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>> The vendor just doesn't want to acknowledge the real role of Raspberry Pi is not limited to being a cheap tinkerer board anymore

> The vendor is a charity with a mission that they have chosen. They can target the Pi however they want to meet that mission.

I don't say they can't, I say that doesn't really reflect the actual reality. Many people buy it just because it's THE thing and a somewhat uniform standard so it's easier to target and to benefit from the existing ecosystem around it.

This also is a real role among those Raspbery PI plays in the real world. This is a fact the vendor marketing seemingly ignores - such is the meaning of my statement.

I don't judge them or demand anything.
I'm primarily a Java programmer, but I had a go at learning Python a little while ago. I couldn't stand it - it just seemed so sloppy and poorly-defined. I don't consider myself as being superior to Python devs or having an astronomical ego, but Python-hate? Yeah.
I'd love to read your story. Did you write about it? The years of depression, traveling to the ayahuasca place, the sessions, the changes you made in your life afterwards.
Mainly the large 13" screen.

My partner has a job which involves reading lots of documents, taking notes and then reading/sending emails. The iPad Pro is more comfortable than the rest of the range for split screen mode. The notes can all be written with the pencil and then the iPad can be easily attached to a keyboard for when you need to send long emails.
Screen size is the largest differentiator between the Pro and standard iPads.

I got a first gen iPad Pro (back in 2015!) and it's still running smoothly to this day. It runs the latest iPadOS. Meanwhile, my co-workers and family iPads have all failed, broken, or become obsolete several times since then.

I use the iPad Pro daily for:

- Evening reading

- Reading on flights

- Laptop replacement while travelling

- Recreational writing with bluetooth keyboard

- Recreational doodling with Apple Pencil

- Light productivity tasks like email, etc.

- General browsing
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Happiness requires confidence - Seneca
Thank you, interesting perspective.

> do I know a single religious person, yet most of those people feel some kind of purpose or meaning in their live.

Ah well yes, :). Being religious - vs - having an inner meaning/{what some people call god}/aka being spiritual - is like having gone through a CS program in an expensive university - vs - actually knowing how to code.
Go is the only example I know of (very explicit syntax, almost no "magic")
Do you have a better one?

It's as well to remember the brain isn't a Turing machine, but the brain is an information processor, and it makes to sense to use the language and concepts of information processing to talk about what it does.
The article is good if you go past the clickbait title.
I think what the OP intends is its size and diversity of the talent pool. Obviously, there are so many smart engineers outside FAANG, but it's also true that having world-class experts on cryptography, networking, distributed system, web technologies, machine learning, microprocessor, compiler etc etc... in a single company is something very rare.
The most vocal, emotionally invested anti-apple crowd are those who were once emotionally invested in Apple. Similar to an anti-smoker, ex-cult member, ex-mormon or vegan convert - those who have been burnt are often the loudest. The same psychological effects are in play - people will try to defend the hurt to their ego.

There is no brand of "anti-Apple" - that doesn't really exist as brands don't work like that BUT groups of people do though, and people can have identities of being in a group. (I can't really say I have noticed an anti-apple subreddit either)

One way groups defend themselves is to define the opposition - by defining the opposition to Apple fans as anti-apple-groups, it helps bolster the coherence of the Apple fan group and defend the brand and investment for the individual. We are under attack, close ranks and protect each other.
If you're already using Postgres, isn't that precisely what GiST indexes are meant for?
I believe there is some sort of nonsequitur on the proposed argument.
You can stop the war on drugs and keep the "drugs are evil" narrative. It's called decriminalization. Stop bothering people for possessing, producing or using drugs, do as you want with those trafficking, and keep them illegal. This could be done progressively without loss of face by government. Oh wait, that's what the article is about!

Drugs, including alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceuticals are dangerous, and utmost caution should be had if using. If you can brew your own beer or grow your own cannabis, you probably have learnt a thing or two about caution. Either that or a professional cautious-person (doctor) will do the administration.
(Disclaimer: Googler)

Internal code search is miles ahead of GitHub/Gitlab search and is super fast and reliable. I have not used source graph (which everyone seems to talk about) but in my past experience in other companies nothing comes close.
^This

Also, I will add that as a (potential or actual) customer: if I think your product is great, I want your business to succeed and for it to succeed it has to have a business model that is positioned for the long-term.

Flat out: If the model doesn’t work, I’m going to look for another alternative.

If the model does not work it could mean you go out of business, or “pivot” to private buyers, or lose focus and clutter the software with “upgrades” in an attempt to catch up. In each case it means the software would no longer work for me and I’d have to find an alternative anyway so I might as well find the alternative first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair
wreak havoc
Solaris/x86 was an odd one. I played around with it a bit in 98/99 when I got it mailed out for free under a student license. Very restrictive on hardware support and IIRC it was available on and off, disappearing from view entirely at times.

I knew of that, Xenix and the two SCO flavours, but the others are news to me!
Stealing is more than just "unfair".
But GitHub can't violate export control laws, it's not their fault.
Wow, that makes Omniverse II and other massive projects even more impressive...
I tried to draw my favourite commutative diagram.

Some UI troubles:

1. I would like to be able to move a node by dragging it around.

2. While the "b" key does its job to move the objects, it is very confusing because it pans the view so that the moving object is fixed, giving the impression that everything moves but the object in question.
Energy is key, obviously. If we ever want to reap the benefits of autonomous cars, we need cheap sustainable energy. With cheap energy we are not constrained to ever denser mega cities with their social, political, and safety problems.

Productivity will likely never stop growing. That would imply that we don't learn. The question is: Will it grow strong enough and in a sustainable manner?
>Just like the Nintendo Switch allows us to play video games on the go and on the big screen with one device, I want to finally have a smartphone / tablet which makes a laptop obsolete.

Considering how underpowered the Switch is when compared to consoles that came out years before it, I'm not really sold on this idea. If you want to get a full experience in any game that requires performance, you're not really getting it on the Switch. There's even some Switch exclusive games that have pretty significant performance issues, like the Xenoblades remaster that might dip down to 540p even when docked. Really, the only thing that the Switch replaced was the Nintendo 3DS.
It's almost like asking "why are sex scandals controversial." You could come up with all sorts of arguments for or against the controversy in any specific case... but it kinda doesn't matter. When something is controversial, people argue for and against it by definition. Sex scandals have always been. Some of the oldest writing we have is basic law codes. Sex just seems to always attract controversy, even if taboos differ between cultures.

Mid altering substances are taboo, have been throughout modern times. Shrooms & grass are established recreationally, so controversy. Enough controversy to trump the normal medical exception from the taboo.

So yes, basically. It is really the picture of a sick old lady smokin' a massive spliff. That's the problem. Smoking spliffs is taboo. If old ladies do it, the taboo can't hold.

Taboos have two parts: the thing that's taboo and the ways a culture maintains it.... ie the controversy. Taboos dissipate unless they're forcefully guarded. Someone does a thing. No one makes a big deal. Someone else does the thing. It quickly becomes normative.

If you're old enough, think of the homosexuality taboo. How important it was (when I was a kid) to make sure no one thought you were a homo. Now it isn't, at least in my surrounds. We enforced the taboo on each other. When we stopped. It stopped.

The old lady with a spliff is like the supreme court of literal common law.
Since it works on mice and on humans, and magpies are somewhere in the middle, I'd bet yes :).
I would recommend unvarnished Buddhism, not mindfulness in a pill that is being taught by these crazy apps. Buddhism teaches mindfulness in the context of wisdom and morality, not just mindfulness. Moreover the word itself is a horrible translation of the Pali word “Sati” which means “remembering to be aware of the state of your mind”. The key is “remembering to be aware”, not just “awareness”.
To the rest of the list of charges we can add: boomers screwed over generations of trauma victims because they couldn't handle their shit.
What else can "instance" mean, other than an instance of a virtual server? Granted may not be on AWS, but still is virtual which is a latency killer.
this smells like bullshit
> he pulled a gun on police when they tried to arrest him

This is the disputed evidence at the center of the question; the gun was found several meters away from the scene, on the other side of a fence, "wrapped in a sock". There is a protracted argument about how plausible it is that he threw it there after being shot in the arm.

> they invariably seem to be about people who were in the process of attacking the police when they were shot.

If the police shoot someone, then of course all the official reports will say that they were attacking the police. There have been a number of mass casualty incidents in the UK (Hillsborough, Bloody Sunday) where the police or army reports turned out to be lies.
No, it isn't fundamentally incompatible. It is a prefect reasonal requirement for an App Store app to be checked for security and sticking to the sandbox. Which by the way the operation system should enforce. An App should only be able to see the filesystem which belongs to its sandbox and shared forlders. Equally, any direct access to the hardware should be prohibited by the OS, and usually Unix systems are pretty good about that.
The App Store review should only check whether an App is a security risk, perform any malware functionality behind the back of the user. But the review shouldn't cover what kind of App Apple likes. A fully sandboxes IDE should be possible. A local shell should be possible, when limited to the applications sandbox.
Native GPU Virtualization in macOS Big Sur
#100DaysToOffload
Story time.

I recall one afternoon my friend and I picked and took some mushrooms (they grow in abundance at a certain time of year where I live), when I was perhaps 15 years old. We didn't take a huge quantity, but enough for a mild, pleasant experience.

That same evening I realised that I had to write an essay for school - it wasn't like me, but I'd completely forgotten about it, and now had a single evening to write a whole essay... bah, how could I possibly do that?!

I sat down, and... it just flowed. Words, sentences, paragraphs, ideas, characters, just sprang to life on the page - and it was good, really good! My mind felt amazing - like my consciousness had been expanded. I'd never felt such pure imagination and joy of knowledge before.

By the end of the evening I had unquestionably the best essay I'd ever written, and about twice the target length.

A week or so later when I got the results, it was a B, and I was kind of shocked - it was a masterpiece, dammit, and normally I pretty much got straight A's in English regardless! The teacher called me back after class - he told me what I submitted was way better than A+ work, more what would be expected at university level, or by a published author. He also asked who wrote it, because "it obviously wasn't you" - he didn't believe my insistence that I'd written it. He couldn't prove anything, so gave it a B and strongly warned me not to "pull a stunt like this ever again".

Of course, people can have great ideas and do great work without hallucinogenic drugs - that should really go without saying. But the results with such drugs can be utterly incredible - also keep in mind the effect is not only while using the drug, but afterwards too. The first time I k-holed on ketamine (many years later), it felt like I somehow understood the universe itself, and my mind felt incredible for 2-3 weeks afterwards.

A cautionary tale though. Later as a 15/16 year old again, we took an insane amount of mushrooms one night after something terrible had happened. Hundreds of them. I kept finding myself in the corner of the same room, staring at a troll (an hallucination). It seemed like it had happened a hundred times, and was pretty frightening. It was like being trapped in a never-ending nightmare. I later spent several hours shivering uncontrollably on a bed. It was a long time ago, but I guess the whole thing lasted at least 12 hours. I've never touched mushrooms or any other hallucinogen since, and I doubt I ever will, even if as an adult I wouldn't be as irresponsible as I was as a kid.
The fact that animals cannot mount a resistance makes our practices even more grim and morbid, not better.
> NYT “race-baiting propaganda” is a gross mischaracterization of what they do.

Sorry this study is in French. But yes, the NYT has shifted much further left in recent years.

http://evoweb.net/blog2/20190630-islamophobia-nyt-timelines....
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Spot on, good points and sensible analysis.
I don't think it's (just?) the drugs.

We can observe the behaviour in many types of interests.

This being HN, the obvious example is programming language zealotry. Other common examples are sports and cars. We see people walking down the street covered in car brand livery and think approximately nothing of it, and some of them will bang on about their chosen interest endlessly.

I tend to think it's more like a flaw in human psychology. Or maybe a strength of our inquisitive nature that sort of gets hijacked by an almost neurotic obsession.
Damn, how greatly?! Why do they leave us hanging? What were the natural causes they died of?
DigitalOcean have a HackerOne programme which... is a much better way of getting an issue like this flagged in a reasonable manner. I'm not surprised the account got banned. https://hackerone.com/digitalocean
Developers freedom doesn't automatically mean full "root" access to the device for any app. That indeed is something, I wouldn't like. Applications are sandboxed, and Apple should just defend those sandboxes. So Whatsapp cannot access your contacts unless the system allows it to, after asking the user. An App cannot just install printer drivers either.

But inside that guarded sandbox, Apps should be basically free to do. Apple shouldn't be able to ban an App because they don't want to have a development environment in it.
Good grief, a calm and rational discussion of the meaning and consequences of the Danish study.
Absolutely, I myself am obviously procrastinating right now, I know it doesn't exactly help me achieve my goals for today, yet here I am, replying to you instead of doing the work I should :)

The problem I see is that there is no institutionalized way to educate about emotions. For abstract knowledge and training rational thinking we have schools and universities. For feelings/emotions, though, we were are all effecively just getting homeschooled: We can learn from our parents etc., but that's pretty much it.

Perhaps there should be something like a school for feelings. This obviously is a hot topic, though, with different cultures having different ideals etc., especially when it comes to things like purpose in live, like we could already experience in another thread :)
Does it really make sense to use Blender as a CAD/CAM package?

CAD is all about building mechanical parts with features that match needed specifications. For example you need a block with holes in it with particular spacing, particular diameter and particular depth. CAD packages like Fusion 360, SolidWorks, FreeCAD etc. are all dedicated to this task and make features like constraints and measurements front and center.

Blender on the other hand is, at least in my experience of it, all about bringing somebody's artistic vision into a 3D environment. It's usually not important to somebody's vision that parts meet dimensional constraints, it's more important that it looks "right". And so Blender is full of tools that allow humans to change things to arbitrary dimensions.

Does it really make sense to try and fit both of these use-cases into one tool? I can't help but think that Blender would come out worse for it.

And that's CAD, I really can't come up with any reason why CAM would make sense in Blender.

Is there something I'm missing?
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on possible stifling US crypto regulation
I’d second that. I’ve been doing a bit of algorithm/NN stuff in Nim this year since it simplifies the “deployment” phase and it’s been surprisingly handy despite the limited libraries as there’s a C library for everything. It has a few rough edges but manageable.

It has the spirit of Python 2 but written by a compiler geek (in the good sense). If I were to write an HFT it’d be tempting to use. The new default GC is reference counting but without using atomic ref counts.

P.S. thanks for the lenientops tip
"Communication Skills More Important Than Coding Skills"

I'd say that coding skills are necessary but not sufficient.
A slight nitpick:

> The ambulance I shadowed had an ePCR. Nobody used it. I talked to the EMTs about this, and they said nobody they knew used it either. Lack of training? No, we all got trained. Crippling bugs? No, it worked fine. Paper was good enough? No, the ePCR was much better than paper PCRs in almost every way. It just had one problem: it was too slow.

That is a crippling bug. The UI is a soft real-time system, [0] and it's doing such a poor job of meeting its deadlines that the user considers the system to be unusable.

If you're writing an autopilot system, it's not enough for the system to eventually make the right decision, it must arrive at the right decision before the deadline. Failure to do so would by definition qualify as a bug.

> Most of us aren’t writing critical software. But this isn’t critical software, either: nobody will suddenly die if it breaks.

Won't they? If the software corrupts the patient data, someone could die, right? Elsewhere the article essentially says as much:

> An error might waste valuable time as nurses chase invisible problems or ignore obvious ones. Worst case, it leads to the wrong treatment. In emergency situations these mistakes can be fatal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing#Soft

edit I see brundolf's comment already makes some of these points
I picked up a 12.9 Pro early last year to try and find new ways of working, not just trying to reproduce the laptop experience on an iPad, which seems to be one stream of effort from many people. And it worked, it was an incredibly collaborative device that could be passed around, drawn on, and used effectively in group settings.

It enables things that are simply not possible on a laptop, and as the platform matures, that will hopefully become more obvious. One standout app for me is Concepts.app, allows me to draw and diagram and demo all in one go. It helped improve team and client relationships straight away. Admittedly, this method of working has vanished completely with remote, but I hope to get back to on-site and face-to-face working next year sometime.
Vim, gcc, notepad++, python, mspaint, libre office, gimp,
> The iPad works fine as it is.

Where is the USB port?
I don’t know if it’s most people, but it’s probably a lot of people on Hacker News.

A friend reminded me only a very small percentage of people in the world are programmers. It’s easy to forget that when almost everyone I work with daily is a programmer. The iPad is amazing in many ways, some of which are not meaningful or visible to people immersed in software development.
This explanation just reworks the question into one of why western interest rates are so low.

Western central banks can't raise interest rates above the lower bound without triggering unacceptable unemployment or even deflation. Indeed, the highest safe rate has fallen in the wake of every recession.

To me, this suggests major structural problems in the western economies. It's hard to think of a single explanation that applies to all (pre-pandemic) zero-interest rate western economies, however. The economic foundations in Australia, Canada, the UK, the US, and the EU are different enough that there is no obvious single structural fault common to all of them.
I like it;-) DIY or nothing.
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Nuclear energy is of course a controversial topic.

The main reason for not appearing on the list is that there are practically no open projects in this field.

ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) apparently relies on open source software, but we could not find any open documentation for this project. (https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/3316)
The Open100 project is similar. (https://www.open-100.com/)
We have found only one big project that is really open and active: Paramek (https://github.com/ukaea/paramak).
Why is that difference in phrase key?
Maybe I'm missing something here, but isn't this only a problem if you migrate your domain DNS away from DO and forget to also change the nameserver with your registrar?

So of course, if you tell the world "These guys over there are responsible for resolving my domains" you shouldn't be surprised if they actually do this.
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I did the same to Shopify about 12 months ago or less and their response was , first please remove the takeover from your panel and then second we are aware but wont fix.

It is absolutely bewildering that they wouldn't take this seriously. The owner of my takeover tried to add the domain to their panel and they couldn't. This adds a whole new level of customer service to their backlog which should essentially be mitigated by an automation of sorts via a txt record or cname confirmation. Seems to me that they are more interested in not fixing it but happy to waste hours of their agents trying to fix such takover problems.
Come on, friend — the very first accepted response there is:

> I would say that generally, the burden of proof falls on whomever is making a claim, regardless of the positive or negative nature of that claim.

If your intent was to convince me that I’m right, you are doing a wonderful job. :)

I might add: your selective quoting of this link also throws some doubt on your claim in another thread that we can solve all of confirmation bias through the educational system...glass houses, stones, etc. - we all preferentially seek out evidence that supports our prior beliefs, and we do it throughout our lives. It takes crazy, sustained effort to avoid, not just a lesson in separating fact from fiction!