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Its obvious that isn’t important to me, right? This sentiment crosses party lines.

We uniquely have the resources to be the most developed nation, domestically, but subsidize other countries’ defense instead and they subsidize other advances in their own country that we domestically deem too expensive.

So how about we get this semiconductor geopolitical nightmare out of the way and use our massive domestic resources the way we can. There are consequences, not the US’ problem.

There are a lot of people thinking like me, so hawkish people will need more articulate arguments for specific US foreign policy with specific countries.
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Cyclonic blizzard over the East coast.
we had two 100+ comment threads on studies about natural immunity in the past day on HN, but sure this is such an underrepresented topic...
It’s annoying that this has been downvoted because having your identity in easily-readable files on your computer is literally worse than saving passwords in a text file: Passwords will prompt 2FA, notifications and whatnot; Cookies might just work, albeit temporarily.
That the company would "pick something for you" was explained under "How does CookUnity Work" on the first page of the signup flow. The same page that says it's a subscription multiple times.
Or wear a silicone one. They are cheap to replace and (in theory) will break if they catch on something. I have a couple from SafeRingz[1] (not affiliated), but there are plenty of cheaper ones on Amazon.

[1]: https://www.saferingz.com/
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Buying more real estate than you use is hoarding. There is only so much liveable land. Out of all the things capitalism can apply to this is morally the worst.
I misspoke. I meant I can copy & paste on the web. On iOS I can copy paste from Google maps, but not Youtube. Maybe there just isn't a good enough use case for it, that's why it's not supported everywhere?
Frankly, I do not know why people don't build things on Kusto.
I never felt luxury when our service didn’t scale to meet the goals of higher-ups because the code was over engineered with hacks piled on top. It doesn’t matter how good of an MVP you built if it is so inflexible that it has to be thrown away and rebuilt to meet tomorrow’s needs.

Managers tend to reward those who complete tasks today as minimally as possible at the expense of the product tomorrow.
Have used the SQL and Gremlin(Graph) varieties. Heavy load on the SQL, not so much on the graph. Works well. The main advantage is extremely low "devops". There is also the added benefit of setting up a geo-redundant cluster while keeping the extremely low "devops" theme which I intend to explore.

We use it with a private endpoint and turn off public access. I've been generally happy with it.
You don’t really have to be familiar with meal plan services. Their website makes it 100% clear that it is a subscription. That’s how subscriptions work; they keep going periodically without intervention.

How did you arrive at “So I decided that I will not order again given the poor cost-efficiency. And I never logged back in to their account.” as the correct course of action for a subscription? You can’t cancel a subscription by just ignoring it.
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Note that I actually agree more with you two about the overall impact of the pandemic and the collapse of the hospital system, not with ManBlanket up there.

I'm coming at this more from the perspective that the panic over delta being something straight out of a Big Bad TV Trope that breaks all the previous rules, is that it completely undermines the effectiveness of the vaccination campaign. The current best antivaxxer argument right now is just that all the headlines show that the vaccines don't work. I'm pushing back against that. It still looks to me like nobody has given me any indications the vaccines don't work. I think their VE against delta has been dramatically understated, the waning immunity has not been proven, and their efficacy against transmission is probably a lot higher than currently assumed.

At some point in the future I'll agree with the perspective that we need to start treating this more like the flu, but if the hospital systems are falling over we aren't there yet.
In terms of bandwidth and latency, bikes can be much closer together (high bandwidth) but have high latency.
Yes but it will probably be blackened with soot which will make it hard to find.
There's https://github.com/richardpenman/browsercookie. Also at least for firefox it's quite easy to implement in like 5 strings or so.
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You conveniently skipped the rest of his comment which was really the important part...

There is no need to state the obvious. Nobody would miss any kind of advertisement in the media they consume but that doesn't answer how content creators are supposed to be compensated for the effort they put in.
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While I agree there is a certain threshold of skills below which one can't really function as a lawyer/software dev, after passing that threshold your IQ matters less.
There is the top 1% or even 0.01% of performers out there and then there is the rest of us. The difference between a software dev with an IQ of 115 or 125 doesn't sound that big to me. A lot in their careers will depend on their people skills and work ethics more so than on their IQ.
This is especially true for jobs like lawyers or even doctors, but if we go back to software development - a lot of it is quite repititive and actually favors well people with strong work ethic. Unless you work on cutting edge algorithmic computer science stuff (which isn't really software development), we all keep building classes and models and glueing libraries together; or we gain some deep knowledge in some mobile platform or even some embedded programming. Even stuff that sounds super complex to a web developer like Kernel development probably gets repititive after awhile.
Osmium is the densest pure metal, but iridium has an almost identical density, i.e. 22.56 for Ir, vs. 22.59 for Os.

The difference is far too small to give you a different feeling when holding a piece of either osmium or iridium.

While osmium and iridium are the densest pure metals, there is a range of composition in the osmium-iridium alloys which has a slightly greater density than both pure osmium and pure iridium.

That happens because the atomic concentration of Os is a little higher than that of Ir while the atomic mass of Ir is a little higher than that of Os.

While increasing the proportion of Ir in an Os-Ir alloy from 0% to 100%, there is a range where the atomic concentration decreases slower than the average atomic mass increases, so the density of the alloy becomes greater than the density of pure osmium.

At higher Ir percentages, the increase in atomic volume overcomes the increase in atomic mass, so the density becomes a little lower than for pure Os.

Unlike pure osmium, an Os-Ir alloy would not be dangerous to handle. Pure osmium is slowly oxidized in air releasing the volatile and extremely dangerous osmium tetraoxide.

In nature, the normal occurrence of both Os and Ir is as nuggets made of Os-Ir alloy, usually also containing ruthenium and very small quantities of rhodium.
There's a coverup by both the city and real estate agents (most will not go on the record about the bldg), hence little news. You can find a few Youtube videos.

Last time I checked, owners still live there. Some units are for rent for a negotiable discount.

Because of liquefaction, I wouldn't live there. An earthquake around 7.5 could shake for a few minutes, and it's built on landfill.
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There are no code reviews when we have to keep churning features quickly and continuously, with always changing requirements in the next meeting with the client.
Where did this interaction come from? – a brief history of interaction design
I too value my time. And yes, MacOS or Windows allow you to be productive almost right away compared to say Arch Linux. Compared to something like Ubuntu, I'm not so sure. And things which I use daily don't seem supported on Windows (using the GPG app on my Yubikey for SSH access).

But this is just an upfront cost. With Windows, which I've tried to use regularly, there are many annoyances which introduce friction in the day to day. So the "opex" if you will is much higher.

Just this morning I started my Windows machine to play a quick game and wanted to check out something on the internet beforehand. It started bugging me about some "recommended browser settings" in some Edge window that showed up half off-screen that I couldn't move. Then there's the Windows Terminal app which sometimes takes forever to start up. And windows that pop up and look active but aren't.

Then there's a bunch of other little annoyances which I now forget but over a work day end up aggravating. Of course, YMMV as they say, and I know people who aren't as bothered by those. But in case you are annoyed, the upfront cost of setting up your Linux DE just right may be cheaper in the long run.

I've spent a while setting up i3 a few years ago, just out of curiosity. I had been a MacOS user at the time for a very long time. But then something happened, and it grew on me. Now I only use my mac from time to time when idly watching a movie in bed, because I find it slower to use. I hate having to hunt around for windows, move then around, click on some Dock icon which sometimes doesn't show, others shows up while it shouldn't (in the full-screen Mail window usually).

I guess the point is that different people have different needs and are willing to pay different prices for those. There's also a case to be made about high upfront cost + low maintenance vs low upfront cost + high maintenance.

> Turns out paying professionals for quality goods is an alright business model, and I'm not losing any sleep by not having source code access.

Well, of course. Only issue is how you define quality, as related to what you need. For me, the price of the Windows license was lumped in the same bin with the GPU. Have to buy it to be able to play a game I wanted to play. But I'd feel robbed if I had to pay for it and than have to use it for my job. In my case, I haven't looked under the hood of the Linux kernel or the DE or the terminal app or anything, for that matter. It just works better for me. And I'm also OK to invest some time if it means I'll be more confortable down the road.
https://sunsama.com/ works really well.
If the products where A) relevant B) good.

How many youtubers have you seen shilling out raid shadow legends? They all praise it like it's the next coming of Jesus while everyone knows that the game is absolute garbage.

How many times will I get ad for NordVPN? Why would I use such a widely known and blocked VPN for streaming services? It is literal noob trap.

Worst is the reybud or whatever ear buds. Everyone says how good they sound and how amazing they are, but realistically if a brand comes out of nowhere with no other products what are the chances that they are good or even decent?

All of these are terrible sponsor ads for me. All they do is annoy me and waste my time. At least many video makers I follow have the decency to somehow indicate in the video how long the ad will go on so it is easier to skip. Only reason I don't use the automatic extension is that anyone can mark any segment of any video as an ad and it will be automatically skipped and I don't like that idea. Maybe if it was just some friends who I trust.
I wonder if this will lead to apps not allowing the initial sign-up inside the app, thus potentially reducing usage of AppleID? Although it wouldn't surprise me if Apple were to forbid apps that don't allow in-app sign-up.
Solution: a report ad button for Premium subscribers.

Once a significant (number && percentage) of users report it kt is flagged,

- first to the creator

- and then shortly afterwards - if the creator does not either fix it or verify it - to a review team or even to a customer panel

Some logic can be applied to filter out abuses of the system by:

- looking for reports by new viewers of this channel (brigading)

- dismissing / less weighting for people who have previously attempted to abuse the report button

- look at the clustering of reports in time
...You can order it right now on their site. Admittedly, it takes digging through their similar but old listings.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebo...
And they call themselves "communists" with their somewhat capitalist lax labor laws. What an irony.
That's an old argument, the "vehicular cyclist."

Only 1% of people are brave enough to do this.

For bikes to have a significant mode share, it has to be more comfortable than "just mix in with the high speed SUVs."

Plenty of examples of high mode share, Copenhagen and Amsterdam above 50%, and they do not ask bicyclists to mix with fast dangerous cars.
The thing I mentioned about statistics applies. Crimes are underreported in Malaysia. I get the impression they're overreported in the US.

Sometimes it's fairly innocent e.g. a lot of people feel the police are the last resort. People are known to "settle" accidents. Even burglaries; you can have a gentleman's agreement that the robbers will inform all their friends that this house has been robbed and there's nothing left to take, while the victims agree not to tell the cops. Or say, a teenager caught for drugs may not be reported, because the punishment is death. They'll just be expelled, beat up, or let off with a warning.
I just left Kenya which has a couple of things going for it:

- $1k allows you to comfortably live a upper middle class life-style

- It has a thriving tech scene, lots of interesting startups coming up (I know because I just had to close mine) and lots of techies looking for work.

- $1k also pays the salary of a decent developer there

- It is culturally very different to the US and offers interesting perspectives

Things I did not enjoy:

- A quite "negative" post-colonial mind-set. I struggled to deeply connect with locals because there is a big divide. This is a complicated topic imo.

- Traffic in Nairobi is bad
Pretty sure people still can't find the any key, we just stopped asking them to!
Several of their business PCs support linux. https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/overview/cp/linuxsystem...
I just checked this "How does CookUnity Work" thing again [1] .. So you are right, "pick something for you" is there. But it's hidden in a bunch of text, and the phrasing is unclear to me:

> Our Chefs cook the meals available on each day’s menu in our community kitchen, every morning. Choose your meals or let our auto-pilot ordering select meals for you (you'll be notified of the selections in advance).

I actually recall I reading this sentence on my first order. And my impression is "what? they are using auto-piloted cars to do delivery? I should go watch how that works when it comes" and I just overlooked what it actually meant :)

[1] https://support.cookunity.com/en_us/how-does-cookunity-work-...
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And everyone saying "backslash" is on the inside of an awesome joke too.
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Yes, they were graduating and going to work for NASA, Wall Street, insurance companies, military & contractors, IRS and mainly things like that.

Nobody small could afford a mainframe.
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So imagine two hundred people on bikes on a mile of bike lane and twenty people in cars on a mile of freeway. Both are the same freeway width. Just hold the thought of that enormous bike lane for a second. Then go ahead and tell me the same amount of free time-space is available for crossing in both cases.
> Now imagine they're judging you for something you can't change, instead of for your clothing.

Most people don’t need to imagine.
To your point, the studies I've seen report that 93% of a cows lifetimes diet is food that is not in competition with the human food supply, such as grass and agricultural waste.

A cow is essentially a machine that turns inedible food into nutritious edible food.
You're probably not wrong but there are Draco/Super Draco engines all around the Dragon capsule and some combination of those could probably be used to for any thrust vector.
Sort of.
I work for a defense contractor, so we use an air gapped sytems. I log into gateway servers that run Solaris. Heck, until a few weeks ago, It was even on Sunrays thin clients.
However, I then just ssh onto linux servers.
I do occasionally support older prorgrams on solaris and other ancient unix systems. Found systems without Perl on it. And once got a bash error report that had some MIT email address.
2048 truly is the epitome of mobile games for me. Simple, translates well to a touch screen and most importantly no ads or micro transactions. My one gripe is I can't compete with my wife's high score.
> Our 6-month program consists of 7 courses, 14 coding assignments and 4 portfolio projects.

On your website homepage, you claim 160,000+ projects. What's the definition of a project in this context?
Cloud deployments and serverless running directly on top of type 1 hypervisors make that irrelevant.
He probably is jokingly referring to the Nokia acquisition, which at that time is ran by an ex-Microsoft executive, whom rejoins Microsoft after the acquisition.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/tech...
> So thanks to their dirty tricks

We're defining "dirty tricks" as "clearly defining what's going to happen ahead of time", I guess.
The best example I can think of is Rails' ActiveSupport. The changes it brought to Ruby aren't fundamental in any way but they are convenient.
For example asking whether a variable is present? (truthy, so empty str and empty [] should return false) is not possible with plain Ruby but is possible in Rails. It's stuff web developers need and makes things simpler.
This is done by monkeypatching.
Another example is if you're working on a library that has some bug but you can't quite yet jump to the next version.
Sorry should have added "for free" . Illicit drugs arent free.
Now you're trolling. Please stop.
I did not realize it was a subscription, and I was expecting that even if it was a subscription, I wouldn't be charged since this subscription contains action items (the food item to buy), or at least I will have a chance to cancel. Which, both turns out to be wrong.

At the very least, if they just ship me my last week's selection, I wouldn't complain either.. But they choose to ship me random food.
Plus someone has to write the software used by those creatives.
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Even with skyscrapers it’s often more cost effective to level it and start anew. For the standard office park setup even Moreso.
the worst was trying to find one when you inevitable lost a jumper....
Oh I think it's well known and has gotten a lot of attention. In fact HN probably did a lot to expand awareness that it existed, since a lot of people here originally found out about it from PG's site. It's a bit of a puzzle why there weren't more comments on those old threads, but that's a different question.
No; I have 32 gigs on my desktop machine. I assume they’ll have 32 gig options when the M1 MacBook Pro models land - whenever that happens.
Not sure why the author chose not to, but personally I’ve avoided use of refinements because of the weird, stateful way that it changes the implementation of a class. It’s too confusing to scan the code quickly and know whether a particular class has a refinement activated in a particular scope. Ideally don’t monkey patch things, wrap them in your own class that decorates a stdlib class. If you can’t do that, my personal preference is to have the monkey patched class be consistently monkey patched on all scopes.
Does that work between Linux and Mac? Linux and phone?
I don't understand this example.

Duck Hunt has only a few sprites, maybe four or six. It's really easy to just scan the whole image and match those sprites, exactly pixel-by-pixel. This doesn't really need anything that could reasonably be called machine learning or computer vision. Synthetic 8-bit images can be handled with 8-bit algorithms. We don't need much art and we certainly don't need its state either.

Why pick such an example to advertise roboflow?

The article itself also has pretty much no details on how Roboflow works. Not a single code sample! Just links to Roboflow docs.

This is blogspam.
I've used different Linux DEs for over 15 years now and only recently started using GNOME 3... it's opinionated but I find it to be extremely polished.

I would disregard everything on HN about Linux.
Commercial real estate is almost pure “profit” for a City - pays taxes with little demands on services beyond some streets and basic policing.

Arguably property tax on office buildings should be lower to discourage cities from dedicate too much space to it.
> Apple and those parties mutually agreed to resolve their dispute

Indeed, but only after those parties took legal action. It's not that Apple at the first sign of disagreement said: "oh well, you were right all along".

Like somebody else said: Apple should just sh*t up about this. Don't spin it.
There is no requisite IQ, and I absolutely would tell someone with a definitionally average 100 IQ to "work hard" to become a software engineer/lawyer, as they could be in the absolute top of their field if they did.
The Honeycomb is older than RPi 4 so it made some sense at the time. It should still be faster for builds because of the 16 cores and the Honeycomb has far more I/O for people who need that.
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Why does this even exist? Why not simply make any and all trespassing a crime punishable by lengthy prison terms? Or problem is prison capacity? Why not solve it supply-side, just as healthcare?
Since Electron folks don't want to debug anywhere they just ship Chrome along for the ride.

Ah but Google is taking over the Web and such, blame on all that help them achieve their goal.
My favorite ActiveSupport monkey patching is on number classes. Things like 2.weeks.from_now are just too useful to scorn monkey patching on some programming ideological reasons.
Other people said this above, but I will add my own anecdote I heard from a factory owner, that he had the ability to retool immediately back then to make medical masks, but between the uncertainty around whether people would keep buying them and at what cost, he was unsure it was worth the risk of switching away from a profitable business to something that would take less ability to make and less certain profits. I don’t know what he ended up choosing to do. But sounds like ‘not forthcoming’ is also possibly an indicator that skills, and the demand for them, is high—and not in decline.
Re: ">file 2>&1" vs. "2>&1 >file"

I tend to think "a>&b" as an assignment to a stream: stream[a]=stream[b]. This way it's easier to understand why the ordering matters:

>file 2>&1 means stream[1]=file; stream[2]=stream[1];
2>&1 >file means stream[2]=stream[1]; stream[1]=file;
As others have mentioned, that band was not made of metallic tungsten, which does not shatter, but of sintered tungsten carbide ceramic, which shatters like any ceramic, even if not as easy as ceramic cookware.
In hindsight, that argument makes some sense, but back in early 2020 when we didn't know what we were fighting, there was no reason to believe it was endemic and there was no vaccine.
The master/slave quip, in combination with the recent post about Google’s newspeak, made me see the controversy in new light.

What if we are being told to not use the word ”slave” in an effort to make us unable to think about slavery?
See you again in a few months!
Most of his material here is fundamentally applicable to other types of technical or creative efforts not just software and/or engineering.

That puts him strongly in the high-growth inspirational camp for me.