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Hey Walter, thanks for doing the interview and AMA, how cool!

I was a young teen when my Dad got Empire and began to play it regularly with one of his friends. I would frequently watch them play while trying to learn the game mechanics and strategy, and then later would play the game myself for hours on end.

That time watching and playing Empire was really an introduction to computing and gaming for me and would later lead to a passion for building, RTS/fog-of-war games (e.g. starcraft), and a career building software.

Just wanted to say thanks! Now I need to figure out how to download the game and play it with pops.
It really isn’t - the individual elements in a GPU can access RAM directly, while you needed to wheelbarrow data (and code!) to and from SPUs manually. This was the major pain point, not the extreme (for that time) parallelism or the weird-ish instruction set.
Multi-display is another highly sought feature this M1 Pro/Max delivers (achievable on the M1 with a DisplayLink hub, but stability leaves something to be desired)
Humans did not cause woolly mammoths to go extinct–climate change did: study
I think there's also a point everyone who talks about other "discoveries" of America purposely ignores. This is about the discovery of it not for Europe the continent. This is about its discovery for what was the civilized nations in Europe. So if we look at Iceland - a place that's essentially a standalone island already half way to America - where a bunch of vikings lived who at the time weren't hanging out with people from places like Spain or Italy or France - it's an apples to oranges comparison.
Discover (discover.com) currently has a similar bug where it'll allow me to login with my password, but will not accept the same password in the 'Change password' workflow as the old password, complaining about it being invalid. (shrug)
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Gets Initial OK to Expand Loop Under Las Vegas Strip
Performance between IDEs can vary dramatically, so vscode vs (non-vscode) web IDEs is not a useful comparison - especially now that you can compare web vscode vs "native" (electron?) vscode.

I suspect the performance difference is trivial (or soon will be once teething problems are sorted out).
I don't get it either. The notch essentially covers up the middle of the menu bar and is a non-issue when full-screening. Apple essentially encroached the screen into the camera's territory and used the extra few pixels for the menu bar with the notch covering the middle of the menu bar which is typically empty and wasted space.

There's zero impact on full screen apps and non-fullscreen apps get to claim the space formerly used by the menu bar.
Are we really doping animals to find out that potheads can't reproduce as easily? To what benefit?
A point I want to make about the "Innovator's Dilemma" with regards to my other comment: It does not happen when everyone gets together and just agrees that "X is true" with zero critical thought. It happens when a group of radicals abandon old ideas and rethinks the problem, leading to radical new ideas.

But the problem is that everyone here is just convinced that it can't happen, usually using very facile thinking. Few are asking any hard questions. As long as this stays true, hydrogen will continue to pose an enormous threat to Tesla.
> I only date people of the same sex

I initially read that as a side effect of not smoking weed anymore.
That's very cool, thank you for explaining it to me. I'm curious if there's any downsides to such a scheme for representing solids compared to BREP, and the kinds of primitives it supports. E.g how easily can it represent a loft between two arbitrary faces - it's not immediately clear how to represent that with a SDF (but my SDF-foo is admittedly not very strong).

These are questions that I'm sure will be answered by me reading the documentation more closely.
First of all worker 30 hours of labor * factory workforce is a significant fraction of the cost of a car, and not easy to improve.

Additionally a plant that takes 30 hours per car is typically going to have less output than a plant that takes 10 hours per car. Typically each minute during production the car is taking up space, being worked on humans or robots, etc. Additionally efficiencies favor shorter pipelines. Generally a 10 hour pipeline is physically shorter than a 30 hour. Parts, staff, troubleshooting etc is easier on a smaller pipeline. Additionally having each car bridge 4 working shifts for the workers has overheads of it's own compared to 1-2 shifts. Doubly so if you are trying to iterate quickly.

Imagine an assembly line moving at 0.5 mph, for the same physical foot print you could have 3 lines that are 10 hours each instead of a single line that runs for 30 hours. Now imagine there's a issue that shuts down a line for an hour, it's better if it's 1/3rd of your capacity down instead of 100%. If you try an improvement, it's better to put 1/3rd of your production capacity at risk instead of 100%.
The honeybadger doesn't care about politics, and Peter Thiel knows it. Peter's a great tech and macro investor, but overthinks politics a bit too much.
The quality of the webcam on the newer XPS is pretty subpar though.

It was a step down from their previous webcam setup below the display, which was very unflattering and blocked if you typed.

When they moved it up to the top again, the sensor was shrunk and (I believe, but may be mistaken) the lens array was simplified.

The notch lets Apple keep a higher quality camera there than if they integrated it directly into the bezel like Dell.

It's a "solved problem" if you're only designing to solve a very specific problem, but physics is uncompromising, and you therefore have tradeoffs if you want better image from the camera.
The number of users on Steam with a VR headset was hovering around 1% last time I looked, and gaming is their only market outside of porn.
The regression has been around what it takes to design a UI. We've abandoned visual design in favor of ugly HTML/XML markup or coding the UI layout manually, both of which are much slower and make design a lot more difficult.
> "Gnome (and Wayland) is broken, and this API must be changed."

> Again I would say no, that's wrong, it's just not currently meant to run on your hardware.

It' absurd that not running on common hardware is, somehow, not broken.
It's funny to me, without the notch the device would waste something like 3 square inches of usable space.

Maybe someone will write a system extension that just tells the system the display is 48 pixels shorter than it physically is and just forces the top 48-64 pixels to be unused and it will appear to have no notch.

Me, I'm happy to have that extra space
they're the same cores as the original M1 architecturally, you just get an 8+2 on a Max instead of 4+4... and also an absolutely titanic iGPU, total transistor count is about twice that of a 3090 and almost all of it lives in the iGPU.

the only architectural difference between M1 and M1 Max in the CPU cores, besides the different combination of big/little cores, is that the M1 Max goes from quad channel to hexadecimal-channel DDR5 RAM (note a DDR5 channel is half the width of a DDR4 channel, but has longer burst and higher MT/s).

Apple's iGPU approach is real simple: unlike a console where you somewhat gimp the CPU by putting it on high-latency GDDR6 (to get enough bandwidth to feed the iGPU), they just put 16 channels of DDR5 on it, basically it's like an octochannel DDR4 server processor in terms of bandwidth. And the CPU also benefits from that as well, at least a little bit, but internally it's the same core design.

It's an absolute meme of a design, Apple just does not give a single fuck about cost here, "server class memory configuration"? sure why not, and we'll stack it on the package so it can go in a laptop.
Reflections on software development from anywhere on an iPad
As it stands now, the biggest revolution in energy right now is the rapid reduction in hydrogen cost: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/06/24/low-cost-renewable-hy...

Once things hit their exponential growth curve, things might happen a lot faster than people expect.
Exactly, the house maintains itself continuously, grew itself out of soil, and there was no financial risk involved.
"DWAC currently has $293 Million in trust, assuming minimal redemptions, which can fuel TMTG’s scale up, including to provide world class leading technology services to build strong and secure social networks and diverse media offerings"

Not a bad seed round.
No, my point is that essentially saying your man parts are going to stop working is an easy path to ground for propagandists. I'm just floating the idea that's why cigarettes, alcohol, weed, cocaine, steroids, COVID, (edit also vaccines against COVID) and god-knows-what all have a steady stream of clickbait articles about how they damage your manhood.
The other way is to just go skunk and fix a problem. Then if the fix works and people appreciate it, you get more latitude the next time you want to fix something.

Getting pre-approval consensus is not really the way to go about those things, at least not in that kind of environment. Anything "important but not urgent" will not get the sufficient level of consensus. Generally if you're faced with a problem where you're certain people will find it worth the effort after it's done, but where you can't get approval beforehand, going skunk is the only way.

Most of my steps forward in technical reputation have been from those efforts.
Solar storm confirms Vikings settled in North America 1k years ago
This is terminology-wrangling that happens constantly when the bad effects of socialism to society come up. Socialism invites corruption, because it concentrates power for the sake of a vague and unattainable goal. It demands redefinition of words, because otherwise it would be seen for the tyranny that it is.
> "since you're distressed"

Not interested in conversing further in response to this kind of needling. I'll leave you to it.
Related anecdote: mega-brand Kodak died because film retailers threatened to stop carrying film if Kodak made serious moves into digital photography, as retailers relied on foot traffic driven by film (enter store once to buy film, again to return it, again to pick up photo prints). Kodak couldn’t risk its money printer, so couldn’t be ready when consumers switched to digital practically overnight.

Ditto cars. Manufacturers are beholden to dealers, who need complex vehicles that need extensive repairs. Related, fueling stations need customers who can’t power vehicles at home.
Best buy has been doing physical drops on a monthly basis. I got one in the last drop @ MSRP, only waited in line for 30 minutes. It's worth checking out if you are looking for a card.

I will say though if you are in a large city this doesn't work as well, the lines are longer.
He might not be paying them below market- the way this often works is that the people you employ from the old country are cousins, neighbors of your parents, etc. Not people you would feel comfortable being awful to.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and perpetuating flamewars? Obviously the posts you're responding to are bad, but you're breaking the site guidelines badly yourself—specifically:

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls

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I think the OP is referring to articles such as this:

""Murders of Transgender People in 2020 Surpasses Total for Last Year In Just Seven Months"":

https://transequality.org/blog/murders-of-transgender-people...

Transgender people are rare so the number of murdered transgendered is small absolutely but high relatively. Indeed some might say their numbers are negligible but if one is a member of that group such statistics can be alarming.

Evaluating statistics is something that every minority group must deal with in their personal lives and when they turn outward to other groups. The better-educated we all are in statistics the more comfortable we will be knowing that sometimes, for whatever reasons, one or another news outlet, politician or political figurehead will use statistics to bend the truth and scare the bejeezus out of us.
They can't
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Please stop using HN for ideological battle. You've been doing it a ton, and we ban that sort of account.

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That’s because they used to be owned by Yum brands which had owned all of those brands.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28940061 and stop posting flamebait and perpetuating flamewars.

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I went to look the Physics prize up, and got sidetracked by the winner of the Peace prize - Elihu Root.

First of all, the name sounds like a Neal Stephenson character. Then, I'm reading his page and it says things like:

- He got his start as defense counsel for Boss Tweed
- Went on to be a prominent corporate lawyer
- Was a lifelong opponent of feminism
- Was an advocate for American imperialism in the Philippines and elsewhere
- As secretary of war, was the "leading modernizer of the Army"
- Tried but failed to make an alliance between the US and Russia just after their revolution - may have inadvertently caused the rise of the Bolsheviks by allegedly inciting the provisional government to do something stupid
- Supported the amendment to the US Constitution allowing an income tax
- His "mentor" was Joseph Hodges Choate, who made the cover of Vogue in April 1898...
I miss this style of web design.

It's inefficient, ugly, and unresponsive -- but it offers the thrill of discovery and exploration. It's fun and eye-catching in the same way that 'Where's Waldo?' or 'I Spy' books are.

I feel like that's missing now, for better or worse.

It's all more usable now, but it's mostly all so soul-less.
> Not all microservice setups are shit shows.

Yeah they are. One service per team, the thing that Amazon was originally doing that was the inspiration for all this, works, but you wouldn't call that "microservices" these days; the thing that people call "microservices" is always a shit show.
> Maybe instead you could probe at interview time whether they are happy with their microservices

There is no way anyone tells you in interview that the codebase is crappy or that they are unhappy with.

You’ll always be told « well, like everywhere, we have legacy, but we learnt for it and now every new project is in [put REST + shiny front tech here] and we are happy with it. We migrate step by step ».

And then you’ll realize that the codebase they called legacy is what makes the company’s money, it’s not that bad compared to new project and is a pain to maintain because nobody works on it anymore except for urgent bug solving.

So, they’ll probably tell you that « they are happy with their microservices » (or quite happy) because they already try to fool themselves about it.
I recall him playing Garry's mod, that could definitely fit the bill.
> Exactly what I did. After reaching top still somewhat technical position at the company I got so fed up and burned out that I quit. Went on my own and been this way ever since for some 20+ years.

I'd love to hear more about your journey. What did going out on your own look like? What type of work do you do? How long did it find you to figure out the kind of work that satisfied you and paid the bills?
Be happy.:)

This is my use-case.
I am sure that even designers will adapt, just because.

It works for you, but I cannot live with this abomination in my face, the gain in screen height is removed when you use your app in full-screen. I have a very sensitive eyes, this is part of my main workflow as a designer. When designing my eyes are all over the screen and this shape will attract attention even when is "hidden" by os.

But I totally understand, when coding I rarely look above the horizontal line of the screen (my favorite short-key: C-l).

P.S.
There is another reason: I am spoiled from years of using nearly flawless Apple products, I cannot tolerate such design imperfection.
In most recreationally legal states, the legalization laws came from direct democracy with the people who would not be involved with any convoluted goal aside from the stated goal on the ballot. There is nothing a governor or representative could do.

The people decided that jail was a counterproductive public policy measure and the people decided that the supply chain could be controlled to protect consumers.

This concept will likely to be extended to most of the schedule, a new framework is necessary as prohibition is being repealed, again.
Big discussion of original source earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28932206
> I'm not sure what "formal definition of demand" you referring to.

Me neither since I didn't.

> In microeconomics...

I can find no evidence that product-market fit came out of microeconomics, so I am not entirely clear on the relevance of that. Context is relevant. This seems like us having a conversation about how a pointer on a computer (you know, the arrow thing) interacts with a UI with someone chiming in to say, "In computer science a pointer stores a location in memory."

> Again, "weak" doesn't mean anything in that field.

I'm inclined to agree within the new context you have provided, but that does not mean "weak demand" is without meaning. In fact, it is a term used relatively frequently, including in respected publications.
When I first installed Windows 7 like ten years ago, I entered my Russian name in Cyrillic. When I saw that the system created a directory with exactly that name under `C:\Users\` I immediately scanned the internet for a way to rename it and done just that. I don't want to know how much mess like that in a story I thus had successfully escaped.

NB: the method is still the same, it's a second (not accepted) answer here: https://superuser.com/questions/890812/how-to-rename-the-use... (about ProfileImagePath registry value).
A lime render may help: https://www.zdnet.com/article/seismic-fabric-could-protect-o...
Woman finds Amazon has thousands of recordings of her – all from home devices
No, it won’t. People who drive f150s want a super-duty, not a tesla. They want dualies, lift kits. I’m sure Ford did their market research to make sure it would sell. The bean counters also confidently predicted trump would lose in ‘16. But I predicted he would win and I predict the lightning will lose. Plus you’ve forgotten the most important part: Ford fucking sucks. They can’t make a good EV, apparently not even on paper and certainly not in any physical sense. They have no charging infrastructure. All they have is an army of slack jawed idiots who buy Ford vehicles on principle.
Please do not perpetuate flamewars on HN.

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> Pretty much everything should support that in 2021.

Yes, like IPv6.
Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the literature
"Automatically figuring out which parent objects the class you're subclassing derives from"

AFAIK this is a language limitation, there is no way in a Rust macro to take a type and get all the traits that are implemented for that type. It would need some kind of reflection API. Maybe someone could try it with this crate? https://crates.io/crates/reflect

"Helpers for properties and signals"

There are some open issues for this: https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/issues/27 https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/issues/214

"A flat list of methods, instead of the public/imp split"

You can already do this in your code and use "pub fn" and "fn" like normal.

"I feel like I had a difficult time figuring out how to share state between widgets. You end up with lots of OnceCell, Rc, and RefCell, and it quickly becomes confusing,"

I think you are supposed to use bind_property and the gtk::Expression objects to do data binding, though that part is not so convenient to use from C or Rust either.
They most likely had a family and a harvest to return to back home - viking raids generally were seasonal in between farming, so they had a built-in time limit.
Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips FTP code from Chrome
Screams for an Apple comparison. Sure, there are plenty of competitive devices. But iPhone dominates the mind-share and profit-share.
No. They do not and are not. But I'm not the decider of what gets falsely labelled as what.
> It also likes to kill background processes very aggressively

> I was pleasantly surprised with the OnePlus.

OnePlus is actually almost as bad as Samsung in this regard. [1] It's the main reason I left OnePlus and switched back to the Pixel line. Far too frustrating missing an important notification because it killed an app in the background, and it's basically just to lie that their phones have better battery life than they actually do.

[1] https://dontkillmyapp.com/
I assume you didn't know that Toyota is lobbying against EVs.
YMMV but my prescribed cannabis usage did not impact my life insurance premium. I was worried it would, but knew that the blood + urine tests would show usage anyway. It worked out for me.
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> custom font ROMs or typeballs

Yup. Used those. I had a PC rigged with a toggle switch and a custom little wire-wrapped board to be able to switch character ROMs. I even wrote printing utilities to be able to pause and swap out the IBM printer's type ball when printing documents that required a mixture of APL code segments and regular text. I wrote a custom hybrid text editor in APL for precisely this purpose, to be able to do application notes that included both character sets.

> I think the "font problem" really was a significant issue for APL adoption during the period 01968–01988

Yes, agreed. The bit of APL history casual observers miss is that Iverson's motivation for transliterating APL symbols into J was exactly this problem. He tried to solve a business/financial/adoption problem. As a result, he bifurcated and confused the APL world. He was wrong to make this decision. And, what ended-up happening was that both languages became oddities rather than what APL could have become with the capabilities of next generation hardware.

That and the cost of licenses. As a student I got free licenses but it was hard to justify what some of these packages cost. STSC's, I think, was the lowest cost most popular version used by most of the university types I used to engage with. IBM's version had penetration into business because of their position with mainframes. Once again, splitting the ecosystem did not do anyone any favors. J is an abomination (it defecates all over Iverson's own seminal paper on the power and value of notation as a tool for thought).

APL had many issues that truly needed resolving. Simple things like the object oriented programming and heterogenous data types would have been very interesting to explore. The other thing may have been providing official means for avoiding O(n^2) issues where just a few innocent looking operators would result in converting vectors intro matrices or >2 dimensional arrays and then having to do all that processing when a simpler procedural option that does not expand to consume all available memory would have been great. In some ways this is the world of Python and numpy today. You can work at various levels of abstraction and be reasonably aware and in control of resources and computational complexity.