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With a cap kit, battery replacement (if relevant), then the NES, Genesis, Apple II, Altair, 286, Laserdisc, Video CD, and Kodaks still work just fine.

Importantly: they are repairable.

My Nexus S is a paperweight because Google kept it relatively closed. My BlackBerry Priv is even worse, since I can't root it.
I listen to a lot of basketball podcasts and they are all, even the biggest national ones, trying to get people to gamble

It seems like it's gotten a lot worse after COVID, though
What happens when you don't close your font tags
> It also occurred to me that if I redirected my website to the CSRF link that automatically sent a message to me, I could see the OkCupid profiles of my website visitors who were logged into okcupid.com, which would make for an intense web analytics tool.

Ouch.
Propane tanks aren't allowed in stores in most places in the US. Which causes some problems when the folks working at box stores don't know that their store sells (literally) empty ones brand new (vacuumed down from the factory).

I had a new one in my cart, and was told no fewer than 3 times to take it outside between the aisle and the register.

If I hadn't been feeling so damn honest, I'd have followed their instructions to the letter.
It looks like a couple of things going on:

1. We have more people without much disposable income (which is composed of two populations: poor immigrants with few marketable skills, and two, poor Americans left behind due to shipping MFG overseas --going on for a while, jump-started by MFN status in the 90s).

2. People want cheap stuff. It's unfortunate. It means more disposable crap going into the landfill. Save up and buy something that will last. (unfortunately ads don't contribute to model behavior here)

3. Overseas there have always been these cheap goods stores (100-goods stores in East Asia (百貨公司)), we're just late to the party --however in Asia these popped up because people didn't initially have disposable income as their economies evolved after ours. They are on the upswing, we're on the down.
> I think there is a much more mundane lesson here. Good abstractions prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities

This is how I try to write C, in the end there there is very little "unsafe" code in it - few complicated pointer dereferences, few dynamic allocations, almost no transfer of ownership anywhere. No callbacks, and requiring e.g. a ref-counted handle is very rare.

Mostly function calls, pointers only valid during function call (or make a copy, e.g. ID strings), creating the data in the module that understands it, using suitable allocation strategies and centralized resource release. Asynchronous messaging instead of hard to follow callbacks (which break the flow of execution).

The current code I have has grown to be devoid of dynamic memory allocations simply for performance/latency reasons. It now has good MISRA compliance without ever trying hard. There have been a few bugs (including very silly and obvious concurrency bugs) but due to the app being so "fixed" those have always turned up pretty quickly (so far) and have been easy to spot and fix.

For larger projects, I feel like the value of bottled abstractions is more and more decreasing. To connect things in an efficient and maintainable way all these layers have to be unwrapped.
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I read the entire blog post and I don't understand the fanfare, it's a custom SoC, presumably to rival Apple's M1. I don't see anything innovative about this, besides heralding "begun, the neural net wars have".

What is the benefit of having all of the ML bits on device? Can models leverage them post training?
Agreed the downvotes are not justified. This is this clearly what parent meant and what I alluded to in preceding comment
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This should not be allowed to happen. Housing should not be corporate run. How can an individual compete with a corporation in the market?
You never knew any middle class or upper middle class kids who shoplifted?
Agreed! The way we see it this is a tool to build a more efficient workflow just like mailmerge was when it was new- Sales/marketing is difficult and is getting more and more difficult by the day. SDRs will spend 12 hours recording 200 lead videos a week- Tavus can give that time back so they focus on what’s important to them.

Sales is a key part of every single company. Sometimes it can be seem unsavory when we see the reality of how it works.
It's also seasonal, and depending on the provenance (local/imported).

I live in Hungary and tomatoes are crap for 10 months a year, when they're generally imported from abroad and are obviously picked up unripe.

Then during the summer you can buy tasteful tomatoes for a while, sourced locally.

In Italy they're better on average, but you can also find tasteless dutch ones in supermarkets (again, picked up unripe).
In some states (e.g. MA, NY I'm pretty sure) security cannot legally prevent anyone from leaving. The best they can do is stand in the way to slow someone down. Source: heard from an independent jeweler in New York City.
They specifically pointed out pricing as the relevant factor…
I've tried to find out the source numbers but can't find them. One article says a third, another "nearly half of large chain retail stores". It's unclear what the denominator is but I highly doubt it's "all new stores" as the linked article claims.
>The US pays about 4% of what the UK pays per capita for public broadcasting.

This can't be mentioned without also mentioning that the UK enforces a yearly license (so, a tax) on anyone who watches OTA TV, and they're known to be a bit scummy and heavy-handed about it.
Just pull the plug. Turn off WiFi or Ethernet for 15 min work blocks see if that works. Better than installing crapware and teaches you self control at the same time.
The pbs apps are made by OPB (Oregon public broadcasting) they’ve been a big partner of pbs for a long time.

The apps are really good and they try to keep relevant content and popular shows on the apps.
I agree that there are a number of sources of possible error, from the retailer to the reporter that is summarizing from a much larger report.

That said, the computation of 'shrinkage' has been defined as MSRP of products that are stolen and/or damaged, divided by the gross sales of all products. The number captures "lost" revenue.

My nephew, who is working at a large nationwide retailer and has access to all of this data for their stores, has told me in the past (and I presume it is still true), that the largest component of "loss" experienced on the retail side is through employee theft, either directly, or by assisting a partner to evade the payment systems. The smallest portion of this loss is from people who come into the store and take merchandise without paying for it.

The "interesting" thing about that story, is not that it makes it harder to sneak out a tool, but that it requires a register transaction for that tool to work. Combined with inventory management of that tool, internal theft rings are uncovered because the employee facilitating the theft has to use their register to do so. But the stores won't tell you that of course.

Just like back in the day getting out of a Fry's Electronics was like being released from a SuperMAX prison lockup with all the gates and checks and re-checks. They too were much more worried about employee theft than individuals stealing stuff.
Google almost never actually provides end-user device support though. It's on the device manufacturers and they lose interest in like 18 months, or perhaps in 36 months if you're lucky.
Your example is already biased, because you use Walmart as the other option.

Walmart already came through and blew away the local mom and pop market in these rural areas.

Are they more convenient than driving an hour to a walmart? probably.

I've seen small family run stores go out of business specifically because they can't compete with a dollar general that opened a mile away.

"Deeply beneficial" seems like a strong phrase for something you might want to reflect on more.

Ask some of your older family members what they did before Walmart
CPB also funds local public radio affiliates and NPR.

But I think the paper is calling for more than just local news. They want expansive digital properties to supplement all our browsing habits.
You don't have any insurance? I never directly bought any insurance but two of my credit cards and my life insurance policy from work cover some amount of money in some cases if I get stuff stolen. They just need a police report, and that's why a lot of property crime does get reported. Apple Care also has a theft and loss protection that needs a police report. If your car window gets smashed you can get money back from insurance, but they will ask for a police report...

This is why I always doubt people that claim that property crime isn't getting reported. Of course some of it will not get reported, but on the very very very unlikely event that you are a victim of property crime in SF if you like, have a credit card or Apple Care or car insurance, you probably can get free money by filing a police report.
Gold has actual utility
I used to work retail, and I wouldn't classify this as "shoplifting". It is more appropriate to label this as "Shitty customer service resulting in totally-avoidable shrink".
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The product is currently WIP. This Youtube hack became popular in our circles and thought of sharing it with the HN community for feedback. This works better on the web and is not fine-tuned for mobile.

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this is the way, you don't even have to have 2 desktops open, just win + tab and then open a new one for taskmgr.
Also 'Romeo and Juliet' (tragedy occurs because a message isn't delivered), 'Assault on Precinct 13' (gang cuts the phoneline to a besieged police station) and the opening credits of Terry and June (couple can't find each other in a shopping centre)
In Los Angeles there are two local NPR stations within 25 miles of eachother: KCRW and KPCC.
The last two jobs I applied for were like this. The first one had 8 interview rounds on 8 separate days. It was a remote company, and I was working in an office at the time, so I had to figure out 8 separate excuses for sneaking away from work for an hour to take video calls. It was ridiculous.
The problem is that this model loses most of the benefits of the Firm (economies of scale of labor).

Let's say you have some money and want to make something happen. You find a developer and an infrastructure person. Now you have to negotiate a price with each of them for some defined output (and unless you're technical you probably need to first negotiate with the dev to get her to produce an infrastructure plan, then find the infra person and negotiate with him, and then negotiate with the dev to get the work done).

Ok, you've spent a bunch of time negotiating individually and defining exact output specs that withstand contractual scrutiny. Then you get partway through development and learn something new about your market. You decide that you need to change your product a bit, so now pause development and negotiate a change order with your dev. You come to an agreement but the change requires infra changes. So you go negotiate with the infra person but you can't come to an agreement on the changes required.

Now you're paying the infra person to finish something you don't want any more, the dev can't do the additional work she's willing to do because the infra won't be there, and you're stuck building something that you don't even need. This doesn't even take into account that this model forces every single person to be both a negotiator and marketer of their own skills, in addition to whatever technical skills they have (comparative advantage shows that they should each just do what they do best). The obvious next step is for groups of people with complimentary skills to get together and negotiate projects together and from there it's a very clear path to ending up with salaried workers again.

The advantages of the Firm are just so great that even with a ton of waste it's still better than everyone individually negotiating their output. Look at the consulting companies for an example, even though they negotiate at the project level they still pay people salary. They know exactly how much bench time each person has and they still use that model over hiring for each project based on the project's output.
iphones are pretty expensive and those go in landfills too

Same as 2008. a lot of ppl left behind in recovery, which benefits Walmart and dollar stores.
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I never used OCaml, except for some toy side projects, but I'm curious about this multicore saga. It feels like I've been reading about it for years and years.

What's the reason it's taking so long? Inherent difficulty in changing the language? Lack of resources? Lack of prioritization / urgency / industry support? (it's a rather niche language after all, apart from some prominent users like Jane Street)
Stupid question from someone who doesn’t live in the US. Do they actually only sell sub-$1 products? It seems they have been operating for 30y. Inflation must severely restrict the range of products you can offer over such a long time.
While unique/shared_ptr alleviate some of these issues the STL is still full of UB though, and that can’t be fixed easily.
It's not clear to me what the problem is that the article is outlining.

The Dollar General near me has the exact same brands as you would find in any larger retail establishment, they just have found a way to stock the 80% that folks typically need. They are filling a niche between the gas station convenience store and traditional grocery/big box retail. They don't have a produce section, just a bit of fruit. Is that the issue?

Are the small independent grocery stores in these communities stocking produce? Is Dollar General and the like creating some kind of price cartel that's putting them out of business? I know of two Dollar Generals near me, one in a small one-light town that previously only had a gas station convenience store and people had to drive 12 miles to get anything besides milk, condoms and beef jerky. The other on the outskirts of a small town that still has a thriving small grocery store in the middle of it.
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I don't think Apple has any official "at least X years" support but they're generally pretty good about it. iOS 15 will be on the iPhone 6S when it launches this year, which will be a 6-year-old device at that point.
In 2021, I find it hard to justify using a dynamically typed language for any project that exceeds a few hundreds of lines. It's not a trade off, it's a net loss.

The current crop of statically typed languages (from the oldest ones, e.g. C#, to the more recent ones, e.g. Kotlin and Rust) is basically doing everything that dynamically typed languages used to have a monopoly on, but on top of that, they offer performance, automatic refactorings (pretty much impossible to achieve on dynamically typed languages without human supervision), fantastic IDE's and debuggability, stellar package management (still a nightmare in dynamic land), etc...
> The really interesting thing is: why does the police not "follow the money" and take out those advertising likely-stolen tools for sale in the open?

Too costly to prosecute. How can you prove that this specific chainsaw has been stolen? "Yes, I am selling my chainsaw. No, I won't talk to you, officer, unless I am under arrest and I have my lawyer present."

Then you arrest them and what? You need something to show the jury.
Somehow I don't seem to have the same experience as most people in this thread. Sure, homegrown tomatoes and cucumbers taste quite a bit better than what I usually buy at the supermarket, but it certainly isn't perfect vs. inedible.

Possible explanations I can think of:

1. My taste perception is just broken because I am relatively young and have been raised on low-quality produce.

2. My local supermarkets just happen to stock excellent vegetables (I live in Central Europe).

3. There are some extremely high-quality breeds of tomatoes/cucumbers that I have never eaten before.

4. Other people are simply more enthusiastic about vegetable quality and therefore their claims seem exaggerated to me.