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You just don't need it. It's solving a non-problem.

Tesla is selling all of the cars they can make, and the people simply don't find themselves experiencing the range anxiety they imagine they will. The vast majority of them just plug in their cars when they get home and never, ever think about going to a gas station. It's not about 30 minutes at a charger vs 5 minutes at a gas station; it's about 5 minutes at a gas station vs 0 minutes.

That's 99% of the trips taken in a Tesla. For 99% of the rest, there are superchargers.

So your range extender is a lot of extra machinery in an otherwise mostly solid-state device. To a Tesla owner, it just feels dirty, the way a gas station always feels grimy. It wouldn't help them sell any extra cars because the limiting factor on their sales is how fast they can build them.

They're scaling up, and by the time the gas cars are phased out, the entire system will have shifted. There will be even more superchargers and even more solid options for those 1% of 1% of trips that it won't suffice for.

Meantime, Tesla owners already spend less time than gas car owners fueling their cars, because it happens while they sleep. They don't need a mechanical solution because it's already solved.
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The OS handled this, and it was just changing some colors and font settings. It's not like today where there's a whole Turing machine handling your needlessly complicated custom interface rendering.

I'll say it again: people did this in the 90s, with orders of magnitude less computing power, significantly more constrained development tools, and fewer developers. That we think this is something we can't do today is evidence of a deep sickness in our industry.
In Win3 era you will see a representation of what your new color theme will look like.

Also, you can do something similar to what happens when you change screen resolution.

A window pops up with a countdown for let's say 60 seconds (or more), and if you don't press ACCEPT before it reaches 0, it undoes the changes.
Depending on how often you wear them, washing jeans once a month is probably about right. Remember that washing in itself is not actually that hard on clothes (provided you select the right temperature and program and don't use an old-fashioned top loader with an agitator), it's the dryer that really kills clothes, with all the dry heat and agitation. Line dry your clothes and they'll last much longer.

Another factor that may not be as relevant when working from home* is that general dust and dirt settles in and between the cotton fibers and act as abrasives. You can get a lot of that out by giving your jeans a vigorous shake out the window, but cotton is very absorbent and will hold on to dirt and grime, so it's a losing battle. If you never wash them, the wear will accelerate and ruin the fabric, especially in folds and creases.

As an aside, some of the "common knowledge" around jeans actually does apply to wool clothes since unlike cotton, the wool fibers have a hydrophobic outer layer, so they will repel dirt. Hanging wool clothes overnight and giving them a shake the next morning is often more than enough to refresh them, cabin luggage-only travelers love merino wool t-shirts for this reason, they can be worn for several days before needing a wash, without developing odors.

* Are people wearing jeans when working from home? As long as I'm staying inside, I'm wearing comfy cotton pajama pants and a hoodie or a robe all day, it's so comfortable. The real pants or jeans are only worn for going outside.
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This is the right thing to do. FTP should be handled by an FTP client, not an HTTP client.
I use instagram and my own webpage. The single biggest problem I have is consistency. For me art is a hobby, so I don't always have the time. So my instagram engagement is all over the place. The webpage is good, but hardly anybody reads it (which is not necessarily a bad thing).
Cardano is already live with PoS working and staking giving people rewards.
So if:

Alice, Bob and Charlie have a synced copy of the same database

Charlie goes on a plane and adds a loads of records without a connection to the other databases

Alice and Bob make no changes

Charlie comes home and syncs

Will Charlie lose all his changes, as his database is different to Alice and Bob's?

What happens if Alice, Bob and Charlie all makes changes offline then resync?
I read the book last year and found it really interesting. That being said, it is still a biography about a person by people not in his field of expertise. It's a narrative about the person not the technology. In concert with 'the idea factory' it is an interesting T shaped perspective on innovation and creativity. That being said I've noticed two big concerns with how the book has been presented and advertised...

1) I find the implicit connection in the post title to Malcolm Gladwells 10k hours theory of expertise to be incredibly antithetical to everything in the book itself about how Shannon worked and thought and created. If they wanted to be pithy and make a connection to Shannon and expertise, mentioning Range: Why generalists triumph in a specialized world seems much more appropriate.

2) All of it seems to be a little to 'we discovered this interesting person' which frankly is a weird way to position a biography. It is a PATH to people learning about someone, but usually the greatest interest in a biography is going to come from people who know abotu a person but want to know more. It is part of a broader, fairly egocentric approach to advertising the work that seems to really make it about the authors not Shannon, which just strikes me as odd for a biography of someone else.
Most of the options are pretty terrible, often unreadable depending on the color settings/abilities of the LCD panel. When I started using Windows 10 full time this was my biggest gripe - you can change the accent color, but Windows picks what it thinks will be the best text color.

I really, really miss the Windows 95 color picker. Sure, you could put grey text on a grey background, but you could also not do that. Microsoft has taken away the option one way or another.
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Yeah, Isaacson revered as a great biographer, is like Jobs being lauded a great engineer.

Anyway, here are some recommendations, hopefully you can pick one or two you still dont have:

Einstein -> Subtle is the lord, Abraham Pais (Already mentioned)

Newton -> Never at rest, Richard Westfall (Already mentioned)

Galileo -> Galileo, John Heilbron

Oppenheimer -> Inside the centre (Ray Monk), more technical: "Robert Oppenheimer, a life" A. Pais

Euler -> Euler: The Master of Us All, William Dunham (This is less a biography more like a compedium, still recommended)

Archimedes -> Archimedes, E.J Dijksterhuis(As many on this list, this is considered the seminal biography)

Dirac -> The strangest man ,Graham Farmelo (This is a popular account by a good writer). Dirac: A Scientific Biography, Helge Kragh. More technical.
Not even 1. You can't select by RGB value something too light (or too dark) for the accent color if Windows think it would be illegible. It's even worse if you have enabled transparency.

I wish there was an override, because if I want pure white #FFFFFF as my accent color, that's my problem. I don't want to settle on a light grey.
>Additionally, it belittles the consistent effort and energy spent by these individuals to train their minds

Not following this logic and this seems to be at odds with the rest of your comment. You seem to be saying that the idea of 'nurture/environment' being more or as important than 'nature/genetics' belittles the effort made by individuals to train their minds? Isn't the complete opposite actually true, ie acknowledging the importance of 'nurture/environment' or epigenetic enabled knowledge/skill acquisition, would actually be to recognise rather than belittle the 'consistent effort and energy spent by these individuals to train their minds'?
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It might be an excuse to put in a Bell labs pun
Seems to be clocked a lot higher than the lower cost arduino models. And has a little more memory.

So it might be worse suited to battery-powered applications, unless you do some power managment.

Not that I know what you would necessarily do with more of that compute.
Mentions get downvoted "because cryptocurrency".
Related conversation from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25856291
Does anyone know if you can disable favicons in firefox?
You are correct, that is how the law is currently constructed, that is why I am for section 230 reform. They should not be able to objectively edit content as they see fit while also being given liability protection. Give them the option, you get liability protection but can not censor free speech or you do not get liability protection and can edit content as they see fit. Right now they have their cake and can eat it too.
> Unnamed #if 0 branches. This doesn't strike me as obviously terrible.

Your editor has a key command to comment/uncomment a block of code with line comments, use it. Similarly, C++ has syntax for comments, use it...
In my state they roll a lot of safety inspection type stuff into the test.

There are no standards for "how to engage the hazard blinkers" across manufacturers so the testing process verifies that at least one time in their driving experience all drivers turned the hazard blinkers on in their private car, and maybe they helped their kids or grandkids figure it out later in life.

I've driven several manual transmission cars and its always so awkward for the first couple minutes as there is no standard "feel". EU test inspectors must provide enormous amounts of leeway during testing. Every time I've driven a new manual car the very first time I let the clutch out is always at least somewhat unexpected. So the USA testers get to use smoothness as a proxy for experience. If you let the clutch out like a guy who's never done it before, you are probably lying about the many hours of required yet otherwise unverifiable pre-testing driving experience.

So in summary it enforces safety education and proves some level of experience.
> In the old days of Windows 3.1, it was common to walk into an office and see each person’s desktop colors, fonts and wallpapers tuned to their personalities, just like their physical desk, with one’s family portrait or plants.

Author (and many commenters here) take as a given that this is a good thing, but I'm not so sure.

Starting with the physical desk metaphor - you probably have trinkets and photos and whatnot, and then a mess. An idiosyncratic mess, but still a mess. I'm defining "mess" here from the perspective of everyone who isn't you; which you could argue doesn't matter in the physical desk metaphor. Thinking back over the ~10 offices I've worked in, maybe 20% of people keep their desk tidy in a way that I could find a pen or a stack of post-its at first glance. Maybe it doesn't matter if someone else can be productive at your desk; but it can't be denied that the average human will (literally) leave food to rot on their desk.

Let's move to the virtual desktop. We've been saying we love our Windows 3 customizations, and randomize our wallpapers and Winamp skins every few minutes, right? Back when we were playing all those video games? But now we're adults with jobs (maybe even coworkers) and productivity actually matters, right? But we still wish for the power to make our desktops messy. Why? Maybe it doesn't matter if someone else can be productive at your computer, but it can't be denied that millions of hours have already gone into making you productive there.

Upon reflection, is this a freedom that you actually need; one that helps you in any way? What purpose was served by that flat, warm, old can of soda on your desk? Do you like all that paper everywhere? Do you even know what most of it is?

Unless your job function is some type of artist, you're almost certainly better off using the consensus interface; and if it has problems, contributing the fixes for those problems back to everyone. And clean up that takeout container that's slipped halfway onto your neighbor's desk.

Edit: I'm all for customizing the way that things work. Rebind your hotkeys, script stuff, write your own text editor- if it saves you time and you can prove it, go for it; but when it comes to colors, transparency, animations, all that stuff... just get your work done and then go outside or watch TV.
Google ads aren't really pull - they insert themselves into search query. You didn't ask for these ads to be there.

(A simple switch saying "include ads relevant to the query" would change this to "pull" mode in my books, as long as I could enable or disable it permanently for my session/account.)

Still, in context of this discussion, I meant to focus on the websites whose content Google reproduces in search results. These sites are the players that opted for an ad-funded business model, which is the source of this whole kerfuffle. Having an answer to my question being provided directly in response to query is a feature and great UX for me as a user. Websites want to restrict this not because they want to offer me value, but because they want to monetize my eyeballs. Sites with alternative business models wouldn't have a problem with Google reproducing content, and perhaps could reach an agreement in which they feed Google content on purpose, in exchange for some payment. Less websites and more data sources would be a good thing.

> Also: you don't consider the need for new companies to get initial attraction for a new (or better/different version of X) product. How would you have that happen without advertising?

Perhaps I need to update my article with some thoughts on that. The TL;DR: of my position on this topic is: if everyone shouts through megaphones at everyone else, you need your own megaphone to be heard. Take away everyone's megaphones, and maybe we can all have an actual conversation.
Atlassian's ecosystem is really good. Nothing is perfect, but we tested Google, Salesforce (horrific, but a _lot_ money in there), Dropbox and MS. Atlassian just hit the sweet spot for us.
Like the Ars commenters have noticed, it seems very reminiscent of electromechanical devices like relay switches, core memory, etc. But it uses a different blend of activating forces(either mechanical or magnetic). See also the search for practical memristors.
There is nothing stopping them from offering a fat binary. Not everything has to run on Kubernetes.
I think that's totally valid, especially because there are likely tons of bottlenecks that make the entire process slower than it otherwise could be. I just think there are some challenges to compiling Rust that might make the upper bound of efficiency less than desired
I am not sure it's given that inflation will stay at zero with rising minimum wages.

I think GP is worried this may not be the case, and he would lose purchasing power.

Nothing may happen, but I think we'll have to wait and see if this is the case or not.
1. That would make the device larger and wouldn't provide compatibility anyhow.
2. The street price of ESP8266 seems to be $6.49, which is more then $4.00. I imagine the rpi board uses less current, and the programable logic in the gpio's gives some interesting opportunities.
Do you happen to know anything about what they'll do about spam?

fAt present, a spammer needs your phone number and a source phone number in order to spam you. A suitable source phone number isn't difficult to get, but presumably spammers' numbers will be blacklisted by Signal as soon as someone complains about the spam. If they drop the need for a source phone number, what will replace that threshold? Do you know?
Still has settings in firefox. Right on the first page of options too.
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I used to change my desktop background approximately once per afternoon. It was a disease. Modifying Gnome themes. Downloading custom launchers for Android. Tweaking the colors representing my calendars. All with good intentions, mind you. "This green mountain background will calm me down in the morning" etc.

At some point, I realised that if I just take a deep breath, slow down, and accept that I can modify myself to align with my tool rather than the other way around, a lot of friction is removed.

I set my background on every device to a solid black, and it's now three years since I changed them. My trello boards are still blue background. My calendars are whatever the default theme is. It's sometimes nice to tweak the tool for your need, but it's also sometimes nice to understand that everything doesn't need to be a huge annoyance. One can just adapt and move on.
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We use ES and Kibana open source. Our entire infrastructure is on AWS and if AWS is managing the installation and maintenance efforts thats a great help.

ES was never going to make a penny from us anyways and AWS is not making any money from the ES software itself. What they are making money is from our usage of their core services. Same goes for all the other open softwares, Kafka, Airflow, EMR to name some. Plus it would be dumb to have your infrastructure on AWS and buying ES cloud service where you'd require to send your data out of AWS as you'd have to pay for the data out.
In theory yes.

In practice many things can be different. Carefully check what's happening under the hood.

Hopefully, manual configuration of the PCIe will become more commonplace, as most bioses are badly broken each in their own unique way - and unfixable.
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The palace is just one event. Lots more money gets stolen not for the sake of building a palace but enriching few individuals in various other ways.

It is a hyperbole indeed and thank you for the detailed breakdown. The truth is, if not 'nearly all', it's certainly a very sizable portion of the tax budget that gets stolen. Enjoyed this video on the topic from one politician in Moscow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMWyzudWioY

Also on the topic of breakdowns that you cited, I have hard time believing things that get written in these 'official reports'. There are many ways to hide where money actually gets spent. This also gets talked about in the above video.
It's becoming pretty widely used these days. ~25% of websites I visit flip dark mode correctly.
> Now that's motivated reasoning. You are choosing to dehumanize those who disagree with you, because that's more comfortable than acknowledging that they might have a legitimate grievance somewhere beneath all the ruckus around the election results.

What now? I pretty explicitly humanized them, and even shifted the blame a way from them. Personally, I think a lot of them are being shamelessly used and exploited.

> It's logical to conclude that there will be blowback from a coordinated campaign to shut down the largest platform favored by "the other side".

Not really. The largest platform favored by "the other side" (which I'm assuming is conservatives/Republicans) was and is Facebook.

Parler was only favored by a much smaller, radicalized subset of conservatives, mainly those who wanted to spread false claims of election fraud (because, IIRC, it only got popular in response to Twitter putting warning labels on such claims, which offended this radicalize subset). I'm totally fine with any blowback from such people, since their cause of championing lies needs to be utterly defeated, for the good of the country.
posthog looks like a great product. But it's interesting that a product offering with "open source" and "on your infrastructure" still has "cloud" as the first tab in the pricing. (Not a criticism at all, just pointing out the interesting dynamics of the open core business model)
Check out BleachBit[0]. It’s available for Windows and Linux.

[0]: https://bleachbit.org
> How do developers of open source software pay to keep the lights on

How about a non-commercial-use licence (or one that applies to smaller businesses only), and then offer commercial licenses for payment?

Ok, it's complex b/c some large biz might not get a lot of revenue out of it, but seems like a good system to me.
AFAIK, microk8s uses a similar - but not this - form of distributed sqlite. Specifically, it uses dqlite[1] "a C library that implements an embeddable and replicated SQL database engine with high-availability and automatic failover."

[1] https://github.com/canonical/dqlite
Is this still true with the use of SynRM motors (as deployed by Tesla)?
Of course the freedom to scratch that itch means you need to have the option to not work a job you don't enjoy to meet the physical needs of living.

Today it's easier to overcome, but not everyone has the privilege of clawing their way out. By the time they do, then who they are is already defined as someone who is not interested in that itch. Name one scientific genius born into poverty.
There was no question posed. I was simply injecting a random piece of trivia (which I acknowledged). Now that you understand my intent, why do you keep pressing? These are the types of responses that make people not want to comment on news.yc.
> Where is the Gist code running, say for a console app?

In a Docker Container under a restricted user.

> Could I use this to securely demo new concepts to long term clients using their privileged data without their in-house IT people raising valid infosec concerns?

Yep! you can download the same Docker Container gist.cafe uses to run a local instance: https://gist.cafe/#local

The code is running in a Docker container under a restricted user which their in-house IT can further isolate by running the local container instance in an isolated server.

> Is this the early stages of a new ServiceStack offering, or more of an interest driver?

Nope something created for fun which we needed to create to host Live examples in our own docs ourselves, which IMO others needing to do something similar would find useful. I basically had to do a rewrite of https://github.com/ServiceStack/Gistlyn which did something similar but was tied to .NET Framework and used App Domains which aren't available in the x-plat .NET 5.0 so as part of the redesign & rewrite to use separate processes it was easy to extend to add support for multiple other languages.

> Certainly motivated me to click through to learn more about ServiceStack's products

Awesome!
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