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Great books. Apparently they ate being turned into a Netflix TV series.
There are a variety of clips of Jonathan blows twitch stream where he talks about web development. He feels that it has gotten so inefficient and complicated that it now takes 20x as long to create something as it needs to. He suggested that it would be faster for most teams to create their tech stacks utterly from scratch. He further argued that once this efficiency problem gets figured out, most web jobs will disappear. This is coming from a guy who is creating his own programming language for his next game though, and who makes his own game engines

Eg, here’s one example clip: https://youtu.be/yodWEPgn8NA
You just got steamrolled by .NET OOP dinosaurs, React played no part in it.
Then why are we providing a length? Plenty of string-handling functions in the c standard library result in no terminating null if max length -- e.g. strncpy.

Note the second function is off by one in the opposite direction-- it doesn't find "ok" in "ok".
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Exactly.

Suppose you have a state with five districts and the state is 60% Brown Party and 40% Black Party.

If you draw five districts that are each 60% Brown, you get five Brown representatives even though 40% of the state is Black.

If you draw districts along party lines then you get three Brown representatives and two Black representatives, but the districts are totally uncompetitive and the representatives from both parties can steamroll everybody because none of them ever have any chance of losing their district no matter what they do.

There are also several other options, and most of those are even worse.
Sears.

Sears' niche was in the middle. Everything was good, but not great, quality. Products were durable, came with good warranties, and "We Service What We Sell". Sears sold to the middle class, with middle prices. They went bankrupt with that model.
I'm OK with being minimalist (as in Volvo/nordic minimalism) but when your $80K car has window rubber sticking out and squeaky dashboard, that's where I draw the line.
I actually love uncomfortable thought experiments. My recent one I've been asking my friends is how many years of the current lockdown would you trade with getting the virus and all the issues that go along with that but then being over the lockdown. My number is 1 more year of the current lockdown. My girlfriend's is 3 years.
That's a hypothesis, real mining is fixed in objective reality and is not affected by hypotheses.
whatsapp existed 5 years ago o.0
Sounds like the signaling technology has been adopted by a new project Taara which is similar but on the ground, and not floating from weather balloons.
In a garage? Typically there will be provisions for installing a charger in your parking stall and have it billed to you.
Literally a hot air project.
I think part of it was just highlighting how often accidents occur and showing that with these weapons it could quickly lead to a huge response
> But none of that was configured in one place, with every other program taking its lead from that central configuration

that's definitely not my experience with KDE, I just have to set a theme on the system settings and 99% of apps take it (e.g. with this theme in my case: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/b49l7k/kde_sweet_...).
> How about making _general_ computing devices more accessible via UI/UX to the _general_ public?

While I agree with the sentiment, and some of the complexity is not essential, the adage still applies: "everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler". At some point, "general computing" means there's some irreductible complexity that cannot be made simpler without the device ceasing to be general purpose.
It's funny, react reminds me a lot of J2EE (and other enterprise frameworks) in many ways. A very large and complex framework, with lots of moving parts and additional stuff that needs to be glued in to make it all work.

There is a reaction against this happening right now. You can see it in hotwire from 37signals, Alpine.js and my own response to it: https://htmx.org

“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability”
> but there are models showing more food produced from climate change.

Total global food production hasn't been an issue in hunger in the modern era, so boosting it is immaterial in this context.

Moving it out of existing populated places that are already marginal and have litle export industry to purchase imports with, OTOH, will be disastrous, even if Russia and Canada get a huge boost in arable land.
> I doubt they'd mind a camera bulge sticking out the back of their laptop.

A bulge at the back of the laptop would be way more problematic e.g. way more likely to catch on bags, or otherwise be damaged.

What I doubt most people would mind is the screen side being slightly thicker.
My guy. Stop being such an obtuse sob story.

When spy agencies do their jobs right, you don't hear about them. There are probably countless assasinations that went off that we will never know about.

This is one of those times they didn't, and we know about it.

> Russians (except Navalny) are stupid and cannot do any shit right

Nice sob story, nobody cares. The US has failed assassinations, so has the UK.

You're not special (as in nobody is specifically making fun of Russians, relax).

You're not making salient points or contributing to the discussion beyond a thinly veiled pro-Putin attitude.

Let it go, nobody cares
That’s because so many parents neglectfully don’t forbid them to use computers.
Charging a car-sized battery in 5 minutes requires nearly a megawatt of power.

Even if this tech becomes widespread in cars I highly doubt the infrastructure will ever be in place for it be something that the average person can use on a regular basis.

It seems likely that when EVs become the norm people will mostly use slower charging while parked and pay extra for fast charging on long distance trips only. But widespread adoption will still probably require some fairly significant upgrades of power generation infrastructure.
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Technology problems are usually just human problems behind a mask. In this case, the real problem was a poorly skilled team with bad leadership, and React just exacerbated the problems by giving the team enough rope to hang itself.
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I have a Toshiba laptop from 2005 or so that just won't die. It runs Archlinux/i3 and is surprisingly speedy for its age.
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To be fair, road trips wouldn't suck a lot more, you just get to stretch your legs after 2 hours of driving (or a lot more if you have one of the 400 mile range model S!) I'd hope you stop to pee or something after 400 miles of driving Lol
The other side of the story when it breaks it's really hard to find a specialist ;(
To me, even a Macbook is hardly a "general purpose computer". :p People love those (including devs).
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>> And charging stations are, of course, absolutely dirt cheap to build relative to fuel stations.

Really? A normal gas station can handle around 100 cars per hour using a handful of pumps and is refueled by daily deliveries from a big truck. Simple. An electric charge point capable of that will require a massive amount of electricity, electricity delivered over wires. Look into how much it costs to run such a service to a random location in a city. Look at the costs of putting up even a handful of towers capable of delivering a thousand amps peak load. Then look the additional real estate costs need to facilitate 100 cars/hour worth of charging points. Electric 'stations' are very much not drop-in replacements. We need a very different physical infrastructure (ie smaller charge points at every parking spot rather than central stations).
Yeah, everything except the hydrogen part sounds like a good move.
This very misleading. Looks like .NET and OOP dinosaurs are the real culprit in your project.
This mirrors my own experience with React. The core library itself is fine, and I love the way it bridges functional paradigms without forcing a ton of functional vocabulary on the team, but the ecosystem is a mess. And, because the React core is so minimal, eventually you need to interact with that ecosystem. JS dependency hell is real, and it's worse with React than any other framework that I've worked with.
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> I wouldn't expect the microarchitectures that achieve this performance to be free (in either the "gratis" or "libre" senses of that word)

I agree with you on this as an eventuality of risc-v. But my casual following of the space leads me to believe that a high-performance open baseline of these architectures will be available and customization/special purpose of these archs will be for purchase.

I'm hopeful some of the benefits will be contributed upstream.

As long as there is some competition in the architecture space (ARM, x86, risc-v), the more likely builders will share gains upstream to compete against rival platforms.

That's my wishful thinking at least.
This is great, nice work! Who is building the Figma plugin?! :)
It's applicable to the indexes that postgres uses. Postgres does not put rows in the heap in order of primary key so the issue is less serious than in innodb.
I was looking at the github repo history. Was is publicly visible sooner than that would imply?
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It's pretty much true for any B-tree based index. You could get around it by using a combined index on another timestamp value, but that's going to be a very large index. Or reduce it by partitioning by e.g. year-month. Even hash-based indices would be slightly impacted due to less locality.
Look, as much as I hate Walmart, they exist in places at levels that the federal/state does not. Either way, that's not the only thing my argument stands on. I'm as liberal as they come, and would never suggest expanding the government just to fit that capacity.
> I've always been amazed that Apple did the camera bulge.

At this point I can only assume they simply never managed to find a way to significantly improve the module while keeping things flush.
Spare time is becoming ever more precious these days. It's tilting at windmills to suggest that popup businesses near a charging station can hope to soak up the excess time lost to recharging in ways that most of us will happily adopt.

The only viable path forward for EVs is to reduce recharge time or make it invisible (do it outside rush hour). Until then I see no way for them to displace hybrids as primary family cars.
Are you saying this post is too nerdy for Hacker News? Stories come all the time, if you don't like it don't read it.

I didn't understand everything the author said, but I was able to get the gist of it. There GPU has a list of valid addresses and it's stored in a C style array with a terminator instead of a 1 indexed array with an object count in the Apple API style. The mismatch caused the author some confusion even after he discovered the existence of the buffer due to his code failing.

It's one of the many details that has to be understood in order to write an open source driver for the hardware. The open source driver will be necessary for people who want to install Linux on this Apple hardware.
The remote option has always been available for in demand tech people. Now it's available for most people in the tech field. So it's available "everywhere" people can do the work.
I see it in my lipid panel (there's heart disease risk in my family) so that may be one way to get it. But INAD and welcome other comments on how to ask for this; it may just be my gp.
Yes. The new iMac 27" and iMacPro both use a 1080p webcam and also use the T2 chip for image processing. I recently upgraded from a 2015 iMac 27" to the 2020 iMac 27" and the webcam is better although still not great.
The city can provide rights to install EV chargers on the street to private companies for free, in exchange for a share of the revenues. In Europe almost all EV chargers are run by companies vs governments - which they must see as a for-profit investment, as they are for-profit companies -, so if it works here, there's no reason why it can't work there too. The revenue the city receives from EV charging can be used to improve public transportation, so everybody wins.

Don't forget EVs are beneficial for everyone in terms of less pollution, so cities should be encouraging residents to purchase EVs over ICE with small incentives (in my city you don't need to pay for street parking).
Some pre ww2 generations of ICE's lasted for decades after ww2 the British O series was one mentioned when I did mech eng at collage in the 1980's
The parent comment (the original one I responded to) said that if we can't find an equitable solution to "regulate them out of existence". That's what I was arguing against.
This is also my understanding. Like most Enterprise projects front-end is the one to blame for problems that are actually in the backend.
Pidgin is too buggy.

try apt install dino-im

Only thing is missing is a setting that a message produces a sound. But otherwise, much better, much more secure.

https://dino.im/
Oh, yeah.

I can't imagine publishing the entire source code of your entire stack even being possible.

What if you have some 3rd party vendor software in there? Are you required to publish their source too?
They do. Especially juveniles.

Human are special (but not unique) in that they keep juvenile features well into adulthood. A phenomenon called neoteny. Playfulness is part of it, and what is playfulness if it isn't "pushing yourself", both are an "unnecessary" expendure of energy.

Also, animals do all sorts of crazy stuff to attract mates.

So yes, humans may be crazy, but they are not the only crazy species on earth. And even if it isn't, that craziness made us quite successful.
I work in tech and live in Bay Area. A lot of my friends and colleagues have teslas. I have been in X, 3 and S and I have not seen one that didn't have any obvious issues. I am not nitpicky either: for example I used to have Mazda and consider it being benchmark of quality interiors for $25K. After all, interior is where I spend lots of time in a commute.
A recent episode of NPR: The Indicator covered this.
"real disposable income per capita in the U.S. has gone up by about 6 percent year-to-date from last year. Right now, it's on track to reach the fastest rate of growth since 1984." Basically the super high savings rates by people who stayed employed and didn't vacation, go to restaurants, drive, etc. outweigh those getting hammered by unemployment. Also the stimulus checks were given to everyone. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510325/the-indicator-from-plane...
Having known someone who committed suicide as his startup failed, I would suggest avoiding blanket claims about burnout.
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> Just imagine

> The real question was how long

Speculation is good but I was of looking of concrete examples of effects on an average end user.

My not so tech savvy family asked me but I couldn't come up with anything so trying give them good answer next time.
> 1. People who just want the minimum as cheap as possible.

The webcams tested in TFA go up to $200 though, that's well into low-end smartphone.
I loved theming my desktop as a teenager, but now it's definitely not something high on my list of requirements.

I think theming is one of those things that have been dropped because the cost vs. benefit just wasn't there. Theming isn't free. You have to invest resources into adding UI to support customizing it and any new UI you add should follow the themes. When the OS is upgraded and UI is tweaked slightly, you have to consider how to handle existing themes. It all adds extra complexity to your project that you may not want to carry forward long-term.
I dream of the day when the internet is decentralized again (either by ipv6 or tunnel proxies[0]) and we can just push/pull directly to each other.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
It can be the case that the raw intelligence necessary to be a genius is moderately to substantially heritable, and yet that most people that inherit such raw intelligence don't become geniuses. In fact, this seems quite likely.
And for fonts there's a check box to override site choices so even if the majority no longer support this Firefox will help you override that.

I don't usually mess with colors but I do like to set consistent fonts. It makes some sites look a bit off here and there but it helps me more than not overall.
I met her at a BABCOM convention in the mid-90s and she graciously chatted for a few minutes. She really did seem to be Delenn in her character, very calm and regal and patient. She and Andreas Katsulas seemed to be cut from the same cloth.
It is and it isn't. The DFA is not deliberately constructed, it's more a "happy accident". A renaming/reframing of the `seen` variable would make it obvious that what is constructed is a manually conceived DFA. As presented, `seen` is "how many characters have we seen of the target string?". Reframing it as "There exists a state for each character in the target, `seen` represents which of these states we are presently in" makes it clear that it is a DFA. But as constructed it's an accidental DFA, rather than a deliberate one.
Would be a good thing to be honest. The EU is a trade pact that went horribly wrong with overregulation and a lot of costs. What happens in the EU is not voted for but if you are in the EU is. Huge governments are just as harmful as huge companies.
Why de-centralized power generation? I was under the impression that the electrical distribution system is very efficient in the US and economies of scale make large scale renewables much cheaper.
Hydrogen as part is totally reasonable. It gives us hydrocarbon density without us needing to add to the CO2 in the atmosphere. The important thing to remember when discussing it is that it's an energy storage medium, not an energy generation medium. Most of the time I get irritated is when people treat hydrogen as the latter. But if our culture is just too damn wedded to cars for now, and battery tech just isn't there yet, then using hydrogen as a stopgap--provided the hydrogen is made from renewable energy--seems fine to me.
>But it’s much harder if you wait until a crisis to act.

The same thing happened to the chemistry department back in 2004 at my university. I was in Physics and knew the head admin for our school (he was also a physist and a research scientist) very well despite being an undergrad.

We discussed it over lunch and he outlined how they'd been being warned for over a decade. How they hadn't reduced their expenses. How they hadn't increased their undergrad intake or done excellent research or even gotten a lot of grants.

In the last 20 years I've seen plenty more examples of departments, companies or projects that do NOT listen to warnings or take care to maintain their metrics. And are then Shocked to find their existence in question.

In the 21st century, only the conscientious survive.
Plenty of businesses compete with AWS just fine. Looking at Elastic Co's financials, they also appear to be competing just fine.

If they tell you they're not, what they're actually saying is that they've chosen a poor business model.

In this case, it looks like they've got a perfectly reasonable business, but they're upset it's not even bigger, and therefore they'd like a monopoly over ES hosting.

> It is monopolistic behavior and that is harmful.

The irony is strong here.
The linked blog post is very much worth a read too ( https://medium.com/realmodelabs/kindledrip-from-your-kindles... ) and includes such gems as -

"The reference code prevents this issue with an assert that checks num_channels is less then MAX_CHANNELS. But maybe the Kindle developers missed it? I popped libjpegXR.so in Ghidra to look at how they chose to implement it."
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I'm not moving the goalposts. If a sizable number of people use the term a different way, that makes the term vague. You will find people arguing about the definition on every corner of the internet, and in many professional environments too. It is mind-numbingly common for people to call source-available software "open source"... dictionaries even recognize this usage: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open-source
Totally agree. I think you could also say a similar thing about Amazon however: they are benefiting off of the permissive license Elastic chose to use, without the drawback of having to spend developer time improving the open source project they are profiting from.
100% this. The moment you allowed the .NET devs to bring their mindset into a fundamentally different space you were going in the wrong direction.
Oof. I work on an angular app and the build is slow as molasses because it's big. And we of course don't want to move away from the official build tool because build time improvements are always "right around the corner".
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The only reason that I use the condenser is precisely because it will pick up my voice without having to shove my face into the mic. Yeah, it picks up my dog barking in the other room. I only used that as an example of what I've got in my office, not as a recommendation. There are a ton of different condenser mics with different patterns, etc., too. But remember, I'm overloading music stuff for MS Teams meetings. I make no claim that it's optimal, just easy for what I've got plugged into the desk.

But yeah, for most folks a dynamic is fine, cheaper, and more sturdy. Or a Blue Yeti USB mic. My point wasn't to drill into the details and offer a recommendation, though, other than "wire your stuff, and you'll be loads ahead". What is on the other end of those wires is a separate discussion. And I'm probably not the one to lead that discussion. (I'm a musician, not an orator.)
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Haha that's on the list! Any others you recommend?
It's also on the original claimant to prove that mining runs on CO2 energy.
Base62? That seems strictly worse than base64 to me. Why that choice?
I cannot speak for OP, but software is the reason for me. I can not run Solidworks on MacOS without bootcamp or other tricks, for example. Photogrammetry apps? GIS apps? CNC CAM apps? I mean, compare the Mac[1] compatible apps to the catalog of Apps Autodesk has.

The fact of the matter is GPU support on MacOS is just not there in the same way it is with windows. It is really hard to justify the price of Apple when you compare directly to Windows offerings spec for spec. When you compare the sheer volume of software available for Windows as compared to MacOS, especially if you need a discrete GPU there are really no comparisons.

[1]https://www.autodesk.com/solutions/mac-compatible-software
Depends if the large subsidies for well off middle class buyers are kept.
> Given 25 million have tested positive, by the prior estimates, that means a likely 250 million Americans have already gotten covid [4]

Considering there are 328 million Americans, that would mean 76% of Americans have had the disease, which I believe would be sufficient for herd immunity. Given what case counts look like, I find that extremely unlikely.