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>A company self-hosting needs one server and can handle thousands of users. A lot less complexity, a lot less moving parts.

Just because you have one server doesn't make you immune to downtime. If the server goes down at 8am EST (5am PST), who is on call to fix it? Or is the server just down for 3 hours until you get into work (assuming you live on the West Coast)? That's what I mean by 3 FTE. If this is core to your company and you require 24/7 uptime, then either one person is on call 24/7 or 3 people doing 8 hour shifts.

>Even if some catastrophe hits the server, your downtime will be measured by the time that it takes to provision a new server (hopefully automated), run some (hopefully automated) install scripts and restore the backup. All this work is a one-time cost, and any decent sysadmin should be able to handle it in minutes.

And if it happens at 1:30am? Or if it happens while that Sysadmin is on vacation? I don't think you are considering that your solution has a bus-factor of 1 for a service that is depended on for a 1000 other people. The idea that an $80k/year cost is preposterous for a core service only applies to people who think humans are fungible, cheap robots who don't sleep, get sick or take vacations.

I'm not saying Gitea or Gitlab are bad products. Plenty of companies self-host Gitlab with their own teams. But the idea that it costs _much_ less than Github Enterprise once you get company sizes of 1,000+ is absurd. We haven't even considered what happens when Gitea or Gitlab starts serving you 500s because your company hits some use case that the OSS developers hasn't thought of. Who fixes that? Now you are looking at sponsoring development of that. Or do you fix that? Can you guarantee any SLA on fixing any bug in Gitea? That company is moving to Ubuntu 420.69 LTS. What's the timeline on getting Ubuntu 420.69 in CI? Is that .5FTE engineering hours?
54% of Cuba is in support of polyamorous marriage? Citation please.
>> Investing in local chip fabs is long overdue.

Nah, this is a bargain. Rather than chasing the technology for 50 years, they just waited until it's already mature (2nm may be the end of the road?) and spend a few billion after all the development has happened elsewhere. BTW Germany is already home to some fairly advanced non-EUV fabs with Global Foundries.
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An authoritarian government can just seize the centralized servers that are needed to run this whole system.
This "what about grandma and the ads" argument is tiresome. Try getting viruses on your Apple or Windows laptop which was advertised as secure and going to their support and see what happens. They'll just point you to their fine print, the same as Apple does with hundreds of people every day who come in with broken iPhones and iPads.
There's a bit of a sentiment that the `*mut T`/`*const T` distinction is more unhelpful noise than an actually useful feature. They can be freely cast between each other - `*mut T` to an immutable object is totally legal - and thus (much like C and C++'s const) don't really mean anything about the thing they point to. Further, writing through one or converting back to a reference is already `unsafe`, so even using them as a lint doesn't add much.

AIUI that is why NonNull only has one variant- it's just easier to have one kind of pointer. But interestingly, even though `NonNull`'s API is written in terms of `*mut T`, it is implemented in terms of `*const T`: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/4ca19e09d302a4cbde14f.... This makes it covariant (`NonNull<T>` for `T: 'long` is a subtype of `NonNull<T>` for `T: 'short`), while `*mut T` is invariant, since this is the more common mode, and also the more flexible option that can be restricted back down to invariance when necessary.

So NonNull is sort of a re-setting of the defaults: the unsafe mutability of `*mut T` (since people wind up needing to cast covariant `*const T`s to `*mut T` to write through them a lot anyway), with the covariance of `*const T`.
yeah also kids and pets playing in your yard are now exposed to these crap chemicals and the health consequences are for life.
They lost $ 20 billion in the last year.
It does feel like a Twilight Zone episode.

In 2011, you could buy coffee and pizza w/ BTC (at non-conformist boutique shops but still). Now, not even those stores would accept it as a method of payment, and you'd be stupid to spend it on goods and services anyway, because BTC's value is wrapped up in the idea that it's a 'digital asset' instead of a currency.
Actually you might be surprised. Windows NT is _older_ than many of the "standards we take for granted in x86/PC land", and for example it does support multiple types of pre-ACPI ways of bringing up multiprocessor systems and specifically multiple types of interrupt controllers. Heck, x86 Windows even supports non-PC servers from Compaq and others; ever tried to press F5 during (old) Windows NT setup ?

As the OP said, all of this is abstracted by the Windows HAL, so it's just a matter of replacing the HAL (a separate binary). The problem is that the HAL is closed source. Outside of simple binary patches, I don't think anyone has come close to writing a new one.
What's the basis for this view? Microsoft will happily sell me a license key for Windows 11, will let me download a Windows arm64 build and activate it, with the license explicitly stating that installation on a single virtual machine is permitted, and with no apparent restrictions on the hardware which can be used.

It's totally possible that I'm just missing something but I don't really see what it is – as far as I can tell I purchased and activated a copy of Windows 11 21H2 directly from Microsoft.
Sort of like, sort of hate these books.

They imply that there is a "trick" to drawing each animal — if you can just remember the initial shape, small strokes made for each animal. Drawing by memorization.

On the other hand they sort of show you that the final image is built up, not drawn as a single, free-hand, outline.

To be sure though it was a book like this that got me started drawing as a kid.
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MyRadar on iOS does this very well. Has notifications on when rain will start, estimate on duration, warnings if storms are predicted in the next 24 hours, lightning nearby notifications, etc. It appears to be available for Android. I subscribe to MyRadar Pro and find it quite worth it to support the development.
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First require uniformity of function (without regard for appropriateness, future innovation, etc). Second, require specific sources (those with political connections) because “reasons”. USB-c chargers today, usb-c chargers from FaviCorp tomorrow. Zero power systems innovation the day after that.

Please don’t let politicians dictate technical design decisions.
The level of risk and needed effort also scales with the user base. So supporting local Gitlab or similar for 20 users is more like a 0.05 FTE, whereas it can easily be 0.5 FTE or more for 100 users.
The Apple supplied cables seem to be quite environmentally friendly already since they literally rot at the ends. Not only lightning but also the MagSafe ones. The Lightning connector itself mechanically is the best connector I've ever encountered, though. Pure satisfaction when plugging it in, even after 5 years or so
Yes, and in the context of Mongo-as-a-Service, it's amazing both to the client and also the service provider (less liability).
Most of what you're asking for is described in the docs, with examples. If you're looking for an example project using Joy, I think janetdocs[0] may be a good example. Some Janet experience may be good before diving into that repo, because it imports Joy with `:prefix ""`.

Also keep in mind that 99% of this seems[1] to have been made by 1 guy (Sean Walker), I think in his free time.

[0]: https://github.com/swlkr/janetdocs

[1]: https://github.com/joy-framework/joy/graphs/contributors
> being granted a monopoly

Anyone can produce USB-C chargers. That's not a monopoly. This will effectively enable competition on the charging market, since the big players can't bind their products to their own proprietary chargers anymore.

Have you ever felt the Apple/Microsoft charger to be lacking in some way? Breaking easily, too long cords, too short, wrong color, too expensive? Congratulations now you can make and sell those better chargers. Before, this was not possible.
Looked at the source. It just turns `{:some-attr 42}` into `some-attr="42"`, so aria and any custom attrs would work.

Svg also tends to work wherever Html works for similar reasons.
True. I like to avoid thinking that way. It makes me feel old.
In iOS 16, apps can trigger real-world actions hands-free
The McDonald's leaving thing was always totally absurd to me for this reason. There are real examples of economic dependence that could and do cause problems. The owners withdrawing ownership though is a pure benefit to Russia. Threemployees get paid by the customers and get supplies from suppliers and all of that is totally unaffected. The only thing that changes is they pay less money to American buisness owners, so if anything, pay might go up or prices might drop as less is skimmed off the top.
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I mean, the fab is physically in Germany. That's what matters for national security.

As an American, would I (hypothetically) rather have a Germany company building F-35s in the US than an American defense contractor building F-35s in Indonesia? I think the answer is obviously "yes".
Microsoft aren't going to write drivers for the M1 - it's not their job
, even if Apple provided sufficient documentation.
Mexico makes sense, there's NAFTA, just pay transport, tariffs/customs are waived. Not really weird, take a look at cars and manufacturing and it's been that way for the over the past two decades.
This kind of law practically guarantees there will be no usb-D, E, or X. It hardcodes inertia
Trade-in/up perhaps?
Currently, some of usually luxurious types of food are in lower demand in Germany than in previous years.

It's basically a choice if you will first buy necessities like meat (+80% price increase), butter (+50%), wheat flour (+100%), pasta(+100%), sunflower oil (+500%), or asparagus (-11%).
Sorry for being imprecise: I ment a much larger specialized semiconductor industry, that did not survive the market pressure. True that Bosch, Osram and Siemens (now Infineon) have survived. But I think things like RAM production moved out of Germany. Global foundries (formally th AMD fab) is an example of a non-European company, although certainly there fabs and are no clones of US fabs. However, afaik the industry used to be much more diversified and innovative at a time. Actually there is still some interesting exception in the list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabric...
I hope Portugal makes it onerously difficult for expats. The last thing that place needs is to be the new Malaga.

Yes, I am biased as I'm ethnically Portuguese, travel there often enough, and love "my ancestral homeland" and already see signs of boorish US/UK expats being full-on entitled jackwagons.
The only use case I see to this is a non-electronic cold storage. Which is cool, but then do we really need all the fancy note cutting?
It’s human nature that condemns us to these nerd anatomy measuring exercises. I’ve personally long since accepted that.

But in theory it could be a competition to build up, rather than tear down, things that most commenters don’t know jack shit about anyways.

C’est la vie.
It makes sense for cars to have a standard connector so that they may be charged without any problem at any public charging station. After all, there is a standard fuel nozzle for ICE vehicles.

On the other hand, this requirement to have an USB-C connector is pretty useless to downright counter-productive as it will indeed prevent innovation. It's just political hand-waving.
As an end user, why should I care about a technicality over how exactly someone is manipulating a currency that I own? Why does it matter whether manipulation is direct or indirect?

If the claim is that Bitcoin is only immune to specifically direct manipulation (where direct is a narrow sub-category of manipulation techniques), then... sure, maybe that's true, but it's also not that impressive and doesn't change all that much about the end-user's risks, since the more general forms of currency manipulation still seem to be entirely possible.

> You can cause panic in traditional finance markets, too. It's the exact same principle at play.

I don't think that's being debated, people are just pointing out that Bitcoin's price can be still be manipulated by powerful actors.
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There is zero literary evidence from Ancient Greek, Latin, Assyrian or Chinese sources. Meaning: it was a long-standing taboo by then.
This is not an onshoring story.

Vehicles and automobiles – $306.7 billion. Global supply chain issues have GREATLY reduced imports (availability of vehicles, while increasing prices).

Machinery (including computers and hardware) – $386.4 billion. Chip shortage has greatly reduced both that category and categories the depend on chips (autos aside as previously mentioned).

Aerospace – $139.1 billion. Airlines continue to struggle, now due to staffing challenges that find them cutting flights. FAA oversight has stalled Boeing production on 777X and possibly other models, cutting imports necessary to build these aircraft.

Gems and precious metals – $60.8 billion. Massive asset price increase and expectations that cannot continue has greatly reduced speculative demand.
Those are big and bold claims with no data to back them up.

Here are two mental models I used successfully to reason about teams.

One is the idea from Team Topologies that whenever a member leaves or joins a team, you get an entire new team. This new team has to go through the phases of a team again (form, storm, norm...). Also teams are entire entities that are bigger than the sum of their parts. That's why a single person leaving a team can have an outside impact in the performance of said team.

Another idea is the Dead Sea effect [1]. This stipulates that high performers will tend to leave teams because they can, while low performers will stay behind.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=dead+see+effect&oq=dead+see+...
I would be surprised if Microsoft doesn't cease & desist this
> That was basically the promise of the EU - peace through wealth - let's create some more.

Doing useless science is the destruction of wealth. The destruction of wealth is pleasurable, don't get me wrong, but that's all it is. They could build gargantuan statues to do the same thing, or accumulate huge stockpiles of weapons.
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Well, innovation does shift to circumventing the regulation. Such-as removal of the charging port all together, and moving to magsafe-qi charging
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MHXH3AM/A/magsafe-charger
That's really interesting, I had not heard those names in this space before. I would have expected Applied Materials. Maybe Nikon and Canon are suppliers of optics to the more industry specific companies?
That's incredible to me. Their support is completely and utterly inept, AFAICT.

Just today, I've been asked for what availability for a meeting I have between the hours of 9pm and 6am (and no, that's not a typo!).

You can't paste errors into the ticket. Their support system doesn't even support all of printable ASCII. The reps don't read the ticket before responding. If you can't replicate the error in front of their eyes, it doesn't exist, and even if you can, they won't believe you. I've literally had them defend 56 kpbs as being "good enough throughput", I've had "What is your ISP?" on "we get 500 Internal Server Error from $service" (and … our ISP is you, Azure…) … yeah. The list of idiocy we've seen just goes on and on and on.

Their support team wants to talk about "how can we architect a cloud system that'll blah blah enterprise blah", I just want valid API calls to succeed. I'm an eng, I can do the building, I just need APIs that aren't hot garbage.

(The outage I allude to in the above comment is actually mentioned in passing in [1]. I had to link to that blog post in the support ticket! (So thank you, Scott Helme, for writing it.))

[1]: https://scotthelme.co.uk/lets-encrypt-root-expiration-post-m...
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> Edit: My discovery of Halliday, Resnick, Walker physics textbook and Feynman lectures also was helpful. It was mostly- the Internet.

thank you for the tips! much appreciated
So what's your plan when China makes good on their promise of trying to take Taiwan and either seize or inadvertently destroy TSMC's 54% share of global chip market[1]? German automotive industry would grind to a halt as they run out of chips. Better yet, if America comes to the aid of Taiwan, China would likely strike US bases in Japan and Korea, threatening even more of the global chip supply.

[1]:https://www.techspot.com/news/94856-economist-china-must-sei...
Regarding the multisig: Is it possible for a government to, say, point a gun at your head, and seize the bitcoin, even if the holder of the note remains safely out of their reach?

(Either way, thank you for your service!)
It might take a while but the free market should correct this if that take rate is in fact too high.
This requires too much trust of your service, and I don’t see any significant benefits.

If you want to give someone bitcoin, just send some over lightning.

No need to add complexity and trust.
See, that's the problem with franchises. If every McDonald's was run directly by McDonald's HQ, then surely McDonald's would have pressured Putin not to attack Ukrainian cities with McDonald's restaurants in them.
> but if we start to deliver heavy weaponry to any people who got innocently attacked and slaughtered by a larger aggressor, we would be at war with the United States within the week

The US has not invaded a democratic, friendly country in several generations.

> If you don't treat similar situations similarly, the only option on how to act is in your own interest.

That's ridiculous. That's like saying if you can't save everyone, you shouldn't try to save anyone. Doing the right thing in Ukraine does not require doing the right thing everywhere.

There's no point in my arguing with you because you are starting with a moral premise -- black-and-white whataboutism -- that is both extreme and uncommon. Governments should do what their citizens vote them to do, and most voters/human don't agree that we should ignore Russia invading Ukraine because we don't support regime change in Turkey.

Applying your morality uniformly, Europe should either go on a worldwide rampage and try to topple every moderately corrupt leader (including those, like Zelenskyy, who were elected democratically), or they should allow Russia and China to build empires by toppling democracies. It's one or the other -- you can't be inconsistent, right?
It's fine if you guys come to visit, but staying here with your income is making Portugal unlivable for the natives. Unaffordable rents are a huge issue, for example.
Just beware that Portuguese folk might not be friendly to foreign folks someday, given that we're being crushed because of you.
> We need to eliminate money, go full star trek post scarcity utopia.

Electricity is scarce, and unholy amounts of it are needed to create this post-money utopia.
In Germany I have a hard time of thinking of a place that does accept checks as payment. I did get a check a couple years ago from an insurance company that reimbursed me. But besides that I haven't ever used a check in Germany.
>If you want Europe to be as attractive as headquarter location of mega-companies as USA is, you may have to compete with USA on a lot of policies (taxes, labor laws, etc) that would turn Europe into a different kind of society. Do we really want that?

No, but do you really have a choice? When you're selling tech products, you're competing on the international market, against everyone, including USA and China. If you work 35h/week and you get outmatched by a team who worked 60h/week, the end user will not care, they go for the best one, and the others loose. That's how international competition works.

And if they can deliver a better product at a cheaper price, they get the customers. The customers don't care if the devs who worked on that product are from US, China, or Europe and if they worked 35h/week or 60+.

That's why Europe is so underrepresented in big-tech internationally and the biggest wealthiest European companies are fashion related(LVMH) where the selling point is the name brand without any substance. That's why EU has not developed the iPhone and why Nokia, Ericsson, Sagem, Alcatel are gone from the mobile space.
Unofficial enforcement wouldn’t help me. I can’t buy a house in a low cost of living area based on the whims of a manager.
It's also a thing in canada
Ask HN: Would you host your new SaaS startup on Heroku?
I've seen some negativity about Heroku, specifically around their staffing and investment since they were acquired by salesforce. Interested to hear general sentiment from the community. I would also be interested to hear about alternatives.
It already exists for micro-USB, and USB-C was developed later - evidentially, this claim does not appear to be true.
>> Or the oligopolies that are allowed to operate unfettered in the USA.

> I doubt the lightbulb cartel is still a thing. While oligopolies and monopolies exist, it's not the answer to every inflating article.

An oligopoly doesn't have to also be a cartel, it just has to have few competitors.

I think the GP is complaining about how the US as pretty much allowed any market consolidation short of outright monopoly for a long time, which means a lot of companies have too little competition and therefore too much market power.
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You might be biased, but you're spot on. This can't go on much longer.
It's stupid to say this, but I think I work better with just one screen. The temptation to put Slack and email on the second screen and have too many things going on at once is too great. Using a single screen (the MBP display) makes it easier to focus.
Economics is relative. If you go to war and win, you are wealthier than the enemy who lost. If you are confident of victory, the "cost of war" thus matters less, because you get on top anyway.

Of course this only applies in a vaccuum. If there are any nations you don't attack and win, they can just build up their economy while you tank yours fighting and then swoop in to defeat you on the cusp of your victory.

Basic strategy in the game of Civilization. The rest of the world gangs up against a warmonger and unless they can promptly achieve world domination, ultimately self-destruct.
Except apparently you need to be online to send them the info after you cut the note. So its not really cold storage. What if their company shuts down?

You can do cold storage by securing seeds on metal, such as titanium, or any robust material you like.
Good point. What I wanted to say is, that what is "the best" depends a lot on the application. Maybe you don't care about compression/size, but about write speed. Maybe read speed is something you care about, maybe you do actually care about size, but compatibility with certain clients is even more important, maybe you care a lot about how long decompression takes, how much strain it puts on the CPU or the memory, etc.

So it is certainly not as simple as just going for the thing that produces the smallest file in some benchmark that may or may not fit your realworld data.
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