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I'm 41, and you are describing me to a tee. I had surgery about 4 years ago, and was under for less than an hour. The language issues, writing and spelling, etc. Most importantly for me is that writing software has gotten a lot more difficult. I attributed it to aging, but after reading some of this research, I'm questioning that. It feels like the issues have popped up in the last several years.

However...

I feel like this is how we got into the false causal relationship between autism and vaccines. Kids get a lot of vaccines in the first 4 years of life, and are diagnosed with autism then as well. So, you work backwards from a diagnosis and say, "oh the problems started a few weeks after the 3 year check-up, and they got shots, so the shots caused it!!" I would be worried we are doing the same here.

There is likely cognitive decline in men in their late 30s due to stress from work and kids, lack of sleep, reduced activity + weight gain, etc. We also get colonoscopies (or other procedures) around then as well. So, it is easy to say, "well I started having memory problems a few years ago, right around the time I had a hernia repair under general anesthesia, so they MUST be related."
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Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes
I'm on GrapheneOS for this reason. Sandboxed GSF isn't perfect, but it's good enough for use as a daily driver.
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> outgroups end up having to tolerate a lot of unpleasantness, so long as that unpleasantness is couched civilly enough and could possibly be interpreted as well meaning

Yes but isn't that a good thing for a public forum/town square, given the alternatives (censorship, politicization, etc.)? Shouldn't it be exactly the sort of place that people feel unafraid to discuss controversial subjects?

If the choice is between some outgroups feeling uncomfortable with civilly-expressed criticism of themselves and their worldview, and draconian, politicized, highly subjective, moderation foisted on everyone, I know where I stand.
Would you be willing to explain why it is so clear to most people according to you?
Doesn't it scare you that your actual product is written by someone else? As i am moving away from what is called IC positions in silicon valley, i am increasingly afraid of this. The projects i am passionate about and responsible for are actually developed by other people. And these are people whom I know are at least as good at if not better at the job than me.
I tried Lineage on my Xiaomi 10T Pro a while back, but some of the apps I use the most (NFC pay/credit card double verification for online shopping, gasoline payment with a QR-code) just don't work with it, so I had to revert to a stock ROM. The developers seem to have a whitelist of acceptable Android versions.
This particular kind of novelty is kind of appealing to people who want to be conspicuously, obstreperously Luddite, while still carrying a mobile phone. I admit I kind of want one of these novel bits of tech just to show off how Luddite I am.
Very interesting, important, and useful stuff. The only problem, IMO, is that they go nuts with the notation. (They call it "Squiggol"! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squiggol "Bird–Meertens formalism" )

I worked out §2 in Joy (a concatinative language) if anyone's interested: https://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Recursion_Combinators.html

(I kind sorta started to approach §3 & §4 in https://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Treestep.html but I didn't get far, I got sick of grokking squiggol.)

The underlying ideas are interesting, important, and useful but I feel like the effort is kind of wasted if they can't "bring it down the mountain" to the average programmer, eh?
> because a lot of people have finally realized you do not need to be "near" work

Ok, but then why are all the house, condo and apartment prices universally up in the HCOL cities as well?

It's not just you, I see this argument everywhere. But there's something weird about the following 2 arguments which go back to back...

1) Smaller cities, suburban, and rural areas are goes up in price because people no longer need to be in large cities for work.

2) Large cities are going up in price because nobody wants to live in the rural or suburban areas.

Forget housing for a second, can someone use a form of logic that isn't circular?
The whole GSI thing is allowing me to mess with ASOP roms on phones that would never have a customized Lineage OS release. Shoutout to Phhusson https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/releases
Actually CRTs and vacuum tubes in general are the "far more complex" manufacturing process compared to semiconductor. It's sounds wrong but just watch the following video about Mullard vacuum tube (valve) manufacturing in the early 1960s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDvF89Bh27Y

The transistor would start to displace tubes during the 1960s (when I got into electronics in the early 1970s, you still would learn or use or have as option the user of vacuum tubes but by the end of the 1970s, that was 100% gone for professionals and hobbyists though in 1980s as a freshman EE student we had the last gasp of vacuum tube education corresponding to having to use FORTRAN and punch cards that one last semester for programming as well). At the same time, discrete transistors were arising as the de facto choice in commercial (the adoption "Chasm" for them occurred in the late 1950s). ICs were still "early adopter" in the 1960 and crossed the chasm in the late 1960s, early 1970s which is why the 1970s were the boom decade for Silicon Valley and IC manufacturing.

As I watch tube manufacturing with 40 years of experience in semiconductor, I just cringe at the non-reproducibility and labor involved - it's insane. By contrast, semiconductor (and by commonality of process, OLED) is far simpler. The reason: the planar photolithographic cycle is repeated over and over again in semiconductors which in contrast to the "different at every single step" of tube manufacturing is radially simpler.
It's even difficult to write without using time words. Let's try again. Status 1: B is entangled with A and not with C. Status 2: B is entangled with C and not with A. Perception: B moved from being spatially close to A to be close to C. Or the other way around. I agree that this could explain space but it doesn't seem to explain time. Why that entanglement changed and which one came first and why? I'm not the one that's going to explain that even at this very low level. Search for Susskind space entanglement and you should find something first hand.
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The main tradeoff for me is that--rightly or not--going through a major publisher confers some prestige and Good Housekeeping seal of approval in the minds of a lot of people. So, if you're doing a book for reputational purposes rather than cash, that can be a consideration.

I've done it both ways. But if I do more, at this point in my career, they'll probably just be relatively short ebooks.
I think what you're missing is that most humans are not what Netflix calls "fully-formed adults."

If your team consists of mature, kind, focused, skilled, honest, emotionally well-regulated people, then yes, the team can self-organize well.

That's very, very unusual, though. I don't think I've personally ever been on a team that consisted solely of such people (and, to be clear, though I strive for those things, I wouldn't say I've got them all nailed down perfectly).
It’s easy to say so now that I’ve gotten it to work, but the whole process isn’t documented at all on any website.

I daily drive macOS, Debian, and Windows (for personal & work purposes) - the same can be said for Linux (auto mounting a WebDAV share on boot), but at least:

- Linux’s documentation is much more comprehensive than Apple

- whatever you do on Linux some guy from 2003 would have already done so, whereas going from Catalina to Big Sur would’ve seen some big process changes and deprecations

- Intel vs M1 compatibility concerns galore, the only times I need to worry about that on Linux is when I run VMs and LXCs on Proxmox.
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Exactly, Quanta would have the experts they interview go over the paper first if they didn't already go over it before and evaluate it before making any comments.

Plus arXiv papers are freely accessible ;)
"I was specifically speaking about the Irish agreement which the UK threatened to withdraw from without respecting the exit clauses."

A veiled threat is not breaking any clauses. You should look up the number of times the Swiss (and others) have threatened to withdraw from so-and-so agreement with the EU. It isn't new. The EU has dozens of active arguments/negotiations with dozens of countries at any given time. And we already established that this is a bilateral treaty and without any guarantors (unlike the Good Friday Agreement) and hence could be ripped up at a moments notice by either party if they so chose. Just look at the number of times France has made threats in relation to the Trade and [non-]Cooperation Agreement (TCA). The exit clauses are merely there to offer a graceful means of pre-agreed exit strategies.

The EU however *literally drafted emergency powers legal text* to trigger the Article 16 (exit clause) of the N.I. Protocol during a dispute - a petty, tawdry and without any basis in reality dispute at that - regarding Covid-19 vaccines.

It is remarkable how the tone of your posts reveals how "on edge" you are about this. Even laden with typos such is the haste with which you type. It (Brexit - an event which concluded over two years ago) is clearly still a very raw nerve for you.
On intellectually interesting thing about the current NATO-Russia conflict is it suggests that the overarching strategy is to figure out whether the stove is hot by touching it. Obviously neither Russia nor the US see a diplomatic solution, but it is happening on Russia's border so at some point someone will escalate too far. And everyone is on edge and tetchy after the the COVID response. The current world superpower is run by people who are pretty sure that the answer to economic problems involves printing money. Obviously this'll end well.

Energy use is also approaching a critical point. The experiments in Europe indicate that the closing of the fossil fuel age will be unpleasant. The electricity production figures out of the UK are jaw dropping, last I saw they seem to have regressed to 1970s levels.

In this environment, it is easy to see why people are ramping up military training. If it wasn't for the fact that a serious war will be apocalyptic regardless of spending I imagine they'd be ramping up faster and more enthusiastically.
You're conflating arguments here.
I'm a bit surprised to see the Pixel 6/6 pro still aren't supported.
Ask HN: If you were God, which problem would you remove from the world?
If you were God, which problem would you remove from the world?
It takes a while to get to the point so I’ll save others some time and tldr this very lengthy and agenda-driven blog post:

jq had a tough learning curve so you should switch to zq which is a (closed source?) wrapper around an obscure language you’ve never heard of that we promise is easier because reasons. Also coincidentally it’s the language of an ecosystem we were funded to build.

Edit: mea culpa, turns out you can download the source (revealed half way through the article).
As a people manager, we are well aware of inflation and real income. At least at my company we don't have complete control over annual salary changes, though. This year we were given a mean increase of X% that we had to hit for the team, and I can say that X was less than half of 5.
Does inflation matter?

We are largely talking about bombs and bullets here. Yes, smarter and smarter bombs but bombs nonetheless.

I feel like the proper comparison point is tons of explosives.

And remember: every proximity fuse antiair bullet has a vacuum tube and mini-radar in it to run the proximity fuse logic (if close to enemy, then explode).

Modern weapons are smarter than that, but WW2 era weapons were still quite smart.
I think people who aren't sufficiently tuned into computer geek and/or Web and/or font nerd culture are aware that they're supposed to think Comic Sans is bad, and instead they like it. I see it used all the time, in many contexts, by people who seem to just think it's fun.
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I do agree, many of our other appliances have become more computerized. My dishwasher has several different sensors which can change how it runs its cycles and dispense an automatic amount of soap based on detected dirtiness of dishes. My clothes washer is similar, and my drier works until the clothes reach a desired level of dryness instead of just a timer. My microwave's sensor cooking modes are surprisingly good, often when all I need to do is reheat food I just toss it in the microwave and hit "Reheat" and the microwave gets it right to steaming and stops without burning. All of these are driven by computers watching multiple sensors and constantly tweaking parameters of their operation to reach the desired final state.

Its still interesting though that it seems like in the 70's they were still expecting there would be some centralized computer in charge of it all while in reality computing got so small and so cheap its found its way to each appliance on its own.
Not great. I'd recommend "Practical Electronics for Inventors" by Paul Scherz, it strikes a good balance between theory and practice.
I like how we accept the existence of professional actors/actresses, but think body language can’t be controlled with conscious though
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> Have you ever daily driven a linux box? Times have changed but you will jump through hoops far more often than on macOS.

> - written from my frankenstein arch linux macbook pro

That depends entirely on what you're doing, what software and hardware you're using.

Any Linux distro on a MacBook (unless it's an old model)? Yeah, lots of hoops.
Great explanation of the differences! I would argue though that even for noise, distortion, and RF/shielding problems you can get quite far with "cookbook" level knowledge (though I'll grant that it's quite likely to get let astray by leaky abstractions with these, like the many answers to "how/whether you should connect the shield of a USB plug/socket to PCB and/or chassis ground").
Sorry, I thought it was a rule to have the title be the title of the article / post.
As a new mac user (~4 weeks with new employer) my biggest N are:

1) inability to ask the window manager "which workspace/desktop am I on" - it also seems like this ability has been progressively removed with newer versions (judging from stackoverflow/askdifferent questions) - after some hacking I've found a workaround for this

2) clicking on a browser notification just brings me to _any_ window of the browser, not the one that sent the notification! - if anyone knows how to fix this please help me out

3) there's a delay on toggling caps lock that you can't disable without installing some small third party utility! it just feels super rude that they're essentially telling me that I didn't mean to press caps lock
The thing is... that MacOS works for "techies" because of that, limits are lack of configuration possibilities and lack of configuration possibilities are seen as user friendly, Mac OS for me as a Gentoo User day-to-day who see macOs only on company hardware is a limit, but it works, you accept the limits and you move on with your work, no matter if you are in the share of people who are not helped by it

I mean I don't think it's wrong or good, I think it's limited and has its share of market within people who don't want to waste time reading manuals of being involved in software or systems, what I find upsetting every now and then is those cool people coming around communities and say "Why Linux can't be MacOS?" I think each system has it's target, all of them cover different needs, I really don't understand who uses something and wants something else to become like the something they use and not use the somethign they already use .. I wish someone had an explanation for this humanity trait for me
I think sideloading more naturally solves problems like this, but considering the main thing I want sideloading for is to get different browser engines (and therefore, extensions) this would be enough to get me to consider re-entering the Apple ecosystem after being gone for 12 years.
"Hi boss, I hope you had a good weekend. There is something that has been bothering me. I can see that inflation has started to increase quite significantly, and I wanted to know what the company policy was wrt salaries. Can we schedule a chat to talk about it? Thanks much".
a "shitposting" is one you don't like, but don't want to dignify with the label of "misinformation", then.

The un-examined question is "where did the demand for dignity online come from?" Why is "shitposting" a bad thing? "to be amusing" is not in itself a bad goal. When its expressing contradiction its frowned on.

Often it is a frustrated alternative to the controversial discussion that should be happening, but can't because of groupthink.
That was the bible when I did electronics courses as part of my degree in the early 90's. I hope it's still being updated :-)
I've sort of daydream about better locks some times. The vast majority of the locks in the US are trivially easy to pick. It probably not worth the money though since most criminals don't pick locks, and the ones that do have better targets.
> It's currently only used as a fancy alarm clock, I got an app that requires me to solve math problems to disable alarm.

I use Solid Alarm Clock on a relatively-new Note 10 Lite for this purpose.
GitHub has been quite thoughtful about its deprecation timelines before, e.g. with long notice periods and brownouts. They're handling this quite badly.

Personally I don't see why they would care that it is used to shorten links to malicious redirects or whatever. But given that they do, the easy fix is to drop the github.io domain but keep the github.com domain. And in the interest of letting people update their URLs, returning the redirect URL as a response body instead of a 302.
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Inflation keeps the velocity of money high, which increases the general economic welfare (compared to having a low velocity of money)

And you can ban people from raising prices. It's called price controls, and it creates awful shortages.
Notion has worked okay for us in the past, but recently we’ve moved to just using markdown documents in Git. It’s just as searchable, and stays closer to the code. RFCs et al. are submitted as PRs.
I opened the article hoping to see some examples of actual shitposting and explanations of what makes them shitposts, and not just trolling.

Nope.

Scroll to the bottom and hopes surge because there's an image. People staring at their phones while standing next to each other. One of them has a strange grin. But it's actually an ad to "McKinsey's unique insights" as an app. Maybe?

Nope. It occurs in the footer. McKinsey is sponsor of the post.

Have I just been shitposted? I am more confused now than I was before clicking the link.
In the global top 1-5% it is a fantastic place.
What are best practices for offshoring in your estimation?

Does your team work directly with devs or is there an intermediary offshore layer to manage the people actually pushing code? From what I read the variance in quality of offshore engs is huge. I get a lot of connection requests with offshore managers, don't know if they're worth it or you should just hire offshore devs directly and manage them yourselves. Its hard because you don't know the nuances and blindspots of engineers in different countries and cultural issues.
I would eradicate religion
DEI efforts discriminate against Asians like Jinyoung, so yes, I will shit on them.
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Am I the only one who actually finds more desktop a drawback then a benefit? I clearly haven't mastered multiple desktops -- do you split between projects and just leave it there always? I haven't figured out how to best optimize that which I feel I am leaving real value on the table.
Is this adjusted to inflation? I think the world was spending a lot of dough WWI to WWII.
> NATO-Russia conflict

Can you explain your framing?
I do use magnet. But something I do want something to be truly fullscreen (no menubar or anything else visible), but without being on another workspace. I think the most common use case for this is with videos. I often want to fullscreen a video, but still be able to quickly switch between windows so that I can for example reply to a message.

Note that with any non-fullscreen window I can continue to see live updates to the window in the mission control view. So I could for example continue to watch a video (albeit smaller) while watching chat messages arrive in another window as my friend sends them. But with a macOS fullscreen window I can't do that. If I open mission control then I can only see the fullscreen window (because it's the only window in the workspace), and if I switch to another workspace to the see the contents of those windows I can no longer see the fullscreen window. Infuriating!
3..2..1 lock picking lawyer let's go!
HN audience is large and diverse enough to the point that it makes no sense to think as some homogeneous group of people who are interested in tinkering with their phones. By making absurd claims about the feasibility of the Pinephone as a daily driver, you are doing a disservice to your own community.

Also, is your goal to get people to use GNU/Linux phones or is it to maximize the overall adoption of Free Software? The former requires a radical shift in consumer behavior and will be unlikely to happen, the latter can be done in gradual steps with a much higher chance of success.

Think of it this way: if you manage to upset me, who is pretty much in favor of F/LOSS, imagine how many bridges you burned with those "on the other side"?
Did you click on the link? Because that's where it goes. You should probably read the article before commenting.
Anything that makes it so others can go in and edit text and leave us to working on dev is a win in my books. Looks cool!
Recently call quality on our normal mobile phone connections have severely degraded. (At least in the places I visit in NL and especially while in a moving vehicle.) I switched to using FaceTime audio and with the noise cancellation the audio quality is superb and I would t want to go back. So although I would love to use a minimal phone like this I would want to keep all the benefits of modern day audio connections.
I don't get it. "Instead of learning jq DSL, learn zq DSL".

To me they look similarly complicated and the examples stresses certain aggregation operations that are harder to do in jq (due to it being stateless).
I'll give a bit of a different example.

I was recently playing the remastered Dark Souls on Switch. For some reason, they used the Japanese button mapping of B and A rather than the usual mapping in the US. And you couldn't change it.

I mean, no big deal, I can learn the new mapping. And I mostly did. But even after 50-100 hours, I would still occasionally press the wrong button (accepting rather than cancelling). The previous configuration was so ingrained in me that I could not overcome my muscle memory without conscious thought.

So even when I really try to "go with the flow" there is friction. People come from different backgrounds, using different software and different paradigms, and it's not really easy at all to remap their way of thinking, even if they want to.