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I was thinking the exact same thing a couple of days ago, when I heard about 1899 being cancelled. The thing is, I totally wanted to watch that, and it was on the "short list" of things I'd planned to start watching soon. But now that I know that it's cancelled, and especially knowing that it ends with a cliffhanger, there's no reason for me to ever bother starting it.

Look, I know there are financial considerations at play for production companies and all. But at some point you gotta be willing to either commit and do something all the way, or not do it at all. This half-assing isn't helping anybody.

This isn't just Netflix either. My big fear now is that the "Wheel of Time" series will be cancelled before the entire story is told. Which makes me very reluctant to start watching it. And if other people are also reluctant to start it for the same reason, that's going to hurt the viewership... which makes it all the more likely to be cancelled! You can't win.
I wouldn't attach myself to it, the community( Amazon employees mostly) are friendly, they'll even offer to help you with any issues you run into.

But seriously, no games exist, no real demo projects with it exist. For some reason it uses Lua instead of strongly typed language like C#.

Seriously, games NEED types. At scale projects get really messy without them. Oh wait, O3de pushes script canvas on you.

At the end of the day , I find myself getting sucked back into Unity. Unity could be better, but it's still the best engine for most people. Much of that is just due to documentation. For some reason Amazon decided effectively hide all of it's old Lumberyard docs and examples when they rebranded as O3de. No one will ever know why.
Was that a crypto play? Or just a variation on paypal?

I only ever remember really seedy operations using e-gold as a payment. Online drugs (street drugs) and things like that.
As a fresh grad SWE I have felt this insecurity as well. "Seven Tips for a Junior Developer" [0] has some good parts on asking for help, and on the pendulum between unblocking yourself versus reaching out to others. I would love to read anything else on the topic.

[0] https://www.pearlleff.com/seven-tips-for-a-junior-developer
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If someone has a massive black market operation, why would they give up any control at all?
Attercop: What I learned launching a dumb command-line LLM front end tool
So you can only locate your airpods if they're with your iphone? Best make sure you lose them together then :)
Any citations? I haven’t seen fear of pre-crime enforcement characterizes as “woke” anywhere.

I’m asking because I myself frequently characterize things as woke, and people might accuse me of having right-wing tendencies, but nonetheless I would be very concerned if police in my country started acting this way.
Until 2 months ago, they forced you to have an Apple Watch to be able to watch Fitness+ videos, even if you were already paying for the Apple One bundle that includes Fitness+.

There was no technical reason for this requirement, as Fitness+ is just videos, and even if you had an Apple Watch, you did not need to be wearing it to watch the videos.
I wonder will Godot be the next Unity? Everyone I know who has seriously gotten into it complains about bugs in fundamental things (like floating point operations in one case)

Thinking back, early Unity was rock solid. The core stuff was great, it's all the newer stuff in Unity that sucks.

I guess if people keep patching Godot then it will be fine.
What is your point of reference? Because in the 60s you had people literally killed by western governments for protesting so the slope doesn't seem downhill from there at least. Same thing for censoring, there is much less now than back then.
Well, the biggest roadblock to that would be securities laws and their enforcement agencies. I doubt the SEC and its analogues in other nations would just sit and watch that happen.

Maybe a black-market "corporation" like a drug-smuggling ring could try something like that, but even they would have reservations.
> Nowadays you start an application by clicking a fixed location in the task bar or by pressing the windows key and typing the first two or three letters

This works on 1% of the cases because MS decided that you want to search the internet.
Well, I'm locked out of my github account right now and don't feel like going through all those hoops right now but I wanted to point something minor out.

In this line, https://github.com/approximatelabs/sketch/blob/9d567ec161015...

I think you can end up marking control characters as "UNKNOWN" characters by accident by assuming that in all contexts/environments that dictionary.items() always returns items in a consistent order. This isn't always true.

edit: actually with the way the code is written if you have any overlapping ranges at all you'll end up double/triple/etc. counting a character into multiple categories.
A quirk of human psychology is that we value ongoing storylines as if they were finished storylines. When we watch a Lost or read a Song Of Ice And Fire, we relate the twists and turns to finished stories we already know - or even to real life. We take it as a given that the plot thread spun in episode 3 will, somewhere, have a satisfying conclusion. The method that put the gun on the wall must satisfy physical and logical laws. So we become invested.

As a result, writers are incentivised to write convoluted, twisting, mysterious threads.

They're not required to finish them.
The right side is almost certainly buckwheat, known to Russians simply as “kasha.”

The left side is likely the cutlets themselves (the little brown outlines) surrounded by some (cold) white sauce that once heated turns more liquid.
I moved from a ducted heating house to a multi head split system house about 18 months ago.

One of the biggest pros (in addition to the improved efficiency of a heat pump) is I heat and cool less space than i did before because i can target individual rooms. When i'm in my office all day I only need to heat my office. When it's hot and I'm struggling to sleep only cool my bedroom. There's no point in heating my living room^^ at 08:30 in the morning if i don't intend to spend time in there till 17:00.

Sure, when it gets to 17:00 my living area might not be comfortable, but that can easily be overcome by turning it on half an hour or so beforehand (either manually or with a timer).

^^ I don't live somewhere where freezing pipes are a concern. But i'd imagine you could just set them differently, slightly above freezing for the rooms you aren't in and a comfortable living temperature in the room you're in.
I understand your point, but a question will be why not just loading your smartphone with mp3 files. In this case, you don't need internet connection (if this is the only the reason) and you don't need a separate device.
Approx 1 year ago I did part of the interview process to freelance on toptal, but I dropped as I've found a better opportunity. At the time the lowest rate you could find for a developer was $70/h. In constrast on upwork I see developers for as low as $15/h. Can't tell if you'd get $150 but it's definitely possible to get $100+.
Honest question: Why would one care about cold or hot spots on the ceiling? I don't spend much time up there.
There is now in C++20 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/format/format

Which is just the great https://fmt.dev/latest/index.html that even c++11 projects can use.
I liked the variant "buy an iPad, accept the terms with it and then return the iPad".
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Tips for a Junior Developer (2019)
KeepassXC is going really well for me and friends. We all get on with it, and figure it's better than storing any sort of info on the cloud.

My main point of concern with these web-based password managers is what would happen if an attacker were able to hijack the JavaScript served to clients. The code is obfuscated, and it can be updated at any time without anyone noticing which, in the context of a password manager, certainly gives me pause for thought.
Similar to the Chromecast, I was trying to set one up.

https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/2998456

"Download the Google Home app on your Chromecast-supported Android device."
>it protects against tuberculosis and I think one other disease but I'm not remembering which one

I recall reading long time ago that carriers of CF are hypothesized to be more resistant against cholera.
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I meant that I'm looking for some ready examples. Currently I have to connect a microphone and test it myself, which I'm not keen on doing
No. You can locate your airpods if they're near any iPhone, iPad, or Mac. All you need is a web browser.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/5/22711557/apple-lost-airpo...
Or not let your child use an Apple device .

That's actually your choice if it's your choice whether/which apps they can install.
People are already downloading 100GB games. And data rates are growing much faster than RAM capacities. The logistics of downloading a model smaller than GPU RAM are unlikely to ever get complicated.
Probably a mechanism where the shareholders could vote to fire/replace the CEO (and therefor lock them out of issuing more shares, or spending money on behalf of the corporation) at regular intervals.
The claim about the garage box was incorrect, still the amount of spent fuel is not high. Half an olympic pool per year shared among 70 reactors over a period of less than 70 years means each reactors stores about half an olympic pool. A nuclear power plant is fairly big, so half an olympic pool is a tiny bit of real estate inside it. It can easily go up by a factor of 10 and nobody would notice.
If the UK are so inclined, they should return to the old currency measures of pounds, shillings, pennies, half pennies, farthings, thruppence, sixpence, florin, half crowns and crowns.

1 pound = 20 shillings

1 shilling = 12 pennies

1 penny = 4 farthings

3 pence* = 1 thruppence

6 pence = 1 sixpence

2 shillings = 1 florin

5 shillings = 1 crown

(so 2 shillings + 2 thruppence = 1 half crown)

Bless.

*pence = plural of penny.
2017 Volkswagen Golf R. It has about 35k miles on it. I didn't drive it for a full 2 years when I lived in New York and it was here in California. Now that I'm back in California, I drive it a few times a week but on less than 10 mile trips. The mpg isn't great but not bad either.
Thanks I was about to reach out to you to confirm.
The format in C++20 is the 3rd party https://fmt.dev/latest/index.html , which means even c++11 projects can use it.
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> They mitigate some risk.

Do they actually mitigate some risk? Or do they make the client feel like they've mitigated some risk?
Actually, the risk is stratified by age. With this entire pandemic, risk has been stratified by age, co-morbidities, etc.

If you're a male under 40 years old your risk of myocarditis is higher from the vaccines. Not to mention, if you don't have co-morbidities, your risk of death from COVID is quite low. It's a simple cost benefit analysis, really. According to a linked study (ahajournals.org link), risk of cardiac related issues from vaccine for males under 40, like myself, is 1/10000 or 0.0001. Risk of cardiac related issues from covid-19 for males under 40 is about 0.0000016, so about a factor of 6 lower risk. Additionally, as we know from more recent studies, especially with the Kraken XBB variant, vaccines offer virtually no protection and almost everyone will get infected. So we can code probability of infection post-vaccination and post-natural infection as equal for the sake of simplicity. Additionally, there is a growing body of research discussing reinfection issues during a subsequent infection by vaccination status, and the latest numbers I extracted from the paper are coded below. In summary, for me, a 32 year old male, we get the following risks profiles:

vaccine risk = P(problem | vaccine, male under 40, no comorbidities) * P(covid | vaccine immunity) * P(problem second infection | vaccine immunity)
vaccine risk = 0.0001 * 0.95 * 0.51
vaccine risk = 0.000004845

natural immunity risk = P(problem | covid-19, male under 40, no comorbidities) * P(covid | natural immunity) * P(problem second infection | natural immunity)
natural immunity risk = 0.0000016 * 0.95 * 0.47
natural immunity risk = 0.00000007144

vaccine risk vs. natural risk

Vaccine 67X more risky than natural route (FOR ME)

Myocarditis risk vaccines vs. natural immunity males under 40:
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.1...

XBB 1.5 Kraken likelihood of infection:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36580913/

Serious issues associated with subsequent infection by vaccination status:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5...
I've tried something similar using Selenium. It worked for a while but then started failing at a site that was using Cloudflare's CAPTCHA. If my browser was launched by Selenium it would end up in a seemingly endless CAPTCHA loop. It failed using both Chromium and Firefox.

I was able to get it working again for a while with some experimental option settings in the Chromium driver which apparently made it harder for a site to figure out that some sort of browser automation was in use, but maybe a couple months later that broke too.

I found a Chromium driver that was specifically made to not be detectable. That didn't help.

I just gave Puppeteer a try, with Chromium and Firefox, and they both got similar CAPTCHA loops.

With Playwright same thing with Chromium and Webkit. With Firefox, to my surprise, it actually worked. In fact I wasn't even shown the CAPTCHA. The checking for a human passed without requiring interaction.

So...looks like Playwright with Firefox might do the trick, but I'm a bit concerned about how reliable that would be long term.

That's one of the reasons I was thinking about an extension--most people using a site are going to have extensions so they aren't going to be able to use the existence of extensions as a sign that a visitor is a bot.

A lot fewer normal users of a site will be using web testing automation frameworks, and so if the site can detect those it might trigger anti-bot measures. I wonder if Cloudflare not being bothered by Playwright in Firefox is due to something Playwright is specifically doing to be undetectable, or just something Cloudflare hasn't gotten around to acting on yet? (I assume it is nothing Firefox specifically did, because of Firefox getting stuck in the CAPTCHA loop under Puppeteer and Selenium).
My biggest takeaway was something I never before thought was even possible - to create a program without any variables. It turns out you can do a whole lot without any variables.

Through that I understood that the state of a program what causes most of the confusion and without variables reasoning about the code becomes much simpler. Without state everything becomes nice.

Through that I understood that state is the enemy, and global state is the greatest enemy of understanding. Later I realized that this same principle strongly aligns with testable code as more state is what makes code less testable.

It also forced me to use a lot of recursion which is nice as I understood it much better than in that single "Fibonacci number" example.

I also learned to write code that can safely run in parallel as functions without side effects and state are the most ideal candidates for that.
I don't think the hardware is that expensive in the US, it's the installation (which costs more than the hardware).

And mistakes by installers will cost even more. Our installers didn't flare a line set connection properly and it leaked slowly and that was a very expensive bill (especially since refrigerants have changed so much).

Our Daikin indoor units have also had condensate leaking issues, probably due to poor installation.

Ductless heat pumps do seem like the future but I think there are issues with regards to condensate draining, air filtering, and indoor unit cleaning/maintenance and replacement that could be done much better.
Ask HN: Is there help for someone extremely afraid of computer viruses?
If someone performs a virus scan prior to every visit to the bank website, would this be considered too much?

And if so, how do you help such a person?
To be fair, owning an apple tv and only an apple tv is not a scenario that I would expect, so I’m not surprised apple’s engineers simply didn’t conceive of this situation occurring. Occam’s razor would lead me to assume this wasn’t malice on apple’s part.
IIRC you can sign in with an adult iCloud account then set all those same restrictions, protecting them behind an unlock code. The separate child iCloud accounts are handy if you do have multiple devices (remote management of those permissions is nice, and app store content sharing is nice) but if you just have a single one for your kid, that's an option. Adult iCloud account, enable restrictions with an unlock code. Unlock it when you need to manage the device or use it yourself.

But, IDK, maybe they got rid of that feature. Definitely used to be able to do that.
I think 100% is pretty accurate for most devices, except for washing machines and other gadgets connected to the sewer. Where else would the energy go?

Your fridge has the potential to go even higher than 100%, as it's a heat pump. But for more than a temporary effect you'd have to keep replacing the stuff inside it with stuff warmed up to outside temperate, which would have to be between fridge temperature and room temperature. Perhaps slightly impractical.
I've been a crypto skeptic for most of the past decade. I especially hate the industry, the overhyped blockchain-magic ideology, and the ubiquitous scams.

But I remember when I was a CS student and Bitcoin was a new thing. I thought it was a cool concept and I love the romantic idea of underground digital pirate math money. It's still a neat technology (though blockchains are still wrong for 99.9% of DB use cases). But now it's just one of the worst parts of the mainstream financial establishment.
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Wheel of Time was made by a team that respects the source material about as much as the team that ruined the last seasons of Game of Thrones. Unfortunately, you're not missing much.
In Muslim countries a large plurality of marriages are to first cousins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage_in_the_Middle_...
excited for them to release their VR headset so they can speedrun the 'buy a quest to get support on your other account' timeline
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What's your perspective on sustainable biomass usage such as pollarding and coppicing, and bringing energy usage inline with that which can be fueled by them, in addition to small scale wind?
Insulation can be orthogonal to fresh air. Ventilation energy recovery units [1] exist to help reduce loss from fresh air (and are code for new houses where I am). This has the benefit that you can have more fresh air, for the same heat loss, since the loss will be from the fresh air, rather than through high thermal conductivity through the non-breathable portions of the walls.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_recovery_ventilation
I had a hard case of impostor syndrome at my first full-time job and spent an unnecessary amount of time being stuck because I was too scared to ask.

I make sure that anyone in my office who is new or is my junior knows that I’m the person they can always interrupt. People never interrupt too much.
Hey hackernews! Just sharing a little retrospective I wrote up on my experience writing up a little command line tool that converts language prompts to shell commands via OpenAI's API. If you're curious, this is the first part! https://yellhorn.com/attercop-in-line-shell-command-generati...
Heh, coming from 8bit BASIC I remember how complicated it seemed setting some pixels in TurboPascal for DOS :)
Having worked at Apple I feel like this is a mortal risk they are taking. The Apple Watch could be the next big thing that replaces the smartphone, except they require an iPhone to use it. So instead of taking a short term hit and moving with the times they greedily hold on to their money maker and risk a competitor bringing out a standalone version and tanking the entire thing. Likewise the Apple TV is a great product and could dominate its category if it didn't require an iPhone.
> Qoto.org have other policies such as they try not to block anyone

How was that compatible with it's rules in the about section:

> Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.

What happens if you harass someone?
Setting explicit time frames is really useful for both the mentor and mentee (or manager and employee etc).

If someone is unable to complete a task within a set time, but explains their thought process and what they tried, I consider that to be a completely valid use of their time. Even if they are completely honest and say: "This seemed too hard and I tried for the first 15 minutes and then got bored and procrastinated" that is also ok. We're all humans after all.

Its when someone spends their time on excuses and fobs that is really annoying and unproductive. Generally: most people will invent excuses. People that went to college (I went to college!) get really good at this since you need to invent excuses all the time to get past annoying social activities and classes.

In most cases, providing the space to fail and proceed allows developers to gain the confidence to be upfront. Of course there will always be those that don't get the message, or try to game the system. But they tend to fall really really far behind and it becomes pretty obvious that they're not doing well.
> “When I came to look closely at it,” he told me later, “the more it appeared to me that the European project was a deliberate attempt to reverse what happened at Babel.

Curiously, the European Parliament building is based on Peter Bruegel's Tower of Babel [1].

[1] https://mattbell.org/why-is-the-strasbourg-parliament-based-...
imagine doing OOP in 2023
Bonus points for Apple Support chiming in - to address an unrelated issue that another commenter casually mentioned.

About the original problem? Not a single word.

At least they are sending a clear message...

https://twitter.com/AppleSupport/status/1615094275334619136
In old windows (95, 98, 2000) it was pretty clear which window has focus and which don't. In Win 10 is a mess.
The same reason that owners in the formal economy give up control of their corporations to go public -- to raise capital, make their equity liquid, publicity, etc.
You can also buy first-party stuff from iTunes on your AppleTV without any other device; maybe you need to have used a computer at some point in the past to make the Apple ID, but it certainly isn't an ongoing requirement to own anything except a TV (as AppleTV isn't actually a TV, despite the name ;P), and having an Apple ID is probably also required to download even free apps from the App Store.