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True, that sounds reasonable..
mechs can be remotely controlled via logic processors (they can also remotely control basically everything in this game).
> Device and OS makers should ...

It sounds like you expect them to do this without intervention.

Device and OS makers are not doing this now, and have had plenty of opportunity to do so. If anything the device/OS situation is getting worse - just look at windows requiring accounts, recommending apps and sending telemetry or ChromeOS embedding Google into your device.

So we do need an external force like the FTC to make change happen.
Becoming common on most VAG cars for example, even Skoda (their budget-ish brand) - see the video here https://www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/press-kits/skoda-superb-....

I think they're pretty effective; they cut out the light beam exactly where the other car is. There might still be reflections from other surfaces though.
In general, I don't think this is true at all and much of the most innovative, boundary-pushing software is open source.

It might be more true for open source games specifically, due to the economics of creating games. But as someone who is a casual/nostalgic gamer at most, that's absolutely fine by me.
Completely disagree. It’s echo chambers online that are radicalizing people.
I bet if you selected Chrome it would remember it.
I live firmly in a middle class area. I have no idea how it went for the impoverished.

What I saw in 2008 was:

- coworkers getting laid off en masse. no jobs waiting for them. good people with families.

- the housing market crashing bad and foreclosure signs everywhere. normal people, not just people spending over their means.

- those unsold/foreclosed on houses eventually started to rot and get overtaken by tall weeds, making things look like The Walking Dead. Actually, it made me notice that lawns were being cut in TWD, because IRL, unkept lawns were a lot worse than what was on the show.

- thieves started stripping the metal off of whatever they could. You'd see houses and other equipment missing lengths of metal or cabling.
"To the extent" being operative. It'd be good to have numbers substantiating this, because all signals indicate that US truck manufacturers have very little presence in European markets.
Totally agree that Sheets is better as a quick and dirty web-based spreadsheet app. I’d still prefer something like Airtable for most of the use cases you outlined, but Sheets is absolutely a good quick and dirty tool.

But once you go beyond that, all, as we’re both saying, it’s not even a conversation. And anyone who is trying to argue against Excel on its merits as a power app (no pun intended) is on something or not arguing in good faith.

(O365 has improved a lot but I still think GSuite feels faster. But I don’t hate Office Online or whatever it is called.)
'Could'...
Even publishing it gets him a 1 year inventor's grace period where his publication can act as prior art to stop others from patenting, but doesn't stop him from patenting, under the newish first to file rules. But I dont know about internationally.
"A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of Cluetrain." - Karl Marx
Well if you're selling you really ought to provide it in all available formats, especially with how easy it is to convert between them. Should take you a total of what, 10 mins?

Kind of like us devs that have to deploy code for various platforms, which is arguably an order of magnitude more complex in some cases. You're lucky that the Kindle doesn't support 3 OSes with each its own proprietary formats lol.
This was the primary reason I chose a Kobo. You can use the pubic library entirely on the reader.
There is a huge problem with productivity at my company. Unfortunately too many people just took advantage of the flexible work arrangements offered by the response to the pandemic. What is even more frustrating is that people refuse to own up to it. Most of them pretend to be busy and overworked while conspicuously putting in the bare minimum every day.

Remote work obviously has its advantages but I’m starting to believe that it is a privilege that should not be granted by default to the entire workforce. Perhaps it makes more sense to only grant it to exceptional employees who have already demonstrated significant value to the company.
I've heard of companies organising the low code department under UI/UX. Any explanation for this?
She's pretty great, lack of apologies notwithstanding
Not where I live. If you're plain average and not in in-demand roles/fields, as a white male your options and opportunities are limited employment wise. That's what I've seen first-hand and in some cases experienced.
Will the kid understand that's everyone's intent, I wonder?
Well, that's on Apple.
Being a curmudgeon isn't a virtue.
Yes of course, but this applies to any model. We cannot know of any model is "correct", they are just tools to describe what we observe. If they are more predictive than other models, then we should use them. Or course it's better to use a simpler model that gives the same predictions.
Air gaps are the traditional way to make a reluctance motor. Sansone is exploring a different way to make a reluctance motor, improving performance at the cost of added complexity.
From the article:

> when you’ve got people who are caste privileged and caste oppressed, the people who are caste oppressed start to be given inferior assignments, get treated differently, left out of meetings, which are certainly things that I heard from Google employees within the company.

> Asking things like “What’s your last name? I’m not familiar with it.” Then, when the manager hears that last name, they’re, like, “Oh, so you’re from this caste—no wonder you have these leadership skills.” Things like that. And somebody else in the room is, like, “What the hell?” It’s those different types of experiences that I’ve seen or that have been shared with me that show that caste discrimination is happening in the workplace.
I post that each time an open-source clone is on the front page—which is pretty much once a month, sometimes sooner. The site itself was posted on HN three times altogether—one of them in the last hour, again without any traction. This dynamic is kinda funny.
Let me look for a good source for the inflation reduction bill.

In the meantime here you can see the catastrophic effect of Sri Lankan style ESG policies in the Netherlands, as projected by their finance ministry. Netherlands is the 5th largest food exporter in the world.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/07/ministry-figures-sugge...
It has since been edited, so apparently that was the point.
> the change in the design of the MacBook doesn't actually make it harder for me to avoid killing pedestrians while using it.

Actually the profile of the current MacBook Airs when closed is less “sharp”, reducing potential velocity and penetration as you swing it around wildly while walking down the street.
Yeah, and that frustrates the hell out of me, too, because I don't have Instagram and it varies (based on Zuck's mood, I guess) whether they will even allow me to view someone's profile without an account.
I venture the opinion that the overwhelming majority of the complexity on most current software is accidental. It's the kind of share that you measure in 9s, not on raw percentage.

Some stack that avoids all that complexity would be technically "low-code". But the format of the low-code stacks people push around today is incompatible with general development, and doesn't actually make most of the complexity go away.
> However, we cannot control the medication that we take, which carry side effects.

>We cannot control what is in our food, we cannot control the air we breath, we cannot control cancer and hundreds other diseases.

Seriously? The answer to all of the above - Yes, we can!
Except there is no feasible alternative to the phone system for making phone calls (although there are a multitude of video, voice and text chat apps), whereas there are many social media companies and also many blog hosts and VPS services and web server software and so on. You have so many choices. I'd argue that if you want to publish something on the Internet, there has been no better time to do it than today, and it keeps getting better!
The First Amendment is pretty unpopular with progressives in the US these days, but I’m not sure this is the result we really want.
I wish they would stop adding features and just to lock down the language, and focus on more maintainability and use. Adding features is nice but its one of the biggest issues that slows down adoption. More people care about learning a language and being able to read code without trying to figure out what some latest feature does rather than some syntactical sugar.
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It definitely feels like society as a whole has gotten more impatient, entitled and angry since the pandemic. Maybe it was all the time spent at home rather than interacting with strangers and taking part in society. I mean we're still not to pre-pandemic levels of socialization I'd say.

EDIT: Whether this has anything to do with current car design trends is a different question though :P
bittorrent exists
gonna go out on a limb and say 0... made me look though and apparently it is starting to happen.

In March (2022), Fortum and Microsoft announced our joint plan for a ground-breaking data centre region in the Helsinki, Finland metropolitan area. The data centres will use 100% clean electricity and the waste heat they generate will be used to heat homes, as well as business and public premises in the area. I must say I am immensely proud of this project – but I believe it’s only the beginning.
>Pretty cool when you're added to a new project, have no idea what people have been working on for the past 2 months there and want to see where most of the actual effort was focused.

That's a neat idea!
> Want to use your system repo rust toolchain instead?

If you want to use your system toolchain, just install your software from there, it will be compatible with the available toolchains, if it's a library, you don't even need the toolchain if its an application. The software is obviously also gonna be "outdated", because that's the point of Debian, stable software that has been well tested with the system.

> This is because Rust devs, for now, are the type that will immediately beginning putting the new code features

There is the concept of MSRV (Minimum Supported Rust Version) that a great fraction of the community follows. You just specify publicly the minimum version that your library supports and enforce it with CI. This is not as good as having an official standard (say, in Cargo.toml), but a lot better than just implicitly depending on what you think is currently available in bash for most users.

> without consideration that it's not available in any OS repository toolchains

Arch's package has been available on the same day in the last Rust's release. We'll probably have 1.63.0 available today or tomorrow.
I can't believe the oceans would have anywhere near the usage you find in-land, so the links between satellites could be relatively small compared to the rest of the system.
Most 17 years old don't have access to 3d printers. Equipment is a big factor in making something tangible.
it just comes down to abstraction and associated tradeoffs. Low-code/no-code fundamentally isn't all that different from the difference between using Python vs a lower level language.
What kinds of things do you expect to be gated behind permissions? How do you plan to educate users on how to grant these in an informed way?
NATO troll is a really funny idea, I'll give you that.
>Don't most of the satellites in the current constellation not have the laser links needed for intraconstellation communication?

Nope, all v1.5 sats have them, so everything launched since January 2021. They experimented with them earlier for polar orbit sats. At this point that's by far the majority of the constellation and either approaching or at critical mass for the mesh. They're probably testing it globally now.

To sibling: they definitely need Starship, but not so much for pure launch numbers as the ability to launch v2.0 at all. F9 fairing isn't big enough. 2.0 will let them shrink cell sizes and improve density and performance which they need too (obviously now more in light of yesterday's announcement). More 1.5 sats wouldn't help as much with that, though the mesh will help relieve ground station chokes as well as ilenabling beyond station service.
From what I can glean, it looks like about half of the units in orbit are V1.5 with laser links. I know that they had issues getting the links working, but it seems that they have worked the bugs out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starlink_launches
Fair enough, but context matters and there are two that matter here: (1) The subject was the tech and the engineer not biased media narratives, and (2) HN is a forum that so many people look up to. So if you want to context switch to a discussion about the media (a worthy subject BTW) post a new thread; let's not do it on a thread that is spotlighting interesting tech from a promising engineer.
In the US diversity is also seen through an oversimplifying lense of "race".

Serbs, Croats and Bosnians are all "white", but there's a good chance they won't get along.

Similarly, Pakistanis and Indians are both "South Asian" etc etc
> US truck manufacturers have very little presence in European markets.

If they have any presence at all then they are subject to European regulations of one form or another.
UK is a decade ahead of you there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_joke_trial
Would be interested to see this map overlayed with the orbits of their satellites.
There is a team called Community Policing at Google that sends requests to take down memes. If you don't comply they complain to your manager and HR. The folks running this team are super-woke and totally unaware of things like historical racism (like in Europe) while bending over backward to accomodate their favored groups.

It was much better when memegen was a force for positive google culture, such as when somebody exposed just how bad hello.com's static content was or how dumb google+'s policies were.
A meta-comment. You are getting a lot of pushback because it seems to me that you are moving the goal posts. Here is what I mean.

You wrote "alarmist" but did not explain what you meant. I asked detailed questions so that we could get on the same page. No response, right? Or did I miss it?

You give specific examples that fall into the category of, e.g. (paraphrased) "if look at X data over a sufficiently long time frame, it does not show a clear trend." Yes, this is correct for some cases. And these are pointed out in the EPA descriptions. So this does not support your alarmist claim.

You complain of being personally attacked.

In summary, this trajectory looks a lot like moving the goal posts away from explaining what is alarmist about climate change models.

If you've changed your mind about what claims you want to make, please do so. But I have not seen good argumentation or explanation for what seemed to be your core argument.
I’m increasingly of the opinion that if it doesn’t face customers it should be done using something like Retool. Especially considering that you can just plug it into your internal APIs so if you need to do anything particularly hairy you can still use your backend.
I wouldn't say it's the beginning. There's nothing new about it. Apparently the police have recorded over 100000 incidents of 'non-crime hate crimes'.

I like Andrew Doyle quote on this:

> In this new woke era, our law enforcement agencies are not content to police crime, but also non-crime. This is a huge relief, because for a long while now too many citizens have been not breaking the law and getting away with it.
It's also because it's not exactly racial discrimination. They didn't hire almost all Indians because they thought white/black/hispanic people were inferior. At least I don't think they did. It was more network based and as immigrants their network were mostly other immigrants.

Plus there's a lot of discrimination going the other way where American born developers got the preference. Again, not really due to racism (at least AFAICT) but more because of culture & language barriers.
For a moment I thought this was going to be more like "allegorically" about castes than about actual castes, since Google also has a history with the former, as highlighted by Andrew Norman Wilson in his 2007 art piece "Workers Leaving the Googleplex"

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0RTgOuoi2k
Low-/no-code environments are really great for exposing domain-specific landscapes to non-coders, but that significantly reduces the hype value of the lingo, which aims to convince buyers that they can replace those pesky non-specific domain problem spaces and coders with capex and a smidge of opex. The value proposition of these products is the same as before because this is a repackaging of fourth-generation languages, and the economics have not changed.

The more narrow the domain, the easier it gets to figure out a low-/no-code environment that will work for the users. But the smaller the base of purchases. And distilling the complexity to just the right level still takes some really bright domain experts with extremely good intuition of where the most profitable use cases lay (the hardest role to fill) and highly empathetic coders (also hard to fill) who work well together (extremely rare), or a single person who embodies both (unicorn).

If energy and money were no object, low-/no-code is absolutely A Thing. I believe there is some kind of emergent Shannon–Hartley theorem behavior here, where complexity down a communications network with certain noise/bandwidth/etc. properties has some suspected hard physics-as-we-know-it limits.
Attendance at the talk would have been mandatory
> At the same time, I've also seen users do incredibly crazy things because either they didn't know any better or just didn't bother to "read the code". Good example of this is people just keep creating Statuses in JIRA until you end up with "Which of these 264 'Completed' statuses is the one I want?".

Why is this a problem? Programs are a means to an end. The 264 Jira statuses are messy and could be done away with, but would a clean solution actually change anything for the better? In a significant, "it was worth spending the money on a real developer" way?
`rustup` is awesome for me as a developer. It is not convenient if I am a sysadmin that wants everything to be stable and consistent: I can not afford to use special version/package manager for every single language. It is fair to complain that rust (or python, or julia, or any other language with built-in environment/package/version manager) do not play nice with OS package managers. OS package managers are starting to take "vendoring" a bit more seriously because of this.
BTW, my theoretical favorite of those is the engine clone of Carmageddon, made by one guy in C#—however he's finished everything besides power-ups, and then abandoned the project.

http://1amstudios.com/projects/openc1/
Mystery solved! Wonderful investigation, all.
Seems like you could get at least 75% of the way there in a single day using Inkscape as the drawing platform, depending on what else needs to happen with workflow (like scripting to add another page blank, which seems like it's less of an "Inkscape page" and more of a "rectangle I can write on & export as PDF", with the PDF export of a selected area doable as-is but maybe adding a specifically-sized rectangle where you want it is worth scripting) or tablet / writing operations. LO Draw would also be a candidate.

If you want your grid to be even more interesting, integrate Eagle Mode around it (i.e. install and skim the Eagle Mode docs) for harnessing the powerful & more or less universal taxonomy of a filesystem. You'd have multiple levels of zoom & pan workspaces there, since it will preview the PDFs as you zoom to their location.

So, if you want to wait for something to fit the spec to your inner-critic's liking, I guess that's one thing. But if you could get most of the way toward what you want within a day...even though it wouldn't be perfect...would that be worth trying?

There's also a Patreon for Inkscape development IIRC...
I have gotten BasicLinux to run on a 386SX with 8MB of RAM. No networking, and it requires loading from a DOS boot first, but it’s Linux!

https://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/
It's meant as a target for what the focus and outcome of what the FTC's work should reflect.

We've already been through several attempts of analysis of policy for app makers, a lot of time has been wasted. Companies already have huge volumes of data on consumers even if gathering was to be shut down now.

Regulation should also address deletion of personally identifiable information that they've already gathered with a well defined policy for moving forward. This issue is far beyond the point where regulatory action should have been taken.
Very salient point.

Having used both threading and various coroutine libraries (gevent prior to asyncio and asyncio more recently), I find coroutines easier to work with in modern versions of Python. So I don't find them superior strictly on performance; I also consider them more productive due to ease of use.

But I wouldn't disagree with someone choosing to use threads because they find them easier to grok than asyncio.
In the Anglosphere, it feels that many of our institutions have been captured by activists. A small minority who push an agenda and are able to silence (consciously or subconsciously) mainstream thinking.
Weird, it does work for me.

Here's an archive copy just in case: https://web.archive.org/web/20220711142141/https://api.starl...
This must be too good to be true, right? What are the odds any meaningful action comes from this?
Really not an issue with modern stability control. There is still a higher chance of rollover from pure impact, but again, the bigger the truck is, the more likely you will be fine.

Modern F150s come with Advacetrack sport mode for TC/Stability that essentially lets you hold a slight drift angle if you want without letting the rear get out of hand - it monitors yaw, tire speeds, throttle e.tc.
> "The video explained that most electric car motors require magnets made from rare-earth elements"

For years, Tesla exclusively used induction motors with no permanent magnets. It's only relatively recently (when the Model 3 was released) that they started using permanent magnets in order to gain a few % better efficiency.

Even now, dual-motor cars often pair an induction motor with a permanent magnet motor. This configuration has various advantages: the induction motor can spin freely with no resistance when no power is required, so using one of each provides the best combination of efficiency and power.