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ROS is a helper framework, for people who would otherwise be implementing low-level embedded interfaces to arbitrary hardware, so that they can share more of their work.

It's like Rails, if instead of targeting the web your deployment platform were an unmanned autonomous submarine vehicle.

And you needed to support a donated Russian sonar, some second-hand one-off logic boards, some sensors you soldered together in your lab, and implement a navigation algorithm you only have in research paper form.
Its funny you should mention that case(fb). It was very well priced if you were facebook as you lost barely any money. I remember the headlines during 2012 were the exact opposite, it was priced way too high and there was no 1st day "pop", everyone in the media/financial group declared the IPO a flop, the stock dropped after and settled near $12 a share a few months later, from there is started its huge rise to 200+.
>That is a legitimate reasons

So you get to decide which are legitimate and which are not?

>If your reasoning is "It's uncomfortable" you are being ridiculously childish, and risking the lives of others.

Likewise, I can also says your decision to force other to wear mask is childish.

You also get to decide what childish and what is not?

>I literally cannot understand the "I would rather risk killing someone than having this piece of cloth on my face for a few hours" mindset.

The risk always exist whatever you do but the chance of that happening is very very low. Not 0, anything can happen, but very low.

Driving car in the road has non zero risk of killing people too but we do it anyway.
Sorry but I strongly disagree. In fact I’ll come out and say its perhaps one of the worst ways you can measure productivity.

At best you’re measuring _activity_ not productivity. You just turned a group of smart people into headless chickens jumping on whatever ticket so they can to look busy. Which cultivates an environment of fear, which in turn kills deep thought and creativity... two essential ingredients for good software.

I could even argue that ticketing systems are the bane of good software, making real priorities intransparent... but that’s a rabbit hole I won’t go into here.

Instead I’d argue we shouldn’t be trying to measure developer productivity at all.

Productivity in software development is non-linear and difficult to assign individually.

How do you measure the productivity of that “lazy guy” that had an amazing shower thought one morning, implemented it by lunchtime, which in turn leads to the company making millions more by the end of the year?

Or what about the person on the team that spends most of their time supporting the rest of the team, unblocking them and helping them be productive?

Two examples of why we shouldn’t even be trying to measure developer productivity.

My own experience after 25 years in this industry is the moment someone says “but how do we measure developer productivity?” is the moment that companies software products begins a long, slow death.

Ultimately what development teams and companies (not individuals) should be measured on is _results_ that positively impact customers and business.

When the product is a success, no one cares about individual productivity.
Do you think they're going to figure it out if we just yell at them one more time? Those who are going to listen have listened.

I mean, look, continue to state, loudly and publicly, that QAnon is full of it. But war1025 has a point - we're well past the point of diminishing returns. Personally, I find myself hitting refresh to see if anything has happened lately. And it hasn't, and it won't today, and it won't tomorrow. The hourly news cycle is a really bad match for a six-months-and-counting pandemic.
> “It’s a chemical reaction in a can,” says Simonis. “The zinc chloride is an intentional product of the grenade’s design.” The Material Safety Data Sheet supplied by Safariland, however, doesn’t mention zinc chloride at all.

This is like (spoiler / 37 year old movie) in Superman 3 when he defeats the AI baddie because it determined the can of acid he was holding was harmless.

...until he heat-activated it.
Lenovo has Linux fails too. This list is on part a blatant lie.

Example: Lenovo ships some Thinkpads with a Fibocom LTE modem. But only Windows has PCIe drivers, Linux needs to use the USB interface. Not a problem one would think, but if you switch the modem to USB mode, the notebook will not boot. Lenovo still uses a whitelist for allowed devices and they forgot to add the USB mode for the modem.

Thread for further reading: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Linux-support-...

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/Linux-d...
Basically ROS is a collection of libraries, mostly for and by researchers for interfacing with and controlling robots.

Libraries exist at different levels of abstraction, but it is for the most part not exactly plug-and-play.

It's super useful if you are for example building robots in an academic lab, say, or re purposing existing hardware & software. The further you get from that environment, the less obvious the fit will be. But if you are playing around with robotics, ROS can help you avoid reinventing a whole bunch of wheels just to get started.
Not if those neighbors spend all day every day at schools, workplaces, community centers, and shopping areas that are 2-5 miles away and accessible only by car.
Most sellers on eBay are businesses.

But you can buy stuff on FB Marketplace or CL without paying sales tax, even if you use a service like venmo for handling payments. In most states, you are technically supposed to report these transaction on your income tax return, but enforcement of that is not practical for the state.
Government prints as much money as it needs to pay itself. Now inflation and interest rates might be different type of pain but at least it's not the same pain of filing taxes, figuring out laws or finding someone to do that for you.
Is there really any point in quibbling over a difference of +/- 1 when contemplating (because that's really all we can do) the value of BB(n)?
Who even makes that assumption. Not economists afaik
1. It doesn't mean that you can't change those selective sales taxes. We already have selective sales taxes active in the US. For example, I don't pay sales taxes on groceries.

2. Migrating over to VAT doesn't mean these taxes go away.

3. The only guaranteed consequence for switching to the VAT system is that taxes will become less transparent, so they will likely increase.
Exactly this, not saying I'm a high performer but I have been lucky enough that I can simply ignore jobs that do not come with an upfront discussion of salary range.

Additionally if you have that data, it gives you an estimate of the average salaries people are being hired at (if you have a way to get feedback when someone is hired) and that is valuable data for better understanding the market.
And what I mean by "flawless" is that the machine can be suspended and unsuspended hundreds of times between reboots, and that suspend/resume are quick. This definition of "flawless" also applies to the laptop that has the workaround on it. Kiddie laptops in this household aren't the most modern ones and reboots require patience.
Odysee aims to build a more freewheeling, independent video platform
> Growth in resource consumption and energy usage in the past 80 years tracked extremely closely to economic growth

Growth in power consumption of laptops, is falling.

Growth in total material consumption for say cars will fall too, as less maintenance is required for electrical engine vs internal combustion.

Many people believe we've reached peak oil, as demand will decrease. So it's not so clear.

> The expansion in the productive possibilities linked to tech was combinatorial, but even in a period of ten years it barely improved your business.

If you are focusing on one business, there's little change between barbering now and not just 10 years ago, but even 200 years ago. But small changes are enough - even taking appointments online frees the barber time. So there's some growth.

> The expansion in the productive possibilities linked to tech was combinatorial, but even in a period of ten years it barely improved your business.

However, you are missing the 99% of businesses that are impossible with 1800 technology.

This cause growth, and much more than the little growth seen in barbering.

> The truth is that every frontier has a point of diminishing returns

Diminishing returns are perfectly compatible with asymptotic behavior.

> We might still see a lot of economic growth left in the future, but it's clear there will be plateaus and it's clear that we are nearing one

You don't understand (or you do, but don't want to see it): as long as f(yu) >= f(yt) for yu>yt, there's infinite growth.

It may be less and less, if it's asymptotically going to 0, but it will never reach g=0.

Plateaus are fine - just like recessions. Yes, the economy is not strictly increasing with a time granularity that too small. But group years by pack of 20, do a moving average and you'll see a strictly increasing function. g>0 which means infinite growth is possible, even if g may not be to your liking.

Perfect? No. Good enough? Yes!
> This is answered quite clearly in the article - because he's well connected. Largely that means people with money, but influence doesn't hurt either. He cut the line as a VIP.

> Is that ethically wrong? Probably. Is it new? Not even remotely.

The story here is not that corruption is "new." The story is that there were a total of 108 doses of this treatment allocated to Washington, and one of them went to someone with self-admittedly "very mild symptoms," and had a history of reckless behavior to boot. That rare treatment might have been able to save someone's life, but it instead went to someone who didn't need it and probably didn't deserve it. It's worth noting that this instance corruption happened and who was involved, so maybe someday something can be done about it or this sort of thing more generally.

It's really weird: whenever there's a story like this, people seem to climb over each other for the opportunity to note that corruption wasn't invented yesterday, like they're making some kind of important point.
> Maybe you could use it to generate green hydrocarbons from atmospheric CO2

Which would start to look a lot like long-term storage. But subsidized by negative energy prices during excess production. So rather than bleeding money while someone else makes profits any power company will prefer to build less overcapacity (which also avoids risking devalued assets) and run their own peak-shaving if they can.
Which means this problem still has to be solved one way or another. Whether you call it long-term storage or excess energy use.
I'm amazed I had to read so far to see this. The older I get, the more I realized I don't like people that much.
Of all the people to finally solve this cipher, I'm not surprised it was David Oranchak. Brilliant work from him and the others involved.
Genuinely curious, can someone clarify how these types of platforms(Netlify etc) are any different from something like an S3 bucket?

You can host a static website via an S3 bucket.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosti...
>"We want to grow our market by 8.2 per cent and give our bosses higher Christmas bonuses"

This isn't a bad thing. Profit and price are, in most cases, still reasonable signals for what consumers want, and growing your market means you're serving real demand in the actual world. This is what creates employment and utility.

Flying to Mars and ignoring market share is nice but doesn't serve any actual point, other than Musks idiosyncratic desire for it. He can pursue it because in other areas the company actually does pay attention to growing their market and funding it.

But overall companies should pursue growing their market share because it means they're serving customers. I don't think the world would necessarily be better served if Walmart focussed on shooting rockets to the moon, rather than making it so the shelves are stocked and the products are cheap.
From experience: Watch out for “seems” in these cases.

The number of times I’ve heard someone say “_____ is not like it used to be”, or “it’s harder to find ____ in (name community/event/location/etc)” is significant, and even when it’s true short-term, it rarely pans out long-term unless that very thought spreads to enough people that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Like do what you want it’s your life. I’m just saying what I’ve seen.
That's exactly what I mean by "sloppy" - it's not clear what question this thing answers, because the question wasn't carefully written down ahead of time, so there is no way to really generalize anything here.

Because different response methods are pooled together in results without any reweighting, it's not clear how much bias has been introduced vs a hypothetical global emacs population measure.

What conclusions do you think you can draw from this? I don't know how to draw any that aren't hedged heavily. 18% for doom seems much higher than I expected - is that because I underestimate it, or because of how the survey was conducted? There's no way to tell, here.

Good survey design _does_ exist; it's an extremely intensely studied practice. It's not surprising that a casual internet survey doesn't follow anything resembling modern surveying techniques, but it does make results unclear.
The short elevator pitch in my "unofficial" over-simplified own words - "ROS is framework to program complex robotics applications that encourages modularity and shareability of modules. ROS is to robotics development what Django/Rails is to web development."

ROS2 is version 2 of the original ROS framework.

As a results of the ROS framework, a number of modules (packages in ROS-talk) for complex robotics algorithms, functionality has been implemented by companies / the community and shared among each other.

For instance, Hadabot reuses the Navigation package (along with many others) that has been pre-impremented which allows me to employ many robotics functionalities without having to re-invent the wheel.
There is 0 reason why help and file browsing needs to be part of a browser. MS forced IE deep into the OS, when firefox and chrome, two incredibly successful and popular browsers do not need this at all, and are better for it.
That is how it works in The Netherlands as well.

What is also great: all products targeted at consumers must contain VAT price. If it isn't mentioned, it is assumed it includes VAT. They don't get away with "oh sorry, forgot to mention VAT" at checkout.

Contrast that to every time I buy something from USA its like "oh, you gotta pay your duties" bwam extra ~20+% on price, and all prices in online discussions which are US-centric (e.g. comparisons on products such as recently Airpods Max) do not include tax (whatever you want to call it).

Different VAT throughout EU can be annoying though. Price comparisons within EU, for example. Regularly, Amazon Germany seems cheap or cheaper than Amazon Netherlands. With Prime, shipping is free either way, so sounds good, right? Until you go to checkout, they figure you really do want to ship to The Netherlands (my default and only address whilst logged in, go figure) and bwam price adjusted without being mentioned. Though that might be an Amazon specific issue.
It is likely true that an email only provider may have more features. In my experience, the support Dreamhost has provided me whenever I needed it has been exemplary. However, yes, mail is a low priority for them, and I think they focus on just providing the basics (secure, no frills email). They do have a spam filter, but I don't use it.

If you just need the basics: Email addresses, with stuff like SMTP and IMAP support, Dreamhost is more than adequate.
This is one of the small number of takeovers (along with Sparrow and Dark Sky) that actually make me angry, because they deprived everyone of something really great, for little apparent benefit.

The fact that so many people use Slack, but then do all their voice, video and screensharing in Zoom or some other tool says a lot about Slack as a tool and company.

My wife uses Teams for work. It's rubbish in many ways, but when she's using it they do everything in it. Somehow slack has failed at this despite having many of the same features built in.
I will add the option for a salary now in fact! :)
Drone and Live Moth Antenna = Robotic Smell Seeker
"The federal government’s refusal to cooperate with chemical weapons legislation and local lawmakers has further hampered research by CWRC and BES. Federal troops have erected an illegal barricade around the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse and have refused to allow BES to test the storm drain inside the site, despite the city’s threat to levy a $20,000 penalty against the federal government for every day the barricade stands after September 10."

Using illegal weapons, refusing to follow the law, illegally blocking the collection of evidence, all in the name of Law and Order. What are the odds anyone who injured someone with this illegally-used toxin will face any repercussions?

Justifying this really requires psychopathic cynicism or some serious doublethink.
> Entertainment is a multi billion dollar industry. Companies like Disney are making record profits. Instead of relying on taxes and fees to make government-approved entertainment why not simply... make content people want to watch?

Well, it's a question of which devil you want.

In the case of Disney, much of their profits are driven by an entire lifestyle that they are selling. There's the Media itself, but then all the toys, the amusement parks, etc. And all of the advertising that goes with those, and all of the social impacts it has as a result (see next point for more)

If you go for an advertising based model, You wind up with 2nd or 3rd order social impacts. Even in the 80s, the decade of 'greed is good', the FTC put limitations on advertising in children's programming due to the psychological impacts it had. (I'd be curious to see another good look taken today, but regulators are even more toothless now than they were then.)

In both cases, however, you are at the end of the day going to be beholden to either your advertisers, or your corporate overlords for your content. And if they don't like that content, it will not see the light of day in any meaningful form, regardless of the public interest.

I feel all approaches have their place, but perhaps the advertising model could use a bit more modernization in it's regulation, with what we now understand about behavioral psychology.
> These giants, armed with nearly limitless funds and extensive client relationships, frequently abuse their advantage and bully smaller upstarts into oblivion.

I don’t really understand this viewpoint. Companies are _choosing_ to use Microsoft’s products for various reasons. Maybe they already use Office and the integration with Teams made Teams the best choice over Slack. Maybe the company had an existing relationship with Microsoft so onboarding Teams required less Administrative overhead. There are probably many more that I am not listing. These are legitimate reasons to choose a product over another, not Microsoft abusing its power.

Generally, big companies are only capable of delivering this type of value, and I don’t really see why that’s a problem. Lone, un-integrated startups, like Slack, still pop up and shake up the market. Then big companies replicate their product and integrate it into their existing software suites and sales pipelines, providing value that the smaller startup cannot. In this case the smaller startup merged with a larger company and will likely be integrated with their systems, providing value that both companies could have easily created alone. This all seems like it’s working as intended to me.
Keep an eye on Cosmic Frontier: Override. It's not the original code, but it will be a re-release of the Override scenario in a new engine designed for data file compatibility with the whole series, plus new features.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-f...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-f...

https://github.com/EvocationGames/KestrelEngine

I gather the rights to EVN are a more complicated issue because ATMOS was a whole bunch of people, versus EVO where Peter Cartwright owned everything. Rights to the EV name still belong to Matt Burch who wasn't interested in having it used for Cartwright's rerelease.

Also see discussion on reddit for more background info: https://www.reddit.com/r/evnova/comments/g5wgbl/i_discuss_co...

There are a couple threads scattered around, u/evopac is Peter Cartwright.
if you take headphone jack away from the earphones then you can take the jack away from the player device, [viceversa] then you can lockout any non apple earphones and perhaps blacklist nonvetted media
Zodiac Killer's '340 Cipher' sent to SF Chronicle 51 years ago reportedly solved
> One thing I have heard about COBOL is that it has a built in, decimal fixed point type. Very few of the modern languages have an native type like this..

What modern language doesn’t have either fixed-point or arbitrary-precision decimals (or both) in either the core language or standard library?

I mean, sure, C doesn’t (and I don’t think C++ does), but those aren’t particularly modern languages.
2016 is the baseline in my comment. In Cleveland the median home price increased by 122% in the 8 years from 2008 to 2016, then increased 175% in the past 4 years.
I initially replied to someone speculating that Brave was backdoored by noting that their history of surprising users wasn't the best.
Then I replied to someone else replying to my post with a defence of one of those practises Brave have apologised for. Then I replied to your reply to that post. This is how Hacker News generally works.

I'm reasonably confident that my prior posts in this thread were more on topic than your speculation about my social skills.
I feel like we need a US based cpa to chime in here?
Boards Built for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4
The only stronger warning sign at a company that they've lost the plot is when they start caring about Gartner's magic quadrant.
I've used two or three HP Elitebooks in past few years, and suspend/resume, as well as hibernation/resume just worked on them. I never even really thought about it, to be honest, I just used it - mostly just suspend - daily.

Curiously enough, some of my colleagues which have the same laptop model running Windows, complain that their laptops only wake up about 50% of the time, ever since we had a mandatory upgrade to Windows 10.
Just getting accepted to Harvard is the accomplishment. When have you ever heard someone say something along the lines of "Well this guy only got a 3.2 GPA at Harvard, I'm more impressed by the guy with a 3.9 from Michigan"
I’m from NW England. Wife is from Cornwall - 6 hour drive away. We met at uni, 2 hours for her, 4 for me.

Then my parents moved to Greece, we moved to London for career and bounced around the south east.

Eventually though we settled in Cheshire, and the parents followed - one is a 10 minute walk away, the other is 20 minute drive. It’s amazing what having grandchildren does.

Trouble is we’d feel guilty about moving to New Zealand now.
Wouldn't this tend to cause overinvestment in durable goods? Instead of putting your money in a bank, you put it in something physical to resell later. Seems inefficient.
As someone who voted against Trump twice, I am horrified by his attempts to cling to office. At the same time, I am also reminded of the people in my social circle as well as in the Lefty media who in late 2016 talked about how Electoral College members had no legal obligation to cast a vote for Trump. (Except that many states have laws that say they do.)

What seems to be true of "both sides" is that both see their enemies as people who are set on their destruction and thereby justify "by whatever means necessary" thinking.

I too am one of those people thought a pinko socialist by some and a revanchist caveman by others.