale of a company is governed by the one sale agreement.
ugh, “statutes can still be compiled artifacts”
One of my favorite passages of prose is from Calvino's "Invisible Cities"; I can't pass up the opportunity to share it on HN:

"When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the bettors. He was thinking of all these things when he desired a city. Isidora, therefore, is the city of his dreams: with one difference. The dreamed-of city contained him as a young man; he arrives at Isidora in his old age. In the square there is the wall where the old men sit and watch the young go by; he is seated in a row with them. Desires are already memories."
video: https://twitter.com/iflscience/status/1187008909246115841?s=...