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What if instead of using a bunch of features bolted onto a shitty scripting language, we just used a real language like Python?

I've read enough hacked-together bash BS to just despise the language.
It’s awesome that that was agreed to up-front! As COVID eased, a friend who works for a local software shop was worried about the fights they’d have over remote vs. in-office, as they’d had a super-strong in-office culture before. The company threaded the needle on it, though: because all the teams work in pods, the decision was that each pod (6-10 people) would decide by consensus whether to be remote, hybrid, or in-office. They then ran an exchange program to help re-home people on teams that wanted something different. It wasn’t perfect, but the willingness to let each team determine for itself what was best and trust them to make the right decision fairly really worked.
Not sure if it's worth bringing up but I intended for my earlier comment to be about how rest is not awful just because it's not full sleep. Which, somehow, seems to be the opposite of what people think I said. Go figure.
Very impressive! I can’t imagine how many hours this must have taken to make this.

Here I was, happy to have finally made an N64-to-USB adapter, roughly 15 years after I bought the parts (ATmega32 and the cheapest programmer money could buy at the time) :)
TIL...that Privacy Badger extension and uBlock Origin affect the "Sort by" options in Amazon!

I have disabled both of them and got my results properly sorted by "Price: Low to High" while with both extensions on, it defaults to Featured!
Iphones do have a hardware button combo for 911 that doesn’t require the screen if you hold down long enough: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208076

The issue is that you don’t want the button to be easy enough to press that 911 gets flooded with butt dials.
I own a Tesla, and I can tell you that the aesthetics are only aesthetics. The beauty is literally skin-deep. Inside, the car is bodged together to make manufacturing as cheap as possible and with no other considerations.

Tesla likes to boast about the safety of their cars, and while I don't deny this, I believe that the safety is an accidental side-effect of the inherent properties of building a car with no explosive fuel and a heavy battery pack at the very bottom of the car.
You do need to separate medium of exchange from store of value. Real estate is useless as a currency while being the primary store of value for most people. Most of your objections also apply to real estate: can't know how much wheat a house is worth, houses are notoriously illiquid, price discovery is difficult and quite opaque, the sector is rife with misrepresentations. I wouldn't go so far as to say fraud, but where does "real estate agent" sit on those polls of "most trusted professions"? Houses aren't even fungible!

And if anyone thinks BTC/ETH transactions are slow and expensive (me!), around here the gas fee on real estate transactions is ~5% with a 6-month processing time...
Because fanboys are too verbose for hype
IMO the market is too new and there’s more room for innovation here. At the point that EVs can be charged in less than 5 minutes, I’d be on board with standardizing.
You can't really say much in general about hash functions - they're just general functions. The more you try to infer additional rules about hash functions, the more use cases you start to exclude. For example, _mostly_ hash functions have a fixed bit size for values in their range, but there's a small handful with variable length output (HAS-V & HAVAL, eg) that would otherwise be considered examples of cryptographic hash functions.

At the risk of making absolute statements in a field with vague and imprecise definitions, only perfect hash functions are injective. Imperfect hash functions (typically) map a large domain to a smaller range. The presence of collisions indicates a non-injective function.

Surjection is not required for all hash functions. Cryptographic hashes should be surjective, but indexing hashes that not surjective may have other desirable properties.

Since in general hash functions are neither injective nor surjective, they're definitely not bijective. You can have bijective hash functions, but the practicality of them would be extremely narrow.
Metals sound extremely different too.

I've got two snares, an aluminum Acrolite and a steel unknown-origin snare, and the character of each is extremely different.

I ran sound for a band where my roommate played drums, and he had a Noble and Cooley snare. But not just any Noble and Cooley… he had one of the Zildjian bronze snares. Those are rare in part because they can crack… and I'll tell you, the backbeat on that thing could absolutely take your head clean off. Diabolical. I imagine that they're so scarce because they simply explode onstage, killing everyone :D

I see there's one on Reverb for sale. AS DESCRIBED (so, use your eyes to see if there's a crack because no backsies) and still, $5,577.75 and $272 just to ship it. I can well believe it.
You use a different use case on how you use the systems? Because you don't coordinate between multiple applications to solve a problem as part of your workflow or you work with a large monitor when doing so?

Why do you take this as if it's some sort of affront?
They do have a lot of very weird abbreviations, like in the getting-started/install page there are options for: MacOS (Intel/AMD) (...=> amd macs? I guess hackintosh?), Linux AMD (no Intel this time?)

I get they are abbreviating amd64 but still... I've never seen it done like this...
How scientists are hacking the genetic code to give proteins new powers
> The person driving the RV that you're complaining about has just as much right to enjoy the national park as you do

This makes no sense. If someone was blasting a trunk-shaking car stereo and I was complaining about that instead, would you say they had just as much right to "enjoy the national park" ? How about someone using a dirtbike on a trail? The way we keep these things enjoyable is by setting standards. And the examples that come to mind are roads where the prevailing speed was something like 35-40mph, but these big rigs were clogging them up at 15-20mph.

> My point is that if you want to enjoy the scenery, you need to get out of the driver's seat.

This is obviously false. Even the park maps point out scenic driving routes.
"Nearly half of all unhoused adults in California are over the age of 50"

This is a senior citizen health and housing crisis... When my dad got old and demented, it nearly broke us trying to take care of him physically, mentally and financially. I can totally see how families give up forcing senior citizens into the streets.
Technically the identity function on 64-bit integers is a hash function. There's just not much you can say about hash functions in general.
tiny houses are not typically expected to move around often. the wheels are generally a formality to get round certain zoning rules. that you can move them is a side benefit.
> It's a wonder it ever worked as intended at all

Even when it was available I've only ever seen a few cases of it working well. One prominent one was an educational YouTuber (Veritasium) asking users to post video replies with solutions to a physics puzzle/experiment that he was doing. Besides that, the feature was not used by creators and so spam videos and response girls were rampant in the video replies to most popular YouTubers.
Couldn't it be that the spool with the rope floats on the surface and only one end of it is connected to the submarine with a snap hook? It may work and saves me the maths exercise lol :)
Robust? Neither my Xbox controller, or a third party alternative, are rated and proven to work in submarine conditions. My two controllers don't even work flawlessly from my couch.
Confirmed. Now I'm just curious what the justification was for removing it, because it baffles me.

The option was removed as part of a general UX refresh that moved from a sort drop-down to pill buttons -- this general drop-down -> pill thing seeming to be a general trend on apps and websites now.

But it's hard to imagine why it was removed in the first place. Saving a minuscule amount money by reducing views of less-cached long-tail content doesn't seem important enough. Nor does there seem to be any compelling engagement reason to prioritize newer videos. And I'm not aware of an ad revenue reason, such as older videos being less monetizable.

Maybe it was just a misguided attempt at UX simplification that backfired?
IDK I use the npgsql enum mapping to native pg enum and it works great. Pretty sure I have it configured for string values too.
How many even know that old.reddit exists?
Man with ego invents, creates new jobs both at his company and outside, boosts the industry productivity. It's spark that matters; no matter how much wood you bring upfront, it won't burn until the first spark is created.
> The government isn’t an amorphous entity that responds to its master’s demands

and yet history tells us that governments do conspire and that the times we've been made aware of it happening after the fact are likely not the only times it has happened.

In the case of voting machines the government doesn't even need to be directly involved. If all of the code used isn't open source and publicly available, if the hardware is closed and inaccessible to the public for auditing and review by experts, and if there is no paper trail to interdependently verify the results then the entire system is impossible to trust by design.
I didn't want to have kids but I did because my ex wife did... The world is getting fucked up
I hardly think that is fair. Tesla hasn't re-invented the wheel on life-critical safety systems. They use off the shelf airbags and brakes. Their software on the steering, braking, etc control loops are more or less standard for embedded vehicle systems. The linux PC running the touch screen is not the system controlling the brakes.

The failure modes for a vehicle are also a lot simpler than a sub. If the interior starts to fill with smoke you can stop and get out. A submarine doesn't have that option.
I wouldn't be surprised if it disappeared again. Playback speed briefly appeared on the Android TV app, then disappeared for good with no explanation.
Well, this becomes old fast :). I usually have to click 40 songs and add them to a new playlist. There are some firefox extension that can extract URL and rebuild playlist but they are a bit buggy.
The converse is also true, and applies to both guitar and drums. Being able to play quietly, with intensity and energy, is one of the hallmarks of a better player. "Good player but plays too loud" is a euphemism for "bad player."

Preserving your hearing is a factor.

Source: Bassist. ;-)
I think it could be a neat idea if you allowed the creator to choose which videos are posted as replies. I know there's so many times where a youtuber mentions something like "if I'm wrong/ignorant post me a link", and the ability to point to a video providing a better method would be invaluable.

OFC, I'm assuming a utopic world here. There's no incentive for neither Youtube nor the creator to do this, as opposed to simply linking more of their own stuff or whatever is ad friendly.
If it were me, and I absolutely needed a new car and did not want to get an ICE vehicle, I would lease something until the 2025 conversion is complete. The value of an EV with a nonstandard charger is going to drop precipitously at that point.
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> but I really do blame Elon for making "move fast and break things" acceptable in the world of hardware.

No offense, but to put it bluntly, this just means you have no experience with the hardware world, pre Musk, and don't understand the line between "user feature" and "safety critical".
Ask HN: Why doesn't Reddit give it's mod's a revenue cut
Keeping it to round numbers, pressure at 4000m is about 400atm, or a bit under 6000 PSI. From what I can see, a waterjet cutter ranges from 20,000 PSI to 100,000, depending on model and which source you trust. So if they could contain it to a pinhole, they'd probably be lucky enough that the incoming stream wouldn't cut through the far side, though the same isn't true of the occupants.

Though as you said, the far more likely outcome is that the vessel would crush almost instantly.
I have a Braveheart edition Pinephone for experiments. I know that Pine64 devices are very bluntly a work in progress. I'm more specifically talking about Librem in this case.
I'm not sure how to say this without being at least a little offensive: If the above request is in earnest, it is incredibly naïve. You don't think they know this is a problem for users, or that legions of other users share this thought, or more charitably, do you think that sharing this thought will make a difference?

Google doesn't want to solve the fact that users spend more time watching clickbait and low quality videos as a result of removing features that they themselves implemented back when they thought they could be anything more than an advertising company. This strategy also explains what happened to Google Search.
It's called "white washing".
Interesting, though I'm not seeing exactly what sets Polystruder's machines apart from everything that's already on the market, besides price.

A major pain point of their competition has been an inability to produce decent quality filament with a consistent diameter throughout the batch. If that's solved, even partially, it might be useful for bigger users or maker spaces.
Because ain't nobody got time for that. ;)

More seriously, I think that we have been trained to rely on just in time searches (or ChatGPT sessions) when we encounter the next thing we need to learn. RTFM is just so time consuming and I personally don't recall everything I have read, leading me to rely on search/AI to re-learn the next thing just in time anyways.

In some ways this is a vast improvement, which is why it's the default behavior now. Why cream your brain with information you might never use?

But it DEFINITELY has a weakness in that you don't know what you don't know. I never knew about this 'trap' trick, for example... and I didn't know I didn't know it, despite it being something I see as quite useful.

Side note: I think RTFM has historically meant "try to find the answer first before asking for it", leading to me designating LMGTFY (Let Me Google That For You) as the modern equivalent in this just in time searches reality we live in. I wonder how long it will be before we start saying LMAAIFY (Let Me Ask AI For You)...
I guess sometimes you've just got to get bolted into a steel coffin and sink to the bottom of the ocean to see what happens.
Haha, Reply Girls. That brings back memories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_girl

If memory serves, that was ultimately what got the feature on its way out.
There has always been a tension between individual freedoms and societal good, it has not been clear cut for any generation in American history.

As an example, 1933 is the origin of the Accredited Investor rule in the US which directly interferes with commerce between two consenting adults in order to reduce societal fraud and risk. You can find similar laws from any decade you care to mention.
Not for me yet, tried with a clean profile too. I have been missing this simple option a lot
> Those 4 represent like 80-90% of EVs in the US

I don't doubt they'd like it to remain that way. Starving CCS charging networks of federal dollars that are be relied upon by Japanese, German and Korean manufacturers would be a win for US manufacturers; expanding a Tesla-moat into a US-manufacturer moat. Tesla gets federal dollars, control the standard and keeps its hungriest competitors at bay who most threaten its margins; Ford, GM and Rivian get access to a large network and protection from foreign competition by being invited into the fort.

Cartel-like behaviour is notoriously self-emergent.

Insidiously, this arrangement might even get the US government to look the other way if it is American car companies vs. everyone else despite the original assumption being that CCS networks would get most/all of the federal funds.
AI Is a Lot of Work – lots of humans needed to power AI
Now if only they could add back the ability to pick my own resolution with chromecast YouTube.

Their ability to guess my bandwidth is Bad. It always sticks me on 360p and yet 4K works fine everywhere in my house without question all the time. All other apps chromecast in HD just fine.

But no. Gotta take that feature away. Some obsessive UI/UX people who need to keep looking busy and necessary.
> When I open the app store it just fails to load things sometimes.

Considering how many desktop linux distros fall down with this, you may be expecting too much of your beta-level phones. It's been years, yes, but power management isn't exactly easy. Just look at how bad Linux laptops were even just a few years ago - hell, look at how long it took the multinational mega-corporation to get Android's background power consumption down. It was so bad people on XDA set Tasker to turn off BT, location, and even wifi when not in use.

You're right, FLOSS phones currently aren't good. But they finally exist, and that's enough for me to be excited about
Yeah I agree. People should be building their Slack alternatives in Elixir at the very least. It's the tried & true, no brainer, boring technology stack for highly scalable, performant, concurrent applications.
I really wish we could go back to forums again. The amount of knowledge lost to discord and mass account deletion is insane. For example, I was fixing a superautomatic espresso recently. I ended up finding the schematics I needed on an obscure Czech forum that didn’t come up on a google search. I found that forum by clicking through three other forums that were similarly obscure and that I have not been able to locate again.

If the information located within had been posted on discord, it would have been lost. Forums with their own file hosting are often the last documentation we have of something, as file hosters die off.

Ever noticed how google will say 600k results but only show you 1.5 pages? The mass knowledge of the internet is being lost.
The forces are immense and act all the time. In your daily life, you don't usually have that kind of system, so this feels counterintuitive.

Press against a solid object gently with one hand on each side, then suddenly yank away one hand. The object will be accelerated gently. Now do that with all your strength and send the object flying through the room in no time, with a few dozen kg of pressure. Now imagine that you could apply hundreds of tons of pressure. In such a system, every change will be nigh instantaneous.
BBC should put its entire archive free online ad supported for international users and ad free for UK viewers. Then the popular items could migrate behind a premium paywall over time.
Ultimately it's going to boil down to money. Having DC and AC charging share the same conductors makes the plug cables cheaper. That adds up when deploying and maintaining a charger network.
I don't think it's clear that PFOF is bad for retail investors. Many people argue (see Analysis section of the article you posted, and also Matt Levine's writing about it on Money Stuff) that PFOF is actually a net good for retail investors, getting them both price improvement and lower commissions.

Also:

> In the United States, accepting PFOF is allowed only if no other exchange is quoting a better price on the National Market System. ... Transactions must be executed at the best execution, which could mean the best price available or the speediest execution available.
Why wouldn’t there be a backup? In an old video, the CEO explains that there are 2 more backup controllers on board “just in case ”. Also, considering that the controller is just a dumb interface for controlling a computer I would assume that this computer also has a screen and a keyboard.

My only gripe with this is that the controller has a battery in it, which may cause a fire and smoke but those are well commercialized items made to be used by kids, so I find it unlikely to have design flaws to cause that and would expect to be quite a robust piece of equipment.

I would be very surprised if the incident has anything to do with the controller.
The base-band issue is the Achilles heel of the whole idea. Depending on which government you are under, even trying to implement the exact same functionality via open software is seen as tampering with a radio device and can get you in a lot of trouble. With that one move, they have effectively killed any possibility of a completely open system ever happening.
“Overtaking lane” in most of the world.
I’m a recent divorcee who was unhoused for the past few months but sheltered in very cheap hotels in San Francisco before recently signing a lease to continue living in an SRO on a month to month basis.

The divorce was a shock to the finances but not a big one. I make over $100k and am just now zeroing out my debt, much of which was education related.

The reason I haven’t signed a serious lease for a proper apartment in the city is because I look at apartment prices and just can’t bring myself to pay $2300+ for a place for myself. Studios below that price or living out of the city do not appeal to me, nor does living with roommates after a few recent experiences with that. I don’t do drugs or have any mental health issues.

I think there are others like me in the city - willing to accept Spartan accommodations rather than throw thousands of dollars to live in slightly better conditions - but I have not yet met any.

I feel like I am basically gentrifying the lowest level of housing before homelessness.

My finances are healthy and I am saving at a decent clip which is similar to a huge raise in salary.

I get that SF is one of the most expensive cities in the world, but when I look at other housing markets, I’ve noticed that rents are more similar to SF than in the past.

Millennials are pretty strained financially right now, Gen Z even more so. Minor shocks that would have been inconsequential for previous generations have become embiggened.
I completely believe you. There are many cases of utterly unwarranted terrible atrocities committed against non-whites. I assume that is what you mean. Are whites a minority in America yet? Here is one example that immediately comes to mind: Bodycam Footage Of Virginia Cops Drawing Guns And Spraying Army Lieutenant During Traffic Stop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf5KZSADDhg

If we use detailed violent crime information from Chicago sourced from https://heyjackass.com/ it is clear that the greatest threat to non-whites is other non-whites. 96% of victims and assailants are non-white and 92% of the time injury and death occurs from being shot. I find it hard to believe that city police are killing non-whites at a similar rate and manner. According the same website mentioned above there were 3 people killed by police in 2023 and 3 people were wounded by police in 2023. If we speculatively assume all six victims of police involved shootings were black only and we consider the other 237 black victims of violent crime (93% of which are shootings, so 220 blacks shot, then this gives us the ratio of 6/(220+6) or about 3% of black victims were victims of police involved shootings in Chicago. You have a 97% chance of being shot by non-cop if you are black when a violent/deadly encounter is in the cards.

If you are non-white and live in a city you should absolutely conceal carry to protect yourself. Use 911 to your advantage as a recording system too. I still recommend a good pair of running shoes first and foremost. Sometimes 911 puts people on hold. If you live in a city where this happens (it happened to me before in the US nation's capital) maybe its for the best to wear a body cam when going out and about.