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Not that I could see at this point. It is not a panacea, but for us, it was a way to contain scope at different levels.

For exaple, we have the platform and it has icons on the sidebar for Notebook, Object Storage, etc.

Every single one of these is a separate application and a separate repository. These applications are independent in how they deal with business logic, so there's no loss of expressiveness. They just must present certain "receptors" or interface if they want to be plugged into the system. The "interface" is a big word, and someone can produce a valid minimal plugin (that does nothing except be loaded) in two minutes.

This allows us to contain details of a plugin to the plugin itself, and not having it leak to other parts of the product. If we want to activate/de-activate the plugin, it takes less than 10 seconds manually.

Now, sometimes a plugin depends on another plugin. But they make their requests to that plugin, and fall-back to something else in case that plugin is unavailable.

The amount of engineering time this has saved us is delightful. I think of all the code we did not have to write and it makes me smile.

That's for containment and encapsulation at the application level. But we also follow that mode at the functionality level, too. For example, model detection and tracking is done by plugins.

We like to do things and have an abstraction so that we can churn out functionality for similar things "industrially", without thinking too much, but also so we could remove things easily without breaking the rest. Making code not just easy to add, but easy to remove is important. When we did that, we were able to remove a lot of code, too.

It is a spectrum, and we started by using it to contain at the "app" level.
Everyone knows what happened to Intel. They bet everything on their 10nm process - which has greater transistor density than TSMC's 7nm process - and they lost.

Intel flew too close to the sun and their wings melted.

The vitriol everyone has for them is based on the fact they could have been pumping out cheap 4 / 6 / 8 core chips for people, but instead held the entire world of computing at basically quad-core CPU level for the better part of a decade.

And I share that vitriol. I'm happy they're suffering and are in pain. I hope the same thing happens to NVIDIA. I hope the same thing happens to AMD. I relish when a company and when people are made to suffer when they hold back our technological process in the name of fucking quarterly profits.
Viruses destroy your cells. Their "purpose" is to do damage to your body. Vaccines don't. If they damage your body it's by accident.
It's a simple choice really; being infected with Covid means your body creates thousands of antibodies to fight the virus. Some of those will likely go on and attack your own cells and cause post-covid symptoms. The vaccines only present part of one protein, so not as many antibodies created, less scope for after effects.
Key will be seeing when Pfizer and Moderna release their safety data for their testing cohorts. If the effects are minimal, getting the vaccine is a no-brainer.
I don't think they drew that conclusion as it is probably difficult to say in which phase of the illness people get tested. Some have mild (or no) symptoms and probably go through their active 9-day period without getting tested at all. Others can have severe symptoms from an early onset, and probably get tested quite fast (hopefully). Some may get severe symptoms after an incubation period, only to get ill when their active 9-day period was over.

It should mean that a 10-day isolation for positive cases, combined with high frequency testing should have a massive impact on the spread of the virus. That the virus can be found in your body much much later, in an "inactive" state should not have much impact on the spread.
> I also have an NFC tag next to my door. If I hover my phone over it when I leave the house, it shuts off my TV and any lights that are turned on.

I do this with a small switch from Aqara ( https://www.aqara.com/en/smart_wireless_mini_switch.html ) next to the door. Single click turns everything off, double click turn everything off and starts the Vacuum cleaner.
Funnily enough that is the inverse of the historical meaning of decimated (to destroy 10% of something).
That's present on basically every Arm SoC, with the CPU and GPU on the same die. (and Intel & AMD APUs too, the difference is that Apple is scaling UMA beyond what anyone did for sold systems in x86 land that aren't consoles)

Currently, Apple and NVIDIA have the beefiest UMA w/ the CPU GPUs available, and those are Arm solutions.
Isn't it right next to a highway?
Why don't you some the same rule to HN? It's literally news too
What categories do we want to separate using different words?

About control systems, I think it would be good for general population to be more aware of just how many various control systems they're a part of, usually as a Manipulated Variable (in process control parlance). It's not just "the police" or "the government" or "the market" - it's every advertiser, every company they deal with, various branches of government, possibly even their HOA. Basically everyone that can persuade you or has power over you, that stands to benefit from particulars of your behavior.

The key aspect here is that these systems are usually impersonal and amoral, they don't care about people who are being used as MVs. There's also very many of them. It's not a question of being influenced or not, but of limiting your exposure to the systems that harm you.
It's true if you read it as "breaking backwards compatibility is easier".

Intel x86 chips would have had things like out of order execution many years earlier if they didn't need to be compatible with old software.

Some people have said that a lot of the 737 Max problems are due to Boeing execs insisting on keeping the same airframe.

I admit that isn't quite what the parent said, but realistically any architecture "from scratch" is going to reuse a lot of stuff from existing designs that works well.
> Crunch time is fundamentally incompatible with the discipline needed to not end up in this place.

The hubris of trying to circumvent the law of fast, good, cheap; pick two.
I wonder if it could be caused by them being more health concious and doing physical activities that increase the risk of injury. The article even mentions that it could be because they have a lower BMI, so their bones don't have as much of a fat cushion to absorb impacts.
That question was answered in a study published last week.

"There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w
>The GTX 1050 Ti is still a current, sold product, selling for $250 or so USD

That's very misleading. The card was released more than 4 years ago and has a MSRP of $139[1]. It's neither a current or expensive product.

The $250 price is almost certainty because it's "rare", not because it's actually worth that much. See for instance, i7-6700k being sold for $279[2] when you can get a similar performing current gen i3 for $115[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces...

[2] https://www.newegg.com/intel-core-i7-6th-gen-core-i7-6700k/p...

[3] https://www.newegg.com/intel-core-i3-10100-core-i3-10th-gen/...
I don't think you can attribute this universally to "gamers" - there's a lot of games that don't have obvious hacking problems by employing various other measures which aren't as invasive.

I'd call myself a "gamer" and would never install something like Valorant - and most of my friends didn't either. Some of us value our privacy more than getting rid of the one hacker we get per week.
There were a dozen reasons I didn't.

I shouldn't have had to

I didn't want to be "that guy"

Plenty of other commenters here would argue that doing so is really a political position (defending status quo), which would not at all be what I wanted to convey

It formed a hostile work environment, but not in a way that I wad legally protected from

The discussion wasn't simple honest debate or smalltalk, it was very much "did you see how team A person put down team B person last weekend? She was awesome!"

I should also make clear, this person wasn't my boss, he was director of the department- my boss's boss. He also had approximately 1 to 2 hours overlap in work schedule, as he lived practically on the other side of the globe (we had a world-wide team).
The Source engine hails from the 90s, testing hadn't been invented back then ;)

But on a more serious note, writing automated tests for game engines involves a lot more than just "duh, unit tests" (especially when testability wasn't a concern in the original design).
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How did memes, misinformation, fake news and cyber bullying propagate before Facebook and other forms of social media? I know it happened but I don't remember it being such a high-profile issue.
Linus Torvalds wants Apple’s new M1-powered Macs to run Linux
This is asserting that the number of incorrectly positive results is equal to ALL truly negative test takers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_rate).

>> Citation needed <<
YES in Poland.

I know people in Poland who avoided getting a COVID19 test because they knew they would have to quarantine if they took the test, and would not have to quarantine if they didn't. That's perverse incentives for ya'.

It's very hard to enforce, of course, but if you get caught, there are (in abstract) severe fines.
Congrats, this looks very nice. I played a bit around and headed then to Wikipedia's entry of Forth to learn more about the og language. Please elaborate more about why you did this project and decide for Forth from your perspective.
What's surprising about this is soy, greens, and legumes are all naturally rich in calcium. Fortunately I've yet to find a vegan multivitamin that doesn't have calcium and most people I know are taking one these days for Vitamin B12. At the same time I am curious what other factors for bone health besides dietary calcium a vegan might be deficient in.
> And my personal experience is that some percentage of my comments are downvoted immediately and then upvoted to neutral -- as was the case here.

But are you not making an assertion about how voting behaves overall?

>> Corrective upvotes are a tradition on HN. If you aren't being an asshole, some people will upvote you back to neutral if they think you are being downvoted for the wrong reasons.

>> You just have to have a little courage of conviction and patience and not start editing your post in reaction to voting or complaining about it, etc.

>> HN does a much better job than most platforms of allowing people to genuinely express a minority view -- assuming they can follow the guidelines and not bitch about the voting and not get reactive and inflammatory because of baggage, etc.

>> It's not an easy thing to do, but it can be done here, unlike most platforms.

Have you formed this conclusion based on a statistical analysis of the raw voting data on a variety of platforms?

If so, can you link to where you obtained these datasets (I'd like to have a look myself)? If not, upon what is the conclusion based?
The issue is that there are 500 different kinds of vegeteriansism/veganism/omnivorism/carnivorism.

So if a certain person eats a slighty different variant across his lifetime you could easily have one person become deficient in X but the other one won't even though they both follow "roughly" the same diet (eg vegan).

Also the extremists in each diet camp are the loudest ones always, and those extemists will be the last to see the forest for the trees (eg how a slight variation could be beneficial).

In general no one knows what the best diet is.

Up until ~100 years ago we just needed food to SURVIVE.
Now the question becomes: once we have all food available 24/7: which is the best food to THRIVE on?

The body isn't that good when it comes to detecting this, eg if we'd let the body do its thing it would just eat cookies all day long..
Thank you for elaborating the terminology issue in your comments. I do see Thorrez's point now.

If we consider an iteration to be complete when i-- (the iteration expression) has been completed execution, then yes, the value of the variable i is decremented to -6 when the 6th iteration completes.

In fact, the value of the variable i is decremented to -7 when the 7th iteration completes. The language used in this blog post regarding the iterations (which is also quoted by Thorrez) is indeed sloppy. I will update it soon and fix it. Thank you, jonsen and Thorrez, for paying attention to the details!
In my town, if a child receives a positive test result, the whole classroom is under quarantine.

So it's not pointless in that sense. You know who might have been exposed.

It's also not pointless for monitoring spread.
The difference in this case is that a retailer has no reason to believe that a random member of the public is going to use merchandise to bludgeon someone. However if a person comes in the store and says they are stocking up for the murder they are planning, you should not aid them. This may even be criminally aiding and abetting!
Presumably, server sdmins, mods or players can votekick players who they think are cheating. If a player is cheating such that they are indistinguishable from another good player, then that's kind of mission accomplished and doesn't really matter if they stay.

This general philosophy has been around in all CS games and has worked well IMO. Just gotta find an applicably well maintained server to play on first.
>It does hurt to see non-technical people inventing their own terrible VCSs, though ("Copy of Important Document 2020-11-21 (2) (Updated PB).docx")

I don't think that is necessarily due to not be able to use git (as in not competent to use it) but not able to use it due to restrictions in their workplace or even just unfamiliarity with the possibility of such a tool existing.
Challenge trials. https://www.1daysooner.org/ If it were considered ethical to do them, we could have known in a few weeks. "Medical ethics" claims another million lives.
Yes I understand this, and I also believe that meta-analysis needs to be taken with a grain of salt, because it is never as reliable as an original research. In the case of pandemics of a dangerous and highly contagious disease, even individual cases, such as above are important. This is the reason why Asia is so successful in the pandemic management, and the west is a pathetic failure.
I'm sure I've seen a Lego Mindstorms Lego sorter somewhere.

Try this Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lego+Mindstorms+Lego+sorter
Could you point me to any open source projects/references you've used for your platform that showcases this plugin architecture? I'm a junior developer and I'd really like to learn and incorporate this in my projects.
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Writing Good Unit Tests; Don’t Mock Database Connections
Post-lockdown SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid screening in nearly 10M residents of Wuhan
The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code
He is getting downvoted by the folks who either 1) know this is true or 2) who will deny this is true even if it is true. And I will burn a bit of my karma for this comment too... :-)
email chains. Super long email chains that you had to scroll really far down to actually see the content
/r/buildapc is a good example. There is very little discussion outside of the intended topic.
> change the temprature

How much are people actually changing the temperature? I have a temp for the furnace (68F), and a temp for the A/C (73F). I almost never adjust it.
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Torvalds says: "[I] moved away from because it took Apple too long to fix the screen – and by the time they did, I’d moved on to better laptops, and Apple had moved on to make Linux less convenient."

If he moved on to better laptop(s) why would he want to come back now? And is Boot Camp still a thing... wouldn't that do the trick and allow you to boot directly into Linux?
I think that worldly, well-rounded individuals never have to worry about how to make ends meet.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
I always wanted ARM too because x86 is of no interest to hobbyist using e.g. microcontrollers. I like learning low level stuff but never felt like it was worth the investment to properly learn the oddball x86 assembly code. I have an Amiga background where I did some assembly coding on Motorola 68000. I absolutely hated the x86 hardware platform when O switched over. It felt like everything was a kludge. Too few registers. Weird segment registers etc. ARM looks much nicer and you can use same instruction set on tiny micro
Controllers.
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Hobby Lobby refused to pay for any health insurance plan that covered contraception because they believed them to be abortifacients and contrary to the christian values of the corporation.

This is rather an argument why not the employer, but the employee should pay for the health coverage. As they say in Germany:

"Wer zahlt, schafft an."

("who pays, commands", where the verb "anschaffen" (which I translate with "command" here) has the undertone of "giving sexual orders to a prostitute that she has to follow")
Doctors and nurses want more data before championing vaccines to end pandemic
I just say "Alexa, goodbye" and stuff turns off + Alexa enters Guard Mode.
> People don't take you as seriously if your emotional palette is so scarce that you can't form a phrase without dropping a "frigging" in it

I once attended a trial of a C4I system where a young soldier told a senior officer "Sir, this fucking thing is fucking fucked, sir!". This was all the senior officer needed to know, and the trial was halted ten minutes later.
> We know for a fact that this is a much smaller problem on iOS than Android. I am happy that Android exists as a choice for users but let us not pretend there are no trade offs.

Android is not a choice for iOS users, it's not a seamless switch. The solution as I see it is that apple could still very well protect users from "trojans" but have an opt-in for 3p app installation. A button that says "I want to install apps from anywhere, I know the risks".

If I pay for the hardware, as a customer, I should be able to do whatever I want with it. With the iPhone, it feels like I'm renting rather than owning. I worry that's the direction apple is taking Macs in with the M1.
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Go test for yourself. Go on whichever news site you like and check how many articles actually matter to your life.

I bet virtually none. The news isn't about you or me. It's about controlling you and me. It's about propaganda.
An intuitive introduction to systemic thinking
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing
I suppose newsgroups might have been a vector for that -- it's where we got the term "flame wars" though I think the popularity of those waned quite a bit by the late 90s.
C++ code that uses templates heavily is painful to compile, using 6 GiB of RAM is possible even for a "make -j1" build. It's kind of funny that a VPS with little RAM can build a full Linux kernel with all the modules and drivers, yet cannot build a small webserver. For big projects, the final linking process also eats enormous amount of RAM, it's possible for a small system to survive all the build and gets killed during the final linking.
I'm more surprised that it uses Node.js in the first place!
Thank you! They did a great job!
I second this, have one of the Touch models - the build quality is great. Yes it works with my Samsung on which I have Ubuntu via VNC running on the phone. But also and more useful for me is it has HDMI in and USB out for keyboard and mouse, works perfectly for when you need a kvm setup. did I say the build quality is great?...
This is so true.

When you get used to something being either fully automated, like hallway lights turning off and on automatically or easily voice controlled, like enabling movie mode via Alexa (Dim lights, turn on TV and media devices) it's really hard to go back to the old way of running around pushing switches.
This cross section image shows the locations of the two rest areas on the 787:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b2/de/d4/b2ded457430d5313d223...

(Number 9 and 44.)
Your best bet for skipping this with machine learning would be to use a textual language model and the closed captions.
"Also consider that the US is a Republic and lets states keep larger amounts of their rights to run their own state the way they want. There federal government cannot legally prescribe solutions, only encourage and inform."

This is how it should work. But the tenth ammendment has largely been ignored.
Correct. Most of the “long Covid” effects appear to be more related to immune dysregulation as a response to the virus, causing the so-called cytokine storm and leading to damage in the lungs, heart, vasculature, etc. (Lots of support to this, I’ll look for a good review and update this post with an edit.)

Edit: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.27.20115238v...

Check out Figure 1 and the Discussion section for a good overview.
Once upon a time, it was called gossip.
Game code can be hard to unit test, it needs integration tests on actual hardware. Lots of weird stuff on all chips that need to be taken care of.
When the iterations on a given project or architecture start hitting diminishing returns, trying new things from scratch is often a good strategy. I assume the commenter meant the quote for this context, but failed to make it explicit.
Very dubious about the placement of the trackpoint-like-thing..
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Newsgroups, IRC, Email Lists, Blogs... The biggest change is the creation of the term cyber bullying. In the "old" days one just didn't pay attention to opinions they disagreed with. Now they seek government to impose draconian censorship on opinions they don't agree with.
Cross compiling from Linux to Win32 works perfectly with FreePascal
I think microservices are and aren't an overreaction.

If you think of microservices as contract enforcement, it should be harder to produce unintended consequences on the macro level, because everything should flow through the api. (assuming you don't have something weird like several microservices manipulating the same data sources directly), so architecturally it's easier to understand code/data flows than the same monolith system that hasn't properly enforced modularity.

The main problem is most folks rushing head first into the silver bullet don't understand is things have trade off, and in microservice land it's versioning, testing, deploying, and monitoring.

Nowadays, though the tooling is pretty good, and if you put your microservices in a monorepo (seems backwards, I know) you can avoid the versioning, testing and deployment difficulties, and use GKE + istio and you've got tooling to help handle the ops problems, so actually, maybe enforcing code quality is actually the harder problem, and limiting the size and scope does sorta make sense.
I loathe Facebook, but I don't see how this is going to help. It might help a bit in the short term, but will it really help long term? Even if it does, how many social networks are they going to ban? Surely someone else will take Facebook's place?

Personally I will be happy if Facebook goes away, but I don't know if this is the right way to do it.
Not sure if using 3rd party services for a CMS is a good idea.
What happens if this API or Netlify goes down?

Doesn't seem reliable.
You forgot the quotes around "democracy".
> I agreed, until my coffee machine was warm when I got out of bed.

You don't need IOT for this. Even the cheapest coffee pot has a timer on it.
Yes, except management did not approve because they couldn't check to make sure you were wearing your required white shirt, dark tie, and work-appropriate slacks.

Even in the office they used terminals connected to mainframes over serial cables.