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> Your confusing two terms there. Retrofit doesn’t mean to reverse engineer. It means taking hardware and placing it elsewhere. Earth didn’t know how to build a hyperdrive

I'm not talking about the hyperdrive, I'm talking about the ships themselves. The degree of science and engineering it would take to build the Prometheus and it's systems is enormous. All they had built previously was a tiny space worthy fighter. Consider the materials science needed for structural integrity and the science and engineering needed for artificial gravity, which presumably is part of the system that lets the Prometheus actually fly in-atmosphere. It's just insane that they could reverse engineer all of that in one or two seasons since they acquired gliders, but they couldn't devise their own real energy weapons based on staffs or Zats that they had access to since the beginning of season 1.

It's the biggest plot hole in the show's tech arc IMO. And yes, SG isn't hard sci-fi and requires suspension of disbelief, but that only goes so far. It's also perfectly fine to point out where that did go too far in a thread where we're explicitly discussing those missteps.
> Don't be sorry, deliver on your responsibility

And it sounds like that's exactly what he plans on doing, should there be extended problems (as much as it pains me to defend him)
If profit were the primary motive, wouldn’t you expect non-profit institutions (both healthcare and otherwise) to be in much better shape from a cybersecurity standpoint? E.g., is there evidence that a large non-profit healthcare system like the VA is substantially better at cybersecurity?

While profit no doubt impacts the decisions, it doesn't appear to be the primary driver of cybersecurity lapses.
Why not do the small talk in the same message? Does it not count as small talk if it’s followed by business content? How about this one for instance:

“Hey John, I enjoyed the podcast you suggested. Thank you :) Have you listened to the last episode?

“Have you had chance to look at the report I sent last week. I would like to get your feedback.”
Ask HN: Why Is This Media Player So Awful?
Hey HN, I thought I would get a quick feel for the answer to this tech issue I'm having. I have a radio show on a college station. Their website allows you to playback previous shows, the last 4 are archived.

But the player is CRAP! It constantly skips ahead. Literally; i will be listening to a show for a few minutes, then the sound will stop and the player shows you've listened to the full extent of the mp3. Other problems include sudden drop in sound quality and very slow loading times.

My question is: does this sound like something that could be fixed without an overhaul of the website? I don't want to try to pitch something that will cost that much time or $$. But, it's driving me crazy and it's pretty awful to accept that level of quality in 2022.

Thanks in advance!
I've been working off and on on a DOS game using the rise of the triad source and the tools of the time (map editor, deluxe paint, etc), as well as some conversion utilities I wrote myself to help with modern-to-ancient quality of life stuff.

It's "missed nostalgia" for me: while I played games from that era at the time, I was oblivious to how professional gamedev worked at the time (most I did was QBasic). So it's like people doing blacksmithing or woodworking that isn't required anymore.
Some Singaporeans used to celebrate National Day (our independence day) with fried chicken, since our then-president looked a lot like Colonel Sanders [1][2]. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Tan

[2] https://mothership.sg/2017/09/8-top-moments-in-tony-tans-pre...
>and the example I posted shows that what this “global civilization” has decided and coerced others into treating as the natural way of things just flat out isn’t.

There are all kinds of outliers for anything, from child killing to incest, even consumption of shit as part of some rituals. But just because there are outliers doesn't mean that the ways that the huge majority over time and space followed are not natural way of things.

The way of life of this people or that tribe, doesn't nullify the ways of billions upon billions for millenia. It just shows that it's not something like an invilatable physical law - but nobody thought it as such.

Same ways that societies that parents casually would kill their children (like e.g. happens with unwanted daughrers in India) doesn't mean there's not a natural and societal imperative to care for them. Just that social custom, special interests, etc, can go beyond that.

And it's not like they were "coerced" - civilizations and peoples came to the same answers and culture types time and again independently, even to the point of not having geographical connectivity with one another.

>So to say something like that the gender binary is an oppressive and unjust norm in global society because trans, intersex, non-binary, gender-fluid, etc people exist does at least seem more justified when you find that it’s not the only naturally occurring way for humans to categorize themselves.

Well, bi, gay/lesbian, and trans people have existed since the dawn of time (and tons of historical figures have been). It's not like societies didn't know they exist (or had roles for them, as in ancient Greece and Rome).

The norms for societies however were categorized by how the majority is (which is why they were called "norms"), and optimized for what helps reproduce societies and peoples.

Why would societies organize social life based on some minority concerns (as opposed to just respect and give rights to those minorities)?
I’ve never seen Gruyère develop those strong flavours (18m+), then again to be fair in France Gruyère is rarely aged
People who are in highly educated fields but aren't IT adjacent somehow get that idea that computers are not that difficult. Doing IT for doctors and lawyers is usually frustrating.
> The view that everyone is manipulated while only you see the truth is the ultimate ideological position

Except Zizek never claims that. Not everyone is claiming "only I see the truth and you are a sheep". Some of us are claiming we are all being manipulated and need to be aware: ourselves included.

I think it is disingenuous for you to make that straw-man, to claim people who say ideology is harmful somehow think they are better than everyone else because only they see the truth.

That only serves to put a spotlight on your own personal axe to grind.
A lot of that is large centralized exchange wallets that hold crypto for retail investors.
This channel was a flaming pile. It was some guy wildly speculating in hindsight and throwing the word "psychology" to argue that his SWAGs were some kind of scientific endeavor.
Homepage is definitely a mess on ultrawide/firefox.
This sounds to me very much like a political debate between people arguing for the best method, rather than focusing on the results that you can get with either method.

As long as this debate is still fuelled by emotional and political discourse, nothing useful will come out of it.

What is really needed is an assessment which method is best suited for which cases.

The practitioner wants to know “which approach should I use”, not “which camp is the person I’m listening to in?”
> providing stockfish analysis for every user for free

Edit: As discussed in another subthread most of the analysis happens in the user's browser, the rest is run via a fishnet by volunteers.
>Overall rural lifestyle does not cost much more than the city in infrastructure costs - and I did similar calculations for previous strongtown articles. On a feeling level it make sense that dense city should be cheaper but reality is frankly it's not.

Who pays the cost to connect these rural areas to other regions?
Yes I think that was it, thanks.
"Limp-home mode" -- as seen in many cars -- comes to mind.
If you mean you want a way to quickly measure how distributed ownership of a particular currency is, that sounds fine. You should be able to develop a decent visualization from blockchain explorers themselves without too much trouble. Well, some trouble. But it's possible. Any moderately good programmer should be able to do it for you.

Keep in mind, though, that other comments on this thread have pointed out that addresses and wallets don't have a 1 to 1 relationship with people. So you won't really be seeing who owns the most.

Leave the word "inequality" out of it. I don't think it means what you think it means.
I actually feel TNG lost a lot of humor and levity and amusing banter after season 2. I know I'm in an extreme minority when I say I prefer the first two seasons of TNG over the rest. Yes most of the great, classic episodes are from season 3 on, but the filler in between became much less enjoyable. Too serious and dour for the middling forgettable plots being presented. Picard smiled more in the first 2 seasons than the rest combined.

> Most of the Q episodes too

Those were the worst Q episodes though (granted "I am NOT a merry man!" might alone have made Qpid worth it). Q was at his best when he was taken seriously by the crew, not treated as an annoying but harmless diversion.

As far as DS9 ripping off B5, there are some surface level similarities, but in the end the shows and characters and plot are very different and since the usenet wars of the 90s seem like a lifetime ago I think the shows can stand on their own without bringing up JMS's butthurt.

I was more saying that B5 as well did not take itself too seriously in the day-to-day, despite the very serious and deep themes the show explored. That show had plenty of time for stupid jokes and amusing banter. A lot of people found the acting on it to be too cringe/soapy. Well maybe that's why I enjoyed TNG season 1-2 so much...
When you talk about 4 day work week do you mean 4x8 hours or 4x10 hours? In my country we have companies that have both solutions.
How much effort is it to scan for porn/have reviewers informed all porn is banned?

Vs.

How effort is it to allow porn but have some algorithm or reviewers determine what is porn but is allowed vs what is CSAM? Obviously images of abuse of a 10 year old are clear, but much more content than that is disallowed, yet you're going to get a lot of shit for taking down self-taken images of that young looking 20 year old when your policy allows porn, and if you overcorrect the other direction you'll get even more shit for not taking down images of that older looking 16 year old.
this is the worst idea i read today, thanks

people don't understand what "programming" is about anymore
I imagine its Lenovo asking for lower prices on Chinese market bound CPUs and AMD being super happy killing secondary market after seeing Intel server/workstation CPUs flooding out of Asia.
I've seen this quote before and it seems insightful in its face.

But then I think of an example like vaccine mandates and immediately an area opens up for varied interpretation.

One side would say a mandate (or "public health policy" more generally) treats people as a corporate body of "things" seeking to maximize their lifespan while ignoring their free will and volition.

The other side would say without such a mandate we are unnecessarily harming real people, who would otherwise be railroaded by the irresponsible actions of another.
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I'll try to list a few that other comments here haven't mentioned:

- Don't be needlessly vague. Instead of saying "we need to chat, can you hop on Zoom?" say "we have a new development in project X, can we chat about it on Zoom?" Instead of saying "I need help," say "I need help learning how to use this API." Instead of "can you look into this?" ask for what you actually need.

- Instead of sending a screenshot of text, send the actual text. It's rude to force the recipient to re-type the text to (for example) search for the error message in their code.

- Don't use leet-speak or other shortcuts. Writing 'u' instead of 'you' makes the recipient feel like you don't respect them.

- Check that instant messages are the right format for what you are trying to do. Sometimes writing a document and sharing it is a better approach.

- Follow the conventions in a channel for using threads. Threads become more important in high-volume channels with lots of concurrent conversations.

- If a channel has a welcome message with instructions, pay attention to them!
How does the full torque electric acceleration compare to your Porsches? Really curious how an owner of both can describe the feeling.
I can personally recommend baldness as a highly energy efficient alternative.
Do I have news for you about the device you typed this on…
Out of curiosity, which vendors do you find acceptable?
It's probably both of their fault. Lenovo wouldn't do it unless there was something in it for them. I wouldn't be surprised if they get a better deal from AMD on these CPUs for being locked to a specific board (killing off their ability to be used in the parts reseller market).
Dell have been vendor-locking their AMD CPUs the same way for a while now

https://www.servethehome.com/amd-psb-vendor-locks-epyc-cpus-...

Previously it was limited to EPYC chips (the huge server parts) but it's spread down the stack to Threadripper Pro (high end workstation) chips as well now
Gurman: Apple's headset will likely cost $2k and have two CPUs
This cleaves very close to an aphorism I stole mercilessly many years ago: charts are for asking questions, not answering them.

“What caused it” is the answer, and a graph can reveal just as easily as it can conceal the cause. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
You misunderstood. This is about resale of base components. Go to ebay and look up 2-3 generations old Intel chips - super cheap from China. With this you wont find cheap AMD parts since they will be locked to Lenovo motherboards.
I've met people who just graduated literature that got hired out of diversity as a software engineer in a well known company and then learn the basics on the job.

So tell them anything is possible apparently.
Sure, because it's just a comment on hackernews and I expect a higher understanding of the basics of the online world here. Did you write and create a piece of content, did you format it, did you host it, did you skip out on going out with your friends because of a deadline?

Specifically creating products to damage these people's returns because of your inability to scroll, use page down, ctr f to move quickly to the information you need is your own weakness and it doesn't give you a right to someone else's labor. You know that without a long ethics conversation. Most recipe writers will fail hard and most who try to create revenue through the ad model fail hard. You want unrestricted access, pay a subscription fee, just as you would expect for your own efforts.

There is no Grey area here, you know and understand the problem and the excuse of laziness or the importance of your time for a 30 second operation wouldn't hold up with anyone.
My point still stands:

Transmission of predetermined information is a fully understood problem, and easy to automate.

Physical interaction with unexpected variables in changing environments, is not.
- Cerebrolysin
- Cortexin
- BPC157 (nasal spray)
- Semax
- Selank
- Seleginine
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (but has to be enough atmospheric pressure)
- Xantohumol

Those will help you recover. I am not a doctor - always consult with a doctor, but those are researched to help in cases like yours.
> Many guitar gods use drugs

After becoming guitar gods, yes.

These responses just make me laugh. Do you really think you're going to improve your odds of success by failing to complete high school? from prison? desperately searching for your next drug fix?
Design museum unearths a treasure trove of classic Slovak games
China is the new Japan now. Only 10x that.
Apple/Foxconn?
I'm not up on CPU terminology. I read the article and I don't know what this means.

What is "locking" in this context?

What is the "AMD PSB" ?
Protesters hit French streets to fight new vaccine pass
Probably depends on the industry. If you're a wordpress programmer at an ad agency there's no way you are making €80k. But if you're a senior embedded engineer at a big company like Bosch or Siemens, €80k sounds plausible.
Then maybe it's you who need to get down from high horse and realize people do not live beyond space and time. And people just can't choose the best things at any place and any time.

> Who cares if the kids don’t eat?

Ah, I thought kids in poor countries could just eat virtues provided free of cost from otherwise no-good virtue signalers.
Agreed. I've run into more issues trying to get Minecraft running due to the disaster that is the windows store and related services. if you look at the gaming service, it's nothing but 1 star reviews with similar issues. I'm a technician person and I have no idea how non technical people manage to use Windows today.
This is a really good idea. If I was making a hobby OS (someday!), this is the route I would choose.
It makes sense for server security as discussed by the same source as the op https://www.servethehome.com/amd-psb-vendor-locks-epyc-cpus-...
Oh the irony of fate...
Google says there are 7 million java devs globally. Lets put number of robotics/hft java devs at 100k which seems rather generous. So what are the remaining 98% working on?
unfortunately due to the video quality it's very hard to see the details. I doubt the original analog quality was that bad, it either got crippled by digitalization or it had degraded before being digitalized.
beauford is much more similar to compté
you don’t just decide to be plural, it’s caused by mental illness. acting like multiple people is not being plural.
Because spacetime is hierarchical in that way too. I can put a thing in a box in a room, but I can't put the thing in multiple boxes in various rooms. The filesystem thus makes intuitive sense: we store physical objects in exactly the same way.

Now sure, it'd be nice to grep through my house, but I still couldn't hang the same painting in two places at the same time.
That was what was said of delta, yet six months after, because of how many cases of delta were created, the next Omicron variant can reinfect previous delta patients. Just from looking at the broad waves of Covid, one should conclude that natural immunity conveyed by getting Covid does not protect us as a herd against future mutations. Because omicron is even more contagious, I might expect the next major variant in the same to faster timeframe, and that variant will have the grainy of bypass previous immunity to some degree.
We have invaded Canada, twice!

And we've lost, twice! (American Revolutionary War and War of 1812)

Third time is the charm?
What prevents you from using these same signals in other writing?
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It's been a while since I used Lichess anonymously, but I suspect you do need an account to request a server analysis – that way they can limit the number of analyses per day for a user [1].

[1] 40 a day per https://lichess.org/features
Or do away with the aristocracy. Now seems like a good time.

We have the same unaddressed issues as America does on race, but also with class. Social mobility was just a way of introducing crippling brain drain into working class communities - something which led to them being effectively criminalised as an underclass through ASBOs and the like.

(For the alternative to social mobility, the old line: "rise with your class, not above it")
My original comment was saying that when trying to make comparisons between types of stoves food emissions are controlled.
5:2 has certainly worked for me – I started fasting on a whim at the beginning of the Corona closedown, and it took 10 kgs off of me. I feel hungry in the morning around the time I would normally eat breakfast, but after that there is no more discomfort, and I go through my day, including exercise, as I normally would.
Games for the original Game Boy are actually the only games I play nowadays and I use the original hardware (with IPS screen mod which is amazing) - why? Several reasons: games are simple but fun and often quite challenging, they don't require a lot of time investment, you can play them anywhere, batteries in Game Boy last for soooo long so it's always ready and it's fun to collect the cartridges, preferably with a box (they look great on shelf and don't take much space). It's funny because I got the original Game Boy ~30 years ago and played the shit out of it and now I'm back to it :-)
I don't like the nonlocality of this. When I see a closing curly brace, I want to be able to tell what execution will do when it gets there just by looking immediately before the corresponding opening curly brace, but now I'm going to have to look in the entire body of the block too. If I wanted things to be this implicit and nonlocal, then I'd have chosen C++ instead of C.
I'll quote the first sentence from the Bitcoin whitepaper. "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."
I don't like it. The great advantage of C is the very simple virtual machine and therefore very easy to reason about code. This bolting on language features is the hallmark of C++, which don't get me wrong has advantages, but in case we want the advantages we can already use C++.
Show HN: Debug any Python application on Kubernetes in 60 seconds
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I can't imagine getting back to a PhD after a few years in the industry. Maybe after a few months, yes, but that's probably not worth it and probably not a good look on the resume.

What's more, your current PhD topic might be outdated in a few years.
I think one difference between a classically trained programmer of a few decades ago and many of the programmers today who entered from javascript or bootcamps or were even self-taught is lack of understanding about all those other systems below you. For example, do you think the OP has heard of Simple Managed C?

C# is great, but it's not a systems language, it depends on piles of C/C++/etc code in order to run.
The "good" way to go about that would be to have a second "cleanup_value" attribute.

(Or, since the standard would be creating new names, have "cleanup" and "cleanup_ptr" instead. Assuming that this is a separate attribute namespace, which I believe it is[?])

FWIW, you do sometimes need the address of the variable. Particularly if it's some struct that is made a member of some container (e.g. linked list) temporarily - you need the original variable's address to unlink it.
I interpreted the parent's comment as a reference to post-war deurbanization and "white flight," further fueled by openly discriminatory lending and occupation policies (redlining, etc.) at all levels of government and business.

Reurbanization by wealthy whites (and deurbanization by some minority groups) are part and parcel with the earlier trend, and don't entirely subvert it.
That's depends on the specific software and maintainer. I see stuff in the GNOME tracker that boil my blood, I become angry even when now, thinking about it.

On the other hand, I had filled bug regarding some encryption functionality and was given useful and respectful comments that helped me with the non-bug but user error issue. I also reported on some power management feature I was missing and got it implemented in merely few weeks. This two are from fedora maintainers, but I also had some unknown dev on github to implement additional auth options in his product per my request, got this delivered on very short time and could proceed to do POC of the product for a customer.