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Firstly with regards to the article, this is a neat environment and simple project, but lacks niceties even basic hardware such as the Atari VCS featured, including sprite handling and collisions thereof. When I start developing 6502 games, I expect to start with the Atari VCS or NES/Famicom platform, neither of which I believe have a true framebuffer. One noteworthy and fundamental difference between these sets of environments that's particularly interesting is that this 6502asm is capable of modifying its own code, whereas the other two environments mentioned use ROM and so lack this. As for its age, it seems younger than twenty years and so certainly wouldn't qualify as a first.

Secondly, with regards to RodgerTheGreat, it's interesting to see one of your messages here. I'm not certain I'd mark CHIP-8 as the first, but that's due primarily to my not being aware of any older virtual machines used for games, discounting any games on, say, the DEUCE. I've participated in this game jam, as well as the last, so I expect my submission has been properly submitted; here's to at least one other game I submit.
No, it means that we should probably stop believe completely unsubstantiated claims based on the sole fact that its trendy to hate on Google.
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You don't speak for all men, and especially not all women.
Well, in that case, as a long term solution, we need to start teaching basic tech security in k-12, kinda like we teach kids drivers ed, home economics, shop class, etc. It doesn't have to be a whole class. Maybe just 1 or 2 hours per year, go through all the basics of security like how to 2FA, and how to pick unique passwords.

Or use some kind of hashing strategy that's based on remembering a single password. It would use your psssword plus the login website name to generate a unique password.
20% of the Swiss working population is made of immigrants, plus many more in temporary work contracts.

Swiss cities where most of the economic value is being created are far from homogenous.
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I guess there aren't that many global network providers - I'm not even sure how much fiber Amazon owns in Japan, Australia or Northern Europe for that matter.

But I think level3 is associated with:

https://www.centurylink.com/business/hybrid-it-cloud/public-...

And while they have a call-us price list (if you have to ask...) - they at least state:

"Public and Private high-capacity networking options up to 10Gbps. Note: there is no charge for internal data center traffic.
Cost on a per-GB-out model"

I have no idea what they charge pr gb for this cloud product however.
I have met the Walmart order pickup robot (the so-called Pickup Tower [1]) - it has convinced me that well-designed robots are inevitable. In general, it has made package pickup a pleasure for me though I admit that in the early days, it required some employee assistance. I have picked up many tens of packages from this facility at my local-ish Walmart and it has been wonderful. By comparison, the previous manned package pickup scheme was almost always a nasty experience: non-working 'buzzers', long waits, 8pm close up times, and other unnecessary nonsense. I used to dread picking up an order at Walmart before the Pickup Tower became available and now go out of my way to go to a Walmart with this pickup tower vs. going to a closer location with the ring-and-wait-around-like-a-flipping-fool package pickup service.

[1] https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/innovation/20180405/h...
I'll bite.
What's the site ?
Scooters, Bitcoin, Tinder, Meditation Apps. Then literal toys like Fortnite, Pokemon Go.
Isn't more cell antennas equivalent with much lower transmission power? Especially the phone needs to use way less power, so total amount of EM for humans nearby is going to be significantly lower.

Now compare to AM/FM transmitters that cover a huge geographic area. Those can be scary. FCC allows up to 50000 W transmission power. It's required because the antennas are spaced so far apart.
> still require third-party software/drivers

Back in the 3.1 and 9x days it didn't require 3rd party drivers, thanks to ramdrive.sys
Is it possible that this is just a stupid, simple sorting bug in the warehouse software?

As a battle scarred developer, I'm primed to think about issues like some algorithm decided LIFA was faster than FIFO, and it's worth my time to investigate whether my coworker didn't differentiate between perishable and non-perishable because they were so pleased with their shortest route algorithm that they couldn't be bothered by trivialities like reality and biology. They'll probably even blame it on their boss instead of on avoiding confrontation.
I generally tip 15-20% (and used to tip cash before the apps added tipping in-app). If a driver bothers or harasses me about a tip, I'll be happy to make an exception for that particular driver.
I think you misunderstood the parent post. They didn’t say only apply to 5 companies. They said don’t send 50+ Low quality applications in one go. Send five high quality ones to places you think are a good fit, follow up, and then send five more.

I think it’s good advice. Although the points you make are generally true too.
CRISPR could ameliorate almost all genetic disease in 1-2 generations (~40-60 years). We're so close in so many ways, now we're just trying to make sure the procedures are safe.
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> All subreddit content is available under both www.reddit.com and np.reddit.com. (I'm not 100% sure why Reddit has both.)

np.reddit.com stands for "no participation". np.reddit.com disables comment and voting. It's intended so that links to niche subreddits from popular subreddits like /r/BestOf don't result in a flood of outsider activity that disrupts the niche subreddit.
> increasing yellow light duration is significantly cheaper than contracting out a network of cameras to a vendor who takes over half the revenue from each ticket.

It's cheaper for society, yes. It's much more expensive if you're the government notionally "paying" for that contract. It's paid out of revenues you didn't have before.
> Management has no business having an opinion on unionization one way or the other. If anything, most managers should be pro-union since they're as likely to get thrown under the bus to keep profits up as their direct reports.

Unionization restricts the management's ability to adapt to new situations and challenges in the pursuit of profit. Shareholders hire and task management to do exactly that, which is why the two are almost always opposed to what is, in effect, tying of their hands.
Had the same impression about this. Also some drivers used these figures to cap their _daily_ driving. I guess there may be still some way to estimate this based on their experience.
I didn't claim all men are stoic. I said "to me".
I think cpsmith said it well in another comment on this page that we're talking about technologies, not individual companies[0]. Would other people (mainstream users) say the tech is for hobbyists? The examples I cited (desktop 3D printers and smart homes) are definitely considered hobbies today, regardless of whether anyone would classify Hiome as a hobby.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21316776
This was my thought regarding Google's Soli chip[0] when I saw comments talking about it's usability limited to cooking or other fringe cases.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21269877
I've been thinking lately that we, as people working in the tech industry, especially in places like London, NY, SF, are in a unique position to self organize in a way no other group of workers is.

We are fortunate enough to live in a period that our skills are extremely sought for, we tend to work and specialize in code bases or technologies specific to a company, but we at any time we can take these skills and move away.~

The atmosphere and the general consensus in most companies tends to be that "no one is irreplaceable" which is true but it doesn't seem to take into account the cost to replace someone: You will need to find the right person, which means that some engineers' time will be spent on interviews, either phone ones or face to face, and not delivering "value" for the company; once you find the right person, you will then need to spend at least an extra month where that person is getting up to speed with "how things work" (paired with another person probably, even more time spent not delivering "value"), plus some more time for that person to actually become productive, and eventually after a few months, get in the position of the person that left.

Now, think in your immediate team, what is your bus factor? How many people would need to leave before it's going to be unsustainable for the feature/project/company to continue?

The usual counter-argument is that "it's easy to leave if you're young, but when you have family, you have to think more than just yourself" and I can totally sympathize with this. But as I said in the beginning, especially if you work for in one of the big hubs, and/or in one of the FAANGs, you could probably be in a new place within a week's time.

We don't need to "unionize" in the traditional term. The companies don't even have to
"acknowledge" a union. As long as we keep in mind how fortunate we are to working in tech
now, and we are determined to just walk away from places that we are not happy at, they
will come to us.
Ask HN: Why you deleted Facebook or any other social network?
What are the main reasons why you decided to delete Facebook or any other social network account?
"why mess with Mail’s classic layout? It’s been my preferred layout since Mac OS X 10.0, and that type of layout has basically been the one I have used since I started using email more than twenty years ago"

This seems to be the heart of the post. I see the value in stable, unchanging things, but I also have to believe the designers at Apple are trying to make things better, and I think that is honorable.
You could also poll the client to see what threads they're reading. You could add this to an engagement score of some sort.

On a page with a long list, you add this score to all the items on it they're reading
If you're an asshole or try to hire me on as a 1099 contractor, I charge double. $100/hour is with the asshole penalty factored in.
I’m always wary of MacOS upgrades from when Snow Leopard made my Warcraft and Age of Empires stop working.

Ultimately, I find it best to just suck it up and upgrade and use virtualization to run specific stuff.

Mac is the easiest for me to have a daily driver browser while also being useful for most dev and basic Unix user tasks.
> Humans are not rational, and it's naive to believe that they ever possibly could be.

If this is true, we're screwed, because governments are run by humans.
> If the software industry were to unionize, the union would want to collectively bargain for seniority-based job security rules and other schemes to prevent lower-paid new-hires (people not YET in the union) from taking work from existing union members. Other versions of this effect come in the form of union-imposed certification schemes in the trades, "tenure" rules in education, seniority precedence in picking hours in healthcare, etc. The net effect is that the experienced and powerful members make it hard for the young to get into the profession.

Wow, I didn't know the Writer's Guild and Actor's Guild in Hollywood had seniority-based positions.
> Peer review is a lowest level quality mark for a piece of science.

Peer reviewed used to be the epitome of proof, now it's been relegated to base minimum?

Are you saying that consensus is no longer considered valid proof? (not that I disagree, it's just that this is a rare argument in my experience)
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Yeah I'm struggling with the notion of why commingling prevents audit trails. You don't even have to use separate bins for audits, although I admit that makes it pretty trivial. You just need a label.
Will I be able to pay the $2k via IOU for my future UBI?
I remember building dial-up internet providers in the late nineties(97/98) here in Brazil as a teen, and some consulting folks trying to sell us some Solaris licenses, laughing at us because we were using Linux, 'that toy OS'.

It would be kind of easy to make a stand against the microsoft fanboys against NT 4, but it was much more difficult to make a good case of Linux against Solaris back then. (Remember Linux starting to be taken seriously by 2.2 and 2.4 period)

Also i got the same dismissive snarks, when installing and programing in PHP back then to make dinamic websites, in a world then taken by ASP and Cold Fusion. (And the other alternative in Unix were only Perl, for which i thank PHP for avoiding me the trouble).

It's a reminder for me, that the most common trend in IT sector is of folks with a "colonized" sort of mentality, that will fail to recognize the things that will turn into real things in the future.

It's sad when you think that its even worse than that, giving most people just show off and wait for their next paycheck. They dont even bother thinking in those things.

So the psychological profile of who are saying what is kind a very big deal, not just what they are saying.
I did upgrade. A small number of apps I depend on work fine. A larger number of homebrew dependencies work fine. They played with DPI scaling again, it works fine.

They fucked up USB device reattach and my dell dock is a hassle in clamshell mode, which is a multi time per day (sleep and plugin unplug) royal pain in the ass.

Tl;dr is no different to any recent upgrade if you live in a terminal to other hosts.
To save anyone reading 10,000 tedious words: It’s always a wise decision to wait till till the new OS matures before upgrading.
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Seems like he hasn't... just read about problems.
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I don't know. One is the person dedicated to the ideals of a tribe. The other dedicated to a tribe winning at all costs.

I'm really not an at all costs kind of guy. If my tribe ideals are good and needed, they should be elected.
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> Want to be green and look great? Drop the Patagonia fleece...

That Patagonia “fleece” would feel nicer, function better, and last longer if it were actually made out of a fleece and not out of plastic. I can’t really understand how that happened.
If you exclude Western Europeans from your "immigrants" statement, which is what the parent comment was clearly implying, it's not even close to true.
Unlike EMACS, (neo)vi(m) is a text editor, not an OS.
Fast fashion is bad. But I think the broken window fallacy is poorly matched to modern times. It’s useful to demonstrate why war is bad even if it boosts our GDP, but there’s so much nuance to things like repairs, obsolescence, globalism, switching costs, etc.

If something is bad for economic growth, whose growth matters? Ecological arguments are perhaps one of the better things to consider because at the end of the day it may kill everyone. shrug
I 100% agree! No denying there's still a lot of work, and, like usual, the transformation from toy to mainstream will take time and significant R&D.
It's an incredibly poisonous topic because most of the country does not agree with the premise. This is probably flame bait, let me know if it is.
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For what its worth, Catalina has made my 2019 run slightly smother and less buggy. This might be because it reset all the preferences or its just in my head. All my "pro" audio stuff seems to work and my Apogee Groove works like before. My usb hub network port/driver would fail/crash randomly on Mojave needing a reboot but this has not happened on Catalina.

Edit: And someone else replied, the DPI/font stuff seems to be fixed as it was driving me crazy in Mojave. The upgrade is worth a try for that alone.
Article shames cotton also.
"It takes about 700 gallons of water to produce one cotton shirt. That's enough water for one person to drink at least eight cups per day for three-and-a-half years."

My grief with the article is it hypes things and doesn't give very good context. It feels like it is cherry picking the worst examples.

Research is already being done to grow cotton using less water. This is the sort of solution that works.

100% cotton is difficult to find and finding good quality 100% cotton shirts is even more difficult. For Jeans, the original Levi's 501 blues is 100% cotton denim, many of the new styles are blends.
Some ideas seem similar to Taos:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607
Every time? I don't think so.
For those Washingtonians that didn't know about left-on-red (I didn't before a couple weeks ago), you can turn left on red (or a red arrow) as long as it's from a one- or two-way street onto a one-way street (or freeway on-ramp), after a stop and if it's clear.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181101-01/?p=10...

https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.055

I've never done it myself and don't intend to start since I think it's a bit obscure and I don't want to argue with a cop about it if I get pulled over.
They totally destroyed audiobooks in what used to be iTunes. No smart lists, can’t edit MP3 tags, can’t delete or listen to single tracks, can’t store files on external drive. I don’t understand how anybody could think this was a good idea. Why destroying functionality that worked and replace it with something that barely works? This is a huge disappointment.
I did it in the UK via http://www.preventicum.co.uk/
I hope the next big thing will move atoms around.

I think bits are very limiting. My Iphone, no matter how good the apps are, will never be able to get up and clean up the kitchen, or build me a house for that matter.
I think the "looking like a toy" terminology is confusing the discussion.

From the article:

> Disruptive technologies are dismissed as toys because when they are first launched they “undershoot” user needs.

So instead of asking if it "looks like a toy", what if we asked, which of those products started out by "undershooting" user's needs?

In that lens, I think you could make arguments for a few of those having started by "undershooting." The most obvious example to me is Amazon starting out as an online bookstore.

edit: I just want to add that from my vantage point this might be a true idea, but it gives very little actionable information. Perhaps Christensen's books give better insight on why this is something we should care about.
Buying used clothes online quickly runs headfirst into decision fatigue, incomplete information, and a lack of good filtering.

Walk into an REI and there might be five or ten choices, all probably pretty good, and you can try them on right there and read reviews and specs and information about the materials.

On eBay there are probably (I'm guessing) millions of nondescript black base layers in any number of condition, with an enormous range of fits for the same "size", fabric of unknown type & performance, total lack of reviews, etc.

It's an interesting sort of problem. There's surely countless garments that would suit you fine for a tiny amount of money, but finding them in the ocean of garments that would not is a miserable chore.
I really appreciate the focus on helpful messages in Elm. When working with it I'm recurringly surprised at how the computer seems so considerate for once. Time well spent!
Installed the first beta, had some issues in beta 3 or so with actually deleting files when emptying the bin, but that’s why it’s called beta. Had zero problems with later betas, have no idea why podcasters and other influencers are negging on it so much.
There are some interesting user comments like one guy who talked up Google Search compared to Yahoo and AOL and how it gave you what you wanted and sent you on your way and didn't try to keep you on site indefinitely.

How things change and end up repeating the same old mistakes.
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This is 2 billion dollars per year. That’s 6-8,000 people working full time indefinitely. Further they don’t need to spend that on staff they can have a large dev team, better hardware, more bandwidth, a 100 person support team 24/7 365, and still save money.
I have an issue with my iMac 5k 2017 not staying in sleep when I selected so.
Randomly wakes with the display off. But I can tell because there’s a very low fan noise and some heat from the back.
Amen, brother

Unfortunately I think that pretty much limits us to TuxRacer so far as the gaming space goes
Neither can the drivers choose how much they will charge.
Depends what you can wear and like to wear. The staples are a good pair of raw denim jeans, two pairs of contrasting chino pants and a mixture of tops to layer with these (wool jumper, crew top). Footware is up to you but if you want to be ecologically friendly I'd say get one pair of leather boots to last you 20 years +. Good brands are red wing and redback for starters. If you want sneakers don't wear big brands (nike, adidas etc) and buy something ethical. Try and get leather or something durable over that mesh crap which falls apart. It all depends on weather as well. Some or all of this advice is useless if you live in Northern Canada for example.
From what I have seen the designers aren’t making things better but different for its own sake or dumbed down.
This is exactly right, and way better than my reply.

Your polish can improve as you scale and get more resources. That doesn't mean there isn't a min-bar of basic security practices and ethics, but if min-bar is perfection on all counts, get ready for a long and fruitless existence...!
A guy I was hanging out with a hackathon this weekend was using a chromebook with crouton. An update broke his crouton intsallation and he had to find another editor and another way to spin up services, containers, etc.

If you're running a linux container on a machine with a bootloader you don't control, the manufacturer can pull your card at any time for no reason. I refuse to live that way if I have a choice, even if it means crappy hardware. :p
That reads less like a reasonable, well-thought breakdown and more like a whiny diatribe coming from an entitled teenager. If the entire argument boils down to "I don't wanna!", then what's the point? Don't upgrade. Apple isn't forcing anyone to upgrade at all. If you need to run all your old software, don't upgrade. That's not a fault of the new OS. Technology changes. That's a fact of life. Even the example of Aperture is a little far-fetched. It's literally been years since Aperture was discontinued and taken off the shelves.

I dunno... to me it sounds like someone complaining that their new computer can't run DooM anymore because it didn't come with a 3.5" floppy drive. Yes, you can run DooM still but not in the very specific, needlessly encumbered method you want to run it in. Times change, technology changes, and it's just not productive to lock yourself in to something and then complain when what you've locked yourself into doesn't work out the way you predicted. Keep using the old OS. Just don't act surprised and attacked when it doesn't work anymore years from now.
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The hardware is the tip of the priceberg my friend
Well very modern suits have undergone an evolution that makes them less practical, but only a few decades were engineered for practicality (except the tie ... forget it!): collars that were adjustable for wind and other weather conditions, practical engineering of the joints so they didn’t restrict mobility, etc. there’s a reason why men’s’ suits in the 30s and 40s look a little ill-fitting: they emphasized function over fashion. Only the aristos (e.g. Duke of Windsor who shaved twice a day) could afford to wear something that fit like a glove...for only a couple of hours before changing.