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I've spent the last three years translating COBOL programs off of an HP3000 in to to SQL-backended web-apps and can say as a non-Programmer who was given a pile of COBOL source to decompile, I like its simplicity and ease of readability. Most of the code is from the 80's or 90's but is well commented and easy to work with and understand. Speaking of, most of this code still works or was in use until 2-3 years ago--on the HP3000. Its a testament to how long this stuff can be kept useful. Also, the COBOL team here wasn't astoundingly well paid, but good stable and low-stress jobs in the middle-range of local income is something that is becoming harder and harder to find.
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Maybe... but most efforts over the last decades to this end have been slow and hard. The alternative thesis is leadership by example. Putting these at odds has been a recipe for stalling, and both the US & China are examples of this.

On that note, I think we should be using carbon reduction leadership more directly to generate industrial advantages within the EU. There are (should be) obvious advantages in getting to the future first. A lot of recent capital investment in green tech (eg tesla, panasonic, the chinese panel industry) were directly or indirectly supported by signals of long term demand (eg end dates for ICE vehicles) from european polities.

EG: Telsa's investment case (besides the L5 autonomy case) is basically formed around a predicted adoption curve for electric vehicles. (Market Share)X(Market Size) for any given T. Long term investments need confident predictions of long term market size. Same for solar panels, battery tech, etc. Most of the footnotes supporting these predictions came from EU (member) politics. Not quite government guaranteed demand, but collectively credible nonetheless.

There should be more effort to get this happening locally.

The UK is no longer EU, but it's a nice legible example so let's use it. Scotland, and now the UK as a whole have been declaring that ICE vehicles will be banned by 2030. Whether that "ban" will really be a ban will be determined later, but that still puts one hell of a footnote on your market size predictions for 2030... directly translatable into hard capital investment. The EU (+UK) is big enough that a good chunk of this investment can be captured within it.

There are costs to carbon reduction locally. Environmental benefits are more global. We should be capturing more of the economic benefits locally to even it out.
It's a veblen good. Quality is secondary to cost.

The entire point is to be impractical.
I'm aware how people on this site think about products like this. Can you tell me why, despite the strong sentiment here, the product is still so popular?
Hunter gatherers did had mental illness and diseases. Takes something like schizophrenia or being bipolar. That is not something that is purely result of modern life. I dont think there is evidence hunter gatherers could not suffer from PTSD or abuse.

They did not had diseases of over-consumption, but they had diseases from under-consumption.
I do think that's the disconnect. Apple has eschewed gaming whereas Microsoft has embraced it. It turns out that gaming is a huge moat, and until Apple decides to invade they will be relegated to second place in the PC market.

On the flip side, the PC market is less and less relevant as phones have become the primary computing platform in the last 10 years.
With linear types you could get rid of the GC, probably.
> Since that time I always have doubt whether to point out to someone that they took a disabled parking spot. The way I handle it now is by asking someone who leaves a car, who doesn't look disabled, if they need some help (instead of pointing out that they are assholes). If they are indeed disabled, they won't mind, if they aren't - they feel like assholes :)

You should just stop bothering because it’s really not your place or any of your business.

I say this as someone who took care of my mother during cancer treatments. I drove her to her clinics/hospitals and she had a difficult time walking from the parking lot to the door, so we were able to get a handicap parking thing issued to hang on the rear view mirror. It helped her tremendously that I could park the car basically right at the door and we could both go in together. I never abused the label and removed it when I wasn’t driving her around, but every time she was in the car with me and we went somewhere I hung it up. There were times when she/I forgot something in the car and I had to go out to go get it. There were times when people like you would have seen me lightly jogging to the car to get something and running back in. You would have asked me if I needed help and apparently I “should feel like an asshole.” You would have asked me if I needed help and if I didn’t ignore you you would have wasted my time trying to bring in papers or my mom’s purse or something. And if I did ignore you because I was in a hurry you might have tweeted about me taking up a handicap parking, when you know absolutely nothing about the situation.

When she was recovering and was able to drive herself, she took the decal and used the handicap parking as well. She was able to walk around normally and you wouldn’t have thought she was handicapped in anyway, but she still had respiratory issues and was physically weak that walking far was difficult. You would have been one of those people pointing out to her that she was an asshole.
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Chiming in to add an anecdotal data point in support of the parent's comment. I too own a System76 laptop which is running their drivers and PopOS (Debian and Ubuntu derivative). Sleep/wake works well.
I was using hypotheticals to make a point, pedant.
In terms of Algorithmic Bias, due to predominatly identifying light skin tones, I rate this as 2.5 out of 5 stars.
Has alot of work to do. Thanks for sharing and allowing the community to openly critique it.
You are missing the point. Simply knowing BB(n) is enough to solve the halting problem for a TM with n states. It doesn't matter whether it is precomputed and stored in a lookup table, or computed on the fly, or revealed to you by God. If you know BB(n) by any means, you can solve the halting problem for a TM with n states. Therefore you cannot know BB(n) beyond a certain n.
Agreed, developing print stylesheets is a PITA. But the principle proof, that HTML + CSS is capable of being the authoring format for whole books, is brought by PrinceXML, https://www.princexml.com/, for years now.

It’s just that browsers suck with handling print styles.

The splitting is something, that the CSS authors already did with CSS 3 and its single modules (specification-wise). But authors don’t really see anything of that in their day-to-day work.
I remember when I first read about the Treaty of Wangxia being shocked that one of items in the treaty was that China would revoke a law that made it illegal for outsiders to learn Chinese. [0]

The very idea that it could be forbidden to learn a language seemed nonsensical to me at first, although upon reflection, it must have been a good way to keep foreign ears from prying too much (I believe China's ban on foreigners learning Chinese was more about counterintelligence and less about wanting Chinese speakers to have some deep, authentic connection with the culture).

I hate stuff like that hostility between Hopi and Navajo people though. If anything, learning a neighbor's language tends to bring people together!

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Wanghia
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Yes, the company can do a secondary offering after its IPO, and it's pretty common. I think the hype around the IPO will help them do a secondary next year, so in that sense the low initial price is like a marketing tool for future stock.

Also, Airbnb (like other tech companies) is issuing quite a lot of new stock in the form of RSUs used to pay employees. This constant dilution benefits from the high stock price.
Java would be the safest bet for the "other" language known by a COBOL programmer.
The market rejected it because it had crappy UX. Those smartphones were marketed for balding dads in white shirts, working in cubicles. Steve Ballmer types.

The iPhone had 60 fps smooth animations, a built-in iPod, a huge capacitive touchscreen, and most importantly none of the baggage of being associated with balding managers in their 40s. It was sexy. It was a fashion statement.

There wasn’t even an AppStore on iOS initially.
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Four hours seems like a realistic estimate for daily commute time for a SF <-> SV round-trip pre-COVID, especially on public transit. I did the same, it was 3-3.5 hours by car, and 4 by MUNI/Caltrain/Shuttle. If I lived closer to Caltrain in the city, it would have helped a lot.
It will never stop annoying me that my telephone takes longer to boot than the computers I grew up with.
The problem all the way up and down this situation is that it's not about what I alone choose, but about what my neighbouring voters choose.
Simply put, adblockers are antivirus for the web. Everyone should always use one.
Multi generational households were the norm for much of the history.
This is generally true, native english speakers are usually less equipped to understand weird accents while non-native speakers are used to conversing with non-native speakers. non-native speakers are by definition bilingual which might help.
Sad data. In my opinion this is the result of a culture that optimizes for the wrong things in life.

"Happiness is only real when shared.".
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The elite need lots of slaves to work the fields and if you can keep them spending all their free time worried and emotionally exhausted about the news item du jour you never need to even whip them, they won't have any energy to cause you problems.
> But headphones don't get worse just by the passage of time.

They didn't when they were just speakers on a strap, but that is a bad mental model for thinking about modern wireless headphones. Remember that a lot of these headphones now have CPUs in them, and they're integrating into a moving spec. The iPhone 6 mentioned here only supported Bluetooth 4, while the iPhone 12 supports Bluetooth 5.0, plus some other addons like LE and A2DP. And that's before we consider any protocols that manufacturers add on top of that, like Airplay.

Even Airpods aren't "fire and forget" devices nowadays. Apple is still shipping firmware updates for Airpods. It's fair to say that long term support for these will be much less costly than an old iPhone, but it's not free.

> Also, why not make it so that they can be used passively? What's the downside?

The simplest answer is probably "Apple customers don't want it". If you really care about using your headphones passively with a wire 20 years from now when the battery is dead and Apple won't service it, you were pretty unlikely to be buying Apple anyways. There are tons of available headphones on the market to serve that set of requirements. And since Apple really values clean lines, removing a jack that they don't think many of their customers will use is a no-brainer for them.
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Especially on how to market it/gain traction/get noticed.
I think if you’ve decided that there is something wrong with the employer/employee relationship where hundreds spend their professional life working at someone else’s company, pushing ahead that person’s vision, and fulfilling that person’s goals, then you shouldn’t turn around and play an integral role in the same game you once despised, all because it’s much easier to succeed in business if you have a bunch of people devoting their working lives to your vision.

I don’t know how to escape that model at a wider scale, exactly, but if I were worth millions of dollars, I think I’d have the economic luxury to invest some time to figure out how.
I think the parent comment was worded poorly but this is how I'd look at it.

MacOS with M1 runs software compiled for ARM at 100%.

MacOS with M1 runs translated software via Rosetta 2 at like 95%.

Windows on ARM runs software compiled for ARM at 100%.

Windows on ARM runs x86/x64 emulation at 60%.

If Windows for ARM would replace x86/x64 emulation with binary translation, they might remove a significant barrier to ARM adoption (on Windows) by removing the harsh penalty of having to emulate legacy software until enough native/compiled for ARM software exists.
I assume, barring some kind of cataclysm and reversion to barbarism (admittedly looking increasingly plausible of late), that there is no chance whatsoever that I am going to want to be using the same audio headphones in 2026 that I will be using in 2021.

Not because the old ones will SOUND horribly worse than the five year newer ones, but because tech is tech — the new ones will work with all my 2026 devices, connect using the 2026 wireless standard, work with the 2026 cable (if any, besides the 3.5mm analog).

The 2026 models will hopefully be able to download my voice profile and predefined commands and maybe will even unlock my front door when I approach, plus _____________ ????¿¿¿¿

Don't get me wrong — I love shit that will last a long time with finality, and I buy lots of things for that reason: knives and cookware and even furniture that I will hand down to my sons.

But headphones? Not in that category any more than smartphones or computers.
> Just because you’re Goldman does not mean you can predict where a share price will go on day 1.

The EMH doesn't apply if there wasn't a previous market price. This was an absolutely massive move, and I'm supposed to believe there was no indication of that ahead of time.

You can definitely model supply and demand if you're Goldman - I'm not saying that you can predict market moves, but this wasn't a move from a previous efficient market-determined price.

> $50B is already high given travel hasn’t fully recovered yet is makes no sense.

$50B is not high by definition given the current market pricing.
That's what is so great about capitalism; if you don't like what one company is doing, go do business with another.
My hat off to you, all the same. I hope you find a way to pull it off. What you've already produced is impressive.

Cheers for the great response to this and other comments!
I'm not bothered by seeing people just out and about wearing big, probably expensive headphones, but seeing folks exercising even remotely strenuously in them is what I don't understand. I just can't deal with the thought of all that sweat soaking into the various soft parts of a nice pair of headphones.
Why can't we have both problems!

I think you're completely right.

Science is not cut and dry or black and white.

Highly qualified experts disagree ALL THE TIME and the scientific industry is very competetive.

Look at Copernicus or Galileo or Barry Marshall or Semmelweis. These scientists bucked all mainstream scientific beliefs even after almost roundly being ostrasized and ended up being correct in the long run.

Many science experiments are measured terms of varying levels of statistical significance not in terms of correct/incorrect.

You can tell someone who is not trained in science when they claim you should 'trust science' or 'just believe in science'.

Science changes constantly and is an ongoing process to discover truth not a static set of true facts.

Science is as open to interpretations, best guesses, and political agendas and all kinds of human frailtys as any other industry.

But ignorant people think because an 'expert' says something is true it has to be true.
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This makes me wonder, what does happen if you're logged in to Quest 2 with your Facebook account, and then you delete your Facebook profile? Do you lose access to the Quest? Do you get a fresh device? Do you get to keep your purchases, since I assume the purchases are now linked to your Facebook account?
Doing the motion without weight should be therapeutic, or you could do it with very light dumbbells.
I have stayed at "conventional" B&B's that I've noticed apparently also list on AirBnB and they've been fine. I think a general point whether we're talking renting a room/apartment, ordering online FBA, etc. is that a lot of people bargain hunt. While that often works out, there's also a reason for the saying that if something looks too good to be true, there's a good chance you're going to get burned.
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> consistently for most of their lives

This sounds like the kind of overly simplified individualistic narrative I used to believe when I was 14. My heroes to me then looked so indestructible. I wanted more than anything to be like them -- a captain of the industry, prolific and indestructible. The problem with this narrative is that it didn't hold up to real world scrutiny as I entered the workforce and interacted with high-performers and became one of them.

> people get the idea that they're actually very smart when they are just _okay_

I think that this is a very intellectually lazy idea. I've found that the people who most believe this idea are those who are objectively "just _okay_" themselves because they don't understand/have ever experienced how effective organizations and people deploy and harness role evolution. You remember that old chestnut about how some people with 10 years of experience just have "1 year of experience, 10 times?" The two often go hand in hand in my experience.

After all, the most effective way to be lazy about your own professional growth is to believe that it's impossible to improve. And for that to be believable for yourself...you have to make sure other people believe it's the case for them, too. The problem with this kind of fiction is that eventually the fourth wall cracks as people see parts of their network leave for greener pastures where this growth is promised and then actually followed through on. I know because I've sold candidates on this exact thing during interviews.

All I'll say is that it's not a particularly hard sell to say "people that think of the world in such individualistic terms are condemning themselves to mediocrity -- we're building something way better than that, come join us." Think about why that is. Our ability to execute talent arbitrage was based on our competitors having the same mental model as yours. It was an arbitrage that worked very well.
I like the food analogy, let's extend it.

We have ingredients lists on packaged processed food, but we have more than that: the ability to buy ingredients, learn recipes, make recipes, and cook.

We should have the ability to put what we choose (and omit what we don't) in our feeds.
I just looked at the latest code and it doesn't seem like that's the case any more. It's just a simple grid and instead images are picked and scaled to point more accurately from what I can tell. Also it's React now...
Was going to say I just had a family member get a battery replaced for their iPhone 6 last month. With that said, I still wish their stuff was more user friendly for self repairs.
My AirPods are going on 2 years, get used a lot and they still last for a typical 2 hour+ ride.

I'm doubt you could get replaceable batteries into something the size of the AirPods and have them light enough to stay in my ears as well as they do.

These beasts are obviously different.
The rose tinted lens of vintage computing strikes again.

I too fell for this numerous times. In fact I actually went back to an Acorn RiscPC 600 for a bit once instead of a modern windows machine. It was what I considered to peak productivity for me. Built in assembler and programming language, decent quality desktop applications and no distractions.

After about 5-6 days it was back on eBay because quite frankly I realised what a pain in the ass it really was. 99% of the stuff I was actually doing was collaboration and it's really difficult doing that on vintage computing platforms. On top of that the hardware is almost always like a hand grenade with the pin out. It's going to die, but you just don't know when.

I cite this as an example for the comedy timing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU55-7dWMi0

Now emulation I can get behind because when you are completely fed up of the idea you had it's easier to dispose of it than getting rid of it on ebay :)
I think it's really the idea of blocking a websites ads AND replacing them with your own that turns so many people against it. It just feels..... wrong. Way more like stealing from content creators than just blocking ads in the first place. That combined with what feels like a cash grab with their cryptocurrency likely immediately turns a lot of people off.

ps. I know, I know. Brave's ads are unobtrusive, they don't track you, they donate crypto to the sites, etc. etc. It doesn't change the underlying emotional response a lot of people seem to have to their business model.
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Your claims are at odds with each other. If the people who are passionate about a language are the ones who pursue its advanced features (and therefore somehow force them on the rest of the world), who then is left to "actually build shit"? Why, if simple functionality is such a strong requirement of productivity, aren't those who stick to simple features productive enough to maintain an ecosystem without the Architecture Astronauts building all the infrastructure?

It doesn't track that it's possible to simultaneously ruin a language by sabotaging all of its major libraries with novel features if writing code using novel features is actually incredibly difficult. It certainly doesn't track that, once you have somehow sabotaged a language's major libraries, that nobody bothers to "fix" them by introducing a new, simpler version.
This course is asynchronously delivered.

Question for students: how do you find synchronous courses with some discussions during class, vs asynchronous courses where discussions are limited to an online written forum or office hours?
I think control and availability is the key. People have lost a lot of control over what they say, but how much they see it. The average US adult in 2020 spends 8+ hours consuming TV and web media.

Like a sugar addition, we evolved in an environment where information could mean the difference between life and death, so we are hardwired to seek it out.

It takes a huge amount of self control to turn off the screens, but it is the best, and possibly only path forward.
> not to log your search history or use the data for advertising purposes

People already know/feel that when Google states that it will not do something with people’s information but it does not say what it does... well, that doesn’t feel very comfortable. In fact, it’s so uncomfortable, that people avoid asking what does Google do with that not logged or not for advertising data. On mobile, being the only alternative a device that costs about 5 months of my work, I may not what to know the answer for that questions too and just hope for the best
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I was in Texas recently. I'm not going to ease up on it when mask compliance compared to SF or DC (haven't been to NYC) is measurably awful.

> I’m in Miami right now and 90% of the people I’ve met are tech / finance types from NYC doing blow inside of clubs until 4am

I don't even know what this means. 90% of people you've met in Miami do "blow"? What? Are you a coke dealer?