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I live in an area with roundabouts. The frequency of collisions actually seems higher because people do not know the rules and do not yield before entering the roundabout.
The dishwashers I've seen have been super repairable. I recently fixed my parent's Whirlpool because the circulation pump had an intermittent fault. Once I diagnosed the problem, removing it took a single screw, and a new pump was $120 from a local appliance parts store. Diagnosis was by far the hardest part, but only because I had no idea how a dishwasher even worked. The actual repair was straightforward.
> We're talking about decisions made in 2013-14!

Yes, you have to think forward.

> And it topped out at 400 kW

So not as fast as CCS. Tesla's proprietary plug is also still not as a fast as CCS. The fastest charging cars on the road today are CCS cars.

> CCS is, as I said upthread, just a terrible, terrible standard. By design.

Conspiracy theories will get you nowhere in life. CCS is the dominant standard globally. That "terrible, terrible standard" has done well for itself.

What you should moan about is the fact that Tesla still hasn't switched to CCS in North America. The longer they delay the switch, the more it will cost.
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Here's another fun one - a time lapse of the universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA

Basically suggesting that if our universe was a human life, we'd still be in the hospital right after birth. So much time left to go.
The author mentions they were inspired by the Veritasium video on the same topic (without the Lego). [1] I thought I'd link the previous HN discussion. [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3OX8nT0w

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29645610
Off topic: even though I appreciate the site design and simple messaging, the dark background is hard for me to parse text with my old eyes.
Not OP, but Snopes used to be very trustworthy but has since become nearly completely useless.
> If the program globally never makes a reference to a field, must it be aligned?

That would be whole-progam analysis which isn't done.

> If the field is referenced, could it be that when making a reference, the field gets copied or moved out and a reference is implemented as a pointer to that copy?

This breaks down with mutation, especially atomics, which are allowed as struct fields.
Those exist and have the major advantage of zero audio latency which is good for interoperability (think a TV headphone port).

The disadvantage (in my cheap ones at least) is poorer sound quality, especially the amount of background hiss, short range and susceptibility to interference (no error correction).
"Even" cops? Here in the Bay Area, cops blow through every intersection without turn signals and barely any hint of slowdown. And everyone's happy, because only our blue domestic warfighters stand between us and the unwashed mobs robbing Lululemon stores.
In a context of an interview it means how performance of an algorithm scales with respect to the input length. This is measured in Big O notation. Understanding that is seldom very helpful on the job, but it's very important for interviews, so make sure you learn it.
WordPress is very widely used, but it is not "60% of the internet" (or even 60% of the web) based on any statistics I see anywhere. Some sites say it's 60% of all CMS's; perhaps you may be transposing these stats?

Anyway, among WP usage, I would confidently wager that the percentage running in "cheap VPS" setups is declining fast each year. Many different reasons for this. The heyday of smalltime independent bloggers (on WP or otherwise) was a decade ago. Large SaaS hosts (including the official wordpress.com) make up a big chunk of WP hosting. Security is a huge issue with self-hosted WP. Companies using WP as a CMS aren't going to use a tiny VPS.

There are still a lot of WordPress instances on cheap VPS setups, don't get me wrong. I just don't believe it's still such a major force where it would make up a majority of new mysql/mariadb installations anymore.
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While other comments are wishing for the company to expand outside of laptops, I really hope they won't loose their focus. There is so much they can improve on in laptop space.
There is one intersection in Kirkland WA that needs to be a round about. Every day during rush hour one stop sign is responsible for a 3-5 minute line of traffic.

But you know what? Everyone stops at it Even though it is stupid, and there is almost no chance of cross traffic, people stop at it.

(It is on 116th ave in Bridal Trails, anyone local reading this knows the stop sign I'm talking about!)

So yes, some very stupid stop signs exist.

The neighborhood I live in now has a compromise stop signs every block going east/west, but no stop signs going north/south. It works out well enough!

Indeed, roundabouts would solve a lot of these problems.

One private gated community around here just uses giant speed bumps. Another, somewhat jarring, solution to the problem!
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Where I live, the school zone speed limits are only in affect when school is actually in session, and the yellow lights are flashing to let you know that it is (but we are also talking about the difference between 15MPH and 25MPH). Sounds like a plum income stream for your city's police department.
>Lots of people here only know their weight in kg now (including me).

Is that with younger generations? Most people I know doesn't have clue about their weight in Kg.
What? If anything, it's the netflix of gaming. I don't even get the auto-tune comparison.
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Eventually, we want to summarize and contextualize every meaningful idea published each day, in every form of media (books, articles, podcasts, videos). Imagine you had a magical Chrome extension that takes any page you're viewing (like a top HN article) and gives you a high-quality summary, along with summaries of alternative viewpoints. That's a vision of what we're building.

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We're diverging at point #1, because it doesn't say what you are claiming it says.

Now the latest version of the equivocation is "top of search results" which throws away the distinction between ads and search, a distinction that exists in Google's original statement, in order to falsely attribute to Google a statement professing they would not place ads on top of search results.

This is a repeat in the exercise of equivocation that I described above. The next step in the cycle is to engaging personal attacks, and then it's to reboot back to the beginning with a new equivocation, and on and on. At this point I feel that this thread has exhausted itself and all further comments are just continuing in this predictable pattern.
Tell HN: Unable to login to HN from Firefox, a Lovecraftian tale
In '99/00, I remember a cartoon on a slide because the lecturer was involved in the BT spec. It took a while, but he was right that it would be ubiquitous.

I do have issues with BT compatibility between some devices with stuttering sound. For example, I have Edifier speakers that don't work properly with Apple devices.

Another issue is audio/video latency. aptX Low Latency isn't widely-supported. Receivers, TVs, computers, and any display device chain muxes or demuxes A/V should support an A/V calibration device discoverable by WiFi and BT containing a microphone and light sensor for automatic synchronization.

Pairing is a PITA. The behaviors of connecting, selecting, forcing, and moving devices are inconsistent and problematic. AirPods are terrible because they repeatedly connect when not wanted.
I have one and can give a quick review. Overall, it is very nice, but with a few small quirks.

1)Default Ubuntu install was very laggy. Not sure what was up with this.

2)Default Arch install is pretty much perfect.

3)Both Ubuntu and Arch have ok battery life. Pretty much as I expected for an Intel laptop. (i.e. not great)

4)By default, battery drain with the lid closed is pretty bad though. Don't expect to leave it laying around and it to still have battery when you go back to it. There is probably an easy solution to this but I haven't had time to look into it.
>Loads of drivers seem to think this kind of shit is just fine and normal, and desperately need to be taken off the road.

For every few hundred cars going 65-80 on a 55mph stretch of interstate highway there's maybe a couple going the speed limit. Who is contributing the most danger to the roadway on a per-capita or per vehicle basis?

> That's a low bar.

You only think that because you mentally bucket people who casually violate the letter of the law when they deem it safe to do so and who's judgement on such matters is roughly in line with everyone else's into the "bad driver" category.

The bar is not actually that low.
Same. I’ll have to take a look as well. The built-in FT going back to MyISAM and later was ok for small things, but needed to remain in memory wand dint handle lots of updates well. At one point we split a table into shards on the same database to ease locking issues.

One thing I wish were available was a hybrid btree and inverted index. If you are multi tenant then you want your search to only happen within the one user’s data — not across all accounts and then filter for the one user.
Eh I think there is a huge middle ground between "network consisting of work friends" and "LinkedIn network". Maybe it's different in academia but I know plenty of people that have a strictly professional network built from real world interactions - conference meet ups, seminar series, collaboration projects, etc. They would be happy to call each other up for work purposes but would never do something purely social together or consider each other friends.

I don't think the type of network I've just described is imitating anything. They are mutually beneficial but purely professional relationships. The fact that the internet has enabled people to have a much larger number of superficial relationships doesn't mean that what the poster was describing is the only way to have a "real professional network". Yeah it's a professional network, but it's not the only kind.
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Last time I was there I had someone get out of their vehicle and get angry as fuck at me - screaming, calling me a piece of shit, mother fucker, etc. - because they turned into oncoming traffic (my lane) to get around a garbage truck, found me there driving in my right of way, and demanded I back up and make room for them. Everyone else on the road in LA seem generally grumpy and impatient.

Granted, I usually drive pretty fast and am aware of my tendency to be impatient behind the wheel, but it seems, anecdotally at least, like LA is worse than many other areas in that regard. The first 20 minutes driving around after I leave LAX are usually spent thinking, "I'm crazy, but these people put me to goddamn shame and I need to adapt quickly," lol.
I agree with you that we need to be proactive, it just seems like its impossible to be proactive on a species-wide level without giant authoritarian governments. It kind of seems like the best we can do is to just be reactive unfortunately.
Went through something similar a year ago w/ a restructuring. My team was considered essential and part of a high performing part of the biz. A bunch of people left and eventually so did I. Almost felt like it was contagious when coworkers were announcing they were leaving each week.

Probably won't hurt to look elsewhere and at least have an option. You can probably secure a nice pay bump too or negotiate for other things. My new company is fully remote and I moved to a new state. The old company was pretty set that we'd all return.
The UK normally gets 25% of their electricity from wind but just the other night they were only getting about 2.7% of the demand fulfilled by wind turbines. They had to start up coal plants to fill the gap.

I don't think over provisioning would fix that and you'd need about 12 hours of batteries to cover the shortage.
I remember finding this laptop when searching for a new one. I loved it, but I wanted AMD instead of Intel. I ended buying an Asus G713QR, gaming laptop, but very powerful and with an amazing screen.
Good question. The bad ones don't go away immediately. They go away eventually, and are quickly replaced with another round of new hires. So you have maybe 10% of the industry that stays for the long haul, and 90% is a revolving door of college grads.

There are probably other industries that have similar models where most of the workforce is newbies at all times, but I don't have an example that won't be dissected.
Generally the “small” Red Bull can is 250ml not 330ml.
I reply gently saying that I have no interest unless it is my absolute dream job and describe exactly what that is. They are happy to receive a reply even if my demands seem bonkers.
Well, that’s the purely driver oriented point of view. Speed limits exist for other reasons, e.g. when going through pedestrian heavy areas. Going above the speed limit there endangers lives (regardless of if everyone else is doing it or not).
As silly it sounds to some people, starting with a solution like torrents and then working backwards to solve the problem, in this case Resilio is a good answer, and happens to use torrent, which is all the more reason to not dismiss OP outright. Theres a "i learned something today" south park esque lesson on hubris in this thread somewhere.

I was just as guilty, as I read the thread, until I saw your response.

edit: and the post was just as much a commentary on google refusing to infer meaning from the order of words, and treating them all as keywords. we dont need a million "google sucks more now" threads, but OP isnt wrong either.
From what I understand in Seattle (and I believe all of Washington State), every intersection at a corner is also a crosswalk, even if unmarked.

So people don't have to walk multiple blocks just to cross the street. :)

Accordingly I treat all intersections as potential crosswalks because people often cross at them!
That’s super interesting! I’ll reach out to you later today! :)
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I can't cite anything pre-Omicron since it's not relevant? Anything? Many attributes of the strains share common things (for example both are not retroviruses, can I cite that?)

It looks like the mainstream health authorities have shared up to date information on the protection against infection by omicron by vaccines. If that's the case, doesn't it mean that vaccinating kids would protect elders?