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Apple should ideally have supported Vulkan once it became clear that was the way the wind was blowing, and released Metal over Vulkan as a separate runtime that worked on any Vulkan card supporting their blessed feature set. It's a much nicer API, which is good for developers, and it's also in their own interests to expose a widely supported API like Vulkan if they care at all about the videogame market (which I suspect they don't): as it is, many games will just avoid Apple rather than bother to port their work to Metal, especially since Metal often has a more limited featureset than Vulkan or DX12.

This would have been a best-case scenario for everyone, basically. I'm sure many people would have been very happy to use Metal on other platforms, and in exchange Apple devices would actually have support from most modern videogames. However, that ship has probably sailed now, and WebGPU is pretty much "Metal over <X>" where X = Vulkan/Dx11/Dx12/Metal/GLES/WebGL.
Having worked in Mountain View in late 2000s I can say extravagant meals were extremely common. I went on corporate excursions to exotic destinations regularly with insane expense limits on top of bar or dinner events.

Many of us have had a wild ride in tech, I think those days will take another 30 years or more to come back if ever.
She'll probably be suitably shocked again for the next guy that comes along and explains what she's really doing to her.
The point is that what other people not willing to do, or being afraid to do, can be difficult for them, even if irrational.
I personally can't think of easier thing than losing weight when you know you will die younger and know the present life has worse quality of life as well.
Of course the obesity problem has their own anti vaxxer movement where people claim obesity and health problems are not related, that it's beautiful etc.
Weather forecasts did predict these extremes though. So if you have 10*10 what do you get? Climate models warn against local extremes like that, but do not yet model all the details. There are no redeeming factors of significance, so that is very concerning.
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Async engines in Rust, C++20, & Zig
Aren’t the push in things on outlets worse though?
I know you said free but honestly Refactoring UI + Tailwind CSS is going to be your best bang for buck.

Read the book, then put it into practice with Tailwind CSS. Practice by trying to replicate their Tailwind UI examples by yourself.

Spend $100 to learn something right, save infinite time going down the wrong paths for nothing.
It is both childcare and education and that's not bad. Anybody thinking otherwise is straight up delusional and should talk to a couple of working parents with children aged ~6-16.
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Many of the loads discussed, eg washing machines, are also reasonable matches a local solar power source, as it's much cheaper to buffer hot water than have large batteries.

(Water heating dominates the energy used in those, the mechanical sloshing around takes trivial power compared to it).
Are you unaware of both the Stasi, and the fact that within the last 100 years, Germany experienced the rise of not one, but two extremely hostile and repressive government's hell bent on either exterminating every last undesirable, or rooting out any possible resistance/capitalist spy? Do you have no imagination to fill in the blanks of how much worse something like that could be with the assistance of pervasive client side surveillance capability should that ever recur? Have you forgotten that in addition to many other noteworthy controbutions, IBM also was more than happy to help organize and facilitate the systematic destruction of human life through facilitated bureaucracy? These are not even hypotheticals. These are history. Germany stands as one of the only Western civilizations to have recently experienced inflicting and receiving both of those circumstances. With the poignant reminder to all of us that the plight of those in Afghanistan are in the midst of learning, every damn one of us should be giving a cold hard look at the ugly applications of what we do and asking if we are not possibly creating something that we know will be abused. Companies follow the money. Politics change, capabilities, however, do not. Once the system is there, it will be used, and no company, a construct tolerated and given positive manifestation by State fiat will not stand long before that same authority when push really comes to shove consider the longest established U.S. company is a blip in the pages of history.

>And that's not even mentioning the veering into classic flamebait territory.)

We're not context blind rules engines. There is good signal here if you are willing to listen to it. Yes. It's hard. Usually, you hear this, and it all goes the same place, but we've (in the royal sense) lost something important in the last couple years; the ability to back away from something and to just let it sink in without taking a stake in whose saying it or where it fits in the Internet zeitgeist.

I know your mod senses are tingling, and I understand totally why. I didn't post it at first, because I figured you'd shortly follow up with this exact post. However... Well, I felt and thought it too.

Keep an eye on it by all means, and if it devolves into bedlam do as you must, as you always do. I just see signal in the poster's sentiment, as genuinely terrifying as that prospect is.
get a roommate.

roommates are a critical social developmental step in your life.

They teach you how to negotiate boundaries without a direct authority figure.

They teach you how to live in a common space with somebody else.

roommates teach you that you must be responsible for your actions which affect the other people who live with you.

roommates teach you the importance of financial responsibility because when the rent is due you both need to pay up.

You may be lazy You may not want to do the dishes, but you know if you take that messy ass plate and you just throw it in the sink it will become a mountain of dirty ass shit and you owe it to somebody else to do your part.

If both of you hold up your end of the bargain and perform 3 seconds of work to place that dish in the dishwasher it avoids this tragedy of the commons.

roommates teach you that self-discipline is critical for a tolerable society.
Async engines in C++20, Rust, & Zig
Aren't efficient DC-DC converters just switching power supplies? Are they inherently more efficient or long lived than a 120VAC-DC switching power supply?

I'm using my ipad while plugged into a 120V USB charger, and the charger isn't even warm.
It's not a "Jira alternative" in any sense. (Well, maybe in the sense that any issue tracker can be a Jira alternative.)

If you really want a Jira alternative, look at Youtrack.
I actually liked this a bit more than Psst, thank you for the comment
I think that's true for certain regions but not for others.

New England seems to me to have more civil and quaint small towns.
Israel has a patron handing them a few billion each year.
I had a series of MSI laptops that worked great, long before Linux support started gaining mindshare. I got a Dell Venue 11 Pro kind of on a lark & it was a lovely machine. Bright screen, very portable, good battery life, great clamshell detachable keyboard that was really easy to use on the lap, had good key-feel, and which doubled the battery capacity. One of the two cameras worked decent.

I know there's a lot of reasons for pause & concern, especially when investing a bunch of money, but my feeling is that we fairly radically under-expect how much things will just work on most laptops. My more recent Samsung thing has had some custom fancy hardware stuff on it that have had some problems (onboard speaker's amplifier doesn't turn on, webcams don't work, wireless was a struggle for a while (used a usb stick instead)).

Alas the recent Dell equivalents to my old Venue 11 Pro are much much more expensive than the Venue 11 Pro retailed for.
I think the nags discourage sketchy behavior. It makes some of the lackluster product managers think twice about unreasonable program behavior.
I have this bookmarked, don't remember where I saw it. There's a list of books at the end: https://www.visualmess.com/

There's a free UI interfaces book this week: https://weeklydeals.dev/
> If employees have to pay more on a commute, it will change companies' behavior.

I don't see why it would, why do you think that?
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> Boeing is an engineering and manufacturing company,

Boeing was an engineering and manufacturing company. Then they bought McDonnell Douglas but MD executives ended up in the management chain.
> During the exercise, the soldiers recommended replacing the standard controller with commercial gaming controllers.

This is almost hilarious, but considering that I have personally and professionally flown drones with controllers that are either designed to feel like or actually game controllers (I think the Logitech F310?), I can totally believe that the operators recommended it for this armored laser truck.
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I think you could be making assumptions about the target market / audience that differ from your own experience.

Since domain tasting became prohibited it’s common to have large portfolios and wait for someone else to drop a domain they don’t know how to monetize. These lists grow to the thousands pretty quickly, especially when you make data based decisions.

That said giving away your domain list / strategy to a third party is a risk in of itself.
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If a goal of transit is to reduce emissions from single occupancy vehicles commuting to and from work, then it seems to me that it should service outlying areas because those people are commuting too, and further

But of course it's not really practical.
I'll admit I was thinking more of JDAMs than those glide-bombs... huh TIL! Thanks!
Zero real rate of return. If bonds have a negative real rate of return and stocks have a RISK-ADJUSTED negative real rate of return, then gold or more generally commodities are a better option.
Exactly. The problem here is that everyone will just switch to gas for everything. Dryer, stove, water heater, car, etc. That’s terrible!

The 380-volt DC sounded nice, so long as DC to DC is more efficient than AC to DC, but I have no idea if that’s true.
Low Tech Magazine always writes like this. They always offer some idea which seems interesting on its surface but leaves gaps. They then end the article explaining away the gap with a moral polemic about how we need to change our ways and return to an older way of life. These days I just take the magazine for what it is; a medium containing interesting ideas but overall disingenuous and often impractical.

(Though I do think that Americans uses clothes dryers _much_ more than they should. Most other G20 countries do not. In our household we hang dry any load of laundry that doesn't involve our heavy blankets, and that usually ends up extending the life of our laundry as well, while taking just a few additional minutes. (See, "often impractical" not "always impractical").)
Bezos apparently felt very different about this just 2 years ago: https://youtu.be/bG0kT78SDn0?t=1801

It would be so great if NASA's defense/reply includes this video clip.
Well, right now companies have to compete with government benefits in many states. Benefits that exceed the free market wage by a significant margin in most cases.

Why would companies raise wages now when they can wait a few months to see if the situation changes?

People seem upset by this, but if you have a free market economy, you should anticipate that actors will work in their own best interest.

Changing regulations around compensation will be much more effective versus hoping that a company will act on a specific moral principle.
Jokes aside, you can probably get close to that by running Zoom in a VM with NAT.

Unfortunately, sound and camera tend to be sketchy in a VM.
people pay for fonts? I just figured everyone downloaded them off of dafont.com and was done with it...
I think that's a doomed plan. It varies from city to city, and even over time based on what they can contract to unload.

They try to relay changes, but the messaging is incredibly spotty. At one point they were saying "plastic containers where the mouth is wider than the base" or something like that, rather than even trying to use the plastic codes.
But this just puts a strain on people in these situations, and they don't need it.

In Paris, there are more and more "anti-car" measures which are currently in effect, but no alternatives. Yes, they're building and extending a bunch of metro lines, which I think is great, but almost none of those are currently operational.

I think that there may be people who will absolutely choose to drive if at all possible, but I believe they are a minority, so maybe let's not concern ourselves with them at first.

But I also believe that most people will take the sensible option, and if transit is cheaper and faster (or at least not terribly slower and inconvenient) they will choose this option.

My point is that all these policies amount to a lot of sticks and no carrots.

If I lived where my parents live, my commute would be close to two hours each way, if (and that's a big if) none of the several trains I'd have to take had any issue. Commuting by car would be around one hour each way. It would cost more because of the taxes on gas, but would allow me both some flexibility on coming and going AND let me get back two hours per day.

And they live in a town with a direct to Paris suburban train stop. Many, many towns in the suburbs don't even have a train stop at all, so you'd have to catch a bus first to then catch a slower train.

Now here's the kicker: most people I know, working in IT, are barely able to afford a livable apartment to raise a one-kid family. Hell, most end up living outside of Paris. So I'm not sure how much you can reasonably expect the wages for low-earners to rise so that they could afford to live in Paris instead of driving there.

My point is that rising gas taxes and, generally, acting directly on the driving itself won't solve the issue, because people driving is itself a consequence of the underlying issue.

I don't know what the solution is, but personally I'd rather look at improving the transit network and incentivizing companies to open offices elsewhere, to ease the density-related problems, such as overcrowded metros. Maybe then people would stop driving around in Paris, because they would have no reason to.
What does it buy you, as employer, to whine about made-up worker shortages?
Layers and layers of styling, all sorts of frameworks and web trinkets. I like the style of this website, it is simple and not overwhelming. It does look older but old in UI/UX doesn’t mean worse, it could mean better in many ways. However, the left banner overlaps the content and it makes reading the content on my phone nearly impossible so I guess it’s got its flaws.
Reinventing the wheel but imperfectly. He basically made a premium learning pod for adult learners at best.
How else would they backup your command-line passed passwords and private keys for you?
I very strongly recommend reading the underlying article itself. I've submitted that numerous times to HN, unfortunately PDFs seem not to have much uptake, in part because many readers arrive via mobile devices.

https://www-legacy.dge.carnegiescience.edu/DGE/Dukes/Dukes_C...

I'd stumbled across this through my own research, trying to find literature with a detailed description of fossil-fuel formation. I've since found it referenced by numerous other works --- yes, one of my forms of entertainment is looking for familiar citations amongst footnotes. Smil's Energy and Civilization being one work citing Dukes.

It's not just the material conversion that's staggering, there's the time of accumulation. For petroleum, humans burn in one year a quantity which took five million years to accumulate.
I had to read the headline twice. The name scheme chosen makes it almost impossible not to think that this isn't an IMDb news bit.
Climate reports and studies are regarded as conservative. IPCC reports are for example aggregate meta-studies, and those again not granular enough to detail weather. So it may be extremes are coming this decade and feedback effects (heatwaves, fires, floods, albedo change, ocean warming and acidification) also triggering this decade. It won't be one effect, and it'll take time worsening, but could happen faster than anticipated and all at once, on the timescale of decades.

It would be foolish to expect correct scientific predictions and consensus in all details before it happens.
Ultrasonic sound transmission is what Cisco WebEx also claims to do. So it not something unheard of (although it is not hearable).
> 0 - It’s also telling that such advocates never seem to actually say who should be stuck doing all the labor that machines like washing machines now do for us. Washing clothes and dishes by hand is hard labor, and someone is going to have to give up their career or free time to do it if we’re going to ban these machines. No extra credit if you figure out who will get stuck with the task…

Yeah lol I always find this the funniest part of Low Tech Magazine. While they're always breathlessly moralizing, they rarely think through (or at least write about) the social ramifications of the changes they propose. They do have some interesting ideas though, such as the use of thermal cookers, and burning biomass in a rocket stove may not be the worst idea if you live in an area with a temperate climate and a dirty grid. Perhaps more practical though would be just incentivizing ordering at a restaurant, since a restaurant will be more energy efficient at preparing food than an individual will.
Thanks man. It's difficult to keep track as I've seen so many new languages on HN. This one seemed like an important one.
I'll be annoying and say if people used the FOSS alternatives we wouldn't have to be so paranoid about a tool we all use.
And, honestly, my life would be way better if I could spend twice the energy I do now, without destroying the planet. Energy use is basically a synonym for quality of life for humans. If we can expand it without destroying the world, we should.
..but you got nothing to hide. right, citizen?
Off-Topic but the domain-name for that site is perfect. (I wonder how many people these days would even recognize it!)
If you build the dam in California. Oregon is to the north.
Great resource, bookmarked!
Hard to keep things ephemeral today. Digital is so much easier to to copy and propagate.
I don’t think the magic cookie was anything deliberately complex, but you’re right that guessing wouldn’t have been very practical.
Another problem is that the gap between the rank-and-file worker and the top tier is ballooning out of proportion. 50 years ago you would bust your ass at work and your CEO would be driving a fancy car with the profits you made him. Today you have a slightly nicer car and your CEO has a private island.
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I wonder wether this is actually intentional or just a bug in how screenshot information is saved.
Not sure why that matters. The point is that parents want their kids in school and the current pandemic conditions restricts that, so parents are forced to be at home with their kids instead of working at a job.
> Attract younger, remote workers and then eventually there'd be enough going on

I think there may be something to this.

The other day I was riding around the French Pyrenees, and some (bigger) villages had signs along the lines of "fibered village", as in "with optic fiber". Along those were other signs about selling lots, mostly by the town hall.

I was thinking that maybe this could attract remote workers. The environment is beautiful (if you're into mountains), they have clean air, etc. It could be great for a remote worker.

But then it hit me. Say you'd go to one of those villages, with a girlfriend / wife, or you found one there, and wanted to have kids. They'd be able to go to elementary school. But probably starting in junior high, and certainly in high school, they'd have to take the school bus to the "local big town". Which is, basically, a commute.

So I got a feeling of "unfairness": people moving there to escape commutes, but then subjecting their young kinds to the same...
I'd suggested this to Google some years back.

Entirely by coincidence, on the anniversary of Kristallnacht.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170604101018/https://plus.goog...
DC-DC actually converts DC to high freq. AC 1st, then uses a transformer and then rectifiers, smoothing, feedback, etc. If no isolation, i.e. common ground is fine, a choke instead of a transformer is fine too.
> My position is 100% fungible

It's fungible only when the entire set of available workers shares your competence (i.e. your skill-set, relevant experience, and business domain knowledge) - or - can be quickly trained to acquire such competence.

...and I'll wager that the vast majority (90%-ish?) of the working-age and almost-working-age population in your country is both unqualified to write software professionally and is not interested in spending 2-4 years of their life to study CS or SE to a level sufficient to do the work you currently do. Of the other 10% at least 9.95% of them won't have your business domain knowledge needed to do your job such that you make the right decisions early-on or slow down others by bringing them in for help, and so on.

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What I was complaining about was when it's reported in the news, or ever really said by anyone, that "opening this new coal-mine in Greenhippieville, CA will create 5,000 jobs!" or that "the economy added 10,000 jobs this month" - because the "jobs" those numbers refer to could be anything without further qualification, and doing that will make the conversation too technical for a general audience.
It means that you need a new job.