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Would this dumb tv support things like eARC and HDMI CEC? It would be nice to buy a TV without the builtin streaming apps (and the inevitable advertising and phoning home that comes along with it), because I prefer to use a separate device like an Apple TV anyway. But there are some useful features in modern TVs that do seem to require the processing power of a smart TV.
> A paid upgrade every few years? Sure, take my money (see also: Jetbrains)

JetBrains has all but deprecated this AFAIK. I pay for my JetBrains tools annually and I'm perfectly ok with that. If I ever want to stop paying then I just fall back to the version of software at time of renewal [0]. I'm more than happy with this situation as it lets me get the newest features ASAP while giving JetBrains the "guaranteed" income stream. Major versions every year or so lead to a feast/famine situation for the developer and I'd rather get a feature right away instead of having to wait till they have enough features to justify a paid release.

Can subscriptions allow bad actors to act poorly? Yes, but then I can just cancel my subscription and find someone better. Maybe I'm in the minority but I don't mind subscription-based things if I feel like I'm actually getting value out of them. It lowers the barrier of entry, encourages/incentives continuous improvement, helps developers plan for the future better, and it lays stark the realities of development (if you want ongoing features/fixes you need to pay for them).

[0] https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
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Apple advertises their own iPads as computers now, they certainly don't want their customers to look at iPads and think, "that's great, now I'm going to buy a real computer instead". They want their customers to buy an iPad. The only real way for iPadOS to go is "up", as in, absorbing more "real computer" features.

Also, what you're describing already exists, it's called iSH. It runs an x86 emulator with a copy of Alpine Linux inside. Somehow, they even convinced App Review to allow it (yes, Apple did threaten to remove it at one point, they backed down). You can use this penalty box to run pretty much any developer tool you like, you can mount file providers inside of the VM, etc. The only limitation is that it's x86 emulation is incomplete, I can't get it to run cargo so I can't compile Rust programs on it yet.
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Correct. There's one Sunday devoted to the readings about Jesus's statement that getting to heaven is like passing through the "eye of the needle", a very narrow gate to a city. The standard interpretation is that to pass through the eye of the needle, you need to remove all of your belongings. In other words, you can't take it with you.

It is fairly common for preachers to say that money is not the problem -- it's what you do with the money.
Does the processor really dominate power consumption in modern laptops so much that the M1 chip largely explains the long battery life in new Macbooks? The data doesn't seem easy to come by with a cursory web search.
+1, I actually think the push for "standardization" is premature. The most expensive parts are the transformers for meeting the cars voltage and amperage specs.

Having multiple cables is far from impossible and not a major cost difference. Most already do it with CCS and CHAdeMO, and its easy to foresee them slowly replacing CHAdeMO plugs with something newer and better() at some point.

() Yes, CCS is newer and better... but these stations already have those. They can't use two simultaneously, so having two CCS Cables with the same connector is usually (but not always) silly.
Just to be clear, I can avoid this by not purchasing devices like the Echo or Ring, right?
I’d buy one
you'd have to plug in an AirPlay-capable device, most likely. For a device to support AirPlay natively, you have to sign up to a complex and expensive licensing process with Apple that includes a ton of validation testing.
People are good at different things, this is a feature, not a bug.

Some people are more explorers, others executors. Probably are lots of other words to fit in there with slightly different meanings.

There is some (too much) pressure for everybody to be great at everything and when they are different enough are labeled as having a disease.

This is why people work together, to build on each other’s strengths.
Of course, it's not a joke of a salary in the United States. Is $130k a joke of a salary for an NBA player even though it's 90th percentile? Context matters.

$130k is barely over the median pay for a Senior Software Engineer in the United States. A lot of the people stewarding and maintaining these projects are talented enough to be earning wages that are much further into the outliers (i.e. FANG compensation of 300-400k+/year).

That's all I'm saying. What's much more likely to be happening here is that the maintainer of Babel took a much harder job that cannot be summarized by output metrics like GitHub activity tracking.

Attacking him and essentially tossing around accusations of embezzlement when you've just received VC funding for a competitor is just wrong.
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> You don't get to low-ball your employees because of their age or circumstance.

Correct. You pay your employees according to the value they produce. And if they don't yet have the skills to produce much value, then either you can't pay them much, or you can't hire them at all. Which is better?

I specifically chose high schoolers because they usually aren't trying to fully support themselves financially, and so most living wage arguments don't apply.
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> My two cents is that Musk (being on the spectrum) is driven in a different way than Bezos (and therefore, being obsessive to a greater degree [1], making him more involved "on the ground", leading to SpaceX's success).

My perspective, having watched multiple interviews of Elon and Bezos, is that Musk is just really passionate about tech. He's an engineer at heart, that's why he's directly involved in the development of the tech, which is central to all of his businesses. He's also a risk taker and a pioneer, he's not afraid of taking big risky bets on unproven technologies, he seems to actually enjoy doing that, and proving people wrong.

Bezos, on the other hand, is passionate about business and making money. He would like to have the tech success that Musk has, but he doesn't have the vision and the interest in how exactly the tech works. Once he sees that something is going to be financially successful, he tries to copy it. Amazon is successful because it has good execution, economies of scale and competitive pricing, but it wasn't the first online retailer, or the first cloud provider, etc.

I don't know if I would invest in Blue Origin. Personally, I think Rocket Lab is a much more interesting company (that is already trading on public markets). It's being led by someone who is genuinely passionate about space and has a proven orbital launch vehicle. I wish I could invest in SpaceX, but IMO Rocket Lab is the next best thing to invest in, a mini SpaceX.
The worst thing is that Tesla also restricts access to superchargers for salvage or rebuilt vehicles.

I think some of the other charge networks would like to do the same, but do not have a path to enforcement of rules like that.
Because it's not a business.
> But I have no clue what would distinguish (to me) a non-shit ad? Is it saving me money on something I was already going to buy?

Yes. I've been looking for weight equipment over the past year because of the pandemic and gyms being closed and the majority of ads on Instagram are now exercise equipment. I ended up seeing an ad for a company in my country with fairly decent prices and bought a new squat stand. The price difference between the one I bought and the ones I was looking at from companies in the area was around $200. I give up some privacy, they give me targeted ads. Please give me more.
Well, any LCD panel requires 2 things to work: a controller and a power-supply/inverter specifically designed to light up the display LEDs. In consumer grade displays, these components can be 3 different things (ie controller, psu, and inverter) and are fairly cheap to replace. You can generally find them on eBay. The only way to really damage an LCD panel is by dropping it and if that is not the case with your display, you can bring it back to life by identifying which of the 3 components might be bad and replacing it. Don't be scared to get surgical with your display. In the end, you will most likely learn more than you will regret.
To me, I think it's some combination of substack and dev.to.

A couple of months ago I've started to notice how infrequently I ever read an article hosted on Medium anymore. This is a stark contrast to several years ago when it seemed like every article being shared on social was on Medium. Nowadays, that seems to be dev.to for code-related posts, and substack for others; and just personal blogs for the rest.

(Posts about code moving off of Medium is a welcome change. Medium's paywall and style/format itself don't lend itself well to articles containing code, etc.)
I'm a pretty idea-ish person, and I sometimes intentionally rein in the "where we really want to get to with this" talk if I feel like the audience isn't right, but I think the real key is emphasizing what has been done already and what the immediate next steps are— that puts the accountability out there and keeps the conversation grounded in reality.

I think another litmus test for idea-executor vs pure executor is your willingness to do throw-away work. A pure executor reads the design doc, says "sure", and just builds it— an idea-executor recognizes that the long-term maintenance of the system will almost certainly dwarf the initial cost of coding it up, and is willing to extend the discovery phase with partially-functional prototypes and so-on in order to really get a firm handle on whether the thing is going to go where they want it to go.

(Recent example— building up chunks of a moderately complicated build setup in parallel in Jenkins Pipeline and GitLab CI in order to understand how the two solutions would compare on maintainability, end user ergonomics, permissions hassles, flexibility, how much documentation we would need to support it, etc etc.)
yeah, our property taxes have been skyrocketing, because the city is raising it by the max legally allowed every year AND they have votes to raise it further (usually by misrepresenting the needs to get people emotionally involved. Also renters generally think tax rates don't affect them, which is incorrect).

On the other hand, I chose to manage my own taxes instead of having the lender escrow it for me, so I get to see them separately. It helps putting things in perspective.
"Smart tvs but with user replaceable firmware" THIS, I've never thought about it before, but I'd definitely pay extra for a TV that has a open firmware for users to replace.
Electric cars and vertical rocket landings were ideas you could show would work eventually with a little napkin math. It is a good critique of humanity that so many "experts" neglected to do that napkin math and just declare it impossible.

Getting starship to work reliably still involves some never done before procedures that remain to be proven. But SpaceX has a plan that might work, if it doesn't there are many ways to adjust the plan. With enough time and money, they can do it.

Colonizing mars is not so easy to show as feasible. Certainly we can launch a bunch of cans and digging equipment and get a few people living there. But anything like a self sustaining population? Don't know, we don't really have a concrete plan of how to do that. People often say, if you think you can colonize mars, colonize the Gobi Desert first, as it is 10,000 times easier.
Collective self defense is still self defense, but it obviously needs to be argued on a case-by-case basis.
Subscriptions to an SAAS ? Are there any premium tools out there you could use? Some extra disk space? Premium hardware?
If they had actual limits, you'd have people complaining about their sites getting shut down because someone broke into their account and spun up a bunch of instances. Or a developer did it accidentally. Alerts are much safer.
the point to me here is that the really valuable ideas aren't just some thing that someone has in the absence of context. given the situation on the ground - this approach will nicely balance all the constraints. this idea explicitly recasts an existing machine into one which is simpler and more general.

you dont have these ideas unless you are intimately familiar with the territory. and if you aren't, its very likely that any suggestions you might have wont be relevant because of its features.
How would one go about finding out if a company has cyber insurance?
There are two types of side projects. One you do because what you’re building is cool. The other because you’re interested in learning some tech.

If you’re focused just on the thing you’re building use whatever reasonably modern thing you want. I’d probably use flask, MySQL, and avoid a JavaScript framework as long as I could... but that’s just what I’d work fastest in. Do whatever you are most productive in.
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I worked that startup job once. Anecdotally, people++.
A while back it was called ironcast! The rename confused me a bit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21302825
Not so much with a fly swatter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-killing_device#Flyswatter).

I'd say the tick speed is relevant, but much more important is avoiding air draughts that propel the flies out of the way.
Land Speeder and Speeder Bike eFoils are crying out to be made.

The closest thing I found was the “HydroFlyer”:

https://www.thehydroflyer.com/

The riding position is somewhat different to an efoil Speeder Bike, though, where your legs would presumably start in the water like with this design:

https://foil.zone/t/efoil-motorcycle/6432
An idea is a base quantity. A bad idea maybe worth 1, a good idea 10, a great idea 100. But execution is a multiplier. Good execution is a 10x. Great execution is a 100x.

An average idea with excellent execution is worth a lot more than a great idea with poor execution.
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Could you name and shame some of the apps your are talking about? I pay for 1Password and JetBrains and similarly am happy with them but I also pay for a number of other subscriptions and I haven't felt the same "resting on their laurels" that you are describing.
It's sad that the only hedge we have against the browser monoculture problem is Safari of all things.
Most of the upfront cost for hardware is usually setting up tooling and assembly lines for manufacture. In this case, I'd assume most if not all parts already exists and can be sourced. That negates a lot of it.
An alternative hypotheses; TikTok really is horrible (along with many other social media companies) and it’s not old farts, ego, or groupthink.
I remember one of the weirder tweets by Bezos when falcon 9 landed for the first time. Basically saying "welcome to the club". Not exactly apples to apples.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jeffbezos/status/6791166363103600...
Forgive my ignorance, but I have a very general question. The article says Go runs on millions of cores at Uber. Obviously, the company is interested in maximizing the performance, hence the Pprof++ project.

My experience with Go is very limited, but in my tests it was always slower than C. Sometimes just a bit, sometimes 2-5 times. So my question is: looking back, don't you guys regret choosing this language?

Please don't misunderstand me, I don't intend to start any flamewars, but it seems like you're very much focused on CPU-bound performance, and the choice of language is not neutral in this case.
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I fall on the idea person end of the spectrum more than the work-horse end, and when someone comes talking about big ideas without some baseline plan, hypothesis, or validation I zone out too. I get so frustrated with people who spend 40 hours working on shitty slide-decks trying to convince me something is a good idea instead of finding a way to show proof.
Title doesn't really reflect what it is. It's a game-based programming challenges site. It isn't a site to learn but practice and improve your current skills.

Surprisingly, though a cool site, it only had one discussion in the past for the few years it is being submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12535553
Since you said „master“ you are probably already somewhat proficient, but if not, I can not recommend enough to just try Rust out for some project one day. It literally took me 2 days from writing my first line of Rust to having a central component of our pipeline rewritten in Rust and running in production and I enjoy every minute of writing Rust, since (after you win the battle with the borrow checker) everything „just works“.
Lyn Alden's latest post on Inflation talks about the idea of the cyclic effect of Capital vs. Labor and has a great chart:

https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/#benefit

(which is based on Ray Dalio's Changing World Order): https://www.principles.com/the-changing-world-order/

I personally expect in the next 5-10 years to see more pressure from Labor on Capital on the backs of news like this (whether true or spin) and the monetary env we are in.
I agree that what you are saying is useful, i.e. identify the minimal sets of contradicting constraints, but if you can relax a constraint, then you are effectively solving a different problem.

OTOH it's pretty well known that customers mostly don't know what they want, so deciding what is actually a constraint and what isn't is, paradoxically, a part of the job.
> Also, I'm not sure where people are getting that Amazon is bad at privacy.

Oh, I dunno, profiting from selling law enforcement nearly unrestricted access[1] to their existing IOT offerings as part of what they call "the new neighborhood watch"[2] while also profiting facial recognition offerings (Rekognition) doesn't really give me the impression they're good at privacy. In fact, it makes Google Analytics seem down right charitable in comparison.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/19/police-...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/28/doorbel...
That complaint doesn't quite make sense to me because things like "language servers for every programming language in existence" don't exist for iOS in the first place, even if you were allowed to run external processes.

To me the logical solution is something like Replit, where your arbitrary programming environment is running off-device. You want to program Go or Python on your iPad? Okay, but the actual code is executing in some cloud machine. Apple should be happy with that, and it'll be a lot easier to maintain all this stuff off-device anyway, than on iPads, where nobody else is maintaining a toolchain.

Of course that doesn't work with a "one-time-purchase" business model....
> Since the beginning of the pandemic, nearly 250 public health officials working in communities all over the US have left their jobs, many because of threats and political pushback.

Or, “I’ll do the job when it’s easy but when it’s hard, gosh I’m trying my best why won’t people just do what I say.”
Hilton earnings are crashing, is this a responsibility of the CEO? Did the CEO responsibility increase lately? Don't the workers have any responsibility there as well? Or do they have declining responsibilities?
I can see why some old names are preferred:

> Cholera - Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining sloughing

Also:

> French pox - Syphilis

Fun fact about Syphilis, each nation called it after the nation they thought they got it from. The French call it the Italian disease, Italians call it French, Turks call it Christian, Russians call it Polish, Dutch call it Spanish, ...
Sure, I'd just use a $99 Apple TV for that whenever needed.

edit: I am getting old. AppleTV used to be $99 and it seems prices have gone up a little since. Either way, AppleTV would be my goto method whenever AirPlay is required.
Until/unless the two companies are caught colluding against consumers, duopolies aren't covered by antitrust law afaik.
This question seems to contain the embedded assumption that there is a problem, and there is exactly one of them.
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Can you point to indie developers that have been successful developing iOS apps, etc?

The likes of Microsoft and Adobe, whose strategy isn't to sell products as much as it is to establish and maintain market control, are not good comparisons.
But... engineering practicalities are literally where Bezos has like ten bicep muscles... Especially if you include logistics concerns.

If it's boring but scales, he is going to be in the winner pool. If it takes imagination, he's shown that his imagination is less focused than Musk's, and much more of a blowoff valve for when life gets too samey. So the big risk is that the creativity is impressive but totally inappropriate.

That said, I agree it'd be nice to chase after new propulsion tech.
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At a previous company we got rid of Babel on our node stack completely. Felt good. Not possible yet with web but that is what we should be getting to. Funding Babel for the indefinite future means the web will have stagnated. In an ideal world Babel dies.
Sounds like another Chinese government intelligence gathering exercise. Why this app isn't banned in the west?