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> The software industry has become an example of quantity over quality

Yes, and so many other industries have lead the way as well.

On some level I think it’s for the better. I won’t buy perfect, indestructible, 0.1 micron tolerance carrot peeler for the price of a car (nor will buy a car summiting the state of the art technology for the price of a house). I’m for cheap goods striking a good feature/price balance.

But on the other end of the spectrum it all reminds me of John Siracusa’s legendary toaster reviews, every single one of them being so crappy in some specific way. Having overall nice experience for a reasonable price is becoming more the exception than the norm.

I’m still happy we’ve left the Win98 days and kernel level crashes are pretty much a thing of the past.
> The ... do not have the force of law

So you're saying this part

> the annotated version became the authoritative copy

is wrong?

Either way, you're describing a situation where the state cheaped out in a way that deprives its residents of their right to know what law governs them. I still call that obvious.
I don't mind the design. Whenever I want to know where to find something I just ask where would I expect to find it on the iphone and it's usually there.
Saw this the other day, makes sense to me. If I ran Visa, I would hire a team of engineers to come up with ways we could be making money off of future cryptocurrency transactions, if only as a hedge against people using Visa less and to quiet down my noisy shareholders. I would call it something like "VISA CRYPTO THOUGHT LEADERSHIP" as well, that is a perfect name.
I don't think the lighting port is categorically better than USB-C, even discounting the lesser pin count.
This has been up for 10 hours and I don't see Gwern's article mentioned yet, so here it is:

https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
Seen like 10 of these in past 2 weeks I feel like. Only genuine question is how does importing a schema work? Are they just prompt engineered next to the input query?
> Or list hot items like a Steam Deck or MoonSwatch under "Specialty services" or "Business and Industrial Equipment" instead of the correct category (again with no intention of actually shipping anything)...if some poor sucker doesn't notice and buys it any way, once again eBay will tell them "too bad" because those special categories are exempt from the money back guarantee.

Back in the day, I knew people who'd make a fortune buying "Plam Pilot"s from eBay (because you couldn't edit your item title, and fuzzy search was not/barely a thing. They'd search out common typos, and buy and resell stuff that was just not getting any/many bids (this is before Buy It Now was a thing, too, though you might have guessed that from the Palm Pilot reference...)
That's actually where the inspiration of my work comes in. Outside of academia, I also teach martial arts, where practice is often structured as "present" -> "practice" -> "introduce new element" -> "practice" -> "introduce new element" -> repeat. The hope is the training regimens will help model that a little.

Another note when I think about learning is how, as adults, we are resistant to many of the techniques we give children. Thinking about Sesame Street, think about how much a skit/song will focus solely on something like the number 3. Simplified language, repetition, and enjoyable content are things adults think are "beneath them" despite the fact they work, just not as "fast" as adults want.
Tesla used car price bubble pops, weighs on new car demand
A cheap mattress, pile of blankets, and a 12v tv all in the back of a truck made for the best road trips as a kid.
A small SRS system is my go-to project to learn any new programming language, it really helps to already know the problem inside-out when you're learning a new set of tools.
Brazil's median _household_ income is also $17k. Canada's is $77k.
point to point was how every airline operated before gas prices and decreasing ticket prices caused airlines to focus on concentrating pax loads. it's not quirky; it's just not cost effective.

SWA can do this bc they operate a single aircraft type (737), have lower opex (they operate closer to spirit than delta internally and they do things like not allowing full GDS access to force leisure travelers to book through their website), and they keep their aircraft around a while. they also have a smaller network than the bigger airlines do, which further lowers opex.

However, SWA isn't truly point to point seeing as how a lot of their traffic flows through Chicago (MDW), Dallas (DAL) and Houston (HOU) and they have huge hangars and service ops out of these locations.

hubs aren't immune to huge cancellation numbers like this. American and United were heavily impacted during the 2021 Winter storm. Had the storm happened during the busiest peak travel season of the year like it did this year, they would have had record cancellations as well.
Yes, but the UK is also smaller than Oregon.
Did it. Wrote some Clojure in a large Java shop about 10 years ago. Took about 4 months before I got a slap on the wrist.
That sounds like an extremely efficient way to get one feature, or a series of overly dependent features, done as fast as possible. But I'm not understanding why that would be your goal except in rare circumstances.

Why not have most of the team coding toward the goals and one or two helpers? Especially because that's how the welding story worked.
You're a better person than myself. Would have suggested the Saudis are behind the downvotes.
You could say that the thing that makes light go is the distribution and motion of charges in the electric field. As they move, they generate waves in the amplitude of the EM field, and these waves are what we perceive as light.
I definitely understand what they mean by a fork, at some point I stopped using computers with explicit purpose and now it can be doing, or just consuming. I think that was the fork, when computers became entertainment and consumptive devices as well as tools for doing.

I have a specific workststion for music production, work, and games, and I think that was an attempt to make each workstation more purposeful and less consumptive.

When I find myself on my phone too much, I try and switch back to only using it when I need to complete a task. But they are very good at sucking you back in.

To the permanence part of the article, I think that is what attracts me about embedded devices. You build it, and it works until it breaks, rather than until the complex alignment of software dependencies misaligns against your codebase or hardware.
Thank you for pointing this out. As a non-native speaker of English, I am thankful for this correction. I sometimes miss such distinctions in my active vocabulary, even if I encountered the spelling before. (And there are this more embarassing mistakes regarding "belief"/"believe" and "live"/"life", that slip into my writing nevertheless sometimes.)
is it more precious than one human life ?
>“Everything about a phone is built around time-synching on the order of 5 to 10 milliseconds,” Wisniewski says. “That works just fine with a tower that’s a quarter mile away, 3 miles away even, but not for orbit.”

You know, that's an excellent point...

I'm guessing (but not knowing!) -- that the farther a signal needs to be synched in space -- deep space for example -- the larger possible "time interval" / "time skew" / "time jitter" (for lack of better terminology, I am not a signal engineer!) -- between signal components!

Consider the following question in theoretical physics:

Let's suppose someone could choose a point in the universe, all the way across the universe (like let's suppose the universe is like a circle, and the point chosen is diametrically opposite to where you are now -- the farthest point opposite your own, on the circle's circumference.)

And let's suppose you could send a radio signal from this most far point in the universe -- and somehow receive it where you are now...

If you could -- then the $64,000 question is:

"What does that radio signal look like at the endpoint, once it has traversed all of that space?"

Because it probably has been transformed in some way, before it reaches its destination...

Maybe it has not only become phase shifted and/or time skewed -- in some way...

Perhaps that signal, by the time it reaches the longest point in the universe away from it -- has been completely Fourier Transformed...

If most of that signal at its point of origin was originally in the frequency domain (like most signals are) -- then perhaps that signal, in its journey over miles and miles of endless space -- is now mostly in the time domain...

Or, I'll go for "full crackpot" --

Perhaps what defines the largest possible distance between two points in space -- is the Fourier Transform of all signals present in one point in space/time -- Fourier transformed -- at another point in space/time...

(Or perhaps I should call space/time -- time/space -- its reciprocal/inverse ?)

But perhaps this is all wrong!

Perhaps the opposite to a point in space -- is all other points in Space!

Or, all other points in Time...

Well, whatever the case, it would be interesting to know what signal transformations are necessary to get a given signal the farthest to/from deep space...

At least for future, outside of our solar system, space missions...
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> I dunno if I even have the right kind, or how to even shop for the right kind

I don’t know if you can trust what you see on eg Amazon but “USB IF certified” should be a fully-spec-compliant cable. I’ve successfully bought cables on Amazon this way.

It’s annoying, but from research that’s the magic incantation to search for.
IIRC, this was relatively on purpose, with $modifier $name basically meaning "we made a backend change to the release but nothing else". Snow Leopard was a big shift towards 64-bit for core apps, and Grand Central Dispatch for multi-processing,
As a counterpoint, I’ve done several Mac apps with SwiftUI for internal use and it’s been quite pleasant. Early SwiftUI was definitely rough, but it’s quite nice now as of Monterey and Ventura.

If you’re seeing high CPU use and slow performance, it might be due to high usage of ObservableObject or other things that may be triggering updates under the hood more often than need be.

SwiftUI is very sensitive to the data model structure since it’s a react style setup.
Align is a meaningless MBA buzzword, candidly.

If I think the project is worthwhile, I’m already aligned. If I think it’s stupid, I can’t “align myself” without first being convinced that I was wrong and the project is, in fact, great.
This actually is what prevents me from buying flights from them. The only time I do it is when someone asks for them specifically.
- Neovim

- fish

- WezTerm (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm)

- Logseq

- Arc (https://arc.net)
@Scambaiter on YouTube is excellent, as he uses technical knowledge to actually hack and disrupt call centers.
Local maxima, presumably.
Getting the flu is realistically bad for your body, and really really bad when you're hospitalized. Leaves you permanently weaker. Flu vaccines aren't a bad idea...
+1

Ideally try to combine exercise with something you enjoy, so that exercise is the side effect. Then it becomes effortless and something to look forward to.

As an over-worker, but also someone who enjoys their job, I still find it important to make room for these other things in life (physical activities, adventure, music, art, whatever)... they give you perspective and balance in life, and without them work can start to feel overwhelming. Small details start feeling more important than they really are - and I think this is where that feeling of exhaustion can come from, because even though you might be making good progress and delivering value, it stops feeling like it without that perspective.
And it's mainframe / COBOL, not DOS, which post-dates it by about a decade and a half.

It's not even an ASCII text app, but an EBCDIC one. Or was after EBCDIC was defined as a standard, after SABRE itself launched.
Yes. Sorry about that; got in the habit of using the abbreviation at work where we clean a lot of 3D-printed parts with it.
Me too. However it seems that all editors moved to TDI around the turn of the century. Sam is a graphical text editor that still maintains the MDI interface, but it is too bare bones for my taste.
FEA is used for design assistance usually, not considered good enough for verification in aerospace at least (not sure about other fields). i.e you can design the wing for a certain loading using FEA to model but then a proper test needs to be completed that tests the wing to breaking point to verify the design meets constraints.
Sounds nostalgic and all, but the temp was near 0 in many places throughout the US. Not a fun time to be sleeping in the back of a U-Haul truck.
Display conformance to the communication standards are a hot mess. That’s generally the biggest problem
> I'm pretty sure T-Mobile wouldn't have signed on for something that is just a pipedream

Las Vegas and a few other cities did, from the same salesman: https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel...
You can also send the password via a password file or password command, by command line switch or environment variable.
> My entire problem was ebay's pants on head stupid policy that regarded a package as delivered to me even when the tracking made it completely clear that it wasn't. I don't think the seller even had to lie to ebay: they simply had to respond "Here is the delivered tracking number: xyz".

Yup. With apologies to the BOFH comics of old... "Click. Delivered. Close dispute. Clickety-click. On to the next one."

> Back to the topic: This law would have done nothing for me. I was already able to track down the sellers identity without difficulty-- but what am I to do with that? I could sue them at great cost with years of trouble and time and a substantial risk that I get nothing-- including my legal costs-- because they're bankrupt or vanish. Honestly I would have much rather spent my time and money suing eBay since at least there would be a possibility of recovery if I won.

A month after "losing" a phone a guy calls me from a couple of states away. "Hey, I bought a phone on eBay and it's apparently yours. If you got a new one through insurance, could you unlock it for me? I mean, I know it sucks, but you got a new phone and this way I am not getting scammed too".

Set of balls on him. I said I wasn't willing to do that, because how do I know he wasn't responsible for my phone being "lost"?

So we figured something out. He reached out to the seller, asked for a refund. Seller said "pound sand". I didn't know at the time, but the seller lived -very- close to me. He says to seller. "I am in contact with the legitimate owner of the phone. Refund me or he gets all your contact details."

Seller refunds.

Buyer gives me all his info anyway.

I check out his eBay page, and it's the most blatant case of selling stolen electronics ever.

Not just "broken/parts only". But 50+ MacBooks, most "missing charger/accessories", same with phones "no accessories included, as-is". I look at the listing for mine and the IMEI is on the page, to give the illusion of legitimacy. But the last two digits are transposed, so it's not valid. To a cursory buyer, "must be legit, or he wouldn't put the IMEI on the page", to me, who lost my phone, in the event I searched the IMEI, no results. All of the IMEIs were like this, last two digits transposed.

Call the police. "Hey, this guy is selling hundreds of thousands of stolen goods".

They could not care less.

"Well, he probably didn't steal them himself"

Uhh? Fairly sure that's still a crime, especially when it's obvious from your listings that you're covering that up.

"Not much we can do. Sorry."

Whatever. I resisted the urge to drive to his house and pour sugar and water in his gas, but only just.
Globalstar ...

edit to add more detail: given Musk's history of unilaterally cancelling some individual's tesla orders, publishing car telemetry to dispute autopilot crash news stories, deciding when, how, and where Ukraine can use Starlink, and now plenty more examples of banning / censoring / downranking people as he sees fit on twitter, I'd prefer not to use a service he provides if i can get comparable capabilities somewhere else
This happens once there's a cash cow product with a decent market share. Once that happens, it's marketing and sales who call the shots.
If we want governmental mandates to regulate social media, let's do it. Make it law that crackpot ideas MUST be shared, and limit exactly how platforms can moderate their platform. The problem with this approach is that in the quest for freedom of speech, we'll have stripped freedom from owners of the platform to moderate their platform how they see fit.

The reality is that truly unfettered free speech & unmoderated discussions/debates devolves into all sorts of distractions from the primary goals of the platform (e.g. spam, hate speech, illegal activity, off-topic discussion). There must always be some level of moderation and censorship, even if that is at a basic level watching for spam bots & illegal activity. Typically that's not enough to ensure decorum, so you end up with additional community guidelines to set the tone for the platform.

My point here is that freedom of speech on online platforms is a mythical unicorn, that never existed, nor will it ever exist. It seems more like a wedge issue certain people like to bring up because they're unhappy with how a platform has acted towards them, and want to claim superiority by championing "free speech", even if they don't actually believe in it. For all the belly aching Musk did about Twitter, he is doing exactly the same things he complained about. That'd be fine, if he wasn't such a hypocrite about it & understood the ramifications and expectations of free speech, and the complexities of competent content moderation.

I'd also disagree that crackpot ideas are best debated in the open on social media. I think in a well moderated forum where people are held accountable, and expected to cite their sources yes. In the firehose that is social media where attention spans are limited, consumption is often on mobile devices which may hamper ability to do in-depth research, it leaves much to be desired as a place to find deeper truth easily. Also with puppet accounts, the moment you debunk one thread, ten more have popped up regurgitating the same talking points.
Apparently it’s due to SWA scheduling and related software overwhelmed and unable to handle the information mismatch.

https://twitter.com/flyingtigress/status/1607739070687371268
Yeah, I tend to use a site:reddit.com in my searches.

Does this imply there is some simple filtering methods that should be done on all google searches to provide a "filtered" internet that is better?

If you're just indexing things that you trust, search might not be that hard.
See also the Buddhas of Bamiyan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan
Southwest is not an exclusive option in any of the cities they serve.
This seems like a clear-cut example of unauthorised access, at least if Netflix chooses to clearly communicate that you aren't allowed to use someone else's account. https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/computer-misuse-act#_T...

Probably the same in most of the world.
FYI removing data from backup repositories (e.g. deleting files from a backup) is currently in the master branch of restic and will likely be in the next release.
The problem is it's not really a good story to tell, because this leads people, who might not know any better, to later in life recount to some welder friend(s) they happen to know, about how the article's creator was the guy who worked out welders needed TAs ... or one fabrication welding business needed TAs. It's better not to make things up, or use really really incredulous examples, that may lead people to unwittingly embarrass themselves.

It's almost like a story where the genius works out the boss needs a secretary.

When it comes to inventing stuff, important points are often overlooked.

Imagine if the same sort of story recounted a company with a 9 to 5 office where 100 people worked solely at their desktop computer station back in the days of W98 or XP doing whatever it was they did. The guy observes when people arrive for work they're not productive because the first five minutes their system was booting and virus checking. There's over 8 hours of lost production so it's worthwhile to hire an additional low paid casual worker for minimum award, with the minimum required hours for casual (here it's iirc it's been around four hours a day,) to arrive a couple hours beforehand to ensure all systems are running so workers can start working immediately when they walk through the door. Clearly that sounds right, but most here would know, in practice, for many workers, output would not increase substantially. The nuance is in the finer details.
I was just in Saigon last week, and while talking to my dad (who is Viet) we discovered that Vietnam is already a massive exporter of electronics! It’s their number one industry by export.

Phones US$57.5 billion

Electronic goods/Computers US$50.8 billion

https://www.vietnam-briefing.com/news/introduction-vietnams-...
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Sure, you can point out how it works in practice, but the concept of "for the public good" is in the literal description in the constitution.
>The trick is to stop caring so damn much.

This is the key right here. Work is just something you do to make money to live and enjoy life. There's other jobs you can go look for if the current one becomes too much of a drag. The company isn't yours, so stop acting like you're an "owner"; you're not, you're just a hired gun. Just do well enough to get some decent reviews, professional contacts, and a pathway to other jobs to ensure your career has a good future, and don't stress out about anything.
“Do not honor” is a decline from the customer’s card issuer — they might think something’s off with the payment or there’s something up with the customer’s account. If you haven’t talked with our support team yet to dig in, could you email me at edwin@stripe.com?

Stripe is a direct network platform, meaning, we work with Visa, Mastercard, etc. and the charges are run directly through the card networks, which negates the need for a middle acquiring layer.
How does it work in the US? Do the different legislatures typically publish their own law books or is that typically up to private ventures to handle?

Here in Scandinavia it seems the governments and other legislative authorities publish laws and rules on their home pages and it is then up to the publishers to keep track of what to put in the law book. Or not, because there are too many laws so a selection has to be made as it won't fit in a single volume. Different publishers then have different selections and annotations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAE_steel_grades#Stainless_ste...
But that wouldn't generate as many clicks!
pretty much, after microsoft decided windows wasn't really critical they kind of just let random people go to town with it

that's why opensource platforms are so important, general computing is kind of screwed when apple or microsoft get distracted by something shiney
I'm really excited for this. In Montana there are long distances between towns, lots of snow, and outdoor stuff is a major pastime.

No longer having any places where you can't call for help will make things a lot safer.
> Every windows laptop has had suspend broken for the last few years

What is “suspend” here? Hibernate? Sleep? Something else?
Can't run it on my Monterey 12.3.1 (needs Ventura 13.1 or higher) :(
airline margins are paper thin these days. they weren't back when booking engines and reservation systems were being built. (SABRE was built by and spun off from American Airlines. Galileo was built by United before they merged with Continental.) this plus the absolutely insane business logic that goes into booking engines has made the effort extremely risky.