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The new Pixelbook Go only comes with a low resolution display, except for the most expensive model (see [1]). This is significant change for Google, since their previous Chromebooks had 4K-ish displays. This move from high end to low end reminds me of the Pixel 3a phone [2].

I loved the idea of Chromebooks, and hoped ChromeOS was a way that Linux would finally be "mainstream" on laptops. I've bought at least 10 Chromebooks since 2013, including all of the Google flagship models, since I use them as my main dev machine and at tradeshows. My next laptop is either going to be a Dell XPS 13 with Linux or (shudder) some random Windows 10 laptop.

[1] "1080p on a 13.3-inch display works out to 166 pixels per inch, a far cry from the 235 ppi on the first Pixelbook and the impressive 293 ppi on the Pixel Slate. Google does offer the Go with a 4K screen, but that option is only available if you get the top-of-the-line model, which costs an eye-popping $1,399." https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/25/google-pixelbook-go-revi...

[2] I won't ever buy another Google phone -- I bought a Pixel 3a and it completely broke by dropping it 3 feet with a screen protector and highly protective case, due to the very cheap display tech they used. I searched youtube for stress test videos about the 3a and could only find one where somebody's pixel 3a shattered after being dropped 1 foot; in comparison phones like iPhone X and Samsung Galaxy S10plus have dozens of videos with high end equipment testing dropping under rigorous conditions.
If you can show there is x group that has it worse, you can usually get funding/money to help fix the problem.

It's all about framing. And while I applaud the idea of not bucketting people, it's not how the world operates. It's easier to get money to feed children than it is adults, or just, 'the hungry'.
>You don't even need to have necessarily been to that specific street before if you have a mental map of the area.

I, for one, am not going to waste my mental energy making a mental map of Houston. The city PROPER has an area of 670 mi^2, which is equivalent to fifteen San Francisco's. The metropolitan area is over 200 San Francisco's. I regularly drive 40 miles to get from one side of the city to another, for whatever particular errand I need to run that day. The Houston metro area is officially over 10,000 square miles - that's larger than (pick one): Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, or Maryland.

I'm not building a "mental map" of an area larger than the entire state of Massachusetts. Saying it's on par with the total area of the country of Switzerland would not be much of an exaggeration.

Maybe the city was different before cell phones. Maybe each neighborhood either had everything you needed or you just went without. Now, because GPS/Google Maps exist, the highest quality businesses pop up in super random spots around the city, and you'll never be able to have a clue how to get to them all without Google Maps.

"Back in the day" you didn't live in an integrated metropolis the size of Switzerland. But we do now...so the tools we need to enable that are now legitimately "needed" and non-optional. This very well may be hazardous to our health, but its not really an option.
Not sure when it started, but there are 3 year leases offered through Tesla for the model 3. That was what had me curious.
This is the right advice if you want to nerd out on technology. But my experience suggests[1] that if you want to build a business it'll be cheaper to validate problem/solution with phone calls and mocks / designs before writing code.

This is because:

* It's cheaper to make changes before code has been written

* A functioning product isn't the best sign that you're making progress - paying customers are[2]

Don't get me wrong. I like to write code as much as the next guy / gal. But I've made the mistake of writing code first. And I've worked with clients who - despite my best attempts - decided to forego validation to build a product that they spent a lot of dev dollars on to fix once the market met it with a trickle of interest.

1- https://uncog.com/archive/v2/why-only-fools-write-code-first...

2- https://uncog.com/archive/v2/how-to-get-paying-customers-bef...
What you (and most Americans) fail to understand is the states are separate entities, more similar to the EU than the provinces of Canada.

If California wants to have socialized health care for all it's residents, literally nothing is stopping them. Many states already have 100% government medical insurance for the poor.

The reality is, government run systems are an absolute nightmare. Similar to government housing, you only use it if you can't afford the alternative.
Used business workstation desktops are a friggin' steal right now, if you don't need the portability. Like if you want to do the old-school shared "family computer" situation. Or just want one really powerful machine for your home server junk, rather than a stack of (way more expensive for similar total memory & performance) Raspberry Pis.
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I’m personally waiting for one that costs less than $30k before incentives that is comparable to an ICE sedan/crossover in everything besides the power train. Because that doesn’t exist.
No, Mozilla and Apple didn't release their JIT engines until after Chrome (though I think at least Apple was working on theirs) and so when Chrome came out JS immediately got about 4x faster, which was a bigger improvement than had happened over the entire previous lifetime of JS. Popular web pages didn't immediately get 4x faster, because they had carefully avoided doing anything in JS if its performance mattered, but JS did. It's true that V8 used a ridiculous amount of RAM, and still does, but its existence made it possible to do things in JS that previously required native code.

As for Adobe, they never did much for JS; they tried to get people to use ActionScript instead, which was a statically-typed language with syntactic similarities to JS.
> That way you get speed up without needing the y-buffer memory.

I mean, the "Y-buffer" memory is just one integer per column, pretty trivial even for a software rasterizer on an early 90s machine with a limited cache hierarchy. Pretty much any algorithm that has overdraw will lose to that. That's why this technique was so popular in the nineties—what Doom did was just a generalization of this idea to allow multiple sparse pixel spans per column instead of just one. (For comparison, Z-buffer bandwidth is expensive because it's an extra 16/24/32 bits per pixel, which can double your fill rate requirements.)
Could you refer me to a good/standards-compliant library for typesafe generic lists, hashmaps, pattern matching, closures, etc?
This is interesting because the idea of owning a car that takes regular OTA updates, and can be disabled or tracked remotely at any time by the manufacturer — to me is very scary/creepy.

Maybe I’m paranoid, but I have a hard time not extrapolating the OTA update experience from other software (desktop, phone OS’s) to cars too: updates breaking features inadvertently but with no prompt fix, injecting new spyware against your will but with no real alternate, updated terms of service that you have no choice but to agree to if you want to be able to drive home, etc.

Given the track record with OTA software updates everywhere else, we need positive assurance that the there won’t be these same profitable compromises of user experience, privacy, freedom, etc. eventually for these cars. Because the status quo is quite the opposite. Have you read the terms of service and related documents you signed when buying your Tesla, in full?

I fully agree about self driving / driver assistance though, and for example am thrilled that Toyota now includes in all their new cars (for free, as a base feature) their entire autonomous drivers assistance sensor suite and features: adaptive cruise control (works in stop and go traffic), lane steering assistance, automatic braking, automatic high/low beams, etc. (and it all works very reliably in my experience). I know it’s nothing like the autonomous features Tesla offers in their upgrade package, but this is a very welcome change in the industry.
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You're talking to people who sit in front of computers most of the day, lol
Has anyone actually studied what people do in these scenarios or are you just assuming that people will willingly starve themselves to death en masse at a rate greater than the current just because they get $1k in pity money a month?

Give me a break.
There's a huge difference between killing animals specifically bred to be killed and killing wild animals.
I saw this the other day.

It is indeed cherry picking various data points (e.g., chance of being beaten by spouse is not on there, chance of being sexually assaulted, etc).

However, it does beg the questions that you aren't supposed to ask, such as:

We have a criminal justice system that disproportionately incarcerates people of color. We also have a criminal justice system that disproportionately imprisons men, by an order of magnitude. The question you aren't allowed to ask: Is that ok too?

Men are (by a significant factor) more likely to be homeless, mentally ill, die by suicide or homicide, and/or be addicted to drugs. The forbidden question to ask: When it's on the basis of race, everyone understands that's due to systematic racism... but when it's on the basis of sex, and that sex is male... then what?

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I guess my larger point is I've (thank goodness) made it "over the hump". With good family support, good education and a good career - also blessed with relatively good health - I made it safely to home base. I have the financial and personal resources to have a stable relationship, afford safe housing, invest in my career, etc.. There were many cases where if I had one link in that chain missing, I would have been a statistic like that. I'm the privileged man that's fair game and fat target for feminist critiques of the patriarchy.

But I think (since most of us are men) we know men who did not make it over that hump - who due to lack of education/money/work cannot attract a partner, struggle with a cocktail of mental illness and/or drug abuse, and generally have no future... and who have no public narrative of a class of people in need of support and investment. And this is to the ruin of us all.
This comment is simply false. We can have a robust sharing of ideas and cultures all within the context of a single language.

In speaking a common language we gain tremendously both in unity and the opportunity for increased cultural sharing. Imagine a family in which everyone speaks different languages. There would be little interaction; the family would fall apart. Nations have historically fractured in this way along linguistic boundaries, and by not encouraging a single language in a country, we invite division, balkanization and national fracturing.

I'm curious as to why you are against a single language dominating in a country. Are you uncomfortable with people being expected to make the effort to learn a new language? Or do you just not care about nations (or the USA in particular) as units and don't mind if they fall apart.
This is it for us. I’d happily drop my ICE minivan for a similar electric. Doesn’t need to go fast. Just needs to hold the family, the luggage, the dogs. I need function, not luxury.

Model Y could be interesting. The new Pacifica is stepping in the right direction.
My Dad is in his 70s and lives the RV life now, usually from 3 time zones away. He's not going to run his own backup servers and I don't want to take 4am support calls. Google works fine for his use case.
Not sure how I feel about this. It does feel quite wrong.

Agreed. You can get into pretty weird cases... hiring athletic employees is generally a positive for the company, unless they also mountain bike/ski/some other riskier sport. How far will an employer go to ensure the lowest possible insurance premiums?

Or, marital status (no federal protection)... married people generally have better mortality rates. Will employers start selecting against single/unmarried candidates?
Free means "without cost or payment", so turning around and suggesting that someone who rightfully uses a software provided under a "without payment" model is actually "leeching" because they do not offer payment just cannot logically follow.

Leeches take what is not theirs to take, that's the whole point. When you follow all the rules, you're not a leech, you're a user.

If curl does not want users to have access to their software for free, then change the model. It's not even shareware or nagware or anything. It's just free. But to insult users who follow the rules is ridiculous.
Literally just did this last week. Needed some more RAM for my laptop, and figured a quick drop into Fry's would work. It was pitiful and absolutely shocking. I have to say 70% of the store was empty, with multiple departments worth of shelving completely empty. They didn't have the RAM I needed, and the options they did have were poorly price... and hard to find... and the sales associate in the area seemed to not know what customers were for and completely ignored me.

Left, drove to Microcenter, and had to fight my way through the crowds to get to the RAM. They had multiple options, happy associates, and I even poked around with fun 3d printing stuff because the store was so well stocked. It's wild that their situation is so different.
> I find the style of the visual artefacts a lot more appealing than in many more modern rendering techniques. Perhaps it is just the simplicity of it

Looking at the visual artefacts in question, it appears that the big chunks of pixels (the ones closer to the POV) are not regularly aligned on screen, but rather disseminated around, which I guess improves the render quite a bit by giving it a somewhat "fuzzier", more organic look.

Maybe this irregularity is a side effect of the algorithm itself, and not something done on purpose?
And the collapse (in a matter of weeks) of Chile as the most prosperous, richest, free/open society in Latin America.
This article (1st Google hit) suggests they are:

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/98986/the-global-car-...
> Also, Toronto/Montreal will become the Silicon valley of Canada, as skilled immigrants move to the Canada knowing they will never get greencards in the US.

As a (US citizen) programmer living in Toronto, I have seen this first hand: people moving from the bay, or moving directly to Canada because of a) the US having enormous lines for green cards and b) Canada aggressively courting skilled workers (you can get an invitation to apply for permanent residency online, before even coming to Canada[0]). In particular, you see many people coming from places experiencing political unrest (I'm no exception), especially Brazil in the last couple years.

I would question whether Montreal should be included in this hypothetical "canadian silicon valley," only because of Quebec's cultural protectionism, which borders on hostility to outsiders[1]. That said, rent is astronomically higher in Toronto and Montreal has massive cultural capital as a sort of old-world city in North America, so I could be wrong!

In any event Canada is definitely coming up (though to see it as "rivaling" the US would be misguided).

0: https://movnorth.com/process/

1: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/quebec-begins-controver... I'm not saying this exact measure is necessarily "hostile" but stuff like this definitely contributes to the perception that newcomers may not be as welcome in Quebec.
Duplicati? Deja dup?
Maybe something rss driven?

Given Name it basically has to be live and rss seems like best fit
Price comparison of low-cost web BI tools in 2020
No, they don't.

Income and wealth inequality prevent this from ever being a reality.

HBU analyses work on real estate and businesses. Doing one on a staple good with inelastic demand is complete insanity.
It's getting very close. I had wanted to make a production-ready 1.0 release before the end of the year, but we're in the process of switching from protobuf to flatbuffers. Once that is complete, a stable release will be made.
So they're composting and recycling? The city I live in mandates all restaurants in the downtown core do this... (Of course we also have one of the largest composting facilities in North America)
Is there an actual argument for multi-culturalism being better for a nation? The argument for a homogeneous culture is easy to make. But multi-culturalism isn't obvious.
Columbus Ohio microcenter was PACKED (both shelves, and people) during the holidays. Love that place.
How do you get quality feedback? In my experience people will often say yes when asked or shown a mock up but will not buy. You don't find out who will actually buy until they try a functional product.

I really suspect that the lean startup method belongs in the early web era when there was a ton of low hanging fruit with simple market research and simple MVPs. All that low hanging fruit has been picked. Today it's pick your brutally hard problem and iterate for 1-2 years before you get a MVP that you can test.
Voice control quickly falls apart when you’ve got a car full of kids. Having to tell everyone to stop talking so you can turn the wipers on is just plain bad design.
Oh yeah, you’re totally right, please chalk that up to pre-coffee brain fart, I wasn’t thinking about the size and stupidly assumed it was on the same order as z-buffer.
Could you please explain more about the process you're using? Are you compiling external dependencies as an integral part of building your own code?
Sure, if the product is something you don't intend to make a business out of. Otherwise, you should be doing your homework ahead of time, and seeing if this is something people are actually in need of. Most ventures I've worked on have been derived from the immediate needs that I found not being covered in my day to day life from others.
> 4. Ai in healthcare will allow for decentralised expertise. The role and power of nurses will expand.

Can you expand on this?
From first day of 2020: ISP problem enabled me to set up USB tethering on Mac
Kinda anecdotal, but the one in Richardson (DFW) is almost always packed. Easily one of my favorite brick and mortar stores anywhere.
Yes, for more on that see my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21946939
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> [ ] Syntax is what makes programming difficult

I'd love to see language design and language development treated as different disciplines.

Just like developers were the first web designers, developers have been the first language designers.

Ideally a language designer would only be tasked with how to express complex ideas in a simple, composable syntax.

Language developers would be tasked with everything else: basically making those ideas work as efficiently and consistently as possible.

Not to say a language designer and developer can't be the same person, but I think there might be some benefit to having a linguist (with some understanding of development) and a developer (with some understanding of linguistics) team up on a new language.
So, what did Microcenter do right to avoid having the same fate as Fry’s?
Somewhere to find the latest "best practice" way of doing things (obviously need some way to sort subjectivity there though!)

For example, looking at Android there are a load of blog posts, docs and libraries but lots are irrelevant now if coming at it fresh in 2020 — it's hard to tell which are obsolete unless you've got all the historic background though.

Was thinking something à la Stack Overflow / Reddit voting might be enough to keep the best practices fresh. It's the type of thing you'd think they could cover but would likely get closed as "resource requests" there unfortunately.

Feels like a missing piece of the puzzle for me in modern web-dev, especially when moving between fields.

(EDIT: typos / formatting / clarity)
>> [2] I won't ever buy another Google phone -- I bought a Pixel 3a and it completely broke by dropping it 3 feet with a screen protector and highly protective case, due to the very cheap display tech they used.

I've got a 3a and haven't experienced this. My kid has dropped my phone everywhere (from the cart at the grocery, from his high chair, his car seat, etc.) - note the phone isn't playing anything, he just likes to hold it and pretend he's talking to 'oma' or 'gigi' - and I just have a cheap rubber cover. To each their own though.
The Xmas software update includes hands-free texting. Between that, the voice commands, the entertainment apps, and built-in navigation, I don't really miss Apple CarPlay or Android Auto.
>I think Lua may actually pre-date JS

And it does
You are just new to Facebook. They don't actually mind being complicit to crimes such as phishing, scamming, fraud, etc because time and time has shown that laws don't actually apply to these companies, so they adapted accordingly. Spoiler alert: flagging these will often not do anything either because according to my experience obviously illegal content doesn't actually violate their community guidelines.

Install a good ad-blocker (uBlock Origin on Firefox, AdGuard on Safari, etc) and consider anything that has any kind of connection with Facebook to be malicious by default.
And that's why it's disingenuous to frame cycling safety as a binary that's contingent on whether or not a particular cyclist is wearing a helmet. The risk equation for you is vastly different from someone who hops on their cruiser bike to go 10 blocks on a protected bike trail to the grocery store.

Once you factor in all the variables, the helmet is only a small part of the equation, and probably not going to do you much good should you find yourself under the wheels of a semi-truck. Yet having that piece of styrofoam strapped to your head has given you the (possibly misplaced) confidence to go fast with semi-trucks.
well that sounds reasonable. where should i invest my money?
That's classified as an electric motorbike in the EU, if it's a legal, registered vehicle. You need the appropriate driving license and insurance to drive one.

Alternatively, if it's a modified bicycle, it's simply illegal on public roads.
No. That causes a process with admin rights to run in the context of your desktop session. This is exploitable by non-admin processes running in the same session. The inter-process security in Windows is unfortunately weak when they share a desktop session.
10yr ago those people had just got laid off from all their IT jobs and whatnot. Now they all have real jobs again and you've got lower quality labor. The same thing happened to Autozone, Home Depot and every other place a laid off skilled worker wound up getting a job to make ends meet.
I don’t think Google needs to steal a language name. They fuck it up and create a non-searchable name just as well on their own.