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> Apple is notoriously anti consumer on everything from hardware to software.

Yet millions of people continue to happily give them money without being forced to, unlike say Microsoft or Google that you just cannot avoid even if you don't own any of their products.

I was a Windows/PC user for most of my life before I switched to Macs and in my experience Apple has been consistently more consumer-friendly than Microsoft or Google.

In fact my first foray into the Apple ecosystem was an iPad that I bought as a gift for someone, and fell in love with it so much I wanted to develop for iOS and bought my very first Mac for that. So far nothing has made me consider switching to Microsoft or Google.

The only thing I hate about Apple is their poor documentation and lack of official support on their own forums.
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That's neat, but doing sound design and creating listenable/good compositions are two different endeavors. You'd likely be better off writing an actual DSP engine in C than trying to diddle with frequencies in this way. Use Supercollider if you actually want to make music with code rather than just do little experiments like this.
At this point the state might as well just take over the company as it sounds like they have essentially done so through regulation anyway.
> This is awful for our happiness, our culture, our productivity.

Maybe, but I don’t think I can respond better than what someone already said: "Life is a bitch and then you die. Get over it."
Not all of them. Nuclear fallout shelters exist. A Mars base is like that, but it needs flying to Mars and landing from orbit and constructing in a spacesuit with almost no local materials and no supply chain and few people, and you can't come back when the dust settles, and that makes it orders of magnitude more expensive and difficult.

> The risk of staying on a single planet is crazy.

Unless you plan to clone yourself, you are staying on a single planet whatever happens.
If you think disaster is coming any time soon, you'd save more people trying to avert or survive it on Earth. To prioritise saving a, what, 50 person research base on Mars that doesn't exist yet over billions of people who exist right now on Earth by spending your resources on a research base on Mars instead of an asteroid detection and diversion system for Earth is crazy.

If your priority was saving the most people, Mars wouldn't be on the list. Orbital space stations are closer. The Moon is closer. Under-ocean habitats are closer. Underground habitats are closer. Self-contained arcologies are closer. (Wearing a mask is closer).
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You can use jack or soundflower to pipe audio into Live from the outside.
> This is a core California infrastructure problem, and along with crumbling roads and bridges is symptomatic of the challenges California citizens have to deal with more and more.

A core infrastructure problem at the whim of shareholders instead of citizens, it's not hard to see why their goals don't align with their purpose.

The state should either come down hard with regulations mandating minimum power delivery and safety that takes these new issues into consideration. Or they should be made a public company.

If they can't afford to run the grid infrastructure given new requirements then it's obvious a private company is not a safe caretaker of the states key infrastructure and the state will need to take up the costs so that California can remain a first world state. That's why you all pay taxes, to provide services not make profit.
It is interesting how little people understand history and how this has been the norm over the millenia. These things happened in Babylon and in Persia thereafter. It happened in Rome and Greece. It happened in 7th century Arabia and continues to today. It happened in the 15th Spain until the 19th century. It happened in Europe in the early 20th century. It happened in Russia from the early to late 20th century. It happened in the USA in the mid 20th century. It has happened in China since the early 20th century. It is happening now in all sorts of countries throughout the world today. These are just a small selection of this problem happening at various times and in various places throughout history.

The warnings about this have been know for a long, long time and it requires vigilance on the part of the citizens of every nation to play their part in protecting the freedoms one has.

Unfortunately, there are far too many who get all too easily offended and are all too easily lead into fear by whatever leadership exists in their respective countries.

We have no resilience in our populations today.
You seem to imply that it's a bad thing they are spending the money trying to get "street people" off the street.

How would you recommend they handle the homelessness crisis?
Is is normal in the US? I live in what one might consider a third world country, know quite a few insulin-dependent diabetics, and this story is appalling to me. I've never heard of any diabetic running out of their medication and having to ask the internet for help. Just call the local equivalent of 911 and they'll sort it out.

Jesus.
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That's my experience too.

Recently had to deal with some Slack bot written in js at work, and my coworkers had to deal with me ranting about that crap for a whole afternoon.

The way I put it was, this code was written in the most complicated way possible, for no apparent reason.
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Hey,

I'm displeased with my job (software consultancy company) both in terms of career opportunities and toxic/BS nature. I"m quite passionate about any job so it hurts my mental state to having to fight BS while spending the day busy doing unchallenging work. I'm looking for advise on how you came across dealing with being in bad jobs especially with covid. Also interested to know if you are currently facing the same issue and how you are tackling it.

I do recognize there are obviously some underlying issues at play here, I do feel like I'm unable to make a change in life in general sometimes.

Here are some thoughts I have,

1. Keep going at the current job and keep looking on the side.

Problem I have here is I don't want to place too much mental pressure on doing well at the job and committing to interviews and job searching. So this mean I likely continue to show a lack of commitment regarding to studying interviews/applying, making finding a good job a very long process

2. Leave the job, take time off to focus on new opportunities/learning/covid break.

I don't have an issue with supporting myself for many years. I took a lot of risks when i was younger however now I'm now in my 30s, more cautious, and do fear unstability and judgement. So I do not know if I have a good enough reason to do this. Specifically I haven't been showing consistency in focusing on studying/job. Also I'm concerned if i can use all my free time effectively, If covid didn't exists, it would be easier to find more purposeful things to do part time while job searching (volunteering, working on friendships/relationships)

3. Do nothing, practice Stoicism

I think this is what I'm doing most of the weeks, trying ignoring the BS issues/people, focus on day to day tasks, staying focused on getting through isolation and letting time pass. However I know the job situation won't get better on its own for the next year at least.

Thanks,
So in integer factorization there are two different quantities that one might naturally want to denote by N: the number you want to factor and the number of bits required to specify that number (i.e, the input length).

The convention is to let N be the number to be factored, in which case log_2(N) is the input length. Hence, an algorithm that runs in time "polynomial (in the input length)" would have to run in time log(N)^k for some k.
I believe airplane and ship displays are similar, for what it's worth.
Likewise, I broke/dislocated/tore ligaments in my ankle simultaneously and required nerve block for the surgery. By far the worst part of my injury was coming off the nerve block at 5am and taking a Percocet every 30 minute until I could fall asleep at 9am while holding back my groans so as to not wake up anyone else in the house.

My anecdote was I once asked for a prescription for 1 Percocet per month for the one time a month I need serious pain relief and was referred to physio therapy after having already done 2 years of it. I even had my previous prescription from the surgery with 40 out of the 60 pills remaining to offer as proof of my none addiction. I often wonder how many live with chronic pain because of similar circumstances.
But then there won’t be a fall guy when things go wrong.
Signal to noise, mate. This isn't like chat with coworkers over lunch, "have you taken thermal expansion of the turboencabulator into account?" where there's a high potential for novelty. Nay, 90% of these comments are:

Did you try (increasing exercise/water intake/sleep/just not sucking)? How about (decreasing gluten/carbs/aspartame/"toxins"/bogons)? it's just low-hanging fruit.
Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4
Womankind not included? ;-)
Algol 60 is a marvel and I feel like it's a language every programmer should learn at least to the point of coding a few basic algorithms.

The closest analog of call by-name I can think of is Common Lisp macros.
> Why should your property taxes go up just because the market around you skyrockets, when this is completely outside of your control?

The fallacy of the argument for tax breaks to homeowners is that the problem of rising prices is entirely orthogonal to homeownership. Renters face the exact same challenge of affording to live in an increasingly popular place, except without the cushion of an appreciating asset and without any tax relief under Proposition 13. If renters and homeowners face the exact same problem, then clearly subsidies to property owners is not the solution.

The finances of homeownership should be decomposed into two parts: 1) the rental cost of the property, and 2) what fraction of the rent goes to the government in property taxation.

The remedy for rising rents is obvious: more construction of housing and rental subsidies to the poor. This is how to address the underlying problem for homeowners and especially for renters. Temporary rent controls and tax caps can also be helpful to provide relief for people who were caught off guard by the rapid changes. Note that the solution should help all those who are affected by the problem, not only the ones who own more assets.

When property values are rising, this is not an excuse to enact regressive tax breaks for property owners; that just makes inequality worse without solving the underlying problem of lack of housing, which then becomes worse for renters and future homeowners. Property taxation is the most progressive form of taxation available to local governments, and if anything tax rates should be increased when there is a property value boom in order to reduce the incentive to speculate on land prices and to raise money to solve the problems associated with inequality such as homelessness. Basically, when I bought a house in San Francisco, I paid a windfall of a few hundred thousand dollars to the previous owner, who took that money out to a different county. It would have been better for the city to collect that money and use it to incentivize housing construction and subsidize the poor in the city, rather than to let it be lottery winnings to the person who left.
Cars are bigger than people, which is why they get more space.

People want to get from point A to point B, without it taking 2 hours to get there.
This is what is amazing, you can't answer the question "what was the last DOS game made?" because people are still making DOS games [1].

Thanks for posting this, will certainly check some of these out.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSKeWH4TY9Y&t=8s
Well, yes, that would make more sense.

I assume the idea behind the current setup is that having the state own a power company would be "communist", whereas having a "private" power company for which the state determines the areas it serves, the rates it charges customers, and how it spends its money is "not communist".
Given the way you were able to logically group data so that producers and their consumers are in the same zone, would it not have been simpler to just create three completely independent 3-node clusters, rather than worry about all this at the partition and keying level?
This pattern sort-of exists in France too. The smaller streets have appropriate signage.

In fact France has several dozen different signs that as a US driver I had to learn and relearn. My wife who grew up there keeps pointing out my mistakes every time we visit.
This post was easier to read than the article :)
I think Google has the best speech to text technology in the world right now.
> but blaming people for trying to help in a social setting is probably not the right way to look at it

And yet, the path to Hell is paved with ...
Mine doesn't bother me during the day, but it does at night. Depending on how tired I am, it may take me anywhere from 20 minutes to 3 hours to fall asleep.
> I don't know if you've noticed, but "policy over mechanism" has thoroughly won in the desktop space. The dominant desktop is Windows; even macOS has several times the mind/market share that Linux has.

Windows exposes lots of WM mechanisms to a developer, hence why something like vrdesktop.net could be built in the first place, or previous WMs like LiteStep for that matter.

It is also why WINE does not, and cannot, have a working Wayland backend while sticking to the protocol. The same is true for X, but there XWayland requires the compositor developer to implement a sideband window manager to hack around the entire Wayland protocol to get X clients to work.
> The team immediately spotted the tradeoffs: while Meet’s captions were built in, there’s no history, meaning each person had to dedicate their attention to the captions to make sure they didn’t miss anything.

I actually wrote a js bookmarklet to solve this problem by continuously capturing the caption updates and writing them into a separate window. It's a little janky, but works (at least until Meet releases the next update that changes the obfuscated class names in the DOM). https://zlkj.in/bookmarklets#record-meet-captions
I spent a year reading all of the English language ones and it has made me a MUCH better programmer. I can't recommend them highly enough. Also his book A Discipline of Programming was seminal for me.
It's natural since a number of the people on HN are the very people programming the tools used to spy on us and enforce these laws.
Here is the thing: it's trivial to map those basic features back to X. That's already mostly been done. If you continue with that solution you'll have the same problem in reverse—assuming X support ever gets removed from the toolkits, then in that situation you'll get Wayland apps that depend on some Wayland functionality that doesn't work. See what I mean?

(IMO we're pretty far off from X support being removed if it ever even happens, so I wouldn't worry too much about that right now)

And I actually don't think it's a big deal that there are separate implementations. You can absolutely still write programs that do these things, and people do. Usually you start with targeting just one implementation and then you port it to the others. All you need is an API to abstract the custom protocols. A lot of those differences are already abstracted in the portals API which has those three separate implementations so you may not even need to do any porting if that fits. Worst case, if something isn't in the portals API then you have some three clause switch statements when you make protocol requests. Then after you stabilize it, move those switch statements into a library and then other people can use it as an abstraction layer, and nobody needs to write the switch statements again. Yeah it's work, but for an app developer it's actually easier to do that than getting all the upstreams to standardize everything.
> Would you be happy to be forced to give it away, if it's not what you intended to do with it?

This is not analogous to the pharmaceutical situation where they sell drugs and use the force of government to prevent anyone else from producing those same drugs. No one is arguing that pharmaceutical companies should have to give their product away. We just don’t like them preventing other people from manufacturing those same drugs.

> Would you be happy to be forced to keep producing it at a loss to yourself?

This is also not what is being suggested.
I really feel for him, and hope he’s able to pull through. Dealing with one major health issue is a big deal. I can’t imagine dealing with multiple issues and still functioning to help others.

Gratitude for being “healthy enough” is what I try to practice, because I know that things could be unimaginably worse in a matter of days or weeks as time passes.

We’ve come a long, long way in healthcare — both in terms of preventative measures and curative measures — in the last one century. But many a times I’m still left with the feeling that the progress required, with the progress being affordable as well as accessible to all, is orders of magnitude more than what we’ve achieved. Almost makes me wish for a time machine so I could go two hundred years in the future and marvel at the medical achievements and how many issues are easily dealt with (considering a mostly-positive future scenario).
I read the comment and find no such implication.
He runs this website which claims that CO2 doesn’t cause global warming: https://globalwarmingsolved.com/faq/#physics. Calling him anything more than a crank is extremely generous
"Trump commits crimes".

"Yeah but what happens if Biden commits theoretical crimes in the future? What then?"

Great point.
Wut? I'm mildly concerned I might be taking crazy pills.

Literally look at the graph you posted. The deficit was higher in every year of Obama's first term than any year of Trump's first term. You realize you want the bars to be smaller, right?

I take it back; keep reading the news. At this point I'm not sure much can be done for you.
I think the story isn't the end of the repairable iPhone. It's about the end of the consumer (or consumer segment) who cares enough to vote with their dollars for repairability more than new functionality and price.

We are all free to vote with our money what we want. We collectively choose not to, on average.
Yes, it is normal. There are coupons for insulin that some pharmacists can give out, but they are not guaranteed. Insulin is prohibitively expensive without coupons or insurance. So many people in the US die as a result because they simply cannot afford to purchase the drug that costs pennies to produce.
The domain appears to still be owned by the original founder 'Dutchcoders'
> If money was no issue you could just build a ton of pumped hydro in Scotland and or batter storage.

Wikipedia says "The potential for further practical and viable hydroelectricity power stations in the UK is estimated to be in the region of 146 to 248 MW for England and Wales,[4] and up to 2,593 MW for Scotland.[5] However, by the nature of the remote and rugged geographic locations of some of these potential sites, in national parks or other areas of outstanding natural beauty, it is likely that environmental concerns would mean that many of them would be deemed unsuitable, or could not be developed to their full theoretical potential." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity_in_the_United...

Pumped-hydro storage doesn't need existing water, but the national grid averages 30GW and peaks at 40GW ( http://grid.iamkate.com/ ) are there enough places to build "a ton of pumped hydro" for that kind of size which are suitable for the above criteria as well?
Vocal conservatives get fired from their jobs in any well paying line of work. Conservative leaning stories are censored from all news outlets except those listened to exclusively by conservatives.
The very last thing in the universe the Governor wants to do is take over PG&E.

Then they’d be reposnible for it all. Better to have public “oversight” and whip them everytime something goes wrong. If Newsom were making the blackout decisions, he’d be recalled already.
I feel a reason the state doesn’t want to take over is because of the liability. Would a good middle ground be having a cooperative take over instead? That way the state wouldn’t face liability and the new organization would have more goals aligned with customers. Another option is to have the state fund more incentives for solar
So I’ve almost reared ended a WayMo car in MV a few years ago because the damn thing near-stopped due to tree shadows.

I wonder how many were caused by aberrant behaviorism the part of the waymo vehicle...
> Would the same medicine be created (often costing large sums of money) if they didn't have the incentive of profit? What's the alternative that creates the same quality and quantity?

No, in fact they might produce different drugs rather than slightly modifying [0] a very old drug [1] because they can renew the i.p. protections and go back to selling lifesaving drugs to sick people at unaffordable prices.

[0] CellCept

[1] mycophenolate
...spending their windfall PG&E fine money on fire prevention...

Do people in California still believe fires can be "prevented"? You live in an arid climate. The undergrowth will burn every year, or everything will burn every decade. There is no other option.
The holographic principle combined with "infinity means the theory fails" is what brought me to post my -3 voted comment. Interestingly, none of the commenters have been negative only the casual down-voters. Where's PBS Space Time when you need them?
Type 1 diabetics regularly do not recieve adequate care, even at the basic life-support level here in the US.
Decoy transmitting turtle eggs put in nests to track illegal trade
The packaging nightmare is why I left Debian and Ubuntu for Arch. I now maintain multiple packages in the AUR with relative ease, and see how easily other maintainers manage multiple packages like Kubernetes without issue, but if it was using Deb packages it would be a full-time job.
Do that enough times and nobody will invest in California's anything.
His proof format is amazing. I've used it ever since I discovered it in one of the last EWDs.
I don't know if that's a good analogy. Banks can also shut down your account at will; they have to give you your money but they don't have to continue providing any services. And banking is private but social media is public. It's reasonable that if a social network closes your account they should give you a backup, but forcing social networks to continue hosting offensive material in public because the user "owns" their account sounds untenable, especially since the user doesn't pay.
This is some kind of Adult Swim ARG, right?
Maybe this is true about tech, but you really must have never met anybody that even made it to pro camp in the NFL or NBA. I was pretty close with a dude that had only one year of football before being drafted and then won the NFL rushing title the next year. On the other hand, I played since I was 7, won a state title at 9, and put everything into it for years afterward, but it wasn't long before I couldn't be drafted to carry water bottles for a real team.