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> In reality, they didn't need to save the minimal room and board fees of a state school; they were mostly just cowards.

How dare you place judgement on other people's circumstances. Moving away from your family to immerse yourself in your studies is certainly one way to grow as a person, but far from the only way.

Maybe someone has to take care of a family member and can't realistically do that, even if they wanted to. However, taking classes while also taking care of a family member, is that a coward or someone strong?

Maybe someone already knows the path they want to take in life and they see the cost of room and board as an unnecessary expense they can instead save to buy a condo elsewhere. Is that person a coward for being focused or strong?

Maybe someone needs a familiar support network such as a strong family to thrive academically. Is that person a coward for being self aware or strong?

How many people did you meet your freshman year who you thought in the back of your mind, wow they really should have taken a gap year. All they did was waste money on tuition and room and board while they partied and failed courses. Are all these people strong for making lifelong friendships against their better judgement or cowards?

So many reasons why people chose the path they do, I could keep going on here. I would have thought someone getting a liberal arts education would be open minded to other experiences. It sounds like you judge people who not follow in your footsteps, and for that, how dare you!
> FPGA

Eww. I wish they stuck to using a real Z80 chip. (Otherwise they might as well just have emulated everything using an ARM SBC. With a gigabyte of RAM to boot. For 20 bucks.)
I'd rephrase it slightly – it's a battle for who owns the concept of "identity", and Apple is about to destroy the Facebook Connect button on mobile (which is where most consumers are trending too).
Thanks! Will look into it, but doesn't seem I would fit the category. I will try submitting regardless
I'm so sorry that happened, were you able to find something else in that range quickly?
This is a good introduction, unfortunately, Unicode may ultimately be a problem in and of itself.

To start, consider that the term 'character' used in the article, though 'generally correct' ... is definitely not correct in the broadest sense.

Western, Cyrillic and Asian scripts boil down to 'characters' with some complexity maybe with ligatures ('Straße'), but it falls apart quickly for other languages.

Unfortunately, rather than creating rigorously applied definitions for things, and applying them consistently, even Unicode falls into this bureaucratic trap of vagaries with their own definitions.

So Unicode works well for most things, but then it falls off a cliff.

Here is the definitions section [1]

Even have a look at the definitions of 'Character' and 'Grapheme' and 'Grapheme Cluster' - and you start to see how confusion sets in very quickly.

Consider that in Unicode ... there isn't really such a thing as a 'character' - it's just an unspecific word we use that has no technical application! (When we say 'character' generally what we mean is 'Grapheme Cluster').

Language is itself a rabbit hole of complexity, so any standard trying to manage it will be painful - but it feels as though the true corner cases of Unicode are actually unbounded.

In short, too many pragmatic loose ends. Given any scenario where you think you have an alg sorted out ... and probably there are holes in it if you cared to try to find them for a specific language.

It's not 'bad', but it's not the uber solution, it's frayed at the edges.

[1] https://unicode.org/glossary/
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I get that people are placing their internet hopes and dreams on Starlink being cheap, but the financials they've provided just don't work out to them being any cheaper than any existing ISP unless (a) Starlink receives massive government subsidies (b) signs up a fuckton of commercial partners/sponsors, or (c) runs the network at a huge loss.
Would they spend it on a project that was written in Rust rather than one of their own languages though?
In rural areas, we have LTE-based FWA.

10 MHz wide channel with 256-QAM can push 100 Mbps down.
-4 votes. HN must really hate suggesting that minor distinctions that do nothing to help and are only kept in the world to prove you know them, are a waste. Or didn't read my comment.
I believe the satellites are moving, so there's no "Wyoming satellite customers" in the same way as existing satellite internet. The Wyoming customers will be sharing satellites with several other places as they move in and out of their regions
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> This is actually what ruins the game for me. I get to a place where I need to recreate large chunks of the factory and it just feels too much like work.

Are you using drones and blueprints?

Once you unlock drones, you can create huge swaths of factories in seconds. You just need to come up with a design that works, and then replicate it.
I'm not sure those sites are correct either, since it is a programming question, after all. Those other sites mainly focus on software usage and configuration.
Talking about that, lots of lithium pouch thrown in bins. Be warned.

ps: some videos to show how stupid a rag setup goes into fire https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=self%20combusti...
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DRM is DRM regardless of how trivial it is to bypass. What you should really be asking yourself is why such code even exists, since it is very much against the spirit of free software.

Linux(s) has the right to not accept contributions, but to effectively get in the way of others who do want to make the changes despite them being perfectly acceptable and perhaps even encouraged by the GPL just seems very wrong to me.
I hate all of these rants on questions of style.

The only problem of style is when there are mixed styles within the same codebase.

But on that note, every code base should have aggressive linters and auto-formatters that force everyone to use the same style. So the question is moot.

If you're working in someone else's codebase and their style is different than your preferred style, suck it up because it just doesn't matter.

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When moving from a company that didn't have said linters and auto-formatters to one that did, all of these questions disappeared and we could focus solely on solving problems that mattered.
SpaceX isn't going to piss off China. The satellites are really just repeaters to the local base station. Starlink will be firewalled off from the world just like the rest of China (when the terminal is in China.)
Microsoft is already supporting the Rust project, so, yes, I would not expect that to be a disqualifying reason.
Even if this is not about the elections it is straight out of the "how to privatise public services" playbook. Gut and underfund public services, once people start getting annoyed, point to the service and say "the government can't run services well, private companies are much more efficient." open the market for private corporations, that often don't have to fulfil the same requirements (e.g. deliveries in rural areas...). The private corporations will quickly increase prices while reducing services.
Isn't the barrier to entry that Epic needs to become a phone manufacturer? It's not like phone users can sideload another OS to play fortnite either.
What's the difference between "moving" and "leaving"?
I meant to ask: Do you guys close your eyes for a moment when you start the weld, or just burn your retinas a little bit?

Sounds like the latter...
If that’s the case, assuming 50mbs at 50x overprovisioning and $50/mo average, the 12k satellite system could provide service for 240m people and generate $144B/yr in revenue.
I don’t think there are any questions left.
Perhaps an interesting datapoint from a Western government, a similar disaster happened in The Netherlands in the year 2000. 177 tones of firework were stored in a single building in the middle of a residential area.

The results were pretty much what you’d expect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster
> Even just as a reliable alternative Starlink would be a big boon to rural users

Starlink is susceptible to cloud cover, rainstorms, lightning and other things that would interfere with signal quality (or render it unusable for periods of time).

Seems buried lines (either POTS for DSL, Coax for Cable, or Fiber) is the best solution. We just need to figure out how to incentivize it being built.
Would this improve the internet quality on planes? Just wondering how that could get better... its absolutely crap most of the time
A search feature would be really helpful to see where your favorite book ranks.
Generally one actually runs games on one monitor in the first place so this is the only way it even could work. Work can be divided up by frame for example.

Crossfire and SLI rely on a high speed interconnect and game specific support.
That seems more like a plan [1] to ensure that people can get an affordable line if they want it. I can't find any laws saying that all homes require a phone line. It also appears that recent discussions in the government were about changing money allocation from pots lines to internet specifically. I suppose we would need a land developer here to chime in.

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/general/universal-service
Personally I think mobile is tolerably (but not ideally) competitive. I think the costs are driven by the high costs of spectrum and marketing/customer acquisition. And the product is reasonably high-value, so prices _can_ be high.

A useful comparison is the cost of fixed wireless internet service vs mobile service. The price/GB of the former is usually far lower than the latter despite running on exactly the same infrastructure.

I merely point out that I struggle to believe that the physical infrastructure costs are large components of the cost of service. Unlike power delivery, where the physical distribution infrastructure seems to be the majority share. Or at least it is if my bill breakdown is to be believed.
what part failed on the car?
If I didn't know better I'd have belivied this is Vigilante Cyberpunk action.
> which Facebook suggests hurts small businesses struggling to get by during the pandemic.

I'm sure that's why.
I didn't see this one anywhere. You can use modifier keys in combination with Hot Corners.

Go to [System Preferences > Mission Control > Hot Corners] and when you make your selection just press the modifier you'd like to use.

I've always found hot corners too easily triggered, for me this strikes the right balance.
A published study doesn't make the theory mainstream. This study is heavily criticised in the field, for p-hacking amongst other things. Also their conclusion is about IQ, which itself isn't seen in the mainstream as an indication of general intelligence, so they're really reaching from the get go. You have to have a serious agenda to read this paper and sincerely think the conclusion correct...
But look who else is at risk:

> The company has access to a wealth of personal, financial and medical information on tens of millions of patients, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, billing information and medical diagnostic data.

If the threat actors choose to release the data, then you may be doxed

In that way, it resembles the Equifax breach.
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Point taken.

I didn't mean to be trite. Fishing is nutritionally important, and economically important to a lot of people in the world. This shouldn't be measured in gdp contribution. I also don't take the cultural element lightly. Fishing is culturally essential to many cultures and subcultures wherever there is water.

There is a reason fisheries are still one of the main diplomatic issues to this day.

Dollar amount is, on the other hand, meaningful in the ways that it is.

Oil & gas are "unsustainable" in the "considering that we live on this planet" sense... the same sense that many fishing industries are unsustainable. The environment would be significantly better off without them. But, it's only recently that we can even see ourselves living without oil and gas. Those mines and pipelines, leaks, coal coughs and refineries still power us. Energy touches all of us, a lot. Ocean fish... we eat them sometimes.

..and oceanic ecosystems are not something that we can destroy regardless of economics. It's morally wrong.
> "I noticed many people say they're lucky to get ~15 Mbps on 4G and I'm confused, why? Is it just congestion or is there some difference in the towers/implementation?"

It can depend on the network, the device, congestion levels, and location. Some networks are notoriously bandwidth-constrained (ahem Three UK) and will always be prone to bad 4G speeds. Some networks have added capacity on more exotic 4G bands that are only supported by relatively recent devices. If you're connected to a macro site in a major city it probably has fibre backhaul with plenty of bandwidth available, but if you're connected to a small edge cell it may have radio backhaul with less capacity available.

And newer devices will support things like carrier aggregation and higher levels of MIMO that get faster speeds.

Interesting site showing how the UK mobile frequency is allocated here:
https://pedroc.co.uk/content/uk-commercial-mobile-spectrum

Note that only fairly new devices will support the more exotic bands like 32/38/40 (and, of course, 5G).
Try buying a 300-500 kids bike right now I dare you. Everything is sold out. Totally worth it btw with all playgrounds shutdown nothing for the kids to do of all ages 3-16
I wonder how much of this, has too do with social justice going to far in the harassment of Brendan Eich.

I mean, maybe someone with his background in charge would know why its important for Mozilla to keep this kind of projects even if it looks they are not going anywhere, because this is what gives Mozilla meaning in the end.

Im not a mozillian, so i might be totally wrong, but maybe
this is a case of the MBA's taking over and trying to focus into what they have learned to do.. look at the profit margins and think they are spending too much in research projects.

There are a lot of examples of other companies losing their engineering culture, starting to think more in terms of cash and profit, and finally vanishing its purpose and meaning.

IBM(lost in the 80's), Microsoft almost loosing it in the Ballmer era, Sun, and the most proeminent case: Yahoo.

Just to make it clear: Tech companies as any other company must have a good financial health and this is very important, but they cannot afford to loose their soul.

Once their engineering and innovation culture is gone, they become void and suffer from a slow bleeding til the death.

We must face it, our economical systems of incentives, the economical game generally speaking, its broken.

And tech and arts are proeminent endeavors that tend to get trojan horsed by this yuppie mentality turning things that once had meaning, into meaningful cash cows that work for the few people that cash out from the corrupted source.

(Apparently, it works a little better for industrial-level enterprises).

My hope is that, with time, this will become more evident, and research find innovative ways to make a better economical game so that creative, art and engineering culture kind of companies can have a much larger life span.

By the way, they had a pretty good leverage on Rust (and Rust was a really risk bet that ended doing great). The fact that they fired the people with this background just shows that they have no clue of what they are really doing.

* Edit: just being clear about people with conservative views.. I dont like and even despise what he did politically speaking, but as long as he were a good fit for the job, and never forced his political and social views into the company, i dont agree with the outcome.. and the reason is starting to show up now.. Much more important things are starting to fall out, and in the end even people with progressive views and good engineering background ended fired in the long term.
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That video briefly mentions the CppCon 2014 talk by Mike Afton, "Data-oriented Design and C++". The talk was great, pretty much lined up with how I think of modern systems (treat RAM like disk: seeks take a long time, but streams will likely be able to maximize CPU usage)

But the questions at the end, and the resistance to these basic ideas, roughly "what about platform portability, programmer productivity, etc."; these questions were a bit shocking to me. Is this not a C++ conference? This was six years ago, so perhaps the machine constraints were not as well known back then, but it really shows how strongly the community culture will influence a language and its capabilities.
And 30-100 ping is usable as well - wonder what the packet loss rate is.
Steve Mann is a super interesting and very nice character.
Yup, this is the real tragedy. Medical billing companies have the PHI and the Payment info making them a double whammy for hackers.
> You can build out landlines far more easily than you can launch satellites;

Each satellite costs SpaceX about $250K to build and $500K to launch and services thousands of customers.

That same $750K might buy you a mile or so of trenching and cable. Many rural customers need multiple miles each.
It is about tastes I've had most of my C# developing life. Taste's that coincidentally align with the conventions of Microsoft Visual Studio's built in linter.
So besides 1) looking like a cyberman and 2) likely being dangerously clunky for working up high, I wonder why these didn't take off?
The magnitude (absolute or apparent) actually started as an ordinal number: in Italian we still say sometimes first magnitude instead of magnitude 1. Of course that doesn't work too well for the Sun's magnitude of -26.
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. They are all soft skills. I'll add a few hard skills for STEM jobs that are not necessarily specific to any field:

- Number sense. The ability to notice inconsistencies from hundreds of rows and columns of a spreadsheet, for instance, is critical to both projects and career. Being able to carry out back-of-envelop calculation is a crucial skill too.

- Statistical sense. I'd even venture to say it's a survival skill. Too many people make statements that this: I saw a pattern of cloud every time when an earthquake happens, therefore, if I see the pattern, I can predict that there is going to be an earthquake. Or how many people are fooled by Simpson's paradox in their daily jobs?

- Mathematical maturity. How many engineers missed the gravy train of the machine learning because they couldn't or were afraid to understand basic college maths, like linear algebra, vector calculus, or mathematical statistics?

- Mathematical modeling. We don't really need to find out the boundary condition of a system of PDEs, but the ability to model a system mathematically is of huge value.

- Intuition of your field. For backend engineers, for instance, the understanding of the basic theory of distributed systems, the understanding of performance modeling with queuing theory, the understanding of common data structures and algorithms in OS/databases, the understanding of concurrent and parallel programming, and the ability to code up anything reasonably prescribed, of course.
IIRC (and, it has been a long time so please be gentle with the down arrow if I'm wrong, lol), you can write extension methods in native code that you might want to call from within the class.
I am no longer in a research role, so I do a lot less publication and reviews than I used to. But in many cases it is perfectly legitimate for a reviewer to ask that citations to that reviewer's work be added, because the editor has chosen that reviewer because they are a leading expert in the field. If it's a narrow specialty, it's quite likely that the expert has already published relevant material that the paper submitter missed.

The key is whether the added citation is relevant or not, and that's hard to judge based on statistics.

A more common issue I've seen is that there are cliques of academics who've staked out some corner of a field and cite each others' work a lot, even though it isn't that interesting. This doesn't have much to do with the review process.
That undercurrent of "government is bad" doesn't come from nowhere. It comes largely from Fox News, which has advertisers that benefit from this message. It comes from our politicians who accept bribes to drive legislation. It comes from a general distrust of the government because of mismanagement.
Multiple gpus are even supported just not outputs hooked up to both GPUs as a single X screen.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Tips_and_tricks#...
>I suppose they could have roving bands of listening posts looking for the uplink signals.

I think this is pretty likely.

In the US the FCC has a whole set of systems designed to locate interference sources [1], and I've heard stories that they're extremely good at it. They even have a whole facility in Maryland dedicated to satellite monitoring!

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/over-air-spectrum-observation-capabiliti...
This is the crux of it. People aren’t applying second order thinking.
The Z80 implementation in the ZX Next has a couple of useful extended instructions not found in the original Z80, and some of the instructions are tailored to the ZX Next hardware (e.g. to efficiently compute video memory addresses). So at least there's a justification for not using real Z80 chips...
100% agreed. My company recently did this to our main codebase, and it's been a joy. I can write code now, not play with formatting! I wish it had been this way since day 1.
> Encoding and compression software

What does that have to do with bandwidth ?
FB and other companies are trying to get their slice of the 30% fee that Apple has enjoyed in the last few years.
LOL sending Brazilians into this, Brazilians are like animals in the projected modern world; it's like sending a dinosaur into a gunfight. "Brazilian diplomats" give us a fucking break. Brazilians are fucking baboons not even human like. Fuck off with your fucking dego shit. South Americans are trash, in every respect. Fucking trashcans. Shit people.
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What is puzzling to me is the idea that being rude contributes anything to the cause of maintaining a sound architecture.

As far as I can see, if you have to say "no" doing so politely has no downside, whereas behaving like this clearly has some.
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> I migrated the project from Go to C++

Any particular reasons why?
I got "Moebius Noodles" and "Avoid hard work" for myself and our kids. Both books are focused on playfully teaching kids logical and mathematical thinking and contain several games which introduce functions, algorithms and other programming concepts.

My kids were 3 and 5 when we started and really enjoy it. There is a number of tips in both books how to make excercises age appropriate even for toddlers. The main thing to remember, keep it fun and let the kids explore solutions (see recent other discussion on HN)
How are there no protests about this? Why are people not scared of the threat to democracy? Sure I am drawing a line from hobbling USPS to democracy, but it seems like a very clear one.

Sorry for bringing something political in nature to HN. Before this I would never think of it. But all tech progress relies on a sound democracy.
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