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> My understanding is that IBM/Motorola's struggle with achieving volume is what doomed them not a lack of innovation.

Before Apple announced their Intel transition laptops were more than half of their Mac sales. Of their desktop sales, the iMac dominated over PowerMacs. So a majority of the systems they were selling had relatively tight thermal envelopes.

Neither IBM nor Motorola was willing (or able) to get computing power equivalent to x86 into those thermal envelopes. The G5 was a derivative of IBM's POWER chips they put in servers and workstations. They were largely unconcerned with thermals. Motorola saw the embedded space as more profitable and didn't want to invest in the G4 to make it more competitive.

Meanwhile Intel had introduced the Pentium III derived Core series chips. Good thermals, high performance, multiple cores, and 64-bit. It was better performance than Apple's G5 in the thermal envelope of the G4.

Neither IBM or Motorola had general issues with production volume. Apple switching was all about the future direction of the architecture. There was no market for desktop PowerPC chips besides Apple. Neither IBM or Motorola really wanted to compete directly with Intel and saw their fortunes in other segments.

So Apple went with Intel because they were making chips compatible with what Apple wanted to do with the Mac. The first Intel Macs ran circles around the PowerPC machines they replaced with no major sacrifices needed in thermals or battery life.

So Intel innovation in the 00s got Apple to switch to them and a lack thereof got them to switch away again.
The lockup period ("relatively short time") is a full year. For immediate cashflow purposes, I wouldn't really consider that relatively short.
> I didn't dive into finding an online Clojure community and none of my programmer friends did Clojure or had heard of it either so I had no idea if the language was gaining popularity or dying.

This is so fascinating to me and I guess just a reminder of the HN echo chamber.
I'm sure that is an issue too, but I was thinking of areas where 10s of thousands of acres are broken into 160 acre parcels with checkerboard private public ownership. Here's a picture for context.

https://www.seligmanaz.us/checkerboard-land-use/
Honestly, I'd love to see more material here like this, even if casual. I suppose I find it odd that people around here don't see the inevitability of at least some crypto being a major part of our future, even if we don't see which ones yet. I suppose I find the "luddite"ness of the whole deal surprising.
I love the Dutch style. This kind of double meaning statements every day takes a toll on me.
They thought of everything except...their website, which crashed Error establishing a database connection
I don't think your answer, though cool, qualifies in the spirit of the question.
On the flip side, one wonders what the departure of Scott Forstall meant for Apple, and where it would be today if he continued to be in a decision-making position.
The things you don't want to do are often the things where you will grow and learn new things.
Oh, the writers of Rick and Morty have an arc with this premise. Fun to know they got the idea from Sturgeon.
And, if I cleave to the Apple toolset (as opposed to rewriting it, like I used to), that stuff is sorted. Apple has much better lawyers than I'll ever be able to afford.

Also, I use lots of dependencies. It's just that they are generally ones that I wrote.

I have control issues, I guess...

Everyone wants to write unique UI, but I've learned that's a trap. I write about that, here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/the-road-most-travel...
Thank you.

Yeah sure, I’m not dismissing the idea in any way, it’s really interesting. That’s actually something I could have wanted to try, just like... learning a RNN to compute a hash, or even reverse a hash, or...
> Let’s not forget that the vaunted focus on design has given us a mouse with the charger on the bottom as well as innumerable other botches over the years.

If the charging port was not on the bottom, a huge percentage of users would just leave it plugged in. Then a wireless mouse would functionally be a wired one.
I apply a strong mental downrank to videos on YouTube that are between the duration of 10:00 to 10:30, knowing that they're only that long to satisfy the Algorithm (and get a midroll ad). They're all stuffed with filler to get them to exactly that duration. There lies a sharp valley of quality.

Especially if surrounding "competing" videos are in the 1-2 minute range (often the case with "How do I do <X> in <Y> software?" kinds of tutorial videos).
Very practically useful (if you insist on saying these things, at all) but should come with some indication of which culture or (global) industry this advice is tuned to. I think these seem like what I would expect as an American (slightly passive aggressive, offering to “help” just as way to put things in someone else’s court), but for example (as per countless memes) if you were Dutch you might be expected to be more direct, if British even less direct.
I enjoyed this, mostly because I refuse to play the corporate-speak games. I have grown weary of the overuse of diluted buzzwords, undefined acronyms, and email posturing to signal importance. As a sysadmin, I don't care about how important you SAY your application is. If your team didn't pay for the corresponding SLA, too bad. If your team didn't follow the lead time policy for changes to production hosts, too bad. If your team doesn't know who else to reach out to, that doesn't make me your "yellow pages".

This is just trying to shove planning/work that isn't mine down my throat with corporate action words. I've taken to using a "blunt-ish" approach. It may not be the best for my career, but at least I don't feel like a passive drone being railroaded.

Example:

THEM: We really need this config changed on our prod servers for our app deployment to be successful. We have raised CHG1234 for this to be done this afternoon. Please do the needful on priority.

ME: Production changes require a 2 week lead time, you need to resubmit this change in accordance with this policy. <link-to-policy>

THEM: How can we escalate? We cannot wait 2 weeks.

ME: ...

I just don't respond any further. I give them the exact reason for the "no" and don't engage with the rest of their badgering. EVERYTHING else they will respond with is an attempt to manipulate me into violating policy for their benefit, with no credit for me saving the day, yet all of the risk if I don't.

Nope.
This happens whenever something bad happens to someone else, be it a car accident or a major illness or being the victim of a crime.

People want to think it wouldn’t happen to them, so they go through all the reasons they would have been able to avoid the situation so that they don’t have to fear it happening to them.

People really don’t want to admit to themselves that there are a lot of things outside our control that can happen to us.
Covid herd immunity now seems impossible
There is another option: buy used media. People are dumping DVDs and Blu-rays for nothing, so it costs very little to build up a library legitimately and without any ambiguity about ownership, with the upside you can watch without internet or a smart tv! Public libraries, good will, even pawn shops will sell you dvds for $1 and blu rays for $3.

Or, perhaps even better, stop watching mass media lowest common denominator crap and read a good novel. Strongly recommend Paulo Baucalupi's Windup Girl, or Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries. Or for something political and uplifting, Meachem's "The Soul of America".
Fair point. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Couldn't follow the link.
Knockout City April 28th Outage Explained
So your argument against the bottom charger beign bad design is that the mouse is also designed so it can’t charge and operate (contrary to the keyboard for example)? That’s kind of circular :)
People who complain about the charge port on the bottom don't use the mice.

It's a stupid location for a charge port but the battery lasts for several weeks if not months; it's just not that much of an issue in real world use.
> Of course you are going to report that you love 5'6' men.

This study is based on data about actual pairings (parents of recently born children in the UK). Nothing to do with "reported preferences".
> There’s a fixed component largely controlled by the Fed. Currently this is essential 0%

I mean, it's exactly 0%. https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds...

> The bond is special because that 8% is really high compared to other risk free instruments. For example, compare that 8% to what you’re earning on your savings account.

Some people might call that special high interest "free money."
If only two people are involved in the PR you don't even need "Co-Authored-By": unless you --reset-author, it's not going to get blown up by updating the commits, only "committer" is.
The complication involved with UTF-8 encoded space removal is immense and likely quite far out of scope.
This seems tractable though.

GPT-3 can complete this prompt:

clarify this scene description:

A bowl of fruit containing no apples

With

The bowl contains bananas, oranges, and grapes.

So the semantic modeling is certainly doable.
I expect the logic for allowing a transaction looks at all 'purchases', including the current one, and sees if the total is over 10,000. If it is, throw an error, send an automated email, and let a human deal with reversing the transaction when they see what happened in the error log.
Agreed. This ends up being a test of one of a few things:

1. Whether people of different age groups agree that random sequences are more complex as defined by the study’s notion of complexity.

2. Whether people of groups have the physical ability to generate those sequences in a web browser.

3. Whether people of groups have the mental ability to generate those sequences.

Of these, the study purports to measure 3, but it’s actually conflating all of these.
Perl aficionado here! Thanks to Amazon, the cool new replacement for Perl seems to be Python, even though it’s only about 4 years younger, so most younger devs I know aren’t even aware of Perl’s existence. While Perl may not be used in too many legacy Enterprise applications, it certainly is the “glue” of many legacy systems. Plus, every once in a while I get to dust off my Perl skills and wow my colleagues with how easy it is to do file I/O and regex in just a few lines with no libraries. It certainly gives me a skills advantage.
Is there a problem with me explaining my interpretation? That's all I ever said I was doing. A lot of people were only talking about the excess basically having to be the entire order, so I put in my 2 cents. I never said it was the only possibility.

Edit: I went back to double check that I hadn't replied more times than I realized or something. Nope, 3 whole comments explaining how I thought it might work out. That's if you count the first one where I honestly didn't understand how the author came to the conclusion they should input another $10k.
Keep an open mind. I was horrendous at and didn't enjoy design, kept trying and trying but was still utterly horrid. One day I noticed the work of much more talented people was not better than mine, in fact, it was worse, this was perplexing.

The constant practice which seemed to have no impact had actually made me better. Basic things: tinkering with bootstrap layouts, taking 2 hours to feebly make a mediocre background image, curving edges on an image, tinkering with margins and padding, removing unessential elements. It all added up.

This skill has also helped me in ways I never expected, like being able to put together a nice looking slide deck (~25 slides) in 90 minutes, where previously it would take days.
The Veritasium channel itself is clickbait much of the time, so of course it would defend the practice.

I follow plenty of content creators that make good videos without artificially padding their runtimes, some long-form in the 20+ minute range, but also many that do low-minutes videos. Their channels are doing just fine.
This isn’t really about copyright, its about them promising to pay X for work Y, then refusing to pay X. The bigger authors in this case can afford good lawyers so they don’t have this problem. Its the authors who make 40-70k/yr where taking this to court would cost them most of the money they are owed.

If this goes in Disneys favor, than any transaction under the cost of legal action you can ignore paying if you are a large company.

A large companies legal costs per case is also lower as they have lawyers on staff and you don’t, so you end up paying the consultant rate (~3x more). The goal of the staff lawyer would be to drag the case out as long as possible to make you want to give up or run out of money (yours or lawyers contingency) to keep the suit going.

This (if it stands) would also be a great counter for your patent auction idea as they could just setup a shell to “buy” it, sell the patent back to themselves for $1 then have the shell declare bankruptcy (reality will be more tangled than this example) because they owe you money.
Ah - but government can discern the good from the bad. They say. And their courts support this! So it must be true. And they also teach us this in school.

Have you not heard about the declarations, white house statements, etc? Here are some recent submissions of mine where I try to draw attention to this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31210507

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31171249

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30972158

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30836247

its endless frankly.

But we should be assured that government by legal definition (which it writes) is incapable of misinforming its citizens. Except when it admits to it, but then it gives itself a pass.

Please remember though that government only misinforms with the best of intentions for its citizens. These are white lies!

We all agree that government has our best interests at heart, and isn't a parasitic entity leeching off its citizens. Thanks to government for taking a strong paternalistic hand, guiding us only to what is acceptable for our eyes and ears!
So if her comments are having an effect on funding decisions she IS changing how things are done.
If the PR is technically correct, just violates coding style or smells a bit like of hacky trash, I merge it anyways. As long as it's not breaking the build, functionality, or bisectability, just go with it. You can always chase it with a cleanup commit of your own.

It's up to the PR's author to decide if they care enough to do better next time. By accepting their work and landing the change you've demonstrated an appreciation for their effort with open arms, and I feel this makes it more likely they will contribute in the future and care about doing better.

Maybe make a comment to that effect before merging as-is, creating the opportunity to clean it up themselves first.

If it's coming from a regular contributor I'm far less charitable, this approach I mostly reserve for first-time/infrequent contributors.
> when the rate is negative which can happen.

It can't happen -- I-bonds have a composite rate floor of 0%.
Isn't that the point, though? Their argument is that there is no correlation, in contrast to what the original study claimed
Isn’t buying a US backed bond the opposite of “speculation”?. The rate of return for a US bond has been called the “risk free rate of return” since I was in grad school over two decades ago.
Many people I know leave their trackpad and wireless keyboards plugged into the Lightning/USB ports all the time. This is basically fine for a keyboard or trackpad, since very little of the functionality of those devices benefits from mobility.

By contrast, a wireless mouse is fundamentally a different animal than a wired one. If (say) 90% of your users are going to leave it plugged in 100% of the time (to offset against the ~3 hours per year when they'll actually need to charge it), then a huge percentage of your users will experience an inferior product. It's like buying a mobile phone and then encouraging users to leave it plugged in by their bedside all day.
Can you get in as self-taught?
Beware of a thing: location independent pay inside national borders is a good thing for Citizens and the nation in general, beyond borders is a good things ONLY for big corps and the most poor, so a bad thing for us westerns.

Just imaging how can be the paycheck if the market is the entire world: seeing actual paychecks that means beside very little, very demanding in skills jobs where it's next to impossible find workers from some cheaper countries because due to their schools systems they can't form skilled enough people 98% of other remote works will clearly be interesting only for those from very poor countries were a very little salary is a high one in their own country.

For big corps of course that's perfectly nice: a call center operator from Turkmenistan enough fluent in some westerns languages is equally good than a local one, his/shes cost of living makes a salary of 150 USA/EUR very interesting, connections are starting to be good enough not to have problems, so... Remember that actual neoliberal-driven IT is built around the concept of Ford's model stereotypical workers, so real quality does not count much in actual systems.

I'm deeply in favor of WFH as much as possible, to do anything can be done remotely from remote because TLCs are there anyway and so that's can and should mean efficient and cheap (even if often due do bad IT choices is the contrary), but remember that we can't have equal cost of living anywhere: if we live at "polar" latitudes we need heating, a big expense, if we live at "tropical" latitudes we need cooling which can be a significant expensive (since it can be mitigated by p.v., just during the day), if we live in not-much-fertile or too dense area foods costs are higher, if we are far from industry goods costs more, but other things cost less etc. Even in an hypothetical "fair, ethical and just global world" we can't see equal costs everywhere, so we need different prices and different wages and different social systems. Ignoring this means push even more the inequality accelerators against workers interests.
What do you mean non nullable types? In C++ only pointers can be nullable.
You don't /need/ a source of randomness for GAN inference; it just helps with some applications. The basic idea is Network G produces some output, and Network D tries to classify it...
Say what you want about the software, but that 10k won't disappear.
I don't hate IRC but its simplicity is not an advantage in the modern world. And you just end up building around that weakness with powerful editors and tools.
Yeah, because whatever YOU work on has nothing an outsider can throw a stone at, ethically.

GTFO.
Speaking about 'niches', I'm wondering about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepin and how many real users they may have?
These remind me of Orwell's "Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account."
There are more effective and intentional ways to solve poverty than permitting theft and camping in public spaces.
pattern matching expressions, syntax for partial application and composition, a typing system which can express structural types, a generalised list comprehension
Here's a relevant quote from Google's code review guidelines on speed https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/speed...

>When code reviews are slow, several things happen: ...

>Developers start to protest the code review process. If a reviewer only responds every few days, but requests major changes to the CL each time, that can be frustrating and difficult for developers. Often, this is expressed as complaints about how “strict” the reviewer is being. If the reviewer requests the same substantial changes (changes which really do improve code health), but responds quickly every time the developer makes an update, the complaints tend to disappear. Most complaints about the code review process are actually resolved by making the process faster.
Annual Reviews Are a Terrible Way to Evaluate Employees
Again though, they are arguing that there is no correlation between randomness and age. This was just a demonstration that when they use randomness to predict age, the results are wrong 50% of the time-- which is precisely in accordance with their hypothesis
See may other comments as I have already addressed this, but it does not follow that "running it like a business" precludes serving rural America.

it is moronic to claim other wise. People that continue to make this claim clearly do not understand how to run a business at all, and are operating under this weird anti-capitalism rhetoric...

as for Amtrak, I would be in-favor of a complete shutdown of that service, the USPS has some albeit limited constitutional basis for its existence, Amtrak does not
"Hey, [name], could you check your E-mail? Your TPS report was due yesterday!" I mean, it's not offensive, and if I did screw up, I would want to know clearly and directly that I screwed up.

I've worked in a blue collar setting where people were direct and unambiguous. "You need to put the wrench back after you're done using it." is much better than "I would like to encourage you to address the speed at which you submit your TPS reports, given our well understood weekly cadence."
Not exactly. They’re betting the difference between 8.5% and whatever CPI is in 6 months. It might even be higher in 6 months.
Definitely. Before Covid, I routinely returned from the major conferences with a notebook full of potential ideas, some of which I could explore, some of which I handed out like candy in the local environment to colleagues and students, and some of which become very relevant years later.

The virtual conferences during the last two years were useless in retrospect. I saw the presentations of the papers I was interested in and that's it, I don't even remember anything specific from any of them, somehow the format was so routine. I'm glad that this is ending and we're having proper conferences again. I understand that researchers in the 'global south' had a different perspective with remote conferences being more accessible, but I've come to a conclusion that for me virtual conferences are a waste of time - I'd rather just read the published papers asynchronously at my convenience instead of framing it as an event; if you don't want a conference for some reason, make it a journal instead.
Awesome! It worked quite alright on my mobile i have to say.
Wikimedia Foundation stops accepting cryptocurrency donations
There is an active MR [1] to add modules support to CMake 3.24 (based on this comment [2])

[1] https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/merge_requests/7210

[2] https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/merge_requests/7210...
The fact that everyone I know leaves their Apple wireless keyboard plugged in most of the time. (Sample size N=~5.)
When someone talks about “people working for a FAANG”, realistically no one is referring to Amazon warehouse workers neither are people talking about Uber drivers. Mostly they are talking about software engineers and adjacent roles.

Thats not meant to throw shade on warehouse workers as “lesser”. My dad is retired factory worker.
There are many things I don’t want to do… which is why I prefer to work on things I can sell at high margins. Those high margins help me hire people to do things I am not good at nor I like. But it is also a question of velocity, picking a side project that can generate money in a matter of weeks is better because it frees me up from things I don’t like faster. I worked Corporate 9 years, I understand Finance is not popular here, but eventually it’s all about good margins and predictable cash flows.