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I think an issue for me that prevents me from collecting DVD’s, to; say - collecting CD’s - is that while a CD from the 1980’s is pretty much the best quality of audio you can still get today, DVD’s unfortunately suffer from an issue where the SD quality has aged very poorly, and the difference in resolution and image quality is insanely noticeable on, especially 4K, TV’s.

Of course, since CD’s are uncompressed audio, it doesn’t matter if you play them on the most modern sound systems, they’re still going to sound great.

Streaming allows me to find a nice balance between quality and bandwidth, unfortunately while DVD’s are neat for bonus features, the quality unfortunately makes it rather unpalatable on even semi-modern (1080p) TV’s.
Unless you live in one of those ultra progressive cities in Northern Europe that close their city centers to gas cars, then you can go anywhere with a gas car too, at a much lower price point and at whatever hour you want, plus you'll have way more material around you (steel, alluminium, leather, wood) on your way there, and decent interiors too.

At the end of the day the purchase of an EV comes down to fear of gas stations (unlikely) or virtue signaling towards self and others (South Park did a whole episode on this)

The third option is cult membership.

It will make sense in 2030 or so if the political climate stays the same and governments keep their promises to increase their share of the tab, taking even more weight off the consumer shoulders. But for the time being it's early, and being early equals being wrong.
Isn't this an oxymoron? i.e. the second enough techies converge in the same location is the same second it transforms from a rural community into a suburb
> So are you suggesting that some poor people have the wrong interests on certain issues and they need to fix that? Which issues specifically?

Here I meant that often times issues are raised specifically as race issues, when really you can make the issue more inclusive and get better traction. For example, Black Lives Matter. While I can understand wanting to make the focus on race, it is hard to get traction on that beyond lip service. But if you make it about police accountability in general -- you suddenly find that you get much broader support across the board. And while there may be some nuance that you can't capture with this, you'll find that you'll still make more overall progress even as it applies to Blacks.

The same applies for just about any issue related to poverty. If you make it about race, it becomes divisive. If you make it about just helping anyone in poverty then it has much more general appeal.

Raising all boats is important. It's also important, and maybe this is where DEI's most important role can be, to track that some classes of boats aren't being systemically left behind -- and adjust policy, not to benefit specific groups, but to make sure all groups are benefitting (within some degree of proportionality).
> I'd guess that the anti-male discrimination is a fairly weak barrier to men who really want those jobs.

Based on what? For example, my wife and I have hired au pairs for many years. There are some men in the program, but almost no families will hire them. We certainly wouldn't. I'd imagine lots of care-adjacent fields are like that.
And you might be able to DIY right now but once you've had one accident that reduces mobility or, let's say, gumption to tinker, all this can become a burden.

I have this image of the Father in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, harping on his friends not taking care of their BMW motorcycle, letting it heat too much and not checking on it at every stop, while he's watching his Japanese model like a hawk, looking at temperature, doing mechanics on the road and so on. He's quite flustered, and condescending, saying they're not comfortable with the technology and the technological world, that they could live with a leaky faucet and not care because they can't fix it themselves. He's calling them 'romantic' and even when saying he understands how they see the world, still comes of a bit 'this is a bad state of affairs'. I used to agree with him.

I'm a tinkerer, I love gadgets, I can handle imperfect, I'm not afraid to drive my e-cargo with finicky not-fully-working brakes and 'you need to use it just right' stuff instead of bringing them to the shop or doing the big repair. I can repair but I usually also understand enough to know it can wait. That's me. Same in the house, I manage, I repair, I workaround while waiting for the thing to really break (money is tight, etc) and can live with imperfect stuff and have patience when things break down.

Then my spouse broke her knee. I had to handle my 3yo twin girls alone. The house. Twice the chores. The triple workload, while still doing productive work and trying to handle the first lockdown... The disabled partner in need of help for everything, and every hour or two every night in need of ice or pain relief. Utterly tired, sleepwalking...

My tinkering life stopped right there. I need stuff to work even when the world is falling down, I'm dead tired. No firmware update in the middle of anything, no crash while bathing the kids, no fucking reboot during a wash cycle that I needed to finish and set to dry before going to sleep at 4am to wake up at 6. You need things that absolutely work 100% of the time, just in case you're not able anymore.

So, like one other commenter said: something augmenting basically working stuff is the bare minimum. Mechanical switch is the most robust, have it working even if the system is ripped out. Electromechanical switches under your hand and display on the dashboard, in cars and not the damn crashing 17inch flat screen. No fucking software between me and the essential life support stuff. Have fun over that but make it fall back on 'what we had before' without my intervention.
On Snapchat it’s extremely easy to take a quick photo and send to your friends. Open snap, take photo, edit photo (if you want) and select one or many friends or groups. Doing the same in any other messaging app is slower and more complicated. For me this is the killer feature.
Netflix used to be an unlimited dvd rental service. It turned into the same thing without the mail step, so of course we stopped using it. I think if we had known what streaming would look like today, a lot of people including myself would have held on tighter.
Migrating your Azure Functions to run in an isolated process
This is smart summon, a feature you should rather not use on a highway.
are you saying obstacle avoidance is impossible with multiple cameras (yes probably not as robust)? Is it not possible to tell the difference between an image artifact / shadows and actual solid object?
I'm gonna go ahead and assume that the constant time between each switch was part of the message.
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Windows is not great for NodeJs based dev stacks, which are very common for web development these days. Because JavaScript developers tend to write their development tools in JavaScript.

NodeJs is not great on windows because the packages/modules model uses many tiny files and the Windows filesystem, NTFS, is extremely slow for this kind of load. Another problem is compiling C/C++ NodeJS dependencies on windows. It’s possible but few people cares about it and it’s often a source of issues. And the last issue are the windows specific bugs in various packages.

The community that write the nodejs packages kinda doesn’t care about windows, and has no reasons to since WSL.
> I could buy a motorcycle/scooter and gear for similar money.

Sure, purchase price, but not cost to own.

Don't forget the total cost to own. Gas, Oil, Oil changes, license, registration, insurance, etc. Also exercising while commuting makes it a daily activity, doesn't require a gym membership, and can save you a few hours a week of trying to get exercise elsewhere.
You can expand this to pleasure-seeking in general. Narcissism is central not just in the proliferation of identity markers but of micro-celebrities, micro-genres, fandom communities, DTC + targeted advertising, a whole bunch of things that make it hard to thrive unless you treat yourself as the main character. There's that self-care meme with the text that goes something like "Sorry but I don't have the capacity to help you with your breakdown, can you reach out to someone who's emotionally available?". Advertising, the revolt against organized labor, and the financialization of the economy have all come together, knocked down a ton of load-bearing dominoes in our society, and interacted with the media landscape in a way that's eroded any tangible sense of community and made people incredibly self-interested, fearful, reactive, and unable to form an inner life that gives one the strength to give and accept real love and criticism
Travelers was great! I would have loved another couple seasons!
Hah, I like how this has one of the main issues I have with carousels, not enough time to read a slide before transition.
Bizarre: persumably she thought the comics were bad for her child, however they are okay for another child?
Aggravating edge cases: you use the feature in an environment where not even 0.01% (optimistically) of drivers will drive
I have a bachelor's in Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and several of my courses covered how computers work in detail!

- ECE 190 and ECE 290 covered basic programming, logic gates, and the basics of software processor architecture.

- ECE 391 (one of the hardest courses in the school) covered x86 assembly and operating system design. The capstone project for the course was to build a simple OS with terminal input.

- ECE 411 covered processor architecture in detail, and how a modern x86 processor is built.

There should be courses from other universities that cover the same topics. Here's some similar courses I found on MIT's OpenCourseware platform.

- Computation Structures covers logic gates and other standard electronic constructs. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-004-computation-structures-spr...

- Operating Systems Engineering covers fundamentals of operating system design: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-828-operating-system-engineeri...

Best of luck!
LOL - I snorted ...

Maybe they can 'pivot' in a new direction :-)
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Ah, yeah. That makes sense.
Using the pronoun that someone demands rather than the correct pronoun for the person’s sex can contribute to material harm for others. You’re trying to be nice, but, as often happens, you are contributing to injustice in doing so.

Lia Thomas’ acceptance by the officials in charge as a woman swimmer has harmed an entire generation of actual female swimmers. Calling him “she” contributes to the pretense that he’s a woman, and helps to legitimize the injustice against these athletes.
Carousels need to die the same way <marquee> did.
Yeah that's a challenge. Last article I read about people "fleeing" San Fransisco was very vague until they mentioned a family who moved to a "rural community".

Later they mentioned where they moved it was ... it was the suburbs. Very much not rural.

Where I live there's a farm down the road, that doesn't make it rural either.
The author is sarcastic, but "being able to tell people in Marketing/Senior Management that their latest idea is on the Home Page" without interfering with the homepage is a significant business need.
I think the value in regular blood tests is to get an idea of what normal values are for you specifically. For some diseases/conditions the blood levels have such a big range that it is more useful to know the delta.

We hardly ever measure the “good” or stable cases so when we start testing stuff when we are ill there is very little data on what is normal or even normal for you.

Ive heard of cars where due to family history someone preemptively screened on certain blood values. When those changed they knew something was up, even though the value was still within normal range it was up 100x for them.
It's also misleading because it has 8 cores and each of them has 2048 l2 TLB entries. Altogether they can cover 64MiB of memory with small pages.
We’re not going to use up all the sunlight and the US uses less water than it did in the 60s (and emits less CO2 per year than it did in the 2000s). That includes offshoring it too.

Degrowth has no good evidence for it because it’s false. It’s just another version of baby boomers deciding their own children aren’t allowed to inherit their wealth.
So does Lastpass.
The only thing more annoying than carousels are websites that hijack mouse wheel to do their own (always) poorly implemented scrolling.
YouTube has the best recommendation system in the world.

Of course it gets lots of complaints. But the amount of fantastic content it has consistently recommended for me, including even pretty small channels, is incredible.

A few points though:

1. I find YouTube to be good for general educational content. I don’t know if it’s as good for specific niches of entertainment.

2. It’s not just plug and play. You need to actively tell YouTube what you like and dislike, remove trash recommendations, and remove terrible videos from your watch history.

Do this, and you will be rewarded with a YouTube homepage full of hours upon hours of absolute gold. When I don’t know what to do, I open YouTube and just let it run. It’s awesome and life changing.
> or for that matter oil imports from Russia

India has been given a free pass on its oil and materiel imports from Russia. It's something China complains about quite a bit.
Yet as long as mobile is THE channel consumer live with, there is no other real option but go with cloud. Last example is use your phone to unlock Tesla's car door, remember? lol
Also, choking people get bruises to the abdomen when someone performs the Heimlich maneuver on them, and people with cancer get pumped full of chemicals which just about kill them. That treatments also cause harm is pretty normal in medicine.
Just my perspective so take it with a grain of salt. It helps to look for positions outside the normal SV roles so places like aerospace, defense contractors, manufacturing, etc. They post a surprising number of CS positions. I would caution, though, that the only role I've seen that pays SV-type salaries ($250k+) was controls engineer for automotive manufacturing. But to be fair, the jobs were all in areas with a cost of living much, much lower than SV.

If you get in (politely) look for processes that your SE skills can make an impact. These opportunities are sometimes there because the place is full of non-software minded folks who don't know what they don't know. An example from my anecdotal experience was when someone with software acumen helped reprogram an automation system to be more efficient and saved high-six/low-seven figures each year and really gets people's attention. Or showing how they can dramatically improve their quality control by developing unit tests. Some stuff that is common in SE firms is often overlooked in firms focused on other disciplines.
UK? Pick any county within an hour or so of London. Oxfordshire and Berkshire is full of systems/tech people.
Are you really not eating for 2 weeks?
> I see adults do that, but I don't understand it

If this implies you are not yet an adult or a young adult, it may also explain why you do not understand it (no offense meant just pointing out it may be a lack of perspective).

I suppose I mean "serious" as in my demeanor and general attitude is mostly tied up in those things like responsibilities and the deadlines and conversing about business, world events, catching up, etc instead of all the free time, lack of responsibility, and ensuing shenanigan's that comes with youth [my youth]. As you age you slowly accrue more and more "responsibility" such that it's difficult to even get in the right headspace, company, and context that would even present a side-splitting laugh situation. It's not that I was overly stoic. I laughed, hard even, but not where I couldn't breath or I was literally rolling on the floor.

It's not that I somehow lost the ability but it's like if you stop working out because the new job is too busy or you are spending all your free time caring for a household/relative. Your health probably doesn't decline a ton in the initial months or even year. But fast forward 10 years and you find that not only did you not work out, but you also let your diet slip, and maybe accrued some weight. Sure you can visit the gym, you didn't forget how to work out, but you lost the habit and you have to work a bit harder to get back what you once had.
> is to elevat[e] the white voice too

Elevate?? We are not assigning authority to the white voice, we are assigning hegemony. It is a material fact that whiteness and maleness are the centers of Western philosophy, and everything else is measured based on deviance from that perceived center. There are by now centuries of literature on the matter.

> if they happen to not fit into the agenda of the DEI group

What you call "agenda" I call "bandwidth". Think about it: a fledgling DEI group, small to start, must tackle a lot of metastasized workplace issues. But they're not going to get anything done by spreading their forces too thin. So they focus first on what will make the most material effect with the least effort: call it "productivity". Ageism does fall down the list of priorities, for the simple matter that older people tend to have a larger net worth and so are more insulated from material consequences writ large. It is those who are poorest who need insulation from poverty first, who get help first: this is called "triage". The rising tide starts at the lowest point, right? Without directly asking for everyone's net worth, which is extremely illegal as I'm sure you know, we must resort to proxy measures.

Would you join an engineering team who was constantly switching contexts instead of focusing in on particular features during particular sprints? No, that would be counterproductive. Afford your colleagues the same consideration, even if their goal is not a webapp but compassion in the workplace.
I'm confused, kinda. If you want it to be a different color just alter the color?

Lots of ways to attack that, host it yourself, change it with chrome dev tools, a bookmarklet that alters the css, user scripts for css overrides like greasemonkey popularized back in the early days of the web. Hope this helps you get the color you'd like :)
Actually I've seen an English linter to help you maintain a passive voice for papers, remove waffle words and unnecessary fluff, etc. I'm not sure I can find the exact one I'm thinking of, but wasn't too bad overall, it spotted errors and made helpful suggestions. It was cool too, because it would read from stdin and integrated into vim pretty well with a few lines in my config.
The current Modi government is held to a much higher standard than the previous congress dynasty.

Freedom of speech is much worse in non BJP states like Tamil Nadu.

There is a huge cabal of bureaucracy, media, academia, judiciary and foreign institutions that profited handsomely under the corruption ecosystem built by the congress.

They are infuriated by the people's choice of a more honest and a non-dynast like Modi.
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You're the first person to bring the US culture war into this conversation. Every other time the US has come up, it's either to note the exceptionally strong legal protections we have or to bring up the relatively limited legal restrictions we do have (EDIT: all in the context of this story about India).
If the entire world of piracy tripled tomorrow, it still wouldn’t have the tiniest shred of impact on your income compared to the decisions of rapidly consolidating tech/studio execs who are tanking your industry and fighting your unions to chase pennies.

A lot of us would gladly pay the cast and crew directly to own a copy of your output that we could access on our own terms, but that isn’t a reality for most trade under capitalism. There’s a reason Googlers on HN aren’t trying to guilt trip everyone for personally stealing their income by using ad blockers. Maybe this is particularly to the entertainment industry, but most of us would shrug our shoulders at the equivalent of petty shoplifting from our employers.
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I kind of wish editors focused on having different highlighting modes the way some strategy games have different map modes. I sometimes find myself changing to random language modes in emacs just to see different highlighting schemes that focus my attention on the code in different ways. I also do like rainbow block highlighting but it's not something I want all the time.
At least about 15 years ago, we really had no idea the long-term effects of donating blood as often as the Red Cross allows over multi-year periods.

I'm negative for cytomegalovirus, which makes my blood suitable for newborns, cancer patients, HIV patents, etc. I used to donate as often as the Red Cross/New York Blood Center would let me (donating plasma in the in-between times when it was too soon to donate whole blood), but at some point that forced me to get off of my red-meat-once-a-week diet because my iron levels were bouncing down around the donation limits.

I didn't realize one check-up with my regular doctor was going to involve a blood screening, so when the nurse drew blood, I told her that I was going to test as anemic since I donated less than a week earlier. I saw the nurse enter my comments into the computer system, but I still got a very concerned call from my doctor a week later about being anemic. The doctor hadn't read the comment on my chart that I had donated recently, but still begged me to eat more red meat and liver and/or cut back on my blood donation frequency. I asked about spinach, broccoli, etc., and she said it was just very difficult to get enough iron that way if I was donating blood that often.

I called up the New York Blood Center to see if my regular doctor was over-reacting and/or they had any suggestions about keeping my iron high while donating as often as possible and still keeping red meat consumption low. They told me that there weren't any long-term studies on people who donate as often as they're allowed over long periods. Also, they reaffirmed that red meat and liver are really much more dense sources of iron than any plant sources.

Anyway, when you donate whole blood/plasma regularly and you're CMV-negative, they cross-check your blood for leukocyte compatibility with immunocompromised patients. Three times, I was asked to donate leukocytes for kids with cancer. Two times I was able to donate leukocytes, and the third time, my hematocrit was too low. I highly recommend it, if nothing else, you feel like a really decent person for a couple of weeks after donating leukocytes to a kid with cancer. It's a pretty low-effort way to leave the world a little better than you found it.

I moved to Hong Kong for a while, and there, they take 400 mL instead of a 500 mL, and let you donate less often, but the minimum body weight limit for donation is lower. (People there are smaller on average and eat less red meat than the average American.) I was also very involved with dragon boat racing there, and being slightly anemic makes training harder, so I only donated once a year in HK. I really should have donated more in the off season.

Now, I've got a young son who's blood-compatible with me, so even though they'd never run my blood directly into my son, my wife would really prefer that I keep my blood in my veins for emergencies. I'd still prefer to donate blood, but my wife really doesn't ask that much from me, and it's a small thing to give up for a few years.
I was shocked that wasn't one of the points on the carousel, but then realized that it is, in a "show don't tell" way.