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Indeed. Balkanized charging infrastructure is good for no one. You can fuel any ICE vehicle at any fueling station and you should be able to charge any EV at any charging station.

Tesla is the last remaining EV manufacturer in North America that hasn't switched to CCS. Hopefully they make the switch to CCS soon like they did in Europe a few years ago.
Did you consider that with such a complex story and large cast the show might take more than one and a half episodes to show you everything?

The show has indeed been about power projection mechanisms, once it set up the universe and cast enough.

It's one thing to watch an episode and a half and say "eh, not for me." It's another entirely to declare you know "the show" and speak authoritatively about it as a whole when you haven't seen four fifths of the material.
They make a sharper distinction of PhD being a post-Masters degree. In USA, I started the PhD program without a Masters, others started with me who had a Masters. We all took roughly the same amount of time to complete the PhD
I've been procrastinating self-hosting, partially due to being unable to choose a platform and knowingly committing to it for the long term (maintenance, upgrades, etc.).

This will happily fill the gap and let me get something 'out there' and find my niche while continuing to be indecisive about self-hosting.

Pretty darn frictionless setup, nice clean look and feel. I like it so far.
> China is today, by PPP, the largest economy in the world, with the US coming in second.

PPP has its flaws/limitations, but I don't really see your point. China has 1.4 billion people, the US 330 million. Look at GDP per capita. This reveals one of the reasons China is getting so dangerous: its ability to escape the middle income trap is looking more and more doubtful.

It's no surprise Xi is talking about "common prosperity". If he and his CCP sycophants can't deliver on their economic promises to the Chinese people, they are going to have big internal problems. The problem is that the easy gains have already been made and now China is facing a demographic cliff while it's preciously overleveraged economy is starting to show real cracks.

> China has enough domestic crude production and the ability to import it from Kazakhstan and Russia to fuel its military indefinitely (albeit at significant domestic pain)...

I'd suggest you're a little too sanguine about China's ability to maintain its oil supplies in a major conflict.

> It's unlikely that China would attack US warships in (what it sees as) its territorial waters out of nowhere. The more likely way a conflict would develop is it initiating some kind of aggression against Taiwan, which the US would respond to by shutting down that exact freedom of navigation in international waters in an attempt to starve China and its economy. As US warships enforced an embargo via threat, force, and even sinking Chinese and neutral civilian shipping, China would use that as justification for attacking US warships.

This is the weirdest part of your comment. If China attacks and tries to invade an island of 23 million people who want nothing to do with China, which has its own democratically-elected government and produces a huge part of the world's semiconductor supply, is the region and world supposed to idly stand by?

I live in Taiwan and while I have serious doubts about Taiwan's ability to defend itself, Taiwan does have the ability to retaliate and cause pain in China.

Furthermore, it's increasingly likely that a Chinese attack on Taiwan would involve Japan[1], which has a mutual defense treaty with the US.
This really isn't just about the US. It's about the region. No country in Asia, save for North Korea, wants an imperial China free to take territory as it pleases.

In any case, the only people who would buy a rationale for the Chinese to attack US warships would be members of the CCP and some subset of the Chinese population. Incidentally, based on my experience living in the region, I suspect that a good number of Chinese, perhaps the majority, are not at all eager for imperial war, and that number will grow if they are forced to experience the hardships that come with imperial war.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/07/26/1020866539/japans-position-on...
If you don't mind anecdata: I'm in the third year of my PhD and would classify myself as an average hard worker compared to my peers. It is highly improbable for someone to work three times as hard as an average PhD in any half-decent program. A lot depends on your adviser but anyone serious about their work will demand a certain level of output from their grad student (like any other manager situation) which necessitates a certain level of work. PhDs and post-docs are notoriously underpaid for the amount of work they do.
You kind of stepped onto that word as a platform for your soapbox but ignored what the author was actually saying.
(NSFW) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_the_nipple
I do not know about OSI but SSPL most certainly fits the FSF free software definition.
>given that ACH transfers are nearly free.

Are they not completely free to the ACH end user? Unless you are referring to an indirect cost of the transfer time? I've never had to pay a fee for ACH.
European PhDs have better structure and rigid filters to weed out the unworthy dweebs. And the students take far less courses and generally work harder.

US PhD system is slow and often leads to counter-intuitive, interesting or just weird results, which may or mayn't pan out in the long run.

US PhD system has to be longer because

i) US undergraduate system is absolute trash (like worse than 3rd world 12th grader at their worst), specially in STEM, so the extra 2-3 years are essential.

ii) US students don't work that hard

iii) Quite a few STEM grad students are foreign students, sometimes from different undergard backgrounds than PhD topic, so they benefit from 1-2 years of background training and acclimitising to foreign land.
Hoovervilles were not filled with rich people. In fact, in 2008, expensive cars barely saw a dent in sales cause the people that can afford them are heavily resistant to shocks of that caliber. Rich people are most definitely not creditors. Banks are. Rich people don't give out loans like banks. The rich don't get affected by poorer people who declare bankruptcy. The rich lose when poor people think money is greater than whatever BS commodity they're peddling that they can't recoup losses trying to sell it. That's why panics were more common back in the day. They're virtually a thing of the past nowt hat the Fed just prints money making everything think you gotta invest constantly or just lose money to inflation.
Iain Banks was famous for (tongue-in-cheek I think) saying he'd wouldn't mind changes Hollywood wanted in order to get a movie made.[1]

The machine-machine conversations, virtual hell, etc. parts of his books would probably not translate well no matter who was directing.

Otherwise, the material seems as well suited for adaptation as anything else. Consider Phlebas could be fantastic in a ~2hr movie with special effects worthy of the images he paints, a tone weighed towards realism, and an Aphex Twin / Caustic Window -like soundtrack.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090715133026/http://www.sffwor...

"How would you like to see your science fiction books filmed, if at all?"

"With a very, very, very big budget indeed. The one I'd most like to see done is Consider Phlebas; if they kept in the sequence where the megaship hits the giant tabular icceberg, the fist-fight under the giant hovercraft, the bit where the Clear Air Turbulence escapes from the GSV, and the final train wreck, I wouldn't even mind if they changed it to a happy ending!"
Literally nowhere does the book say what Kynes' skin color is. You might have imagined the character as white, but that's on you. It's not a "change" made for "PC" reasons. And if it was, well, that would be awesome!
> I'm convinced that people who want physical buttons and small touchpads, or worse: people who like the trackpoint/nipple mouse on ThinkPads just haven't used a quality touch pad.

I find this pretty patronizing. I've used many of these computers, including macs, and I don't care for it at all. All this software works great right up to the point that it doesn't and does something I don't want, which for whatever reason is too frequent to be annoying.

Maybe I need to improve my motor skills or "hold it in a different way" or whatever, but just three buttons already works well enough for me so I prefer that.
>... join our small (5.5 person) product development team.

I wonder if 0.5 person rather means a half-time position? Or half-overtime??
Try France, it’s very common to do a PhD inside of a company.
are you sure the built in trackpads do not click? i remember the article about the external magic trackpads not clicking via pivot, but via haptic effect.
The show is basically fan fic set in loosely the same universe. It is absolutely nothing like the books.
I would probably have to figure out (or more likely look up) how to do long division these days. I probably haven't done it in decades.
> I'm 30 right now,

> You definitely aren’t too old

> By "old" I didn't mean actual biological age exactly.

In my opinion, the replier was referring to your chronological age.
I’d assume anyone on HN already has an advantage
I'm an aimless 24 year old as well. I love programming! How about we start a Discord - club for aimless 24 year olds....
USD is tanking --- it's called "inflation".

When the Fed prints USD and hands it out like candy on Wall St., the value of the USD in your 401K declines.

This is the natural result in a "free market".

When Tether mints USDT and hands it out like candy to selected accomplices, the value remains pegged at $1USD and the value of BTC goes up.

There is nothing "free market" about this.

This is evidence of collusion between crypto exchanges to keep the price of USDT pegged no matter what and to drive BTC up --- also known as "fraud".
Are you not worried about dealing with the complex tax implications of this?

I’ve been eyeing it but the legal uncertainty about this product and the corresponding headache of taxes hold me off.
PHP shop moving away from iframes because of responsiveness in 2021 is quite interesting to me for some reason. I can't quite put my finger on it...
Obamacare is utter garbage and costs ridiculous amounts of money. It impoverishes poor people far more than it helps. They should've provided a tax credit to people who pay in with it. Instead they just reduce AGI. What a joke. Honestly the best thing Trump did was make that no longer mandatory or face a penalty. It was a rammed through system democrats did just to pat themselves on the back. Quite literally one of the biggest slap in the faces to the working class in a long time.
Culture would actually be cool, though it’d either have to be an anthology or an original story taking place in that universe. I’d love to see Player of Games adapted as an 8 episode season.
in just a small project we ran into some odd differences in classpath/path resolution behavior. It wasn't a huge deal (and I'm not sure what we were doing before was "right") but there were definitely a few things we had to track down and fix, even in a "straightforward" project.
Cool having you respond to a comment of mine!

Yeah as the sibling commented. It is written in the link from the link where they bring up the formula.
Those two (not sure where you're getting 1.5 from) episodes have been completely incompatible with the source material already. There's no reason to go any further, in the same way you don't need to see the derailed train come to a complete stop to know it's not gonna make it to the station.
If you're closing on a house you will probably use a wire transfer not a cashier's check, and online banks readily offer wire transfers.
This is something they fail to explain in the movie, but the reason that the doctor is so trusted is because he comes from a school of indoctrinated physicians thought to be psychologically incapable of harm.
They can serve as a sort of self-narrating story, where a past arc provides context for the present or future.

Rotating arcs also add complexity that excuses weakness in character or plot writing- the viewer's effort to keep arcs organized makes it easier to overlook those faults.
Generally, in rural US the pace is very slow and most everybody on the road is not in a hurry.

People will gladly wait a long time, I've even seen a case where someone jumps out of a car and diverted traffic until a turtle crossed the road.

Speed is otherwise very fast - be seen!
Just hoping an economic downturn doesn't happen for another 4 or 5 years. Getting settled into a new job and I definitely do not want to be on the bad end of another 2008.
Ah! I was referring to the original trilogy when I said "the books"
What is your point? People interpret things in bad faith all the time, but that doesn't detract from my point about the A/B testing. The test wouldn't care why someone arrived at a given interpretation, its only measuring how many people arrived at which one as a proxy for engagement. The motivations people have are somewhat irrelevant.

And we know this sort of thing happens all the time with less scrupulous media outlets. Media outlets surely test specific headlines with the intention of attracting a certain bias depending on the outlets own leanings.
Well, technically I guess so. There is no one CalArts style; it's basically any style John Kricfalusi doesn't like, as he popularized the term in the 2000s (decade). The thing you have to remember about John Kricfalusi (other than he's a sex pervert who molested teenagers) is that arrogance in animation is measured in nanokricfalusis. And there is no animation style Kricfalusi likes, apart from his own and the Clampett/Avery style animation that prevailed in the 1940s. Everything later is "CalArts". Of particular note, every Pixar movie is CalArts because Pixar is lousy with CalArts grads, hence all the A113 memes embedded in so many Pixar movies.

"CalArts style" is a meaningless term coined by the most hated man in animation and appropriated by internet trolls to tear down other animators' hard work.
It’s strange, like everything on Terminus was from a different show. Feels like 90’s sci-fi, the Anacreons are about as believable as a random Star Trek species. And the combat is truly awful.
Agreed, but we really need a faithful adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? set in San Francisco, as Dick envisioned it.
Did he do what he did for the Rama series and hand it off to a buddy to ghost write for him?

I wish I'd know he had done that, because I wouldn't have wasted any time reading the garbage that was the sequels.
Those seem like issues where a framework should exist to make it hard to create them by accident. Otherwise, an extreme amount of QA work would be required. Since I have no experience with MacOS UI programming - is there likely some extra special code that causes the listed problems, or is it lack of code that makes things consistent?
int prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3, unsigned long arg4, unsigned long arg5);

Is there a reason why a more idiomatic void * to struct wasn't used for the args?
I’d like to Consider Phlebas adapted as well but I think it’s be tricky. A lot of Culture fans don’t like it because the main character is scum and about 1/4 of the way through the book you start realizing that the antagonist machine empire he’s fighting (the culture) are actually the good guys. I think that makes it great, though.
Man, you guys are very motivational. Thanks for that.

The point I was attempting to make was that I could store these carry numbers in bulk at one point, but now am lucky to remember a single one.

I only know that as I try to teach my own kid math today. It's frustrating to realize you've 'lost your touch.'

But, you're right, it's really not important day to day.
That's my point, can someone in that group instead of devoting more time than the average to their academic work take that extra time and devote it to their job?
» why aren't we seeing more banks open up to print money?

I don't know the details but the folks behind Simple tried, really tried to do the complete stack themselves. They gave up and first had a "real" bank handle it and eventually folded. There is a lot of red tape around creating a bank and as far as I understand, small local banks exist by being small and local. Like they couldn't operate nationally if they wanted to...
> Also, I think it’s important to note that the show is produced by his daughter and that she wanted to take things in a different direction. Most of these changes were made with deep knowledge of the books and the authors vision.

Just look at Dune. Brian Herbert's books are an abomination. They completely butcher the story and betray its core themes. Just like with this show.

Someone's child being involved doesn't mean anything.

If they wanted to take the show in a different direction, they shouldn't have called it the Foundation series. This show has nothing to do with the books at all, aside from stealing a few ides about the basic setting and some character names.
Author here.

No, this isn't "a technical PR blog post promoting Windows Edge". It is, as explained in the first sentence, a write-up of a presentation I've given at an event. It is on my personal blog that I've maintained since 2006 and very much my own message.

> This is a talk that I’ve given at CityJS this September. I am a principal product manager for developer tools in Microsoft Edge and these are things I encountered during working on the tools, documenting them and going through user feedback.

Microsoft Edge is a browser based on Chromium and we joined the project quite some time ago, fixing hundreds of bugs, making the developer tools themeable, localisable and accessible to assistive technology. All of these changes have been submitted back to the Chromium core, so that Chrome, Brave and all the other browsers based on the same open source project also benefited from that. We work closely with the Chrome team and share a lot of ideas and plans for the future of the Chromium platform.

We differentiate in the UX of the developer tools, much like all Chromium based browsers differentiate in the interface for the end user.

I spent about 10 hours on the presentation and this morning about 3 hours turning the slides into this blog post. If my goal were to promote Edge, I could have done a much simpler, shorter and to the point post.

If you read the article, you might realise the things we're adding exclusively to the Edge devtools based on user feedback and demands, the focus mode and in-context explanations being one of the efforts, and the deep integration with VS code being another one.

As to whether these things are useful, I think I pretty clearly explained that this is exactly what we'd like people to tell us. Which is why there are several ways to contact the team and provide feedback.
Well, it's not just about excelling. But presumably winning the startup lottery or hitting the fast-track at a handful of companies in specific locations. (Or becoming an exec at a variety of companies but that's presumably not a path that's being contemplated here.) Most competent engineers make respectable salaries relative to the US population as a whole but they're not retiring at 40.
Thank you!

We're still in the early stages so no large blogs to show just yet.

Here's the Papyrus blog, if you're more curious to see how a demo blog operates: https://papyrus.so/@PapyrusBlog

And thanks for the tip about the JS issues - I'm absolutely focused on making the entire site accessible without JS, so this is important to me. I'll take a look at shortly.
In the middle of an RV build. Hoping to move full-time into it within a couple months. Neat features:

- 3 separate "rooms"

- reconfigurable/expandable floorspace

- reverse osmosis circulatory water filtration system

- 30kWh battery with solar, EV, and alternator charging
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I’m reasonably certain that American PhD students work very hard. Do you have any evidence for the claim that they don’t?
If you read the link I included, it discusses numerous reasons that are immediately apparent/applicable if you are familiar with the book/show.
So does that not make what I said even stronger? It isn’t really that amusing for the original (iPhone, windows) to copy aspects of the original inspiring copiers.
Yeah but the fifth season wasn’t all that good (despite being based on one of the better books) and they aren’t adapting the last three books which are high fantasy. On a side note I felt the whole first 7 books were kind of just filler getting to Tiamats Wrath and Leviathan Falls (which comes out this month!)
I've been doing hobby projects with laser-cut acrylic (plexiglass) for a while. I recently bought a big roll of mylar, which is thin, strong, clear, flexible, dimensionally stable, and even food-safe. It's kind of a perfect material for laser cutting, because the thinness means it cuts quickly, and the strength means you can create pretty robust 3D objects by scoring, folding, and assembling using tab+slot designs.

I know other people use mylar for laser cutting projects, but it might commonly be more along the lines of stencils. There is some overlap with papercraft design, but the material constraints are different, so it's not quite the same thing. I'm coming up with design techniques myself from scratch, and it's going fine, but I feel like I may be reinventing the wheel. I discovered https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/ recently, which looks like a great resource, but I haven't bothered to boot up Windows to check it out yet.

Thanks for asking!
Mysorean Rockets
(2009)

Article title: The beautiful powers of unconscious thought
The title is more accurately described as “Former Brown Professor of Medicine Returns to Brown to earn his Third Doctorate“

He had an MD, received a PhD from MIT, then went on to have a career as a researcher at Brown before taking up physics undergrad classes, and then continuing on to grad school.

He is quoted in the article as saying he will continue to work on physics research.
I doubt this means much, the current dynamic with supply chain issues, huge amounts of free government money given out, and other pandemic details makes this metric and the metrics it relies on dubious for future predictions.
As I assume you know how to do it, carrying numbers in long addition is a short term memory thing. I bet you were roughly as bad at it when you were 17 as you are now. Doing basic calculus in your head is way easier, it's simple multiplication.