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Motion gaming is so different from button mashing that it benefits from a clean separation that makes sure that nothing in the content library ever tries do dabble in both.

Nintendo got close with deemphasizing graphics on the Wii, but even they suffered from a mixed bag reputation. A bad console that is also an awesome fitness toy is worse than a good fitness toy that isn't a console at all. Marketing motion as an optional add-on is terrible. I believe that the Wii would have fared better if it had been even cheape/lower spec and motion focused with a parallelly introduced full version marketed as the Gamecube successor to keep the console expectations off it's back.

With today's technology (ubiquitous HD screens, consumer grade wired PCIe and well established GPU APIs) a possible compromise might be a low spec standalone motion gaming system that can optionally use it's full spec game console sibling as eGPU for added HD fidelty. The important property of this hypothetical ecosystem architecture is be that the motion part wouldn't be an optional controller for the big console, muddying the console's library with half-baked motion support but keep it's own focused library and just make that optionally playable with above-reference visuals for gear accumulators.
Chernobyl or Fukushima, or the numerous minor incidents

But yes um also all for nuclear until fusion reactors are better, especially salt /thorium reactors
And more focus to turn usable waste to RTGs etc
> the near impossible task of defending a physical device in the hands of an attacker.

If you assume the device is off and the user chose a strong password, it's pretty easy to defend. You simply encrypt the data with a key which is encrypted with the user's password.

If you want to protect devices that are on, or want to protect devices with less than stellar passwords, then it becomes harder.
>I think this problem exists in most countries.

Why is this a problem? The purported reason for checking luggage is security. Checking luggage going on to private jets does not provide a similar security benefit as it may for scheduled airline services.

For customs there are separate spot checks, but usually on arrival as it usually doesn’t make much sense to be concerned about illegal exports.

Human trafficking is a separate issue, FBO staff and private jet operators should be trained to combat such just like normal airlines do.

That training works, I’ve been on the receiving end of it as a suspected human trafficker. (My friend told the gate agent to look at my phone for his ticket because he doesn’t own one. We were both briefly detained until the airline had someone talk to him in his native language and verify that he’s there by his own free will)
>I know this isn't a very popular opinion, but I've always thought that was a hugely stupid idea in the first place. Instead of shutting down nuclear power plants, we should have doubled down on them and spent more money on research to make them safer (as I understand it, there's still many unexplored concepts to make nuclear power much safer and reduce nuclear waste) and more efficient.

It's a very common opinion among people who have researched this significantly, but not all that common in the general population, sadly.
So, I recommend, just dont loose your shit... Besides, the typical thief aims to resell the hardware. They dont care about the pics you have of your gf...
Gambler's Fallacy is applicable "when it has otherwise been established that the probability of such events does not depend on what has happened in the past" -- not the case here.

The fact that the server has been running uninterrupted for 55 months is a strong clue that the power to this system is robust, not subject to "random" power loss scenarios like one would expect at a typical residence.
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Send emails to professors you would be interested in working under. As I understand it in Germany you absolutely must have a faculty sponsor to do a Ph.D. anyway. Ask about either doing an independent project under their direction or working as a research assistant. Good luck.
Mozilla was a firehose of money back then. Financially they were and still are Google: literally they get a fraction of Google's own revenue stream. That was more than sufficient to reward their developers in whatever way they liked.

Those devs weren't leaving Mozilla because of money. They left because they were being given a nearly blank slate on which to create a browser they felt would be much better.
psvr sells though.
No, I agree. I really think there should be a big green push for new nuclear. Part of me also thinks that the new nuclear sites should be in city centres, next to the parliamentary buildigs - to really focus minds on safety.
Started basically after chernobyls effect declined on German forests and mushrooms, AFAIK there still many mushroom places in Germany which are unsafe
You're right, of course. We're actually faced with a choice between a world where some can defend themselves against injustice, and a world where some can defend themselves against injustice and also I write thinkpieces about how horrible that is on the internet.

It looks like I am going to choose the former, just so you know.
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>They do become a dangerous threat to humans if left unchecked but we've developed systems to keep them under control.

East India Company begs to differ.
That's funny: the priming tests has apparently been quite criticised as shown in the reply, yet the speaker still use this example, has he been primed on priming?

More likely once you remove the "priming" part, there isn't much left about the talk..
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You might have to get used to it, like with speaking. And yes, a safety net that's already baked into your workflow could prevent bad consequences from potential input errors.

Use trash instead of rm -rf for example, it makes sure that files you remove land in your trash bin. Look this program up if you don't already use it, seriously.
Ah yes, the benefits of nuclear power with no responsibility for dealing with the waste.

Shifting the burden elsewhere hardly seems fair, does it?

Anyhow, I don't think that importing power from a neighboring country is a long-term solution to Germany's electricity needs.
Yet some of the most successful business people seem to be good at tech. I heard that half of the CEOs of the top 500 fortune companies have a STEM degree.
I received a couple of emails. This is gonna be fun! :D
I imagine using it simultaneously with a traditional screen would be a constant reminder of its deficiencies. Probably need to use it alone to experience the zen of eInk.
Thanks for the recommendations. I honestly had no idea any of this was available.
So around 0.4 kWh/passenger-km? - seems it compares pretty favourably to long-haul aviation (e.g. wiuth very crude maths 600 people on A380 at max range/fuel works out as 0.36). Naively I had been assuming that the battery mass and small scale would be more punishing than that.
I disagree. Though I am not in a position to evaluate her performance as interim CEO, I feel Mozilla and Firefox have moved on a lot in the last few years.

When I returned to Firefox a few years ago initially it felt quite behind Chrome, and few odd things like Pocket etc, but these days I can't see any reason to use Chrome. Love the container add-ons, thew new picture-in-picture works great. The leaner Quantum works better. I appreciate the work they do with Rust and webassembly. etc.
It only uses electricity when it refreshes, so it does not seem that high.
So what would be your strategy to increase the Mozilla revenue?
Ask HN: Why did you quit your job(s)?
Looking back at my career, quitting each job meant I learned something about myself or the industry.

Job 1: Wanted more money.

Job 2: Learned that what companies say and promise isn't really worth anything. Wanted more money.

Job 3: Learned that companies change with time just like people and that sometimes you outgrow eachother. Wanted more money.

Job 4: I actually don't care about the companies mission. I just want to clock in, work and clock out. Wanted more time/shorter commute.

Job 5: Even if I'm wildly successful at this place, it's a career dead end and I don't want to stay here until retirement. Wanted more money.

Job 6: Self-employed contractor. 30 hour work weeks, paid well and plenty of energy for my family. Staying here for a while.

Why did you quit your job HN?
Because they highlight the extreme injustice of the Japanese justice system, which has been documented in numerous cases and is also reflected in figures - state prosecutors virtually never loose a case, people are kept without access to lawyers for weeks, etc.

Some of this I already knew but I've learned a lot more from the Ghosn case.
Interesting announcement not two weeks after announcing that the MoFo board would be expanded: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/01/08/expanding-mozillas-...
This is the point. Third party being foreign government, or eventually your own government. You may not have anything to hide, but you’re only one law away from what constitutes ‘something to hide’.
Germany burns a lot of lignite (the dirtiest kind of coal) as well as hard coal, so imagine what that figure would be if the political will existed to shut those power plants down.

To answer the question, 38.6% of Germany's CO2 emissions are from power generation [1], and around 70% of those are from coal power plants [2]. That's 27% of total emissions from burning coal.

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/co2-emissionen-103.ht...

[2] Figure 10, https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/14...
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Try buying something from Aliexpress when you have a close border with Egypt and Israel, and a blockade within Israeli sea and air.
I’ve never done it but it should be feasible. An IP packet is 1518x8 == 12144 bits which is not especially big for a one-hot style encoding these days. You would just need to be sure to capture representative traffic e.g. accounting for monthly jobs.
"Pattern" comes from the Gang of Four book, by way of confusion about an entirely different concept from architecture.

The book has not aged well. Its vocabulary has turned out to be decreasingly useful. I go for many months at a stretch without encountering any reason to mention any of them. The only names that come to mind, at the moment, are the "visitor" and "pimpl" patterns, only the latter of which I have used in the past decade, and that because it is imperfectly supported by the library template std::unique_ptr<>.

That is not for lack of discussion of choices among possible solutions to problems. Notably, most on https://cpppatterns.com/ are just library components.
When an exploit is leaked and turned into software that can run on commodity hardware then the thief might only have to spend a few minutes.
“if you assume the device is off”?

I suppose if you assume the user never puts data on the device, it also becomes easier.
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It doesn't need to be perfect. The main requirement is that a chip holds on to a secret key, releases it upon getting the correct pin, has a limit on attempts, and is resilient to voltage and timing attacks. That's difficult but not exceptionally difficult.

Apple has chosen to run a ton of code inside the secure enclave, and bugs from that are on them.
Xbox Fitness was the best exercise app I've ever used in my life. The most thorough work outs and hardest sustained effort I've ever put into exercising. I was absolutely gutted when they "sunsetted" it.

They killed it so aggressively that they deleted it off your console so that there was no way you could play it. There was clearly internal politics going on behind the scenes.
Interestingly this appears like the same misconception and misdirection that lets people be deluded by their idea of "science".

A field that should be an ideal, inherently good space for knowledge and humanity to expand is in fact a cesspool of greedy assholes chasing grants and prestige, reflected in the circumstances around journal publishing.

Egos first, then comes science. If your priorities are the other way around, then sincerely good luck to you.
I can't tell if it's achievable, but if it works, in the long term it could also be something to export to other countries, maybe getting some return of investment that way.

But yeah, just building safer reactors would have been less of a gamble in the short term at least.
It's just too expensive, takes too long to build and no utilty company wants to own them.
Impression and our perceived satisfication is certainly subjective. And sometimes, the only thing we are looking for is a change.

But readability and legibility can be measured. It's unfortunate that Jetbrains makes a bunch of claims without supporting any of them with results surveys/studies, because if right, that would translate to other font designs as well.
I feel like chrome apps were actually ahead of their time and very much better than embedding a full browser per app with electron.

Of course, they were not perfect but IHMO made much more sense than what we have today, at least on a technical standpoint and could have evolved into something truly great.
A simple application of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. After the third pot, you're so focused on your velocity that your location can no longer be determined to be in either the land of the living or the land of the dead.
Do you really think it's impossible to "defend a physical device" – prevent an attacker from accessing and decrypting the data stored on it? I believe it is possible, that's the promise of hardware security modules. The article is about a mostly secure physical system that Apple undermines by encouraging the use of easily-cracked numeric PINs. I am not sure if the implementations are there yet, but biometric authentication looks like a promising solution to this problem.
> OOP is not at odds with FP.

You don't need to tell me that.

I'm a bit shocked that you haven't seen a discussion on the "virtues" of functional programming and "evils" of object oriented programming (and vice versa) here. If you truly haven't seen it, you might soon enough.

> Anyway, the point im trying to make is, irrespective of if the programmer is working with a type system or not [...]

Everything after this is one of the arguments in favor of static typing, and I've read variations of it for years. There are just as many, and just as old, counterarguments.

I wish there was a way to conclusively prove which type system is truly better, if only to put that discussion to rest and for the industry to converge upon that type system. And then we'll be able to focus on other things.

Until then, this is mostly a matter of opinion, which is why...

> I don't think my views on it ever will.

... Neither will almost anyone else's, there's no absolutely compelling reason to.
I didn't even know you could get a Masters without a thesis. Live and learn.

Did you get your degree outside Germany? If so, you should check in the Anabin database [1] whether your degree is properly recognized in Germany. If it isn't, you'll need to figure out a way to convince the University that your degree is valid. Your future PhD advisor can guide you through this - the procedure often involves sending enough proof to a committee that will then say "yes, this is acceptable".

If your degree is recognized, then you should explain in your cover letter that you have a non-thesis Masters. A paragraph about the extra work you had to do instead would be nice. If/once you make it to the interview, I would expect to be asked a couple questions about this.

[1] https://anabin.kmk.org/anabin.html
I feel to be realistic you have to show a program with failure scenarios. That is at least where i struggle with FP. Like what happens if a user enters a non-numeric value and i want to echo back a warning and get a correction, before continuing?
France will not have plenty of nuclear power to spare, many reactors are old and there is no plan to build more of them. In a few decades most reactors will have to shutdown because these things don't live forever.
> Disclosing a password to your own phone is usually not per se incriminating

That's why my passcode is always "I murdered her, officer".
The guy behind the Technology Connections YouTube channel writes his scripts using an eInk Android tablet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D38dcArwCNc
Many fonts having "real italics" would use a different shape, whereas those with only "slanted fonts" would not (like Verdana). It's only a rough rule, but you can assume that most serif fonts will use "real italics".
You misunderstand. If you want to build a product for MacOS you have to use a Mac. That's what bugs me because it doesn't fit into typical auto-build arrangements, at least it was a needless, awkward pain to do that when I wanted to do it in 2012.

There was no technical reason to have to jump through those hoops beyond the typical Apple "fuck you because I can".
Mr. Corbet is predicting 'perturbations in the job market' for this year. I wonder if he will turn out to be right (also interesting that this news item did get this huge amount of comments)

https://lwn.net/Articles/807748/
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I imagine the functionality will be passed back to a browser tab. Most Chrome apps were basically just that.
Nuclear energy has never exceeded a few percent of the world energy production. Most of it is heavily government subsidized and/or part of nuclear weapons programmes.

Since Uranium is a finite resource, it is not at all clear if supplying the world's demand using nuclear power would be sustainable for more than a few years. Many types of breeder reactors have been proposed and tested over the decades, but so far with very limited success.

In contrast to relying on true regenerative sources of energy, this makes a full commitment to nuclear energy a huge gamble. On top of that, the nuclear waste problem is still largely unsolved. All attempts at long term storage in the German nuclear programme have ended in extremely expensive failures.
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I have no issue with that personally but it's not always practical. eg:

- people with Window seats next to families

- occasions when younger kids have been sat for so long that they're now fidgety and causing a disturbance. With the best will in the world, sometimes physically restraining kids is just going to cause more issues then letting them disembark the plane

- if the family have large items in the overhead storage that needs removing so someone else can get their luggage. By the time you've juggled all that luggage around, the family might as well just join the queue of travellers waiting to exit

It was also mentioned that individuals should not be sat next to families but that doesn't always work when you're trying to fill capacity and/or let travellers pick their own seats (as many flight operators do).

Sadly what is academically optimum isn't always what's practical in the real world. If that were true, there would be a lot of efficiencies the human race could made from road travel to financial savings.
I make my living off of the splitting of atoms, so the opinions I hear are not reflective of the broader population. It's always interesting to hear what people in the wider-world think. A big part of the perception problem, I think, is that people don't really spend a lot of time to do significant research about how power is made. This is understandable--the power industry is kind of setup to keep the generation side hidden (both physically and figuratively). All most people really need to know is that when they plug it in to the wall, electricity will flow from somewhere and their vacuum (or whatever) will work. I suppose that's something that needs to change.

I also wish it were more practical for interested people to tour operating nuclear power plants. They're amazing feats of engineering and operations--and that's very evident everywhere you look at most plants--but they're not so easy to visit for most people.
As others have said, building the physical vehicles is a crowded space to enter, whereas there seem to be far fewer ventures involving the enabling infastructure (e.g. 3D spacetime routing/scheduling, monitoring, ledgering).
I started using the development preview of getStaticProps and was really impressed with the implementation. Being able to combine static and dynamic resources in an app so easily is a gamechanger. Keep your landing pages statically generated and make the logged in parts of the site dynamic! Or statically generate your blog and build a API-driven routed section of your site with ease!
I don't think that way of looking at things is fruitful, a CEO may have "presided" over huge growth, way above their compensation, but in practice that growth is most likely down to an amalgam of all the workers (and might have been higher without the CEO, for example).

Each worker gives the same, ultimately, an hour of their precious life each hour they work.
A well-known quote is that whoever doesn't understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2352
Bill gates documentary on Netflix was really, really interesting and touches this. Even made me appreciate Bill Gates which I didn't think was possible because of Windows :-)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10837476/

Basically all the reactors involved in the incidents are based on very old technology and had design problems (which is not surprising as the technology and science was new at the time these were built - fukushima 1971, chernobyl 1977).

What we really should do is to work on reactors whose main functionality is to provide energy with extremely minimal possibility for meltdown. It's too bad that even with resources of Gates it seems to be impossible to advance the nuclear technology - I see it as the main way to save our planet.

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

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25728221/te...
You really are not engaging with this in a way that is at all intellectually honest.
> If 0x12345678 was loaded into a 64 bit register such as RAX, then RAX refers to 0x12345678, EAX refers to 0x5678, AX refers to 0x78, AH refers to 0x7, AL refers to 0x8.

I made a PR to correct this example which equated single hexadecimal digits with whole bytes.

Other than that what I read of the course is rather nice, targeted at a mostly beginner audience with some correct insight.

There also some weird insight:

> You can think of computers as trains, they don't stop and only go in a very specific and direct path as designated by the tracks. If there's a child on the tracks it's up to the people controlling the track to divert the train. This is why Windows gives you the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) when there is a kernel error. If the OS doesn't stop that error, catastrophic damage could occur.

This isn't really wrong, it's just a non-obvious metaphor formulated strangely in my opinion. A BSOD would be more akin to the fully automated train just blowing up in sight of the children or something? It's weird.
With Steve taking over R&D, the team is in good shape to adjust to my departure