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I'm 100% with you on being athiest and not wanting to support religion in my life

but, one thing many religions provide is a social club. Every Sunday and for some religion even more days, you meet up with people socially. Churches have festivals, dances, classes, even singles events that you're encouraged to attend regularly and at which you'll likely make friends and possible more

Vs outside where sure I can join a club or go to a Meetup but some part of that just doesn't seem to hit the same levels as church type stuff. Maybe it's a stronger feeling of obligation to participate. Maybe it's shared beliefs ...

Let pitch a non-religious social club to YC :p
good lord... NO, just no.

Software engineering and computer science is HARD. It's one of the most difficult fields there is. Now all the points about being a good field for various reasons, that's quite true. It can and should be incredibly rewarding.

But easy? never. You'll enjoy it if you like triumphing over extremely difficult challenges. But if you think it's easy, you're doing it wrong and probably making it hard for others.

If you have to ask "is it too hard?" the answer is definitely yes, and you should run away ASAP. If that sounds instead like a challenge, then maybe we have something here for you...
For a more in depth review of this idea, look at Taleb's Antifragile.

There's a lot of issues with this kind of thing, but it is definitely an interesting new lens to look at problems through.

I don't think I'll be using these ideas in my designs though. The modern "Just works" philosophy seems to work way better than people claim it does.

Sure, there's a few things that are arguably a true negative to forget, like cooking and such, but I am perfectly fine with the fact I've never needed to solve a calculus problem and I don't understand 99.99% of the billions of lines of code I use.

I don't need to know obscure tech details because we have division of labor.
Yeah, you just can't do it like this. How do you know that powermetrics accounts HW decode properly to GPU or CPU and not the SoC/Other section. That's problem one. This is made evident by the fact that powermetrics reports the GPU power consumption during 4K60 VP9 decode to be 2mW.

And it certainly isn't being accounted to the P-cores or E-cores, so all you're seeing is DRAM usage. The "Other" category in the legend is supposedly package power, but it's less than the sum of other rest, so it's either inaccurate or the legend is wrong.

Now that's a problem in and of itself. The bigger issue is that, on M1 Macs, powermetrics is just unreliable. If you look at Anadtech's testing, you'll see that powermetrics sometimes overshoots wall power, and sometimes undershoots it drastically. As in, by 25%.

Not only that, but powermetrics reports an idle of 200mW package power, while the actual laptop is drawing 7.6W at idle from the wall. This is pretty ridiculous - there is nothing that's going to be drawing power outside of the SoC and the screen, and the screen is not drawing 7.4W.

Anadtech also did a wall power measurement of the M1 Mac Mini and found a 4.2W idle.

So clearly, and unequivocally, powermetrics is unreliable. It is unclear and not nearly granular enough compared to the tools used in the PC world to be able to trust it. For example, on any modern PC laptop, you will get the exact power rail where the voltage and current is measured, and not only that, you will get the point at which this power is measured - before or after which VRM, exactly?

Not only that, but you will also get the actual power measured by the battery BMS at any given instant.

Even this is still taken with a huge asterisk and people still measure actual power draws, because even this level of granularity isn't enough. Vague, filtered numbers for powermetrics just doesn't cut it. If you want to make these comparisons, you have to compare wall numbers.

> And what has sharing iGPU design got to do with Video Decoder IP? ( If you are referring to Samsung and AMD ) The point is A video decoder that uses 500mW on Laptop is still more than 150mW on Smartphone.

Because the video decoder is part of the iGPU. Is your theory that AMD made a video decoder for smartphones that is 4x more efficient and just decided not to include it in their other GPUs?

> Early Intel CPU requires 2W+ for AV1 4K60 content hardware decode.

Now you're comparing AV1 to VP9... And those CPUs have only partial hardware decode for AV1. This is an improvement compared to the M1, which has no hardware decode at all for AV1, and uses even more than 2W to playback AV1 at 4K. That's the part 2 of the article you linked.
I never touched the TRS-80, but my Grandmother had an instruction manual for coding on one and thought the book might still be useful. This was in the mid-2000s. The machine hadn't been part of the house since before I was born and the BASIC programming language was antiquated too. But I read through it anyway. I think I get the gist of it, but I will never get to test out what I've learned about that mythical machine from the ancient texts.
My first intuition would be, to run the game inside gamescope and use a 2x (or higher) scaling factor.

https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope
Used to be on the list: reusable rockets, reasonably priced electric cars with charging infrastructure, rapid development of new vaccines with direct genetic engineering mechanisms.
Really nice illustrations. What tool did you use ?
Information about some of the fake terror plots concocted after 9/11 can be found simply by Googling "FBI fake terror plots". Try it! There's an article from The Guardian up near the top for me.

> Didn't they specifically make laws to prohibit prosecutions and inquiries into what happened?

...such as? I'm not aware of any, Google hasn't revealed anything, and there were indeed inquiries afterwards, so I suspect you're misinformed.

> The constitution is the document giving power to the court isn't it... weird to have them rule on the document that grants them powers.

I'm surprised by this comment, because by analogy with the US - which you seem fond of - the Supreme Court in the US of course does this all the time. Even before 1982, the roles, rights, and responsibilities of the federal and provincial governments in Canada were formally agreed upon and legally defined; when disagreements about the interpretation of those laws arose some body needs to arbitrate. In Canada - as in the US! - that falls to the courts.

The federal government tried to get endorsement from all of the provinces - this lead to many changes to the bill as it was being drafted. Ultimately negotiations with Quebec failed (and have continued to fail when it was attempted again, twice, later on). At the time they felt that, given that it was legally viable, it was worth it to proceed without Quebec's support.

Again, I implore you to actually look this stuff up yourself if you're genuinely interested - I'm not an expert on Canadian history, but plenty of people who are have written plenty about this.
I dismiss them because there's literally decades worth of research into the effects of porn which to my knowledge has failed to come up with anything more than very minor effects, and when the best that's coming up now is some poorly constructed survey papers trying to infer things from self-reporting it's a strong indication there's nothing worth paying attention to, given the amount of effort and money that has been poured into it from groups with a strong interest in finding something.

If I trusted self-reported anecdotes I'd also seek to protect my family against ghosts, extra-terrestrial probing sessions and vengeful gods, among a long range of other risks I don't take seriously. If you can't provide evidence that gives a stronger indication of a damaging effect than that, I'll treat it the same way I threat those risks. If anything, if those studies are the best you can find it reassures me that the risks are near non-existent.
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Where Is Chrome's Read Later Button?
I'm on Chrome 98 on a Mac, and it seems like every update has moved around the read later option. It used to be in the url bar as a button, and then it was a top level menu option. Now I can't find it.

Hilariously enough, Google search turns up nothing relevant. Any ideas?
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This is IMO why Tesla is dominating the EV space - the combination of great software with the hardware, although the recent software update irked a lot of people and is a few steps backward.

For the longest time touch display and navigation software in cars were terrible. Low resolution, small screens, laggy interfaces, and software not connected to the vehicle in the sense where OTA updates can end up fixing and improving aspects of the car.
The “kerb” in the UK is the step between the road surface and the bit the pedestrians walk on. More properly “kerbstone” I guess.
If I remember things correctly about 45,000 bridges across the US are in poor condition and the original Infrastructure Bill targeted 10,000 of them.
The Bill got watered down further.

There is simply too much infrastructure to maintain, and more and more stuff is being built every day with no realistic plan for long-term maintenance. It's a losing battle.
Probably one in a country that exited their trade bloc full of countries known for a variety of cheeses.
FP techniques that will help you write better JavaScript
What's is the desired conclusion of your comment? That women prefer to be homemakers more than men do so we should go ahead and do that and leave men to work? Please explain because I have no idea where you're going with this.
If you set overflow: hidden it seems to do the trick on chrome at least
Yes, it is. I drive a 1988 Suburban 4x4 with a solid front axle, leaf springs, and all the old school heavier construction. With my fat lard butt in it, it's just under 6000lbs.
What do you mean by hostage? I can export my work in f3d file and, hopefully, can import it as well.
> Not only are many things in the economy zero-sum, in the case of labor, even if the economy is humming at 150%, it's trivial to imagine a scenario where the man and the woman are both earning 75% of what they would have without the other sex in the labor force. Both are worse off, yet the capital owners are better off and it gives the illusion that everything is going great.

Can you elaborate further on this please, I'm not sure I understand your point (genuinely).
The first programming language I put serious time into was C. When I first found Ada I was struck by how easy its syntax was to understand. I think that if you needed Ada talent in a pinch you could do well to recruit experienced programmers of all stripes and train them in Ada. The language might have its peculiarities, I don't think it's a hard language though.
Agree.

Whatever it is it has already blown Chernobyl, Long Island, Fukushima and the rest out of the water.

Even if we include the two nukes, this virus has been much more deadly than all nuclear war, power and experiments over the last hundred years together.

(Note that I do not support dropping nukes, the coronavirus was probably an accident IMO, the nukes were not, I'm just pointing out that we overreacted to the dangers of of mostly peaceful and useful nuclear technology.)
It has, but the damage is already done and building back a lost reputation is hard even when we 'know' that the people in charge now are not the same people that where in charge then.
This one was especially bad -- I can't find the twitter post, but someone had snapped a picture in 2018 where a structural member had rusted completely through. The bridge should have been immediately shut down but was not.

To read more in general check out https://infrastructurereportcard.org/infrastructure-categori.... Bridges with rust is normal, but there is a replacement schedule.
Enterprises are also doing this to themselves with the usual trend to hire only in X, so if they want people skilled in cloud native with 5 years experience in production, that is what they will get.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30254131
They aren't, really. Even the nuclear winter is but a hypothesis that could very well turn out to be false.

Nowadays, mechanization and automation make large-scale nuclear first strikes pretty much pointless. Add to that the improvements in missile defense and the result is a different scenario. If we ever see nuclear weapons used in anger again it will probably take the form of artillery used against armored formations, fleets, and satellites.

This might turn a particular theater into a nuclear wasteland and throw global economy back into the 70s, but it wouldn't cause the kind of mass fires needed for nuclear winter.
EDIT:

Third point above to be modified as;

* Shake and Vibrate the Head, Arms, Legs and Waist repeatedly like you are shivering.

The idea behind the exercises is;

1) By relaxing/loosening the joints you prevent/remove any possible stasis.

2) Shivering/Shaking/Vibration assuages any tension in the Body.

3) We are designed for Walking which is the most cost-effective Whole-Body Motion that energizes both Body and Mind. Its positive effects are well studied.

4) This allows all the circulatory systems to function normally and smoothly (often called the circulation of Prana/Chi in other Traditional Systems) which is the path to Health.

The key to knowing that you are doing everything right is to feel warmth throughout the body and even breaking out into a light sweat.
This is I wanna give that guy a big hug awesome!
Minister for Covid-19 Response responds to official question with Spiderman meme
You have no idea. I am sure there are some men who change for the better, but there's plenty of men who try being genuine and realistic and get no positive response.
I have curtains in just about every window and had never heard of a pelmet. I just have exposed rails like an unsophisticated peasant.
The chart on this page is an example why not to set viewpoint user-scalable to '0'.
Although in the case of nuclear, all it takes is for someone to trigger a chain reaction. That could even be done with stolen material. (Or have I read too much Tom Clancy?)
They could be a lot more efficient if they were not forced to ship parts and airframes around Europe multiple times.
To what degree does technology play a part in these changes?

For the two main events cited, as I recall it Myanmar resulted from
Facebook wilfully ignoring (indeed fuelling) a sectarian schism, and
the Afghan Army basically conceded a post-withdrawal "peaceful Taliban
takeover" by ad-hoc WhatsApp diplomacy, making a mockery of state
power by an end-run around official communications.

Obviously there are other geopolitical forces at work, but what a
turnaround from the Arab Spring when tech seemed to be spreading
democracy. Schniere was right about the phase lag between technology
empowering progressive actors and bolstering incumbent power. But
something else is going on. We seem to be too comfortable funding and
propagating what we know to be oppressive technologies, as the NSO
debacle illustrates all too well.

Knowing that technology is very much NOT neutral, how can we fund tech
that has a best chance of net positive outcomes for democracy? Aren't
projects Tor, IPFS or Librem Phones the best "all round" horses to
back? As well as an Eco/Carbon rating ought we to give technologies a
"democracy rating"?
SIM ejector
This was one of the little things that impressed me about Ada when I first found it. In spite of the murmuring about camels, and designs by committee, my first impression of Ada was a language where attention had been given to the little details with regards to making the language easy to comprehend. Having said that, I don't think that its syntax has necessarily stood the test of time as being super-ergonomic.
Took some liberties with title to

a) make it informative (NZers know who Chris Hipkins is, others don't) and

b) make it fit (changed Parliamentary question to "official question" to fit the title length limits, without hopefully losing the import)
"Today, as a result of their efforts, we interact with wonderfully designed interfaces." I wonder what's wrong with me, because in my experience, interfaces are degenerating, no improving since the 90s. I no longer know whats happening behind the one or two ambigiously named buttons, I have no way of anticipating the outcome or handling the edge cases.
In a way, the fourth gif shows it well, the machinery is hidden from the user, there are few choices with extremely complex, and hidden interactions and consequences, and it's now up to the user to try to deduce this hidden logic from only a few inputs, it's terrible.

Oh, and the rest of the article agrees, and makes its points much better than I ever could. Excellent article!
"bullshitting" was indeed a bad choice of words on my part and it's not how we see our candidates nor it's reflective of our rational why we choose this interview style. It was a mere reference to another post further above.

We try to make the candidates as comfortable as can be in a stressful interview scenario by having them talk us through some of their previous work. If that does not do it, i do not know what is. If you feel comfortable to code while others watch, good on you. I personally am not that kind of person.

We try to be mindful of their time by having a single interview with minimal mandatory preparation time and same day feedback.

We want to give them a chance to see how we as a team interact.
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> Then I moved to Fusion and from that point I think that I’ve found a sweet spot

Alternative viewpoint:

1) It depends on the kind of object you want to model: for simple, geometric shapes, OpenSCAD is by far the best choice. Unless you don't know how to code, in which case it's unusable.

2) When you start to need chamfers and fillets, OpenSCAD simply doesn't work and Fusion is by far the superior solution. Also, if your model starts to become really complex (lots of boolean), OpenSCAD becomes very slow and eventually unusable, even with the change described by the OP.

3) If you need to model organic shapes neither freecad, fusion or OpenSCAD are unusable. Blender is way better for this use case.

4) If you are a programmer and enjoy building truly parametric models, as in: models that you can build with scripts and Makefiles, then neither freecad nor fusion are a fit. Cadquery is slowly getting to the sweet spot OpenScad occupies, but it's not there yet.

5) Fusion is proprietary, closed-source and costs money. Worse, you are basically at the mercy of the vendor. In particular, it's a complete black box: there is exactly zero guarantees that your carefully crafted model will still work 10 years down the road.

6) Freecad's UI is basically a nightmare and the CAD engine (the terminolgy in the CAD world for some reason it is called the "kernel") is the same that cadquery uses, and it's an old and clunky NURBS engine called OpenCascade (if I'm not mistaken). It is definitely not up to par with Fusion's engine.

7) Fusion is lousy at talking to the rest of the ecosystem. Proprietary and opaque file format that no other product outside of the AutoDesk ecosystem can read, lousy at reading things created with other softwares.
in the US its just called a curb and a curbstone
4. Trains map to (what I suspect is) our genetically-programmed interest in large animals. My 2yo loves anything with wheels (i.e. feet/hooves), and trains are the apex predators. Then we anthropomorphize them (Thomas the Tank Engine, etc.) in order to "tame" them. My 0.02€, YMMV.
> Assuming the increasing opportunity people are doing it to feel superior is likely false, and also likely just a way to feel superior to them.

You are right about that, maybe it's not about feeling superior, I don't know the real motivation. My argument would probably be stronger without this remark.

But I don't know if the differentiation between "outcomes" and "opportunities" really makes a difference. People still vote for "opportunities" that are only meaningful for people richer than themselves.

For example, you could say that lowering taxes on dividends is providing an "opportunity", but it's only an opportunity for those who already have more money than they need, and it rewards people proportionally with how much money they already have.

With many opportunities the outcomes are rather predictable, so I'm not sure what the difference is between focussing on "opportunity" vs. "outcomes".
To emphasize this point, the alternatives would be ridiculed:

- overflow is assumed by default and constraining it is a whole bunch of necessary compromises, so my element maintains an aspect ratio but its content is overlapping siblings with the same aspect ratio. What the hell were they thinking?

- my element with 16:9 aspect ratio and the full text content of Moby Dick serialized as JSON was so wide my browser ate all my memory and swap, locked my computer up forcing a hard reboot
One woman did not single-handedly kill cybernetics.
You could instead just define the edge case behaviour so it is sane and consistent, e.g Text always overflows unless otherwise specified, or text is always clipped, rather than "lets stop the thing doing what it says it's doing". I swear the CSS spec considers "insane by default" To be a feature.
I think he’s pointing out the irony in conservative views. They bemoan the erosion of traditional gender roles, but undermine those roles by opposing a generous welfare state.

But, I mean, obviously it would be good if most workers made enough to support a family with a single income.
Wouldn't Puerto Rico be a better analogy than Hawaii?

Hawaii is more like Malta in EU, a full member state.