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The number of people in this thread arguing that apologies can only make things worse is shocking. Are these the same people who reject addressing war crimes with truth and reconciliation, and instead advocate "deny everything, make counteraccusations"?

Are you new here? No, so you shouldn't be surprised by these techbro echo chamber responses?
Personally, It smacked me in the face as obviously going to eat the rocket industry's lunch in 2013 with Falcon 9 v1.1. Cost optimised boosters while testing landing tech on paying commercial flights was a no brainer.
Even Intel had to fight against it when they transitioned from the P4 designs to Core. They began releasing much lower clocked chips in the same product matrix and it took a while for people to finally accept that frequency is a poor metric for comparing across even the same company’s designs. And I think Apple also significantly contributed to this problem in the mid-late PPC days with “megahertz myth” marketing coupled with increasingly obvious misleading performance claims.
Remember, team: just as there is infinite variation in the severity of mistakes, so there is infinite variation in the methods and appropriateness of apology that can/should/might be made. The post is a decent framework, not a prescription for all situations.
I'm not denying it expressing the same, but I would precede my 'sorry' with the same utterance.

(And sometimes it's followed by an 'alright?', which is practically a C21 howdoyoudo.)
I didn't find it very convincing. The stimulus wasn't diverted by the finance industry to itself. The government set up a system where monetary stimulus comes from the central bank, and fiscal stimulus comes from the legislature. Congress sent out one big round of stimulus checks. The Fed increased the money supply by buying bonds, the way it always does. Congress could have done another round of fiscal stimulus, but declined to do so. There was no obstacle, other than the fact that our freely elected leaders decided not to do it, and did not pay a political price for it last week.
This is true, but I think a lot of folk are assuming that a future M2 or M3 will be able to scale up to higher wattage and match state-of-the-art enthusiast-class chips.

Apple wouldn't go down this path if they weren't confident that their designs would scale and keep them in the performance lead for a long time.

Look, the Mac grossed $9 billion last quarter, more than the iPad ($6.7 billion) and more than Apple Watch ($7.8 billion). They've no doubt invested a lot of time and money into this; there's no way, now that they've jettisoned Intel, they haven't gamed this entire thing out. There's too much riding on this.

Yes, Apple's entry level laptops smoke much more expensive Intel-based laptops. But wait until the replacements for the 16-inch MacBook Pro and the iMac and iMac Pros are released.

By then, the geek world would have gone through all phases of grief—we seem deep into denial right now, with some anger creeping in.
The 1970s seem to be a place where many different indicators diverge.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Fascinating, I didn't know it could be used for all of that. Last time I tried it it felt more like static typing than true validation (e.g. validating email addresses, date formats, dependent fields, etc) I'll take a look at it again, thanks.
As an American, I've often used "sorry" in the sense you are talking about, and normally it works out fine. Maybe it's a regional thing?

But there is also a difference between using "sorry" as an expression of sympathy when interacting with close relations, and public apologies.
This game looks amazing.

While Empire Earth never seemed to get quite as big as many other rts games, I think certain macro-management aspects of gameplay flew under the radar. For example:

1-click to set units to explore; when multiple units were selected they would fan out to decrease fog of war.

Multi unit formation setting, to dictate the spread factor between units when moving and fighting.

Setting indefinite patrol loops (although I think I recall other games having this?).

It’s been a while since I’ve played the genre, and it seems like factorio’s really nailed the set and forget - but allow tinkering - for base management. What I want is similar automation for army control, that’s always the piece that gets tiresome with, for example, Starcraft for me.

Ultimately, I want to write a script for my civilization and be able to step into the fold to take over manual control as necessary. And then update my script. If that’s too much, being able to just define action buttons that execute scripts for selections of a certain composition.

And of course to run it in a a competitive environment against other people and see what we can all come up with :)
Commonwealth of [apologetic] Nations..!
China Restarts Plutonium Production
I'm not sure if it's necessarily private, but YaCy has been awesome. It's a decentralized search engine that has surprisingly good results in my experience.

https://yacy.net/
Sir Lawrence Byford report into the police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper case
One of the ways a government is corrupt is when it creates rules that it waives for its friends but enforces for its enemies.
I don't get this: I mention that the title has the word Smarphone, and get flagged 3 times for this.. Is this site just completely full of narcissists??

(answer: of course...)
Novel fiber optic sensors transmit data up to 100x faster
Xcode used to be really good at softwrapping code. It was so useful with the assistant editor on a laptop screen. It got worse at some point around Xcode 8 or 9, which was a shame.
It’s more acceptable with a mask on.
Why? We don't have a national language, why should names be limited to english characters?
Everyone makes mistakes, and I agree that giving a second chance is a good policy here. Especially since Babylon.js is open source and permissively licensed (Apache)... feel that this allows them to afford some grace (aside from just it being interesting to HN readers).
How many "points" do I get if I put down a meaningful comment here?

Answer: none, because nobody cares...
Any particular reason you did not organize/name your resource files in the same style as most of the Hashicorp maintained providers?

Also have you seen the `validation` helper package? Has some great ways to catch user input errors at plan time
So what are you supposed to do, if you want to submit a document that is stuck inside a larger document? Any method I can think of would fail the "original source" rule.
The only ones I've seen are from Apple, and I'm always skeptical of benchmarks from manufacturers.
I definitely had to learn as I got older to not simply make peace. For people who are not naturally assertive, it takes some time to control your emotional response when confronted in that manner, but it does become easier (and less necessary) over time.
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize that was by Vivek Wadhwa. Wadhwa promotes himself as an expert on a wide range of subjects.

It is getting easier, but hopefully not too easy.
I think it depends what you're doing on the screen. Unfortunately, people no longer seem to distinguish between activities such as 'endlessly scrolling through Twitter' and 'making music in Ableton'. It's all just 'screen time', and it's bad for your mental health.
I mean, regardless of whether they are making the right decision, that decision shouldn't be made because Ma insulted government officials.

Corruption is corruption regardless of if the result is just/correct.

The officials don't care about helping the people (or at least that's not their primary concern), rather they hate being made to feel impotent.
Although I do have ad-blocker on my PC, on mobile/tablet it's a lot harder to block it, so I would still be affected.
I get what you’re saying but it’s not fully right. In c++, the language allows you to have infinite loops. In erlang/elixir you can’t - you need to do recursion instead. This language feature makes sure that one piece of code doesn’t lock a core indefinitely.

That’s why Java/scala’s akka is crazily complicated. They encourage you to use futures so you don’t lock a core! So suddenly you’re still dealing with concurrency but with even more complicating layers.
Very true. Run FreeBSD and OpenBSD on Thinkpads at home and work and life's a peach...
"You can run the best campaign, you can even be the nominee. And you can have the election stolen from you" - Hillary Clinton (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77i_pC3lp04)

"Why is Trump making these controversial staffing changes now? No one knows for sure, but it’s probably not as sinister as some fear. When the resignations and appointments were announced, some worried that a sinister plot was afoot — that Trump loyalists were “burrowing” into the Defense Department so they couldn’t be removed when Biden takes office, or that there was some sort of coverup going on, or even that Trump was setting the stage for a coup. But experts I spoke to doubt those explanations, and suspect what’s really going on is that Trump finally had an opening to clean house at the Pentagon with the election now over, and that he’s putting in people more amenable to his wishes in order to finally accomplish some of the policies the Esper-led Pentagon had pushed back on — such as withdrawing all remaining US troops from Afghanistan before Christmas."

https://www.vox.com/21560260/trump-pentagon-defense-secretar...

Yes, there are other sides to consider. There always are. Now you decide how reasonable they are--but you cannot skip taking the time to understand the other side.
I think in the factorio 1.0 release thread awhile back there was a comment about it being weird that the game is fun when it's a lot like the kind of (less fun) work they do in their actual job, or something like that.

This made me think about my actual job (software developer at a large tech company), and why is it that it's not as fun as factorio? What's the difference?

I think a big part of it is visibility. If factorio were like my job, I'd only see my own small corner of the map. The rest of the megabase would be continuously refactored by thousands of other players, and largely hidden from view.

Occasionally problems would arise; sorry, no more red circuits this month, but here's some iron and copper and plastic. We've doubled our rocket control module quota. Various incompatible versions of schematics would be emailed back and forth and posted on wikis, and using them in your own situation would always require some sort of belt spaghetti because their setup is just a little bit different than yours. There'd be occasional high-level directives from senior executives explaining what goal everyone is working towards. Our competitors are launching their rockets on time. Logistics bots would go AWOL periodically. Random objects would show up on the wrong belt occasionally, no one really knows why. How did this fish get here? Every team would have their own opinions about the most aesthetically pleasing way to arrange power poles.

At least I can be thankful that my day job doesn't require flame turrets, artillery wagons, and occasional nukes. I wouldn't mind driving a spidertron to work, though (once the pandemic is over and "driving to work" is a thing again).
Tragedy does befall humanity from time to time, but you're arguing for comforting those who make selfish choices that make things worse for everyone. This is not like the AIDS crisis; the medical system was not at risk of collapsing.

What of empathy for those who have and will needlessly die alone in tents and hospital hallways and their grieving families who don't get to say goodbye? What of empathy for the medical staff who are working 12, 24, or 36 hour shifts with no end in sight? What of empathy for those who stock our shelves who are constantly put at risk? What empathy for an entire generation of children who will have worse educational attainment because they're forced to do a year or more of remote school?

But sure, let's empathize with someone who keeps eating out and refuses to wear a mask. It's not like they could have done anything to mitigate the tragedy that's going on, right?
Wow, I can mention anything I want here: PGP, IrD2, CompList, TONS of stuff...

And then get flagged. POW
Dogs evolved to eat human scraps. Raw diets may be better nutritionally than kibbles, but cooking the same food is more nutritious and much safer[1] than raw food.

After talking to board-certified vets who actually research this stuff, I feed my dog home-cooked human-grade food.

1. https://skeptvet.com/Blog/2018/02/yet-another-study-shows-th...
Ah but according to the Official Category Consortium you’ve just eliminated several products[1] which would presumably be included if the “mobile workstation” moniker was designated based on workload capabilities.

[1]: including the 16” MBP, but certainly not limited to it
I say this repeatedly, the west largely abandoned religion because people found the ways adherents acted towards others to be inexcusable... it was a failed attribution though because religion didn’t make people like that and getting rid of religion hasn’t gotten rid of the behaviors. We still have people praying loudly on the corners for all to see (Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.) We still have people persecuting others for their beliefs, we still have people ready to fight holy wars.

It is a very human behavior, and it is easily exploited and in an emergent way exploits itself in whatever way is convenient in any age.

It is clear to me that there are very smart people and very stupid people stoking the flames on this human vulnerability that so few people care to notice.
It doesn't do that. Whatever seems dependant gets lumped into one thread and limited to a single core.
Fortunately Ableton cannot limit what plugins do in their own runtime so as you say U-HE multicore functionality works just fine and jBridge can run plugins off of separate processes.
Not sure why people are being defensive about it or attack for pointing this flaw out. It's great that you think Ableton works as intended for you, but once you go beyond Live devices and use more professional tools, you'll hit the wall. People who I know hit this as well just moved to Reaper, but I cannot get on with its workflow.
I think the current system is broken. We should be trying to align our incentives. Urging people to act against their own self-interests is self-defeating.
Many districts had (and may still have) pet psychiatrists who are 100% sure to make the diagnosis and prescribe.

In some districts it doesn't work that way and never did but there are others where it does. Teachers love docile students and will do a lot of harm to ensure that's what they have.
ABS aren't new, they've existed since the 80's.
Ordinarily one would say that one who understands {less, more} is {less, more} literate. The base case is Babel: complete mutual incomprehension, like unto that of the beasts. Any who leave this state, in no matter which direction they leave, have read and understood. So, I can't in good conscience answer your question. Language is just exactly what we make of it.

Irony, on the other hand, is a single message for multiple audiences. It requires a degree of mutual incomprehension.
Perhaps a consequence of cold war domestic "anti-communist" culture warfare?
they should also update the documentation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing...
Pine64 has GREAT reviews! Just check this out: www.pinereviews.com

Love this stuff!
The point of apologising isn't to avoid consequences. It's intended to mitigate three sorts of damages: that inflicted on whoever suffered because of you, the damage society experiences any time its rules are broken, and the damage you have done to yourself by breaking some moral standard you believe in.

To that end, an apology that allows s/o to "get out" as in "saw no further consequences" isn't necessarily what's being claimed, because it still needs to come with (some) costs, even if they are mostly symbolic.

And, yes, of course there are people apologising for all sorts of behaviour that's being criticised every day. A Google News search has about five dozen examples from just the last day or two[1]. If apologies are never beneficial, I doubt they would be used that often.

Apologies are also a central factor in the most formalised system of "being cancelled" we have, the criminal justice system.

As to "getting out" of "being cancelled" by "mobs" I wouldn't know since I already have trouble identifying what that's supposed to mean.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=apologized&client=safari&rls...
Thank you for some great suggestions
Kind of, in the sense that yes, growth was stunted and even reversed for decades. But the starting point was low. The war with Japan and earlier revolutions to overthrow the Qing government weren't kind to economic activity, and the population basically limped into the 1940s with barely functional physical and financial infrastructure.
Oh really
I’ll definitely try that
Only batteries made by LG Chem have had the issue. I guess they changed suppliers.
From the outside looking in, there's nothing strange about it at all.

In stark contrast to every other developed country, America has built into a very individualist society. In so many aspects of life it comes down to "me before us". Healthcare, education, work, welfare and so much more. With everyone scrambling hard to make ends meet, violence and anger are always just under the surface.

Either you get in and take yours for you, or you get left horribly behind.

Ben Harper said it best - "Everyone I know is in the fight of their lives."
Everything over 127 is part of Extended ASCII which, as far as I can tell, was introduced by IBM in '81.
Apologies are complex things. If you dole them out like candy they lose their power, and since an apology's power comes from your dignity, it follows that you lose your dignity.

So when do you apologize? An apology is great when you've hurt someone by making a mistake - which I would define as something you wouldn't do knowing how it would turn out. You've made a deliberate decision that in hindsight was an error of judgement. Hopefully that doesn't happen often.

What does happen often is a decision you make that hurt someone's feelings - maybe you declined to merge a pull request because the patch wasn't good, or you skipped a colleague's wedding because you were sick; in those cases you can maybe make it up to them or explain, but don't apologize - beyond the "I'm sorry I couldn't come, but I had a fever" one-liner, which is more sympathy than an apology.
This is Nature Scientific Reports, a megajoural that sometimes lets junk science pass trough. Review process does not even try take into account perceived importance, significance or impact of the submitted article.

Finding viral RNA does not mean that it comes from active virus that can still infect people. It can be just dried out inactivated virus.

>we could not conclude that the viral samples in this collection retained infective ability
>"In my humble opinion, the security and protection of property under the rule of law should be a human right as it's the core driver of economic growth."

Economic growth and well being of the majority are not necessarily the same thing.
I am not them. The real reason I am worried about the economy is so that it can provide as good as a life to as many people as possible. I am not arguing in bad faith, and I do not want any of the things you list. I know our society has problems distributing wealth and I will always support distributing it more fairly. We need to have an economy for there to be anything to distribute. I do care and I am not your strawman.
It is on my Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS machine:

-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 64424 Jun 28 2019 /bin/ping
- Privacy seems to be top-notch

This is a joke when your telemetry is sent unencrypted over the wire with no way to disable the same. Right now, Windows beats MacOS for privacy. At-least you can disable stuff on Windows with some effort.
It is extremely problematic to claim that cooperation declined in America after the 1960s without even mentioning civil rights. Americans are certainly cooperating more insofar that it’s no longer literally illegal for gay people to have a relationship, or that black families on vacation no longer need a book indicating which gas stations and hotels will actually serve them.

The fact that white people are meaner to each other - particularly liberal v. conservative - than they used to be is in fact directly (albeit not solely) related to this, as with the polarization in formal political parties. Seeing the decline after the 1960s is really not a mystery if you think about how American society drastically changed due to Democrat-led legislation passed in 1964 and 1965, right when the graphs started nosediving.
This a really interesting! But isn't "Bomb" carbon everywhere?? seriously..
Have you tried the web based office? I haven’t, and I’m not sure if it’s a good solution, but friends have said good things
It's not just individuals using it, though.
> I did a lot of sincere public apologizing

If you generally live by your own values, and act according to them, then (in my opinion) you should rarely need to apologise for that.

Why did you need to do a lot of apologizing, I'm curious?

If I think of particular people I personally know who frequently apologise, it often seems to me that they are doing that to centre and prioritise their own experience ahead of other people's - which perhaps was exactly the problem in the first place. That type of apology can taste slightly sour.

I find that listening is a more important aspect of apologising than talking.
What are microhouses? City of Olympia plans to swap tents for DIY structures
That’s more of a power play than an apology. As you said only you can admit error without repercussion
Doubtful. What OS would that run? They removed most server features from macOS in the last few years.
Whenever travel to The Stars comes up on Hacker News, lots of people chime in with the impossibility of it all because of the hard limit of c, calling all such "Warp Speed" or "Hyperspace" notions handwaving fantasy.

But that overlooks age extension. Even if this Universe's rules make FTL impossible, 500 year lifespans changes it all. And that seems more likely with every passing decade.
Bankers never gave triple A ratings to shitty securities, the ratings agencies did. Crucially, ratings agencies aren't banks and the people who work their aren't bankers.

But you are correct that the ratings agencies were quite negligent.
> Drugs are insanely expensive in aus

Isn't everything? Also consider that Australia's borders are much easier to patrol due to its "island" nation status.