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How do you source those parts? Figure out which part of the main board of your TV amplifier burned itself out with an electric meter, oscilloscope etc., and know enough about electronic repair to source a replacement resistor, capacitor etc.?

Sure, that's possible, and I'll give you that if you're manually soldering something on a circuit board that'll be a breeze compared to the surgery of trying the same thing on a modern phone.

My point was that for the average consumer without deep electronics repair knowledge the situation has become much better. If your $500 TV broke you weren't going to find a $10 replacement for its main board that you could pop in with just the skill of operating a screwdriver. But with modern phones you can do that with just a heat gun, credit card and a screwdriver.

Thus I think even though e.g. replacing the internal memory or CPU on these devices has become practically impossible, they're a lot more repairable in practice than most other electronics, current or historical.
I really hate conspiracies, but this global cabal of ultra-rich, herding the sheep to slaughter for gigantic short-term profits while burning the world down, is beginning to get on my nerves.

But don't look there! Tom Hanks and Oprah are pedophile cannibals, and they need to be stopped at ALL costs!
Oh, hello there, co-author! :D
This may be helpful/relevant: https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui/issues/83.
Edit: (the link discusses making the API more like flutter).
Moderna failed to disclose federal funding for vaccine patent applications
> I know if I e.g. break the USB C port on my phone I just need a new $5-10 sub-board. Compare that to breaking something essential on my washing machine, drier, TV etc., those things are typically easy to open, but a lot harder to actually repair in practice.

It's much easier to find the replacement part for the phone - as long as it's not more than maybe 5 years old - then it is to find the replacement part for the washing machine.

That's been my experience, anyway. Perhaps I'm just not aware of where to go for appliance parts.. but I don't have much problem finding anything else I ever want to buy on the internet.
Perpetual amateur.

I like that because it describes me perfectly. Saving this.
It'll also be interesting to see the impact on housing. Lots of people probably don't have the space to set up for working from home well, particularly if you're talking about families with 2 people working plus kids doing some amount of remote schooling.

Single? Viable. Young couple in a 1-bedroom apartment? Who's working at the new desk in the bedroom and who's at the kitchen table? Add a couple kids in and it just gets tougher.

Even if they weren't doing it before people are now going to be looking for an extra office-suitable bedroom.
My sons always said "Video games are our only education" because of the many times I was astonished they knew some obscure historical detail and they had learned it from a video game.

My oldest, who is math challenged, was livid when I finally successfully explained to him what Algebra was and he went "I've been doing that for years while playing video games!!!" He's still mad about it and it's probably at least two decades later.

Well, to be brutally honest with you

I read somewhere that "people who value brutal honesty value brutality more than honesty." As someone fond of the saying "I'm too truthful to be good," I took that to heart.
Suppose there was a machine that was a black box where you could ask it whether a result was true or false, and it spit out a truth certificate that was not humanly understandable, but it could be mechanically verified.

I would find this incredibly disappointing. The appeal of mathematics is not just that I know things are true -- I know why they're true. I know why x + y = y + x, why there are infinitely many primes, why the derivative of x^2 is 2*x. Working out a proof isn't tedium -- it's the point.
> However, I understand that this is only and only because of US dollar being the global reserve.

No, historically it's because the US dollar supply is actively managed with moderate inflation as a key goal. Now, the range of other policy options enabled consistent with that, yes, has benefited from the US dollar being a global reserve currency.

The Fed has recently made announcements that seem to indicate that it is weakening focus on the price side of it's mandate to do more on the employment side (to, in effect, compensate for Congress’ failure to marshal fiscal polict to deal with that.) If there is unusual inflation, that active choice of monetary policy priorities—not debt or deficits—will be the proximate cause.

But even in that scenario, hyperinflation is unlikely unless the Fed completely abandons the price level side of it's mandate in setting monetary policy.
Anecdotally this is just wrong. My wife’s Dad was a real piece of work. In a country like SA she would never have gotten away from him. She met me online. The day after she graduated college, without ever discussing it with her father, she moved away with me across the country. Her choice. She decided to take my last name, for simplicities sake, but it was a rational choice we made. Every step of the way it was her choice. Amongst my peer group almost all married women are in a similar situation. The level of freedom is orders of magnitude difference IMO.
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The biggest thing for you to realize is that you can absolutely do any of those things. But you can probably only do one or two of them. Spreading your efforts around is going to get you mediocre everything, which may be okay, but if you want to be truly excellent you need to focus and concentrate on what's important. Life is about prioritization. Somehow the message that "you can be anything you want" has gotten turned into "you can be everything you want" and that's just not realistic.
Personally, I owe my English skills to videogames. While I later continued with proper education, the basics of grammar and vocabulary (as well as many incredibly subject-specific words) I've learned from, in order: Star Trek: Generations, Fallout, and StarCraft. I fondly remember me sitting in front of the first of these games with English/Polish dictionary and translating things on the screen word for word.
That seems like exactly the wrong thing to incentivize. If it's in a blue bin it's going to be recycled like it's supposed to anyway -- you've just transferred a bit of wealth from people who buy bottles to people who rifle through recyclables. If we want a wealth transfer, can't we think of a better way to accomplish it?
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No, but the grocery store can choose to not sell any product which does this.
They buried the lede, IMO:

> In arguing for an investigation, the advocacy group maintained Moderna is obligated under federal law to disclose the grants that led to nearly a dozen specific patent applications and explained the financial support means the U.S. government would have certain rights over the patents. In other words, U.S. taxpayers would have an ownership stake in vaccines developed by the company.
It is more efficient. You get a lot more mass per square meter but the capital costs are much higher. Sure once you have it setup the variable costs are likely lower. But it is the upfront investment that kills it.
The existence of this company itself is pretty old news, Lora Kolodny reported on it in 2018: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/tesla-cto-jb-straubel-redwoo...

What's new is Tim Higgins giving JB Straubel space in the pages of WSJ to run a PR campaign for his company.
Independent citation needed.
you might find this interesting: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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I'm in the UK and things may be different here but we only get "Recommended Retail Price" which I'm sure includes a margin for the shopkeeper (although I will concede my knowledge of wholesale prices is long out of date.)
It's actually from Ilya Grigorik.

Here's the Changelog podcast that featured Ilya Grigorik talking about GH Archive, and also touched on Changelog's use of the work for their Changelog Nightly feature, https://changelog.com/podcast/144.
I'm sure ArangoDB is wonderful technology but your characterisation of MongoDB is misplaced. The people who build the WiredTiger storage engine that MongoDB depends on have been building database engines for over 20 years. They created the original BerkeleyDB, built Oracle's NoSQL engine then left Oracle to create the Wired Tiger engine. They were acquired by MongoDB to completely revamp our storage engine technology in 2014. Don't let 7 year old memes cloud your judgement.

(I work for MongoDB).
You don't see the real problem: the device that you buy (paying a lot of money in case of an iPhone) is not really yours. You can install the apps that Apple approves. To me that is unacceptable and should be made illegal. When the user buys a phone he expect it to be able to use it with all the software that he wants, and not to be limited of what Apple approves. If not let's write it with a big red font on the box and see how many people buy iPhones anymore...

The problem is not the fee that the App Store imposes to you. The problem is that you don't have an alternative, either you accept the fee that Apple imposes to you or iPhone users have no way to use your software (beside jailbreak). And since cutting out iPhone users is unacceptable for all companies you either have to accept the Apple policy or respond to thusands of angry customers that asks why the app is only available for Android or the iPhone version of the app has not all the feature of the Android one (since the final user usually don't know that there are these restriction in place).

On Android if you don't agree with the Google Play policy you can simply let the user download the apk from your website and install it manually on your phone. Granted, you loose the visibility that you have on the Play Store and you have to implement updates and push notifications manually without relying on the Play Service.

Or you can choose of distribuiting your software trough an alternative App Store, that the user can install on its phone like any other application.
Anywhere you're paying money it should be disclosed!

Page views are not payments.
> Sure the bounty is low, but ultimately it's their money and their decision.

Uh lol.

Bug bounties gravitate to their market value by showing companies how valuable they actually are and forcing them to learn.
Everyone's talking about low payout, but honestly the timeline seems much more annoying to me and harder to justify (was the fix for this really that hard?)
> What's actually different between a photon of a given frequency that enters my eye after reflecting off a surface and a photon of the same frequency that enters my eye after being emitted from a display?

One of them gives me a migraine after 5 minutes. I assume because light being reflected off a sheet of paper gets weaker, though I'm not sure how.
I wonder what the cost of building and running the app store is? Apart from the engineering costs and costs to run the servers, there are reviewers to be paid, marketing, gift cards to be distributed, various tax and legal problems that are hidden from app developers and the like.

And of course there's Apple's profit margin, which as capitalists I don't think many people are denying outright.

It's very hard to separate this from the costs of the iPhone, but ofc since all financial details are private anyway all we have is speculation.

What do people think would be a fair 'tax'?
> I've broken a couple of screens shortly after a repair until I realized I needed to be more meticulous about how I glued the cover back on, and to keep it in a vice until the glue dried.

Can I ask what phone(s) you are talking about? I replaced the battery of an iPhone 7 recently, and maybe it was just early in the evolution of these designs, but putting the screen back on with the sealant ring was the easiest part. Personally found it much harder to break the adhesive - definitely the longest step, but this was my first modern phone battery replacement.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. That you're not going to easily find replacement parts for your washing machine, but you will for your phone.
Idk if it's just terrified, but I think we're addicted. This probably sounds ridiculous but I recently blocked some apps and sites on my phone and actually felt a little off for a day, like my sleep was weird. I think there was a slight withdrawal from the constant bombardment of stuff. It is helping kill my Facebook habit. I don't even really like the site, I just check it impulsively. It's weird.

Reddit is another one, the infinite scroll I think is addictive. Trying to kill that habit. But there is useful information on there so it's hard to disable it completely.
@ratww: people don't like different accounts for a very good reason: it costs a lot more money to obtain the same value.
>The only thing I blame Apple for is not allowing installing apps from third-party sources,

So you are OK with Apple not allowing you to get informed about the 30% tax? If you are fine with this, why? is the information dangerous for you?
Generally anyone who believes in free-market capitalism will say this is an intended feature.

Have you never heard of "actions have consequences?"

You're probably not going to hear someone just outright say this is good but they will allude to it.

Deep down they know it's bad, hence why most won't just come and say homelessness is a good thing.
Okay....yes. Yes that is a correct statement about logic.

It also seems to miss the central point of my metaphor.
ASP.net runs on IIS or HTTP.SYS and is hardly optimized. ASP.Net core has an own HTTP server (kestrel) and has had numerous optimizations , including to the .NET Core framework and C# (for instance Span<T>)
I think the trick is not doing things now for a better future... but to enjoy now more. If enjoying now means playing a video game, or walking the dog, or bing watching Netflix.. that's completely fine.

We should LIVE more in the now... not try to make the future you more happy. but the current you.

If that is working hard and learning and trying to become rich, if that makes you happy that's fine too.

What makes me happy is family, friends, seeing the world and building and learning about technology and playing with synthesizers... enjoy the current moment. ;-)
In some android phones you don't even need that checkbox anymore instead a android dialog will pop open to ask you if you want to install the app from a untrusted source...

Through might a a vendor specific change.

Also the idea that you must "protect" you customers from "external payment services which might grab you data" is ridiculous it's assuming the user is generally incompetent
and can't do any decision by themselves.

Warning them is a different matter.

Requiring a min app price of 5€ (30% cut) or 1.5 (100%) cut for apps with non apple in-app payment would also be understandable.

But having intentionally vague formulated rules for which if you brake them you often either get no usable feedback or are called by phone is not ok.

Calling by phone in such situations is not good service but a common strategy to prevent paper trails which could show abusive behaviour.
Then it couldn’t have been that important.
While some of what you are writing is probably true, a work day (especially pre-COVID), really takes up a lot more than 8hrs. If you live in a city and want to live somewhere affordable, you're often looking at 1hr+ of commute each way. You have to get up a little early to prep for the day. Some jobs don't count a lunch break towards your 8hr day, or expect you to stay later, so you end up working more like 9hrs. If you factor in ~30-60mins chores that you do after work such as cooking/cleaning its easy to take up ~10-12hrs doing _work type_ stuff.

So, if you're getting a full 8hrs sleep, how much time does that leave you on an avg work night to do things that _you_ want to do? Like 4hrs? And do you really want to spend all those 4hrs being productive? People need to relax and unwind at some point. If you follow the pomodoro technique and use 5min for leisure every 30 mins, you end up with only ~40mins of "leisure" in that type of day.

What if you want to do things like spend an hour working out at the gym / looking after physical health? What if you are single and want to spend some time dating? It quickly drains away at any time you would have to spend on your own personal projects, interests, hobbies.
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Well, there's a reason Arizona Tea prints "99c" on the can
We are not productive for 2 reasons:

1. our methods of learning are wrong, we learn best by asking others and experimenting, not by reading reference texts or passively attending lectures.

2. we lack the skills and tools to get things done, especially in IT our tools are mostly junk and the skills required to do the job change continually.

If you disagree, tell me why artisans are so productive.
I can't find the link now, but there was an article link on HN about 90 days ago about that criticized allocation of money to innovation saying essentially that self help joined forces with disruption which has lead to tons of money and market growth in helping people to be entrepreneurs. He then says that in fact most of what was produced is waste, redos of existing services with no ultimate business impact. Underlying this is the apple remit of being different and having a creator or inventor role.
I'll write a post later explaining how I reached those performances, several people already asked for it.
Yes that is always the trade off. You can waste lots of space and make things cheaper or use a lot less space but require more investment.

Algae will win in the end though. Over time capital intensive solutions tend to win because you are not short on capital but land.
"...and divorce tends to hurt women financially much more than it does men"

Everything I read about this, including anecdotal evidence points to the opposite, where men are routinely taken to the cleaners by the family court. Could you point to some resources that suggest otherwise? I'm trying to see the full picture here.
> we want to achive, for example [...] School should not start too early

If only it were that easy. Of course, you might think it's obvious, study after study shows kids and teenagers would benefit.

But you could argue another or maybe even the main function of school is to be able to offload children while the parents are at work. And flexible working hours don't work in customer-facing roles, so...
I don't think we should think in terms like that. We don't always have to be working toward a goal. There's nothing won't with reading, taking a nap, it sound other unproductive activities. Also, not everyone has big lofty goals of self accomplishment. For some, constant goal seeking can be both stressful and emotionally difficult when goals aren't met.

We should be careful to paint with such a broad brush.
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Not just UI crimes either. I know of at least one that lost a company a couple hundred thousand due to clever engineering.
I have enough ideas.
You could have a free tier per person.
I chose to take my husband's name and kept it when I divorced him. But the tradition is rooted in that idea that she left her clan and joined his. That's the origin story for it.

I don't have a simple solution for that one. I don't think it's inherently bad that women typically change their last name. But the reason it is done is because the way women get treated the world over has some things in common.

The level of freedom is debatable for Western women. But I already said Westerners don't like to hear that and it got downvoted and dismissed out of hand. So I'm not really up for trying to argue it, given the climate.
I think so, too! Sometimes we should re-evaluate our expectations and think about what we really want and why we want it. Furthermore, I think it’s important to realise that others might have other motivations such as money, success, curiosity, altruism and so forth so there really is little need to compare ourselves to them.

Most of us don’t have the energy to be productive all the time. It took a lot of work (ironically) for me to be okay with that and to allow myself to do nothing at times. Procrastination for me was the result of constant pressure which sucked so much energy that I just couldn’t BE productive anymore. Funnily enough when I allowed myself to slack around or fall a bit behind I ended up greatly improving my grades.

In the end for me it’s a tale of starting to live in the moment (as cliche as that might sound) instead of failing to meet one’s own impossible expectations.
I got faster (10-20%) results with icc on an abstract game minimax AI bot back then (i.e. something similar to a chess engine). Even more so when taking advantage of PGO. Over time GCC caught up.

By nature, this code had no usage of floating point in its critical path.

I haven't bothered with icc in years though.
Could you point out a single example in the Western world where a twelve year old girl is married to a 30 year old man because she had her first period?

720 million women living today married as children, many of them have had several children themselves with an immature body before they became adults. None of these women live in Western societies!

https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/GN...
I do in fact believe life is eternal: that we began before birth, this life has a purpose (an important preparation step, in some ways), & it doesn't end at our mortal death. There is the whole science vs. religion debate, or one can see all real truth as compatible, learn some key things for oneself, and wait for the details that may seem conflicting for now, to get sorted out as one learns more. Much more detail at my site (a very tech-simple site, linked in my HN user profile, which I try to make skimmable). I hope that offends no one...

(With any downvotes, thoughtful comments are appreciated; thanks.)
Promising coronavirus treatments are saving lives
What's more important? People having basic utilities or the latest killer drone?
I think there's two real issues here:

* Apple does not allow other App Stores on their platform

* Apple does not allow other payment processing or even instructions on where you can purchase things outside of their platform. This reduces even big players like Netflix to just throw up a message that says "You can only use this if you're a memeber", rather than give users a helpful link where they can purchase a membership outside the app.

Neither of these are things that Android does, so the case against Apple is significantly stronger.
When I got commit privileges on Apache in 1999 around the time the ASF was established, it was just the httpd, and it was still hosted on hyperreal.org. It was my first encounter with a shell configured to use vi mode command-line editing by default, which was a fun discovery :-)
Correct. But a codebase without tests is one where it is unreasonably hard to practice TDD.
Hey there -- I had my come to Jesus moment (aka gtfo) with Social Media when I realized that people I didn't even know and care about were evoking feelings of shame, guilt, and/or anger within me.

And then I left.

Read your comment. You're fine! You're more than fine! To thine oneself be true.
Just this week a woman who's spoken in favor of a man controlling his wife's vote was featured at the RNC. In my family, three of my female cousins were forbidden by their husbands from voting, employment, opening bank accounts or holding credit cards, and learning how to drive. They were evangelical Christians. Two have since stood up for themselves and divorced their husbands, one persists and still considers her obeisance a duty to god. I really don't understand why you're getting downvoted, Doreen.
Spreading misinformation. Where did you get that info? 5g-truthers.org ?

Go back to the hole you crawled from, don’t forget the tinfoil