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Their hardware. They have, at best, 1 supercomputer (though it's not actually clear if they have more than some Dojo prototypes to me). That does not a cloud make.
i3 is one of the vehicles that designers thought end user is a "eco freak" vs "normal person". It's pleasant to drive, but extremely ugly.
For me I have not missed it one bit. My co-workers are not my friends and even though I am friendly with them and joke around when we are in conversation at the workplace/Slack, when the work day ends, we don't seek to add more socializing.

I return to my family and friends and so do they.
Maybe, but I wouldn't modulate whether or not it's journalism based on the partisan affiliation of the doxxing target.
Competition is tough in Freelancing. You should showcase your work uniquely
When eating ice cream turns into an identity conflict there is something wrong with people. Surely, people with a positive attitude would see this as something that can be enjoyed by a bigger group and thus some common ground. It takes ill will to turn an opportunity for enjoying something together into a basis for conflict.
I think vaporising it totally would take multiple kilowatts.
Indeed, you are right, most innovations are more about timing and adoption rather than invention.

I think though that the point about shrinkage is the large change between casting and room temperatures (and maybe during pressing?); the differences in thermal coefficients (per degree) are significant but not that huge.

As for oil based inks-- that too was widely used in China-- for seals. In fact sealpressing and pressprinting is the same process, wouldnt you say? Have not found anything indicating the Chinese made that leap (en masse, of course).

Finally .. antimony is kind of the unsung hero here. Its the magic element that the Chinese didnt know about.
No, because 2⁰ = 1.

Paper weight is measure in grammes per square metre. 80gsm is typical for ordinary paper.

A0 = 2⁰ m² = 1 m² → 80g
A1 = 2¯¹ m² = 0.5 m² → 40g
...
A4 = 2¯⁴ m² = 0.0625 m² → 5g

(Fixed typo, thanks.)
But so is the United States. In all industries where it matters (science, technology, military, medicine) metric is virtually the only measurement system that's used, not to mention that a lot of products are sold in round metric quantities, not imperial.
Social connection to my coworkers? Not really since I talk to them on a daily basis and that’s all that’s needed for a good working relationship.

As for my own morale, it’s much improved since in the downtime I can have water cooler chat with my real life friends and family.

I like to think that if WFH had been here in 2000, my college buddies would have had a great time staying in the same house and working. Instead we moved to different states for jobs.
Not Canada though, which is definitely more imperial than the UK.
I'm shocked that there isn't a simple mail server configuration where you can say bounce to sender all emails with a reply to of a certain msg id.
I can share how much I'm paying for renting a shithole in London with you if that makes you feel any better :)
A4 paper is precisely 210x297mm (according to the standard), so the aspect ratio deviates from 1:sqrt(2) a little. Following that aspect ratio, the size would be 210x296.985..mm, so the rounding is really very slight.
I'd guess because 210x297 is closer to 1/16 of a m^2 than 212x300 is.
Ethics and AI is something that Google strongly pretends to care about and this sort of hire just fits the bill.
> why not round up to 212x300 mm?

Because the A standard's baseline is A0 which has exactly 1m^2 area. So that nice rounding did happen, just at the baseline scale, and on area. The B series is a tad larger, B0 happens to exactly be 1,000 × 1,414 mm.
> but I realize that's kind of a wash between Google and Apple.

That's an unusual take.
Hah, I'd forgotten about that (I haven't touched Unreal in a couple of years). You're right, that would be a huge win.
If you change the size of A4 you have to change the size of all the other A- sizes too.

A0 is anchored at 1 metre squared, so everything else follows from that.
Most of them report power factor, which requires measurement of reactive loads.
I normally agree that western athiests over-focus on rejecting a monotheistic abrahamic god, but how do you see this particular article being different if the author had a more global worldview?

For instance the analogy could easily be adjusted with Buddhists instead of Jews. The company offers a vegetarian option for Buddhists at some meal, and the athiest author takes the vegetarian option because he just happens to be a vegetarian. I don't think this observation is overly western
1) The integer number is A0 being 1 square meter of area.

2) Rounding to whole centimeters, or an even number of millimeters, is too coarse.
I kind of feel vindicated.
The Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_King...) mentions three legal exceptions: road traffic signs; pints for draught beer and cider, and milk in returnable containers; and troy ounces for transactions in precious metals.

It doesn't mention one product that is very much in the news at the moment: energy. I'm fairly sure they still sell it by the kWh rather than the MJ.

Colloquially, people still talk about calories rather than kJ in food. (And they do that even in Germany, I think, one of the few places where they measure font sizes in mm rather than points, or so I've heard.)

EDIT: Perhaps kWh counts as metric, even though it's not SI?
I got an AMEX Platinum Card with no US credit history and no SSN. It was my first US credit card but I'd had a lower tier AMEX card since 2006 in the UK, and AMEX will consider your history with them in other countries if you have no history in the US. 6-12 months after moving to the US and with a newly acquired SSN and no late AMEX payments, I was able to get the Chase Sapphire Reserve card and the Apple Card, which apparently require excellent credit. It's not as hard as you make it out to be
Stick is too long and thus carrot is too far. Donkey does not want to run forward anymore.
The quantum computing bubble
Yeah, absolutely hated the Ozark (TV Series) look. Heavily desaturated, brightness turned down and shifted heavily into blue. Ruined what looks like pretty scenery in the background on photos.

Compare that to Outlander, a cheesy romance show I mostly just kept watching because of the beautiful (saturated) landscape shots.
You're actually excluding a priori that I could actually defend KiwiFarms here in good faith? That's just sad.

This is reminiscent of dealing with someone who thought we needed to close mosques after 9/11.
It’s not even approximate. A typical two by four is around 1.5 by 3.5 inches, which is a full third less material than lumber which literally measures 2 by 4.
Some kind companies can probably also set up generators to top up batteries.
A0 has an area of 1 m² and the long edge is sqrt(2) of the short one. This fixes the edge lengths to 841 mm x 1189 mm (rounded to the nearest mm). A4 is obtained by halving A0 four times.
I am struggling to think of a more fitting analogy to describe this overvaluation of self-assembled items.

What’s similar to IKEA, as in the self-assembly bit, but also doesn’t have the “it’s exactly what I need” effect that confounds the “I love it because I assembled it myself” measurement?

Or maybe I’ll just call it the Effort Effect. Ugly, but I’m not much of a marketer so I’ll take it.
"Prices of the electricity in the EU recently became sky high"

I will nominate for Nobel Prize of Economics politicians that voted for the mapping of electricity on the most expensive source (now gaz).

This is an EU reform trying to make an electricity market.
You are perhaps lucky enough to be not living in a society with excessive corruption. :-)
While I really appreciate the fact that you can split an A4 sheet and get two A5 sheets. Even as a European, I always felt like the American letter format feels 'nicer'. I feel like the letter format's ratio works better for taking notes in a notebook or browsing through printed pages -- less tall, but wider than A4.

Anyone made a similar experience?
I've often thought that electric heaters were rather wasteful, when one could get some processing for "free" (in energy usage terms), and still heat the room.
Fair enough, but what does that imply? The magic N-Ball that has a minor chance of saying something unintentionally racist is such dangerous technology that it must be kept out of the hands of the peasants?
At least Google was so honest to remove "Don't be evil." from its code of conduct.
Lithium batteries live longer than lead acid.
This could get quite interesting if true.
That is far from true. Piles of DS/ML papers and models are published daily.
We use Elixir at DICE (https://dice.fm) for event ticketing and discovery. We have a lot of burst traffic when big name events go on sale and elixir handles it really well.

What do we like about it? We actually moved from Go and have nearly removed all Go code from the platform now. Because of our burst traffic we want a really efficient platform that gives everyone a good chance to get the tickets they want. Go gave us this but it wasn't great on dev productivity. Elixir has been a real sweet spot for us. You could build our product with any language/framework/platform really, but most of our devs are from a ruby background so Elixir was a natural choice for us when we knew Ruby would be too frustrating to make efficient enough to match our Go implementation.

We deploy onto k8s using helm charts and a custom deploy tool using a k8s operator. We use an umbrella project to organise our mono-repo and currently just re-deploy everything together as that's fine for our size of a team.

We're not using live view, but we are using absinthe (graphql library) and react frontend libraries. Our projects started before live view and the setup works well so we don't really have any need to change.
Filling up on fuel in litres and then using miles per (Imperial) gallon to measure fuel efficiency is wonderfully convoluted.
I have greylisting enabled for years. But recently some Russian spamers were able to circumvent those by using compliant SMTP servers. They even support proper SPF, DKIM, DMARC and all that stuff what you can think of.

That is the reason why I switched on some external block lists into the mix.
My router uses 8 Watt from the mains, regardless of how much traffic it's handling. It also has an ECO mode that doesn't actually lower the power consumption.
> Europeans give up decimal comma and US gives up imperial measurements.

I’m a European, and I hate decimal comma. When consuming data saved by MS Excel or similar, dealing with decimal commas is an ongoing source of annoyance and compatibility bugs, for all my 22 years in the software industry.

Modern software has American roots. Many programming languages like C, C++ and Python are using dot when printing or parsing floats with their standard libraries. It’s even in the name, these numbers are called “floating point” not “floating comma”.
Ah yes, I see that now. But assuming they make the computer, they could also lease it to one or more cloud providers as a service. They don't necessarily have to build the whole thing.
Currently, the type of media most popular is live streaming. This form of media is becoming more and more popular, capturing the interests of viewers every year. Analysts predict that by 2028, the worldwide live streaming business will be worth $223.98 billion. The fact that this industry is receiving increasing amounts of funding and that more companies are developing their own live streaming applications are also factors in this rise.

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California here?
https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain
https://calmatters.org/california-drought-monitor/
But it is still possible to re-assemble even 3 or 4 times. That's based on my anecdata as well as my friends' anecdata. You just need to be careful and avoid using powertools. Powertools often do a lot of damage when they tighten screws too hard.
Can anyone versed in music explain in simple terms why it always sounds good, while real instruments sound terrible if you don't know how to play them, even in isolation (let alone if there are several clueless musicians playing)?

I understand that what you call "time quantization" means that the time is discrete and notes are played in the next "beat" rather than when you press them.

But what did they do with scale exactly? If you just play random notes in a piano it sounds awful, here it sounds good.
The problem on these threads is everyone is trying to boil a complex equilibrium of supply and demand across dozens of factors and billions of actors down to “it’s just this one or two things”.
That's not the case in the European and Southamerican countries I've visited or have acquaintances in. What countries do you have in mind? I'm quite interested.
I was wondering that too! I got to the end and still no explanation of 210×297mm.

Well, it turns out that it's based on the fact that A0 is defined as having an area of ~1m², then each subsequent size halves the area. So A4 has dimensions that give an aspect ratio √2 and an area of ~1/16m².

A0: 1,189 mm × 841 mm = 999,949mm² ≈ 1m²
...
A4: 297 mm × 210 mm = 62,370mm² ≈ 1/16m²

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#A_series :

"The A0 base size is defined as having an area of 1 m² ... rounded to the nearest millimetre, 1,189 mm × 841 mm".
I contacted support, but they simply refused to assist at all.

The account was just.. gone. That's what was so shocking about it - I realised pretty much immediately at the time that there would be no way to recourse a locked account because any means by which you could prove the account would be yours (other than having the password, which we still did, but which was not acceptable to unlock the account according to PM) is inside the inbox itself. More than that - they weren't asking for more information. They simply said it was permanently locked and nothing could be done.

This has happened to others too, as has been posted elsewhere in the thread.
Luckily we have 1l milk boxes. I always compare weight to what 1l of milk would weight.
Yes we do use the sanitization options too.
Rethinking indoor air chemistry
> Doesn't it make sense for some things to divide by 3 and 4, like a year, so that a season is 3 months long, instead of 2.5 months long (as in the old 10-month year system, ending in December)?

The metric system also uses twelve months per year, so what is your point?

> Does it not make sense to use a human scale for certain things, like outdoor weather (as opposed to say, temperatures inside of machinery):

Yes, Fahrenheit works 'better' than Celsuis for describing weather temperatures. But it does arguably worse at pretty much everything else, including other everyday occurrences like cooking or washing clothes.

As an aside, 12 would arguably be the better base for an everyday number system, but we are where we are (and contrary to what's commonly claimed, the imperial system isn't derived from base 12 either - 12 is used in a few places, but most proportions are historically grown and fairly random).
To quote Voltaire: "The populace considers all religions as equally true, the philosophers consider them equally false, and the legislator considers them all equally respectable".

Then again he is also the one who said "Let my tailor believe in God. He is less likely to steal from me this way".
"Unnecessary accuracy is technical incompetence" - Engineering saying. You need accuracy to serve some purpose. Too much is inefficient and expensive. Too little does not work. 212x300 would not serve the purpose. Try folding and you see how bad it is.
In Celcius, 0 water freezes, 100 water boils. Very convenient for weather and cooking. For the rest, what is hot weather or cold weather is very subjective, so I don't really see any use to define a scale on the base of that.
Do you have some specific skill set or lots of experience in a domain the company was looking for?
https://archive.ph/URtzu
My company tried designing a unit that runs off a solar panel and battery. We initially designed around a lead acid battery. And as we kept accounting for things it just got larger and more expensive. We then switched to a lithium ion battery and it's literally a 1/3 the cost and a tenth the weight/size.
For my personal mail server I ended up using the free tier of SMTP2GO as outbound smtp relay. You can just register your domain as a whole, and the setup was pretty painless. They let you send up to 1000 mails/month for free, which is plenty for my own personal use, but if you need any more than that, these relay services can get quite expensive. You usually end up paying the same price as the fully hosted solution that most of those providers offer alongside the relay service.
https://xkcd.com/927/

The problem isn't the port. The problem is the behaviour.

HTTP itself is on its way out, you should be recommending HTTPS if you're going to go this route.

Increasingly, I find HTTP(S) requests are blocked by various mechanisms, typically CAPTCHAs or similar.

And the problem ultimately with email isn't the network requests, by and large, it's the spam. Reimplement some universally-accessible messaging protocol over another port or service and you'll simply find you've kicked the can and inherited the old problems.

I'm not saying SMTP is faultless (for a rather tongue-in-cheek take, see <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32587346> and responses within that subthread and elsewhere on the post, particularly <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32591880>). But you'll have to do more than just swap port numbers to fix it.
The best advantage, which you might not realize until you need to use US sizes, is the easy scaling up and down.

You can put an A3 sheet on a photocopier and press the "A3→A4" button and have the original perfectly scaled onto a single A4 sheet, or vice-versa. There's usually a button that does A4→2 A5, so you get two half-size copies on the A4 paper, which you can cut into A5 sheets. (In my school, university and workplace experience, it's very common for A3 paper to be loaded in photocopiers and some printers.)

Equally, you can design something in A4 size on the computer, then print it on A3 paper without any changes. Then send it to the print shop for an A1 print, still with no changes.

An envelope that fits A5 paper will fit once-folded A4 paper perfectly.

(Magazines people expect to be photocopied, like scientific journals, are often A4 sized.)
In the UK, the upgrade from 16GB to 32GB is £400 ($460). If you have the laptop for five years and presuming you are buying the laptop outright with no interest, the additional RAM will work out costing you 22 pence (25 cents) a day. For something as vital to both your professional life and hobbies as this laptop sounds, are you going to miss 22 pence a day?

Additionally, if you sell the laptop at the end of the five years or keep it for seven like your current computer, these daily costs will in actuality be even lower.
IIRC this is because "two by four" refers to the size of the rough-sawn stock, but you buy milled 2x4s, so the difference is simply what's removed in milling. You can get these odd formats (stuff like "78x34 mm") in hardware stores here, too, it's just that they're not used for construction, because construction lumber is "hard metric", i.e. nice round numbers like 40x60 mm etc.
> None of this refutes the idea that Linux is a good development platform.

You know it does. You just didn't like the answer because it is true, and even the respondents here have reinforced my claims.

The OP is talking about the host desktop platform to develop ON to TARGET whatever they want, which may include Desktop apps, Linux apps, whatever. As you already admitted that Linux is a bad desktop, it is immediately disqualified as a 'developer-friendly' host platform, especially when there is no reason why Windows users need to do a full migration, backup, clean install of a distro that works terribly than both Windows or macOS. They might as well use WSL2.

> The OP didn't ask about "good desktops" though, and your willful misinterpretation of the question is getting you nowhere.

Then is that why the majority here are not even supporting or recommending a Linux distro to use to target Linux itself? It seems more have responded with either Windows or macOS!

You can continue your denial, but this is how 'Ask HN' works.
> and people should save as much kWh as possible.

What really matters is cutting peak hour consumption, not total kwh. At least around here during night-time electricity is almost free compared to peak hours
This is the hardest I’ve ever laughed at a comment on HN. Thanks for sharing.
>No, you don't. You look at it for 2 secs, go "nice picture" and move on.

That sounds like a commodity to me, not a work of art.
as a kippa wearing orthodox jew(tm). who while working in the USA had to get used to telling managers how he had to leave early on fridays in the winter months, I have zero problem with this.

At the end of the day, there's little reason to accommodate orthodox jews and not want to accommodate lactose intolerant individuals as well and if one can kill two birds with one stone, the better. (though in the US it seems that the vast majority of retail ice cream is kosher supervised, and is part of the reason oreos are kosher supervised, as nabisco wanted to get them in as a mixin for ice creams, though then can get into more complicated milk based issues which are beyond scope).

as an aside, I find non dairy kosher ice cream to be meh, dairy kosher ice cream is significantly better.
30% or more of Switzerland is not useable for any kind of farming other than cattle. Fertilizers in the Alps are heavily discouraged. Less than 5% of the food for cows is imported. The far majority is produced trough the same grass the herds spent their time on.

And to round this up there is a relatively okish label jungle so you can know exactly which kind of farming you support.

Just because beef isn't the solution for the world hunger doesn't mean it's not the best possible and probably even most ecological solution in some areas.
I think about it in terms of how much money I'd have left after all my expenses are covered with my current lifestyle. This includes Healthcare, education and travel opportunities. Once you account for this, the differences are easier to stomach, if still unfair.
Typically, paper comes in A0 size (841x1188mm) which is then cut in half X times to get the desired paper size, which is either eyeballed against a ruler, or measured by laser.

If the operator is skilled, or the machine is well-calibrated most A4 paper is therefore exactly 297mm tall, and 210.25mm wide (so slightly wider than the standard)
You're being really dismissive here - no-one's saying PM bad/others good. I was pointing out an experience with ProtonMail and others have corroborated with their own experience.

All of that said, if it says nothing else it at least suggests that larger providers seem to have a better grasp of how catastrophic being locked out of one's own e-mail can be - PM really don't seem to understand the responsibility they bear being a provider of such critical infrastructure. If this were happening in this same way at larger providers like Google and Microsoft, I'm quite certain there would be heavy regulations by now.
I mean, elecricity is fungible, and demand is relatively inelastic. Why on earth would a solar farm sell it to me at a much lower price then the gas powered plant?
That was meant as a foundation to build some interview questions that might filter out the worst of the crowd.