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Not just the risk of data loss, but the inconvenience of restoring the machine is much higher. This means the only solution to restoring a modern Mac notebook is to replace the entire logic board - everything else may be functional except the storage, which is a consumable by most considerations, but now the entire board must be swapped. And if it's out of warranty, which let's face it, it's extremely likely to be, then you are completely and utterly stuck. You either have an enormous bill from Apple or an authorised repair shop (and Apple is notoriously cagey about allowing third parties access to their replacement parts) or you have to hunt down a machine for spares to do the swap yourself, and now with Apple's invasive security measures requiring communication with Apple's diagnostic tools to perform certain swaps, storage failure can render the machine entirely useless for months, if not permanently. Whereas if the disk was replaceable, just order one from the most convenient store, swap it in, restore from Time Machine.

The Function Key MBPs have a problem with their flash storage where they may randomly and unpredictably die, taking all the data with them. The fix is a firmware update, which also takes all the data with it. Fantastic, Apple, we bought six of those machines, and because the users are actively, y'know, using the damned things, it's not really convenient to tell them they'll be without their machine for a week while the service centre gets around to it, and then multiple hours of restoring their Time Machine backups. On the plus side, the SSDs in those machines are not soldered. Yes, they're proprietary, but it's something - if those machines suffer failure, I could grab an SSD on eBay and get them running again. It's almost worth the risk.
> I need to print something once a month at best. I can use FedEx or other to print but it can be a PITA. I was hoping there are others here on HN that are in a similar situation. I'm looking for a printer that will do fine with infrequent use and the ink will still work when I go to use it.

> I'm looking to print way less that 100 sheets/yr, we are talking shipping labels here, nothing serious.

Contrary to most of the posts on here you can buy an inkjet, just make sure you meet three criteria:

1. Make sure print heads are on the cartridge not in the printer. So if they clog and cannot be unclogged through cleaning you just replace the print head.

2. Leave it plugged in and switched on. It will do a mini clean every so often to keep the print heads clear.

3. Make sure you can buy cheap compatible cartridges, that can be recycled. Then it doesn't matter that you waste some ink through cleaning cycles, or the occasional clogged cartridge.

I have an A3 Brother multifunctional inkjet and whilst it is far from the best print quality or usability compared to others I have owned, it has lasted years.
Catching the accused is nowhere near inevitable so why is this relevant?
I do sometimes. I do it when I really know what the outcome should be, and I know that this will speed up my implementation. But when I'm just throwing ideas around, the tests are never written before the implementation.
It must be frustrating to feel like you're being singled out. More so when you feel hostility from individuals who disagree with you. It can feel very personal, when someone is attacking you and your ideas. Especially when you Know you have a point and it feels like you aren't being heard.

I've spent a lot of time trying to deal with this conflict & trying to be heard and understood. Part of the trick is not taking things too personally, not Making things personal or directing them at an Individual, and instead continuously focusing on the topic at hand. If things devolve to personal attacks of Any sort, I disengage or try to re-focus. My goal is to be heard and understood, and that doesn't happen when the argument devolves to a personal level.

It's hard not to react, but sometimes not reacting & taking the high road is the most productive way forward.
Was more the 200-1,000% price increase I, and at the time work, objected to than the complete removal of a free entry / trial tier without warning.

They went from a typical SaaS freemium offering 3 or 4 priced tiers based on some level of use, and a small "forever free" demo tier for freelancers, right up to something like $199 or $250 a month for everyone.

Work immediately went looking for alternatives after that, so they lost a paying customer too. Did us a favour in the long run, and Basecamp left very much looking like last-decade's answer.
It was only 8 days ago that I mentioned what was missing for now with AMD... And why you would still buy Intel.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21471023

> I think why you want to buy a Intel now is:

- Laptop ( battery life is better on Intel CPU's), but AMD has this covered next Q.

- Intel NUC ( it's very practical )

- For Single core optimized applications ( eg. Some games) when you don't care about the total price at all. Intel's one core performance was better and support in games is lacking for a lot of cores. I think next Ryzen will handle this.

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Note: and Mozilla Rr software

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What has changed in those 8 days:

- Intel is doing security patches. Probably AMD will lead in single core performance.

And there are AMD NUC's now, with up to 64 gb. Memory.

This is absolutely nuts. I have never seen a hardware company execute in such a rapid succession with such great results. And have never seen this bad luck at a competitor.

It's also the first product I can buy, since I'm not looking for a replacement of my laptop/desktop currently. I was searching for a decent NUC for the last 2 months ( as diy docker host).

Well done AMD. Well done.
Every one of this guy's SIGBOVIK papers/videos are pure gold. His video about the printable x86[1] is my favorite engineering video of all time.

^1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA
Libraries usually have printers. Ours is $0.10 per sheet.
I wonder how people who got dry eye will age. As you age dry eye symptoms tend to increase and can be associated with recurrent corneal erosions which, aside from being painful, can get infected, which can be absolutely terrible and vision threatening in extreme cases.

Dry eye is hell especially if you work at a computer.

As an aside, Ocusoft Retaine drops are the best thing I’ve found for dry eye; I’ve never met anyone else with the problem who uses them but it’s like night and day.
What I think, and what Amazon doesn't seem to get, is that these two things are inextricably linked.

Buyers don't want counterfeit crap. To the extent that authenticity is in question, people are discouraged from buying, and if people don't buy, then you can't fulfill and ship.

Of course, you can argue that it must not matter that much because, right now, Amazon is certainly fulfilling and shipping a lot. The real question is whether they could fulfill and ship more if they had different practices in this area. Personally I think yes.
I always took it to mean, "Don't put all the code into one function because it's easy, do it because it's logical."
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Pretty neat, but then you end up with a ton of PNGs checked into your scm right?
Steve Woz talks about this in his autobiography. That basically, today’s generation is mostly missing an experience he was lucky to have: a complete understanding of a machine and all of its parts.
I'm wary of "testing theater" (in the spirit of "security theater"); but I've come to think of testing as similar to two-factor authentication: it doesn't guarantee correctness, but it does reduce the likelihood of bugs and regressions, especially during refactors.

I think the other benefit of testability has nothing to do with the tests themselves, but rather the discipline of writing testable code: in general, writing code that is easy to test will tend to be higher-quality and easier to reason about.

The thing I'm not fully sold on is mocking, which ends up being a huge timesink, and may or may not improve reliability since you're testing against a fake system and not the real thing. I vastly prefer a combination of small functional/unit tests, and E2E integration tests in a real environment (cypress/etc); the uncanny valley in between has a poor ROI IMO.
How could you forget von Braun?
Noted, lol
It has not been tested with octave. Since it mostly uses core functionality only , I would expect that it is largely compatible, though.
I'd take all of those things as positives.

If the work provides no value and the workers discover it, and stop working on it, the world is better off.

If the work provides negative value (to society) and the workers discover it, and stop working on it, the world is better off.

People should work on things which provide value to themselves, their community, and the world at large. They shouldn't be working on things that actively destroy those. And if the only reason they're working on them is because of a lack of awareness of their impact, then let them learn.
Point of order: If I was going to tell someone a story, I'd probably tell the dramatic one ("guy out on bail murders bus of kittens by driving it into a cancer ward") vs boring ones "a man out on bail went to court and was found not guilty".

Data points are much more interesting when talking about how to create functional systems and allocate resources than some emotional tale. If my town spent millions of dollars buffing up their homicide department when we only see common assaults in 99.999% of the time, I'd be pissed as a taxpayer.
It's worth noting that IQ also isn't fixed, as it can be noticeably affected by wealth, nutrition, family stability, etc, over time.
Re: wifi: Maybe network accessible printers are super cheap and good these days, but I have always gone the lpd + samba route to get the same functionality from cheap/old/crappy printers.
I'll share #6: Quantify with Real Numbers

Nothing makes your resume more attractive to employers than quantifying your achievements with numbers and percentages.

In a sea of words, numbers stand out to the reader when they are skimming your resume and make your accomplishments come to life.

They make your achievements much more credible and memorable.

First, revisit your accomplishments and think deeply if there are any metrics you can pull out. If
you don’t work with money or numbers, think about quantifying time that you saved in some way.

Estimating is acceptable as long as you’re honest, but try to not round numbers up or down because real numbers are more believable.

For example, which statement is more believable?

Increased sales 90% vs. Increased sales 87.3%.

Studies have shown the more exact you make the metric, the more believable it is.
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I have to say it's really frustrating to duplicate functionality (in any way). This is what has happened to Slack, Quip, Salesforce and for that matter Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

I want one way to view code (Vim), one way to view a .jpg (feh), one way to ask quick questions (IRC), one way to quickly browse text (Lynx), one way to communicate structured messages (email)... but alas it falls apart due to the fact that we work as social creatures.
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I agree with others who say get an older HP laserjet, from before the DRM shenanigans. Likely it will still have enough life left in it to manage occasional use (back when I was doing more dtp work I'd run through reams at a time, but now it's only a few times a year. I don't expect to ever need to buy a new printer.)
I love how snappy everything is. Sadly, I spend a not-insignificant portion of my day waiting for Jira/Confluence to load. If this could replace that, I'd really be so much happier.

Two suggestions I've got, just from a few minutes of browsing around:

1. I'd like to see more screenshots/videos of features on the main page. Sure I can explore around, but I'd prefer to just have it all laid out for me. I thought the kind of content in the blog post would fit well on the sourcehut.org page.

2. On the subdomains, clicking "sourcehut" brings me back to the subdomain page. I'd prefer if clicking "sourcehut" brought me to sourcehut.org, and clicking the subdomain part brought me to the main subdomain page (so clicking "git" would bring me to https://git.sr.ht/). Just my opinion of course, but it was a tad frustrating that once you click into a subdomain, there's nothing to click to bring you back to sourcehut.org.

Great work! Looking forward to seeing this develop even more.
Absolutely.

You can tell a lot about a person's professionalism by looking at their meeting invites.

I avtively refuse meetings without an agenda and a why this meeting is important. And I put a Joy in applying this on a management level too.

Don't fuck with people's time, it's the only thing we can't get back.
This might be an unpopular thing to say on this forum, but it needs to be said:
1. The average US worker is entitled and arrogant. The "everything is belong to me" attitude is rampant.
2. "There is no shortage if you pay enough" argument - especially in high-tech - is a bunch of BS. You could be paying 200-250K salaries and still you end up with bunch of incompetents.
I don't save tabs. My laptop is from 2015, but not terrible. I use Xfce on Linux. Firefox was a fair bit slower before I upgraded from 4 GB of RAM to 12 GB.
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The fundamental problem with those exchanges is that they are sitting on your wallet. So now you're back to all of the problems with traditional banks. If someone wants to double-charge then it's up to the exchange to prevent it, the blockchain itself doesn't come into play. Worse, a great many exchanges in the past (almost all thus far) have proven to be fraudulent, incompetent, or both.
My memory is probably a little earlier, but somewhere around the 2014-2016 range, when growth stops on that graph. Work stopped using the paid tier at the same time as they were looking at a huge 200 or 400%+ price increase. So I imagine it started quite an exodus of non-enterprise level users...

Work ended up finding something better at less than the Basecamp old price, let alone the new ridiculous one, though we did have to try out a fair few to get there. :)
Most CDN operators do this, including apple which also has a public website about it - https://cache.edge.apple
Back in my day, I have graduated with M.Sc. at age of 17. Eleven years later, still my country's record.

Ask me anything about later life of child prodigies etc.
Hah! Indeed. I add -quora -pinterest -yelp to my searches by default, and it often reduces my results by 60% or more (for the better, in my opinion).
I’m always reminded of Warren Ellis’ talk “How to see the Future” when I read stuff like this. We have to strive to reduce the banality with which we view the world, and things like this go a long way.

http://www.warrenellis.com/how-to-see-the-future/
This is generally true, but also completely irrelevant to the ""debate"" on evolution. Scientific humility is an important quality, but it's misleading to young kids; and fundamentally works against understanding the "cross domain scientific revolutions." Until you're prepared with the ground work to understand why Newtonian physics isn't quite right (at really small or really big sizes), a rigorous introduction to relativity is just confusing.

Just like we don't have elementary kids read Kant despite the eventual value (when they're prepared for the intellectual rigor), evolution questions should not be given to 14-17 year old kids as qualified "according to the theory of evolution." Maybe 18 -- it's a tough question that depends on individual kids' capabilities.
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Ebay still exists and is way better for niche stuff anyway.
Get to know the people first. Understand why they are in this job, what their hopes and expectations are both in the day-to-day, and in the long-term for their career path.

Understand that all change is going to have a personal impact of each one of them. Knowing the above will help you know which people will be happy/angry over change, and you can work with them to help them understand the context of why changes are needed, and what the future holds.

And don't make change for its own sake. If you cannot justify how changes are better for the team, the company, the product... then you should not be making changes.
Brother printers are great. I have a B&W Brother laser printer (HL-2280DW) that I bought used in 2015 for $50. It still works perfectly, can print/scan directly from Android and iPhone apps. We would only print a few times a year but now that the kids are older is gets used once or twice a week. It supports IPP so I can even print to it from a Chromebook.
Glasses are the least risky. If you're using contacts however, you're taking more of a risk with your eyes than surgery.
I respectfully disagree. Arduino can be fully understood from the ground up: from voltage-levels, to the clock, to the simple assembly language (and compiler). The AtMega328p is an incredibly simple design... rugged enough to withstand a variety of voltages (1.8V to 5V inputs), and even able to be used on a breadboard.

Even ignoring Arduino, the "toy computers" that people make today are Minecraft Redstone, Factorio circuits, and Dwarf Fortress river-contraptions. Complete computer architectures built up from the fundamentals for the video-game computer scientists of the future.

People play games and use toys because its possible to understand everything.

EDIT: Oh, and the TI-83 calculator. Overpriced obsolete garbage of a calculator, but since its the "standard" calculator of High School, plenty of children will get the opportunity to really learn that machine if they so choose. There's something to be said about the TI-83 community keeping that Z80 chip so well documented and alive...
100 percent. My biggest beef with LASIK was it was rapidly commercialized and commodified by surgeons who were maximizing for volume, not patient outcomes. I won't disagree it's helped improve quality of life for a lot of people, but at the cost of folks who saw a significant decrease in quality of life because they weren't steered towards better options (surgical or otherwise). Misaligned incentives.
Educating a high-IQ child, especially a "profoundly gifted" child (above 145 IQ) is particularly challenging.

They get by with their raw intellect for most of school, and everyone compliments them on how smart they are. But they never learn skills like how to study, how to learn, how to persevere etc.

So once they hit their plateau, which everyone does, they don't know how to get past it and then they give up. A kindergartener that can read like a grade 8 will work off her raw intellect until she gets to grade 8, but then once her abilities max out, she won't have learned how to get past that, and that's where she flames out.

It happens all the time, even to friends of mine in high school. One of my gifted friends did well in high school but unfortunately flamed out in spectacular fashion in freshman year and I haven't heard from her in 30 years, even though we were extremely close and I reached out to her several times over the years.
I wanted LASIK so bad starting around 2010, I had worn glasses since I was 6 for my astigmatism. The reason I did not get it was because someone I worked with had a friend who they messed up one of his eyes and he was legally blind. My sister got it in 2015 and I kept putting it off. In 2018 i was turning 40 and needed readers, the eye doctor said i should get bifocals or LASIK and readers.

I got LASIK in September of 2018, I did my 1 year checkup in September of this year and am seeing 20/15. I used eye drops as instructed and now I don't need them. I still use readers for little print (or more light), but I knew I would need to going into this.

No regrets, except I should of done it years ago.
Well, mud-throwers (regardless of their ideology) have always misused terms like that.

These days, the preferred insult from the radical left tends to be "fascist", and the preferred insult from the radical right tends to be "socialist".

Both sides are using them as a slang way of saying "scum". But their abuse of these terms doesn't (or shouldn't) actually change their meaning to the rest of us.
Even the XPS 13s are more serviceable than their rival MBP 13"s. The RAM may be soldered on both but the XPS uses a standard NVMe SSD. It's saved me a few times already.
I participated in the clinical trials for this and used them regularly between 2008-ish (it's hard to remember since I was in middle school) and 2015.

The results were remarkable but the contacts themselves where insanely uncomfortable.
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Same here. Been wearing contacts for 25 years and they work fine. I've had several occasions where something has hit my eye, and the contacts have protected it from probable severe scratching.
@dang, please inform mr. Holmes that this is an uninformative and boastful comment which is unsuitable for HN.
Yes, my point is it tastes very different, I’m not sure I’d want it in my breakfast cereal.
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From the dictionary:

> straw man (n):

> an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument.

So, no, it isn’t a straw man because he’s not manipulating/misrepresenting your argument. Whether an argument is about defending malicious behavior or not has no bearing on whether or not it’s a straw man.
Can you say that you are ahead of your current peers in terms of learning capacity / knowledge?

Can you still learn new subjects / fields ?
Are you happy? Do you have rewarding work? Do you think your early degree came at the cost of something else? If given the chance would you do it again?
I'm sorry you don't believe in "innocent until proven guilty".
Why not give the brand owners control of the product pages? They can decide to allow distributors and block counterfeits.

Use eBay if you want to take advantage of the first sale doctrine. At this point it's not worth the risk to Amazon's credibility.
Three percent dissatisfaction and another four percent merely ‘meh’ is pretty high for an elective, perhaps even cosmetic, procedure that operates on something as fragile and irreplaceable as the eye.
Just wanted to say that this was written really well. As someone who doesn’t know anything about the subject, I was easily able to follow along and understand. That’s kind of rare around here for me.
Vice did a writeup where a reporter did this just to see what happened and it ended with the associated funds effectively seized.

Maybe they've gotten more permissive but don't do this with money you can't afford to lose.
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