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Wanting something to be good and usable based on its name being exciting to you isn’t the same as it actually being good or usable. It’s astonishing that this was upvoted by 179 people. There are already hundreds of multiplayer .io browser games that are actually playable. Some of them are space games, microgravity.io for instance.

Why is no one giving their honest opinion on Space Frigates, which can only possibly be negative? I suppose there is a culture of fear in HN comment sections, people are afraid of pointing out when something is obvious amateur hour garbage because they don’t want to get spanked with downvotes or a shadowban for hurting someone’s feelings. Is this really necessary? Why protect someone’s feelings? Sometimes people need to hear what they don’t really want to hear, otherwise you’re just enabling their delusion and they never improve themselves.
If you understood science you'd understand why "you'll never notice a degree C of average temperature change" is wholly, irrevocably, unarguably, objectively, and absolutely scientifically incorrect.

The scientific reality is that climate models have made decently accurate predictions so far. The whole point of the models is that 1C or 2C of change is not just about your own personal subjective experience of how warm it is.

The predictions are about everyone's personal subjective experience of having their home flooded, or destroyed in a fire, tornado or hurricane - all of which become more likely as temperatures rise.

This has literally been understood for decades now - by climate scientists, by the fossil fuel industry, and also by insurers.

Those are the obvious first order effects. The longer term second order effects - water shortages, crop failure, economic instability - are at least as important, if harder to model. And the third order consequences - homelessness, resource wars, mass migration - even more so.

Just because you have failed to educate yourself properly, while persuading yourself that your subjective opinion about "clothing and heating" is as credible scientifically as that of thousands of climate science PhDs working full-time on modelling, and don't understand that these are specific, actionable predictions doesn't mean they won't affect you personally.
not really... you can specify a specific version of a gem in the Gemfile.

gem 'byebug', '1.1.0'
Yes, you've described why large corporations are hated. It's quite obvious that a handful of numbers are incapable of measuring a person's true impact, yet by god, they insist on trying.
The article and many of these comments assume that hiring decisions are made entirely based on talent. But hiring decisions are equally if not more influenced on the vague and often problematic "culture-fit".

If the company is being completely honest, half the time, the feedback would sound like "You're a talented engineer but you're not a great culture fit", which can open the company up to litigation. Especially if the culture-fit reasons are specifically based on demographics.
No, but it's generally close enough for most purposes. Especially for a small object with little wind resistance.
> I'm surprised boats are already moving to lithium.

When the alternative is a bank of lead-acid batteries with effectively ~50% usable capacity and poor charge efficiency, at least for cruisers effectively living at sea off solar power, it's not surprising at all.
XPS 13 Developer edition meets these requirements. The touch pad isn't as good as a MacBook (none are) but it's plenty sufficient for working when not at a desk and if you do Docker based development having a Linux OS is actually much more performant.
Unity video uses photogrammetry to convert reality into dissolving pixels
Not only that, but it will be floating away for a very, very long time (unless it manages to hit something along the way). It blows my mind to think that even if we manage to destroy ourselves, that both Voyagers, Pioneer 10 and 11, and New Horizons will be out there. (Cue reference to TNG: The Inner Light)

Unless we invent warp drive, it's pretty crazy to think that these things could be the first to visit another star.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_lea...
LOL.The article is full of them, too.

eg: Nirvana fallacy assumes socialism is unattainable when many of the best parts of existing society are socialist (public health/education/legal aid, many small businesses, self employed people, large co-ops, credit unions, etc).

edit: Mostly The Nirvana Fallacy is itself a meta-fallacy, as most of the time it's used to justify things being shit by accusing the proposed alternative of being utopian (the sub-fallacy). I seem to remember George Orwell wrote a large part of an essay dedicated to how totalitarianism relies upon such fallacies ('pragmatism', 'realist', etc)
Electromagnetic fault injection: towards a fault model on a 32-bit MCU
Yeah I saw that, but just wasn’t sure how using intrinsics played a role.
Apple replaced my battery for $29. Not bad.

Replaceable batteries come with their own trade-offs, namely water intrusion through failing seals. I'd rather pay occasionally for someone skilled to replace the battery than replace the entire phone after a drop in the sink.
That's because LA is growing. It would be a lot worse without the trains.
HP, Dell, Lenovo, Apple, ASUS, just these 5 vendor alone represent 70%+ of the market. And if you start adding smaller ( Comparatively Speaking in unit shipment ) brands Such as Samsung, Microsoft, Sony, Acer, Toshiba, you are now edging close to 90% of the Market.

Those top 5 vendors has long term relationship with Intel. So their AMD offering seems to be very lacking or purely as a play to have more bargaining power with Intel. Not to mention Intel's consumer marketing is far better than AMD.

Unless consumer ( not us, but average consumer ) reacts favourably, I dont think it will make much of a difference in terms of volume and unit shipment. It might do well in Gaming Laptop, but it seems most gamers prefer Nvidia.
This will cost them a lot of goodwill.
Iron seeding was tried--not a good idea.

Yes, it had the predicted effects in terms of plankton growth and the rest of the food chain. It did take a lot of CO2 out of the air. However, some of the animal life fell into the deep ocean and slowly decayed--releasing methane. Methane is a far worse greenhouse gas than CO2. Lots of fish but no climate benefit.
Rackspace terminates FOSS support without notification, charging fees
Yes, as some commenters point out in the thread, it's possible that there are benign explanations. It's Tesla's responses to his inquiries about the discrepancies and firing him which raise red flags IMO.

In-house accounting software is also a rarity even at large corporations with two sets of books.
> I get that its immeasurably frustrating for a person to be distilled into performance metrics, but how else can we measure one's impact?

I think it may also be useful to talk about the reliability and validity of all the things that are measured.

Also, how useful is this stuff among the different fields? The article talks about gig workers and manufacturers. Would be interesting if these metrics were applied rigorously to other fields like politicians, talk show pundits, and forecasters.
Apple probably made that much money in the time it took to read the article.
> a car purchased with the autopilot option, keeps it.

What evidence inspires you to say that? Do you have private information showing that Tesla did in fact say: "the sticker is wrong, the test drive is wrong, this car doesn't include FSD"?

According to the story, Tesla sold this vehicle at auction with FSD enabled, and with a sticker saying it had FSD.

In the absence of other evidence, that means Tesla sold the car with the autopilot option, and then removed it.
In this case, Koch really needs to read Daniel Dennett's "Consciousness Explained". Even though it does not explains consciousness, it takes it seriously to dispel myths and magical thinking about consciousness.
Motherboard, CPU, aftermarket cooler, case, RAM, power supply, 256gb m2 ssd all came to about 2500 AED from a computer store in Dubai after some negotiating. Already had a GPU, SSD, monitor, peripherals from my previous dying computer. On Apple's offical website, the base model 16 inch starts at 9999 AED and selecting 32gb of RAM comes to AED 11,679.00.

1680 to go from 16 to 32 GB of RAM. The total I spent on my 16gb x 2 corsair vengeance LPX 3200 DDR4 RAM was no more than 650 AED. What false claims am I making? You do the math.

I've become extremely dissatisfied with Apple's direction and felt frustrated being locked into the MacOS ecosystem because until recently there was no alternative that I was happy with. If they'd just make a new Macbook Pro with sufficient cooling and a normal keyboard I would have been satisfied.

I built it to replace my dying 9 year old gaming PC, having absolutely no idea that it would become my primary development machine. I just gave WSL2 a shot with pretty low expectations from my experience with WSL1 and just kept using it.

My main point to make was not about just about the hardware itself, but about Windows finally becoming a viable alternative for the work I'm doing.
> Obviously it's an evolutionary trait for us to propogate ourselves more effectively.

That doesn't answer the question of where it originates though.
Historically professors have tenure (admittedly less so now, I believe), so how they score on evaluations has no real bearing on them keeping their jobs.

I had a professor who was a terrible lecturer, and he knew his student evaluations were terrible every time. As he handed out the evaluations he would tell us that he did not read them, and did not care what we wrote.

I graduated twenty years ago, but just checked the department's website. He's still employed!
I'm curious. If employees are not supposed to hold their employers accountable, then who is?

The free market? Because as we've seen, the free market can easily be distorted through monopolies, lobbying, corruption etc.

The government? Because that's how you get regulations and those seem to be especially hated among those that dislike employees attempting to influence corporate direction.

Ultimately you have to accept someone has to provide a check against uninhibited corporate power and considering how they can rig market economics at scale, that power falls down to either the employees or the government.
For curious, this is the actual news from the title:

The company quietly pulled its UA Record app from both Google Play and Apple's App Store on New Year's Eve. In an announcement dated sometime around January 8, Under Armour said that not only has the app been removed from all app stores, but the company is no longer providing customer support or bug fixes for the software, which will completely stop working as of March 31.

Source:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/smart...
bicycles and shoes are not homotopic
lol it would work fine. I've had a joke app running Angular 2.0 in production for years. The code doesn't just expire and break. If you upgrade to Angular 8 in your package.json without running the upgrade schematics, yes it will break...because there were breaking changes.

In 2016 React was on version 14. Are you telling me that from version 14 to 16.12 React has had ZERO breaking changes? Because they definitely haven't. That ecosystem has also changed recommended patterns countless times. They just choose to leave a lot of the old implementation options around if they can while Angular as a frameworks tends to be more opinionated.

Same goes for any library or framework across major versions...
This is less true now than it once was, but one of the things Apple used to be good at is producing a new OS for the last generation of hardware that made it faster. Most manufacturers unerringly make the old hardware slower.

There's an old trick in software development, some of us learn it by example, others by experience: be conservative when rolling out performance improvements. If you have a feature you know will make things slower, pair it with changes to improve performance. If you make version 1.2 faster, and version 1.3 is as slow as 1.1, people will feel robbed (because performance is a feature and you just removed a new feature).

Pulling this off can be problematic unless you happen to work on both features. What if one slips to the next release? One of the perks of being a generalist and having some seniority is that you have a degree of control over such things, where others might not.

If Apple had wedded the clock throttling to a new major revision of the OS, people would hardly have noticed.
Another resource I’d recommend is OWASP’s lists, their top 10 is a good starting place:

https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/
I'd say it's more of a personal preference really. I have hit some issues trying to use Go modules in the past (although support for Go modules has admittedly improved vastly since the last time I used them) and dep has always worked consistently for me so it seemed like a better choice for the book.
It's a pretty tiny fine (0.04% of Apple's yearly revenue) for a pretty major offense: quietly slowing down old phones without telling customers that they could replace the battery to make it fast again. We can have a conversation as to whether this rises to the level of planned obsolescence, but this was absolutely not the correct way for Apple to handle this.
Even for the cheapest approach, there is still a cost to consuming more rather than less. Energy isn't free.
You are correct. I should have said Tesla INTENDED to remove the feature while they were in possession. Perhaps they removed it on paper, but didn’t go through the step of removing it via a SW update. More to the point, they don’t arbitrarily yank features off of cars in the field, though of course they have the ability via SW update to do so - they could lock me out of my car right now if they wanted to, or set the stereo to play Baby Shark on repeat at max volume and disable the volume controls. All possible.

The point remains, if they intended to remove it, and notified the purchaser that the car didn’t have the feature, then I would side with Tesla, though it’s indeed very sloppy. Again - it would be as if I moved into a house and the lawn guy kept coming for two months because the previous owner forgot to cancel the service. On the other hand, if the car was represented to the first buyer (the dealer) as having FSD, then Tesla is on the hook.

I’m sure the lawyers will figure it out ...
This is exactly what is done in some countries, like Portugal.

The main difference is that a fully variable model subsidizes solar panel owners at the expense of the other clients, which makes solar panels a more attractive investment, whereas here the case for home solar is much weaker, particularly for low energy consumers.
I admire people who follow their convictions. But, all the faith and all the good intentions in the world do not make for good policy and more importantly harmful policy if acted upon.

I am consistently amazed by the sanctimonious incoherence many people in this candy ass industry feel comfortable espousing.

This industry is where people with no work experience much less life experience are hired at 3-5 times the average American family's salary. This industry is where people who have the OP's 14 years of experience in that level of company can amass wealth that exceeds that of generations of families who didn't have people in the lineage that wrote buggy software for a living. The author worked 14 years in a company that provides the decadence of shit like free food and free dry cleaning. Free food is fucking mind blowing to some people.

Not only that, but the company he's worked for has ALWAYS been about helping others manipulate people. It has always been about taking some of the smartest people the industry has and pointing them at human manipulation because well they are lowly consumer apes and that's OK. Yet, like many on hnn he considers himself worthy of wielding the categorical imperative as if he was a fluffy bunny Thanos because he has joined the club that hates the orange man and supports the approved protected classes while defending the rights of street defecation. I guess 14 years enabling mind fuck INC. has all been cool because he goes to church and is a moral tourist.

The mind numbingly vast majority of techs especially at the major cloud provider level have never ever lived in an environment where physical harm or fatal consequences were the punishment for talking the wrong kind of shit to the wrong person or even being in the wrong area. Their pansy ass, horseshit view of the world is fueled by an existence where they have lived like kings in comparison to many. Yet in their proclamations they are comfortable blithely advocating policies that kill whole industries or leave young soldiers at a disadvantage because well they're good people and some hick who had to go into the military or works on a rig and feeds his family just isn't as noble as someone confused about their gender who would like others to be taxed so they could change it free of charge. Twice.

You can pretty much hear them thinking "Those kinds of people on those rigs vote Republican anyways so fuck them. Pretty sure that's what they said at church right before I took off to get my 6 dollar coffee on the way to spend a couple of hours with the the homeless."

Glad you quit your job. Also glad, you are just another deranged tech who thinks they are on the side of right and justice while being oblivious to their own shoddy and harmful positions instead of someone of consequence who does something like defend our country, farm or roof houses.
Read either CTCI or Elements of Programming Interviews. The key is knowing that the problems you’ll be presented with aren’t as novel or random as they might seem. The same general topics and problem classes come up over and over, and once you can recognize them you can learn to solve them. It’s really hard, but it’s a matter of effort, not intellect (or at least not solely intellect).
> how else can we measure one's impact?

This is a case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism.

We must do something
This is something
Therefore, we must do this.
US customs dismantled 'impossible to replace' instrument, Mali musician says
Cycling wouldn't exist without the mechanical component. Performance of that component is an integral part of the sport.
Apple is not really known for their fantastic repairability and this is for sure a field in which they could do better work (as opposed to work against repairability).
The correction is not uniform, he passes the blob image to the shader as a texture.
> It was foolish of Tesla to include it

I think it was correct for Tesla to include it and I think their policy of non-transferable licenses is exploitative. Not legal in the EU but they can get away with that crap in the USA.
Right? I feel like it's the 90's all over again and I'm loving every bit of it.
I don't have any definitive proof at hand, but it was mentioned in the brochure for the Baths of Caracalla. Here's a photo with a longer description: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/287951/48703648

I think this kind of stuff was relatively common throughout the Roman world.
Yeah, big company, lots of variation in the interview process. Ultimately, the hiring manager has final authority, but if someone came out strong against you for some reason, they might be loathe to override. But it does sound like a strange experience. Just consider it an anti-loop. (https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goo...)
It's a static site made with Hugo [0] without any theme. The CLI is free so feel free to try. Thanks.

- [0] https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo
I did not only use it, I generated a C++ compiler backend for it. Of course is generated code ugly, that's not the point. It's generated.

Logical problems (and problems in C extensions) are of course always possible, therefore you have Stateflow and other methods. Other formal methods cannot guarantee that neither.
In 1947 Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. 22 years later we landed on the moon.

So, our ambitious goal is to have NYC municipal cars, etc be electric in 20 years?

How about a plan for the next 5 years? China has 400,000 electric buses, for example.
Thanks for the feedback, we'll fix this.
I have an older macbook air, The new ones even with the faulty keyboard is a lot better considering the increased trackpad size, the screen alone is probably worth it.

I thought I was fine with the old screen turns out I was just used to it, the new one is such an upgrade, the tradeoff being that the processor power is about the same. Which don't matter to me that much as it's mostly text editing for me.
Depends what OrderedDict was being used for. If used for some of the obscure ordering features, replacement with dict + a shim might be a slowdown.
Well, we already have good measures for economic power, e.g. gdp.
How would this extra measure help?
It’s sloppy, yes. To me, it comes down to what they did or didn’t tell the first buyer in the sale paperwork.

If they were silent on the issue or listed the car as having AP, AP worked at the time of sale, and the car was originally equipped with AP, then I side with the dealer. If the paperwork indicated no AP, or listed all the features on the car but not AP, then the dealer made an error.
Yes, though perhaps 'shady population' is more like it. When I lived in Coventry many years ago, several of my neighbours worked for a local firm on manufacturing lines churning out torture equipment. It was no great secret, and no-one had a problem with it.
What Lua is lacking here (and why the above iterator function needs 17 lines) is the ability to have “for” go through a list (without converting the list in to values returned by an iterator function), which would let us quickly and easily sort lists that “for” can use. Something like:

d = {"foo": 2, "bar": 1, "zoo": 4}
for k in sorted(d.keys()):
print k

(I’m not advocating Python here, since Perl has a similar way of using “for” to go through lists which can also be easily sorted)

However, with Lua, “for” only accepts a numeric range, or an iterator function, so customizing “for” requires understanding function closures: Understanding how a function, when called multiple times, stores variables altered in previous invocations of the function, and understanding how to give those variables initial values (usually in the “function factory” function which creates the function we use).

In other words, “for”, in most modern high-level languages, can be one of:

1. for variable in [something that specifies a numeric range]

2. for variable in [iterator function]

3. for variable in [list]

But Lua only has “something that specifies a numeric range” and “iterator function”; it can not natively go through a list.
I interviewed several people who wanted internal transfers. People who took 30 minutes to write a function like "write a function that takes an array of ints and returns the largest value". I have no idea how they got hired in the first place.
For internal networks, you set up a couple of local DNS servers. These servers are set up as slaves for all your local zones. DHCP provides those servers to the clients. Done. This is very simple and has worked for decades.
If there were no shoes (and hence no shoe sponsor money) of any sort, who would pay for the sport? I say this as a former pro cyclist who whole-heartedly agrees with you in principle. However, there is already hardly any money in pro running how it is. Whether that is a good or bad thing for society is another issue.
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Yup.

>>> isinstance(OrderedDict(), dict)
True
Yes you could do that for all your gems... Or you could just copy in Gemfile.lock. One of the big reasons to run in containers is repeatability and knowing if it runs in your local Docker fine it will run the same on another Docker like system.
LRDIMM modules go up to at least 128GB.