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> I don't know exactly how you would get paid by just someone mentioning your trademark, but it might be your business innovation

Why not go bigger and get paid any time people say anything?
the iphone 12 has no depth of field so a larger sensor is anyway much better. there is no way around it. You cant hack your way to photography.
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The older I’ve gotten and longer I’ve worked in technical fields, the more I’ve realized there’s a true dichotomy of folks:

-The infinitely curious and willing to acknowledge the limit of their experiential knowledge

-People who’s self confidence is derived from their “expertise”/ ability to diagnose “anything” based on past experience

My first brush with this was working on the Xbox 360 OS. We hit an “out of memory” error out of nowhere, even when reverting all the code back. Assets were in their own branch and no one thought to look there. We were getting ready for the E3 “floor demos” so things like box art for the game library etc were just hard coded in. Stack traces commenced, etc. The OS was supposed to prevent loading too many static assets that would cause that. One engineer suggested something like “…wait what if is actually just too many textures loaded”. Everyone said it was impossible and dismissed him. He left the room. About 40 minutes later he’d converted all the box art to white PNGs and had it back working fine.

Turned out PNGcrusher modified the header of some assets in a way that interfered with the load limiter. We did eventually have to convert/ manually redraw a ton of OS assets from PNG to “SVG” (we used some in-house XML format to define ‘SVG’). I tend to think people in tech overuse Occam’s razor (particularly with systems involving humans), but many times, an over reliance on “domain knowledge” or past experience really serves no purpose and is just ego driven.
Which is why you look for them.
> how were slaves a major part of Nazi war effort or economy?

The Nazis employed slave labor on a massive scale. Their slaves were Jewish prisoners, political prisoners, and POWs.

The US free labor produced plenty of war material for two major wars, and enough left over to supply Britain and the Soviet Union. US troops were well fed, with plenty of gas, bullets, airplanes, ships, aircraft carriers, medical supplies, trucks, everything, and also managed to ship it all to the war zones.

The Nazis and the Japanese never had a chance once the US got going. They had critical shortages of everything.

For example, what did the Nazis do when the battleship Bismarck was sunk? Game over for the Kriegsmarine except for the U-boots. What did the US do when the Japanese wrecked the US aircraft carriers? Built lots more! What did the Japanese do when their carriers were sunk? Game over for naval aviation.

Also, the Wehrmacht in WW2 was still very much a horse driven army. The German propaganda newsreels, shown endlessly in WW2 documentaries, avoided showing the horses and loved showing the mechanized troops. I don't think the US used any horses at all.

Free labor also sunk the Confederacy. The Confederacy was never able to properly supply their troops with guns, cannons, powder, food, uniforms, or even shoes. They were largely barefoot.
Yes, the maintenance is mostly preventative, with the goal of the car being in functionally new condition. Putting the second 100,000 miles on a well-maintained, reliably luxury car is the best deal going, I think, aside from not driving at all.

E.g, in 2011 paid $16,000 for a 2003 E320 wagon in perfect condition. It was $70,000 brand new, so the original depreciation is eye-watering. Since then I’ve probably put $2,000/year * 10 years into it, so less than half the depreciation. It’s still functionally new, with a fair share of small aesthetic issues.

I once bought a car with negative value, in that I spent more on deferred maintenance in the first month than I paid for it. That was a magnificent vehicle, though, once I fixed it up; identical to this — https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1987-mercedes-benz-300sdl-...
If you have the financial resources to buy 3 teslas sequentially (S->X->Y) you are in the probably top 1-2% of income per year globally.
Thank you, those are some nice suggestions. I particularly like the idea of staying true to the scientific method, showing up on time, being reliable, doing your best, and optimizing for the best outcome. It often seems like the simplest things are the most important.
You are telling us that your authority is a better authority.
I've been v happy with Divvy for many years. It's not auto-tiling, but it's perfect for for my purposes. Quick cmd-shift-arrow puts a window in [top 1/2, bottom 1/2, left 1/2, right 1/2] or cmd-shift-enter [for fullscreen] (across 2 monitors)... it's exactly right for me to avoid ever reaching for the mouse to position windows.
This headline is what Betteridge's law was made for.
Even back when /dev/random estimated entropy, it was still a CSPRNG. At that time, /dev/random and /dev/urandom used the same cryptographic function to generate pseudo-random bits, random just added some additional fluff based on the claim that it was “estimating” randomness.
I still don't get it.

Why is a drop in replacement for MSVC needed?

There were c99 compilers for windows before clang IIRC correctly. So why weren't they used, MSVC be damned?

Full disclaimer, I've only ever used C in linux systems.
Seriously? Whyyyyy?

I mean I completely get why my dad uses MacOS over Linux; nothing for him to think about and all his devices just sort of work.

But if you're at this level of customization, why would you take the chance? (I.e. you know Apple's just going to change something weird on you.)
I just realized that the numbers like "23 species" mean that if you zoom in, the image will internally expand to have a leaf for every single one. Wow.
IMO they serve very different purposes. Google Photos has very good search and collaborative album building. The result is that you can take random photos of your life and still get value out of it later. It's not archival quality, but it's extremely accessible, which makes up for it, imo.
Reinventing Firefox or chromium is a fools errand. These are codebases with millions of lines of code added every year. What we need is a new specification for the web that is small and limited. Maybe we need to break apart the current specs into smaller specs so it is more feasible to build competing products.

Things like Gemini are making such an attempt to focus on document reading.

The modern browser is an operating system and it takes millions upon millions of dollars to build and maintain.
Ah I see. Concept-wise, see some stuff I listed above (formal methods, models of computation, optimization, statistics & ML, etc.). Pretty much any programming technologies you like right now are backed by interesting academic research (even OOP) and conceptual topics that I would consider worthwhile to learn for the long-term, but it might take some digging for you to find them, especially with older research. IMHO you (should) want to learn the concepts & techniques you'd need to create the technologies you use, and those are timeless. It might not be as "fun" as hot new topics, and there's obviously a lot to learn, but that's science.

Technology-wise, I think the real answer to your question is to narrow the scope of the question down to the next 5-15 years rather than the next 50, in which case I doubt you'll see things like Rust/Python/Linux/etc. becoming irrelevant in that timeframe. There's also GPU and FPGA programming which would probably also stay relevant for quite a while, though it won't necessarily ever have as huge of a job market as something like React. It's important to care about the next 5-15 years though after all—that's part of your life too.
I don't think that javascript should be permitted to know what text you've selected as displayed in your browser or that you've copied it to clipboard. Fundamental mismatch in the rights of the end user client device and person operating the browser vs. the httpd.

At least not without going through the same level of explicit permission popup that you would need for microphone or camera access in a modern browser.

What people copy to clipboard on their own client workstation device should be exclusively up to their local control.

Mostly I see this in websites that deploy some mostly-futile "special sauce" code to prevent things like right-click/save-as of images. And similar.
I got Parallels in a bundle deal and was really aggravated by the fact that it kept popping up notifications to install additional utilities. Way uncool.
When I first encountered it it sent me down a path of paper reading that made me sad.

Even better, because it's defined in terms of rounding, it changes according to rounding mode :D
If you’re serious about photography on iPhone you should get Halide.
> “Some hospitals … don’t believe consumers would find [price transparency] useful”

Is saying that consumers are too stupid to understand the benefits of price transparency an adequate defense?
> Well, there's always the part where trying to lock down existing devices would run afoul of various consumer protection and warranty laws. Sony already got sued and lost for locking down the PS3, and this would be a much higher profile case, especially once Asahi Linux gets to the point where we have a significant user base...

That's a really good point I hadn't thought of!
You're replying to a comment thread that is implying Thiel is corrupt. What you stated in your response, about you enjoying working for him, does not mean at all that he wasn't corrupt. It's quite common for people to be happily employed by corrupt individuals.
The nature of reality is dramatically different from anyone's perception.

Everything's going to be ok.
I stumbled upon the fact that Michael Pollen (author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and many other interesting books) is the brother-in-law of Michael J. Fox.
Zoom showed lots of glitches for all kinds of people -when using "backgrounds", but "Twitter people" latched on to certain outcomes --and Zoom is heavily developed overseas.
If there's lights or other electrical components (such as a backup camera in this case) mounted on the trunk lid, then the harness will need to flex every time it opens.
The real problem with NPS is when a certain score is a goal. After all goodharts law states that is the case with any good measure.
Wow! That seems like a WAY harder task.
I had a feeling of recalling something relevant to this topic recently. Turns out it was a video by Marques Brownlee, "Smartphone Cameras vs Reality!". This instance would've been a great example there. The section at t=364 [1] is quite relevant.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ8giCWDcyE&t=364
What a ridiculous overgeneralization.

A minimalist-ish Linux distro for a lot of people, especially those who mostly are on the web (hypothetical Grandma etc.) will 100% save you a TON of headaches over Windows, and fare quite well against Mac OS as well.
Technology definitely will not. Fundamental knowledge may be resilient in the face of change, but the skills you need to cultivate to navigate that change and operate effectively in society and business are evergreen.

Learn how to reason about problems from first principles. Understand how back planning works and how to apply it to a project. Cultivate your communication skills and build a habit of constant learning.

Learn about critical thinking and logical fallacies. Build heuristics you can use to evaluate ideas with incomplete information.

These skills will serve you well long after any technical knowledge you have expires.
Leniency during sentencing is not effectively the same as plea bargaining at all. A plea deal comes from threats and fear, a lenient sentence handed down by a judge comes from remorse and judgment. Lenient sentences can come without a guilty plea anf a guilty plea doesn't guarantee leniency. The incentives are entirely different.
I wonder if its even possible to reduce consumption of microplastics given that pretty much everything we buy is wrapped in plastic at some point.
I feel like my needs are reasonably well met by the choices I have. (This silent generally happy user population could well be what’s driving some of businesses’ choices that annoy some and we tend to hear from them. After all, if things are generally okay, you’re not going to take the time to be a vocal medium-supporter of a marketplace or merchant.)
The intent was to demonstrate Tesla’s build quality rapidly improving over a short window of time. My apologies if it came across otherwise.
A shallow depth of field isn't always what you want though. Sometimes a shallow depth of field is good, sometimes it isn't.
Echoes of the old kein mitleid fur Microsoft site,

http://www.kmfms.com/

Plus ça change...
It's interesting that the consensus assumption is that he's been hired for value he'll add in the future, rather than the things he's already done to enrich Thiel.
No, the article says exactly why:

> Texas-based Christus Health early this year said on its website it planned to defy the rules because its comprehensive list of prices “will only be useful for our competitors.”

Because publishing prices leads to actual competition.
When I've contacted devs directly, they have also been "unhelpful". eg for open source - Well of course I don't work on it anymore, look at the git history. Further emails were ignored. Hostile?

This ofc doesn't tell me if they work on it anymore, as they stopped rather arbitrarily at some date and maybe they continued on another platform, maybe the project was acquired and an agreement was to leave what existed in place, etc.

It's the strange expectation that if you are clever enough to use the software, you understand what happened with it 10 years ago. Later on I found the community had migrated to a (copied) fork of the project, which was not traceable through github.

I do feel like it's a trend.
Trolling is frowned upon here.
It feels so weird seeing my packages mentioned on Hacker News! (I wrote embark and orderless and cowrote marginalia.)
> primarily that there was a very strong correlation between the calculated NPS score and business performance.

There is avsolutely no science linking performance and NPS. Just pseudo science.
+1 to pocket. I never liked how aggressively it was pushed in firefox[0], but a few years after ignoring it, I tried it one day, and so far I am surprisingly happy with it. Instead of leaving a ton of tabs open or push notifications for articles that I'll never get to, I put them in pocket and sometimes remember to read them.

The TTS feature is pretty nifty (on Android, not sure if there's an equivalent on the web version, though firefox reader mode has TTS). With bluetooth headphones/speaker I can just have a bunch of articles read to me while I'm doing something else.

[0]: I hate random buttons for services I don't use showing up in my browser unexpectedly! I think stuff like this is part of why so many people (at least used to) avoid automatic updates. UI changes that don't immediately benefit the user.
I've been thinking about this too. Most of my JVM projects use slf4j and logback, but the same concept applies as for log4j. I probably use less than 10% of the features provided.

I log strings at different logging levels, and want to be able to set the level globally at which log lines actually get emitted. My use of interpolation is dirt-simple: I just expect the logging framework to call ".toString()" on the things I pass. I log exceptions, and expect the framework to emit a stack trace in addition to the exception message. I log to stdout, and use pretty much the same log-line format for everything. I like the loggers to be named, and occasionally use the ability to change the log level on a per-logger basis.

I could build this set of features in... I dunno, a day? Sure, it would take me a lot longer to build the entirety of slf4j+logback, or log4j, but I don't need 90% of their features. So, yeah, I'll continue to just use slf4j+logback (hell, maybe I should use slf4j-simple); the idea of writing my own simple logging library doesn't really interest me all that much, even if it wouldn't be too hard to do so. But I'm still carrying around all this extra attack surface, and that's unfortunate.
For transit missions, you do have to consider the biological needs of the crew. Fighter jets don’t teleport between their home base and the in theater air base.
or using a light wavelength invisible to the sensor.

...such as x-rays.

There are some highly secure (and expensive) cryptoprocessors which detect those too, but since security is their primary function, the effort is worth it. Otherwise you just end up spending more on protecting something of relatively little value that the cloners will reimplement in some other way anyway.
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How do you get the car tops on and off that demo vehicle? I'm asking this since I closed the article and couldn't imagine any good way, but whatever it is, you use the same mechanism with the pallets. Something certainly goes up and takes the load, like a forklift.

And yes, it's often easier to make the load/unload mechanism omnidirectional than to make a space where a directional vehicle can maneuver.
I recently wrote about how I manage my music library[1], and really the paid software organisers don't really have much on offer over free open source software

1. https://thoughts.theden.sh/posts/organising-music/
No that’s literally what minimum safety standards are for, because we can’t expect consumers to do that effectively. And while imperfect they’ve been demonstrated over many decades to improve safety and public welfare. Also because if your front hood pops up and you swerve and crash your car, it puts other road users in danger not just your adult car owning sef.
No free lunch is right. iPhone photos look incredible on iPhone screens. They look terrible on my high resolution desktop screen. Instagram kids don't know this, but that's ok, because we don't need them to, and neither do they.
I don't think that enforcing an order of expressions would help at all with optimization, since it's just a syntactic requirement. You should end up with an equivalent abstract syntax tree, and as a result the same underlying machine code.
Ah, the low eBASH numbers must be for SHA-NI. Looking at older CPUs SHA-256 ends up being about 2x slower than BLAKE2s at 576-byte message sizes.
I use my iPhone when I want convenience. I use my DSLR when I want high quality photos.
That's exactly why I switched to a Pixel.
Keep a healthy work life balance, treat work like work and enjoy other things in my own time at time.
Your primary job is a parent is to make sure your kids don't die. The rest is kind of a wash.

FWIW, I blew up a power outlet with a paperclip when I was 17. You don't have to be a small child to be dangerously ignorant.
I think not even on the internet you will be able to find somebody that believes any government can make roads perfectly flat.
The new center of the world
He did choose the new MacBook Pro. It's the unix based laptop you can buy. I think its perfectly reasonable to make the switch
The audacity of calling the the new destination state politics a “shitshow”, while abandoning the direct political legacy that is now in flames.
It was generally presented as an extension of fairly ancient JavaScript, but as a non-user I believe it was only ever like JavaScript, and not a superset even at the start, because of things like splitting numbers into integer and float types. And since then, the two had diverged, quite significantly and incompatibly in places (in semantics, I mean, not just syntax).
Firefox reader mode (mentioned in the article to help print articles without bloat) is also a great way to read the articles without physically printing them. It also lets you have the article read to you via TTS (text to speech). It seems so nice that sometimes I worry advertisers/publishers will try to mess with it if it becomes too popular.
I definitely agree with the lighting bit, and I think that was indeed included in the category of "first, take a better picture". So yes, focus, exposure, no motion blur, etc...
> Can anyone recommend a basic android camera?

I can't, unfortunately
The rise in the standard of living in China is directly correlated with their adoption of a free market and dispensing with collectivism.

> Saudi Arabia is a strong ally of the US, and doesn’t seem close to collapse.

Why not tour Saudi Arabia and come back with a report about how people there live?
Welcome to computational photography!
Used to do my custom basic tiling with hammerspoon. I remember I loved it but at some point I started using Rectangle and I gradually forgot what I was using hs for other than window management.
> they always tend to ignore the underlying science that went into making NPS in the first place, primarily that there was a very strong correlation between the calculated NPS score and business performance.

There is no underlying science behind NPS. It was an arbitrary measure with no research or model behind it. Also, it doesn't work very well, in large because because there is no strong correlation between NPS and anything else, because - as this article makes clear - NPS is an extremely noisy number. Look at the graphs - you can have enormous variations in NPS, with zero change in underlying customer sentiment. Obviously that can't correlate with anything useful.

I think what you're doing is conflating the idea of "asking how likely people are to recommend your product" with NPS. The former is a decent idea, and it does have some (limited) science behind it! There really was a study done that really did find that question was an excellent predictor of many key results. (...and some others that found it was not, but hey, it's something.)

So yes, asking people the question and reading the results is probably a good idea. ...but that's not what NPS is.

> an unexpected drop in NPS is something to investigate

It really, really isn't. And I would challenge you to point to any evidence to the contrary.
I'm not arguing "Thiel is a good guy", but if he didn't want Hillary elected (assumption), using his public profile to boost Trump pre-election != actual MAGA hat Trump true believer.
also most cpus have ecc on registers.
> The point I am trying to make is the ends don't absolve the hacker from consequences.

I agree on this point. I see it as analogous to holding your allies to a standard that your adversaries are unwilling to uphold.

In this case I categorize both black hats and toxic data hoarding companies (including their techie apologist employees) as "adversaries" (though I don't assert you agree with my assessment).

> Ransomware operators often blame their victims for poor security and frame their actions as security-as-a-service.

Despicable victim blaming by the very party doing the victimizing.

I understand why advertising a VPN service can be seen as analogous, even if the scale of profiteering is not comparable.

The argument against toxic data hoarding is easier to make when untainted by exploitative profit motive.