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I read in Slash’s autobiography that when he got his pacemaker installed they set it at a certain heart rate, but when he played his first live show, he felt a handful of thumps in his chest and thought it was bigger pyro than normal.

Turns out his pacemaker was shocking him because it thought his elevated heart rate was a danger! They fixed the setting.
Almost all heat pumps in the UK being installed these days are air-source.
Yeah, anki is one wonderful piece of software, and it is open source :D
Also, I have a bit of advice regarding studying, learning in general: If you struggle to start things, because there is so much to learn and such, start small. Like, If you keep doing even 5 minutes a day, it will be much easier to increase the time (I started this way, and nowadays I can pull off over hour easily) rather than try to do a lot at first

But then again, it might not apply to you, it.. honestly depends on person...
This is something cultural sociologists study. See for instance https://www.thomasfranssen.net/sociology-of-culture though I'm sure there are more recent examples as well.
Protohackers problem 3: Budget Chat
To be fair, even Windows 7 will not do this (assuming you've configured it to be), it's really Microsoft's insistence on Windows 10 that we have this mess.
Keep everything simple. Dumb, boring. Complexity will drive you nuts. You want to be a boring pilot of a floating boat, rather than a super hero in a sinking ship.

Keep a solid stack of cash. 6-9 months worth of potato diet (consider fixed costs). Never let bills run out on you. Never trust dynamic pricing.

Make systems work for you 24/7, keep measuring, have alerts set, incl. recurring jobs via calendar.

Keep a solid log of changes and most recordable things.

Offload everything related to accounting and focus on one thing, the tech.

Keep your customer's expectations in check. They should know you're not a multinational VC funded grunt cave. Keep it human, keep it real. So that when stuff does go bad, you are on the right foot to answer for it, and the narrative is based around compassion and not SLA's.
I don't think it's crazy that windows tries to do all this work behind the scenes so the user doesn't have to worry about it. I do find it crazy how poorly Windows seems to be at running forced system background tasks without absolutely throttling a system, without notice, though.
"The graphics chip was codenamed Napalm, packed in about 14 million transistors, and was built on the 250nm process." - we have progressed by 35x in 20 years.
Office workstations — agree, not an issue. But what about all those single purpose notebooks in the office that are used to control specific hardware?
To me this idea sounds a little bit like how Java Swing works. At least it seems similar to the pluggable LookAndFeel?
I think it was a great idea but it seems like it never got any traction. Or maybe more like Java never got popular on desktop.
I'm not following. Let's assume N=1, what's the pseudocode to find it in cpu-hours?
You don't need to run your laptop for days at 100%. That's complete fiction.
I wanted very much to say the above. Doesn't sound like the author put very much effort into identifying what was going on, fails to understand that Windows is doing what it was intended to do for the non-technical users (i.e. updating), fails to understand that there are good reasons for wanting Windows to do that for non-technical users (even if they might not agree with those reasons), and doesn't bother to take any of the commonly known steps to avoid the issue (i.e. either let it update regularly or break the the update mechanism (not recommended)).

So what was the point of the article other than to demonstrate they don't have a clue as to how to properly operate Windows and can't be bothered to invest the time to do so? And if they couldn't be bothered to do so, what are the chances they actually bothered to learn how to operate Linux or any other OS at anything other than a surface level?
I think more if you count teraflops.
I'd say the way around it is to install Alfred [0] and be done with it. Just have to disable the web search option. Because no, I did not want to open a browser and search for "norepad", I just fat fingered it. Luckily once disabled it works just right.

[0] https://www.alfredapp.com/
It gets a lot better when you turn of web searches for the start menu search. Perhaps some people like having a single place to search for applications to run, documents on their PC, and things on the web. But I'm not one of them, and it slows down the search as well.
Nice signup flow. Just tonight I was wanting GFN-GAN + a more light/noise/color cleanup ML model combined to restore old photos. Gluing a couple together would be super useful.
You can mark your internet connections as metered and windows will never use those to download updates.
> FFS. The context is the web, nobody solves graphic problem like gaming for you, or need to…

I don’t think you understood the article.

The point he was making is that a good user interface is hard to build and is “app like”, with all the weird edge cases.

…and that, for better or worse:

1) react is the best at doing that.

2) react is (frustratingly) not making itself better at it, and is instead prioritising weird stuff like server side rendering, that is pretty niche in terms of value.

3) react competition is basically just “still the same shit web ui” but easier to build and with nicer tooling.

So, I mean, yeah it’s a rant.

…but hey, I think you’re failing if you walk away from it going “wtf was that?”.

He’s right.

Making “app like” websites is pretty hard; it’s very hard with some frameworks.

Apps are better, in almost every way.

That sucks.

No one except react was really even fighting that battle, and they seem to have lost interest.

That kind of sucks too.

Does react suck? Maybe.

…but, tldr; if you’re gonna take a big dump on react from a grey height, at least do so from a position of thoughtfulness.

“No, I’m happy with building a web ui, I don’t need slick user interactions or an interface design rather than just a form”

Cool. That’s fine. The MVP will be quick to build.

Not everyone needs to be figma.

…but pick the tool for the job; and some of the new frameworks are very finely crafted tools for a very specific job; and that job is building a generic web ui.

…but hey, the web is the context right?

So that’s fine, if you don’t care.
You sort of forgot Jen existed there. I'd say she was a core part of the show and pretty fantastic too.
This looks great. Can you also add a LICENSE file?
Great analysis, I'm glad I live in a world where everyone eats just enough to maintain their minimal weight and uses 100% of the food they obtain with no waste.
That sits in conflict with the idea there are lots of people who want to sell the US oil though, does it not? They don't. The US dollar isn't exciting enough for them to go out and pump oil. It isn't obvious that the US firing up the printing presses would suddenly make them excited at the thought because it isn't like that gives them a better deal. The US has the same capability to get them goods, services and assurances before & after the printing.

And unless the electorate are very stupid (an option, I suppose) they will note that at some point they will be paying even higher prices if the SPR is refilled. It'll be even worse than it would be right now.
I believe that collections.deque is implemented as a double linked list. I have used that data structure as a linked list a couple of times.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collectio...
> the 50-year average real cost of its electricity would be 55 EUR/MWh. In contrast, the recent tenders for offshore wind have yielded a strike of 44 EUR/MWh.

As they say on child toys, battery not included.
Microservices architecture with
Java
Micronaut
postgres
firecracker
Haproxy
bash
Prometheus+loki+grafana+node_exporter+promtail
Frontend:
Next.js using typescript
Why doesn't he use a VM on his beefy 32GB ram, 16 logical core cpu.
Agree with what you're saying but the way Windows handles updates is probably my biggest bugbear with it so to me this more or less amounts to victim blaming. If I want to boot my machine for five minutes after a month of inactivity just to accomplish some quick task, why should I be forced into a thirty+ minute update process? Likewise those updates that happen in the background while you're working and when you need to reboot, surprise! You have to wait five-fifteen minutes while it does (something?) before you can proceed with your day.

I'm not totally down on Windows in general but this, coupled with other problems, has led me to switch to Fedora as my daily driver and so far I can't see myself ever going back.
The video linked by gp says the reason that's possible is that congress lifted a US crude oil export ban in 2015.

Since this is indeed a conservative talking point it's worth noting that the lifting of the ban was passed by a Republican-controlled congress over the objections of then-president Obama, who then signed it despite having previously said he'd veto any lifting of the ban, because the provision was tacked onto a "must-pass" omnibus spending bill. [1]

Of course the right thing here, if there is an actual problem, would be to have a debate about whether to put the ban back in place or make some law specifically about not exporting oil purchased from the strategic reserves, but apparently the Republicans would rather impeach Joe Biden for some reason.

[1] https://www.reedsmith.com/en/perspectives/2015/12/us-governm...
Without specifics, it's hard to say. You can disable windows updates and only update when you please. That's probably a better solution for a company anyway. Bring the power back to yourself to decide when to update your device.
Nope. It can do this for days if you leave the laptop off long enough. And then the CPU usage will suddenly drop to 0% when it's done. It's not even updating, it's Windows Store / universal app shenanigans.

You're assuming it's actually doing something important. I'm assuming there's a bug in Windows. Which is more likely?
Work on reliability. Then there are sysadm companies out there you can pay for part-time services.
Absolutely, and could not be convinced that if the code and comments got out of sync then it was likely that the function name would no longer make sense, and that's when we get real trouble.

There were horror stories with that codebase, like index.php was set as the default error handler, started by immediately returning 200 OK before going anywhere near URL dispatching, and then displaying a page that said 404 despite returning 200 if it couldn't find the URL.
Yeah that is not an electrical hiccup in the audio - that’s a human. I am guessing Slavic by the inflection cadence. Also, Cozy Bear and all that.

Longtime guitarist, producer, film fanatic here and this is really going to be interesting.

It does remind me of last Halloween where I had my jumpsuit and hockey mask to be Jason Voorhies and I got a small mp3 player and looped an hour of “ki-ki-ma-ma-ma” lifted from YouTube and played thru a little amp on my porch. Play scarecrow and only move to scare the big kids or their parents haha.
It's crude oil, not refined. It's been in the ground for millions of years.
We do have a blunt B-cell reset tool though. Rituximab has been in use for two decades now, and recently there are newer drugs based on the same idea that are even more human-compatible.
Is it the same audio every time?
> hemming a hawing about security comes from people installing suspect plugins

But plug-ins are the reason for using WP and this is often touted. Then people get criticised for using plugins? Indeed the post you’re quoting mentions lots of plugins!

I’ve only very lightly used WP over the years but /every/ plug-in seems suspect
Also nebula (overlay network)
Current plan to migrate to nomad+consul+vault+envoy for production setup.
This will replace the bash scripts and haproxy that are currently used for this purpose
The Most Famous Blunder of Content Moderation: Do Not Quote The Princess Bride
> If WhatsApp is really E2EE encrypted, why would any of the other steps be necessary?

because you need to eliminate the chance of profiling by any other means.

Using the same phone as before means that the pre-existing profiles exist, which means that the relationship is already inferred. Because its trivially easy to track people, you need to eliminate all other variables.
> the strategic reserve should be used to help America

If it undermines the pricing China are getting from Russian, maybe it is helping the US tax payer.
If its a problem you can disable updates.

The alternative is no updates by default, and we saw what a mess that was back in the win 95/2000 era.
Should you put the target due East or West to remove this effect? Or is it dominated by other concerns that would make you want a different direction (I don't know what - prevailing winds, having to find a 7km patch of empty space - neither sound so difficult in Wyoming).
And how exactly would it solve his problem?
You can only limit the access. For example: limit access for other users than gitea to the config including sshd. Limiting the data that can be accessed with the databasepassword. Gitea doesn't need access to your wordpress.
using an sso can also help: in this case gitea doesn't even have the password.
"“It’s a one-in-a-million shot. They said it’s not statistically repeatable,” he said."

So it's like they're admitting it's almost a fluke, and I appreciate how they're being so upfront about that. They made a follow up video about how it's more like YouTube basketball world records than competition level ones. But still a great achievement.
Is it stored in plain text? If it uses scrypt / argon2 / pbkdf2 it is enough. Also, you may simply use a randomly generated password so your other accounts wont be hacked if someone hacks your linode server.
> No other OS does this.

Really? I get the "System restart required" advisory from Ubuntu Server pretty much weekly unless I disable the auto-updater.
Comes with extreme dependence from what I’ve heard.
C++20 in Google: How Hard Could It Be
I agree. Windows updates and I are not on good terms ever since they decided that they knew better than me for which audio drivers to have installed and force uninstalled drivers a few years back in one of their bigger updates. I can't reinstall these drivers without windows automatically uninstalling them each update, so I've since had to use virtual audio cables and an equalizer to have audible voice input.
Same here. Fisher's essay stuck with me, and now it comes to mind whenever I see the words "Vampire Castle." It's also quite remarkable that it was written in 2013, because the problems Fisher described in the essay didn't really kick into overdrive until later in the decade.
I think it takes a while for the juices to equalise and reach equilibrium before it’s running at max efficiency. You don’t want a duty cycle of say 15mins. You want say 1.5hrs. Something like that. (Numbers very hand wavy this is not my field directly) With an over designed system it stops and starts too quickly and this invalidates the warranty on commercial systems.
Author uses a tone, terms and phrases (FOB) that are really off putting. It’s sad because the subject is interesting. Luckily this HN thread is great.
Microsoft does. Unfortunately the VHDs are fairly big to download, and the ISOs are infrequently updated.

For local development, I can install Windows in under 2 minutes on a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD in a virtual machine from an ISO image. Patching it takes longer, about 5 minutes, but I generally do other things while that occurs in the background.

These days I find the most convenient method to get the "latest" fully-patched version of Windows in a VM is to spin one up in a public cloud. Both Azure and AWS have sufficient free tiers to make this perfectly viable for most developers doing testing or whatever. I just tested Azure's deployment time, and it's about 2 minutes to create an up-to-date VM from scratch.
I think you could nail the culprit to the wall quite easily on a combination of:

- law that says you aren’t allowed to vandalise other peoples stuff (for the verdict); and

- the thing being vandalised is the thing used to coordinate safe evacuation of
passengers on a vessel (for a hefty sentence).

Like scribbling on a painting vs a bus stop — let the justice be done in the sentencing.
Apparently Powertoys Run does all of this correctly. It's also made by MS and its a QuickSilver/Alfred/KRunnrr/etc. style launcer.

This makes it even more inexcusable for the default Windows behaviour to be stupid.
I agree. At the moment I am studying a new language and am following one of the guides produced by Assimil [1]. Their method is exactly what you are suggesting, and I verified its effectiveness when I learned from scratch a new language in 3 months.

[1] https://www.assimil.com/en/
Board Games and Markov Chains
Also from the article:

>I have Windows on a separate hard drive in my machine.

>First, once Windows booted, which took the expected two minutes,

Emphasis "hard drive" and "two minutes" boot time.

Windows 10/11 is absolutely going to shit the bed if it's asked to run off an HDD because Windows nowadays runs with the assumption it lives on an SSD.

You know what happens when tons of random reads and writes hit a drive? An SSD just shrugs and goes about the requests. An HDD literally screeches to a halt as it frantically thrashes across the platters.

So the only thing that's dying here is his overworked HDD and maybe a bit of his wallet to buy an SSD to replace the HDD with.
It costs to run and it costs a lot
I agree it’s hard to find reliable information in this - ASHPs and GSHPs are very hyped right now so a lot of the information that comes up in searches is quite low level or low quality. For example I’ve been told that a heat pump is at peak efficiency when it is sized for a duty cycle of 50% but asking why exactly this figure hasn’t yielded good answers.

As I understand it, it comes down to a couple of things.

Heat pumps are much more efficient when providing lower temperature flows, their efficiency drops off significantly where the delta between the heat source (air or ground) and their flow temperate is higher.

When an oversized heat pump cycles it is going to quickly reach a higher temperate and shut off where as a correctly sized unit will cycle for longer. So I guess simply it comes down to having the heat pump operate in the most efficient range for that property for longer vs. short spikes at temperature where it is less efficient.

Most heat pumps have a variable speed motors so they can modulate their output to match a desired flow temperature but this only operates within a range relative to the size of the unit. So if the unit isn’t correctly sized for the required heat output to be in its range then it has no choice but to cycle inefficiently.

A couple of sources I found helpful:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Most of the consumer advice is very low level - this Heat Geeks site seems better that most, but it still lacks enough detail for me to get into the numbers: https://www.heatgeek.com/3-steps-to-maximise-your-heat-pump-...
> Why would I do more for nothing now and maybe something vague in the future?

Its funny how stockbrokers and sales people can have very clear upfront compensation structures - yet other business areas are supposed to go above and beyond and gamble they might get a promotion or bonus at year end.
Stone walls are terrible for heat insolation. They have inertia but no insolation. So they are good in the Mediterranean coast where you want inertia in summer as some sort of natural climate control to keep it cool during the day. But they are terrible in winter when what you want is insolation to keep the heat in during months.
A 1m stone wall doesn't even insolate as good than 5cm of dedicated insolation panels. It happens very frequently now that old houses are renovated by adding insolation to those old stone walls, but of course you lose the charm of stone on one side of the wall.
This is why you have basically no stone houses in Scandinavia, because in winter it would just be impossible to heat.
> It must be noted that documentaries are still interpretations.

Yup.

I agree The Wire is fine entertainment. More than that, nah. I read more than once that real mafioso started emulating the quirks, behaviors and characteristics of movie mafioso.

Being a nerd myself, I know that movie nerds have little or nothing in common with real nerds, but they are the popular misconception of nerds. Has anyone ever said to you "say that again in English"? Not to me.
It is an incredibly elegant scheme for bringing Markov context outputs together without actually trying to figure out what those contexts are.
Those work in hot dry countries. Lots of the UK - in particular the north-west - is neither hot nor dry.

Up here you end up with the outdoor part freezing into a block of ice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fajitagate

https://www.kqed.org/news/27731/another-video-from-adachi-ro...

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/former-sfpd-lieute...

https://abc7news.com/sfpd-sf-cop-makes-racial-slur-police-ch...
Volvo is using Rust for its in-vehicle software
Yes, but the time scale varies widely depending on how it's treated. Gas you get at the pump might start degrading as fast as in a few months, as it's meant for immediate consumption and thus treated less to keep costs down. Gas that's treated for long term storage can go for up to a few years, but that adds extra cost. The main sources of degradation are oxidation and contamination, both from air and impurities. If you can, it makes economic sense to rotate the oil like you might rotate a log file so it's always reasonably fresh.
> If windows is going to die it's probably just because Microsoft continues to abuse it and try to turn it into a spyware and marketing platform rather than a workhorse and the equilibrium between a hands off linux install and windows slowly tips to favour linux.

They have been doing this for years and intensify their efforts (e.g. by hiding the local user option during install). And I don't see a massive movement towards desktop Linux - Microsoft understands the power of inertia well and they will abuse it as much as they can get away with it.
I'm not even sure oil makes sense to be imported over the Atlantic for us in Europe. We're mostly about LNG.
Not sure what the right terminology is, however, it's due to it turning off, on, off, on again and again...

When it is slightly undersized, it'll run continously and also prolonging compressor life...

Compare this to being able to drive continously at the same speed vs. having to stop/start every 500m or so...
I still find it hard to believe that Windows will take your CPU to 100% for literal days given any vacation from use.

That being said, I realized after replying that I removed most of the background processes like the store, so I was thinking mostly just update related stuff. I have no idea how bad some of the "optional" services are.
If this was a rant on boomers, it would be seen as ageist. Let's not blame all the new stuff on the new generation, it's not like a hoard of zoomersTM wrote react right after graduation.
Linux, LaTeX, SSH, Vim, rsync, keepassxc.

I haven’t actually seen Windows since 2006. I run Linux on laptops too. If you do video editing, maybe a Mac or apparently a windows would be better. Otherwise, Ubuntu LTS works well.
> even just asleep is fine, for a laptop

Except that Windows never-ever-ever reliably sleeps. There is always something, some program, some driver, whatever, waking it up from sleep.