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I assume that screenshot is a joke, the decorations don't look like that for me, they look small and unobtrusive. I actually prefer them to SSD because they take less space, and they are consistent with the way the mpv decorations work in macOS.

>It's zero-code for client if the compositor actually handled the border.

With respect, it's not. The client still must implement the semantics of the xdg-decoration protocol to tell the compositor that it wants a border.

>Yes and hope those libraries actually implement stable ABI.

Major versions of Qt and GTK are stable, i.e. if you target Qt5 and Gtk3, that won't change.
My most upvoted comments on HN[0] are the ones that pick on some hyped up technology. HN loves to be "contrarian" (in quotes because this contrarianism is actually the mainstream position).

[0]: I don't think this is good, it's just a statement of fact.
DeFi: Removing middlemen (and their fees) as well as discrimination based on arbitrary criteria from all kinds of financial services. Also, these services can easily run 24/7.
That's not what batteries included means.

> The Python source distribution has long maintained the philosophy of "batteries included" -- having a rich and versatile standard library which is immediately available, without making the user download separate packages. This gives the Python language a head start in many projects.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0206/
It's likely there are few quality jobs available.

A friend who was a waiter is not going back to work because her salary depends (75% of it) on tips, however many households switched to food delivery services.

Once people start going to restaurants again, in large enough numbers, employees who depend on tips will return. Base salary for servers is peanuts otherwise.
> Dragert, K. , & Zehr, E. P. (20 1 2). High-intensity unilateral dorsiflexor resistance training results
in bilateral neuromuscular plasticity after stroke. Experimental Brian Research, 225, 93- 1 04.

> Attwell, D., & Laughlin, S. B. (2001). An energy budget for signaling in the grey matter of the
brian. Journal of cerebral blood flow metabolism, 21(10), 1133-1145

Poor Brian!
Using Dark Reader extension for Chrome, all of the sample code text goes to the same color as the background so I thought I was scrolling over huge chunks of blank space.
COBOL was my first professional programming language.

We wrote the code with a pencil, on coding sheets. The team leader checked it, and once it was deemed OK, we could type it in on a terminal.

It was a horrible language. The article speaks of code that "reads like a novel"; I swear I never read COBOL code that was easy to read. The problem was that COBOL doesn't lend itself to expressing structure. Combined with the fact that we were under commercial pressure to ship code, we shipped a lot of spaghetti code.

The idea that COBOL code is "easy to maintain" is nonsense. Any non-trivial COBOL program that is easy to read and maintain is going to be harder to write than an equivalent program in (say) Pascal, PL1 or ALGOL.

I worked for Burroughs; one of the super-powers of the Burroughs systems was hardware BCD arithmetic. It allowed a COBOL programmer to declare numeric variables with any specified number of decimal digits, and perform arithmetic on them with exact precision, easily. This is necessary when handling currencies, for example. Also, a hex dump of a BCD variable is precisely it's decimal value - BCD made it easy to debug.

It is said that COBOL is unsuited to systems programming. This is true; but it's not impossible. I was lucky enough to be sent on an "advanced COBOL course", in which I learned that the Burroughs COBOL compiler had seven passes; and that you could stop it during the later passes, and edit the intermediate code, before resuming the remaining passes. This meant that you could do things like access registers and IO ports. It blew my mind (but I never made use of those learnings!)

For many years, I denied that I had ever learned COBOL, for fear of being marked-down as an old fogey. Now I'm retired, I am an old fogey, and I don't give a tinker's cuss.
Nobody gives a shit about those non-profit organizations that "represent" the decentralized groups. You've had plenty of time to learn this.

I provided evidence, now you provide a counter-claim that there was more substantial support from non-blm sources.

Seems to me you have a bone to pick about the "official" blm non-profits and can't seem to approach this subject rationally.
Better sensors, which has already been one of the reasons for some of Tesla's self-driving crashes.
> You are also doing object recognition.

Object recognition has been a part of autonomous driving systems for a very long time. The difference between a stroller and a piece of paper is pretty well understood by these systems.

> For example, on the highway, truck infront of you drops some debris.
> What do you do?

The answer is to always keep a large safety margin between you and the vehicle in front of you when traveling at high speeds, so you have time to react and take the safest course of action. Seconds make a huge difference in this scenario and it's easy to get them. No autonomous system is going to be hugging a truck bumper, but rather is going to always maintain a significantly greater safety distance than an aggressive human driver would.

> If it is an empty box, you may be ok hitting it,

You can never be sure that the box is empty, so I'd recommend always swerving to avoid.
> To make matters worse, if discussion of this potentially negative outcome of progress is seen as taboo then the cultural "brakes" that can be used to positively integrate the changes into the future society will be cut.

This is already happening. Talk of diversity is a duplicitous facade, as people are pushing more and more for segregation and uniformity, and issues are becoming matters of dogma rather than opinion. Hence why, as you said, it's taboo to have any questions or doubts about a group's narrative.
Kotlin data classes can use Java records as their implementation if running on JVM, so it’s not like you have to choose one or the other.

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/jvm-records.html#declare-records...
Or even Perl - I have only done some scripts in Python to use beautiful soup, or for scripts that may be used by less experienced developers.
I tried to switch maybe a year ago, but alacritty was measurably slower and heavier than termite, so I dropped it.

Now I concede that I did not personally notice any difference, aside from the usual config changes, but surely there is still a case for a CPU side VTE based terminal? Or am I wrong?
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> They are not qualified to practice as general doctors at all.

The way we train MDs is... highly counter-productive to say the least. First a completely unrelated undergrad, which really adds no value (hint: Foreign doctors can do a fellowship and get licensed to practice in the US without having an unrelated undergrad degree pre med-school). Then med school, which is completely detached from any clinical experience. Then residency, where practical knowledge is theoretically built but in practice is more of a legally sanctioned hazing (patient outcome doesn't really matter, what matters the most is impressing whoever is slightly higher on the pecking order in order to get the spot you want).

Multiple years of zero sum games and competition against your peers. Then, once you get your license, you are supposed to make a complete 180 and start becoming a team player.

To be completely honest, if you add up the useful time spent in school, an MD is just about on the same footing as a PA/NA.
It's noteworthy that this would still be about seven times as much as the entire bottom 50% of income taxpayers.
gitlabs is amazing...

Especially for distributed companies
Kotlin data classes can be used with the JPA contrary to Java records.
It's good to encourage immutability, but it is often a misfit and isn't the role of a "data class", they could have added a separate class qualifier immutable that would have been a better separation of concerns, here it's ad-hoc.
Kotlin is enabling such immutable support thanks to Java records ironically https://kotlinlang.org/docs/jvm-records.html#declare-records...

Note however that an upcoming version of Java will get first class ergonomic support for manipulating immutable data:
https://github.com/openjdk/amber-docs/blob/master/eg-drafts/...

There is also https://github.com/hrldcpr/pcollections
That's on the publishers, Square Enix, who didn't want to play the developers to patch the game. They seem to have changed their mind recently as the patch is now in development for the steam version.
Congress Should Care About the Laws of Physics
_The Lie of ‘No One Wants to Work’_

https://www.eater.com/22417344/restaurant-labor-shortage-cov...

Restaurant workers in particular are facing higher risk for less pay (fewer customers == fewer tips), and working conditions in restaurants were already terrible.

From the article : “We are so sick and tired of [restaurant owners] assuming we want a handout. We want to work, but we also want to be treated like human beings. We haven’t been for way too long.”
What’s wrong with paying money so others can live? I see a lot of life as chance. I’m lucky that I grew up upper middle class with parents who paid for college. Now I got a cushy job as a software engineer. I could have just as easily been born to a family with 0 wealth and had to start working at a young age and do that until I died. Why shouldn’t we have a safety net to at least cushion the blow of getting a bad dice roll at birth?
To be fair, Google scholar does not just search scientific works, I suspect many of these are from humanities journals.
no he doesn't, seriously, why do people remember one thing but not the other?

He HAD Tesla stock, and sold it, he realized that Tesla was, to quote WSB, "mooning" and threw some money at it and made some profit, like a LOT of people who realized Tesla was going to "moon" when it was about to be added to the S&P500 did.

He saw an absolute obvious opportunity, threw some money at it, bought and sold, life goes on. It's not like he's a journalist, his main income comes from his Munro business.

When he has actual conflict of interest(NDA) he discloses and doesn't talk anymore.
> I think the big issue is that if you really want autonomous driving over any road, you will likely either need sensors beyond vision or some AGI level model of the world.

Somehow people manage without this.

Without any real knowledge of the problems the engineers are hitting, my current take is that to produce a reasonably good autonomous driving system requires killing some people. Slowly adding features will send more information to the mothership and they'll have to push the envelope to learn enough.
> NA was rather slow at coming to terms with these issues

But so were other parts of the world. Many countries in the Middle East continued to have slavery far beyond North America (Saudi Arabia did not outlaw it until 1962) and the Middle East is certainly culturally and historically very different from NA.
Scala's case classes are missing in the comparison (only mentioned briefly at the very end). They offer everything that records do and more. Good to see that Java finally catches up a bit.
More like Jeremy Clarkson hitting thing with a hammer instead of the right tool for the job.
True for individuals, but married couples often do have to decide whether low wages are worth more than no wages for one of the couple. Same with teenagers.
Correct, and this is talked about a good bit in the article.
don't need all of headless chrome to use the canvas. can just use node-canvas.

https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas
"thoroughly debunked" can also make for an interesting read.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22thoroughly+debunked%...
I think the article is misleading in the list of advantages over Kotlin's Data Classes.

1. Destructuring - available in Kotlin

2. Copy with change - available in Kotlin

3. Serialization - not sure why Kotlin data class would not be serializable

4. Boilerplate - Kotlin takes care of equals and hashCode

Huge disadvantage that matters to me is that record fields cannot be mutated. It makes the records much less useful.
Work on a Grails app; only boots on up to 11 ATM. BUT, the hot reload only works with 8... So while the app runs on 11, most development occurs on 8 still.

Lombok JustWorks™. You forget it's there until you setup a new dev environment and forget to setup the annotation processor in IntelliJ.
seasonal work is less desirable than full time work. also cape cod is an odd place. they have a huge need for seasonal low skilled labor but don't really have the housing to support it.
There is obviously a qualitative difference in the claims Tesla (and other Musk companies) have made and standard marketing claims of most companies.
I love reading the opinions that people who have done nothing and will do nothing for the world have on Elon. Imagine if you spent your energy doing something good or interesting instead of writing lengthy essays criticizing a guy who has achieved every single milestone his detractors claimed were impossible.
There is a large selection MPW services, if you want to make an analog bucket brigade device, it could cost as little as 500$ for a small batch of chips.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-project_wafer_service

https://www.musesemi.com/shared-block-tapeout-pricing

https://towersemi.com/manufacturing/mpw-shuttle-program/

One might be able to hack a linear ccd into a bucket brigade device by using an LED to modulate a signal into the array.

You should design a programmable 2d transfer matrix with summing, it could do some cool analog processing, like a 2d bucket brigade with arbitrary flow.

Stay happy friend.
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>ZFS on Linux

its been said in the thread already but this was always a non-starter. Torvalds even said so himself. CDDL was the last poison pill of a dying giant who couldnt pull its foot from the well.

What we, er, the linux community, chose instead, was BTRFS. It isnt ZFS, but its made incredible strides. for most use cases, it is a reasonable and working replacement for ZFS.
I would even go further and say that Apple doesn't care about anything other than making money by making good products. As more and more people begin to be concerned about privacy, Apple takes steps to try to reassure them that the phone is still a safe platform in which they can store private information such as photos, personal messages, address books, banking information, etc. Neither does Apple want a lot of annoying requests for tracking from interfering with their UI. For them, it is all about improving the experience of using the phone, nothing more.

But there is no core value that is anti-tracking or anti-ad, and all of these policies can be reversed the moment they no longer post a threat to people's enjoyment of Apple products.
This isn't doubting someone's opinion because of a completely unrelated character trait. Taking your examples, if he was cheating on his wife or eating babies (?) that probably wouldn't have any bearing on this. I think the issue people have is that someone with pretty questionable opinions on race has got some other opinions on a hot topic that has been tinged with racist rhetoric from the right. I can totally see why that'd be enough for some to pass on it and say "nah, no thanks".
I feel the same. Not something I want to be associated with at all…
This sort of things happen all the time in both camps. It's just that Android security is more open and visible to ordinary people.

Apple _just_ patched some really big zero-days.

Update: since this is getting down voted be skeptics, here are some sources for you

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-fixes-2-io...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apple-fixes-m...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apple-fixes-a...
Yes, if all you do is produce some good scientists, win a few gold medals, and your people starve in oppression and poverty, that is a pretty big failure.

Also, throughout that time and even now the US produces amazing scientists and also has the means for them to 'do stuff'.

FYI I'm not American, I understand these things are far from perfect. I'm mostly harking back to the notion of 'standardized test and ABC school as elite' is probably not so good. America is open enough that even though some industries are chock-a-block Ivy League, many are not.
No it works both ways. When someone says there is a labor shortage it doesn't mean it's labor's fault, it just means that labor has the power to set prices. If companies want to hire they need to raise wages. If a company can't afford to raise wages, they will need to operate with less workers or shut down operations.

There are winners and losers from this dynamic so I'm sure different sides will have a narrative. But the labor shortage isn't a spin on reality, it's an observation that it is difficult to hire in current conditions.
It's not surprising actually.

People are looking for something to believe in, which will make them feel like the future will be brighter.

Musk has this ability . Unless he goes crazy and becomes overleveraged with debt he'll be fine.

He'll constantly move the goalposts and keep giving people hope, if Autopilot is proven not feasible, he'll just move onto the next big thing which will fill people with enthusiasm .

He's essentially a politician, a techno-utopian cult leader who is also a CEO and major owner of the stock.

His best intuition was understanding that telling people that the future will be brighter is itself a product which people are willing to buy. Much like people pay for insurance to have peace of mind, people gladly pay to be reassured that the world will be better.

His second best intuition is to never bankrupt the company trying to deliver, just move the goalposts. As long as you don't bankrupt the company you can always move the goalposts
Possibly off-topic, but my guess is that one of the reasons why money was invented was that the good (or bad ) thing about barter is that there is no sales tax or VAT involved.

Consider the Bob and Charli situation, in a hypothetical EU country, the 2 loafs of bread would become (say) 2.08 (as there is a lower VAT on some basic food, let's say 4%) and the chocolate bar would become 2.44 (as it is a non-basic item, subject to full 22% VAT).

I.e. in that exchange of 2 money units of goods would get the state some .52 money units if done through money and nothing through barter.
You could also replace “at a price I’m willing to pay” with “at a price my business can sustain and remain in the black.”

I could offer $250k salaries to each line cook in the restaurant, but then I would have to charge something like $750 per entree. Such a business would fail to attract customers at that price and have to close.
If that is true, isn’t that exactly what Groupon used to do when they got in trouble once they went public. Groupon used to count dollars transacted as revenue, which is fundamentally incorrect.
I'm not trying to claim otherwise. My point is that an underlying connection, if one exists, would make the gp's Occam's Razor argument moot.
> Many of them going so far as to say they would never use one for themselves now or in the near future.

I'm less worried about the autonomous vehicle I might be driving and more about the ones others are driving. Here's an idea, how about being able to geofence a neighborhood as "<= Level 3 autonomy only". I'm only somewhat joking. I know it smells of NIMBY but it might be useful around schools, daycares, etc.
⌨ Static Hands
⌨ Remap keyboard keys in such a way that doesn't require moving hands
Project Lombok is my bae, but of course a language included API is better than an annotation processor.
I think if's are generally alright. My personal bar is arrays. Anything beyond

for x in a b c; ...

is getting written in Python.
No more tipping. Make companies charge a fair price for their food, and pay a fair wage.
I don't find the fake reviews that important when I make a purchase. I know they are there. I know 95% of my Amazon search results are absolute trash. You get what you pay for. If you don't do your research, and think a $50 speaker from HWAROMA is going to be as good as a $250 Celestion because of reviews, that's kinda on you. Believe it or not, some people will want that deal because that $50 speaker might get them through a show in hard times.

You do have to do research on everything you buy. User reviews are still a part of that research, just not nearly as much.

If you google info on what you want, you KNOW at least the top 25 results are all paid for in one way or another, probably more than that now.

Don't expect a corporation to watch your back. Amazon has made clear they give NO F's about the average human using their services, as long as they keep using it.
> Most of the time, however he has exaggerated the timeline in order to keep the hype around him and his companies

All of Elon's companies are heavily subsidized by US tax payers (energy credits for Tesla and solar, rockets are paid for by NASA, military, etc...) So to use tax payer money you need to have the goodwill of the tax payers behind you. Its worth every penny to lie and bolster your image of doing cool shit so people don't mind their tax dollars continuing to go towards your cause. It's 100% PR. Without US tax payers none of these companies would still exist.
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Oops. Didn't think you were reading this, Doctor....
I'd be really curious what your opinion is informed by since I don't see any data to back it up.

Those in the Top Quintile (~200k in 2010 and ~250k today, so right in the middle of your proposed hosed bracket) have seen the greatest increases in Mean Income in the last decade [^1 p.8]. Those in the Upper Income bracket (~190k in 2000 to 207k today) have seen a 20% increase in wealth in the last 30 years while lower brackets have declined [^2].

Do you have any data to backup your assertion that "being a hard working professional in this country is losing its allure, and is increasingly a suckers bet"? These jobs seem to have a much greater increase in wages [^3 Fig. F][^4 Fig. 1] (4x in the last 40 years) than those in all other lower income groups. I'm not sure how anyone could come to the conclusion that increasing wealth and top of the pile wage growth are "a suckers bet".

[1] CRS The U.S. Income Distribution: Trends and Issues - https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44705.pdf

[2] Pew Research "Trends in income and wealth inequality" - https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...

[3] Economic Policy Institute - "State of Working America Wages 2019" https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2019/

[4] CRS "Real Wage Trends, 1979 to 2019" - https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45090.pdf
IF advertising didn't work, on average, it would probably have gone away by now, don't you think?
Since a lot of policy was based off of these employment forecasts which turned out to be way off, what are the expected adjustments to the policies in place?
You mean android?
Could less accurate forecasting be attributed to exceptional circumstances of the environment they have tried to analyze?

I have the feeling there's quite a few “predictions” during this pandemic that are off. Where people or the economy have acted contrary to popular beliefs or rational modelling.