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Would you consider codecs or heavy numerical simulations to fall under those memory allocation scenarios that you'd use Rust for as well?
Then one would be making an argument using an analogy that is quite obviously not actually analagous at all.

The more correct analogy is a McDonald's franchise that actively uses every method at their disposal to prevent other fast food restaurants from opening near where you live.
Don't....

use virtualized desktops hooked into your company's intranet.

For phones, there are some vendors that provide similar functionality.
Just like your anecdote, I have one to share as well: I know a close friend that works on space lasers at SpaceX and has a blast, best job ever according to him and he thinks Elon is an excellent manager mostly because there is zero bureaucracy and people are not afraid of "Do nothing" option as well as removing complexity. In fact, he wouldn't work anywhere else after seeing the company culture.

I know it's cool to hate Elon.
In the context of 1967, he's talking about taking to the streets and creating a separate black nation in a concept called "black separatism". Nothing about that is against the idea of a company making sure that they have a diverse set of employees across the structure of the company, if we can stay on topic. Nothing about it rails against "identity politics". He's not saying, if you read the whole book (which you should, it's fantastic), that the black struggle doesn't require a different set of tactics from the poor white struggle. Only that there exists some overlap that would be served by making sure that every person in America makes a good living (in addition to other separate struggles). Particularly since black separatism in a lot of cases meant leaving the US and the society that was built using quite a bit of under(or simply un)paid labor and the wealth that belongs to all here.

I'll give you that anyone saying that _only_ corporate identity politics can solve racial issues in America is blowing smoke up your ass, but honest looks at why companies as their employees become richer trend white and male is an important component of the fight for racial equality.
since two of the three methods of heat transfer (conduction and convection)

This always drives me nuts. Convection is conduction, just in a fluid. Conduction and radiation are two entirely different physical processes.
Flight control software is a tiny fraction of the software on a combat aircraft.

As a side note: Early relaxed stability planes had no software. It was implemented with analog computers
That's because you're assuming the stranger doesn't return the car. If your mechanic takes your car for a joyride after you give them the key for purposes of repairing your car, and a stranger steals my car when I'm not using it and brings it back before I notice it's missing, I don't understand why one is any different or worse than the other.
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I don't really follow general news. If something is important enough for me to need to know about, it'll pop up on HN, my limited Reddit feed, or via friends. Works really well for me and makes sure I don't focus on things that are out of my control.
Yeah, the seat was created. But it doesn't actually say why or why prisoners were given the vote. That's my issue here: WHY. What is the actual justification?
> We outsourced manufacturing and those cost savings were certainly not illusory.

Sure they are. The expertise and factories to build a lot of components are no longer in the US, which has a ton of knock-on effects in the economy - job loss, decline, etc.

That's a hidden cost that offsets whatever cash savings were experienced on the front end.
And yet nobody seems to complain about Homer, which not only includes magic, but also active worship of, and interaction with, pagan deities.

How much of it is what the parents are saying it is, and how much of it is really motivated by a tacit belief that school is only legitimate when it's stodgy?
Is Llama a typo for Lambda? OR is there a service which uses Lambda for doing remote builds? Sorry, unable to figure it.
In the immediate term, instead of competing with people in a 60 square mile radius, you have to compete against the rest of the country. That’s great if you are really good at what you do. If you aren’t, it isn’t.

Also remote workers are easier to automate because employers know precisely what they are doing.
> I think the real problem is obvious.

Yes. The human brain and visual systems aren't nearly so trivial to replicate as a lot of people in the tech industry seem to think.

Tesla is just one of many case studies in the paired tech industry arrogance seen so frequently:

- "A human is just a couple really crappy cameras and a neural network, we know how to do better cameras and neural networks, how hard can it be?"

- "We can do anything we dream with 99.995% reliability in the synthetic, computer-based world of the internet because we know code. Therefore, we can do anything we want in the physical reality with code!"

Both are far from evident in practice, but the belief in them continues, despite it being increasingly obvious to everyone else that neither one is true.

Human vision and world processing is quite impressive - and, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, a two or three year old would have no trouble working out that the obstacles were some things on a truck. I've got a nearly three year old, and I guarantee he wouldn't confuse those for stoplights in the slightest. I also wouldn't let him out on the road, though he does well enough with a little Power Wheels type toy. But there is far more going on in the visual processing system than we even understand yet, much less have the slightest clue how to replicate.

And while code may be fine on the internet (where you can retry failed API calls and things mostly make sense), the quote about how fiction is constrained by what's believable and reality sees no such restrictions is very true. Out on the roads, all sorts of absolutely insane things can and do happen on a regular basis - and you can't predict or plan for all of them. But the car has to handle them or it crashes.

As a random example, a year or two ago, I was behind a car that had poorly strapped a chunk of plywood to their roofrack with a good chunk hanging forward, and the front end of it was starting to oscillate awfully hard. I had a good clue that it was going to come apart sometime in the very near future, so backed off from a normal following distance to quite a way back. Sure enough, half a mile later, it failed, went flying through the air, slammed into the road a good distance behind the car, and tumbled a bit. Had I been using a normal in town following distance, it would have either hit me or tumbled into me, but using a human visual system, it was obvious that my existing following distance stood a good chance of being a bad idea.

Stuff like this happens on roads constantly. Meanwhile, state of the art self driving can't tell the difference between stoplights and some poles on a truck. You'll excuse me if I don't think the problem is anywhere remotely close to solved for a general case Level 4 purpose.
It's weird how people are judged by what they wrote/said without anyone asking them for clarification for what they meant?

I feel like with "Jew" in the excerpt he means Israeli, which is more like a political view. Basically saying if you support Israel you have an insatiable appetite for war. And honestly there always is some vagueness regarding the word jew, it can refer to religion, race, sometimes an ideology or a country.

It could be a racist comment though, but I think it's good to give people the opportunity to clarify rather than chace any utterance they make. No one can express themselves with exactitude Everytime they speak or write a blog, it wasn't a book.
> They've been outspoken in their attempts to conflate Israel (and Israel's Jews) with Judaism as a whole

But let's not pretend that the connection between Israel and US Jews is simply a prejudice. Here's an article from the Times of Israel quoting a recent Pew research:

"More than 80% of American Jews said caring about Israel was an important or essential part of what being Jewish means to them." [1]

If this is how important is Israel to American Jews identity ("important or essential part of what being Jewish means to them") then it makes sense to ask them, as a group, how do they reconcile this identity with the violent actions of Israel.

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-gaza-conflict-escalates-her...
A review of too many startups: Little boys playing tanks in the sand
Sure, but we aren't talking about Android phones. We're talking about platforms, since that's what Apple wants to sell. The barrier to entry for this platform is money, and many people cannot afford to use their platform, therefore it stands to reason that only people with a modest expendable income will buy an iPhone. It then also makes sense that those same users will also spend more money on the App Store, since they also had the expendable income to buy a "premium" product.
Those are societal costs, not costs for the company making the decision to outsource or not. A company taking into account those societal costs while others do not will end up not being able to competitively price their products.
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To me, it’s very evident that many app developers provide substantial value to iOS. But it’s also very evident that many app developers (and I would argue it’s the overwhelming majority) have a hostile relationship with iOS customers.

It sucks that Apple’s App Store restrictions cause so many problems for the legit app developers, but I actually wish Apple was significantly more restrictive with what makes it into the App Store. Maybe this is a crazy opinion since I’m a programmer myself, but I would honestly prefer to use an iOS ecosystem with no App Store that allows self-serve third-party app distribution than to use an iOS ecosystem that allows unrestricted third-party software.
> IP law favours incumbents.

Yes, that is the whole point. IP gives an inventor a reward in the form of limited or no competition for a period of time.

> it doesn't tell us how a Chinese company will treat their customers.

This is like saying your wearing the wrong running shoes to swim five miles.
That depends upon your communication patterns & architecture. If your outsourced/offshored workers are tightly knit into your development team, then they're basically the same as WFH workers.

But if they are discrete teams, working on discrete services, then the issues tend to be around management, collaboration & communication patterns (both human and technical). Those are the areas which many companies can't handle or don't have correct to enable useful outsourcing.
The A350XWB was launched in December 2006
I think only the new Honda L3 system(only on one very limited edition car in Japan) and a Subaru tech on some mainstream cars(in the US too) have this capability.
Cognizant and TCS and Infosys and the like have this market on lockdown, and nobody cares that the experience is terrible because it's just a cost center.
Schema is a good library.
Everyone seems to use spec today, but Schema easier to use than spec IMO.

Spec is also still in alpha, with spec2 still under development.
Just off the top of my head - Honda Sensing works in stop-and-go traffic and keeps you within the lane.
> This is understandable from a business perspective; everyone wants lower costs and higher profits. But it's certainly not in Apple's customers' interests for their business model to change to accommodate developers.

I’ll bite. Why not?
Likewise, Toyota has been a rock in my car experience.

We got a 2017 highlander and apart from the god awful infotainment system it has been amazing. Sort of like computers these days, I find myself wondering when I’d need or even want to upgrade.

It hasn’t really needed service yet after 80,000km. Everything is running well. My mechanic says I must be taking excellent care of it, but I’m not doing anything I haven’t before. This thing just seems to be better designed than any VW or Ford I’ve had.

Our previous Toyota was OLD but similarly rock solid. I’ve come to like their cars a lot. A friend has a 4 runner as well that has been going strong for around 15 years.

I think what’s remarkable isn’t necessarily having something incredible to say about their cars. It’s more so that I just have nothing to complain about.
Pros

The environmental initiatives are wonderful and they've got a surprising amount of market traction.

Cons

Grove is a place where meritocracy-espousing libertarian men get together to talk about diversity and inclusion in between the more pressing conversations that dominate their Marin-dwelling lives concerning craft whiskey and Teslas. They all agree that diversity and inclusion are good things to invest in, but they don't actually want to promote anyone that doesn't look or sound just like them so they tend to focus their virtue-signaling efforts on volunteering their time outside the company and sending everyone emails about how woke they are because they say “Latinx” or something. Of course they’ve hired the obligatory token PoC HR muppet to sit there and shut down every uncomfortable Slido question that comes in on their behalf—rest assured, this person is nobody’s ally.

Even if you accept a role that you find interesting and report to a person you respect, that will all change very quickly when that person disappears to go do something else and you get traded to some other team. Your primary responsibility as an individual contributor at Grove will likely be to make sure that your manager fails up no matter how little management acumen they demonstrate or show an interest in acquiring. You should take pride in either training your department's "director" or flat-out doing his job for him (yes, it will be a man) because that's what being a team player is all about. Yeah, his CV says he's got 20 years of experience, but he's only been here a few months. He just needs to learn. Also his contract says we have to pay him for the full year if we fire him so... Remember, we have a "blameless culture." The valley’s a small place—you wouldn't want to say anything that might hurt your career, would you?

To make all of this worse, one of the investors who is (rightfully) tired of letting these entitled brats run around with his money recently decided that Grove needs to have an IPO immediately because IPOs are hot. The entire roadmap was thrown out the window to try and get the CTO’s disaster of a monolith ready for an auditor and every middle manager in every unnecessary fiefdom is convinced that they're some kind of diabolical chessmaster who's going to use the ensuing chaos as a smokescreen that will enable them to pull off a coup of the entire operation and crown themselves the holy king of soap subscriptions or something. It's toxic. Really, really toxic. I shudder to think how awful life must be for the folks in the fulfillment centers given what I've experienced as a well-compensated office drone with the privilege of saying "no" when somebody tells me to do something completely insane.

Advice to Management

Find something useful to do with the all-hands meetings. Marketing does not need a captive audience to congratulate themselves in front of every single week.
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This whole Democrat/Democratic Party thing seems really frivolous to me. The idea that dropping the "ic" is some kind of slur seems very petty.

I suspect the main reason why people end up using "Democrat Party" is because party members are referred to as "Democrats" and it's a natural extension to drop the 's' and and Party.

And to go even further, why is this point being harped on? Is it because claiming the mantle of the "Democratic" inherently makes the other side seem Anti-Democratic? The United States is a Democratic-Republic and those chosen names of our two parties just seems farcical.
> These choices of course have complex tradeoffs, but you don't have to commute, it is a choice.

I have to live near disabled family members so I can help take care of them. It's either work at Walmart, commute or work remotely. I've done the latter for years, but before the pandemic, most non-remote-first employers' attitudes towards remote working was either simply "no", or there was the expectation that you were to spend a year or more working in the office before asking your employer to make a special case for you to work remotely.
The economy is not 100% office work.

Worker productivity is not measured in GDP. It is a component of it, but asset and resource prices also factor into the equation. Nobody is going to suggest taxi drivers can go fully remote and work from home, yet that still feeds into GDP.
I think there's a bit of oversimplification going on. Sure, free, or almost free, stuff is available everywhere. But at what cost?

How much work do we have to do to get this "free" thing? What privacy do we give up? What if we're working on something that's part of a product, or otherwise proprietary?

The idea that everyone is doing it, so we should stop being sticks in the mud and just jump on the bandwagon, is harmful and ignorant.

"My data has never been stolen from the cloud" is about as ridiculous as the fortune quote, "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." How would you know until it's way too late?

Or, even better, you find out the data you've used in the cloud has been leaked on the Internet. Was it AWS? Was it crappy software on your laptop? Or was it a breach on your network? You've just made finding out that much harder, particularly because the cloud doesn't have logs that you can audit, nor real, understanding humans with whom you can correspond.

People who don't understand security can't really be faulted for eschewing the idea of using the cloud for everything, but people who know better really shouldn't be pushing these unhealthy ideas.
> Authorization isn't just yes or no though

For purposes of this law, it is. The Government agreed “that Van Buren ‘access[ed] a computer with authorization HK’ when he used his patrol-car computer and valid credentials to log into the law enforcement database” [1].

“The dispute is whether Van Buren was ‘entitled so to obtain’ the record.” The Court found that Van Buren was entitled so to obtain the record, in that entitlement is the operative word. If the file is electronically accessible to the user, they have entitlement to so, *i.e. electronically, obtain it. They aren’t properly authorised or permitted or something else to it. But those weren’t the words used. "Authorized," unadorned, and "entitled so to."

[1] https://www.supreme court.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-783_k53l.pdf
A Model 3 owner confirms this...
I can assure you that the planes the take off from the airport located 7 km, plain line of sight makes measurable noise, with infra basses I guess. Not unbearable but clearly a nuisance. So maybe there's progress, but it'd be better with just less planes...
> It was a tow truck towing a car backwards. It was just enough in my half-asleep state to scare the shit out of me.

And you're sure that it was a bump, and not the driver pulling up rather close behind it and then giving a sharp tap of the brakes to wake you up? ;)
If I went into my office every day--which I haven't had a desk in for a while--I'd spend a decent chunk of time every week on calls with people across 2 continents, multiple offices, and fully remote.
The Curious Case of WhatsApp and Government of India
Would fewer restrictions on publishing apps that pretend to be other apps somehow improve the situation?
yes i also prefer it. With Schema, the defined schema's are normal vars, which you can jump to with editor support.
With spec i'm always searching for the definitions.
I wonder if JS could benefit from a system similar to Rust editions (https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/introduction.html). Requiring assertion like "This code was written in 2021, no MooTools here" seems like a reasonable ask to access new features in the standard library.

I know it may sound similar to what X-UA-Compatible did, but that was really horribly implemented and vendor specific...
The people who judge and define others primarily by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character.

Those who fight racism with racism and call it anti-racism or reverse-racism.

Those who use hate, blame, and punishment as their tools of power, rather than love, forgiveness, and self/community empowerment.

Those who focus on division rather than unity.
I think the 10/10k Kia/Hyundai powertrain warranty only transfers on CPOs, otherwise you get the 5-year/60k bumper to bumper only, which I think this program would be the equivalent of.
"whataboutism" is a twitter stop word to kill reason. It's hypocritical to aggressively combat one energy waster whilst allowing or even demanding 200 others. It shows one doesn't care about energy usage or the environment at all, only about the ones they deem useful to themselves. Which is subjective.

Yes, Bitcoin will always be deflationary. I personally am not convinced it will eat up all wealth in the world in the way a maximalist believes it will. As said earlier, I'm thinking 10T max.

Should it grow to contain much more value, Bitcoin is more likely to be expressed as sats by default, and owning a full coin would be rare. Many want to do this right now due to unit bias. Newbies tend to prefer a 0.3$ shitcoin like Dogecoin over a coin as expensive as a luxury car.

Layer 2 solutions can work with a fraction of a sat, yet they can't settle this fraction on the core BTC network, nor would this make sense in terms of transaction costs. So I think they use some kind of buffering mechanism for that.
> Costs didn't work for Atlantic routes

Common misconception. The Concorde was absolutely quite profitable throughout, and massively so after they adjusted the prices down at the very end when it was already being shut down due to safety reasons.
Yep. There is no freedom of speech unless the most batshit insane ideas can see the light, be understood truthfully, and criticized freely.

And, I'd add: we need to respect the rights of the crazies to speak their mind. Yes, respect. Otherwise, you have people stuck in their crazy bubble, following only social media accounts that agree with them, and not listening to any criticisms of their points of view because everyone treats them like a horrible pariah and has never bothered to explain why their ideas are wrong, and they've never had a chance to truly argue their position (which is how you suss out what you actually believe).

And what do we get when we don't let people with bad ideas speak their minds freely, argue their position, and listen to arguments from others?

We get January 6th.
I have a 2 year old Niro EV with 20K miles. It is a fantastic little car, no issues or defects with it all so far. The dealership experience sucked, but that’s not the car’s fault.
I got the sense that they meant "not willing" but I agree that's one of those English phrases that can easily be misconstrued towards the more negative interpretation.

That said, I love the detailed post and the interesting solution, and the commitment to performance!
In this instance, corporate culture is a stand in for 'what the boss wants the boss gets'. I can't think of a company culture that is healthy and also different from what it appears everyone wants: flexibility in their work location and schedule. Who are these worker-bees that prefer to waste 2 hours of their day in stressful transit to get to a stressful environment that have no negative health consequences from the stress?
>One time, I fell asleep in a car. I hit a bump, looked up, and screamed as I saw what looked like a car coming right for me.
>It was a tow truck towing a car backwards. It was just enough in my half-asleep state to scare the shit out of me.

There are some funny(?) youtube videos of people in the passenger seat waking up to this with tractor trailers being towed in reverse.