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I think many programmers are not big on writing, you can see on this thread there are a large number that object to almost any comments at all, and support the assertion with the belief that comments go stale and won’t be updated because people can’t be bothered to write. I think the appeal of no comments is the quest for perfection in the source code - that you can achieve something that needs no explanation. In contrast literate programming nakedly admits the discovery of the solution and how code was developed and its imperfection.

That said it has caught on some with data science and actually is an option with swift playgrounds.
Baby's first Rust with extra steps (XPC, launchd, and FFI) – dstancu web
I'm not sure there are any companies where you don't pay them anything and they have easily accessible phone support. Do you happen to know of an example? I never had any trouble getting support from Google when I was a Fi customer. On the other hand, I'll bet I couldn't get support for web search over the phone for love nor money. Similarly, I doubt I can call up Facebook or Twitter's customer support lines, although perhaps I am wrong.
I'm far from a scientist, but in my observations and reading, lifestyle has a far bigger impact than diet. Hard work boosts testosterone, there was even a study done showing how much it was boosted during chopping wood, for example. Modern folks are sedentary and often overweight, both of which contribute to lower testosterone, likely moreso than diet ever could.

Men today are observably less 'manly' than in the past. But we seem to try to find someone or something to blame other than ourselves.
Indeed. The word Hindu does not occur in native literature, its an exonym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonym_and_exonym

If I remember correctly earliest recorded use of the word is in Persian/Zoroastrian text. There it's used not as a name of a religion but as a name for people living on the other side of the Indus river (called Sindhu in Sanskrit)
Amazon is in such a monopoly position that it is able to force sellers to cover the price of prime shipping (incorporating the shipping price into the display price) and then penalizes their display rank when they list lower prices on websites where shipping is separate from product price. Forcing suppliers to raise prices on unrelated sales is a classic monopoly move, like when MSFT forced OEMs to pay for Windows licenses on computers sold without operating systems.
1) Where do you derive the data about "largely good opportunities at home"? Also, what does caste have to do with anything? The actual economic opportunity, quality of education, etc. is what should be compared.

2) Even in the less-dysfunctional countries like India or Russia, an average person makes much less money and receives far less assistance from the state than an average US poor, especially as far as "opportunities" go. Look up the numbers; for a nice example my family made less money per year than the yearly govt spending on an average public school student in the US.

There are some types of poverty in the US that could be explained by bad luck, like being disabled, sure. The other ones using hardship as an excuse just make me laugh.
Like, as far as I recall, Nigerian Americans are one of the best educated immigrant groups, far above US-born whites. You cannot seriously claim they face less racism than US-born African-Americans, or that they experienced less hardship in Nigeria; on top of that they also have the difficulties that immigrants face. Sure, they may self-select - but that's exactly my point - any advantage these self-selecting individuals have, they deserve - probably twice over.

Most American poor are vastly more "privileged" (I don't like the word, but it fits) than almost anyone else in the world. But they waste the opportunity, for whatever reason.
Makes me think of this video where a man asks people on the street “do you know what day it is” on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, people get guarded very quickly, they know what day it is, they just don’t want to talk about it

Could be similar with CIA, a lot of people know they were distributing cocaine, but people are sheepish to speak freely.

https://vimeo.com/44078865
I was going to write a similar comment. The CAD part of mechanical engineering is usually a really small part of the overall process. Furthermore, there are really good tools in existing CAD to act as "pointers", they just aren't necessarily how a computer scientist would invent them. They are usually called configurations and indeed they can be automated. Normally "32 instances of a part" would not need to be manually updated either, one update would do it. Finally, it's naive to think simulation is analogous to CI. In some cases it can be pretty close to automated, but normally there is a lot of expertise and interpretation required to get useful results and there are a lot of steps between or instead of simply inputting geometry to the simulation program.

It's true that interoperability and version control should be improved, but configuration control is more important and engineers like the author are the ones that try to parameterize too much and cause hidden mistakes and extra work for everyone else.
The trend in browsers is to not display the URL, so who cares what it looks like? Mobile hides the address bar as soon as possible to regain the real estate. A certain desktop browser also received a lot of flack about only displaying the domain name rather than the path/query.

Also, if these are the same UX rules that have brought us worthless cookie screens, I'm not sure I'd put stock in their opinions, but that just me joey not-a-frontend-guy-just-a-user beercan.
> There's at least a billion people that live nearer to the equator than anyone in Europe or the USA and don't have air conditioning.

Nearer to the equator pretty consistently means less seasonal variation in temperature, it does not mean higher summer peak temperatures.
I have a fun story with those capacitors.

In school I was demonstrating a little rail gun powered by one of those caps. When done, I went to take a seat.

Upon sitting, I placed my hand on top of the capacitor, and no joke the muscle spasm shot me up so that I was standing again.
It never occurred to me that the first stone might be a weaker stone. I spent a few minutes trying to figure out why the computer could play next to my first stone, and if I played next to the computer, the computer could then take my first stone. It was very counter intuitive and frustrating, like the computer had an advantage somehow.
Iran was majority Sunni until Safavids finished with them. Probably mausoleums of Shehrbano and guy who killed Hz. Umar also bolstered the “case”
I'm not arguing with you about religion; I'm asking you to stop posting tedious flamewar comments to HN. Nothing good can come of this sort of rhetoric - it's just repetitive and is guaranteed to provoke somebody into fighting back in kind.
> You say "reputation" is your measure, but this is nothing more than "group opinion".

One could say the same about e.g. the scientific consensus on a given topic. Ultimately anything nontrivial in today's world relies on other people.

> You responded that professional popularity is not your measure, so C, Java, and Javascript do not receive your approval. Yet they are successful languages.

They are popular but not for their syntax. Their fans and advocates largely admit as much. Plenty of professionals will say things like "I use language X despite its cumbersome syntax, because ...".

> As far as human languages are concerned, your position is untenable. A fluent speaker speaks $language and understands $language in its subtleties. A person who does not speak $language understands little (or perhaps nothing) and is either trying to learn or has installed opinions instead of knowledge.

And yet it's possible to be fluent in multiple languages, and also to study languages in an objective way without being fluent in them. Linguistics is a legitimate field of study with a wide body of existing research (computer language design, on the other hand, has not yet reached that level of maturity).
I'm not sure I see the stuff here as toxic. In particular, there is heavy consent and a bit of looking in the mirror to these pranks that seems missing from the toxic side.

Is it to ridiculous extremes such that I am glad it isn't me? Yes. Absolutely. Do I feel these folks needed reining in? I mean, for their sake.
An idealistic reason for encouraging longer-form commit messages is that they have the side effect of more coherent commits, making the history easier to navigate, making the history more useful, and so your workflow will probably use the history more.

A practical reason for longer-form commit messages even in modern PR workflows is that they allow you to create and view commentary on a group of changes across files without leaving your editor.

As an interface to git, nothing beats magit. Even if you never use Emacs for editing any text files, it's useful as a magit runner.
Isn't that partly because of the same problem of the mass concentration of wealth and power into a few key players? If you have less room to strike it out on your own right, then you're dependent on a bigger fish to snatch you up. Who's to say that if the playing field was more level then more startups would have the ambition to become their own would-be monopolies? Either way, the vast majority of the "computer nerds" in the OP are different from the founder class that would be more directly impacted.
Just read an entire book on the topic of how broken our medical system is: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42373033-the-price-we-pa...

A bit repetitive at times, but also some amazing stories. There’s a hospital in New Mexico that sends out hugely inflated bills to its uninsured patients then sues them and garnishes their wages when they can’t pay.
Two U.K. doctors face penalties for helping women save their babies
a) how are these regards cherry-picked?
b) it doesn't no, you are right. However the "third world country with a gucci belt" phrase is intentionally tongue-in-cheek and used to call attention to the fact that the US is behind other first-world countries in many different important ways, which it is. Personally I consider healthcare, worker rights, and infrastructure pretty key issues of extremely high importance, and I'm not sure how it's possible to see it otherwise.
i have 33 days of uptime on my win 10 machine atm
There are shortages of pretty much all appliances at this point. Less desirable models are still generally available.

As an example, I heard there’s a 1,000,000 unit backorder of market-leader Bosch’s dishwashers.
How can a SSID:GPS database personally identify you? Give an example, please?
Okay buddy, moral panic got it. Have a great career.
In our area evaporative coolers are like magic. They use almost no energy but can bring down the room temp more than 15F.
Completely disagree. IMHO, toxic implies negativity toward others, e.g. chauvinism, domination, aggression, etc, which the jackass members don't really match.
May be true for hiring for entry level roles in same cases, but it is certainly untrue when you are hiring for positions with more than a couple years experience. I have literally never looked at anyone's college credentials unless I'm interviewing for an entry level role. I do not know, or care, where any of my coworkers went to school and I don't know anyone who does.

To be fair, we aren't a SV startup, but we've always had an equal engineering presence there (probably 120 engineers there now vs maybe 30 in 2018).
>> "Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders." - Thomas Sowell

> What a trite and overly simplistic idea. First is the idea that Government spending is bad. Second is the idea that Government spending is controlled directly by taxes. Third is the idea that a majority of people actually pay any income tax at the end of the year. Fourth is the idea that people understand their taxes. Fifth is the idea that it is income taxes are the only taxes.

And sixth is the idea that it's even necessary. Pretty much my entire adult life has been major tax cut after major tax cut, one useful starved government program after another (the
Strategic National Stockpile anyone?), and a ballooning deficit.
I find it interesting that they call out European male explorers but then go on and talk about Hui Te Rangiora who was male but isn't called out for being male...

Also your link is a bit more cautious in their claim saying: "they were likely the first humans to set eyes on Antarctic waters and perhaps the continent" which does not diminish their navigational accomplishments but falls short of the post's title.
there is apparently no way to define a default disable either, so to turn off all the random features, the header becomes huge.

https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-permissions-policy/issues/1...

What is happening in w3c?!
I didn't take "How much longer before modern life is no longer possible, I wonder..." to mean "how long until I'm forced to call in a specialist." The rest of their post is personal though, so I'm not confident in my interpretation that "modern society" would mean the same thing.
It's a bit crazy to say the least.

I went to the WalMart by my house, today, to replace a blender who's motor failed. I realized as I passed the bike section, now 1/8th full, that "hey, (awful) bikes are back!". They're not, but there were a whole ten of them which is ten more than I've seen all year.

Hop over to the blenders and they have fifteen models on display but boxes for 5 of them.

Only self-service check-out is open, and only half of them, the line extends ten people past the "impulse buys" in the six "any number of items" self-checkout lanes. Two members of front-end staff look like they're ready to burn the place down, customers have stopped swearing under their breath and are now engaged in outright, obvious, complaining. I roll up to the chaos with my less-than-desired blender and realize I might as well just wait for shipping because it's 10:00 PM, this is an hour long line, and I'm not going to be the reason these poor employees have to stay late since the 24-hour WalMart hasn't been open past 11:00 PM since last year.

It's a lot of griping, and I'm really not upset -- I got a nice excuse to hop on my one-wheel in the dark and avoided spending some money on something I don't need "today"; a really minor inconvenience, I just miss the good old days of ... 2019? :)
Regulatory concerns or not, it's unlikely that the bull run of the past decade would've continued indefinitely.

And there's plenty of post-unicorn little empires (Uber, Twitter, AirBnB, Robinhood, etc.) that probably command as great salaries as the monopolies. Not to mention there are other big tech companies that don't seem to be in regulators' crosshairs- Microsoft, Oracle, even Netflix.

Neither Amazon and Apple are known to pay as great salaries as Facebook/Google, and as mentioned it's debatable whether their stock prices would've continued in as explosive growth as in past years.

At any rate, if one was to break up the big companies (which isn't even likely to happen), who's to say that AdSense Inc. or Instagram wouldn't pay as well as they did when they were internal teams?
My dad is a retired general contractor, and he’s had many friends that had A/C companies quote a whole new condenser, when it was just the capacitor.

The other thing he drills is to change. your. filters. Buy a box of them, put it next to the air handler. Not doing this during spring and fall will kill your central air. It screws up the careful balance of pressures and temperatures that your installer had to establish. Eventually your evaporator or condenser blows a hole and vents itself… which will probably kill your condenser too. Five minutes of effort, twice a year and you can add years to your system’s life.
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My brain also tried to automatically correct the spelling to a more famous(at least in my mind) name, m <-> t.

*sigh, this is the the magic of Branding...
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Apple has ~20% smartphone marketshare worldwide. It's higher in the US, but the last numbers I saw put them <50%. In what world is that a monopoly?
> I was under the impression that without peer coaching you couldn’t get a prescription. If state guidelines are at fault how did you find a in state doctor sympathetic?

I think you’re misunderstanding - I had an existing, active prescription for Vyvanse when I moved into the state. It took me months to find a doctor who would refill it for me. I had already been through years of counseling at that point.

> I must assume that there was a reason for the doctor not wanting to prescribe you that medication. If state guidelines were the true root why was another doctor amenable?

The state “looked more closely” at doctors who prescribe stimulants. Basically none of the doctors I spoke to in the beginning was willing to add another prescription to their practice because of this.

> Using performance enhancing drugs is a losing game. It makes it harder for those who wish to use their natural cognitive abilities.

How does this logic not apply to cardiac drugs? It “makes it harder for those who wish to use their natural cardiac abilities”?
You have no idea how many of your friends or relatives are crims.
The unreasonable expectations of American motherhood
My favorite theory is he purged it all because he couldn't read the database in plaintext, which is why he would go through the trouble of switching ircds and services as well instead of just resetting everything he already has.
My read is that people are seeking a means to an end. Means: whatever she’s writing. End: reducing Amazon’s scope of business.

If you’re being intellectually honest, the source of low prices is Chinese outsourced labor, not monopolies. Amazon could vanish tomorrow, and shit will still be cheap.
I find Iranian/Persian history fascinating. I want to visit sometime. I had to put it off when I was studying in the US, … for obvious reasons.

The following might be an unpopular notion here on HN, but do not entirely understand why the US has a chip on their shoulder about Iran. Seems US is the aggressor in that conflict.
Is anyone taking a crack at redundant but relevant "news" like this?

So much of news seems focused on sensationalism. Would be interesting to read a paper that chose stories based on relevance to keeping readers informed, healthy and alive independent of recency:

- Heart Disease continues being the leading cause of death (We interviewed 3 cardiologists and reviewed studies to find what lifestyle changes most reduce this risk)

- US Annual car accidents increase 3% YoY (Talk to civil engineers about where or in what conditions accidents occur most frequently and thus people should be most careful. What other factors make certain people safer drivers than others? What is the relative risk of driving 0, 5, or 10 mph over the speed limit on the highway?)

- Amazon rainforest deforestation continues (show graphs of rates, discuss causes)

- America is using more plastic than ever (show breakdowns of how plastic is used, which uses have the worst ecological impact, etc)

Interestingly, a lot of this content could be "re-runs" - take the same article, maybe add updated data if available, and republish it. Cost of producing content could be reduced.
Interesting; all that's required here is that the work be inspected by the city on completion. I can't imagine someone telling me what I can and can't repair in my home.
Mine shut off on a hot day. Tons of condensation was getting into the blower. Three part fix: replace shorted door switch, install drain barb for intake, blow out debris in tubes.
This rings true.

I have something wrong with me. I’ve spent many years of my life trying to figure out what it is. But never fully have - it’s sick, but it seems like most doctors operate under “you have symptoms, I order a few tests, they were negative, guess we’ll never know, fuck off lol”.

It sucks. I hope these families make progress.
You can but one of the grievances with what Microsoft is doing with Windows is the tendency to reverse some of those electives after you install an update. I haven't seen this happen with GP, probably because MS isn't in the habit of duping their corporate customers (yet?).

N.B. same guy, different account because passwords are hard.
> It wasn't so long ago that pilots weather info was just a print out.

It also wasn't so long ago that scheduled domestic US airliners crashed on a fairly regular basis. That doesn't happen anymore because of advances in technology, this just being one little piece of that.
San Francisco faces worst drug epidemic ever
If anything, it's probably a newer part of the system that failed. The old stuff tends to stay around precisely because it's so reliable.
We've had to ask you multiple times before not to break the site guidelines like this. You've been posting lots of flamewar comments lately. I don't want to ban you but you're not making this easy. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this?
Sure I have a few nuggets. I went through a couple cheap treadmills before I finally took the advice of another long-term treadmill desk user and bought a lifespan fitness:

https://www.lifespanfitness.com/workplace/treadmill-desks/tr...

It's an incredible sturdy and reliable treadmill. It has built in shock absorption and can autodetect your steps. Although I wear a clip-on fitbit to sync steps to my phone (wrist fitbit isnt going to work well to count steps since your hands will be typing or whatever).

I transitioned from a standing desk to a treadmill desk and was surprised that walking is actually much easier to sustain for long periods than standing. I started very slow. 1.2 mph. I gradually (and naturally) have made my way up to 2.4 mph.

If you get one, make sure to get good shoes! Something that a marathoner would use (e.g. Brooks, Asic, etc).

Getting a treadmill desk is among the best decisions I've ever made.
Unless you know what you're doing (and I'm not saying that you in particular don't) this is incredibly dangerous. The capacitors in A/C units can store enough energy to kill you, even if the A/C has been unplugged for hours or days.

I would not try this at home.
What I find interesting is that Google will gladly buy the phone back from for 1/10 of the price, but nowhere does it say you must provide the pin or your email password. Obviously they have a way to bypass it, but will only do so if it benefits them.
Same in Canada. I haven't even bothered pursuing the diagnosis as it's a massive pain to get doctors to take things like this seriously in a socialised system.
It's not about eliminating carbon emissions, or geoengineering, or reducing meat consumption or changing how we grow food.

The underlying problem is over population. We have about 7 Billion people too many, if the earth had only 1 Billion we wouldn't have human induced global warming.
My anecdote... I thought I might have got it in Jan 2020. Keep in mind I frequent a fast food place that is across the nursing home that had one of usa's first deaths, at about the same time. It definitely felt different than other times I got the flu. And then about six months later I actually got covid. Will the only difference in symptoms was I was very sore with covid. And it took at least a month to recover.
Most people are at the top of their game at 31? Uh, no. No. Maybe in startup lala land, but in this kind of role, 31 is "learning the ropes" territory.