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Shared it before in a past thread. Sounds relevant here, in the context of the comments on Steve Jobs personality and their relationship...

"...This is what Steve Jobs did about the fact of how he tricked his best friend into working all night long for several days and then cheating him out of his paycheck. This proved to be only the first offense in a long litany of his penchant for pettiness and pointless cruelty.

The friend that I am talking about is Steve Wozniak, him and Jobs were working at Atari, one of the first video game consoles which revolutionized the video game market. The owner of Atari at the time was its actual founder by the name of Nolan Bushnell.

The first game that came out was “Pong,” a classic which many people remember. Due to its high success, Bushnell thought of making a sequel that would be only a single-player and call it “Breakout” in 1975.

...For this project, Bushnell was thinking of tasking Steve Jobs to be in charge and take care of the project. Jobs was considered (at the time) a low-level Atari technician with huge potential. As this game was expected to be much better than its predecessor, Jobs recruited Steve Wozniak, who was known on the market as the better engineer. ..

Jobs and Wozniak had been friends for quite some time at that point. They both were working towards the Apple 1 which would follow to become the most iconic computer around the world for four long years so they got to spend a lot of time together.

The way that Atari worked was by offering a monetary bonus for every chip fewer than fifty that was used when building a game. Wozniak was ecstatic when Jobs asked him to help with this big project.

This is when Jobs started to lie to Wozniak in order to use him for his expertise. He told Wozniak that the deadline was four days and that he had to use as few chips as possible. The truth is that Jobs was given a whole month for this project, not four days.

Jobs never told Wozniak about the bonus for using fewer chips and the four-day deadline was self-imposed by Jobs, as he needed to get back to his commune farm to help bring in the apple harvest. It is imperative to mention (for those who are not aware) that Steve Jobs came from a very poor background.

Wozniak was working for Hewlett-Packard at the time as well, so he had to balance his main job as well as this project. So he would end up going to his job in the day time and spending most of the night working on “Breakout”. The only thing that Steve did was implementing the required chips, making sure that there were less than fifty chips. Their herculean efforts succeeded, as they finished the game in four days and only using forty-five chips.

When payday came, Steve Jobs only gave Wozniak half the pay, he kept the rest of his pay as well as the bonus for himself. Wozniak only found out about this ten years later..."

https://historyofyesterday.com/steve-jobss-dark-past-55a9804...
Why shouldn't there be a 100% renewable economy? What energy inputs cannot even in principle be substituted for with renewable energy?

The reduction in fossil fuel usage needed to get to a climate-sustainable level is so large that any tolerable residuum could instead be handled by biomass.
Just to clarify, the first link is me and my teammate who developed this at https://www.ae.studio but with that said, you are correct that we didn't include the license from work we leaned on, we hadn't added any documentation to Github yet. We'll update it to reflect that.
“And then we say, China did it, we didn’t do it, China did it, and then they start fighting with each other and we sit back and watch,” [Trump] said of labeling U.S. military planes with Chinese flags and bombing Russia.

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Beyond the mentioned "lots of energy use is actually gas for us", I think you likely have a bug in your calculations. Did you calculate this based on your expenses and back into usage, or directly from usage? (Or are you saying 100W per person?).

Unless you do not own a refrigerator, or have an incredibly tiny RV-style unit (36-50W!), you probably average 100W for your fridge alone.

Charging the devices you wrote your comment with is another 10-90W (when charging), and then your router is at least 5-10W continuously. Same thing with a television or computer monitor: pretty good when idle (<5 W) but likely high when in use (30+W for an efficient monitor, but more like 150+ for a larger television even if modern).

I don't see how your average could be 100W.
Sure, that's fair. But if you use gas for all your heating and cooking, you should not smugly post on HN about how you are below average electricity usage, its so easy, and everyone else needs to wake up.
Wasn't the C64's 1541 disk drive notoriously rubbish?

Not sure I'd use it as an example of something "magic".

It cost more than the computer it came with and was almost as slow as a tape deck. For no better reason than the Commodore marketing department thought it should be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1541#Throughput_and_...

IMHO Woz is genius, Jobs was probably a genius too of a different kind but in the end it doesn't really matter.

To paraphrase Aurelius badly, you'll be lucky if anyone remembers you long after you're dead and even then they won't remember the real "you" anyway. So stop worrying about it.
If true, wouldn’t this undermine the entire psychiatric approach of behavioral cognitive therapy and ideas such as confronting one’s fears and talking through problems?
Yes, that is a very basic point, one basic reason to do queuing is that queues are buffers for uncertainty. If things are perfectly predictable, as you see on some robots, you allocate exactly what you need and no extra.

The uncertainty exists in two places though... It's not just the events coming in but also the time to process each queued event, is another source of uncertainty in the same system that can have the same effect.

The author mentions “M/M/1,” this quantifies that there is only one queue-handling process, that events come in with the sort of randomness that raindrops have (no periodicity), and that handling an event does not have any “timeouts” nor any “long tails” where once a handler has been occupied for 3 or 4 T (where T is the average time to resolve) then the prediction for how much time is remaining for them either drops to 0 (timeout) or escalates dramatically (long tail)... The exponential distribution is used, kind of to be nicely in between these, it is a model where over a time dt the handler is asked to pick a random number with success rate p=dt/T, if they pick the right random number then the event is handled, otherwise a new random number is generated, repeat ad nauseam.

The basic lessons are surprisingly transferable though. So for example traffic on the highway does not have this raindrop sort of randomness because cars kind of repel each other, they space out much more uniformly than you would have predicted on short term scales... The handling time is also nothing like this model of random guessing. Nevertheless, traffic jams still form at high utilization! And they form for a really interesting reason which is that the n handlers—lanes, we call them—have correlations between them. All these queuing models optimistically assume that a handler never stops another handler, “hey have you ever seen anything like this? where can I find that password?” etc.

But in traffic, a car can only lane change from one lane to another if both lanes synchronize speed. With a fixed ability to accelerate, this depends the amount of space between you and the next car, and the amount of space in the lane you want to switch to: as utilization increases both of these spaces drop and synchronization becomes a massive source of inefficiency.

Same happens at a company too, it is possible that an employee might spend more time waiting for meetings, and finding convenient times to schedule them, in order to synchronize two streams of work, than the work itself takes. Can be very frustrating!
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> Russians have a responsibility to protest the regime now, carrying the personal risk despite perhaps having little to no personal responsibility. Else they have the blood of Ukrainians on their hands.

Back in 2003, Americans had a responsibility to protest the Bush regime. And hundreds of thousands of us did, but it didn't do a damn bit of good. We still have the blood of over one million Iraqis on our hands.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is illegal and unjustified, but what moral grounds do Americans have to say anything about it?
The cars the GP is talking about haven't been in production for years. The Focus RS ended production in 18, while the Fiesta ST held on for another year. And I can say that '19 was the best year in recent memory to purchase a vehicle.

Cars like that are weird though. Some dealers dump them for a steep discount, since they don't sell in volume, can sit for multiple model years, and bring in a lot of tire kickers, while some lock them up in a showroom and ask 30% over market value for them.
It's not cherry picking to pick the two categories which make up the majority of half of American's spending.
Blogs? That's anecdotal evidence and is therefore completely unreliable and should be dismissed.
At least that's what we have been told every day for over a year.
Yes! Plus, great partnerships are a wonder to behold. The article quotes Woz:

> [Jobs] wasn’t really capable, engineering wise, you know, computer hardware, software

That's (almost) like Hawking saying you aren't a great physicist. I wonder how much Jobs was motivated by Woz's excellence in engineering.
>Of course this invasion put Russia back on the villain map

It's been there for years.

>As it was Ukraine was not going to join NATO anyway

I really cant fathom why people say this when they said that they wanted to join & NATO said that they wanted them to join and they were taking concrete steps toward joining.
I dug back through our design docs from when we designed this, and we largely chose not to use Cloud Spanner due to unknowns. We were more confident we could predict the read and write performance in BigTable (especially due to the constraints you get when you drop relational features).
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It’s happening in Europe, close to the Western world. So it’s understandable that Westerners care.

I’ve seen a few comments about how outrageous it is that people in places like India and Africa are not up in arms about this conflict (I’m just taking their word for it). Not so strange though if you consider their proximity and compare that (lack of) reaction to how few Westerns care about conflicts like the one in Yemen.
when i was in my 20's a drank a lot of dr pepper. I switched to diet dr. pepper just by chance and it stuck as a habit. I lost so much weight so fast i went to the doctor fearing the worst. He did the math in front of me around how much less sugar i was consuming by that switch and it all added up. i was blown away.
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No need to imagine; we used to be able to buy a second battery before manufactures started gluing them in.
Correct. I've no doubt that the new generation will also make some terrible calls thanks to lobbying being legal. I believe the environment will be much more prioritized, but we'll have to see.

However, I'm tired of silents/boomers/gen-xers making comments about and blaming millenials as if it's somehow our fault the boomers and silents in congress are out of touch. A quick look at voting demographics and the demographics of congress dispels that notion (for now, as of 2022).
Nothing guarantees anything. But the extra stuff needed to compensate for being extremely slow can often cost more than the cost not to be extremely slow.
The point is not to convince them.

The point is to:

* create noise in the telephone logbook to annoy the FSB.

* create distrust toward the FSB. This would be the result of people getting arrested for receiving phone calls from the US.
If there was a coup it was an attempted coup by Russia to control Ukraine's government to go against the popular will. Even Yanokovych was open to EU until Putin turned him against. Putin's attempt to directly dictate Ukraine policy worked on the president but the rest of the country did not bend so the leadership fled.
What I think is that you need to be mindful to decide while it's happening. It might be satisfyingly important, or it might be meaningless, just very desirable. Really no objective way to measure it. Maybe someone helped a ton of people but let down those close to them, and they end up with regret.
Does anyone care who John Galt is anymore?
Out of curiosity, what editor do you tend to use? Commenting has been a single shortkey for me for so long that I had to remind myself that CSS doesn't support something like the // syntax because my normal editing flow is to either start typing or select text and hit Command+/.
Ask HN: Why isn't Scheme Shell (scsh) developed anymore?
While looking for bash scripting alternatives, I found scsh (https://scsh.net/). There's a somewhat newer continuation on GH (https://github.com/scheme/scsh).

Does anyone know the story of scsh? Did no one use it? Guile seems to be the latest option for shell scripting with Scheme, but scsh looks quite nice.
As true in 1888 as now, Froude: "Each age would do better if it studied its own faults and endeavoured to mend them, instead of comparing itself with others to its own advantage."
It seems that you can't just be a US company hiring FTEs from other countries for the most part. You either need to hire contractors or setup a foreign subsidiary.
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This is off-topic but I instantly started reading the article in Surmas voice. I mean this as a compliment. Surma and Jake's HTTP203 on YouTube is superb content.
> Furthermore how will this work for emergency situations when power is out for days

As someone who has been through multiple emergency situations where power has been out for days, a gasoline engine doesn't help the average person a ton past their current tank of gas in their car. Most people don't have gas generators, they don't have a 50gal drum of petrol in their garage, and if there was a disaster big enough to wipe out power for your home for days chances are a lot of gas stations are either without power or often without much gas to sell you.

Meanwhile, if you had a decent solar install and if whatever calamity took out power for days didn't also destroy your panels, you could potentially recharge your car if its still sunny out. EV + solar could mean you can be self-reliant on your transportation energy instead of relying on trucks making it into town, delivering it to the few distribution points still operational, and hoping you were one of the ones that made it after waiting in hours long lines. Obviously several big if's on that one.

While there is definitely a push for more EVs to be sold, I can't imagine there's really that many people pushing for truly 100% EV only on the road anytime soon. Even if 90%+ of passenger cars are EVs there will still be a place for petrol/diesel. I'm overall pretty skeptical on battery-powered long haul trucks largely due to trade offs of energy storage mass vs payload mass when thinking max weight ratings reducing the effective amount of payload per trip. Emergency services vehicles are expected to be pretty self-sufficient and carry massive amounts of energy with them for potentially long periods of time, diesel and petrol is way more energy dense even if you're only getting 30-40% efficiency in getting the energy out of it. So this "all move to EVs" is really more like all the sedans and crossovers, a decent chunk of medium-sized vans/intra-city trucks, and maybe the daily police patrol cars not necessarily all the heavy trucks used by emergency services.

Who knows though, maybe we'll see some bigger breakthroughs and quick field-deployable solar + battery or nuclear emergency service base stations will become a thing in the future which could mean after an initial truck delivery that field station becomes power self-sufficient which would be nice as that's one less thing to worry about logistics-wise. Otherwise you end up needing the constant supply of fuel to keep those emergency services operational after a disaster which can be challenging.
> Counter example: Tom standardized a bunch of services... and it worked! Everything is easier and more efficient now.

I’m sorry, but that isn’t really a counter point unless you have some cases to back it up.

In my completely anecdotal experience standardisation never really works. I say this as someone who’s worked on enterprise architecture at the national level in Denmark and has co-written standardisations and principles on how to define things from common building blocks.

The idea was that something like a journal of your health can be defined as a model that can be used by everyone who ever needs to define a journal for health data. And for some cases it works well, it lets thousands of companies define what a “person” is as an example and which parts are the person and which parts are the employee and so on, and it lets them exchange data between systems.

Until it doesn’t. Because all of the sudden an employee is two different things depending on what time of the day it is, because a Nurse has different responsibilities while patients are awake, in some hospitals, and not in others. But because the “standardisation” doesn’t account for this, 50 years of enterprise architecture in the Danish public sector is yet to really pay off.

Some of our best and most successful public sector projects are the ones that didn’t do fanatical standardisation but build things with single responsibilities so that they could easily be chained together to fit a myriad of unique needs.

Now, I’m not against standardisation in any way, but sometimes it just doesn’t make sense and sometimes it does. The issue is that the standardisation approach tends to begin before anyone knows which situation you are actually in.
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This is nothing new, it's a defect of humanity that has existed forever. It's also a problem that has been solved through the scientific method and peer review.

It goes against our nature, so it's a skill that needs to be learned and practiced. This means that the average person isn't going to have those skills, and even people with those skills aren't all going to be experts.

What is new is that the internet is leading every random idiot to believe that they're an expert on everything. So finding a link to a "study" with a title that sounds like it supports your point (without even reading it, and definitely without critically evaluating it) is seen as doing research.

> all I'm trying to say is that I have decided not to think in the way you just did e.g. "where's that study which supports what I already believe?". It doesn't seem like a good tactic anymore

You might be victim to what I described above. Finding a study that already supports what you believe was never a "good tactic". In fact, calling it a tactic makes it seem as if it's an adversarial thing where there's a winner and a loser. It's not. Facts and truths aren't partisan (ignoring them is)
I immediately disqualified this as a viable package manager after I found its distributions were modified from the original sources in some cases.

That’s just unacceptable.

It is otherwise so very close…
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> This wrong classification, going back to ignorant viewpoints of the early-mid 1900's

It "goes back" to Nixon needing a tool to criminalize the anti-war and racial justice movement.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich...

By the time Nixon came out with that policy, multiple commissions around the world had concluded that pot was largely harmless and should be decriminalized. People in his own administration - who he ordered to come up with a "damn strong statement" - concluded the same, infuriating him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_policy_of_the_Richard...

Reagan, however, was the one who really ratcheted up the criminalization aspect: https://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11325750/nixon-war-on-drugs
"we tested the hypothesis that auditory white noise, when presented during the encoding of scene images, enhances subsequent recognition memory performance and modulates activity within the dopaminergic midbrain"

Important highlight is that primary task (of remembering images) did not use (or need to use) auditory sense.
You'd have to stick with vegetables and fruits, but even then there's debate over what is truly healthy. Is corn healthy? Is wheat healthy? Are carrots healthy? They're all plants after all, however... All three are high in carbohydrates and would be considered "unhealthy" from a keto-perspective.

The best bet here: don't listen to one source of information. There are literally thousands of experts on diet, health, and nutrition, no one of them is totally correct. Find what you can tolerate, what you can stick to; eat mostly plants, and not too much.
As a long time marijuana user I am leaning towards that view and I've ceased using it but largely "permanent" is wrong and its the same thinking that lead to war on drugs.

In large doses, it can bring about negative effects especially in people with ADD but the bad parts are almost always gone after cessation.

I don't think it

It's that when you are in your teens and you start smoking marijuana, the risk is big but I see many grey markets happy to sell you marijuana to people still going to high school.

I find both sides obnoxious, the Singaporeanesque fear mongering about "permanent damages" based on curated and manipulated data and the Western panacea attitude that it be used for everything.

Trying to tie lead exposure to marijuana is just asinine.
>Why would it matter how they do it under the covers?

It doesn't really matter, I suppose I just got nerd-sniped recalling the details of Spanner's internals and their (somewhat superficial) relevance to the issues of timekeeping mentioned in the blog post :)
IR is nowhere close to the highest bill rate infosec consulting you can do. Not even in the ballpark of it.
It's far more commonly/correctly called "off-shoring" rather than "out-sourcing" (which is going to a third-party supplier).
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I personally would wait.
Go to the table and sort by (R+M)/2 . All European fuels have a value of 90+. The vast majority of USA fuel is at 87.
Interesting, they are at least honest about it...

I've always wondered how good nation states are at converting the speech to text. In my experience working with stuff like Twilio it can be a challenge to do it at scale when trying to identify individual speakers then generating a screenplay like output.
It's not complicated: it's wasting an irreplaceable resource (fossil fuel) and a difficult-to-replace resource (CO2 safe capacity), in large quantities, while at the same time everyone else is being asked to reduce their consumption.

It often costs more to not flare, which isn't quite the same kind of "wasteful", and sometimes it is necessary for safety reasons. But mostly it happens because gas is a "cheap" byproduct of production of other fuels.
We did consider sharding PostgreSQL and opted for something that would be fully managed for us to minimize our management overhead. Managing sharded databases can be complicated business and that wasn't something we wanted to take on if we could avoid it.