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> (somewhat) work with multiple devices.

This feature _alone_ made me buy the 1st generation AirPods Pro once I got an Apple Watch. They really hook you into that ecosystem! ;-) In all seriousness, these are the best-sounding and most reliable earbud headphones I've ever owned. I hear the Beats Pro are a little better sound bass-wise, but I bet that tech will be in the new generation of the AirPods Pro as well.

The fact that my AirPods can move between my multiple computers, phone, watch, and even television relatively easily is just amazing. It goes to show how hard this problem was to solve, though, since Apple had to literally invent their own processor to make this work.
I never worked for Apple, but I went through a similar exercise in the late 1980's. I found the role-playing useful, and I found the techniques we were trained on to be enlightening. Not everybody thinks the same way, and even though it's not valid to categorize people into 16 personality groups, it's useful to understand that people prioritize things and think differently from each other. Here's a great example of that:

https://generallythinking.com/richard-feynman-on-thinking-pr...
What if stars are sentient beings?
In the US it's even worse - we have those older houses, but they're almost always in older parts of the city (duh) and their valuation is sky-high.
New AirPods Pro Do Not Support Lossless Apple Music
You can built wood frame buildings much taller. And wood framing is stiffer especially if you are using mass timber.
Is your claim that the POWER ISA is somehow better designed than RISC-V?

I honestly do not see it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32251586

This is answered in the forums, too: https://community.fly.io/t/new-feature-every-public-port-now...
Is there someplace that spells out exactly what an unstoppable domain is and how it works? I looked at their website but it's hard to find clear technical details.
Thanks for sanity
I commented on the github issue a while back as I was frustrated with this.

I originally looked forward to splitting my projects between Zig and Rust depending on the project parameters, but because of this one seemingly small issue I will never use Zig.

That's ok, I respect them having the right to do what they want with their language but it is a little sad because I liked pretty much everything else about Zig.
> Russia is intent on conquering as much area militarily as possible

This is absolutely true, if by Russia you mean the revaunchists who are in power right now. And especially so in regards to former colonies, which are universally viewed with contempt, aggression and racism by people from these circles.
I would not be so worried. While the situation is not so rosy, Nordstream's closing will be compensated by using less energy generally (e.g. not heating up gov buildings, lots of people working from home etc.) and from dozens of other sources (importing more LNG, letting nuclear plants run more, firing up coal powered plants etc)

Russians are very good as sowing discord and creating panic among the population, but if you look at the facts things are not so bleak.

- If closing down Nordstream would really lead to the collapse of the German economy then the EU would have lifted the sanctions. While they can accept some hardships to beat Russia, they would not kill their economy to do so.

- Just look at the gas futures price in the EU: https://www.theice.com/products/27996665/Dutch-TTF-Gas-Futur... Since the full closure of Nordstream gas prices have actually gone down showing that the gas market has already priced the closure, and as time will pass it will go down even more (since people will see that we have enough gas & Putin's threats are taken less and less seriously mostly because he has run out of things to threaten with)

So dont panic and trust Western leaders a bit more.
It's great in Australia too, if you needed to feel even worse at all.

I usually get a tax refund every year, automatically, in the thousands :)
Try the diffoscope-minimal variant and disable recommends when installing. You'll lose support for a lot of different formats. You can also try it online using the service instead of locally:

https://try.diffoscope.org/
The single most frustrating thing about Turbo Tax is the data entry: I'm not an expert, and chances are I'll get something wrong.

Now, the IRS has all the information to provide a pre-filled-out tax return. They even do it internally to check that I filed my taxes correctly! Can they legally provide it to me... NO! When I did have to deal with errors, I only knew because the IRS sent me a bill. (Someone sent an incorrect W2 to the IRS.) I never had the opportunity to correct the error before I submitted my taxes.

It would be so much easier if TurboTax could hook into an API that downloaded my tax return and then I could check it for errors. I'm sure they'll figure out some kind of upsell that makes it "worth it" for me to pay them $100 as opposed to using the IRS's version.
> it seems almost intuitive that market makers (the pros) make money off of retail (the amateurs). It's hard to imagine how that could not be the case.

Individual investors can beat professional investors, though it's hard to do. I have seen no evidence showing individual investors outperforming when using non-linear derivatives. Utilitarian buyers of options treat it as insurance. They expect to lose money. There are fundamental reasons a market maker will be able to manufacture options at a cheaper price than an individual, ranging from cost of capital to the benefit of a book to order execution times and settlement dynamics.
>It's unfortunate that RISC-V allows for closed implementations (IP) and also closed ISA extensions.

It is rather fortunate. Else, it couldn't possibly aspire to be the standard ISA for absolutely everything.
Even with a fully legal prefab house, you're often looking at anywhere between 20-100k in "other costs" besides delivery and installation.

You have to connect to water, sewer, power (or build a well and septic), you still have to get it permitted and inspected, etc, etc, etc.
I don't think the numbers are likely to have changed recently.

Most people in the vast corporate bureaucracies do very little work. Large groups of people are just absurdly dysfunctional, and when you work at a large company for long enough, you realize it's not worth fighting the culture to try to accomplish ambitious goals.

And you know what? The world keeps turning. Apparently everything is just fine if most people contribute very little at work.
Is anyone else anxious about updates?

I used to be so pumped for them when I was a teen. They’d unlock a world of new opportunities.

Now I just feel anxious that there’s change for change sake to justify the resourcing of the design teams and that they’ll make things I’m used to worse all for a bunch of features I’ll never use or want.

I don’t want more features. There’s so many already and they’re really cluttering.

Like when they moved the address bar to the bottom in Safari. Bad. Shame. But they let you revert it. I’m just waiting for that team to decide, “no those users are idiots. It’s been a year. Time to remove the setting and impose our new vision on existing users.”

…it’s me isn’t it? This sounds like old man yells at cloud speak.
> That's an assumption. And even if it were true, those trees would take years to begin to sequester the same amount of carbon that the previously existing trees did. And even then, it's not obvious that those new trees would sequester more carbon than the previous trees would have had they been allowed to continue growing.

It's a very safe assumption
It's Dr. Schneider [1]. Never heard about them until now.

[1] https://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/kronach-kronach-neuses-au...
China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Bind: No Easy Way Out Despite the Cost
I really don't think all we need is cheap energy, it's still an economically unproductive thing to do, so you need a govt to tax people and use the $ to perform sequestration.

You need to build out the sequestration plants, maintain and run them, only one of those inputs is cheap energy. You need to move the carbon to a safe storage facility etc.

It's still a huge undertaking, but would be way simpler if we had cheap electricity (which it seems like we will get via solar anyways, carbon sequestration could probably be turned on and off as needed for grid conditions)
I think this drastically underestimates or at least undersells the impact of convenience, or in this case the maximum possible level of convenience which is already having the feature even if you don't know it. Similar arguments could have and indeed were made for every other small electronic device the smartphone has replaced. It's not that the advantages you listed don't exist, it's just that they won't hold a candle to the explosion of smartphones with satellite messaging built in by default. I feel like even just 1 year (and 200 million satellite-enabled iPhones) from today pointing out these advantages is going to look like people pointing out that land lines have better audio quality and lower latency than cell phones.

I always carry my InReach with periodic location sharing enabled when I'm on backpacking trips. I also almost always carry it during international travel and road trips, but not usually with periodic location sharing. If iPhones start offering plans with periodic location sharing, I'm fairly confident that I'd stop carrying the InReach unless I was on a particularly remote trip that was outside of my comfort zone (which isn't something I really do anyway).
I have a Suunto Spyder which I bought around 2003. It was the first dive computer that was small enough to be worn as a daily driver.

The thing about Spyder is that I need to replace its battery every two-three years, but otherwise it still does exactly what it did in 2003.

The thing about AWU is that it will long be a deadweight brick, while my Spyder will just keep on going. That's what bothers me about Apple-made dive computers.
> People claim SQLite is superior to Postgres for such a scenario

Only idiots would claim some technology is superior without doing some use-case analysis and experimentation.

> I'm not sure if you're being serious...

I am, but still it depends on use case. If you have an application that can support it for the use-case, then you can do simple things like making one DB per user and then doing aggregate functions on Apache Hive or something. If you have a schema that will absolutely NOT support sharding, then I guess it might not work in that case. I would argue I could design a SQLite solution for 95% of the applications that need a SQL database, but there are some which, for whatever reason, may require other solutions. I am also NOT saying that all of those designs would be the best for that use-case, but it would work.

Unequivocally: Your use cases define the tools you need to use.

> The use case is already defined in my original post. A popular app with a lot of concurrent users. People claim SQLite is superior to Postgres for such a scenario, I'm curious to read about and use a service using SQLite for an app with a lot of users (>1M 75% reads).

Still, you didn't define it. What's the data schema? What is the application? I don't know what to say, if your app is a TODO list app that's wildly popular, then I guarantee I can do what you want with SQLite easily. If it's Spotify-level stuff with special aggregation and data analysis, maybe not?
How do you want to move Europe to solar power?
Do we have any reasonable capability of storing excess power from summer till winter?
Why not nuclear?
> I think it would be better if carriers were just global tbh.

T-Mobile is pretty close. Most monthly plans get unlimited data and text in 200+(?) countries. Pay $10 extra for better data speeds. Haven't had to buy an airport SIM since I was already covered for the things I use - rideshare apps, google maps, hotel/airline apps, messaging apps and regular sms. Would be nice to get even higher data speeds in places that have it, but it's still very much usable and useful.
How do you think this would play out systemically? ie: what are the second-order systems-level changes that would occur if it was heterogenously applied?
Local maximum vs global maximum

Most efficient conpared to what we have already, but there may still be more efficient ways
I've heard that parts (most?) of Wyoming is pretty lax about requirements.
Why would you need a supercomputer to figure this out instead of putting simple sensors on the bikes in a peloton?
I mean, if there was another "commodity" processor one could just insert into their earbuds and write some awesome software, why hasn't anyone done that yet? If you could offer the same features as AirPods (and other Apple headphones) at half the cost, you'd make serious money. People might not care too much about those technical features of them, but I know they care about consistently good performance, and the AirPods have so far delivered on that promise. Making something that works just as well, but doesn't require you to be locked in to the Apple ecosystem, would absolutely change the game for the headphone market.
The article claims that the mechanism for this is actually a very simple failure mode. That's interesting.

It would be uninteresting if it said that the pros beat the amateurs. But it is interesting in that the pros are not trying to beat the amateurs. Instead, the pros have very simple strategies at play here, and the amateurs are blundering:

1. The amateurs seek to buy options before announcements they think will trigger big moves even though the spread is high (rationally, if the spread is high, you should be a little worried since it increases the risk you can't close what you open at a desired price)

2. The announcement happens

3. The amateurs hold their options despite their desired direction not occurring

4. This amplifies their losses

So, overall, as a retail trader you could do these very simple things:

* Be afraid of big spreads

* If you traded expecting volatility and the big announcement happened and the outcome you wanted didn't, cut your losses and leave
What does GPT-3 know about me?
My understanding is that there is no algorithm for this that isn't quadratic.

Update: I may have understood incorrectly, see https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/90716
> You need to move the carbon to a safe storage facility etc.

fortunately we already have millions of holes we drilled in the ground to get the stuff we burnt originally
The study is good, with the possible exception of using stationary (terra-cotta) riders in the wind tunnel. It seems possible that moving riders would create turbulence that would change the equation.
For anyone as confused as I was, peloton is the term for riding bicycles close together in a group. Not the brand of indoor exercise machines.
I looked at this neighborhood. It’s around 1 mile in diameter, and there are many restaurants at its north edge, and a Walmart at the south tip. This means that residents can reach it in less than 20 minutes walk, or 2-3 minute drive. This is really rather accessible, and I can’t imagine how you can get much better than that while still living in a large house with a yard. Seems like a pretty sweet place to live, if you ask me.
That's the point of having contractors. EU doesn't have at-will employment and firing people is time-consuming and expensive.

You can drop contractors on a whim. And it seems that some studios are doing that.

At least mobile game studios are doing just fine, their main customers (whales) are in the US anyway.
I love the philosophy of bootstrapped companies, and would love for there to be more of them out there to work for (on the employee end), and a healthy ecosystem of them to compete in (rather than just being immediately eaten alive by whatever VC wants to throw money at).

If you can make it work for you, and you're happy, do that thing. Chasing money at all costs is a very different path than what appears to motivate you, but is what VC would require.
They won’t make them functionally worse. They’ll outright break them, and then move on, then eventually once everyone has stopped using it because it’s so broken they’ll quietly remove it.
- Plantations aren't worse for the soil than native vegetation most of the time. Sometimes they can be better for it.

- A lot of the time plantations are planted on less productive farmland.
- Not all plantations will naturally regenerate quickly back to native vegetation.

- Those trees were planted for a reason and a lot of plantations are planted on degraded farmland or scrubland.
As a 10x engineer with 24 years of experience, I stand by my opinion that it is meh at best.
game studios (== recreational non-essential spending) are most likely affected first. Prepare for increased job competition and stagnating wages in general.

But panick? not unless you live in the UK. I'd expect mainland EU to continue almost as usual, with maybe a few high-energy factories shutting down. But since most of the jobs are service sector anyway, I wouldn't worry too much.

I heard the news that in Germany a car part supplier started bankruptcy proceedings. But that's only 2000 jobs out of 84 million people. And all those coal and steel factories were only very few jobs, too.
> My understanding is that there is no algorithm for this that isn't quadratic.

> If you know of one, the Python core development team would love to hear about it!

it's mentioned on the issue page that makes up the article...

(before they closed it due to the "code of conduct")
There are plenty of ways to go peacefully without the help of the state if you feel that way. I wouldn't look at Canada as a role model for euthanasia when not two weeks ago the program was in the news for inappropriately pushing it on vets.
That you created a throwaway account to repeat this nonsense speaks for itself.
I think there is a zeroth problem here, which is how to get the heat from the plasma to the water. You have a fusion reactor making hot plasma that also needs to have water circulating in the right way. From what I gleaned from some fusion presentations the solution to this is itself an engineering challenge.
A stethoscope in the hands of a doctor is a useful, if limited, tool. Don't judge its value if you have never seen one except in the hands of the village idiot. (One could say the same about various programming languages.)

If measuring skull shape during the interview process was a) socially acceptable and b) actually predictive of outcomes, why not? The problem is that it is neither. The reason that it is not a) is because it was not b) and thus easily misused to justify stereotypes.
> > a move which turned out disastrously for the french.

> Any more to add?

The Battle of Waterloo?
That had occurred to me in that we have analog computers and devices. But aren’t all algorithms “computational”?
You can. It probably isn’t a great idea due to global geopolitics, but the physics is sound and the price isn’t unreasonable.
Same in France. When I was filling there everything was pre-filled ( online ) with the information they had already anyway.

I was able to confirm. And sign. Done in 20 to 30 min max
I wouldn't want to work with someone on a project who takes such a narrow role-based view of success. If the broader business goals seem gross or alienating or irrelevant to an engineer, perhaps they are, though not by necessity unless it's a typically exploitative class-based structure (even with some limited mobility to pmc)
"The majority of users won't genuinely notice any difference between an adblocker running on m3 vs m2"

I think that'll be true for a short time. But once the advertisers figure out that ad blockers have been crippled on the most popular browser...

They'll figure out how to take advantage of that.

Once Chrome takes away the ability to do live heuristics, and leaves you with just a static-ish blacklist, it's pretty easy to get around the ad blocker.
Ignore them. If they did something illegal then sue them.
Tone down the fanboyism.

I'm sure people have found androids useful in a way they actually benefit from it.
The message is that 99% of employees will blindly sign it without reading it, so they don't see a point in having a large dollar amount. The amount is high enough that courts won't immediately throw it out, but low enough to not break the bank for the company.
I’m starting to think this will never happen.
But

a) they are not bankrupt yet, they merely filed for government protection while they reorganize

and

b) it's only 2000 jobs
Yes, and it is a RISC-V core by a team led by Jim Keller.
Yeah, though I think tech is going to be more resilient to pressures toward recession and wage stagnation to the extent that it relates to cost cutting (or the perception of cost cutting) via automation, etc. I could see the game industry being a major loser in that turmoil as it both loses income in recessions and has to compete with rising wages in disruptive IT.
I mean, you don’t have to update, at least not right away. Just wait a couple of months for the new version to stabilize and see what the reports say. In the past I’ve sometimes skipped two or three major updates to reduce the frequency of disruptions. But I agree that everything has become increasingly cluttered and decreasingly “it just works”.
These folks are working on fixing that problem:

https://reproducible-builds.org/
https://bootstrappable.org/
I agree that the home button is invaluable from a UI perspective but for unlocking, it's annoying as hell if you live somewhere it's cold (ie gloves) or get your hands significantly dirty or wet.
But none of those restrictions are caused by the author's choice of license.
The closest thing I've seen to a solution in this space is Riff, discussed yesterday [1], which solves the external dependency problem for rust projects.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32739954
Another interpretation is that the futures are pricing in price controls.
Ridglea Hills has a stinking Walmart heh! The "Acres of suburbia" usually mean that it's a pain to walk to the store, not that the store doesn't exist.

I'd be surprised if there are many suburban areas that are more than 5/10 miles from "stores" for some value of store. Taking some central place of Ridglea gets me a 2 mile walk to Walmart. But there are no sidewalks.
> Still, you didn't define it. What's the data schema? What is the application? I don't know what to say, if your app is a TODO list app that's wildly popular, then I guarantee I can do what you want with SQLite easily. If it's Spotify-level stuff with special aggregation and data analysis, maybe not?

sigh. any app based on SQLite with more than 1 million concurrent users, 75% reads.
Sure. The IRS obviously isn't doing this for everybody. But what percentage of the population do you think has crypto gains, overseas earnings, or business expenses each year?

I pay something like $120 to TurboTax annually to file federal taxes and taxes for two states. I've got a W2 from my job, dividends and gains/losses from equity sales from my brokerage, 1099-Rs for my IRA and 401k, a 5498 for my HSA, and a bunch of deductions for charitable giving, which I perform through my DAF. Every single one of these forms is submitted to the government with complete information needed to compute my tax burden, except for the cost basis of my RSUs which is against some idiotic law to report to the IRS. Fix that, and the IRS can send me a bill. What percentage of the population do you think has more complex taxes than me?
Yes, because telling your major customer that you’ll screw them completely at will is so good for business.

Whatever Putin’s reason for the war, at this point any attempt to use it for control has spectacularly backfired.
I'm eastern european, before visiting Germany I was under the impression a retirement home was for old people that don't have any family left at all. I was blown away to find out kids will put their parents in retirements instead of living and taking care of them until they pass away.

How is this acceptable for a sane society?