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>> You're part of the in group, you made it, you have achieved sameness, you have an iPhone.

I assumed I was just a grouchy old man (because I am:) but I recently found out what level of social stratification happens for teenagers without iPhone. Immediate judgement, plus the continued dreaded green text box. It is brutal

I thought I was exaggerating the iPhone as a status symbol as opposed to actually convenient / technical solution, turns out I was naive.

(there ARE things that Apple does very well, when it comes to integrating within ecosystem, though some of them are CREEPY - like being prompted to share my wifi password with another person who happens to be looking for wifi around me; just because they happen to have an iPhone doesn't make them my best friend... or does it :P )
Still seems to be an American phenomenon (saw it first hand in Mexico, not US/Canada) - in Europe everyone has a van for (construction) work, not a pickup truck. And by everyone I mean easily 90% (unless you're talking real truck of 7.5t+) with maybe an exception for garden workers.
Meh, I don't want to speak on behalf of someone else and say she's brainwashed, has Stockholm syndrome or anything of that sort. If she's truly happy with that kind of work environment then I wish her the best of luck finding another environment like that, and all of us to whom this sounds like torture can be glad that there are plenty of workplaces that don't function like this.

There's no need to be presumptuous, different strokes for different folks.
"Road tax" (a levy to cover the cost of maintaining the public highway) obviously needs to be extended to cover EVs at some point. I'm surprised it hasn't already.

However, broadly speaking: tax the thing you want less of.

There's various strategies being raised to cover this so-called "lost revenue", including the tracking of your home electricity usage via smart boxes to tax you on charging your own car (!!) and charging cars a per-mile-tax instead of on fuel.

But, if we're to believe that EVs are currently being incentivised because the Government wants to lower emissions (and thus avoid any costs of continued nationwide carbon reliance) then perhaps a study should be done to see if the cost-saving of people moving _away_ from ICEs outweighs the lost revenue of taxing petrol/diesel, in the long run.
Hybrids, as with cars, provide the most benefit when you can run the engine at its sweet spot more often.

I believe some cargo ships have had relatively tiny batteries for a long time, for port maneuvering where the engine is throttled way down. To prevent pollution they now often are forced to plug in when in port too. So I'd guess this is already just going to happen as battery costs reduce and pollution controls and costs rise, but maybe won't have a big impact on long voyages, though every little bit helps.

The other big play in this space is green ammonia, but similarly early moves are to just burn it in modified diesel engines. Longer term they can electrify with fuel cells.

And obviously those two can work together as Fuel Cell vehicles are basically hybrids with the same drive trains as electric vehicles, just smaller batteries.
Russia is playing China in the world championship. I wonder if US is getting a serious heartburn
If C++ hadn't already hit it's all-time peak market share in 1995, it was certainly well inside the ballpark. It's far from an exception.
Same thing happens in my GFs Prius... So annoying we refer to it as an "aural assault". I can't help but think U2's release strategy was really negative publicity for them in the long run.
The point of road taxes is to pay for maintenance and expansion. Roads break down over time if you do not maintain them.
Tax vehicles based on actual wear to the road surface and add it to the annual tag renewal. Of course, that would stop us from conveniently ignoring the fact that the vast majority of road wear comes from semi-trucks and other heavy vehicles.
Go ahead and read the bill—it's not long.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/29/...
No idea their reasoning, but if I were a top football, swimmer, or other athlete and knew that a computer could outperform me even at my highest level would be pretty disconcerting.
Income maybe not, but consumption taxes affect them disproportionately.
I always tell people the `-m` flag of `git commit` is only ever to be used in scripts. Let git open an editor and write your multi-line message there. Look at the comments telling you which files have been changed.

Even better than using `git add` and `git commit` is to use `git gui` to add and commit files. The (standard) GUI is not to help beginners, it is to make you a more effective user of git. Note there are other apps you can use with more features, for example I like gitx on MacOS, but there are also terrible apps out there that do try to be easy for beginners, and they should be avoided. The most obvious is github desktop (I haven't tried it for a while - it might have slightly improved, but I still won't go near it)
He held the number 1 spot in the Fantasy Premier League for a time so yes https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/dec/16/chess-champion...
A 25 dollar logitech wired headset with a boom is brilliant. I have people with $200+ airpods on the call and I hear their cat dog air conditioner wind spouse keyboard car and everything. But they cannot be told this - they have expensive earbuds and they can hear ME fine, so it's all great!
In this comment I will teach you how to build your own bicycle! Step 1: Go buy a bicycle. Step 2: Now let's paint it and get some cool stickers!
Nonsense. The point is that he is putting PoW and all other types of blockchain systems on the same bag.

If his criticism was specific to Bitcoin (or other popular PoW-based systems), then it would hold. But when he acknowledges alternatives and make it sound that they don't exist yet, then it is dishonest.
It's a combination. Revenues gathered via road tax have a provision for older/more polluting cars so you pay less the newer your vehicle, essentially. Some of the money is used to fund the maintenance of highways, though.

Local roads are funded by council tax, so this probably dispells the anti-cycling argument because presumably the cyclists do pay council tax (unless they're on motorways which is another issue.)
Ask HN: What is the ideal company size where I can grow as a developer?
I am sure this is more art than science. But there has got to be a good general size.
I asked people on reddit what was the best way to grow as a dev and become better, and the overwhelming majority told me that working under good devs is the best and fastest way to do it. The question remains what size is ideal. Should I join a small startup or a medium sized company or a large one? What has been your experience?
How are non-capitalists countries dealing with extreme temperatures ?
It's very odd they used the term Road Tax. It's always been known as Vehicle Tax for the very reason you've pointed out. Hence why you don't need to pay tax to ride a bicycle on the road.

The other area they are losing out not mentioned in the article is Benefit in Kind tax for EVs used as company cars. At some point, that will also need to end and be more in alignment with ICE vehicles.
Maybe Apple had a sinister plan here... First, they make all of their own Apple gear's bluetooth work really well with other Apple gear (which they generally do). Then get rid of the cables, and everyone else will copy Apple because that seems to be what other companies do. But everyone else's bluetooth implementations suck (which they generally do), so people think that Android/Samsung/etc aren't as good as Apple which Just Works(TM), thus slowly exacting their revenge on the copycats and/or steering more sales towards Apple.
U.S. stocks rise with bonds on hope rout has bottomed
The general idea I think is that once you start the car, it just send a play command the moment it detects the connection.

And in theory it _can_ provide a really nice experience. For example I'm walking to my car listening to an audio book, the moment I start the car, BT is connecting to the phone and moves the audio playback from my AirPods to my car speaker without skipping a beat, its really impressive.

Additionally since I'm an Apple Music user, whenever I start the car, it just defaults to whatever's I've been listening to there, unless there was a book / podcast or even YouTube video playing before. Which is very often quite nice.

Now why apple just defaults to Apple Music, and not "your music player of choice a.k.a. Spotify" is questionable, and why the automatic play is also not configurable is beyond me.

Just wanted to give my 2c how this can lead to a good XP.
How do you loose files with git merge / git pull?
I was effectively oncall 24/7 at my job at times in 2020.

I barely noticed the pandemic. I never strayed far from my computer. Also, yes, I tried not to drink much.

I certainly learned what my limits are. People think I am a pretty good engineer (not amazing) but what I am known for is being able to keep that level of performance up for a long time.

For my part, despite my reputation, I tried to quit a few times. Not the job, the company entirely. I have never cried at work, but came close once or twice after being up for days and unwinding from a big escalation.
Agree, hours have very little to do with burnout, unless your talking about the colloquial burnout which seems to be used as a synonym for fatigued or exhausted.

I've been a workaholic all my life, often working 80 - 100 hours a week for years on end, often in stressful situations. That didn't cause burnout or anything like it.

What ultimately got me was developing a quick but complex POC that became business critical seemingly overnight. Nothing worse than knowing that a hidden bug in something you coded over beers one night could cost 5000 people their jobs in a matter of hours, and having execs want you to move on to the next big idea instead of providing appropriate resources to carefully rewrite and thoroughly test. The depersonalisation such prolonged stress can cause is really hard to convey.
To add to my comment, this explains why SSRIs take some time to work - it's the signalling through the vagus nerve that takes time to impact the brain. Other compounds such as curcumin and famotidine (H2 antihsitamine) have also been found to work via this mechanism. For many many years scientists had dismissed curcumin as having no effect because it's not bioavailable - recent research has shown that it doesn't need to be if it directly activates your nervous system! There's a lot more research that needs to be done here, and I think promising therapeutics for impacting brain function are coming our way as researchers learn more.

If you consider the brain a state machine, inputs from the nerves - through gut-brain axis, through your eyes and ears (socialising, environmental cues, sounds of safety vs sounds of threat), through your skin (touch) etc all impact the state. This state can range from safety to fight-or-flight (anxiety) to shutdown (depression). This is hugely simplified (for example neuroinflammation, endotoxins/LPS etc can impact this also) but I've found it very useful for regulating my own state and understanding why I feel happy, agitated, low etc.
We're now entering a phase where governments and employers are trying to re-instill labour discipline after two years of that "getting out of control" due to COVID, etc.

There is a target unemployment rate that is considered "healthy"; we're currently below that. Attempts will be made through various levers to get it back up there. Likewise, flexibilities and "perks" around home work, etc. that emerged during COVID will be pushed back: not because they impede productivity but because a disciplined and vulnerable work force is a cheaper work force.

All the talk about "nobody wants to work anymore" is the blunt ideological end of the hammer that will be used to restore workforce discipline. The sharper edge will come in the form of modifications to labour laws, reduction of benefits and welfare programs, and the return of the austerity politics of the 90s. We've been through it before...

A large part of the battle against "inflation" will be done in board rooms of major companies.
this is paid out of local taxation. Which is why pedestrians, cylists, equestrians, tractors, cows and ducks are allowed to used the road.

There is no such thing as road tax.
>Bobby Fischer

For anyone that likes the weird, wacko and genius (all the same thing ?) there are few excellent short documentaries on YouTube about Bobby Fischer. Well worth a watch!
In Android you can disable it or point it to your own DoH.

Classic DNS resolvers can have same "hardcoded" problem.
> How many billions of calories have been burned to fuel thoughts of worry about an outfit choice around the world?...The stress society tries to shovel on you is such a waste of energy and does nothing to help you.

Sadly, not enough to offset our sedentary lifestyle and diets. I can't be too concerned about the energy expenditure involved in worrying about meaningless things. For now anyway, we've got energy to spare. The toll of all that stress on our bodies is much worse than the calories we lose. Still, I'd rather be worried about the trivial things that we occupy ourselves with than the life or death worries humans regularly faced when we were berry foragers. Going from worrying over "Will we eat today?" to "Which of several restaurants should we go to for lunch?" is a blessing.
check out emacs' undo-tree for a cool implementation

https://www.dr-qubit.org/undo-tree/undo-tree.txt
"embeddable" usually means "usable inside another program" (e.g. for user scripting), not "running on microcontrollers"
It's a handy dog whistle so we know they are part of the car lobby

edit: spelling
In a normal tournament, you meet so many different people (and you often don't know in advance exactly who you will meet of all the participants), so it's hard to specifically prepare. For a match of this kind, however, you know your opponent will prepare specifically against you. So you kinda have to do the same.

That entails analyzing all of their games and finding defenses and weaknesses. But also trying to find new novelties in the openings etc. And since the opponent will do the same, you yourself have to prepare defenses for lots of potential new openings 16 moves deep or so. It's an insane amount of studying.

Of course, that pays off for future games outside the match as well. But when you know your challenger will spend half a year on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to beat you, you probably have to do the same. So have to say no to everything else.
I don't think most people appreciate how automated commercial vessels already are. The ship navigates autonomously from port to port. If you have a twenty man crew on a commercial vessel, they are split across two 12 hours shifts, you may only have one officer on the bridge during on watch, a few engineers below supervising the engines and performing preventative maintenance while underway, and able seamen will be doing the rounds checking nothing amiss such as loads moving etc. The crew are largely there to respond in the event of a crisis as commercial vessels are such an expensive asset.

I think it's better to think of the crew doing underway asset management than "sailing" the vessel.
Oh interesting ! I didn't know that !
My proposal:

1. Browsers should ship with a set of fonts used just in the web browser that web designers can count on. Right now, there isn't a font I can count on finding in Chrome on all platforms. This especially matters for non-English languages, where a different system font can lead to a website that looks very different.

2. Browsers should not load fonts installed in the operating system. It's a fingerprinting vulnerability. And it also causes issues where the system-installed font is unexpectedly different from platform to platform. For example, Arial is different across platforms, especially once you consider non-English languages.
How about the government just finds a way to make do?

It's kind of preposterous that we're staring an economic slowdown and high inflation in the face after decades of incomes flat-lining and the .gov is telling people to cough up more. I get that EV owners are statistically richer but you're not gonna change that by raising the TCO via taxes.
And yet the US leads the world in immigration every year, year after year. Economic migration to the US is a very real thing and is likely due to people in the US having the highest disposable income in the world.[1]

Also, almost 2/3 Americans are on free or subsidized health insurance through Medicaid, Medicare, Tricare/VA etc. which have nothing to do with employment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
‘A bigger paycheck? I’d rather watch the sunset ’: is this the end of ambition?
Context, Costs, and Benefits
motorways, not highways
DNS has known privacy issues, but this solution just (conviniently for them) shifts trust and data from the network operator to Google DNS or another central provider
I also had similar problems with iPhone and BT. Before it worked very good with an Android. What I've learned over time is that apple seems ti sabotage anything that is not apple. I had connection problems with my car, with my Sony BT headphones, with portable speaker. Alk that went away as I switched back to android.
Sounds like a nice engineering challenge but not a show stopper problem.

Also this seems like it would be more of an issue in shallow waters than it would be in open ocean. A simple pipe to deeper waters probably goes a long way to fixing things. The Pacific is pretty deep near the Californian coast and has strong currents too. The volume of water moving through that is probably many orders of magnitude larger than any brine you can dump there. So, unless I'm very wrong about this, I'd expect things to dilute pretty quickly.
Unless I missed something recent, it is not known whether any player has a winning strategy (or a drawing strategy, for that matter). It would be quite the discovery as well.
Many think that perfect play from both sides will result in a draw but there is no prove for that yet. So I'm reality we do not know.
> Smart home wallbox chargers could in theory tell the electricity grid it was a car being charged, but homeowners could just plug a three-pin extension lead into a normal socket to charge their car, circumventing any such communication between grid and charge.

To encourage folk to use their wall box, offer a discount rate in exchange for utility control of charging. That way load can be shifted off peak if needed.
It's not a solved problem but our best players and best computers perform better with white. The edge isn't tiny either.
I assume it means they are paged via escalation if the primary fails to ack which should be rare, not paged every incident.
With classic DNS resolvers you can modify the responses on the fly as long as you provide the box its network. Not possible with DoH.
Many national go tournaments have a similar format in all of the 3 countries it's worth talking about (China, South Korea and Japan): the champion waits for the result of the challenger tournaments and plays only the final series of games (3, 5, 7.)

International tournaments tend to be shootouts with everybody playing from the first round.

You can get a picture of how they are set up by looking at the tournament tables at https://www.go4go.net/go/tournaments/news
GCC is from the 80s, Unreal and Source are both from the 90s, and LLVM and CUDA are from the 2000s.

Yeah, I'd call all of those codebases pretty old at this point.
You're correct - it appears to work via the gut-brain axis, see my comment above.
Similar happens in my Mazda. No matter what I do, unless the source was actively changed to something like the radio before I shut my car off, as soon as I turn on the ignition it starts force playing a random song on my iPhone , Usually at a painfully high volume. Apple has bloomed Mazda and Mazda have found Apple.

It always tends to be a race between the Bluetooth connection in my ability to turn the volume down before it plays; even when it’s stopped, the moment I take a phone call it starts playing at maximum volume again after ending the call.
Correct, because much of the US is sparsely populated, and homeless folks will aggregate where public services are available and accessible. You won’t find a homeless encampment in the middle of Nebraska where there’s nothing around but ranches.

It’s not “progressiveness” that attracts homeless encampments, it’s density.

Where there are people, there are resources. It’s got nothing to do with politics.
The obsession over the carbon footprint is that it is pure waste (like sticking a gigantic space heater in the middle of nowhere and running it 24/7)

It has an efficiency of approx 0%.

And as it gets more successful it gets less efficient and wastes more energy.

And there is no incentive to reduce that energy usage (Facebook would save money if they could make their algorithms more green, for example so they may pay people to look into that).

Bitcoin has to pollute, for the security of the network.

Also there is the manufacture of disposable single purpose hardware for the mining of bitcoin and it’s environmental impact.
No, it's highways because not all highways (major roads and motorways) are motorways.

See: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/highways-england
Automated testing with Cucumber BDD using Selenium and Java.
One option is to use your bluetooth headphone exclusively with a usb bluetooth audio dongle (which is detected as a usb headphone when you plug it). Unpair the headphone from all your devices, and plug the bluetooth audio dongle to the device you want to use the headphone with. This is faster than scrambling to find whichever device currently grab your headphone and disable it.
No Google data center issues, or melting railways in non-capitalists countries, because Google data centers or railways are the result of capitalist economies.
I feel like this puts a cloud over Ding vs Nepo.

Like whoever wins, the title will have an an asterisk that says, "Only because Magnus bowed out."
I guess swimmers have known that the performance of powered aquatic vehicles runs circles around them on many metrics for longer.
> Nowadays, it seems like popular opinion has really switched.

The superbowl ad, and the subsequent crypto crash. The scam ecosystem enabled by cryptocurrency really took off, and a lot of retail "investors" have lost money as a result. This takes away a lot of the positive sentiment.

The advertising means that everyone has heard of crypto now; there are far fewer "meh" or "who" people. But there's far more people who themselves or friends have lost money to it. And you'll hear more of this in tech circles. It still isn't all that big on mainstream news either way.
Yeah I think most of engineering just has never heard of a night crew... And it works out to the benefit of companies, unsurprisingly.

If you want people to work around the clock, hire enough people to work around the clock. Maybe this means engineer salaries get repriced, maybe it means more and more companies figure out they don't necessarily need on-call.

All that said, the status quo probably won't change, there are more than enough engineers who either don't know better or do consider it priced in to their salaries.
You wrote: <<nearly impossible to construct in modern Western economies>>

What is France doing so well / different? As I understand, they have the highest mix of nuclear energy for any advanced economy. My guess: Most of their nuclear power plants were built by a single state-owned company: EDF (or some predecessor), and the designs were remarkably similar. (I have no idea if both are true, but it is my guess.)

Also (Re: "Western"): Is nuclear power really cheaper in Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and China? I doubt it. And did you see the price tag on UAE's quad @ "Barakah"? Staggering: 20B USD! How many solar panels could UAE lay for that price!!??