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It strikes me that the real issue here is one of narrative. What you're struggling with is not the tech, but telling (first yourself, then others) what you're about. It makes you want to cover all bases, while discounting the knowledge that you have gathered.

I don't have many answers for you on tech. But I can tell you that anywhere outside of tech companies, coding is a superpower. From this perspective, it helps to move away from thinking about tools, to thinking about what you want to achieve with them. Forget about others and their paychecks? What gives you a kick? Start noticing which types of problems you enjoy solving, a narrative will grow out of that.

(As someone who's been coding in python for years and still is nowhere near as good as a proper good pythoner, I see no point of investing any time in R. It's one or the other.
Same for Tensorflow and PyTorch. I try and work with PyTorch because smarter people than me have chosen to, and you just have to pick a road to start walking. But I don't see myself as any form of authority on tech issues, so...)

When you'll be 40, you'll think 40 is old and 30 was young. At 50, you'll think 40 was young and 30 was practically a baby. Why wait till then? Might as well start thinking it this way now - you are young.

And lastly, keep reminding yourself: Comparison is the thief of joy. People earning twice as much as you are not happier, not at these pay scales.

I'm not based in the US and salaries here, even for experienced developers, are nowhere near the numbers you see thrown around.
I am far from the first to say this, but please do push hard for languages that aren't commonplace (or well-developed) on other platforms.

My language of choice would be Farsi.
Does this trick apply to the 15" MacbookPro (2015)? If so, I guess I'm in luck!
The transition in perception of UNIX and C from being buggy, inconsistent, foot-gun-laden corporate messes to being treated like the immutable ancient ways has certainly been a trip.
While he is one of my favorite youtube channels, I can't get into his recent musical endeavours; to me it's a lot of complexity and flourishes that I'm sure make musicians excited, but I can't get into it.
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...especially when the large majority of HN readers are already aware of rust "thanks" to the rust evangelism strikeforce.
Same happened to me. I was deeply involved in the local improv community for a few years, and it was great at first, but a few toxic people drove me away for good.

My theory is it is a gathering place for people with narcissistic traits -- I mean, part of the appeal is being the center of attention and having everyone think you're brilliant and hilarious.

(Again, though, we all have narcissistic traits, but few of us are actually full-on narcissists.)
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[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007JX8O0Y
There are enough external peripherals (external microphones, HDMI output, etc.) that are useful that I hope they don't get rid of the lightning port for quite a while.
Cook is riding on the upward trajectory that was set before he took his role. Brand image carries a lot of inertia, and as a manager rather than a visionary, cook focused on getting the most use out of that pre-set trajectory while it lasted.

It has run out of energy. If AR doesn't pay off, it's all downhill for Apple from Q4 this year onwards.
Laziness mainly, why? It was a screenshot and couldn't be cut-and-pasted. Are you suggesting I twisted words too with my summary?
They'll make some assertion along the lines of granting a license to specific configurations of the control software of the car.

This is part and parcel of why I think IP on software is increasingly rearing it's head as an anti-pattern. Right of First Sale goes right out the window with the "marriage" model of smart appliance ownership we seem to be converging on via contract law.
I sell a course about making a 100 k living from selling courses about how to avoid adds for courses. You get a free golden bullshit card with it.
I'm not so sure about the stock. This line in the article:

> The car was sold at auction as a result of a California Lemon Law buyback, as the car suffered from a well-known issue where the center-stack screen developed a noticeable yellow border.

makes me think that soon (say the next 2 years) there will be a shitload of Teslas - which were bought during their mass adaption time - which will start malfunctioning because of wear, and the company will be in pretty deep shit, with a lot of customers with no cars and long waiting times for the service. Hmm, and how is their parts distribution network?
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On Youtube the rightful owner of any piece of work is whomever has the most lawyers.
NYC to Chicago is over 1000km in linear distance (I-80, a decent approximation of the shortest distance you can route it, puts it at 1200km). Making it in 5 hours requires an average speed, including stop penalties, of over 200km/h. And that's bypassing any other major city. A more reasonable route, that goes via Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia, runs you closer to 1500-1600km, requiring a 300km/h average speed. With the top speed of conventional trains being about 350km/h, that is impossible.

If you bypass every other city between NYC and Chicago, and basically go through a state-long tunnel in Pennsylvania, you might be able to do it with a conventional railroad, but it definitely won't be cost-effective. To hit the other cities, you have to switch to maglev, which makes it cost-ineffective as well.

A final note: the city pair you're trying to link up is Chicago-NYC. Given the relatively diminutive size of the other cities en route (Pittsburgh is #27 and Cleveland #33, compared to #1 NYC and #3 Chicago), Chicago-NYC is going to make up the bulk of your traffic, so partial portions of the route aren't particularly effective. This is one of the issues CA has as well: the full SF/LA connection is where the market is, and the HSR can't justify its costs until it connects those two cities.
Actually, we don't need a lawyer; there was a lawsuit, the copyright claimants in this case lost the case, therefore they don't own the copyright on the segment that they claimed infringed on their copyright. The case was closed already.
It says "Bluetooth scanning —
Let apps use Bluetooth for more accurate location detection, even when Bluetooth is off."
I doubt it makes the device discoverable though.
> It is often not viable to jump through the hoops required to do it.

Having it as a dynamic library isn't that problematic a hoop is it?

>That is, if your lawyers will even let you try.

This may be a genuine issue. Many have a strict "nothing related to GPL" policy driven at least partly by misunderstanding or paranoia.
By that same logic you can invest more money by buying a cheaper car instead of financing a more expensive one.
They have been doing that forever, every time people report a bad problem they'll try to cover it up for a while.
In my mind the article reduces to: Paywalls are cool, we need moar of them.
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He leaves room for that.

> And for games like Overwatch, I don't think improving is a moral imperative; there's nothing wrong with having fun at 50%-ile or 10%-ile or any rank.
> home office style recording environments (even with acoustic panels) are going to have a noticeable amount of background hiss (computer fans, etc.) get picked up and his set up doesn't account for that.

You can definitely baffle a lot/all of that noise away, but you definitely need to be more mindful of your setup and not just have some wall-mounted panels and your tower right next to your mic.

I've been privy to some crafty home studio setups. It's workable—the first problem is paying attention/having an ear and the example you posted is so obvious I was surprised at it.
Where do you place your ads for that course?
That's exactly where I was going. Critisim of Linux async shouldn't be discouraged because of inherent limitations. That would hample innovation. I wouldn't be surprised by a new web server, API gateway, load balancer, etc, that mandated "forget about POSIX, adhere to this". The whole cloud abstraction movement seems to enable it.
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That's not true for Lenovo Thinkpads, which is a separate business division from Lenovo consumer hardware, as far as I am aware. And subsidizing consumer hardware with spyware has, unfortunately, become a standard industry practice. Most smartphone and Smart TV manufacturers are shipping their consumer devices full of bloatware that is extremely hard to get rid of.
Mine will drop out when I drop my phone.
I see that as more of a long-term life goal.
I'm was looking (still looking actually) for a virtual camera for GNU/Linux, but all the solutions I found involve lot of hacks.

That would be awesome to be able to switch scenes from OBS inside a "corporate" video conference setup.
Proprietary software can include the encoder. This is fine.

But any changes to the encoder itself remain under LGPL and get published. This is the point.
I just looked at flights on Air Canada's website and I can see the aircraft type under "details" there just like every single other booking website since online flight booking has been a thing.
It's not that simple. If you plan on keeping the car and the interest rate is low enough you are likely better off taking the longest term loan possible.

Consider a $30,000 vehicle. I can finance it at 1.9% for 48 months or 84 months. The payment on the 48 month loan is $650/month (scenario 1) and the payment on the 84 month loan is $380/month (scenario 2).

In scenario 1 I invest $0/month for 48 months and then $650/month for 36 months. After 7 years I paid $31,178 for the car and earned ~$26,000 from investing (at 8%).

In scenario 2 I invest $270/month for 84 months. After 7 years I paid $32,062 for the car and earned ~$30,000 from investing (at 8%).

In scenario 2 I paid $884 more in interest but earned an extra $4,000 from investing.

There is a lot more that goes into this type of calculation but it is not nearly as cut and dry as "you're an idiot if you financed a car for 84 months."
Probably because I believe you should wear whatever makes you comfortable within the context of the event you are attending. Women could be wearing suits, and men dresses or skirts, I don't think that matters. And if and it was just down to my personal opinion, it would be wear whatever you want that makes you happy.

I understand some groups have expectation about people dressing nice and if I'm attending, I will conform.

But my point was that everyone had a dress code imposed upon them and that it could have been handled maybe a little better. Just tell people to dress up I guess, no need to specify which sexes gets to wear what.
The revolutions of 1989 would tend to argue against that. Leaders in East Germany and the like thought that giving people subsidized food, housing (and alcohol) would be enough to make them content. Some of it was, yes, about not having democracy, but a lot of it was being upset that they didn't have the consumer goods they knew people in the West had access to.
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I think if you are living paycheck to paycheck and don’t have disposable income, it may make more sense to buy a cheap new car with a warranty than a cheaper used car.

It’s much easier to get a car with a $350/month car note where you won’t have unexpected repair expenses than getting a $200/month car note on a car without a warranty and then have an unexpected expense.

Now we have a credit card with the car shop we used that has a six months/no interest program. I use that even if I do have the money. But if we had bad credit, we could get a car loan much easier than an unsecured credit card.

I am at a point in life now where I can afford an expensive car repair bill and it just stings a little bit. When I was first starting out decades ago working at night as a computer operator while I was in graduate school during the day, any unexpected expense meant a call to my parents. Many people don’t have that luxury.
If you mean USSR, then no, not really. While it was stratified, the privileges that those at the top enjoyed were not as far divorced from the life of an average citizen as the lifestyle enjoyed by the wealthy Western elites. The major factor was that all those benefits were formally perks of one's job and position, not something you could just buy for private use. And so, while nepotism was very much a thing, and ensured that children of the elites would inherit those positions, even well-connected families were limited in their ability to accumulate generational wealth.
I'm not sure what churn you are talking about, unless you mean the Angular 1 - Angular 2+ split?

ng update is ridiculously easy, and the automatic code rewriting is generally sensible and easy to follow. When there are breaking changes, Angular takes care of the modifications for you. Generally I've felt like those changes resulted in a better expressed codebase (eg RxJS syntax improved massively from 5 to 6, lazy loaded routes are expressed with arrow functions now, etc).

I assumed the React community was also migrating versions with codemods, but maybe React does not introduce any breaking changes?
I find it really very frustrating that the author talks about the "95%" percentile and then does very little to actually justify why he's talking about the 95% percentile and how he's measured it. He's got some anecdata about what he views in overwatch, but you actually need some statistical techniques if you want to justify a statistical number. Of the players in the top 5% how many times was it observed that they committed obvious game losing gaffes? How did he screen the reported rankings for the arbitrary subset of players that he considered real competitors.

I don't think the person who wrote this understands statistics because they're not playing a game where randomness is a large influence in the game. If you talk to top poker players about their game they're not going to talk to you about individual mistakes, they're going to talk to you about constructing ranges. A top 5% poker player isn't just going to beat a top 10% player in a single game or single hand, they're going to have a higher expected return over a long period of time. THe point is to come up with strategies that are successful against a large range of opponents. So whilst you can look at a single event and identify whether it was effective in that particular situation, what you're optimizing for is to get the best return over time. So to take the Overwatch example - whilst you may constantly see game losing mistakes at that level, you won't see the same people making the same mistakes constantly.

So basically - for an article that constantly talks about "95 percentile" or "99 percentile" or "moving from 10%-ile to 40%-ile". I just don't even comprehend how you can title something "95%-ile isn't that good" and then not make any effort to actually evaluate how you're measuring 95%-ile. Which, given this is an article about how people generally do things very badly for stupid reasons, I think is rather ironic.
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As posted in another comment:
https://www.motortrend.com/news/top-10-cheapest-new-cars/

If you have a mega-commute, you should be buying the cheapest efficient, reliable car possible. You do not need a $30k+ car; you need a car that gets good gas mileage. Buy a Honda Fit and you'll get configurable storage and fun handling as a free bonus. Worst case scenario, you buy a ~$20k Corolla/Civic/Mazda 3. (The horror!)

EDIT: OK I just looked at the 2020 Honda Fit. Don't buy that. It's just too ugly.
From the video this case wasn't Content ID, it was manually flagged.
I also wanted to congratualte you for your effors. I'm a daily and long time user of Duolingo and thought of libre alternatives for a while.

I'd agree with some sentiments in this comment section, that you might want to find a niche, as competing with Duolingo or Babbel would be difficult.
Duolingo doesn't too well with "smaller" languages and different scripts.

Are you using a TTS engine for the voice (I assume)? I was looking for TTS for a smaller language I'm studying, but I couldn't find anything. I hope that something comes out of the Mozilla's Common Voice project.
You know a lot of women find a sharply dressed man much more attractive than the same man in a hoodie, right?

People seem to be getting upset here because they perceive a "short but formal" skirt as somehow sexualised or demeaning to women, whilst being asked to wear a suit isn't for men. But why do you think so many men wear suits in non-business settings? It's because women like it.
I'm all about "you buy it you own it" and rights to repair. I wouldn't make a fuss if somebody unlocked the autopilot or the full capacity of their battery (yes, that's a software lock too).
You don't own the supercharge network it's an external service.
Exactly - I also hate the 'next week' bit they do at the end of some shows. They ruin all the surprises!
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I wonder how much lower salary people would accept if they got a much sparser work environment?
There's only two kinds of claims, content ID (both automatic and manual) and DMCA.
Like, the ones that pollinate every crop?
Huge thanks Angular team. A few years ago, my team desperately needed to pick and run with a frontend framework. After a couple months to learn the Angular fundamentals, we haven't looked back. We find the framework to be extremely intuitive and flexible enough to handle any scenario we've encountered. The productivity wins have been enormous. We have about a dozen apps and anyone on our small team can jump into any project and contribute. I can't imagine how fractured our knowledge would be if we had to stitch together multiple libraries and come up with our own constructs.
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Completely tangential:

The Rosetta Stone / Duolingo style of language learning has never really worked for me; I generally have more success and an easier time staying engaged with the "comprehensible input" approach.

Are there any open platforms based on this method out there? Maybe something along the lines of LingQ, though perhaps without all the attempts at gamification.
It's propaganda because it's trying to advance a political or ideological agenda by influencing the audience through an emotional argument. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with that - any successful political ideology does this, because that's how you organize mass movements.
> As an alternative, for $299 you can pick up the DBX 286s pre-amp[0] which also acts as a noise gate (helps filter hiss / static), de-esser, compressor and basic EQ together.

Do you know of any device with similar capabilities but in smaller form factor (even if more expensive)? Something of the size of Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 [0]. Or at least not meant to be mounted in a rack?

[0]: https://focusrite.com/en/usb-audio-interface/scarlett/scarle...
If you want irrational amounts of money, you need a monopoly.

But I don't see any problem with 6 figure Engineers working competitively.

Is that not enough money?
I was thinking of OLTP databases, with transactions, joins, random writes, and everything operating at scale. Running reports is much easier.

I doubt CERN is dumping all of their experiment data into a single SQL database.
I run a Shure SM57 - which is not exactly the same mic, but it's a very similar dynamic microphone that's also VERY quiet. I run it into a Scarlett 2i4 - and it was terrible before I bought the FetHead. The preamp in the Scarlett just can't bring that microphone up to reasonable levels without picking up a LOT of hiss and noise - it sounded like garbage. Adding the FetHead totally fixed that.

You're running a condenser mic that's going to be a lot "louder" on it's own. Running the gain pretty high is fine if it doesn't seem noisey to you. It was 100% obvious I needed to do something else when I first attached my mic directly to the Scarlett.
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And the Keyboard.

Most reviewers dont even want to touch on the topic as if Apple told them to do so. The so call new Magic Keyboard doesn't felt anywhere close to the Magic Keyboard used on iMac or iMac Pro. In fact they felt more of the same as the old butterfly, and it is awful.

I am on early 2015 ( brought it in 2017 if I remember correctly because I cant stand the MBP 2016+ ), and I pray it wont break down. It is already getting some strange lock up for no apparent reason.

I would even pay for a brand new 2015 MBP for the same price during its time in 2020.
One other area where this is true and might be similarly easy to analyze is competitive running.

A local road race 5k might have a thousand entrants. You might feel bad about occasionally walking and finishing in 500th place, but that's just in the subset of the population that participates in those events. The biggest race in our 1,000,000-person metro area draws about 20,000 entrants (many from outside that area), so the 50th percentile in the race is 99th percentile in the population.

Similarly, there's a big difference between people who participate and people who practice. Every high-school cross-country team will likely have several kids who can run under 18 minutes in the 5k, just because they practice 5 or 6 days a week. Elites peak at about age 28-30 in the 5k, so these 16-year-olds aren't as fast as they could be, but they will likely never run faster than they do in high school because they won't practice as effectively as adults as they do when coached on a school team.
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You can finance a cheaper car. Buying with cash carries a large opportunity cost due to compound interest being a helluva drug.

If you can finance at an interest rate below what you are earning in the market then you are better off financing. People who pay in cash are leaving money on the table for non-financial reasons.
> if anybody wants to dish out something on an order of $1.5m to do a contract manufacturing run for a properly designed full sized laptop, give me a note.

Something tells me that Apple spent more than $1.5M designing the recent MacBook Pro.

It is a bit presumptuous to say "well i could do it better" when referencing an entire team of qualified electrical engineers at one of the largest corporations in the world that has near limitless resources.

Especially coming from such a qualified background as "a person somewhat close to electronics engineering".
Broadcom is absolutely the worst, because it's the most open-source-unfriendly. It's only had a lot of reverse-engineering attention because it's so ubiquitous (not just for routers, but for laptops too), but it's all no thanks to Broadcom.

Atheros and Intel I believe both have good open-source support.
If it makes you feel any better, the people buying your used cars are probably very grateful for the value they're getting.