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> 1. Inconvenience based solutions don't address the problem

To some degree. But they do give space for alternatives to start to fill the gap.

For me, a behavior modification strategy called narrowing antecedent control has worked well: restricting my phone and Internet usage to a specific spot in my office. I found I was reaching for my devices automatically throughout the day and night and would waste hours surfing without realizing it.

Obviously, removing the distraction doesn't automatically resolve whatever underlying issue caused the user to compulsively seek it out. But you find you can't just do nothing, so you start to get creative, and alternatives start to appear.
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> My experience is a bit more on the agency side where technical debt is caused by developers/project managers not really caring about the longevity of an application. The idea of going back and fixing anything that isn't specifically called out and invoiced for is so far away from the priorities of these businesses.

This resonates with me. I consider myself a better fit for product focus vs project focus, preferring to find something meaningful and nurture it in terms of value to customer, and value to developers (code quality).

Recently I accepted a job at an Agency, which a coworker described as a "chop shop". I became depressed. The app I would work on, got frenzy activity from Oct - March. It had to be released in March no matter what. Between that time there was no activity, no refactoring, no addressing tech debt. In fact, one week in December the client was unable to pay for some technical budgeting reason and we all just sat around for that week despite looming deadline.

Well, over the years this thing accumulated tech debt. Even though it was a cash cow for the agency: reliable income at reliable times from a good customer. One would think the health of the product would somehow invite extra effort. Every year new devs would start working on it (new devs, because turnover at these places is high). They would look at the mess and begin resume driven development to use the shiniest new things that were left out, hoping to fix and compensate for the problems from just sheer neglect, and then move on for the cycle to repeat.

That said, there are people that just prefer hopping from project to project to experience new things.
A marketing plan I wrote for Amazon
On November 18, 2020 Amazon’s Head of Product Marketing sent me a private email about helping with Amazon’s marketing.

After chatting, I came up with this strategic marketing plan to help Amazon sell more of their Kindle devices in 2021.

I hope this can give you an idea of how to think about content marketing at scale with less content… but...

Make sure every piece of content counts while moving people towards a product purchase.
Still seeing $100k.
That your friends/neighbours/family members could snoop at your finances. This can fracture relationships.

It's the same reason why i would want my medical data to be private, but available to relevant gov't agencies for public health reasons.
Yeah exactly - the key is having a strong advising network to make sure you’re on the right track throughout your time in undergraduate.
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Even worse, the developer has to pay for the privilege of releasing software on Apple's store. So they're paying to be treated this poorly.
I hate that the media blitz worked, now every developer with the slightest roadblock is going to mount annoying social media campaigns (tantrums really) until they get their way. Not sure if I like this.
Sure the Pine devices aren't particularly powerful. But they're not priced as powerful high-end devices. The Pinebook Pro is $199 -- what other thin, metal chassis ultrabook with reasonable display, input devices etc can you get for that price new? This watch is $25, no-one expects it to have monster specs. An older, proven low-power chipset arguably makes things easier for a device to tinker with anyway.

That said, I too would love to see higher specced devices from Pine. An update to the Pinebook with a fancy new ARM chip and 16GB ram would be tempting indeed.
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Practical computers based on ternary architectures[1] have been built in the past.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
I enjoyed a C64 text adventure called “Miser”. Anyone else remember it?
Frustratingly my Carrier in HK doesn't support 5G even though it runs on a network which has supposedly deployed 5G already. To be honest, it doesn't make any difference to me, except in crowded buildings where there is no reception and perhaps 5G would've helped. When I do have reception, LTE speeds are already more than enough.
Yes, because if a program is free and it does something you don't like you can just fork it.
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Even though I know I must be violating like half the conversational bylaws here on HN I gotta throw in...

"It's not a bug, it's a feature" I've heard since the late 80's and still works magic if you ask me.
What mechanism do you propose to create these effects? (To be clear, we are not talking about high-energy cosmic ray interactions, because those don’t happen at these frequencies).
why don't you read the posts by fireeye and other reputable sources (whichever ones seem "reputable" to you) and then tell us what you think? i guarantee you that at least i will read it. my motives are that the prevailing analyses are that the russian government is responsible, but i would like to read a contrary analysis.
ISTR that ternary computers require a three-phase AC power supply. Is this true?

I'm not sure where I picked up the notion (and a cursory search doesn't seem to turn up any supporting evidence), so it's possible that I absorbed this idea from technobabble in some mid-80s or earlier SF novel or TV show.
The FOSS community still campaigns the idea of Open Sourced software on desktops. Why then is the same not as popular in other platforms like iOS or PWAs? I truly wish I could visit github.com/[my-iOS-ap]/project and contribute or read the geeks' changelog while the app store can have the simplified changelog for non-coders. This is one of the reasons I think https://blink.sh/ is one of the best iOS apps out there.
>To me, sexual relations with children is immoral, it is not proper behaviour in which an adult should partake.

It may be a moral issue, but there are pragmatic or non-moral reasons one may argue as Foucault did. You may find those reasons detestable and disgusting. That doesn't mean he was making any appeal to moral sentiment - he was just acting on what he finds beneficial or detrimental. Whether on behalf of sympathy for prisoners against the carceral state, or another reason.

>If he did not think himself an authority, on what merit would he petition?

He can do so not speaking on moral authority, but on a variety of authorities - the authority of a public intellectual, for instance. I don't think he was being a moral leader, or attempting to be. The people who would listen to him, the public at large, would not do so because of his moral position in their eyes. An authority as an enduring public intellectual with a strong grasp on philosophy and sociology within his tradition, for sure. A moral authority? Nobody has ever quoted Foucault in such a way.

His experiences would not excuse him (in your view; in mine, there is little to need an excuse if you examine his intentions), but they would provide a rational explanation for why he would forgo morality to expound his own opinions in pragmatic or non-moral reasons. He may have just not cared about morality (the same system that troubled him, I don't know) and reasoned on his feelings and pragmatism alone. I'm not trying to excuse him, I'm trying to explain him, though I'm really just speculating.
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> What is interesting is the degree to which the Five Factor Model is insulated from falsification. It makes no causal predictions; others may make predictions about correlations, and these may replicate, or not.

I remember struggling with feelings I would describe similarly when being taught how to fit an ARMA model to the stock market. Professor was very proud of himself and I was baffled about why he'd thought he'd done something. Eventually I decided maybe such models serve a function in academics very similar to a compression algorithm. The end goal is simply to be able to describe the data without having to present the data line by line - nothing more. No predictive or support in decision making is implied.

The Big 5 model looks like it is a lot better than nothing. "Do you normally feel good?" and "Do you normally feel joyful?" are different questions, but determining when they are practically different requires a deep mastery of the language.

Mr. Banana makes some good criticisms and the model will probably be abused to justify some stupid stuff out in the wild as many things in psychology are. But for academic sense, being replicable is all the model needs to do unless someone comes up with something clearly better.
None taken, err I mean... ;)

Don't get me wrong, where necessary I totally agree that writing things down helps. That helps in a lot of places in life (like the principles mentioned if you choose so might help someone while for others that's not needed). Or writing down what I ate (sorry I really can't keep track of how many grams of carbs are in each of the things I eat and since I no longer do keto, which is easy to keep track of in rour head but only try to minimize carbs I need the written help).

But I don't see value in trying to measure how much better I did with not jumping to conclusions (which I see on the list he has in the article and I also keep an eye on this personally). But I don't think you need an OKR and try to make it measurable. I just need to consciously decide that I will keep a more open mind and inquire a few more times on whether I understood correctly and that the other person probably meant it in a good way. However badly formulated it was and how it came across. Then every time "something happens" and I handle it better than last time I can recognize that and pat myself on the back. Or recognize after that it all fell apart and I "judged back at them" and it spiraled out of control. Try to do better next time. Do I need to graph this and look at it and get myself down because I didn't do as well as I wanted to?

OKRs are meant to set goals that are somewhat unachievable. Like hitting 70% on your target is awesome. Sorry but I don't work that way. I'm not deadline driven. I'm task driven. I know I'm in a minority in that but if you give me an unachievable deadline in order to try to get me to deliver at the date you secretly thought was the real goal post then it's just gonna frustrate me and when I see you not using my results for another month or so because that was the real goal post then I'll definitely not give it my best next time. I can be selective that way.

As a task oriented person I just do whatever needs doing and do it in priority order in the best and fastest fashion I can. If your deadline is in two weeks but I got nothing higher prio I'll deliver early by a week instead of procrastinating and then doing an all nighter to get it to you when the deadline is. I really really detest these deadlines people put. I just recently purposefully didn't push back on a stupid deadline and just gave way subpar results (I had 15 minutes with the team in between two other meetings for something where we should have spent about an hour to discuss properly. And I purposefully kept that time box very very well). You know what? They accepted and loved the results. Had they just put a reasonable deadline that took into account our sprint start and end times as well as the internal hackathon happening that week...

Did I mention I turned in my master thesis a week before the deadline?
Proprietary software doesn't have the same or worse garbage? At least this way when the "vendor" went bad, the users were only annoyed instead of fucked.

I'll take "this kind of garbage" Every Single Day to the end of time.
> Transparency of the situation (or allowing outside observers) would have given the rest of the world valuable weeks or months and saved untold lives.

Whatever the Chinese government might have been "saying" (in press releases?) their signals were abundantly clear to everyone paying attention, and should have been even clearer even earlier to folks with access to CIA reports etc.

Feel free to criticize the Chinese government's statements per se all you like, but it is absurd for other governments who didn't take action for months despite an obvious need to blame the Chinese government for this. Especially when those governments have done plenty of their own lying (in the US case, arguably more). Frankly, I don't think more transparency from the Chinese would have made too much difference in the USA. The Trump administration would still have been calling the situation a Chinese hoax or deliberate biological warfare or whatever conspiracy theory.

We can see clearly how e.g. South Korea mobilized the entire country, spun up nationwide testing at unprecedented speed, implemented a huge and very effective contact tracing program (if they had waited an extra few weeks and not caught the Shincheonji church cases in time, they might have ended up with uncontrollable spread), did detailed case studies for every case they could find and published all of the details, made sure every resident had access to masks, etc. etc. There is no inherent reason why much stronger responses couldn't have been made in the US and Europe.

The US is among the best inherently prepared countries in the world for a crisis like this: little reliance on public transit, lots of jobs that can be done remotely, relatively few intergenerational households, a world-class public health agency, one of the richest healthcare systems in the world, world-class universities and research facilities, many large pharmaceutical companies, a national constitution and legal structure that gives the federal government broad powers in a health crisis, a position of international power and leadership with many strong alliances, a central position in the world economic order, a huge industrial base, ability to shift human resources from one place to another in response to local crises, a relatively self sufficient domestic economy, universal access to basic communications infrastructure, ...

And yet we had among the worst responses in the world, due to abject failure of federal leadership, total lack of coordination, and rampant misinformation by GOP-aligned media and others.
And I recently had to roll back from Python 3.9 to 3.7 to work around a couple different problems with the cffi and zstandard libraries on macOS 11.
Ocelot - localhost => 40-50 ms on a workstation.

Gateways can add a lot of functionality. Even Graphql can be used as a gateway.

It's not all "dumb forwarding" and I would be very surprised that you find any sub ms benchmarks.

Amazon has a one million dollar award if you get the page to load under 10 ms. So that's what you are expecting by default on a saas in your previous comment.

It's still unrealistic.
Simulators are used quite regularly to practice combat tactics! In fact, that's one of the intended uses of the Joint Simulation Environment that the article discusses.

DCS's missile simulation models are so far from the real thing that DCS is what simulation engineers refer to as "negative training". That is, if you train to fight using DCS, you're training to fight within DCS, not training in a way that's going to carry over to the real world. DCS is fine for what it is -- a simulation that reflects as much of the pilot/vehicle interface of various aircraft as is possible. But when it comes to sensors and weapons, it's very far from reality.

The Alpha Dogfight trials were a PR stunt but they were also a part of a larger program to see how AI technology can assist human pilots. Alpha Dogfight is akin to things like Deep Blue/Alpha Go in that it has opened up a whole domain to further research and deployment of AI systems to assist humans.
Not offended - as an employee I have no specific insight into the actual headline term in the ToS - honestly I'm planning on tracking down someone in legal to help clarify this, since it seems like it currently as written (and currently as interpreted in worst case) unecessarily impedes me from doing my job.

I would never encourage anyone to violate a ToS of another product and apologize for anyone that was considering doing it due to my ask.

I think these are other possibilities:
1) (as stated) other products don't have such ToS
2) other products may have published their own metrics and made them available for consumption
3) from a more legal in depth standpoint, maybe other companies have such ToS terms but have clarified them to some point that makes them more clear about when they apply and when they don't
Also physics background, and I realized it looked right to me, and had to go back and look at the others...
I just read the tweet with a text-only browser that does not process javascript, using an "approved" User-Agent string.
Apple has shown several times recently that reaching out to social media is by far the best way to get them to back down, provided you have the following to make them sweat the bad PR a bit.
I wonder if there is some way to configure the same black and white mode on my laptop between certain times.

If on Linux: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/ko29dw/mono...
It doesn't have to be continuously down. It only has to be down often.
Did you really just say that one frame can be in the TB range??

Didn't you guys get the memo from B. Gates that no one will ever need more than 640k?
Few years ago I spoke to some ILM people about their VDI setup, which at the time was cobbled together out of mesos and a bunch of xorg hacks to get VDI server scheduling working on a pool of remote machines with GPUs (I think they might even have used AWS intially but not sure - this is going back a fair few years now). I was doing a lot of work with mesos at the time, and we chatted a bit about this as our work overlapped a fair bit.

Are you still using a similar sort of setup to orchestrate the backend of this, and if so have you published anything about it? I've had a few people ask me about this sort of problem lately and there aren't too many great resources out there I can point people new to this sort of tech towards.
Iran had only a few dozen F-14s and it shifted the balance of power significantly in the Iran-Iraq war, even in the presence of the powerful Iraqi air defense, which the F-35 being stealthy doesn't need to worry about. Don't underestimate what a powerful modern fighter can do.
For France, it would be power projection into west and central Africa, northern South America, the Antarctic ocean, the Indian Ocean departments, and in the francophone Pacific ocean. Remember, France's longest land border is with Brazil and the non-metropole departments are ~1/5 French citizens. Francophone Africa overpopulates France herself by about 5x.

Such a mobile base of operations and air power is worth it to her, per the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territorial_entities_w...
F-35 combat range is "only" 1000km, and will get smaller with heavier munitions.

Say, you get 500km range if you want to drop 20t of bombs, have 8 planes, and want to have safety margins.

500km is easily within the range of even the most primitive tactical missile like Oka, and retaliatory airstrikes.

On other hand, you will have a very busy forward airfield, with tiny airstrip, with a lot of very expensive planes, and long times to sortie, and very close to the enemy.
The F-35 was never about actual combat

I do not believe for a second the F-35 was ever designed to be an actual combat jet, I think is was all just a giant smoke screen to serve several political goals on both the domestic and Foreign fronts.

It is simultaneously a prime example of a Jet designed by committee, a 1 Trillion + dollar program that will never serve the purpose it was sold to the taxpayers for...
Dude I use Twitter regularly and this thread was super annoying, it just showed me two of the actual tweets that are supposed to be interesting here even after I clicked on “more”.
Yes, it mentions that computer in the footnotes of the Russian translation of TAOCP.
I feel like some of Apple's problems stem from their unfriendly stance. Apple should have discussed Amphetamine's branding if they thought it was controversial. Why do they feel the need to turn everything* into "Do this or we'll remove you from the App Store?"

* Everything that's on the news, that is.
In fairness, those sorts of features tend to be subject to scope creep where they start being used for security.

For instance, Linus Torvalds (a very smart person) resisted using something stronger than SHA-1 for Git because he said the purpose of hashes isn't security, it's content-addressable lookup of objects. Which may have been true at the time, but then Git added commit signing. Now if you sign a commit, no matter how strong of an algorithm you use, the commit object references a tree of files via SHA-1. Git is currently undergoing an extremely annoying migration to support new hash algorithms, which could have been avoided.

Also, BLAKE3 is faster than MD5 and also far more secure, so if you're saying "It's okay I'm using MD5 because I want a faster hash and SHA-256 is too slow," there are options other than SHA-256.

If the thing you're trying to hash really really isn't cryptographic at all, you can do a lot better than MD5 in terms of performance by using something like xxHash or MurmurHash.

So, even if it isn't a security vulnerability, using MD5 in a new design today (i.e., where there's no requirement for compatibility with an old system that specified MD5) is a design flaw.
But light depends on location. How can it tell you the light if you won't tell it where it is?
> Work hard... what's the point?

I think it really depends on the person. It's a very common problem for people to procrastinate or drag their feet on the parts of their job that they don't particularly like. (Just like most students drag their feet doing homework they don't like.) But no job (or school program) is ever 100% fun stuff, and being able to delay gratification and get the unpleasant parts done is a super important life skill that not everyone has. For a lot of people, maybe most HN readers, this is basic stuff that they nailed in high school and never had a problem with after that. But I'm not sure that's the majority experience.
> Is this a euphemism for success?

Leaders usually make more money compared to others and lets be honest here, more money you have the more successful you are.
1) full remote (been doing that for the last 10 years)

2) ~250km

3) I enjoy it quite a bit, but I'm not a super social person. Doing 1 day of coworking space every week or two helps maintain sanity, as do animals at home.

4) Pro: No commute, quality office space, view on a green garden. Con: Distractions are present and easy to find, as is the fridge...

5) It's much easier when you have a house with a dedicated room.

6) People have very different ideas about remote work. I'd recommend trying it. There are those who love it, and those who will feel miserable in that setting. We all have different needs and preferences, who knew? It's also good for people who can't stand working at home to realise that others feel that way about coming to the office.
To earn a living.
It's useful only in that we can understand what certain huge # market caps mean. Seasoned economists, traders, etc don't need those comparisons but it's helpful for the rest of us.