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> Why is broadband so shitty in the heart of Silicon Valley? Why doesn’t Google just wire the whole place up as a tech demo?

Google couldn't figure out how to get on poles. When they announced their batch of 20? or so real Google fiber cities, AT&T rolled out fiber to a good number of them before Google got city council approval to do anything. Comcast announced a loss leader 2Gbps symmetric for $300/month program [1], etc. It's not too hard to roll out fiber if you've got access to the poles and enough clout to put your fiber boxes wherever you need to. (sure, you gotta pay the property owner a little bit, but not it's not too bad)

[1] IIRC, it was always delivered as 10G metro ethernet, originally limited to 2G, but I think they increased that over time (I thought I had seen 6, but you're reporting 7). You've got to be close enough to their existing fiber that they're not losing too much on the buildout with their $1000 installation fee cap.
Do you even know of any physical exercises on your eyes or brain?

Neither have ever been suggested to to me by a medical professional or anyone I trust for advice.

* You use your eyes everyday, and hopefully you're brain, too. That's a good start!

* Don't strain your eyes with excessive periods in front of a screen, take a break.

* As for retaining optimal internal function, keep developing your mind and soul. Read a book, learn a new skill or programming language, or a spoken language. Have interesting conversations with friends or family. Write a story. Make a drawing or painting. Do these sorts of engaging activities in favor of excessive time on repetitive pastimes like video games or YouTube. Try to do the repetitive stuff in moderation when you can.

* Learn to listen to your body.

Just my 0.02

Take care matey.
There already are plenty of alternative "alcohols" many of which apparently have cleaner/less toxic metabolic paths (in humans). People experiment with them and you can read about them on various forums.

From what I've read most of them dont taste that good, or are expensive, hard to come by etc and theres no clear upgrade.
I’ve had similar thoughts and starting writing my own rust XAML framework with exchangeable backends (backend implementations incomplete) but didn’t find much interest from the community despite how awesome XAML is at separating the UI from the toolkit.
> I don't feel awkward going to a bar with work folks and ordering a diet coke. No one gives a shit.

I don't drink at all either. Always order a tea.

But whether give a shit depends on society. Chinese become either offended or very disappointed if you don't drink with them. They don't see it as individual choice, they see it as a statement that you don't like the host or the group.
> My understanding from the outside is that Google likes to pretend that AOSP is sufficient for antitrust reasons but really wants to control everything directly;

I never worked at Google either - but having an evergreen Google Play service seemed necessary to overcome the greatly exaggerated Fragmentation problem by back-porting what had been OS features to older Android versions. Previously, Android OEMs and their vendors - especially Qualcomm - had no incentive to provide driver updates for already-sold units, so that tended to never happen. Cue the tech press, Apple and developers loudly bemoaning "Fragmentation!!1!"
If Germany kept its nuclear plants it would still be almost as dependent on Russian gas as it is today. Homes aren't heated with nuclear power, they're heated with gas. Industrial processes don't run on nuclear power either, they run on gas. Germany doesn't produce a lot of its electricity with gas turbines.
I like how they focused on the boredom factor of the participants. Not surprised with the weight loss results though, potatoes are mostly water and carbs
Yep, you understood the comment.
I read the entire book series and saw the movies, and I agree that the author's tone crosses the line.

I can tell he cares deeply about how the story ia represented. My his wording is a bit 'dramatic'.
Yep, and the people most affected are the ones who can't withstand this sort of event. An example given in the article was people renting cars to work rideshare gig jobs, after rent and fuel they will be making so little money (an income which stops completely once they are arrested) that even a few days in jail can be enough to make them short of rent, lose their house, CPS takes their kids away, etc. Heartbreaking that Hertz's incompetence at setting or following processes can have such cold, real world results.
> I don't get this cult of newness thing. To me there's no shame in a library being "done".

Exactly! There is nothing better than a library that's truly done. That's rare, sure, but it's the ideal state. All bugs are fixed, it does exactly what it set out to do and it is stable since it never needs to change again.

If only all my dependencies could forever be libraries that are done!
Any plans for an Android app?
Getting patches sent upstream isn't a big problem.

Patches that are acceptable to and accepted by upstream is a different story.
If I may suggest using and being proficient with Vim might help you not be as distracted with backtracking and in general increasing joy of writing.
People who don’t drink or otherwise risk-averse bland people aren’t fun.
Yeah for real, people don’t seem to talk about this enough in terms of actual sustainable weight loss (maybe because it works or something)
In the post the author says the first architecture for Druid was ECS but they gave it up
You can put the info in the README.
The History Guy's Bottom 5 Tanks
No. There is no contract with upstream Linux. Patches existing does not mean they're accepted by upstream.
> improves the baby’s immune system

I think it just protects them while they are fed, does not offer long term protection.

Anecdotally ours started to get way more sick in daycare after we stopped
breastfeeding, but it also coincided with autumn season.
> pretty much short-term poisoning

Do you even know what oxygen is? It's deadly to several life-forms

Exercise is short-term damage. Fever is "just a bit" of cooking you alive.

"Strictly from a biological experience" humans are the mammals that have the highest tolerance from alcohol (which evolved recently).
I don't know what alternate universe you're living in where America is puritan. America is the most degenerate country on earth.
Obligatory link to ACX review: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-sadly-porn
I'm also a non-native English speaker, I also found the the title of the linked article weird and also saw the title of the Vsauce video recently. This all made me confused and I'm happy that you brought it up here and that people chime in to clear the situation up.
Monkeypox Cases Climb – US Officials Increase Testing and Order More Vaccines
"end up on regular business bullshit"? CRUD webapps?
In addition to what everyone else is saying, even if you allocate the spectrum for upstream and downstream, downstream can be run with more data efficiency because the multiplexing is handled in one place, whereas upstream is multiplex among many modems and you can't get them as tightly synchronized. When I was looking at GPON, it would typically run at half the bitrate upstream vs downstream to make upstream multiplexing more doable.

I dunno about static vs dynamic ip. In ye olde days, there was a real capacity savings with dynamic, but I don't know very many people who don't have a 24/7 device leasing an IP anyway. It's certainly a way to get a little more revenue though.
It's not only about releasing the "driver".

It's committing the time and resources to get it in a good enough shape to at the very least be submitted upstream.

Embedded device drivers are often developed by cutting a lot of corners, copy-pasting huge amount of code, using magic register addresses that are undocumented and targetting old kernel versions.

Even if they make the code available, there is not much the kernel maintainers can do.

By the time the device hits the market, the driver developers have moved on to the next project in the pipeline. There is never the time to clean up, rebase on top of master, submit upstream properly, and address code review (of you are lucky to get a maintainer to even look at your code).
The patches & drivers involved in most Chromebook peripherals are much closer to that of a PC in architecture than for the SoC's that go into phones. In this regard the patches are far less invasive, and thus more easy to match with upstream requirements.
I'm at the older point of gen z and I can explain a few of the things:

- Your first computer given to you was probably a Chromebook at school. It is your browser. Every app is a web page. Docs, Sheets are all web pages. If you were rich or privileged you might have gotten a Macbook at school instead. But nearly everything is a web page. You use Google Docs with your friends and for group projects. I can count the people that had desktop versions of Word or Excel on one hand. You upload your videos to YouTube, presentations to Canvas or Google Drive, you don't bring in a flash drive. If you plug in a flash drive it might just show up as "External Storage (128 GB)" and not /sdcard or /media/USB0 or whatever. Even then, you don't really folder it up. You might use it to copy one file or a ton of images from one thing to another, then you format it when you're done. You don't just keep one around to build stuff up on, why bother, it's on The Cloud.

- You grow up with no hierarchical file organization. Imagine mobile. You have a "Pictures" tab I guess, and a "Downloads" tab? What else is there? You don't have album folders with FLAC files or anything; all your music streams, all your content streams, none of the apps that serve that content allow you to download them into the filesystem, if anything they do their best to prevent that. You don't have a filesystem path on iPhone. You have maybe tags and categories on Google Drive and you don't keep anything on it other than Sheets and Docs stuff that is listed by name, sorted by recent usage, and do not physically exist as files on the filesystem. Tap to select by thumbnail and Most Recent do an insane amount of work to hide what a folder is, nearly nothing but F/OSS f-droid apps on Android will expose things like /sdcard/Something or /sdcard0/emulated/Downloads. You get a selector of thumbnails.

- Cheap tablets and phones try exceedingly fucking hard to confuse you intentionally for this bullshit to sell you "32GB MEMORY" (shit storage, 1GB ram), etc. Every non-flagship will lie to your face about this in all advertising you ever see, at least in the US.

- Cloud storage is the same. See first point about Chromebooks, for all practical purposes you save nothing locally. iPhones save your local storage by auto-migrating items to iCloud if not used.
In my experience, Microsoft's tech support was the least worst of the three as well. We have involved their tech support in an issue with Hyper-V clustered storage not coming online properly, and they were very knowledgeable.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Android have standard apps? USB Webcam? Settings? Calc?
In 2022 it frustrates the hell out of me that on any Android phone I /may/ get apps I expect to be on the phone from the manufacturer, not as part of "stock Android". I love my Galaxy Z Fold 2, but I hate that walking through instructions with family members my "Settings" app looks different from theirs. Even the Calculator is different. It surprises me that in 2022, during this pandemic, I can't plug in my EXPENSIVE Android phone and use it as a high quality webcam for the computer.

Is there a reason Google avoids setting a baseline and having stock apps in Android? Most of their apps are just portals to their services. I feel as though the experience of Android is diminished because it's missing these bare necessities.

When I try to look for a forum to request a feature, it says to go navigate into Settings to About phone and then Submit feedback. Catch-22: My Settings on this Samsung phone looks different, and there is no Submit feedback.

Does Google have some kind of non-compete with app developers and avoids creating these basic apps? I am nonplussed.
Over at the English Language Learners [0] Stackexchange, reading through the answers and how they describe their references (I didn't click through to read those references), it seems like "didn't used to" is more acceptable in general for both American and British English, even though it shouldn't be correct because it breaks the rules.

I like this last part of one of the answers in particular:

> One of the strongest arguments against treating used to as a standard verb form is the pronunciation. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, with the verb form of use, the s is voiced /juːz/ whereas in the noun form it is not voiced /juːs/. In I used to and I didn't used to, the s is unvoiced. It's definitely not a noun, but it is also not a standard verb form: it is something unique, and that's what upsets the grammarians.

Aside, like sibling comment, I'm also a native American English speaker and it's always been "didn't used to".

[0] https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/100674/didnt-use-to-...
I have been drinking way too much in my younger life, and I always thought this is the most normal thing to do because (here in Germany) everyone was seemingly doing it, at least I thought so. But in fact there are whole societies where alcohol is tabu / almost never consumed (muslim countries) Or consumed very sparingly because you cannot get it in supermarkets and usual restaurants (Turkey).

One might say that those countries are dry and devoid of pleasure, and that might even be true. But I am wondering if these countries develop some deseases less often (colon cancer, high blood pressure, etc)

Looking back, I should have had less alcohol in my life, but I wouldn’t want to miss it either, in moderate amounts.
Perhaps a study of the health of societies that drink vs those that don't would be in order.
Generally, I think the suggestion is that it might trigger a hormesis response:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis
Yup. Ubisoft Singapore hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons just last year: https://kotaku.com/the-messy-stalled-reckoning-at-an-assassi...
BlackBerry isn't selling it. It's the only active line of business that they really have anymore.

QNX is in 215 million cars.
Author here, it was an exercise run by a philosopher and attended by (mostly) philosophers, historians, a smattering of scientists, and a plebeian such as myself.

The idea is to use Socratic arguments and debates as if we were the characters to explore Plato's Republic. And it was really fun! It was historically semi-accurate, well informed, and we had discussions afterwards.

It's about what I uncovered arguing against them as Socrates' prosecutor. As I was arguing against someone who literally taught this at a university, I ended up reading two books in the process and a few papers.

This piece is the product of that. It examines how little we know about the trial and then presents the two hypotheses – the one I argued to convict him and one in his defense.

If you take the time to read the piece, you'll see that every argument is well sourced and covers a fairly comprehensive gamut of thinking on the topic.
I'd pay $200/mo for that if it didn't come with a transfer cap.

That's the problem with making bandwidth the only metric that we grade broadband connections on. You end up with "Gigabit" connections that you can only use at that speed very occasionally, because otherwise you'll hit a monthly transfer cap. (E.g. Cox's "Gigablast" service, which pairs a 1Gb connection with a transfer cap worth about 20 minutes per month at gigabit speeds.)
I would contact some professors and see if you could be an undergrad TA or research assistant!
Fiber was installed here, and they provide three tiers - 50Mb/s, 100 Mb/s and 1000 Mb/s, for 45, 50, and 55 euro each. We took the 100Mb/s.

I have no idea what I would use 1 Gb/s for, using it as definition for broadband would be premature. Than again, Bill Gates said that: '640 kB RAM ought to be enough for anybody'.
I've been having a joyful time exploring art tools lately and - in a turn similar to switching back to a classic typewriter, I recently realized that ballpoint pens, the same kind I doodled with in school, are, in fact, great sketching pens. The oily ink in most of them isn't made to last, and they have a nasty habit of spurting out dabs of ink at random when you move the pen, but they let you make thin, faint, precise lines and add layers of shading and texture, and they're stingy with ink usage and don't saturate the paper. So I can sketch with ballpoint and then use my "nicer" pens to add finished lines.

I have a decent enough digital art setup, but I really find myself drawn to traditional lately. Like, the input just isn't as good in digital for doing characterful lines. There are pretty good stylus systems now, but they have a handful of different shapes and nib frictions, the raw output is always a little bit too aliased to be satisfying, and it always ends up going into software that stabilizes it into a generic swooshy line. So you have to work at it to get something like an analog result. And most of the things you really benefit from in digital happen either at the beginning(edits to help with planning) or at the end(corrections and layered treatments).

But the two things that help the most are also there in traditional: use references, and make straight ruler lines and take measurements to help get the initial shapes in proportion. If you're mashing the undo a lot you're still wasting time that is mostly accounted for by good planning and use of technical drawing tools.

And writing really is the same way. Good command of language isn't really restricted by slow writing speed.
> 100Mbps symmetrical is just on the edge of what telcos can jam into dsl over their existing install base.

I'm not sure that's going to cover much of their base. I've got a pretty good line, I could probably hit 100M down, it's around 90M now, but not more than 40 or 50M up, it's capped at 16M though, cause fixed profiles :/

Elsewhere near me, there's like a chance of 10M. New technology isn't going to help that, unless it's fiber to the curb; but you might as well go the rest of the way to the premises if you can.
Opposite, growth exploded.
if you have children, especially if you are female, or a single parent, chances are you simply do not have time for side projects.

i agree with the benefits, but it favors people without children
Author here, this is implied from runtime dependencies, it's in generic packager speak.

Ideally, I would provide pre-built packages from CI, of course.
Bill '& Melinda' Gates giving alcohol consumption advice. I don't drink alcohol one year in every four, makes me appreciate booze more in the drinking years.
The year off I'm usually more clear headed, probably an uptick in depressive periods depending on circumstances
Except the Kaufman Act link points out that diesels were introduced in NYC because the didn't pollute like steam locomotives.

That doesn't fit OP's thesis at all.
Actually taking that part out of context reminded me that "shebang" is a word outside of technology. It means something like "everything involved", the phrase I'm remembering is "the whole shebang".

So even under that original meaning it fits.
Consistency across OSes if for the benefit of devs, not users. The more you can reduce platform differences, the easier it is to maintain multiplat code, you don't need a specific platform to repro issues, etc. It's the same logic as the trend toward static linking.
In countries like the US around a third of the adult population rarely or never drinks alcohol. But if you are a regular drinker you won't notice them because they won't be hanging around in bars.
Rappi mafia: How a delivery startup took over Colombia’s tech scene
Anecdotally, I've noticed that people who don't drink at all tend to be more social in general, while people who often drink in social settings can find it hard to be social if they're not drunk (and often if both parties aren't drunk). Hence all the replies here that equate alcohol with being social and absence of alcohol with social isolation. Alcohol has become a crutch.

If you told a cocaine addict that cocaine was bad for them, and their response was "perhaps physically, but getting rid of cocaine and isolating myself socially would be bad for me to," it'd be a sign of how deep their addiction was. Alcohol is embedded in many people's lives, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing.

I've also found that trying to socialize with alcohol makes people much more prone to discord (including physical violence) than those who socialize without it. In a lot of ways it seems to function like other drugs - a shortcut that's easier but also inferior in the long term, more dangerous, and one that creates a dependency where people have a difficult time functioning in certain environments without it.
I don't think its that simple. Not even close.

Yes, IP protectionism is a problem, and breaking IP sometimes is extremely beneficial (e.g. generic drugs). But that doesn't account for the underdevelopment of most countries. There are many factors involved -- geographical, historical, social, political and so on. Its a long discussion that is ill fitted to a comment box, but suffice to say B&M Gates isn't _the_ reason underdeveloped countries are that way.
Nearly 100k deaths from opioids in 2020 (the most recent year with full data).
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/index.html

Fentanyl is an opioid, albeit a synthetic one. The CDC numbers don't break down the percentages of which drug killed the most people. The California site that you cited does, but the 5,502 number you cite is "Deaths Related to Any Opioid Overdose", which includes Fentanyl. So according to the link you cited, nearly 72% of all opioid deaths (in California) were caused by Fentanyl. The California firearm death count you cite is still lower than California's Fentanyl death rate for the same period. Extrapolating for the whole country using California's Fentanyl/Opioid ratio yields an approximate US Fentanyl death count of 65,838 for 2020.

https://www.dea.gov/factsheets/fentanyl

"Rates of overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone, which includes fentanyl and fentanyl analogs, increased over 56% from 2019 to 2020. The number of overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids in 2020 was more than 18 times the number in 2013. More than 56,000 people died from overdoses involving synthetic opioids in 2020. The latest provisional drug overdose death counts through June 2021 suggest an acceleration of overdose deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic."

https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/basics/fentanyl.html
The problem with those is they're easily stolen during a home invasion.
The App Store version seems to require Big Sur.
But the grinding machine costs (which is significant if you have 10 of them) and the grinding process takes a lot of time and cost (if you have 1 machine x 10 mirrors).

I don't think these NASA/JPL guys are quite as dim as you seem to suggest (but you have more info) and they may have done a little cost/benefit analysis before embarking on the project.
Do you evaluate every activity in your live solely wether it helps your career?
From the outside looking in, it's seemed that Not Invented by this Team is just as likely a factor as NIH at google.
Not really; they just lobbied the Bush II Administration into crippling the Clinton-era rules that required them to allow competitive DSL providers.

The requirement was called "Local Loop Unbundling" and it required the RBOCs (legacy local telcos, from when the Bell System was broken up) to lease "dry pairs" to various competitive DSL providers at reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates. And for a few years it worked! The dialup ISPs started to move into DSL services and it looked like we would have real competition (admittedly DSL, but this looked decent enough at the time).

But they lobbied the shit out of Congress and got LLU killed in the early 00s.