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> Is the trackpad large

Am I the only one who actually prefers smaller touchpads with physical buttons at the bottom? I've tried using Macbook's touchpad but couldn't stand it at all.

Besides that, most of the devs that I know seem to rarely use the touchpad of their laptops, relying mostly on the keyboard for navigation (these are your normal IntelliJ using devs, not the Vim warriors), so the space for a larger touchpad is usually just wasted space.
I want an alarm that's independent from my phone. That way if I lose, break, or forget to charge my phone, I still have an alarm.
He said he thinks the WiFi chip might be broken. I wonder if the thing is trying to connect to an NTP server.
The problem is as far as anyone can tell they are living off the same designs they had a decade ago and not actually coming up with anything new. None of those designs are actually able to compete in any segment these days: not performance, not low power, not performance/W. Unless they can somehow be the absolute cheapest option and go for the segment where anything is good enough it's hard to see them make a living, let alone thrive and come up with something new.
Microsoft archived ‘Superman’ on its Project Silica glass storage medium
There's going to be a really awkward conversation at his next dinner party.
IIRC WebSQL failed more because it was too dependent on Sqlite being the only implementation. So it's not just about the rendering library.
Nice work, it took me about 4 attempts to get ECS right. It's very powerful and effective for video games.
In the R world, dbplyr[1] does this amazingly well.

[1] https://dbplyr.tidyverse.org/
Thanks for pointing that out. I missed that part. Anyway in one report it says that "high-frequency traders did not cause the Flash Crash, but contributed to it by demanding immediacy ahead of other market participants."
This is to erase an entire device. Filesystem support for trim has been present for many years.
All I'm seeing is a monolithic in-your-face all-caps block font that screams BIG BROTHER.

Also it's a bit over-spaced and the letters swell outward as though it's puffed up to look extra imposing and dominating the space around itself.
Most services are IO bound, not CPU bound. For the later, there is Cython and C, as you mention.
I've seen logos that were worse than natural disasters, but if Paul Rand were to critique this "redesign", he would tell you that it screams treason in the design world.

If Deiter Rams were to critique this he'd tell you that it so bad, that it would be categorised under a new hurricane category since it is actually "re-designed" the definition of a disaster.

Bad logos change to often. The 'F' logo stood the test of time and ticks the boxes of Dieter Rams design principles which is respected globally by designers. The last time Apple and IBM changed their logos was more than 40 years ago. If the "U B E R" capslock logo was dumped, so would the "F A C E B O O K" capslock logo.
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Their CDN hostname, `cdn.netlify.com`, resolves to a DigitalOcean node, so it seems like they are rolling their own instead of delegating to a third party.
Yes, and being where the users are being available for users to use it without performing KYC.
Look at it a different way. How many years is the average car on the road? Even if we banned the sale of new ICE vehicles today, it would still take well over a decade for them to filter out of operation.
AFAIK the tg3 driver exists because Dell fought Broadcom for it, although that was years ago. Probably even Dell isn't big enough to budge NVidia.
Yeah, I also can't quite reconcile that.

I have a hard time believing that the government could do this but the way I read it says that if I said:

As a business, I disagree with the human rights violations the government of China is engaged in. I am again Saudis Arabia's ban of alcohol on its residents, its treatment of gay people--including death for simply being gay and the way it withholds rights from women. I also deplore Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, including the demolishing of houses.

Therefore, I will not allow my product to be sold in a way which results in any of these governments collecting tax on it, this supporting the government.

The way this reads, it seems the government can say, "Whoa, you can't to that to Israel though." and ignore the other two. Unfair and prejudicial in my opinion.
> perhaps we could have put the violent cabbies in jail too, but would that be better for society

Of course, because breaking laws isn't respectable and those cabbies were just lawless crooks who weren't playing by the same rules everyone else had to.

> regulation designed to balance the supply / demand curve

Yeah, except that for the last decades that "balance" meant drivers (who for the most part did not own medallions) had to pay to work, by renting a medallion from actual crooks like Gene Freidman (aka Taxi King), who made millions from it.

This is the balance that those rules were defending: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/09/nyregion/driving-a-taxi-d...

Maybe some non-violent law breaking is needed to escape that shitty local maximum.
They're not really back. Station wagons have just grown into them to compensate for the compromises in features that modern sedans have suffered in the name of fuel economy and safety.

People want something that's AWD, has a belt-line lower than your nose and a trunk that's integrated with the rest of the cab. In order to get that in a package that meets modern safety requirements it needs to be decently big and decently heavy. To make a decently big and decently heave vehicle comply with modern fuel economy and emissions rules you have to be able to call it an SUV with a straight face. Enter the "crossover".

Sedans and compact hatches make great commuter cars but if you can only afford one payment at a time then you can only really justify buying a multi-tool of a vehicle. On the small end that gives us things like the HRV. On the large end that gives us crew cab pickups.
I'm guessing he upgraded his Router to something with more modern encryption and the new chip doesn't support it. This is a huge problem with IoT shit, getting trapped with obsolete protocols because updating all of your old devices is impossible.

Or you have to run an old network specifically for the IoT garbage and firewall it off heavily from the Internet, after doing god knows how much research into each device to figure out what cloud services they use.
In this particular case, wasn't the supposed "farm" actually one person?
>SUV/pick-up boom (America's best-selling car in 2018 is the F150 series!)

My understanding is that this is a misleading fact - There are less models of SUV in the market than other classes of vehicle, so even if less SUVs, as a class, are sold than other cars, the lack of variance means the total number of a particular model is likely higher than sales of a model in any other class.
It's not a defense, but the fact that many incorrectly think of them as separate entities can be an aggravating factor.

Just because Google doesn't have that specific aggravating factor and there is still a question of whether they have monopoly power, doesn't mean that said aggravating factor doesn't count for something.
Derek Thompson is wrong there is no tech market crash)
That's a fair assessment, it's hard to really tell anyone's true motivations. But that is why it's so hard to tell who is a paid shill and who is genuinely invested in their beliefs/position.

It's the vastness of comments that I find as evidence of something wrong, not specific posts.
This seems way over-complicated as compared to Cron. I don't see it gaining that much acceptance.
Not the OP, but I would feel the same way, yes. My concern about my local government knowing my whereabouts is equal to my concern about the likes of Uber knowing my whereabouts, so if Uber shared this data, it wouldn't really change my behavior in any way.

But I avoid using Uber-anything, in part due to Uber's data collection, so my opinion on this data sharing is probably not that important.
HPUX is effectively dead/zombie. It only runs on Itanium and hasn't been ported to x86_64 last I checked.
I made an actual drum machine in Excel [video]
There is a scene at the beginning of the movie Brazil [1] where a literal bug falls into a tele-type, causes an error that starts a chain reaction that frames the events of the movie. The bug is a metaphor in the movie, just some nice visual story-telling to indicate how errors in automated processes can have unintended consequences.

I honestly fear that entire lives will be ruined by AI systems mis-analyzing some data and locking people out from education, work, credit and health opportunities. For some reason, which will be mostly inexplicable to even the engineers that trained the ML system, people will get denied or flagged for spurious reasons.

As we automate everything this is inevitable. We're actively creating digital gatekeepers. 99% of the time you won't even realize it has happened to you nor would you have any recourse. It will be as innocent as an application you don't get a response from, or a simple generic "sorry" email. Then the brick wall of literal no customer service, or automated customer service that refuses to escalate you to a human tier. Then maybe if you are lucky a clueless customer service rep that compassionately explains there is nothing they can do and they wish you the best with your continued search. Fair enough their TOS likely allows them to deny service to anyone for any reason. Why would they waste the effort to figure out why their multi-million dollar system targeted you as an edge case? It works for 98% of cases which is probably good enough for them.

Brazil is a fictionalization that imagines an extreme case and the events of the movie get quite dark. The reality will be more mundane but IMO just as insidious. In the not very distant future AI will be choosing who is healthy and who is rich.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGge4rj4v_Y
We do, but docker caching is not terribly easy to implement in a project with lots of concurrent builds. At least not for me.

We build images based on their commit hash, caching off the last commit hash. That works but has issues with merges and the first commit to a branch.

We also do it based on the branch name, but Docker has issues around specifying multiple cache from arguments in the CLI. That causes unnecessary invalidations on branches.

That all leads to more rebuilds than I would like.
Exactly.

This reads as the kind of toothless branding exercise that was probably initiated in an out-of-touch-with-reality board-meeting as a thoughtlessly easy attempt at some positive PR spin.

I speak from personal experience.
>EVs have been in existance for almost a decade and now

EVs have been in existence for nearly as long as ICE vehicles have. The 1867 World Exposition had an electric cycle and you had electric taxis in London in 1897 [1] and by 1912 there were 33,842 electric cars registered in the United States [2]. In the 50's you had Deutsche Post of the GDR using electric delivery vans (I believe an electric vehicle was being used in either London or Paris much earlier than that for postal use but I'm having a hard time finding a link, I swear I've read about it before though). Even Anderson Electric Car Company produced something like 13,0000 'Detroit Electric' cars int he early 1900s. Even the Apollo-era LRVs (lunar roving vehicle) were EVs (for obvious reasons).

EVs are old-school, the only new-school thing about them is lithium battery chemistry.

I genuinely don't think EVs are going to catch on any time soon.

- They're far more expensive than ICE vehicles as there aren't a whole lot of used EVs but there are tons of used ICE vehicles at vary price levels.

- John Q Public can't do much to repair an EV and has to take it to a mechanic, yet even something like an engine rebuild can be done in someone's garage if they are so motivated. I've never taken a single minute of mechanic training yet I've helped 4 different friends pull engines with borrowed hoists and do major work to them and without YouTube, only printed manuals for vehicles, I've done plenty of other work to my own vehicles (dropped the gas tank, replaced ball joints/pitmans/idle arms/electrical work/replaced most of the stuff under the hood in various vehicles).

- People like me, in an apartment, can't charge at home and you're not going to see property owners rushing to install EV powering (even if they get to recover their costs by taking on a few % fee) any time soon, probably not even for new-construction. I can go to the gas station and fill a nearly empty tank in 2~ minutes which will last me 2 weeks of commuting and then some, for the same range in an EV I'm going to have to park somewhere and sit for 30+ minutes.

Two of those three things keep me from having an electric vehicle (can't charge it, can't afford it) and the third, the fact I can't do any major repairs, is a big turn off. Even my 2013 Impala I can repair/service basically everything, and if I don't have the tools I can go rent any specialized tool I need for a nominal fee from the 3 big part store brands.

I think these things are going to keep EV adoption pretty low for the foreseeable future. Even in my own experience here in Indianapolis I've only seen one tesla on the road (I actually see it most days on the way to work) in the wild and only know one person here that owns one (and he's stated it's impractical for anything other than driving to work and back).

[1] https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/the-surprisingly-old-story...

[2] https://www.britannica.com/technology/automobile/Early-elect...
To be fair, the voters in California decided to treat these crimes as misdemeanors, no matter how many times you're caught stealing. It's what the people wanted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47
Sure, if everyone decides to host their own files, a CDN would never be used. Although, there are benefits to using a CDN, so it's likely the try-shared value could exist and would be useful.

Note the proposed scheme doesn't prevent anyone from using a CDN as the src while also trying other CDNs to increase the chances of a cache hit, which has its own benefits.

For example, <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js" try-shared="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.mi... try-shared="another-src">
I recommend "Use the Index, Luke"[1] for people who are relatively new to SQL performance issues and want to learn how to make their queries fast.

[1] https://use-the-index-luke.com/
You can absolutely govern a car's speed electronically.

You can also make JavaScript able to figure out how to play sound without letting it disclose what it knows about your sound system to a remote machine.
Stablecoin do not need to be backed by fiat. They can be backed by crypto as well an be stable against fiat or anything of value. This way trust can mostly be removed. No 3rd party audit needed because you can lock up crypto in a way it's public verifiable for everyone.

There are some trust issues that are still problematic like for example someone needs to provide a price feed against which the value will be stabilized. Whoever is in control of that price feed could of course damage the system to the point where people loose all their money.

But in the real world such a price feed could come from a DEX so its not controlled by someone but instead by what people buy and sell. In a closed system this could however cause a "runaway" of the price due to price feedback loops.

Here is an interesting talk about a crypt collateralized stablecoin proposal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se2CDsmMqvE again this does NOT yet exist!
I did get early access to GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/minimaxir

It seems less...fun than Patreon? Although Patreon is less code-content-focused, so maybe GitHub Sponsors can hit that niche a bit better. (although I'm not sure the current Sponsor button on a GitHub repo is an effective CTA, and I haven't yet found a good balance between self-promotion of a Patreon/GitHub Sponsorship and the content itself).

Compare/contrast my own Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/minimaxir
If I may, I'm curious about your thoughts on few things, in the context of use case #1 (abuse), not #2 (reduplication):

* What are the challenges surrounding verification that your system functions properly, given that the test material is illicit?

* Can you speak to the reliability of the system in a sensitivity/specificity kind of way? In other words, what are the false positive and false negative rates?

* Are you aware of any large organizations leveraging your solution?

* Do you feel that the availability of these tools obligates service providers to use them, either morally or legally?
The rider uses an app to find a bike/scooter near them. That requires real-time location data
Not that Microsoft wants you to know that. They make the offline account button/link smaller and harder to spot regularly. I've thought several times that they finally removed it only to spot it hiding in a corner in a grey link one shade darker than the background.
From my experience appearing to be productive is sufficient in most companies.
The is delusional optimism. All signs point to increasing amounts of pollution. There is no existing plan that will fix the solution that is being executed. All environmental or alternative efforts being pursued are falling short.

There is no indication ‘green’ energy will be a significant portion of the world energy supply. There is no indication we are removing our dependency on oil. We are continuing to consume coal, oil, and natural gas at increasing rates. All metrics that show positive change are local and not global. All coordinated global efforts results are over promised and under delivered.
Just pointing out that market manipulation might also happen in heavy regulated and established markets with much more stability and trust than cryptocurrency exchanges.
A crypto backed 1:1 by USD is a great idea, the trick is finding a way to actually guarantee the backing currency & exchange rate.

It's actually pretty lousy idea, because in practice it's exactly what we already have in normal banking system, where the "bank-USD crypto", that is, the numbers in your bank accounts, are already backed 1:1 by actual government USD, with government regulations backing the companies and the exchange rate.

If you can freely exchange cryptocoins to USD, there's absolutely no reason to ever consider a stablecoin, unless your goal is to evade money laundering, KYC, etc regulations, hence Tether.
Well, you don't have to give them a perfect copy of your DL. They now posses a heavily redacted and aggressively watermarked image of my driver's license that is unlikely to be of any use outside of this specific request.
Require hard to counterfeit licensing stickers for each vehicle that need to be re-applied to each scooter yearly. Sell a limited number of numbered stickers. If you find a vehicle without a sticker, you know they aren't following the requirements.

To prevent sticker tampering, stickers can be placed behind a transparent piece of tempered glass or forego stickers entirely and use bolted on metal plaques.
What do you do when you need to change the step? Unique syntax can fall down where a generic function call would handle it.
I first read about it here.

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...
Separation of concerns. Phones operate as a sort of monolith which is dangerous because if your phone fails, it takes down all of your services. Phones are also designed to be replaced fairly often which can mean redoing your alarms and so forth.

It's one of those things you really don't realize until your phone suddenly dies on you and you have to scramble to get a replacement.
> Uber has resisted the rule for months, arguing, with the backing of several data privacy organizations, that the city’s policy constitutes government surveillance. With minimal analysis, they say, the information could easily reveal where people live, work, socialize or worship.

I actually laughed out loud when I read this. Incredible that these companies have the audacity to take that stance.

"It is only we, the technocratic elite, that should be allowed to know where people live, work, socialize or worship, and to use that information to extract even more data and even more profit from these people. The city government should sweep the streets and mind its own business."
The difference with government care is that you won't get a bill..but you may not get coverage either.
“If seeing a butt in the seat is proof of working, you have already been fooled.”

Correct. In most companies you can get away with this for a long time though or even have a great career.
Market analytics: the reason stocks are rising is because of earnings
Whether or not the build may already be optimised depends on your source for the JDK. Looks like the Arch build of the OpenJDK is already using -O3.
larger vehicles afford larger crumple zones
> you can still trade Tether for $1 right now

Aren't stories [1] about withdrawals being delayed or unreasonably conditioned abundant?

[1] https://tether.to/announcement/
Trump now able to begin withdrawal from Paris climate accord
I don't tend to find comments on HN the same as other social media because discussion is often brought up because of comments. Drive-by comment bombing doesn't work here the same as other places.
I always appreciated their dell.com/linux page.
Time will tell. Either way, I'm fairly tired of interacting with people who seeem to think they have exclusive access to a mainline from the future.
I'm curious about you being limited to 220 Gb/s on an AMD Rome box. The maximum theoretical DDR4 bandwidth on such a system with 3200 MT DDR4 is 204 GiB/s, so you'd only be using ~15% of the DRAM bandwidth assuming the block/record/file size of the cached data you're serving is enough to mask the DRAM latency.
I think an efficiency improvement is also perhaps implied. They say a strong magnetic field doubles the current flow with no change in input voltage. Basically with V=IR and Power = I* I* R ,if the current has increased without change in voltage then the resistance has gone down.

In a perfectly efficient process all of the resistance would owe to H2O splitting, but we know that's not the case - about half the resistance energy was creating waste heat.

If its like an LEDs resistance which has a voltage drop component which produces light and a linear ohmic resistance which produces waste heat. This would be like getting twice the current (and light) across an LED from the same voltage.

Either the voltage drop has been reduced, or the ohmic resistance is reduced. Either way, we can lower the voltage and produce the same amount of light that was possible without the magnetic hack. Same current with less voltage is less power, for same amount of light or H2O split.
The Precision 5540 developer edition is an XPS 15 under a different name. And yes, it supports 64 GB RAM.