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> Following a mandate from the European Commission, the European Standardisation Bodies CEN-CENELEC and ETSI have now made available the harmonised standards needed for the manufacture of data-enabled mobile phones compatible with a new common charger

Circa 2010. Apple had an exemption

https://www.engadget.com/2010-12-29-european-standardization...
I think it will be the opposite.

We really don't have much proof that vaccines reduced transmission. It could be to some extent but how meaningful was that?

We also know that some governments but not all governments implemented vaccine mandates. For example, the UK was pretty lax on them but Germany was very strict.

Occam's razor indicates that apparently some governments didn't have scientific basis for mandates. The opposite that they really had all scientific proof but somehow hid that from the public sounds like a conspiration theory and does not cut the mustard.
I assume the parent was using $500k as the total home price (building + land[1]), so the savings is only off the building cost, which is a fraction of the total price. Should have made that assumption explicit though.

I think the OP's core point is sound -- (total) home prices are like 50% over historically reasonable levels, so it's daft to explain it by even 20% overpricing for construction (which, again, applies to only a portion of the total sale price).

[1] And the typical home does not cost $500k to build.
Exactly! I at first thought this was a rogue or disgruntled employee who wrote a blog post on the way out. But it appears to be a legit article sanctioned by their company.

They literally opened a server without firewall rules for anyone to connect to their RDP port, and wrote a blog article to brag about it. They also have a Windows agent but they brag about not using Windows in the past 20 years…
The US only has like 500 miles of modern rail track - between Boston and Washington.
I wish we had decent rail lines outside of London
I don't see any indication in this article that she's in the software or STEM industry. Glancing over the rest of her articles don't give this indication at all, nor does her feeling that she's lacking knowledge of "markets, technologies and trends".

If she were a software engineer, I'd have all sorts of advice on how to develop the skills to re-enter the job market.
He's right you know; and it's true. This happened when checkra1n was out and we saw a tech demo with 'Linux' on an iPhone 7 [0]. Then we have it running a Ubuntu GUI on an iPhone 7 a year later. [1]

However, want to do this yourself? [2] Follow these straightforward and simple 'prerequisites': First get a cross-compiler, git clone, patch, patch, kernel setup, CONFIG_ABCD=XYZ, make build, DFU blah blah blah and after days of trying to duck tape everything, it still crashes as it only works on an iPhone 7.

Nothing has materialised in a straightforward 1 click multi-device install like checkra1n has but for 'Installing Linux' on it. Even 'checkra1n' was supposed to be 'open-source' and that still hasn't happened since. If anything goes wrong or a bug happens then restore everything and start all over again.

> Knowing linux community they will spend another 2 making different “organisations” and then claim “success linux run on ipad!” when it boots with zero devices supported and 90% loss of performance and battery life.

This is the likely case on what is going to happen. It is still "coMiNg vEry vErY SoOn".

[0] https://blog.project-insanity.org/2020/04/22/linux-with-wayl...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kvmsfd/success_iphon...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kux9xx/success_iphon...
In Poland, the right-wing populist party that is basically buying votes with money also has 30% that is more or less stable in spite of numerous scandals, glaring incompetence in almost everything they touch, supporting Putin's team (Le Pen, Orban, etc.), publicly lying on numerous occasions (the prime ministers has been convicted of lying, so you can legally call him a liar) and so on. In spite of all this, they can still count on their 30%, mostly because they took over state media and entered into alliance with the Catholic Church which is still strong in villages and smaller towns, especially in the east.
You're demonstrating my point. Solar and wind are useful for cheap green peak power if the peak coincides with weather- a best case scenario that varies by region.

Grid power supply needs to be robust enough for worst case (or even just normal bad) scenarios, or else people die.
A while ago a small company I was working for was acquired by a huge national company. Through "synergy" I ended up in working in BI doing ETL from the systems we used into their DB2 warehouses. When there were errors, we'd manually go through the error log and manually insert the erroneous rows. During this transition I was given a set of credentials that, apparently were used in the actual, daily production job, without me being aware. Well, I managed to lock that account out with 3 bad password attempts. It was a huge ordeal; everyone of my director and VP were reprimanded. Noone publicly blamed me because it was, obviously, stupid to run production jobs with credentials you give to some guy watching ETL that day, but I was still quite embarrassed.
I'm now trying to imagine a Mars helicopter solution that encompassed all those technologies in the stack. I could imagine the company I work for coming up with such a solution.
> it definitely didn’t work the way Microsoft had intended

I think this is a poor conclusion. This person has no clue what Microsoft intended. And I think preparation and knowing a person who works at Microsoft may have been what Microsoft intended.
I would imagine it's because they want to avoid people building bots and creating businesses around accounts creation and selling. Once you have such a secondary market you get a cheap supply of accounts due to outsourced labor or bots. This devalues the in-game purchases. Why would I spent more money in-game if I can just buy a cheap account?
I live in a city. So I had stuff like a group of high school kids come into the cafe I was working in, some guy very pointedly looks at them, then at me, then he got angry I loudly said "Oh, those girls are in HIGH SCHOOL, can't you read the shirt?"

I had a series of interactions like that that got me labeled "troublesome", it's why I'm looking at other places to live.

That is what I mean by not tolerating antisocial behavior.

Happy I was able to help you understand friend.
I have built two mechanical keyboards bases on MT3 profile and I would absolutely do it again.

I used Susuwatari and Biip Extended 2048.

A nice side effect of tall keys is the deeper sound they produce and the fact that you can even partially fill them with Noico sound deadener if (like me) you enjoy an heavily muted typing experience.
How to stop using social media
Putting grit in your job requirements is a huge red flag. Putting it as the top is really concerning. Working for a company shouldn't require grit.

> grit, n: firmness of mind or spirit, unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger

What hardship or danger are employees subjected to, in your company? If this an excuse to blame burnout on employees' lack of fortitude? What systems are missing from your organization that make goals reliant on individuals' courage?
For a programmer, are those gacha "vending machines" available in code libraries? I would love to experiment with implementing one in a productivity web application.
The Rise and Fall of Boosted Board [video]
Not sure Cunningham's law really applies here. I wasn't aware of the "gray:" functionality before this post. And, as you say, doesn't work on gm anyway :)
When I was in public school, lots of people made those including me. I wouldn't call them zip-guns though, they're a form of improvised sling shot (or spear gun, if you use those sandwich toothpicks with the plastic frills on one end.)

They're basically harmless, I don't see what the trouble is except for the 'distracted from class' angle. I don't think you could even shoot somebody's eye out with one, they're about as powerful as throwing a pebble by hand. I don't think you could crash a drone with one either.
This is pretty hilarious. If you spend any time on CS career forums like /r/csMajors or /r/cscareerquestions, you realize that peoples strategy appears to be “grinding leetcode” for hours and hours until they can regurgitate the exact question that they’re asked on the interview. It’s gotten to the point where some people are terrified at the prospect that they won’t get a question that they know already. As if figuring out the question in the interview is just such an impossibility.

It’s quite sad because it reflects an attitude that problem solving is too stressful/challenging, so people will take the route of blind busywork to avoid actually solving problems. Granted leetcode problems are pretty useless and stupid. I don’t fault people for coming up with a stupid solution to a stupid problem.
Yes, that's one thing that surprised me, as someone who mostly grew up in a large french city and then left the country altogether during my university years - I had this image of the more rural areas as being completely dead - but like you say, tons of young local associations doing awesome things and cultural life going on.

I'm surprised that most of my neighbors in my 1800 people village are relatively young (30s/40s) with kids, again I had this image that it would only be old farmers.
Can’t read the article because the popovers just glitch out but why would you take on that amount of debt if you can’t pay it off?
How do you rack up 300K in debt to get degrees in education related fields? What school did you go to? I have a bachelors from a state school and masters from a private school and never even came close to those costs.

It seems like you should have chose a better course to become a teacher.
You mentioned in a few words the biggest problem, which is zoning. The vast majority of land is zoned single family, which is actually a money loser for most municipalities in the USA. Crushing the local nimby zoning boards and forcing a much higher percentage of the land to be zoned for higher density would cause a boom of missing middle (and high rise) construction that could mostly solve this problem for very minimal capital outlay by municipalities vs trying to build enough single family zoned stuff to push prices down.
Elsewhere on the Internet, someone posted:

> If it ain't broke don't fix it? Or is there some specific shortcomming that might justify a rewrite?

I’m answering that question. The information is out there, so if people want to ignore it that’s beyond my mandate. But this is still constructive since someone out there wanting to rewrite Gitea will want to know what the pain points are before they do so.
Who said you can't do both.
The way those games are designed most of time there is a way to get good gear for free, but its usually behind hundreds of hours of same monotous gameplay.

I’ve played Homeworld mobile recently. The progress is great for first 15 hours but then game drops at you timegates. Wanna spaceship strong enough for later content? You can do god know how many missions hoping you get ship design, or you can do god knows how many missions to earn money to buy that from one of factions for cash. Or you can buy credits for cash. But only on Android because game is in public beta and Apple forbids monetization in those.

And once you get the ship design, you need to mine resources for it (this is manageable) but then you need to refine those, which takes around 70h of wait, but if you have other premium currency named „adamantium”, you can cut that wait in half for 100 adamantium, then another half by another adamantium and half of that.

And then you need to build ship in shipyard which takes between 10 to 15 days, but with adamantium you can slice that time down like for refining.

Every day you can collect 100 adamantium for free and buy 1000 extra for $9.99.
On a secondary device.
Huh? It has to work out that or the human race dies out. I guess you could have a few couples who have a lot of kids instead, but developed societies are really adverse to that.

It is “natural” in the sense that we wouldn’t be here to talk about it if it wasn’t the case.
A very interesting project!
Check out Stretchly as well: https://hovancik.net/stretchly/

"Stretchly is a cross-platform open source app that reminds you to take breaks when working on your computer."

It's open source, binaries are available for macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, and users can write custom prompt messages (in addition to the standard ones about stretching, taking breaks, and eye strain).
Thank you, that's a great keyword set to start with.
Well good.. Let's kill it. Who cares if the business model works. It shouldn't work.

The idea of such regulation is to stimulate the business to move back to normal models.

In the Netherlands this is already working, Diablo immortal is not available there. It's a small market but once the whole EU does it they won't have a choice but to come up with something more reasonable. Win-win.
Would you be able to share some tips or sources on managing your manager? It sounds like a really valuable skill
I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones
Yeah but who run the place?
What is the business model?
Will they resell data to headhunters?
How to configure Vercel deploys for a monorepo package
I’ve seen this happen in some context at least once every five years throughout the 30 years of my career. The absolute best ones cause large scale incidents due to the volume of the messages. I always looked at it as a random celebration that brings all the trolls and introduces them to the idiots.
I think the point is not the size but the resolution ratio of the screen. A 13' inch 4k screen will be much better for your eyes than a 27' inch 1080P screen.

But no matter how good the screen is, too much screen time will still hurt your eyes.
On Android, you can turn on "Live Caption" for autogenerated captions a la YouTube
True, this seems to be Blizzard's thing. I also hated WoW for this reason, I played along with friends but it took me 3 years to teach level 60
So you’re not disagreeing that it’s compensated? What decision(s) can a non-parent make to get 1 year of compensation like parents get?
Beware the Time Eater
NY Senate Bill S4104A – digital fair repair act
Ask the Chief of Police in Uvalde. He knows.
This is already done on an annual basis. Git repos spring up every October purely to accept PRs, no matter how trivial. They regularly make it to the top of the trending repos list.

I think DO excludes them from the final count though. It doesn't stop people from trying.
You either have enough to pay or you pay until all your assets are exhausted to $0 and then Medicaid takes over.
I never thought of gas as being high-end. Is it because in existing construction it takes a lot more work to run pipes versus pulling a few wires through the wall?
I'd recommend a strategy involving finding the right book first. I use an onion strategy where I read broadly, but shallowly to start and get an initial "lay of the land". Then I can dive into more detail on the subject without getting lost.
I haven't yet been disappointed in digital ocean articles.
> US schools apparently conduct surprise active shooter drills with simulated gunshots

I didn't know that. It reminds me of this joke / supposition from the late comedian Trevor Moore:

"What if governments learned from the MKUltra experiments in the 50's that trauma allows you to control people, so they purposely orchestrate disastrous events to keep their citizens afraid + dependent on them, and that's one of the reasons that mental illness has been rising? lol"

https://twitter.com/itrevormoore/status/1400158963748917249
Another data point: for me, it’s the complete opposite. On my new acer laptop with dual boot, windows runs nicely and quietely does what I tell it to, except for some random unwarranted Cortana stuff once in a while.

On the other hand, Ubuntu is completely unusable due to noise of the fans that spin up like crazy for the most trivial of operations.
Ask HN: Past examples of new multi-applicable software (AI, Blockchain)?
I'm looking for examples of new software from the past (contemporarily: AI, Blockchain) upon which entire companies (and a new category) were going to be built, but ended up absorbed by real companies in real sectors?

We currently have a "Blockchain sector" in tech, with "Blockchain companies" . But that's not a real sector. The Blockchain itself not a platform, it's a tool.( Ditto AI).

What will exist will be cloud storage/database companies specializing in using the Blockchain in specific existing categories: Fintech (global remittance), Permanent digital archiving etc. It's like how Telegram isn't a "Mobile Apps" company, it's an information transfer (aka communication) company which competes with SMS, newspapers, physical human going to a place to deliver the message by word of mouth etc.

So yeah, what are examples of this happening in the past? "New software" at first births "new software" companies in the "new software" sector, until, eventually, "new software" becomes just a normal tool, not with its own companies in its own sector, but which enables companies in existing sectors.
Are you putting in a fresh air ventilation system (ERV) in your new house?
If you need a heart transplant, are you planning to self-pay that?
RNA molecules can act as catalysts. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribozyme
Yeah, I'm constantly surprised that nobody every says this. With women entering the work force, now the family as a whole needs to work almost twice as much, as before when women were house wives. That's a pretty hefty price to pay for everyone, to save those women who were unlucky to have a cruel or unfair husband. I don't know if it's possible to say if it's "worth it" or not, but this independence sure does not come for free.
You’ve obviously never removed graffiti.
Great tools for peopleanaging Twitch streams.

Weird to me, there's almost no consumer facing API of note. I just want to mamage my favorite channels and categories, & the web interface is terroble- only shows like 18 results & that's all. There's no api either.

Did note, while poking around, twtich's front end is some pretty wild graphql.
The official AOL client at one point relied on an RCE vulnerability in the client <-> server communication to thwart MSN's compatibility [1]. The client would be exploited by the server and sent new code to execute, making it impossible for most competing clients to be compatible with its protocol.

If that's the programming style that was deemed acceptable for release, I can almost guarantee you that the old, unmaintained client will definitely have some other vulnerabilities left over in its protocol.

[1]: https://www.geoffchappell.com/notes/security/aim/index.htm
Try the very short biography by Bill Bryson, the central point of which is how little historical evidence of anything to do with Shakespeare actually exists and the ludicrous ammount of speculation over the years by various hunch holders. I also like the 1987 moot court considering 17th Earl of Oxford arguments in front of then sitting Supreme Court Justices: William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, and John Paul Stevens [1]

[1] https://www.c-span.org/video/?618-1/
If you read the page you linked more carefully, you will see that OSI does not own a valid trademark for "Open Source", only for "Open Source Initiative".

OSI in fact tried to file for a trademark on 'Open Source' in 1999 [1], but failed because the term is 'too descriptive'.

[1] https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p...
Or they could just stop killing people so no such "humanitarian mission" would be necessary.
Chief of police for Uvalde’s schools. I’m sure the chief of the police for the city is sweating bullets right now by all the people making the above mistake in wording.
It's just simple luck, not cheating. I had a similar experience, at a Microsoft interview no less, a decade+ ago. I had been playing around with AI Pathfinding algorithms for a game I was working on. The first interviewer tries to toss me a difficult question that involved navigating a complex graph. I'm sure it was supposed to be a multi-stage problem that we work through together. Instead, I walked up to the board and wrote out an A* algo in 45 seconds because I had been writing this F-ing algo over and over, troubleshooting it for days in my game.

The interviewer looked awestruck, and we spent the rest of the time discussing other things. Of course, I got the job.

It's just plain luck. Enjoy it when it happens.
Not quite a book, but if you already know, at least to some extent, some 3D GPU API, I can recommend this series of blog posts: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...
Lisp, gcc, gdb, pearl, python, apache, mozilla, git, etc.
I distinctly remember "AOL Keywords" as a signal that corporations were going to find a way to ruin the internet with their walled gardens.

And while that idea didn't pan out, the general idea seems to be roughly what happened. The internet is now mostly a grouping of separate spaces like Facebook, Apple's store, TikTok, IG, etc.
>They're basically harmless

They got you expelled and sent to a place that would make you need stitches if you stayed on the computer too long where I grew up.

It's a weapon AND a tool, make no mistake.
Isn't that a good thing? The fact that there is so much content that getting the best version of every item cannot happen, even if you spend some money?

Is a game fair only if you can acquire the best gear in the game (for real money)?
Ask HN: What's the best resource for existing programmers to learn JavaScript?
Do yourself a favor and play the game instead of trusting the words of streamers. You can get a ton of enjoyment without paying anything. If you want to be ultra competitive then it is a different story
I feel terrible for the teacher in question. That balance is obviously going to be almost impossible to pay off.

However, there are a number of bad decisions here that are suspect.

Firstly, she clearly did not take out a 303k loan. Her loan at one time was much smaller but I don't know what her graduation balance was. Perhaps others do. I'm guessing that it was probably at most 150k (still a huge amount)

Here are some interesting facts.

She is 53 and her loans have been in forbearance (we are not told how long). That means at some point she stopped making payments but interest kept accruing. Her loans are on pause at the moment thanks to the feds but again she is apparently not making payments. However she IS paying for her nephew to go to college.

Great back story but it seems inappropriate to pay for a relative to go to college then claim you can't afford to pay for your own college debt.
Honestly, I shamelessly took a switch into hospital and it was an absolute god-send. I couldn't manage it while on a fentanyl infusion, but combined with the drugs it was perfect – episodic gameplay, pick up and put down, and a wonderful form of escapism. The Witcher and Skyrim come highly recommended, after BOTW.
Hold the back button, you'll get a list of previous URLs to jump back to. Works similar to right-clicking the back button on desktop. Still pretty annoying, though.
Same. I thought he was named, “Nice Linus,” or something.
I live in a rural/suburban town of a few thousand. There's a tiny "downtown" thing branching off the highway with a deli, convenience store, pizza place, and some other small stores. Whole town is only designed for cars besides some sidewalks in this downtown area, but you can bike around just fine if you're fit enough for hills or have an ebike. I have a single family home that's about a 10 minute bike ride from this downtown. Almost all homes are single family, and a lot of farms. I think this setup works great.
That’s great for you. How about all of the lost education of your classmates from teachers having to spend time and energy dealing with your pernicious individualism?