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I played rugby in high school, and I was surprised at how much you don't hit your head intentionally like you do in American football. You use your shoulders, torso, and arms, or at least that is how we were trained. Sure, you hit your head occasionally, but sometimes in a maul you find yourself clasping your hands behind your head in a maul to guard the ball against the opposition, while your team tries to hook the ball out of your stomach side, while you are laying down in a fetal position on the pitch!

I still think American football players maximize power off the line, feel protected by helmets and shoulder pads, and basically create a more powerful jolt when they hit heads instead of shoulder pads. When you're not wearing a helmet, you tend to become better at protecting your head against intentional hits.

Then again Garryownens can result in being hit like a freight train if you decide to catch it!
Amen, I use vertical bars on all my screens, even desktop screens. It is the aspect ratio...
I have a rock solid i7-920. It's aged well.

Just stop using Windows.
How specific does this get, you can't label things?
Do you have a trustworthy news source that doesn’t do this?
Great question. It's not easy to answer where to draw the line with risks.

One difference is that a bicycle accident is an accident, whereas contact sports it is part of the game to hit each other. So it's less a question of whether a rare event might happen to you, and more a question of what is this common event doing to me?
(Rust's grammar has one teeny tiny corner that's context sensitive, and so that makes the entire thing context sensitive in a formal sense, but in practice, it is much simpler than that in the vast, vast majority of cases.)
Are any of those problems of "unchangeable 800x600 resolution" magnitude? Could you name a few?
I just finished reading this book, and the point I'm making comes almost directly from that.

https://www.twelvebooks.com/titles/patrick-wyman/the-verge/9...

Luther grew up in a mining community, where people where crass and confrontational. He had a frank, direct, and powerful rhetorical style that was forged in that environment. While he had several career options, a lightning strike made him get superstitious and become a monk. He was good at it. Take these 2 things - book smarts and an argumentative edge, and now a new twist enters the story...

The printing press!

The printers were in it to make money. His impact on history wasn't nailing a thing to a church door. The guy ran circles around the Church defenders because he replied quick, effectively, and he was the darling of the printers who controlled the medium.

It's not just about having the best argument, it's about fitting the format of the medium. Luther would deliver retorts in the space and time frame that the printers wanted. You can easily imagine how this would drown out the defenders of the Church (especially since it's salacious) and impact public opinion.

But that phase only lasted so-many years. Before long, the situation got out of his control, and that's kind of when you might say Protestantism started.
Combined with the unique and high quality stripe press offerings they're all quite good. It is a shame it's so hard and expensive to get them if you're outside of the US.
Awful. Don’t tell your kid to skip art school yet.
The reason Firefox is higher is probably because users who choose it are more educated about the internet and are probably the ones who know how to use an adblocker. So it is unlikely that the proportion of users who use Firefox globally is higher than what stats give us.
The taskbar itself is what is being referred to, I believe. Having the taskbar mounted to one side of the screen allows for a bit more vertical space to be used by apps, which is pretty nice on aspect ratios that limit vertical space, i.e. 16:9. It’s the way I currently run my taskbar and I can’t really imagine having to use it locked to the bottom of the screen.
Hi, this is Philip, the author of these reports. Sorry if this is confusing, but these are the reports I make weekly and present to Open Source Security, Embecosm and the GCC Steering committee. As this work is all open-source, I wanted to be as open as possible about developing such an ambitious project.

Another reason is that I wish to write up some document describing how the rust-language layers up, maybe a year from now. It is not very obvious to me what is bare metal rust vs compiler magic/library magic in the rust language. With these reports and my experience down the line, this might be interesting for people to read.
I expect that, like League, Union will lose the contested scrum at some point. That will at least lead to a decrease in the asymmetry in weight between forward and back. A step in the right direction, and nothing really lost in the game since scrums aren't really contested any more.
What's wrong with putting solar panels under wind farms?
That's an odd opinion. I definitely prefer bottom taskbar on laptop screens. Side taskbar on any screen is a no-no.
> Social worker Doris Herzog is the first point of contact for most applicants. She checks church registers to ensure they're Catholic and interviews them on their living situation.
This stuff has always interested me but I've never done a deep dive into the science; do you have any recommended readings?

Maybe phones will become a new arbitrary standard like 135 film was. Modern APS-C sensors and larger will be dubbed 'Large Format,' something of interest only to enthusiasts but meaningless to the average consumer.
That is how it is with documentaries. Just because they are getting lower viewing numbers doesn't mean you shouldn't keep promoting them. Certainly there should be a mix of entertainment and public interest stuff, but following audience preferences for entertainment creates a feedback loop that damages society.
For the most part of the last century, the question was answered by creating more demand to keep the work force steady, thusly increasing the amount of produced goods and services constantly with the increased productivity.

However the increased productivity also applies to extraction of ressources and destruction of ecosystems. On a planet with limited ressources we need to do the exact opposite, imho. That is decrease the amount of work done in extractive and destructive labour and channel all following and already existing productivity gains into sustainable work.

This will definitely need serious redistribution schemes, as well as lots of regulation.
Databricks Series H at $36B
My personal workstation is still Win7 (+ Garuda Linux).

When it becomes impossible to use it with Win7 I still just stick with Linux, Windows 10 is really, really disappointing, and Win 11 is somehow, worse.

Thing is, even MS is aware of that, helping developers port some AAA games to Win7 (but NOT Win8! for example Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Win7 and Win10, but not on Win8)
> As the PC continues to play a more central role in our lives than ever before

Does Microsoft really think this? I'm finding it's pretty common to meet people who don't own a PC at all. They just use their phone and possibly a tablet.
They do though. It's just that there's so much regulation and other problems that they can't adjust fast enough.

I've lived in Hamburg, Germany, adjacent to an expanding hipster area. Rents rose steadily and every vacant lot was being built upon, industrial zones were repurposed for more housing etc. It's just that that still only gives you a fraction of the apartments you'd need to satisfy demand.

If there was no incentive for investment, I'm sure we'd see even fewer new houses being built, because there's no incentive for the state to move, neither fast nor at all.
About 40% of our debt is owned by the Federal Reserve. That number is increasing every year. China has been dumping our bonds as fast as they can.

Our bonds are cheap because we can offload them onto the Fed.
Correct. Landlording introduces additional competition in the housing market, making buying and renting costs go up, and that's why it's profitable even when a lot of homes stay empty and a lot of people struggle to survive.

Add to that a political system that takes the side of large investors...
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There is no problem in the rich getting richer, the problem is that we need to smooth the friction for more and more people to grow.
50 Phrases That Kill Creativity
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yeah, will use subdomains for sure but don't have the top-level yet. Need something general purpose and like I said, pretty hard to find something tech/project/net related
I mean, you could ask the same question for a race-based test, and come to the same basic conclusion: that it is "irrational" to prevent it.

I think you have to leave look a little deeper to reach a correct conclusion. Namely: I don't think significantly more free housing would in fact be offered without these regulations. So it would not be rational to allow this type of discrimination. The regulation in essence provides an anchor "price" for free housing, while not distorting the "market" very much. This is a good type of regulation to have.
> A hobbyist with a blog? Probably commercial, if they are using the blog to promote themselves.

Or if the blog carries advertising. In that case they are making something off carrying the adverts (or why else would they?) and the content is becoming part of the advertisers' (and the people in the middle's) business plan.

For some content there is another distinction too: are they using the content or referring to it? Copying a large chunk of an article into their blog (or book or whatever) and quoting part of it (with attribution) are quite different things (the latter usually covered by "fair use" concepts).
If you've been paying attention, the opposition is highly suspicious.

Everything from "it's horse medicine" to "it's misinformation" etc. And yet, nothing about actual treatments. We're just supposed to keep taking booster shots for eternity, when something 100x cheaper may work too and may prevent it. Why wouldn't we investigate that with an open mind?

Like, do they want people to turn into big pharma conspiracy theorists?

My pet theory is that pro-vax and anti-vax are mirror images now. The pro camp gets its kicks from laughing at the naive antis, the same way the antis think they are so much smarter than the populace.

It is not science, it's science-fandom. And they are indeed useful idiots for big pharma, which convinced countries to take full responsibility for the long term effects.
> my idea of creating a "[standard aptitude test] for Developers"

Already exists. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27662804 Don't you have apprenticeships in your country?
I remember my professor talking about the ensemble approach the competitors were taking in a data mining class I took. I was saddened when Netflix ended up not using it because it was too slow and expensive or something.
No. But they can run Windows-only programs as well. Linux is objectively better that Windows in the privacy (and package management) department, but Wine just doesn’t cut it sometimes.

I tried a year ago to switch to Linux, with Windows in a VM, but it just wasn’t good enough for my liking. I wanted Windows program support but with the power of the Linux command line (such as building C and C++ programs from source). and WSL does that really well. I ended up switching back a few months ago…

Lastly, there’s the aspect of online school. Proctoring systems such as ProctorU and Examity mandate Windows or macOS.
NextDNS offers a DoH endpoint and is a selectable TRR in Firefox. Unfortunately that doesn't help with apps doing DoH to bypass DNS blocking. The current state of the Internet / computing is a bit problematic, but there are ways forward.

What I do and recommend everyone to do is:

1. Run an edge network device using network access controls and filter which devices on your network get outbound network access (in my case just the gateway device). Block all inbound traffic except what you choose to pinhole, block all outbound traffic except ports you choose to add to the allow list.

2. On every client device run a local application firewall (I like Vallum and Little Snitch on MacOS as examples) and filter applications by domain + port on outbound requests, block all inbound requests.

3. On every client device force it through a VPN to a gateway device internal to your network to get internet access, anything that falls off the VPN is then blocked from the internet. The gateway device can forcibly route traffic and perform additional filtering

4. On every client device, configure it to use an internal DNS on your network with a fallback to a trustworthy external provider, have the internal DNS use a trustworthy external provider over DoH. Block outbound DNS at the edge device
(blocks all non-encrypted lookups).

It's kind of a pain, and a mess, but it does greatly restrict the damage that rogue IoT / Smart devices can do.
Ever wanted to serialize a closure?

https://sep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt
If you DO decide to handle things privately...for the love of bob, cover your ass. This means record the interaction, that way if things go poorly...at least there is an impartial record of it to prevent he-said-she-said situations.
South Korea just killed the 30% app-store cut
Nah, list, and even moreso, dict comprehensions, are one of my favorite python features. Any time you can avoid state-in-flight (e.g. mutating stuff inside a for loop) is a win in my book. Maybe if you aren't used to the syntax, there is some mental overhead, but that goes away after (at most) a few months of writing python.
If your clothing is waterproof or has some kind of exercise "moisture wicking" material, it is common to have PFAS.
What systemic change happened? The Pandemic further increased the disparity between the rich and the poor. The massive stock market and housing price increases caused by the government and loan programs purely benefited the few.
How old is it?

I am used to ‘desktop replacement’ laptops having almost no battery life after a few years. My Alienware can last long enough to move from one electric outlet to another.
> the settings

Did they actually redesign it this time, or just redesigned - again - the "most common" options and fall back to the old version, old version+2, old version +4 etc for any of the more detailed panes....
It's ironic that I find old.reddit.com to provide a vastly superior mobile experience than the mobile-focused replacement is supposed to be.
To be fair, there are also lots of things you can only do with a phone camera, like have it on you at all times like a visual notepad.

One of my favorite books is Jerry Hsu's The Beautiful Flower is the World, a collection of phone pictures brilliantly juxtaposed to tragicomedic effect [1]. NYC street photo grandmaster Jeff Mermelstein now only uses his phone, to take pictures of other peoples' phones [2]. It's an interesting parabolic trajectory where the 'better' you get, the 'worse' your equipment can be, almost like how 'bad' fashion is an ironic indicator of 'good' fashion sense.

[1] https://www.fstopmagazine.com/blog/2019/09/book-review-the-b...

[2] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-photograph...
I think they want a vertical bar versus horizontal, I prefer this setup for laptops too, e.g. I have the dock on macOS on the left and Ubuntu/Gnome it is the default. It makes a huge difference when vertical screen estate is at a premium, as is the case with many laptops.
I entered the workforce in a very different time with very different tools which makes it hard for me to think through the counterfactual: "What if I had had to be remote when I first started working?" But I think it would have been very difficult and I might have been less successful as a result.

Even today, I feel like I'm cruising a bit on existing in-person relationships. (I was large remote pre-COVID but I still met a lot of people at in-person events and meetings.
There appears to be a similar issue with other endocrine disruptor chemicals like phthalates (plastic softeners) possibly increasing the risk of obesity. But those are typically polluting food rather than air.

https://www.endocrine.org/topics/edc/what-edcs-are/common-ed...
There’s an entire cottage industry of jailbroken app stores. You might argue that those using alternative stores are a minority (1-5%), but the act of jailbreaking a phone is quite challenging and we still have a lot of people doing it. If iPhones were able to run third party stores I think you’d see 30 or 40% of users opting in to that.

Is it a usability nightmare? Perhaps. But device makers shouldn’t make that “choice” for their users. Likewise you might not like the fact that your city has small businesses instead of a single large warehouse store on the basis of convenience and usability. But the public would not agree with you and that’s why we enact laws against anti-competitive behavior.
I agree entirely, the narrative that people should be entirely interested/dedicated to their work has been promoted by businesses for a long time, despite being entirely detached by the reality of those who work full time
Finally, an application for the conductive bungee cord...
That's one thing I've always wondered about solar. If it truly just flows back into the grid, and you don't get access to it during a power outage, surely a centralized solar energy installation would be a lot more efficient than installing them on everyone's roofs. You end up paying much higher installation and maintenance costs - the only real advantage is that it's a plot of land that's readily available.
1.5 years old, got it brand new. It has been like this from the start - Apple showing battery health as 99%
I've been assured by many HN commenters that there's actually no problem, but there doesn't seem to be a coherent reason for the ambivalence.

1. It's all in my imagination / they haven't seen it. It's a bogeyman created by the alt-right and their mouthpiece, The Atlantic.

2. Cancel culture is actually 'consequence culture', therefore it is right and just and nothing to worry about, unless I deserve it.

3. It's nothing new because whatabout the Dixie Chicks.
Do your homework on that. In many areas you can hire a solar guy to do your last mile for $600 to $1000. Everything else is DIY and Alibaba. Just make sure to get county approval on the inverters and UL listed etc...
"Hence the question of why are countries not changing the rules so the large multinational companies cannot achieve it."

I don't know. Probably some combination of cronyism, status quo bias, and the problem being very difficult to solve? Also it wasn't really front of mind in a big way in people's day to day political thinking in the US until about 5 years ago.

"but is there anywhere that this is true?"

It was a hypothetical, I was trying to provide a what-if analogy. I don't know if it is true or not true in itself.

"If the argument is that society needs to start collecting tax on wealth and forcing sales of assets, then so be it, but it should be stated as such."

That's some people's argument, but not mine. My only observation is that the company tax as it is currently implemented is extremely regressive. I'm not against regressive tax per se, but it's too regressive in this case. If large and small companies paid the same flat rate, I'd be pretty happy. How to achieve it, I don't know.
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I also distinctly remember Microsoft saying they would never wait as long between releases as XP to Vista. I always wondered which promise would be kept, guess we have our answer.
That was actually not the point of the article. You can be an extrovert and an asshole at the same time. Or someone who is quiet and still an asshole.
There's a fine line that PR has to toe in order to make a product sound supernaturally good but without it sounding like obvious hyperbole. This is a great example of PR failing to toe that line:

> The new design and sounds are modern, fresh, clean and beautiful, bringing you a sense of calm and ease.

The default desktop theme brings me a sense of calm and ease...?

> Snap Layouts, Snap Groups and Desktops provide an even more powerful way to multitask and optimize your screen real estate.

So you've added some features to the way I drag windows about a screen?

> Widgets, a new personalized feed powered by AI, provides a faster way to access the information you care about, and with Microsoft Edge’s world class performance, speed and productivity features you can get more done on the web.

So many buzzwords to unpack there.

> Windows 11 delivers the best Windows ever for gaming and unlocks the full potential of your system’s hardware with technology like DirectX12 Ultimate, DirectStorage and Auto HDR.

Hasn't every release of Windows and/or DirectX made that same claim?

> Windows 11 is optimized for speed, efficiency and improved experiences with touch, digital pen and voice input.

Yet wont run on 4 year old hardware....that's some piss poor optimisations.

I'm probably not the target audience for these kinds of press announcements but I really wish companies would dial it back a bit.
I don't know how much I would "blame" twitter.

But I do think that "the medium is the message" and Twitter's medium is short, curt, over simplified, and encourages exaggeration and even worse.
Cannot open the article for some reason. Isn't the Moderna vaccine basically a tripple dosage of the Pfizer vaccine?
How to catch edge cases in your designs
It’s really interesting to think about what caused last year's systemic change. I think that was the fact that the illness threatened our life directly, but most of all the consequences were short term.
For me “recovery” is the new substitute word for growth, which is a term that politicians avoid lately. Academically there are more and more evidences that decoupling growth from ecologic damage is very unlikely [1]
https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked/
7GB docker image !
Within Windows 10, the updates really were versions in several significant ways.

- They have support end dates!

- Hardware support can vary between version (updates). I could not even get Windows 10 Build 1903 to boot with a newer GPU. I had to boot using the iGPU and update to 21H1, and then I could boot. Trying to install the driver on 1903, the installer said this version of Windows was not supported (!)

- The UI can be changed. Just one small example, early versions of Windows Hello did not support using a PIN to login. Later versions started to roll back all the pushes to use Cortana.
You're right. That is a flaw with the free market. A rich person mildly wanting something will outweigh a poor person desperately wanting something. That said, the alternatives aren't much better. A wait list doesn't have any concept of neediness. self-reporting is unreliable (everyone will just say they really want it). A neediness assessment (ie. auditing each applicant's neediness) could theoretically work, but requires time/resources, and still has biases (eg. people with "visible" problems probably will look more needy than someone with hidden ones). Moreover, none of other distribution methods incentivize further supply. A sibling comment covers this:

>What makes dollars unique is that if you inject more dollars into the free market for a good, then ceteris paribus, you will cause more of that good to be produced. Whereas if you injected more bureaucratic know-how into the Canadian patient population, you'd merely cause more intense competition for the same fixed number of physician-hours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28367611