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They've come a long way from building personal computers in Wozniak's garage.

In the process they've transformed into the 'big brother' from their 1984 T.V. ad campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI
influential people's children who couldn't hack it in the traditional test based university admissions process in their own home countries love the ivies, i.e asian countries. There are a ton of brilliant people who go to ivies on their own merit but we can't deny that ivies do play a part in keeping the elite power structure intact (as you said). It is the same old game of capital vs labor, capital always seems to win out.
An uninstall button?
No. Maybe if our population wasn't leveling off I'd take it seriously, but it is. And even then a larger population isn't bad, because more people = more engineering and technological advancement. And some of that will help us solve this problem.
This is not true. Essentially, all plastics are recyclable, and it merely depends on the technology available.
I am curious how hospitals and other big facilities will handle this that currently use diesel generators as a backup. Changing that to solar/batteries to power a large facility is a significant investment that I am having a difficult time picturing hospitals and other big facilities jumping on board. What are their plans for this? Or will the fuel always be available and affordable, just not new fossil fuel vehicles?

When a majority of fossil fuel vehicles are gone, what happens to the price of diesel? Will there be exemptions for bio-diesel or other variants?
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Yup, the influences on e.g. Newton happening to delve into reading up on Archimedes, Descartes, Fermat, and then synthesizing their inventions in his mind with lot of time on his hand, or for that matter Leibniz getting math tutoring from Christiaan Huygens seem to be crucial in relation to the invention of fluxions/infinitesimals. (Approximately from memory of reading Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz).

Doesn't diminish their achievement in my mind.
Me too. And I used to be an actual fanboy who defended them on Reddit. I have grown increasingly disillusioned with their philosophies to the point where I switched to Android and will soon be switching to Linux when my Framework laptop ships.
What exactly would the crime be? Haven't Watch keyboards always been banned?
So you believe that Facebook should be shut down because the Christchurch shooter livestreamed his crime there?
"attract businesses to build it"

I am wondering how that will work with the current "state aid" framework.

The current crisis is an opportunity to empty the public coffins, full of state aids everywhere, especially to large corporations, and send the bill afterwards to the people that have to pick up the bill. No thank you.

As for cars, we don't need those chips, cars were fine before without all those useless electronics.
Ah, because after that first 2/3rds, you're going too fast to have time to accelerate much more.
I do front and back end work, I have a conversation like this a lot of folks:

Rando Dev: "OMG CSS!"

Me: "Bro if you just want to get the job done there's no shame in picking a CSS framework and getting it out the door. It will look nice and you're good to go."

Rando Dev: "Yeah but then I wanted to tweak this and then I had to tweak this other thing and ..."

Me: "Whose fault is that now?"

You really don't need to get into the nitty gritty to do just fine in CSS land.

The amount of give and take and work that goes into a good CSS framework is shockingly high / it's great that it is done for you. Be aware of that work if you decide to get into the details....
That seems completely untrue from the recent Israeli data.
True, but Amazon apparently ignores that fact when calculating bathroom break time. 60 minutes of bathroom time isn't unreasonable over a 10 hour shift, if 30+ minutes of that is walking to/from the bathroom.
You're rewriting history. The US approved EUA and rolled out warp speed before any of this was known for sure. There was speculation on both sides. One being that delaying would be helpul the other being that it would render vaccines useless or that covid would be so bad by then it wouldn't matter. Either way, the US chose a path based on science and data just like most other countries. It wasn't bureaucracy.
For a typical simple monolithic web application which is likely to be the only client accessing the database, is there any value in using a dedicated schema that is not the default public?
His episode with Andy Dick is the most I’ve laughed in my entire life. I go back and watch it again a couple times a year it’s just perfect.
In practice, yes.

I have two middle names; most financial service providers decline to recognise my second middle-name. Same goes for the taxman and my pension provider. It seems that a "full name" is no longer a canonical identifier for a person, just really a kind of nickname; the canonical identifier is now an account-number, employee-ID or whatever.
Apple's behavior here doesn't surprise me.. there's a history of this kind of thing.. what would surprise me however is if the developer didn't see this coming after Apple made purchase offers.. were the offers insultingly small?
Paranoid alarmism, as far as I am concerned. The real threat to our freedoms right now are demagogues trying to undermine our democracies.

Look, I can't speak for Australia. I just know Midnight Oil, and they had plenty of beef with Australia's government.

But the US can hardly even keep track of who has been vaccinated and who hasn't, who has had covid and who has not, who has died from covid, who has not. We are not on the cusp of some covid surveillance state. And requiring vaccination, even among those who have had the disease, is a defensible policy, not least because the extent of immunity to the virus depends on a number of factors (like how sick you got, how old you are, how long it has been since).

In my experience, most arguments about slippery-slopes to hell are just wrong. Probably because the slopes aren't that slippery, or the slope is so shallow you don't really know which way is down, or because predicting the future is actually really really hard.
That’s your top nitpick across all points presented in this survival guide?
I guess we all owe George Lucas an apology for that one.
There's a very Australian term that perfectly describes Apple at this point, similar to Punts but starting with a C. That's exactly what they are, for pulling off stuff like this.

They're clearly abusing their monopoly here. I hope this will bite them in the face.
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What, do you think that just because the mistake is easy to understand and identify, that experienced developers won’t make it?

Experienced, smart, and savvy programmers will make all sorts of mistakes in their code, even stupid mistakes. It takes an immense amount of effort and savvy to reduce, mitigate, and recover from bugs in production code. Meanwhile, management applies pressure to ship new features. The kinds of teams and people that manage to ship high-quality code on a regular basis are teams with a lot of different types of people on them—you need someone who can make the case to management that these efforts need resources and are in the best interests of the company, you need someone to drive team culture and figure out what kind of practices will reduce bugs, you need people who work on automated tooling, you need people to run disaster scenarios, you need technical coders who can make frameworks that are easy to use but hard to misuse.

Nobody I met came with any of those skills out of college.

Multiply the difficulty when you’re working with distributed systems, like this one.
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> Whilst heavier, it may also be wider

Weight/mass doesn't matter, as all objects of the same shape above a certain density fall with the same speed. So literally just pick the widest object you can find, no matter how heavy it is, and ride it.
Luckily it's not too late. A C#/Kotlin approach could be introduced and would not interfere with existing Optional.

The type system would need to be extended with a T? (nullable), T! (non-nullable), smart-casting on null-checks, and with some annotations or a flag to determine if T should be treated as T? or T! and whether you can call methods on it.

> How is this better?

It's not if you use Optional.get, but if you use .map, .orElse and the like the compiler can prevent you from getting NPEs instead of them being runtime.
Just use d/m/y as the rest of the world.
Apple is currently BT 5.0 across the board (phones, iPads, macs, AirPods, etc). I was hoping for 5.2 in yesterday’s hardware. (They announced hands free calling for MFI hearing aids earlier this year, which requires 5.2, so I thought the new hardware would be ready for it).

I don’t think you’ll see an improvement before next year.
I mean technically correct. I think cortisol would have been funnier tho.
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The only true format is the programmer's yyyy-mm-dd :)
> walled garden argument

A watch is now a walled garden? Does Casio have to open its OS?

Either these are not general computing devices or there's no line, a fridge or microwave or a console are general computing as well -- and device makers have no rights to make a product from digital parts as well as mechanical parts without having to make it open to digital fiddling, and secure it dragging in that new threat model.
IMO, no. Public is just what is there by default and you could replace that with anything at the cost of having to configure the search path. Not worth it unless you are going to use multiple schemas anyway.
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Your butter is probably modern factory made kind, which is pasteurized. It can last much longer than "natural" butters of old.

Same applies to milk. My parents used to boil milk up until 20 years ago, mostly because they grew up in households with cows and they boiled milk to kill bacteria. It took me years of showing them the label "Does not need to be boiled" to get them to drop the habit.
I like the premise, and we have become more productive, but we’ve also diverged in so many ways. Docker and Kubernetes are only a few years old, and enable some standardization, but also suffer from cargo-culting and being used where they’re counter-productive.
Probably depends on whether you are in boxers or in a speedo.
I think the more widespread term for what you call "computably countable" is "computably enumerable", perhaps in part to make the distinction more clear. For example, the set of all natural numbers is (trivially) c.e., but has many non-c.e. subsets. But to understand this is understanding the Entscheidungsproblem, so it shouldn't be surprising that this was less clear before that was resolved.
People complain that taxes are already too high and shouldn't be raised. Others will then justify this statement by saying that the government can simply collect more tax revenue of industries that it is already taxing.

Well, this is exactly that. The government is simply collecting the taxes that you are supposed to pay in normal circumstances. It's rolling back tax concessions rather than raising taxes.
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Do you realize you are saying that companies shouldn't pay any taxes?
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Oh good, the people who brought you forest fires, rolling blackouts, and rampant looting will be sure to fix everything.
If you gatekeep applications on your device then it's a walled garden. Simple, no?
I sympathize with this point, and I tried to be quite clear that I'm not suggesting we drop everything cavalierly today, but rather we decide that our aspiration is to deprecate C/C++ and we move our dependencies gradually from C-based to something else. Some dependencies will be more pernicious to move because they require a lot of specialty knowledge (e.g., Harfbuzz) or simply due to their size (e.g., Chromium) but many others could be moved more readily. It will be a long, hard road which is why we should start now.

> Let's see how those "memory safe" languages would fare 20 years down the line...but I predict there would be a cool_lang and people would advocate for rewriting every algorithm known to man, yet again

This just reads like you've taken personal offense. My argument is quite clearly not "C isn't cool enough" or "C isn't memory safe", it's "C lacks a standard, sane build system such that packaging C projects is a nightmare".
Maybe take a look at Gandi. GoDaddy has always been a terrible registrar. People used to recommend Namecheap because of that, but I think namecheap has limits on the length of certain records (which may be annoying for dkim).

In general there are a dozen registrars that are better than GoDaddy or Google without having to choose a right wing nutjob with bad security.
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Huh, I'm from the UK and use the American versions. They American ones feel more logical to me. Probably all the programming books I read used the word 'parentheses' (:
Thanks for your comment and sorry if I was unclear. I'm not arguing that storage and compute need to be directly coupled. However, storage does need to be very carefully optimized to match compute, especially when you are trying read events and make them available for immediate storage. ClickHouse for example has multiple formats for table parts in order to allow efficient buffering of rapidly arriving records. Using customized formats has allowed the project to evolve quickly.

In fact the Lakehouse paper seems to be setting up a strawman. Here are three examples.

* The new low-latency SQL data warehouses are open source. They are are not locking data in proprietary formats. We're not Snowflake.

* SQL data warehouses are already headed toward support for object storage for the same reason everyone else is: costs and durability in large datasets. Here's just one sample of many: https://altinity.com/blog/tips-for-high-performance-clickhou...

* Not everyone cares about ML and data warehouse integration. From my experience working on ClickHouse only a small percentage of users integrate ML. By contrast 100% of our users care about efficient visualization and keeping data pipelines as short as possible, hence the benefit of a tightly integrated server.

I think there's actually a bifurcation of the market into low-latency use cases driven by event streams versus much larger datasets containing unstructured/semi-structured data stored in low-cost object storage. Lakehouse addresses the latter. SQL data warehouses are focused on the former. I don't see one "winning"--both markets are growing.
I'm tired of people calling me rich when I live in a fucking apartment and can't even afford to buy property.
Exactly this. Unbounded doesn't mean infinite, and people are sometimes confused by the distinction.
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It's either a private firm that will keep all the profits, instead of sharing a part, as if paying a loan or royalties, beyond paying wages for the created jobs, or a bunch of University teachers that have no clue about managing a company.
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I think, given that this is just some guy’s opinion (it’s not like this is someone who has a job as a professional copyeditor or publisher of a respected style guide), the only real takeaway most people should take from this is:

There are various conventions you can adopt around quoted punctuation

You, as an individual writer of English prose, have the option of adopting a style you prefer

It’s okay for reasonable people to disagree about that
Wow I didn't know that nor I even expected it. Can you recommend me a way to achive this behavior (i.e not allow users without permissions to create tables in the public schema) in Postgresql 13?
8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

which can be any of these:

YYYY-MM-DD
YYYY-MM
YYYYMMDD
>He writes 20,000 words on a highly abstract and technical subject, and every single hyperlink in the article goes to either one of his own websites, or to Wikipedia.

Exerpt:
"But then—basically starting in the early 1980s—there was a burst of progress based on a new idea (of which, yes, I seem to have ultimately been the primary initiator): the idea of using simple programs, rather than mathematical equations, as the basis for models of things in nature and elsewhere."

He also draws out everything more than it needs to be in this long winded narrative and explicit self-congradulatory form that makes me usually wait until someone else reputable with a computer or computational science background reads it and summarizes to see if it's worth suffering through the time to read it myself. Not only is it questionable (Conway and many others come to mind, would have to check dates to see origins but honestly who cares), it's just off-putting.
If you read it carefully, that CDC study compares vaccinated vs unvaccinated in the population of people that recovered from covid.

It does not compare vaccinated (and not recovered) vs recovered (but not vaccinated), but I have seen many people misinterpret it in this way including journalists.

I think this sort of misdirection is by design with how often I see it happening, the right does not have a monopoly on spreading misinformation.
I don't need to. As a general matter I never take a single study as definitive. I'd be an idiot if I did.
Flip side: why does vaccination automatically count even though there are conditions and medications that can prevent the body from mounting a sufficient immune response? It's a rare case, but if the goal is to prove immunity then test for immunity (i.e. antibody levels) regardless of cause.
This comment really hit me hard, Rayiner. I'm sending good thoughts and prayers to you and your family and every family with small children.

Reading another massive thread on HN about covid and vaccines. We are all drawn to it like a moth to the flame, trying to hash all of these differences out. I hope some good can come out of all of this.
Thanks for weighing in with your experience. I grew up in a dying industrial town in the rust belt and choices were very limited. It might be possible for a slightly better school by moving but it would incur penalties most families couldn’t afford (higher home prices, 2-3 hr round trip commutes etc)
I have found: The smarter I think I am, the dumber I behave.
>As for cars, we don't need those chips, cars were fine before without all those useless electronics.
But how will they make sure you need to have your car checked every 12 months and bill you for some vague "electronic component"?
The only people who I know committed fraud were the people filling out loan applications with false information about income/assets. And it would not be politically popular to go after them, and I do not recall ever hearing about them going to prison.

As for the underwriters and the executives who instructed underwriters to look the other way? I also do not remember them going to prison, but I also do not know if there was any evidence of their intent.

The beauty of many white collar crimes, where you can always claim you made an unintentional mistake and you are not dumb enough to write an email incriminating yourself, but rather talk it out over lunch in an all party recording law jurisdiction.
This wouldn’t be any type of assignment in an entry level uni programming course. Entry level uni programming courses are things like “implement a noughts and crosses game in Java”, not “implement a bespoke authentication workflow for a large-scale public cloud provider”.
While we're on the topic...

A UK passport has a "surname" field and a "given names" field. But a recent UK birth certificate has a single name field in which the "surname" part is distinguished by being written in capitals, so "Peter James ADAM SMITH" would have a surname consisting of two words. But what if a word consists of a single letter? For example, some Irish surnames look like "O Briain", and I think there is a Vietnamese name that consists of a single vowel, so presumably you can't always tell from the birth certificate which part is the surname.
Why can't depth be a design element that creates visual hierarchy for a better UX? Better UX can generate business value.
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{} are also referred to as handlebars, I've had a few American colleagues use that.
Most of what you describe could've been accomplished with sufficiently advanced telegraphy, optical media, and mechanical transport. Untenably expensive, but doable with 19th century tech.

The idea of "timeshifting" TV has been around since at least the '60s, Jeannie paused live TV one time so they wouldn't miss the game. But yeah, there's been innovation in "TV," though I suspect you're actually talking about videos on the internet (as opposed to DTV), and most of the recent moves seem to be massively empowering rights holders over viewers by shifting permanent ownership of physical media to fleeting licenses and subscriptions with terms that could change tomorrow. And, with the removal of the Paramount Decrees and decline of feature films + cinemas, we seem to be heading back to the bad old days of a studio system.

Satellite-based navigation, first implemented with GPS between '73 and '93, is a good example of innovation, and real advancement, after the late '60s though.
One of the problems is moon dust.

Well, yes, but at radio wavelengths, it would take an awful lot of dust to significantly impact the performance of the telescope. My gut says centuries worth if not millennia. And the article is proposing a wire mesh primary reflector, so dust will mostly just fall through.

Another issue is the change in temperature.

Similar answer to the above. The wire mesh reflector would expand and contract. I suspect the main impact would be to change the location of the focal point. We can handle that by moving the receiver up and down similar to what we do with telescopes on Earth.
Except that the term is about 15 years older than when it happened to f.lux
Watch keyboard? How does that work? Did it use the iPhone as a proxy to swipe on the watch (since there are obviously no APIs to custom keyboards on the watch).
Documents aside, do you consider <B> to be a given name (parent came up with it) or a surname (parent already had it)? If given, do you consider it optional (i.e., middle rather than first)? Sorry in advance for any shortsighted assumptions about the possibilities here!
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