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I'll see your M1 and raise you a trash-can Mac Pro, and the fact that anything other than a Mac Pro can't be upgraded.

But it's actually more about the software than the hardware. Once upon a time Macs were the computer that Just Worked. But recent devices, including phones, tablets, and laptops, have major usability issues. It's more about the software than the hardware, but with Apple you literally cannot separate the two.

Here are some war stories.

I bought a brand new M1 MBA. I installed XCode. The install process produced a tiny little progress bar that required a microscope to see. It got very near the end and then got stuck for several hours just short of being done. There was absolutely no indication whether the process was actually hung and no apparent way to inquire. So I tried starting XCode and it worked. I assumed that all was in order and the progress bar just hadn't gotten updated.

Then I updated the OS, which required a restart. But when I tried to restart I got a modal dialog saying that I could not shut the machine down because XCode was still in the process of being installed, and shutting down now could "damage my machine". Worse, the button to dismiss this dialog was inactive. There was no way to get rid of it. I ended up having to do a hard reset.

And this is just one of many, many similar experiences. I've tried transferring data from one iPad to another, waited many hours, only to have the process fail. I've tried importing old iPhoto libraries to Photos, waited many hours, only to have the process fail. When these failures happen there is no indication of what went wrong or what I might be able to do about it. Just, "Sorry, an unexpected error occurred".

I also really despise the new UI look and feel. Once upon a time it was easy to tell what was clickable and what was editable and what was static because all of these elements had different standardized looks. Now everything looks the same. Many UI elements are hidden until you hover over them. Apple devices have become the exact opposite of the easy-to-use discoverable devices they started out as. Using an Apple device today feels more like an old-style adventure game, complete with grues that randomly jump out and kill you for no apparent reason.

But other than that, yeah, Apple devices are great.
Very interesting results for tesla for example.
So can it make sense to buy a stock with very low correlations as "stabilisator" for example?
Here is how far startup valuations fell in Q1 2022
PVP related communities tend to be like that and there is little way to get around that. And I say that as a person who ran such communities.

Try RP gaming communities. By that I don't mean that hardcore RP communities or anywhere you have to do actual RP. Just the 'RP' tag in a mmo server weeds out assholes, pricks etc and ensures that there is a high age average in the server. The Wow Eu RP server I have been playing for years keeps getting 'immigrants' from US servers and PVP servers all the time. They escape the aggressive and toxic environments by moving to RP servers. They don't do RP, they just play and join raids and other activities.
Be sure to blame the saw and the hammer, as it can't be the fault of the carpenter.
I would classify Scott Adam's statement as a trueism -- true for most people, under most circumstances, for most times. Unfortunately, couching a trueism in its most precise linguistic form with associated probabilities and error margins is a path to simply being ignored. Once a thread switches to rhetoric, dialectic responses are like pissing in the wind, forgive the analogy :-)
R&D is about managing risk. You can have more micro-managers to ensure that costs are minimized, but the cost of all that management can be more than the abuse of cost-plus (not to mention people hate being micro-manged)

The only good answer I've heard is for the agency to have enough technical experts that they can spot bad things. However that means the government needs to develop technical experts.
Not sure if you replied to the wrong person, but that's certainly not anything I said. I was responding to someone that wrote "99% of climate change effort is social signaling, the other 1% is engineers and scientists working on more efficient, cleaner technologies". If you make green technology cheaper, then those technologies will be adopted in the countries I listed. And the most effective way to reduce them in those countries is to make green alternatives cheaper. You're not going to accomplish much if you focus exclusively on reducing US GHG emissions.
In case tweet disappears:

> Wow! Jay, you took interviews with Plaid & asked probing questions multiple times over the past few years, and your team sent repeated RFP's (under NDA!) to us asking for tons of detailed data. I wish y'all the best with these products, but surprising to see the methods.
That turns the incentive away from creating shareholder value and towards hazing and navel gazing.

There's also the issue of conflating the incentive/reward schemes with the need for roles to be performed. Being good at inverting binary trees won't make you a good manager but when the manager role carries money and prestige then it's the hammer you use to reward the shape rotators.
Amazing animations and incredibly well explained. Best ELI5 of a mechanical watch EVER
Inflation/monetary policy risk.

Liquidity risk.

Market risk.

Geopolitical risk.

To name a few.
> both the Touch Bar and the butterfly keyboard are gone now

Everybody was surprised by that because they've so rarely admitted that they were wrong. It took Jony Ive's departure for it to happen.
For me: direct routing between endpoints, thus reducing the lag and spec restrictions you get from routing through a single VPN server.

Other things are seamless transition to local networks, and you can even have local network encryption.
Maybe just don't go above that. Whatsapp was at that level when acquired fwiw.
But it's not real. It never really happened. It can't illustrate any sort of limitation because the limitation doesn't really exist in the fiction.

Fiction can ask questions about reality, but it can never answer them.

And dollars to donuts, Neal Stephenson couldn't actually do the things he claims Lawrence was capable of doing. And it's likely what Lawrence accomplished given the time frame is a bit impossible. But it doesn't have to be possible. Lightsabers are the length of swords because they are. The Enterprise achieves faster than light travel by creating a bubble of warped space because it does. Lawrence is able to formulate an entirely new theorem about fluid dynamics because he did.

And let's be clear, in a real situation, Lawrence's approach is still kind of bad. Now the question itself is running some assumptions that it shouldn't, but the inferences aren't terrible. Over the length of the run, the average flow is fine to work with. The speed of the boat is speed in still water. Also, the speed of the boat is also going to be an average because multiple things also affect the speed of the boat, including the density of the water. But Stephenson didn't think about that, so it didn't matter in the fiction. Even though, it would in reality for someone doing these calculations.

But the question, when asked in reality, needs a relatively accurate answer in a relatively quick time frame. And the numbers provided can give you that. Part of intelligence is also recognizing when it's time to gather wool and when it's time to get shit done.

The bit about the glockenspiel is supposed to be a dig about the Navy failing to recognize his brilliance. But yeah. He needs to get things done. And he doesn't. So the Navy was correct to put him somewhere where it doesn't matter how long it takes for him to make a decision.
Here's some more Bulverism: What's there to defend? Colloquially toxic masculinity means exactly what the OP was going for. It's to jockey for power, position, and status at the expense of others (and often detrimental to their own goals). Hey! Women sometimes also display these toxic masculine traits commonly found in male primates! You should be more inclusive and call it toxic humanity! has to be one of the least useful things you can bring to the overall discussion.
a "potent" physical painkiller .

Does anyone know if the word potent here is meant to be scientific or emotional? It feels emotional, the dictionary definition is "having great power, influence, or effect." which seems weird to jump out the gate with such a subjective word for an over the counter painkiller.
chase has an OAuth flow but not every integration uses it.
You can use it with any email server, doesn't have to be hosted by yourself. It's not better than the Gmail web client or anything, but it may be better than a shitty corporate webmail, or just better than no webmail at all :)
Firecracker is absolutely awesome. Looking at the dismal state of sandboxing APIs in the major operating systems, and the advent of KVM on Linux, WHP on Windows (including Windows Home!), and HVF on Mac, I wonder if the future of securely running applications might be to just throw every app in a VM, similar to how Qubes OS works. Technologies like Looking Glass[0] can even enable 3D acceleration.

While Firecracker is faster, QEMU does actually have a microvm[0] machine which boots pretty dang quickly. QEMU also has the advantage of user space networking which allows guests to access the internet without any admin privileges required. Unfortunately the network speeds are fairly slow. I'm hopeful that this can be made much faster moving forward.

QEMU also works on Windows, which is huge. But I haven't been able to get microvms to work on Windows hosts yet.

[0]: https://looking-glass.io/

[1]: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/i386/microvm.ht...
There are Fixed Price Incentive (FPI) contracts that try to address this. Instead of a single price for the contract as in an Firm Fixed Price (FFP) there is a "target" price at which the contractor will get some level of profit. Above that you set a cap on the total cost of a project that you are willing to pay, but the profit of the company goes down as you approach the cost cap. So contractors still have the incentive to minimize cost because if they get cost below the "target" price the contractor still gets that as profit.

However, people aren't usually a fan of them because it requires all of the overhead/audits of a cost-plus contract which typically minimizes how cost effective they can actually be at getting below the target price.

There are also some development-type projects where the government will fund a project, but still require some amount of funds (like 25%) to come from the contractor. But this is really early development type stuff. Basically it is a way to influence where a company is spending their R&D money. Its not really for any operational systems.
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Not a fan of Texas at all myself, but I would hardly describe moving from one part of the US to another as a large cultural change.

Political differences may exist between small cities and large cities, but most aspects of culture (language, holidays, daily-schedules, norms, etc.) remain largely the same.

Plus plenty of parts of Colorado are similar to plenty of parts of Texas, politically.
Inevitable with bureaucracy unless we solve the oracle problem in a tragedy of the commons resistant way.
So you admit there is now recent precedent for people allegedly committing crimes having their bank accounts frozen, without even a public hearing or trial?

Dr. King and Gandhi were also committing crimes by "impeding and infringing on the rights of other citizens"
It's true but I'd be careful what you wish for. When the industry finally does coalesce around sets of simple, solid, dependenable tools compensation takes a dive.
It gets very nasty at this point especially because I’ve used popular languages who’s CSV parsing libraries were unable to handle some weird quotes properly.
There's also a subreddit for aggregating interactive explanations like these: https://old.reddit.com/r/explorables
On OpenBSD, some of the scripts or utils (mandoc) are written in Perl because the developers prefer it. There have been some email chains on the mailing lists about having Perl in base. Most of them are interesting to read.
I don't self host anything. Does that make me weird?

Also I dislike sites that require JavaScript to display text and images.
Here's how simple me thinks about it: Cost-plus is just a lazy version of fixed price, where instead of accountants looking at details before new funding is released, there's automatic approval of overruns.
My entire work life is scripted, and backups, torrents, VPN on-off, dog-watching-cam, streaming-by-sport is scripted at home. Work is literally issue? Fixed. If something new, I automate it.

I guess I use a VPN, and a browser that talks to my Roku, but I tend to think the automation is the thing.

Weird question.
positive and thoughtful paranoia, not 'cynical'...capitalism...
The app looks like it is from 5 years ago, but a very nice project anyway. How often do users with smart home lights use the app and how often do you use the app?
In other words is it worth it or is it just a nerdy thing, which is nice but not really needed.
@zach this is what I find very frustrating about the current players. We recently got pricing from you and obviously being under NDA won’t share the figures but I’m not seeing the discount you quote above compared to stripe.

Further there are significant platform minimums and platform fees that add large costs initially.

How do you reconcile the above comments from our interaction?
> I'm talking about programmers working on any kind of application in C/C++ (or other systems languages) with nontrivial performance and memory requirements. It's not like there are a ton of those either, but they're there.

I tried finding a job somewhere around this realm. Half the companies were using Go and none of them wanted to talk to me.
Ditch cost plus contracts and use taxes to curb companies that are just profiting off rent-seeking behavior (like sitting on patents). This was done during WWII, marginal tax rates were set to 100% to discourage war profiteering. Companies would still have an incentive to cut costs, to increase profits. But they'd then be incentivized to reinvest those profits because otherwise those profits would be greatly taxed. Granted, how you'd effectively target these taxes outside of unusual circumstances like a world war might be too complicated to be feasible.
Not sure but recuiter reached a out to me last week from clubhouse. I was surprised to see clubhouse was still around.
Apple iOS16 Feature Revealed iCloud Privacy Migration Supports Hide More Data
But not as easily. Boeing has since had to eat the costs associated with an extra test flight.
Nebula rocks!
They eat the cost: https://simpleflying.com/boeing-ceo-air-force-1-deal-mistake...
So, I got very excited about this, but it seems that banks are expecting "bank integrator" aka companies, and not giving access to end users :( If any knows of a bank that has API access in the US do share!
Yes, this seems like a big problem. Need to reform the NIH and crack down on the universities.

>On the other hand, there is definitely evidence that university administrators are motivated by indirect cost rates. In the most severe cases, some universities levy a “tax” on researchers for obtaining grants from non-NIH sources. In the case of Columbia University, the tax is equal to the NIH indirect cost rate minus the other institution’s indirect cost rate. That percentage is taken out of the researcher’s direct costs. This policy dramatically diminishes the value of non-NIH grants.

>For example, if a Columbia University (62.5% NIH indirect cost rate) researcher receives a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (10% indirect rate), with a direct cost of $1 million and a total value of $1.1 million, a whopping $525,000 intended for the researcher is redirected to the university, bringing the direct cost benefits to the researcher down from $1 million to $475,000. And frankly, that’s underselling the transfer, because non-profit grants tend to be much smaller than NIH grants; once the tax is paid, the remaining money might not even be worth applying for.
No, poor word choice on my end.
Learning to sight-read is different than just reading. Sight-reading takes an enormous amount of daily dedication and practice for years to get to even an intermediate level.
Properly designed switches have a hysteretic snapping action on the contactor, so that there is no position of the switch that would result in the contactor not being fully open or fully closed.
Literally practice. Don't look at your hands. It takes years and years, there is no quick way to learn piano.
Reminds me of the HN thread full of anon $XB Fintech CEOs bashing Stripe.
Getting back to the above comment, then perhaps donating to a politically influential, ivy league school makes sense.
I agree that competitiveness is masculine[1], but it's not obvious to me that this is a case where it is toxic.

It may be a more competitive or masculine environment than you would prefer, and that's fine. But what benefit do you think comes from labeling the perceived problems of Google's culture as "toxic masculinity"?

[1]Yes women are also competitive, but most of the extremely competitive people are men.
I agree, but this isn't as bad as you might think once you're a senior engineer at a top-end company. A lot of your compensation is in the form of stocks that will appreciate in value with inflation, so assuming you're in good graces with your director and VP, it's possible you'll fall behind the market rate very slowly
>but encountered way too many bugs to make it usable in our organization.

Was this recently or a few months ago? majority of the reported bugs were fixed before the launch of v1.0 (Feb 2021 ).
I use a Firefox extension to do it - https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/. You might be able to do some local DNS with a wildcard shenanigans, but this is much easier to set up.

I actually don't redirect my Reddit requests, since once in a blue moon I will want to comment on something, which libreddit doesn't support. However Invidious does have the option to let you follow certain channels, and since I don't comment on YouTube videos, it covers all of my use cases, so I redirect all Youtube traffic to it.
It's a problem for people who value working on things that actually get used for more than a few years and aren't duplicate efforts to make some line on some graph go up somewhere.

These are of course people, after all. Not robots.
What the NIH is willing to fund has very little bearing on its impact to society as well. You can have a disease that has significant impact to millions of lives and it will have $1 million in funding while another that has less impact and has 1/1000th of the sufferers receives $100s of millions. The way the funding is assigned is not in anyway based on the merit of the disease being studied and how many lives it would save or improve.

Even labs on the NIH revered institutions list struggle to get funding for the unloved diseases that really need more money. There was a assay diagnostic that showed energy deficits at a cellular level in ME/CFS and long covid and the NIH passed on funding it, for the third time in a row. That impacts millions upon millions of sufferers of a very real and growing condition. Its so bad that the bulk of funding in a lot of cases comes from private donations and organizations like the open medicine foundation which are tiny but in comparison to funding from the NIH its substantial.

The NIH has done a terrible job at assigning research funds from what I can see, a system of appropriate merit would make a lot more sense otherwise no progress will be made in extremely debilitating and painful and unknown to the public conditions.
NASA doesn't need to be in the business of managing that risk and the abuse that comes with it. NASA can pay a fixed cost equal to the expected cost of the project, and the contractor can buy insurance if they want insurance against cost overruns.

Insurance companies are in a much better place to price this insurance than NASA, because they have the correct financial incentive to do so well, and no political incentives to do so poorly.
Depends. The ETA-2824 is a fairly common movement with inexpensive Chinese clones, so dials and hands are reasonably cheap and common. If the target case also uses the same ETA movement then it’s simple: Unscrew the back, remove the crown stem, drop the movement. Assembly is the reverse of removal.

Where it gets tricky is if the target doesn’t use the same movement. In that case, I’d just buy an AliExpress watch with the same dial size and an ETA clone movement. Otherwise you have to ensure your target is the correct size and you’ll probably need to 3D print a movement holder.
I wouldn't recommend leetcode unless you are set on tech-first companies, entertainment co's generally aren't concerned except for the fact poor hiring practice has partially permeated broader industry tech culture.

Better would be to study CS, IT, project-management, or job/industry-specific tasks you'd like to target. PBS crash-course computer science is a great way to soak some up in a jiffy.
Tailscale is one of the products I most love. It does what I want it to do. I don't have to think about it after that.

If all tools were this reasonable, I'd be very happy.
> The dichotomy I was seeing was anti-car vs pro-car, which for America I feel is synonymous with urban density vs suburbia due to the way zoning laws pretty much mandate suburbia be pro-car. The bit I was specifically rebutting was that anti-car is somehow anti-nature, which was what I felt you were implying.

I'm glad we're clearing up the confusion. I certainly don't think that suburban zoning laws are the pinnacle of city planning or anything like that, and I'm optimistic that we can have walkable spaces without density. And even where there's density, I think there's a lot that can be improved.

I also think the anti-car message would go over better if there was less spite. For example, in Chicago anti-car activists want to remove Lake Shore Drive: the only major N/S thoroughfare--I90 runs NW/SE--it doesn't segregate the city, it isn't useful to commuters to/from the suburbs, and its removal will only push traffic onto the side streets making the city less pedestrian-friendly. But it spites drivers, so it's worthwhile. Instead, I wish these people would focus more on making our existing public transit more appealing: advocate for cleaner buses and train cars, advocate for the enforcement of laws and rules regarding (for example) stabbing, smoking, urinating, blasting music, panhandling, etc., advocate for punctuality. Once we have a good handle on our existing public transit infrastructure, we can then start thinking about smaller improvements--increasing capacity (especially during rush hour) so people don't have to be packed into cars like sardines, and then expand the network. Once you've made public transit attractive and practical for more people, then you can start working on deprecating car transit.
> How does one learn to actually read music, then?

The same way millions of musicions before you. By reading music, training, time and patience.
I am curious what you found complex - was it the PKI? I was able to get Nebula up and running WAY faster than any of the others. It's two (well really only one) binaries and a config file - the simplicity is awesome.