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When the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE was released, I was so sure I was going to prefer it over the Pixel 5. I even liked its photos better in all the camera comparisons-- all except for excessive blue-ing of the sky and the softening of features in selfies that doesn't go away even if you turn off the beautifying feature.

It's just so much better on paper. Faster charging (with separate charger), expandable storage, zoom lens, wider wide-angle lens, 120 Hz refresh, MUCH faster processor. All for the same price as the Pixel 5.

I'd already preordered the Pixel so I figured I'd just let it come and return it after testing both together.

Well, I did test them both together, and I'm returning the Samsung. (Remains to be seen if I'll keep the Pixel 5 or stick with my Pixel 2.)

I really wanted to like the Samsung; I had really high hopes when people said OneUI had gotten better. But it somehow just feels so sluggish. The face unlock doesn't recognize my face a lot of the time, and the on-screen fingerprint sensor (which only lets me register 3 fingers apparently?) doesn't recognize my finger like 60% of the time. So instead of just being able to pick it up and use it instantly like I can with my Pixels, it usually takes 5-10 seconds for me to get into my phone, as I fiddle around to get either the fingerprint sensor or face unlock to recognize me before sometimes having to just swipe my pattern. The refresh rate is 120 Hz yet for some reason it feels like there's a delay whenever I try to swipe through the UI. The camera is good but it bothers me even more than I expected, how much it tries to smooth my face.

Anyway, the point of this comment isn't to be a review of the Samsung phone, but just to highlight how jarring it was to experience all of that after having a Pixel phone that just worked. Even at my P2's 60Hz it feels more snappy than this brand new phone with a 120Hz display and top-of-the-line processor. Granted, I haven't tried many other phones than a Pixel in a while so maybe they're better, but I would just remind everyone that specs aren't everything. The Pixel 5 runs smooth and does everything I want it to well (although it does take longer than I'd like to process photos).

My only problem is that my Pixel 2 also ran smoothly and did everything I wanted it to. The only reason I'm considering the Pixel 5 is the bigger screen and wide-angle camera. So we'll see how I feel in a few days.
Crazy. How often do you see TV ads for firearms, firearms dealers, or gun shows these days?

I figured that the US just seemed to get crazy around 2012 because I switched to primarily external news coverage of the U.S. when I moved abroad.

Actually, now that I think about it, I think I have seen TV ads for both Remington and Beneli shotguns in duck hunting and fishing shows in the U.S. But, I'm pretty sure I've never seen TV ads for pistols in the U.S., or long guns outside of hunting/fishing shows.
Thanks, that's a lot of information!

Some questions that popped into my mind:

- Does the reduced viewing angle bother you?

- In games like BigScreen, I suppose you can't play your own .mp4/.mkv files? Or can you?

- To be honest, I mostly want to use Oculus to find a little bit of tranquility on top of a mountain or on a beach. Would it be worth it? Do you know of a more open product which can perhaps deliver the same experience, and also allows programming/hacking?
I have quite a few of those domains blocked, but other than optimizely, blocking seems to have no effect on functionality.
No, it's not. If a farmer leaves a field fallow they will benefit from it later because the field does not move. If you do not fish an area you will not benefit from it later because the fish do move.

This is not a hypothetical; it's the reality fishermen have been dealing with for decades.
This sounds really neat. Analoging the reality into a virtual one with higher fidelity. I’m thinking about coming over from the other end (like thinking from first principles). Like what it means to be remote workplace? Why do we hangout at a workplace ? Etc I’m sure you folks would have thought about it a lot. I would love to see your conclusions.
I deeply respect the efforts that went into saving HC.gov though the initial rollout was a stunning blunder by the Obama admin for not keeping careful track of progress.

I further would note that such a citizen facing service would not need to have been stood up if Medicare for All was passed. It could all be handled on the backend and people would just walk into the doctor's office or hospital.
You could have said the same about pre-generics Java. The problem is that when the language is simple and minimalist, people do things with the language that are byzantine and arcane, and you can't learn those in two weeks. Example: classic Spring's XML configuration inner platform.
Well then you haven’t paid attention to anything this year. Schengen means nothing during Corona.
that's weird, i have a pixel 2 with latest android and the speed is fine.

that being said, i do have weird issues where the phone reboots when doing video-intensive tasks (recording video, on a vid call)

for apple, iPhone is literally half their income; i think the phone business is a few percentage points for google. not a surprise that you see more attention to detail w/ apple
A lot of random issues, some I think already fixed, like migrations being run out of order. Remotes being hit even for null foreign keys kills off some queries for us. Remotes not being supported in subscriptions (sort of understandable but still causes inconsistencies in user experience). We've had to be very strict with naming conventions for relationships etc or we find we're constantly dealing with merge conflicts, but that's as much our workflow issue. There's poor support for Postgres enums. That's the stuff I can remember off the top of my head, and none of it's really a killer. Without something like Hasura my interest in GraphQL drops close to zero, to be clear, so it's providing a lot of value.
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The E in E Coli stands for "Escherichia". Which sounds like a kind of Queso. Maybe they can make it work.
Verified unreturned purchases only?
DVI is a very large spec. It supports everything from pure VGA over it's analog pins as well as full fledged HDMI (its actually the other way around, HDMI is secretly just DVI). Finding monitors which support all of the simpler modes is an issue, whereas finding monitors which support old school VGA is fairly easy.
If you'd like the platform to be more open, it's pretty easy to do something about it, just contribute missing bits to existing open source implementations like https://github.com/picolove/picolove. The overall system is pretty simple, so completing a decent open emulator should be be doable in a reasonable time frame.

Personally, I'd both like to see and open-source way to play back pico-8 cartridges and lexaloffle continuing to be financially rewarded for building a pretty cool (and cheap!) platform, so I hope the graphics and sound editors won't be included in free clones anytime soon.
You are right, Finland doesn't have universal minimum salary, but it does have a similar, interesting state sanctioned relic - most industries with unions have a union enforced, national minimum salary for their industry - this includes construction, hospitality, manufacturing etc. It has been criticised for creating lack of flexibility in the job market - perhaps so, I don't have a strong opinion.

Absolutely right that Singapore wants to primarily attract foreigners longer term who won't place a burden on the already stretched public services (state provided housing or schooling). Though even for many of them PR/citizenship can be a long, long time away.

Helsinki should also increase capacity of English speaking private schools to attract well-to do foreigners interested in living in Helsinki, that's one of the things this "City as a Service" plan isn't able to arrange at scale right now - there are simply not enough places since there are only 1-2 private schools for English speaking kids.

The tax situation couldn't be much different between the two, but beyond that I think both countries offer a high quality of living and a vibrant tech sector. Also, for people running their own companies there are always ways to plan your tax affairs, regardless of where you live.
I interviewed with Ad Hoc a few years ago. They told the healthcare.gov story (and I googled it as well) but never mentioned Go. Seemed like a good group though
Still using my iPhone SE from 2016, though I have replaced the battery twice ($29 through Apple's "sorry for slowing your devices down" discount, $29 personally via iFixit) since.

Agreed that iPhones can last a great deal longer while staying relatively current on the software front these days. However, if you know that the Pixel a-series is going to stay at the $350-400 price point, you could buy two $350 a-series Pixels 3 years apart and potentially get more value/longevity than an iPhone at the $700 price point.

Of course, you could also buy a 2020 iPhone SE at $399 that'll last you 5-6 years, so if you just stick with the cheapest iPhone you'll likely save money over the a-series.
Interesting, thanks for the replies.

I'd still point out that the system is not robust against:
- Working in groups. (Bad if tests are supposed to assess individual performance.)
- Asking outsiders for help.

Also, your downplaying of "rote" learning feels misguided, no matter how advanced/abstract/high-level the domain in question is. Cue the Bruce Lee quote about 10,000 kicks..
It didn’t sound like that’s what the commenter is actually doing.
Android's touch parser doesn't like Spinners inside of ScrollViews
They do now. I get emails asking me to rate the delivery experience.
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I usually just create a mail rule that sends their email to other email addresses at the company if they make it hard to unsubscribe.
I think you're on to something. We might see a further bifurcation of open source and free software.

Open source will mostly be corporate developers developing OSS on the payroll, where the corporations deem that releasing (some, not all!) software as OSS is better for the bottom line.

Individual developers may release stuff as OSS if they think building an OSS portfolio makes them more employable. Otherwise I think we'll see more, say, "source-available free for non-commercial use" style licenses, because people don't want to be schmucks that are taken advantage of.

Free software will be more clearly focused around trying to drive social change, together with traditional political activism approaches. E.g. right to repair legislation, forcing opening of network protocols so users can access services with their own software and devices, anti-DRM work etc. And as you say, this will clearly be focused on individual computation devices, or small scale servers that individuals can and have a reason to run. That some huge corporation runs or doesn't run free software on their server fleet is irrelevant.
Congrats, you have sacrificed engineering decision making for poorly thought out social principles that are honestly prehistoric.
Or my personal favorites about the wait staff...

Story time: I once read a one star review on a restaurant in Boston which boiled down to "waiter was black". I flagged the review and yelp got back to me that "they tried to include all relevant opinions." This was about a decade ago, but the experience has always left me with the opinion that review sites could do more to keep reviews topical by promoting ratings of the separate parts of an item. Also, they should allow you to flag racism.
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We've used this roadmap at my company and it's been extremely useful. When others ask me for advice on AWS security this is the first thing I send them.
Do your research online -- which can include looking at Amazon -- and then order what makes sense to you via whatever channel you think is appropriately ethical or whatever.

When I do order online, it's often through Walmart. They will either deliver to my address or deliver to the nearest store where I can pick it up in person without having to pay delivery fees.

For my needs, Walmart is the place that has the solutions that most matter to me. I almost never use Amazon.

I don't really understand why people order so much from it and then bemoan its dominance. From where I sit, it looks like a self-inflicted injury in most cases and I find the entire thing somewhat baffling. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I had this line on my clipboard, ready to paste into this comment thread:

> Fortunately, I have no understanding of business, and so we’re going to look at further improvements anyway.

That line grabbed me the same way it did you. I think of Electron chat apps, and how JIRA pages take 15 seconds to load, all the while the UI is glitching and twitching and daring you to click early[0]. And the only reason it's allowed to continue is because very large and complicated processes have been built on top of them.

[0] (What I want to know is, how do these lazy-load UIs know I'm about to click before I do? Because the buttons seem to dodge my click with uncanny timing.)
Because it's one of the few things you can actually point at and be like "that's why you need a new phone!"

Same reason why Apple was all about that 5G during the iPhone 12 announcement.

Doesn't matter if it'll never be useful, all that matters is that the feature sheet lists it and a canned demo will show unreal speeds.
that's one hell of a gamble to shave off a few minutes per year
What is the point of making vegetarian and vegan foods taste like omnivore foods?

Would it not make more sense (less cost, honest, etc.) to make it taste like what they are?
I’m addicted to Emacs. I think a key part for me is that while for an individual task I can often find a better IDE, there is no one IDE that covers anywhere near the range of things I use Emacs for.

It’s the Swiss Army Tool. Not perfect for any one job, but good for almost anything.
> I have a pixel 2 now. it's good enough for everything I use it for, but it really didn't justify its launch price. it's basically a nexus phone with a fancy chassis and nicer camera.

I have a pixel 3a. The "a" series seems to be the same thing, but also at nexus prices.

I remember the Ars Technica review of the 3a saying something like "there were some worries that sales of the 3a might cannibalize sales from the flagship line, to which we can only say... yeah."
Care to elaborate on your preference?
The calculations are still a little more complicated. I think serverless is the future, but I also think we need to continue to put pressure on AWS to lower costs

Lambda and servers are not equal, you can't just calculate the number of servers one would need for an equivalent Lambda load. It's entirely possible that they could get away with significantly fewer servers than you think.

Your cost calculation includes 128mb provisioned. You cannot run an API with 128mb Lambdas. Try 1gb or even 1.5gb. It's not that you need that much memory of course, but if you want to have p98 execution and initialization times that are palatable, you need the proportional speed benefits that come with the additional memory.

And no, you won't need API gateway because you'd likely be including your own in your cluster and it will handle far more load without needing nearly as much autoscaling as the app servers.

Lambda autoscales too - it's not instant, and there are steps it goes through as it ramps up.

If Lambda removed the per-invocation overhead and billed for actual CPU time used, not "executing" (wall) time, I think that would be fantastic. Again, I still think it's the future, but it has a ways to go before it's appropriate for certain use cases and load profiles.

Edit: oh, and I think the managed ROI is also a case by case basis. Do you have people who know how to run a cluster for you already? Completely different conversation.

I will also say that Lambda is still not maintenance-free, either.
There's always a tension between maintaining an existing codebase and trying something new but in that case I'd personally jump on a Go codebase instead of C/C++ in a heartbeat just for the maintainability improvements. There is a meaningful difference between “can a turing-complete language do this?” and “how much time will you spend dealing with avoidable problems or overhead?” and in the case of unsafe languages I find the arguments relatively compelling for picking anything safer to use in practice.
That's fascinating, I had the opposite experience.

Never once have I been asked which school I went to or anything about my CS degree.
I had multiple people contacting me after finding me on Github (and my OSS work is very unpopular and mostly unmaintained) and one of them was a C-Suite who offered me a job.

I never found a job with a recruiter - just networking, so it may be a form of self selection for more personal interactions.
I'm guessing that triple correlation could also be rendered into pretty pictures, did you try that?
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Their argument is that tax payer subsidized "competition" is not true competition.

Municipalities can build a network using government money and then price it below what any competitor could deliver.

Municipalities also get to regulate and tax their competitors.

That's not necessarily a great argument against Municipal fiber. But I don't think municipal fiber can honestly be called promoting competition.
Centurylink’s $65 940Mbps up and down fiber offering is literally just $65 total, including all taxes and fees.
OTOH this article [1] argues that clustered indexes are overrated and actually worse than heap tables for most use cases.

[1] https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/clustering/index-organize...
I know there are tens of millions of products on Amazon, but I wonder how many reviews a dedicated team of in-house of reviewers could do per day. Amazon could even charge for the privilege of having their (ostensibly) unbiased team review the product, or prioritize them based on sales trends etc. It feels like shoppers are already indirectly doing this by buying the in-house Amazon brands.
Is the outcome of these emails publicly available for potential buyers?
I posted a 1 star review for a dell monitor with pictures because bands appeared in the middle of the screen after a month. Dell gave a refurbished unit as replacement. Amazon deleted my review after two months and blocked me from posting any further reviews for that monitor. I used to post regular reviews both positive and negative on Amazon. After this I just stopped posting any reviews to Amazon.
OK, I understand your point now, and I can agree with it. Thank you for the elaboration.
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I agree with this, though I still use iTerm over Alacritty simply because iTerm’s font rendering is better (in my opinion).
Interesting idea. Basic DVI is somewhat VGA with analog signal replaced with TDMS. I think if you limit yourself to only few predefined colors with 8b10b encoding hardwired in shift registers, it's doable. (for signal integrity you can only pick colors that have balanced encoding)

edit: as pointed in other comment, lowest bit clock is 250MHz, which might be a problem, it seems fastest discrete logic chips are topping out at ~150MHz
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Creating a firewall akin to China's is actually seriously considered by the EU [1].

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487... (Page 37, section 5.1 "European Cloud / European Internet")
Plenty of people send their kids to private school
Amazon reviews are not trustworthy. I use https://fakespot.com to help me sort through the fake reviews. In my experience, it works pretty well.
VSCode remote works great. But IntelliJ doesn't have remote coding capability as far as I could search when needed it. You can use sshfs but it is not really a feature of IntelliJ and doesn't work well enough to be comfortable in, atleast in my experience.
You could say the same thing about Sears 50 years ago.
I’ve been vegan for about 15 years..

I love Daiya cheese for pizzas and it melts well too.

There are also a number of specialty cheeses that are great.

I think if you live in a decent sized city you can find great vegan pizza / supplies.
Airbnb. There is a lot of inventory available if you book 2-3 months out. It is pretty annoying to travel with a cat, as many Airbnb hosts mark their place "pet friendly" even though they don't allow cats. But we've still been able to find places.
Amazon became just a bazaar, no quality products, actually mostly chinese fakes. Same way for reviews
Because Pentagon is not one of its clients?
Pesto isn't vegan, it's got parmesan cheese in it.
Yes!

That makes complete sense. I remember being slightly confused when I did the alignment test and rather than it prompting me to "type which column looks good" it just said "looks good to me"

Thank you. You've planted a seed of evil in me, I shall now try to resist (a little bit)
As if Israel and Saudi Arabia aren't spending even more money and fomenting their own wars. The fact is that Obama's Iran deal could have been a shakeup of the middle east and led to lasting peace. With Trump's tilting everything towards Israel and Saudi Arabia I don't see any end game for Iran besides catastrophe and potentially war. Maybe the idea is to oppress Iran for decades with superior weapons and money like Israel has done to Palestine. But even if they are able to pull that off it is an evil strategy.
I don't know if it's jealousy but it really feels like a disdain for plebs. Cryptocurrencies gives access to stock-like exchanges and financial tools to plebs and that's something that should be reserved to coastal elites. You can also see it in how hard they pushed for ICOs being regulated by SEC, getting a chance to get rich by investing in early ventures is for billionaire VCs only, not plebs!

Also, many coastal elites missed the crypto boat and therefore would rather treat it as a scam they were right to ignore rather than admit their mistake even when mainstream financial institutions invest billions in it. They will deny it to the end.
I have experienced a flaky connection for an iPhone as well - plug it in and Catalina would spin endlessly, and when it did manage to connect, it'd fail soon after. Yet other devices were fine. Sometimes QA can't catch every failure, assuming it was hardware and not software.
>I can’t really grasp that. Do my thoughts make sense? Where’s the flaw?

That is called argument from disbelief. It is a common fallacious argument form.

The only mystery about consciousness is why anyone insists there is one.
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Conversely, I once ordered an item that never cleared the initial "shipping" status even though I received it a few days later. I forgot about it, and a few months later Amazon refunded the purchase on their own.
Yup.

mmWave will make a big difference for the likes of stadiums and theaters. Places with huge crowds. A feature of the high frequency is it doesn't travel far which limits cross talk and allows you to pack in more antennas to serve more people.

How often Telecoms will want to deploy it is a different matter. My guess is you'll see it go up most often in places where companies want to optimize customer experiences. Likely as a partnership with the various telcos. For example, I could see the likes of Disney deploying it across disneyworld and disneyland.
It's easy if you know your Pokémon well. It's really hard if you kinda know names because many of them have lookalike names ;)