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>Have "can't fail" safeties.

This is one reason why I've never gotten anything more complex than a simple Honeywell programmable thermostat. I haven't felt a real need but I also just don't trust "smart" thermostats not to fail off in the winter which can be a really serious event if you're not around (and I normally travel a lot). There are other failure modes for heating of course but I absolutely don't want to introduce another one for no good reason.

(I don't have AC.)
Yes. In the case of glibc, it's long past time that flaw was corrected by moving NSS modules out of process and using a pipe or socket to run queries. IIRC OpenBSD already does this. They already cause problems with pulling in their transitive dependencies into your process' address space and potentially causing nasty conflicts. Same goes for PAM modules.
To be fair, "rolling up into the COO function" is a pretty broad cross section.
I think PS3 was the cheapest bluray player you could buy when it was released. It probably boost sales a bit like PS2's DVD playback feature.
Has to do partly with how this kind of investing is done. There are often penalties if they don't "invest" money they are given. As long as they can prove some sort of remotely competent due diligence it is better to spend the money on a long-shot than give it back saying you didn't find a decent investment and pay some sort of interest/fee/whatever.
Amazon pays millions and millions of dollars in taxes. Most reports about Amazon not paying taxes are by people that don't know how the tax system actually works in the United States.
Hardcore History: Supernova in the East, part 5.

It's about Japan during the second world war and there's something about the absolutely insane Japanese mentality that lead civilians to commit mass suicide that captivated me.

The whole series, and really the whole of Hardcore History is absolutely amazing and even if you think you don't like history you absolutely should give it a try. Blueprint of Armageddon is still the best piece of entertainment I've ever had, regardless of media.

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-66-supern...
This relates to Ocramius/ProxyManager and support for older versions of PHP.
I'm the exact same, although unlike some others, I only talk to myself when I'm alone or with someone who I am comfortable with. I've gotten complaints from neighbors below me at least twice due to this. Apparently it sounds like "a loud TV is on all the time". It would suck to live underneath someone who paces 5 miles a day in their apartment. I've made an effort to be quieter, but I can't imagine not being able to do this. I started recording my thoughts on my phone (using low quality because I have hundreds of hours of recordings now). It really helps and is an alternative to using a journal.
The way the art has been preserved makes you sorta realize that "ancient times" weren't that long ago.

2000 / 25 = ~80 generations

It's not some uncountable number with a million zeros. Assuming everyone knew one of their grandparents, it's more like 40 interpersonal "links".

I honestly feel like if Europe didn't have the Early Middle Ages (~500-1000AD), we would feel pretty connected to all the history that happened before in the same way that we feel pretty connected to Copernicus developing Heliocentrism or Columbus arriving in the New World.

I wonder whether civilizations with seemingly more continuous histories like China feel more connection to the rest of their history. India's history was sort of interrupted by Islamic invasions starting from the 1200s. The Middle East, despite its tremendously long history, experienced a significant shift in culture with the rise of Christianity and then Islam.

If Chinese people don't feel that historical connection, on the other hand, it might mean that our disconnect with ancient history might more just be a product of Modernity and the rapid change of the last couple centuries.
There are only 2 genders.
I took up bouldering around 2 years ago, despite my fear of heights. I've managed it by sticking exclusively to gyms, and staying well within my limits. What also helps is the gym I started at had a safety orientation that all climbers had to go through before they'd be allowed on the walls. The most important part of this was how to fall correctly.

The gym I frequent also has a great variety of route difficulties and heights (~3m to ~7m), so it really helped me move up slowly along with my comfort level. As for the amount of times I fall, it's far less than I expected, and I've never felt unsafe, even while falling.
Hey. You should take a look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5Zr3NC2PY

And maybe this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcI9q7I7ofI
I bought an "old" Panasonic DVD/HDD/VCR combo. They are old as in out of market since ~2010

https://www.whathifi.com/panasonic/dmr-ex99v/review And it was still 400€ but almost in pristine condition. Anyways it makes perfect VHS rips. It has a HDMI out so you can play directly on pretty much all TVs. Unfortunately there is no access to the files directly (DRM I guess) so copying to PC is a bit slow cause you have to burn it to DVD first (but it's not reencoding the rip so there is no quality loss after the first recording). That's the smallest problem. I wish there was a jailbreak or something cause there is a USB port on the device but afaik that's only for some kind of software based troubleshooting by the Panasonic service.

Also one of the reason I bought that it has a time base correction chip so no desync issue with old VHS tapes. Perfect sound and don't have to reedit them.
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Github should natively cook in a project/user based tipping system to help people show their appreciation. This feels lazy to say but I know for a fact I would send tips way more frequently if they made tipping a one click experience.

I know there are third party tools that let projects cook tip functionality into their projects.

With how difficult it is to find time to write open source software alone, time put towards setting that up winds up feeling like me prioritizing thirsting for tips and donations over finishing whatever the original goal of the project was. I know for a fact I'm not the only one who feels that way.
Do we really need dedicated classes that will be in use for a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population?
It leads to carnage, sure, but also leads to the United States being a very interesting and dynamic country. If i could live there i would.
> Have you really opened your eyes to how some countries have much, much better governing systems? Many Scandinavian countries have a higher population than most US states, yet somehow they seem to function better in so many dimensions.

So if you're comparing a government the size of a US state to the US federal government, and saying the states do better, yeah, sure, but it's not a fair comparison. You can find US states that do better than the US as a whole, too. A much better comparison is the EU.

The US is the geographical size that is almost twice the Roman Empire (9 million km^2 for the US, 5 million km^2 for the Roman Empire), with widely varying climates and therefore economies, and a diverse set of cultures. To suggest that the solutions for a Scandinavian country (relatively homogeneous culture and climate, population roughly the size of a major US city) is unhelpful.

It's easy to say "these other people with a completely different history, geography, culture, and population" do it so much better, but it's just not helpful. Let me know hen you figure out how to apply Scandinavia or NZ to New York, the South, Utah, California, rural Iowa, and Alaska, and you can figure out a way to convince everyone it's in their best interests.
The State of IoT and Cloud
I wrote an article to share my experience working with IOT. Some misconceptions and also its implementation in AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
Trautonium
The RTX 3060 is supposed to launch with more memory (12 GB vs. 10 GB) than the RTX 3080? How does that make sense?

Also, the RTX 3080 launching with less memory than my GTX 1080 Ti made little sense to me. For some niche uses, it's a downgrade. Glad to see the 3080 Ti correct this.
> The save files would become larger and larger (and took longer) as you progressed through each level to the point that in some sections a single save would occupy well over half of the VMU's capacity.

So, uh, like Skyrim in PS3?
The Hyperbezier Pen Tool
Yeah; ours has a variable speed compressor and variable speed fan (it is also a heat pump). The wire protocol is a closely guarded trade secret from what I can tell.

The manufacturer sells a custom EcoBee to work with it, but their own custom EcoBee can only set a few fixed speeds instead of variable speed.

This market is ripe for disruption. Sell me something with a 30 year warranty, and
plans to wire it to a raspberry pi. I’ll pay twice as much for that as I would for anything with a sub 20 year warranty. Since California is close to banning new natural gas installations, focus on making a heat pump that’ll last forever. Military grade limited access compressors exist and aren’t expensive compared to having someone in Silicon Valley perform a house call. Also, old air conditioners regularly lasted 30+ years, so this is a solved problem, and the patents have probably expired.

I’ll probably buy your weird proprietary thermostat because I’m lazy, but if it sucks badly enough, I’ll know there are decent third party options.
It’s still Lucene underneath. Just like SOLR.

The bread and butter of elasticsearch is in the aggressive sharding, shard allocation, replication and promotion. It essentially “clusterises” lucene.

I can’t wait for something similar to what elastic did for lucene to happen to redis or Postgres.
On photos it always looks smooth. I guess you also need to make sure it doesn’t cause too much drag when not in use (for example, if you travel against the wind).
I grew up in that time, I can at least say why we never had one which was mostly just because we had an n64 at the time.

The Dreamcast, at least from the commercials I remember, didn't really seem all that appealing by comparison and the games available for it never really stood out to me or anything, at least at thr time. I have played some Dreamcast games since and did enjoy them, it would have been cool if it hadn't died and things had gone differently for sega. I always did love the genesis I spent about as much time on that as I did the nes and snes as a kid.

I remember I didn't even hear about sonic adventure until I got the sequel on the gamecube years later. Both of which are actually pretty great games.

But we had a lot of choices on the n64 and most of the time my siblings and me or my cousins and all of us played together so we had a lot more choice of stuff we could all play together. There was tons of great 4-player games on the n64. Some i think are still the best 4 player games out there.

GoldenEye, perfect dark, the multiplayer on Conker's bad fur day, the mario party games(except the first one...that bastard killed all our control sticks...stupid weak n64 controllers and those devious stick spinning mini games designed to sell more controllers.), super smash brothers, mario kart, diddy kong racing, Iggy's wrecking ball, I dunno, I could just keep listing games all day.

The n64 still probably, gives hands down the most choice in and arguably some of the best local 4 player gaming experience out there.

It was the same reason why none of us had a playstation growing up and why we ended up with a GameCube for a ps2. Not as much opportunity for multiplayer.
All the time. Dozens of times every time you go out. It’s not a big deal in any way.

Mostly because somebody has given you an exaggerated sense of how tall most problems are and how high the crux moves are. Most falls are a few feet onto flat ground.

Tall boulders make for good photos. But that’s not where you spend most of your time.
It's very complex. AOE2 DE is patched monthly, and most patches include balance changes. I think one of the complex parts is the way balance changes interact with each other. Ie you make one change to address a specific unit being too useful. You unwittingly affect something unintentional, like making it useless against one civ's unique unit.

Some variables for each unit:
- Speed
- Range
- Attack speed
- Attack damage
- Health
- Melee armor
- Ranged armor
- Pause between stopping and attacking
- Attack bonuses against specific units / classes
- Training time
- Cost
- Cost balance among resources

Balance patches may tweak any one of these aspects. Interactions then occur with all other units in the game, econ stats that are also subject to balance etc.

People are very good at exploiting strengths and ignoring weaknesses. A slight advantage will be exploited quickly by experienced players; then others will catch on.
I listen to Sleep With Me sporadically - it’s great for some funny, surreal stories while winding down away from screens before bed.

Pod Save America is pretty funny with high production value if you’re like-minded with their politics. Former Obama staff members, so it’s very much an echo chamber, but still an entertaining way to stay on top of recent events. Also by Crooked Media is a daily 15min show What A Day, mostly very lighthearted and fun.

Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s podcasts are cool if you’re interested in guided meditations with Buddhist philosophy/dharma talks, as opposed to “just” guided meditations from Headspace etc. More rooted in American/Vipassana secular-ish Buddhism.

My gf pursuing psychiatry turned me on to Psychology In Seattle, which is really eye opening to me to hear about clinical work. Learned a lot about empathy from that one.

The Lyft Mobile podcast is also a great peek into what it’s like to work on their amazing team (I left recently).
I second this - it sounds like a massive waste to spin up a Github Actions job in order to trigger a basic request every 5 minutes, 300 times a day.

Why not just use a dedicated uptime service with a free tier? I've been using UptimeRobot [1] in the past - they give you 50 free checks at the same refresh rate of 5 minutes.

[1] https://uptimerobot.com/
Across all food items, or specific ones? According to the BLS CPI report for the Chicago area[1], food prices has only increased 5% in the past year. If you drill down to the specific food categories on page 5, none of the food categories are anywhere close to 200% figure you claimed.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/news-release/2020/pdf/co...
Fall of Civilizations - humanizes the nature and fall of civilizations
https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/

History of English - why do we speak the way we do?
https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
I recently curated a list of the best shows and episodes of 2020 with the help of 8 other podcast listeners. Here's a link to the list:

https://repod.io/blog/best-podcasts-2020
Good luck. I'd love to hear how it goes
Bigger version of that Zynq UltraScale+ diagram: https://www.core-vision.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/MPSoC_...
That was not Nat Friedman, but Jason Warner (CTO at GitHub).
The Dreamcast beat the PS2 to market by a full year, and the PS1 handily outsold the Dreamcast in the interim. It was bad news for Dreamcast from the start.
They don't. The lift is orthogonal to the wind direction, so it will be most efficient when the wind is directly from the side, with the forward force falling of with the cosine of the wind angle. There's really no way to change that with these types of sails.

This is actually quite an important limitation for cargo ships, as wind directions on the large oceans are somewhat constant and mostly east-west. Hence these sails would be better for north-south routes.
I found the Planet Money episode Big Rigged surprisingly moving. It covered the business model of American trucking company Prime through the story of Kimberly. It was the all too familiar story of employee rights being eroded through a shady business model. Prime were exploiting workers by encouraging them to operate as independent contractors with an exclusive contract whilst also loaning them their truck, setting their rates, assigning their jobs, and asking them to pay for the training they delivered if they left within their first year of operation.

https://pca.st/episode/3740fbb7-654a-4031-ab64-a994b085560e
You can actually set up some devices without downloading a manufacturer app. I did this for an iDevices thermostat I bought recently, although I downloaded their app later because the home app has no idea how to do "keep the temperature between this range during these hours". (The app is not half bad, FWIW.)
> operator overloading for non-arithmetic purposes

I’m not sure it makes it a ‘good’ idea, but I recently needed to overload [] on an embedded system. The chip we used in a design didn’t have enough pins for both SPI and external memory. One of the memory address pins was used for both. So we wired up the memory skipping over the pin. This led to odd behavior that didn’t make sense until the original hardware engineer remembered he’d had to build it this way as a price compromise (the chip with enough pins would have probably been double the price). So I had to make sure that an adress translation happens on every access to DRAM, and overloading array access was a very obvious clean way to do this for any code that already did array access.
Can confirm this is real. It happens with the tiger salamander subspecies we have here blocking developments.
Any of the well known products are fine products to be using. Which is right for your use case is dependent on the use case and product features.
IDK, a government agency being overly generous with the warnings probably isn't such a bad thing...like the local cop that'll give you a couple warnings for speeding before dropping the hammer when they realize you just don't care and are on the fast track to causing an accident.
Damn.. talking about being morally bankrupt.
Systems that crawl user provided URLs are in the minority. For most systems it is irrelevant.
Hacker News is a prominent discussion forum where users use headlines as a conversational prompt.
This article is a somber reminder of the evanescent and translucent nature of potential. As I was reading it, I was reminded of a stanza from Woolsworth's Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,

The earth, and every common sight,

To me did seem

Apparelled in celestial light,

The glory and the freshness of a dream.

It is not now as it hath been of yore;—

Turn wheresoe'er I may,

By night or day.

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
It will all come down to pricing for the mass market of gamers
> We then read them all out followed by a round of applause for each one of them

That may be good for team building and make some people feel better but, personally, I would find that situation very uncomfortable.
It's a bit of a recurring pattern with Apple software. Good example is with tvOS, where streaming apps based on the template app that Apple provides are typically less frustrating and more functional than bespoke streaming apps.

Similarly, on iPadOS streaming services delivered through Apple TV+ channels often have better quality than those delivered via provider apps — this has been extremely visible going from watching Star Trek through the CBS TV+ channel w/4k video and 7.1 surround to The Expanse through the Prime Video app which delivers a "1080p" stream that often looks worse than Youtube 720p.

I think the root problem with all of these examples is companies treating software as a checkbox when it should be treated as core to the product.
Most the HomeKit products I've tried don't need the native apps, just Homekit native on the phone.

Vocolinc and Wemo both are like this. In fact, the latest Vocolinc app has a "Homekit" mode, where it's basically just passthrough. Used for updating firmware only, pretty much.

I recently added a new Wemo smart-plug and used Homekit, not the app. The plug works fine in Homekit, doesn't even appear in the Wemo app. The only downside is no way to update firmware.

Biggest downside to Homekit only, is that you lose specific functionality a manufacturer might have. That said, I find Homekit to be better than the vendor stuff anyway, so stick with it.
Windows CE is modular and in fact most of what one would consider "Windows CE GUI" was IIRC separately licensed and fairly expensive module.
Honestly, if HomeKit was something that we could use in an operating system that wasn't owned by Apple (~70% of devices on the planet ride Android, to be clear), the title here would feel a little bit more reasonable, but alas, Apple is the truest of true closed ecosystems. Open doesn't look like HomeKit and those boycotting walled gardens should know better than to find themselves trapped inside Apple.
Complex system: nature.

Complicated system: things mentioned in this article.
> We pay for this, even if we are the ones making it, to test our Stripe Integration.

This is so important! This can go wrong even at large companies. At Netflix we once had a billing issue and it took a while to even notice, because no one in the company was paying for it (it was just free for everyone), but it looked like just general attrition, not people slowly having failed payments.

After that incident, the company gave everyone a $16/mo raise (which is what it cost to have streaming and DVDs at the time) and then asked us all to set up our own payment. The goal was to have everyone paying and hopefully using different payment methods, so that if something went wrong at least a few employees would be aware of it.
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A related question regarding Wi-Fi line voltage thermostats:

https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/2895/wi-fi-line-volt...

The question lists a number of commercial thermostats that may be of interest, as well as a nod to WebThings:

https://iot.mozilla.org/gateway/
My Dreamcast had the Windows CE branding printed on the top or front of it.
Nice! Now if there was a way to make it sticky, it would be perfect. Maybe a new label and milestone to better expose it?
misery does love company after all
Per Wikipedia [1], “Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey”:

“HV-22: The U.S. Navy considered an HV-22 to provide combat search and rescue, delivery and retrieval of special warfare teams along with fleet logistic support transport. It chose the MH-60S for this role in 2001.”

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey
We had air-dropped spaceships [1] in the early 1960s. It's how some of the first American astronauts were made. It's proven tech but just hasn't had a practical application in the last half-century. Some kind of air-dropped passenger ferry could be imagined that gets people to something like a Starship in orbit, or maybe a space hotel.

There are a couple of projects along these lines right now, both involving Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites [2,3].

Stratolaunch went through several iterations of spacecraft, at one point I believe it was even going to drop a SpaceX rocket! With Paul Allen's passing not sure what the plans are currently.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_White_Knight...
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Stratolaunch
I can totally relate to the wierdo accents haha!

Sometimes when I get frustrated with some particularly troublesome code while working alone I'll drop into a thick english cockney accent (or at least my best impression) and start trash-talking the code to vent my frustrations. It's pretty cathartic and puts me in a better and slightly humourous mood... better than bottling it up!
https://computingup.com/ episode Artificial death was a good one.
That makes sense. To be fair I shouldn't have been so hasty anyway; with your example of a lane change, even if you can control your following distance it's hard to also keep people from other lanes cutting in too closely.
You have to find some wheel replacement, that's true, but the frame made of bamboo is still brilliant!