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Building a synthesizer from scratch was the most fun I've had as a programmer:

http://www.plastaq.com/scythe_vst/

I'd strongly advise against trying to write music software for a living though. The market is just too competitive now and DAWs are increasingly bundling everything a user might need to make music.
> For example, whenever you hear about public teacher salaries being low, no mention is ever made of the total compensation, which is pretty generous.

This is disingenuous. It's perfectly acceptable to compare teacher salary to any other salary. The default assumption is that you're comparing W2-with-benefits to W2-with-benefits. When people talk about low teacher salary, they're talking about it in comparison to another salary with the exact same overhead. It's not necessary to assign cash value to employer-paid taxes and benefits when making an apples-to-apples comparison.
Learn how to cook and cooking all meals at home is both safer and is a cool new skill to have :)
If you often listen to music/watch videos and need to adjust the volume, have you thought about adding a physical volume knob? Something like this: https://www.droking.com/USB-Controller-USB-Volume-Audio-Adju...
We have to recognize how much we screwed over the Native Americans. We took away their prime land on the East coast. We gave them some shitty land in Oklahoma that we didn't think we would ever want. We made them walk there in the "Trail of Tears", and lots of them died along the way. Then we decided to screw them out of the land in Oklahoma after all, but didn't go though the process properly because we didn't think it mattered.

It's insulting to hear people talk about them as not having "initiative" or being somehow responsible for being poor. When they resisted being screwed, we sent in the US Army to kill them, then kept them under control.

Reconciling this after all these years is going to be tough, but acknowledging it is a first step. Giving them back the land is disruptive, but giving them a few billion dollars is pretty easy. It would be interesting to see a VC fund focused on Native Americans building businesses. Or some real educational funding in Oklahoma. It would be a lot better than what the Republicans are doing to the state. All they want to is protect the rich and the oil industry.
The politicians you elect, likewise, have no obligation to actually follow through on their campaign promises.
Hypoxia
So I think that’s not really true. Even existing battery chemistry could do 1000km per stop (although it still needs certification for aircraft) and at comparable speed as HSR. That’s much longer than the California HSR project that was canceled, plus you just need a recharge (or swap) to continue on your way. With further efficiency improvements and battery chemistries in development right now like Li-S, we could potentially do 4000km flights (enough to reach Hawaii... and anywhere else using multiple hops, as Boom is planning). And shorter flights at higher than HSR speeds.

HSR has its own unsolved problems. Like not being able to work over deep ocean... and insane infrastructure costs.
High-speed rail isn't high speed enough. Even with way faster than current tech and NO stops you'd still be looking at taking 12+ hours for what a plane can do in 5.

That's ignoring the trillions it would cost. The US does not have the population density to make HSR viable.
Would you rather be on life support, incoherent, for years, because of the lack of a right to choose... Or be able to choose what quality of life below which you prefer to pass on and not endure constant indignity?
It can't be too difficult based on many of those I had.
Ultimately the flaw with this clause is the flexibility and amenability of the Constitution.
> It is dumb though to justify it based on how much you get paid hourly.

imo my time is actually worth many multiples of what my employer pays me for it.
I've been wearing a hat outdoors for about 10 years now, since the doc carved pieces of flesh out of my forehead. It was annoying at first, but I grew to like it. It keeps the sunburn away. I was surprised how pleasant it made walking in the rain.

It doesn't affect my hairstyle because my hair departed long ago.

I do get ridiculed for it now and then, but one advantage of getting older is one stops caring about that, and if pressed I'll just tell 'em they'll change their mind after going under the knife.
I can't recommend Linux From Scratch enough. If you want to understand the composition of the Linux user space, this is one of the best exercises to follow.
For the last couple of jobs (lead and senior) I’ve had a resume focused on business achievements that I helped lead. I’ll put some relevant technologies but it’s not a huge focus area. This helped slim down the resume naturally because my first few jobs had less notable “big deals”, later jobs more.

Not that you asked for advice on this part but — ageism isn’t a thing (at 35 imo), but what is a thing is interviewing from position of strength. There is a world of a difference between being a principal who is seeing the writing on the wall and getting out, versus waiting for the layoffs and now being a former principal. It’s gonna make the interviews harder, you’re going to have more stress, companies may play comp games. If you think it’s going there I’d strongly consider expediting your search.
This is exactly what http://OpenTHC.com/ does. I built it. QR is great and it scans faster than barcode and is more resilient to smudge (and sun damage).

You can open scans with zxing links on a webpage but you'll likely want an app - cause the performance will be better.
> 3 lower end-ish Android phones serves me easily for 10 years with no issues

Are there any lower-end phones that get security updates for 3 years?
you'd be surprised how common this agreement is. A lot of the skyscrapers in manhattan are/were built with this arrangement, where one party owns the land, and leases it to the developer who owns builds and maintains the building. Very interesting issues came up in some condos where the owners decided to spike the ground rent when the term was up. Also, as I understand it, pretty much all of the land in China is managed like this, as well as Singapore.

If you think about it, there isn't much of a difference between a 99 year lease and a 1-3% property tax.
> Octavian, Ceaser was already dead by this point...

Only his enemies referred to him as Octavian. He referred to himself as Caesar as did all his men, and later Romans.

>one or two particular rulers didn't have that much effect on the long term.

Augustus as he became known was probably the single most consequential ruler in Rome. He was the transition between the upheaval of the Roman Revolution at the end of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

Without Augustus, it is likely that Rome would have continually been racked by civil wars. The disaster of the 2nd century where Rome bled itself dry in a series of civil wars would likely have been moved up. If Antony and Cleopatra had won, I think what we saw later as the East/West split with the Eastern capital at Constantinople may have happened much earlier with the Eastern capital at Alexandria.
Catering to a Contracting Middle Class
This might be unpleasant to say, but I don't think it's _weird_ that a C-suite is all middle-aged, white men. As in, it's pretty common and unsurprising. That is very different than saying that is what is _best_, which I would disagree with. There's a lot of inertia and it would be no doubt obvious that these middle-aged, white men have had more opportunities than women and have had greater chances to progress professionally. Again, I don't mean that's better or right, it just is what is for historical reasons.

The social and cultural shifts that would change this need years or even decades to play out before it stops becoming weird.

And, again, this doesn't mean middle-aged white men are just better or more suited for these kinds of positions – it's just that they've been in the best position, generally speaking, from an education, networking, and cultural position to get access to such positions in contrast to folks from a different background, race, or sex.
I use a leather bound notebook and a nice pen. I really like the low tech feel of pen on paper.
Even onshore it's about going rate for most of the consulting firms. The 200% markup pays for holiday, sick pay, insurance, CPD, office space and time on the bench
There actually is very little for the court to clarify; reservations exist in lots of other places and the procedures and handling are well established. The unclear part that has been resolved is whether this century-old agreement for those swaths of Oklahoma is still in force, and apparently it is, so it's a reservation. From there on it's procedural copypasta.

The only possibly-unclear thing I see is reimbursement of recently paid state taxes by tribe members, I think they can claim back some.
This hasn't stopped states from permitting the sale of cannabis.
Some services are more important than others. If teachers go on strike kids miss some school; if nurses go on strike people die. The military fits into the "people die" category in terms of likely consequences from a strike.

Edit: just to be clear, I don't mean to imply that teachers aren't important, just that the immediate consequences of them all missing work is less severe than some other occupations.
I think the real problem is that the Concorde wasn't fast enough to justify the cost.

Whether you can fly JFK-CDG in 8 hours or 4 hours, when you factor in how irritating airports are, parking, security line ups, waiting for baggage, etc, it still takes all day to make the trip.

Might as well save several thousand dollars and take a longer flight. I believe they would have to cut the flight time down to about an hour to justify Concorde pricing.
Why do we encourage the existence of Native American reservations?

They are basically miniature Ethnostates. They go against the entire liberal narrative of diversity. Not only this, they keep Natives isolated from the rest of America.

It is time the Reservations were dismantled and natives join with the rest of America.

The Americas are not any more Native land than America the country is a white country. The same reasoning that is used to chastise Europeans for settling in North America is the same reasoning white nationalists use to rationalize excluding non whites from America. "This is MY land, you can't come here".
Having standards does not imply no more new APIs. But creating them only for one browser doesn't bring progress on the web but rather lead to monopoly and at the end inaccessibility.

Consider that with chrome (and chromium based browser) we're close to the situation we had back in the days with IE.

So I'd say open standard definition for web API should come first, later each browser will have their own release process to include them inside but at least behavior and aspect are defined upfront and this will avoid lots of issue

As of today for example and I'm using both Firefox and Chrome daily. You'd be surprised on how many website have been tested only in Chrome and some stuff do not work in Firefox at all
David Neeleman might disagree. But then again, his M.O. isn't chasing business customers.
Does anyone have trouble with their Macbook recognizing an external display? I have a new 2020 Macbook Pro and it struggles to recognize my Samsung display. I often have to reboot the Mac for it to be recognized.
Wouldn't be so sure. Stopping depends mainly on how good the thrust reversers are. Wheel brakes will only take you so far (and being lighter doesn't meaningfully help you.. lighter weight means less traction.
That looks amazing! Is there a way to subscribe to updates / releases?
The labor movement has long opposed police having unions, as they’ve always served Capital owners whenever workers need intimidated or a strike needs broken. They’re de facto opposed to the collective action of all other workers.
It has a date/time class that doesn't include a timezone too...
I'm still hoping for rail. It's much more carbon friendly, and has the opportunity to be way less stressful.

I'd do 18 hours on a NY to LA if I could walk around, eat, talk, sleep, etc over a 5 hour misery ride in an airplane any day.
It is not disingenuous because the public teacher benefits package is much better than typical in the private sector.

The teachers' unions have been quite clever about this, in negotiation for much of their pay in the form of benefits, so it looks like their pay is low. The newspaper, for example, often runs comparisons of salaries but never total compensation.
A Podcast on the US Supreme Court Decision on Oklahoma
I think the engineering trade-offs are significantly large enough to make microphones and speakers "totally different" in the conventional, non-MEMS world.

Sure, at the very core of it, it's just trading electricity for mechanical vibration, and this functions in both directions. But the engineering that has gone into specializing both speakers and microphones is staggering.
Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Programming
Can I recommend Voat?

You are the only one on this page making any sense... HN has become a socialist dystopia. I looked through your comments and I can tell you right now that we will welcome you at Voat with open arms. There is zero censorship also.
> We gave them some shitty land in Oklahoma

Interesting sentiment. As someone who grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I think you should go there and tell the people who live there your thoughts.
> Coding style matters.

It. does. not.

If it did, PHP wouldn't be running half the world. Structure and systems matter.
The Value of Alternative Investments
A single NY-LA route alone would cost over $500 billion. High speed rail is well $100m/mile, just for the track.
That was in 2003 or so. IIRC, mdadm didn't have raid6 support back then and the chassis wouldn't support more than 4 devices.

Those were the heroic days.
How much did you set aside for each break and how long were they? I agree that when you change the way you view it, everything can change.
Google Fonts doesn't track the users, or associate the use with the user's account.
Even if the train’s electric power comes from coal, not carrying fuel with you is a win from an efficiency standpoint.

There are some military planes flying on biofuel, so ideally we’re not that far off.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/aviation-fuels
It’s a good question — if anything I’d think that a promise is revocable by definition. If there’s no trust involved it’s not so much a promise as...collateral, or something?
From over 40 years of experience - - anything that needs to be delivered under pressure - - - or contained in storage chemistry like OMF's which will still release the gas in a similar manner - - - human systems will eventually fail and there will be tragedy.

Some will argue that H2 is no more dangerous than natural gas, which contains potentially explosive gases.
What experiment? Don’t delude yourself. Experimenting is over once the government steps in.
Sure, but then federal support of state projects gets tied to whatever the federal government wants the state to do. The state isn’t bound, but it’s political suicide to turn down money.

This is a powerful weapon that can be used for both good and bad.
They could have their own special terminals and all passengers pre-cleared.
Later: https://xkcd.com/927/
Cropping to the inner part still gives ~140mm², or comfortably over 5x the size of Apple's GPU.

I don't really get your argument. Apple customers buying Apple Silicon Macs—which, again, will probably have a GPU over three times as fast as the A12X—aren't going to let hypotheticals detract from their powerful and power-efficient GPUs. ‘But NVIDIA didn't optimize for efficiency’ and ‘but NVIDIA hypothetically could have used a newer node than they did’ don't count for squat.
Signing up for that site at the beginning is genuinely what I would do if I were do it over. Knowledge is power. Literally a $5000 learning curve for $99

Besides, my advice was to sign up, then ask for refund within the first 3 days after reading as much as you can. You get 3 days to do it. Then circle back to it once you need more info or advice

Seriously though, dropshipping is a dumb first business model to do if you're an internet marketing newbie.
I've had friends who worked at hard drive manufacturers.

They said companies can very accurately know the lifetime of a drive the day it is manufactured just from the vibration profile.

enterprise > consumer drives.

It also depends on the "customer" buying the drives - certain system manufacturers will get better drives.

I think it's like restaurant owners getting better cuts of meat than you can get.
PCP, dippers(cigarettes dipped in PCP liquid solution), loveboat (powdered PCP sprinkled on a weed blunt) is still a huge issue in urban US city's.

The effects vary per individual but the higher the dosage the more psychoactive effects are felt. I've seen a naked guy take on 8 DC cops....yes 8 police officers, and after being tased 3 times the guy finally went down.(first two attempts didn't take) But he was tossing grown 200-300lbs adult men like they were paper weights. The amount of force it took those officers to over come this one person on PCP was insane. Definitely not something you want to run into.
Or fly it out of a private airport without as much irritating stuff, much like private jets do today.
Why Hire a Magento Development Company in India for E-Commerce?
I find Linux From Scratch a bit masochistic. Embedded Linux development is equally educational while actually being useful. There are good frameworks like Buildroot: https://buildroot.org/
I’m not an investment advisor. In some bailouts the equity holders get wiped out.
> Whether you can fly JFK-CDG in 8 hours or 4 hours, when you factor in how irritating airports are, parking, security line ups, waiting for baggage, etc, it still takes all day to make the trip.

Security lines weren't a thing until 2001. The Concorde operated from 1976 to 2003. The retirement was due to low passenger count due to a crash in 2000 and 9/11 in 2001.
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I totally get where you're coming from. I'm a full time developer, and part-time paramedic. There are definitely a lot of similarities between debugging a program and debugging a person.

The doctor in the post was also working off the base assumption that this was a bug that got shipped in the last release (surgical complication leading to interval bleeding, leading to hypotension; surgical complication leading to cardiac tamponade; etc). My original point was just that the answer that was obvious to the commenter was actually pretty low on the probability list, and it only seemed obvious because they had an incomplete mental model of the system as a whole (something that happens in software debugging as well). As it turns out, it was the correct answer, but the correct approach (on average) would still put "failure of the pacing leads" pretty low on the list of likely causes.

There are a lot of checklists used in surgery. For instance, immediately before any procedure, there is a "time out" to make sure everyone is on the same page with the right patient, right procedure, and right location. I'm not aware of any checklists specific to pacer leads, but I don't spend much time in the OR these days.
Does it particularly matter? In most cases, people take whatever 'benefits' they're given - they don't have much leverage to take something else. Whether I want or need "great" health insurance, it might be something my employer provides, and would be part of my 'total comp'. It may not actually benefit me at all, and I have no choice in it. And likewise, if the insurance is crap, most people have no leverage to replace it with anything better anyway.

Most people can only make choices with the take home portion of salary, regardless of what 'total comp' is.
The fact that people live there doesn't make it desirable. People will always defend where they live. Don't be naive.
Taking a dump/taking a whizz/blocked
Bootloader unlock is the way that works on Android. It forces user to erase data when unlock it and unlocked status is shown in boot screen.
Federal drug laws were upheld on the grounds that they are regulating interstate commerce ("regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;").

The idea that growing plants on your own land for your own consumption would some how fall under this legislative power is ridiculous. It's not "flexibility", it's fraud.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
> You could travel faster than the rotation of the earth in it!

You can do that in a conventional jet at latitudes far from the equator. You can walk faster than the earth rotates if you're very close to a pole (very very close).
As a result of the touchbar I changed caps lock to escape so I could keep using vi. I now make that change on Linux too. Never missed capslock.
LFS, or gentoo from a stage 1 tarball, is something that is extremely valuable to do.

Once. Once is usually enough.
A Gulfstream does
I highly encourage the OP to make this point, too.
I switched after a decade on Gmail, and it wasn't nearly as painful as I anticipated. This question comes up enough that I wrote somewhat of a guide here: https://justus.ws/tech/how-to-switch-away-from-gmail/
The interstate commerce clause made for a fine end run around the spirit of that bit in the end.

If we do ever manage to address the interstate commerce clause, we'll have to account for the fact that our day to day functioning has come to depend on a number of large federal regulatory bodies whose legitimacy is derived from it (ex FDA, FCC, etc).
> That's not the feature that is relevant to the discussion.

Not to the thread overall, but it is relevant to this thread in particular. GP didn't mention any specifics regarding whether or not the editor is available online; they merely spoke about Paint's simplicity relative to everything else.
I’ve got issues where macOS sees both monitors but won’t send output to both every time I come out of sleep. Like one of the displays will turn on like it has signal, then hang for a second and go back to sleep, repeat. I use a program called disable monitor, which shows all the profiles for the display. For some reason when one doesn’t connect it goes into the first profile for the resolution/refresh rate/color depth, then I manually select the third and it connects right away
The exploit was public, but obfuscated to make it harder for bad actors to make use of. Apple likely didn't need help to identify the vulnerability, but I'm sure they welcomed it.
That link is … well, the link for this thread.
You can do provably fair gambling by using cryptography to show the generation was not tampered with. It was common in bitcoin gambling sites that had no other way to prove they were (somewhat) legit.
This is the wrong audience to ask about the touch bar, however there is an entire population of computer users out there for whom standard function keys are less than useless.

>About 90 per cent of computer users don't use CTRL-F to search for a word - as they don't know such a keyboard shortcut exists, a Google survey found. The results stunned Google's Uber Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness, Dan Russell.

"I think we just all assume that we all know it, but no one actually does."

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/only-one-in-10-know-what-c...

For the 90% of users who don't know that Ctrl-F is find, having a row of contextual command icons for the foreground program instead of a row of useless function keys is a step up.

I think they should just continue to make standard function keys available for the minority of users who find them important to their own workflow.