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Former Microsoft employee that worked on MyFordTouch for a little while.

> Rumor is Ford outsourced to Microsoft who outsourced to someone's cousin who wrote it in Adobe Air or something

That's actually pretty close. From what I understood Microsoft and Ford worked pretty closely on SYNC and that was a large success. Ford came back to Microsoft to have them do Sync 2.

Microsoft gave them a quote saying it would take $X and Y time. Ford said it needs to be cheaper and faster. Microsoft told Ford "We can't do that, here are some of our preferred contractors for Windows Embedded, maybe they can."

Some time later Ford came back to Microsoft saying "Please fix this" and that was around the time I joined. I actually heard a Ford VP say "This is the worst quality problem we've had in my time at Ford." He had been there during the Firestone tire debacle. (He was talking about cost in lost sales, obviously iPods not working wasn't as bad in the grand scheme of things as cars rolling over.)

The "backend" of the system was written in C++ on Windows Embedded. The user interface was written in Flash with some insane stringly-typed interface to talk back and forth with the C++ layer. And that's how I became an action script developer at Microsoft for a (very) brief time.

iPhones worked decently with the system. Android barely worked at all (Ford didn't care much about that at the time). Windows Phones actually worked pretty well since all the employees at the time had them and that's mostly what we'd use for developing.

It was the worst job I've ever had.
full blown ADHDer here... diagnosed and on meds from 2-6th grade, and then started again in my early 40s and on them now.

some comments about this article:

1) i fsking HATE when people self-diagnose and then trumpet to the world that they're almost certain they have ADHD. if you think you've got it, go find a clinical psychologist and get tested.

2) he's done a great job of regimenting his life. this is really, really important for me to do and helps a lot (until something distracts me, like a squirrel)

3) removing distractions is SUPER important. i was a musician for large portions of my life, and i can't listen to anything when i'm working.

4) meds can help, a lot. they help me. a lot. i use them daily, but take 'breaks' when i'm sick, on vacation, etc. i'm one of the 'usual' people that doesn't have side effects and i definitely don't get a 'high' feeling.

anyways, i liked the article, and he has some really great points and routines. but i still wish he'd gotten tested before posting. :)
The Honeywell in question is this type-- it calls itself a "cool mist" humidifier, but it's an evaporative humidifier: basically all there is to the thing is a water tank, a wick, and a fan to move air over the wick.
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For me, Ritalin works as it should, just focusing. dextroamphetamine on the other hand gets me all hyped up.
GeForce Now can be used with Steam quite seamlessly. In fact, GeForce Now's value is to play the games you already own on various platforms on their hardware. They're not trying to be another games store.
9.5k a year a stock with no way to verify what they say.

Also, it's DTC, not DTCC. The inter-company loopholes still apply, not to mention all the international shenanigans.
>My only regret is I didn't know sooner.

Yep!

Always scored 90th percentile in standardized tests (how? no clue.), curious, the lot... just couldn't care about homework or listening in class.

I struggled through 5.5 years of college then years later snapped out of the mindset of "just having to try harder". My parents knew... they had me diagnosed as a kid, but were scared off of stimulants by their church.

I try not to think about what my life could've been.
Apple doesn't approve each release of an app?
Oh boy for an article about how the media has it wrong, this guys says $600 govt handouts are what is causing the investment, and young folks who lost their jobs are the main folks on Reddit.

Yikes, I’m sure the average person on wallstreetbets is well educated and employed.

And let alone the take that “covid has 99.7% survival rate” don’t get me started there...

This article is junk at the end
I think many with ADHD have been mentally abused by people thinking that they were just lazy. I was diagnosed with depression most of my life due to people like that, then suddenly medication magically fixed almost all of those problems and I haven't been that depressed since I got diagnosed and got the medicine.

I'm not saying that we should attack people like that, I'm just explaining why it would induce anger in some so you'd understand better where he comes from.
Tekton was very high in my runnings, very attractive. I liked the models they built around, they seemed like a good structure. Everything built very "cloud-native" (system state stored as Kubernetes objects).

But the project did explicitly pivot, sometime in the last 12 months, to explicitly declare themselves/think of themselves as a CI/CD system. They're also under the Continuous Delivery Foundation now. I spent 5 minutes looking for the specific event, where this was determined/declared, & will try to follow up; hope I find it.

I don't think it precludes Tekton from still being used more generally, thought of more generally. But now, doing so puts one out of alignment with the stated goals, with the project itself. I'm quite sad about this development: I think it radically undershoots the relevance of Tekton & what role it ought to fill. We have all this wonderful new cloud based pieces of state, but in terms of how one piece actuates another, how we can make systems that behave autonomically: we direly need some core Event Driven Architecture logic, and Tekton definitely has some really good tools for doing that. I want very much for Tekton to meet it's potential head on.
i generally hate short, banal replies, but here we go:

this. all of this. yes. :)
> No, Ken Griffin did not call Janet Yellen and ask her to order Robinhood to shut down speculative buying.

Don't be so quick to absolve the elites of all wrongdoing. The NSCC is not a government agency but an industrial consortium of sorts. The formula they use to determine margin requirements for a given stock has a "discretionary" parameter that can be raised at will. Ken Griffin didn't need to ask Robinhood to delist GME directly, he just could've told his buddies at the NSCC to raise margin requirements so high that Robinhood & other brokers didn't have any other choice.
I bought one last fall and have been using it quite regularly during the winter. The humidity in my bedroom has been dipping down to 20-30%, and I prefer it to be 40-50%.

I started with distilled water, and it worked great - the wick/filter stayed in pristine shape for the 3 weeks I did so. However, buying distilled water was about twice as expensive as changing the filter every two weeks: $0.99/gal at 1-2 gal/day vs a $6.99 Walmart-brand filter. I haven't looked around to see if I can find cheaper reverse-osmosis water.

I have not had to clean the fan yet, but that does seem difficult.

My biggest issue is the fan noise. The machine only works well when set to the highest speed, but the fan is quite loud at that setting. I have the machine a few feet away from my bed, and High makes it hard to sleep. Medium/Low are no problem, so I just leave it on all the time on Medium.

Refills are only an issue if you carry the tank by the handle. I only use the handle to take it out of/put it into the unit, and carry it upside-down in my arm when taking it to the bathroom to refill.
Have you ever spent time around advertising people? This is exactly how they talk to each other. An agency shooting a commercial for a hospital in Houston, TX shot in Amsterdam because the director wanted to. Another agency person bragged to a person in another agency about how much they spent. It's a game to these people. Once you become a brand, it is less about advertising a product/lifestyle as much as it is to keep the name prevelant in people's mind.
I actually started working on just such a shim yesterday. The idea is to represent all major cloud storage through a single simple frontend API. You have to implement each provider's OAuth flow, but once you have the files it's pretty much the same.

Dropbox, Google, and my own protocol[0] will come first, but Solid is planned eventually.

What I've learned so far:

* Google is extremely draconian unless you use their JavaScript picker. To really integrate nicely you would have to spend at least $15000-$75000 getting your app audited by a 3rd party.

* Dropbox picker integration is very easy and slick.

[0]: https://github.com/gemdrive
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Assuming yes as I'm running https://sqwok.im (uses Starlette) on aws lambda with apigateway using Mangum
I recently co-authored an entire re-write of the VLC flutter plugin for android and iOS. This may help. https://github.com/solid-software/flutter_vlc_player
Radar space imaging instrument yields impressive results
I purchased this exact model a few months ago, and agree with all of the criticisms. One curious point, however, is that while I don't see any difference in the hygrometer readings even when I put the hygrometer right above the device, the water tank does empty quickly. It's not clear to me how much water the air in my apartment can hold, such that a few gallons doesn't change the humidity even by more than 1-2%.
> it's the green screen and text.

Nonsense! 3279's could do 8 colors! ;-)

Now, on a more serious tone, 3270's were the 70's browsers. They had forms, sent them to the computers and got back other pages. They were pretty smart.
I know it's not an option for a lot of people but a simple bypass flow-through humidifier attached to forced-air central heating is pretty hard to beat:

* The only "active" element is a solenoid water valve.

* Since water flows through once and then out a drain there's no standing water to grow mold (at the cost of extra water usage; mine is 3 gallons per hour though the humidifier is rarely on 100% of the time).

* Maintenance is a new water panel yearly (about $20) and some cleaning, again yearly.

* You need smart controls or to regularly adjust a manual humidistat to not over-humidify your house based on outdoor temperature, though this is exactly the same as with "portable" humidifiers.
I don't know how HN feels about Stadia, so a honest question: why is it unpopular? I personally find it absolutely astounding that anyone can question that this is the future.

I'm absolutely confident this is the future. Except, unlike you, I don't mean it in a positive way: I find it to be a one more face of the impending doom, anti-utopian authoritarian future, where people will be forbidden to perform arbitrary computations without a special permission. But that's that kind of wild socio-philosophical predictions that nobody discusses seriously, and nobody even thinks you are serious for suggesting something as preposterous (but then it happen anyway and nobody is really surprised).

On the technical matter, though, it is so much better than owning your own hardware, that it's hard to imagine how that could fail. I mean, obviously, Google will not succeed in making their own games (never could have). And of course current state of Stadia may not suit the "real gamer" (always a minority), because you can have a better performance on your own hardware.

But these problems will be solved, eventually. Better studios will make better games for this kind of platform, eventually it won't be games only, but the whole workspace. CAD running on Stadia will perform better than it could have on your upper-middle-range laptop you paid a shitload of money for, and that still lags and overheats when running your 100-tab browser on it. Your client device will be cheap, completely silent, low-temperature and will run on a battery for several days (that is, with no power-battery technology improvement). Light and portable. It will be unbreakable, compared to your current PC. Basically just a good display, a networking card, and some input device. There is absolutely no way your software won't run better on a shared hardware than you can buy for the same amount of money it will cost Google (or whoever will succeed with this).

I don't know if latency will ever be low enough for every human-use application (which again makes me wonder why are they starting with games: probably the most latency-sensitive thing an average customer uses), but it is surprisingly good right now, and there's still some room for improvement: computation servers will be more evenly distributed (CDN-style), and last-mile latency (the biggest problem, anyway) will improve in the upcoming years, especially on mobile.
This deserves it's own post
I can't imagine anyone seeing it as a good sign of confidence if Sony or Microsoft abandoned all first party game development for their platforms. Not even just exclusives development. Not just selling off or divesting their studios, but shuttering them altogether.

Stadia being good tech is just another sign that Stadia deserved better than Google.
YouTube's accursed algorithm bubbled a video into my recommendations with the provocative title: "What happened to the A and B drives in Windows?"

It suddenly hit me that there are adults alive today who have only ever known PCs without floppy drives.
I find that this applies much broader than just work projects.

Example: HN articles. I used to scroll through the front page, open every article with a remotely interesting sounding title in a new tab, usually another tab next to it with the HN discussion that I'd read after reading the article and where I'd keep reading quite a while after being done with the article. That's bad. Once I started prioritizing I'd have much more time for meaningful things. Saying no to reading comments about something I actually didn't care that much about. Saying no to actually finishing reading an article that I didn't really like that much. Saying no to even opening an article just because the title suggested it "could" be interesting but not really my cup of tea.

A recent new strategy of mine is to first scroll through the list and then pick the article with the most promising title. Saying no to everything else. I may have missed really good stuff, but the payout is fantastic.
Almost any medical condition disqualifies you. Almost any medication taken regularly does too.

I am interested in getting my private pilot's license and I _should_ be able to get a Class 3 Medical from what I've seen, but that will be a bit away so I have time.

What I've seen and heard from others is to just lie. Seems like many have gotten to the point of realizing trying to do it right is only going to put you in months of bureaucracy and spend thousands proving your viability.

The FAA needs to figure out how to either commission studies to reduce their list of disqualifications or streamline the process of appealing your medical certification.
What are modern cars like with regard to needing a data connection? My car (2012) just stored all the data from North America locally and that's been incredibly useful when driving without cell service. The Google way in other products seems to assume an internet connection is available, and offline performance is an afterthought.
Because the database has to decided whether or not to use the index. If it decides to use the index, and there are values above 7, then it will misbehave (the query will miss those results). Now of course the database could then scan the rows for values above 7 it missed but at that point there's no point in using the index and you might as well have row scanned for the original query.

As a result, the database has to be 100% sure that there are no values _at all_ above 7 to safely and efficiently use the index, ex. when there's a constraint.
The amount of times in my life that I've gone back to play an old game I've already played is like...three. I'm not a curator or collector, I just want to play some games here and there.

If owning games forever is important for you, then buy the hardcopy. For me, being able to play games now on the devices I already own is a huge win.
It is in the United States too – mostly vanilla milkshakes, though (Wendy's frosty, In-N-Out shake, etc)
Don't you value having type checking in your editor etc? Or is there a way you can get that without ever generating the code?
Couldn't the spun out company just license the centralized compute infrastructure and subsequently migrate as needed?

Seems easy enough, unless I'm missing something here
There have been lots of AA-compatible DIN-sized head units. It's a standard, hence the name.
details aside it's cool to see this done out in the open, that will really help people who have never seen it understand the scope.
Interesting. Did you start from a Distilled base model (like DistilRoBerta), or did you distill your fine-tuned model?
Yeah, but Microsoft also shutdown retail stores in part because of the global pandemic, a few other companies followed.
Name a single AAA game in Unity? Everyone can do a shiny scene with good lighting, making a $50M game with it is another story.
> If you can't reach more than one country, why would anyone want to develop for it?

Stadia is in a bunch of countries and rolling out to more. It's almost as though it's a new product and didn't immediately launch at global scale.
Snowflake's IPO definitely led to these terms.
http://stadiacountdown.com/

(Maybe that's actually a bit too optimistic. ;-) )
Typically, platforms with smaller reach ( read < 10 million DAU) will only have a few big advertisers who are willing to purchase most ad positions. Behavioral targeting on such platforms with large advertisers will probably only limit spend by cutting out bad impressions, and the in-house or external behavioral targeting isn't anything close to what FB offers.

FB/Goog dominate ad-spend as they are able to effectively match small advertisers with the appropriate audience, and these advertisers typically have specific customer goals in mind. If the goal of the ad buyers on the NYT is simply to associate their brand with the trustworthiness of the NYT, then there won't be much benefit from behavioral targets.
> They didn't really build their own engine, they bought a re-licensable license to CryEngine, rebranded it to Lumberyard, and started their engine work from that.

If you start to dig in (source-code is one available source) What actually is clearly the story is they started building a game engine, some higher-up bought a license to CryEngine and told them "Here! Use this!" Then they packaged that up as a module in the Engine they started building initially, and spent the next 5 years slowly deleting bits of CryEngine and replacing it with the engine they wanted to build in the first place.

Not that that's much better, but I think it clearly speaks to the politics at play in the environment.

edit:

To add links to the code:

ly framework, clearly core engine systems unrelated to cryengine: https://github.com/aws/lumberyard/tree/6b8dd98ad0e59b1817a79...

Gems, the non crytek plugin system: https://github.com/aws/lumberyard/tree/6b8dd98ad0e59b1817a79...

A big dump of cryengine: https://github.com/aws/lumberyard/tree/6b8dd98ad0e59b1817a79...

Which we can see has been dramatically shrunken in the time since the initial commit: https://github.com/aws/lumberyard/tree/master/dev/Code/CryEn...
I'm not following. How is everything probabilistic (in a meaningful way)? Most other systems don't have built in uncertainty in the same way ML does.
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How do you deal with cleaning the handle part of the tank? It looks like the end can pop off, but I haven't tried.
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