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The top comment when the GP comment was posted was the thread starting with "Typical Google move ... now I suppose my Chromebook will be soon a useless brick."

(Disclosure: I work at Google, speaking only for myself)
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Discrimination training certainly has a function in reminding people of what they are prohibited from doing (legally or by policy), because then they can't claim ignorance of it later. It also has the benefit of reminding people to watch their own behaviour.
>Exaggerating to the extent you are

>the entire discussion loses all credibility

Now that is an exaggeration.

Climate change is already credible and a localized exaggeration isn't going to change minds...
I switched over to Firefox about 6 months ago, and I'm surprised by how much I love it. It's great to be able to have separate home and work accounts while still being logged into the same gmail account. Plus, there's certain interface decisions like putting Undo Close Tab in more places that makes it a nicer experience. The only issue I run into with Firefox is my company's intranet site makes me login once per day where with Chrome it doesn't.
> Most classical gragtenpanden have modern insides

Yes, and many of these beautifully-renovated interiors are visible from the street! (Sorry, Amsterdamer, it's just impossible not to notice when walking by.)

The point is, though, that it appears common for these renovations to be carried out despite egregious settling of a house's foundation.
You are not alone.. I also needed to visit the site 2-3 times until I realized that the Android logo is the door to the list I am interested in :)
One would have thought that they might have learned from what happened with OpenGL that this is a clusterfuck and leads to fragmentation...
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I played around with the games for a few months when it came out, but I spent much more time with it hooked up to my computer and experimenting with it in Processing and TouchDesigner, etc. I also loved seeing how people were using it for mo-cap stuff in animation projects.

I never got the second one and while I initially thought about getting one of PrimeSense's own depth cams (Carmine I believe it was called), they were bought by Apple who shut down development of their OpenNI middleware.

I think it was forked to some degree and still exists but I'd gotten distracted with other projects and demands on time so I haven't kept up. I also bought a dev version of one of Intel's depth cameras, but it had its own issues. Nobody really seemed to be working on them and I couldn't find the time to learn the kind of skills I'd need to hack together my own solutions.

I may have to dig that stuff out and see if there have been any interesting developments in the ensuing years.
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Don't take/pursue funding focus on your product and getting signups. You probably don't need funding.

I second the recommendations of taking on some consulting projects to extend your runway.

Start listening to startupsfortherestofus.com, start in the archives.

Check out applying for the next round of tinyseed.com if you aren't profitable when getting close to the end of your runway.

build your saas is another good podcast for inspiration.

Oh, speaking of inspiration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
@DHH startup school 2008

Good luck growing your SaaS.
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous will start ending episodes in prison cells.
Along the same lines, I've been thinking a lot lately about how I'd love to have a voice recognition equivalent of a CLI. I see this as almost the only way to truly get away from keyboards.

Imagine how efficient is is to type "kubectl get pod my_pod" versus clicking around in a clunky web-based dashboard. Now imagine if your smart speaker's set of commands were as strict or well documented as most CLI apps.
Since deforestation is one of the major contributors to climate change in the first place, this is kinda like saying 'the solution to climate change is to stop causing climate change'
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There is a lot of marketing and some "scammy" practices put in selling Paulownia trees. Eucaliptus is faster and many coniphers also.

You can find photos of trees regrowing light fast after being chopped, and from an old root but this is not how you measure accurately growth in a tree. The tree enters in emergency mode and is using all the reserves in the root to restore the lost canopy ASAP. It will slow down considerably in the following years.
This is naive evil Mastermind level thinking, where the villain spouts his whole line and you think "no wait that's just stupid.." as he sends off the sequence of nukes

>If it actually collapses bc of this, then it deserved to die anyway, you only helped accelerate the outcome and reduced the suffering

If you want to make an evolutionary "survival of the fittest" type of claim... Life is entirely about error correction (and reproduction + staving off death as long as possible). Engineers babbling to engineers is part of a business's error correction.. Duct tape and monkeypatching is part of the engineer's error correction..

A rogue engineer trying to invoke rapid deconstruction of his environment (a virus) is one of those errors -- Solution: engage, restrain, and eject.

The legitimate error correction is already happening, by means of hope & replace. Presumably because other business concerns make it so that actual shutdown would be a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad idea.

>If it actually collapses bc of this, then it deserved to die anyway, you only helped accelerate the outcome and reduced the suffering.

A doctor can't help you if you die in minutes. They can save you if you die in hours. Time is a major part of error correction.

Oh damn, you've pushed out the nukes already.

>Some things and processes need to be "helped to fail faster", everyone will benefit from the renewal in the end, even if most will hate it ;)

Seems to me the main process requiring failure acceleration is this one employee's UAC expiration policy.
> Instead, for most people the killer feature of zsh is that it doesn’t re-output the prompt when you autocomplete

Actually, this, coupled with the "complete on first tab hit" is the reason I stayed away from zsh. I tried it a few times, simply because so many people are raving about how much better it is than bash, but never really switched and the autocomplete is one of the major reasons.

1. I like to see autocomplete as a history. I hit tab (twice, but I will get to that in a second) and see what my options are. I type another letter or a few and hit tab again. If I made a mistake, I can catch it by comparing the previous set of choices to the new one. With zsh, if I made a typo, all I get is an empty list and a sense of confusion.

2. Every once in a while (more often than I a willing to admit), I will hit tab for completion when I don't really mean to. Like I will type something like ls -l /usr/local/bin/<TAB>. Bash will beep at me to ask if I am really sure. Zsh will freeze and compile a list of hundreds of completions. Not much else to say about that.
Thanks for the feedback, but this is $10/user/month. Many Saas companies charge similar amounts and they seem to be doing fine. I appreciate your feedback though!
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I've had nagging doubts about this narrative ever since the first exposés about Uber were coming out.

1) What job would the subject have been working say, 4 years ago, before instacart expanded to the entire US? Would that job have been better?

2) Did Instacart destroy that other potential job, leaving Instacart as the only option?

I guess these are variations on the theme of "No one forced you to take this job". I'm all for these news articles being written, and for workers banding together to demand better treatment. But at some point we have to realize that if the company is not destroying other industries and creating monopolies, then one can just choose to work somewhere else. Even better, one could try to gain the skills necessary for obtaining less contingent work.
Anyone know the status of being able to install PWAs on the desktop?

The reason I use chrome apps is to have "Gmail" as an application on my desktop so I can alt-tab to it, put it on my dock, etc and treat it as a normal app instead of a tab.
I do not see how the maximum age of the trees matters. There is no difference between 10 generations of trees that live for 150 years and one generation that lives for 1500 years. What matters is the amount of additional CO2 which can be bound in biomass per square kilometer (comapred to the biome we are replacing) and how many square kilometers which are available for this project.
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I'm right there with you. But there are alternative interfaces for auto complete. I personally prefer the "autosuggestion" style used in fish: https://fishshell.com/assets/img/screenshots/autosuggestion....
This is probably too late for anybody to notice but I got FF memory usage down significantly by:

1) Not using the recommended performance settings. Setting 'Content Process Limit' to 2 removed more than half the memory usage IIRC. There are other settings that you will need to go to about:config to change like what size images are cached to memory etc.

2) Use the 'Auto Tab Discard' extension. You will have to configure this to not discard tabs on certain sites or you may lose info you have typed into a webpage. Fortunately this is easily configured by right clicking a tab.

At the moment Firefox is using 700MB to display 5 tabs. 4 HN and on Reddit tab. Given that these sites are close to just text I find 700MB absurd, but that is just the web these days.
Autocomplete is the first step. Then you get linting, static analysis, autoformat on save, and code snippets. All built into your fancy IDE with plugins. You are super productive, you learn from its suggestions that you can quickly flip through, and your coworkers are happy that they only have to check your code for correctness and implementation, not style and edge cases.
Well some players are willing to pay for games, and moreover won't even look at your product when they see it has IAPs.

I, for one, can't afford free to play games.
I took this stuff in an introductory college course. I kind of knew it was bs but it was also easy to understand and score an easy mark. Sometimes it just doesn't pay to tell the emperor they have no clothes.
BCI teaches some hands on courses in Boston if you like to travel.
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/boston-cybernetics-institute-18...
I'm normally critical of SV culture where it's merited but this article is just blaming SV for stuff it doesn't like

1) Silicon Valley isn't to blame for the fact that in the 90s landowners tightly constrained the construction of new housing in an effort to maintain the housing stock as an investment vehicle for existing homeowners. And while supply/demand doesn't perfectly explain the housing market, the fact is the United States no longer has the political will to build housing units where demand is, because of entrenched landowner interests. You can't build "dense" housing because it will "ruin" the character of a neighborhood. You can't build subsidized affordable housing because it will "attract crime". So you get nothing... well, that's not true: You're priced out, but maybe you can buy a 2800sqft home in an exurb that's a 90 minute drive from your job. Too big, too expensive, or too far for you? Too bad!

2) Scooters are good, actually: When we had them in Chicago were shown to connect people between public transit access points. Unlike Uber/Lyft, which cut into public transit utilization, e-scooters seem to actually encourage public transit use.

3) The gig economy is a symptom, not the cause, of a larger economic shift away from general prosperity. The social contract used to at least hint at the idea that if you worked hard and did an honest days labor you would at least be entitled to a roof over your head, food in your belly, and the ability to support a family. There was a marked shift away from this in the 1970s, in the name of "meritocracy" to allow higher earnings for those who "deserve" it in exchange for lower wages for those don't. The late Paul Volcker is said to have carried around a card containing auto worker wages in his pocket as a reminder of this so-called injustice. Basically: the college-educated workforce should be entitled to higher wages at the expense of workers who don't. A somewhat tragic view now in an age where your barista may hold a graduate degree. I think this thinking was more widespread among elite babyboomers and (thankfully) hasn't been adopted by millennials or zoomers, but the social stigma around the trades still exists.
Fair question. Hadn't looked in several years. Underlying issue of licensing (macOs can only legally run on Apple hw) remains the same. Provisioning a mac mini for $79/mo isn't v appealing, but yeah options do exist.
Is it unpalatable to ask questions about how much discrimination exists and against whom it is directed? The only “evidence” I’m aware of are implicit association tests and Goldin’s study of blind auditions, neither of which demonstrate discrimination. And asking this question often just gets me downvoted. If we are so certain that there is discrimination and tons of it, why is the real evidence treated as a closely guarded secret while we proudly circulate the debunked evidence? Please note that this is the opposite of “we should not talk about it”.
I've worked at places in the past that forced pairing. One monitor and two keyboards style. It was painful; impossible to get into flow state.

All of your mental maps need to be communicated repeatedly to the other person - and it's slow. It's like the difference between L1 cache lookup and sending an email and waiting for a response.
Then the year would display as 192000.
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I was using those on an old Chromebook that never received support for Google Play / Android.

VLC was available as a Chrome app, so that filled a need I had.
MBTI actually has 12 archetypes, hard to compare that with introvert and extrovert.

I often reference being introverted but it's important to understand that it's a scale and everyone is somewhere on that scale. It's not binary. But it does help explain why I get tired from over exposure to strangers, but can go for hours in the company of family and close friends.

And yeah I agree these things should only be used as guides or aides. I still feel my life changed when I first read my MBTI description. It was spooky, like someone had read my mind.

But how does that help me? It mostly doesn't. What has helped me the most daily is knowing my limits, that I have a social battery and letting myself recharge that.

And completely irrelevant to this topic my biggest aide was to understand how my stomach controlled my temper. It sounds so cliché but regular complete meals and sleep has helped me more than any psychologist.
Experience has proven that if you aren't really deep into Vulkan, the end result will be worse than just doing it in OpenGL, in terms of performance.
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Probably not that much. Though you’re probably not getting that much from eating meat as most of it should stay in the digestive tract which people usually don’t eat.

Stuff like plastic packaging, sea salt, or water is likely a more prevalent source.
I'm the exact opposite. Having a compiler help you avoid an entire class of bugs is superb.
It's all just so slap-stick dystopic and zeitgeisty. There's a very strong The Road to Gandolfo vibe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Gandolfo
I'm a bit confused - isn't autocomplete utterly benign if you don't use it? Using Visual Studio I've never had to autocomplete unless I wanted to, so I've lost no time by having it on if I just want to trudge through, but there's plenty of times I can auto-complete away whole expressions by typing a letter or two and then hitting tab.

Regarding nightmarish Java type names I'd rather the name for things be the fully written out description (like "httpClientFactory") than something that's easier to type - at a glance I know what it is and does, and autocomplete is smart enough that I can type "h" and tab and it has the variable there already. And if I don't know what it does, all that takes is a "h", a tab, and a ".", and now I have access to all its functions with descriptions, saving me a context switch and jump to the documentation.
But they're customisable, if you can be bothered. I have set up a few as is, and some defaults are really handy too!

For example, `err.nn` expands to
```
if err != nil {

}
```

And that's a default for GoLand. I have set up a few custom ones that are pretty handy as well, which frees up time from typing, to actually thinking through and solving problems, as well as making any necessary verbosity easier to deal with.

While most variable names are kept short, I do go for 2-3 word variables when necessary, and have some pretty long winded function names that, IMO, improve readability by a mile, like `GetNonEmptySliceElements()`.
> It would benefit ... the workers, by being able to have a more predictable income ...

The problem is employers would not match what servers and other tip earning jobs currently make. When I was in high-school I made significantly more than would have been possible at any other part time job with tips.
C++ supports garbage collection since ISO C++11.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n267...
There are days when I wish that DirectX was the open standard, rather than the other way around. It's such a cleaner, better designed API - quite possibly because it was not open, and so it doesn't have anywhere near as much of the design-by-committeeisms that infect OpenGL/Vulkan.
It's worth mentioning that sequoia along with a few other species are outliers as far as longevity. Most trees do not live nearly that long.
> It's noise.

Just like your reply.

Besides that: OP is fucked and left with a huge pile of technical debt. While his intention to help and find a solution is noble, one should face the truth: One way or another this system will go down and nobody will be able to restart it. Just leave it where it is and start building a replacement that is well documented and has backups. Any time spent on saving this system is thrown away. So: This is totally the time to make fun. Call it gallows humor or whatever but stop whining.
Does soil continue to break down over time or does it permanently sequester into peat/coal/oil? As far as I knew, basically all of the tree's cellulose eventually gets released over time into CO_2 via biological activity.
Any comment can be the top comment because the time decay factor dominates until there is a comment that amassed a certain amount of upvotes.
I suppose it's possible that in one case the device had USB Restricted Mode off, but it was on in the Pensacola case?
By end of time, I assume you mean entropic heat death of the universe. In which case no, planting trees will have become impossible trillions of human years previous to this, due to there not being and planets.
>it is not likely that US$ 15,000 or US$ 30,000 is something that any police department has in a drawer

I wish that were true. Police in any small town in America could start at lunchtime and have that amount by nightfall. Let me introduce you to "civil asset forfeiture" ( https://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/03/civil-asse... )

There are state and federal version of this, and a "sharing" program to share the loot. It's pure corruption in blatant violation of the US Constitution, but it's good for government/police business (e.g. buys a lot of helicopters, tactical/swat equipment, training, etc.) so it persists.
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The core assumption is that 3 billion out of a total of 4.7 billion acres of desert currently existing can be reforested by planting trees and irrigating them for 20 years, after which they will continue growing without irrigation.

Is this possible, except for marginal areas bordering the deserts? Aren't most desert areas desert because of very low precipitation?

This may be practical for areas such as the example in the article of the Kubuki Desert reforestation project, where desertification due to the encroachment of dunes can be thwarted. But the major deserts such as the Sahara, Gobi, or Arabian Empty Quarter have very low precipitation, below what is needed for grass, desert shrubs, cacti, etc.
It's weird feeling surrounded by web programmers who think Python and Javascript are the lowest you'd ever want to go.

C++ is annoyingly high-level if you are trying to write code to go in a flash chip. The code starts running at a specific address at soon as the CPU starts. There is no OS unless your code implements one. There is no C++ library unless you port one.
The Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes. But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator's report card would say: "Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills."

So now he has this other job. No brightness or creativity involved -- but no cooperation either. Just a single principle: The Deliverator stands tall, your pie in thirty minutes or you can have it free, shoot the driver, take his car,file a class-action suit. The Deliverator has been working this job for six months, a rich and lengthy tenure by his standards, and has never delivered a pizza in more than twenty-one minutes.
>or that discrimination in the workplace is in fact normal and healthy

One thing that bothers me is that discrimination is seen as a four letter word, when it is something we do all the time and celebrate. Only specific forms are considered bad and we need to be more explicit on what and why.

For example, racial discrimination is bad. Discrimination based on what degree one holds is not. Or, given that not everyone has the same level of access to earn a degree, should we be so open in accepting such discrimination?

What about discriminating based on punctuality? It seems an easy one to justify, but there is a significant cultural impact on punctuality.

What about discrimination on factors that people can't control and that have no relation to work, but which are currently legally allowed. For example look at the correlation between height and pay. Should that be allowed and what efforts are we doing to stop it. And does it become more of a concern when we account for average height differences between genders and the gendered outcome that can result as a secondary result (paying short people less, given that women are on average shorter than men, results in paying women less).

These sort of conversations never seem to happen when it comes to discrimination in the work place, making me think the name of the issue doesn't accurately reflect what the acted upon concern is.