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> People have strengths and weaknesses; people have areas they've experienced before and things they've never done.

Nope, you can't reduce the differences between people's skills into "they had more years of experience with X (but fewer with Y)".

First, there are people who spent decades working with the same technologies, and still somehow failed to learn the essentials. Some people simply have almost zero curiosity and zero desire to self-improve. (Giving specific examples is risky, because they sound completely made up. An Oracle database expert, who doesn't understand the necessity of having a primary key? A Java developer who never heard about Map, so he kept implementing it over and over again as a set of methods, for each variable separately?) Being 10x more productive than these people is quite simple. But it is also possible to be 10x more productive than the average developer.

Just consider than "10x more productive" doesn't necessarily mean typing on the keyboard 10x faster. You can save time by using a library; this includes understanding and using the standard libraries instead of reinventing the wheel. You can save time by using the right abstraction, instead of copy-pasting all over the code. You can save other people's time by documenting the code you wrote. You can save testing time by writing unit tests. You can save everyone's time in the future by having a clear project architecture. -- Furthermore, you can increase the team's productivity by teaching your colleagues at least the basics of these skills.

There are people who are this good at the things they do regularly. (Which also happen to be the things I do regularly, so it is humiliating to see the level of skill I will probably never reach.) And they can still learn new things with at least the same speed as anyone else around them.
The long objects idea neglects basic physics - unless the part hanging off the side is very light, at certain point it is going to drop down and peel the other side from the belt, ruining the print.

So in practice such machine will be limited to printing objects with maybe 2x the length of the belt max before the belt deformation and objects peeling off become a problem.

You really wouldn't want to do continuous production like this - the printing surface needs to be cleaned too, glue or whatever you are using for adhesion re-applied, otherwise the adhesion and finish will suck over time, causing problems. How are you going to do it on a moving belt while the machine is running? Sure, it can be solved but the Creality machine doesn't have any provisions for it.

And if you are producing thousands of not quite identical objects, buy three or four printers instead - the production will be much faster and more reliable than this belt nonsense, especially today when a printer can be had for less than $300 ...
I don't know if the stock market comparison holds because when investing, there is a large amount of risk. Inheriting a lot of money is riskless on the person receiving the inheritance.
> China and other rice dominated agricultures had no room for large concentrations of herds.

Yeah it was discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24373939

tl;dr: rice was so efficient that there was no point in raising cattle
How about a laser-projection bluetooth keyboard?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmKdtAePxy8

They've been available for a few years now.
Generally speaking, this question in this form just doesn't come up much in Europe as, "who is white" is much less of a discussion point than in the US, along with all "race" discussions. This is not to say that racism or xenophobia don't exist in Europe, but animosity exists inbetween "whites" as well, and people can hate Arabs without thinking about it in terms of "whites" vs Arabs, and rather thinking about it as "my nation" vs "strangers". Not saying this is much better, just trying to point out that not all parts of the world are obsessed with the American flavor of the concept of race. For one, it's definitely never ever used officially as a concept in many European countries.
So, bigger picture, if we have the full DNA for people 3000 years old, we can get just as much from it as 23andMe can today or 10 years from now.

Everything from hair color, personality type, addiction potential etc and so on.

The lactose thing is a very tiny tip of a huge iceberg of ancestor knowledge!
Milk isn’t dairy. Because it’s a liability in many parts of the world without abundant fodder or cold climate. Milk can be dangerous without refrigeration in hours.

Dairy is much more than milk. You can consume cheese, yogurt, butter and many other products where the process of making the dairy product eliminates lactose. Think about things like cooking oil — an impossible thing to manufacture efficiently if you lack the resources to grow oil crops and process them. With diary, you just make butter, which is trivial to do.

Domesticated cows and dairy is a pretty miraculous thing. It’s a shame that the excesses and poor practices around industrialized agriculture and economic policy has made it a ethical problem for some people.
This is quite inaccurate. Lithuania's minority of Russian speakers is not "sizable" at all. Much fewer ethnic Russians lived there historically compared to the other two Baltic states, and loads of the Soviet-era Russian transplants left after '91. Russian is pretty useless for doing business as a foreigner, people expect English.

In Latvia, especially Riga, Russian is spoken, but younger generations of ethnic Latvians are less and less welcoming of using it. Again, English is expected. There has been a distinct rise in shops in Riga where it's basically "Speak Latvian or English to me or GTFO".

Source: I'm a Russian speaker who visits all three Baltic countries at least 2-3 times a year, most recently last week.
Nope. When cable TV first became available in the US the primary selling point is that there were no ads at all, unlike the big three networks.
Opens advertising.com. User tracking and fingerprinting.
Yeah, that ticked me off too. This is certainly not "belt driven" in the normal sense.
Feast your eyes on this Galaxy Z Fold 2 Thom Browne Edition close-up
I have written two effects that does "pixel simulation".

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/fireEffect
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/rippleEffect

I know of a sandbox game that does something similar, a different rule for every "element", but never see this being used as an actual game. Seems very interesting.
My favorite theory for the development of lactose tolerance is that drinking fresh milk offers protection from smallpox.

As a sanity check, http://books.google.com/books?id=GyE8Qt-kS1kC&pg=PA151&dq=&l... includes an estimate that approximately 10% of children in the 1700s died from smallpox. The first successful smallpox vaccine was made from cows. And the inspiration for the vaccine was the realization that the reason why milkmaids had good complexions was that something about their job gave them some level of protection against smallpox.

In mammals of all kinds, including humans and cows, milk delivers antibodies to protect babies. Therefore having fresh milk, and the fresher the better, provides protection from smallpox. This both helps survival and, as was apparent in the complexions of the milkmaids, resulted in more attractive adults.

There you have a very strong selection pressure to be able to drink fresh milk.
Can you be more specific before flinging vague accusations?
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I was partly aware of many of these, and like I said I'm not 100% sure if this really is the culprit. Your comment is a solid reference on this topic though (better than most of what's on SO), but here's a few comments regarding my specific incident...

On your first point: Was aware of this, and this is the part that is most puzzling about the whole incident to me. I just checked my $PATH and I am indeed running the system binaries, so not sure how to explain this one.

On your second point: Was aware of this too, but I assume a lot of the slowness comes from JITted programs, for which there will be phoning-home for any new executable memory page (AFAIK), and the policy decision caching semantics for things that are not on disk are not as clear to me.

On your third point: While this is true for the connection that gets established to Apple's servers, I think this might have had to do with DNS being UDP based by default (AFAIK), so there is no explicit refusal, and it hangs on a timeout because of that, even though DNS can be done over TCP as well. Haven't investigated this though, just a hunch...

On your fourth and fifth points: I don't use XCode, but my terminal (Kitty) was already on the Developer Tool list when this happened, which makes the situation with ps and grep even more mysterious to me...
Thanks, that's a great writeup.

One thing I noticed:

> Side note: why do ALL time-tracking pieces of software assume that the day starts at midnight? (Midnight does not seem to be anywhere near to the average of sleep time.)

This is off-topic. I used to feel the same way, but over the past year I have fixed my sleep patterns so I now (mostly) go to bed at 10pm, sleep by 11, wake at 6am. It's been an absolute game changer for my mental health, physical health, productivity, and lots more. My social life has suffered somewhat though. If I manage to keep this pattern for a week or more, the difference in my thought patterns and sense of inner piece is amazing. The only way I have learned to force this pattern is to set an alarm for my wake up time. If my goal is 6am, but I currently wake at 10am, I will for two night set an alarm for 8am, then 7:30 two nights, and so on.
I had not heard that Thomas Jefferson was particularly violent in his slave holding vs other slave holders. A quick google search isn't informative either, do you have any source for that claim?
I’m talking number of cases (how many people relatively would commit the 2 categories of crimes), not necessarily the severity of the crime. But I am now kinda interested in flushing this out lol, Bernie Madoff and Martha Stewart both committed securities fraud, yet served different sentences, but was this ok in your world view?
I found out recently that there are actually a few levels of "Amazon Prime" sales! The "Shipped and sold by Amazon" is what we normally expect, but there's also "Fulfilled by Amazon" and a third tier that's effectively "Prime Shipping" but is treated as a third-party seller. That third tier is particularly deceptive because the sidebar display doesn't distinguish between the second and third case but the return policies are very different.
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Not true. Initiating a factory reset through the settings app DOES automatically remove the activation lock. Only a recovery mode reset will not remove the lock.
You could have simply given your opinion, but leading off with a dismissive "ignore the haters" (where haters are apparently people who didn't enjoy it) made your comment carry zero weight.
>"where are all the billionaires who actually spend their money to do good once they've amassed their wealth?"

You mean like these people? "40 of America's wealthiest people"

https://givingpledge.org/About.aspx
Given that Europeans (outside the UK) never have to officially pick a race on paperwork, probably many Arabs haven't given much thought to whether they are "white" and if not then what. You can't apply the American concept of whiteness all over the world. Their skin shades range over a large spectrum and is similar to other Mediterranean people's, like Greeks and southern Italians and Spaniards. Are tan skinned Sicilians white? Who cares, the concept doesn't work the same way in Europe as in the US.
Flamebait title.

That's not what "directly" means, and the article never uses the word "directly" outside the headline.
I agree in principle, although exactly who counts as a "visible minority" is a bit of a complex question.

In Sydney, Australia, a woman wearing a niqab is still a rare sight, and she is likely to get starred at, a lot–even other Muslims are going to stare at her. Women wearing hijabs are a far more common sight, so they will get starred at a lot less, although I'm sure they will report being starred at sometimes too. But, a lot of Muslim women don't wear any head covering – like the women in my uncle's family – indeed, in Albanian Muslim culture, women rarely cover their heads, and a woman who starts wearing a hijab is likely to be suspected of religious fundamentalism, which is viewed about as negatively in their culture as in my own. Should my uncle's family be considered a "visible minority" then?

Sydney is over 20% Asian (including East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian people in that term)–Asian Australians are a minority, and obviously a visible one–but do Asian people get starred at in Sydney solely on account of their race? You usually stare at the unusual, but in a city which is over 20% Asian, there is nothing unusual about seeing a Chinese/Indian/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese/Filipino/etc person, you see them every day, you count them among your friends, classmates, coworkers, neighbours, etc.

I remember one time I ventured with a Finnish colleague to a working class bar in Bangalore, and we got a lot of stares there, because nobody was expecting to see people like us in such an establishment – by contrast, in the airport, hotel, offices, shopping centres, tourist sites, etc, nobody starred at us, because Indians are used to encountering foreigners in those places.
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” Are all the conditions listed in that table acute symptoms that contributed to COVID death? No.”

Indeed. There are thousands of deaths listed which were from accidents and other issues which probably should not be counted as Covid deaths. There’s obviously a fair amount of “dying with Covid” going on. Thanks for pointing that out.

”Is it a lie to say that every person in the US whose life ended due to COVID had on average 2.6 pre-existing conditions? Yes.”

Every person? Well yes, that would be a lie...which is why I didn’t say that. The data shows that over 94% of Covid deaths had, on average, 2.6 co-morbidities. Less than 6% had no co-morbidities.

But the data is quite clear on that fact. I realize it is inconvenient for the purposes of inciting panic, and you can try to twist it around any way you like to diminish it, but it’s still a fact.
I think there is definitely something here. I never get sick in summer, spring and rarely fall. I run and bike with exposed skin quite a bit. In winter I get sick all the time :(

I think this winter I will run an experiment on myself.
I haven't read the license fully, but wouldn't that just mean you would be able to use releases that are older than the time period specified?
I might welcome losing sense of taste. Would help with weight control I think.
If you are going to accuse the other person of being obtuse, you should at least answer the question:

"what would apple have to do for you to admit that they are definately going for planned obsolescence?"
Really good article. I used FreeBSD heavily in the 6.0 days (I ran a custom NAS and some internet servers) but switched away because it was difficult to upgrade. But I'm tempted now to give it another look.
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>That's still not what the right to repair is about, though.

I'm just curious as to how replacing a battery doesn't fall under right to repair. It's probably one of the simplest 'repairs' you can make to a battery powered device.

Pretty much any battery powered thing, aside from a modern cell phone or tablet, my first go to if it won't turn on is either, take the battery out and put it back in, or try a new battery 90% of the time, this works, even for my old phones, right up to my current one, which is the first i've owned without a replaceable battery.

It's been about two years and as seems to be inevitable with phones, my battery's life has deteriorated, previously, when this has happened with phones, i've replaced the battery and gotten another couple years off it. Now...what am I supposed to do?

I can't repair it by replacing the battery. The phone is fine, the screen is.fine, it functions fine. But the battery dies noticably faster and from what I've read, this is directly because of the high speed charger i've been using and my charging habits in regards to these kinda of batteries.

Changing the battery absolutely falls under the category of repair. Changing my battery would restor my phone to a better state than now. Yet by design, I am unable to easily do this.
I've looked into this and the focus-follows-mouse part isn't actually all that difficult; there is SPI to do this. The difficulty is that picking what things should get focus is hard, because there are things in macOS that actually care about what is focused. For example, as I was running my test, from Xcode of course, I moved my cursor over the sidebar, which changed the focused item as I moved my mouse…of course, this had the effect of opening a different file. If anyone has any ideas on how do deal with this, I'd be happy to hear it!
My expectation:

Actual issues - 0h

Reddit (/HN) comments - inf. (As much time as you care to spend.)

What do you think is the food safety issue? Don't use a toxic material, contact time is brief anyway, bacterial/fungal build-up in any crevices is getting baked off anyway.

Okay, maybe don't 3D print your own spoons, but cookie cutters? Don't waste time worrying about it.
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I can’t run this one but most likely it can also find your pulse.
It's also an opportunity to develop amd test new technology, but it wasn't mentioned in the article.
https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2019-07-04/ntt-and-...
I think removing the capital gains tax is a horrible idea.

Firstly, there are 2 types of capital gains. Short term gains are just taxed as normal income and long term gains are taxed from 0,15,20% depending on your bracket.

The whole purpose of lower taxes for longer gains is to incentivize longer term investments, encouraging people to stay in the market longer since any "lesser gains" could be offset by the lower taxes, and also fostering a much healthier type of growth as opposed to a quarterly focus.

If anything, I think short term gains should be taxed more. I think the current environment is quite unhealthy, with lots of speculation and people just getting a quick buck selling options on Tesla week to week.
Well, didn’t you do the same thing with your last statement?

“Ignore the haters” to me isn’t dismissive as much as a way of conveying that something is rather polarizing so the reader should check it out themselves before forming an opinion. I do concede that others may have a different interpretation, though.
Even if Biden is boring, he's a good man to lead the US out of the quagmire it's in at the moment.

Trump is totally amoral, whereas Biden has experienced loss in a way that few can imagine. He's not perfect, but he knows how to play the congressional game and when he reaches out to people looking for change in the police who have lost a loved one you know he isn't lying.

The alternative was also Bernie, which I just cannot see ending well.
As much as people sing praises of Apollo, it's very unhelpful that it's an iOS-only app. I don't understand why platform-exclusive apps are a thing in this day and age.
> wouldn't that just mean you would be able to use releases that are older than the time period specified?

That is a fair point.

Depending on the type of software and the frequency of bug fixes that may be a more or less reasonable strategy.

Also, in case you haven't read the license, the time period is 12 months.
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According to the Wikipedia article on Windows XP[0]

> At PDC on July 13, 2000, Microsoft announced that Whistler would be released during the second half of 2001, and also unveiled the first preview build, 2250. The build notably introduced an early version of Windows XP's visual styles system.

> Whistler was officially unveiled during a media event on February 5, 2001, under the name Windows XP, where XP stands for "eXPerience".

So while the product wasn't released until 2001, the codename and preview builds for developers were already released.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP
Protossed, or how we gave up on understanding (2017)
I don't think size of homes is the issue. Land is really expensive in the areas that young people need to be in to get jobs.
Are the HN commenters liars? Many people here swear off Amazon electronics and sometimes books.
Congratulations. You've rediscovered from first principles the impetus behind the Declaration of Independence.

The answer you were hovering is, is a tenative yes. A system that no longer brings about it's intended ends need be revised or done away with until it does, and that means a dismissal of the authority currently driving The system. The part you haven't really touched on though that is critical to take into account, is what it means for a system and it's authority to be in that state when the components that make up that system exist independently from the system.

Looking at a human composed system, the humans have organized and accepted a state-of-affairs composed of a set of collective delegations of authority. Wipe out that set of delegations, you wipe out the authority, the system is essentially in a reset state (implying a higher order meta-system, but let's not go there).

You are then left with the challenge of developing a predominant consensus amongst the components of the old system in order to set back up the significant network of functional working relationships, and thereby, functional authorities.

All of this being much easier said than done.
Source files can be found at https://github.com/paulnank/nankervis-pdp11-js
A more accurate quote doesn't make him look any better.
Ok, changed to that from https://www.polarsparc.com/2020/09/06/oauth2-oidc/.
India too, have milk & its products as a major part of diet since millions of years. All the historical & mythological literature literally says Cow as a tree which gives life, so most of the time being called as Cow-mother. Kids of few hours to people almost near end of their life & everybody between uses milk. About till 20 years ago, many pet dogs & cats & their kids too were fed milk.

Buffalo milk is denser & thus more easily available as well as nets more money per liter as compared to cow. As a kid, in 1990, I remember the preference was Buffalo Milk, if not then cow, if not then goat milk (not available everywhere), if not then camel or sheep milk (both very rarely available).

Lactose intolerance has got its name only in last 20-30 years, before that it was commonly unaware of, same as peanut allergies are now.
Agreed, there are plenty of retired machines out there. Hell, if they organized properly I am sure office companies would happily give them computers when they do their cycling every few years. I imagine their local firms probably refresh at least every 5 years.

How many Windows/Linux laptops are as locked down as the iPad anyway? It seems that right-to-repair is specifically a war with Apple at the moment as they make vendor specific components and glue the thing together. Most off the shelf laptops use off the shelf user replaceable parts? To be honest I don't think we should encourage children into the Apple ecosystem until they sort their shit out.

With so many credit-card sized computing devices, I don't know why we're not yet building laptops where you can just drop in some semi-standard computing device into the middle and simply plug in a HDMI screen, 5V USB power connector from a battery and USB peripherals. Kids don't need the slimmest, fastest computing device ever created, they need something robust and reliable. Maintaining these machines is often as simple as just having the ability to swap parts to build working machines - make it so that somebody not trained in tech can do it.