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Similar experience for me. Years ago I made a decision to jump into data engineering and reporting instead of pushing more into enterprise app development (meaning, Java/C# stuff).

I share the question about a solution searching for a problem. I will say that I continue to see efforts being made that seem focused on adding a bullet point to some executive leader's yearly accomplishments rather than specifically providing value back to an org . . .
In the sense that products which do not support third-party repairability should generally have a higher first party warranty requirement, I agree.
> that kind of power will attract people who want to use it.

See also: government.
LT has a free iOS app - that's what I use to scan in my books.
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ia anyone using roam tooling for their project instead of eslint, etc,.? would love to hear some feedback
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That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job
Looks like there's a trend here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/world/middleeast/tunnelin...
Where I work we had an enterprise RHEL license but it got too expensive. So I converted all our systems to CentOS. Then CentOS went away, not doing it again. We're moving to Ubuntu.
We used to say that AI development should be "embodied," because only the real world was complex and structured enough to train up an intelligence. Funny how the tables have turned!

My experience matches the author's exactly. You must check your robot against the real world to ensure it works, but simulation is the only feasible way to train and evaluate your system at scale.

The challenge is that simulators are kinda sorta almost good enough, but no actually they're not, and you need to solve a bunch of problems around the sim2real gap. The problems range from doable (colors look different under certain lighting conditions), to hard (simulating how other robots and people react to you), to still impossible (the feeling when a USB C plug has snapped into place). Each day we close the gap a little bit, but there is still a ways to go.
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Yes, and I think one important aspect to this is the necessary CI/CD changes needed to support these kinds of optimizations. If your performance targets are tight enough that you are making significant non-standard optimizations in your GC'ed language, you're probably going to want some automated performance regression testing in your deployment pipeline to ensure you don't ship something that falls down under load. In my experience, building and maintaining those pipeline components is not easy.
Of course I read them. But the very special case of docker and some hypothetical problems don't invalidate the concept.
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This is paywalled. Is there a workaround? I can't find one.
There are already a lot of replies to this comment explaining the ideas behind Rust memory management in different ways, but I'll throw in my handwavy explanation as well:

In GC languages, memory management is generally runtime through the interpreter/runtime. In C, memory management is generally done at programming time by the (human) programmer. In Rust, memory management is generally done at compile time by the compiler. There are exceptions in all three cases, but the "default" paradigm of a language informs a lot about how it's designed and used.
It's funny to me that you'd want what I consider one of the worst thing about the Apple keyboard: the arrow keys. Having the half-size up-down buttons means I have far more mistakes on those. Thankfully CapsLock-p and CapsLock-n works as well (I remapped CapsLock to Control of course)
America is literally composed of people who came here for work. The trope that people have their feet nailed to the ground and can't move is just not reality.
Is the "upcharge" actually significant for the USB C ports? It is like an extra $20 on a $1k computer.
I have never used these, but these came up in my searches:

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-thunderbolt-hub

https://www.caldigit.com/thunderbolt-4-element-hub/
I do the same thing. It's right on the corner. And alt frequently activates a menu.
For youtube, there's a menu link that tells you and also documentation here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7631406?hl=en-GB

Like I say, the big problem here is 'realising that googling "$site keyboard shortcuts" actually has a point in the first place' - hence why I tell people about '?' any time I think it might be useful :D
Do they make a desktop too? Can it handle gaming like minecraft?
Ah yes your anecdotal experience clearly means one of the largest companies in the world is rejecting remote work by buying an office they already lease.
I spent three hours the other night trying to get my kobo glo HD to work with Adobe Digital Editions. I've tried multiple different computers, multiple cables. ADE fulfulls the book OK, and my Kobo can read books from the store. But trying to copy them from ADE to the device hangs forever, then eventually crashes. The Kobo is too old for the built-in overdrive/libby integration. I used to like e-readers, but now I just want to throw it out the window.
This is a small competitor right now but this is the definition of disruptive innovation and it should scare the cuss out of Apple. This is what people want.
It must be amazing to have your own library. I wonder sometimes what various collections would have looked like now, had I ever been allowed to keep one.

I spent a lot of time in libraries over the years, especially as a kid, and being surrounded by books just does something.

Now libraries feel more like hangout places where kids vape and talk on the phone.

To be surrounded by books, in your own peaceful place, sounds like pure bliss.
Then you'll take a dongle with you to that conference? Are you telling me you would always waste one of the 4? framework ports for Display Ouput X that you only use once a year?
> Any JS application these days is going to be a tooling nightmare: Webpack, Babel, TypeScript, ESlint, React, polyfills, plugins, and then dependencies. That's awful no matter what JS framework you choose. Create React App doesn't fix that, it just hides it for the first step of creating a react application. You still have to maintain all that nonsense.

Doesn't NextJS do the same? The alternative to compare to would be a plain setup without any heavyweight boilerplate. These days you could you esbuild, but a webpack config can be ~50 lines and quite simple if you build it up from scratch.
> The police will not help you much when your capital (i.e. private property)

Most people don't hold much private property apart from maybe their house. Pretty much everything else from vehicles to toothbrushes fall under the category of personal property.

Private property generates capital for the owner without the owner performing labour, personal property does not. Police will protect the former, not the ladder.
"from the Google Store" should be added to the title. The linked to agreement is for any purchases of good and services from the Google Store.
Has the Lenovo warranty really gotten worse? The author doesn't specify but speaks of the "incredible" warranty on the Thinkpads in the past tense. I purchased an X220 in 2011 with the 3 year next business day warranty plan and it was awesome the couple of times I had to use it. I recently purchased an X13 to replace it with the same warranty plan, assuming it would still be as good. Not true?

(By the way, Kubuntu installed and ran almost without issues on this 2021 X13 out of the box. Only minor issue was with sleep / suspend but that ended up being a BIOS setting. Apparently there is a "Windows" and a "Linux" sleep state.)
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> no keypad

I don't see the keypad.
Does that not get in the way of the 3 finger swipe-up to open the activities screen?
This was something that was more prominent during the Micro-USB era. The little metal "tabs" on the male end of microUSB connectors would start to wear out after a thousand+ plug/unplugs resulting in a loose connection that wasn't reliable.

With USB-C, the connector was designed consideration of a bunch of factors, one of which I would assume is lifespan of the end connectors - USB-c has thicker, more resilient plastic hooks built into the inside of the male plug and stronger mating latches in the female end of the connector.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-USB-cables-particularly-USB-C-s...
I think for some folks, quitting smoking isn’t a simple one-time event, but a lifelong ongoing challenge
For sure that's what more practical. My idea was just a fun pontification about an alt history where A/UX was supported the same way as MacOS itself into the PowerPC era sort of like tge fantasy retro game consoles you see from time to time.
If it's stupid but it works, it's not stupid.
Can you provide an example, or that is just a dream you have?
Another vote for LibraryThing.com and a barcode reader or smartphone. I scanned in ~1100 books, and only ran into 15-20 without ISBNs. All but 3-4 of those were easily input by title. But I like it because its very easy to keep up, and isn't a moneygrubbing advertising/tracking site like Goodreads. The phone app is very handy when wandering in bookstores-- easy to check if you own such and such a title.
This is where profiling helps more. Find the weak parts of the code, try to optimise those. If the language proves to be a barrier then you have a justification for a rewrite.

All too often people don’t understand how to performance tune software properly and instead blame other things first (eg garbage collection)
How do you know that the closed CPU microcode that all modern AMD and Intel CPU's use don't have backdoors and vulnerabilities?
Much of this could be remedied by ebike makers including a front wheel lock that keeps the wheel at an angle. Almost all mopeds have this and it's cheap and effective. Because the lock is integrated with the steering breaking it involves breaking the bike. Because the wheel is "turned" a thief has to either carry it or but it in a vehicle both of which attract attention.
The general population absolutely does not care.
That's promising then!
Yup - both HS1, Thameslink and several "northern" trains go into Kings Cross/St Pancras or Euston (a ~5 minute walk), whereas approximately nothing goes to Old Street.
I carry a battery powered projector for this reason for talking with customers, providers or partners. I use standard airport suitcases for that.

It just makes no sense spending lots of time trying to adapt to obsolete infrastructure for every person you visit. If necessary I even have a blackboard and color chalks in my car and get away with them.

When I go to the meeting room, if I don't need to use my projector, great, but I will never use VGA, too much hassle.
these are 4:3 screens so certainly odd in current laptops
As someone on a Bitcoin forum once said: When has the government banning something ever led to that thing becoming cheaper?

You're right, though, that money is probably a special case, because it is designed to have limited supply (or at least sound money like Bitcoin is), and its value is related to its velocity.
If you're in a position to grin and bear it, pushing your purchase earlier may ensure this fledgling company's success.
I think it's implicit in the article that "winning" the game of Business means making as much money as possible. The author briefly contemplates whether having empathy for your customers would make them a scrub, but then veers off into a tangent about maestros.

GP is saying that there's not really a game of Business with a singular agreed-upon win condition. John Malone's strategy was maximizing his company's dominance, but it doesn't mean that anyone who doesn't is a scrub. They're just playing a different game.

According to the article, Martine Rothblatt built a highly successful business in United Therapeutics and saved her daughter's life. Consider alternate realities in which only one of those events happened. Which do you think she would choose?
I don't think you can get past that the 6502 was meant to be programmed in assembly. Some of the tricks needed to optimally use memory just don't lend themselves to higher level languages. I started with a lot of basic and then moved to assembler because it was the easiest path.
How is that different from the Intel ones? Can they not be turned back on or injected again with a new ME?
> I feel like this is a bit disingenuous.

Please refrain from insults, or at least make an effort to justify this if you think it’s valid.

> The general populous/average consumer prefers simplified options. They aren't tech savvy as many here are.

Isn’t that exactly my point? The industry serves the general consumer. The framework laptop serves a niche.
While I would prefer AMD here, because it's Intel, you get Thunderbolt for free
What's the logic behind banning takeout food? How is that any more dangerous than getting groceries and then cooking them yourself exactly?
Google has quite a bit of headcount in NY (12,000 now, up from 7,000 in 2018 according to the article) and at that current pace of expansion they could probably still use the space even if only a percentage of employees still work in office.

More importantly, this seems like it's mostly to hedge given that office building prices in NY are reaching new lows and they've already leased space in this building for a while.
The big companies have their own free restaurants and even bars inside so employees do not need to leave their buildings. Thus where the place is, is less important than with smaller companies. As a similar example, in silicon valley, they have convoys of buses from the nearby city to their offices. Where they work means nothing much.

Additionally being close to other companies is less important for networking when you are a monopoly!
I was a big proponent of the trackpoint for the longest time - the first laptop I used in the mid 90's (a Toshiba Satellite) had one and then I used Thinkpads for years.

Then I got a MBP at work in 2016 and haven't looked back - but they were far better than most other trackpads for the longest time.
I have this one, it's inexpensive, and works well:
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Upgraded-Delivery-Pixelbook-A83...
The baseline, preassembled model starts at $1000. Windows 10 Home, quad-core i5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB storage, a nice 2256x1504 display, thin and light (1.3kg, 11.7" x 9" x 0.6"). Compare that to your other thin and light options at this pricepoint.

XPS 13, $1020

* i5

* 8 GB RAM

* 256 GB storage

* 1920 x 1200 display

* 1.2 kg, 11.6" x 7.8" x 0.6"

MacBook Pro: $1300

* M1

* 8 GB RAM

* 256 GB storage

* 2560 x 1600 display

* 1.4kg, 12" x 8.7" x 0.6"

It's almost a no-brainer, even without considering the repairability, unless you like macOS. Unfortunately, not many people see repairability as a feature yet due to the toxic status quo, but this could change. I think that after brand recognition is established, this laptop could legitimately be competitive in the laptop market, and not just appeal to hardcore techies.
> I don't really know, but since there are no manufacturers that built good TrackPoints I think its either hard or there really is no demand (sadly more likely).

Those are good points. I'm thinking there could be patents involved too.

> I don't need a touchpad though. Actually, one of the best laptops I've owned was one without a touchpad [1].

That's true! I don't really use the touchpad on my X230, even though it's there.
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In general most older machinery was designed to be repairable. Often using industry standard sizes for things such as motors, bearings, relays, screws, etc. As long as you can get (or make) the parts and are willing to maintain the equipment, you can keep using it.
> ah okay, so the goal post moves from imagining the vast majority was illegitimate use, to imagining "orders of magnitude" above other asset classes contains illegitimate transactions.

The only one who is moving goal posts is you, who have somehow setup this strawman that the collective position on HN was that the vast majority of crypto was illicit use.
Of course it's trivially solved...with a dongle for your dongle! Or you could avoid dongle-ception by using a modular laptop like the Framework, or even a standard laptop with an HDMI port; even current-gen models from Dell, Lenovo, and HP still have it as an option especially on business-oriented machines. It all comes down to what your everyday requirements and tolerances allow for.

But again, the "dongle" argument is moot and not really a reason to either consider or avoid the Framework, for me at least. It's more about the device being open and repairable, and arguments about dongles are just attempts to justify one's current USB-C only device.
Its kind of stupid to expect toddlers to adhere to these kind of policies. I've had my 4 year old return home in someone else's mask because he swapped his with his friend's. For people with an opportunity to enforce this it is an opportunity to exert power over someone who cannot argue back.
Their modular ports use a lot of space, they could have much more ports built in, unfortunately.
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"don't hate the playa, hate the game"? nah. playing dirty is a form of cheating.

how about "don't idolize or admire people who play dirty or aspire to and try to drag everything into the muck in order to justify or cover up their own dirty play"?
Life is a self-graded test.
Also, laptops have built-in keyboards, by definition, which means that it can never be thinner than the key travel distance anyway.
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I’ve given up. I buy ebooks but never download the official copy, if you know what I mean.
This kind of analysis and remediation would work just as well in Java and is often a more rigorous and effective approach than the author's somewhat Java-inspired initial idea of fiddling with GC parameters.

One big difference is that the Java runtime design intent is more in the vein of 'converting memory into performance'. On HN, Ron Pressler ('pron) has written a bunch of interesting stuff about that over the years

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I don't think SaaS and "potentially harder science companies" are necessarily opposed. I think there are still a lot of un-discovered niches that marry the two. Anything hard is going to take longer, but also result in less competition.
It does appear the "Node ID" section covers this issue, with the requirement that the public key back up the 40 bit key fingerprint.

What if the controller had a timer that could be set such that the network becomes static and unchanging when it expires?
> I want to configure every detail of my laptop

Almost nobody wants that, but the good news is that enough people do that framework exists.
Western societies should just ban the purchase of cryptocoins by deactivating the fiat onroads - it will provide a necessary boost post-pandemic from reduction in the ransomware attacks, savings in electricity and chip waste from mining, reallocating tech talents to productive areas of the economy, and making money laundering (including sanction evading) more difficult.

Sure, the coins will keep trading in Belarus or El Salvador or somewhere, but at a fraction of the value, and the overall objective will be achieved.
The author states they travelled 27 days a month, every month. I doubt many people put that much stress on their laptops.
Yes, but pricing lubricates the slope towards the setup where Nestlé owns 100% of the water because they bid a pittance and the nearby town can't afford to outbid the pittance. Markets are a two-edged sword. One edge is "rich people can pay for factories to recycle water on site" but the other edge is "rich people matter, poor people don't." There's nothing wrong with trying to use edge #1 -- that's what capitalism is all about -- but edge #2 exists, is sharp, and has cut plenty of fingers off. People are leery of it for a reason.