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What are you on about?

If you were concerned with useful opinions you would have sat quietly until you got this through your head before blabbing:

*The Playdate's practical merits as a video game console have zero bearing on its suitability as a desk ornament.*

It's a wonderful designer desk ornament, flashy, you can pick it up and use it as a console when you're board, limited availability, people who know what it is will immediately recognize it and see you as part of the in-crowd, great conversation piece for people who don't know what it is.

Like are you just this out of touch with the world of limited availability merch? If I say that the Balenciaga Triple S is just a way to flaunt, are you going to complain that I didn't go based on the practical merits as a sneaker?

This entire conversation arises from you wrongly assuming that calling it an ornament was an evaluation of its merit as a console, then refusing to back down on your wrong assumption.

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And I mean, if you really want to go there...

All reviews of it are based on the promise of what it could be since the entire season of games promises doesn't exist yet...

The SDK isn't out yet... except if you got cosy with the right people in the Discord server. That sounds a lot like Nintendo? Sony? Microsoft? For a device that won't have .001% of titles they end up with? the So much for a device focused on open development lol...

Hilariously the ... Playdate... doesn't work for play-dates. Despite Bluetooth and WiFi Panic have confirmed the SDK does not support networking APIs (I can already hear the gears whirring in your head though "I don't like multiplayer so no one else can!")

No backlighting despite the fact the display tech used would have supported edge lighting without sacrificing daylight performance, and even backlighting if planned for (Sharp produces transreflective versions of the LCD in question with no reduction in daylight performance)

Games base can only be accessed on a schedule specific to your device, which is a lovely thing to do to people ordering. If you got yours first, you get more games than people who get there's later. No way this is supposed to add to the exclusivity of the early adopters though :)

Do you need me to go on? It's very easy to tear down its "merit as a console" when all that "merit" is based on potential and next to nothing in established execution that the reviewers could access lol.

The thing literally damages it's own merit as a console intentionally by limiting input and output in a bid to chase this existence as a nostalgia-fueled simulacrum of by gone consoles lol.
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There are two medications on the market that have FDA approval for the claim that they have lower incidences of sexual side effects than other similar medications.

One is vortioxetine and the other is vilazodone. In addition to acting as SSRIs, they have high affinities for 5HT1A autoreceptors, activation of which disinhibits the release of neurotransmitters. SSRI sexual side effects are hypothesized to be the result of 5HT2C activation, which inhibits the release of neurotransmitters. The idea is that 5HT1A activation might help with the effects of 5HT2C activation.

There's also bupropion, an NDRI, and mirtazapine, which blocks 5HT2C. Buspirone acts as a 5HT1A activator, as well. They might help with those side effects.
How much experience do you have with design, which was your criticism? More importantly, what objective characteristic of the design do you think is awful?
But we aren't talking about plans to regulate meth; it's already very heavily regulated. We're talking about plans to partly deregulate meth, which we can expect to significantly reduce the cost of the drug, from the US$50 or more per gram described in this article down to US$1 per gram or less like other synthetic drugs with similarly simple synthesis routes. The US$50 a gram isn't the cost of operating the reactors or measuring the purity of the result; it's the cost of hiring an army of foot soldiers to keep drug addicts or the police from stealing the stuff, because you can't trust the police, because it's illegal.

Yeah, people high on meth do crimes. But at least if the stuff is legal they won't do crimes to buy meth.
The Modern Data Stack Ecosystem – Fall 2021 Edition
That depends if the loop has side effects such that the optimization would be unsound.

The actual transformation is dead simple albeit possibly not that profitable on a modern processor that will be macro and micro fusing to hell and back
> Google wouldn’t be regulated left and right. There would be no GDPR, there would be no cookie consent.

Google is barely regulated. Especially in america.

> There would be no GDPR, there would be no cookie consent.

I wish! those cookie consent prompts are annoying.
I think P2P was the main type of meth in 196x-198x.
If only it were true that "nobody bats an eye" at taking various vaccinations that have been used safely for decades.
As a comment on the linked post notes, this is impressive enough that it could probably be the basis of a degree thesis. An astonishing exhibit of technical skill, very much a masterpiece in the original sense of the term.
There are some cases where it makes sense. For example let's say I was developing something like a build script for ncurses: that runs on many different systems, and sticking to POSIX for compatibility makes sense there. There still quite a bit of stuff like that.

But a lot of the time I see people write some shell script that's Linux or BSD specific in the first place as "compatible" shell scripts. I don't see how that makes much sense. The only advantage I can see is that dash is a bit faster than bash or zsh, but it's not that much of a difference in real scripts.
OTC normally means that it doesn't require a prescription.
Yeah, I dunno how netflix is in that acronym and not Microsoft. If you are gonna put in "netflix" might as well include salesforce, dropbox or github.
I doubt this level of shutdown will be tried for the next pandemic, even if it’s exactly as severe as covid. People won’t tolerate it.
If true, then you should be able to make that case directly, no?
Haven't found the person(s) yet! What type of project are you working on or hoping to start?
The consumer is, in nearly every instance.
The last 1.75 fuckin' years have in part been because of the fact journalists and politicians live on twitter. These dudes think pleasing twitter mobs is more important than actual real life people.
The Strange New Trend That’s Enraging Hiring Managers
Damn, it seems the broader internet is leaking into HN again
I went part time for 5 years and it was the best decision I ever made. I was actually there for my kids, in the good times and the bad.

Now I'm back at work and it's the same as it ever was. I didn't miss anything.
> the world is in shambles. Why would people reject the real world for the internet?

Things like a pandemic that forces people to be home. Rampant global warming that makes it hard to be outside comfortably.

Maybe small apartments in urban areas where its just too expensive to have a real home because zoning doesn't allow new apartments to be built fast enough...

lots of things come to mind.
If an article only merits that form of "reading" I'd rather spend my time with something else.
Good on ya!

Try indiehackers.com for chronicling your journey.

Courtland has made it specifically for this sort of thing.
Well, they could have asked anyone who ever had worked in a ware house for tips.

Probably some people working on there had ideas like that, too.

I mean it's such a common thing that there are EU standardized sizes for stack-able boxes (and as far as I can tell they existed since pre-EU, or at least I can't remember my dad not using them in his little shops storage room).

The sizes are so common that even car manufacturers consider them when designing (some kinds of) cars.
USA is an outlier. The point stands: online businesses get regulated regardless of how weak my original examples are selected. Uber, anyone?
We don't buy enough chips to compel Infineon to build another fab.

Usually, we manage end of life matters with last time buys, etc. But this wasn't an end of life situation, and frankly, was not anticipated. To solve, we'd need to design alternate chips for all that are used, which is not economically feasible at this point in the product's life cycle (now 20+ years).
I would think it would be a relative scale, whoever are the top x% (by some measure) would by The Experts, by definition. As a terrible analogy, the top 10% of a fruit crop (or whatever) for a given season are "the best", by definition.

It would be lovely if we had a kind of absolute scale to measure by (as is often done in sports and other less complex domains), but that is not possible. However, what is possible (or should be, to some degree) is that (more) people could think from an absolute perspective, which I believe can substantially change how some things appear.

How you would go about doing this though is not obvious, to me.
Seems like the answer to all of these problems is that everything changed. Nothing in particular can be blamed for the fact that virtually everyone changed most of their behaviors significantly and for an extended time.
By society. More intelligence means more likelihood of "waking up". It takes a little bit of ignorance and blind trust to be a cooperative member of society. Once you get too smart, you no longer become useful and then you have to start hunting on your own. Not everyone can do that in today's age, so most people choose to delegate their decisions because the reward is that you get to live without having to think as much.
Right, I didn't mean to disagree with you, I just mean the whole thing is a bit more subtle than just "by committee" or "not by committee".
Oops, I meant to say deccelerated. But it appears to be worse - stagnant at 14%. So, I think the real reason they need to ask themselves - why? They've tried a few things with low cost iPhone SE models to gain market share but it has failed thus far. Perhaps it is the inertia of switching OS/GUI, or perhaps it is an indictment of how bad the iPhone UI has gotten. Or, that Android and other phone manufacturers are offering mutually exclusive things that iPhone simply cannot satisfy. It surely isn't the shortages.
I don't see any enterprise customer using this. MS SQL server is relatively cheap. Now if this thing can work for Oracle or IBM DB2 , then may be it will be worth the risk.
No potato battery? I am disappoint.
I bought the 65" dumb panel TV from them because I refuse all this be, it's fine, and I feel like it's mine, I'm not renting it by constantly paying with ad watching.
I'm half surprised that this is one of the most upvoted comments, but also not really because the comments for any FB-related article here are typically a race to the fastest dunk. But there is zero substance to this comment. What specifically did you find audacious? Why did it make you want to take a walk?
Send a PR to https://github.com/open-vsx/publish-extensions to close the gap!

> One goal of Open VSX is to have extension maintainers publish their extensions according to the documentation. However, you may be missing specific extensions that have not been published by their maintainers: either they are not willing to do it, or they haven't found time to do it, or simply they haven't heard about Open VSX yet. Though the preferred solution for such a situation is to convince the maintainers to start publishing themselves, you can add the extensions here to have them published by our CI workflow.
How are consumers "unfairly screwed over?" They use FB products at their own discretion.
If you're still measuring candidates with leetcode and fizzbuzz, I'm afraid you're part of the problem in with broken hiring in tech. I just hope the candidates you pass up trickle down my way.
No, it hasn't been growing. It has been stagnant and stuck at 14% for quite a while.

Shouldn't we question whetever comes out of the shareholder's meeting? The classic is 2017 BTC boom that deluded NVidia's shareholders, no one questioned it and then in 2018, Jensen speaks up in the shareholders mtg that we're now in a Bitcoin hangover. Obviously, they've accelerated since then, but the point remains.

It's important to play a devils advocate even if you're wrong. No one in this thread seems to be doing that.

I really have no horse in this race, just putting out contrarian views from the herd.
I recently got an Oculus Quest and it is pretty fun. It's honestly a great experience and the novelty hasn't worn off after 6 months, if your friends have them it's even more fun.

It's quite incredible technology, the only thing holding it back is the price of the headsets.
That's just not true. There are various BSD systems, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, etc. still exists, Alpine uses busybox.

Hell, I still see people being stuck with csh scripting sometimes with no alternative (sucks to be them!)

There is some common software that wants to run on all these platforms. Do you or I need to care about that for our Docker build script or whatnot? No, probably not. But that doesn't mean others don't. There's still very much a valid use-case for POSIX, even though it doesn't apply to everything.
Sounds like some people are already in their own metaverse and they just want Facebook to provide better hardware.
"Although our brains were getting bigger progressively, around 70,000 years ago they plateaued, and have been shrinking ever since."

From the article. 2021 is very recent.

The article also discusses energy usage a little under the section "Fuel".
It should all come down to a cost/risk/reward/importance factor.

If you are a bakery that sells very close to 100 loafs a day, you would want to make about 100 per day. Some event happens randomly and you have demand for 400. You could call it a supply chain failure or you could call it a success to turn away 300 customers once a year vs throwing out 300 loafs every other day.

At the end of the period, all of this redundancy spend gets binned so you gained nothing from it. Some essential services like healthcare could make sense to spend extra on redundancy since turning away 300 "customers" is a lot more serious than not getting your loaf or gaming pc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29033971
You can use command -v in any POSIX compliant shell. csh is not POSIX compliant. Your list of shells in inexhaustive to the point of being almost misleading. bash and zsh are "heavy-weight" shells, a lot of lightweight shells also support command.

If you're specifying your shebang as #!/bin/sh then you should not assume you have access to functions like type or binaries like which, but you can generally assume you have access to the command built-in.
Citizens Bank does the lending for Apple Upgrade Program, and Goldman Sachs does the lending for Apple credit card.

Technically, a bank has a lot of rules to follow, and I do not think they want to get into that business (yet).
If you don't tell them, yes.

As many websites do not convey the language properly they try to fix that using some heuristics, but especially for small texts (like messages) that can easily fail hard leading to completely wrong pronunciation.

Mail for example tried to fix that by allowing you to annotate the language for UTF-8 embedded in mail headers and the content. Ironically while that mechanism works for display names it doesn't work for email addresses itself. And I'm not sure any mail program uses it.
Ask HN: Forum/tracker for green card/VISA times?
Is there any website or forum or anything where people self report how long their VISA/Greencard process is taking?

I know that USCIS has a processing times web page, but those are averages and not super up to date.

I got my EB-3 biometrics appointment scheduled for mid November and I'm curious to know, even if anecdotally, how long people are waiting after their biometrics to get the GC
True. I bet the Rust guys would come close too.

But realistically? For anything except code golf and nerd fights, the actual client requirement is probably better met by a WordPress widget written in php/html, because what they asked for is something that'll print the fizz buzz all the way up to the person's age when they log into the company website... Nobody is even going to notice if it takes a whole second to fizz buzz all the way to 95 :-)

(Now I'm wondering if that guy's raw hyper optimised x86 assembly can get transpiled to WASM... Because nerd fights are fun.)
If I spend 10 minutes watching a 5GB video but 5 hours reading an ebook, what do I look like in your stats ? Probably more like a youtube couch potato than a philosopher, which would be misrepresentative.
Sure, send me an email and I can make some introductions. (jack @ domain I posted in my original comment) The casting houses I work with are in the LA jewelry district. I contrasted them to other "online services" because these are more old school business that like to do business over the phone and receive payment via cash/check. You also don't know what the piece will cost until its cast since they charge by weight of the final piece. Most of the casting houses also do not do wax printing or polishing, so you will have to find other people to do each of those steps. Luckily the jewelry district has people who do everything it just take a bit more work to coordinate it all.
> What if the two video files are of different durations? There’s a hornet’s nest of potential issues, but I’d take the occasional stings over the status quo any week of the day.

It's very easy to say things like this when you're not proposing a standards update that browser developers then have to implement. HTML is littered with examples of elements, attributes, whatever, that aren't consistently supported because browser developers disagree with, or just don't know, the details of how they're supposed to work. Case and point, focus management when invoking or moving within a modal created via the native dialog element.

In theory, this single user would be okay with the fact that switching video quality or size might do something weird if the underlying videos aren't compatible because of length. In practice, someone has to develop the code to make or let the "something weird" happen, define what it is, define what conditions trigger it, and so on.
The solution is to wait. It's better to wait out very rare events than to waste constantly during normal periods.

Very few people _need_ to have their new GPU or PS5 right now.
I think the difficulty in making that case is that expenditures are in $ not functional units. So what you may be seeing is more higher prices (a symptom of supply chain breakdown) not more purchases, while services largely stayed similar in price and similar in volume (to slightly down due to extra money spent on pricy goods).
I think they were trying to convey the idea that not all very qualified candidates would even consider a contract-to-hire option. I know I wouldn't. That’s an unnecessary risk for me to take.
It was actually designed by consultants. Same as TDD.
> knowing that i can quickly change accounts and apps and "gardens" makes it better

That's what the app store diversity push / legislation is about to me.

We're in a dangerous place where Apple is hardware locked to a single distribution channel (and its rules) & Android is heavy pushed towards a single distribution channel (and its rules).

It only takes a single round of bad legislation to get from there to "Your phone only runs what we say it can run."

Ironically, China has more diversity in app stores than everywhere else.
Going by the walled gardens of mobile marketplaces, I don’t think consumers care for freedom of expression, until it hurts their pockets.
Are we already calling it 'Meta' unironically?
Zuck getting acquisitions of already popular products right is not the same as creating popular products from scratch.
What's the underlying measurement here? Raw brain size, or ratio of brain to body?

> We see an erosion of grey matter, not white matter.

Given the lack of an actual brain, I assume this is some sort of assumption based on which part of the brain has changed size?
I just built a new computer with the XTIA Proto-N and I'm really really happy with it. It's super compact, easy to access and swap out components and quite pleasing to the eye. It's also not as expensive as a lot of closed m-ITX cases either. Highly recommended!
That wasn't the argument. You seem to be saying that the increasing volume of digital information will require new cognitive adaptations and I'm saying that's not the case because I don't need to be as smart to appear smart on a digital medium, I can just rely on external cognitive aids like google.
Nothing, really. The other party countersued (technically appealed) because they still want to remove the works completely, even though it is pointed out that they are under US soil.
Yes the majority of people beyond your bubble see the trouble and iniquity to come.
Alleged TikTok ‘Skyrim IRL’ Murders Shows the Real Danger of Stalkerware
Awesome! Thanks so much @asplake! Certainly going to give this a try this weekend.
"Keyence sales team rocks! They bugged me, annoyed me, gave me tons of free information, free loaners of $100k worth of equipment, persuaded me and we’ve become friends now after years of great engineer+sales relationship. Their purpose truly is to make you succeed as an engineer."

$ RLY LOL ?
Literally all of his bad behavior can be explained by greed. What reason do we have to believe there's anything else motivating him?
I remember before covid, Marin county was the antivax central, with mostly wealthy hippies that refused to give smallpox and measles vaccines to their kids. They had measles, whooping cough, all those old diseases.

At Greenwood School in Mill Valley, 61 percent of the kindergartners are partially or completely unvaccinated, according to state figures. At San Geronimo Valley Elementary in San Geronimo, 58 percent of the kindergarten children are partially or completely unvaccinated. Half the children at the New Village School in Sausalito are in the same boat, according to the health department.

https://www.kqed.org/news/107741/despite-the-science-marin-v...

https://www.marinij.com/2015/01/31/california-measles-outbre...

https://www.sfweekly.com/news/whooping-cough-returns-to-mari...

There is certainly a subculture that rejected vaccines in general long before covid.
Hey dang, why did you downweight the "Facebook renames to Meta" post so hard off the front page? I remember seeing it on the second page with something like 600 votes and now I can't find it no matter how many pages I look through.

Thanks for your work!
Some signs of domestication in mammals

- Floppy or reduced ears

- Smaller brain and teeth

- Docility

- Juvenile behavior

- Depigmentation
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TLDR: this is about some kind of adapter layer ("Babelfish") that lets you serve Microsoft SQL Server clients from a PostgreSQL backend, sort of like how Samba serves Microsoft SMB clients from a Linux file system. It has nothing to do with natural language translation. Oh well.
The course had a machine solely for benchmarking. It would only compile and benchmark one program at a time and the students had to queue up.

It worked well for the course and the results were very consistent between runs, but that kind of setup doesn't scale well.

There may be a (slow) option though, and that would be benchmarking the code using an simulated processor. The runtime would be measured relative to the simulated processor as opposed to the computer hosting the simulator.
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The number of presumptions in your reply is astounding. Based on replies and the blog post, OP clearly has projected the best of intentions. This is classic owning of a clown show hiring process and the hiring wing of Codecademy by the OP. I say "well done."