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I'm not one to bother with archive snapshots, but this site is particularly infuriating with it's attempt to prevent text selection.
You're right, it's not the only way, but they would still need a way to allocate limited capacity so tickets would need to be hard to get for some other reason. Maybe camping out in a long line to get tickets, or pressing a button on the website at the right time?

People would complain about that too, though maybe it would be more enjoyable once you got in.

Venues deal with capacity limits in different ways and they all have their advantages and drawbacks.

More capacity would help. Maybe Disney should build another park?
You can make that assumption, but the other way to think about it is that time in the park is a scarce resource. The “clearing” price has to be higher or you have some other artificial way to get a ticket.

Your comment seems to imply that raising the price and then excluding people is a bad thing…when in reality it might actually make anyone who does attend have a better experience. Does this mean those who wish to attend might have to save more for the experience and thus make it less available as an annual trip? Probably. I’m not sure this is a bad thing and might actually make the trip to Disney all that more special.
I went ages ago for about 10 days, when I heard that President Obama was going to the magic kingdom park and the park would be partially shut (the day before this was to happen) - I said to my family - lets go at the same time.

the place was almost empty - woo, everything was open with little to no queues

another thing that happened was the castle and dining - aparently you're supposed to book ages in advance to dine there (6-9months or so) my missues did ask me about a year before we went about this and I said don't bother... but typical me when I got there I was like wow - lets dine there.

My missues was not happy and recited our previous conversation and explained again (through gritted teeth) about the waiting list. I said they must have cancellations etc.. she did go up and they said not really but if you wait something may pop up

She waited 15min on her own and when I caught up - she said loads of people were being turned away with the same response as her (not really but if you wait something may pop up) I shrugged and just waited about 5mins more. then person on the desk said we could go in - woo, loved it it to pieces

Our extended family (loads of us went) was royaly pissed at us just going in without booking - we may have just got lucky though YMMV
> They could breed a race of human slaves to work on Earth.

Wouldn't just buying stuff they need from Earth be much cheaper than exterminating all people on Earth and then repopulated with some new genetically engineered human species?
Apple don't give two shits about piracy.

Their own pro grade software that is paid for (logic, final cut) is always cracked basically day 1 of release and they've never made any attempt to tighten up authentication
You're misunderstanding the default behavior which is fine becaue it's commonly misunderstood and discussed. At any rate signature verification is not skipped by default, what assumevalid skips is script verification. Everything else including UXTO, proof of work, the transactions themselves, are validated.
"... not allow a destination to be entered into the sat nav without first placing the vehicle in park ..."

I am under the impression that this limitation is tied to the occupancy sensor in the passenger seat (which you undoubtedly have, or the seat-belt chime would sound incessantly ...).

I believe if you had a passenger those controls would be allowed while driving - did you have a chance to test that ?
It is possible to deamortize the O(n) resizing step, meaning you spend O(1) extra time over the O(n) operations leading to the resize, so that when the resize needs to happen, you don't need to spend O(n) time. This assumes that allocation/deallocation takes O(1) time regardless of the buffer size.

Deamortized resizing can work as follows: When inserting into a vector that is half full, allocate a new buffer twice the size and copy two elements into the buffer. For the subsequent insertions, copy two elements every time you insert one element. This guarantees that you are done copying all elements into the new buffer once the old buffer is full, and you only performed a constant number of instructions with each operation.

It's possible to deamortize many quite advanced data structures in theory - see e.g. the lecture notes on "Maintaining Order in a List" on this course webpage: https://cs.au.dk/~gerth/aa11/

... but as with everything in theoretical computer science you are not guaranteed that the implementation works better in practice than the "naive" approach. Deamortization techniques do have a lot of practical relevance in hard realtime applications, but I don't know how much of "real" hard realtime stuff uses academic techniques and how much of it is mostly engineering.
I think my source was a book, but the XKCD is a better link! I think the book reference I had mind may have stated the effect in terms of force.
It can also very widely what people call an entry dev.

An average bachelor's graduate with no additional work experience most likely won't get 60k.

With a (very) good Master's + some relevant student jobs that's very much possible.
> Proof of work has always had an economic flaw that you could theoretically temporarily rent enough mining power to perform double spends of more value than the cost of renting those devices.

It’s not a flaw if it’s only theoretical. In practice, no miner with billions of dollars of capital bound in mining hardware would rent it out to someone who might do something that would significantly depreciate this capital (e.g. attack the Bitcoin network).
If you don't mind my asking, what could be improved? I work in engineering but would like to send the feedback over to our customer support team.

Unfortunately, a large portion of HelloSign's customer support team was affected by a reduction in force earlier this year, because Dropbox didn't want to pay salaries for support staff in high cost of labor areas, like San Francisco.
I worked as a contractor some time ago in a project that, I did not know it, but was managed by contractors from McKinsey. It was an awful experience and I left as soon as I could. They gave me the worst of impressions. A mixture of arrogance and incompetence. Strong command and control. Obviously this is just an individual’s point of view… just my personal experience… who knows.
Plus if you go on holiday for a few days, you will likely have crappy wifi, and you don't know in advance what movie you will be in the mood to watch. These streaming services just do not work for me.
This is just my feels, not well informed, but I feel like a huge huge part of China's so-called ascent has taken the form of astronomically rising real estate property values, adding "wealth" to the nation.

To me, this is the curse of development. It's where everything has gone to shit in every other nation: a bigger & bigger divide as property values march upwards, more and more people becoming unable to afford a reasonably quality standard of living. Having to work much harder to gain entrance to having made it alright.

Questioning a seemingly ever more competitive, ever more inaccessible system seems only natural.

I'm interested to know if "lying flat" is really a big dampener on the growth of enterprise. Personally I still feel strongly that real economic growth is mostly "diamond in the rough" eventually coming to light, struggling for years to get good at making value, and the world slowly realizing just how amazing the company is. Whether or not these kinds of enterprises are being formed & started, or other scales of initiatives are being taken- it hardly seems like a country so big & filled with so many people as China is going to be deeply impacted in what purposes it chases by some opt outs. Yes, it reduces the demand somewhat, these people will not be big consumers, but China especially historically has been export focused anyhow.
So, there was a time when the percentage of book sales done online was going higher every year, and so was the percentage of book sales which were e-books. Then, about a decade ago, the rise stopped, well short of 50%. e-books are at about 20% and actually slightly declining last I looked.

The decline in vinyl record sales also comes to mind. It actually ended in 2006, and vinyl record sales in 2020 were the highest in decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_revival#In_the_United_St...

Just because a trend is going upwards, doesn't mean it will keep going that way. Sometimes, as with for example the displacement of steam power by electricity, it does go pretty nearly to completion, but plenty of other times it does not.
I don't think these cynical comments add anything to the conversation.

The reality is that even if the knobs and the touchscreen were identical in cost, the touch screen allows for a separation between the software and hardware design teams.

It's quicker to update, enhance, patch, redesign, etc. It's just better from a manufacturing perspective, and aside from the tactile loss, allows more options and more data presentation for the consumer in a much smaller space.
I totally agree. I am bewildered by the large number of developers working in such blind, insecure environments. Entire tech sectors that grind to a halt when github does down. It is insanity.
Hej! I am preparing to move abroad from Malmö, due to lack of social life, and language barrier I experienced here (similarly as you describe with English not being local language)

I am trying to decide between London or California. London seems so much easier to move to. I am on the verge of giving up trying with California.

I don't have any job opportunities at hand at either right now. I am an IT Consultant, and as you know, most contract brokers for Nordics are actually UK based and offered to find me contract immediately.

UK offers some visa pathways for IT Consultants, whereas with US; I literally don't know any direct/clear pathway for it.

Compensation-wise; as IT Consultant in EU, I already make as much as in US and can do same in UK. So that's not a factor for me.
Just curious, exactly how close did you get to the t-shirt wearer? Did they mind? Did they stop for you? Usually an "official Disney product" would be designated on a tag inside the shirt... just trying to picture this interaction
Especially the school system, transportation, healthcare, and housing require much higher expenses in the U.S. than in Europe for a comparable standard and security of living, to the point where it may consume all of the extra salary.

If you don't have kids that need a school or daycare (or have the luck to live in one of the few areas with good public schools), that alone may be a 5 digit difference.
I don't have a question for this syntheiser, but do you know much about a Hammond CMS-103.

Did Hammond have their own computer boards, or did they use a version of Yamaha?
The same way that YouTube determines whether there is copyrighted music playing in the background of the video you upload, or the way Apple determines if you are trying to upload illegal images to iCloud.
Disneyland has a big problem. It's super popular but can't get any bigger. As demand keeps growing, they could either increase capacity or increase prices to lower demand. They've pretty much run out of space to get bigger. There are two neighborhoods next to Disneyland where they could buy every home for about $1B, but it would only gain them a few extra acres.

They've already started moving some of the support buildings to cheap industrial lots nearby and then converting the on-site support buildings to ride areas (that's how Toon Town and Star Wars land were built). But there are only so many chunks of land to buy, and despite being very wealthy, they aren't wealthy enough to buy that much land in urban Southern California.

Their only option is to raise the price while removing incentives. At this point their annual pass is actually a worse deal than buying tickets when you want to go. You can only get in about four times a year on an annual pass with their new reservation system. My dad wanted to use his pass, but he could only get a reservation a few months from now -- but he could buy a daily ticket for next week.

Oh, and the way people get the 7am ride reservation is by staying at the Disneyland Hotel, and they also get in early to start forming those long opening lines.

On a side note, Disneyland has never been about inclusiveness. Walt Disney was famously racist and anti-semitic. He'd be pretty happy about the fact that only white people are going.
>It doesn't give you the practical "do this" sort of advice a true beginner needs or at least this true beginner needed.

His other book “Practical Programming” does. I find his writing needlessly verbose, but he does cover a lot of different programming options.
In praise of property-based testing – Increment: Testing
For reference, this is your modern McKinseyite: https://instagram.com/sophiehilaire?utm_medium=copy_li

McK even profiled her: https://www.mckinsey.com/careers/meet-our-people/careers-blo...

Her pedigree is elite, she's attractive with a variety of experiences. She would have no trouble being hired at a tech startup. She could be the pleasant person you grab a beer with after work, and would pass every culture fit test. And these are some of the most evil people in the corporate world.
I think its unfortunately accepted as standard that you have to use these kind of tools if you want to use these devices seriously.
Touchscreens in cars are great... for non-essential stuff. Want to change the backlight color for the instrument cluster? Touchscreen is a lot better for that (given a good gui menu system) than holding two buttons at the same time, then holding one, and clicking the other 6 times, waiting 3 seconds, and then clicking through the colors.

Touchscreen for radio control, AC, answering (bluetooth) phone, and stuff... no, thank you, give me physical controls.
It's not a marsh, it's a deep pit left over from mining
Linus takes a seemingly opposite stance when discussing word-wrapping commit messages:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56611...
My biggest question about the Remarkable 2 is whether it is big enough to read computer programming or other large books comfortably.

The writing aspect of it would be more of a bonus to me. I do like the idea of potentially writing/doodling in the margins, highlighting with a pen, etc - but it sounds like it just ends up saving that out as as a modified PDF, which isn't as convenient perhaps.
The main argument is that it’s not in the right ballpark though - which has no universal correct answer.
However at this point 80 is not arbitrary - It’s primarily used as a default because of ancient history when 4k let alone 640k was enough for everybody. A time when the expense of expanding a meager terminal buffer 50% was hundreds of dollars - and this goes back to ancient history of 80 column punchcards.
That's what everyone is missing. It's just to make a point... but people are taking it literally. He means "back to the basics"; e.g., plain text.

It's a good title because I laughed when I read it and it made me want to read the article.
Ironic that the current trials will take 5 years, given how many times T1s have been promised that a cure is “5 years away” (seriously, it’s a running joke) — but this does look promising.

Looking toward to talking to my endo about his views on this and for the first time in a long while, feeling slightly hopeful that this may not be a lifelong, incurable disease. Unfortunately if the only viable path for now requires immunosuppression, it’s going to be a non starter for many like myself, but it’s still a legitimate breakthrough that can hopefully lead to other avenues.
Even if symptoms don't impact transmission directly, if you're out circulating in the population (as opposed to self-isolating or in the hospital), you'll be able to infect more people.

Unless, of course, self-isolation or quarantine are entirely ineffective, which is not totally out of the question but I think people staying at home probably do spread it at least a bit less than people headed to the grocery store.
In other words: "damned if you do, damned in you don't".
For real? :o
The whole Princess part of Disney culture comes across as pretty gross tbh. I don't have kids but have talked about this with friends. Even though they wanted to keep their daughters away from it, it's nearly impossible.
> Don't shit where you eat

1) Chromebook for web, social media. Separate profiles for personal trusted (banking), personal untrusted (browsing and social media), office/client work.

2) Separate laptop as VM host for development. Never pollute the host with third-party libraries or anything downloaded from the web, all that happens in disposable guests.

3) ssh and sftp from Chromebook to VMs as needed.
And what if you are developing something that interacts with the Internet?
> buy better audio recording equipment to record the audio

Huh?! You can just buy a sound card or even a DAC for very little.
>Round wheels are ancient, it doesn't mean we should switch to the square wheels.

No, but it means we better use rubber wheels, not stone ones...
Gabe Newell: "Piracy is an issue of service, not price."
Rowing is great. But it is very useful to get instructions how to use it correctly. One might need a bit tutoring.
Apple watch measures heartbeat and oximetry (SpO2).

A VO2 max test needs a closed air system, whatever estimation Apple's software provides will be for indication purposes only.
No, the driver shouldn't be able to use it at all. You have to take your eyes off the road to use it, and drivers never allow enough space to do that safely. When driving there should be nothing that the driver can see that isn't required to drive. Not even a radio station frequency indication, just hit scan or up/down until you find something you like (if you are loyal to a station program a preset while in park)
It was intended to mean "relavent in old times".
The only two places I know that haven’t criminalised the circumvention of technical protection measures are Israel and Afghanistan. I’d love to be told different.

(I feel there’s still an opportunity to challenge DMCA 1201 in the US, and then there’s also the triennial review. It’s harder in places where the exemptions are hard-coded — but maybe you know of one that includes an exemption for this kind of DRM removal?).
My first-hand experience of them - clueless muppets - but luckily they were quickly replaced by a team of actual experts.

They are masters of playing the one-eyed man in the proverb "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king".
Part of it probably is hypnagogia though I was so alert that it did not feel like that normal transition to sleep. It felt more like I had meditated myself into a lucid dream. There were some stray thoughts but none of that cloudy brain fog with senseless thoughts I would normally get going to sleep.

Also from what I understand the feeling of suffocation is quite common for people who experience sleep paralysis. You're not actually suffocating. Given I induced it, that's probably what that was. The first time it woke me up, the second time I ignored it and a few seconds passed and then the sensations stopped and I was lucid dreaming. At least that's what it felt. I slept for slightly more than an hour most times (I've only managed it during naps) and lost lucidity at times. It felt like the dream started immediately but it might not have. Also at other times I could feel my body in the bed again but wasn't dreaming just asleep.
Looks like OP's post is out of the homepage, so I can reply without downvote avalanche incoming.

I agree with your sentiment. It is probably the most exciting aspect of the internet, and digital ownership concept has a long and exciting road ahead.

I am also utterly baffled by how this sentiment is met on HN. Thoughtful responses are downvoted, cheap shots against this sentiment rise up. I no longer want to participate in discussions about anything crypto on HN, negativity is too strong.

And there is absolute irony that this is happening on a thread called "Jaded about the internet?".
Maybe I spoke too soon -- Thinking back (and I could be wrong about this) but the "top" of the style sheet cascade is supposed to be defined by the browser? So I guess it's the browers' responsibility?

I guess the point I was trying to make is that if you just type only non-layout LaTeX it looks reasonably good, yeah, it does format it with super-wide margins (shrug), but if you do that with html you get mouth spiders.
This is completely evading the truth. Big pharma is protected by legislation. There are restrictions to importing medicine from other countries. There is even legislation preventing the world's biggest buyer (the US government) of drugs from negotiating prices downwards:

When Medicare Part D was passed in 2003, lawmakers included the “non-interference clause,” which essentially prevents the federal government from stepping in to negotiate prescription drug prices.

https://www.alec.org/article/should-the-government-negotiate...
The problem I have with touch screens in cars is lining up your finger so that it presses the right area of the screen, which is difficult when driving (and dangerous). Why can't they integrate some sort of capacitive proximity sensor matrix in the LCD that will display a crosshair cursor as your finger gets near the screen? This would help immensely with lining up the press and allow me to use the thing quickly like analog controls.
They way it worked is you could only hold one at a time. You'd go to the ride (or pull up the app) and make your reservation, and they would give you a return time, usually an hour or so later, but sometimes many hours later. You'd show up at that time and skip some of the line. Then you could get another fastpass.

So you had to optimize your pass getting since you could only hold one at a time. You'd have to know which ones would fill up and get those first, and then get the less popular ones later in the day.
Yes, the stalk is there, buf if you use it, black cars come to your house, remove your BMW and replace it with a Wolkswagen! Us BMW drivers are all terrified of using them!
Needing to take your eyes off the road to interact with safety-critical controls (defroster, for example) is a step backward.

...and there's a 100m cliff behind you with some innocent families playing at the bottom.

It staggers me that regulators around the world didn't block the trend for highly interactive UIs and touchscreen controls for essential driving actions a long time ago. It's so obviously dangerous and unashamedly putting style before substance.

It terrifies me that before long I'm going to have to give up my existing car in favour of something modern. I would be very happy to have the better performance and environmental characteristics of modern cars but I have yet to find one where the technology didn't actively deter me from buying.
Well, for basic functionality, there's location tracking while in the park, plus demographic info and your listed preferences for at least nominal customization (though some Youtuber experiments have suggested it's pretty bad at that).

A huge number of people in Disney parks are location tracked constantly anyway because they use MagicBands, which have some kind of specialty extended-range RFID (along with the normal tap-range RFID functionality) that's used to automatically monitor ride throughput and general traffic in the parks.
Go get your vaccine, especially with Omicron
In Dutch it is “honderd vijf en zeventig” (one hundred five and seventy). So the same as in German. Do we actually know the origin or reason?
tape your mouth during sleep