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I know Chris lather's intention. And I have read and listen to all the interview he did. I think the question should be, Why was it necessary for Apple to bet on Swift. Something I dont think Bertrand Serlet or Avie Tevanian would have done.
Not sure that is a good analogy. Sure, the VIN lets you deduce the general make and model of the car, but there should be zero information about any optional things encoded - but of course they have a different list of "oh, it's a Camaro, so the entertainment system can only be a A, B, or C"
> Most people, esp. in the US especially and in Western Europe in general fake happiness. esp in public. With true friends less.

I think it's largely true. Interstingly enough there are parts of the world where faking unhappiness is the norm.

> It is impossible to engineer long term true happiness. Or at least nobody has figured it out yet.

If happiness depends on externals than its indeed immpossible, since no one can control externals all of the time.

Stoicism was such an attempt to bring about happiness. By instructing its followers to dismiss any will for externals and focus on internals instead, it aimed to make them happy. It may have been seen like a bulletproof plan.

Unfortunately for stoics, though, you can't control internals either. Freewill is at best limited.
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It's an ugly, over-engineered device. Not surprising that a device with so many moving parts is prone to failure. The whole point of smartphones was to reduce visible complexity as much as possible. Steve Jobs' innovation was consistently about removing unnecessary things; keyboards, padding around the edges, ports, hole grid for speakers... On the other hand, this foldable trend appears to be about adding back complexity which yields no benefits... What is the benefit of this foldable screen? There are none! If anything, it will make it easier to drop the phone and the fold looks horrible and it's fragile.

WTF is going on with tech/engineering sector? Everything seems to be getting worse. No common sense.
People miss that programing languages are no different from any kind of software products, and software products without new releases hardly survive.
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At last workplace we developed microservices running on Kubernetes using Redis and Postgres as databases. Integration with Elastic Search, Kibana, Datadog were a breeze.
For some reason S10+ is the best phone I've ever owned. It's still updating - got Android 12. First thing I've done - disabled bixby entirely. No issues at all. Replaced broken screen once, not a Samsung fault.
I'm something of an otaku about religion, and I've never heard of it. I'd like to know what he means by it too.
I think they are quite pragmatic. For sure they will prefer a language which they trust and can influence (see here) for green field assets but that is just one of many considerations.

Office for example took React Native as a UI toolkit and invested in that instead of .NET. Typescript was invented to help them. The Windows division uses C++ based COM / WinRT and built a independent framework.

Microsoft is not a pure .NET shop. There are not even a anti-Java shop
From a technical point of view, we are in agreement.

The issue is when platform-specific code ties your business logic to a particular vendor API, and then this vendor milks your company for profit.
I wouldn't read too much into the word choice. Not so long ago, I learned that my wife uses the word differently than I do. For her, a talent is simply a learned skill.
"This requires a lot of trust. The entire point of having banking infrastructure is to remove the need for trust. Like crypto, with no oversight, how do you know your local 'phone bank' is not a rug-pull?"

I think that a system that encourages trust among people is orders of magnitude better than the traditional banking. https://ourworldindata.org/trust
Yeah probably it's just different with Apple, hardware and software is just better designed and optimized. My previous MacBook pro lasted 10 years.
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In my experience, a Samsung badge is like a seal of guaranteed low quality. Bling bling and looks good but no substance. Like I said, I steer clear of Samsung for anything. Even semiconductors if I can help it, although I have no idea if their semis are as bad as their full products. But just in case. Companies usually share this kind of traits across divisions and groups, it’s in their dna.
Your local shop would be out of business here. The insane amount Apple asked for, ~$500, is indeed for a full top-case replacement, and they didn't mention any discount to me.
My 2 cents:

Too much OOP forced upon you.
Too much boilerplate.
Too much verbosity.
> A good keyboard doesn't really need re-mapping, as the ctrl, esc and meta/alt keys are already readily available.

They’re not, unless by “good keyboard” you mean “custom layout”. On all the keyboards I’ve ever known, the almost entirely useless capslock takes one of the more valuable places on the keyboard just left of the home row. It’s the modifier key which requires the least movement by far, yet with a native function which is almost entirely worthless.

I’d like to see your hypothetical keyboard where control (to say nothing of esc) is anywhere near as easy to reach, despite both being used significantly more than caps, and caps being trivially and fully dispensable with unless your days are spent writing SQL with all keywords in all caps.

> You could argue for mapping caps lock to Super or Hyper if you're an emacs user maybe

No, you really could not, unless you’re part of the minority which flies with fully custom keybindings. But even then control is such a central modifier of emacs that making it more accessible and require less contorsion tends to yield the highest bang for your buck.

You could always remap the old control to super or hyper instead of having two control keys I guess.
After 20 years of speaking english (french mother-tongue here) someone finally told me that you don't pronounce the "h" in "hour". I (and, I think, most french people speaking english) really do have to think of the spelling of a word before pronouncing it. And there I was being extra careful with that h at Hour. Now I have to be extra careful not to pronounce it…

But on a positive note, discovering all these small quirks are like "Achievement unlocked" kind of moments if you like learning languages.
You don't need an algorithmic way to decide how good an orchestra is, because subjective reception from critics and audiences is exactly the point.

And there's a fair amount of innovation in that. Audiences want novel-but-not-too-novel interpretations.

So not only there is no way to define a definitive objective metric for musical interpretation, it's even harder to conjure up an objective metric space for "possible but unusual good" interpretations.

As go orchestras, so go individual players. You absolutely are going to listen to the opinion of an experienced conductor, because being able to tell good from bad and having some insight into compatibility with existing players in the rest of the team is exactly what the job involves.

To make it worse, it's culturally dependent, and it shifts. Good today is not the same as good fifty years ago.

This actually makes it easier than software, because it very much is just about informed opinion, with external subjective feedback from audiences and critics.
There are better sources than me for the broader history.

In roughly 420AD there was something called the “Counsel of Nicea” where representatives from different Christian sects hammered out a consensus on what counts as the “Bible”, and they reified a distinction that had predated the debate into canon: 66 books of the “Old Testament” beginning with “Genesis”, and 33 books of the “New Testament” beginning with “Matthew”, or, “The Gospel According to Matthew”, and ending with “The Book of Revelations”.

I was never a good scholar of the “Old Testament”. It’s part of the family tree that’s often called “Abrahamic”. Islam’s holy text is in this family tree in some sense.

The “New Testament” is 4 allegedly first-hand accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, a set of writings called the “Pauline Epistles”, and some other stuff (“Acts of the Apostles”, etc).

The “Old Testament” is especially complicated and random-seeming, but is broadly concerned with laws and punishments. If you’ve ever heard the phrase “an eye for an eye”, that’s very “Old Testament”.

The “New Testament” is also complicated and random-seeming, but broadly concerned withers of grace, forgiveness, compassion, and redemption.

Those are both wild oversimplifications, but I think give a flavor.
Out of curiosity, I went to check the current numbers: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

Overall, yes it is still a major player (20%) but notably almost all of that is on mobile where it's 27% of users worldwide (presumably in large part because of the iOS browser ban).

On desktop meanwhile, Safari is now below 10%, slowly but steadily declining, and it looks like to be overtaken by both Edge and Firefox within the next year or two. Bad news for Safari, but honestly surprisingly good news for Firefox. Edge's success is promising for the web too imo, if it gives Google less influence over Chromium.
W500 - 3 years, nothing

x230 - replacement battery, screen died (easy replacement), handrest cracked, still usable

T460p - 5 years of light use, nothing

T470p - 3 years, nothing

Legion Y520 - keyboard stopped working partly, bought a replacement and noticed it's basically impossible to replace, then bought a second one, this time a complete top case - replacement was a chore, but fine

Overall: still a happy Lenovo customer
After a couple of decades I have decided for myself talent is real and not something that can be replaced with practice. I've had juniors surpass me in 2 years and I've worked with seniors that learned very little despite working mode decades than me. In my definition of talent I take into consideration not only intelligence but also drive, enthusiasm, work ethic, etc.

Talent becomes more and more important as you require actual design and architectural thinking. For the average code monkey not so much.

As for why a lot of companies refuse to hire juniors: they think practice is more valuable than it actually is and they don't want to spend resources on juniors getting that practice on the time they pay for. And the people involved in the early stages of recruitment are also not technical or passionate about tech so they can't recognize when somebody is or isn't.
Because it's in the aggressor's interest to point out the failures of others and scream: they did it too.

But I lived under both and, while there are no angels, I know which one is evil and which one is (flawed) good. Only one had to keep their people from fleeing their empire of misery with walls and guns.
Today would have been a good day for Chrome to release its 100th version.

2+2+2+2+2 = 10

10^2 = 100
That is the answer right there, they weren't the ones calling the shots and the direction bought into Chris' intentions.
And Anandtech doesn't allow anyone to reproduce their results, and their readers are their product, so...
Again, not issue with Bitcoin but other crypto. If you can "make" money, you can buy anything.
> They spy on you mercilessly

I think, nowadays and given the trend, it is safe to assume that all closed and networked devices already do that: phones and tablets, closed software and hardware subsystems in computers, SmartTVs, personal assistants, cars, household appliances, etc.
Yes, I'd wager that this is the actual reason. It also makes third-party parts far more difficult to find.
> Their entire job revolves around networking. Since they run the show this means that everyone is going to transition to the office as soon as possible.

Yep. Only hope is that the pandemic at least forced some change that will hopefully remain. I understand the OP grievances (okay, maybe I don't) but for some other people remote+zoom/email is just perfect.
> Every day there are posts here with some Twitter thread as the source

These threads are extremely and overwhelmingly popular and that surprises me.

These threads always start off like "Here's how to make $100MM in 10 hours" and then multiple sub posts of most generic nonsense I've ever seen.

What's even interesting is people think they get tremendous value out of there and share/re-tweet and go crazy about them.

Am I really stupid or are most people on Twitter who engage with these threads on some kind of hallucinogen(s)?
Self-hostable.. Back in the dark ages, we called that "a program that runs on your computer", it seemed like a good idea at a time, and the past 10 years of putting everything back on the mainframe has confirmed that it was.
My guess is that Putin moved all the troops in the hope that he could extract some kind of concessions from NATO and Ukraine without going to war. What concessions would have satisfied him is unclear. According to one German general something quite small, more symbolic that material, might have been enough: anything that he could present as a victory in the tame Russian media. But NATO and Ukraine offered him nothing at all. Bringing the troops back without having achieved anything would have made him look weak or stupid. So he had to invade.

If that's roughtly right, why didn't NATO and Ukraine offer him some small symbolic concessions? Well, I would guess that one reason is that the US administration wants there to be a small war in Europe because then Western Europe will stop buying Russian gas and will have to buy US gas instead. This is obviously something they care about a lot because they've been trying really hard to stop Nord Stream 2, even to the extent of applying sanctions against German companies involved in the project. Also look at the propaganda they've been producing against Nord Stream 2. Almost every issue of The Economist has a few paragraphs claiming that building an additional, alternative pipeline will somehow make Germany "dependent" on Russian gas, as opposed to just giving them another option.

Anyway, it's a mess, but I hope they hold back on the sanctions a bit, so that they have some in reserve to apply later, and that people like Macron carry on with the diplomacy.
How do you sync your password manager state? This is not easy for a typical user to setup, whereas their email is probably already syncing across all of their devices.
Yeah sorry. Most LCDs, at least up to a couple of years ago, use PWM for dimming & all OLED do AFAIK.

I don't know much, to know if mini LEDs dimming in different sections mean PWM, but I suppose they might since it would be probably easier to change the speed of the rapid on&offs of some LEDs rather than the current to dim part of the screen.
Soon to be launched on leet code : Coaching sessions on how to convey (fake) happiness effectively.

How do the authors separate out the causation part? May be the top performers are happy because they are performing well? Will they retain their happiness if lets say, they are thrown in something with stack ranking like Amazon. How about something like on calls? How happy are they going to be if their nights are continously ruined by production issues. What about personal stuff like divorces and family issues.
Exactly. The question is phrased as if moving to Mars is a real option, or will be soon. If one believes the wild predictions from Elon Musk, and that he can work around some massive issues with physics and biology and logistics, and that "terraforming" is a real thing humans can do, then that future habitable Mars might seem like a possibility in the lifetimes of people alive today.

It's probably not.
The hard part isn’t \section{Introduction}, but horrible hacks like \makeatletter you need to do something non-trivial.
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I replied to the sibling in some detail. It’s not my ambition to tell anyone what to believe about God: I’m quite unsure myself.

But my little primer-as-Internet comment is based on not only reading but memorizing these documents at a young age, it’s likely a reasonable place to formulate some Google search terms.
Magpies have outwitted scientists by helping each other remove tracking devices
Just signed up for your email list.

Please make sure the headband can stay on your head through the night. I have a chinstrap headband that I ordered on Amazon that falls off every single night, making it unusable.
Why would you not just use one of the dozens of KVM-over-IP devices on the market? Or if you want to run it over a USB connection look for a "crash cart" device.

This is a solved problem space. There is no case in which you would save money by doing this, even if your time was worthless. If the PCs are old enough you'd probably want PS/2 rather than USB. For the same reason people do not build their own mobile phones.
For the record, http:// is redirecting to https:// for me currently.

$ date -u
Tue 22 Feb 2022 09:12:56 UTC
You have hit the Nail right on the Head!

>deal with engineers like you'd deal with other people. Respect them, get to know them, and interact with them in a way that enables everyone to get their jobs done in the most efficient, pleasant way possible

That is all there is. I always say "People are NOT Resources". Each of them is unique and it is upto you to understand their wants and then craft a plan accordingly.

I am coming to the conclusion that a PM's job needs;

1) Read up/Train on a little bit of Behavioural Psychology/Applied Behaviour Analysis/Organizational Politics/Communication Skills so you have an idea of how to read, manage and interact with people.

2) People, Time and Resources(inanimate things) are to be managed separately. The latter two always take second place to the first.

3) Every known process is just a template and thus needs to be customized to the situation at hand. Nothing is written in stone.

4) For every person on your Team create a "Spider Graph" identifying and ranking any measurable traits that you are interested in managing.

5) Delegate and give them their Autonomy for execution but within well understood and agreed upon parameters/deliverables.

6) Don't be a "paper-pusher" but understand the problem domain well so that you can have intelligent conversations with your Engineers. This is the only way to earn their respect and have them listen to you.

7) Practice "brinkmanship" when it comes to defending your Team members.
Seems like a lot of people on this thread assume high LA fats are bad for you or somehow cause obesity. It would be interesting to investigate the LA concentration in adipose tissue of populations with differing body fat percentages. E.g., do we see people with high body fat have higher portions of that fat as LA than in leaner people? This study doesn’t really tell us anything beyond increasing LA consumption increases concentration in adipose tissue, which seems like a pretty straightforward and unsurprising conclusion.
>YARP is yet a another example of how C# is becoming a dominant systems language.

It won't become a systems language until it will let you to directly access hardware and do memory management, it will have improved performance and it will be natively AOT compiled.
The point was that learning a smaller subset of the language makes the challenge doable at all, which is what is happening here.
Gotcha. I invoke Poe's law :)
I wonder why people don't make copies of these for buildings and homes.
Yep! Just about any driver board that can convert between different input formats will also have an OSD.

I’m kinda surprised people have so many questions about this. I dug up the emails. I paid $176 incl shipping/tax to zjtechhk for a B156ZAN03.4 panel, eDP cable, and a MST9U11Q1 driver board (which has DP, HDMI, and USBC inputs, eDP output, and a ribbon cable to a PCB with 4 buttons to control the OSD)

It was an awesome deal at the time, but I’m pretty sure all these components are obsolete by now.
The Epiphan AV.io HD is a thing, but it's not cheap...

You might be able to find a used Epiphan VGA2USB for not much money.
> Well the question is not just for this idea but for any idea, how do you know if a problem is big enough to be solved.

This is premature optimization. How many datapoints do you have so far?

Did you interview 50-60 of one persona yet?

There is no one answer because the detail completely lies in the specifics, which is why I asked you those questions. You seemed to have missed those questions.

> And how do to proceed when there are mixed signals when talking to customers.

There's no mixed signals. You're uncovering personas.

Each persona outputs a different but unique signal.

Segment them. Then try and resonate with 1 to max 3 personas depending on your mental bandwidth and resource ability.

By the way, how did you learn to do market research first before building a product? You're already ahead of the curve and very likely to be successful than most first time founders I've seen
>In 2022 everything is a system programming language. Next on that list is Javascript, I am sure.

Yes but cool people will write their systems software in Typescript. :)
"This app is not available for your region"

Cool thanks
This ties into the most consistent mistake EVERY manager makes - people don't change. I know of maybe 5% of people who do change, but that is so inconsistent and unpredictable that it can't be relied upon.

Managers hire "almost great" candidates and think they can affect change and get a good deal, and this NEVER works out. Any red flags on the interviews/trial period will and do persist forever. In the end, it's always the reason the person gets fired, and the company loses the time they invested into the person.

based on my experience of 10 years leading tech and marketing teams. Curious if anyone has conflicting experiences to share.
I like Markdown, but I don’t like proprietary Electron apps.
I think you ignore quite a lot of US history when you call period from 1695 up stable. US was expanding - that implies a lot of war and conflict, both internally and externally. There were also multiple notable population migrations within US. Either to new territories, or disposal of people from them, or what they call "the great migration" of african americans in the twenty century.
you should have mentioned freeboarding for off season training. It is the closest replica of a snowboard.
If Mars was habitable, sure, some people might have that option. My point is that Mars is not now habitable, will not be habitable in the lifetime of anyone alive today, and is a terrible candidate for future human habitation even if we knew how to address the huge problems with physics, logistics, and biology that make it a bad candidate today. Speculating about moving to Mars is like speculating about going back in time before the nukes, or moving to Middle Earth. It's a sci-fi fantasy and will almost certainly remain so.
> The clear goal of many firms is to dissolve the consideration of the URI or URL, with many of the previous protocols of the earlier Web forgotten. The question becomes less of “will this URL survive” and more of “will the idea of the URL survive?”

That's a great point, actually. Technologies disappear either because they are no longer used, or because they are used so often that they become part of the fabric of reality and thus ignored, like the wiring between a light switch and the bulb.
Nobody is suggesting that they didn't see it coming. The conspiracy is that they wanted it to happen.
Looks like Hacker News now allows you to add text description to link posts too. This post links to such a post.

EDIT: hmmm. Seems like it didn't work on this current post and instead put my description as a separate comment.

@dang what am I doing wrong? How did this post add a description to the link post?:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30417411
I was under the impression that RegEx was not turing complete. Is there something special about N++’s regex engine that allows this?