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> into electricity with zero waste

> I don’t mean to be rude, but to say this without qualification is essentially baseless ignorance or lying.

Your own words can be used back at you.

(Not agreeing with GP, but your zeal in rebuttal falls victim to your own accusation)
It seems like this is a big advantage of the inreach in that you can text with EMS to convey if it is an urgent situation. You can also text friends/family to make alternate arrangements if the regular rescue people aren’t going to be fast enough.
I wasn't that bothered about it until I used it.
The biggest thing for me is when working with Terraform and some really badly documented parts of it and really not being able to work out the syntax required, the suggestions really helped expedite what would otherwise be a lot of iteration.

What would be great would be for an enterprise pricing capability, we would love to purchase this on behalf of our employees via a single interface.
We’re paying $80/month for 4 devices, unlimited everything; 5G. Considering dropping two, which will lower it to $50.

(T Mobile Metro)
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
Is this some sophisticated parody, or are the authors serious about this complete nonsense?
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I love the intro:

Men wanted for hazardous journey [[omitted: to the South Pole. Small wages, bitter cold,]] long months of complete darkness, constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.

http://www.antarctic-circle.org/advert.htm
I knocked this together because that sounds like a kind of handy thing to have generally. The UX is _pretty rough_ to say the least at the moment.
https://github.com/Tacklebox/cursh

You can use it like `cursh difftastic {{1}} {{2}}` and it will prompt you for each {{#}} to hit enter once you have the thing you want in your clipboard and it passes the content to the command as files
The question is more how you get the heat to the water in a sensible way. It's _probably_ just engineering, but it's still something that needs to be worked out.
72 hours is way better than never if you’re incapacitated or lost. Risk/reward probably depends on what you like to do and where you like to go.
...by this website!
If you aren't familiar with the Actor Model, it's worth investigating. It avoids a lot of problems you will experience with other paradigms. https://www.brianstorti.com/the-actor-model/
Aside from specific missing apis, the biggest problem with PWAs right now is probably that it's a PITA to maintain local state and also sync it with the server unless you use something like pouchdb that's specifically oriented around that.

Once the filesystem storage apis get worked out, it should be much easier to have persistent sql.js, etc. without having to load the whole thing into memory and save it again constantly and without having to resort to complicated stuff like absurdsql.

I think that finally being able to easily have sqlite in pwas will make it a lot easy to maintain local state and sync it without having to have a maintain a completely separate way of handling data for offline use, ideally without having to rearchitect the whole app as "offline first" but instead just optionally allowing offline use when it's installed as a PWA.

This is assuming you want to enable offline use, but for me that's a major thing that justifies making a page into a PWA (otherwise why not just go to the site?).
Can I get a TLDR please?
If it's aneutronic fusion, you don't need a turbine. You have fast-moving charged particles, and can probably figure out a way to do direct conversion. Helion has already demonstrated it in their latest reactor.

They use a hybrid D-D/D-He3 reaction. The He3 is the waste product of the D-D reactions. They say the combination will release only 6% of its energy as neutron radiation, which is why they can skip the turbine.

(I'm also a fan of space solar though.)
It just doesn't matter and the tie breaker is what the developer wants and the developer wants to make an app. Why? because the risk is you want to extend your "app" with features for which there is no browser API, only native access. You can do anything on the web you want on native but not vice versa.
For non apple headphones I just hold the power button when I turn them on so they go into pairing move and pair again to the device. (Mainly switching between laptops) I wish apple did over ear headphones for like $200 instead of $600.
Economist: “Housing affordability crisis could stick around for another 2 years”
I do think the 'unsafe' notation is the crucial bit here. Rust has stuff that is heavily (although not completely) motivated by C interop. For example, 'union' in Rust is something that is rarely used outside of C interop. (With some notable exceptions in the standard library.) But, crucially, in order to actually use a Rust 'union', you do have to utter the 'unsafe' notation.

I'm not sure I have an opinion as strong as pcwalton here, but I do think that you can't call yourself memory safe (even on a particular dimension) if you have to delineate all of the various language features that are unsafe without having to somehow explicitly annotate it as such in the source. Or at the very least, I don't think you can say that Zig's spatial memory safety is on even footing with Rust's (assuming pcwalton's characterization of Zig's unsafe features is correct).

The annotation really is the point here, because you can pin everything (modulo bugs and OS features that permit subversion) with regard to memory safety down to an unsafe annotation somewhere. That's a powerful tool that crystalizes what it means to be a "safe API."

As I said, I don't necessarily share pcwalton's strong opinion (although I do weakly agree with him) that having an annotation like 'unsafe' is the only way to go. I do think it's possible to go the Zig route and reduce memory safety bugs. But we should be very clear eyed about the claims being made and how comparisons are drawn.
It's easier to refund the overpayment than chase down underpayment.
Interesting that you went to profit immediately. Much of my use of OSS is personal and for fun and because I believe it makes the world a better place that I can run things like Linux and postgres and get so much out of my computer that would never be possible if I had to pay for all of this. Furthermore, I don't like doing things many different ways, because it's a waste of time and energy, so I try to bring my experience with me when I work somewhere. And I give back in the form of my own free and generously licensed software contributions.

Akka may have been steered by a group of people incentivised financially to support it, through support agreements or whatever, but it currently has 774 contributors. And frankly, never would have become what it is if it started closed source. Probably wouldn't have gotten off the ground honestly, as something open source would have eaten its lunch. I don't use it, but the idea that I can use something anywhere in perpetuity is part of why I choose to use and give back to FOSS. Many feel the same.

Sure. Anybody can fork the software and maintain it. I love that OpenSearch did exactly that when Elastic decided it wanted money for something built on the efforts of a community. But I also know that forks are another waste of energy. Maintaining two branches that do similar things is silly if I can let you do your job while I do mine. I'm not maintaining my own OS, or my own database, or my own terminal, etc etc. Add to that, how many individuals would be willing to fork when one branch has demonstrated a willingness to make choices in favor of money? It makes me wonder if they'll also push for patents or law suits against those who might add features to Akka Prime or some cleverly named fork.

Frankly, I don't use Akka and I'm definitely not going to now, so as far as I'm concerned, Akka is more than welcome to sign their own death warrant. But this trend of building software with community contributions and then trying to profit from it is worrisome and frankly, pretty close to theft. I don't see any of these companies retroactively paying their contributors, so it's definitely not about "what's right." It's a cash grab branded as sustainability, and it has a chilling effect for me, that pushes against the ideals of OSS.
yw. There is a general shortage of this kind of exploratory activity-theory, so there are common usage patterns.

I'd imagine that in capital markets it's used to help keep things more objective, to lower the personal stakes for all parties, and demonstrate an interest in constructive partnership. One of the best relationship techniques is helping the other feel understood, and that is also where tools like this one will always stand out. If you can't connect with someone via the normal methods, it's usually worth trying to connect through their self-identified objective preferences.

Anyway, just some thoughts...
Ditto. I laughed so hard on that one that I nearly choked. The Linux community as a whole hasn't been interested in compatibility with Solaris for nearly two decades, and pretending otherwise is nothing short of comedy.
I pay spot ~$12/month for unlimited satellite tracking on a 10 minute interval on what I believe is the same network.
As a user:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen installing a PWA as an option. I’ve never been prompted (though I suppose some of those “use our app!” pop ups could be trying to install a pwa, but I think they always take me to the App Store).

As the article mentions (on iOS) the install mechanism is to open the share menu and select “Add to home”.

I don’t open the share menu on random web apps to see if I can install them. The option may as well not exist. I also highly doubt any regular user is aware of the term “PWA”. Why haven’t PWAs killed native apps? No one knows they exist.

As a dev:

The one time I wanted to make a PWA the use case relied on being able to send notifications. The user was on iOS, safari didn’t support it. Dead in the water.

Maybe I’ll revisit it again now that support is finally here.
I couldn't care less about whatever restrictive license people choose and decide to call open source
You would also need a limit on how large of a file can be written by python. Otherwise you could have a web server that takes an upload and stores it on disk which could fill the disk of the host machine. We can't expect developers to check for this, so Python must be patched to not write files larger than 2 kilobytes.
What if the company has decreased?
> platform-specific features (RIP 3D-Touch) are flat out ignored

good riddance.

as someone who uses various operating systems on a regular basis, niche "features" like 3D-touch are an annoyance and force adjustments and break muscle memory every time I switch between systems and UIs, which I do many times every day.

apple's insistence on being special and not using basic keyboard and touch conventions like the other systems do is painful.
I think the client server architecture is too deeply tied to the web to change this in a meaningful and impactful way across the web.
Yes, the Sun has volumetric intensity of a compost pile.
Native apps are indeed better.

However, I don't think it's because web apps are incapable of being good. Apple has kneecapped the functionality of their browser and locked users into it as the only option; it's obvious willful negligence to convince developers to write more native apps. Native apps that Apple has the exclusive right to profit from.

So, why haven't PWAs killed native apps yet? Because Apple understands user experience, and they'll never add PWAs to the little blue App Store unless the US government holds Tim Cook at gunpoint. It's a senseless business decision to them, PWAs haven't succeeded simply because the dominant platform (Apple) decided they shouldn't.

A next-generation software delivery system is being held back because one (1) company profits from the status quo's exclusive distribution rights. I hope the SEC is taking notes!
Begone is better than Number Shield plus its free.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/begone-call-blocker/id15968181...
If you're doing cryptography in Python, performance is most definitely not a concern.
A filesystem translates a filename-based streaming I/O API to the way a disk talks, which is "Read/write 512 times X bytes of data at disk block N."

The I/O API or "commands" are the same; different filesystems will implement it differently.
I'm not sure, I use it A LOT for cryptographic code in Rust and I don't blindly rely on its output. I believe if there's a bug that was introduced it would be my fault with high probability, not Copilot's.
The price quoted in the article is $20,000 which is almost exactly the market cost of a 40 KWh LiFePO4 battery, but most people would probably end up paying more than that.
The cost is directly comparable, nothing nuts there.
You pull up the website where all of the information the IRS knows is already prefilled. You click on the "Efficiency Improvements Exception" box and add the value of your furnace. Click on any other things the IRS missed and add them. Click "submit" to finish the tax return. Done.
I think it's worthwhile to point out that there are two threads of argument here. One is what it means to be spatially memory safe. Another is whether and how effective various mitigations are.
It's a reasonable accusation: for a while Twin Galaxies basically just had a few people making up numbers and their mates writing it down, without even a hint of verifying it (including a few scores which were blatently impossible to anyone who had even a slight familiarity with the game, like a game where the score only increments in multiples of five having a score where the last digit is 3).

One really important point is that while it's the same organisation name it's been bought out and there's now a completely different group of people running it (and they seem to be much more concerned with sniffing out cheaters).
Development tools are preferences, and developers tend to be more important than technologies.

You're just seeing the authors' favorite tools. Lots of developers don't like web stack.
These comparisons seem basically meaningless though. What does it tell us that coal is "40%" vs solar being "20%"? Why does that number matter?
What does she utilize for fall detection?
How is booking a flight a transient app? The Delta app has my credit card information, my flight information, notifies me of the location of my check bags, tells me where I am on the list of free upgrades, etc.
If you are interested, as a Russian native speaker who lived in Ukraine until 2003 (and has been there as recently as July of this year), I can tell you how the "fight for survival" you speak of is a load of propaganda bollocks, going from primary sources in Russian.
Sure but how many apps out there are doing little other than replicate functionality available on a web site? I'd argue very few apps are doing anything truly native that is impossible on the web. Most are just CRUD forms with a nicer UI than you get on the web.

If your reason for spending huge sums of money on (usually two) native apps is because you think at some point in the future you might maybe need to extend beyond what the web can offer then you're making a bad business decision.
How do we know there is a "thing" to define?
Neither people, nor animals, nor plants travelled long distances to habitable places to then be satisfied and turn back. It doesn't happen on a continental scale so it's even much less likely to happen on an interstellar scale. If it's half habitable, you're gonna make that place a "home".

It's a nice fantasy to think you can zip back to the home planet after prancing around the galaxy making discoveries and reporting consequential and timely information back home.
It is not true if you use it frequently (every few months). I always use apps instead of websites for flight or hotel booking, and the experience is much better.
I find it bizarre that you would jump in here to caution about the limitations of our knowledge, and not jump in in response to the previous commenter who proposed that visitors would just be observing.

If anything, this is the commenter that is being more careful not to entertain familiar science fiction presumptions and is exhibiting the discipline that you're asking for.
Don't leaving town make returning difficult?
Yeah AMF is great. But putting all the money in the world exclusively into malaria nets* won't solve all the world's problems though.

* (where by the way they also end up poisoning fish and people when the malaria nets become fishing nets)
As someone who just threw down $500 USD on a Peregrine, I’m curious about this as well. I think there is a real market for this kind of thing, as evidenced by Garmin’s presence with their high end watches and the Teric. I felt like when I paid for the Peregrine I was mostly paying for the screen though - which it still remains to be seen how well this device will perform in that category. I could definitely see myself using the Apple as a primary and the Peregrine as a secondary in 5 years or so as they iterate and make improvements - Shearwater has long been the king of this space but they don’t have the R&D money Apple does.
I think that's a Bruce Tognazzini thing where you feel like it's a cognitive load, but you are actually way more productive with it than without. I feel the same way about regular autocomplete, but that's a must for productivity.
I do that all fine with an Alaska web account and emailed boarding pass.
Yeah, I like the context manager version of this. That way it's maintainable!
Because I vastly prefer native apps and maybe others do too? The biggest advantage is that they stay logged in. I haven’t used AirBNB in 2 years but it’s still logged in. The web app wouldn’t be.
That measures overhead not effectivess.
The amount of power your traditional water mill extracts would be exceeded by solar panels on its roof, which would be cheaper than the building under them, not even counting the cost of the water wheel and weir. The mill might last centuries, but only with continuous maintenance.

A weir way uphill with a penstock and Pelton wheel could do better than the old mill, but both depend on landform features with limited distribution. If you needed twice the power, you would be stuck. But you can put out more panels.
Discussed at the time: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24441979>
What are the “standard” touch conventions that Apple should have followed when the iPhone was introduced?
Advice for someone considering becoming manager of developer experience team
I've been an engineering manager for a product focused team for a little over a year now. Prior to that, I was a software engineer on a product team for a few years.

I was just asked if I'd like to switch to manage the developer experience team at my company as they sorely need a manager. That team handles things like staging environments, CI/CD pipelines, and general tooling that enables developers at our company to be productive.

I'm inclined to say yes because I feel this will be a good opportunity for growth for me as a manger, especially given that the work is in parts of our tech stack that I'm less familiar with.

However, I was wondering if anyone has any advice or wisdom to consider when making this choice. If you happen to manage a team like this, what has your experience been like? Do you know of any articles or blog posts that can shed some insight as to what it is like?

Thanks!
I suspect Garmin is not immediately worried about the watches.

I'm currently wearing a Garmin Fenix 7, which recently replaced a Forerunner 645. I look forward to seeing the Ultra reviews, but it doesn't strike me as competitive yet. E.g., the 36 hours of battery life is surely exciting for Apple Watch fans, but my Fenix 7 gets 18 days of battery life. Or if I turn Battery Saver on, I get 57 days of usage vs 2.5 days for the Apple Watch Ultra.

And what really makes the Garmin stuff suited for sports is years and years of carefully designed specialist features. I'm not even much of an athlete but I really appreciate so much of what they offer.

If the price were better I could see it being a threat for Garmin's low-end models. But at $800? Even if I were an Apple fan I'd struggle at paying more money for less watch.
How much of a piece do you need to read before you add it to the list? Does it count if you give up halfway through? Or ten seconds in?
Malaria and worms and a few villages in Kenya aren't the only things that need helping.
Earlier versions didn’t have MIMO (beam shaping). Iirc ac was the first version of Wi-Fi to support it.
i think the more annoying thing about this watch is that they used this as the replacement for the Edition line. This means that you HAVE to get this if you want a watch with a titanium case.
Yes because Electron apps show just how great cross platform web based applications can be. /s
A number of responses in this thread are crying about companies needing trackers or notifications not working correctly. These are two tiny issues that just doesn't explain why there aren't any competitive PWAs yet.

PWA just aren't as satisfying to use as Web Apps; it doesn't have anything to do with relatively esoteric APIs. Just look at Twitter iOS and Twitter Web. Just moving within the app is clunky, try clicking a tweet; while the native app is full of fast animations the web app is full of empty loading screens. On native videos play quickly and fluently while html5 video can't offer the same seamlessness.

Is there a PWA out there that meets the level of polish of something basic like Twitter native app? If not, users will continue to prefer native apps; especially on mobile. PWAs will only win if they manage to make development so cheap that they kill any incentive to build natively. This is what happened on desktop
interesting that patriotism (love of your country) is now being cast as a bad thing
Hopefully we INTJs will soon be able to apply for disability on account of being too arrogant and boorish to work with other people.
> Why would anyone want to participate in a community this toxic?

gpshead is Google:

https://github.com/gpshead

thats all you need to know. Google makes some great stuff (Go language), but their community has plenty of arrogant members that have no concept or interest in nuanced discussions.
That's fake marketing though. May as well download picturea of poverty porn for free on the internet.
This problem has been solved on at least Linux (GNU coreutils ≥ 8.30, 2018-07-01), FreeBSD (≥ 6.0, 2005-11-04), and macOS with the env -S option:

#!/usr/bin/env -S interpreter --arg --arg

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/env-...

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?env

https://www.unix.com/man-page/mojave/1/env/
I don't care who crack's my Excel spreadsheet years after the heat death of the universe.
So, for what it's worth, I have an Apple Watch series 7 and find its battery life to be sufficient to wear (basically) 24/7. I have to charge it, but that's a matter of putting it on the fast-charger while I'm in the shower.

It'd be better if it had the battery life of the Fenix, not going to lie. But the base models now are good enough that it's a daily-routine thing rather than an inconvenience.
We’re calling buying a ticket or ordering something a “transient app” experience now?

Are we just done with the whole web site thing already? Because I kind of liked that bit where I just typed in an address and clicked a few buttons. Worked great, from what I recall.

Let’s not make everything an app of any sort, maybe.
People who can write are too busy writing to spend time commenting on Reddit.
I am not sure when we changed goalposts from "is it a better marginal impact for your dollar" to "does it solve all the world's problems."
The main limitation I have heard is it requires apps to store everything in the cloud. The multi user system is basically a single sign on for the apps and requires all this infrastructure to power it.
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