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To motivate why learning how to solve problems without a debugger is a useful skill, there are times when using a debugger is not feasible.

Sometimes you might simply mot have a debugger. I had an old WinCE 6 system whose debugger I never got working. An even older 80186 system with a custom RTOS. I have no idea how you would debug that. (The 286 added some pins for in-circuit emulation, so I’m guessing such a system would be easier to build a debugger for)

Sometimes having a debugger attached slows down the system so much it is no longer functional. Specifically hooking a debugger to HHVM seems to slow down execution by quite a bit.

If you are debugging a real time motion control, you get one shot per move to capture what is going on. This is because your motor control software stops executing while the debugger is pause by the physical motor is still moving. So when you resume execution your physical motor is not where it should be and your controller either tries to compensate or error out.

Sometimes the act of attaching a debugger prevents the problem from occurring. For example it can change the interleaving of multiple threads of execution and cause your race condition to go away. Or on some microcontrollers if your debugger reads a hardware register it can cause the value of the register to change.

Sometimes your debugger can cause the problem to happen more reliably. I had an intermittent corruption in a floating point calculation. Stepping through with the debugger made it 100% reproducible, as the data-corrupting interior handler had plenty of time to run while single-stepping the main thread.
Still TJ decided it's fine to continue running their store with this crap being set up
Or they might have been in the dark until people started complaining.

Anyhow this totally involves TJ and they will need to do something about it, as more customers will get pissed.
Bureaucracies have a hard time fighting against asymmetrical warfare.
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Trust me, the hive mind is fickle. Its responses are hard to judge. It tneds not to take well to direct confrontation.

Don't get attached to any one post.

There a COP26 / carbon-reduction post on the front page as I write:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29217810

I've suggested several times that you find a better story to submit. My first response to this submission was to see if it might be possible to salvage a week submission by substituting the original source (see HN Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). I do this fairly regularly, emailing HN's moderators. My suggestions are usually (though not always) accepted.

But the upstream source is also weak and confused. The Tweet isn't itself an original source, which would make it a more viable contribution (see e.g., the Flexport CEO tweetstorm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28957379).

There's some resistance on HN to stories that go against a technotopian narrative. (There's also some support.) A well-formed, well-pitched story, with a constructive early discussion, stands a much better chance.

Sometimes the best way to point out the weaknesses in a question or comment is to not challenge the author directly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22132283

For a story with weak context and/or a poor headline, providing context with sympathy to the confused can be useful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4134488

Where you disagree with a statement of fact, a citation to an authoritative source refuting or weakening the claim can be effective:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29214622

I submit fairly frequently to HN. It costs little. Upside potential is high. What succeeds ... varies tremendously, and trust me I often wish that what's ignored did better and feel that what succeeds is overly trivial. Rather than fight that, I try to see how I can succeed more with what I feel are significant and under-served topics.

And if someone else submits what I think is a good post, I'll try to benefit that, working within HN's accepted mechanisms: by scanning the new queue, upvoting quality, commenting in a constructive manner, and suggesting fixes (usually: improved title, source links) to HN mods. Occasionally I'll drop suggestions to submitters.

Again: I suspect I'm quite sympathetic to your viewpoint. The submission was low-quality, not your fault. Find a better one. Please!

Don't get vested in losing battles.
Couldn't agree more. It's the model that is good and most of the benefit is derived organisationally rather than technically.
Another vote for VueScan. I actually looked through the comments to see if anyone mentioned it yet.
I'd like to know what "climate chagne is Solved" looks like.

At what point will we be able to say "its fixed, its not a problem anymore"?
The new war of attrition for the sake of exploitation is everywhere now it seems like. A simple legal framework where citizens could easily vote against these types of behavior, without having to jump through a bunch of legal hoops, would be really nice.
You will be happy to learn that under Chair Khan, the FTC is going to prioritize enforcement actions against this specific practice. Only 1 Commissioner issued a dissenting statement. [1]

Comcast has probably already discontinued the practice, as it's been 2 weeks since the policy statement was issued.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/10/ftc-r...
Once you switch to maintenance mode, you have already lost. You will always need to innovate and for this you need smart people with good ideas and talent to make it work.
The US healthcare system is a bit special. I tend to think about Europe, since I'm from there. Nurses don't make nearly as much from what I gather.
This is a huge possibility. They are already struggling. The reality is I don't see Zuck backtracking on anything. Meta and the new tech coming around it is a good example of it. They are actually looking into doubling down on surveillance and being invasive.So them struggling should be a good point. Or a good thinng IMHO.

They could use AI to tackle this in the future now that we have Copilot of the sorts. It would be interesting to see how the cope up with it.
I'd like to second the comment on aesthetics- a key part of a teddy bear is it's fluffy and cuddly. Now,I'm sure you're intending for it to be dressed maybe? But those eyes...

(Please don't let this tale away from the awesome work on the hardware to make this work - I think it's early enough for a change of colour, hopefully?)
> but I think the actual casus belli was Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction

Afghanistan War was 2001. Iraq War was 2003. Your history is off by about 1.5 years.
First, I definitely don't think self-awareness is an illusion (any more than anything else is.) You (i.e. your body) are clearly aware of yourself (i.e. your body.) QED.

Second, your idea only works if there is also a mechanism that would cause us to value consciousness, free will, etc. You have to explain the reason that those things would make life "meaningful" (i.e. be motivational) for an animal. I'd argue, as the Devil's advocate, that they actually don't and we can probably live without them perfectly fine. I think some people do.

I don't know if this solves anything, but the way that I think about it is that the the mind is just the body's UI to the body. The body is the machine and the operator of the machine and the mind is just like the Windows desktop. I think I got this from something Donald Hoffman said. He talks about ideas similar but different from yours by the way. Might be worth a search on YouTube for you. He definitely doesn't think we see reality the way it is and has accumulated good evidence and theory for that and has spent a lot of time connecting it to evolutionary biology.
‘Ghost Guns’: Firearm Kits Bought Online Fuel Epidemic of Violence
Standard careerism demagoguery (remember Backpage?) and trying to bully for favorable coverage for themselves. The ignorants see "Big Tech" as a traditional media company and are mad they aren't playing ball.
I am familiar with this area and soil type and I am always shocked farming is viable at all. Most grass doesn’t even seem to grow well unless you put a heavy layer of topsoil down.
> unless a new battery technology arrives that for a start eliminates our need to once again fuck over some very poor countries

It is already here. Google LFP batteries.
DMV, and other gov services, in CA, as well as it seems other states, is now fully integrated with ID.me, which to me does not inspire trust. They even run a shop, https://shop.id.me/, with store discounts and so on. So, to give all the info to such an entity is risky as hell.

So, recently when I had to do something with DMV I just decided to go a little early and use the kiosks they have inside rather than use the online version which mandated that I link my DMV account and share all my personal info, the serious kind that DMV needs and not just name/email, with ID.me

Not sure how long this will be an option, but let's see.
I would look into removing the "computer" that is doing the spying, and driving the panel itself directly (eg from an Apple TV, Raspberry Pi, whatever you consider trustworthy). The panels usually use eDP, MIPI/DSI or (in case of older laptops) LVDS internally.

I've seen it done - a friend swapped the screens on two completely different laptops - one did work, and well, one didn't ;) but 50% success rate for a random guy with a screwdriver is not bad. I wonder what would happen if we could identify a particular cheap, mass-produced, high-quality screen / panel that'd be easy to DIY.
Sorry to hear that! I have an up-to-date iPad Air 2 and I've tested playing in Safari quite a bit. The touch accuracy is a little annoying and dragging the background unintentionally occasionally happens. I think I can improve this by increasing the touch area around pieces to be a bit more forgiving. Thank you for reporting.
walk around and randomly vaccinate people passing by!
I think the economies of scale are such that it needs to be large installations that regular people can only donate money to. Or do volonteer work, I guess.

The carbon goes down a hole in the ground, somewhere with the right geology. You can think of it as a gas well run in reverse.
Austria also discusses switching to 1G what would mean that only people who count as fully vaccinated would not be locked down but there is still discussion on the definition and limitations of this.

There is also further discussion about requiring PCR-Tests for the non restricted groups.
“This is what H1B holders (including me) are doing currently”
I always put a fake number into the Shake Shack kiosk. It hasn't been a problem, since the people sacking the burgers shout out my equally fake name to pick up my order.

If Shake Shack is really texting me that my order us ready, it's going to a prison pay phone a dozen states away.
Show HN: Airgram.io - where augmented meeting memories live and thrive
Why would ANY person agree to install app to park in their garage is beyond me. BTW my phone does not even have mobile data plan.
In the early days of 'Home Computing', many of us couldn't afford (or sometimes didn't even have the amount of RAM necessary) to run an assembler. So we used pencil and paper along with a Z80 or 6502 instruction code chart to produce our machine code by hand.

It paid to have a good skill with hexagesimal mental arithmetic to work out the JUMPS and CALLs.

The surprising thing was that most of the time our code actually worked.
> It includes profit from homescreen ads, selling of buttons on remotes, and cuts of streaming revenue

> It's likely that only a small fraction of the division's $83 million in revenue comes from tracking and then selling viewing habits.

It's good to have an example of cognitive dissonance now and then.
And in a 100% solar economy, the energy to build and ship the panels would be solar. This is fine, as they output enough energy to make themselves in 1-4 years depending on which study you look at.
>I feel CGI has contributed to a drop in quality. Especially in action films

This is a logistics issue not a technology issue of the major players who make action movies these days. Your average Avengers film has the action sequences already pencilled out and being created and finished before the rest of the plot is even really figured out and the connective tissue of these scenes is filmed later which is why the action scenes all feel like just random set pieces that are sometimes tonally different and also often don't really have any plot development or repercussions to the rest of the movie because they're just set pieces the director is slipping their story between.
No - fuck anybody who thinks employers own their employees. We want "poaching" - that is a healthy labor market.
Yes, budget. The newer versions of ROTJ for example have scenes of celebration on other planets inserted after the DS2 explodes.
>If you were Jeff Bezos, of course you could bet a million and walk away with an eventual win before running out of money.

Are there really casinos with no maximum bet? Usually there is a maximum so you run into the problem that at some point you can't double anymore and have to take the loss, even though you would have enough money left.
Could this be because the volume of searches and people that even open the App Store app daily is so low that now that ATT is in play advertisers aren’t spending as much on marketing for iOS apps?
> then recharge during the day when the sun comes out.

Unless you actually need the car during the day..
Imagine that tomorrow someone came and said that they have found a technique to remove any arbitrary amount of carbon dioxide for a trivial cost. What do you think that would do to the world? Whoever controls that is the most powerful person in the world because they can literally suffocate all life on the surface.

Carbon capture technology is more dangerous than nuclear weapons. Just convert the carbon to biomass. Just plant trees.
a (full-featured) firewall is much better, especially if it can consume popular blocklists. piholes can't deal with hard-coded IPs or an integrated dns server that bypasses the pihole.
> it lives it's life without any internet access at all courtesy of my firewall

TVs now and in the future come with cell radios too. No need to worry about a pesky customer's firewall getting in the way of profits!
they'll make a lot less of 'an absolute killing' than the devices and apps that spy on you through your phone and generate a constant revenue stream after the initial purpose.

That's why dumb devices are getting harder and harder to find. It's much easier to take advantage of users and steal their data with 'smart' devices.
Exactly right.

If you need an app on my phone to take my money for normal, everyday transactions, you don't need my money.

Side tangent - I used to be incorporated as a consultant, and think I need to be again because of crap like this, so it can own things for me. I haven't had a car in a long time, and think I need to lease one from MeCo instead of buying one.
According to the press release, there are a lot of grey room and no these companies have not magically discontinued their "dark" patterns because of some press release. The only thing that will actually get companies like this to do anything is enforcement, and the government historically lets companies like this off extremely easy and they decide the small penalties are worth the extra they make by doing the thing they are not supposed to be doing.
This is quite nice indeed. Personally I'm fond of the Colour Maximite II as a teaching tool but this is nice as it requires no additional hardware.
I may be wrong, but I think the world population is growing more quickly than you portray, and will be for some decades yet, and we currently have far too many people for how we conduct ourselves as a species.

I may also be wrong to think it, but I would expect if you halved the world population, assuming it was done equally across the world, you would indeed halve human carbon emissions; half as many people, half as many homes, cars, power stations, etc.
I've never heard of this, other than someone breaking the slot machines. And they make it very clear that if you don't use the slot machine they way it is intended, you void your play.

I've been scammed at foreign casinos before in the Caribbean, but never in the US.
Solar panels contain heavy metals like cadmium that leech into the soil and water as the panels age. This is not a safe approach.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/solar-panel-was...
I’m confused. Given a string “foobar”, `(?<=foo)bar` should match “bar”. Or is this implicitly `^(?<=foo)bar$` in Clojure? I used to know the answer but it’s been several years since I’ve used Clojure.
I wonder what the larger societal context for this airstrike? The context for the "the rocket into the compound of an Afghan family" was a retreat from Afghanistan. Other previous bombings of questionable military value had other contexts.

These justifications for the bombing were disputed by the owners of the plant, the Sudanese government, and other governments. American officials later acknowledged "that the evidence that prompted President Clinton to order the missile strike on the Shifa plant was not as solid as first portrayed. Indeed, officials later said that there was no proof that the plant had been manufacturing or storing nerve gas, as initially suspected by the Americans, or had been linked to Osama bin Laden, who was a resident of Khartoum in the 1980s." The attack took place a week after the Monica Lewinsky scandal and two months after the film Wag the Dog, prompting some commentators to describe the attack as a distraction for the public from the scandal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factor...
To be fair, Linux powers quite literally billions of devices
Napoleon and Hitler send their regards, and hope you enjoy the winter sports.
https://investors.vizio.com/news/news-details/2021/VIZIO-HOL...

Here it direct from the VIZIO CEO William Wang in an address to shareholders.
100% agree, I've been saying this for years. I've joked with friends that I'd call it Dumb Inc. It's (mostly) in jest, but I think there's a real mismatch of expectations with a lot of modern appliances with respect to what a consumer needs and what companies use to try and differentiate their products from the competition.

In evolutionary biology, there's this idea that "evolution is stingy" – in most cases, a species doesn't have substantially more capability than it needs to survive (human brains are an often cited exception). I kind of expect that, outside of a computer, most product design should be err on the side of being stingy too. If I buy a toaster, I don't need it to be wi-fi connected so it can send me a text notification when the toast is done. I say this satirically, but I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if one existed. Frackin' toasters.
Right, but that’s not the assertion. The assertion is that it’s not really a bot, which I couldn’t find anything about.
Sure, for now. But pretty much all of Europe, large parts of the US, much of China have plans to ban gas vehicles in the near future (< 15 years). Once that happens most of the rest of the world will follow quickly because there will be just less supply chain support for gas vehicles, and what remains will quickly become a diminishing fraction of the total.

I definitely see this happening much faster than any attempts at atmospheric capture would even make a tiny dent.
I'm just using a cheap USB2-to-firewire cable on my Linux laptop. Works well.
I shop at amazon using web browser. I would never install any of their apps.
I don't need color. I need an 8 1/2 x 11 e-ink that can hold a few thousand PDFS.
Even if you take the price difference out of the running just for a minute, I don't think the feature set exists in commercial models. What I want is a 4k hdr tv with 4 hdmi inputs, and at least one of those inputs should support ARC, and it should support a coaxial aerial connection. What tv can I buy with those features that doesn't spy on me, even at an enormous cost?
If you assume tv manufacturers are not themselves stores that sell tvs.

Would you mind people putting up ads for buying an iPhone in their store?
Serious zero sum financial thinking there - assuming profiting from a transaction means the other party must be worse off. And implicitly applying the thieves's syllogism too that is "you have it, I want it, therefore you stole it from me".
Bill Maher had a segment on this recently about progressives that don't acknowledge progress and are afraid of it in practice. A kind of willful blindness. Steven Pinker calls it Progressophobia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB9KVYAdYwg
Does Vizio actually make the YouTube app? Why is it Vizio's responsibility to fix? I can see YT prioritizing this app's dev time waaaaaay lower than other devices. If the stats don't justify it, no PM at a FAANG is going to let their team work it.
This github issue is continually adding to that list:

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution/issues/64

If you get really nostalgic, check out my links page. There are well over 600 links. Many thanks to archive.org!
You should travel more and ask people outside the US what they actually think about US military policy. Note, some people do distinguish between what the US establishment does and what ordinary American civilians do but that is not always the case.
That's what I was thinking just wondered if there was anything around like this already or if anyone knew anything about screen capture automation/trigger tools on Linux and where to start with that
Yes, it's a name that's both funny and memorable. I don't see much of a problem.
The solution to that is to subsidize production of the alternative products in your own country for export. Then subsidized US-made solar panels and electric cars would be cheaper for people in Africa and South America than burning coal, but you get all the US jobs etc.
RTings, a site that reviews (amongst other things) televisions, maintains a list of fully ad-free models:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/ads-in-smart-tv

(They are the ones with "10" in the ad-free column)

The dominant brand for ad-free models is in fact... Vizio.
I told my cable company that I'm blind. That seemed to fix a similar situation.

Amusingly, two weeks after i get my regular cable bill in the mail, i now get a very large Braille version of it, as well.

At least i think that's what it is.
> How can they even consider a natural gas pipeline with Russia

Germany closed all their nuclear stations. They need lots of energy for heating and industries. Russia can take whole Ukraine if it wants and Germany will still buy Russian gas.
I'm not sure if you mean this seriously but even with a miracle technology it's going to be hard to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at dangerous levels without risking serious repercussions to yourself.
I agree that NIMBYism is bad, but I don't see how undeveloped land incurs a tax burden.