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> Everyone else was using micro USB for years before usb-C. So for years, every phone cable except Apple could also be used to charge your headphones, Kindle, Tablet, etc.

There were multiple other connectors in use (the 4 most common were Mini-USB A, Mini-USB B, Micro-USB A and Micro-USB B but that's not exclusive) — I still have a few of them because that “every phone cable” nirvana was never true at any point prior to USB-C. microUSB's fragility also meant that most people ended up buying many cheap replacement cables so from an e-waste perspective I'd be hesitant to say that was an advantage over the lifetime of the device.

microUSB also had many limitations — not just the inconvenience of being handed and easily broken in normal usage but also core features like not being able to supply enough power: many non-Apple tablets used proprietary cables because otherwise it would have taken hours longer to charge.

USB C came out years after Apple shipped Lightning and unsurprisingly is a lot more competitive — it's not like the industry didn't learn from the problems with earlier USB standards and I think that it makes sense for Apple to switch now.
Or just stop bleeding modern society to death with endless identity politics.
The United States thought the same thing and when through a housing crisis during 2008 and has been paying for it ever since with a frail economy and anemic growth. What China is doing now with Evergrande is exactly the approach the US took in 2008. Simply put, bad debt must be written off if you don't want to zomibify parts of your economy. Pretending that you can grow your way out of debt is fantasy as clearly evidenced by Japan and the US over the past 30 years. The fact that China has chosen to sweep this problem under the rug by rescuing Evergrande will be a drag on future growth and encourages future moral hazards. I don't predict doom and gloom for China, only that this will be a millstone around it's economic growth with additional systemic risk.

If an asset depreciates or isn't worth what you paid for it, refusing to write down the asset and take your medicine sooner rather than later just drags out the pain. Better to take your medicine and get the pain over with so your economy can quickly reallocate and quickly bounce back. The losers must lose. This approach does not go down well with politicians, but is the best medicine for a sick patient.
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That's just ridiculous. It's not a dichotomy between news sites running megabytes of software on your machine and proprietary walled garden networks. There was a near decade long golden age where people used protocols and clients, browsers delivered documents and everyone used the same global network, and you're conveniently just ignoring that to make your invalid point.

Do you like what the web is today? I know almost nobody that does. "We wouldn't have the web we have today" isn't a selling point.
Plastics shouldn't be around food, at all. They eventually leech into it.
To play Devil's advocate, are they really never a good idea? I agree with your logic about bias but bias can cut both ways. If someone's look tends to help them get hired why wouldn't they play that card?

I don't have a photo on my resume and have never seen one used in the US, but my LinkedIn photo (which I assume everyone involved in hiring sees) is carefully chosen to represent the mix of attributes (friendlynes, confidence, curiosity, and many others) that I think are relevant for roles I go after. Surely my photo also 'reveals' my enthinicy and gender - but my name does too.
I better get right on it! If you are curious, you can see my current Guix config here [0], though not very commented. But those files (combined with the rest of my dot files) would reproduce this system configuration.

[0] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me/tree/master/guix/.config
I mentioned this in a different thread, but I'd recommend you take a look at Pernosco, a debugging tool written by the original author of rr: https://pernos.co/about/callees/
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It had me at the title "You don't need a web framework, you need a web language" but then it immediately dived into arbitrary syntax instead of exploring in abstract what a modern web language would entail.
GP already made space for this analysis by admitting a sophisticated/unsophisticated axis, thus the contrary stance of your comment is unnecessary.

You don't really make an argument on where your example should fall on that axis, which is what I would have preferred to see.
I plug USB-C cable into my iPad and MBP more than I do to my boyfriend... so yours is only an anecdote of perhaps badly manufacture devices.
I'm a bit confused, is this a product or a project?
it's useful if your project gets very large. It is a non-negligible cognitive cost when your project is very small and you are new to Elixir and Phoenix
Plastics. I used to work for a chemical additive manufacturer a while back, they had additives for foils that resulted in a brake down into molecules that could be consumed by bacteria in the ground. Even did some tests according some EU standards. Not sure if those bags in the supermarkets were up to those standards.
As long as you doubt, you learn. And as you doubt you also keep striving for the best quality sources or insights. It’s indeed a lifelong skill, but it also starts with picking up the first book that helps you contextualize information.
> there was some legislation forcing that unification as well.

FWIW there was not.

There was the threat of legislation, which led to an MoU, and the EC expressed satisfaction with the results. In fact multiple manufacturers effectively reconducted the MoU unrequired (but probably to show good faith and further mitigate the risk of legislative action)
In awe of how many games Sid Meier made that made my childhood. Didn't even know he founded MicroProse
> Typically in DF, you lose because of a hilarious sequence of events that overwhelms your fortress' capacity to cope, not through undocumented behaviour and bugs.

You also never really lose. It's always possible to reclaim an old fortress -- losing doesn't cause existence failure, it causes a nonfunctional fortress.

If you abandon/retire instead of having everyone die, you may be able to find it in Adventure mode and meet some of your dwarves. Or you can kill the forgotten beast that destroyed it, then retire the adventurer and send in a reclamation party...
If we're going to get technical, the transmission of a vehicle is everything that exists between the motor and wheels. Americans tend to think of the gearbox when referring to a car's transmission; much like we call a computer a CPU and we also refer to a single chip inside the computer a CPU. A gearbox with two gears is still a gearbox.

I'm still waiting for the ultimate EV that's got 4 in-hub direct drive motors. Until then, we're stuck with transmissions.
A city near me does this, instead of recycling. Although, they still provide recycling bins, and still ask residents to separate their trash. I presume it's because it makes it easier for them to separate the burnable trash from the "wet" trash.
When another connector better than USB-C comes along, what then? Will lobbying be required to improve what otherwise would be a purely technical decision? What if legislators can't be bothered due to some other pressing issues? Will special models be designed specifically for European markets while everyone else uses better connectors?
> I find it weird to postulate deal-breaking fundamental limits for a process that's a strict subset of a process we've been using and improving for thousands of years.

The process that they're talking about isn't anything like the one we've been using for thousands of years. "Lab grown meat" is about growing cells in vats. Very different. It almost feels like trying to make a car cheaper by not having tires and a windshield (and no substitute). Sure you might be able to get something that limps along, but the things you're dropping solve important problems. Trying to grow massive amounts of animal cells with no immune system seems just as foolish.
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Yes, that is one of my goals. I'll be presenting this project at RubyConf and I hope that I can get the compiler to compile itself by then. Breaking the circular dependencies is somewhat tricky, and you'll see some frankly ridiculous code inside TenderJIT that is meant to break those cycles.
And better Star Trek then Discovery.
FWIW I try to avoid working like that. Shouting into the void seems perverse to me, and I definitely enjoy having some signal of engagement and approval when I post something.

That said, I try to suspend my disbelief regarding the impossibility of fighting the current and so try to be a good citizen in order to maintain a good city. I'm sure Plato or Kant or has written extensively about this, and dang seemed to approve when I discussed it with him in a separate venue.

So now that I've spent lots of years lurking, some more years posting and plenty of time screaming into the darkness elsewhere, I can feel satisfied if I post something that I know is interesting or helpful, even if I don't get any external feedback.

(I'm reminded of the whole descent-to-madness that certain areas have academia have undergone for the sake of bibliometrics. See e.g. Peter Higgs' comments: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-... )
Yeah, it still sort of has "early-adopter" pricing. It doesn't have the same market as, say, an iPhone. It's also working pointing out that the Galaxy Z Fold3 is $1799
I think you might misunderstand the difference between slaves and servants, while similar it is not the same. I'm not condoning the behavior just want people to be accurate in their information.
Last time this happened (with micro USB) Apple just put a dongle in every box.
Anecdote: I've talked to many people from China, and they all say almost no one wants kids. And for similar reasons to what people say in America (cost, stress, the environment). So I don't think the policy change is going to help them, too little too late.
It's funny because I also feel like Rimworld is a really difficult game to play, but it's a blast once you get the hang of it.
Toyota, committing to an all-hybrid/EV fleet, also cut it’s production targets in half.

The internet of today was possible to build in 2000. Replacing billions of vehicles and industrial equipment with batteries and solar panels or something in 20 years is not. You’ve observed a market response to legislation and central planning.
> the service lifetime is much shorter so waste is a very reasonable concern

Lightning has been around quite a while no? So waste wise Apple isn’t doing too bad.
You know that people in the US can spend a year in jail waiting for their trial, right? People keep making up arbitrary reasons why US=good and other country=bad just to justify their existing belief.

And what about forced education for children in the US? Nobody bats an eye at that, except the victims themselves.
Sure, as long as the electricity doesn't come from fossil fuels. Why not?
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I think it's nice that you can run everything in the same server. If you're scaling, and want to split everything up, that's a "nice problem to have", but it's convenient if you can just run everything in the same application/codebase when you're getting started.

I do agree with you that's not a huge win compared with Rails, but it is nice to have. I think you'd have to look more at something like "lots of concurrent, long-lived connections" for the real wins over Rails for the BEAM ecosystem. I mean, you can do that in Ruby if you want to, but it's going to be cleaner and simpler with Elixir/Erlang.
It’s just an objective fact that an Elm rewrite eliminates all runtime errors. Turing complete languages aren’t required to have ways of panicking at runtime, it’s a choice language designers make.
This is not in 5E, right?
Based on your previous posts, this seems like one of those times where you could admit you were wrong and explain why.
These were patients already at the heart institute, not representative of the wider population. I’m not discounting negative side effects, but that’s a pretty important detail.
I may not be representative, but I tend to keep it to a page or maybe two. You can fit a lot of info into a page and the 3+ page resumes I've seen have been way too dense. For me it's not an exhaustive list of work history and tasks, but things applicable to the new role. Ideally, I'd restate the job requirements (which is, what, usually a paragraph or 4-5 bullet points?) using my work history.

I often find the just degree too vague and job titles aren't representative. So if you filled the page with that info I find that isn't helpful, either.
It's food packaging. If we have to worry about food packaging leaking toxins, I think we have a much bigger problem than landfills.
Frontier was a massive game, and I was in awe at how he packed so much in a single floppy.
I think the term echo chamber specifically denotes something bad.

An echo chamber happens specifically when a group's internal belief's enter a positive feedback loop and become insulated from any external (and often internal) dissent.

What you've described sounds more like a group with common belief's that has not devolved into an echo chamber. And that is what we should all strive for.
> Jewish cares about when the sunsets

It's only for days of the week. The time is still the local time.

Since it's very important in Judaism to not do any work on Shabbat (the Jewish day of rest), there are two distinct Shabbat's in Israel. One is "religious" Shabbat (translated to English as "Shabbat") which starts at sunset on Friday and ends after sunset on Saturday, lasting about 25 hours. The other is "civic" Shabbat (translated to English as "Saturday"), which starts (as everywhere) after 23:59 Friday and ends at 00:00 when Sunday comes.

So when you invite a friend over on "Shabbat evening" there's an ambiguity: it's unclear whether that relates to Friday evening (the evening of "Shabbat") or Saturday evening (the evening of, ahem, "Saturday"). To resolve that ambiguity, modern Hebrew has a distinct term for "the evening after Shabbat that comes on Saturday evening".
Cool ty, I'm going to check out radeontop.

RE: the article, I also built a 100% amd desktop (in 2020) for Linux. Wayland, sway, vaapi, pipewire, etc... all working without drama. I've considered posting about it somewhere, but just haven't had time.
I'm not sure about the specifics of the protocol but I've used tens of DACs and only ever run Linux, and I've never had a problem with compatibility. I'm pretty sure the USB audio standard is pervasive enough so that basically any DAC you buy will be compatible. On all the DACs I own I also have no trouble configuring the protocol to higher bandwidth settings like 24-bit 192 kHz signals.
This is only a half measure and doesn't directly tackle the emissions or pollution problems in today's disgustingly wasteful and destructive global food production system.

We need 1.) more travel distance labels that show where things are from, while 2.) at the same time showing how much of the costs are government subsidized, as well as the emissions generated by the transportation costs.

Of course we need corresponding shifts, e.g. in helping communities learn how to cook with seasonal vegetables etc.. Living in the Netherlands, I don't need to eat asparagus from Peru in December.

But yeah, like in the airline and oil industries, it's the use of subsidies that's one of the root problems (although we all know that the US military industrial complex alone is one of the biggest polluters [1]).

We need more signaling systems that show the real costs; not to shame the working class who buy food (or pretend they have any real power to effect change), but to help reveal to them the wastefulness and destruction of the current system.

"Many urbanised people have lost touch with the sources of their food, and may not realize that the distance their food travels has been steadily increasing. In the US, the average pound of food now travels 1,500 miles before it reaches the dinner table, and the distance continues to grow.

Much of this transport is needless: every day, identical commodities pass in opposite directions, criss-crossing the globe. The ‘logic’ of the global economy leads the US and other nations to import hundreds of thousands of tons of staple foods each year, while simultaneously exporting roughly the same amount. In an era of dwindling fossil fuel reserves and rising CO2 emissions, this is both senseless and wasteful. But it is a trend that is accelerating as governments systematically promote a single, globalized food system."

- Helena Norberg Hodge [2]

[1] https://qz.com/1655268/us-military-is-a-bigger-polluter-than...

[2] https://www.localfutures.org/the-case-for-local-food/
Not to be a weird stick in the mud or anything, but I think the lightning connector is better than the USB-C connector in pretty much every way. IMO this is mandating a functional regression, and they should instead make Apple open up the lightning connector spec to others. USB is a perpetual shitshow.
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I would love to see the tech support tickets filed at the less technologically inclined agencies after network level ad blocking is launched
> This was just how we wrote games back in the day.

Most games written in assembly were not at the scale of Transport Tycoon, though.
I wish it could optionally ignore the info boxes and navbars. They kinda feel like cheating.
Sounds like freelancing/contracting might be the way to go. I don't have direct client contracts for the most part so guessing it would take some time to build that up. I looked around on some of the generic job posting websites and was seeing some part time opportunities so, that might be an option as well.
> Why do you think UBI is a bad thing and that it would institute a slave class?

Because if you are dependent on the government to provide you basic needs - they can coerce you to do whatever they want because your family will starve if you don't.
> As it is, using prison populations to provide lower-cost-than-otherwise-legal labor for private corporations creates a huge mountain of perverse incentives.

The vast majority of prison labor is for the direct benefit of the states or the federal government, not private companies. Still a huge mountain of perverse incentives, though.
There's this really interesting (touchscreen) keyboard for android called 8vim in which you write by drawing circular shapes. I can attain a decent speed after using it for 30 minutes but haven't really kept it on for long:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/inc.flide.vi8/

It's actually a clone of another keyboard, 8pen, which was abandoned. Here's a video of how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99vsUF4NuLk
>buying up forgegin assets
Freudian typo
With EVs taking more time to charge for the time being, I can see the "convenience store" remaining if gas stations switch to electric, unless charge-at-home becomes more prevalent.

Alternatively, these might be replaced by restaurants with chargers, for drivers to take their lunch breaks while charging their cars on longer trips. Restaurants, or any popular activity you might want to do on the go (a tourist attraction, though the novelty might wear out, cinemas, spas, etc).

Given that it it probably easier to create a new charging station than a new gas station, a lot more competition might appear, and we might see "charging hubs", with basically facilities centered around a fast-charging station, for people to take a break while their cars recharge.

It could also disappear once actual fast-charging is a thing.
It doesn't matter because within six months people will start realizing that the game fucking sucks.
I don't know about those fruits and vegetables, but cucumbers in particular are often shrink-wrapped in plastic, for good reason. Without the plastic, they go bad much, much faster; a matter of days instead of weeks.
Sort of - I have always called it "daylight shifting time" since nothing is saved, just shuffled around.

Unfortunately the switching itself causes enough extra casulties[1] that I can't say it's worth it.

1: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-accidents-daylight...
I don't think this is ideologically problematic. It's just that the people rejecting the authority have very little practice doing research.
Complaining about downvotes is explicitly discouraged on HN: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."[1]

I didn't downvote GP - indeed, I can't, as it's a reply to my comment. My guess for why it was downvoted is because it's not directly connected to my point. I was trying to say "with great power comes great responsibility", but it's not clear that that principle is necessarily being violated with the examples given by GP.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Late to the party but:

"Is there anyone on HN with deep expertise in this area who can comment on this article's scientific accuracy?"

Yes, I do. But I wont do it since beside me expertise I would have to take at least several weeks of full time to dig through the scientific literature and potential patent situation.

"Most of us have a limited appetite for 50-dollar lab-grown chicken nuggets."

This is where I become skeptical. We are not talking about fusion energy, something that does not violate physical laws but has not been able to work net energy positive in a man made setting. We are talking about something that has been shown it can be down.

50 USD per nugget?
What immediately comes to mind is the BCG Experience Curve:
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2013/growth-business-unit-s...

Hence, gut feeling without literature research: He is wrong.

Prediction:

1. We will see commercially lab grown meet bigger than lab scale within the next 10-20 years.

2. It will still be a minority market in the next 10-20 years

3. First products will be chicken nuggets, Hamburgers and (surprise) pet food.
> Why does the author keep referring to the player as 'her'?

Although less common, this is nothing new. I've seen texts that use "her" as the primary pronoun since the 90's.

(And yes, people have been pointlessly complaining for that long).
A lot of the countries where this stuff happens don't have strong enough governments to stop it. It's easy to become accustomed to powerful western governments if you've grown up in one, but not good to expect the same level of law enforcement in the global south. That's even when those governments care about stopping the problem - it's not something you can just will away. Eliminating trade in these countries just makes life worse for the rest of the citizens there and doesn't make the human trafficking problem go away.

Beyond that... human trafficking happens in USA. A lot around super bowl time.
> More than the alternative of doing nothing.

Are you sure about that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28630578
I'd say 3 days/week would be ideal. Thanks, not sure I'm looking to jump ship immediately but I'll ping you.
You're right on the mark here. I saw rr used at Mozilla to diagnose and fix flaky tests that failed just often enough in CI to make life miserable, but were nigh-impossible to reproduce in a local development environment. Being able to take that to the next level and collaboratively investigate a bug using a recording that captures it is game-changing technology from the future.

Imagine a world where instead of ignoring, skipping, or marking "known failure" on all those flaky tests your CI hits (we all have them) you could capture recordings of them, and then actually investigate and fix them! That world is possible!
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