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A lot of people get by using lighter weight IDEs or just text-editors for other languages, where a heavyweight IDE is not as necessary. The only thing I miss from IntelliJ when using something else is the debugger. JetBrains debuggers are great, though most editors of passable debuggers these days.

For formatting, the only compelling truly framework agnostic option I know is the google formatter (unconfigurable). The other options are either editor specific (IntelliJ and Eclipse configurations are incompatible go figure), cost money or are half-baked (prettier). Now I believe there's a way to use spotless (tied to gradle/maven) to use one of the IDE specific formatters across IDEs at the build tool level, as you point out, but that's kind of a different thing, heavy weight and working around the underlying problem. Compare this to gofmt, rustfmt, scalafmt, black, prettier/eslint, etc. that are fast, framework agnostic and require no boilerplate. Formatting is a solvable problem in Javaland to a degree, but wow is it unnecessarily complicated and fraught with decision points that can end up in bikeshedding committees.

As for boiler plate, I'm talking about language level stuff, like having to make a class and separate file for every simple data structure, then having to implement hashcode/equals for all those classes, etc. Where in other languages, you can just return a tuple or a result or what have you and get on with your life. Again, IntelliJ will just do most of this for you, but supervising my IDE in boilerplate creation is not a joyful experience. And if you skip supervision, you are basically saying the IDE is now a dependency and the correctness of your program depends on the correctness of your IDE. Not super great.

Anyway, IntelliJ is certainly an amazing piece of software that makes Java development more productive, but learning it, configuring it, etc is a whole thing. Other modern languages provide much better QoL features out of the box and have a much less incidental complexity that don't require an IDE to get around. That said Java has the best library ecosystem, the biggest pool of developers and solid performance.
You're reading too much into the office closures. GitHub has basically always been fully remote and only a minority of employees have ever even seen one of the offices outside of occasional team meetups. Practically, all it means is that the employees who sometimes worked from the offices will have to find a co-working space or just work from home all the time.
Hopefully they’ll at least keep a couple models around with lightning, I don’t want to re-buy my dongles and parse things like USB-C 3.2 Gen 1x2 vs USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 (and does it have thunderbolt).
Thank you, I wonder how many IOT devices support entering an IP address directly.
It's not about CPU power, it's about software. Just putting a mutex in the wrong place or doing serious computation in UI thread will get you jitters, no matter how fast your CPU is. People do smooth screen updates on Commodore 64s and real time audio on things that are basically microcontrollers.
It seems unlikely any alien malware could be targeted to affect our computing platforms. However, if they had preexisting knowledge of computing as implemented on Earth, it would be less complex. If there was a type of malware universal enough to do so, it would probably be some kind of attack against the universal notion of intelligence itself. In which case, you may need to isolate it from humans as well.

I think the most likely scenario for receiving any kind of alien Trojan horse signal, would be if the signal was some kind of instructions for how to create and execute an alien AI as encoded in the signal. However, that would require complex analysis and human intervention to build. Unless we reach a point where AGI systems can search, interpret, and implement instructions from said signals, any threats would require significant involvement from humans in order to materialize.

At least, those are my initial thoughts.
Battery longevity is much less a concern for me these days with fast charging. My phone dropping from being 70% when I plug it in to 30% would only increase my time on the charger by a few minutes since it charges so much faster at low percentages.
A random search brought up a SMEG KLFO3 retro kettle at 3000w for the UK, the US get a Hamilton Beach 40869 - 1500 watts, so almost exactly half.

If you really want to it is possible to wire 220/240 to an appropriate outlet in the US and have a 240v kettle, but some will be industrial - https://www.webstaurantstore.com/13957/commercial-coffee-mak...
> yet 0 interest in business/marketing/bla.

Not sure this sounds like a good trait for a CTO.
> Also, I have a hard time getting objective information about the work culture at startups.

Yes this is a big problem as you have no idea what you're signing up with startups. Maybe the founder expects you to work 12 hours/day and constantly be available, maybe they will fire you a month before your equity vesting, or just randomly fire you one day despite having never given any negative feedback. I've seen all of this at startups, and there is zero accountability. Last time it happened to me I wasn't even offered any severance.

If anyone is considering working for a startup, please do your due diligence. Do not be naive and think that because the founders are very friendly and their startup is backed by YC that they are a good place to work and won't fire you the second they have any doubts about you (personally I'll never work as a full-time employee for a startup going through YC ever again, but that's a story for another day).

Going forward if I'm ever thinking about working for a startup, I will reach out to employees, and ideally ex-employees, to get the inside scoop on what the founders are really like behind the smoke & mirrors.
Moving from AWS to Azure is an order of orders of magnitude harder than moving from Zoom to Teams.
Looks like Comcast also falsely claims to offer (a) residential service (though, this is likely just an address mis-detection mistake since it's a multi-use building despite me entering several apartment numbers) and (b) the speeds listed on the FCC site for my address.

I imagine that this is the case in many places, but I submitted a challenge. ISPs have gotten away with abusing government subsidies (and many times, abusing their customers with fees and silly price increases) for too long...
Sumo Logic Aquisition by Francisco Partners
You need to get the whole airframe certified to change the engine. If the airplane hasn't been in production for 40 years+ who will pay for that? Does the engineering data needed to start that process even exist anymore?
> Whether you like iPhone or Android, I think we should all agree that's a bad situation for the world to be in.

Is it? Qualcomm is currently focused on performance in a way that they wouldn't be if Apple hadn't lit a fire under their ass.

https://hothardware.com/news/snapdragon-8-gen-3-decimates-ap...
> your Processor ID,

There's no hardware-available "processor ID" since ~2004. The serial on the box isn't stored anywhere.

> your Mainboard serial #s,

Which you already associated with your MS account. If you used a local account, it isn't queried.

> Hard Drive serial #s, along with your OS ID [...] This data is now going to all these "Data Research" companies.

How are you so sure? You see a single DNS query and assume that company gets everything on your hard drive? Why? Do you have any single concrete example of your hard drive's serial number being sent to Joe's Analytics Co. out of the blue?
Inference is much more common than training just as using a word processor is much more common than writing one. Even from a training standpoint, there are a lot of interesting things you can do with DNN models that aren't at the large end (GPT-3/ChatGPT/DALL-E/Stable Diffusion/etc) of the spectrum.

Right now there's not really a coherent open source stack to even run pre-trained models on a GPU even though most of the pieces are open source... so I find it a bit baffling that no one is even talking about trying to put the pieces together. The whole GPU compute world still basically needs to be side-loaded on many distros today with the core of it (the GPU compute drivers) still proprietary. There are things like RustICL coming along that give me some hope but I'm more lamenting what appears to be a lack of interest in the larger open source world in changing things even when all the pieces are there. If open source seems 'a bit' (lol) behind on mobile, that's nothing compared to how it's going to feel on the desktop in a few years.
I use enterprise Teams on a Windows 10 laptop and it is the worst overall chat/conferencing experience for me in over 25 years of technical work.

About the only thing I can say in its favour is that I've rarely had trouble with video or audio quality.

It is an unbelievable performance hog. It launches something like 8-10 processes, one of which defaults to running at above normal priority. Despite this, frequently text chat messages will lag ~30 seconds between notification and appearing in the actual chat window. Even clicking on UI elements like buttons will often have a lag of 5-10 seconds. If I'm on a video call, it uses more CPU than any other process, including my browsers (~50 tabs open across ~10 windows) and a Kali Linux VM running in VMware Workstation.

The UX is awful. For example, there is no way to permanently reorder the list of channels you're in (not even sorted alphabetically). It's always the order you joined them every time you start up Teams. My list of channels is something like 50 long, so I basically just have to search for the one I want, because the alternative is to scroll through the list and read every line.

There are bizarre bugs. Sometimes I'll join a video call, but it will be a "ghost call" where I can hear the participants, but there's no window for me to interact with, so all I can do is close Teams entirely and start over. Sometimes I won't be able to unmute myself, so everyone will wonder why I'm not responding. Today I saw a new one where random members of the call had their video feeds replaced with empty black space (no profile photo/letter).

It's unbelievable to me that I could use IRC, MSN Messenger, and any number of other chat apps on a PC 20+ years ago and get a snappy response time, and yet Teams still feels like it's mired in a swamp running on hardware that's something like 100x faster and with 20-50x the amount of RAM.

Something like 15 years ago, I was troubleshooting a SharePoint issue and discovered that even though it was using a SQL Server database to store everything, instead of taking advantage of the power of a good database design and platform, all of the kind of object affected by the problem were stored as enormous XML blobs inside a single column, with SharePoint doing a SELECT * and then acting as its own terrible inner faux-database layer. I have to imagine that Teams is a similar "don't ask how the sausage is made" kind of situation, where MS basically shipped an early prototype instead of productionizing it.
This comment thread is just supreme intellectual navel gazing and using hindsight to recast what happened.

Science is messy, communicating is messier, acting as if every bit of mess comes from some negarious agenda or that somehow the mess was avoidable with finite budgets, time, and knowledge is ... completely against the entire history of human behavior.

Your time on this planet is short, generally full of ignorance, confusion, and lying to yourself.

By all means learn from our mistakes and reduce that ignorance and confusion going forward, but if your conclusion is to reject scientific inquiry as the only tool we have to move forward, you are just contributing to the confusion and ignorance.
Crap, this fits me exactly.
tesla superchargers are generally cheaper than standalone charging network providers, UK energy prices are indeed insane, UK consumer rights are abhorrent now that they've left the EU, and teslas are more efficient than most other EVs
I would love to know their plan for having new facts propagate into these models.

My idle speculation makes me think this is a hard problem. If ChatGPT kills Search it also kills the websites that get surfaced by search that were relying on money from search-directed users. So stores are fine, but "informational" websites are probably in for another cull. Paywall premium publications are probably still fine - the people currently willing to pay for new, somewhat-vetted, human content still will be. But things like the Reddits of the world might be in for a hard time since all those "search hack" type uses of "search google for Reddit's reviews of this product" are short-circuited, if this is actually more effective than search.

Meanwhile, SEO folks will probably try to maximize what they can get out of the declining search market by using these tools to flood the open web with even more non-vetted bullshit than it's already full of.

So as things change, how does 1 tiny-but-super-reliable amateur website (say, an expert on .NET runtime internals's individual blog) make a dent in the "knowledge" of the next iteration of these models? How do they outweigh the even-bigger sea of crap that the rest of the web has now become when future training is done?
I was underpaid. Now my skills have atrophied to match my low pay. Only about 17 years until I can "retire". I'll probably end up working at Walmart in retirement anyways.
Thunderbird sucks, full send. I love free software and I've used TB for ten years because it's bundled with lots of Linux distros. But one paragraph into the post they are making excuses for how bad they are: "Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?"

I'm definitely not complaining about the UI "looking old" - I like UIs that are old, they are simple! But Thunderbird is glitchy, sluggish, and plagued by idiotic design decisions (for example, why the fuck do they make it hard for me to include attachments in a reply? super obvious example of some cranky "principled" programmer who's happy to give the middle finger to Thunderbird's actual users).

We're on TB for one reason - we're too busy to evaluate replacements. If/when we find the time to evaluate other clients we will absolutely replace it. The post stinks of hostility toward their users, which is unfortunately no surprise with Thunderbird.
Mozilla is in close and tight control again these days - much tighter than you know.
sounds like a pixel 5 is in your future
What is needed is something like WeWork for large office gatherings. Something between a WeWork and a hotel conference center. The former is not really made for big meetings. The latter is either very expensive, too large or too small. You need a space for 10-200 people to meet and collaborate... not a conference center.
>I’d be more interested in making sure that such technology is never required for basic living

Cell phones are a requirement for basic living. That's a large part of why it matters.
Ok that might have been poorly worded on my end.

The irrational attachment I was talking about is about having a large, status-symbol office with ~20% average occupancy. Downsizing to a smaller office harms morale even though most people work most of the time at home, yet they feel attached to almost always empty office, that's the irrational/sentimental part for me.
A Study [Suggests] Stoplights Need a Fourth Color: White
Yeah, I did notice more open minds.
It is also me not doing anything other than messaging, safari browsing, reading, watching, and taking pictures/video.

I am sure I would notice something if I were to play games or do something graphical.
The design doesn’t look too bad to me, with exception to that big empty top bar. It feels really awkward.
Opening that website caused my CPU fan to spin up
At least for home device control and in-car use hands free control more than makes up for the error rate in lots of applications. For a lot of stuff that people do with their phone and have their phone in their hand for, the trade off seems less clear, but there is a lot of subjectivity involved.
I care about it. I work on a video editing app for iOS (we also target Android). Raw CPU and GPU performance has a significant impact on our ability to ship features, not to mention user experience with things like number of simultaneous streams of video, rendering/export time, etc.
On an airplane you’re really paying for the engine. Typically after 2000 hours (depending on the model) they are supposed to be overhauled, which will be a cool $20-30k or so for something like the 172 in the OP. If you’re airplane shopping you’ll see a very tight correlation between the asking price and the “SMOH” time or hours since major overhaul.
In 2021, American blood products were 2.69 percent of US total exports
Anybody who invested in TSLA in 2016 doesn't have a whole lot to complain about, imo.
Here's a quick video explanation too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY9BfR8QHDA
It's important to remember all history for exactly this reason though! I.e. "Here's a thing we tried, and exactly how it went wrong"
> the cost is borne by the taxpayer rather than the user of the service

If the service is "not dying preventably" that's fine.
That would match my impression in Germany on issues about involvement in the war. Usually, the government is divided, with FDP and Greens taking a hawkish position, arguing for strong support of Ukraine including weapons and not making any concessions to Russia; while SPD and the chancellor are cautious to the point of dragging their feet.

Meanwhile the press is not similarly divided but usually follows the hawkish position. So whatever opinion they are promoting, it's evidently not the government's.
If EROI on those panels is negative then it's better to forgo them.
>. For a generic insulin to get FDA approval it needs bioequivalence which is a lot like running the original safety and effect studies over again

That is incorrect. A bioequivalence study is much simpler and cheaper than the original safety and efficacy studies.

You do not need to prove that safety and efficacy of the drug, only that you are delivering the equivalent of the originally studied drug at the same doses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioequivalence
Less than 1 percent of Lithium-ion batteries get recycled in the US and EU.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/lithium-costs-a-lot-...
Call 988, this is no joking matter
I work in the tugboat industry. A quite standard engine there is the EMD 645. That was never a "mass-produced automotive engine" and it is not custom.

Our smallest truckable tug uses John Deere engines. Everything else uses engines that would never fit in any automotive application.
Are you saying you doubt that the US did this? Seriously? Do you have an alternative theory?
The Telegraph article is a bit of a mess. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/new-peak-...

"Topping up the e-Corsa’s charge by 80pc on a slow charger at peak times results in a cost of 16.18p per mile.

"The AA said: “A continued fall in the pump price of petrol now places the running costs [of a petrol Corsa] at around 14.45 pence per mile, meaning that a petrol combustion engine vehicle is cheaper to run per mile than an EV.”"

Some more info here (https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63029226) from 2022.

"The RAC said its research showed the cost to charge an electric car on a pay-as-you-go basis at a publicly accessible rapid charger had increased by 42% since May to an average of 63.29p per kWh.

"The hike in price means drivers who only use the public network to charge vehicles pay around 18p per mile for electricity.

"That is just 1p less per mile for a petrol car, based on someone driving at an average of 40 miles to the gallon, the motoring group said.

"The cost per mile for charging electric vehicles at home is around 9p per mile for the average-sized car. The BBC has been told most EV drivers charge at home overnight."
Yeah, .gov to the rescue.

I am still kicking myself to this day I didn't throw money into AIG when it was trading around $1-2 per share. I did make out decently off BoA stock in the same time period though.
> Might be due to your friend's unsubstantiated claim tech workers

In his defense, he does own a small tech startup ($1m/yr I think?) and that has like 10 employees (3-4 engineers), so he has his finger on the pulse (or at least he thinks he does) when it comes to tech hiring.

That's a big problem, right? You think his claims are unsubstantiated, he thinks he knows it all and he's seen it with his own eyes. Who is telling the truth?
>> I honestly believe this is my final year on this planet.

You are obviously an intelligent person who is entertaining some unhealthy thoughts. Many people have felt the way you feel-- it happens. But you need to seek therapy or the council of someone you trust to put your problems in perspective. Your life is precious even if it doesn't feel that way right now.
I mean doesn’t the last sentence say it all?
He also has a defined usage case where time charging is money lost; it's worth $10-20 a day to get him back on the road as fast as he can, and it's likely that he doesn't live anywhere close enough to the "active uber areas" to make it worthwhile to even install a charger.
Your annual reminder that Yahoo is still a thing.
Like others said, it's news widgets. In an iframe. With zero identifying data about you. It doesn't even use your location automatically without asking. The worst they have is geoip for weather & news region.
Do you remember the final chapter of Neuromancer? The nature of the alien signal was such, its detection actually required AI, albeit of the superhuman/super intelligent flavor, so I am not sure what we currently call "AI" would qualify. Still, it's an interesting idea, an AI looking for peers in other star systems...
Most people I see championing them 1) own one and use it daily 2) understand that overnight charging is a blocker to mass adoption and aggressively push for better access for renters and business owners etc to add normal outlets and 3) openly advocate for people who don't think electric cars work for them to not get them.

Remember that you don't necessarily need to charge AT HOME. If you drive yourself to work and sit there for 8 hours, your employer should be encouraged and subsidized to set up 15 amp charging for some of their employees.
On par won't be enough for slack though if teams comes"for free" with your existing office subscription.
Most of their compensation does not come from salaries - especially at the exec level. Nor is Credit Suisse going down going to affect normal people or the greater economy. This is not a win for execs, this is a way to placate employees despite half their bonuses disappearing.
There gotta be a rule that Show HN videos must be non-monetized or hosted off YouTube.
Why would actual top performers care this much if they would find new job easily + theyre probably not being targeted
> Mission succeeded, I suppose.

Looks like it did although I really wish we didn't reward these type of brazen stunts to get attention. Outrage-baiting is still very effective I guess.
A short of 'Contact' scenario. Interesting
The "golden era" of the "Programmer" at the top of the food chain is probably over.

And all that entails is over. A whole lot of software exists only because programmers were able to call the shots: i.e. the endless supply of javascript frameworks etc
... I thought we stopped calling things "turbo", "hyper", etc. back in the 90s
Yeah, Europe is getting completely hosed on energy prices. Historically some of that is self-inflicted voluntary price increases, but I imagine that nowadays it's more about that pesky Putin guy disrupting the energy supply.
In Melbourne, AU.

Run an e-commerce business and see no signs of business slowing down.

Local cafe I know the owner of is growing too.
Comcast or whoever the coaxial ISP is will drop their prices to where customers will choose them over any new fiber network.