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This doesn't make sense - zero interest rates make investment worth more.

10% interest rate => "why invest in this new factory for a 10% return when I can just keep money in the bank?"

0% interest rate => "well if I want to make money, I need to invest"

Feel free to blame other things - maybe 0% inflation rate (higher inflation => more opportunity cost of not investing) or QE (which is similar to 0% interest rates, but still different - a 0% interest rate environment persists since early 2000s whereas QE only started after 2009) which is much more problematic as it floods the market (but not the economy) with money and pushes equity prices through the roof (despite shitty fundamentals).
This is what I find so ironic about the market as revealed choice argument. This whole discussion is happening in the shadow of the M1 systems and Apple's increasingly controllling behavior. It's not as if Apple is offering an unlocked version of an M1 laptop alongside the locked version.

This gets even more tricky in discussing other things, like messaging, that have network effects. There it's not just what's offered, and my preference, that matters, but also other people's past options and choices.
I bought a Series S, my first Xbox, first modern console since I bought a Wii, because of this video and Game Pass.
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> If you Google phrases similar to the ones cited in the article, you'll certainly find the racist stuff, but most of the top results will be context and rebuttals

Because Google manipulates the results.
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That's very true, there's a shop on the outskirts of Paris that specializes in selling import American cars (a booming business apparently) and never having been to the USA I was genuinely amazed at the scale of the vehicles. It's the first time I saw a "car" that was basically as tall as I am, and I'm not small. Everything truly is bigger in America. Since then started paying attention to the size of the vehicles in American-produced media and I realized how absolutely huge cars can be over there.

I was also remembered of an HN thread years ago where people were commenting on the failure of Smart cars in the US. Many Americans were basically arguing that the car was too small to feel safe in traffic, which sounded a bit silly to me, but now that I know that every other car in the US is closer in size to a tank it makes a lot of sense.
from another discipline, but similar rigor -- a FOSS community with both C++ and Java servers, serving high-requirements responses.. a sort of friendly "coopetition" contest around 2012.. many hands and eyes, certainly top-level engineering on both sides.

The results were basically -- with the best teams, almost identical times; the obviously slowest entries were on the C++ side. Admitting bias now, I was surprised to see Java winning by a "hair's breadth" in certain cases, with certain entries.

Later, talking to a PhD in CS who wrote their thesis on graph-analysis of code conditions for JIT optimization, I found out that Java put a lot of excellent computer science into the problem, and that works very well. As alluded to in a different comment, the response times in both camps were appproaching the physical limits of the hardware, apparently. I had to recalibrate my expectations, since I thought that C++ would certainly win without fail.
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This is the biggest flaw in LSP (for Python at least), right now.

How difficult is it to implement basic extract function/method functionality?

I'd be tempted to try doing it, as I would absolutely love to have this in Emacs.
Indeed, this non-linear effect of UI latency on productivity is real, and has been studied/known for decades.

I think the "The Economic Value of Rapid Response Time" from 1982 is rather illuminating:

https://jlelliotton.blogspot.com/p/the-economic-value-of-rap...
A lot of accidents involve wildlife. Deer where I live, moose in the European North. Big roadkill is pretty common if you live in the countryside, much more common than killing another person.

You are definitely safer hitting the fearless ton of meat that is moose with a SUV.
Until 10 years ago me and other 3 friends used to go snowboarding weekly, we live in Rome and the nearest ski stations are in Abruzzo, about an hour away in the central Italian Appenines.

One of the places we went more often is called Campo Felice, which is famous for its extreme weather conditions. Sudden snowfalls are pretty common and they can be very heavy.

But the main danger are temperature drops, sometimes temperature can go as low as -33 C, forming thick layers of ice on the roads.

We got stuck there a few times because either the car doors were completely frozen and would not open or it was too cold and the engine refused to start, not mentioning the suboptimal traction of our 2WD cars.

To solve the problem we put some money together and bought a used Fiat Panda 4x4 (https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b4/d6/dd/b4d6dd1544d24d3c8d73dadda...), it's an affordable 4WD with many features that rival with much more expensive cars (excluding of course the luxury stuff).

We never had a problem after.

The new model costs only ~16 thousand euros and it improves a lot over the old one which was admitedly quite spartan, but for me it was a feature not a bug.
Look at iPad ads or just Apple's website. It's pretty obvious it's aimed at people using them for creating art, photo editing, etc. In fact, I'd say that Apple does not especially emphasize using them for passive content consumption.

I'm not much of an artist but apps like Procreate and GarageBand are very clearly in the iPad's sweet spot.
You've missed the point entirely. Go back and reread.
>nurses had great reputation some time ago

They still have:

https://www.france24.com/en/20200517-young-cuban-doctor-help...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/25/sicily-asks-cu...
i own a ton of copper stock so bring it on :D
Well that's the thing that gets me. My Mac notification bar is full of notifications from web sites and pages I've long forgotten. Yet my iPad, also using Safari, isn't allowed to receive them.
As matthewheath pointed out, this is around personal data use as opposed to copyright.

IANAL but I wouldn't be shocked however this falls.
For me, the main reason is kids. It is a LOT easier to get kids in and out of an SUV. A minivan would have been even better (only convenience wise) but that is a bridge too far for me.
Cheers - I'll check it out
Sounds like defense software. Feature A is blatantly obvious but there is no "shall" requirement for it.
Could fracking be used here to pump all this contaminated water deep beneath the aquifer and let the rock naturally filter it out?
On the other hand, this particular version is apparently the Sixth Edition of the book, which suggests it may have enjoyed at least some level of use.
Higher cars roll over much easier, which is very dangerous, but safety is also a feeling.
Considering he has others on "being rational" and "building muscle", I just thought he was one of those tech bros that loves Tim Ferriss and feels that same need to create prescriptive tutorials on topics they aren't domain experts in.
I’d take anything in the Express with a pinch of salt.

Their readership loves stories about issues in the EU regardless of truth.

A quick look at their Wikipedia entry will give anyone that doesn’t know them an idea of their institutional xenophobia[1].

Disclaimer: obviously I’m an EU “Remainer/Rejoiner” so you judge my opinion of the Express by that.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Express
What obstacles would you face starting a competitive new big factory in US or Europe. Think it through and you'll figure out some of the answers. And watch "American Factory".
Ideally the feature can be split into more granular components that individuals can work on.
I’m guilty of doing things wrong.

Let’s say the cto has said no merge to master until after n days. I have a few defects that I need to work on that are in the same files. Ideally, one should make a different branch for each defect. However, I’ll have to deal with merge conflicts when I merge to master next week. So, I put multiple defects in the same branch and put tracking information in commit message for example

Use break word in result table

Since we allow first names to be up to a hundred characters in length, the table should stay within the constraints in its container even with a hundred no space characters
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As you can imagine this isn’t ideal on multiple levels.

First, a merge request should only address one concern. That being said, the problem pretty much lies somewhere else.

The second follows the first. Assuming the first, we should be able to squash all commits in the feature branch without losing information.

I’m sure this is a common problem but I’ve not heard of a good solution to it so far. I’d love to hear what I should do differently.
Understanding page faults and memory swap-in/outs
For a myriad of reasons, I don't think Apple would ever want to sell their chips standalone.

OTOH, Apple could consider releasing a line of Apple silicon cloud servers.

Even if more expensive than x86 servers, they could eventually become VERY competitive if they are more power efficient, which is a real issue for cloud providers. It would pay off any upfront cost if, on the long run, the server uses ie. 50% less energy than x86 alternatives for the same bang.

Now, the thing is that the typical cloud or datacenter machine today is more of a custom built piece of witchcraft than an off-the-shelf blade. So, meh, maybe not. But an ARM-based cloud, Apple or not, sound like the way to go, at least for the long term.
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You can still use firefox autoconfig scripts to do a lot of things that they locked down(like using old XUL apis) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...
I didn't "correct" anything. Those are all Safire's words and none of mine.

Safire was using sarcasm through those examples to get his point across.
That's a great point to emphasize. Because memory access times are inherently more or less nondeterministic.

I consider it to be roughly as important as being able to reorder instructions across non statically determined branches and function calls. And both of these expose the fundamental weakness in explicit VLIW, if it's essentially nondeterministic it cannot be taken advantage of.

Then we naturally have some other benefits, like hyperthreading. Which basically is just compiling two instruction streams together on the fly.
Not intended in a nasty way, just factual:

The only reason I drive it is because it's so comfortable to sit higher up, and to have a better view of the road that way.

And thereby blocking the view of 'regular' cars.
Reading through that page it seems like every single component is an unrelated, seemingly random, “cute” name. Are cli, triggers/actions, and rules too generic? Out of context, what meaning do Arcanist, Maniphest, or Herald have?
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smart pointer template blah, instead of pointer blah, in a very large code base.. hmm not so pleasant.. the debug level function definitions, adding templated parameters, are literally unreadable. I will agree that the mental model is tamer.
I was just trying to portray that it's a 2D game, but all my assets will be in 3D. This is just because i have a decent bit of experience /passion in 3D modeling and animation, but couldn't draw a box to save my life hah.

So i'm going to mock 2D design with 3D models. Starting also with isometric, so it's naturally a bit more visually 3D anyway - but still sprite based.

I'm also going to toy and learn a lot about the boundaries of where tons of 2D sprites become bottle-necked and instead 3D ends up being cheaper. As it stands i know nothing, but some of the things i've planned have quite an extensive set of assets - so i suspect there will be some limitations there.
Exactly. A lot of us here talk about the increasing tracking and everything being ad financed. But when companies try for alternative sources to fund themselves we have people here complain about paywall.
Same here, asked this couple of times and the responses from pro-SUV were mostly for emotional reasons, not rational. Bear in mind that there are proper SUVs for proper terrain, then wannaby suv/crossovers/whatever which don't handle rough terrain well and are just not good cars overall. Also you can have a small crappy dacia sedan or audi a6 all road type.

The reasons pro SUV often boil down to:

- I need to see more - indication that person isn't a good driver to have this need - my older bmw is super low and I see no problem there, sensible drive makes much more difference, but new/bad drivers want to buy extra safety feeling
- people being sheepish, so they buy what is fashionate because others have it (although physics often disagrees its a good choice)
- the "I drive rough terrain" - which often boils down to going to ski resort in the winter, you don't need SUV for that, not even 4x4 if roads are OK (which they 99% are in Europe at least)
- people think only SUV can have 4x4, or only SUV are for rough terrain - marketing win for manufacturers

Disadvantages are numerous:

- more consumption, often higher maintenance (bigger tires)
- mentioned Audi allroad or similar gets exactly same job done as usual SUV
- since they are tall, they are pretty small inside, smaller trunk
- much worse driving properties due to higher centre of mass
- rolling risk is much higher in SUV due again to higher centre of mass
- subjective but within same brand, SUVs are plain fugly as hell, still waiting for a single one I could even remotely call a pretty car

Yeah, I am definitely not a fan of SUV. Between some Audi Q7 and Audi A6 combi allroad, A6 wins in all possible aspects. Its also much more fun and safer car to drive.
>I don't think many people in Europe really prefer SUV

Oh I think you're wrong, there's definitely a significant market for people who prefer SUVs, electric or not. This is not new. After all most of these European urban SUV are really neither S or U, they're just SUV shaped.

I remember watching a French TV show about cars maybe 15 years ago where they were talking about the growing popularity of SUVs, and back then diesel was the norm.
I can do it via wifi and by pressing the button on it. I press the button most of the time cause I have it vacuum before I leave somewhere.
Honestly, I think the only real solution is to sue these accusers for defamation. If there's actual evidence that you are racist, then you can just take your lumps and don't respond to them.

However, if you want to accuse someone of racism, you better have evidence of you're going to pay.
> There’s no question that Apple has struggled to craft a cohesive, compelling narrative for the iPad... We know what it’s good for, and we can easily imagine what it could be good for, if only Apple would set it free.

I'm so utterly baffled by this sentiment. What is not already cohesive and compelling about the iPad? What does Apple need to "set free"? This sounds like it's supposed to be huge and inspiring, but then the author's wishlist is mundane stuff like "another port", "landscape first", "position widgets anywhere". Huh?

The iPad is already an amazing, cohesive, compelling machine. I use it daily for things like researching and annotating PDF's, playing games, recording professional-quality video, watching movies, doing shopping, videoconferencing, taking notes, etc.

> It’s simple: people love their iPads. They love them so much they wish they could do even more with them... it’s time for the iPad to reassert itself—to remind us once again who it’s for, and what makes it special.

Huh? The iPad doesn't need to "reaassert itself", it's doing fine. I guess the author mainly wants to run Final Cut on their iPad...? Which makes no sense to me because the screen honestly isn't large enough for an effective video editing interface.

Weird article.
But revealed choice isn't a true indication of preference if the options to choose from don't allow for expression of preference. The market isn't some neutral A/B test because the seller is incentivized to manipulate A and B.

It's more of a market game situation, where buyer choice says as much about seller preference as it does buyer preference at some level.
How did they avoid GC penalty? Arena allocation and buffer reuse?

Java is pretty good, I've used it for over 20 years, but it wastes memory for basic use cases, and yet GC pause limits the utilization of huge memory cases.

Did anyone try Go? IMO Go tries to address the slowness of java startup and commands, but it punts GC/memory waste so the huge-memory systems are even worse.
> The other person might not strictly be in a car, they might be a cyclist or a person simply walking around, so I don't think your counter argument applies.

> I would also argue that centering your car buying decisions around your own safety is selfish and or egotistical; other people are just as valid as you and you should consider their safety just as much as your own, especially the traffic participants that are less able to defend themselves against bigger vehicles like pedestrians or cyclists.

If you're willing to buy a car based on the safety of others over your own, that's your right. But if we're being honest, everything you just mentioned is exactly why your active participation in defensive driving techniques is essential. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_driving

Since crashes always have fault, defensive driving and proper maintenance of your car are paramount safety requirements both for myself and to pay respect to other people. However, beyond that, I'm buying my car based on an assumption that other people will not pay me that respect (e.g. by texting and driving), which is also precisely the point of defensive driving in the first place.

It seems like you're here mostly to force a debate. I made my point; I hope you're at peace with it.
This tired tendency to reduce weight control to physics is patently counterproductive. It's about as helpful as pointing out to a smoker that they'd quit smoking regardless of how addicted they are, if only they could smoke progressively fewer cigarettes, because logic and definitions. Technically correct, but misses the point entirely.
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This includes mild hybrid. Example engine from popular Volvo XC60 is B4P 145+10 kW (197+14 KS).

Soo, yeah, huge number of those vehicles included are actually diesel powered cars.
The fact it adds a bit of torque from electric motor doesn’t change a thing.
Without question if I can’t find a menu online I will not visit the restaurant. Doesn’t mean they need their own website though, just need to show up on some aggregator when I google food near me and peruse the results to pick something.
Do people really think the collective functioning of organs that have evolved to cohabitate in a given lump are not subject to constraints so that the lump doesn't all apart?

The fact that each subsystem evolved in that environment to get cues from common signals does not mean there is a thing that is aware of the fact that it has communication lines to, say, kidneys, and lungs etc.

Given that every single thing is subject to constraints, the things that evolved to work together must be, by necessity, relying on a signaling mechanism so one part does not fall apart trying to fulfill the demands of other parts.

Otherwise, the thing we are looking at, in this context, brain in a body, could not have existed in this arrangement.
> disembowels life of deeper meaning and of true purpose.

Meaning isn't out there to be found in the universe, it is a purely human concept. We can't find meaning, we must create it.

If this article prevents you from doing that, then your sense of meaning may need shoring up.
> We don't undergo photosynthesis, so fundamentally we have to kill and eat other beings to survive.

Currently that's true. But it's not an essential property of the universe. Yesterday's ludicrous may be tomorrow's normal. Thus my mention of Star Trek's replicator. Imagining those were common helps make clear the ethical tradeoffs.

If everybody were used to getting any food they wanted from a magic box, then what would we think of people who insisted on doing it the old way? A guy who spent months raising animals just to murder and consume them would certainly hear about it.

A person who had a vegetable garden might just be seen as a quirky hobbyist, or he might be seen as a person doing something weird and gross, the way many Americans feel about somebody who eats organ meat or dog. They might even be seen as heretical; many religions see life as sacred, after all. And if they did it at modern, industrial scale where they destroyed square miles of ecosystem? Perhaps it would be seen as historical reenactment, or perhaps it would be taken as a sign of severe mental health problems.

As I said, I'm an omnivore. But I try to be an honest, self-aware one. I just dismembered a turkey, ripping joints apart and rending flesh from bone. I'll enjoy the meal, but I'm aware of the horror, too. That's the deal with evolution and being part of a species that is early on in the self-uplift process.
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Local air pollution caused by Diesel engines is a real issue in many European cities where Diesel was embraced. The big picture matters of course, but you can't discard smaller scale issues either.

Diesel engines are usually significantly louder too.
I think it’s not that software engineers aren’t engineers; but more that they’re most equivalent to combat engineers — engineers operating under time-pressure and shipping-pressure, where the systems they build need to “work” (in the sense of a bridge getting people across a ravine) but may only need to work once; and where it may be perfectly fine/expected/required to need to “baby” the resulting engineered system along (i.e. letting a batch of people over the bridge, then closing it to traffic, examining the piles for faults, and shoring up the ones that are slipping; then reopening the bridge, in a cycle.)

It’s not that this type of engineering is “not engineering”; it’s that it’s engineering where the engineer themselves (and their ability to actively re-stabilize the system) is considered a load-bearing element in the design, such that the system will very likely fall apart once that element is removed.

Combat engineering is still engineering, in the sense that there are still tolerances to be achieved, and it’s still a disaster if the bridge falls over while it’s in active use for the mission it was built for. It’s just not considered a problem if it falls over later, once that mission is accomplished.
I don't see Frontpage coming back anytime soon. The space is now filled with all in one marketing platforms for businesses. Hubspot, Mailchimp, etc all now allow you to build websites.

Creating your site is only one small piece of the puzzle, hosting, email, security and all the other stuff that's being pilled on top of the growing complexity these days.

I see platforms as enabling more people to build more, not less. After all, content is what matters most and what drives visitors and value to a site.
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Depends how much money it is: I would ask, is it more or less than the cost the team would spend rebranding?
Where I live, not a ton of moose, though generally if the area is known for roadkill of large animals, you should try driving slower and maybe checking your headlights to make sure they are adjusted. Safer driving beats driving a huge car for the purpose of not having to safely drive.