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> * Nintendo Switch - just don't use anything other than the Switch charger or a power bank for this. It's 15V/3A, but finicky.

The dock can be fussy, but I think the switch itself is fine with anything that doesn't horrifically overvolt pins.
If you go to Preferences in the app, it will tell you where exactly your specific config files are. You can then copy and paste that path to access the files. Make sure you edit only after app is fully closed, or it will write over your changes from the copy in memory on exit and your changes will be reverted.
> We don’t trust them, and would never vote for one of them. Why should they trust or vote for one of us?

For the same reason I wouldn’t trust a doctor without a degree proving they did due diligence for years. I know this feels different because “anybody can do politics” but without a large worldview the measures taken will be inevitably short sighted.

Now, it works the other way too. As the article states, losing touch with the base leads to problems.
Google voice has a feature where you can ask the person to say their name. Not sure if they force you to hit # after or what happens with automated callers, but I could imagine this being a decent solution.
The main problem for the military with those kind of electronics assisted weapons are the fucking batteries. Infantry already has a heavy load to move around. Adding battery packs does not help. Best case scenario you're tethered to some vehicle. Worst case your heavier rifle has no special system anymore because your 10lb of batteries are depleted.

For militarized police which do fast action like SWAT the battery problem is not a thing anymore.
de beers is doing it as a pr move, selling them as 'budget' diamonds as an attempt to devalue them
> Also, all their apps are crap. Prime Video has a 300ms audio delay on my Android TV and chromecasting to said TV has an even worse delay.

Casting to a 2nd gen Chromecast from the prime video Android app works just fine for me.

I don't expect a built in function to the TV to be even remotely useful and have yet to see one that is snappy and not crap.
A pistol is a side arm.

A not-that-effective one, even sometimes when the users are highly trained. It seems to be a form-factor problem, and the mechanism has to do with trigger pull and flinch. (And more generally, people acting funny in the heat of combat.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout

In no world will even a scaled-down version of this probably ever be worth humping around the extra bulk and weight and introducing complicated maintenance and reliability issues.

That's tautological. If it's too heavy and not reliable enough, then it's tech not worth putting on the battlefield. The question is if it can be made light and reliable enough.

The same question once faced autoloaders, sidearm pistols, revolvers, holo/red dot sights, magnified optics, and even firearms themselves. The answer is universally, when it's ready, it can be useful in certain contexts.
I think I probably mostly agree with you.

For one - I haven't thought through the ins-and-outs of this very well yet.

But in this new world, I may need to. I may come back with some questions, as you seem to be quite sensible! :-)

(BTW, IMHO: Bots to friend and mine is clearly over the line)
Research on bulk synthesis of diamond will continue for the foreseeable future, it's just too important a manufacturing material. It will be a massive win for thermal engineering when semiconductor chips can easily be embedded in a diamond matrix.
Instead of arguing about product changes, created a framework to A/B test them.
> Try to build a complex server-rendered web app with PHP because "It's more inclusive" or "it has better frontend performance". See you in 2030.

Like Facebook, WordPress and MediaWiki? Bashing PHP is a popular pastime, but front-end performance and inclusion are not to be scoffed at. Especially not if your target audience has a different standard of living than that of a major European city.

Personally, I'm much more worried about optimizing heavily third-party dependent front-end code to perform well on old laptops and cheap phones than I am with scaling up and load balancing a server-rendered site.
My email recorded a more hostile version of your original comment before you edited it. I will post it here:

>moralestapia never said he didn't understand it. In fact, in a parallel branch of the comment tree, he said that he did understand it. Your post is at best a misreading of what he said, and at worst a deliberate slander.

I don't like comments that accuse me of slander, even as a possibility.

I'm going to be frank with you. HN is a big place with thousands of users, I never encounter the same user twice... but you seem to appear regularly out of nowhere and reply to my comments. I may be wrong and that you happen to be just everywhere but your responses seem like you're just hunting me down to reply to me.

If you are doing that please stop. Additionally I just don't like you or care for your opinions in general because of the above hostility. So even if you aren't creeping around just to reply to my comments, I'd appreciate it, if the next time you see my name just ignore the comment and move on. My comments are not addressed to you and they have nothing to do with you.
GNU Autotools (aka GNU Build System)
You think alienating 90% of your potential users is a good idea?
Media Consumption (Jan 2020)
>>The rock would have been multiples larger

and that beats the purpose: "how much did you pay for that diamond. Must've cost a fortune." The idea is not wear something bigger, if it's cheaper
Your assertion that only mobile phones can receive SMS from shortcodes is not true in general, and additionally many verification SMS are not sent from shortcodes.
this is a weird illusion you have going on.
it’s very possible to live without tweeting every 5 minutes and remaining inactive on these attention draining social media platforms.
There are four slides. It takes 10 seconds to look through the entire thing. If you can't make it past the second slide before writing a three paragraph critique you are 100% not in my target audience. Not that there is no validity in your opinion somewhere but I'm not sure if you understand the point of the thing.
If it's a pound, sure - that would be too much to add to a pistol. If it's an ounce, and has no maintenance/reliability issues? Who knows, but I wouldn't bet against it.
There is no way that a broken bone without insurance is 300-500. It is probably closer to 3000-5000.
Early Color Television
I just think the site's been slashdotted, or whatever the term is on HN. Hackernewsed?
Ok look just watch this mind blowing video:

https://youtu.be/tX4H_ctggYo

After that, you can’t argue that geometric algebra is not THE right way to do geometry.

Projective geometry (in any dimension) is a subset of geometric algebra.

Please watch it.
Soldiers in the field do not receive "authorization" for every shot they fire. When developed to its logical final form, this could be a part of _every_ rifle, turning every soldier into an all-seeing super-marksman.

And in this case there's no "indiscriminate killing machine", because soldier pulls the trigger - the weapon does not fire on its own. And that's the way it ought to be.
The article doesn't mention if the musicians are sent in multiple planes, like athletic teams often are.
Existing stockpiles of nuclear weapons are adequate to destroy any industrial economy on Earth. Total war between industrialized nations lasted years in the 1940s because the vast majority of weapons failed to harm their targets, largely due to inadequate aiming. But since the 1970s people have had good precision guided weapons. Since the 1950s people have had weapons that can miss the target by miles and still destroy it.

If two great powers wage total war with today's most destructive weapons, there won't be enough surviving people and infrastructure left to develop a next generation of even more destructive weapons.
Congrats on the launch.

My advice is to stay away from the "Like X for your Y". Define your own category otherwise, you will end up just copying way too much of Superhumans thinking.
They have databases that they look up, but they're notoriously inaccurate. If you can use a number from another country (not always possible since some services require an in-country number, but a surprising number don't) you'll often find it works better, especially if you choose a country where the database provider might have less access to information about which ranges are assigned to which providers.
You are describing the specific technical details about how Docker containers are implemented. The analogy to VMs comes from the observation that VMs virtualize the hardware while containers virtualize the operating system.
It seems odd today that as the article points out, Microsoft was so slow to support USB. Win NT4 never supported USB.
USB2 was not supported on Win 2000 until the sp4 update.

Does anyone else miss Comdex? It seemed to be highly successful yet nothing really took its place.
See also: Perl in Classical Chinese in Perl: https://metacpan.org/pod/Lingua::Sinica::PerlYuYan
Why does this keep coming up as if the EU law was the reason why all non-Apple Smartphone used USB?

It is not, and the EU law has very little ( if anything ) to do with it. What you describe as different charger and cables were before the Smartphone era.
Re the link: my bad! I searched for "serial music Schoenberg" and grabbed the first Google result, without even looking at the title. I did listen to it before posting though, and found it representative of atonal music. It's not that far from Schoenberg, e.g. compare with https://youtu.be/voyLno0HdoA (I do like that "echo" effect in the Webern piece though!)

Re "abstract music" - how would you call a musical equivalent of abstract art? I think this term conveys the meaning (at least for regular people).
We need a breakthrough in low-speed, high torque, lightweight motors and geardowns. Basically if we can get economies of scale up on BLDC motors with higher numbers of poles (think hoverboard motors but lighter), and figure out how to mass manufacture harmonic drives, that'll open up the door to all kinds of low cost robotics.

Odriverobotics already has brought down the barrier to BLDC servomotor control.

Or this thing: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8613852
Bill must have rebooted.

It’s up now.
Well... We (the US) haven't given up on mines, and the biggest issue with them isn't their indiscriminate nature as much as the inability to turn them off once a conflict ends. Automated, engage-everything-in-area, gun-based defences would neatly eliminate the cleanup issue while not needing IFF.
Why would people make fun of them behind their back?
looks like it's back up already
> there are also atheists like Thomas Nagel who promote the theory.

Well, if there are atheists who do so, they are in that respect specifically not like Thomas Nagel. While Nagel does endorse certain criticisms of the consensus models made by proponents of intelligent design (in the same breath as noting that those criticism have also been made by people not promoting intelligent design), he explicitly does not endorse the alternative explanation provided by intelligent design (and does also explicitly point to intelligent design as being motivated by religion.) So, it's beyond ludicrous to cite Nagel as not only a supporter of ID but support for the idea that ID is independent of religion.

Nagel’s also a philosopher best known for advancing the perspective that materialist objectivity is a limiting perspective, that is, he is a skeptic of the framework in which science operates. So he's even a worse example to use to make the argument (even if he supported ID, which he doesn't) that ID is within the domain of science.
Scott Adams (Dilbert creator) has written several books on persuasion and persuasive techniques. He analyzes Trump's communication style very positively.
They can't even be automated right now. You'd still need to supply them with ammo. Frickin' lasers, on the other hand...
HN hug-of-death I think?
I don't think it works that way. They need to actually agree, use it, and you can't switch every day.
I don't have much to contribute, except my thanks for your reminding me to cancel my prime subscription. They REALLY tried to get me to not do that. I had to click "yes actually end it" around 5-6 times. I bet each of these hurdles keeps a couple million subscriptions in their pocket every year.
Thank You. Apart from my "returned" MacBook Pro, I dont own a single USB-C cable or devices that supports it.
> This all fits the claim of the French geographer Christophe Guilluy about his own country in his 2016 book The Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France.

+1 for Christophe Guilluy's book, it's really eye-opening, even more so considering that he wrote/published it even before the "gilets jaunes" movement started.

Not sure there's a solution for this "periphery" problem, but I see it in my parts of the world (Eastern-European country and EU member), it certainly is present in France and I suppose in other Western European countries, and according to the article is also a real problem in the US.
Set a dns record for catch-all
One impact is that a $5,000 robot is labeled as a "a low cost" robot.
Toned Ear: Ear Training
This is definitely part of the value for me. It's like if my Netflix subscription came with a bonus of free shipping from Walmart.
A proper story about Memphis (history included) must reference Elvis and Sun Studios.

Lots of cool things to see in Memphis, but lots of ordinary bigger-city things, too.
And so you buy generics from AliExpress?
Both, probably more.

It filters incoming information, but also determines relationships, matches patterns, and makes predictions.
Ask HN: What to avoid in life?
I’ve heard wisdom defined as knowing what to avoid, or knowing what to filter out / not give any attention.

Motivated by that definition, what are some things (behaviors, products, type of people, etc.) that you either think should be avoided or have been rewarded by consciously avoiding?
>And in this case there's no "indiscriminate killing machine", because soldier pulls the trigger - the weapon does not fire on its own. And that's the way it ought to be.

>Not even faces, _any_ part of a human. Butt sticks out from a shallow trench? Butt gets shot off. And it won't be limited to visible spectrum either, so it could largely "ignore" camo. And it could be augmented by similar AI-based person detection from a drone.

These two statements don't seem to reconcile. The second one has major things wrong with every single statement there.

>Soldiers in the field do not receive "authorization" for every shot they fire.

You might be surprised. For one, on just how detailed the rules of engagement for a particular operation can be. For two, outside of imminent threats, there's also quite a bit of direct authorization going on. Especially for sniper teams.
Not really. That's just sadly the state of whats "low cost" in that market, regardless if you work in FAANG, traditional industries or academia.
music is always "abstract"

To me, the difference between the atonal or serial music and traditional classical music is in the amount of structure or order (that I can recognize and process). Bach's or Chopin's music has a lot more of it than Schönberg's. Also, classical music feels "natural", and is pleasant to listen to (for the most part), while atonal music feels "artificial" or "weird", and for the most part is not pleasant.
Automated in the sense of "don't need a person standing in a tower", not in the sense of "needs no maintenance". I suppose minefields might be the latter, but even then I'd argue that minefields are less "needs no" and more "can receive no, since they'd kill the maintenance personnel".

(And if you're running out of ammo, you'd need to add more mines too)
> Most infantry engagements happen within 150yds.

An Army study found that in Afghanistan, >50% of all engagements happen at a distance of greater than 500m. This is the reason for all the current work to extend the range of the average infantryman. A case could be made that some of that work is overspecializing for conditions that might not reoccur in future wars. For example, Pentagon is currently pushing hard for replacing the 5.56 with a 6.8 cartridge that is more powerful than the 7.62 NATO. That would make for a nice sniping round, but maybe not the best when kicking in doors and suppressing people close by?
One finds a description of GNU Autotools (aka the GNU Build System) on this page...

One also finds the following quote:

"In his column for ACM Queue, FreeBSD developer Poul-Henning Kamp criticized the GNU Build System:[8]

The idea is that the configure script performs approximately 200 automated tests, so that the user is not burdened with configuring libtool manually. This is a horribly bad idea, already much criticized back in the 1980s when it appeared, as it allows source code to pretend to be portable behind the veneer of the configure script, rather than actually having the quality of portability to begin with. It is a travesty that the configure idea survived.

Kamp sketches the history of the build system in the portability problems inherent in the multitude of 1980s Unix variants, and bemoans the need for such build systems to exist:

the 31,085 lines of configure for libtool still check if <sys/stat.h> and <stdlib.h> exist, even though the Unixen, which lacked them, had neither sufficient memory to execute libtool nor disks big enough for its 16-MB source code."

Now, I don't know if I personally agree with that criticism -- but I think of Poul-Henning Kamp's quote as something to be potentially reviewed and/or thought about, by developers of future cross-platform build systems...
I'm a little late to respond but the best story I have is from another lab supervisor I spoke to. Wet minilabs all have an effluent tank that fills up with the spent chemicals. This is after a cartridge to collect all the silver.

Remember we call one of the chemicals 'bleach'. It's a bad name. This effluent tank usually gets dumped out in a sink near the lab when it's full or at the end of the day. I say that bleach is a bad name because C-41 process contains ammonium ferric PDTA, which I believe is pretty close to ammonium iron sulfate. (not a chemist)

Anyways, the store I mentioned had a mess that needed cleaning at the end of the day, so the kids got out cleaners containing bleach and mopped up the floor... then proceeded to dump the cleaner down the same sink as the effluent. This readily produced noxious fumes (possibly mustard gas) that forced a store evacuation. Store was closed for around 2 days as hazmat crews made sure the place was safe to go into.

Nobody was hurt but not a great look....
They don’t. Unless you count giving a Lebanese Hizballah illegal a security clearance, which might have been due to something other than the polygraph but is hard to reconcile with any background check actually being performed.

Polygraphs could work as advertised for 99.99% of people being processed for security clearance and still be useless, because their effectiveness against people who take the job with the intention of leaking, selling, or otherwise inappropriately handling classified information is nil. The US government has spent tons of money on polygraph research and administration over the last century despite knowing from the beginning that it was a fraud, and has never even once prevented an act of espionage with one.
$62 million is indeed nothing compared to the $1.7 billion ($1,700 million) that Neumann walked away with.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/22/20927188/wework-adam-n...
I can do all the things you mention. I do also have a hard time "turning my brain off". Actually, I don't think I can do it. But I do have a way to sleep quickly.

It may not be the same for you but you probably can adapt it to whatever suits you. It's about coziness.

There are several cozy scenarios that are ideal for me to sleep. I just teleport myself there and I do stuff.

My favorite by far is the one in the wilderness. I read a book once about a guy from the neolithic who had to run away from his village with his dog. I imagine myself there. There's nothing around me. Only several small villages kilimeters away. I'm alone with my dog. The sun is almost set and it's getting chilly. There's a little cave nearby where I can take refuge for the night. I'll go gather some wood and make myself confortable inside. Then I'll sit by the fire eating some of that smoked meat I have left and I'll just rest my head down. At that point I'm already sleeping.

If you try this, report back.
I'm not totally sure what the point of this is. This is advertised as exit codes "for humans and machines", however

* humans will always get way more information from a readable error message printed to stderr before exiting

* machines do not care about error details from third-party tools, apart from whether they are an input error (which can be blamed on the user, if they provided said input) or an internal error (including usage error) which is a bug and should be fixed by the calling program's developer

Indeed, the README has a lot of examples of using it in your child program, to report error, but no example of a parent program dealing with the reported error.
Apple almost never pre-announces products, so we don't really know, but they've strongly hinted the new keyboard is coming to at least the 13" MBP in the next revision. I don't remember the exact phrasing, but it was a comment from VP Phil Schiller something like "it's important for all our 'Pro' products." (I remember it was something that made it unclear whether the keyboard will come to the Air, although I certainly hope it will.)

I did see the comment from someone saying it'll be upgraded to a 14" the way the 15" became a 16"; while that's a reasonable guess, I don't think there are any supply chain rumors supporting that yet, and the 16" update had rumors nearly a year in advance of its release. My personal expectation is that we'll see an upgrade to the new keyboard in the 13" before WWDC, but it'll stay 13".
Same here in the UK.

I've stopped using Amazon other than for some consumables where price is equal or inferior to supermarkets. Unlike supermarkets like Waitrose, they don't have stock issues.

Plus, on those items I will never get counterfeit items or if I do it will be terribly obvious.

Else, I've given up on Amazon. So many issues it's not worth the hassle. I'd happily pay more for a premium store where they guarantee they are not sending me counterfeit or refurbished items as new.