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I see sibling comments saying the same thing, so in the interest of during anecdotes into data, I’ll pile on.

First, I largely agree with what you wrote. The core improvement is significant and was also not “risky” or “daring”.

But:

> Domino's pizza tracking and online ordering is cool, but nobody orders Domino's because of it.

I do! Their app is executed beautifully, and is much nicer than phone orders where I hope my crazy order is interpreted correctly. It’s also better than the thinly-wrapped web pages from competitors.

And getting a heads up when the driver left the store allows me to shoo the dogs outside.

Seems like a small thing, but it makes a difference.
I think of customer service as going over and above what the law strictly requires. The law sets a floor, not a ceiling.
> It is nothing new, nor is it catastrophic unless you're part of the cycle.

We are part of the cycle, though. Do not simply assume that our ecocide will not come back to bite us hard.

Mankind already learned that lesson -- and it was a costly one: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03064220188002...
The big question is: do they continue with their instruction set, or will they choose RISC over CISC.
>It is almost as if e-mail isn’t a secure medium for communication...

Have humans ever had a truly secure medium for communication? As long as we're communicating, there's always a chance our communications can be intercepted in some way by a third party. Whether in the physical world or digital world.

>Or are there things I am overlooking?

The human factor. You can have all the security in the world, all it takes is for one person to slip up once. Maybe the person answering the email was in a rush? Maybe they were tired and didn't really pay attention? Maybe someone was talking to them while they read the email and they were distracted and didn't notice it seemed shady?
and economics. If I can make an H2 vehicle for less than it cost me to make a gas or electric vehicle, it's worth my time and money to push into or even create a market that'll buy them.
Imagine watching Blade Runner and thinking "humans thrive".
Our fathers can't even turn the blasted things on.
Actually that is exactly how the printers listened on port 9100. You open a connection and dump the raw print file. This "protocol" was introduced by HP with their JetDirect print servers.
They tried to expand into the Nordics in 2017, with headlines promising opening hundreds of pizza places. By the end of 2019 they canceled all new plans of expansion and have been trying to sell the restaurants since [0], really bland boring pizzas.

A good example of not understanding the market while still forging on. In Sweden everyone has their own mostly immigrant ran local pizza place which is "the best", with pizzas ready for pickup within 10 minutes after a call or delivery through some Delivery Hero subsidiary [1], or on their own. Couple this with razor thin margins and all take home essentially being paid below table.

Domino's tried to take on this market through upscale restaurants in premium locations with lower quality pizzas, really mindboggling. Here they are on the Delviry Hero app/page, though using their own people, probably because otherwise no one would even consider them as an alternative.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/17/dominos-to-...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery_Hero
Not currently a service but it’s begging me to let it be: Airmail (mac). It pops up an ad for its new version with a subscription payment model and dims every window except the foreground window several times a day*. It’s annoying but I haven’t found a way to make it stop and just let me keep using the old version I already paid for. I imagine it’s how people felt with similar shenanigans when Adobe went subscription.
When you do design you need to know about typography, when you do finance, you need to know about accounting, when you are making a game, you need to know about game design, when you are doing weather forecasting, you need to know about meteorology.

None of them are skills that a programmer needs unless he works in the field. Maths is the same. You need very little maths to code unless your field requires it.

And even then, sometimes you don't even need to. I worked on a software that computed material fatigue with absolutely no idea about the maths involved, the mechanical engineers just told me the formulas and constants to use as well as the expected results and I implemented them. (not entirely true, but it was just personal curiosity, absolutely not required for the job).
This protected death of millions of species, 50 years out from now, is based on an analysis of 538 of them.

That sounds woefully inadequate information for something as complex as what this model is trying predict.

That's like predicting the weather from only a handful of temperature sensors, or doing patient studies with N=4.
I think the point made here is that those very requirements are tailored around a ICE world. If, say, your city bus network is designed so that each driver can make a 5 minute stop at terminus and fill up when required, of course pushing an electric bus into that will create 1-2h gaps in service and be "not fit to operational requirements". But it's a simple exercise to shift things around so that all recharging is done in low demand periods and all your fleet is online during rush hour.

The bottom line: electrics are quickly overcoming the 1000Km/charge barrier, in the next 10 years it will probably become the norm. That's a charge level that can last you a full day in almost any conceivable usage mode, so it can cover 99% of real world tasks.

Sure, there will still be very specialized tasks where 2 hours of downtime per day is unacceptable, or some fresh produce delivery route that requires 36 hours non stop driving by a shift of truckers. But that would be negligible in the grand scheme of things.
Have you tried using OLEDs? I can't imagine how eInk would be different from an OLED on grayscale and low brightness settings... other than the fact that OLED will be better in terms of availability, refresh rates, response times, resolution and price.
Not sure I agree this is Apple getting others to 'cave'

After all, when game streaming runs in-browser, Apple forego their censorship/app review powers and their 30% cut of sales.
My understanding is that the parent comment isn't trying to pose as a 'news article' and therefore is not implicitly accepting to adhere to vanishing standards of integrity and delivery of the information.

A HN user / comment can be as biased and editorialized as they like, the same shouldn't be true for ' traditional media outlets ' whatever that means.

As far as I'm concerned, it is objectively true that this is a minor, politically motivated detail although it is still relevant information. They could have mentioned that somewhere in the article without appending it as a prefix / title to his name. That's rather disingenuous. It's not his main defining characteristic.

That being said, I believe one should not necessarily turn away from what they perceive to be propaganda of one kind or another, but rather view it as such and analyse it, although this can be irritating at times.

FWIW, Thiel has also backed 48+ other political candidates over the years, maybe we should add all of that to his name ? ;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Support_for_politi...
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Heh. Yep. But enough time has passed that decent images are easier to find now.
That's exactly why I take NSAIDs over Tylenol if I can.
A lot of printers default to PCL first which allows plain text printing. Some will auto detect the language but to be safe you would use PJL (Printer Job Language) to specify the print file format.
From my experience no:

* The input lag is _still_ noticeable. I've tried this from multiple locations on various devices, all with extremely good internet (one of them was in the UK with gigabit internet) and the lag was always there. I'm not ultra-snesitive to input lag either - I regularly use Nvidia GFN, which also has some input lag, but it's actually playable.

* The overall experience is very unpolished. You'll most likely get stuff to work but, if anything fails, you're gonna have to post on google forums and hope someone will be able to help you. (It's google, so no support). Also, none of the features promised at launch (join a game from YT, large MMO worlds etc) have been delivered.

* It's google, so who knows how long the platform will be around for. (It's a meme, yes, but it's also a real risk, compounded by the fact that you'll own the games that you buy solely on Stadia)

* You have to re-purchase games that you already own. e.g. if you own a title on Steam, you can't play it on Stadia, you have to buy it all over again.

EDIT: if you like what Stadia is claiming to offer, I suggest you look at Nvidia's GeForceNow, which has a couple of advantages:

* You can play the titles that you own on Steam

* (In my experience) gameplay is smoother

The one disadvantage is that games get removed from GFN based on the whims of the publishers (you'll still own the titles on Steam, you just won't be able to play them on GFN).
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The argument is an economic one - if all you are doing is selling a chip, and competing with others selling chips, you only can capture the margin on the chip. A vertically integrated vendor can capture margins across the whole product bundle and do things like charge $200 for 8gb of ram. That extra margin makes it possible to sustain low to no margins on the actual cpu, and you can afford to make much bigger chips at a more advanced process node.

It also makes it easy to add specialized accelerators and processor instructions that you can then build support for in the operating system you ship.
>Closer to my personal sphere, I'd be interested in using it for longer-term energy storage. It'd be amazing to be able to have some onsite high pressure or even cryogenic storage of hydrogen to be able to store a summer solar surplus for use in the winter.

Hydrogen really doesn't like to be stored though. It also ruins any storage vessel it is kept in long term.

You see Hydrogen is the smallest atom, small enough to fit between atoms of other materiel. and it will work its way through materials and sometimes bonding with the material sometimes just escaping, this creates a spoilage of the materiel the holding vessel is made of resulting in hydrogen embrittlement, creation of cracks and voids inside the metal,

About the only materiel we believe to be immune are carbon fullerenes and graphene. Which we have had problems producing at scale.

as for cryonic storing it you are just adding another energy cost to they system because you are spending more energy still to chill the hydrogen

>It looks like you can blend it at some modest proportion into existing natural gas infrastructure to lighten its environmental burden somewhat.

and this makes less since.

You have to spend more energy to make the H_2 by splitting the H2O than you get out of burning the H_2, so adding it to natural gas to make it more environmentally efficient doesn't make since as you are increasing the net energy cost of the system than just burning the natural gas.
Source: https://droidmaze.com/voat-co-another-reddit-clone-goes-offl...
Well, this article at least explains why Microsoft is touting their "highly secure" salted SHA password hashing for Azure and not using bcrypt, PBKDF2, or Argon2. They must be aiming for FIPS compliance.
Agree. Been using TS + Svelte on a side project and it has been very nice. I say this as someone who runs screaming from webdev usually.
I would be happy to find one for min wage. My plan is to collect enough data to validate an idea that i have without burning a lot of cash.

I was looking for one person actually.

If i were in USA, i would be doing it myself. its a very very simple task.

Thanks for the advice. i posted an ad on freelancer. hope i will find one there.
"Since 1900, 543 species of vertebrates have gone extinct. And those are just the ones we know of. In the past century, we have witnessed the disappearance of the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), the Round Island burrowing boa (Bolyeria multocarinata), the laughing owl (Ninox albifacies), the sea mink (Neovison macrodon), and the golden toad (Incilius periglenes), to name a few."

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/less-than-a-thousand-remai...
Yes and what's worst some of these problem are not new.

Restoring a Backup from iOS 13.x to iOS 14.3 caused infinite reboot loop with the white Apple screen. And since Apple stopped signing iOS 13.x there was no downgrade possible. Apple Store refuse to help, which caused a bit of rage in Taiwan.

Corrupted iTunes Backup on Windows is still a thing. They didn't even bothered look into it after they introduced iCloud Backup. ( May be it is also a Mac thing but I have never seen or heard anyone having iTunes backup problem on Mac )

Yes, Not good enough, for a company with billions of cash and record profits.
And China is not? Taiwan's official name is "Republic of China".
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Reddit in particular is absolutely horrendous.

I don't use twitter, but I could forgive them for being a little slow (if they are?) because of the sheer volume but the reddit app literally grinds my phone to a holt just to load one photo (often, too)
I tried with Destiny 2 and it worked just fine. However, with GeForce Now I can just use the (supported) games I already own and it works just as well.

Google will probably kill this service before long. I'd rather trust Steam and Uplay with the actual game purchase.
America is still the world's largest economy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
After years of being beaten by customers with stories like these, I learnt to treat InfoSec and Compliance teams as finite state machines, particularly at banks and other financial institutions. Learn not to question the sacred spreadsheet, or debate the merits of a request. It's pointless, and you keep rolling your eyes will only end up with you at the optometrist.

Instead, treat compliance like part of your API. Ensure your product delivers on the expected answer, while continuously improving the security of your products in the parts that are not directly visible.
> scaling to a few hundred isn’t easy or viable

That seems wrong to me. I mean, objectively I'd expect the construction expense of a gasoline fueling station to be much higher than just running more electrical distribution lines to a major shopping area.

I think you're making the mistake of comparing the "cost" of new construction to the sunk cost of existing infrastructure. Those gas stations don't last forever and the cost to disassemble and rebuild them needs to be part of your analysis.
I wonder if Safari will now suddenly lose WebRTC features required for Stadia due to "security".
>Is there some special PJL command to put it into Postscript mode?

@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = POSTSCRIPT

>Are there any networked printers around nowadays that don't support Postscript?

Yes.
The efficiency argument is brought up a lot, but it ignores that

Energy is cheap, Storage is expensive.

If storing a KWh of power costs 50 Cent in a battery and 5 Cent in a fuel cell, then it doesn’t matter if you pay 10 or 20 Cent per KWh of fuel.

Of course this is an example with made up numbers, but the point is valid.
Vehicle for viruses/malware?
A bug? In a Tesla? Naaaaaaah ...
Only aircraft care, though. Fuel weight in other applications is basically a non-issue except for really niche gadgets.
> …the philosophy of…

Actual quotation —

'You will probably come across people saying that the programs are not idiomatic ("enough"). So read the description and write your own idiomatic program, without programming tricks.'

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...
Coming from CS background, I have realized that in terms of speed, my SE counterparts seems to do better. I need to think too much, long term works fine but depending on the requirements it can be a drawback. Example: new feature, customers ready to use it I'm thinking from performance, network, even support perspective and customer just waiting.
There might be some software issues at play with some modern AWD systems that I am not aware of, but it's traditionally a mechanical issue with 4WD and AWD. 4WD has a physical link, so having two different diameters linked stresses the links and tears the rubber. With AWD there is a differential, and different diameters cause mechanical stress and wear in a mechanical diff.
Maintaining a household really is at least a full time job. If you have a two income household, all that work still has to be done, so you go to work and then come home to a second job. Making the second job the full time job of the other person means each person now has an extra 20 hours a week. You could spend 10 hours a week at a social club and still be spending more time with your kids than you do now.

Meanwhile the money from the second job gets eaten up by commuting and childcare costs etc., and being thrust into a higher tax bracket, but also from having to outbid other two income households for artificially scarce housing in good school districts, which you can't avoid by not doing it yourself and so it's prisoner's dilemma. The two income trap is a real thing.
@Omnitaus, you seem to be dead? Check the thread in incognito.
The problem is we've driven these species to the brink, so the "natural cycle" stands an elevated probability of killing them off completely. It's like the way we started out with a million sea otters, killed all but five of them to make fancy hats, and then when a shark eats one of the last remaining females we say oh well what can we do about nature? Luckily in that particular case the species recovered somewhat, but there are lots of examples of animals that we've reduced to a handful of individuals that now face extinction due to "natural cycles".
I would assume it is, although if I were google I would be plastering that everywhere as a (potentially less than) subtle jab at Apple being conniving with their store in the first place (I assume it's so they can have their product in future as the only native one?)
Extremely Unlikely. Datacenters typically have multiple redundant and diverse paths for connectivity. Meaning they'll have all the bandwidth they need over 2 or more carriers, leaving 2 or more directions of their datacenter.

If one ISP was having issues, they'd simply "turn down" those connections for a time and fail elsewhere.
I see how you could form this point, but I also strongly disagree.

A quick Google on Thiel reveals he's 53 years old and has led a life FULL of detail that dwarfs his political choices in the last 4 years. One could write very thick books on this individuals life (and it looks like they already have in some context).

Using the descriptor of 'Trump Backer' is deliberately prioritizing one single personal choice the subject individual made in a time representing roughly <7% of his total existence.

I don't think it's editorial to say it's politically motivated at all. If you simply remove the specific subject matter of the descriptor used and instead, rely on its representation of the overall individual, its statistical irrelevance to the whole easily identifies its gross misuse as title descriptor of that individual.

I would go as far to say, that not only is it not editorial to arrive to such a conclusion, I think it hard-pressed to not describe it as a factual occurrence.
If you select the proper species then you can make fairly accurate deductions due to cascading effects of the food chain.
Nvidia did this before stadia launched it. As always, Google just copies ;)
s/Dominos/McDonalds/g

A few weeks ago my wife and I had a craving for a burger. We went to some hipster place, hoping for something a bit healthier than McDonalds. They said there was a 40 minute wait (for takeout), so we ended up getting McDonalds after all.

There wasn't anyone else waiting there, but I assume they had orders queued up from delivery services. Still, it seems a bit stupid to tell someone in your restaurant to wait - even though you are probably getting more profits from them.
David Attenborough thinks we can. We simply can't afford not to in the newest Netflix documentary:

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11989890/

But it doesn't mean it won't happen without a wake-up call. The answer is simple, just stop destroying what has caused unprecedented equilibrium in temperatures during the latest rise of civilization in the past 10k years.
There’s another type of differential called a “spur gear” differential, where none of the gears are at right angles. It’s a much stronger design than a bevel gear differential, but also has a much larger diameter. It’s classic application is in farm equipment.
I searched for Alfa Romeo models and my top hit was Wikipedia that listed all the models (I think).
It's difficult to switch IAs without the cooperation of OS vendor, device driver authors, and ideally app developers.

It's probably easier to achieve that coordination when there's a vertical integrator who can strong-arm everyone to make that migration.
Take a look at Raspberry Pi. I think Scratch2 is a really good way to learn programming and how it relates to hardware at the same time.
Intel realized they can't sell the same processor for another 10 years by combining more words with "lake." A power-hungry chip that meant most consumers replaced their laptop every few years for no performance benefit, shameful.
The stock market is a popularity based platform where you try to figure out where the market is heading and go first.

Fundamentals are important but they don't themselves drive the market because fundamentals are already known and should be factered in.
So, I had a similar thought to yours, which was that it is not unusual for populations of any animal in the wild to have long term cycles. The idea that this is necessarily not a big issue, though, does not necessarily follow.

For example, some (not all) scientists think we have seen a large-scale decline in insect populations due to insecticides being used in ever-larger quantities in North America. If insectivorous bird species are dying of malnutrition, this could be a result of human insecticide (over)use.
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These types of die-offs are concerning, but probably more common than you'd think. People don't generally realize what a rough life birds, especially highly migratory species, have. A pair of song-birds (passerines) will likely hatch an average of ~4 babies each year, and yet the populations are generally stable or shrinking over time. Using rough math that would indicate that 2/3 of the birds that exist at the peak breeding season will not be alive the next year.

Weather-related events are pretty tough to predict and prevent. There are several things you can do that will have a direct effect on bird populations. I'm short on time, so I'll just list the two most impactful ones:

1. Keep your cat indoors. The low estimate for the number of birds killed in North America pet and feral cats is one billion birds a year. That doesn't include the many small mammal, reptile, and amphibian species which are the base of the food chain for larger species of birds.

2. Reduce your use of insecticides both directly and via store-bought foods. There's a lot of evidence that insect populations are experiencing a population collapse, likely due mostly to accumulated insecticides in the ecosystem.
Thanks, this might just motivate me to dust off my old Kindle. I recently started doing James Clear's habit tracker and now would love to find a way to track my habits on my Kindle if possible.
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