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> but in many cases the requesting party has almost no relationship to the receiving party

That is a common occurrence - which makes it dangerous for either side to make assumptions about the other.

So the more I think about it, the more I feel that it's the "market approach" that's better-suited for work requests and issue reports, when the two sides don't have a preexisting personal relationship. "Market approach" is assumption-minimizing, and thus also mistake-minimizing.

On a side note, I wonder if that's what "rejection therapy" and assertiveness are both about: they're trying to teach you to ask people more (instead of assuming they'll say no), not take rejection personally, and to be ready to just say no to other people. Taken like this, they sound like attempts to correct people into using "market approach" where they tend to use "social approach".

> So it seems that the problem with the requester’s market approach is that there is no mechanism for setting value.

I think this is not a problem at all. That's why I called it "market approach" - the market is the tool that's used to determine value.
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I am fascinated, if you can, please tell the difference between when to use BJT versus MOSFET
> I’m curious if anyone with insider information can speak to the possibility that this has happened in Boeing’s space division.

s/in Boeing’s space division/at Boeing/

There's also the MCAS fiasco on the 737 MAX.
The Space Orb was the most effective way to play D2 once you got used to it.
I'm probably missing something but I don't understand where the 1-2 days number comes from; just for comparison: I have a 'dumb' phone which when used only for occasional calls and texts lasts about 3 weeks. I have an e-reader which gets used daily for about an hour and lasts like half a year on that charge (ballpark, it's so long it's impossible to remember). Both have batteries in the same range as this phone, how does it get such low numbers?

One factor could be that the 'light usage' mentioned (which really should be explained imo) includes hours of playing music, but still, 1-2 days is not a lot then?
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According to the project at the Github page, the online check has been superseded by a newer one:

https://badssl.com/dashboard/
1) Quite a motte and bailey maneuver you're pulling here, given the broad scope of your earlier comments.

2) Merely saying "it could have been different" is not an argument, unfortunately. What you refer to was 10 years ago, when the TX legislature made the decision to recommend electric grids be made more weather-resistant, instead of requiring it. Many electric cos did those upgrades. Most people would consider that actually a pretty good outcome given that this is a one-in-a-decade type of event.
Since my RPi4 is my workstation for a couple of weeks now, I find myself treating this little machine more gently, as in I close programs more often when I don't need them. I noticed I do this also with Thunderbird and not constantly having my email program open is a breeze of fresh air. You should try it.

NB What's also a breeze of fresh air (or rather, a lack of a thunderstorm) is the thing doesn't have a fan.
More likely that storage capacity/$ will scale faster that codec efficiency.

In a few years you’ll have it on your phone anyway!
For weeding, there are not just robots. There are wide implements pulled behind a tractor. These have many cameras looking down at the rows and zapping weeds. Deere sells that. Weed-It has been selling it for ten years.
Sorry, minor point: the country is the Philippines, the language and people are Filipino.
Masks work in healthcare settings due to proper mask usage and training.

The problem is at the community level.

The current world mask usage is: "Wear a filth rag on your face until the waiter brings the breadsticks".

This could actually be doing more harm than good.
After two System76 laptops I have now switched to Dell. System76 is good, but it's just too much of a hassle when buying from the EU; particularly when dealing with hardware defects under warranty. After all those years I had hoped System76 would have partnered up with a representative in the EU internal market, but alas.

Dell is also acting corporately weird by the way. The XPS 13 (9310) is available with Ubuntu 20.04 installed, but it's not possible to pick it in their Dutch online store like you can in the US one. You can buy it in the Netherlands (and presumably all of the EU) by calling them though. The Dutch Dell salesperson did find a way to configure it that way (with a proper 32GB of RAM too), but that took a bit of prompting and they were genuinely baffled that this option existed and that the configuration tool accepted it (they were cooperative; the knowledge just wasn't available).
I assure you that doing something like installing ACs in every home in Seattle would incur a massive cost, and it is not guaranteed that such a measure would ever be necessary at any point in the next 100 years.
I agree with this perspective.

I think people seeking to automate software development should find out a way of compiling something like TLA+[0] to executable code.

Right now coders are both masons(brick layers) & architects. TLA+ is what can bee seen as a "blueprint" for code, and the actual code can be thought of as the brick and mortar.

Devs having to only focus on the blueprint of the code i.e specifications written in TLA+. Truly takes the industry forward.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Yp3j_jk8Q
> without resorting to third-party software

What would be the "first-party software" in that case?
Yep. Never ever buy Lenovo. Personally, I buy HP and sometimes Dell. But Lenovo is forever off my buy list.
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You have missed the point.

It is not that there cannot be multiple points of failure; it is that it takes just one point of failure to bring the entire system down. As long as there are dependant and moving parts failure will be inherent in the system; it cannot be "inspected/tested" away. Adding redundancy does not remove failure it merely transforms/postpones it. Failure is the "natural" state; we intuitively understand this through the concept of entropy always increasing (or more colloquially; "everything is going to shit") unless we do something about it i.e. expend energy and do work.
"I know everyone thinks they like simplicity but my observation is that about 95% of software developers have a complexity fetish."

You do not have to be working in the software industry to see this, either.

It's no wonder the majority of these complexity fetishists are paid either from advertising (like journalists) or from venture capital. There is not much careful thinking behind those sources of money. Its "dumb money". Further, no one in their right mind pays to license the "solutions" these "devs" are producing. That is why almost all of it is free. The stuff that is licensed for a fee is marketed to birds of a feather, complexity fetishists within organisations with the power to dictate purchasing decisions.

If the dumb money dries up, the market for the complexity fetish may suffer. Common sense may prevail. Complexity fetishists may find no one is willing to join them in their delusion of "simplicity". If the dumb money keeps flowing then disregard this comment as irrelevant and carry on with the delusion. The parent comment seems to indicate not everyone is fooled, though.
Are you sure? Are you aware that people are shadowbanned on a daily basis for having wrong viewpoints? HN is only a good discussion forum as long as you do nothing more than fidget with the frills of narratives that have been decided elsewhere to be correct.

If you fundamentally disagree with some important narrative, even if you're polite and provide evidence, you'll get voted down. Get voted down enough, and HN will rate-limit you, and even trying to continue to participate will be taken as hostile activity, and you'll be shadowbanned.

Submit an article that's timely, informative, well-sourced, etc., but goes against the narrative? It'll be flagged without justification. Submit it again? It'll be marked as a dupe, and you're at risk of being shadowbanned.

Talking about any of this is against the rules. They think it's "boring" to hear numerous indisputably true examples of their misbehavior. Do it, and you'll be flagged, or shadowbanned.
Finding the right comment at the bottom... as always.
This. And I bet that a lot of people keep using their Light Phone for a couple of weeks, perhaps a month or 2 but go back to their smartphone. And then it’s e-waste. Think hard if you want this, try with an old phone or try living with your phone on flight mode and do everything by cable first. If you keep it up, consider something nice like this.

They sell an image of a simpler life but taking this step back is harder than you think.
One problem I had with the Dell shipped linux was the abusive EULA/TOS that shipped with it. Just a heads up. I bet Lenovo is doing something similar.
I wonder how many websites were using CSS those days.
Has anyone thought of trying to end-to-end train an h.265 decoder? The results might not be 100% perfect, but the resulting codec might bypass a ton of patents.
Larry Wall is essentially this for the Perl Community, and many of us unironically refer to him as a saint. He certainly fulfills the role of constitutional monarch. But his attention has turned more towards Raku, and the rename (which he opposed for years before relenting) has started to split the community a little more.

I was just involved in some local political drama that was, if anything, worse than what happened here. And ignoring the Perl community as a consequence. So I was quite surprised to see a news article about all people I know, all of them friends. I really think the months of isolation are getting to all of us psychologically. That and the fact that the color of the sunlight has been subtly wrong all summer long from the smoke. We are children of a dying planet.

I don’t know how to fix it, but I do think everyone everywhere needs to take some time and calm down if they haven’t already. I love involved in this, and hope that we can all have a beer together once again.
Can you explain what you mean by a sugar rush? I thought that was a myth
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In the past, one of the factors was SEO. A few years ago (in 2018, to be precise), the company I worked for tried enabling IPv6 on some of our websites, and observed some drop in Google ranking, that recovered when the IPv6 experiment was undone.
Simplicity and complexity are terms we use a lot to argue that something is good or bad, but nobody agrees on what is or not simple or complex and how that should be evaluated.

As an example, both Clojure and Go are programming languages that present themselves as focused on simplicity, yet they are in complete disagreement with each other. They have a completely different understanding of what is complexity and how to approach simplicity.

Because of this, when I see someone saying that something is "simple" or "complex" I personally consider that they really express how familiar they are with the approach or concepts used. While we can all agree that modern software is clearly overly complex due to the massive number of moving parts and opportunity for bugs and other issues, I don't feel that we have a good framework to actually evaluate that complexity in a way that could then be discussed in a more serious, analytical way.
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How does artificial intelligence help to identify causality, when AI is basically "throw everything in a matrix and see what correlates"?
> Playing on pride to exploit brilliant people for pennies. If you read whole thing you will learn Jobs was even worse.

Yeah indeed. Go look into cluster B personality disorders and look for the similarities between this behavior you mention and the behaviors of psychopaths or bad narcissists. It's an eye opener for good/naive people.
Microsoft minted thousands of multi-millionaires in the 1990s due to stock options. The Seattle Times wrote once that there were 10,000+ of them living in the Seattle area. Many were quite ordinary employees.

Amazon has minted as many or more.
I have recently become aware of https://laptopwithlinux.com/
7xxx is a workstation, so of course it's heavy if you compare it to ultrabooks. It is effectively a portable PC, so I don't understand your point. 7xxx is not "very similar" to XPS, it's a completely different chassis. 5xxx line however shares the same chassis with XPS - it's thin and light, but it's thermals are not even in the same league as 7xxx. So to summarize, if you want a beast of a workstation - get the 7xxx, if you want an ultrabook - it's 5xxx or it's cheaper, watered down version, the XPS.
They did a terrible job of it. They broke all existing comment trees and pushed google+ really hard and automated posting. I seem to remember that commenting on YouTube would then make a post on google+ with your real name and likely notified your contacts about it.
Hmm, about two years ago I bought an X1 5 gen, it had horrible Linux support.. as in it just didn't work properly. So I sent it back for refund, that was no problem.

I'll say this: I respect Lenovo customer service.
Interesting article, but unfortunately light on technical details. How do these systems distinguish weeds from crops? How accurate are they?
Almost certainly, but this is true of most low bitrate codecs. I've got a very deep voice and it becomes largely unintelligible in marginal mobile signal conditions. If anything this one might be more tweakable and/or personalizable than what we use today.
Google drive and google photos are after that time and they both seem to work really well and be core products.
I meant that lexer is just creating an abstraction from (very often) text, but later you operate on abstractions

like enum Syntax.String, Syntax.IfKeyword

dont ya?
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> But the person doing the rounds each day would also see the whole system each day, notice vandalism, know local conditions on growth of pest water plants by heart, et cetera.

Not exactly the same, but this is strikingly similar to some of the observations made in this essay: https://desystemize.substack.com/p/desystemize-1

When you reduce field work to a set of data, there's always something that got left out. You just have to hope it wasn't important. Sometimes it was.
> We still still have plenty of available ipv4

It really doesn't look like it.

IANA already announced in 2011 that the free pool of addresses was depleted.

Europe's regional internet registrou already announce two years ago that they already allocated their last remaining address pool, and now all they can do is manage a waiting list where they assign addresses of companies which went out of business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion

To further refute your point, here's an announcement from Hetzner stating that ipv4 prices skyrocketed due to the exhaustion of ipv4 addresses.

https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/ipv4-pricing/
That was a different program, COTS (which never involved Boeing). SpaceX has been a contract recipient for Commercial Crew since the beginning.
"90 hours a week"

for me means writing code that doesn't work.
Are there really only 2 tennis ball factories in the whole world?

I can appreciate making a high-end ball at scale is a rather precise and niche process with limited market and little room for innovation. Is cheap logistics making it completely impossible for smaller and less premium factories to be competetive elsewhere?

Does this also mean any ball you buy, whether budget or premium, is the same, produced in either of these places?
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If anything, this should be extremely tiring.
If you ever want to grow, you'll either have a very resitricted pool of developers to choose from or you'll have to take on the overhead of teaching them CL on the job.
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... but they're not actually competing if they can overcharge and underdeliver and get contracts anyway. This is the same case that Blue Origin is making with HLS: they submitted a bid for 3x the price and worse performance, and they insist that "competition" demands that they get a contract anyway! How is that competitive?
Alternatively, do a lot of pen-and-paper design first, including writing a few toy programs for every feature you want to add.

Mentally working your way through how a program would be interpreted and run helps a lot with working out the kinks, and in my case a least pen and paper helped me focus a lot and spot details and mistakes that would have been lost if I had been typing in some mock plaintext file.

EDIT: I'm fine with people thinking I said something stupid, so I don't mind the downvote, but I'd like to know why exactly so I can learn from the other viewpoint. What is the problem with suggesting to work out out problems on paper, including the semantic design of a programming language in particular? It's a good stress-test for "how well can I debug this in my head", for starters.
Next step: train a NN to predict what we’re going to say to compensate network latency :)
tbh, and while knowing this argument is hard to push on most companies, « old web technologies » are just as relevant as one decade ago.

If I look at any project I’ve made for the last ten years with « hype technologies », REST APIs everywhere, complex front end frameworks (so complex that it’s literally a second codebase), they totally could have been developed with an old and mature framework like Django, RoR or ASP.Net.

Once those projects are done, you clearly can see that : things like sending a form are incredibly complex and non standard, ressources are wasted everywhere, and only 1 to 3 APIs are used externally, and you maintain the dozen others for your own usage.

The sole reason we are on more complex stack is because the industry magically acknowledged that « web development » was in fact two different jobs.
Oh, I missed that. Can't edit now.
This is something that could be addressed by coreboot/libreboot, but it will probably require some time until most recent models are supported.

https://www.coreboot.org/
Learning about the past takes a long time.
I've been buying Fujitsu laptop for all of my friends, relatives, and family for the last 10 years, and all the issues I've had is one dead fan and one shitty touchpad. Tough, reliable, no bloatware, "Made in Japan" sticker... why does nobody in the US talk about Fujitsu laptops?!
You are right that I should have pointed out explicitly that I filed this specific issue. Please note though that I was not "asked if the bug still persists" before it was closed.

I used this specific example to illustrate the general point I was making, and I took an issue I filed myself because I know for certain that it still persists. You will find other issues in the Emacs bug tracker (such as https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=45577) that follow the same general pattern, but where in contrast it is somewhat unclear if the issue is now solved or not, and therefore I did not cite such an issue.

Another example, an issue which I also filed and which was closed even though the issue still persists:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=35005

It is true: I do not like how these issues were handled, especially that they are closed without actually solving them. The Emacs bug tracker is also not like the one on Github, you have to control it with dedicated email messages. In fact, I would have to look up how to even "reopen" an Emacs bug, it is not very clear to users, and this makes it especially frustrating if issues are closed without solution.

My impression from several years of filing Emacs issues is that issues are currently closed prematurely more often than was previously the case. Maybe this impression is amplified by the fact that Emacs has not even had a dedicated bug tracker for a long time, so issues were never really "closed", but the discussion simply petered out.
Nor am I. I’m not entirely sure what variety of mechanism you think will cause it to spiral, but I’m not aware of one.
I have recently written up my experience of installing Debian on a Dell XPS 13 7390, in case anyone is interested.

http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/how-i-use-debian-dell-xps-13...
This is what winning looks like (2013?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKHPTHx0ScQ
Very nice to see that you acknowledge both the potential for privacy in P2P, but also the potential disaster it can cause for privacy.

I think this gets talked about way too little. Every time I look at a new P2P or blockchain project, I wonder about all of the (permanent) data leakage.
> The right abstractions will reduce complexity not add to it.

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A long, but thoroughly worthwhile read on this topic is Out of the Tar Pit [1].

[1]: http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf
There's also the standard 18650 size, which is quite common and a lot of Chinese electronics have user-replaceable cells, but the big manufacturers like LG and Sony are vehemently against that and think people can't be trusted with bare cells.
Capability != willingness

If it costs them too much money to have too many people personally looking over every single positive hit to make sure it’s not false, then they’re not going to do it even if they technically could.
I had no idea about the new JIT but in any case it would be nice if more manpower was allocated on fixing bugs I guess.
Take a look at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feistel_cipher for generating hash functions gaurenteed to be invertible.
Linode fully supports IPv6 and it works quite nicely.

I used to have a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel but I've abandoned mine as my small rural cable provider turned IPv6 on quietly (all you have to do is have your router ask for a /48).
Root cause doesn't have to be a single instance of recognizable failure. It can we wrapped variable X, that contains whatever non-deterministic event, process or physical instance. That's the best one can do in certain circumstances.
One point I find interesting is that he mentions that Boris Johnson is doing nothing with the recommendations of the report. Why could that be? There was a lot of outrage when the poisoning happened.
How do you define "medicore-to-poor" developer who knows the language ?
The same problem touchpad issue also exists on my Lenovo L380 Yoga. I don't think it is due to firmware issues as the problem existed with the original and the replacement motherboard.

I had two repairs done and a good experience. One time a fan and one time a motherboard replacement. Both times the Lenovo comes to you service promised dates were a day off. This was due to a regional holyday they could have scheduled for.
Since the h265 relies heavily on operations which are not easily differentiable, such as translation of patches of images, together with a pretty complicated binary format, I'd be pretty amazed if the NN actually learned anything meaningful at all.