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Old school hackers, military generals, special forces paratroopers, and space shuttle astronauts who are sensitive to social status use a GRiD Compass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Compass

>Development began in 1979, and the main buyer was the U.S. government. NASA used it on the Space Shuttle during the early 1980s, as it was powerful, lightweight, and compact. The military Special Forces also purchased the machine, as it could be used by paratroopers in combat.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3527036

>Man in a Briefcase: The Social Construction of the Laptop Computer and the Emergence of a Type Form

>Abstract

>Dominant design discourse of the late 1970s and early 1980s presented the introduction of the laptop computer as the result of 'inevitable' progress in a variety of disparate technologies, pulled together to create an unprecedented, revolutionary technological product. While the laptop was a revolutionary product, such a narrative works to dismiss a series of products which predated the laptop but which had much the same aim, and to deny a social drive for such products, which had been in evidence for a number of years before the technology to achieve them was available. This article shows that the social drive for the development of portable computing came in part from the 'macho mystique' of concealed technology that was a substantial motif in popular culture at that time. Using corporate promotional material from the National Archive for the History of Computing at the University of Manchester, and interviews with some of the designers and engineers involved in the creation of early portable computers, this work explores the development of the first real laptop computer, the 'GRiD Compass', in the context of its contemporaries. The consequent trajectory of laptop computer design is then traced to show how it has become a product which has a mixture of associated meanings to a wide range of consumers. In this way, the work explores the role of consumption in the development of digital technology.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nasas-original-laptop-the-grid-com...

>NASA’s Original Laptop: The GRiD Compass Rugged and well designed, the first clamshell laptop flew on the space shuttle

https://web.archive.org/web/20080625004757/http://www.netmag...

>GRiDs In Space

https://groups.google.com/g/ba.market.computers/c/w5KVg1Igdt...

>GRiD Compass laptops, peripherals, and software

https://medium.com/l-a-t-o/invece-di-guardare-avanti-prova-a...

>[translated:] The Grid Compass was made of black lacquered magnesium alloy.

>Among its most remembered features, there is the fact that the paint went away after a while, due to the weight and dimensions that did not allow it to be too delicate with its transport. And so the dull black splintered, revealing the shiny metal beneath.

>Grid Compass - Bill Moggridge Design

>The Grid Compass was a status symbol, the flag of that tribe of people who wanted to show the world that they can never really disconnect from work.

>Owning it was cool.

>But even cooler was having chipped it, because it was the unmistakable sign that one not only possessed that thing, but actually used it.
Before I started visiting, I was told that TABASCO was the key to surviving Japan because it goes with everything; fish eyes, ink sacks, sea urchin guts, etc... 20-years later I realize how delicious nearly everything is on its own. (I still don't recommend any of the aforementioned, especially while wearing a white shirt)
Watering and draining planets – math and data
Because Java has become an unpleasant to code in. Do you really think what you like is what everyone else likes?
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This is very situational, but I have recently been part of a project that does a lot of C server-side development and we have found that static linking our non-glibc dependencies has really improved our developer experience. Using ceedling's dependency plugin[1] and producing a single "statically" linked library has made our C development much closer to using a language with a more modern package manager. Don't get me wrong, if I was trying to distribute binaries to machines I didn't control I'd definitely be willing to invest in the Linux packaging "fun", but for a server-side application it's been a good choice for our team overall.

[1] https://github.com/ThrowTheSwitch/Ceedling/tree/master/plugi...
What's with the partisan advocacy prominently displayed as a banner?

EDIT: I mean, it's hardly effective. Just like the downvotes.
The world has moved on, all you need now is a web browser for your operating system.
Would you rather give your money to Google, the company that is what it is today through turning their users' information into products to sell to the highest bidder?

Apple gives a shit about your privacy.

Why is that upsetting to you?
Mother of god, this may be the single largest and slowest webpage I've ever downloaded.

50MB of images served over http/1.1...
the sensing side is reasonably easy, but the automatic watering gets hairy. OP was proposing one pump+reservoir for each plant, which adds up the cost and makes powering the system more demanding. And you probably want some sensing in the reservoirs too so that they don't run dry. Alternative would be to do plumbing to create a water network, but that brings its own challenges especially in residential setting where plants are scattered all over the place.
>but is it really a good thing that kids can go into a shop, unbeknownst to their parents, and buy a tiny, hideable device with full internet access?

It's not "a good thing" but it is far, far better than the alternative and the current restrictions.
Does anyone know of a PICO-8 implementation where I don’t need to use their text editor for code (but can still use their sprites and audio editors)?

Perhaps the answer is “all of them” and I just don’t fully understand the abstraction.
A convenient prong you can push into the soil is your finger - if it comes out with soil particles stuck to it, the plant doesn't need watering.
#1 Parent was a CEO.
I am sorry I wasn't more clear. When I suggest prison time I mean in a rehabilitative facility. And that should be for all crimes that we demand prison time for. I am not for retributive justice.
Are you talking about buying one or traveling in one? Latter is very accessible at least according to projections.
What kind of experimentations would you recommend? I'm thinking about sharing the product in specialized dev blogs and running Twitter sponsored tweets ads. What would you also try?
everything is political nowadays.
I eagerly await some concrete implementations of these new ideas.

In the meantime I'm waiting for the first big vulnerability in a widely used golang or rust library to see if downstream projects pinning it also release CVEs as they should (which would probably DDoS the CVE system from the resulting avalanche) or they quietly bump it and move on (in which case their users won't get the nudge to upgrade). This is where someone says "well you should just always be running the latest version of everything", which is of course infeasible on a real life system with thousands of installed packages.

And it's not that I don't completely sympathize or understand the advantages of static linking from a developer's point of view - you don't have to sell it to me there.
Great, now I want a Grid Compass!
Thanks for the links and the strategies to aim for. Will start working on it right away! :)
UK to Norway sub-sea green power cable operational
> I think a good compromise is for Apple to offer selling "genuine parts" to anyone who practically wants it; and maybe, allow changing parts once the main owner release control.

They sell hundreds of millions of devices each year. A problem I haven’t seen discussed much — could Apple’s suppliers actually deliver enough parts for new phones and spare parts?

Tesla supposedly has the same problem with spare parts being unavailable, as everything goes into new products.
Moisture meters aside, I use plants as an example of the “expert problem”. Experts give advice that seems helpful, but only if you have intuition already.

“Completely dry” (or “plant is not hefty”) is not helpful to a beginner. There is basically a continuum of dryness, and with large plants, there’s a gradient as well (as you mention).

Paraphrased conversation I have had: “How much should I water this plant?” “Some, but not too much”

See also: cooking
Isn't this just Real Options Valuation[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_options_valuation
Wishlist it and click in "follow", if you use Steam you will be reminded of it when it releases
First, I think you're very wrong about how many devs want to run their own companies. Or at least, want it enough to make any step in that direction (just wanting it like wanting to win the lottery doesn't count for much, IMO).

Second, I also think you have a very common but incorrect view of what a developer even is. You write:

> Most developers who enjoy writing code run away from meetings given the slightest opportunity,

Most developers don't necessarily enjoy writing code. Some do, to be sure, but a lot view writing code as a means to an end. Sometimes that end is money; sometimes that end is to create products. And if what you want is money, or to create new products (or to have new experiences, or to have a fancy job title, etc), all of those are reasons to want to run a large company. (Not all of these are what I would consider good reasons, but they are reasons).

Secondly, you can really hate meetings when your job is to write code, but also would enjoy meetings when your job is no longer only about writing code. Forget running large companies - most people who get even a mid-level manager position will be busy in meetings for a large amount of their time, and will rarely if ever code, and this is considered a very desirable career path by many devs (though not all, to be sure).
It could be worse. They could learn python and still prefer to use R!
Yes, AFAICT you could build a (very basic) CPU that works with the skills you'll learn. Don't expect to challenge Intel and AMD anytime soon though.
This might be my limited knowledge but I've always thought of relational systems as a kind of graph. The foreign keys denote edges connecting the table/nodes. At least that's how I think of them, this might be complete non-sense though.
Honestly I think there's an aspect of "dark" to the internet now - basically how Tinder works.
> ...how many developers want to run their own large companies.

This sounds like an unremarkable subset of {vaguely dissatisfied lower-level workers who dream of a new job with far more power, fame, money, and/or interesting stuff}.

Similar are the people who read novels (at least occasionally), and have dreams of becoming a famous author. In my experience, ~0% of them are actually willing to sit down and try to write a 3-page story.
Since we are dystopia larping:

The future will be miserable, unless you live in China. In China, the future will arrive as planned as China will once again become the middle kingdom and be bestowed with the mandate of heaven. In the west, the 200 years of western industrial society will be regarded as a mistake that must be payed for dearly with carbon credits.

;)
It's a lot more different - you're very unlikely to continue speeding immediately after you got the zing of a fine and some points on your licence.
Yes, I'm aware of that. My point was more that it's rare to find a subject like this with such huge gaping holes in English-language wikipedia.
I think the tradition of using long-descriptive-names in Common Lisp for all identifiers cements much of that experience. Using 1-3 character variable names feels natural in C but (outside of most trivial use circumstances) faux pas in Common Lisp. A better vocabulary allows for clearer formulation of nature and intent of the constructs, improving readability greatly.
My father, born in '35 in South Dakota, talked about as a child they plowed their farm with horses.
How about Treasury bonds. At the same rate as everybody else, no special treatment.
Someone's a subscriber to breadsword's youtube channel.
The first automobiles were less of a qualitative change from horses than the change to modern automobiles. They were less reliable than horses with more limited range.
I'm a huge fan of collective action. That's what communities are. I still never use "comrade" in a non-ironic or non-sarcastic manner. Voluntary power with people is different than authoritarian power over people.
> Cryptocurrencies (when done in a way that liberates the user as opposed to being wrapped in centralized fintech) break this dynamic completely.

Now, tell me how to do this exactly? (At least a general sketch?) Because I really think that this is really not a problem that can be seen with cryptocurrency, but rather with how societies work, which is hard to solve.

I don't want to favour one or the other, but societal problems are something that require all of the cogs are working. Even if I assume that people are willing to use cryptocurrencies, oppressive governments can seize digital gadgets out of their hands, much as they can block transactions. I also don't have a solution to this unfortunately, and I feel that this is unsolvable.
Let's Encrypt root CA isn't working properly in Electron
Yes, similar to how the US presidential election is centrally controlled because only 51 entities are voting.
> People are roughly divided into people who are driven and interested by "things" (nearly the entirety of this website) and people who are interested and driven by "people".

I'd put that very differently. Some are interested in what they have, others in what they do, the rest in how they do. And, I don't think that people on HN are predominantly interested in things. I think they're above all interested in acts.
Centralization also reduces redundancy which is essential to system reliability - a centralized system always ends up less reliable because there's more chance of single-point failure that cascades to all parts of the system quickly. This is especially true if "scale-free" features like "preferential attachment" exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment

Consolidation of any type of thing (e.g. Wall Street and financial systems) can become very fragile and many of the guards against failure (risk models) cease to be valid the moment you have preferential attachment.
How to find a unique number in a list of pairs?
Deployment story is a tentpole feature, of which these two have very different ideas.
Do economists really claim that? Or do they study economic behavior and try to make predictive models to better their understanding? It seems like the general public misunderstands what economists do, and the misunderstanding is due to ideological/political reasons.
> somebody that you would trust

Presumably, a whole society, even in limited though adequate number, of experts who are capable of reassuring by asking the same questions the subject may raise, and providing convincing answers, and by avoiding acting with the most unconvincing signals. "The incumbent shall have an elephant detector and will positively and publicly acknowledge and properly assess all the specimens found in the rooms s/he will be assigned to".
The future will be sparsely distributed. The wealthy elite are modifying society such that only they will have the gilded science fiction future, and everyone else will be left to their own, probably ruled by Libertarian Warlords.
I am not sure "primitive" is the right word. Compared to rural america of the XIX century perhaps. But compared to major cities in Europe, I don't think that our architecture or music are any less primitive than Haussmannian architecture, and Rossini's music. The language has certainly deteriorated. We have more technologies, we have more, cheaper stuff. But we not particularly more sophisticated.
Unlikely. The cost involved would still be substantially higher than fossil fuel.

The required energy scales quadratically with speed. That's just basic physics and there's no way around it.

The real question we should ask ourselves is whether it's even worth it just to shave off a couple of hours on a trip that shouldn't be a regular occurrence anyway?

If you take the entire trip - that is door-to-door - into consideration, the time savings you pay for with about 6.25x the energy use comes down to 30% or so:

• 1 hour to get to the airport

• 1.5 hours security checks, check-in, getting on the plane

• 6 hours flight time

• 1.5 hours security checks, customs, getting out of the airport

• 1 hour airport to destination

That's 11 hours total for the subsonic flight and ~7.5 hours for the supersonic flight (assuming >mach 2.2 for the entire duration of the flight). That's a net time saving of 3.5 hours or ~32% faster for >6.25 the energy expense.

How does that make any sense?
Maybe smart people are overrepresented on HN. Most of the crypto-bros I know haven't written a single line of code in their life.
Right, but then, if you go and buy another iPhone, does it really matter that you "condemn Apple"? From their point of view, you're a happy customer, since you're coming back!

Now even if Apple hears people cursing them and grumbling on forums, the fact that they keep on buying their product means that it's not enough of an issue for them to stop buying it.
There's https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/shit, written in posix sh. It doesn't implement any of the porcelain though.
Klask: Automatically create GUI from clap3 apps
X-rays are still one of the best piece of technology.
Thanks to the we can still hope that on a day wee will have sun glasses which will allow us to see trough women clothes.

I've seen this version:

https://natrmd.com
Couldn't you just steal the complete phone, reset it, then resell it?
Yes, but it’s parked behind “unsafe” and pretty sure it will still work in future versions…
Unfortunately not even Linux allows full static linking (as far as I'm aware at least) as soon as libraries like OpenGL are involved.

Dynamic linking with core system libraries which are guaranteed to exist(!) is fine though, for everything else dynamic linking mostly has downsides.

Also: it's only Linux where this is an issue, because it's nearly impossible to build small self-contained executables which run on another Linux machine, thanks to glibc's versioning mess (at least there's MUSL as an alternative to create portable command line tools).
iFixit has all the special precision screwdrivers imaginable, along with guides to repair MacBooks and the likes.

I like their Mako Precision Bit Set:

https://eustore.ifixit.com/products/mako-driver-kit-64-preci...
The design of the Go build and packages system kinda renders that point moot because the expectation is that provided you follow Go's guidelines then a Go application should always be easily recompilable, and all external dependencies should always be distributed in source-form, not as binaries (e.g. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/2775 ).
Is there any language selection option
Yes, but then you realize the smalltalk had a lisp all this time.
They do last longer than a couple of years, and _are_ supported too: I have an iPhone 6s around the house that I use to play music over Bluetooth, and it just got the iOS 15 update. iPhone 6s was released in 2015.

The only problem with it is the battery. It could use a replacement, but since I don't use it as the main device, I don't much care. Otherwise, it works perfectly fine.
Me too! I can't find a citation and don't know if it's true, but decades ago I heard a rumor that a Mossad agent's magnesium alloy GRiD stopped a bullet! Try that with a MacBook Air.

The GRiD was so well built, and they were so popular with the military, that rumor was totally believable.

This has some stories about spooky GRiD users, like Admiral John Poindexter, who was a bit of a hacker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQgoAQq7bP4

>Pioneering the Laptop: Engineering the GRiD compass

>Introduced in 1982, the GRiD Compass 1100 was likely the first commercial computer created in a laptop format and one of the first truly portable machines. With its rugged magnesium clamshell case (the screen folds flat over the keyboard), switching power supply, electro-luminescent display, non-volatile bubble memory, and built-in modem, the hardware design incorporated many features that we take for granted today. Software innovations included a graphical operating system, an integrated productivity suite including word processor, spreadsheet, graphics and e-mail. GRiD Systems Corporation, founded in 1979 by John Ellenby and his co-founders Glenn Edens and David Paulsen, pioneered many portable devices including the laptop, pen-based and tablet PC form factors.

>Key members of the original GRiD engineering team -- Glenn Edens, Carol Hankins, Craig Mathias and Dave Paulsen -- share engineering stories from the Wild West of the laptop computer. Moderated by New York Times journalist John Markoff.

(At 32:37 they mention an external 5 1/4" floppy disk peripheral that was returned for service with a bullet hole, and the "Scrubbing Bubbles" software they wrote for the government to erase the bubble memory in case of emergency.)
In 1929, seeing plane in the air was commonplace in almost every country let alone New York state. Maybe not commercial passenger planes (they were still a rarity), but mail planes were complete commonplace. Also, cropdusters. Also, barnstormers visited literally every village once a year or so.

My grand-grandmother told me that she first saw a plane in the air in 1914 when WWI started (she lived with her parents in what is now easternmost Belarus). When the war and the Revolution ended, they became somewhat of a rarity for the next decade or so, but not extreme rarity.
Cocksucking corporate whore, get cancer and die.
I highly recommend SF. The trick is you must use the books via coqIDE or something equivalent; viewing the rendered HTML is almost pointless at best, but probably counter-productive.

Binary search would be a good exercise. I think SF volume 1 would be more than enough, with the exception of deciding how to model arrays (you'd probably want to look up Coq's persistent arrays/PArray system for this.) SF volume 3 does binary search _trees_ which is similar but avoids the array problem (as is customary in functional languages.)

However, Coq (by default) also uses infinite precision numbers. This works very well for proofs but isn't necessarily realistic. This is where some extra fun comes in: fixed precision arithmetic is a very common source of bugs for binary search: https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about...
True. But

Painkillers are only for treating acute pain.

Chronic pain is fixed by treating underlaying cause (unless you don't have access to health services).
Bitcoin and Ethereum Are Braced for an October Bombshell
Well if there is a truly undocumented extension, how do I know it doesn't come with it's own registers (e.g. like a floating point unit does)
Didn't Go have to throw in the towel on not dynamically linking libc on macOS as there's no guarantee of syscall stability at all?
Simplicity. If everything is statically linked, then updating package A can never break package B.

As I see it, the entire world of Docker containers exists primarily to solve the problem that static linking already solved.

Something like Nix would work as well, and I think I would love Nix if I knew how to use it. But I don't, and I don't really have the time to learn.
I believe anytime you spend $250 million, the results, whether good or bad, should be clearly visible. In this case Gates could have burned the money and there would have been roughly the same results.
Bitcoin certainly isn’t a solution to this. Any inflationary currency like Bitcoin favors the wealthy, as existing wealth becomes more valuable.
Texas Poised to Be a World Leader in Bitcoin and Blockchain
Git in Awk: https://github.com/djanderson/aho