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Can't answer for Raph, but deeper integration with the OS interferes with portability. You need enough integration for things to work at all, but after that, integration is in competition with portable features for developers' attention.

Attention is always the scarcest resource, all up and down the stack.
>And yet Amazon has no real interest in solving its counterfeit problem, the same way it has no real interest in solving its safety problem.

Well, as told by Bezos, “Leaders start with the customer and work backwards,” doesn't mean "Leaders start with the customer and his needs in mind".

It just means "leaders start with how to get the customers' money doing what's minimally required, and/or profitably duping them without consequences".
After watching the video posted in the top comment, I have to wonder why we would keep dumping money and time into ITER. I know, don't put all your eggs in one basket, but if the ITER design is so out-of-date, why wouldn't we just scrap it in favor of something that we could build 10 years faster and for much less money?

It seems that if we can't make fusion work for SPARC it won't likely work in ITER either since they're both based on the same understanding of the physics. Am I wrong on that point? Is there some reason to think that ITER will succeed even if SPARC does not?
The issue is that you do NEEd air in order to use the props. So there is a limit to how high you can go.

Air resistance vs not having enough air to push.

Basically - you can design the prop for high altitude, but then takeoff is gonna not be great. You could design a variable prop system (or even have 2 different ones?) but then weight / complexity.

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijae/2018/5782017/
The higher end Jabra's are wired _and_ wireless (USB cable that can be detached) so you can get the audio quality or the freedom depending on what is more appropriate at a given time.

Keep in mind: Bluetooth audio _sucks_ for calls, it's way lower bitrate than normal music-mode bluetooth audio.
Denmark: We can slash CO2 by 70% in a decade and still have welfare
I haven't read the book either, but from reading the reviews it seems like the thesis is that your wealth is a function of your time orientation - whether you prefer to plan short term or long term.

If that's the case, I disagree strongly. It seems like a post-hoc conclusion; if you are wealthy, you can afford to plan for the long term; if you are poor, often you can only orient your behavior towards immediate needs and survival. Poor people know that its better to save for a house than pay rent to a landlord - they're not stupid. But your kid has a cavity that need filling, the rent you are paying is due, and god help you if you have an unexpected expense like your car breaks down.

Does the author account for decades of wage suppression that prevents all from sharing in the nation's wealth? The systematic erosion of labor rights? The (I'm assuming the author's American) carceral state that makes people unhireable and takes away some of their most productive years for earning and saving? In the case of the Black community, does he account for the generational effects of centuries of stolen labor? The list goes on.

Poverty is a cycle[1] and is worthy of serious study and consideration. Paternalistic victim blaming has no place.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_poverty
YouTube does have RSS feeds for channels which are properly referenced on desktop (not on mobile). They have the format `https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={}`. Playlists also have feeds but are not referenced on the playlist page. The format of those is `https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id={}`
> Good LED bulbs are now common and cheap

I take exception to this. Bad LED bulbs are common and cheap. Your average $5 bulb from the big box has about 3 common failure modes, all of which are exacerbated by heat. I haven't been able to buy a decent LED bulb at any brick and mortar retailer in years.

Meanwhile my 20 year old sylvania LED bulbs which are basically giant heatsinks all still work great. Now you know why nobody makes those anymore.
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A lot of the "modern" meat/dairy alternatives intentionally don't contain soy, as soy has gained (unfairly in my opinion) a poor reputation. It's a selling point to be soy free.
It's a cold hard fact of life that most necessary things (not luxuries) really aren't that expensive anymore. It's mostly just housing and healthcare.

Healthcare is weird, maybe it will never be cheap without socialized medicine.

Housing is way overpriced though. The fed has continued to artificially inflate the price (despite a significant amount of housing that goes unused) by buying unprofitable mortgage backed securities and zoning prevents development restricting supply. Go outside and look around. Even in wealthy developed places most of the land in the US sits completely unused (not farms, just unused woods.) Where there are buildings they're often mostly empty because that's profitable (because the debt owed by the owners isn't called.) Because taking out loans to build luxury housing is profitable despite demand for low/medium income housing, low/medium income housing never gets built.
> sell dirt cheap less-nutritious processed foods as a substitute for real meat

In general, the primary market for processed vegan food is people who currently buy processed meat-based food. Supermarkets, of course, already sell vegetables and legumes.
I hated Gradle. Kotlin and the buildSrc Plugin made me love it
Likewise. The real surprise has been how much I haven't regretted doing that - small business ecommerce turns out to be alive and well, despite all Amazon and I guess Walmart's efforts to the contrary.
It sounds exactly like Amazon has no interest in solving the problem, and would rather waste money on legions of ML PhDs to come up with yet another technology solution that doesn't work and would simply get gamed in a few weeks even if it did work, leading to an endless tech war cycle, than spend the money on QC/QA staff that could snuff the problem out in days or weeks even with relatively little training and in a way that can't be easily gamed by counterfeiters.
If they provide the money at regular intervals, than the person wouldn’t be out of money long even if they blow it all.

My suggestion would be no, we don’t step in. I think for one, we overestimate the number of people who would not use the money for their needs first. I think if we found there were a lot of people who still needed help, we could create an assistance group that can help people find the help they need.
How many PhDs does it take to figure out that commingling stock results in people getting counterfeit products?
Is that a failure of capitalism or of our education systems or simply an oversupply of humans?
Most of the ports are used for diagnostic equipment, things like laser interferometers to measure plasma density or other devices to measure plasma temperatures. Also some ports are used to inject neutral beams for heating.
It will be illegal the moment you loose ownership of it. Otherwise you are essentially a slave to the new owner.
It can not endanger you and others and you always have to retain the ability to stop it and control it.

Therefore it will be fine as long as all punishment is self inflicted and you always have the ability to just ignore it or turn it off.
It’s in the Privacy tab below the blacklists.
Winner! Perfect answer. Love that movie.

The book was worth reading as were the 2 follow on books.
Yup, this stuff keeps rising up out of nowhere, and the messages are unnatural to the point that they’re likely engineered.
Stdg – The learn-once-use-anywhere 2D graphics tool written in Rust
A wrapper around wxWidgets would be nice in my opinion. Every language community has a tendency to want a "pure" implementation of everything in their prefered language and utltimatly this just splits efforts and let everybody with half finished projects.
OpenBSD on the Desktop (Part II)
I think I've seen this done with an infinite animated GIF as well.
>As for disposal, I crush the bulbs in a paper bag and then huff the mercury fumes for recreation.

Seriously though, how do you dispose of them? Save the mercury forever? Is there even a noticeable amount of mercury in them?
>Weren't they the ones who originally came up with the idea for putting purchaser reviews with the product, and the 5-star rating system?

Were they? I doubt it...
As well as steam engines there are also small scale generators using internal combustion engines and gas turbines which spin the dynamo directly.
Society as a whole already normalizes this sort of thing. Many people will have to pay more for a house, and many more will simply be denied. When this paradigm is already so normal, people aren't going to be so averse to their digital and social habits being tracked and rewarded, ESPECIALLY if its advertised as a way to get discounts or benefits on certain services. Car insurance companies are trying it out as well.

The whole entire notion of a credit history, credit reporting agencies, and the idea of my personal information being out there and out of my control sounds so weird.
Fujitsu FM Towns Rescue Boot Loader Project
$140/day seems steep to me as well. But if the tools are proper I can be in and out before the sun sets. If I do it in my parking lot I'm still spending $3-400 in tools. And I'll still need an air compressor.

They have a special rate for oil changes, $40. But you only get an hour on the lift. Just enough time to refill, replace filters, and rotate tires.
I wouldn’t be so sure. How many man hours go into developing ARKit, Foundation, Swift etc.? How many developer accounts would be required to fund all of that plus the R&D for the ideas that didn’t work out?

I think the $99 is more of a filter, like a captcha, for developers that mean business.
Yes, see the videos I linked earlier. Short version is that the pianist can press the keys but finds it difficult to lift their fingers up after pressing. The gloves have some sort of mechanism and design put into them to assist the pianist by making it easier to lift their fingers after pressing keys.
Lacking inheritance is a major stumbling block that rust will have to overcome in order to build an effective GUI. The earliest GUIs such as the object-pascal based Macintosh to the most modern ones rely on inheritance to function, so I wonder how the rust developers will overcome this limitation.
Incandescent is a bad technology compared to fluorescent lamps with rare earth phosphors.

Seriously come on, a 100 W Incandescent uses $25 worth of electricity over it's life. Where a fluorescent to LED unit uses $3 over 2000 hours. And lasts 5-10 times longer.
This is a good point but games may be a special case as they require a more powerful phone. Still there is probably a link between willingness to part with money and having a newer phone.
Those ML PhDs are for "solving the problem" or for finding more ways to hook, dupe, promote stuff to, and take the customer's money?
That depends, perhaps, on whether one thinks Mississippi stood for white supremacy for several decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jim_Crow_law_examples_...
I went to a debate once, in which the former head of GCHQ (British equivalent of the NSA) argued that because agents weren't literally listening to people's phone calls, like the Stazi did, mass digital surveillance is fine. And unfortunately for many people this argument works. Human eavesdropping is obviously a
problem at a viceral level, because somebody you don't know listening to you is frightening. The fact that digital surveillance gives power to its possessor just as much as human surveillance did is hard to get across.
This might not be true for every region, but it has been possible to use a phone number instead of email on both for a few years.
It was my understanding that fission and fusion both use the same Nuclear Power Plant sized facility.

Fusion just replaces the radioactive bit, you still need steam/electricity conversion/transmission/cooling... it's not like a suitcase you can plug wires into, you still need a massive 'factory' to make electricity, just the one bit is a safer.
How do these gloves work? It seems like the Chicago Tribune is wholly uninterested in even making an attempt to explain it. Maybe they really are 'magic' gloves.
I haven't stopped using incandescents myself, they.re getting hard to find. I went through them all, CFLs are awful, halogens die as fast as incandescents, if not faster, i've had a bunch of those where the glass just separates from the metal leaving the filament exposed and personally I can't stand the light from LEDs. It hurts my eyes and gives me a headache and honestly, I haven't noticed much difference in lifespan with LED bulbs i've tried, they still end up needing to be replaced in about a year or so.

I remember when we switched my old workplace from fluorescents to LEDs everybody at complained for weeks about headaches and sore eyes.
I was just htinkin the same thing. Having a huge battery pack attached and then parachuted off after takeoff in a designated spot could work really well. Or even like a "plane assister" that just stayed attached for takeoff and then dropped off and landed back at the airport to re-charge / help the next plane.

I think it's all moot tho. Airbus seems to be going hydrogen for their next planes to have 0 emission.
Doing this makes all of your applications similar to Electron apps. This is not a good thing. Nobody wants a desk calculator that requires 1GB of memory and takes 10 seconds to start. The amount of backend you need to implement a simple <canvas> is excessive for a great many apps.
As a user, I really admire and appreciate the work that goes into ScummVM to preserve old games. I also love reading the development blog. I have a number of old computers with old OSes in them, such as Win98, XP, and Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 on PowerPC. I can’t speak for all the esoteric porting, but it makes me happy to be able to install software that’s in active development on old hardware, and that can even improve the playing experience compared to the original game engines. Thanks for all your work.
I don't think all the ML PhD's in the world can fix a system with misaligned incentives. Anonymous seller says this product is the same as that name brand one, oh we believe you, we'll co-mingle them. This right here is undoing the whole point of a brand, that it comes from a known source. You can't ML your way out of that. The system is bad by design: it trusts those who have an incentive to lie.

So when people say Amazon doesn't want to solve the problem, this is what they mean. Amazon doesn't want to solve the real problem (co-mingling doesn't work) and wants to tech their way around that. Some things don't scale, and dealing with people is one of them.
My friend had a pug like this once. Dog was as old as father time. Needed help making it outside to relieve himself before he finally left us. But I SWEAR that dog moved like greased lightning if you left a plate on the table to go check on the kid, as he'd make it from one side of the living room to another in the time it took you to take three steps and check in on the other room, hop up on a chair and your dinner very rapidly became his dinner.
> Fwiw, I can tell you're typing on an idevice because of the smart quotes. I've noticed this demographic tends to give Apple too much credit and ignores the evils they perpetrate against our industry and computing freedom.

Sadly, the other mobile device is slightly more open but comes from the second worst company wrt to privacy.

So if i have to choose from two bad alternatives, I'll choose the one that at least works.
That’s why we have a government, to adapt society to an ever changing world. You can postulate as to _if_ government will step in an enact the requisite policies (UBI, Retraining, ect) but it doesn’t take a big imagination to see a world post-automation. There’s even a whole TV series set in such a world: Star Trek.
It was not my intention to malign the huge numbers of rank-and-file FIRE-sector people, like customer service agents across the entire sector, who are just working to put food on their own tables.

I'm thinking more of things like hedge funds, HFT outfits, and the groups that devised synthetic mortgage-backed securities, that put ivy league-level talent towards socially useless and/or economically dangerous activities.

We'd all be better off if the people with the quantitative and social skills to be effective in these spaces put their talents towards things like carbon capture or battery R&D rather than e.g. finding ways to con people into pouring money into hedge funds that under-perform the markets.
Certainly the only major electrical generation method, but MHD and thermocouples can be the appropriate solution sometimes, and if you count storage systems as well as primary production, there are also fuel cells & batteries.
Local political perception of a company seems pretty divorced from the economic reality, just look at the Foxconn Wisconsin boondoggle
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2009-10-15/amazon-tu...

It doesn't say if they were the first, but it looks like they were at least one of the first.

Edit: yep, Bloomberg says they were the first to do it.
>The article defined serious injury as "those requiring days off or job restrictions."

Given what we know about the working conditions there (threatened to be fired for any sick day, wearing adult diapers to avoid bathroom breaks, etc.) getting a medical day off in an Amazon wharehouse scenario means something like your leg was cut off or you're bleeding green blood...
The widespread irresponsibility of people in the financial industry led to the 2008 housing crisis. Not just a few bad apples.
Also: https://github.com/ApolloAuto/apollo

It’s a contested open source project name, for sure.
I love Terry Pratchett, but is there any evidence that this is true in our modern economy? As opposed to just being a cute story that reinforces our existing biases that "the rich get richer, the poor get poorer" which is demonstrably false over the past few hundred years?

I bought a 7 yr old $8000 dollar car, that's still going strong 12 years later, if I'd bought a $40000 car, could I expect it to last 512= 60 years? And that's being generous and assuming a linear relationship. If we use the example from the book, spending 5 times as much should give me a car that lasts up to 10 times* as long, so 120 years!
> It's an utterly mindless job

I worked as a picker/packer one summer. This is an understatement, even before the robots did the walking for you.

It's interesting that the only thing left is to make a robot that can handle the objects to be placed, currently they cost more than minimum wage human labor unless the thing being picked is designed to be handled by a machine.

Ultimately that's what I think will happen, the packaging will be designed for picking by machine and the job can be fully automated.
> Structs ("classes" in Rust) can implement Traits and Traits can "inherit" each other, but structs can't inherit implementations from other structs.

Right, this is textbook interfaces used for composition.

Let me paste you a few paragraphs from the GoF book, released in 1994:

> Inheritance versus Composition

> The two most common techniques for reusing functionality in object-oriented systems are class inheritance and object composition. As we've explained, class inheritance lets you define the implementation of one class in terms of another's. Reuse by subclassing is often referred to as white-box reuse. The term "white-box" refers to visibility: With inheritance, the internals of parent classes are often visible to subclasses.

> Object composition is an alternative to class inheritance. Here, new functionality is obtained by assembling or composing objects to get more complex functionality. Object composition requires that the objects being composed have well-defined interfaces. This style of reuse is called black-box reuse, because no internal details of objects are visible. Objects appear only as "black boxes."

...

> Object composition has another effect on system design. Favoring object composition over class inheritance helps you keep each class encapsulated and focused on one task. Your classes and class hierarchies will remain small and will be less likely to grow into unmanageable monsters. On the other hand, a design based on object composition will have more objects (if fewer classes), and the system's behavior will depend on their interrelationships instead of being defined in one class.

Like, it's the most well-known OOP design book and it states exactly that - more than a QUARTER CENTURY ago. Who in hell argues that this isn't oop ?!
Really cool article.

But over the past few years/decades, as glyphs have exploded in number, I've been finding myself wanting a totally different system of font definition.

I want fonts to be made out of just a handful (at a minimum) of primitives -- e.g. here's a vertical stroke, a horizontal stroke, diagonal strokes, what various serif endings look like, here are what the bowls of letters look like, etc.

An entire Latin alphabet can easily be extrapolated from that -- but also Cyrillic, for example. And then you can go further, and specify elements used only in Greek, and so on...

But the idea being that there's a "default", boring, generic universal font template that covers all glyphs. And that a type designer simply modifies parameters as desired.

Now the designer can go as far as they want, with individual glyph adjustments overriding the automatically-generated ones, custom kerning pairs and whatnot.

But the benefit would be that, even if they don't, then for a Latin alphabet you already get Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, etc. characters that match well (in x-height, stroke width, etc. as needed).

The more I work with typography, the more I think static font outlines for each glyph are the wrong way to represent things. Smart parametized outlines are what we need.
I sincerely believe most people also would, but the problem is that outside of the workplace email has become mostly a marketing and notification channel.

Most non-tech people I know have hundreds, if not thousands of unread messages in their inboxes and will probably miss some unexpected ones.
> For example, it is legal to possess and use Modafinil in the United Kingdom without a prescription, but not in United States.

Adrafinil, a prodrug to modafinil, is legal without prescription in the United States.
...including Hacker News (it used to be worse pre-covid, the pandemic has somewhat diverted the flood).
An oversupply of humans?
The abstract expressionism of today is definitely anti-class conscious identity politics. A "communist" today is more likely to rattle off quotes from a hardline liberal ideologist like Judith Butler than to actually understand a materialist conception of history (and therefore identity) as outlined in "The German Ideology".
Very negative take here: To me it looks like premature optimization, some politicians, mathematicians or engineers wet dream, a design that by today is probably known to be suboptimal, that probably caused millions if not billions of euros of unexpected costs, and tens of thousands of hours of migraine for the people who actually have to run and maintain the thing