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Electronics are a particularly complicated thing to manufacture, though.

I know an engineer who started a small business (in the USA) that makes specialized types of plastic-coated copper wiring. The process is 90% automated and runs around the clock. He keeps two employees on at all times, but they basically just change spools and then hang out and watch the machines.
They also were among the first to sell handscanners.

E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulccjXS0wPk
You can turn js off. Discourse is one of the few websites that have a better experience with javascript turned off than with javascript turned on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_van already means systematically and at large scale murdering people.
FYI you can upload via the web now. Not that I’m encouraging you to use IG. I’m trying to use it less
You're absolutely right :)
Agreed. I was going to post the same thing but I would have expanded beyond phones to all Google and Google related hardware. The amount of ewaste I've generated over the years of buying Google hardware or hardware running Google OSes is appalling. Phones, tablets, media devices, etc... all in the landfill (actually to ewaste facilities).

A few years ago, I finally had enough and switched over to the iphone and haven't looked back. I've had the same phone for the last 3 years and it's still running strong getting the latest updates, performing as well as the day I bought it.

And even if I got rid of it to buy the latest and greatest new version, I would rest easy knowing that it would end up in the hands of someone that would continue to get a lot of use out of it. And even after that, it'll probably end up being used for its parts.

The churn of Google hardware weighs heavier on my conscious than on my wallet, and it hasn't been an inexpensive experience.
Their motto is "Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country."

You may have the right to leave but you dont have a right to enter a different country without their permission.
It may have been the early 2000s, but it was very early on. It "came to a head," on a trip to San Francisco, on one particular project (I am not at liberty to discuss). It would not have been beyond about 2002. I think it was pre 9/11, but my memory of that time is a bit fuzzy. I did a lot of traveling.

I'm pretty sure that HTTPRequest debuted in IE 5 or 6.
AFAIK Graal native-image also does something similar.
How do I build an automation test framework for regression testing
Suicide rates for children are onthe rise. There is a clear and obvious solution: repeal section 230. It is time big social media face the consequences of their destructive rent seeking of our collective minds space.
for me it was also hard to grasp what went wrong here. i always thought if this test can be gamed something is flawed with this test. they were given the task to pass the test and they did although that did not translate to the outcome the engineers developing this test envisioned for it i guess. It feels like they changed the requirements and then went after anyone not passing anymore. i do understand that they purposefully tried to detect the test to game the result "somehow" but i cant help it but to think if its possible to reduce emissions for the test then its a viable strategy on the road given the same usage pattern... although i don't really know how they actually did it...
> The US didn't do this for any imperial reasons

I'm not even claiming that. The US has clear strategic reasons to be positioned in many places around the world (like at Okinawa, for example). And Japanese people, despite wanting these troops out, are not going to see them leave anytime soon. So Japan has about no say in it.
Long time IRC user here. I didn't mind using discord for some communities but it seems as though they now require phone verification which I certainly will not provided them. I feel as though one should be able to use it similarly to IRC and not be tied to one account for one phone number.

I haven't been able to find a temp phone number to use for this purpose as the best I could muster was a vpn number that supports SMS but alas, that didn't work.
I think it's safe to change "becoming" to "has become", it's no longer in transition.
Yeah for sure. I'm sad it took me so long to realize what was happening. Still have a very hard time picking up my camera. Taking pictures with my phone is easier. Maybe I should post more unsplash. Those that are there are just for testing, hundreds more on instagram, but I like the idea of sharing for free with the world.
Almost all VPN ads on youtube are pretty much straight up lies and/or misrepresenting it.

For example, claims that the ISP can see your traffic. Well, so can the VPN provider. Along with that basically anything is encrupted anyways.

It also doesn't make you impossible to track and such.

The only real reason they have to exist is for accessing geoblocked content. And accessing stuff like company networks (Which the vpn providers that advertise don't help with anyways)

So, I literally see no reason to ever use such a VPN.
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> With trade volume only constituting a quarter of the GDP[1] the US is one of the most domestic economies in the world.

Because net trade volume is massively and surrealistically negative and has been for a very long time, assuming the fact that exports being small in relation to total domestic production means that Americans consume an unusual proportion of domestic products is not a good assumption.

Especially when you bring up Germany and South Korea, who are massive exporters with huge trade surpluses.
You mean as long as the kids' parents aren't mentally abusing their children to score points with their woke friends.
Reads more and more like a video game
I have the same problem with Gitter.im or slack for FOSS projects - quite a few communities have switched from being fórum based (and therefore the conversations are logged and indexable by search engines), to being ephemeral conversations in Slack channels.

You could argue that IRC fits in the category of ephemeral platforms, but most large communities provide some form of indexable log of the conversations
Great idea, awful UI
Yeah so this is my project. It's very much a work in progress, but occasionally I think it works remarkably well for something I cobbled together alone out of consumer hardware and home-made code :-)
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Looks like an awesome resource for self-taught programmers and those that would have loved to get a CS degree. Newest is in Java, the content in the Python Book is the same, the first book in Swift is missing some stuff.

Classic Computer Science Problems is a series of books that helps software developers learn several problem solving techniques from the realm of computer science. The series spans three programming languages and nine human languages. The books are written in a tutorial-like, code-centric format. They are appropriate for experienced software developers who want to refresh their skillset, and intermediate programmers who are looking to take their skills to the next level. They can also be helpful when learning some of the more advanced aspects of the programming languages covered by the series.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28543788
Yeah this was the reason I ended up there. Wanted to share with my family and friends. They all had Instagram on their phones.
This is sad, I hope they are not shut down. The site is such a treasure trove of not only data, but real culture. I did my Master's project (lyrics and music generation via LSTM) using data from Genius. I'm a huge fan of the site and the founders.
Not an Instagram user myself, but a trick I've picked up regarding Instagram on the desktop: Go to the developer tools of your browser and select a mobile view (in the responsive view options) – and there you are, on the mobile skin, including upload.
Thank you very much for writing it. Lucky me, i'm most proficient in Java even though i used all three. May do it in Kotlin, we'll see. You deserve way more than a shoutout, submitted it <edit> so Pythonistas and Swift developers may discover it too</edit>.
The 2nd dose cohort at that point had quite a different age profile (they were rolling out doses oldest to youngest). Over 50 age bands were 90%+ double dosed but 60% or less for under 50 age bands. It’s possible that older cohorts were out-performing typical mortality because of something like lack of flu due to lockdown.

Another possibility is that the first dose is an absorbing barrier if it causes so much illness and death that victims do not get a second dose. The two-dosed cohort are the “survivors” with the vulnerable already removed from the population.
I agree with all the comments here that this seems pretty sketchy, and that "de facto" acceptance seems more like "accidental" acceptance. But I've been interested in the idea of "global citizenship" for a while... Are there any less sketchy organizations working towards a similar end?
Forums were content-centric, while social media is person-centric. Every user got the same content, with the same experience. I consider HN a forum for these reasons - even though the content is ordered algorithmically and are voted on, Rando A gets the same view as Rando B (for the most part)
This is the same thing happening with cars. There isn't enough new car inventory so used cars are going higher and higher. Dealers are buying used cars for MORE than people paid new. As already built houses for sale continues to rise, new construction and rents will rise too. The market is adjusting to make all choices equally bad.
I know this forum! It was one of the largest installations of vBulletin for a time.
Yes there are various 'hacks' for using Reddit on mobile without an app, but the default discoverable Reddit web site that most 'normal' people will find is completely and intentionally broken on mobile
This has been my experience too. I think people are tired of it. Now they've even started putting random popular from strangers posts on the feed too.
You're assuming a heavily replicated horizontally scaled service. A lot of Java servers run on one or two servers. Hardware costs are immaterial compared to people/opportunity costs.

Fact is, Java now has a reputation for pointless churn that it once didn't have. For example kicking JavaFX out of the default JDK builds makes no sense outside the world of Oracle corp politics. It would be easy to keep bundling it and would reduce the churn but instead it's now needing new gradle/maven plugins and stuff. Ditto for all the other stuff that's being kicked out.

Also people won't use incubator modules so realistically new Java's have very few new features that can justify the painful upgrade process. Some syntax sugar and better GCs. If you're CPU constrained better perf but a lot of apps aren't. They're feature constrained.
Babble helped me quite a bit with my french
I thought we were comparing fast charging to battery swapping. Surely a machine that physically swaps out a battery is going to be significantly larger and more complex than a supercharger, and therefore also much more likely to break down..
Forums do indeed have terrible UX… but it says a lot that they still compare favourably to what we have today, in many cases. phpBB is hard to use, but it has instructions everywhere! Whereas modern alternatives are (sometimes) slightly easier to use (once you know how), but with no instructions.
It's not a fake passport, it's just an unrecognized passport. Odds are you will just be denied entry.

That said, even getting turned around the border can be pretty painful, and you're often asked to declare this kind of thing on every single visa application for the rest of your life.
An interesting idea but the whole point of a passport is to prove which country are a citizen of. Countries set their visa policies to accept or deny based on passport origin. A US passport can get you a visa quickly in most places in the world but a North Korean passport would likely not. If I can simply pay for a World Passport, what incentive do they have to diligently verify my documents? Obviously a country could produce fake passports for their own citizens but that would be for some specific reason like espionage. Maybe a small country would produce a passport for me with a big bribe but I'm guessing the countries willing to do so are at the bottom of the list of "most accepted passports". Allowing anyone to get a passport with little scrutiny just devalues the passport. Perhaps in a more enlightened time, something like a UN passport would allow stateless people to travel easily to countries that would accept it.
I think it has more to do with habits of the mind.

You need to be willing to explore and be inquisitive.

You need to be able to read more difficult books (than entry level) like Let over Lambda or On Lisp and try to understand every sentence and every example and not just the superficial side but also as questions like why this way, when this is useful, what are limits on application, etc.

I guess intelligence correlates but I know a lot of very intelligent people who are too lazy to be bothered to understand things deeply.

It would be fair to say you need at least some IQ to be able to do this. Probably about 100-110 is a limit below which people just are not able to understand complex abstractions (which is a little scary if you think about it, because that is over half of the population). But I wouldn't say you need to be very intelligent (like 140 and upwards).
See also: https://wiby.me/
Pedantically, I don't think the US was ever part of the UK. The UK ultimately had sovereignty, but that's not the same thing. Even now the United Kingdom's former colonies are not part of the UK: it "has sovereignty over 17 territories which do not form part of the United Kingdom itself: 14 British Overseas Territories and three Crown dependencies.¹

But that's kind of the same point that I didn't articulate. A colony is not part of the country that is ruling it. The Baltic states were part of the Russian Empire, independent between the wars, and then reincorporated into the USSR. They weren't "militarily occupied", they were part fully incorporated. When someone says "militarily occupied Eastern Europe", I'd only assume they meant the countries that were "behind the iron curtain" but de jure independent, like Poland or Romania.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom#:~:text=The%20U...
The book is very dry, as you might expect from the subject matter. It is also incredibly interesting.
i.reddit.com doesn't support stuff like videos or image galleries, so often links lead to new reddit. It is usable, but often quite annoying.
Well you should otherwise you don't really have the right to leave.

I live in a dictatorship that actively suppresses passport requests by its citizens. You have no idea how much I support this initiative. You have no idea what its like to have military assholes controlling your life and the rest of the world turning a blind eye when you just want to live peacefully.

It could've been you instead of me. This is a right worth fighting for.
I love that it even has Esperanto on the cover.
I find taking photos with my phone much more accessible to these days. Memory cards, editor programs, just too much of a hassle.
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Thanks so much!

It's a labor of love, and I feel that makes all the difference. I like to think of what I do as a "craft."
That sounds logical? A document given out by a US nonprofit doesn’t have any legal status.
Wow, the FBI's failure here is astounding.

> The FBI's investigation into Nassar started in July 2015, after USA Gymnastics President and CEO Stephen Penny reported the allegations to the FBI's Indianapolis field office.

> That office, then led by Special Agent in Charge W. Jay Abbott, did not formally open an investigation.

> The FBI only interviewed one witness - Maroney - several months later, in September 2015. It failed to formally document that interview in an official report known as a "302" until February 2017 - well after the FBI had arrested Nassar on charges of possessing sexually explicit images of children in December 2016.

> Abbott, who retired from the FBI in 2018, also violated the FBI's conflict of interest policy by discussing a possible job with the U.S. Olympic Committee while he was involved with the Nassar investigation.

> As the FBI delayed its probe, Nassar went on to abuse more victims. At one point in Wednesday's hearing, Senator Richard Blumenthal asked all four athletes whether they knew of victims who were abused after the July 2015 disclosure to the FBI.

> "Yes," all four of them said.
I did, but with the goal of getting more feedback.
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> Too bad Google Wave didn't pick up.

With Google's abuses coming to light I'm actually glad it didn't pick up.
Twitter is like the rest of Silicon Valley: there's nothing wrong with it that can't be fixed by doing things Ellen Ripley's way. (It's the only way to be sure.)
Why is this an issue when you can record the video, and just mute the audio on youtube or replace with youtube supplied music?
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The "surprise me..." button is adequately labelled.
And as always, the poor pay more. Your plumber, landscaper, construction crew need a car, but you're not gonna pay them more, are you.

Always some out of touch chodes getting paid six figures to work from home telling the rest they should be taxed more for using a car or something stupid.
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No worries! I was feeling a bit stick yesterday so apologize if the original doesn’t make much sense. Above is right, I was wondering how I could do something similar but legitimately, since last I checked biggest issue for me would be the immigration.

I know I’m in a super good situation, especially compared to others in the rest of the world, but there’s still that feeling when you know you’re ready for a new stage in your life yet some invisible hand is holding you back.
I used to go to the site quite often but recently I found most lyrics in a song have no annotations at all. Seems useless to check out a song with only 1 line annotated.
> Chat has this feel to it where it's better to reply fast and short

It's not just a feel. Discord's maximum message length limit is minuscule compared to many forums.
...and 20 years later I run into one of the guys who helped run it. ha!
As everything in life flows in cycle, I predict the search engine that will de-throne Google will be like Google when it started - a simple variation of page rank.

No smarts, no bubble, no signals decided by over fitting to a biased engineer preference.
Unless, of course, you've got a monopoly/oligopoly and a bunch of barriers to entry.

I'm under little illusion my cell phone bill is ever going to go down.
Could you provide a citation for your first claim?

Definitely agree with the second, and you can add “CEO” as well.
I stopped using Genius after their mobile-first redesign. I really enjoyed reading their explanations and meanings behind songs I knew, with the lyrics in the centre of the screen and the annotations off to the side. But now, the annotations open under the lyrics, so I can't see the annotations and the lyrics at the same time, which makes it much, much harder to understand the explanations — and the rest of the page is bizarrely limited to 350 pixels wide. I can't say I'll miss Genius when it's gone anymore.
Trillions of flies eating feces doesn’t make it haute cuisine.
> the removal of a handful of methods hardly anyone had used

when we moved from java 7/8 to java 11 two years ago, we didn't had any issue with our third-party libraries, but we had a few pieces of code, mostly related to encryption libraries, that failed to compile with the newest JDK
>Genius, a Brooklyn-based company that got its start providing context for rap lyrics

I'm kind of sad I only just now (as far as I know) became aware of this.

Then I wonder how many people who don't know / care to know the context of such things?
Where does the data come from? Do you index the whole web yourself? I see it totally impossible for a personal project. I'm very curious about that.
Tests needs to be standardized to ensure that they are replicable. If running the test several time wouldn't give the same result (within a small tolerance margin) manufacturer would cry unfairness and they would be right.
What if in one run more driver use the freeway and in another where stuck in cities traffic ?
Calculate deaths by ignorance and treat them as murder, too. Why not.
It depends on the orbit, the function, sensors, and the size of the satellite.

If you want to go to an L2 orbit with a 10,000 Kg satellite with one of a kind sensors (relatively speaking) for earth observations, disposable doesn't make sense.

Low earth orbits with low weight satellites, pico/nano/micro/femtos - cheap disposable constellations with mass produced widgets make sense, particularly when you can launch them on another mission.
Only tangentially related, but what's the point of a static class block? What problem does it solve that's not covered by either the class constructor or a static const? Doesn't it introduce a weird (stateful!) computation that's hard to reason about?

There's probably a use-case I'm missing, because intuitively I'd automatically classify it as bad a practice.
I watched a video the other day of a geologist talking about the fact that the hardest thing she had to deal with when working in Antarctica was the way her thesis advisor acted. And since she needed a letter from him to proceed then his threat of "you'll never work in science again" had some basis in reality.

She talked about how deeply it impacted her but that she only reported when her 3 year old daughter said she wanted to be a scientist like her.

It did make me wonder about how we could restructure academia/society so that random individuals don't have so much power over other people. It seems like a recipe for disaster.

I wonder if this is where the seniority thing that people complain about in unions came from. If there's some subjective element then you've basically given control of your whole life over to the person who makes the decision.

edit: one idea, randomisation. If you give the person in power the ability to choose X people, but then the eventual winner is picked in some documented and fair manner from that list, then that may reduce their leverage.
Funny, I was just looking into whether I could add a Deno config file to my project. Nice to know this was just made possible!
Photography isn't about image quality.
Yes, I figured that’s most likely it as well.
You can create zeroconf records on standard DNS servers.

A few years ago one of my clients which ran a school wanted to give airprint access to his guest network so that parents could print documents into the school office printers.

Creating those records is a bit of a PITA and you need to find out how to replicate SRV and TXT values but it works.

Here is a good source for this type of configuration:

http://www.dns-sd.org/ServerStaticSetup.html
It's still out of reach of traditional search engines like Google, right? Stack Overflow and other forums have the huge advantage of being indexable by outside services.
Yeah I dislike that everything is moving on to there.
I dont like having to share one account with all the random servers I join.
I dont like all the bots and the gauntlets to enter servers.
I dont like the format for most of what it seems to be used for.
I dont like the centralization and the general corporate overlord vibe they have.