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Hey, thanks for your comment.

Thanks to you I now understand where the confusion comes from, and that's exactly what you wrote.

From their website "As part of our efforts to reach our environmental goals, Apple Watch does not include a power adapter. Please use your existing Apple power adapter or add a new one before you check out."

Being French, I read that as "does not include a charger" indeed. Reading you I now realize that means only the power adapter, and not the cable.

I think it mostly comes down to me not being a Native English speaker I guess.

Oh well, I'll know it for next time.
Yes, sure a little unfair and nitpicky, but still the title baited me to click and left me unimpressed. I wonder if my impression had been better if the content matched the expectations.
You can use voiceover as a way to add a lot of context and “color” to a UI. I make a big effort to support voiceover in my apps. In fact, most of the text that I translate is never seen by the user[0].

On the Mac, I also like to use tooltips, applying the same string as voiceover.

[0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/ambiamara/blob/bbb1d98... (Note, also, that these voiceover strings have been localized in French, German, and Spanish).
For starters, it’s not possible to measure how much value an employee generates. When I worked as a consultant, I billed $x per year, is that how much value I generated? No. How much of that value did sales generate? How much did the secretary generate? How much did the cleaner generate? How much of my colleagues value did I generate by referring clients to them when I was at capacity? Or by helping them with their work when they needed it? Or vice versa?...

I think you’ve made a bigger over sight here though:

> In a mainly remote programmer labor market, that we seem to be entering, all employers in the entire US are in your local labor market, so that should work out fine.

What you would expect from this is a new equilibrium prices that is a) lower than the current highest paid region, and b) higher than the current lowest paid region. Which is a situation that doesn’t benefit anybody currently working in the large metros.

A worse (but likely inevitable) outcome would be if wages started trending towards a price somewhere in between San Francisco and Manila.
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OMG that Epyx joystick [1] in the screenshot brings it all flooding back! I hated that thing so much that I went to my local arcade parts dealer, bought a stick and buttons, built a plexiglass housing and circuit board (designed in Deluxe Paint) in the electronics lab at my high school, and cannibalized that horrible Epyx joystick for its plug. Best decision I ever made! SOTB and Turrican were so much nicer with an arcade stick. I even added toggle switches to reroute one of the buttons to "up" (since many games used up for jump).

I still have the buttons and joystick, though the home-built plexiglas housing didn't fare so well over the years.

[1] https://bytecellar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/a2000.jpg
Completely agree. The first time I tried it was a disaster - hated what I was doing and missed what I did before. A second attempt a few years later when I was ready and I thrived.
This has been discussed to death on HN already. There's not much to be added. It's one thing if GitHub were forcing us at gunpoint from being able to use Master for the name of the default/main branch. But they're just changing the default. Make it Master or whatever if you feel so inclined, you're still free to do so. Save your energy for when they do start banning repos which have Master as a branch name or something.
In the beginning, Computers were people who computed things.

Then mechanical adding machines came along and made them more productive, but demand kept up. A phase change

Then tabulating and sorting machines, along with storage on cards brought formal methods of managing data to organizations. A phase change

Then electronic computers were put into place to start to do the computing. The humans who previously computed were in demand elsewhere. A phase change

There was 1 programmer... Alan Turing... then 100, then more... the rate of doubling about every 5 years, on average since then.

Computers were expensive, and it took time to learn to get the most out of them. Over time, libraries of code began to be commonly used, and operating systems were born. A phase change

As the price of computers went down, and the amount of programmers and data went up, there were punch card operators, who transcribed handwriting to punched cards.

The computers still required maintenance, tubes to replace, circuits to adjust, etc... they were kept away from everything else in their own rooms. Operators were the priesthood that emerged to care for them.

Every new computer was faster, but incompatible... requiring frequent rewriting of applications to be compatible with the new systems. Most programs had a life of less than a decade.

Then IBM broke the rules, and the 360 could run 1401. Backward compatibility and legacy code were born, a phase change. Programmers didn't need to rewrite code, but by accident this created the Y2K problem.

Online teletype printers and time sharing allowed programmers and users to directly access the machines. Cardpunch operators were no longer needed.
Programming got a lot faster, and complexity went up.

Then Minicomputers came along, and were easier for end users, another phase change.

Then Microcomputers came along, and everyone had their own computer... you needed about 1 Administrator for 20-50 PCs, to fix the problems, and keep things going

Then things got more reliable, and went to the cloud, so administrators got outsourced, another phase change

What makes any of you really think that there won't be another phase change?

The reason there aren't many old developers is that every 5 years the number of programmers doubled.... so most have less than 5 years experience. There are about 120 times more programmers now than when I started, 7 programmer doublings ago.

We may, or may not, have a phase change that devalues programmers, developers, devops, architects, whatever you care to call yourself.

I myself did programming, then electronics technician work, then 15 years as a sysadmin, then 5 years making Bevel Gears....now I'm diving back into programming.
I have not benchmarked the open source PnR tools, but I expect they are orders of magnitude worse qor than what a commercial one can do. I don't know a LOC comparison between SV and PnR but I'd say both are huge undertakings at commercial features set.
This isn't how the launch orders are issued.

Submarines do not have a voice channel to the president, or to the military command. They receive coded signals that instruct them to take particular actions. Creating the appropriate coded signal is a fundamental part of the launch control chain.

Also if the president is killed, and the vice president and the head of the senate... eventually the question is "who has the codes" - if it was "something you are" then the first thing that an adversary would do is kill the are and then follow up as they pleased while the c&c system flailed.
> binding arbitration, which the House panel said gives Amazon the upper hand in disputes

What is the basis for this? I have gone to arbitration against a big company, and won. The arbitrators were all judges, and the only difference from my experience with court proceedings was the speed and cost.
I was just commenting on how HN makes the text literally unreadable when you get downvoted enough
At the end of the day all electronics are just space heaters with interesting side effects. It's getting cold and I'm using my GPU to heat my living space, it just happens to emit computation as well. Gotta keep gaming to capture the excess value!
You literally couldn't have used the web much earlier than 1994 unless you were running a NeXT machine. I know because I've been on the net since 1988 and 1994 was when I first started browsing the web.

If you were on Windows it was tricky then as you had to download and configure your own tcp/ip stack. That was possible due to the ingenuity of Peter Tattam who sold software that let you do that. I met him back then and to some of us he was a true rockstar programmer.
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Science is specifically not just using "common sense", what are you talking about?

And no, I don't need to buy into the idea of climate change at all to take the contents of the article at face value.
> How many small retail businesses keep multiple bricks and mortar locations solely as a backup in case one location becomes unusable?

This is an insurable risk. (Property, renter and/or business interruption.)

As you mention, abuse by business partners is not insurable. Which is why one should not be 100% dependent on a small number of them.

In this case, 100% of the inventory should not have been with Amazon. And 100% of their wealth should not have been in inventory. None of this takes away from his claims on Amazon, of course.
Except Pinker's perspective is supported by data.
The cables die all the time! (depending on how much exposed innards you are comfortable with). They last longer when other family members are not using them but even my exclusive, careful use of one that only sits by my bed has pulled itself apart.

The article is a bit of a strawman but I think it's inexcusable to be charging nearly twice the price of the charger for a 2m cable that disintegrates after a year or two. Especially when - as you say - they've changed the one in the box backwards-incompatibly (and it's 1m too).
So the US nuclear arsenal is commanded by the generals?
I quite enjoy the concept that the Hawaiian pizza uses “thousand island” sauce. Though I’m not sure if I’d like the flavor.
Can we just say that the new iPhone 12 is $850, $830 if you don't want the charger, and finish with this nonsense?

The amount of drama around $20 charger from people able & willing to pay premium product is astounding.
They had conical vessels for baking, so it would be more like a warhead. And haven't invented frisbee yet.
The purpose of enlightenment is to eventually not re-emerge.
I think OP was referring to cross-platform support and being able to work with people who don't have a Mac, unless I am misunderstanding.
Not a sketch user but I like this. Not every piece of software has to be used by everybody. There are tens of millions of designer surely, making a program for a decent subset is still worthwhile.
> wasting their mental energy (computional power) on a board game where the same amount of energy can be expended into building new ways of curing cancer or whatever important problem

Frankly I'm much more worried about engineers wasting their mental energy on improving tracking of users to sell useless stuff that will end up in a landfill.

Hardcore optimization of one's life is the path to becoming soulless imho.
This.

Not only renaming, but re-bundling entities, moving layers, changing abstractions – refactoring is crucial during and immediately after development. As you implement your idea, you will inevitably find a better way to express it, and it's crucial to be able to re-do these things as many times as possible to reach the best possible result (if it's not a throwaway prototype, of course): no maintainer, including yourself a month later, will have a picture as full and clear as you right after finishing the first iteration.
This feels like a Poe’s law moment.
WebHID API, allowing a web page to communicate with HID devices
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Completely agree. I find that the right name takes ages to come about. Worse, it may require a lot of architectural refactoring that, many times, has nothing to do with the one entity you are trying to name. Instead, it is connected with the entire workflow you are designing. Nothing worse than spending ages coming up with the right name for a class, only to find out the entire class is not needed and you got the workflow all wrong :-) which I have done many a time, to be fair
I like the movement pattern of "Chicken general and pup general"... it reminds me of something..
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The article quotes the two reviews which claim the items are fake; it's pretty clear the people are just throwing out the claim of "fake" to get leverage. Amazon asked the seller for the receipts from the manufacturers to prove that they were real; he gave them, but Amazon said they didn't count because they were more than a year old. But that's when he actually bought the merchandise, so I'm not sure what Amazon expected him to do.
Not sure how the long term exchange rate movements are relevant for most people who take a paycheck, spend a great deal of it, then use the rest to pay down debt or invest. Not many people are choosing to long term hold and deciding between dollars or pesos. And even if paid in pesos you could open a dollar bank account anywhere.
What a great computer. Way ahead of its time. Still usable today. It is one of the last computers produced where all the components are well documented.

The legacy it left behind is huge. Whenever I meet another dev and find out that we have similar background it is like meeting an old friend.

The computer might be discontinued but it's legacy will live on forever.
Recently I keep seeing references to protecting oneself by wearing a mask.

When did the narrative shift from "wear a mask to limit transmission to others in case you might be infected and asymptomatic" to "wear a mask to protect yourself"?

Assuming we are talking about the usual surgical / cloth masks here (not N95 etc), is there any evidence that they protect the wearer?

We all know that mask wearing and the science (or lack of it) to support it has become ridiculously politicised, but I'm curious if there's any evidence behind this particular shift.
It doesn't even need that, really. Zigbee and similar long range wireless mesh networks are very realistic (and probably cheaper) for basic usage data.

Bandwidth is much more limited so it probably won't send screenshots of what you're watching like has been reported with some TVs. Screenshots aren't really needed, though, when there's a host of other metadata and on-device processing available.
Thanks for educating me - I was unaware of that and have changed my opinion.

For anyone else thinking like I was, this is the evidence from the UK government site [1]:

Research has shown that DRLs are likely to reduce multiple vehicle daytime accidents and fatalities by up to 6% once all vehicles are equipped. DRL are likely to result in a small increase in fuel consumption and CO² emissions of around 0.5% but this is expected to be lower when LEDs are used in place of filament light sources.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/daytime-running-l...

Doesn't apply to wireless phone charging though, so I'm standing by that comment until someone disabuses me of that too..
> Sometimes a big, fat block of code is just easier to understand.

John Carmack made once the same comment: http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carm...
Except one is your choice, the other you have no control over?
For comparison. The Kirin 9000 (which includes a 5G modem) appears to have 15.3B transistors, the A14 has 11.8B transistors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count

Has a big table listing a number of historical CPUs.
Interesting, thanks. Maybe because The Netherlands actually did ( or suffered ) so little, it has been Holocaust front and center.
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I have a hard time believing that a CNN announcer would keep his/her job after saying this about Trump on national TV:

"His dick stinks badly like kebab, even a pig's fart smells nicer. He is the man who beats girls while wearing rubber masks. Most of all he likes to fuck goats and oppress minorities."

But like Wikipedia says, Böhmerman retained his job. In my opinion, that's the difference. A higher level of tolerance for speech that most people disagree with.
I have been using Cashfree.com (another YC grad) for handling API based payouts and collections for our marketplace. Pretty stable.

There are a lot of large businesses like Cred, Zomato, Mi etc. that use cashfree for real time API based payouts from virtual or owned bank accounts.

The key to this product is success rate of payouts. Every failed payout cost about Rs.200-300 of human effort in support and reconciliation costs.

PS: I am also a minor stake holder in this company.
The legal problems for Facebook was mainly because they were an active party to the collection process, which could not have happened without that active participation.

This collection can happen manually, within the users’ regular and fully authorized use, without facebooks involvement, and in fact without any ability for them to figure out that it happens.

That it happens through a browser extension (which they may or may not be technically able to detect) should not change legality or legitimacy.
This is something we wrote at decent length about in the past — let me know if this is helpful for your use case.

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of all the features you mention, except TTS none depend on the app being written in a specific framework as far as I know ?
(and I don't remember TTS not working in e.g. Qt apps for instance - at least I know that I sometimes bash my keyboards repeatedly to stop the damn thing that I opened by whatever goddamn shortcut :D)
I built a state monitor using Flask
It is exceptional according to this reasoning.
They pay because there is not enough of this 5nm fab. Business does not go against engineering, that’s all.
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On which platforms? Are you including the firmware runningon the BLE chip, or just what is on the PC CPU?
The history of the original Antifa and its founder Ernst Thälmann is also well worth a read.

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2018/10/how-left-e...
Yes, it seems that ads are at the root of many problems (e.g. user tracking, overconsumption). Perhaps this is what the senate should be addressing instead.

However, currently ads are also a driving force behind the internet.
>I think getting business domain expertise counts for a lot, as does learning to work with people who aren’t software geeks. People skills, domain expertise, and a good network count for more than tech skills when freelancing. Most of the things I work on aren’t technically complex, but have significant business value.

Yes. I'm in diapers in terms of experience compared to you, but I tweeted about this as a reply to people who want to get into consulting/freelancing. A few things that came to my mind at that time from exclusively dealing with large organizations for mid six figure contracts that one or two motivated people could pull off[0][1].

Are you doing this as an individual or through a company? In any case, why one and not the other?

- [0]: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/131066829330549965...

- [1]: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/131971626283503206...
My 3950x got to 315W socket power with OC. It wasn't stable, as it was just testing.
The NYT also denied to communist atrocities in Ukraine[0]. Fuck the NYT. Also Vox, which is clickbait propaganda "what oligarchs wished you'd believe."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_the_Holodomor
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They use Emmer wheat, which is the variety that would have been used at the time. It's still grown commercially on a small scale, so you can buy some to try out without too much cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmer
Is it illegal in the US to download copyrighted material?
It only has access to what the user is browsing; if a friend hasn’t posted in a year (and doesn’t appear on timeline) and user doesn’t go specifically to their page, then adobserver would be oblivious the the existence of that user (and of the friend relation).

This is entirely unlike an FB app like CA’s that had full unadulterated access to anything the user might browse.
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An business analyst appeared in the wild (..) as a consequence of stakeholders not knowing or having the necessary skills. BAs are experts in illiciting user requirements and transforming them into specifications and goals you can use to solve a problem.

Unless you know your goal you will never be able to deliver on your customer's expectations.
As usual in modern-day journalism, the truth is paywalled while the lies are free.

I suspect that's going to become a bit of a problem at some point.
> latter of which have darker skin than the average Israeli

Do they? I'm pretty sure that average israeli is mizrahi.
Yes it's part of Google Workspace (G Suite). It's sold to corporate customers, so it shouldn't disappear without solution.
If I want to contribute meaningfully, I need hardware to test on. To get hardware, I must contribute something first.

Is there something I'm not getting? Is this a filter to make sure only people that know git will get hardware to start hacking on top of?
Many years ago, I made that mistake two or three times, rebooting the wrong machine. Since then, I use molly-guard on all my remote machines. Never happened again.
They will be complete when we realize that they can be better implemented as generic virtual machines.
s/scurvy/rickets/g

Rickets is most commonly caused by vitamin D deficiency. I suspect the comment which you replied to made an honest mistake confusing scurvy with rickets.
That sounds like a fun read. Thanks for telling us about it!
Yup. Senior dev here, my own devops config screw up wiped out all production sales order data earlier this year. Had to restore from multiple backups, took a while. Stressful experience.

Consider network partitioning so dev/test/accept just has 0 contact with prod.
These are really helpful suggestions, especially the one about applying for jobs. Thank you.
IMO:

Any protocol or mechanism written by Google is surely to give it more control over the Internet, hence advertising and hence revenue.

Not only AMP, but HTTP 2, QUIC, DNS over HTTPS are all things that Google wanted to have control over. I certainly hope the free internet moves into Tor and the rest of the dark web, and is certainly not indexable by Google.

Also, stop using Google Chrome if you wish to do the web a favor.
> you don't have to risk being locked into a platform you don't control

Except the v2 update changes this from local or cloud storage to cloud only. So in order to use the app at all you do have to upload your documents to servers you don't control. But this isn't my biggest pain point, as long as export capabilities are comprehensive and my data is private.

But that's not the case here. For an open-source app that requires uploading personal documents to yet another USA-based server there is a surprising lack of focus on privacy. Without end-to-end encryption it's unreasonable to take the privacy risk that serious use of this app entails. And I've been burned by one too many productivity apps to believe there's not going to be a willful or accidental privacy breach here too.