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I go to a gym to do excercises using mainly bodyweight and perhaps three different accessories.
I know how to do the excercises and I have everything I need to donit at home and save $150/month and yet I don’t.
Whatever claims of anti-corruption he may have made in the past kinda fell out the window when he appointed his family to key political positions, one would think.
>Huh? Paul Dirac did it quite some time ago.

General, not special.

>VERY deep, highly irrelevant to our lives.

1. What a foolish comment. The ability to understand, and one day control, the strong force of matter, is extremely relevant to our lives. Indestructible building materials, space elevators, economic boom from harvesting the asteroid belt, etc. Use your imagination.

2. For the purposes of this comment thread, it's irrelevant whether it's relevant to our lives our not. The assertion was physics is still far from figuring everything out. Nothing to do with our everyday lives.
Paralegals, paramedics, ...paraprogrammers?
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I believe this also breaks in some cases on the same device. On my Android phone, when I open a link from gmail, it uses an embedded web view inside gmail to open the link, whereas the original request came from Firefox. I'm assuming there's no way for the session ID to bridge that gap, correct?
The bane of my existence!

Not really, but I hate the stuff. I finally managed to get most of it plucked out of my front yard. Hopefully the additional clover will displace it fully next season.
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The slide show is an eye opener for anyone doing performance sensitive work in Java. In particular the amount of overhead introduced by adhering blindly to very common OO idioms will often amount to 80-90% of heap allocation (not including dead objects) with only the remaining 10-20% being pure data.

I suspect other OO languages suffer from similar issues. The overhead of std::string in C++ is likewise non-trivial though probably not as large as in the case of Java.

I don't even want to guess the ratios for more abstract languages.
The answer to both questions is yes. A bootcamp helped me because it put me into a collaborative environment where I had some kind of obligations to show up and complete projects. Ultimately, you really only need side projects. I'm actually struggling in my job search right now, despite getting my foot in the door and doing great work for about 3 years, as having one company on my resume is not making up for my lack of newer side projects.
Ask HN: Wouldn't greymode be better than darkmode?
I don't mean the greyscale option in OS, where the whole page is turned to greyscale.

Dark mode is tough to implement, you have to re-design the whole page and it doesn't render well in old type screens (Thinkpad Matte, LCD). To properly view darkmode you need Retina like display.

The strain part is the bright white light, why not just modify that? Turn the white to grey. Renders well on all screens, no need to redesign the page. Plus less strain on the eyes.

Wouldn't that be a better alternative than darkmode?
In that case, you are making an informed decision by entering into a written contract -- you are free to do that, if you wish.
I’ve heard someone claim that the US Government was responsible for this merger in the first place. I wasn’t clear on whether they actively pushed it or it was a result of policy change around defense contracting. The implication was that it was the former.
> The papal infallibility doctrine retroactively aligns God's will with its interpretation by the Pope

No, it doesn't. Either in theory (where the direction of effect is the reverse described and there is no retroactivity) or in practice (where the theoretical restrictions on the applicability of the doctrine mean that on any issue where there is otherwise any controversy, the doctrine doesn't force a resolution it just expands the debate to include whether any papal statements ever made on the issue met the criteria for infallibility.)

> Compare "It is not in heaven" with ""Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

The latter isn't related to the basis for the doctrine of infallibility (whether papal or ecclesiastical) but it is part of the basis of doctrine around the priestly role in confession.
weird, AFAIK I cut and pasted...but stuff happens. Maybe @dang can fix it?
> Except for the climate change part.

This is out of context. Same thing could be said with the advent of the internet and massive energy consumption that came with it. The debate here is about the effect the technology had on day to day human lives, not on the optimization of it afterwards.
The farce is saying that the popup is needed "because we use cookies". It's because you're using cookies to track users, their PII and sell information and ads.

The EU didn't add any inefficiencies, rather, it's forcing the data abuse by websites to come to light.

If you use cookies only for login/session tracking then guess what, no popup is needed.

Also if the user expressed their consent (or lack of) once, then the popup is not needed anymore (google/fb/etc do exactly that).
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About the airflow thing, there's nothing (to my knowledge) preventing you from changing the shape of the enclosure. It's just going to be bigger.
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> So out of pocket expenses for the Amercian are going to be much, much higher.

Not in comparison to the salary difference: https://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/OECD-Focus-on-Out.... About $500/year difference between USA and France.
The most obvious way to unify your experience with the details in the original thread is that they have gone down in quality over the past 5 years. Given the massive number of new bootcamps that have launched (and shut down) it seems natural that not all of them would be up to the quality standard you enjoyed at the time.
Vote with your vote. As far as I know only two candidates in the presidential primary race support right-to-repair: Sanders and Warren.
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Everything that you mention except the self-steering is a function of the attached implement, not the tractor. That makes incremental upgrades of that sort much easier.
> Most of the time I have to nag them

You've recognized that you're nagging them. If you're not joking, then it sounds like you need to do the much more difficult and risky job of cultivating and protecting a culture where they feel safely encouraged to do it themselves. Make sure you're taking on the risk that they probably perceive they are taking when they sacrifice that hour of their work week.
I swear I get persistence of vision artifacts when I see a LIDAR equipped vehicle, but need to run a double blind test to be sure.
If these standards were required, would we have less hostile UI/UX, would we have less shady banner ad auctions, would there be less malware, etc? Not sure it would matter, especially since those standard requirements would only apply to the country in which they were enacted. Old eastern bloc countries would still have no problem filling the void. So essentially, the same bad actors would still act bad.
I'm happy to accept criticism of my characterization if it was factually inaccurate.
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This is a very unpopular position from a security perspective. All messages should be exchanged by some type-safe structured container like protobuf to avoid a huge class of bugs that comes from quoting and odd character sets, manually implementing parsers, confusing types, and broken string arithmetic.
With a bad manager being miserable at your job isn't really avoidable.
I hear you on that. I mean that I currently have these things and don't want to sacrifice them, but I seriously am unsure if it's possible to have them in the Bay. If it's not, as I'm coming to expect, I doubt I'll ever consider the switch. I definitely won't for the pay at a startup or the like.
I can't help but think that this is intentional. I'm pretty sure it's possible to create a more modular design without sacrificing anything. Especially given John Deere's record, it doesn't seem far fetched that they would actively seek out ways to make it more difficult to repair their tractors.
More reason to consider FAANG over startups.
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Ehm, I did not ask? I very much did so

> However you havent really addressed your use case anyhow but you just threw keywords around - gigabyte, IO, compressed, etc. You might want to elaborate on where you have to use XML files of the size of 50 gigabytes.

I even asked if you could provide that one 5 megabyte file. I take your response as you cant.

I really have the feeling we are going in circles here and you seem to want to resort to ridicule at this point, which will make the discussion pointless.

I believe I have made my point very clear from the start, elaborated more than once what my stance on this subject is, and even dug out some benchmarks. If none of that pleases you or makes you understand what I was actually trying to say, then I am terribly sorry but it is pointless.

And I'd appreciate if you could point out where I was "condescending", as I would object to that, except for the "lack of experience" and I still stand by that given the information you have revealed so far.
Wow, I agree with all of your points. I have had the exact same experiences and thoughts. I had to check the username to make sure I didn't write this.
Kind of. The problem with a $1.2M is that for most people this means you are massively leveraged. If anything goes wrong (e.g., market, tax mistakes, health issues), you can easily end up bankrupt.

Did this once and won my bet, but was very aware of how bad it might go. (Well, "won", since my ex got it all...)
For several packages I maintain, the version number is just $(git rev-list --count HEAD). One monotonically increasing number, nothing else.

(This is for software that does not do updates to old releases. If you do updates to old releases, you need an additional version number component for that.)
Right, yeah that's kind of what I was trying to suggest. Honestly, I don't really see how this can work in the general case all that well given exactly what you are saying. I have seen some examples of fighting games being played over stadia, but many fighting games rely on frame-perfect input (and purists in communities like melee dont even use certain monitors due to this...)
Slightly confusing the way you pasted, not sure if intentional. OS0 starts at $6,000 with volume discounts, while the OS2 that starts at $16,000.
huge discussion here about Nebraska voting for right-to-repair a few weeks ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21805633
We had some of problem trying Robosense lidars at very cold temperature. Didn't try our Ouster in such conditions to my knowledge. BUT most of the we got good results in temperature much colder than what the lidars were rated for. For the more sensitive lidars my lab developed a hacky warming apparatus using hand warmers :D
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Is this a genie that can be bottled back up? Lets say you enact these magical regulations. Will the corporations stick around or will they focus on other countries where they have more clout? Similarly, will they use international levers of pressure to "fix" the issues any one country poses?
I don't think that US even hides the fact that they made Wassenaar in order to keep their allies in line, and clip their wings on the techno-economic front.

For example, when US was enthusiastic selling military equipment to China, not a single US company was ever denied a license, at the same time, US made everything to deny that for its allies.
I couldn’t even swap out a headlight in my girlfriend’s car, because of the tight space.

Instead she has to pay a garage to do it. That’s not it used to be.
This is a thing! Holy crap! For years now I've been telling anyone who would listen that we're underutilizing randomness as a guard against corruption.
I find performance reviews are better at confirming management problems to employees than reviewing employee performance.

In once case a manager complained that I wasn't working on a component that wasn't my responsibility. (I was always happy to help!) I had to get the CTO involved, and then my manager stopped dragging me into this component. (Edit: It was SSO, and I wrote the browser part. About 95% of the bugs were server-side.)

In another case, a project failed because it wasn't managed. My manager basically said something like, "I'm surprised to learn..." At this point, I realized that he wasn't paying any attention to the project.
The technology itself is not the issue, the problem is that companies are at war with their customers. These companies will go to any length to extract as much revenue as possible. Milking your customers is not good for business, especially if you drive them into insolvency.

I hope in the future there are more companies that try to align incentives with their customers, such that their business practices help customers be more successful (although many of them preach this, very few actually do). Many businesses these days seem to be geared toward making a quick buck, rather than really providing any value.
The popups are really cool - I don't think I'd realised before that it's for more than just Wikipedia. The Amazon previews are great.

I know nothing about design/typography, but I find it easier to read sites that are more spaced out, use sans-serif fonts, and have colours. I think the site looks beautiful (especially the drop caps!) but I wouldn't call it minimalist.
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The nuanced verbiage of the article is overshadowed by the lead graphic, showing the US leader being punched. This, along with current context of Iranian-organized mob assaults on the US embassy in Iraq (including burning the lobby), plus plenty of other incidents, makes it hard to accept the "they're just saying they don't like meanies" explanation.
Sounds like an AOL nickname.
> Why?

Why what? (I seriously don't understand what argument you're trying to make in your first paragraph.)

> [...] SemVer has sold folks a bill of goods with regard to software maintenance. Perpetuating the idea that people can blindly update will always create problems.

You're forgetting to ask the question whether this bill of goods is desirable. Considering the environment we have today (frequent security updates, huge dependency chains, interconnected systems), I'd say it's not just desirable but straight up necessary. People should be able to blindly update. They need to be able to, because users are not developers and updates need to be made as accessible as possible in order to propagate and proliferate as quickly as possible.

What we need is better testing and release engineering to get SemVer right, not defining the problem away by ditching a layer of usability.
Why not just follow the rules then? It's like saying you respect your boss so much you always put in your 8 hours...but you don't do any work, you just punch in, sit idle, then punch out.
I've seen worse, but in my opinion, this is not a good landing page. It doesn't offer much in terms of actual, actionable information -- only marketing-speak broadsides, the layout is hard to follow, if you change the font size to make it more usable (the size the page uses is far too large), then the layout breaks further, and so on.
I've had some success with some of the off-the-shelf laser distance measurement modules, like the ones Bosch sell at big-box hardware stores:

https://www.boschtools.com/us/en/boschtools-ocs/laser-measur...

They have 1-2mm accuracy and quite good precision, particularly if your environment is stable (temperature, movement, lighting). These modules use an interferometry approach rather than time of flight to achieve their accuracy.

Several of them have a Bluetooth interface which you could reverse-engineer. The work then would be creating a turret to rotate the unit around a known centerpoint and take a bunch of samples. It'd be slow, but it works.

There are also a bunch of modules available on Alibaba for a few tens of dollars that have serial interfaces and seem to have similar performance - they often have 10s of Hz sample rates, so you could speed up scanning quite a lot. They exhibit similar accuracy to the boxed units I've bought, but require you to be comfortable with things like SPI and soldering.
So, as a user, how can I signal "I don't care; stop showing me this popup on every site?"

Because if the answer is "per-site signaling," that's soft encouragement to keep using the same sites so I don't need to see that tedious notification and it rewards big players over small players (and defeats some of the benefit of the WWW as a hyperlinked network of data that's fairly location-agnostic).
> Fast forward 10 years and am married, have a child and fit into a normal schedule; am feeling quite healthy mentally, though I feel I don't get enough time just being by myself. If I had the chance to change anything in the past though, I would leave things as they are. I that feel I grew in some respects while being alone/lonely. I did not pray but I did my type of meditation which is painting.

What was your approach for becoming more social?
Hey, he probably deserved to be beaten up anyway. </sarcasm>
Yes, sorry. It's been filled and I didn't realize.
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It is very not sexy at all, and all the bootcamps don't want you to know that either as they swindle you out of $10k. The cold hard truth is that not everyone has the aptitude to learn software, and there's nothing wrong with that.
I don't know. Would it? It's hard to answer without links to sites with the same thing rendered both ways.

For what little it's worth I got pushed into VS editor (which shouldn't have taken pushing, it's a great environment) defaulting to darkmode and on less-than-Retina-grade panels I'm enjoying it
>Autos overall are down, Tesla is selling record numbers, how did they lose market share?

Tesla's revenues as a percentage of total auto sales decreased last quarter. Simple math.
Thats pretty deep.
>a bizarrely micromanaged & comprehensive policy

Perfect description.

I've always been amazed by that blog post.

It reads like a textbook case of bike-shedding(seriously the number of words and engineering thought spent on it is asinine) for what ultimately amounts to faux virtue-signaling about how you're going to get paid 20% below market.
I’m on my phone and site won’t load... but I do know there’s some attack where ads served by a ad network can redirect a page... A popular blog about Apple news and rumors did that once for me, emailed their ad sales guy but never heard anything back. But all probably random, so the others who didn’t get that didn’t get the ad. Probably some sort of frame breaker.
This is one of the single best examples of the ludicrous nature of the recent pattern of loss of right-to-repair with regards to software and hardware control.

John Deere is literally bottom-barrel scum of, well, I guess, now - the tech industry - and it's their own fault that farmers are turning to purchasing older models.

'“There’s an affinity factor if you grew up around these tractors, but it goes way beyond that,” Peterson said. “These things, they’re basically bulletproof. You can put 15,000 hours on it and if something breaks you can just replace it. It's not even just the price difference - the newer machines, any time something breaks, you’ve got to have a computer to fix it.”'

The article then goes on to mention they're SOL, with the tractor stuck in the field for potentially days while they wait for a technician to come and charge $150/hr to fix it.

First off, farmers are not, for the most part, computer or software technicians. While there are certainly exceptions (I was only a farmer for 4-5 years of my life, total, I don't think I count), I've spent years on and off living on farms, and a lot of farmers in the rural US and Canada are lucky to even just have access to Satellite internet. I imagine doing a case study of farmers who would have an identical tractor with and without the software, and seeing how many would actually even use or miss it. I'm guessing not a lot.

The idea of relying on software technology is profoundly alien - and high-risk - to even just the culture of most farmers. To then put arbitrary restrictions on repair is far more than enough reason to ignore the newer products, especially with the familiarity and known reliability of older models.

It's a 2011 vs. 2017 MacBook Pro kinda deal - pretty much the same insides, but with out the ability for the user to go in and upgrade the RAM or the SSD to add any value afterwards, and the removal of familiar and useful ports. And if one part breaks, you're screwed and stuck travelling to an Apple store, if you're fortunate enough to have one in your area.

Right to Repair is one of the most critical things we as tech users need to be defending in the upcoming years. I've been buying Apple computers exclusively for 15+ years, and I will be buying a Lenovo next, as Apple has taken away my right to repair and upgrade the device myself, while simultaneously removing features, and raising the price.

If I was still a farmer, you wouldn't catch me dead buying a new John Deere - I could never bring myself to support such obvious greed and stranglehold control.

At least with a Tesla, you'd get the benefit of it being an EV. Maybe that's a fair enough trade to lose your RtR.

But with John Deere and Apple, by buying a new product of theirs, you are literally removing the rights and abilities you had several years ago. That is just pure greed - and we need to vote with our money.
Since you had no big tech company on your resume, what do you think was the biggest factor in getting you the job? Interview performance? Project portfolio? Or something else?
Some form of enforcement must be available to the HOA. Otherwise I'd sow wheat in my yard and raise a gaggle of chickens starting tomorrow.
> Apple has figured out that part relatively well.

I'm assuming this is not referring to their Butterfly design? That was not a well working keyboard.
> By that yardstick, every human society past and present is broken.

Just because a yardstick gives you undesirable results doesn't mean that it's a faulty measuring tool.
1.5 mm is really ambitious. This is close to metrology-level precision. I wouldn't look into sensors aimed at robotics/autonomous vehicles. Try Creaform, Riegl stuff, etc... Also what you're trying is far from new so maybe get acquainted with what other businesses are doing (e.g. https://www.bentley.com/en/products/brands/contextcapture).
I thought the unreliable airspeed indicators section was particularly interesting because it can be read as a list of everything that the Air France Flight 447 crew did wrong...