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Wars are about adapting to the conditions, and will continue to be.

But you go into the war with some initial set of gear and tactics, which are the starting point from which you adapt. That initial set can be more or less suitable for the war you find yourself in. There is sound wisdom in using the time before the war to try to come up with a more useful initial set.
They could but german rail is already ridiculously crowded when factoring in all the safety regulations. Automation on the speed control already lets them pack the lines pretty tightly, which may be one reason why they've removed so much rail already.

Germans, in my experience, tend to be pretty rational folks. As much as the public likes to ream the decision makers for poor choices while armed with the perfect clarity of hindsight, my guess is they've gotten to this point because all the other choices seemed worse at the time they considered them.
Like a growth Ponzi scheme
You can't comprehend Russia with western logic, but you can search for patterns in historical actions under Putin.

Russia wants to keep it's power by force in it's self claimed sphere of influence in old Soviet countries.

That motivation for military intervention for influence is widely documented through the similarities in Russia's last 25 military interventions since 1991 - https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA444-3.html .

Additionally, gas was found in Crimea which would make moving away from Russian gas much easier and they tried to reference the invasion of Ukraine to the decline of the west. Russia ( or better: Putin) obviously still lives in the USSR past, which collapsed without any military action of the west.

The invasion of Ukraine has as much to do with NATO as the invasion of Chechen and Servia had to do with NATO. The only thing NATO caused was they waited longer to actually invade and tried a gray zone invasion first ( without much success), but NATO is not the reason for invasion.

Russia's self claimed sphere of influence is, while they are losing influence constantly, just look at their military interventions in their CSTO allies. Even Orban isn't yelling to loud about preferring Russia over EU countries, although he would want to.

Post soviet countries aren't getting invaded by NATO and annexed by force. They are choosing to move away from Russia and choosing for closer ties with western countries.
Rail networks have a lot more potential for automation and electrification. It is way too underestimated.

It would be cool to see when Amazon gets into Rail.
The unseen deaths are those who are unhoused or unsheltered due to building codes causing elevated building prices. Secondary effects (for those who can afford up-to-code) include less money to spend on healthy foods, good health insurance, quality child education, and other victimized children at the hand of building codes and other regulation.

You can virtually ramp up building codes ad-infinitum, until the house is as safe as can humanly be built, if your expense is to hurt a lot of children by bankrupting families of expenses to take care of other necessities in life.
> The underlying problem was that we shifted from making something we knew people wanted, to making an ill-defined product that we hoped people wanted.

How the heck do you know what people will want, with any sort of confidence? What kind of market research/methods goe into this? How do you trust opinions from people? I'm surethere's a whole industry around this, but it seems that what people say and where people actually put their money are usually pretty different, especially if the product is somewhat "quirky".

For example, I knew many people who said they wanted an iPhone mini, and were super excited about the rumors at the time, and said they would get one. Not a single person I know, directly or not, bought an iPhone mini.

Does anyone have some insight?
"A digital master in 4K, Hollywood’s standard resolution for high-quality digital assets, cost 1,100 percent more to store than a 35mm film master. The difference for storing all of a film’s source material was even greater. An average two-hour movie shot and archived on film cost only $486 per year to store. Its 4K equivalent? A staggering $208,569 per year. The declining cost of digital storage doesn’t apply here. As technology advances and video codecs increase in quality, so too do the quantities of storage, and data migrations of assets and their backups get larger and more expensive."

That's expensive!
Can you tell us what mil tech you work on without killing us? :)
Comrade when you egregiously break your promises you cannot expect others to keep acting the same way toward you. https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/what-putin-fears-most/
If it's not AWS managed, yes.
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No, it's not relevant, because they are discussing completely different conversion metrics and at different scales. Also, your insistence that less than 1% of viewers will interact is based on the mistaken assumption that 100% of reported views represent someone who actually watched. Real life doesn't work like analytics.

About 1% of the people shown an ad (or any content) will even consciously acknowledge it, while approximately 1-3% of the remaining 1% will interact with it, and then 1-5% of that remaining group will actually buy the product. The 99% who didn't acknowledge its existence in the first place don't actually factor into anything other than how much you get charged for the ad.

The difference between the article and the OP's scenario, is that the OP already filtered the 99% and converted the rest. Now there is only one conversion left, which is to make them into paying customers, which is a much higher rate than 1% when you already have a captive audience.
Yeah, Numenta is not going anywhere. DL has taken over the serious applications a while back, and Numenta doesn't have anything really substantial to offer compared to DL.
You have to put up wires and a bunch of posts. Googling around, cost estimates are $4.8 million per track-mile [1]. At 140,000 track miles in the US that's $672 billion to electrify the railway network.

Especially if hydrogen becomes very cheap through something like generation through waste-heat from nuclear power plants, hydrogen propulsion may make more sense.

1. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/is-electrifying-the-freigh...
I was thinking more of a Burroughs 'SPO' on our B6700 - but delay lines were a common low-cost storage back then - also 'drum'
That looks really odd. $155 (minimum) and they don't tell you what you will get.

"The artist and gift will be a surprise"

Hey, if it works for them, great. I just can't see using it.
That's just like, your opinion, man.

But, seriously, I've become so accustomed to the many shortcomings of macOS UX that using anything else would be like living in a house without loose doorknobs and sloping floors. Embrace the suck.
I love AlaskaAir although I'm a bit bias given it's the only way to get there. Never had a bad experience flying with them, at least to Alaska. Don't know how their legs in the lower 48 match up.
Nominally, sysadmin for various startups, got trapped 18 years ago. Now a voice of reason and experience but still a sysadmin mostly.
Oh man I loved my Pebble! I still have it but lost the charger. Had no idea there was a project to bring them back to life.
Well, if Finder is in the folder, and you enter a search, then I see three options reading to just search in the folder. It pops up between the command bar and the folder contents.
I'm not in the market right now, so don't do it for me :)

That makes sense, I think it's the right call.
Having flown recently and seeing first-hand how people methodically repack their luggage in front of the rep or automated baggage check-in, trying to bypass weight limits and holding up everyone else, I’d say that airlines (pretty much like Starbucks) should have separate lines for people who have their s—t together.
So this explains why my flight got cancelled and then they put me on an earlier flight… twice! I had to reschedule because it went from a 9am to a 7am flight. Quite the difference.

I will have to check, but I don’t believe that I got a unique phone number in any of those emails.
Unfortunately, you cannot.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42806037/modify-canvas-f...
Trouble is that some competing approaches appeared around the same time in history and what is convention depends on what you happened to be exposed to.
Etsy can target incredibly well to show me things I want to buy....when I'm looking at one of their ads on Instagram. Their actual site recommendations? Deeply mediocre. The difference, given that I sign over a bunch of data to them either way? I might guess: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/26/21155193/etsy-advertising...
DB will pay a Taxi or Hotel in such cases. Just had them pay my Taxi home last week.
Just FYI, holding down modifiers to reveal additional functions is a common theme in macOS. In the Finder for example, try holding down option and shift while looking through menus for a few examples. Holding down option while clicking the close or minimize buttons in apps will also close or minimize all windows for that app.
That's not true zero-g. In a plane you are experiencing the force of acceleration towards Earth, which is closer to 1G than to 0G.
It’s not hard to read per se but I just can’t read it in any mind voice other than someone yelling right in my face.
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JSX (formerly JetSuiteX) does something in this vein over a pretty limited route map in the US for ~2-4x the price. It's not like international first class with beds in suites, but it's considerably roomier than domestic premium seats and it comes with some other perks like flying out of private terminals.
Er...macOS has had the ability to put two windows side-by-side in full-screen mode for a few years now. Press and hold on the green "zoom" button and you'll get side-by-side options.

It does not, and likely will never, have options for gluing two windows together and treating them as one in non-fullscreen mode. That seems like a fairly niche desire to me.
Every human made system and most every non-human system fails in some way at some point depending on the stresses put upon them.
I just visited the Museum of Flight in Seattle, where they have one of the old Concordes. I was struck by how tight and un-luxurious the cabin felt. I have only flown business/first class once, but it was definitely a lot nicer than the seats on the model I walked through.
That’s what I thought too. The cat loses its plumb vector if subject to zero g for too long. Under normal circumstances, the cat quickly reorients along the previous plumb vector.

Could be wrong, but that’s my guess.

Nice joy ride BTW.
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Yeah. It might be different on a non-US keyboard layout, though. It switches between windows of the current app, so it will only do anything if you have more than one window open in the current app.
With luck, it will never be back up.

That would be too good to hope for.
You're missing... time. Like us all. The required transition requires time. But the kind of transition you mention is by far too slow to stop climate dereliction and loss of biodiversity.

In 2025, the amount of greenhouses emitted will get the world in the following years to +1.5ºC (when compared to 1750, before the industrialization).

We are already experiencing the effects of the climate dereliction, despite being around +1.25ºC (I'd need to chech that figure). Australia's current unknown floods will be followed by a summer of fires and temperature above 50ºC. The drought in the USA is alarming etc etc.

To avoid reaching +2ºC, the world would need the multiply the current transition trend by a factor... 33.

Above +2ºC, the climate will enter into self-reinforcing effects. The Amazon forest is on the verge of becoming an savanna: such a very large forest produce its own rain. By mid-april 2022, a larger surface of Amazon forest has been burnt than during 2021, the previous highest record.

The Covid and Putin's revolting invasion of Ukraine is masking a fundamental trend: the agricultural yields are already falling almost everywhere because of climate dereliction (about 20% less the recent years). That is the true reason for the huge inflation of food prices.

We just don't have the time for that kind of slow transition in the hope that some wonderful technical breakthrough will save us all.

I'm not the one saying that: just read the 111 page of the sum-up of the IPCC reports just published. Thousands of scientists have participated. Their climate model is now well tuned. The previous reports proved to be already reliable, and even by far too optimistic.

If you believe in Science, then you can't stay in the delusion that we are doing anything near what is necessary to tackle the issue.

Believing that Science and Technology will somehow provide the breakthroughs soon enough to stay under +2ºC is at best a convenient wishful thinking, but more likely magical thinking.

Why? Because the whole subject has been worked on by thousands of scientists in the past 40 years. One can not believe in Science only when it fits one's way of life.

"The future is already here, but not evenly distributed": The solutions exist. It has been shown that their costs to the world economic growth is far cheaper than the current quasi-inaction.

If we invest massively, we are quite capable of handling it. We don't need any breakthroughs. I'm optimistic that some will occur if we focus.

But the whole thing is classic game theory situation: everybody wins if everybody cooperates, but each country will be better off doing nothing while the others pay the cost of transition.

So we do nothing. At least nothing near the acceleration by a factor 33.

Don't trust me. Read the IPCC 111 pages and make your own opinion.

Sorry for the gloomy post. I can't help myself believing in Science.
Fwiw, my org heavily relies on LP solvers in conjunction with ML to solve these problems
The first one is verbose, not version, though? Not sure if you're used to a set of utilities that doesn't intersect the ones I'm used to where -v is version. I've seen -V, though.

And then there's grep
The idea is to send a message, that Russia's behavior is unacceptable. Obviously the block isn't causing any actual harm, since people can use VPN if they need access to information about 50 year old shift registers.
Refusing to understand that half of the country voted for the candidate he opposes.

No presidential candidate in US history has ever received votes from half of the country, because voter turnout is so low. If you mean half of ballots cast, that's not true in this case either: in 2016 Trump lost the popular vote and nobody won a majority of ballots nationwide.
You are missing the part where they were accepting bitcoin as payment for cars. So how much of those gains were for Cars sold, vs inflated Bitcoin price based on Elon tweets?
With an inflationary fiat currency, people are always going to try to invent things like bitcoin to be able to do something with their money other than watch it dissolve from inflation or be forced to consume.

I don't think that means that bitcoin is going to be successful, but fiat currency is either going to become less important or more coercive as people become aware of what inflation does and try to escape it.
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I was being cheeky. I love Go and have been too busy/lazy to dive into Rust but would like to. Yes, different problem spaces but they often get compared head to head because we need to have stuff to argue over.
A cat is not a rigid body and is absolutely accelerating towards Earth, experiencing the physical effects of gravity.
The Pebble Time was great!
can you answer a noob question I've always wondered?

Is there any reason AI research has to run at fast speeds? Like, any modern learning model that you're researching with could certainly run on a million dollar gpu farm or whatever.... but it could also run on a macbook in 1000x the time, right? And isn't that enough speed to determine whether your algorithms are performing the way you expect, even if they aren't fast enough to do fun interactive stuff like realtime video or whatever?
I didn't ask if you could make Windows act like Slightly Different Windows. I asked if you could make it act like macOS. Single menu bar at the top, Alt-Tab changing applications, with another shortcut for cycling through windows of the active application, etc. Since the criticism that it was hard to make macOS act like Windows.
ALL they had to do was continue with the original idea and not get greedy.

I was a high(ish)-tier backer of the original, still got my 2 sitting in a drawer, and wore them until they wore out. I absolutely loved the idea of a MINIMAL e-paper watch with easily customisable faces and basic notifications. I’m still a fan of the idea, and would love to see more use of e-ink in smart watches. All the fans wanted was that, iterated and improved upon. Better development tools for faces, some other styles of physical watch, etc. Instead the entire brand got hand-grenaded and now we get nothing but some unsupported old e-waste.
Apple has both a sixth sense about this stuff and deep enough pockets to be wrong for quite a while before they have to give up.

If Pebble had kept true to their original design, they might have done better, or they might have just left people hungry for the Apple Watch. It's hard to tell in these scenarios, and very easy to make predictions about the past.
In my experience, the UK is culturally very similar to the rest of Europe (much more similar then we are to the US, although there is some influence there). This fact is just obscured by the language barrier.
Only for those who want to make a stink about it.
Trump kept in place the Magnitsky Act, which targeted high-ranking Russians with sanctions. His administration also put new sanctions on five Russians and Chechens over human rights abuses, and it approved lethal arms sales to Ukraine. Trump also signed a bill in August 2017 that targeted Russia’s energy and defense sectors with sanctions, and put into place sanctions that affected the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Yet somehow people accuse Trump of being Putin's puppet. Doesn't add up to me.
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I'm sure you weren't trying to mislead by sharing a cropped version of my quote which may seem more nefarious than the full sentence; however, it should be noted that the original sentence read:

> I converse here on HN because the discourse is usually a little higher than the “middle school” level that you find elsewhere on the Internet.

Rather than your edit:

> usually a little higher than the “middle school”

Edits like these don't inspire good faith discussion. Frankly, I think this thread has thoroughly outlived its useful life.
One way to do it is to start small, build something, ship it to customers, get feedback and then iterate from there. This is a bit harder with hardware, though, but not impossible. We actually built an entire smartwatch called inPulse before Pebble, sold and shipped it to 1000 early customers, then got feedback from them. This is how we learned which features to put into Pebble.
Microsoft Office has gotten better but it’s still bad on Macos. I think it’s by design.
Knowing what these companies do with any bit of data they can extract from you is plenty reason to object to KYC for all rules.

If anonymity is the sacrifice, I just won't partake in the discussion. It might reduce vitriol in discourse, but will do far more to quell debate when the cost is your career, relationships, etc.
Also, DPF. And if you're willing to use D, DPlug.
My understanding is this bill is more focused on sexual orientation and gender than it is sex ed. Both of which are topics we’ve evolved on as a culture over the last 20 years.

I don’t think kindergartners need sex ed, but I do think explaining that some kids have two moms or two dads is worthwhile at that age.
The difference is that Meta is doing the targeting on Instagram.
The decommission date gets pushed back any time it gets close I doubt it will actually be considered until there's major structural issues. The time always seems to be "when we have a commercial alternative" which is economically a pretty long ways off from the looks of it.
> red America and blue America are becoming like two different countries claiming the same territory

What about the rest of us? Most of us are not partisans fighting a distracting culture war.

First, let's set social media aside and look at traditional media - TV, papers, radio, et al. Most Americans are completely unserved by traditional media. Because it's ad-funded, ads want attention, nothing gets attention like outrage, and it's easy to outrage the partisans.

Given that, the only place we can find news (beyond sports and weather) that is not partisan bear-baiting is in emerging social media. Social media is a threat to traditional media.

Thus we have traditional media (like this article) trying to scapegoat social media, trying to finger social media for the hyper-partisan content-free hellscape that traditional media has become.
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People on corp hardware can't install third party utilities, though. You're basically saying "it's fine that this OS can't do what you need it to do, because I can customize it for my purposes". Not to mention - even if the author could install those third party utilities, now they're pulling untrusted code into a work environment and potentially exposing trade secrets to random software developers. Any IT department paying attention would not okay most of those tools. The stuff the author complains about missing is built in on Windows and Linux and is not particularly niche or complex.
The service in the NW is similarly garbage. Was completely useless between Seattle and Portland.
Disabled stay-at-home Dad of 4 kids and 4 pets over the past 7 years.

Had a conversation with my nephew last night that helped shape my hopes:

+do the final project from each of freeCodeCamp's curriculi
+start by next year doing free work for companies i like
+build skills to the point where i don"t yet charge but they pay for subscriptions that serve the projects i help code for them
+eventually start charging up to 6k max per yr while finding out what compan(ies) i work best with

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> I knew many people who said they wanted an iPhone mini, and were super excited about the rumors at the time, and said they would get one. Not a single person I know, directly or not, bought an iPhone mini.

I was one of those people, and I bought the mini. Now you know at least one person.
The conflict free part is only in-name. In practice pretty much all CRDTs implement a deterministic conflict resolution strategy.
Russian military is dependent upon rail and struggling with truck logistics.

Just wanted to point out that Western European rail investments are dual use. Large scale military operations require massive logistics and rail is a big part of that.
>- By trying to remodel stations cheaply for commerce, most stations in Germany have become unpleasant to navigate. Signage is particularly bad (compared to Japan).

That's interesting. What are the worst examples of this? I had found some Japanese stations rather labyrinthine too, especially Tokyo ones with multiple public/private systems and above/underground malls cobbled together like Shinjuku, so I'm surprised that the European experience is worse.
In Seattle there is plenty of office space that was previously residential. Seems likely that this happens everywhere. I'm sure changing it back wouldn't be too bad.