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If they were able to make drones work, it could open up more variable farm designs: rows are mostly necessary so that farms can be serviced by vehicles.

Polyculture farming could become much more economically feasible if drones could weed out all non-whitelisted species.

Would also be a great boon to forestry: would be awesome to make a bunch of drones to fly through forests and zap any non-native invasive species it sees.
There are major animation awards, they're just not American.
These 2^N problems are really under appreciated, especially with experiments and feature flags. We ship an app with tens of thousands of flags! And chide each other for hacky, irresponsible engineering if we ever neglect to multiply the number of configuration states by two when releasing a new change. What percentage of the configuration space is actually tested? Perhaps one in a billion.
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Either the journalist has interpreted Roku's claims incorrectly, or Roku is spreading falsehoods.

It's a very common practice for streaming services to make crazy demands about the devices they're on.

Roku[1], Google TV[2] and Firesticks[3] all have Netflix buttons on the remote not because they wanted them there, but because Netflix forces them to with the threat that they will blacklist their device.

And inevitably, all devices comply because they know they won't be able to sell the product without Netflix support.

[1] https://cigars.roku.com/v1/http%3A%2F%2Fimage.roku.com%2Fw%2...

[2] https://external-preview.redd.it/9itjeCYci2NPP7Vxr9onH_DFv7E...

[3] https://i.gadgets360cdn.com/large/amazon_fire_tv_stick_alexa...
I nominate Firefox Corporation and their CEOs as a proving grounds and guinea pigs, respectively.
Not necessarily. McDonalds owns many restaurants themselves as well.
This is what federalism is!

(Competing state and local governments, federated together and governed by a centralized federal government, which grows over time as citizens of the states agree on what laws they want to enforce).

Most laws passed by the federal government were first experimented with at the local or state level, until a majority of the peoples’ representatives believed they should be applied universally with a centralized implementation. Of course there are many loopholes and exceptions in the US’s system, but this was one of the foundational ideas of the current constitution.
They finally did it!?

I had resigned to thinking they got screwed with bad hardware from qualcomm
I don't know what you're imagining here.

Imagine a charity or pension fund that invests in a company. What incentive do you think they have to spend money unnecessarily on CEO compensation?
Is that ADHD or are you just procrastinating? You clearly recognize the issue. Maybe try Screen Time limits or changing your hosts file
The by-default ephemeral nature?
Although the middle class may not own futures for metals, plastics, lumber, etc they do own consumer goods. These are the inputs for consumer goods and thus my argument was that consumer goods inflation is soon to follow.

>Are you not familiar with special drawing rights (SDR)

Not really to be honest? but i don't get your point in bringing it up. I know the US has the highest SPR weight by far and that the IMF was created by the united states after we got off the gold standard. My point was that the US has a massive influence on a standard thats supposed to be 'International' and thus controls the Forex and thus 'relative' Inflation. (Our inflation in regards to other currencies as opposed to some real meaning of the word inflation)
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> Persecution of homosexuals is a Christian (and, to an extent, Islamic) phenomenon.

Can we please stop pretending that Christianity is worse than other religions?

As already mentioned by another numerous well known examples of other groups of people exist who punish homosexuality by death today (leaving out names as I'm not trying to not continue a flame war here, I'm not out to criticize any other religion or culture here). On the other hand I'm not aware of any current Christian groups who kill or beat anyone for that.

> Hindus haven't really cared[1] about homosexual behavior till the British came in and brought their anti-buggery laws with them.

You know what else the English brought?

They brought an end to burning young widows in their "husbands" funerals.

History isn't black and white and while I know it is extremely trendy to blame white Christian guys for everything we should strive for a better standard here.
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The Oscars are just a reflection of American culture and the Hollywood film industry. And that's just fine. They don't have to be attuned to the entire world.
Happy about being able to unlock the phone with my watch. Arrived after a year of mask wearing, but better late than never. Impossible to say right now when we'll put our masks away, if ever.
Do you honestly think they would come out ahead in this scenario?
> More sustainable

> Validators don’t need energy-intensive computers in order to participate in a proof-of-stake system – just a laptop or smart phone. This will make Ethereum better for the environment.

To me, this is the biggest win of proof-of-stake over proof-of-work.
Hence the saying, "Never go into a well if all you have is american rope."

I'm really hoping Europe doesn't forget that now that Biden is in office.
A quick glance at the contributing authors makes it obvious as to what one is being persuaded of.
That's certainly an interesting one. Clean, standardized Data is already often the bottleneck. And the CEO needs more than just data from inside the company.
Of course they have the money, but I don’t think they have the demand from their own products that can keep a fab running full-time through its lifetime. I just don’t see them selling low-end devices or producing low-end devices for others.

That would make owning a fab for themselves uneconomical.

Exception would be if they managed to build a fab that’s better than what others have, but I don’t see them do that, either.

On the other hand, TSMC, without Apple’s money, might not be as strong as it is with it, allowing Apple to beat it, and have the best fab.
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Yes, the solution in different regimes is to homogenize compensation, as government jobs do. And my point is that doing so is worse for top performers who would tend to be paid more than the homogeneous compensation would give them.
i am not trying to argue that wechat is better than facebook. yes, they are both bad. i am just trying to offer some counterpoints to show that wechat isn't really worse either.

the only reason i need to be on wechat is to keep in touch with friends. the same would be true elsewhere where some people are only on facebook/whatsapp. (there are some facebook only groups that i would like to join too)

wechat payment is convenient, but there are alternatives. and cash still works (online shopping also works directly with a bank account). i managed to avoid wechat for the greater part of a decade here, until i was no longer able to avoid it because i was locked out of to many contacts who were only on wechat.
Twitch is similar I find. It’s basically substitute human interaction. But I don’t think it’s all “empty calories” - it does really help against loneliness in my experience. Of course the real thing is going to be better for you, but obviously that’s not always available.
Aww, I really liked the demo too.

Wonder if it would be possible to do a simplified 2D version in a window frame or something. Should also reduce the risk of burning someone's eyes out.
In regard to unlock w/Apple Watch:

- This is an issue of Apple's own artificial creation.

- This doesn't even solve the issue.

So this all started because Face Unlock didn't work with masks, that's not Apple's fault. But what is entirely Apple's fault is that they break an option which resolves this only when Face Unlock is enabled: "Require Passcode."

When you disable Face Unlock you can set Require Passcode to e.g. 15 minutes/1 hr, and it largely mitigates the aggressiveness by which your iPhone re-locks itself while you're e.g. out grocery shopping in a mask and trying to use a shopping list. But when you enable Face Unlock this option is removed (forced to "Require Immediately").

So Apple enforces "Require Immediately" in Require Passcode, it blows up in their face, and then instead of backing down when masks broke Face Unlock, they instead over-engineer a solution where you have to buy an Apple Watch to work around it.

Their new work-around solution doubles down on exactly the same anti-choice problems discussed above because they forget to mention in this press release that you MUST enable a passcode on your Apple Watch to use this feature at all (and they're relying on the Apple Watch being less aggressive to re-lock than the iPhone).

If you jailbreak your iPhone you can just switch it from "Require Immediately" to e.g. 30 minutes and this mask issue is almost completely gone in one fell swoop. This Apple Watch fix only kinda works (e.g. lost connection to the watch = relock, Watch thinks it is off your wrist = relock, etc).
Anecdotally, in the last few weeks, FaceID just started working for me with a couple of the types of masks I’ve been wearing. I wonder if they have made some tweaks to their recognition algorithms / are doing any sort of additional training on the fly.

I don’t have an Apple Watch, and am running 14.4.2.
It may be true. But the last stories saying the same thing were pure lies. My bayesean values are calibrated accordingly and I won't just take it at face value.
Anything your measure for the purposes of providing a benefit...
Are people actually on 5G?
I know these influencers do not cater to me (and maybe to HN too) but a friend that sells apparel do use them. When I asked him about it, he confirmed that they do bring sales and more than pay for their advertising. So fair is fair.

It does help that they are very local. A local store will not profit from advertising on TV, he needs word of mouth and these influencers are practically that.
The bulk of US vaccinations (and EU vaccinations, now) are with Pfizer-Biontec. Biontec which didn't accept development money from the US government, but did from the German government, so I'm not sure how relevant "warp speed" was there, really.

The EU's vaccine woes are down to a combination of being one of two large producers (other is India) not to restrict export of vaccines and precursors (until recently, the EU had exported more doses than it had administered), and the AZ disaster. As of end of Q1 AZ was short 70 million doses for Europe; by end of Q2 based on its own predictions it'll be short around 220 million in total.

Now the EU _could_ have gone all in on Pfizer-Biontec (and Curevac), and poured all the money into mRNA production. But that would have seemed like a pretty bizarre move 6 months ago, when there was a lot of uncertainty over how mRNA manufacture would go.
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I've been diving into the world of React Native lately, and I wanted to create something that would help level up my skills. The app is a white noise machine geared towards fan sleepers. It can be useful for those times when you forget your fan while traveling, or you need to get that infant to fall asleep. It's been a fun project to work on and it's helped me become more familiar with React Native and the Apple ecosystem.
This is the comment I came here for.

I had a professor in college who was building self-driving tractors and would come in every other week complaining about John Deere this, or Case that, trying to steal his business with more expensive solutions. It turns out you can use GPS for a rough location and a fancy $200 gyroscope for millimeter precision. Then just plant the seeds on an exact grid and you know that anything not on the grid is a weed.

And actually, his suggestion was to use high-pressure water jets to cut the weeds instead of lasers. It would/could be less energy-intensive.
Apple has communicated this limitation since the beginning and said when it was coming.
> Imagine I search for "how do I sleep on an airplane". Isn't a neck travel pillow an appropriate result here?

Yes, but advertising doesn't do that. They do retargeting and only show you the most valuable ad for what they know about you. Sometimes that ad is just what the advertiser has paid to show you in particular, like "you left something in your Amazon cart".
Aren't these synonyms?
Currently national currencies are, on average, far more stable and secure places to hold assets than any cryptocurrency.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

Did you expect 20% of all US dollars would have been created in 2020? 4x in the last 20 years. That doesn't sound stable to me. When your currency can be debased by 20% in a year, with no democratic process or recourse; 6 board members appointed by Presidents, serving 14 year terms, decide what the price of money is, and how much of it exists. Alternatively Bitcoin's supply schedule is transparent, auditable, open source, mathematically provable.

If your national isn't as stable as you like, you can more easily use a different national currency. If your country has capital controls that prohibit this, then you are using cryptocurrency to break the law.

And what happens when the ultimate reserve currency (USD) is broken? People flee to gold. Well, Bitcoin is digital gold; its more secure, cheaper to carry, has better supply stability. Your solution to escaping a sinking ship is essentially jumping into a more slowly sinking ship.

My contention is that so far the only use cases cryptocurrency has been successful in are illegal. If the legal restrictions in those areas were removed, cryptocurrency would no longer be useful there.

The use case for cryptocurrency is escaping government monopoly of money, returning a savings rate to individuals and institutions.
Zig only emits one version. Either:

1. The function does not have a suspend point, so it is emitted as a normal function, and it just gets called like a normal function at the async callsite. Await is a no-op.

or...

2. It has a suspend point. It is emitted with the async calling convention, and any normal callsites to it also become suspend points.
I don't completely disagree with you, FWIW. I do see it as fundamentally different to gripe about your job to a coworker in your living room or at a bar after work. That's the most natural thing ever. It's a different animal to make a public post telling the world that your company sucks and f- the company and your boss.

In Levy's case, she made a public post (even if she didn't mean for it to be public). And to be clear, I'm not going to judge a 14 year old for doing things that I'd be annoyed with a 30 year old for doing. A kid got frustrated with her school and complained about it? Ooh, stop the presses and clutch some pearls! I have a much harder time sympathizing with people twice her age who complain publicly about how much their job sucks, then complain that their boss has relieved them of the burden of ongoing employment.
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Since moving out of my parents' house ~15 years ago, I have lived without cable TV of any kind, and I miss it.

Live TV offers a 'channel surfing' experience that does not exist on streaming. I want to be able to come home from work and plop down on my couch and just turn the TV on and have something be showing. If I don't like it, I switch channels. I have discovered numerous TV shows, movies and documentaries this way, even if I come across it halfway through an episode.

It is a completely different experience from streaming, where my home screen is basically a billboard, and I have to invest time in selecting something and then start it from Season 1, Episode 1, timestamp 00:00. That seems like a big commitment for something that's recreational, especially when TV shows start off slowly to introduce all the characters.

I come to this realization every time I am in a hotel room that has cable TV. If it's 1 in the morning, I'm fine with watching the Veronica Mars movie or Baby Driver even if it started an hour ago.
>. I'm just saying the observed increase in wealth inequality in these nations goes away when you abstract from land. So capital is not the problem. Let's deregulate building.

Yeah cuz the fortune 500 list is dominated by land-owners such as Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Wealth inequality arises from capital concentration, of which land is just one of several forms of concentration. But the ability of large, powerful companies to protect intellectual property and harness network effects to derive large, reliable recurring revenues, which are passed on to shareholders, are other contributing factors. Tyler is a smart guy but is he like a fire hydrant at time that spews out things that are wrong or incomplete.
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/ios-14-5-makes-using-the-iphones...

> ...and the ability to unlock your iPhone using Face ID while wearing a face mask.

Unlocking the iPhone with Face ID during the pandemic has been an exercise in frustration...

!
Feels a bit of a Rube-Goldberg workaround when TouchID exists. Love my TouchID to the point I'm dreading when Apple makes no more TouchID phones
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> old organizations are eaten by newborn organizations

I would argue that what happens in practice is newborn organizations are eaten by old organizations. In fact, startups are being born these days with the express purpose of being eaten by a multinational.

There is no competition whatsoever between the old mammoths and the new things, and in fact it is the exception rather than the rule to see an "old mammoth company" disappear, fail, or be eaten.
macOS/tvOS/watchOS are also updated with analogous features.
Barking at the wrong tree. In my view, most experienced software engineers can self organise and self manage. Not saying everyone can or that everyone should do remote work but many that enjoy and prefer remote work can.

“This Viewpoint is intended for remote software engineers who are facing new challenges to thinking about routine, responsibility, and goal setting.”

This viewpoint should be intended for non technical managers as they are the ones who tend to clutter project delivery with time management tools and meetings. This applies to onsite work as well. I feel like there is a lot of effort put in educating devs on doing the right thing while management is educated in the opposite direction.
I meant, why bother adding any edge? Just use the empty graph with 6 vertices.
I agree that everybody involved is evil but we're still allowed to have opinions about that. Roku's evil and Google's evil don't necessarily cancel out.
The original "Wild Wild West" was a TV show; there was a 1980 TV movie, but the 1999 film is neither a remake nor a sequel to that 1980 movie. I'm using pretty expansive/liberal definitions of the terms here, I admit, but I think broadly my point stands just fine.
Translation errors have a long history of getting incorporated into language, but now we can do it at scale!
How in a forum of techies man of whom have spent the good part of their careers trying to get companies to not see IT and Ops as a cost center and "nothing is wrong so why are we paying you" do we so casually dismiss other people's work?
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Great points. The immediate cure I have to offer is Redneck Culture: "the glorious lack of sophistication" as Jeff Foxworthy put it, but truly more an ethic of pleasing oneself without regard for the approval of others; and returning the courtesy.

I think we're gonna see some Neo Punk ethic sold to this upcoming demographic bump, I think a bunch will bite but there will be a large "fuck your branded stuff" counter reaction too which would naturally fit into a "closer to the land" feeling.
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> Not to mention Telegram is transparent in letting your data out of its ecosystem (at least for now).

Unless you try to export a secret chat from an non-rooted Android phone or a non-jailbroken iPhone. The app not only lack a feature for that but also prevents it from being backup-up -- which is a shame as an offline, adb-based, backup is the safest way of getting data out of aff on Android, IMHO.
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Its funny, I've lived most of my life not too far from fields growing food. But when I go to the grocery store, most of the produce there is imported.

In 2019, California agriculture produced about $50B in receipts, with almost $22B in exports. Our water goes with those exports too.
After seeing that woman in LA who had her restaurant shut down while there was a giant tent being erected across the street for Hollywood elites to eat in my disgust for the entire industry has increased ten fold.

These people have too much power in our society. The gall of them to get up and lecture us....
I don't normally go in for insults, but the author of this article is a fool who clearly has no idea what the job of the CEO actually is. We are a very long way from being able to automate the job.
I know a lot of people love their Garmin watches. Even though I have an Apple Watch I considered also getting a Garmin just for tracking outdoor workouts.

Other than battery life, the excellent app WorkoutOutDoors roughly replicates the workout functionality of Garmin watches for $10, but with arguably better maps. A feel like I need to mention it when there‘s an opportunity because the solo developer behind it is doing such great work.

http://www.workoutdoors.net/
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I think in 2017 you could mostly spot an ICO scam by looking if it included the term 'ICO.'
Interestingly, there are 3rd-party remotes that contain different "suggested" channels. I've got one with six of those buttons, which is actually kinda nice because 5/6 are channels I use.

I wouldn't be surprised if there exist programmable remotes that allow custom launchers, at least for the set of all channels Roku has ever had on their own buttons (they must be giving each app they put on there a unique, or at least rarely-recycled, code, since remotes with different promoted channels on them do work as expected on Rokus other than the one they came with). Though, yes, it would be nice if Roku let the user program those buttons on stock remotes.
As a Floridian, it's difficult for me to understand why we've done so bad at attracting any sort of tech industry. Five, ten years ago, you could simply say that it's Silicon Valley (or Seattle) or bust.

But since then, Austin, Denver, NC, Nova, Portland, Nashville and others have all done a really good job of actually competing with California for tech industry growth. On paper, Florida seems like it should be really competitive in this space. Good weather, low taxes, business friendly climate, immigrant centric culture, decently low cost of living, good schools, and population ties to the high-skilled NYC area.

So, I'm genuinely curious, because I know there are people on this board who are in a position to make these decisions. If your company considered a satellite campus in Miami or Tampa or the Space Coast and decided to pass, what was the reason? The sticky summers? Lack of topography? Florida Man stereotypes?
Why the fuck did anyone at that school even care what a 14 year old said? That is not normal behavior for adults.

At that age I could've exclaimed something along those lines to my teacher's face and they'd just have laughed at me and asked me to calm down.

If I pulled that at work I'd be asked whether everything is alright.

Apparently nowadays the appropriate response to a child throwing a tantrum or having a mental breakdown is to have one as well.