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I bought a 100W Apple MacBook charger from Amazon. After using it for a few hours, it has a burnt smell. I can't be the only one that experienced this.
> So someone joining the project doesn't just have to learn Lisp, they have to learn Inhouse Lisp?

I think this tends to hold true for all complex systems past certain point. Especially web frameworks. They just tend to circumvent the language so much (via macros, type system, etc.) so it's no longer like a bare language that was before. But I appreciate your point that macros can add cognitive burden in many cases where less powerful (and more easily understandable) mechanisms would suffice.
If you believe 3 of the world's major religions, we killed the last messiah we had after he told us things we didn't want to hear about ourselves.
Versus $0 for all the chargers I have collected over the years.
There was a discussion earlier about innovations in tech in the past 10-15 years.

It's tempting to identify the iPhone (and smartphones broadly) and that's not totally wrong. Yes, it replaces a bunch of discrete devices from times past reasonably well for most purposes: telephone, still camera, video camera, iPod/Walkman, voice recorder, GPS, etc.

But that's not really what makes a modern smartphone so transformative. It's doing all those things while being essentially ubiquitous, mostly always connected, open to an amazing ecosystem of apps that take advantage of the hardware capabilities, and with access to an amazing amount of online information.

Modern smartphones are great products for the most part but it's how they function as part of an ecosystem that makes them transformative.
I love the sound rotaries, but they are easily the most painful to the ear in regards to hearing damage. An open exhaust rotary is like a percussive area denial weapon. I had one on track with me and I lifted when we went down the straight together, as they just about blew my ears out.
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The site got its name from, "The Black Jacobins". The history of the enslaved Africans in Haiti casting off their European Christian oppressors by force (Haitian formerly enslaved people were the first to defeat Napoleon-- many had been trained as soldiers in Africa before being kidnapped by the European Christians).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Jacobins

If you ever have a chance to attend a lecture or listen to an interview with Jacobin Magazine's founder, it will be worth your time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_(magazine)#:~:text=Jac...
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What are examples of severe symptoms?

I would be interested in seeing some kind of long-term study of the appearance of reported symptoms that are associated with autoimmune disease, and not just the diagnosis of autoimmune disease. If rates of reported symptoms in the population are increasing, Then it's suggestive that the prevalence of disease is increasing, whereas if diagnoses are increasing but reported symptoms or not, it's indicative of better testing and a stable prevalence of disease.
It's also because the engine has a 90-degree V-angle, so the cylinders on the left bank are 90 degrees out of phase to the cylinders on the right bank. Each bank is effectively a 4-cylinder which fires once every 180 degrees, so having the two banks 90 degrees offset means the engine fires evenly every 90 degrees, producing a higher-pitched sound. In audio terms, there are no audible "1x engine rotational frequency" or even "0.5x engine rotational frequency" components. It's perceived as an octave higher than an inline-4 at the same RPM.
Markdown template + pandoc would be a very minimal typeset solution.
Thanks a lot! That's super cool, very nice price tag, compact design, thanks for bringing it up :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSZm3q4rUBg

Above is a seminar on analog layout designed to target Tiny Tapeout that went over Magic (by Jonathan Edwards) and Klayout (Thomas Perry). Sky130 and tinytapeout can do analog, but most of the tools and the examples are digital based.

https://i.imgur.com/NespRr4.png

https://www.klayout.de/forum/discussion/1879/video-demo-of-a...
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Framework for experimenting, at scale, with Prompts for Stable Diffusion
I have created a small, open-source framework for generating 1000s of variations of images based on sampling prompts.

The purpose of the project is 3-fold:
1. To efficiently test out ideas for images
2. Subsequently to easily hone in on the best prompts for your given goal
3. Reproducibility and keeping track of experiments (and

To give an example, I wanted to create images of "a dog wearing sunglasses", but I didn't really have any particular styles nor compositions in mind.

So then I've set up a list of possible scenes like ["walking on a tropical beach", "floating in space", "black background", "grey background"] as well as a list of styles ["vector graphics", "art deco"].

Now I'm randomly generating prompts combining the above.
And tomorrow I can scroll through 10k pictures of very cool dogs :-)
Its accurate. (I read the whole filing.)
None of that changes my argument, and Apple was in control of FireWire.
But it is broken. It has a ton of gotchas, WTFs and confusing behaviour. I appreciate maybe there weren't many easy to embed languages in the 80s, but there are loads now! Lua is an obviously better choice.

Tell me one reason to use TCL over Lua (that isn't "we've always used TCL and can't be bother to change it").
> Of course the EU can make bad decisions in one area without precluding them making good ones in others.

That's the whole point: they cannot. You guys are missing the problem here. The exact same systems and people who made the bad decisions about masks and vaccines are the ones making the decisions about phone chargers.

You can't say well obviously that decision was bad, but this one is good. Some of us recall that when the EU was writing blank cheques to Pfizer as part of a collective scheme to do purchasing for all of Europe it was being widely hailed as a genius move. So much money saved! So efficient, to do bulk purchasing. Now every single reply to my post admits that the decisions were terrible but this time it'll be different because this time the decision is obviously right.

Give it some years and people will be pointing to the USB-C decision as an example of EU dysfunction and HNs will be replying, "just because that decision was bad doesn't mean this one is!".
Yeah probably. I should have specified "sufficiently boring tech stack of choice".
How did this work out in the long run? I'm not skeptical, I'm interested in what proportion of honeypots/419 eaters/Jolly Roger Telephone Co. it takes to discourage scammers and spammers.
> Junk like Buzzfeed news

Small complaint, Buzzfeed News was serious legitimate journalism, and made some of the most important investigative journalism achievements of the past decade. Buzzfeed (sans News) is the garbage clickbait side of the company.

> At this point LLM-produced "writing" sticks out because it has no voice, it just repeats and walks around some point derived from the prompt, like someone summarizing Wikipedia articles.

You're thinking of OpenAI's products. Raw LLMs do not sound like ChatGPT, which has been RLHF-trained into the soulless automaton you describe. LLaMA for example is less coherent, but is indistinguishable from a real person in its tone and mannerisms. If you ask ChatGPT a very ridiculous dumb question it will politely answer it fully, like an obedient untiring servant. LLaMA will tell you to stop being an idiot, just as a human on Reddit or HN would.
I mean, I currently work on the JVM, I just have enough experience with different languages (including Ruby, which I don't think is quite dead yet) and tech stacks to know that they all suck in their own way. The JVM, and specifically Java, and even more specifically Spring, have a lot of annoying warts, it's just that other languages have different warts. I agree that you shouldn't try to rewrite everything in an obscure, untested technology, but beyond that, there's a number of options with enough tradeoffs. But it seems we're largely in agreement there.

I don't necessarily agree with the "keep everything in one language / stack" sentiment. There's certainly companies that overdo it, having 20 different languages at the same time. But there's also valid reasons for keeping certain tech stacks separate (e.g. having to do ML / data analysis stuff in Python). In the worst case, the "use only a single language" mindset leads to disasters like GWT, which is something that my current company unfortunately still uses because some Java developers (that don't work for the company any more) thought that JavaScript was beneath them.

I also wouldn't choose PHP, for the record. I would like to trash it here, but I've never actually been forced to use it, so I can't even comment on it.

I'm not so sure about k8s. I think you can get away with much simpler deployment models, too. At some point the overhead of having to manage everything manually (or a need for zero-downtime deployments) might make the added complexity of k8s more bearable, but it's certainly added complexity and not necessary everywhere and all the time.

I 100% agree about postgres, it's so good and feature-rich that you should probably really only ever use another database if you have very specific needs (except maybe also adding redis as a cache, because redis is also very good).
> 750M people

Where are you getting this figure? It's below 450M AFAIK.
Your last point makes a lot of sense actually, although pretty hard to convey to the general population.
Good point, gotta try it.
The true killer feature of lisp is s-expressions and the structural editing affordances they provide. “If I can’t slurp and barf, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” ~Emma Goldman(ish)
I intentionally mentioned the on paper part because I can't attest to the absolute accuracy, but in the aspects that are easily comparable I would say it's way ahead of the FLIR C5 that cost 4x as much I use at work.

Both are used for diagnostics of electronics, so the resolution and framerate make a noticeable difference here. On top of that mine boots up and is ready to go in under 5 seconds, while the FLIR takes close to a minute to get ready for some reason.
Although I didn't quit my job, having sizeable breaks between different jobs has been quite valuable. Time off between gigs feels more "free" because the expectations aren't the same when the break is finished.
I am all for removing this light grey text on white background abomination.

Also I understand that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,". In my personal opinion barely visibly text is not "beautiful" but rather ugly.
Hey, OP here. I'm really touched that you read the entire piece. I poured a lot of myself into it, so thanks from the bottom of my heart.

I had a different problem with relationships. I opened up quickly enough, but my partners grew up with happy families and didn't understand the level of abuse I had experienced. I felt incredibly alone. If I didn't get extremely lucky and meet a partner who understood how deeply people could be abused, I probably would be single.

In my personal experience, my dad was trying his best but simply couldn't know better. When I think about the challenges he faced -- growing up in the aftermath of the WWII and the communist Revolution, his parents were poor, he immigrated to the US by himself practically penniless, being disdained by white people for being Asian -- I feel overwhelmed by how much he had on this plate. This being said, I am still mourning the happy family I did not grow up with.

I think the current/ next generation better understands that 1.) there is such a thing as trauma 2.) We can work through them so we don't keep harming ourselves and others. I am hopeful that more people can end the cycles of violence they grew up in.
Oh so he's idolizing the perpetrators of the 1804 massacre of the white population by the haitian revolutionaries on the orders of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who then enacted racist policies in 1805?

You find with these revolutions the massacres of the innocent are easy to find after. The haitians were not somehow more moral and upstanding than the french.
> but screens emit light, and maximum contrast puts additional strain on the eyes.

That's just a problem with manufacturers putting displays with high dynamic range into devices and not putting decent HDR software implementations in.

Some apple devices are smart about it though. When you open up an HDR video, it cranks the backlight to make those highlights pop, but dims the LCD by lowering the contrast in software. This means high contrast websites don't sear your retinas while your media can still take better advantage of your display.

https://prolost.com/blog/edr
What I read in this is that sci-hub is only a third of the solution of cutting out the middle man. The another third is a credible place for researchers to publish to. The current publishers are trying to retain a dead model. We don't really need a publisher anymore. What they do provide that I haven't seed a good solution for is visibility among peers.

Sci-hub is great to grab a paper when you already know the DOI. If you are looking for papers in a specific field you will usually end up on a publisher's site using their search engine.

If researchers could easily browse papers relevant to them I think they would dump publishers all together. The expense of prestige can't hold up over time against a more efficient model that costs way less.
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Worry not, there will still be mouthbreathers who insist everything will be bread and roses... and there will still be mouthbreathers insisting that as they wander the ashes of civilization.
It is bad default, but nice that it is configurable.
Hi, I’m a longtime student of the American culture and I think the primary reason why Americans love it so much is because it temporarily masks their tinnitus and not because it melts their cold hearts.

Approximately 10 percent of the U.S. adult population — over 25 million Americans — experience some form of tinnitus. And an even larger percentage is suffering from hearing impairments.

Broken mufflers and loud engines mask the tinnitus sounds and finally they can relax. This is also the reason why they prefer to hang their Freeways in the air, in the middle of the city. And why their cafes are unbearably loud with the sound of refrigerators competing with the loud music.
> With a promise that it will be given to them on request. Unless, of course, the manufacturer changes their mind.

Or if the manufacturer decides to simply shut down those servers after some time, at which point the effective default situation will almost certainly be a denied request. In this case, they may not necessarily even be actively changing their mind, but rather just trying to reduce some overhead for those devices they deem to be "no longer supported" but which are nevertheless still out there being used.
If you like using the REPL, for Python I recommend you try https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython
How do you work around DB transactions? For example, in many Spring apps the transaction is common across all DB calls for an HTTP request. Would you put @RequiresNew? Many data sources don’t support this for a singular DB.
Yeah I very much prefer Kotlin now. It's Boring Tech but at the same time pleasant because of it's high expressivity and tooling.

Also I find it way easier to convince people coming from a dynamic language background to try it out vs Java which they find less approachable. Which is ironic as Kotlin is by far the more complicated language vs Java.
Not sure what you were trying to say about everyone suddenly needing to get a new set of chargers either.

They are talking about the original MagSafe (2006) and MagSafe 2 (2012). These versions of MagSafe had incompatible connectors and the cable couldn't be detached from the adapter like you can do with MagSafe 3. So, if you bought an additional MagSafe adapter, it was useless with a MagSafe 2 MacBook.
Well, I didn't mention the Russians. The Chinese, the Cubans, the North Koreans all do micromanagement of their citizens lives as well. North Korea has a law that regulates what hair styles citizens may have. This way of thinking isn't specific to the USSR.

The USB-C standard is fine. Nobody is attacking USB-C in this thread. The left wing quasi-communist stuff comes from the absurd assumption that it is the last word in cable design and therefore it should be illegal to use anything else. That is the sort of planning error that led communist states to poverty.
Ah right, I probably forgot to pay off the folks keeping my social credit score up to date and got caught out.
If MSI ever updates the BIOS of your motherboard with new / assumed to be unleaked Intel keys, then you will need to reflash it with the new BIOS.

So, you need to do a manual BIOS update to fix it.
Nonsensical. Many companies cut corners to save a buck. You're assuming companies want to be in markets for the long run under conditions of perfect competition (ie total market transparency). In reality many business owners are more than happy to make a million $ selling a shitty product then move on to some other market under a new name. You have to make quite a lot of money before the advantages of a reliable brand that consumers can readily identify exceed the incentives to make a quick buck.

Proof: look at all the craptastic companies that sell ersatz products on Amazon. For some kinds of products they can be almost as good as much more expensive offerings, for others you might get a great deal or you might get an explosive paperweight.
Having lived in Singapore and having had a Singapore PR for awhile? (Albeit awhile ago)

The reason why people own cars is for flexibility and to have some more control over their lives. Which is also a status symbol. It’s also really, really helpful with kids.

Is it still doable with public transit? Yes. And Singapore is easily one of the more pleasant and doable on that front. But it’s also a lot of dealing with crowds, taking time walking (while carrying things) or just not going, having to fit within society, and often having unpleasantness shoved in your face (well, as much as Singapore has anyway, which isn’t a lot) from society as part of the normal routine.

Unlike Paris, SF, NYC, at least you won’t have too many buskers and scam artists messing with you, which is nice.

If you get in a car, due to all the costs and taxes, the experience is generally a more quiet and pleasant one, and you can go anywhere on the island with (less) worry about what loud/raucous/unpleasant mess you might be stuck being near. And if you do get stuck somewhere, as long as you have AC, you can roll up the windows and mostly ignore any shitshow going on. Which is nice.

Compared to NYC, Paris, SF, Seattle on my list of ‘ugh’ places with public transit), it’s not on the bad list at all.

When I lived there, it was about as good as Switzerland or Tokyo with how well it was run (you’re welcome PAP), but obviously a different cultural feel.

Unlike Switzerland, you do have the more Chinese influenced ‘everyone’s business is my business’, especially from the Ajimas.

And if you’re a Gwailo, you’ll stick out like a sore thumb everywhere - and everyone DOES notice - which has pros and cons.

Also, no worries about folks bringing Durian onboard in Zurich for instance.

I didn’t even try Indian public transit, but that’s my loss I guess. It was sketchy enough just using cabs.

Driving in India is an invitation to get scammed and/or ruined on its own, so

I can’t imagine wading through the crowds. That said, the scams tend to be less in your face than in the western societies, and the scammers more subtle and far less violent. Which is nice, I guess?

Germany, Spain, and UK have good public transit, and middle of the pack for pleasantness.

The Danes run decent public transit in the big cities, but the lack of density meant you could easily be stuck somewhere (and have a very long, very cold walk) if you didn’t know the local holiday schedule. And they didn’t do much signage to tell you.

If done well, Public Transit can be very effective and definitely reduces cost and load with having a vehicle.

But it’s not a place for quiet contemplation (except perhaps in Switzerland, but even then it depends on the day), and it means you’re always dependent on the society you’re in and have to know how it works (and when) to get anywhere.

Which can be limiting in a way Americans outside the cities are used to not being limited.

Also, there is a reason New Yorkers are known for being in your face assholes. You would too - or be crushed - if you had to deal with the people in their daily life that they do.
> There's some pretty kooky claims and generally bizarre statements buried in the filing,

Sure, but the kooky claims are mostly tangential to the identified causes of action except the fourth, and they aren’t the sole basis for that one, so they have marginal bearing on the overall suit.
If you buy the album, who are you supporting, exactly?
The journals don't actually do peer review. They are really only an expensive distribution network with limited reach due to cost expense on the reader side.
Your response does zero to address (absolutely rightful) negative comments on your original comment, nor is it related to your original comment that sounds like a parody of a Wall Street liberals before they start crying for government bailouts.
It's just a poor Red Herring argument that you provided.