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> fresh high quality beans often result in costs per coffee a lot higher than your number.

Don't buy high quality beans.

IMHO the end result is influenced mostly by preparation and water quality. I'd had to double blind it, but I've had store brand and expensive beans and the difference is negligible.

Note: I'm in Europe. Market differences might apply.
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Show HN: Manal Credit Card, Arabic AI Chatbot for Credit Cards Questions
https://www.m.me/ManalCreditCard

This chatbot is based on AI for Arabic, and it responds to questions related to credit cards and banking services.

It's a little tricky because you need Arabic, but you can use Google Translate to test it out if you are interested. :)
Schematics can't be copyrighted, so anyone could take it and make themselves an instrument. I think schematics disappeared around the rise of China. Companies didn't want their products copied.
I think that is backwards. Only thing you may lose is R&D time which there are ways to recoup.
Let's make schematics available again.
I am currently soft-quarantined by my employer in Hong Kong because I recently visited Mainland China, and will be working from home for 14 days, along with many others.

It's not going that well: from my subjective point of view, people seem to treat it as an extra vacation. They are often not online and will only complete a few small tasks per day, because there is no threat from the boss who sees that you are browsing facebook instead of working.

Even government employees are at home. Many people didn't get their tax bill so they don't need to pay tax for now. Sweet!

That experiment makes me think that perhaps work from home is optimal mostly for a small pool of highly motivated and talented individuals, such as the average person on HN who actually does feel more productive working from home. Outside of HN, work ethic could be different.
According to this StackOverflow post [1], you'll need to write merge driver. I was looking at this when trying to hack git to use conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) as a fallback for a specific document type.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23140240/git-how-do-i-ad...
Hörfunk however is quite common.
You are not unique, and this market is so very ready for pay per article and nanotransactions.
Oh boy, this brought some interesting memories. I was moving between a small town (where we had all amenities) and a nearby village (with no running water etc., just as you describe) roughly at the same time. But maybe because I was a kid, I don't remember these things as terrible. With one exception: washing dishes. It was terrible, the fat didn't want to go away, it was taking ages. Also, we were using potties. The content of the potties was used as manure for the plants in the garden (it was very big, so it was never enough).

Since the well was very close to the house, we never had the idea to bathe in the same water. But it took a long time to prepare the bath by mixing the cold and boiling water in the ight proportions, and then carefully washing the soap from the body with water from a separate container. Man, I can't imagine spending that much time on these things now...
> Everybody just hauled buckets of trash to the big container

That's pretty much what I do with my recycling, except the buckets are white and from Ikea.

(With the amount of packaging stuff in Denmark is wrapped in, it's the majority of my waste by volume.)
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Umm, Both Japan and HK have a lot of people in a small space and have 1/100th of the absolute utter mindless chaos that prevails on the roads in Delhi/Mumbai.
Universal Basic Housing just sounds like ghettos with extra steps.
GP is talking about society, you are talking about individual people.

Individually people can be cooperative, yet as a whole society can be chaotic. Mob mentality and game theory define how a society behaves far more than the observation of individuals would suggest.
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We are currently at 7.8 billion.

1.2 billion people ago was 2006 or 2007.
There's an unlimited amount of work to do but in an asynchronous development world some things require others to finish their projects first.
That wasn't my experience. The grinder and espresso machines I used just needed rinsing between cups and a quick scrub at the end, plus cleaning the water tank once a week (depending on water quality, tap water is gross).

Moka pots are a pain to clean though, but you can buy a huge one to produce a large quantity.
Absolutely, in terms of things that should be added to the standards and then supported by browsers, there's plenty left to do. I was mainly referring to things browsers could add on their own accord, though, like spell check, or a password manager.

(Just though of another example: Picture in Picture video playback, like Firefox recently added and Chrome and Safari have technically already had for a while.)
> There is a Polish saying: ‘kto rachuje i oszczędza, nie zajrzy mu w oczy nędza’ (‘he who works and saves, destitution doesn’t threaten’)

I don't think this is translated accurately. "Rachuje" is an old word for "calculate" and I think the saying should be translated like this:

"if you calculate your expenses and start saving, poverty/destitution will not threaten you"
Checkout IndieHackers (https://www.indiehackers.com/); a lot of people are trying to make viable businesses and post regular updates but there are a lot of side projects too[1].

[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/products?commitment=side-projec...
> - Replace scripts in the document

You might be interested in https://decentraleyes.org/
> It’s just poor quality planning and execution.

Potato potato. If you can get away with "poor quality planning" in person but not in remote, it doesn't matter what you call it.
You should never have been doing that in the first place, checking password hashes should use a constant time equality check to prevent timing attacks.

Just so happens there is now one in PHP - hash_equals, but even before that you could do a constant time equality check trivially by hand.
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Add the temple loudspeakers to the list. Also, public defecation and rampant littering. S. Asia has a poor regard for public spaces.
Wikipedia could use something like this, too.
Same here, we tried allowing work from home once a week but people just treated it as a free day off.

We also had to enforce starting hours, otherwise some developers would show up by 11:30 yet they will still leave work sharp on time.
It doesn't make it any better. The MacBook Pro came straight out of the box after purchase and during the set up, I foolishly decided to upgrade to Catalina. The reduction in kernel panic with subsequent minor releases of Catalina suggests that part of the kernel crashes are software related. If the remaining crashes are caused by hardware problems, I am thoroughly disappointed in Apple's hardware quality. This is my first MacBook. My company only bought it because they do not want me to run a Linux laptop, as they can't secure it. Too be honest, it is has been a poor user experience so far.
In JavaScript the automatic semicolon insertion is almost universally reviled. Why not just have your editor insert the semicolons for you if it's such a pain to type them?
Thank you, that's super usefull.
No, because 1 person honking won't go over the loudness threshold.
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You hit the nail on the head. These types of discussions are sensitive because remote work is sometimes considered to be an opportunity to improve working conditions worldwide and people don't take kindly to push-back on that.

Our startup has gone through distinct phases -- It took us years to find product-market-fit and with that our ability to work remotely has gone through distinct phases that were obvious to the whole team.

At certain points it worked great, but once we moved from the idea testing phase to execution, we wanted to be face to face much more so that we could coordinate our work. Also since new hiring ramped, we have to prioritize face-to-face training.
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Germany, Denmark, Sweden, several US states and others have bottle return and refill systems.

I pay a 1kr (€0.13) deposit on glass bottles and cans, up to 3kr on large plastic bottles, which is reclaimed by taking the bottles back to a shop.

Because the bottles are cleaner than the general household recycling, it's acceptable to use them to make new food packaging — general recycling isn't considered clean enough for that. Glass beer and soda bottles can be washed and refilled, plastic and aluminum is melted.

https://www.danskretursystem.dk/en/all-about-deposits/
I really wish the community would take over and fork MacOS at its lowest opensource/forkable denominator to start a free-as-in-Linux, MacOS binary-compatible alternative. Something that is stable and predictable for hardware makers to distribute and drivers to be written for. And inviting for the wider user base to adopt knowing that their favorite apps will run just the same. That would be a game-changer as pc hardware makers are at a dead end running Windows from a company that is not focused on its OS anymore, Linux unfortunately doesn't seem to ever cut it with the massses and app makers and MacOS is only available as a user hack in non apple hw.

Now this would be a serious challenge. Everything from APIs to the ecosystem to the apps themselves have licenses and, righteous or not, would be game for lawsuits left and right should the project be a head turner at some point.

This ex Apple OSX engineer in fact paints it as doomed from the start:

https://www.quora.com/Would-it-be-ever-be-possible-to-clone-...
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...or just a sensor that averages the signal a bit so that single honks don't trigger it.
for example, when you need a special drop-down doing something that the vainilla version can't. For example a drop-down showing a hierarchy
> reusing connections to databases

pgBouncer and ProxySQL are going to give you a better bang for the buck than a stateful web app will.
If you make clear boundaries, there are clear boundaries. If you ignore all work emails outside of your working hours, the problem is "solved" (ideally don't have work emails etc. on any device you use outside of "work hours")
Well for one, video calls don't really work, even with excellent internet connection. A lot of time is spent just trying to understand what the other person is saying and asking them to repeat or get closer to the mic, or mute themselves because we keep hearing their background noise.

Most importantly, distractions from family members and lack of a boss looking over your shoulder means most people's productivity will be perhaps 20% of normal.
When I used the language (around PHP 5) in the past it felt very inconsistent, and many functions were nearly 1:1 PHP interfaces to C functions. The type coercion also was bad, or the stupid idea of having form variables appear as variables in the language (I believe the defaults were changed to disable it in 5).

Learning the history of the language (and that initially PHP was not supposed to even be a language) explains why things were the way they were.

Anyway the language worked, it wasn't specifically bad, and if you didn't use other languages (excluding JS which has similar issues) you might not even see any problems with it.

Anyway, later they started fixing many of these issues and looks like the language is becoming more consistent (note I don't know if this is entirely true, since I haven't have chance of using newer versions, but that's how it feels from outside.)
As someone who has finished Doom multiple times on the hardest level of difficulty, I really see no point to first person shooters. BOOORRRIIINNNGGG!!! Give me "Eye of the Beholder" or "Hired Guns" or "Dungeon Master" any day over senseless, repetitive violence; the atmosphere is orders of magnitude better.
I "partially" disagree. In my view, civic sense has also a lot to do with resources per capita available. Whether it is Black Friday sales in the US or driving on crazy roads in India, people tend to save time and money by resorting to unruly behavior.
You used to have to pay money for the NYT pre-internet too. There was an anomaly in the middle but NYT reporting costs big bucks and someone’s gotta pay for that shit, either the reader or the advertiser.
Just listing a bunch of photos is going to have terrible performance on APFS. They don't need to make it work amazingly on hard drives, but they need to do some basic things like lumping together related metadata.
Because the same year later (September 1939), Germans invaded Poland and II World War started.
There is one major requirement for remote work, it’s called deadlines. Give people a paycheck, some requirements, and deadlines and I promise you the work will find a way to get done. They can browse Facebook all they want.
It helps to use nebula: web console, import csv data, data visualization.Welcome to use and feedback.
Hey guys, I've been serving 5+MeO-DMT in the context of self-development program for entrepreneurs for the past 2 years.

I've personally engaged in 400+ journeys myself.

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The most important point I wish to bring is that it is SUPREMELY IMPORTANT to work with facilitators who provide preparation & integration.

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> Anyways, I think the author should try Overwatch -- it's one of the few contemporary widely played FPSs that doesn't take realism too seriously.

Cries in Team Fortress 2
To be fair, there is something to be said about the aesthetics of a language, and Ruby is (at least to me) a far more readable and "pretty" language than PHP. There are a lot of small niceties that, once you are familiar with them, make Ruby genuinely enjoyable to read.
> what's keeping you from updating? Genuinely curious at this point...

My boss doesn't pay the upgrade bills. Only adding new features are billed. Sad.

And there are thousands of real-time users on the system and their task can not be interrupted, also if there is any py2 and py3 mismatch, the outcomes would be quite costy.
Honking is very uncommon in Sweden, and I remember my driving instructor pointing out to me that the only time you ever use it is to call attention to avoid an immediate accident. In practice, I see many drivers not even doing this. I routinely see people jaywalking in urban environments and cars just stopping until they've crossed.

One thing that might be semi related to this is the entitlement of drivers. My view of Sweden is that most people accept that cities "belong" to pedestrians first hand, and cars need to be careful. In other parts of the world, the "get out of my way" entitlement of drivers is very apparent and I don't think it's very helpful.
If the lights start spending 2x longer often, surely that will push people to defy the light itself more than they did before.

Using group punishment to curb individual behaviour is always at risk of undermining group obedience.

I wonder what variables affect most whether the policy will be successful or detrimental.
I think for most people makes job is something you have to do, you do it to make a living. Work is not fancy outside tech world: the pay is less, task is more repetitive than challenging, work is not dynamic.
The regular kernel panics (multiple times daily) on my 2015 MBP are pretty annoying. I would recommend sticking with Mojave for now.
I once worked on a QA system for a car manufacturer. The idea was to data mine for commonly ocurring problems and then support a workflow to do root cause analysis and organize a fix in order to reduce warranty expenses.

One problem that had been identified was "Cars of this model produced in this factory have the horn fail very often within the warranty period".

The root cause analysis was: "This factory produces for the Indian market. The horn is designed for 50k activation cycles. Due to the higher use intensity in India, this is not sufficient."

They were still debating whether to install a more sturdy horn only in cars delivered to India or everywhere.
Maybe a four day work week would be healthy and make for more productive workers.
Wait this is a bug? It happens to predictably after every update that I thought it was an intentional design pattern.
You get 11 weeks until Demo Day. If you spend it learning how to plan better you've already lost.
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And once everything that doesn't require a physical presence (factory, warehouse jobs and so forth) worked just fine during all of this managers in more traditional companies all over the world are still going to find excuses why work from home is impossible for them. Because most of these guys just want to be able to control their employees.
No, you can't.

An at-home DNA test doesn't test whether you have cancer* - it tests your chances of getting one over your lifetime.

For some people, for example, there will be an 80% chance to get breast cancer during their lifetime, and they should start checking themselves often.

* One exception is a colon cancer test - you can send (apologies) a swab of your poop to test it for mutated DNA that is present if you already have early colon cancer.
It’s not a matter of uniqueness, but scale and frequency. People are still people in any system, and no system is perfect, but that doesn’t mean some systems aren’t clearly far, far better than others.

Let’s take the Australian bush fires. The response of the PM has been widely criticised and the fire chief and regional governments have taken the lead and been very effective, even heroic in their efforts.

In an authoritarian system it would be impossible for the most effective and organised arms if government to push in and get things done, even if I’n theory they lack the ultimate authority. Competence and public support matter. In an authoritarian system the only thing that matters is authority. Competence doesn’t even get you a seat at the table.
Show HN: WiFi Time Tracker -automatic time tracking app based on WiFi connection
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Hi, developer here.

I developed a simple time tracking app that may help you analyze and visualize how much time exactly do you spend e.g. at work each day, or on the commute to work or any other places where you connect to the wifi often.

I created it so I could compare how much time I spend on different routes to work every morning, so I could find the best one and needed something with a good precision but couldn't find anything on the play store already.

The app is implemented using the Flutter framework and considering it is my first app ever, it was quite fun to implement it (especially considering no graphical skills whatsoever).

It's ads-free as I don't plan on monetizing it.
Import error, the log says 'Set config rocksdb_column_family_options error: Config immutable'. Then I update my code, delete all the data and retry. This time it works. I hope it helps.
I don't know if it's intentional, but you sound racist when your first reason "Poland rocks" is the colour of people's skin.

Poland's rail network has had massive European Union investment, it was very run-down before.

Otherwise, much of what you write is true to a greater or lesser extent across Europe.
Documented insanity is still insanity. A very clear example that was luckily removed quite quickly: php_check_syntax.[1]

> Check the PHP syntax of (and execute) the specified file

This function's name and its documentation suggest completely different use-cases. In fact, it apparently does the one thing I wouldn't expect it to do based on the name. It's insane, and it cannot be excused just because the insanity is documented.

The example given by GP is a lot more subtle, but this is not a good argument to make.

[1]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.php-check-syntax.php
Or we could reduce our meat consumption. Americans eat nearly 100kg of meat per person per year. Twice as much as the Chinese and still nearly 50% more than Europeans. Not to mention the average Indian who eats less than 4kg per year.
I expect to have some time soon and I'm planning on writing a full-blown application in PHP, using nothing but functional style programming. Should be fun.
Well, of course you can't just switch to remote work overnight without any preparation, and expect everything to work well immediately! But, for example: how do you know those workers are treating it as a small vacation? You're not there to see them either! Managers can do the same, they don't need to know what the worker is doing instead of working; they can see the work is not getting done.
Working from home is good for my mental health. I don't like the office, of course.
This "experiment" will set a new baseline on which management can act with the goal to satisfy such use cases and grant the necessary resources to implement them.
while in Silicon Valley we'll be coming into our modern freshly remodeled no expense spared creativity and collaboration inducing open floors with energy efficient weak AC&ventilation and waiting until somebody brings it in ...
The difference between bikeshedding and engineering is just that the engineer cares to get these details as right as it makes sense, and then continue with the work. Whether glass bottles are better energy and emissions-wise than disposable plastics is a question that needs to be asked and answered, and anyone pretending it's not relevant is not a good environmentalist.

Similarly, with styrofoam vs. paper cups, it's something that could be first estimated and then either ignored (if the difference is within margin of error) or acted upon.
> In practice, I see many drivers not even doing this. I routinely see people jaywalking in urban environments and cars just stopping until they've crossed.

Which is the correct thing to do. An immediate accident would be if a car was reversing out of a blind drive way, and another was approaching, and you're seeing the whole thing about to happen, but it isn't clear either of the two other drivers are. That's when you honk.

If you can mitigate an accident by simply stopping, then don't honk. It's generally only for things you can see is about to happen, that the others probably haven't seen, or is aware of. Whether or not the accident will involve yourself is secondary.
Have you taken it in for service? If it’s still under warranty then they’ll fix it for you at no cost. Every company has the occasional defective product.

I’ve been using Macs since 1996 and have not experienced regular kernel panics on any of them since the early 2000s when I started using Mac OS X Public Beta. Your experience is frustrating but it’s the exception, not the norm. The fact that you can find other people, on forums like HN, who have also experienced problems is indicative of the selection bias of the Internet, nothing more.
Maybe it's best if we all forget that.
What is the symptom in the operating system that you notice that means it is having a kernel panic?
What about amount of work though? Did the velocity or quality drop?
If people treat it as a free day off, then it sounds like the problem is not allowing working from home but a lack of effective performance management, or problems like that would quickly stop when.
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As another HKer, I just think that working practices at many companies in our city are not set up for remote work yet. There is a lot of reliance on micromanagement, paternalism and face-to-face communications. Working from home is too different from this.
> Even mixing single-digit percentages of recycled plastics with virgin plastics made the resulting product substandard.

That is why bottle return systems work: they collect only known plastic/metal/glass.
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