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Tends to happen when you apply the eastern European equivalent of an N-word to someone.

It's a touchy subject, and the recent Russian invasion explains why.
I'm a life long Linux user, it's not even a thing for me it's just what I've used since my teens. But phoronix saying something has good benchmarks in Linux means absolutely squat to me. That site _always_ has good performance metrics on Linux.

I do some gaming and I can tell you their posts never reflect my reality.
> It may be controversial to say but tourists (local or from afar) are generally the worst part about central London commuting, due to the ignorance of the etiquette, especially when tourist numbers can be overwhelming in some parts.

This goes for any city that is popular with tourists, who seem to forget that most of the people in a city live and work there, and have their own lives that do not revolve around hospitality or entertainment for tourists.
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The web is littered with people telling their stories of getting overpaid in comp, frequently around bonuses, and having the company ask for their money back. They're always disappointed to find out that they do, legally, owe the company the extra pay back. Good companies will work with the employees on this. Other's can be a bit shitty about it.

Big caveat that this is a US-centric view.
Personally I'm very eager to see AMD's upcoming RX 7000-series from a pricing as well as performance standpoint compared to Nvidia's new 4000 series.

As noted in the article, "Nvidia likely has a worse cost structure in traditional rasterization gaming performance for the first time in nearly a decade" due to the much lower die costs that AMD is targeting. I predict Nvidia's share price will continue its downward trajectory - both on the weakness of 4000 series (given high price and surplus 3000 series inventory) and on AMD pricing pressure.

What's more interesting is Nvidia's long term focus on ray tracing and continuing to dedicate more and more precious die space to it. AMD, on the other hand, seems to be more focused on the short term: rasterization performance. It's a bit reminiscent of Apple vs. Samsung, where AMD is Apple as it waits on technologies to become mainstream before full adoption and Nvidia is Samsung as it bets on new technologies (e.g. foldables).
McMaster is the greatest retail website to ever exist, albeit in a bit of a niche.
I used to absolutely LOATHE tracking down a specific bolt, nut, fitting, coupler, etc... but McMaster completely changed that. If I need something specific, I'm going to McMaster first every single time, and I'm almost always ordering from them. If it's something really expensive I might cross shop elsewhere, but McMaster is easily the most pleasant platform out there, and I like knowing I can just immediately ship stuff back if it doesn't work for me (no authorizations, just return it).

You pay a little premium, but it beats driving to 50 different local stores to find out no one has what you need, or ordering from another online retailer and not really being confident when your order will show up.

I'm a hobby guy when it comes to this stuff, but if I owned a business I'd be drinking the kool-aid even more. Time is money, and McMaster is reliable and fast as hell.
Then while the job market for this industry is fluid, you’ll need to find other ways to entice people to stay.

It seems that in a hot market hiring managers are each other’s enemy- they’re competing for labor, after all. They are providing incentives to get your workers to jump. So maybe the framing shouldn’t be employers vs. workers.
It's nothing to do with Google advertising. It was a problem before Google had advertising. Being the number 1 non-ad result for a search will get you many more hits than being a number 2. If you don't appear on the first page, you may as well not exist.

Google's priority with ads is to make sure ad buyers are happy with the results they are getting. This means making sure the people who click the ads go on to buy the product being advertised. That's what ad buyers measure.
Having a set of days that pretends to be a quarter month but rapidly falls out of sync is worse than having no quarter month at all.

So you want to reform the week, the only time cycle that hasn't been altered in millennia to sync it with... what exactly?

Different groups of time have different goals. Scientific and technical applications only use the second. Years are useful both for agriculture and astronomy. Year subdivisions, weeks and months are useful for legal, social and personal purposes: weekends, holidays, celebrations, birthdays, embarrassing familiar reunions and all that.

They neither have to be in sync with anything, just being useful to track days in a year, nor they need to be mathematically pleasant, any programmers worth their salt will write you a perpetual calendar generator in five minutes.
That... is truly bizarre. I've literally never heard of that before.

The entire point of RSU's (or stock options) is that if the company increases in value over time, e.g. over your first year, so does the cash value of your RSU's. That employees benefit as the company benefits.

What you're describing is zero benefit at all. It's no different from just being granted cash that vests. It's such a strange and seemingly pointless thing to do, that I have to ask -- are you sure that's how it works? And if so, has someone from the company ever explained why they do that?
with import C what is the benefit of creating bindings to C libraries if you can just work with the C code directly?
Ask HN: How to maintain multiple physical skills?
Inspired by this thread about learning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32982513

I want to take the discussion to a different direction.

How do you maintain multiple physical skills?

Knowledge-based skills are easier to maintain since they go into long term memory. But physical based skills aren't. Physical based skills need maintenance or else those will get rusty.

To give an analogy about the difference:

- Music theory -> Knowledge based

- Playing guitar -> Physical based

I myself have multiple physical skills that I maintain over the years (I am 35):

- Guitar

- Vocal

- Karate

- Calisthenics

- Programming

- Botany

As I get older and have more responsibilities (families, kids, jobs, communities), and as these skills get more and more advanced, how do I realistically maintain all of these?

For example, in the matter of guitar alone, there are different genres, different types of picking. In the matter of programming, there are different programming languages.

My approach in learning various knowledge based skills is just one, reading, read a lot, reflect a lot, and that seems to suffice to make it go into long term memory (at least the ability to roughly recall). But I don't know how to do it with various physical based skills other than just keep doing it over and over to maintain it.
In my company there are multiple important days:

1) Find out RSU bonus value: "you get 20% of your salary worth of RSUs"

2) Grant Date: Company Calculates the number of RSUs, issues them, and starts Vesting schedule.

3) Vesting days: Some of the RSUs become vested and can be sold by the employee.

>The market price of the stock is determined at the time the RSUs vest.

What is the point of giving stock priced on the vesting day? It has no chance to go up or down between the grant and vesting date when it is sellable.

It would be the same as a cash bonus with an X year delay.
I've seen many resumes that say things like "company went bankrupt" or "Entire department was laid off"
What problems do you suppose using an anonymous sim card solves in the real world of dating?
Yeah, the floor on shipping seems to be about $10 (CA to WA) but at least you find out the rate in advance now. Often worth it even for inexpensive items if it saves you an hour going to the store and searching and maybe not finding it.
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I have learned just as much, if not more, from reading HN comments as I have from the links. I don't reply or comment very often but I do appreciate those who do. So, people who have interesting or insightful things to say, please continue to comment!
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An awful lot of products _would_ lend themselves to filtering, but the folks putting the sites together don't bother coming up with good parameters, or when they do, they don't populate them on all the relevant products.

This vexes me constantly on HomeDepot.com, for instance. I was looking for a set of sockets, either 1/4" or 3/8" drive, metric 6-point, deep, impact. I was shopping for sockets at the Depot because I was already buying some other things, and I honestly like Milwaukee's offerings in this space, so let's take a look.

Search for "metric deep socket", so far so good. Gets me into the category so parametric filters appear. Filter by "6-point" and all the sets disappear -- that parameter only applies to sockets sold individually, despite most sets consisting exclusively of 6-point or 12-point, rarely a mix, and they even indicate this in their item titles. The data is there, but you can't filter by it, because the site sucks.

Just the first example to mind because it happened two days ago.
Yes..it was proposed by a linguist, iirc. There is only one 2015 paper where I have read it. But it seems most plausible. Consider this. The Greeks had no calender. Cannanite Hebrews had no Egyptian admixture. So what remains is the sandwich period from where the record keeping must have been directly influenced by the Babylonians.
Easier to write (new Date() - new Date(d.getUTCFullYear(), d.getUTCMonth(), d.getUTCDate())) / (24 * 60 * 60) and not have to worry about timezones :)
Copyright scholar Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley SIMS, EFF): "copyright has become the single most serious impediment to access to knowledge".

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Yes completely agree. I was going to post the same thing and did a quick CTRL+F to see if anyone else felt similarly. I don't even play video games that often but this immediately made me think "Wow this really feels like a video game somehow"
A bunch of us (me included) used to work in the IoT world. You can *TRY* to simulate 100k assets using "20 or so" nodes but truthfully it's just never *really* the same. So, to be transparent, no. It's really, really, really hard to test 100k devices effectively in my experience. (happy to be told otherwise/taught what others have done). We ran hundreds of __actual__ machines simulating "thousands" of devices, but it's still NOT the same... We do perform scale testing though it's not me that does it...

So no, we haven't gotten to 100k actual deployed devices - yet. You can be the first! :)

As every developer will say, we "built it for scale". Many of us are also a bunch of ex-IoT devs, and we _have_ built systems like this in the past so we're really familiar with the types of issues that can crop up.

Verified users count, we're in the 5000 to 10000 range that I know of (as in, I am pretty sure we have networks of that size deployed out there in the wild). I'll ask what our "fabric" people have tested and how and get back to you if it's significantly different than what I know about.
Chasing the fad of COBOL undertaken right now, I think, could help one bring home some bacon for years and years.

Certain tech stops being a fad but stays entrenched and in a certain, while not overwhelming, demand. Hiring for PHP and C++ jobs will continue for a loooong time.
There's a big trend of HN voices where people claim design somehow isn't important when in fact design demonstrably drives sales, user acquisition and user satisfaction. IMO design is often the #1 most important thing outside of the product itself, and great design can elevate a mediocre product into something great.

Their monthly Figma bill is $15. If you saw how gutted people were by the adobe figma acquisition, you might be able to infer how great of a tool it is and how much productivity people get from it. There's no way not paying for it is a good idea.
The only problem I have with GPL is that I don't want to use "or later version" (as I don't trust all future FSF leaders), but it's illegal to link GPL V2 and V3 code, and I would expect the same problem will arise with a future V4.
Yes, all granted, but I think the point is that without fingers tool use is hard, without tool use flying to other planets is hard, and we selected base 10 as the default despite its disadvantages, primarily because of our biology (unless there's some other advantage to base 10 I'm missing?).

To assume aliens wouldn't have fingers or do the same thing seems like the odd assumption. Whales are nowhere even close to creating technical civilization, that's really left field. Dolphins at least occasionally do use tools, I think, but without fingers they have to use their nose for everything and it really limits them.
imagine if Pythagoras said: "my theorem is proprietary, you shall not use it unless you purchase a LGPFLFDPFDLFDFDPGTM licence from me"

licenses and "for profit" mindset has to disappear asap, just like with patents, bottleneck of humankind

let the knowledge be shared and known by everyone, let people unlock what's yet to be discovered
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Yes. By fair, I mean proportionate, equitable.
They did try. A few years ago AMD and Apple collaborated to make OpenCL, which was a pretty half-hearted attempt at building a platform-agnostic GPGPU library. Their heart was in the right place, but that was part of the problem. Nvidia's vertical control over their hardware and software stack gave them insane leveraging power for lots of dedicated use cases (video editing, gaming, 3D rendering, machine learning, etc.)

In the end, even after years of development, OpenCL was just really slow. There wasn't a whole lot of adoption in the backend market, and Apple was getting ready to kick them to the curb anyways. It's a little bit of a shame that AMD got their teeth kicked in for playing Mr. Nice Guy, but they should have know that Nvidia and Apple race for pinks.
The members of any social species are subjected to balancing the interests of the self with the interests of the group. In such a condition sanity and/or hypersanity is not consistently possible.
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If anything the problem used to be that we overestimated the importance of memorization. Maybe it's changed now, but trying to free cognitive load is important. It's the same reason why literary societies beat oral ones. The emphasis on memorization was reduced.
Here's my favorite (from GNU tar):

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Support for this will be withdrawn in future releases. */

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When I was 20 something, I had an extra zero added to a severance payment. I randomly called some law firm asking if I should just keep that. The lawyer dude plunged his arm into the telephone line and slapped me silly.
Wow I've been looking for this for years! Always thought SaaS companies waste time building yet another mediocre analytics dashboard when they should just sync their data

My main thing is I don't want to think in terms of raw data from my database to the customer database, I have higher level API concepts.

Would be cool if there was some kind of sync protocol I could implement where prequel sent a request with a "last fetched" timestamp and the endpoint replied with all data to be updated.

Kind of like this: https://doc.replicache.dev/server-pull
95c and that power draw are a skip 7000 series for me. I think a used 5950x will be the sweet spot soon.
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Wow, eSIMs hit first in this discussion? Not the glaring nightmare of security QR codes are. I thought about providing links but there's such a vast host of writeups about it I'll leave it for the reader to search and discover. Yikes.
NASA seems to be in full “send it” mode for the Artemis I mission
Looks like K6 is basically Gatling but with a JS-based DSL while Gatling uses Scala (or anything JVM-based like Java/Groovy/Kotlin)... there's also Locust[1] which is Python-based.

What I really wanted was an interactive tool, like old LoadUI used to do (Wikipedia, nicely, still has the old screenshots which show how cool it used to look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoadUI)... because until you run tests, you just don't know what kind of load you can throw at the server (and whether you're hitting CPU/Memory/Bandwitdth limits instead of server limits). Visual Components were written in a scripting DSL (Groovy based) and dynamically loaded so you could change the code even while the test ran... really awesome stuff, a bit like coding in Lisp with a visual facade on top.

Based on existing tools, it should be relatively easy to build something like that and I am surprised there seems to be nothing of the kind. I've always wanted to do it myself, maybe one day if no one else finally tackles the problem.

[1] https://docs.locust.io/en/stable/
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> I'd say the same about Blindsight, but it hasn't spawned much. Although, it's core trope is arguably the most unique I've ever read before.

I don't want to go into too much for fear of spoilers, but the video game Prey is at least playing in the same ballpark as Blindsight.
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I don't know many examples but it's not uncommon in proprietary code either. Sometimes you have to do ugly workarounds for bugs and you don't know when the bugs will be fixed, so you can't trivially prevent it affecting future versions.
Exciting stuff. AVX512 isn't just for specialized work projects. It's also a huge performance boost for game console emulation.
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Sorry if I've misunderstood your post.

The parent article was about replacing dense code with more lines of simpler syntax. I assumed you were in the shorter-is-better camp and willing to prove it with your example, where shorter undoubtedly is better.
I found your example far stretched, and designed another case using your material (arithmetic operations) but applying only 2 repetitions, much in line with the spirit of the fine article.

I hope I managed to show that, although we can agree that "very very longer is worse", this not always implies "shorter is better".
https://gatling.io/
Gatling is one among the load test tools people need to give a shot. It uses akka for generating asynchronous loads. And it's good from a programmer standpoint since load test scripts can be programmed and maintained as any other script.
> The writer don’t seem to realise that radian is not an arbitrary unit but a dimensionless one which is defined so that 1rad is actually just 1.

First, I would be cautious about suspecting someone of Casey Muratori's calibre didn't consider something just because he didn't directly addressed it.

Second, the choice of unit is kind of arbitrary, even if the unit itself is not. Radiants are nice because the length of a 1 radiant arc is the same as the length of the radius. But turns are also nice because angles expressed in turns are congruent modulo 1 instead of modulo 2π.

Third, he talks in the context of video games. Such games use code, that have to be read by humans and executed by the CPU. And that's the main point of his article: in this context, expressing stuff in terms of (half) turns reduces the amount of code you have to write & read, reduces the number of multiplications & divisions the CPU has to make, and makes some common operations exact where they were previously approximated.

Do we even care at this point whether the definition of radians is arbitrary or not? I love the elegance of radiants, but for game engine code I'm willing to accept they're just the wrong unit for the job.
Personally, I am much more wary of the definition of "interaction" than of unwillingly distribute the software. The later one is a fault of the person accessing my computer against my will, not mine. But I have no idea how far "interaction" can be stretched-up, is using your software equivalent to signing some NDA? Hell if I know.

That said, FOSS authors normally aren't the kind of people that pushes to those crazy maximalist interpretations of documents. So if any risk exists, it's not large.
Isn't the 'intervention in energy' just borrowing even more money and handing it over to the energy companies? With their obscene profits, it would make far more sense to use windfall taxes rather than borrowing, but then I suppose it depends on whether your friends work in those energy companies.
With many mobile providers, the name on the account is directly associated with the number. Try to enter your own mobile number into Twilio’s lookup feature and see what name pops up.
Migadu do have calendar/contacts but it's a bit tricky setting up, FYI.

Edit:
For example, take a look at https://www.migadu.com/guides/thunderbird/ and at the end of that page there's some instructions for setting up calendar.
This drove me nuts for a while until I figured out the workaround:

Expand down to a specific item. Click the item number to open the "last choice for quantity and stuff before adding to cart" dropdown. In this, rightclick "Item Detail" and open in new tab.

Now in the new tab, head to the top right, "view catalog page", and you're back to the category.

I agree that it's a weakness, though.
You are of course right about the speed, when a fast hardware multiplier is available for the computation of the polynomials.

On the other hand with CORDIC it is extremely easy to reach any desired precision, and in cheap hardware it does not require multipliers.

So CORDIC may be considered as "one of the best ways" depending on how "best" is defined.

Even when developing a polynomial approximation for the fast evaluation of a trigonometric function, it may be useful to use an alternative evaluation method by CORDIC, in order to check that the accuracy of the polynomial approximation is indeed that expected, because for CORDIC it is easier to be certain that it computes what it is intended.
> It's like people who oppose cash payments out of the convenience of card/app payments.

Well it wasn't that long ago, 95% of HN comments were all for Digital Payment, Apple Pay, and Cashless Society. Things only changed around ~2019.
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