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Wait, does Kindle seriously still not support Epub? That's wild.

The only reason I can think of for why an ereader wouldn't at least support importing from an open standard is so Amazon can make sure that you'll never buy books from anyone else.
I lasted 30s, and even then I was compelled to breathe in, without using any “useful consciousness”.

Male, 32 years, healthy, medium sporty.
I think the rub is that a lot of the apps built at these massive companies use unnecessary third party frameworks and build their apps in janky ways, so while the content of their app doesn't appear to need anything special, it's actually standing on top of a house of cards built out of 3rd party APIs that are doing janky things that break between OS updates. If they just built their apps fully natively, using UIKit exclusively, they likely wouldn't have any problems between releases like you, I, and other devs see.
What day of March is it?
1) I don't want to see the prompts to allow push notifications from a webapp, nor to have to go disable them. I just never want them.

2) Generally I'd rather none of the software I use be webtech, so anything that makes it easier to deliver webtech to my phone/tablet is a step the wrong direction. Yes I'm willing to have less total software in exchange. The point is that I don't want apps that are or will be native, to be webtech instead, which may happen as more features are added to webapps. IMO allowing stuff like React Native and Phonegap is something I'd even rather they didn't do (and I've been paid to develop both native and React Native apps, plus worked on a very early and somewhat successful Phonegap-but-more-native solution that ultimately fizzled out). My ideal situation is that if anyone tells me to try out some app or to use some app to communicate or share something with them or whatever, personal or business, it's a webapp 0% of the time. It's either native or it doesn't exist, so no-one can bug me about it or cajole me into using it.

In short, my UX on iOS is better without them even being possible, so why would I prefer they be allowed?
iCloud data is only secured by Apple controlled passwords. Your iDevice data is secured by your passcode which Apple does not possess, and it does not want to create backdoors on your iPhone to enable access.

In the San Bernardino terrorist incident, the cops screwed up the procedure to recover iCloud backups on the device, then blamed Apple for refusing to hack the device security.
This doesn't seem like a fair analogy for a number of reasons. But mostly just that COVID itself is not destroying businesses, whereas a hurricane literally is.
US Slams Visa Ban on Election Riggers in Nigeria
yeah, the Oculus store is more expensive than the Steam store for the same titles.
Yep. I had this experience. It was for some reason, REALLY good when AirPods just came out, and seemed to degrade with subsequent macOS updates (In particular, I had more trouble switching between phone and laptop later, but not much trouble between phone and iPad).

I recently got some bone conducting headphones which have the dual bluetooth built in, and that is even more seamless - literally just plays the audio from the active device, though it's not perfectly accurate, and gets really confused by Spotify doing off-device play, but it's clearly nicer than even having to choose the output channel.

Looking forward to trying this out w/ my AirPods though.
This statement is a lot to unpack.

> The slacker / incompetent

Are organizations that are prone to dramatic underestimations and overworking people also prone to keeping slackers or incompetent developers on staff? But, also, is there a scenario in which the work takes longer _because_ of the incompetence? Meaning the competent developers are working reasonable hours?

> overworking genius.

I'd again wager a guess that most of those struggling with overworking at companies are not geniuses, as a legitimate genius might be more inclined to just find a new job
That's interesting, so it's as though the HOA becomes a local government. I wonder if it would withstand a legal challenge, and the only issue is that no one has bothered to invest the time/money to do so.
has anyone used form•Z[0] recently? i remember liking it much better than autocad in college (waaay back in the day), simply because it was much easier to get started modeling (but not nearly as integrated into the engineerng workflow).

[0] http://www.formz.com/fzsite1219/products/formz/formz_free.ht...
In this particular case it was an engineering manager position. Diplomacy is part of the job description.
Transforming GM into an EV Supplier
Super fun! Would it be possible to do the opposite? :)
I don't know exactly anymore, because I'm now with a different ISP which natively supports v6. So can't reproduce.

I mean I (probably) could, but don't want to, because now I have IPv4 via CGNAT, but not with a private IP, a public dynamic one probably shared with who knows how many others.

But I can use IPSEC/OpenVPN/Wireguard to somewhere else with that. Though my CPE supports GRE.

Anyways, there are large implementation differences in CGNAT from ISP to ISP and even different access technologies within the same.
Is there a law yet that describes how, for any situation, someone's created a law that applies to it?

(tongue-in-cheek...I just feel like every day there's a new law I learn that applies perfectly to a situation. I can't keep track of them all!)
> If it walks like a duck and all...

then CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and NYT should be marked as state media as well by that measure.
> on their $2,000+ Tour de France cosplay setups

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. "

Edit: BTW, as a road cyclist, my very first reaction was the same as yours: Since this was a survey it's tough to tease out the real reasons from the rationalizations. Speaking for myself, I'll freely admit that my reasons for violating road rules (which, for me, is limited to rolling through stop signs at empty intersections) are more about energy savings and speed rather than safety.

But you can deliver that criticism without being cruelly mocking and dismissive of an activity you happen not to value.
What if I had bought Apple stock instead?
Sure but not wherever you want, e.g. a privately owned platform doesn't prevent freedom of the press, just not on their private property - just like if a business requires a mask for you to enter/be served, they don't have to allow you on their property if you don't follow their rules.
I think the difference is that US people drive a lot more. I'm guessing most Bangladeshis dont have cars/motorcycles so its hard to die from an accident.
As an owner of Q1 all I wanted from Q2 was:

- Reduce or re-distributed weight (neck/upper back ache remains an issue)

Instead, what we got in the Q2 is the same weight but a head-strap that's a substantial downgrade. That decision just compounds the Q1's most glaring weakness.

Then throw in the mandatory Facebook account, downgraded eye adjustments, side-grade screen, downgrade battery life, and a bunch of cost-cutting all over: You just killed Quest.

I've gone from recommending Quest to outright recommending against Quest. They should have taken some weight out of the headset and put it in a box that goes in your pocket, not kept the weight and made a bad head-strap even worse.

Even with the $50 headstrap "upgrade" it is still worse than the HTC Vive Deluxe Audio Strap which many Q1 owners including myself own (via 3D printed adapter).
EXCEPT for the privacy bull (pretty angry about that), that's actually not a terrible deal for consumers.
Perhaps so, but there are a lot of jobs that have high responsibility but aren't very well paid. School bus driver, for example. If you're not willing to take the responsibility, don't take the job. I do think that Uber bears significant responsibility for their employee's actions as well though. They hired a convicted felon, and assuming this wasn't the first time she was watching movies on the job, didn't effectively monitor her, even though they had video cameras inside the car.
It matches diving.

Suppose you're 2000 feet down, breathing hydrox or hydreliox. It's mostly hydrogen, maybe some helium, and less than 1% oxygen. You suddenly ascend to the surface. Instead of changing gas mixture, you try to hold the gas in your lungs and maintain the pressure.

You won't hold it in. As the pressure drops in your lungs, the dissolved gases in your blood will escape into your lungs. That drops the oxygen content in your blood.
Apple has already paid a far higher price than Google ever has for protecting their customers security.
You can argue that historical actions have caused unequal outcomes, but that doesn't mean that today this decision [to make access to a park based on residence] is racist. That doesn't logically follow.
> Wireless VR is a big problem right now, it's expensive, doesn't work well, and for it's price you might as well get better hardware.

There’s an app for the Quest called Virtual Desktop that allows streaming SteamVR over WiFi, which on a good network is almost indistinguishable from wired VR. Playing Half-Life: Alyx without being tethered to your computer is a pretty awesome experience.
https://refactoringui.com would be one worth checking out
You're definitely not alone. Switching my airpods from phone to laptop is always a frustratingly long process. First have to select my airpods in the audio list, wait 15 seconds until my airpods make a boop noise. They're not connected yet though, my mac will switch back to internal audio almost immediately. Need to repeat the process again before they will actually connect.

At least going the other way I only have to select the airpods once in the phones bluetooth device list.
The irony though is that the code that is written is shit and will cost the company so much to maintain, which eventually leads to that shitty manager being fired. The poor souls are the ones who need to maintain that crap software after
As someone who daily commuted by bicycle, the last time I didn't stop at a red light was never. I've definitely seen more cars fail to stop at red lights than bicycles, too.
It's pretty crazy. I have just about the exact same experience I'd say. On personal projects I'm moving back towards straight CSS, Vanilla JS (maybe I'll use jQuery if they get more complicated, they're very bare bones at the moment), and server generated HTML with Django templates.

Web Development seems to move at this incredible pace. I also started just about 8 years ago and I've gone through jQuery, Angular 1, Backbone, React, React with Classes, React with Hooks.

And even the tiniest project I do with NPM ends up being hundreds of megs on disk locally. I was cleaning my harddrive recently, MomentJS is _over 100mbs_ cloned from GitHub, I don't even know if I actually did an NPM install in there.

Material UI was _nearly a gig_. I'm assuming there are assets in there somewhere.

Meanwhile we have really neat improvements in CSS and HTML that I want to go and use but I'm to busy learning how to do CSS in my JavaScript, and validation in my JavaScript. Reinventing accessibility by deploying ever more bloated projects filled with bugs and inconsistencies.

I wonder if we'll see a gradual return to less complicated stacks as people realize a lot of work can be accomplished pretty reasonably with a lot less and a greater reliance on the browsers to do a fair amount of water carrying.

I'm not sure... but I have to get back to learning how to create APIs in GraphQL ;-).
Communications Intelligence and Charges of U.S. Germ Warfare in the Korean War
I can't recommend AwesomeWM enough. You don't really have to customize it at all for the workspaces + basic tiling to be incredibly useful. And the workspaces can be per monitor!!! Or you can tie them together! Or use them as tags instead of workspaces! It's really just so good.

I think the only thing I really added was audio key support and I changed the menu shortcut...?

I'm not actually sure what the argument is to not use it. (it supports floating windows, if you want that as the default)
You need to keep looking then. Plenty of cities have great job opportunities while still having inexpensive and great houses
I think it's cool that NumPy is being recognized in Nature, but I'm a little surprised that "the NumPy paper" wasn't published 10-ish years ago...
I guess motorists account for 99% of them

Now we should make a proportion with the total number of users

I suspect cyclists jump red lights a lot more per capita

But I can't say it for sure, not knowing the actual numbers
Does the park cease to be nice if non-residents are allowed into it? Should a city be able to decide whether non-residents can use its sidewalks, in order to make the city "nice"?
The Guide for Music Startup Fundraising
I agree. I like how light Vim is and its simple looks but I can understand why people may not like it. What I can't understand is how one can do without modal editing :D
This is pretty huge, although bummer with the Facebook deeplinking.

Much better resolution for just $300 including the controllers. That's the price of a large monitor.
Yeah, but as someone who owned the Rift S and then bought a Quest - it turns out there's a rude surprise that all the games you bought for the Rift S have to be bought again for the Quest.

The Rift S was a huge mistake, ironically I only bought it because when I asked my friend working at Oculus which one to get he said to get the Rift S (I suspected then they didn't care about it).

They should never have shipped it.
My friend had one, and it would generate oxygen, and simultaneously fill a portable tank for going out.

I don't know the protocol for air travel - do you generate O2 with a device during your travel or carry an oxygen tank?

I could imagine scenarios where a pressurized tank on an airline is bad, and also scenarios where a device would be bad too.

I've also heard of people that had medical conditions and they just weren't allowed on the plane at all.
A good video review (Adam Savage's Tested): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x6lux6f_6g
Yes? As long as the pay differences are what they are, why wouldn't it be?
yeah but WMR requires a PC. Quest is an all in one device that you just turn on and put on your head.
I'm going to buy a RTX 3080 and was looking for a cheap VR headset...
Reasonable people can disagree about which features are and are not useful. And those reasonable people can purchase smartphones and computers which best cater to their own views about these features.
Overly negative, IMO. (Except for the Facebook deeplinking, which is bad.)
is GM trying flying cars?
> community (people of similar circumstances/values as you moving there)

That's a cultural thing, and yes I'd assume that people tend to move somewhere that they feel culturally aligned with.

That is true whether you are moving to the coasts or away from them.
Have they fixed the regression with background apps being aggressively killed introduced in iOS 13.2? I still run into it daily even on iOS 13.7 with e.g. Yelp and Google Maps.
IMO the whole "we don't pay for overtime" thing with salaried employees is a scam that needs to be made illegal. There were times in my career (in the past now) where I had to put in 10-12 hours a day, and often without weekends just to meet the schedule, because some manager somewhere wanted the product for the trade show. I don't see how this is reasonable, or why it should be legal, yet under the current US labor laws it is legal.

When I managed my own teams, the most I would ask folks to do is to very rarely work a bit more for a day or two (there are sometimes legitimate reasons why things need to be done by a certain date, or crises to resolve ASAP), giving them days off later to compensate. This was entirely voluntary, with NO repercussions, career or otherwise, if they don't want to do it. There always were 3-4 folks who were happy to oblige. I'm also proud to say, that not once have I made anyone work over a weekend.
> If you're a great engineer, it behooves you to see yourself as an investor in the company you end up choosing to work for.

That's great for Apple engineers but what if you work for HP/Intel/IBM and just see a steady declining stock?
Sounds like the 200k houses need to come down in price.

This is another reason people are burned on "starter homes". You can't get your money out if you need to move. Cheap houses are in undesirable areas and you can't sell them, better to rent.
Productivity Detox
Number 2 is very important and not obvious. Give your manager options to choose from. It makes you a cooperative problem solver rather than someone who is pessimistic and can't manage deadlines. Shrugging and saying that scope management is the manager's job is equally as bad as the manager shrugging and saying implementation is the dev's job.

Applies to non-dev work as well.
Me too. The canonical HN comment, forever.
How is user discovery of Telegram at 0.02% worse than Signal at 100%? It isn't like they could possible get it any higher and Telegram's couldn't get much lower. People who know what they are talking about have been critical of Signals use of phone numbers since the start but Signal have always brushed it off as irrelevant.
I don't mean to complain about Nova, but I don't think being platform-specific is something to be applauded (in itself). It's like making your webapp only for Chrome -- that's not a feature, per-se.
PostgreSQL 13 helps 'fairness' of sort queries
Switzerland is kind of an exception to that, but their market is pretty small.
Our mother in law is staying with us due to the unexpected passing of her husband, and we have been experiencing this first hand as we look for a shared home.

Not only is there no multi-gen homes in our area (exurb an hour away from a major city) but it's difficult to find a layout where a part of the house can be a mini apartment or her own personal area. It seems like more basements are finished now and some of the design decisions have been quite odd to say the least.

Worst of all is that we're not allowed to buy some land and throw a small structure or trailer/rv on it for her. Even though it's for family it's not allowed as it could be rented out in the future.

The entire process has been stressful and aggravating, and is made worse by everyone sharing the same space working and going to school.
Why can't engineers simply tell managers that it can't be done by the specified deadline? Why do managers even ask this question if they're gonna ignore the answer and impose an impossible deadline anyway?

It looks like they're assuming we're all lazy. They think the job isn't that hard. A fundamental lack of respect.
Eh... you never lived in a corrupt state, have you?

"Never attribute stupidity what can be explain as sheer corruption, aka malice"

That thin concrete that doesn't meet requirements, was put there not b/c of stupidity, but because someone lined up their pockets down the line, and the quality assurance people were paid to look the other way.

Mafia 101
I'm really not sure if this is meant as an insult or not, but I'll take it as respectful.

Wearing my high-bypass N95 mask, or a sloppy ill-fitting "surgical" mask or an un-rated cloth mask around a vulnerable person with multiple comorbidities is a dangerous show of virtue-signalling: it does essentially nothing to protect that individual.

Encouraging vulnerable people to wear a powered HEPA ventilator on their hip, connected to a full face mask would be useful. Not perfect, but statistically 100x-1000x better outcome, should they be unfortunately exposed to a cloud of SARS-CoV-2 bearing particulates. Isn't a hundred bucks a worthwhile investment to actually protect a vulnerable person?

Forcing people to do worthless things (wear masks, when they have no comorbidities, which do nothing to protect the vulnerable) is ridiculous, and is rightly held in contempt by many caring people.

Its very strange, to me, that even on a platform like HN, we get many (most?) accounts involved in denigrating entire groups by name-calling them "deniers" -- without actually materially addressing any of the concerns of the individuals within the "group"...
I fell like you're kidding, since my experience is pretty much the opposite, and precisely for the reason that narrators in English are professionals. Some names: William Dufris, Wil Wheaton, Nigel Planer (namely his narrations of ‘Discworld’). Scott Brick, mentioned nearby, is good—but his narrations of Asimov have the spirit of 50s' over-the-top actors and TV announcers.

Also narrators in the West are often voice actors by trade, or just actors of theatre and film doing voice work on the side. E.g. Steven Fry's narration of the ‘Harry Potter’ novels is gorgeous, Tim Curry's of ‘A Series Of Unfortunate Events’ is also very good, Jeremy Irons' voice and demeanor is a perfect fit for Nabokov's mood and writerly lyricism in ‘Lolita’.

Generally, I went through quite a bunch of unknown-to-me narrators, and had few qualms—whereas in Russian it's a gamble whether a reading will be tolerable. ‘Grassroots’ narrators sometimes have quirks that they apparently consider charming, but in practice are off-putting. Or narrators break into stereotypical kitschy voices, especially with old-time material like Dostoevsky: e.g. for orthodox priest characters. Or the production is just crappy.

Notably, best narrators in Russian seem to be either professionals hired by proper publishers, or straight up actors. Namely, Mikhail Gorevoy, Alexey Bagdasarov, Evgeny Ternovsky (Михаил Горевой, Алексей Багдасаров, Евгений Терновский). And for example, the magnificent many-voices narration of ‘The Good Soldier Švejk’ by Bagdasarov, Alexey Kortnev and others. Vladimir Samoilov's reading of ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ is incredibly good and touching on a whole different level, and he seems to be an old-time Soviet actor. Klukvin is also a treat to the ear, but again when the production quality is there, like with ‘Master and Margarita’.
Apple continues to invest in the user experience and potential privacy. Unlike Android, the features that require data processing and ML are not offset into the cloud. This means that if Apple finally moves to encrypting the iCloud storage, users won't loose semantic search over their photo library, health data, and other similar features.

(I particularly like the new option to pre-select the photos that you want an app to see, rather than giving complete access to my photo library)
They don't last forever, the econonmy is not going to be in its current form for even a few hundred years, and if we're going with current methods the oil will run out too.

And you didn't even give a reason that plastic would kick us out of the flight envelope if we ignore those flaws in the argument.

So your very last line is true but you have done basically nothing to demonstrate that we have to choose between the two.
Hashing something with a limited domain like phone numbers is useless...

Does Signal get any benefit out of that hashing at all? Why do they bother?
I played your game on Steam. Good work! I hope to see more.

On a side note, it's strange that Steam doesn't have a fitness category yet.
That did certainly happen, but prices were not depressed for any significant amount of time either! Particularly at the timescale of housing transactions. It can take several months to close on a house for example.
Coronavirus ironically has been great for family bonding for us. We spend half our time at my parents house (who live 10 minutes away). Between four adults it’s much easier to take care of the kids, and my parents are retired and love the company. And we also enjoy spending time with them: I’ve gotten to talk to them much more than I have in a decade.