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One approach to saving weight while increasing telephoto reach is to use a smaller sensor. e.g. that Nikon 300mm f/2 lens can be mounted to a modern Micro Four Thirds camera (e.g. Olympus or Panasonic) for 600mm of equivalent reach while retaining the f/2 light gathering ability and unmodified optics. Adapters are very inexpensive (e.g. Voigtländer) compared to the cost of lenses like this or good quality bodies.

The other path to doubling reach would be a 2x teleconverter which would reduce light gathering to f/4 and introduce glass elements that won't do image quality any favours.

Small sensor downside: high ISO ability. Probably two stops lost, but with modern MFT sensors you can still shoot up to ISO 6400 with great results.

Small sensor downside or upside, depending on your needs: deeper depth of field (twice the depth of field, in this case, which is still pretty amazing for 600mm!)
Oh for sure. But does such a phone exist? The previous design with square sides certainly wasn't that.
When I was in business school, the school was just introducing PC use for projects and had setup a computer lab with PC-AT compatibles as I recall. Yes, I'm dating myself.

Anyway, in addition to making pretty good money as working the desk as a lab consultant if people had any questions and to just keep an eye on things, I sold individual floppy disks. I don't remember the numbers but basically I could place a bulk 100 diskette order for maybe a tenth the price that individual diskettes were sold for in the campus store. It was a nice profitable little side gig that took almost zero effort.
I switched this year to the Samsung Note 10, because it was SMALLER than the previous budget "lite" phone I got as a short term replacement for my broken down Z3 compact.
Wow, just reading about the cramped conditions inside a submarine got me breathing faster due to my latent claustrophobia. And this was a fairly modern submarine, I can't imagine how much worse it had to be in WW2-era subs...
Well it's got wireless charging now so many people will essentially never use the Lightning connector ever.
> 2. Work for a smaller company. Your work is so much more impactful when you are not part of a mega-machine.

That depends. If you work for a small company working on a product few use, then what's the impact?
What's with the design, should have gone flat edges & slimmer bezels & in display fingerprint. From experience of 5 year old 5S, TouchID just doesn't work with little sweat or dust. In display readers on other phones just work so amazingly
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I don't think that's true somehow: https://www.statista.com/chart/5782/digital-camera-shipments...

Sales aren't necessarily always a decent proxy to usage (and high end cameras are probably less replaceable than phones), but it'd take a brave person to argue that large swathes of the digital camera userbase haven't jumped ship to phones.

I've got an interchangeable lens camera (nothing high end, but a decent MFT offering), and my iPhone 11 smacks it for everyday usage.
Not only that but if they are trying to shift towards services it makes sense to get more devices in peoples hands.
Hah. But that non-trivial price is what I have to pay if it breaks!

I agree the look and feel is WAY better without a case, but after breaking multiple screens, it's a case-life for me :(
It’s not just the look of the larger aperture and longer focal lengths, The sharpness is abysmal. I can’t stand that watercolor look that every smartphone photo has.

Also dynamic range, but that’s much easier to fake.
I've kinda had similar realizations to what you mentioned, althoughI can still kinda enjoy programming occasionally. Any idea where you're gonna go from here? Personally, the most realistic path is to just remain an enterprise code monkey unless salaries get massively deflated, and then move to tech adjacent business fields (management, etc.). I'll absolutley loathe the coming decades, but there isnt a ton of well paid options for an uneducated person that doesnt depend too much on luck.
I have no wisdom to share, and certainly no opinion on higher power that I would consider profound. What you describe is an unbelievably trying experience.

If you are hoping to make some sense of it all, I found Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl really altered how I see suffering and my place in the world. It's a very concrete book, and outlines a way to live with meaning without needing God (though totally compatible with faith).

Stay strong friend, I believe in a tragic optimism[0] like that outlined in Frankl's 1984 postscript.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6807951-i-speak-of-a-tragic...

edit: corrected the quote and added a link
I think I understand the point of the satire ... partially?In most cases we speak about engagement on social media with an assumption that more is worse.

But it seems like a weird thing to satirize in this way because aren't there already many real-world studies that demonstrate that spending less time with people IRL can be detrimental to people emotionally and even physically, and that sometimes this trade-off comes from increased time spent on social media?

Also, nobody is profiting from my gatherings with my friends or has any financial incentive to increase the amount of time I spend doing it.

I don't really get it.
I think we should stop this conversation about headphones and instead talk about walking for 10 hours in the Scottish mountains.. that’s so cool!
I left employment in the tech industry for freelance work. I really dislike Agile/Scrum/Kanban or whatever the new thing is that lets middle management put pressure on developers. I don't like the stress of open offices, meetings to tell everyone how soon I'll be done, or working around many people who are literally sociopaths and sycophants. I love to code though and find enormous enjoyment in writing software, its very soothing in itself. So now I do freelance and spend the extra time to make things right and try to improve at my craft. Still reading HN because lots of cool stuff pops up on here. Zero regrets on the move, I really knew I didn't want a career path that kept me in an office after the first year. I just stayed around until I had the skills I wanted and then went out on my own.
I think their point is that an available cure would allow the quarantine to end and re-start the economy.
I worked for a good B2B SaaS, and while I was able to tell myself I'm not doing anything unethical or immoral, and while some of the customers were indeed very valuable (in terms of value to their customers) Fortune 500 companies - a large chunk of customers were adtech, dodgy mobile gaming, etc.

So you're still just providing infrastructure for these guys and not really contributing anything useful to the world, you're just one level removed from that, and hopefully you have enough customers who actually do good.
I don’t see the 4” screen coming back, though :(
I use hook earphones at night [0], haven't found any wireless ones, but even if I did I'd have to keep them charged which seems like a retrograde step.

The downsides of "AirPods Pro"

1) They go in my ear, which is uncomfortable

2) They need charging

3) They presumably are trivial to lose

4) They cost about 50 times as much as hook earphones.

> Watching a show in bed, you won’t have cables tangling up

I don't have cables tangling up.

> You won’t be frustrated with trying to listen to music while charging your phone on a train

I'm not, because I have a jack on my phone and I don't use bluetooth and thus suffer from deciding which host they should be connected to at any given time

[0] https://www.teknistore.com/en/on-ear-and-over-ear-headphones...
> "Cloudflare is continuing to investigate a network connectivity issue in the data center which serves API and dashboard functions."

This implies that CF hosts its API and dashboard all in one DC, which I find an _interesting_ observation. One would expect a company like CF to host its critical infrastructure in a redundant fashion.
I think big supermarkers are making things worse at the moment.

It was very hard to get basic supplies and food when all small shops were ordered to close, and only big supermarkets were kept open, and supplied by organised convoys.

This appears to be rational at first, but it only led to people all rushing to those few supermarkets the moment the convoy arrives, and them being emptied clean by first 50 something people.

It also led to wholesale bases being emptied by supermarkets, as they have the biggest buying power, and biggest truck fleets. Here, I heard that they went through more than 8 months supply of flour in just few weeks.

The situation got much better when small shops were let to open.

Both supermarkets, and wholesalers are of course very happy with that, but that left near nothing for small shops when they reopened.
I worked in the industry for over 10 years and I have a PhD in Computer Science. In my last job I felt miserable from Day 1. I had reached a point where coding brought me no joy. In all of my job, at the end of the day, I was serving ads to users. I was also an average developer and part of that is because I never found the motivation to keep improving. I was only so much interested in getting things done and never interested in going deep and figuring out how it’s getting done at lower level.

So I quit. I decided that movies is something that I have always loved and it’s what brought me most joy. I researched different career options and I came across creative development and producing. It resonated with me. Read movie scripts, give notes to improve it, work with writers, directors and identify the best strategy to get a movie made. One doesn’t need need money to become a producer. So I left the Bay Area and moved to Los Angeles and interned at two companies. The second company was a great fit for my interests (genre, etc) and I am now in full time Role and absolutely enjoying every minute of it.

I earn a quarter of what I used to make but I am much happier. But there are things about technology that I still like. And I am always curious about new developments. So I still enjoy reading Hacker News everyday.
I believe that is not entirely true. Here is the explaination https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22874704
I really enjoyed this post, thanks for the writeup! Wondering if I can shoehorn some of these concepts (EOS, L10) into my dev team which is a part of a large enterprise?
I've never had a phone come with a case? Strange. But these days I just use the 10$ minimal rubber cases. It's enough to protect were the screen and case meet which is the source of all my breaks.
Or they intend to bake and when their first try at a sourdough starter fails they give up, in part because at least around where I live there's no shortage of bread (and there hasn't been) in the stores.
LEAVE the tech industry? Are you crazy? Who else is going to pay me this much money for this little work? And in this economy, I'm happy to have a stable job I can do from home...
Can I carry around a tablet, laptop, desktop, smart TV around in my pocket?
LOL the samsung s10 says otherwise.
I suspect we were far too quick to get rid of secretaries as actual job-performing useful people rather than just status-signaling living perks. Also I think much of our workforce is wildly over-qualified and over-educated for what they actually do. I suspect there are more people than ever in the proverbial "mail room" that are plenty capable of rising to CEO or President of a region or division and doing a fine job without taking time and money to qualify for then attain an MBA at a top school, but we just don't really do that anymore. 500 people with the education and smarts, given a tiny amount of coaching, to do jobs two notches up the "ladder" for every such position that exists, but several HBS grads applied so we're taking one of them anyway.
Like most people here, I developed myopia fairly soon after starting a cubicle job, and I can’t even see the stars anymore. It’s just a memory now. Even with glasses it’s not the same. Whether staring at a acreen was the cause, or just the thing I wasted it on, it’s gone.
I would argue that that number is a bit high for sense input. Figures I've seen are about 20x lower on the high end. The only time I've seen estimates as high as the one you gave are when they are considering the full field of vision for each eye and translating that directly to pixels assuming there is 100% fidelity. Human vision doesn't work that way, we dedicate far fewer neurons to our peripheral vision outside the fovea. You also have to remember that neurons transmit data at a much slower rate than electrical connections (100m/s vs 300,000km/s) so the path to building a better brain machine interfce is to have a large number of electrodes which seems to me a fairly straightforward problem to solve e.g. make them smaller and adding more of them. The other side of the coin is that we aren't aware of all of our sensory input all of the time so you can get away with only transmitting the important stuff which greatly reduces the bandwidth needed. Further out, there's likely some form of abstraction going on inside our brains and if we can communicate data on that level we'll likely need even less input to create a realistic experience.

As an aside, I don't think I'd opt for the type of uploading outlined in that novel considering it involves a posthumous destructive scan of the connectome. There wouldn't be any continuity so you'd probably just end up with a copy. The only type of uploading I could see working would be a Ship of Theseus approach where you gradually replace your biological neurons with artificial neurons and even that causes some hesitation.
That may be, but it's gonna be harder logistically to do a study commencing from onset of symptoms vs at moment of hospitalization.

There's also the fact that study makes it less likely that pre-hospitalization HCQ will have any effect either. Applying a Bayesian analysis here, it's now likelier that the true ground truth is simply that HCQ doesn't do anything to COVID-19 at all, not necessarily that it works only in a narrow early window. HCQ has severe side effects too, that require close monitoring and can be fatal. If it's not clearly doing good then it definitely shouldn't be being given to COVID-19 patients.

Personally, my hopes are more on remdesivir and favipiravir, both of which are actual antivirals (HCQ is not) and thus were always more promising. HCQ was never the most promising drug candidate, and the only reason we're even talking about it as much as we are is that, for whatever random reason, that's the one Trump heard about first and then fixated on.
All our sites using Argo Tunnels go down whenever the API goes down, but the dashboard still claims Argo Tunnels are unaffected :/

At least we'll get a good blog post out of it in a few days.
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Policies dictate required parking? Seems like something developers would naturally do anyways. If you build commercial space without ample parking you're going to have trouble finding tenants...
People knew for months, for sure.
Thank you for your insight. My (non specialist) answers:

1. It is possibly be a (little) bit more expensive to run, but the cost must be compared with the potential gain: more privacy, and more adoption thanks to privacy (=less cost for treating COV-19). I think cost can be decreased by using existing blockchain infrastructure, and using a gas-free design.

2. If we can achieve much higher privacy without blockchain, I am happy with it, I just never seen any proposal! Crypto-wallet are available on app stores, but still guarantee decentralization and anonymity/pseudonymity

3. Speed is not key here. Knowing now or in 2 minutes that you have been in contact with someone with COV-19 does not seem to be game changing

4. My understanding is you need to know if you have been in contact with someone having the COV-19. But you don't need anything else, and health system does not need to know your name or other info

5. If it is a pain in the neck but allow better privacy and more tracing app usage seems a reasonable trade off to me. Furthermore I think that it possible to do a design without smart contract.
I feel quite lucky that my children had finished school just before the smartphone really took off.
Given that I need hydroxychloroquine to treat my rheumatoid arthritis, I'd like this hypothesis to be either proven or disproven as rapidly and as unambiguously as possible.
As an iPhone 5, 5s & SE user; pass, its too big.

Apple still doesn't understand why users like me still stick with iphone SE - the size.
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My Galaxy S8 has IP68 water resistance and a 3.5mm jack. I guess if you need the extra .5 meters that's non-negotiable, but still feels like a niche use case.
I've no personal experience, but people historically point to pointer aliasing as the primary thing that speeds up Fortran code vs C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_aliasing
And I've taken a virtual hammering for having the temerity to ask that they at least take the time to articulate their motivations and assumptions, at least as well as you have here, with intellectual humility and consideration for the reader.

So be it.
To try to answer the 2nd part of #4:

Christ is a just and merciful judge, so all will be right in the end, and we will each eventually have the necessary understanding to choose for ourselves. There are different "degrees of glory" (uh ... lifestyles?) in the hereafter, very roughly summarized as a) the Celestial Kingdom (for those who repent aka believe in Him and change their ways accordingly (usually a process as one continues to learn & improve oneself), receive essential ordinances, making and keeping covenants aka 2-way promises where He sets the terms, with God, and who can have eternal families forever etc goodness all around); b) the Terrestrial Kingdom for honorable persons of the earth who were not valiant in the testimony of Jesus; c) the Telestial Kingdom for wicked who eventually paid the price of their own sins and receive a degree of glory (which, I'm under the impression, is better than this life), and d) outer darkness, reserved I think for those who really knew Christ but severely rejected him. But don't rely on me: go to the official sources (scriptures like Doctrine and Covenants section 76, general conference talks, etc).

(minor edit/s above)
This reminds me of that Lewis black bit, "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college".

I saw the words, but my brain couldn't process them, no matter how many times I tried.

If I die of an aneurysm, regex2fat will probably be the reason why
Author is from UK, so maybe the Jersey Turnpike seems like the open road. Would love to get his take on driving in Wyoming or Montana though.
"Cops" isn't an organization, or an institution, they are people.

Insulting people, pretending it is a criticism of an institution, then replying with a pithy "dont take it personally" is dehumanization. That would be like saying "professors suck" then insisting that no, you aren't insulting professors, you are criticising the academia. It's intellectually dishonest. It is pretending that professors aren't people, they are nothing more than a representation of a synthetic power structure.
I don't think we wasted too much time and money on chloroquine. It looked promising in early trials. The proper thing to do is follow up on that. If it helped even just a little it would save literally thousands of lives. Having a well known drug be even slightly effective is pretty close to the best case scenario. Not following up on such leads would be stupid.
In fairness, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. If you take that to its logical conclusion, then there is no ethical software development that supports capitalist endeavors.
Have you actually compared the view of a phone that is inches away from you face to a Tv that is a few yards away from you?

Besides that, have you thought that everyone’s lifestyle may not be just like yours?
I'm prefacing this with I'm VERY new to DNSSEC (apologies).

I guess I always assumed that DNSSEC would blow up when changing the destination of the point but have never really dealt with may DNSSEC rollouts outside of light maintenance.

Thanks for a great response, I'm going to formally learn on DNSSEC because this is a good flag that I need better understanding. Also DoH is a new topic to me too so definitely going to "dig" on that as well ;)
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They used to be more plentiful before everyone started copying Apple.

When I had an iPhone 3G and iPhone 4, I did not use a case. All I used was a vinyl decal to protect the back, and I was fine.

IIRC, my Moto G and Moto X Play were fine without an add-on case. All I used on those was a tempered glass screen protector.
emacs is by now quite inferior to VSCode for most thing

I think this statement illustrates a problem that comes up again and again in tool discussions.

I'm pretty familiar with both environments. Objectively there are things that VSCode does very well that emacs is weak at, though you can hack about and get some sort of approximation usually. And there are things that emacs does very well that VScode is weak or nonexistent at, though you may be able to hack an approximation together.

The problem with these discussions tends to be that people fall into camps where they consider other peoples must-have functionality to be irrelevant or unimportant, so "their" tool of choice "obviously" is "better".

This is especially true of something like VScode vs. emacs, where the natural domain of VScode is much narrower than the natural domain of emacs.
I really want to jump back into iPhones and prepared to sustain another painful migration back into ios, but not with no guarantees I'll have a product refresh in the coming years; I've been forced out of the ecosystem once and I'm not going to get burned twice.
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“Humble water filter merchant” is a term that some people use to describe Alex Jones.
Sarcastic strawman arguments damage the quality of discourse.
Bummed on the lack of headphone jack. I create music on my iPhone SE and pipe it into a mixer and studio headphones.

Not going to lose sleep over the color schemes because I will be buying a case for it anyway. That's how my current SE has lasted so long!
Movies, no. Casual TV shows, yes.
requiring masks seems like a shitty policy when it's still pretty hard to get them. guess who will be disproportionately affected...
That is a great suggestion. GitLab has burn-down charts https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/milestones/burndown_... that show that progress isn't linear.

What is small change we can make to stress planning has error bands without affecting the usability?