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The very popular Nintendo Switch is infamous for dying controllers. I've had to replace the thumb stick twice within three years, and we weren't even using it that much. The Playstation 5 also them, and I've had to replace it once. No idea whether Xbox uses them though, but I would not be surprised if they did.

What's funny is that, the controllers are already pretty effin expensive. Buying a new single PS5 controller is ca 1/6 cost of the console. With the Switch it's even worse, then it's about 1/3.
> Why 98? Same icons on 95 were they not?

No. Iirc 98 have more colors and better resolutions.
Is that implementation or is that a base problem?

I agree - I would much rather write SQL. But like others have said in this thread, I hate writing custom code to translate anything but the simplest queries into what I actually need.

I also hate trying to combine slightly different queries with custom string manipulation that turns into 750 lines of code before you know it. Most ORMs handle that use case very well.
Interesting comment on machine learning.

My understanding is that they don't train with half precision, but quantisation allows even integer values to be used for inference?

Yet the reasoning still makes sense. Can training take place at half precision or even if you intend to run inference at halfp do you want doublep for training?
In this case storage should be mainly used for music. I don't think an SSD is going to make a big difference, assuming Sony's software supports playing from SD cards.
What was the name of the site, if you don't mind me asking?
You'll call 911, gets transported to the hectic emergency room by ambulance and then you'll be triaged and whatever things that needs to be done will be done.

Few weeks later, you'll receive a financially-crippling bill in the mailbox because the insurers refuse to reimburse your treatment/you were sent out to a out-of-network hospital/because you don't have health insurance in the first place. Oh, don't forget to pay for the ambulance!
This article made the HN front page without any comments, so here are mine:

I knew about Upton Sinclair and read his The Jungle many years ago, but I had never heard of Mammonart.

According to the linked Wikipedia article, “Mammonart has been mostly ignored by critics. Very few reviews are available from online scholarly databases.” That immediately piqued my interest.

The edition of Mammonart at the Internet Archive [1] was published by the author. Publishing one’s own writing used to be derided (“vanity press”). Since the Internet, though, millions of people do that now every day, and I am glad they do.

Thanks again to the Internet Archive for making forgotten books like this available to everyone.

[1] https://archive.org/details/mammonart0000unse/page/n3/mode/2...
I think where the valid problem is in terms of priority.

Sometimes engineers “feel” the need to refactor something that’s not related to a high priority project and end up burning days as they weren’t experienced/competent enough to really know where that string they pulled lead and got stuck fixing newly failing tests etc. and in the examples I have in mind the context isn’t the usual “product feature must deliver pressure”, it’s actually pure engineering project, where we had to rearchitect a system before our scaling hit a brick wall, so interesting engineering work by engineers for engineers and still some folks just chase squirrels.

I totally love the freedom I’ve enjoyed to fix things at my discretion in my career, but not everyone is good balancing the time/place or “picking your battles” and sometimes you gotta reign it in in others or the stuff that needs to get done won’t be.
>They still don’t have encapsulation, all members are readable on purpose.

Public state does not mean no encapsulation. The purpose of encapsulation is to bundle state and behavior and hide them both behind an interface, but that interface can offer read access to state. The key here is behavior.

>constraints can be upheld

My example above demonstrates a constraint that cannot be implemented in a constructor.
Halls depends on magnetic fields. Motors generate magnetic fields to a large degree, hence electromagnetic interference handling becomes important in those applications.
> I wouldn't characterize GP as "pretty much wrong" — I would say that one line left out that it's an annual gift limit.

GP said that gifts are taxed if you exceed the annual limit, and this is 100% wrong. The only way you can be taxed on gifts is by exceeding the lifetime limit.

The annual limit determines if you need to report your gift to the IRS or not, but nothing else.

If you stay below the annual limit every year, you will never exceed the lifetime limit, unless you and the recipient live to 140 or something, so the different limits are related, but that's it.
Ah yes, indeed there are benefits that come from programming in Haskell that can be applied to JavaScript, but I think that without the compiler it’s very hard to guarantee success.
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Exactly!

Jason Pargin, aka David Wong, is the main reason I listen to (and yes, re-listen) the Cracked podcast. I have recommended some of his articles to many folks over the years for it's insightful content, and occasionally revisit them myself. It's literally a case of "come for the jokes, stay for the insightfulness".

Sadly I never really got into his comedy horror books (even though I own one or two). But Pargin has said so many insightful things that are meaningful to me and my psyche, I have once asked him to compile these things into a genuine self-help book. But the man's to humble, I recall he essentially said that there are likely people better suited to do this.

I knew of his new ventures, glad he's still going strong, and yes, of course I do listen to 1-900 with him (as guest) and the incredibly funny Seanbaby. But thanks so much for mentioning it!
Realistically the only ORM part of your list is the first item. Everything else is frequently done without having an ORM.
I mean actually threading the conversation. I.e. how hacker news does it.
That would also help raise awareness for the fact that there are extensions in the first place. I've talked with many tech-savvy people who had no idea these even existed. It's like Apple wanted to make it possible to do extensions, but not remotely easy. And since they realized that this hassle would generate blowback if the general public went through the activation experience, they decided to keep it under wraps. That way, the only people who learned about extensions in the first place were people who didn't mind digging around a bit. These people would be less likely to be upset/confused by the labyrinthine install process.
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It's much shorter to set the field separator with an option: awk -F": " or awk -F ": " do the same thing.
There were many alpha and beta releases. The point was about finalizing API changes of kdelibs.
Yeah, "hamburger menus" are the modern equivalent of right-click: very useful once you understand it, but very difficult for the general population to get to grip with.
I don't recall setting HttpOnly cookies in 1994...
A major source of tech debt is when you get a better understanding of the domain and realize some of the early design decision was not optimal.
Cool little project, cheers for the link.
Definitely a neat concept, would be interested to see it applied like that.
let's say you have an organized collection of music on your home computer, laptop, NAS, whatever. An easy way to stream that is with a subsonic server. I prefer Navidrome, but there are lots to choose from.

To get that on to your Android you can use an app called DSub. This app can stream, but more importantly playback from cache. You can flag which songs or albums you want to cache on your Android. You can permanently cache as well.

That works well. But if you want to step it up a notch, you can point Poweramp to the cache folder that DSub uses and use Poweramp for playback.

The benefit of this setup is getting music on to your device is trivial once you have these apps configured. No more shuffling files around. Just open DSub, select which new albums you want, and they will appear on your device.
Linux didn't kill Solaris alone. Sun Microsystems started doing that (as much as we loved Sun), and then Oracle put the lid on the coffin.
It seems that tech world goes in round, we unify devices to only having to take one around, then we split the unique device in multiple devices, and back? Is it what capitalism is about? Manufacture needs back and forth to keep you paying?
I find it hilarious when people say stuff like this. Every day, Twitter shambles ever closer to the distant, cobweb-laden corridors in which you can find Myspace, LiveJournal, or DeviantArt. Yeah, they're still out there, technically operating, but with not even a fraction of the social/cultural relevance they once held.
DjangoORM
Rails activerecord? It’s got it’s quirks, but I feel like it’s pretty boring and predictable to use, in a good way!
Funny how I'm sure this will catch some IBM customers "by surprise" but the only thing slowest than them are their customers

Yeah maybe now it's ok to move to Linux. But hey, sure, you do you
Mammy was lost on pretty much every kid, even in America. Her relevance resurfaced when 'problematic' became part of the common nomenclature to describe such caricatures. If she was, as we say, problematic, there would've been a helluva lot more racist kids running around, probably.
The interesting aspect IMHO is not that they set aside 10% of their time to fix tech debt per se, but that they set aside 10% of their time to collaborate on it / engage in mob programming.
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I’m surprised that acquisition isn’t part any strategy to constrain 3rd party apps. Acquiring the top few apps would soften the PR blow and retain users. It’d bring back on board some crack dev/product people who’ve already managed to create better apps than Twitter Corp was able to forge from it’s earlier acquired official app. The cost would have been nominal in the grand scheme (the devs would have had little choice but to acquiesce). It may yet happen.

To me, that it hasn’t, we’ll this indicates the block is temporary, showing who’s boss before introducing a new rule like paid users only, or ad exposure.

Either way, it’s an Emperor level decision. Would love to have seen the internal heat when the decision was mandated.
They discuss a higher end model at the end which costs more than $800.
My work might make me biased but I think there’s a lot of room to make more general purpose code differentiable.

I work on a ton of stuff that would very much benefit from being differentiable, but also very much can’t fit at all into the “stack a ton of linalg-like layers”.

It’s a huge engineering effort to even try to think about how I might start taking out derivatives. It’s possible but there’s so much overhead to do anything with it.
First point is really absurd and I don’t understand why people make it.

I have never seen argument “I use ORM so I don’t need to know SQL”.

It is always people who boast they know SQL that they don’t need to know ORM.
Notably, this project combines the best possible video and audio to obtain a single best version of each episode (things combining foreign DVD video and English LaserDisc audio for some). So, as is often the case with piracy, it likely has strictly better technical characteristics than any streaming offering.
"There's another new Sony Walkman, the NW-ZX700. It's 104,500 yen ($818) in Japan, and while that sounds like a lot for a portable music player, it's actually a relative bargain compare..."
As someone who came from extreme poverty, I don't agree with this take at all.

Yes, some people are in terrible circumstances due to forces beyond their control. But what you're doing is trying to convince everyone men should be treated as if they have a micro-penis because some men DO have a micro-penis.

The better messaging is that if you do NOT have a micro-penis, you have an opportunity for success if you learn decision making skills (yes, the analogy breaks down, but the point is made).

The messaging matters, but what ends up happening is those for whom the messaging is far less important tend to send the wrong signals because they're not the signals that help assuage their guilt for not helping.
This speaks to the need to implement systems with inherent safety. Traffic circles for cars.

I don't know what the corresponding term would be for taxiways, though I expect the reply here will be spelled 'not practical'.
I think I have about 200 tweets on my Twitter timeline per one Mastodon toot. And the usability of Mastodon is so confusing that it's hard to see people moving. And brands have even less of a chance of moving, so I'm probably not going to get BBC Breaking News or the official Steam Deck account there anytime soon.
They were meant to be rendered with the inherent anti-aliasing of a CRT screen. Pixelated rendering on a high-DPI screen will look quite different.
Misskey as a project looks pretty cool, but they seem to lean really hard into the anime culture thing. I couldn’t find, on a cursory glance, an instance that seemed like it would feel appropriate for a middle aged man.

No shame to anime culture, you do you, but it seems like they’re missing a segment for adoption.
> I've run personal installations of AIX as my primary personal server since 1998, first on an Apple Network Server 500 and now on a 8203-E4A POWER6 p520

I wonder what the idle power consumption of a p520 is, but I guess he doesn't have to pay for it...
What you can do is look at the players supported on https://www.rockbox.org/ (open-source alternative firmware for mp3 players) and check which ones are currently available for purchase somewhere. From the top of my head I know at least Surfans F20 and Xduoo X3II shouldn't be hard to come by.
It seemed to give some Americans that vibe. I read up about the Hadozee and black Americans comparison, it's pretty tenuous. I guess if you're looking for racism, you find it.
If the argument is that it's "the future", you kinda do.
This is really easy to counter, actually. Because there is no copyright breach in content created by neural network. AI does not have an original images. It vaguely "remembers" what it have seen. Like humans do. Like the artists who are looking at the work of other artists and learn. It is just neural networks simply learns faster. Like decades faster then an average artist. Shouldn't anyone who have seen a copyrighted image once have to be filed as well? Because they naturally learned the copyrighted image. If they spend a year or so practicing, then they could reproduce the style of copyrighted image as well.
yeah that mascot is going to drive away the eyes of a lot of westerners.
Google says that Quora user thinks: Can’t answer the second question, but as for the first one, there are 6,302,865 intersections for the 497 urbanized areas in the United States.

ChatGPT says: I'm sorry, I don't have an exact number for the number of road intersections in the US. However, I can provide you with some information that may help you arrive at an estimate. According to the Federal Highway Administration, as of 2020, there were approximately 4 million miles of public roads in the US. If you assume that each mile of road has an average of four intersections (which would include cross streets, driveways, and other points where roads connect), that would result in an estimated 16 million road intersections in the US. However, this is just an estimate and the actual number may vary depending on factors such as population density, urbanization, and road infrastructure.
Regarding the rented hardware, is your main complaint the remote management features?

In terms of physical security, I don't think there would be much difference between rented and owned hardware.
I'm happy it isn't up to you
People don’t like to be vendor locked anymore. For that reason, they really do seek options to get out of NVIDIA monopoly.
I have a pro license and during the installation of Windows 11, it was not happy with local accounts.

I do not remember exact details, but at some point there was a prompt to log in or create an MS account, and I needed to go back a step for the local account option to appear.

I think Windows 10 was similar but it has been a long time since my last installation.
Especially writing 80% of queries that are simple crud to update or read single table that needs to be written most of the time.

Such a waste of time to maintain that conversion code by hand.
Yikes, and here I thought Twitter is the best it's been in years now that people can share meaningful information again. I guess greed and pet projects trump accountability these days.
> Recognizing privilege or advantages or whatever you want to call it has nothing to do with guilt and everything to do with empathy and understanding of the world around you.

Pack it in boys, we're the generation that's finally cracked the "understanding the world around you" nut!

What does that even mean?

This is all a social delusion, exactly like the ones we criticize in our history. This too shall pass (TM) and when it does, perhaps the next generation's response to it will be more useful in helping those that need help.

We don't know, but not recognizing this for what it is, is the height of delusion imo.
I think it's pretty easy to come up with a counter argument like "hey what if I want to change the code for this one page and not the others? well, good thing each page has its own separate code!" If the code in question was shared, this person would have to spend time thinking about whether to add a boolean flag to the shared function, create a new function, or what-have-you. And I can see other comments here saying that boolean flags are also tech debt.

For your scenario, I completely agree that the decision to not share code lead to you spending more time. We can be objective about time spent for specific scenario A with codebase B, but we cannot enumerate all scenarios and all codebases and so it's quite hard to ask what's the expected value for "damage done" by a particular style of programming.
I'd pay for a thing that does streaming, is much smaller than my phone, and has good physical buttons. I don't want to run or sit in the gym with my huge iphone. But I also don't want to collect files, it has to support all the streaming services and I need to be confident it supports the ones tomorrow as well.
It's time for the Copyright Term Reduction Act. 50 years from first publication. That's it.

Incidentally, all the Private Snafu cartoons have been uploaded to YouTube in high quality by the Library of Congress. Most of them are also on the Internet Archive.
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- SQL is so easy and so useful

SQL is not hard, it just sucks. Massively. "So useful" in the same way BASIC was useful for 80's computers.

- You will never switch databases

You might not want, but you might need to

- If you ever get enough scale to require optimization the ORM will be your enemy

BS. Most ORMs do let you drop into SQL, no problem. This is usually one or two queries on a whole project that merit this treatment

If things are slow you can probably optimize stuff at the ORM level itself (or your modeling was done by interns - which would be a problem regardless of ORM or no ORM)
Once Linux was mature enough to do all the shared hosting tasks Solaris previously owned, using dirt cheap commodity PCs, Sun was finished.
Yes. There's a whole article about the given name, which says it is unisex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_(given_name)#Japanese

And this is on top of calling someone else out for presuming something... and here you all are presuming that Naomi is a feminine name.

We're making a mountain out of a molehill here. This is a persistent and pernicious problem in society at large now. What is the actual point of calling out any POSSIBLE perceived remote slight that you really have to perform mental gymnastics in bad faith to even arrive at?

There was no malicious intent on the part of the original poster, and yet they are excoriated for nothing?

What a massive amount of spare time we all have to waste.

Especially when it is a unisex name.

We could be doing something to better our world, and we spend time _on this_. We do it every day on a massive scale. It's so tiring, so wasteful, and so lamentably useless when there are so many useful and actually kind things we could be doing, instead of just virtue-signalling fake empathy on the internet that amounts to nothing.
This is a old quote and IIRC was e.g. for the way AIX handles services (SRC / System Resource Controller) and stores configuration data (ODM / Object Data Manager).
It felt 'alien' for admins used to use rc scripts (which are possible too) and files in /etc (used in aix too).

Now, nearly three decades later, we have even more automated and integrated mechanism 'systemd' and I think that there would be still features worth adopting from AIX. Not the first time i have such thoughts with an OS slowly vanishing.
>LINQ... made queries also compile time checked

Alas, it's far from a complete solution. It's too easy to type an expression that compiles but blows up at runtime because the underlying provider doesn't support it or gets confused.
Practically, can this be used for real-time pitch shifting of an octave or two?
Yes, storage and virtualisation, as was said, but that sounds less different than it actually is. It feels more like a mini vs mainframe difference. AIX is vastly larger in that respect on AIX 7 than on AIX 5L, for example. IBM seems to have invested a lot of effort into making AIX huge in VM, clustering, storage, and more . AIX 7 is much more into this than e.g. AIX 5L.

As for standard Unix tools - or rather "Linux" or OSS tools these days - they are not that difficult to find and are for the most part readily available. IBM used to supply a lot of that directly, but these can be found elsewhere and for myself I work on AIX more or less as I would on Linux.

When that's said, if you don't actually need the AIX-specific features you can as well run Linux. But if what that site indicates is correct then I'm a bit surprised - IBM seems to have invested a lot in those "differences" the last couple of decades and it's strange if they're abandoning that, or planning to - yes, you can run Linux on IBM hardware, but then.. why? Sounds to me they'll lose HW sales if they abandon AIX. Their strategy has been to make the system more and more Linux-like in many ways (compiler has gcc-compatible options, as one example), but at the same time add large-scale features which Linux doesn't have. Which is clearly why AIX has survived while none of the others have (IRIX, Solaris, Tru64..) - those Unix systems didn't really bring anything more than a Linux system could. AIX does.
I don't know if this you are doing should be called "FUD" like in the old days or "fake news" as a more modern term.