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> only technology I can think of that it enabled is GPS

Sat-to-sat laser communication, as Starlink envisions, requires tight understanding of the Earth’s general relativistic properties as well as the satellites’ special relativity. If the choice were Starlink or no more astrophysics, the answer would be clear to the point of justifying military intervention by third parties. It’s not. It’s Starlink or particular kinds of astrophysical observation from the ground. That’s a more careful balance, and one that can be mitigated by e.g. increasing funding for those experiments on space-based platforms.
> nature, unlike Fragilista Greenspan, prepares for what has not happened before, assuming worse harm is possible

What utter tosh.

The random walk across trait combinations that underlies evolution means that when worse harm occurs there's often a decent chance that at least -some- members of any given species will manage to survive, true, but plenty of species just go extinct in a situation like that.

Plus 'prepares' implies an active application of agency that simply isn't part of the underlying process.

"Be aware that the next disaster could be worse and try to think clearly about to what extent it's going to be good ROI overall to have defences that will survive it" is good advice and no matter how obvious it might -feel- is probably something well worth explicitly pointing out to people every so often, but 'nature prepares' is still rubbish and Taleb would've had a more solid critique of Greenspan's choices had he stuck to arguments with a basis in reality.

(this sort of thing continues to restrict how much Taleb I can consume at once before needing to take a week or two for the annoyance to fade - I often feel like there's room in the world for a "Taleb: The Good Parts" where somebody else trudges through the stupid bits to extract the useful insights)
Yes, DVDs use the MPEG-2 codec which has a horrible compression ratio compared to H.264 (and CD audio is completely uncompressed).
>I'd be able to name at least one FAANG tier company based on Germany

SAP?

>SAP is the largest non-American software company by revenue, the world's third-largest publicly traded software company by revenue
Also, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Or "If it works, don't touch it."
Yes, there was also a later version of the MZ-80, the MZ-80C, which featured a more conventional keyboard. But, I think, the original one is quite beautiful (while, admittedly, not that usable) and it reminds of a time, when it wasn't all that clear that consumer computers should have typing keyboards. (Mind that not everybody was trained in touch typing, and this was pretty much a new beginning.)

BTW, I see that the machine in the video has kanji legends on the keyboard, which isn't found on the models that were sold in Europe. The latter feature upper and lower-case characters, which is switched by a special "SML/CAP" key (not the SHIFT key, which is for graphics characters!), a key that shows kanji markings on the domestic model. (So, I guess, the original, domestic model was Latin upper-case/kanji without lower-case?) Does anyone know more about this?
I still remember old trains where you could look down and see the track while stepping from one carriage to the next. Child me always thought it was cool.
People have been trying to get 'operator.' overloading in C++ for the last 20 years. Unfortunately this confusion between pointer operations and pointee operations has always been an obstacle :(.
Are they trying to push people towards NextCloud instead?

I've been running an OwnCloud instance at work for some years and more recently a NextCloud instance at home. I was thinking that NextCloud was going to be the eventual upgrade path away from OwnCloud, but with their "Infinite Scale" reworking of it, I thought that maybe they were looking to take the lead again. I don't know if our usage is considered "commercial" as we're self-hosting it and not re-selling usage of it, but it could be simpler to just migrate if they ever choose to get litigious about it.
I guess you have never directly worked with a client and hope it stays that way.

This kind of attitude will ensure you lose your customers.
The code is Apache 2.0 licensed though? Can they really add a limitation like this?
What else would you have them do? They are roughly only doubled in concentration and still mixed into hundreds of gallons of water per year.
Of course use whatever works for you, but it sounds like sway would do what you want in a fairly painless way with wayland.
This is great. Chapeau.
It's a little strange to select the muscle group one wants to target, what about a few primary and secondary dimensions such as explosiveness, endurance, strength, fat loss or aesthetics. Some way to more broadly describe what one is trying to accomplish.
Or there’s more nuance.

Yes, California salaries are more expensive than Europe. Yes Europe has more laws. There are trade offs.

If your business is boom/bust (lots of hire/fire) then Europe is expensive due to worker protections and smaller talent pool.

If your business has anything data based, or other high-regulation topics, Europe is expensive due to their regulations.

If your business just needs warm bodies to iterate on some codebase, Silicon Valley is expensive.

Or, in the case of Evernote, if you’re a Silicon Valley based company that doesn’t push the cutting edge and you lay off most employees AND you’re purchased by a European company that has European employees, maybe stay in Europe.
> Uhm, developers? Using projects documentation?

You mean the documentation that was never written, because the developer thought: "Ah but this is just the usual usage of the framework I am using. I don't need to write anything about that."

> I never had to manually “repair” any of that. Most often you just don't need them. Why would you use a back button in an image editor or an IDE?

Well, on most SPAs you would need them, because people build SPAs all the time without caring, whether they are actually building an app or are actually building a website. So what you get are things that would be a normal website, but implemented using SPA frameworks and then have broken browser functionality. An IDE or an image editor would probably be OK examples for SPA, but the reality unfortunately is very different.

> What your are talking about seem to be simple CRUD apps. I have built those with server-rendered templates, yes (here's a takehome for some company from a couple of years back: https://github.com/golergka/url-shortener).

Exactly! I am talking about the cases, when people take out the sledgehammer, where a screwdriver would have been appropriate.
Wow what a prime example of shit content.

"Why do people pick their noses? Who knows, but I find it disgusting. Here are a few facts showing that excessive/obsessive behaviour involving your body can cause trouble."
The Great Pendulum
Very cool!

Is it a choice or a limitation of MuscleWiki that videos exclusively show men?
Just came here to say this, as someone who is visiting gyms for nearly 2 decades now and who has failed several times in launching whatever-fancy-app-product:

WOW!

WOW!!

WOW!!!

not only did you create something (thats step 1),
you created something that works (you released a working version, clap clap), you created something with a real usecase (not the next get-rich-crypto-bro-app),
AND:

from your current version, i see gazillion ways of extending/expanding the product.

Keep going - dont listen to the others :)

(if you think about monetization: Just watch a couple of these fitfluencer channels, and you will get tons of inspiration - also out of sport-channels, you will find lot of marketing ideas)
I think their intention is to forbid "selling it as a paid service" but I agree - the merest whiff of legal uncertainty is enough for most companies just to give it a wide berth.

At least AGPL etc are well understood. But bespoke licences - if I need to call a $500/hr lawyer to check if i can use your software then I'll probably just skip it.
Yeah but you can’t leave the warehouse without being fired.

Gig workers can choose to only work when it’s peak hours then stay home.

That said, no one is forcing DoorDash to allow people to log in.

I think they should have to pay for any part of an hour in which they allow a worker to login. And additionally if they refuse a login, they must continue refusing it for a minimum of 1 hour.

This way they will be incentivized to create a core of real employees for the off hours work, and only use gig workers for peak times.
Levels experienced in the real world by real people, or a contrived example?
Their claimed invention is about attaching fractal jaws to existing engraving vises and not the fractal vise itself.

> The patent pending improvements allow for use with engraving vises and other vises.

But in reality their patent applications doesn't even claim that, but rather a specific method for attaching fractal jaws to existing engraving vises as far as I can tell.

btrettel found what seems to be the patent applications in another comment

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230008280A1/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230009028A1/en
Amazing this is a problem since they’ll happily charge $36 total to deliver a hamburger.
Ask HN: How to decide between 2 tempting markets for the same product?
I am building an application https://cheatsheet.framer.ai/

- The first market showing interest is the Agencies

- The second one is enterprise sales (with some more features)

I would like to know which direction to steer the wheel?

And how to validate who wants it more badly?
Negative effects can manifest themselves over timescales beyond any scientific test.
DVDs of movies were actually dual layer, and had ~9GB capacity. I remember this distinctly because to copy a movie rental to a DVD-R you had to use a program like DVD Shrink so you could strip out all the extra features and compress the video a bit more to get it to be under 4.7GB
Almost certainly not. At the very least they now have two licences that contradict each other which would make it rather tricky for them to claim infringement. (IANL)
What a terrible start for InfluxDB 3. And that incomprehensible justification on their side… what a disappointment… I’ve been anticipating InfluxDB 3 going GA later this year and was just about to subscribe to their cloud offering since they’re making it available only over there presently. And I was going to migrate more workflows to the TICK stack. But they’ve just nuked their credibility in my eyes. Hope they can still recoup the dev costs for InfluxDB 3, but I’m now going to be very cautious about that company going forward. Hope Influx OSS remains viable. Inconceivable…
History is full of examples of acting without evidence, with disastrous results. Thankfully, in this case, we can have high confidence that the absence of PFAS is not a health risk. So the cost of action without evidence is purely financial. It’s not clear to me the global economic impact of banning these chemicals, but I’m struggling to forecast anything large enough to care. For this reason, I support banning these chemicals. The case for historical claims is murkier without evidence.
That's kinda the issue. Who does it target? You pick an equipment and a muscle, and it builds a workout with six exercises to target that one specific muscle. Your performance will suffer and it will take countless of gym sessions to go through the full body. Who would benefit from this workout?

It's one thing to use such a tool to find new exercises to target a specific body part but then you should probably use the source the tool is importing videos from, not build a full workout just to see.
This seems to only be about binary builds / 'stable releases'?

https://github.com/owncloud/ocis#end-user-license-agreement

https://github.com/owncloud/ocis/issues/6570

https://github.com/owncloud/ocis/pull/6755/files
> What nukes? That’s a strange question. Are you asking in good faith? You’re asking me to tell you which specific nukes? Can you tell me what the choices are here? Is there a kind of nuke that is acceptable to host at the missile “defense” site?

You said you can retrofit the defensive missile system to launch nukes yet cannot name a single nuke it launch?. So you _certain_ it can launch a nuke yet cannot even name a single type of nuke it can launch?.

> USA has long since invaded, stolen, annexed and subjugated all the lands around it (manifest destiny). It has long ago staked its claim on the entire hemisphere as its protectorate, explicitly foreign foreign powers cannot come and meddle there (Monroe doctrine). It has since then gone around the world and did that same exact type of meddling — with disastrous results — in pretty much every country on earth! We have 800 bases around the world, which is 30x more than the rest of the world combined. We spend more on the military than the next 10 countries, including our own allies. It is a real problem that US Americans seem to only focus on other countries and call them out for the very things that their own country has done and is currently doing, while insisting they have nothing to worry about and if they respond in ANY WAY they’re the aggressor!!

Cool,

But this is about Russia.

Russia is the one who expands NATO due to Russias actions, if Russia was capable of not being a shitty neighbour then theres a good chance NATO would be at least (two (soon)) members smaller.

> Nations need protection from the US, which is the only country on earth today that conducts drone strikes in multiple far-away sovereign countries, blowing up weddings, funds rebels and destabilizes countries on a mass scale, does regime change in dozens of countries around the world, sometimes leaving the country devastated (Iraq, Libya) and bouncing to the next.

Cool then they can enter an alliance to do so if they want (like CSTO).

I fully support this if countries feel this way.

> https://fb.watch/lHuKHbM_fW/

Your source doesn't seem so good to be honest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp12iqINfQY
Similar experience with mountain biking for me. In college I bought a $600 hardtail because that was my budget. Didn't know or care that it had a coil fork and mechanical disks instead of air fork and hydraulic brakes. And at the time it didn't matter. I rode that thing well beyond its limits, and as I got better at riding and working on the thing I upgraded parts as I could afford and figured out why those parts are better.

After 10+ years on that, I could afford a full suspension bike. I knew what I needed and what parts would fall into the diminishing returns realm. I've been riding it for 5 years and have made some small upgrades (and had to replace a few parts) but I regularly blow the socks off riders on 2-3x more expensive bikes.

My bike does have limitations and if I could afford it I would have maybe 2 more, but as an all around bike and someone who rides all sorts of terrain it gets the job done just fine.

I've also had friends who bought expensive carbon bikes when they're starting out and once they realized that skills are much more important than the bike have regretted spending so much.
To add to this discussion, I must note what I don't see many mentioning here.

One doesn't need to do any shady stuff with baseband or stockpile on zero day vulns.

The current mobile ecosystem is such that any supported device (recieving updates and such) sends its unique identifier to the manufacturer before recieving OTA updates. And devices by default check for updates on a regular bases.
Basically the manufacturer can always target and track individual devices. And provision indivisualised signed updates. Not just at the country level but targeted to specific IMEI.

Coming to more concrete examples, Google is known to do AB testing with their Pixel line of devices, setting custom profiles for some users.

Xiomi had previously shown capability to actively disable devices that move outside of legal sale regions.

Samsung uses such capabilities for enterprise devices in Samsung's Enterprise/Knox platform. And consumer devices can be thought of as enterprise devices under the manufacturers domain.

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So the government only simply needs to send these companies warrants to target, bug and track specific devices or registered customers.

Online platforms are already subjected to data requests from law enforcement which they must conform to (atleast those with supporting warrant).

Some try to recuse themselves from such compelled intrusion of their customers by employing end to end encryption (e2ee).

With this provision and manufacturer cooperation, they could get direct full control of the ends (personal devices). Obviating the need to "break" encryption.

Why deal with a dizzying cloud of services in wide range of jurisdictions when you can have full access to citizen devices with cooperation of a handful of manufacturers.

In summary, this is not just feasible, the elements for an organised remote control system are already present in current smartphone ecosystem. In form of signed updates by manufacturers that can target particular IMEI devices. One just needs this law to wade through the legality issues.

A solution to avoid such sweeping surveillance capability would be to convince manufacturers to not receive identifiable data before provisioning updates. And have a public ledger of officially signed image hashes, like those of of domain certificate transparency lists.
I feel like these gigantic and expensive screens are niche enough that the supplier doesn't need to slap their logo on the front. Ruins the aesthetic.
This is a great approach you took on something that's been done a gezillion times. My thanks!
> Oxycodone (the “opioid crisis”)

Oxycodone didn't cause the opioid crisis just because it's an addictive substance.
Let's say we're in an astrophysics forum. Flat earthers keep coming into other topics and posting about how astrophysicists are all wrong, and flat earth is true. According to you that means flat earthers are correct and astrophysicists are wrong. Do you see where your logic breaks down?
Americans also take far less vacation time. Performative daily work or not.
I'm mostly indifferent to it because it doesn't really harm readability, and it's not hard to know when to use it, but I can seem why it might be more strongly disliked. You can't entirely rely on it to know a dereference is happening because references (e.g. `int&`) aren't subject to the `->` requirement. It's also annoying if you find that you can refactor `func(T*)` to `func(T&)` and now you have to replace all `->`s with `.`s.
> That's not how developer productivity works

So me pointing out that there are no FAANGs is reductive but claiming 32 hours is peak productivity isn't being reductive? Hmmm.

I hate to break it to you but productivity is measured not by wishful thinking but by capital markets. If German devs were more productive then capital would move to Germany.
>using DNA as an information storage medium is a pretty neat concept

And billions of years old.
>What they actually have to do is make sure every person who gets one has the most perfect experience possible.

But they can't have the most perfect experience if the software isn't there. And there won't be enough software that actually utilises the 3D features until a sufficient number of developers get access to the device.

So I agree that the strategy can work but it can also be overstretched. If expensive devices become obsolete before they become useful, and if developers write this off as some sort of forever niche then momentum will die.
>Windows 95 is the first full 32-bit Windows that's built by Microsoft. It's a break from previous generations of Windows which brings 32-bit programming to consumer which previously was only available on Windows NT.

I remember using 32 bit extensions for Windows 3.1 at some point in time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32s
> Yeah, please repeat the same bullshit for the umpteenth time.

I'm currently streaming X11 over my LAN which is something I can't do with Wayland. Give me a fucking solution instead of telling me I'm doing it wrong.

Yes, I'm tired of seeing all this bullshit, too. I'll switch immediately when Wayland gives me want I need to make me productive. Until then, I'm absolutely sick of this cocky attitude.
I'm among the people who would have liked to eliminate even this special case and have a convenient postfix derefence for this. So instead of a->b() you'd have a*.b(), and if you need to dereference again, write a**.b() and so on. But as you said, lots of people really seem to hate this kind of thing. Zig is almost there with its dereference syntax, but still kept the magic dereferencing dot.
I have never read a good post on LinkedIn. Not one, ever. For me, it has always been motivational quotes and self-applauding stories.
Beyond the Gene (2018) [pdf]
So, until now, a sidecar container was just the idea of running containers in you Kubernetes pod, along with your main service, that were 'helpers' for something: connection to databases or vpns, mesh networking, pulling secrets or config, debugging... But they didn't have special status, they were just regular containers in your pod.

This sometimes posed some problems because they weren't available for the full life cycle of the pod, notably on the init process. So if your init containers needed secrets, connections, networking... that was being provided via a sidecar container, you were going to have a hard time.

With this change, among other things, sidecars containers are going to be available for the whole life cycle of the pod.

There are other implications, probably, but I still haven't finished reading the KEP [0]. Check it out, and there you'll find its motivation and several interesting examples.

0: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/753-sidecar-containers

Edit: corrected syntax
Cambridge isnt Texas or the Sahara desert. The UK has a particular type of rain called "Cats and Dogs" and its not nice being caught out in that.

Bikes, scooters are only fair weather modes of transport, but I guess when its raining we can just work remotely from these new homes... and when its too hot to work up a sweat on our bikes we can work remotely from these new homes... but then if we can work remotely why do we need to be in Cambridge or the UK? There's better places in the world to live.

Elon Musk's Starlink has made working remotely possible practically anywhere in the world now. So it doesnt matter of there is no 5G or fibre broadband if you want to live and work off grid.

On the ebike stuff, there is the speed restriction, despite being able to cycle faster. And there was a recent fire in Cambridge were a family died because an ebike or scooter caught fire when charging. The press were negative towards these, but I never saw once any mention of checking the smoke detectors over the two days it was covered in the news. Despite being called an ebike, I think it was actually a e-scooter which has much more negative press than ebikes, the main reason being e-scooters are seen more on the pavements and paths than bikes are, and favoured by school kids more, hence the very intellectual and subtle form of negative press.