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There was some talk about Vanced developers starting their own NFT, which miffed Google as they were profiting from something they never owned.
I think there are plenty of good things made out of plastic. Legos never break, for example.

Particle board furniture is annoying. You scuff off the veneer, and the item is essentially ruined. Wood is "self healing" in the sense that scratching it exposes more wood, so it doesn't look as terrible.

Personally, I've found software to be the worst thing about modern devices. A long time ago, I bought a terrible Tiertime 3D printer. It doesn't accept gcode from the computer, so you have to slice models using their proprietary app, and it's absolutely horrible. Requires registration before use, doesn't work at all. I used it once, was disgusted with the software (being unable to slice a model more complicated than a cube), and put the thing in the box with the goal to return it. For various reasons that never happened. Three years later, I decided I was tired of looking at the box and can always use another 3D printer, so I did a "brain transplant". I replaced their proprietary logic board with an open source one (Duet 3 Mini 5+). Now the printer works great. (Before the project was done and I was getting my bearings on the internals, I was appalled at the shortcuts they took. Sheet metal instead of extrusions. Heated bed connected to the power supply with flatflex cable, hotend connected with a ribbon cable, 19V power supply instead of 24V just for a tiny bit of extra savings on inductors. But honestly, the design is fine, it was just their software that made it unusable. I learned a lot about cost reduction by taking that thing apart, and I'm impressed how good of a job they did making it cheap without actually making it work badly. The ABS enclosure is also top notch, some of the best injection molding I've ever seen on a $300 product. No way you could make something that good yourself for the price of the whole machine.)

I've also had some good repair experience on modern, cheap, made-in-China electronics. I have a Siglent oscilloscope, and one day, one of the knobs locked up. I resigned myself to just never using that channel again, but on a 2 channel oscilloscope there aren't really channels to spare. Knowing I wasn't going to find $10,000 laying around for a proper instrument that would have good encoders, I begrudgingly opened it up. Everything was held together with screws, and I had the front I/O board out in a half hour. Desoldered the broken encoder, soldered on a random encoder from my parts bin, put everything back together, and ... perfectly working oscilloscope. It wasn't unrepairable, it was merely uneconomical to repair. If I was writing software instead of repairing the 'scope, I could have just bought a new one. But it was some Saturday night at 3AM when I was too tired to do anything except watch crappy YouTube videos, which nobody will pay me hundreds of dollars to do. So it ended up being quite economical.

I forgot where I was going with this, but basically if you can open something up, today's manufacturing is as good as any manufacturing in the past. Someone that wants to repair or mod, can. (Until you run into glue. Oh how I hate glue.)
> causes T-Mobile to lock the phone to the T-Mobile network (which is illegal, since the user hasn’t entered into any service agreement with T-Mobile

I'd check the fine-print on your Google contract. It's probably spelled out in there. Say what you will about Google, their legal team usually covers all the bases.
If what he says is true, then legally, the issue is with Google. It is Google he had the contract with. The contract allowed Google to terminate his data service, which they did. However, it is Google to which he pays his money and with which the contract exists. The fact that under the hood they use T-Mobile, doesn't matter.

I was tempted to switch, but now. No. Staying far and wide away. Not for the locking, but the terrible customer support.
https://vercel.com/support/articles/legacy-plans-deprecation
5 years ago I used Google Fi and it was just awful. I bought a Nexus 5x on a Google Fi deal. Fi was super unreliable, customer service was dumpster fire garbage, and multiple hardware issues with the Nexus 5x and the sim card for whatever reason. There were even recalls and class action lawsuits with the 5x and the 6p that I missed out on. Not at all surprised that Google Fi is still terrible.
> The person I was speaking with via a chat had no solutions to my problem but was creating a bug report for the problem and asking for lots of details to fill out the report.

That would have been nice. The people I interacted with were not empowered to write bug reports (or chose not to), and suggested the community forums.
It sounds like those patients were in a very nice calm place. During my K infusions (30-50mg/hr for 7 days) for chronic neuropathic pain I was in a single room in a hospital. There was enough to see and hear that the mind took them and ran with them. I had a fight with a shower curtain because it said I wasn't clean yet. I had conversations with my toothbrush and hairbrush. It took 24 hours for my daughter's reporting that a puppy had died to make sense.

And I'm not drug naive by a very long shot. On my 2nd infusion there was an older gentleman across the hall from me who had never had anything stronger than scotch whiskey. He was not having a good time at all.

7 days falling in and out of the K-hole while hallucinating is not as much fun as it sounds.
> how much better it is when you have actual control over which parts of your program are JITed

Can you elaborate? What’s the advantage of controlling which parts are jitted?
Both the Americas and Eur-Asia seem to have independently invented agriculture, and it didn't seem to lead to a technological explosion until looong afterwards.

Selective breeding was not required for early agriculture. That came later. I'm sure agriculture started with "hey we like strawberries, strawberries grow from seeds, let's plant the seeds and have more strawberries" for each of the plants they gathered.
Hah not really.. I had already read your canned reply by that time. But I guess it was a combo of my lack of imagination and you not wanting to be constrained/havent fleshed out the details etc. Now, thinking about it, I can imagine a cloud sandboxed IDE interface— like repl.it. The tricky part, how do you interface with a edge/client device. Maybe your compiler emits (special) “wasm” or something.. (you could ship a docker but thats still another moving part — heres where the gitlab-like hosting comes in?) ..pretty sure my wanking here wont help you that much though lol
> it looks like you’ve been predominantly using Fi abroad over the past 3 months

I used my Fi SIM and international roaming continuously outside the US for 13 months over 2020/21 and never received a message like this or had my service cut. Makes me wonder if I just slipped through the cracks in their detection or something.
Foundations change (tensioned slab, etc) and water inside of houses (copper vs pvc vs PEX vs lead). Electrical is even in frequent flux under those timescales. Insulation as well.

Very little stays consistent…
I'm aware of that (and that I can create a filter this way) but I'm saying that there are strong indicators that hint towards spam. That being a very obvious one. I'm trying to say that there's obvious single that a basically ML classifier should be able to catch onto and thus questioning what Google is doing if they can't catch these things (one doesn't even need to read the email).

I have also tried using the email+feed@gmail.com to create filters but companies have mostly caught on and are stripping that. So the dots an pluses are not nearly as useful as they used to be.
The Pi Pico reinvigorated my love of tinkering with electronics. I can hack my way through C on an Arduino (and would probably still use it for any serious deployment that I didn't expect to turn into a big community effort) but for standing up quick proof of concepts, embedded python is outstanding. Incredible for $4.

These newer compatible boards being released are awesome.
No my issue is exactly that the browser is promoting a moral view.

You are somewhat right on a meta level: I think a browser should promote the moral view that it shouldn't promote any moral view in particular.
Conversely there are lot of things that are expensive and work very badly. "Designer anything" as for example, designer light fixtures. I've had terrible experiences with these.
Google is turning into a complete sh*tshow across seemingly all product lines. Aside from Ads (I mean Search) I can't think of anything that hasn't fallen into disrepair or been EOL'd.
In other words, 90% of everything is crap, both then and now. And thanks to Lindy's Law, you're usually better off buying something old than something new. But that's not how most people think :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
The coke bottles themselves are amazing too. I used to go to school with a reusable bottle filled with milk. Those cylindrical lunch bottles for kids were absolutely horrible. They leaked half the time, spoiling my bag and notebook. If you dropped them they would break because they were hard plastic. The rubber ring that was supposed to stop it from leaking would degrade quickly and start to smell funny. Those things cost as much as 20 bottles of coke, and an empty coke bottle is a vastly superior product in almost every way!
One of the issues with how it was handled was the handwavy and contradictory information that many governments and public health czars circulated: that handwashing is most important, that masks are effective or not effective or only some kinds are, that the lockdown will be "two weeks to slow the spread" and so forth.

It was the public health equivalent of "take two asprin and call in the morning". While there were successes for sure, clear and consistent communication was not among them.
It really depends on what you mean by "should be able". If you mean "I would expect it to be physically possible to implement something like this", then obviously. If you mean "I think manufacturers should design phones in a manner that allows this"... that one is not so obvious to me.
Browsers today are massive projects to maintain. They're basically entire OSes and software suites at this point. The days of a browser that can be maintained by 2 guys and updated once every 16 months and still be decent are long gone.

That said, I can recognize that developing and maintaining a browser is a massive undertaking while also acknowledging a project taken a turn for the worse. A lot of software these days has weird priorities (most involving cramming more ads in).
That’s not how it works
Here's a brand new one https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-iphone-11-with-64gb-memor...
The American peoples split off from the Asian peoples 25,000 years ago, and are the same intelligence today.

That would seem unlikely unless they were the same then as today.
A bit of a woo-woo aside but I've been trying to practice more gratitude thinking in my daily life and the grocery store is an easy place to be reminded of how good we have it.
Slightly related. I changed my default browser just today back to Safari. In Firefox, I would usually click the first two items on the home page which would be photopea or reddit. Today, they put 2 sponsored items for Amazon and Trivago instead and I accidentally clicked the amazon one without realizing because that first item was supposed to be Photopea. That was enough to piss me off.

https://i.imgur.com/s7NIfCX.png
How is gaslighting relevant here?
The example week is quite concerning. She’s called multiple times for things that have no impact or importance. That needs to be fixed immediately.

My company has strict rules on what is allowed to escalate to on-call and the SLAs to handle that alert. It had to be breaking our overnight batch cycle or we’re not getting up. Brittle processes are stamped out immediately and management backs us up.
I’m also from a former British colony. What have the romans ever done for us? https://yandex.com/search/?text=What+have+the+romans+ever+do...

Perhaps read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> It really doesn't have a place there.

Where is the correct place for this "strange note"?

I think you are attaching some message to the author that wasn't there, labeling it as "strange". It was a conscious decision by Apple during a presentation that is ostensibly one long advert. The goal is for people to talk about their products and their brand and their "image". Goal achieved because here we are.
> strawberries grow from seeds

You just jumped right over the bit that is deeply obvious to us, but not at all obvious to somebody who doesn't have any societally ingrained knowledge of how plants reproduce.
Those are used phones you're looking at. If you checked the reviews you will see that "not really unlocked" is a common complaint on top.

If you go look at their new inventory even if you "activate today" you still need to select a carrier.
3 months.
When Gateway Owned Amiga
In practice it means the mix of Li-6 and Li-7 in your coolant pipes has to capture more than half of the neutrons emitted, and not too many of the slow neutrons released in intermediate reactions get stolen.
I think these sorts of failures of 'common sense' are common among people who have studied economic theory. Economic theory often does a decent job at describing steady states: where the asymptote will eventually land, but does a very poor job of describing the chaotic middle steps, IMO.

If you chop a 10 huge trees down in a forest, an economist would tell you "There should be 10 300-year old trees here". That may be true in 300 years, but the procession of species in the 300-year interim will be much more interesting, and understanding that tells you much more about ecology than knowing the eventual result. And the forest may not last 300 years before conditions change so significantly that it invalidates the prediction.

Similarly, the efficient markets hypothesis really breaks down in the modern era, because market conditions don't ever experience an unperturbed steady state. Technology, politics, availability of expertise, and shifting social norms rearrange the foundations more frequently so equilibrium is never reached.

Any long-term theoretical predictions on quality or efficiency of CRT monitors or horseshoes or fondue pots converging to an efficient ideal state were nonsensical and doomed from the start: the market conditions around them changed faster than the market is able to adapt.
https://terrastruct.com/
I noticed on a second read, that the article jumps between one student and two students. It would be tough to go through fact checking and editing and for that confusion to remain. Anyways, I think you nailed it - I don’t trust the article.
The mobile app features shouldn't be related to whether you're using their router/modem, or whether you have it in bridge mode with your own router. Which features are you referring to?

I actually switched away from Shaw due to my dissatisfaction with their router/modems. Their modems are all have obnoxiously high power draws (active cooling required?!), can't have wifi entirely disabled even if you use your own access point, and all use the trashy[1] Intel PUMA chipsets. Switched to TekSavvy using Shaw last-mile infrastructure so I can use my own modem and chipset. (And support TekSavvy's lobbying efforts.) Losing access to the Shaw hot spots was a bit of a pain, but for me, it was worth it.

[1] https://approvedmodems.org/bad-modems/
This is the correct answer - Apple can unlock and may even do so - and if not there are darker methods of doing the unlocks.

Not sure I wouldn’t try it for a $1,100 brick …
I switched back to Safari. In Firefox, I would usually click the first two items on the home page which would be photopea or reddit. Today, they put 2 sponsored items for Amazon and Trivago instead and I accidentally clicked the amazon one without realizing because that first item was supposed to be Photopea. That was enough to piss me off.

https://i.imgur.com/s7NIfCX.png
Derision is not the same as criticism. I was referring to the comment,

> Web developers are interested in the features that are widely supported. "Being first" helps no one.

which I read as expressing contempt - the very definition of "derisive".
Not yet. We are working on it.
I agree, I think University in it's current form has been more about being able to efficiently cram as many students into programs as possible and keep pumping out the degrees. The goal no longer seems to be too focused on the education itself. I so often am seeing my local universities take people by the boatload in areas that have very little jobs. 100's will graduate with degrees that barely help them and have almost no jobs available to them. What they were taught is so fact/figure based that there is little practical skills they can apply to real life. So many people I find will go and take courses at the local colleges after to make themselves actually hirable. In Canada I believe our "colleges" are equivalent to community colleges/trade schools in America just for context.

I did a minor in psychology and so many classmates went into things like a 2 year program in HR administration at the local college. Because their degree simply led nowhere. Unless they wanted to continue and get into some highly competitive masters programs there was little in the career prospects.

And then I find Universities in general have been suffering from a lot of admin bloat.

I got off on a bit of a tangent here, but overall I think Universities have been ending up going in the wrong direction. Online learning has made the problem of raw memorization for testing purposes an even more prevalent issue. And instead choosing to test using different/better methods, educational institutions would rather opt to keep using raw memorization while adding privacy invasive programs to monitor students.
Put the product managers who prioritize new stuff over bug fixes on PagerDuty if you really want stuff fixed for real.

It's not like devs choose what to work on & prefer the 70% solution before moving onto the next demand..
Mostly knowledge workers. Remote work already reducing potential impact.
Exactly. I can't imagine how expensive a computer chip should be if the process isn't optimized / streamlined.

And for kitchenware and dinningware, we still get decent quality for a still rather cheap price. Of course as the article stated it's not easy to determine which one with decent quality, however if customers only aim for the cheapest one of course it won't be good.
They're cell phone carriers. They're going to want as much control as possible regardless of how many engineers and customers whine about it.
I'm pretty sure most of Stripe is non-Rails Ruby, for one prominent example.
How could they fake the receiving end of the call of a legit precinct number without some massive resources lol?
The author purchased a 12 Max, where is that to buy unlocked? All you've found is an out-of-stock older model.
Seems par for the course of human history no?
How do we know

A) You aren't part of the scam. (Including the possibility your HN account was stolen)

B) You haven't been fooled by the scammer as a first step.

For what it's worth my suggestion would be focus on getting home first (contact embassy) and then contact a lawyer to see if you can use the courts to force a resolution from Google.
Yes, I wish I could replace the seat cushion in my chair. That’s literally the only thing wrong with it.
Exactly my point, they'll trot Facebook out as a defense of their App Store model just like they did here. PWAs from the beginning would have prevented Facebook from collecting data for the last decade in the first place, but that's not a solution Apple would allow.
Pretty much all cars have been relatively safe since the mid-late 90s. We're deep in diminishing returns land with today's vehicles that have just kept piling on increasingly pointless crap making them heavier and more costly for little if any tangible benefit.

And you've ignored the substantial cost of comprehensive insurance, required by the lien holder when you buy a car you can't afford using rented money.
Seems fine with me. Fast food is pretty horrible and the worst part are the employees. Let them do other, more interesting jobs.

I once ordered a Big Mac and the employee forgot to put in the meat. Someone did that. They put it in the bag and handed it to me. When I returned it, no one apologized, some other employee shrugs and went back and got another one.

The service will be much better with robots. And the remaining employees can be paid more, thus be smarter and happier.
> Agriculture isn't hard to invent

Alright, go find a wild grass or vegetable and turn it into something resembling a modern staple crop or vegetable.
> Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, it is also likely to have a longer remaining life expectancy.

Makes sense!

I was also thinking there's a related rule - something worth buying used has proven itself to not be crap.
React Native + Next.js definitely has appeal to me. However, I'm not sure how future proof this API is. Unless I'm missing something, it looks like it locks you into data fetching at component render time. Facebook have been working hard in recent years to move away from that (<Suspense />) and routing libraries like React Location (https://react-location.tanstack.com/) offering asynchronous routing APIs seem like more promising approaches long-term.
As a disclaimer(I work at Best Buy and) we don’t sell phones unlocked unless they are refurbished which tend to be much older models so something does seem a miss slightly.
U.S. Sewer Data Warns of a New Bump in Covid Cases
If I remembered correctly Rails originated the concept of an opinionated framework, and everybody else copied it to some extent. Yet it's the only platform that the author disses. Maybe this has something to do with the suspicious stuff that happened in the Rails community a while back.
> First, there's no evolutionary pressure to minimize pollution.
Sort off, more accurately we can generally deal with the 'pollutants' that nature general produces, rather than relatively novel substances like plastic. Hence I used the term 'least'

>science can ever match for running an entire living creature, that's not what lab meat is doing.

It begs the question, why it is being done? If it's not as good or better in terms of nutrition. One can certainly go down a rabbit hole of trying to define what is good or better is. My guess is that in terms of nutrition it would be extremely hard to beat ( despite what vegans claim). Evolutionary reasons at play here.
I'd never use Strava as my aggregator. I pipe all my Activity into Apple Health and then push the ones I want to be on Strava from there.

It seems that Strava agrees with me - which is a bit odd.
Yeah I was actually pretty surprised. I totally expected to get sent a link to their Q&A and be basically told "goodluck". But they stuck with me for quite awhile trying to figure something out.
Japanese company Serendix is 3D-printing houses in less than 24 hours
I can’t tell whether you’re being sarcastic.
Yes, which is ironic because python is the language with a lot of magic syntax compared to Ruby. Ruby gives you blocks which you can do a lot of powerful things with, while python creates a magic syntax for many of those use cases (with, decorators, list comprehensions, etc).
It’s not unusual. They decide that they don’t want to do business with you anymore. It can be included in their TOS that pre-arbitration is mandatory. By you going directly to civil courts you are breaching their TOS which is a reason for termination.