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>I agree that private entities can largely can do whatever they feel like. But there is something deeply obnoxious and unprincipled when these entities piss on your leg and tell you it’s raining.

You won't get any argument about that from me.

>That’s not the style of forum people should be defending. It’s legally permissible but all types of dystopian.

I'm not defending any such forums. In fact, I avoid them like the plague.

But I do support freedom of expression.

And whether you (or I, for that matter) dislike Twitter or Facebook, or even Stormfront or the ACLU, while we are perfectly free to express our dislike, expose dishonesty or bias, recommend/create other forums and encourage others to do the same, we aren't allowed to block the speech of others.

What would you suggest as a viable alternative to the status quo?

I think Justice Brandeis[0] said it much more succinctly than I did:
"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_v._California#Quotes
I feel like most ergonomic keyboards work better for regular typing. A lot of the ergonomic (split) keyboards still force your hands in awkward positions if you're coding because of all the weird parentheses and symbols you don't normally use. What I haven't tried yet are ortholinear keyboards or tiny keyboards like the Atreus. Judging by the layout I'm guessing ortholinear keyboards would still force your hands into awkward positions at the (pinky) edges, so avoiding that by using a tiny keyboard might be an option?
What I read back when the bans were lifted around here was that cell phone use correlated with people opening the car door and rummaging around, which created a static electricity buildup, and that that was the real fire risk.
That’s what cells think about us.
Very interesting thank you.
Which particular aspect of regulation is crushing American tech companies?

- Honesty in financial disclosure?

- Fairness in employment policies?

- Responsibility in data governance and handling?

Something else?
> people drive off with the nozzle still in their car surprisingly often

I did this in the late 80s. The handle ripped off and was not magnetically attached. However, gas did not spill from the hose.

I drove back to the station and handed it to the attendant sheepishly. He said thanks.
What are your 4 layers? I only really live in 2
Yes. I do that. I've never even considered the possibility that it could be a problem, and so far it never has been.
Quantity of regulations is not the same as regulatory burden, and it's not like every single businness in the whole country needs to keep track of every single one.

In the food service industry, the most common type of small business, there are only 2400 federal regulations, and most of them concern common sense things, like "wipe tables after customers use them" and "cook chicken to 180°" and "don't let rats live under the oven". Take every type of food served in the US, every appliance, tool, utensil, or technique used by any commercial kitchen, and 2400 seems like a laughably small number of regulations.
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>Suppose you have a computer that evaluates whether an equation has a real-valued root. The answer is yes or no. You can predict the answer. But now you can change the algorithm so that if you input the correct answer, the code will output the exact opposite answer, ie “yes” if you predicted “no” and “no” if you predicted “yes”. As a consequence, your prediction will never be correct. Clearly, this has nothing to do with free will but with the fact that the system you make a prediction for gets input which the prediction didn’t account for. There’s nothing interesting going on in this argument.

This is an odd philosophical conjecture. Who created this hypothetical computer and why? Could you willingly create something that negates the premise of free will?
Who says that this information is bad untrue?
Nice! Should be easy to do max instead of count. Then top instead of max. Then top3 breaks the model.
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Well the point is the tone. Modeling amps have come a long way, but nothing compares to the real thing.

Of course, most people won’t be able to tell the difference, but many musicians tend to prefer analog.
Don't know what's their native tongue but at least in Portuguese we have a saying that would translate literally to "jumped to my neck". I also love these language things :)
I'm reusing an old Sony 4k handycam with an hdmi to usb c capture card and it looks way better than most. The larger sensor helps a ton.
wraps have been around for a while, and they're still pretty expensive to put on. Tint is cheaper because you don't have to disassemble a car, and a flat surface is much cheaper to wrap than a car with curves and edges. I don't see the price going down unless you can somehow automate it, theres a lot of labor involved.
Also, wraps need special care. You can't leave it in the sun too long, otherwise it will literally bake onto your car, making it look bad and removal tough. If you don't clean it once a week, you'll have nasty stains from bird poop and other dirt thats impossible to remove. Also, you need to remove and re-wrap every 5 years, even if you care for it well. It doesn't make sense for 99% of people who don't really care about the color of their car.
It technically didn't disappear, but mutating to the level of regular seasonal flu is almost as good.
I don’t understand why USCIS and other tech forums spend so much time and energy on H-1B rules.

How is it possible that 85K non immigrants with no rights are blamed for decimation of entire tech sectors.

For comparison , the US allows one million immigrants (green card holders ) every year into the United States . Most of these immigrants come over in the family based immigration category. They are free to take any job, start any business and do any legal activity as US citizens.

Yet it is the H-1B visa holders that are blamed for lowering of wages in the tech and engineering sectors and we spend a lot of political energy to make life difficult for them.

Also whenever articles related to H-1B are posted, the most upvoted comments are usually comments that point to gross changes to the H-1B program. Those are just pipe dreams. There has been no meaningful legislation changes to H-1B program in over two decades and I don’t think that there is political capital to make those changes .
I didn't to pay that much, but it cost me an extra $200 to get my car in red vs black (circa 2018).
Well. If you have a handbook and an afternoon free, I'm sure you could figure it out.

Just like designing an algorithm for efficient mobile phone battery utilization while handing off wireless connections in a moving car.

They're totally equivalent. Really!
How far did you get from the station before you realized it and turned back?
> haven’t been able to figure out when or why this happened.

If you want an exciting color, you'll wrap. That's what has changed.
hmmm, IMO it kinda looks like just an abstraction over LUKS and cryptsetup. I work a lot with LUKS/cryptsetup Im curious what "else" does using Tomb makes me more "efficient".
> the tax form should be upheld as the gold standard

Should, yeah.

> Was this issue due to paper tax forms doing a calculation one way, but the IRS's implementation doing it another way?

No, it was straight up wrong, and could only have been human error. As far as I can make out, their calculation only made sense if you took the full printed tax return and lost the back half of it. (And also ignored the part of the law that says capital gains tax doesn’t apply if you lived in a home more than two years before selling).
AJAX hype is like indoor plumbing hype. Everyone realized it was good, and now it's everywhere all the time, although only plumbers talk about it.

I think your footnote [3] is a reference to an HN comment of mine. I think you should know I actually like typescript even though the "superset of JS" thing is a bit oversold.
Some people insinuated that Trump worked with the Russians to get their help, but the consistent message that came from his cast off associates and from journalists with access like Woodward was that he was too stupid to set anything like that up. I don't think anybody reasonable ever believed otherwise.

The Russians didn't give a damn what Trump wanted. He was simply a useful buffoon that they could use to disrupt the election, and they succeeded beyond their wildest hopes.
This!

I used to be puzzled by how anyone could ever drive off with the nozzle still in the car. I had only seen the non-latching dispenser, and service stations don't exist in my country. I was probably (shamefully) thinking something along the lines of "dumb Americans."

Once in the US, I realized it's a mixture of full service and self-service stations with latching or non-latching dispensers, depending on the region. And I do need to make an extra glance at the gas tank door before driving off.
They're prejudiced against meat. It's the second most important idea in the whole thing. I don't think the question of meat's origin even came up.
I mean, evolution hasn't stopped since the dawn of civilization.
I also couldn’t figure it out. Their website lists Newegg as a customer, so I checked the network requests for Monetate.com in Chrome Dev tools. As far as I can tell it controls which items show up in the homepage carousel.
Depends. On BSD systems, files inherit the directory group.
If you have many microphones then you are probably just beamforming, which is pure math.
Having read over your arguments, I'm not sure what I could add. I'm not sure how any of it negates anything I said. I sincerely suspect they're too sophisticated for me. I have no legal training.

> Compelling via contractual agreement. This is typically referred to as "forcing" a conditiobn. Classic enforcement of a clause.

What does this mean? Classic enforcement of a clause? What is wrong with enforcing a clause?

> No. That is not what Apple is granting PM. Me putting up a hello world app does not grant me an opportunity to make more (any) revenue. There are additional concerns and limitations.

What does a hello world app have to do with this? We're talking about apps that have plans for sale and provide value. If you read App Store Guidelines, there is a specific term that says apps must provide users some specific, ongoing value. Hello world would be rejected from the App Store on this ground alone.

> Incorrect. If Apple and Apple USERS didn't exist, PM would not be able to be utilized by those users from an Apple device (since nothing else is special about the platform).

I don't understand this at all. Why add the users into the mix? How is nothing else special about the platform? Everything about the platform is totally special.

> Name calling and no-true-scotsman is all heresay or noise.

Could be possible, for sure. I'm prone to that type of thinking, but I'm not sure this is it. There's something pretty unsettling to me about a grown person, operating a very serious business, writing like they didn't understand the rules of something actually very simple. Is that an "ad-hominem", no-true-scotsman maneuver? Maybe? But it seems very relevant that here we are hashing out the merits of legalese arguments; whereas OP is just like "hey we were, like, selling some plans over there on the side and out of nowhere Apple just comes and demands money!!?" Does this person, who runs Proton Mail, live under a rock? Do they not read tech news? More importantly, do they not review the terms of the agreements they enter? Do they expect Apple not to enforce their contracts? Do they enforce contracts? It just seems fake and disingenuous. That's very significant, in my opinion, because fake and disingenuous people are, by and large, fundamentally bad. But that's just what I think.

Will definitely evaluate your analysis carefully, though.

Thanks a lot.
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I was actually thinking that something like this in combination with a “reference” preamp would be the key. This is a similar approach that Townsend microphone’s have taken and they’re supposed to be absolutely fantastic.

In any case, it’s total BS that waves, et. al, can charge hundreds of dollars per plug-in when at the end of the day it’s just software, and I was wondering to myself the other day why there isn’t more stuff in the open source space. I’m grateful to have seen this now, and I’d probably be interested in poking around this kind of stuff more. I have no idea how one actually goes about writing a VST or UA or AU plugin, but this is a great start, thanks!
I was joking just the other day, could you imagine if someone you worked with came up with the set of design decisions that required webpack + Babel + node_modules ? You would think they were insane and laugh them out of the design meeting, even the company. Maybe it’s time for a reframing - which problem are we trying to solve?
You could always use something other than Zoom.

I often use my own barebones WebRTC thingy for 1:1 meetings and get crisp video.
Has anyone looked at Julia? It’s claim is C like performance with the ease of use of a language like python.
>I’m no longer convinced OT - and all the work I’ve done on it - will still be around. I feel really sad about that.

Don't be sad. What you did was a huge inspiration to me and I think a lot of people. It showed the possibilities even if it wasn't "optimal".

Commenting here in hope you'll see it. I skim to read most things, I only completed reading this article because I noticed 'I worked on Google Wave'.
My Audi is Nardo Grey, which you can’t get on other models, it’s unique to the class.

But the selling point of this car is its performance, I just happened to like the color :)
What does that have to do with sand?
> They do a very poor job of modeling how a guitar and FX chain load and drive the preamp of an real tube amplifier

Are there ABX tests for digital vs. physical tubes?
Listening to Heaven's River right now.
> No idea where you are getting that from, SQL has always been supported

My mistake. I did some research and I found [this page](http://www.oehive.org/VersionHistory.html) which says that SQL-89 support was added in 1988, but SQL-92 support wasn't added until 2000.

But even so, SQL-89 is very anemic and not very expressive compared to SQL-92 (I'm thinking primarily of the support for different types of JOIN expressions), and the fact it took them 8 years to add SQL-92 support is telling (consider that MS Access 97 supported most of SQL-92). I can't find any information suggesting that Progress/OpenEdge implements later standards like SQL-1999 and SQL-2003 which add features I use on an almost daily-basis (recursive CTEs and window functions respectively).

> my point was it was direct and inline access to data

Doesn't that place architecture-based restrictions on performance though - how well does concurrency and transactions work in their OLTP model?
Thanks! I am not a designer so that's accidental -- and much credit is probably due to the default Jekyll theme (https://github.com/jekyll/minima). But performance optimization is something I enjoy and something I do as a break from writing the actual content.
For a DataFrame with 1 column containing integers 0 to 99,999, in Python I'm seeing ~16ms to add up the column by iterating with itertuples (index false, name none - which I didn't know helped performance, so thanks!). Julia it's 8ms to add up when iterating with eachrow and accessing the column by name.

So ~2x faster in Julia? Though it's a sort of awkward comparison, since this type of iteration seems a little anti-idiomatic in Python/pandas and doesn't fully leverage type information in Julia.
Yes, that is all true. More specifically though, in the particular system we're talking about, gasoline flowing through the main nozzle (which has the same diameter up to the exit) has essentially the same pressure as the ambient pressure. There is an obstruction downstream past the nozzle known as the "splash" which is responsible for bringing the liquid's velocity to zero.

The linked article invoked the Bernoulli effect to compare the pressure of the pumped gasoline in the pipe to the pressure of the ambient air; the Bernoulli effect is based on conservation of energy and does not apply here because the pumped fuel is not magically transforming into ambient air in an energy conserved way.
It looks pretty neat, awesome form factor. It’d be cool to know more details without having to sign up though.
> it's not like every single businness [sic] in the whole country needs to keep track of every single one.

That's an incorrect understanding of how laws and regulations work. Ignorantia juris non excusat.

> 2400 seems like a laughably small number of regulations.

I'd love to hear a food service operator's perspective. It may differ from yours.
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Reading through the comments here has been predictable. A lot of people complaining about the complexity of the front-end ecosystem. Too many tools, to much configuration, etc.

I’d like to say that you don’t need that complexity. If you just want to write a dumb front-end you don’t need typescript, you don’t need babel, you don’t need pug, you don’t need webpack, etc. If these things bother you, just skip it.

I always start my websites with a simple index.html file and run a `python -m http.server`. That is it. Modern JavaScript has a really good module system that works in all major browser (even Edge), and node. If you want to write type safe JavaScript you can write your types as doc comments and have typescript check it without bundling or compiling. You literally need only two tools to write a website: a browser and a text editor.

I’m not here to tell you that people shouldn’t use these complex tools. Many people configure their front-end environment just fine with webpack, babel, typescript, etc. If they work better that way, that is fine. But if that bothers you, simply don’t do it. There is no reason for you to complain about it.
Because it could and it knows my assets the best.

Im sure there are alternative methods but with Webpack it's been super easy.
I looked into the GIL saturation as measured with gil_load (https://github.com/chrisjbillington/gil_load), but perhaps I should have included more numbers here.

To me, seeing the GIL held for 40% of time and significant time spent waiting on GIL by other threads was a fairly strong indicator. Keen to hear your thoughts/experience on it.
That may not be far from truth. Maybe I will have our people test IE11 and if it's not really working we'll drop it.
> The thing is to have someone who isn't involved in making the product at all doing the demo.

I think this only works if the presenter lived with the same problems the audience wants a fix for. A demo by an engineer who's too close to the solution is infinitely better than a demo by a sales rep who can't relate to the problem or its solution because the engineer at least understands what they're trying to fix.
If the degree is called "Software Engineering", then you are definitely right. But we are talking about Computer Science, which is more like an offshoot of mathematics, for studying computation and information processing. Complexity, tradeoffs of time and storage, information representation, search, analysis of algorithm correctness and efficiency, etc. Putting together large production applications for business use cases has little to do with that.
New Jersey still does not allow self-pumping and never did, by law. I think the idea is to preserve jobs.
When I imagine a classic webcam, it's definitely the Logitech QuickCam Express (1999), with its memorable industrial design of an orb perched atop a stumpy pyramid. It only predated the iSight (2003) by 4 years, although there were earlier models with a similar design under the Connectix brand name dating back to 1994.
Anyone here remember the Tech Hi-Fi chain? Amazing gear they sold, they were a chain that started in the MIT neighborhood as I recall. Advent, Crown, all the good stuff way back in the day.
So I'm totally making this up but if interia is about the rate of change being the same, I can imagine a population bottleneck forcing more change as the remaining population finds a niche.
Not only that, but also with every release links pointing to older versions stop working, breaking stackoverflow answers, blog posts, and a host of other things.
They should not do anything inside the apps on Appstore.

If you make a claim, you have to back it up with reasons. Your statement is not self-evident.
The post-covid internet is rife with stories where people discover their classmate/coworker is a Twitch streamer because the person pops onto Zoom with high-quality lighting and camera and their picture quality is so glorious that everyone else's looks like a fuzzy classic film by comparison.

Most people's Zoom video is poor quality because it's "garbage in, garbage out". Barely-passable camera, and lighting that's actively hostile to picture quality, because nobody cares as long as your face is more or less visible.
There is an ongoing viral trend on TikTok that basically mocks Pakistani culture via a viral video of a woman cycling a line of Pakistani children who take a microphone to announce their future ambition.

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Resorting to ad hominems only demonstrates that you're not interested in engaging productively.

So this claim about having infrastructure to manipulate hydrogen is referring to the chemical industry, where hydrogen frequently used as an input. You're right that the chemical industry does use hydrogen and we have infrastructure to use it in the Haber process, and refining hydrocarbons and more. But this infrastructure doesn't translate to using hydrogen as a form of energy storage. The US has less than 1,000 miles of hydrogen pipeline [1]. Most hydrogen production facilities are located close to the point of demand. Our experience manipulating hydrogen has taught us that it's important to minimize to minimize the amount of transport required.

Also, almost all of these many millions of tons of hydrogen produced each year are produced through steam reformation [2]. This is not carbon neutral, and renewable hydrogen production must be done through electrolysis or thermochemical hydrogen production instead.

By comparison, there's a larger need to transport hydrogen if we're using hydrogen as a form of energy storage. Hydrogen storage is underground, and electrolysis needs to be done by a source of water. The source and destination have different required geographic features - transport is unavoidable. Alternatively you could pipe the water to the electrolysis plant, but then you're moving 9 times as much mass through the pipeline - water is 1 part hydrogen to 8 parts oxygen by mass.

So the claim that we have extensive infrastructure in manipulating hydrogen wasn't a misunderstanding in that natural gas infrastructure can be used to transport hydrogen. It was a misunderstanding in that the infrastructure used to manipulate hydrogen in the context of the chemical industry translates into infrastructure for renewable hydrogen production, and hydrogen transport and storage. It doesn't: most of our hydrogen is produced through steam reformation, and our hydrogen infrastructure is built around minimizing need to transport and store hydrogen.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_infrastructure#:~:tex....

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production
People tend to recommend alpinejs for very light js interactivity without a full framework. The tailwind folks use it a lot
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