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GreaseBoss is an excellent name too, love the candidness of your startup.
What people call a “fact” for these purposes is a lot broader than what epistemologically qualifies as a “fact.” You can see this with a lot of “fact checking” websites. The second item on the fact-check.org website is whether reduced wind power caused the Texas electrical outages: https://www.factcheck.org/2021/02/wind-turbines-didnt-cause-...

The percentage drop in window power megawatts is a “fact.” What “caused” the Texas power outage is a multi-variable system analysis that produces a conclusion, not a fact, under certain specified assumptions. (This is obvious to an engineer: the NTSB spends months investigating what “caused” a plane crash, and issues a report with conclusions, not facts. The notion that some journalist can in a day or two perform a similar analysis on a complex system like a power grid, and report the result as a “fact” blinks reality.)
Aren't there other possibilities besides military (domestic or foreign)or alien? What about a civilian/hobbyist drone? Wasn't there a to-my-knowledge-unexplained "drone swarm" in Colorado recently?
#2 there sounds rather terrifying. I'm not sure I understand #1. Is the idea that folk will nitpick in order to appear like their code review was thorough for their managers?

I've mainly worked on safety-critical systems, and thorough code review is generally expected and welcomed in that space. In my experience, perceived nit-picking is rooted in two things. 1. Lack of consistent style guidelines or unwillingness to conform to style guidelines. 2. Arbitrary design decisions that weren't vetted by anyone until code review.

The former can be generally managed by agreeing on expectations outside of individual code reviews, and then referencing the relevant documentation when pointing out style problems. The latter can be managed by encouraging folk to communicate their plan and solicit feedback long before they submit fully baked code for review. Not to say that folk shouldn't just knock out code if they're motivated to, but without earlier communication they must be willing to defend their code in review.

As a reviewer, it also helps to annotate comments. If you feel like a comment might be a nit or might be perceived as a nit, just call it what it is i.e. "nit: this variable name could be better". At the end of the review, if it's all just nits, give your coworker an "out" by saying, "looks great! There's just a bunch of nitpicks, so feel free to address how you see fit and ship it." Or if it's more than a nit but not a bug, "Overall this looks pretty good. There's one thing there with a potential divide by zero if the config file is bad, but if you're in a hurry I'd be happy with a TODO comment".

To reiterate, managing expectations is important for avoiding code review drama. Typically with new hires, their first few PRs I review often end up with upwards of 50+ comments, most of them style related. The first thing I do before even looking at the code, though, is send them a message saying that I am a thorough code reviewer, I'm not trying to give them a hard time, and their first few PRs are likely going to be a bloodbath since they're new to the code base. Afterward, most folk usually go out of their way to thank me for being upfront about it, and that they really appreciated the thorough feedback.
https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/1iWLkf6fax0aMEmWxa...
Could be different OS behavior in terms of syncing to disk?
in comparison to getting rid of concrete, changing out a few big engines seems like a fruit that's practically fallen off the tree.
Why not just go with Chinese Style communism and have a state TV and be done with it.
How about Time Machine backups? I suspect this is part of it. I believe that Time Machine does keep local snapshots.
I guess Apple will disable these statistics for users similar to what they did with the "battery remaining time" back in the day (not that long ago :P).

Written this from a mac mini m1 8Gb,256Gb
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There's also the possibility that the usual inspection shop was doing a bad job of applying its standards with the necessary consistency and rigor, and that new inspections after engine explosions might see them paying more attention.

See this interesting article on the specifics of the P&W fan blade inspection shop and the process, which the NTSB previously concluded in summer 2020 has hidden behind the label "new and emerging technology" for far too long, avoiding the scrutiny which might make it more reliable: http://aerossurance.com/safety-management/ndi-failures-b777-...
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Ah I got you. Agreed. Though with this volatility maybe they are just jumping on asap.
On the other hand, the majority of US college kids would not be able to get into university in Germany nor Austria.

You are comparing apples and oranges. In the US, the best students get scholarship and aid and don't need to pay either (or at least have the option of free education unless they insist on going to a school that does not offer them scholarship). The poorest students don't need to pay. The middle pays for both.

In the German system only the best students are admitted period -- there is no university available for 2/3 of the population. And it only lasts 3 years. You would also be shocked to learn that the US government spends more per capita subsidizing tertiary education than the German government. Except that we also allow non-subsidized students the option of attending at their own cost, so at least they have more options than in the German system, where University education is simply unavailable to them.
I like D3 and Observable! So well done experience for the users!
Fwiw, the skies over Arizona were loaded with contrails today. Very unusual to see this kind of volume.

All of the aircraft appeared to be heading due west in the direction of Las Vegas (Nellis AFB) and southern Cal.

The last time I witnessed this degree of activity was in early 2020, one day after the drone strike on Iranian General Soleimani. The whole sky was a crisscross mesh of expanding vapor.

In these circumstances you can easily tell the difference between commercial and military aircraft simply by their speed. Military aircraft haul ass at all altitudes, without exception.

Ironic to me that this story appeared on HN today given what I've mentioned. I'm not surprised AA reported a UFO encounter two days ago either. Southwest US skies seem to have become very busy.
Thank you for your kind words! The Raspberry Pi 400 is a fantastic computer, and I came close to purchasing one and using it for this project. Sadly, the classic style keyboard of a Thinkpad and a trackpoint won.

I love your idea for creating "a deliberately-slow, ultra-low-wattage dev and writing environment." Keep me posted on it! It sounds like it would rock!
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I'm guessing supply chain and repair and troubleshooting and a lot more things. the Macbook Air now comes with a single board and a daughter board for the headphone jack. when it breaks the service replaces the board reducing any time (money) wasted on troubleshooting like ssds etc. also it allows apple to make their manufacturing a lot more streamlined. the more complicated the assembly (yes even an ssd means additional assembly and tests then you gotta provide support for third party ssds etc and troubleshoot that etc.). Adding more parts means the more complications and more chance of failures not less.
The problem is that it wasn’t evidence enough to convict Trump. It’s fine if you want to insist that Trump did in fact commit a crime (I might even agree with you) but then you can’t criticize the people saying Trump actually won the election because you’re also promoting a conspiracy without evidence.
$1000 for the screen. These E-ink patents can’t expire soon enough.
Ah fair enough. Thats some impressive footage by the way!
It’s an educated guess from years of watching and avoiding other airplanes. The reason it drew my attention was the abnormal speed, then I focused in on it and realized it was a featureless cylinder.
Sounds like a situation where if there were any witnesses to such incidents, they're probably under gag orders.
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There is a factual inaccuracy in the article: Beaker Browser is not "actually under the control of governments and big corporations". It is an independent open-source project.
In some ways I miss my time as an R programmer. Back then I could type R and make various sorts of rough useful plots of data quickly. 10 years of nonstop programming later, I no longer use R, and I cannot make rough useful plots quickly in either Python or JS. (There is nothing quick about activating the right virtualenv, starting a jupyter server, getting a notebook running, and trying to remember how to import and use matplotlib. And JS is worse).
Have you considered that their deplatforming of a sitting president was justified? I don't understand how you could decide that this article is silly right off the bat, unless you 1) think buzzfeed is just silly or 2) already just think these platforms ban "conservative" voices and so this article is just delusion. But I personally don't think that just the fact that facebook removed the president suggests they clearly have a liberal bias. In fact it seems like they have agonized about removing him/these non information channels like alex jones for years. Unless you think they just shouldn't remove anyone... but they are a private company - not a public square..
> If I'm some early 20's person just starting out, no money to my name, I need a cheap place to rent. I don't want to own or in fact, I probably can't own.

Which is exactly why it's handy to be able to pool resources with other people looking to do the same thing, thus spreading the debt (if there is any) - and the risks thereof - across multiple parties. Think of it less like a real estate purchase and more like a startup, because that's what it is.

> I moved to a new city for 1 year with the intent of returning.

In which case a housing cooperative would've served your needs just fine. Again, less like owning a home outright, and more like owning a share in a company (because, well, you would own a share in a company). And when you're done with it you can sell that share.
Edit: why am I talking about the PS3 cell? This article is about the PS2. :facepalm: please ignore, too late to delete?

Unmentioned is perhaps the coolest fact, about how it all went down:

The leading lady of chip design Lisa Su (presently President & CEO of AMD) parlayed her existing chip-design experience first doing Silicon-on-Insulator research at MIT, then spending some years fixing some copper interconnect emerging-problems at Texas Instruments, before first working for IBM, where she launched an Emerging Products Division at IBM (2001)[1], & focusing on low power chip design among other things.

She became IBM's chief point of contact with Sony in their collaboration to develop what became the PS3 (2006) Cell chip. And is largely credited with the design.

Afterwards She became VP of Semiconductor R&D at IBM before leaving for a CTO position at Freescale in 2007 (bought by NXP in 2015, in turn almost bought by Qualcomm, but China did not sign off fast enough). She joined AMD as SVP & GM of AMD in 2012, & became CEO in 2014.

Thank you Lisa. You continue to light the way. On a personal note, it is so nice to see some absolutely badass engineers given a role in companies, allowed to lead the way. It feels like this world rarely knows what it's doing, but you have the deep background, the in-the-trenches engineering chops, & the wide swarth of experience that makes you a true & genuine veteran of this field, & your work & developments have been ongoingly leading for the industry, each time. Thank you again Lisa.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Su#2000%E2%80%932007:_IBM...
tbh this seems like the perfect situation to test US air defences and radar technology.

Flying a long range unarmed stealth drone in lightly populated areas through the US would tell you a great deal about how observable the drone is to US radars. Flying dangerously through Air traffic controlled space also ensures that the military radars get pointed in your direction at some point or another.

For an unarmed small(ish) drone the risks of getting caught are likely minimal. Crash in an unpopulated area (plenty of those in the west coast), self-destruct at high altitude or simply acknowledge the spying incident and point to the SR-71/U-2 as precedent.
Grease is such a weird word to me.
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Well shopping center food tends not to be that good either. Otherwise you'll notice a cluster of restaurants at the exact same address.
I think it worth mentioning that that the PET, with its trapezoidal frame, has more or less become the iconic image of a first gen personal computer.
They're demanding inspections to collect more data, and will revise the inspection interval if deemed necessary.

Turbines are designed so that fan/blade separation failures are contained within the engine casing. Uncontained failures are considered a really big deal, because turbine blades carry a shitload of energy, and whether the blade shoots off into the distance or shreds a wing is essentially luck.

The FAA's response to this (uncontained) turbine failure is typical and expected.

Edit: Apparently this may have been a contained failure. See child comments for details. Leaving the text above alone for context.
Sounds a lot like the budget described in the Google SRE book. Agreed.
Because context matters, e.g.:

> Similarly, women are about twice as likely as men to say they have been targeted as a result of their gender (11% vs. 5%). Men, however, are around twice as likely as women to say they have experienced harassment online as a result of their political views (19% vs. 10%).

> By contrast, women – and especially young women – encounter sexualized forms of abuse at much higher rates than men. Some 21% of women ages 18 to 29 report being sexually harassed online, a figure that is more than double the share among men in the same age group (9%). In addition, roughly half (53%) of young women ages 18 to 29 say that someone has sent them explicit images they did not ask for. For many women, online harassment leaves a strong impression: 35% of women who have experienced any type of online harassment describe their most recent incident as either extremely or very upsetting, about twice the share among men (16%).
That's the definition of a bad brand. A truly good brand cannot be bought and sold in that way, takes decades to earn the trust of its rabid fan base, and with every slight imperfection creates legions of haters that declare the brand 'over'. E.g. Apple. But at the end of the day, Apple earns its margins with its brand, and entirely its brand.
Thank you! And I agree, what a coincidence! What Thinkpad and panel are you thinking of using?

I look forward to your project as well. Best of luck!
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I'm wondering how plausible it is to become an ML engineer without a technical background. And those who've done it, I'm wondering how.
I live in a Trump precinct in Maryland and if I said I supported Biden nobody would blink. If I went down to DC and said I voted for Trump people would look at me like I grew a second head.
These headlines don't mean anything whatsoever until Biden and Congress show up with a briefcase full of money. This isn't an expensive problem to solve.

TSMC's 3nm fab (slated to open next year) was estimated to cost just under $20B [0] back in 2018 when the project began. To put that number in perspective, Apple has spent $528B [1] on share buybacks and dividends in the past decade.

I surmise that a Taiwan-centric military conflict would cost the US far more than either of those two figures.

In light of the recent storms in Texas, a federally run power plant that serves only semiconductor fabs could be built in Austin TX as a first step.

[0] https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3600724

[1] https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_financials/2021/q1/...
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Boot camp level access isn't going to provide the documentation necessary to program those machines. It also impedes the pace of vertically integrated innovation that has been happening over the years. If Apple needed a public contract for open operating systems to build on top of, it would either slow down the roadmap, or break the open software regularly. It isn't just a money problem, it's a technical and human coordination problem that can't be solved with money. IMO, Google should have stepped up to build this right, but didn't. They built Android to defend against Apple not to invent a better future path.

If there is something to regulate it is making super easy for consumers to have choice over Apple vs. something else. Regulate the need for easy adoption paths between mobile ecosystems. This creates a fair arena for a free market to fight for consumers without lock in.
For laptops, it's power, isn't it? Not to mention initializing so much ram takes a long time.
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> A new email address and PO box is a new person.

Not to airlines, which have your full legal name, date of birth, and passport number on file.

Not to big tech either, which are in practice giant surveillance companies and have mastered the art of tracking everyone and anyone on- and offline.

> Was there ever a precedent of an airline ban over a chargeback where a refund was warranted?

I don't know. But many people would not have the time to research this to their satisfaction, nor would want to risk it and find out the answer the hard way.
there are valid criticisms of firefox but breaking disqus is a bizarre one. when is the last time you used it? my impressions is that these days the literal majority of content produced on it is spam and it's been this way for the better part of the last decade
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So what I don't get, is there's no shortage of jurisdictions where intellectual property doesn't seem to be worth the paper it's printed on, and really convincing counterfeits flood some well-known markets.

Where are the e-ink knockoffs? What sort of enforcement are these folks doing that nobody else seems to be able to?
The pilot said: "it looked like", so it's technically Unidentified. It flew over the top of the plane. So it's Flying though the air. And it wasn't an animal of any sort so it must have been an Object. Sounds like a UFO.

UFO != extraterrestrial
"And even so, Raspbian relies on Systemd, despite the privacy fears of many."

What the actual fuck? I'm no systemd shill but this sentence makes no sense in the context of this essay. How does systemd represent a loss of privacy foisted upon us by Google and Microsoft?
(a) They are common, lots of stories.

(b) Completely impossible to get good video about them.

a & b => bs
Plain and simple, they don't want you to take their devices apart. They use hardware and techniques that are extremely anti-consumer. From non-standard form factors, to non-serviceable components, to literally fighting against Right-To-Repair in 20 states [1]. And then when you hold out on them they push you updates to sandbag your performance.

Why so many tech professionals and hackers still swear by this company and feign surprise everytime they get shafted by proprietary design choices is baffling and frustrating.

If they wanted you to play inside, they wouldn't use torque screws. If they wanted you to replace that, they wouldn't have glued it together. If you were supposed to take the keyboard off there wouldn't be 60+ screws (literally) holding it on.

You're supposed to be a good consumer and consume this one so you can buy a new one.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/30/21348240/apple-right-to-r...
Also, if a capitalist has only $10 million to invest, and others have already started putting it all to work, there is nothing left for you if you come along afterward.
Yeah i can’t see how the parent comment is framing this as bureaucracy. This seems like a solid move for relatively little risk to gather much-needed data. I’m glad the FAA is at least trying. This is their purpose.
$1/m/fake user is still better than 0, therefore they will try to make thousands of fake users and hope some of them survive bans.
Looks like the peak for UFO sightings was 2014-2015 and sightings are still above year 2000 rates[1]. I'm not certain I trust this data, 1990 seems awfully low, maybe there is a bias in how the data is collected, but it's the best source I found.

Apparently it's difficult to quantify the number of police use of force complaints, in part, perhaps, because there are so many different jurisdictions and they collect data and report (or not) differently. I'd bet on use of force complaints declining though, I'd bet it is directly related to crime, which I expect has also gone down.

One explanation for the above is that it is as easy as ever to see a UFO without video evidence. "I forgot to film it! It was so fast! My phone wasn't working! etc". It's also possible to create fake photos, either with props or taking pictures of things that aren't immediately identifiable, or with photo editing software. The existence of phones probably makes police brutality a little less likely, on the other hand, if it does anything, because police know there is an increased chance their subject/victim will be recording them or that someone else will be (or that their bodycams are).

1 - https://www.statista.com/chart/8452/ufo-sightings-are-at-rec...
> I really don't understand why Apple is apparently incapable of making these laptops use standard, replaceable m.2 NVMe SSDs.

Because those SSDs don't have Apple magic. Apple's SSDs are designed to be directly attached to the M1 CPU to provide low latency, high throughput storage -- what amounts to nonvolatile RAM, allowing an M1 Mac with 16 GiB max to vastly outperform an x86 PC with much more RAM at the same tasks.

No, really, though, it's so they can charge an arm and a leg at the Genius Bar for SSD replacements.
Hopefully concepts will save us from cryptic error messages.
Did it leave a trail?
I don't disagree that it's possible to configure Firefox to respect your privacy. I myself use it sometimes and have a similar configuration.

But it is extremely misleading for them to be shouting "privacy" at every opportunity while the truth is that their browser leaks personal data like a sieve in the default configuration. This would give a false sense of security to non-technical people who don't have the skills to see through these lies.
Hasn't been my experience, but good to hear.
Wow, that is an incredible graph. If only more data could be presented so well.
There is very little requirement on equipment to fly in the US, you don't even need a radio in the majority of the space (only when you approach towered airports and other busy / special areas). So we're far from requiring a camera :)