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Hah. I have wondered about this particular one a fair bit.

First, it seems there is just not market for their product that could possibly support the valuation in the near future. Second, by virtue of already being so large a company, there is no room for evaluation of new small projects that would change direction. Anything must immediately have enough potential to generate millions in revenue.

Runway is maybe 5 years, so they got until then to produce enough revenue to raise more funding or become profitable. IIRC they sold approximately 50% of the company for the 500M round. Maybe I got this one completely wrong, but I just don't see how this can go well. What an incredibly inefficient allocation of capital for the ecosystem. Imagine giving 100 teams 5M each instead.
> people in history, in general, weren't complete gibbering idiots.

I disagree:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan
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Pressure differential is analogous to voltage and mass flow to current, I think we are all on the same page about that.

The sorely missing bit is the equivalent of those amazing DC/DC step-up/down voltage regulators that have revolutionized the application of electricity in recent decades (all the way from tiny electronics to massive HVDC networks), and/or an equivalent of the AC transformers that fulfilled a similar role before. Actually AC is missing in its entirety, there's just no practical way of transmitting power via soundwaves.

The closest pneumatic equivalent to DC-DC converters are coupled turbines, e.g. turbochargers or high bypass turbojets. But those are not just far beyond households appliance scale, they are also limited to the high mass-flow/low pressure differential, but practical applications of pneumatic storage are the opposite.
Yeah, it seems the marketing geniuses got together to make the one tonners become tradie utes which then allowed this new american style 'ute'. It's not cricket.

For everyone non-Oz, a 'Maloo' is this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_(vehicle)#/media/File:2010...
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Mining is not the only place where this is starting to happen. Fully charged recently did an episode on an electric digger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cumZxYjzx6M

Fuel cost is a great incentive of course but other advantages include a lot less noise and pollution; which is great for indoor operation. Also, these things only use power when you use them (as opposed to idling and slurping lots of diesel).

I could see batteries get common for a lot of equipment that is currently diesel powered, in the agricultural, construction, and other sectors. If all you need is a lot of torque/power, electric & hydrolic can do the job.
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They might care about horrific electrical accidents.

With High voltage/high Amperage acidents - your lucky if you die on the spot otherwise you last a few days in intensive care with limbs blown off and your internal organs destroyed
Not the GP, but “this is terrible” is the kind of feedback I hope to find in hacker news discussions. I want to know how other developers assess the original article.
I'm guessing you haven't used Telegram, since you believe that only those who miss custom stickers complain about usability on Signal. You should try Telegram for a few months and compare it with Signal. The difference is night and day, especially once you get used to using not exposing your phone number to random people, fast and reliable message delivery, using multiple devices and platforms (including a web browser) with synced conversations, editing messages, using bots for different purposes, etc.
What about a civilisation who never invented silicon diodes but kept using vacuum tubes? Or what about a civ. who invented logic programming first and never then invented lambda calculus. Or what if they come from a much lower gravity planet, their spaceships might look completely different. Or what if they're not a carbon based species; why do we then assume they'd have to travel a similar tech path as us?
Don't ever do this. I'm a huge gitlab advocate and I'm already wondering if I should regret that. Keep in mind that one thing that keeps gitlab alive is that which it is not: github/microsoft. If you erase that boundary then there is no longer any good reason to recommend gitlab over github.
Think of it less as having an issue with a gasoline generator and more about wanting it to be sufficiently more effort to use it that it takes more thought to decide to do something.

It's a nice life hack in general to create barriers that makes it easier to behave how you want to behave than to take shortcuts.
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There's a “易(Easy)语言(Language)” in China which advertised itself as epitome of "Chinese Programming". It is basically a re-skinned C with a visual programming tookit, which does has its merit as visual programming tools were rare during that time. However, it only catched on in the "domain" of cheat engines and trainers, and eventually died out.
I have an ipad at work we can't sign into, since we changed the email address on the iCloud account (months ago), and the old address is on a domain we don't use any more...
Thanks for this great comment.
Yes, the second should be, "The enemy downed several of our aircraft." Landed can be used to mean "bagged," as in, "We finally landed the Smith account," (it's a fishing term), but it should not be used in this figurative sense when referring to aircraft, because of the obvious confusion with the common, concrete sense of the word. And, yes, it should be aircraft.
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I remember when I was about 13 or 14 we would have this little program in Windows that allowed us to move a turtle around and draw shapes with the turtle. You were able to write little programs in code to move the turtle around and draw more complicated shapes in a shorter amount of time.
We were doing all this in pure Greek, and writing the programs in Greek.
In retrospect, I believe this was one of the worst things we did. Sure, it lowered the bar for students struggling with English to start programming. But given how there is nearly 0 useful documentation on programming or on programming languages in Greek, you were essentially tied to this little program with the turtle. You had absolutely no ability to progress your computing knowledge.
Me too! Until reading this article, I hadn't found the other commands. I had been missing "Save image" and "Set as wallpaper" and wondered why they had become so difficult to access. FYI, it's also possible to save a photo in iMessages by long-pressing it.
Thanks! I was looking for an export button for them earlier today so when I saw you comment I couldn't help myself.

A zip file with all notes in it would be fantastic. I just want to feel like my data is safe from Apple having a bug that wipes it. Read a lot of Catalina horror stories.

IMAP looks promising and might be all I need. Neither Spark or Apple Mail seem to let me export mail as txt but presumably there's a mail client out there that does in which case problem solved. Thank you for point that feature out, should throw it up on:

https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/downloaddata.html#tran...
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And some are so sure of their worldview that they believe in a wholly-manufactured conspiracy theory long after the reasonable evidence has discredited it, including physical evidence like the fact a building has no basement. It's a big world with a wide variety of people.

Not jakeogh though. like I said, he's part of a conspiracy to make us believe people still believe Pizzagate. The purpose of which is to undermine confidence in average human reasoning skills, which undermines faith in democracy. This is important for the next step of the Triluminati's plan.
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> We will not activate product usage tracking on GitLab.com or GitLab self-managed before we address the feedback and re-evaluate our plan.

I would like to see a harder commitment: to simply not do this. Gitlab does not have any credible reasons to add product usage tracking that does not have substantial downsides, better to steer clear of this completely.
As I understand it our modern notion of what rigorous mathematics is didn’t exist back then. The justification for analysis was basically physical intuition and simply that it worked.

Euler and company just worked directly with the intuition of infinitesimal quantities. To be fair though, infinitesimals are the essential intuition for how calculus works anyway.

Personally I don’t really care about constructions of the real numbers or technical details of calculus. It’s enough for rigorous mathematics to know that models exist of the theories which produce calculus; that is models of complete ordered fields and even plain old ordered fields with infinitesimals.
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Simple solution: add a blur gradient at the bottom so people know there is "something more" going on down there.
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On my iPhone SE, it is also well-spaced and perfectly cropped, omitting the 'copy' row and perfectly finishing below the second line of icons.

(I actually have a PhD in human-computer interaction and I'm a professor for UX design. It took me a two days to figure out where all those functions, which somehow appeared to be accessible 'only through apps' (or people ;)), went. Oh well...)
> I'm not sure that there's any link between paper size and CRT size. Most likely the only connection would be number of columns (of fixed-width text), but not lines

I haven't got a solid answer here, but I do know from experience that your average typewriter does about 80 characters across a page once you account for margins.

Now clearly that'd not be much of an argument if margins are arbitrary but I don't think they are. On a typewriter your can more or less freely choose the top, left, and right margin. The bottom margin is however limited by the mechanism: by the time the bottom of the page is under the striking area the paper is flopping in the breeze since the roller isn't holding it anymore. If you set the left and the right margins (and the top margin) to the same size as the minimum workable bottom margin you end up with roughly 80 characters across the page.

Seems as likely a link as any: typing out tabular data from a punch card would be limited to the same width as common on typewriters.
The snap version has some limitations but I think that is the future.

And just because we maybe can contain it, it doesn't mean libreoffice devs should be off the hook for reading private keys from my drive.
This is certainly not an excuse for the clearly bad UI design the article describes for iOS, but unfortunately Apple is not the only one afflicted with that disease. The situation on Android is not exactly rosy either.

I get particularly aware of the serious UI problems when trying to use GPS navigation (waze, here, google maps) in a car. Buttons with various colours, contours and sizes, non-intuitive interactions where one has to swipe starting from various confined areas, annoying dialogs or confirmation screens appearing one after the other, sometimes even spontaneously. There is not even a modicum of consistency regarding the most basic elements, e.g. a yes-no question or a dismissible message.

I hate to say it, but the first iOS of 2016 was (and probably remains) a champion of elegant and consistent UI design. Today, it's almost as if the iOS and Android ecosystems are competing for who has the most unintuitive and confusing UI.
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> Like a tiny down triangle in the corner? This stuff is super not hard.

That's also what I suggested in my answer to onion2k below. I agree, it's not hard. But it does require their design team to overcome some instinctive minimalism.
...This blog post explains an issue I have been experiencing that I didn't realize I had.

iOS has always had some very explicit misses on affordances. Force touch led to a lot of them.
> Is this supposed to be sarcasm?

Nope. A few years ago I used to really want a large-screened phone. Then I got one with a 5" screen and found out its clunky and awful to carry around. Standardizing the screen back to 4" or 3.5" would greatly improve my tolerance for carrying it around and, if the resolution were also standardized, would greatly simplify UX design.
So privacy doesn't matter? And the police are the right solution for all invasions of your privacy? Do I get the local police involved if remote attackers use personal information to drain my bank account?

"The police" (local?) are a solution for certain kinds of problems, but that's it.

Consider restraining orders and all the victims these orders failed to protect. Far more effective is a large dog or other adult humans.
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As they are all
> Imagine giving 100 teams 5M each instead.

In 2014 I took $250k as an investment and turned it into ~100x that (in cash) in 2017 with a SaaS product.

At the time, VCs said it was “too risky” and so we turned to people in our industry for the investment cash. VCs are funny.
It's that crappy "flat design" BS that provides minimal meaningless indicators. An entire generation of designers needs to unlearn this crap.
Just FYI, you can turn off all the animations in Accessibility -> Reduce Motion.
> The naive argument that computer scientists often make is that lambda calculus is at the heart of the isomorphism between logic, computation and category theory and this suggests that it refers to some eternal truth. This is a Platonist view of mathematics which is just one of several positions. The main problem with it is that it cannot be tested and so it is more a religious belief than a scientific claim. However, it also ignores the social, cognitive and cultural aspects of mathematical knowledge.

I still feel like this Platonist idea somewhat holds. Eventually you'd land on some isomorphic variant of logic, computation or category theory.
There is no royal road. Even Terry Tao said he didn't understand group actions (an undergrad concept) until he was near the end of his Ph. D. program. And this was a guy with a 160 I.Q. If you want to learn math you'll have to do problems until you start crying every day.
This reminds me of projects I did specifically for the Dutch market, but were coded in English because we needed to facilitate non-Dutch developers. Each new feature started with finding translations for Dutch words to be used as variables in code. Then when we created the UI, we'd have everything but the field labels in Dutch, making bug reports confusing, especially for the non-Dutch developers.

Good times!
That's kinda what they are underneath, but things are never that simple.

For example, getting all that power across a single "cable" (or bundle of cables, or connector of some kind) introduces interesting engineering issues. Heat is a big problem, and watercooled cables are more and more common even in regular EVs. The article also talks about how conductive dust can be a massive issue and how they need to work around that.
Waze is indeed really clunky in places. It crashes less than it did last year but the UI hasn't really changed.
You don't need to become Amish to learn from this approach though.

All you need to do to benefit from it without the downsides is to use the opportunity when you decide on a goal, whatever it is, to think through which things makes it hard to stick to, and find ways of creating barriers that makes it harder to deviate from your desired behavior than sticking to it.

E.g. there's the old trick to managing your credit card debts of freezing it in a block of ice in the freezer - lets you keep the card for emergencies, but forces you to wait and gives you plenty of opportunities to change your opinion before you actually use it.

Or smaller things, like being aware and picking routes of your commute that avoids temptations when you're on a diet.

Just acknowledging that relying on willpower alone is error prone, and plan accordingly, really.
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If there is one thing this will achieve then it should be this: it should help to show those born in the world of English what a privileged position they have. For every other person in the world not born into English that is the first hurdle they have to cross in order to get to the next one: programming itself. Anybody that is born in an English speaking region has a huge head start in this respect.

Note that it goes much deeper than just the programming languages keywords: there are the books, the courses, the documentation, the bulk of all the open source projects out there one could use to study and so on.
Yes, whenever I've had to help people struggling with their tools I found the problem starts well before they reach for the keyboard. They usually have problems decomposing the requirements to the constituent parts, often they can't even explain what they are trying to achieve.
The user probably wants to know where they are in a list while scrolling, but otherwise it shouldn't be a problem to reclaim that screen space by hiding the scroll bar when they're done.
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From my understanding, you can use it even behind a NAT, whereas tmate does not handle this natively.
It appears that the Ford Falcon is 199" in length -- 15" longer than a Model 3.

Note that interior cabin cubic feet and total storage cubic feet will tend to be significantly higher in an EV for the same exterior footprint.
All those recent news have an eerie vibe to it, but in this case it's venture captial and the investors knew the risk.

But it could be a sign, all that money from Softbank got spent on something. It's all interconnected, with so much debt going around, somebody has to be wrong.
For some reason this always accidentally triggers when I’m using the ‘Mail’ app. After opening an email, it offers me the opportunity to ‘Undo Read’. It means ‘leave the email you just read marked as unread for now’, but somehow instead the displayed confirmation modal implies that iOS can reach into my brain and take back the information imparted by the email.
Not to mention something that almost all NLP systems are resounding terrible at - short-term memory. If we've been talking about corporate financials for an hour and I say 'Justify the margins', it should be crystal clear what I mean. But most automated systems try to operate without a hint of memory or 'state' being tracked.
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My primary complaint of the share sheet is that it’s suggesting I share things with people I either never text or texted once for a specific purpose with no reason to communicate with ever again.
FYI, some people deliberately take cocaine and fantanyl (or other opioids) at the same time (speedballing).

> Our intelligence agencies won’t rule out China is doing this to weaken us

Source please.

TBH your comment sounds a lot like the anti-Chinese propoganda that the US government has been spouting since China became the boogeyman de jour.
While this is true as far as it goes, there's a difference in cost/reward tradeoff in having to understand the Latin alphabet to be able to read materially all programming languages, and having to understand many different alphabets to do so.
I'm from the American south, we refer to any rural area where people are more self-reliant and the land is not developed as "God's country." It doesn't have much to do with how religious the area is or how many churches are there.
One of the great things of tech is that it brings different people together to relize amazing new things. The initiative described here does not celebrate the differences, it creates barriers instead.
You can fix your spelling errors but you still failed to properly read what you were replying to.
Has anyone ever used that on purpose?
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I did it for spiritual/ethical reasons, but I never tried to make anybody else adopt my views. I'm sure I would have had unpleasant exchanges if I did, but it's not like I'd be pleasant to be around in that case, so that wouldn't surprise me.

My point is that I doubt it's about the "I'm vegan" part that people react annoyed to. I'm pretty sure it's the "and you should be too" part that some vegans adopt, and they are the ones that people are annoyed by.
Ha, yep I feel like an absolute idiot doing that in public. My genuinely favourite hidden/unintuitive feature is the force-touch on the on-screen keyboard to see a little cursor you can scroll around the text field you are using. I hate that it's so unintuitive, but it's incredibly useful
Any foreign material in high-powered electronics (conductive or not) can cause problems, so these electronics must always be sealed properly.

But I foresee no big problems with this, because this is something that manufacturers of such equipment have plenty of experience with.
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But why bother bundling the parallel cables? It's probably faster / easier to hook up six separate flexible cables than a single bundle that's incredibly stiff and heavy.
That's the whole point: it doesn't have to. The user knows the state it is in because it is a physical switch. In the 'off' position there is absolutely nothing that mere software could do to move it to the 'on' position.
This is a very common issue. The best and most common solution (besides visual indicators for scroll) is to make sure you are always cropping some elements. Which is very tricky to impossible in a fluid general-purpose UI container.

This is very heavily used for horizontal scrolling e.g. in the Google Play Store for instance. IIRC it used to show 3.5 elements, now it's more like 3.1-3.2 elements.

Edit: example, you can see how this is used in apps as well as screenshots: https://www.androidcentral.com/play-store-getting-material-d...
That sounds a lot like Logo
Sadly it was an internal consultation that, unsurprisingly, wasn’t published. I think there could be good grounds for an FOI request though.
Data security is a huge issue, Facebook.com has very specific whitelisted access patterns encoded as CRUD endpoints. 1) Users want to make sure their data is used in non-creepy or non-stalky ways; 2) Facebook's business needs to control the access point so they can serve you adds or otherwise monetize. So the API exposes only limited access patterns, the API TOS disallows caching, and they go to great lengths to prevent scrapers.

If immutable fact/datom streams with idealized cache infrastructure becomes a thing (and architecturally i hope it does) it's going to need DRM to be accepted by both users and businesses.
Seems to me like since Steve Jobs passed away Apple has been changing for the worst.
They replaced/depreciated it in iOS 13 with some crazy three finger swipe thing that for the life of me I can’t remember, so I still shake my iPad or just hold down backspace.

They need to rebuild their software development team.
Mines are such dangerous places that horrific electrical accidents may happen occasionally and it's still an improvement from the current situation.
Facebook News looks to be just another brick in the echo chamber wall
How can you tell? It looks like a serious post to me.
Wow...this is TOO weird. I was helping my mom the other day with her iPhone (I use Android so I'm not all that familiar), and I could NOT figure out how to save the image. Now I know why...