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Computer and electrical engineers should stop naming things “slave” and “master”
It is a constant refrain in design textbooks, in electrical and computer engineering and computer science textbooks, that one device in a system of multiple devices, is called "master" and the other devices are called "slaves".

A common example is the old IDE 40 pin PATA hard disk interface of the 90s, where every disk on the cable would be selected by a small connector known as a jumper, as either Master or Slave.

Another example is where one device somehow directs or triggers activity of other devices, it is called the master and they are called slaves.

This is completely strange in the year 2020, as it is anthropomorphizing a piece of technology for no apparent reason and using terminology that doesn't really convey a meaningful abstraction. It is a vague term that is applied inconsistently between different technologies with no actual technical definition or meaning.

The idea that slave is descriptive makes no sense - the master devices do not go around buying and selling slave devices to each other, nor do they capture the slave devices in warfare or battle, nor do they refuse to pay slave devices nor do they prohibit slave devices from escaping. On no level other than "object X tells object Y what to do" is this a master/slave relationship. And often the 'master' device doesn't actually tell the 'slave' device what to do, the programmer or designer just chose those names because they felt like it that day.

There are dozens of alternatives that could be used. It doesn't take much imagination. Manager/Worker for example. Dispatcher/runner. Get a thesaurus out and go to town. Especially in a world where programmers and designers will literally call their creations anything, from two letter abbreviations to 10 letter monstrosities with no vowels and on and on.

This is the type of subtle cultural bias that promotes systemic racism. It is one more brick that should be torn down.
Yeah, like washing your have is a big chore too.
I think political division is a symptom. With power concentrated in such a small portion of the population (one person) you end up with two coalitions who vie for power behind the person because no smaller group can affect change at that level.
Hey there,

I am the tech team lead at Mobility House (the company behind taking the batteries and doing the real time control in that setup) for that particular project. https://www.mobilityhouse.com/int_en/magazine/press-releases...

It's actually a really cool setup that allows us to take in excess solar (that isn't used onsite) to charge the batteries, the batteries actually act as backup power for the event days (that AFC Ajax plays). When not needed they provide frequency containment (grid stabilization to prevent brownouts+blackouts) for the European electrical grid at large (on days where it is financially viable to do so).

If you have any questions I would be more than happy to discuss more :)
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If it's even enabled in the first place. I don't think my Thinkpad was, but I do remember my previous Asus did have it enabled.
I think we're focusing on different aspects of this. I don't really care about equity. I think capped wealth would create more equity from greater competition (think localized everything, or highly specialized services (Google early 2000's instead of now)), but that's besides the point.

What I'm really trying to accomplish is to not let uber rich people have unlimited power in setting or even skirting policy. Some of the uber rich don't just own private planes and eat off gold plates. They try to impose their views on the world without having to be elected. They have so much money, that they can buy anyone or anything. And when our elected officials are bought, or when unreasonable amounts of land or capital are bought, the uber rich then have stupid amounts of leverage, and aren't subject to pushback.

The uber rich don't have to worry about how much normal people complain. They can ignore everyone and suffer no consequences (unless they're doing something obviously illegal, but they're probably not so stupid as to do that).
A little bit more than a few weeks ago when lock down was in full effect when everyone realized that products like Skype, line video, and Google meet etc had all had these massive head starts but were left to languish and were all actually awful when it actually matters.

The more I learn about zoom as a company the more I can't wait to delete it but all the comparable products have all been terrible in comparison.
In addition, the US economy is rebounding faster than anyone predicted, indicating a strong foundation. Capitalism did that.
The display cables fraying "Flexgate"[1], the numerous battery recalls[2][3], that the iPhone and the MBP, as shipped, could not be connected to each other (the MBP came with USB-C to USB-C; the iPhone with USB-A to Lightning; the magic trackpads also suffered this)[4], the kernel panics with USB-C until they finally got patched, that the flagship monitor (admittedly an LG device, but advertised on Apple's website at the time) had issues with … Wi-Fi (just being near it, from improper shielding), that same display also had huge issues with disconnecting peripherals (you would connect to the display and get picture/power, but no peripherals), the crappy noisey RSI-inducing redesign of the already poor keyboard (admittedly subjective except for the objective pain in my wrist, but, e.g., [5]¹), the poor design of the device s.t. any breakage in a component results in the complete waste of the remaining good hardware as nothing is independently replaceable/servicable, routinely receiving a score of 1 out of 10 by iFixit, Apple fighting right to repair[6], … oh, and the keyboards breaking the entire laptop from a single grain of sand, the terrible suspend/resume times, … and I haven't upgraded to Catalina yet. I hear that's gone so well for so many.

Yeah, Intel's chips are not the biggest fish in the Apple fish fry.

I'm not even an Apple customer, I'm just forced to use them by my employer. (And it feels like most employers nowadays.)

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/5/18251264/macbook-pro-2018-...

[2]: https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall

[3]: https://support.apple.com/13inch-macbookpro-battery-replacem...

[4]: https://thenextweb.com/apple/2016/10/27/cant-connect-new-mac...

[5]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/01/an-ode-to-apples-awful-mac...

[6]: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/7/3/18761691/right-to-rep...

¹I now limit my use of Apple keyboards to an absolute minimum.
You're assuming that an extra step always implies a usability penalty, but that's not true.

"Usability can be described as the capacity of a system to provide a condition for its users to perform the tasks safely, effectively, and efficiently while enjoying the experience." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability)

Notice the presence of "safely" there. You should be penalizing the alternative in each of these examples for the non-zero risk of data breaches and getting pwned. Then we can have a more productive debate about which cost is greater.
For reference, related php-fpm config directives: listen.owner, listen.group, listen.acl_users, listen.acl_groups

And probably some SELinux config as well if the installed php package doesn't have them.
There is a world of difference between being for something and against something and you are being very disingenuous (read: trolling) to conflate the two, Mr. throwaway account
Take a queue from games: Gradually unlock more features as people use the existing ones.
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There's this idea that we should add 10000 years to our calendar. It's called the Holocene calendar.[0] The argument for using a calendar like this is that it would make it easier to understand historical dating and it would roughly align with the appearance of the first settlements. The Holocene epoch started at about 9700 BC. This would be around year 300 on this calendar ("of the human era").

If we used this calendar then the current year would be 12020. Cleopatra died in 9971. The Great Pyramid at Giza was finished around the year 7441. Alaric's sack of Rome would've been in the year 10410.

Note that the reason events from the BCE time have a 1 at the end is because our current calendar does not have the year 0. It goes from 1 BC to 1 AD.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar
I don't doubt there is racism but not everything is necessarily racially motivated.

I once was pulled over when I did a cross-country road trip. I was given some bs reason that I cut off a semi truck when changing lanes and that my GPS unit in the car was too high and blocking my view. I'm not a POC and the cop asked tons of questions, wanted to inspect my trunk, called the k9 unit, etc. I ended up also getting a warning. Subsequently the cops followed me for miles which felt like they're trying to harass me and find another reason to pull me over. So these things exist regardless of skin color.
In the past, SCOTUS has ruled that laws banning discrimination only grant new rights to the group the legislators were interested in helping. So anti-age discrimination laws only prevent discriminating against the old, not the young. If you understand the politics of race in America, it will actually not be very interesting to see how US courts will rule here.
I miss my //c!

My sister and I played hours of Lemonade Stand, Summer Games, GATO, and Carmen Sandiego.

I wish I had the //E with color, though.
Note that software is not an abstract idea, it's an idea manifested.

And, really, people can still have a business selling cookies. But open source is unique in providing projects with many users, including commercial entities, that still leave the author in abject poverty.
He's referring to https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t... rather than boolean coercion.
I haven't experienced the OP's described behavior that I recall.

I was trying to make a clear contrast with behavior that is much worse, which I have experienced a lot.

If you're having such a hostile reaction, should I suspect you think the "much worse" behavior is normal and healthy?
> Yup, filesystems in general should have a database/SQL interface

That's basically what FILESTREAM is in SQL Server if you squint.
Recently, a user posted on my problem validation platform that she's unable to listen to radio from her home town (possibly rural India) from a foreign country[1].

Setting up SDR for this seems to be beyond the capacity of that user. Sites like these might address this need gap, if they allow the user to tune to specific frequency rather than being limited to particular stations[I understand that this has larger technical overhead].

P.S I checked the Radio Garden, it GeoIP's some stations, there were no prominent stations, mostly comprised of religious stations and couple of unknown hobby stations.

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/126-listening-to-obscure-intern...
I’ve been really curious about whether there’s a Sketchup-like application that has simple digital woodworking tools.

Bring in a couple 4x8 sheets, cut taking blade width in to consideration, join, test whether the edges are flush, etc.

Maybe even import plans, then give you a cut list that maximizes the wood you want to use. (Will I need 6x or 7x 8’shelving pieces? Ok, 7, but oh right, it’s reminding me to get and extra one to allow for mistakes.)
Why India didn't plant land mines across LAC since 1962?
>It's basically condemning them to working nonstop for months if not years

how come? wouldn't without lockdown the herd immunity with that R0 would come in like 2-3 months (and during that period the vulnerable people would have to be locked down), while with lockdown we're already 3 months into it without reasonable lockdown based endgame in sight?
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If Jeff Bezos decided tomorrow that Amazon would never sell any face recognition software, that’d be that. The only recourse from shareholders would be to try to replace him as CEO, which isn’t going to happen over this issue. I agree that shareholders aren’t going to proactively choose to stop it, but they generally give companies a fairly large leeway for what decisions to make.
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Glad it doesn't go unnoticed, actually was the team lead for that project (Mobility House -- real time battery control). If you have any questions about it or other cool projects we have done -- https://www.mobilityhouse.com/int_en/magazine/press-releases... actually works with the batteries to do the same thing.

So we can use them in the car to charge when there is excess renewables, and then use the second-life batteries in large stationary storage installations to do the same. Tying into the different grid systems is a bit of a nightmare with everyone having their own standards unfortunately, otherwise it would be easier to roll these out more often.

(I am speaking for myself, not Mobility House).
There is currently no efficient way in git to just clone a single subdirectory. This is very inconvenient when dealing with very large monorepos - even with depth 1 - you still have to grab the entire tree.
Not only was this a no-knock warrant in a country full of guns, but it was also executed by plainclothes police. Figure out how that’s supposed to work.
That's awesome. How cool is it that you can take a new Noctilux lens and use in on your 1985 camera!

I would love an old M film camera but I have no idea which one I'd want to get. I have a M10 and a M10 Monochrom today and love them!
Best HN comment I’ve read in a long time.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yscm61p5eyA
I recently needed a tool like this ... and sadly concluded that there's no clear winner in the free software world.

Sketch-up's non-Linux presence is a pain, but can be worked around - the web version's useless for me, but again you can download the last .exe version they released still, from the official page (albeit they've hidden it).

FreeCAD and LibreCAD are worth diving into just because they're going to be around for a while, and at least one of them seems to be well supported.

Blender's another option, and though it doesn't align feature-wise quite as well, and has a steeper learning curve - learning it is going to be useful forever, and for a wider range of use cases.
I don’t think it’s a misconception at all, but rather science has its own definition and lay people have another. The definitions are useful to their respective camps. People who correct laypeople for using their definition are boring pedants.
It makes me so upset how distorted all media coverage has been of all sides of this overall topic, from the start. Even if, with the new information you provided, the basic conclusion is the same - "police overreach, especially when it comes to black people" - the details remain extremely important not just for the integrity of that conclusion, but even more so when it comes to forming opinions about where to assign blame and how to solve the problem at a systemic level. I'm mildly infuriated that this is the first I'm hearing these crucial details.
Not really, Google happily let its employees use competitor products. There's no real precedent.
We should all care, because the larger cultural trend is a detriment to free thought and speech.
How does this work with vanguard etc?. Do they vote too?
My dad collected LGB trains and gave a lot of them to my youngest son. My kid is only 5 years old but understands the value and scarcity and takes really good care of them. They're his most prized possessions. I told him that he can give them to his son or grandson someday.
You may be interested in Matthias' videos where he makes his own tools, such as a table saw or a bandsaw.
Exactly this. The single most important question with a shootout is “Who fired the first shot?” The Times clearly misleads the reader to think the police fired first after a “brief confrontation,” only later to reveal that this confrontation was the police being shot at by the boyfriend. The fact that the Times did not report the sequence of shots in that straightforward way (in the purportedly dispassionate “What Happened...“ section of the article) indicates their clear bias.
It's really not that hard to change your clothes in a bathroom. Especially in a hospital, where they certainly have a wheelchair accessible large private one. Also, many large hospitals also have a gym, so you could just change there.
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I don't agree. This is going to be used multiple times a day by a couple people. A native app will give a much better user experience.
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Awww, poor stockholders.

Maybe we'd see a shift toward companies actually being run in responsible and ethical ways, instead of the present, near total disconnect from reasonable actions and constraints.
This was fun to read. "Gadget" definitely needs definition. Does it mean: has moving parts? Requires electricity? Contains "electronics"? If here it means "surpasses its expected lifetime as an electronic device", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W is a strong contender for me.
I think this question becomes more complex when it includes "who fired the first shot when plainclothesed men break down a door into an apartment at midnight where there is a legal gun-owner"

1. They should have known a legal gun owner was present. What would anyone expect a gun-owner to do when their home is broken into? Hasn't Charlton Heston said something about all this?

2. They should have been trained and prepared to execute their warrant under these conditions with a plan for mitigating loss of life, especially since the suspects in the crime were already arrested, and none were thought to be present at the address. None of the people at the address were suspected of criminal activity, and no drugs, or criminal paraphernalia were found. The stakes of the raid were not justified in my opinion - but I of course, do not have all the facts, but I feel like I have enough to make these statements.

I absolutely will not accept "who shot first" that's absurd.
I took your suggestion and emailed him (mentioning it was from you on HN, of course). Hopefully he'll read it.
Glad to see nomnoml on this list. I really appreciate the simplicity and it’s now my go-to for making diagrams.
Well yeah, referring to my above comment the primitives are symbols and it's expected that the user knows them, just as you're supposed to know the keywords in any language.

Good (professional) APL though, will intersperse those primitives with meaningful variable names.

Whether one thinks it's worth the effort to know the symbols vs know the keywords is matter of opinion. But if one dares calling oneself let's say a python programmer, I'd argue that anybody would expect that you'd know the keywords anyways.
Reddit hasn't been owned by Conde Nast for a long time.

Board members aren't employees, so discrimination rules don't apply. In fact California already has a law requiring discrimination based on gender (another protected class) for boards. All California companies must have one female board member and have at least two by 2021.
It's this kind of blanket denial of racism that makes life hard for blacks in this country, which is of course the point of this comment.
I'll just leave this quote:

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” Robert A. Heinlein
The rise of the far right, and the ambivalence of so many people in my community towards this rise, leaves me in a permanent state of anger/despair. There's many more lines in the sand for me now, and much less charity towards my fellow man. I'm glad that I have close friends and family with whom I can have more nuanced discussions, since there's a baseline of trust and empathy in those relationships — but I'm not sure what I would do if they suddenly started spouting Fox News bulletpoints. It all sucks.
You might like to look at Paul Sellers' videos? He can get a lot done with hand saws, marking tools, and chisels.

But in general, among hobbies, woodworking is pretty gear-intensive. Even if you try to avoid it.
Or get YouTube Vanced on rooted android. ;)
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It would ideally come with a removable caddy and a spray that makes it look dusty, so you can put it in the bottom of a old shoebox when it is not in use. THAT would add to the plausible deniability.

A scheme that could boot when there is a hole drilled into the platter would be even better :-)
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Think of Roy Underhill as the Cliff Stoll of woodworking instead of klein bottles. Imagine Roy waxing philosophical about klein bottles then reproducing an oaken klein bottle he found buried under a barn that one time. Working frantically, nearly but not quite done in 25 minutes flat, but! with five minutes devoted to showing off that one of a kind klein bottle plane a friend just happened to have given him as a gift ten years ago, because showing off that one oddball tool was the entire point of this whole episode.

Roy's the best kind of nerd. He REALLY loves what he does and how he does it, and makes it so contagious that I kinda want to take up woodworking just so I have an excuse to attend one of his classes.
> If you want to understand the generic drug market, read the book "The First Question" by Andrew Bodnar. He was convicted by the DOJ for anti-competitive practices as a VP at BMS and wrote the book as a part of his sentencing (book is on the public record).

Was he literally sentenced to write a book (among other things, I'd have to assume)? If so, I have so many questions. Was this part of a plea deal, or did a judge decide it on their own? Is this a common thing? Has this judge done that before? If someone is sentenced to write a book, how is the timeline set for it? What happens to the profits from sales? Who pays for the editing/publishing/etc.?
Cops harassing people because they're bored isn't evidence that cops don't harass people of color because they're racist. The two things can, and very evidently do, co-exist.

Your attempt to dismiss racism as a factor in police actions is a big part of the reason why the police are able to get away with it so much.
I think you'd have a point at which the threshold increases but the probability of the true positive being in your results starts to drop severely. 99% might be useless if you have one or two hits and they are unlikely to be correct. You can't assume that the one you're looking for will be a 100% match; if it was, then you'd just set the threshold to that, presto.
> Dice are very rare between 400 and 1100, corresponding to the Dark Ages.

How dark these ages weren't. I'm always a bit sad to see such an obviously polemical term used to describe the period.
That's my question, the non-abandonment of the disk is a clue that this scheme might have been used.
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