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> Environmental issues aside, there is a lot of downside - it's not just like all that industry can be shifted from one part of the economy to the other.

Yep. But the planning for it has to be done, because this change is visible on the horizon. If it isn't planned for, the shift will be forced, happen rapidly, and most of the ill effects will hit those least able to handle them. (I mean, it probably won't be, or at least not even close to the level it needs to be, and only thing most people can do is vote...)

I'm from the north of England, and the economy of the region has, as long as I've been alive, been depressed. Heavy manufacturing leaving the area (leaving the UK...): that's a major cause. But coal mining used to be central -- it was dying for a long time but it was really put to the sword in the 1980s. It was inevitable that it had to happen, just as I think this is, but the way it happened devastated the region -- and that's translated into several decades of damage, and has had hugely detrimental effects, particularly social. The idea was that retraining would happen, the economy would be shifted, but they were mostly empty promises (why do people of a certain age hate Thatcher with every iota of their beings? Well...).

Most of my family are from or live in the north of Scotland, and it's gone from the majority of them being employed in oil industry or oil industry-adjacent jobs to...not in the last 10-15 years. It's biting hard there (though there are jobs in renewables: not enough, but much better than situation was in NE England)
Glad you changed your mind.

About "limits":

As u/moistbar also pointed out, the number of pins of the Broadcom CPU, and of the STM32 microcontroller, would provide a constraint. If more positions was important, I could easily have put a bunch of IO-expanders or multiplexers.

However, the board was designed with compactness as a priority -- "pocket"-sized and all that -- so as to be portable and flexibly deployable.

The solution for "space" is quite fun: You can chain multiple Pockit boards side by side, through the same style of Bridge-connector that allows expansion to the Display Block in the linked video here.

With this, a huge (but not unlimited) workspace is possible. Frankly, aside from the most spatially demanding application I've tested (a synth/looper setup), I've never needed more than 3 chained together.

> 5 HDMI output blocks
I didn't see the need for something like this. There are obviously compromises in every design, and I suppose this is one of them, if you think it's actually valuable. Though an HDMI splitter block would technically solve this issue too.
90% of startups fail. OP is talking about annual 360 performance reviews. If your company may not exist next year, why would you do this? I say this as someone who has sold a startup.

OP is not talking about the "goals" I mentioned a startup having: revenue growth, customer growth, product development. These are things that startup leadership should keep track of and communicate regularly. OP's definition of "goals" are more akin to "take a Coursera course on machine learning". These are the "goals" that employees create for themselves with a manager when that company has gotten somewhat large. They are BS goals, that people who want career growth should be doing anyway.
90% fiction, almost all SF or fantasy. Some mystery/crime.
10% nonfiction. i.e., The Brothers Vonnegut by Ginger Strand.
TBS, I've just started The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar, which is sort of both.
And a lot of Texas power utilities charged fixed rates but had to buy at spot prices. It didn’t work as well as they’d hoped, especially if they didn’t have generation capacity themselves.
I know who dang is and no one is infallible. I'll tell him he's wrong any day. And I imagine he might even appreciate it once in a while. If you were being sarcastic, then please ignore.
Torrens title? Or are you talking about a different system?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrens_title
It's not 'unequivocal' though - we don't have enough information to say that. You have to know what the vulnerability is, how it's exploited and what the consequences are.

While I don't doubt that in reality, erring on the side of closing it is probably the right thing to do, the fact is we don't know.

If the vulnerability is being used to thwart a rogue entity from developing nuclear weapons, the balance of facts may be on the other side. At very least, Google should have worked with agencies on getting it closed down.

If they were using it to make a drug bust, when then who cares, shut it down.
Poppies?
Best syntactic sugar not in Python
Yes, but the ship is already being accelerated upwards by the surface of the earth at 9.8 m/s^2. If you were to lift it, you'd do it very, very slowly, so you'd increase the acceleration (temporarily) to, say, 9.8000001 m/s^2. The extra force required to do that is very small.

Note that ships actually are accelerated up and down in the Panama canal, which has locks. (The Suez doesn't.) That amounts to pretty much the same thing. It doesn't matter whether the forces are transferred to the earth via a column of water or a column of air.
We were generating hundred of thousands of pdfs per day with wkhtmltopdf and had a lot of reliability issues. We switched to prince, and it has proven much better on all levels; no more crashes, better layout, smaller pdfs, faster generation, etc.
I'm going to assume you didn't read the article, and is only replying to the subject, since the article is about trying to not do exactly what your comment is implying.
Politicians want steady employment within their own district. Having a contractor or supplier for the F-35 serves this purpose well, while infrastructure work is much more temporary and spread out.
Sure, power cars (any car with a 300 mile range is likely on average to use 300 miles per day). Make ice (in the summer) to help with off peak cooling, pump water uphill above any hydro plant. Even pull carbon out of the air and sell carbon credits and then sell the fuel you make as a result.
I think Pyanodon's modpack might actually count as good interview material, if it didn't take 800 hours to play.
I don’t understand the hate. Sure Scotland isn’t carbon neutral, but this is still an impressive figure.
I have a survey from my county office that shows everything. It was done by the previous owner but the county retains records. It shows retaining walls, 3 different types of fences, and it includes the different types of property markers they found and where.
Ars seems to be calling all open source software insecure. I’m not saying they are wrong but what’s the value in their article? Is it gotcha journalism, or are they warning us not to trust bsd based systems in general. The article starts as a gotcha piece but concludes by saying there’s no review in place to catch these problems.
Saying that it isn’t conducive to an entire nation is a bit of an over-dramatization, don’t you think?

I think a generous severance makes up for that. Plus people would know what they are getting into, just like Netflix. If you don’t want the risk/return you don’t have to apply or accept a job there.
No, the f4 could do the job, but it wasn’t fine.
For sure, for very small companies or small/junior teams who have a line manager.

This also doesn't quite acknowledge that even if you can do all of those functions [in a small business or one-person company] it does not mean you're actually good at those jobs.
Factorio is very much like programming on a good team, automation, expansion, refactoring, tooling used to solve your problems.

Satisfactory is cool, but at no point do you get the "ok so I built this entire factory and now I can just replicate it modularly" - no, just place every, single, block, by, hand.

To me factorio is a rethinking of the RTS game, satisfactory is like a really nice minecraft mod.
Like the Senate, you often need someone who can break ties. A team with an even number of technical people can get deadlocked on a decision. If the boss can’t or won’t step in, it can make for a miserable experience.
Redfin decried redlining and then did it
I'm not sure what a sane system would look like, but the main problems you have to address are:

1. In the current system requirements come from the military to the contractors (I'm simplifying a bit here). The people on the military side generally don't have much knowledge of technological capabilities, so they are limited in what they can conceive of. It dissuades outside-the-box thinking.

2. The military generally looks to existing contractors. I'm not even sure how you would sell to the military unless you hired some executives away from an existing contractor.

3. The way security clearances work and the length of time it takes to get them makes it hard to rapidly develop products.

At this point I think the big companies are too big and slow, they need to find a way to get smaller companies involved.
Books go into topics vastly deeper than Hacker News could dream of.
> This storage isn't "free" to the vehicle owner

Just set the price at which you are willing to sell so that you make a profit overall.
With smart enough appliances, we could smooth out that volatility.

Shed the pool heater/cleaner, beer fridge and the hot water heater when things get incredibly expensive.

Put the washer/dryer in slow-mo when prices are high.

Ultra-chill the freezer and A/C when prices go low/negative.

Turn on a resistive heater and shut off the gas heat when things are negative...

Instead we want complicated too-big-to-fail grid storage systems instead.
The F-35 was trying to share more than just parts, but an entire airframe. Sharing parts is "normal", LRUs are designed to standard forms (both in connectors as well as physical box size, shape, and weight) on purpose. This allows them to use the same box in a variety of aircraft to cover the common subsystems.

A greater emphasis on these modular components being flexible enough to meet each mission need while permitting each service to get its own tailored airframe would have been the best option. Instead the F-35 program office has the population of a small town on its own who all have to coordinate in harmony (hah!) with each other and the customers who have very different actual wants and needs. Divide that into 3+ airframe program offices (of reasonable sizes) with proper focus on their customer, and one larger program office that oversees the various LRU and other components and this alternate F-35 family of aircraft could have been successful (at least some of them, even if, say, you end up trying to build 5 planes and only 3 really meet their goals, that's better than the F-35 which doesn't work for any of its users).
This: "Since 2020, it has banned cotton from the Xinjiang region citing human rights concerns."
> If SQLite were to grow a first-rate RFC 3339 library, one which could read from tz when available and do the things which strftime cant, acting on your choice of Unix timestamp and valid RFC 3339 date string, this would be a real boon to the ecosystem.

OTOH, as an embedded database with freeform advisory typing and easy extensibility (for functions, etc.) in most host languages, it's not hard at all to get whatever you need for datetimes if you are using a host language that has a decent datetime library itself (and, as a bonus, you then don't have to worry about subtle differences between manipulations of datetimes through SQL and manipulations through other mechanisms in the app.)
"I guess what I want is a struct like data structure, but in an interpreted language"

Python ffi is an option: https://cffi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using.html#working-wit...

Though I don't know what advantage that route would have over most interpreted language's already existing associative arrays / hashmaps / dicts.

There may be some module already built that serves your needs. DiscoDB is a good example..a very fast hashmap that uses mmap(). https://discodb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Kinda the opposite thing is happening right now in Germany. When introduced in 1968, the value added tax was 10%. Now it's 19%. Similarly, it was free for trucks to use the German highways. Now they have to pay fees. Only recently they expanded that to the federal roads as well (Bundesstraßen). As for the land, generally the federal government sells most of it to developers instead of developing it themselves (or letting developers develop and then charge rent on the land).
Meanwhile, college costs continue to soar

ref: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=college+costs+by+year&t=ffnt&atb=v...
If you ever actually want to do this, be aware that it's not only unethical, but possibly illegal. Requiring candidates to play a game discriminates against people with visual impairments, who can't play games, but can code as well as anyone else.
And then there are PLs that adopt the incredibly radical technique of treating 0.2 as two tenths[1].

[1] https://medium.com/@raiph_mellor/fixed-point-is-still-an-app...
But what about combining characters? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_Diacritical_Marks

Should the letter plus a combining character count as one (I think so), or two characters? Should you normalize before counting length? And so on.
Yeah, Nefrums would pass the interview in less than 2 hours..
I think the old “Mossad is gonna Mossad” thing is still true. Good security practices are mandatory, and will keep you safe 99% of the time.

But when you have what appear to be state level actors using 0 day exploits... you will not stop them.
You have motivated me to try it again... Switching the sim today. The hands free calling while driving is another feature to solve for. I'm going wired headset.. 2000 is back! =)
Yeah, last time that (accidentally, effectively) happened just down the road from here, it caused some rather interesting smells, and that was just a 300A feed (or rather, it blew a 300A fuse - repeatedly - the technician kept just replacing the fuse a few times until I wandered over and told him about the smelly bit of pavement).
You're 100% spot on that this type of environment breeds criminality and corruption. It is undesirable.

But it is unfortunately the way of life in a lot of under-developed countries (nothing to do with Islamic countries as another comment pointed out elsewhere). Feeling uncomfortable around this behaviour is also a very typical Western outlook on this. Having grown up in the middle east, bartering and the "give and take" is just going with the flow. Its endemic.
The F-18 and F-15 prototypes were competing for the same job. F-15 won and MD managed to salvage their investment and sell the YF-17 to the Navy as the F-18.

The F-16 was the card up Boyd's sleeve that nobody saw coming but couldn't argue against it once he put it on the table!
> Quite often you data is not as randomly distributed as you may initially think it is.

That's why it's important to pick the right hash function. A hash table usually goes a long way before it becomes a performance issue.
It's hard to manage if you don't have a clue about what you're managing. Every estimate looks equally realistic to you. You can't tell lies from the truth. Your own sense of other's performance is limited to easily faked "symptoms" of working hard, like spending a lot of time, or talking in meetings. You don't have to be good at the jobs beneath you to manage them, you just need a clue.
I wouldn't ask someone to whiteboard it but I think "what is a hash table?" is a brilliant interview question. The depth someone can go into tells you a lot and can bring up lots of other topics to discuss. It tells you a lot if a senior developer doesn't know what a hash table is or only knows "it's a class from Java" too.
What’s the limit? What if I write an article with a title like “Breaking: Google to deprecate its search engine, will get into selling beanie babies instead” but in reality the article is about the many different types of mayonnaise one can buy? I think it’s reasonable to expect the title to somewhat reflect the content of the article.
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The 17 year cicada is only in North America, so the Egyptians wouldn't have known about it.

Though coincidentally, it is sometimes called the Pharaoh cicada -- because of the sound it makes, not because of anything Egyptian.
I also find tipping culture similar to bribing. In the sense that it adds to the take home income of the worker receiving the tip/bribe.
I think you underestimate the volume of the perishable goods. Most are transported in containers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerated_container
Took the words right out of my mouth. This is the right take.
This is getting creepy. Maybe you might back off a bit.
Call me naïve, but who is such a hot target to warrant so much effort to exfiltrate PII? Defense? FinTech? Government?
The major difference between Factorio and software is you can't refactor in Factorio. Your options are to spaghetti or start fresh. You can't really pick and choose good pieces of your layout because of physical restrictions and the game is a giant math equation, and you want inputs to match outputs at every step of the way - if you don't have the space to do this you don't have the space.

It's like if in the software world you could greenfield, waterfall, or spaghetti. There is no agile in Factorio, which is broadly accepted as most commonly the best way to develop a piece of software.
I read books obsessively as a kid and young adult but as I’ve gotten older I’ve been listening to audiobooks obsessively
GP didn't say that corruption was limited to the Islamic world, just that it's one aspect of the Islamic world that he doesn't like. Of course corruption is widespread around the world.
My reading list is currently around 80% non-fiction (technical) books.

I'm trying to read again as much as I once did but I'm overwhelming myself with all the options; I end up not reading anything because of choice paralysis. I also end up not even reading non-technical books because reading the technical ones is more "important" to me (which it might/should not even be the case)

I'd be happy to hear any advice from anyone who had the same issue.
> Amount of hydro power capacity per capita in Scotland is much higher in Scotland than say in Wales.

Is it? Because most of Wales is mountainous. And nearly all of its inhabitants don't live in the mountains. Still confused about why the population distribution is important, especially as Wales and Scotland are part of the UK electrical grid, so per-capita is ultimately meaningless unless both declare independence and sever that grid connection.

> This is simply not true. Availability of hydro in Switzerland is much better than for example in Lithuania.

I did say "some geography". I also said "coastal lowland countries of Europe" which would include Lithuania also, yeah? It's coastal, it's highest point is 294m ASL, which is pretty lowland in my book.

And 20% of its generation capacity is from hydro.

So yeah... obviously not all countries are going to have the same hydro capacity, but it'd be damn hard to find one that has geography that prevents any hydro capacity.
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Looking at personal projects biases against people who don’t want to or can’t do them, either contractually or due to time/energy constraints.
I’m thinking a shipping container zipline.
This happens in private industry too. I can set my watch by the fiscal calendar of certain groups in public companies having to spend their budgets by the end of their year so it doesn't get cut the next year.
Factorio is (kind of) infinitely scalable. There is no max map size, and the game engine's performance is so incredibly good that it can support absolutely insanely massive factories. You can go as big as you can imagine, and the game will keep up.

It's also ridiculously stable, in the ~thousand hours I've played I've never had a crash or a game breaking bug.

Meanwhile satisfactory puts you on a fixed-size map and will slow down to a crawl once you build too much. This limits a lot of the things you can do in the game.
𝕴 𝖉𝖔𝖓'𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖐 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖞'𝖛𝖊 𝖇𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖊𝖉 𝖎𝖙 𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖑𝖞.
"Many of the F-16's past problems are mirror images of the issues we see in the F-35. According to the article, the Air Force expected the F-16's research and development costs rose by some $7 billion to reach $13.8 billion by 1986.... The fly-by-wire mechanism of the F-16, in which an aerodynamically unstable but highly maneuverable aircraft was tamed by computers to keep it flying, was an expensive problem that was eventually solved. Like the F-35, the F-16 had problems with its engine and also had to be modified to placate U.S. allies who wanted a fighter capable of air-to-ground missions, a real multi-role fighter. " [1]

Almost all of them have similar stories from what I've seen. To be fair, most of these were developed before I was born so I certainly could be missing some context from that time period.

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a21587/197...
On the chat team at Twitch in the early days after the Twitch Plays Pokemon crisis [1], we started artificially doubling all chat traffic through our systems, then dropping the doubles just before they would be sent to users. [2]

Not only did it give us a "big red button" to press during emergencies like OP, but it revealed important logical scaling issues before they became real problems.

[1]: tldr; 1 million people playing a single game of Pokemon Red by using chat to send button presses

[2]: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/93572955
I use(d) wkhtmltopdf to implement PDF generation of certain pages in a Jekyll site (e.g. of my CV page) but was never really happy with the output since it was very hard to get it to look like a purpose-built PDF document even with a good print stylesheet. One of these days I'd like to try replacing it with a custom Kramdown converter that invokes HexaPDF: https://hexapdf.gettalong.org/
I don't get why Apple doesn't provide an API for registering global key bindings. All it needs is user permission for a binding to be registered, and some kind of preference pane that shows you an overview of registered bindings.
EU happily bombed seasteading projects.

Also Somalia originally wanted to split in multiple countries and NATO interventions happened to prevent that and force them to remain only one country, and remain in Civil war
I test my developers in Counter Strike to see if they have a backbone, teamwork and can control rage.
If they're thinking pure CPU benchmarking, prime95/mprime has several options, such as:

[this is from my recollection]

* completely in-register only, no caches. they warn an organic workload will never ever do this and not to do it if you're not confident in your cooling
* somewhat more normal math-heavy workloads that don't do any IO but also do access the caches like a normal person
* etc

The python benchmark might be fair, though? I wouldn't be surprised if the ARM chip on the pi is like, fast, but then when it came to doing something more holistic - like a bunch of python vm operations - something about the mac is more robust than the pi in a significant way.
Why would you say it was luck? Do you mean he had a "gift" or proper "genes" and that's why it was luck?
Right, you say it's easy. How many buses have we electrified in our cities in the US?

I bet every city has 5 buses they've painted green with "ELECTRIC!!!!" on them, to show they're doing something. But nothing of substance.
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He made the choice to share personal details. If he doesn't want to continue to answer, he doesn't have to. I'm not going to follow him around on here trying to get an answer out of him.
Thanks to patents, everyone in technology is doing "illegal actions" all the time, since you can't do anything without infringing hundreds of patents. And if you can find an email somewhere indicating that someone knows that a competitor has feature X, or knows about the existence of a patent, viola, evidence of knowing infringement! Triple damages under US law.
What happens when a property is unoccupied?