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An interesting perspective on meetings that I was once told is:

"Meetings are for ratification of an already-made decision"

This sounds like some of the 'bad management' examples mentioned in the article. However, this was further explained:

"The hard work in getting agreement is in prior discussion with, and feedback from, individual decision makers".

This is essentially having multiple smaller lead-up meetings to discuss the ins and outs and work out the kinks, and then the "big" meeting is primarily theatrical in explaining the end result and ratifying the decision. This won't work in all contexts, but the methodology could be an overall time saver and allow for more well-thought-out compromises or changes, as it's done over a larger span of time. It also means quieter and more thoughtful decision-makers are given equal standing.

Creative solutions can often come out of the blue, and it's unlikely that it'll strike conveniently during the X-minute meeting window whilst trying to listen to and process a whole bunch of other peoples' opinions. Give them some time to come to the boil.
It doesn't have to keep up with human labor, it just has to reduce the total amount of human labor. And slow today doesn't mean slow tomorrow. The residential dishwasher is a great example of this.
That’s the current hypothesis, at least.
This is something I assume we've all noticed. I just switched companies a couple of months ago and that's the first time the company I was leaving threw the brief case full of money at me. Interesting that 6 months ago I was only worth a 2.3% raise, but suddenly I was now worth a 25% raise. Didn't matter, I believe workers should make unlimited PTO a demand and I let them know that was another reason I was leaving... death to limited time off, long live unlimited.

Back to the point. I imagine somewhere in the next few years I will get another offer at 25% bump after a few years of small 2.5% bumps. Just the way it works. I chuckle, but then I think there must be something I don't know.
At first sure. But in this hypothetical future I think holodecks would eventually become widespread enough that an upstart vendor would differentiate itself by selling an unencumbered holodeck.
Reminds me of a $BIGTECH project with a one armed robot on a wheeled base they thought could do house cleaning. I mean the damn thing couldn’t operate a windex bottle. I don’t think the executives who made this pitch actually clean their own homes.
Arab countries (whatever religion), in particular, seem to be mired in corruption. And corruption seems, to me, to be a low trust equilibrium of societies that is hard to get out of.

The cycle seems to go:
You can't trust authority to help you,
So you must rely on your family or patronage to get ahead,
In return you become obligated to your own network,
If you get authority you misuse your power to favour your own (besides everyone else is doing it),
and outsiders can't trust authority to help them.

The lack of trust discourages investment. Why invest if someone else will use their power to take the proceeds away. It seems to me the this is the main reason that there still are poor countries in the world.

I've heard that there is an afghan saying: "brother before cousin, cousin before clan, clan before country." But the examples are endless: Arab clan/sect networks, Mafia bosses, Roman Patricians, Feudal lords, Chinese Guanxi patronage networks, African tribal networks.
This website is bunk, I had to wait 3+ hours to comment ANYWHERE. That alone is enough to not bother trying to actually use this site. Is that some form of shadow banning? Good riddance though for real, I see why you already assumed I’d leave pissed off at your community. This must be a common occurrence hence the “guidelines”. Lmao Try looking in a mirror and perhaps you’ll see those logical and passionate won’t be the ones willing to conform and sugar coat everything. You’re left with an echo chamber for fear of being moderated to the [dead]. I’m sure every community gets that and must be why the site guidelines already pre-defends the “turning into Reddit” notion.

The parent commenter never came back for discussion after 8 hours yet my terrible comment sparked more discussion than his. Looks like I’m productive enough. You are just too preoccupied with my conduct and not my discussion. Your “vibe” was a negative one given the context. I’m sure it wasn’t any less harsh before I commented.
A lot of this applies to containers in general. Not complaining, it's well written but wish they would break out the none kube container stuff into a general container-sec advice for people.
I love your approach but I think that you've made a mistake. $70.00 of electricity at $0.13/kWh is 538 kWh, or 1937 MJ. Hydrogen has a higher heating value of 142 MJ/kg. If you could actually get 36 kg of electrolytic hydrogen from 538 kWh of electricity, that's getting 5112 MJ of chemical energy from 1937 MJ of electrical energy. That can't be done. At first I thought maybe I was overlooking some consumable electrodes in the scheme, but it appears not.

Rule of thumb for electrolytic water splitting is 50 kWh per kg of hydrogen. That would mean about 0.29 as much H2 as estimated in the blog post. If you scale all salable products by 0.29 (not sure if that's sensible since I haven't identified the root error) it would still yield $142 of products from $70 of electricity. And good news there is that industrial scale electricity can be had for well under $0.13/kWh.
Depends on what you mean. I often hear claims that you can use decorators in language X, which are formally true, since decorator is just a function accepting and returning another function, so any language that has anonymous functions (which is a lot of languages by now) "has decorators". But for me this is kind of false marketing, because there's nothing impressive about that, and the killer feature of Python's decorators is the syntactic sugar, which makes them so easy to use. And in this sense not so many languages "have decorators". You can do something similar with annotations in PHP, but I've never actually done this in a real project, because that feels like abusing the language.
Your thinly veiled racism is on full display. ID laws are inherently racist, and have been leveraged by white supremacists for decades to keep POC from enjoying the rights and privileges they're guaranteed under the law.

Businesses requiring vaccination IDs are de facto discriminating against POCs and other minorities because POCs and minorities are less likely to have ID, and less likely to be vaccinated.
No problem, I got that it was stores you meant. What I don't get is what customers do if they once get a canister from them: Now they have two. Can they return the extra for a refund in stead of replacement, at one of the "normal" places that does receive used ones? Or are they stuck with two canisters for ever more?
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The problem there is at that level you're also a significant source of money for both the company and whoever gets bonus/commission on the money you bring in so suddenly there's a lot of reason to not make you annoyed enough to take your business elsewhere.
>Software is actually very special: it can be an economic good (sold by companies), or service, or given away for free as open-source by volunteers.

Is it really that special though or are we on HN just trying to feel special?

I can think of plenty of other sectors of the economy that claim could apply towards.

E.g., “Healthcare is actually very special: it can be an economic good (sold by companies), or service, or given away for free by volunteers.”

“Energy is actually very special: it can be an economic good (sold by companies), or service, or given away for free by governments.”
> I don't believe this is stable state. EVs are more reliable because they're new. They haven't gone through enough value engineering cycles. The market has a structural incentive to optimize away all quality, until the result is barely fit for advertised function - so I expect that once EVs start dominating, they'll also start breaking at the rate people are used to with ICE cars, because manufacturers will optimize away spare capacity and surplus material of every component.

This is a completely nonsensical argument that doesn't fit the real world data. ICE cars have steadily improved in reliability over time. A car that made it to 100k miles was notable in the 80s. A car model from 2010 that didn't routinely make it to 100k miles would probably be considered defective.
If you think bricklaying is a simple task, you've probably never laid bricks, or likely ever worked a construction job.

There is _a lot_ that goes into laying a brick wall. From excavation, base compaction, material choice, mortar composition and viscosity, wall type, overlap patterns, leveling, overhang patterns, set time, and much more. Using an incorrect overhang pattern for instance can allow water drops to fall and contact the relatively soft surface of bricks and destroy them in a few years. Having an incomplete mortar seal allows the elements to penetrate through what would normally be waterproof, especially in places with high wind. An improper excavation, compaction material or compaction of said material, improper leveling, and many more factors will lead to failure within just a few years.

The best way to learn about this stuff is to go try it! One could volunteer for Habitat for Humanity or a local shelter that builds homes and get some time with the tools. None of this stuff is simple, straightforward, or easy, and there are a million ways to do it incorrectly.
No problem! I'm sorry too. I am not a master of disagreeing well. I got better at it in person, but online I still just sort of let my opinions out. I've sometimes had a habit of being a harsh critic and I've had to temper that over the years. I suspect that I'm a little bit on the spectrum as well and I don't always pick up on social clues.

Anyway, no hard feelings. Thanks!
I miss the days of dedicated game consoles for this exact reason. Smartphones becoming a universal do-it-all device broke the economics of portable gaming.

Nobody wants to pay more than $2-$3 for a game, which disincentivizes people from making complex games. So we get formulaic puzzle games for 'free', which are loaded with gambling-style mechanics that constantly nickel and dime you to upgrade to paid mods to beat harder levels.
I get a "cannot find requested file" page when trying to get the actual file. The IAD library stopped being updated in 2018 and the link has apparently bitrotted. Cryptome still has a copy, FWIW [0].

Having said that, the last thing I tried implementing from the NSA was a simple systemd service to disable ptrace [1]. The provided service definition had at least three errors, and the instructions themselves were incomplete. Not exactly a confidence builder, but I'll take a look at this one so thank you.

[0] https://cryptome.org/2016/01/nsa-16-0114.pdf

[1] https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jul/16/2002158062/-1/-1/0/CSI...
Software changes. It's an unfortunate reality of the profession. If you're someone who relies on the web platform for your living, you, at a minimum, need testing on the beta and dev versions of all major browsers your users use, so you'll get early notice of these types of issues. There's not any alternative approach besides never changing any installed feature, which is a possible approach, but not the one we as a species are taking.
First, get on Facebook. Next, "like and subscribe" the Facebook pages for all the sources of interest. Finally, refresh and scroll, scroll, scroll hoping that Facebook shows you the stuff you're subscribed to somewhere in amongst the ads, the "suggested based on pages you like", and other stuff. Oh, and hope that the sources that you like have money to cough up to "boost" their posts.

Or, in the immortal words of Goodfellas, "Fuck you, pay me".
Wut? How can the CDC have a say in that???

The US has become a statist hellhole.
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"For early adopters and evaluation" - does that mean this is a limited time deal for now?
https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37364868 my digital person from the CT camp will intersect with this BAU2 version or ... not
If you've got a framebuffer console, I think you can cat to /dev/fb ... Although pixels are less friendly than audio, it's kind of helpful for identifying patterns if you preprocess so everything is shades of one color, or a byte -> color map anyway.
That’s easy enough to check by actually talking with other employees. It’s really not a company wide question, often large raises early are fairly easy but get dramatically harder as compensation increases. Which of course change the effort:reward calculation over time.
All true, and good points. However the marriage bonus for single earners is much greater than the bonus for double earners, so if you look at it from a certain angle there is sort of a penalty for dual earners vs sole breadwinner marriages.
You don't use this guide as a bible but take it into account and compare with other common security advice in the field. If you get similar results it most likely a good list of advice.
Perhaps wall construction / partition construction itself needs to be thought from the ground up, to enable automation.

For example, is it possible to have LEGO like slot fitted bricks, with cavities in slots filled with mortar?

Alternatively, toothed bricks that can be slotted, such that the top brick slots into two lower bricks.
I'm not clear if I get another 5,000 events/month for each $49 device I buy, or if 5k/month is the ceiling for a single person/entity.
I don't agree with the idea that a country being Christian means it'll be successful and it being Muslim meaning it'll be a disaster, but surely you can't just disregard demographic changes as "anti-Muslim nonsense".

I too categorically don't agree with blaming it on Muslims, I do however reserve judgement about blaming it on Islam - it could have had an effect or it could not.
I read chromestatus every week or so and the intended landing date for this change caught me off guard.
There are archives you can sample to measure the impact of a change to some degree. We can use them to have an estimation of how common some patterns are. It's tricky to query so it may not work for advanced use cases or identify cross origin issues.

And it's not possible to reach out directly to those people. We can't just send deprecation notices to random contact emails (if there's any) on websites. We can't just open a "support request" to L1 customer support of websites telling them their site might not work soon. We're not going to send dead-tree mail to addresses listed on websites either.

If you want to support specific browsers, as part of your ongoing maintenance, you should test your site with canary and beta versions of browsers to catch issues before they go live at a minimum. You can also read the relevant mailing lists or blog posts for the major browsers to have an idea of the direction they're taking.

Chrome 91 went stable July 15. But the first beta was April 22. The change was probably in Canary before that as well. Quite a long time to catch issues with the right automation.

Personally, I wouldn't want to have to read the mailing lists and other articles. I would want a dashboard that tells me everything is tested and working fine automatically. And when it doesn't, I know I have many months to fix the issue before it hits stable and find the relevant documentation about the changes that might be causing the issues. Or just open an issue to the browsers, sometimes people are using APIs in very unexpected ways, or you know, a bug sneaked in despite the testing we have in place.
Right, I don't get what atoms have to do with it at all. Today, I can buy an iPhone for $1000 that's a phone, camera, encyclopedia, game console and more and more. Just 30 years ago this would have required a lot more atoms (including energy input, I suspect) and a lot more money.
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Americans tend to speak their minds more freely than others. Just in general, we tend to speak what's on our mind, and that can create some discomfort and confusion. When I run design meetings, I really have to call on engineers who are non-Americans to speak up, otherwise, they won't add their contributions. Now, it might be language barrier, or cultural upbringing, but I saw this in Europeans as well as Asians.

This cultural issue with management tends to bring up "whiteness", but most middle management in Finance/Tech are older white males, many of them are totally awesome, but majority of them lack cultural understandings and "offshoring" can create massive frictions.
I'd guess the device files just pass through the binary data to the hardware, and then it's up to the audio device/driver what their defaults are (probably PCM 16-bit 44.1khz)
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I don't think they were being patronizing, just trying to answer your question as written. Without the context of this reply I wasn't sure of your point either.

I should have looked up the rule though - from that other comment it does indeed appear that changing the title is allowed if the original title is clickbait. In this case though (without a subtitle or obvious other alternative), I assume the OP decided it was best to stick with the original.
> Cephalopods have got onto land at least twice. Nothing says they can't do it again.

Sure? But isn't that my point? They sure looked different and had different physical attributes when they lived on land.

> They can't stand up to ionizing radiation. This isn't biology, this is physics!

I wouldn't compare this to the ability to use a screwdriver. Or in a more abstract way, be able to grasp, twist, and push.
Always interested in trying new options, thanks.
It's funny that the other comments here prove your point, egh.

They miss that the contempt is not directed at those doing the work but instead directed at the skills-- this is evidenced by how they tend to trivialize the skills that are trying to be automated.

This is especially true when looking at the spectrum of quality of human work for a given field. Take, for example, masonry. There is simple bricklaying for the front of the house. Then there is intricate stonemasonry that requires a lot of careful planning, know-how, and knowledge of historical techniques.

There is machining a piece of metal in a simple way. Then there is intricate hand-finishing of that metal at the other extreme.

I suspect that over time we will see the less artisan, less "skillful" aspects of manual work be replaced but that fine craftsmanship won't really disappear. The more you learn about what goes into making certain things by hand the more you appreciate how foolish it is to claim that it can all be automated easily.
The entire white house should resign.

Joe Biden is a RAPIST, and a pedophile.
The closest for retail customers is IBKR, needs >110k they have lowest margin rates. They approve pretty easily.

On other hand Fidelity will reject portfolio margin even if you have significantly more than 100k.
> But the terms are not ill-defined

I'm asserting that if there is no rough agreement on definitions then you can't have a coherent conversation.

You seem to be asserting that there is an effort to actively obscure the meaning of these terms, which doesn't negate my assertion.

It doesn't matter why there is no agreement (deception, lack of education, laziness, etc.) without the agreement you can't really have a coherent discussion.

Your assertion that there are some who are knowingly obfuscating language is worthy of discussion but seems like a different (but related) point. I tend to agree with you regarding muddled language, but I'm not so sure about "those with power and wealth" being the cause.
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So much courage in enslaving the world and making so much money off of the flu.

Wow. I have tears in my eyes.
> proper announcements in ALL the relevant mailing lists and release notes.

I can't emphasize enough that mailing lists are worthless for this. Your average web developer reads no mailing lists, I'd be surprised if even 5% did, and those 5% are going to be clustered. Release notes (that anyone reads) come too late, since people only read them once users are already installing the broken browser.

Announcements that you actually expect to be read need to be in a much higher profile place, it looks like this is an appropriate blog: https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/ - even then it should be written with the goal of it being picked up by places like reddit/HN/twitter/news. Even then you should expect that most web developers won't find out, and most who do find out won't change anything in regards to your announcement that your new version of the browser is going to break compatibility with their perfectly functional website, incentives just won't align for many of them to fix it pre-emptively.

That last part is why I advocate for indicating the issue in a user visible but non-breaking way first, that's going to be the only way to get funding/time to update to your new version for many websites.
This doesn’t cohere with my experience at all. Many vocal anti-Zionists I know are also vocally Jewish. In fact, I don’t know a single person who is uncomfortable being Jewish in public, and I haven’t seen many progressives calling Bernie Sanders racist (especially with regard to antisemitism). And the right in the US has a far worse antisemitism problem than the left.
there's another comment to this effect and it's spot-on. I suspect a lot of the people quick to work on these automation projects don't fully understand the complexity behind it. Just reading the descriptions of the early and later machines shows the comical oversimplification of laying bricks.
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... I've got 3 tripods.

They're even older than a good chunk of my glass. A pair of Manfrotto legs. One with a 3047 head, one with... I'd have to look it up, its another pan tilt head. Then there's also a carbon fiber with a rather light ball head (that's the one I take when I have to walk a distance). Everything is hex plate. I'd consider the arca-swiss heads, but when I was getting a good tripod I couldn't find a pan tilt head that I liked that was reasonable in the set of heads. The Arca-Swiss C1 didn't come out until later... and... well... yea.

While the $50 tripod is ok... the tripod often has issues like its only waist height without extending the (cracked) center column which increases its instability. They often don't have good QR systems and that leads to people not using it.

A reasonable tripod head is about $150. An acceptable aluminum tripod can be found for another $100... and those are worlds better than the $50 tripod. It wasn't something I learned until I broke my 3rd plastic tripod (or couldn't find more QR plates) in two years. I still have the 3001 & 3047 tripod that I got after that in... '00? or '01?

Again, this is a "invest in something good and it will last a lifetime" rather than "get the cheap equipment that will fail in a year or you will become dissatisfied with."