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> I feel that using the Pen tool to draw everything is about as sensible as writing a program entirely in assembly language.

As someone who's only ever used the pen tool, I feel mildly attacked!

Jokes aside, I think I agree with you if you have a tablet. I used to draw with a mouse back then, so I'd basically sketch on paper, take a picture or scan it, then use my mouse to pen over it. Sometimes I'd skip the sketching/importing steps, depending on what I'd work on.

Later when I could afford a tablet, I mostly left Illustrator/Inkskape behind in favour of just using Krita for most things. However, if I'm making a vector illustration today, I still use the pen tool... and the mouse, even if I have the tablet. If I were to work on something complex enough, I'd probably sketch it in Krita though, and then use the good'ol pen and mouse...

I'm by no means a professional artist, just do this as a hobby though. So, if my workflows outlined here have mortified you; apologies for that.
Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk set Tesla on a new course for self-driving
I just want to say this post is amazing at giving plausible context to otherwise baffling behavior, thanks

A story I have is the time my father had set up a computer for my Grandma (Grandpa was very much a "no computers in the house" person until he passed) to give her something to do and people to take to. Naturally this means he had volunteered to become "tech support".

Early on there he was trying to help Grandma over the phone because for some reason no letters were showing up when typing on the keyboard. After an agonizing 45 minutes trying to figure out what was going on, he finally asks her to move the mouse to the box she wants to type in, click it, and then type. It worked! Turns out we took for granted the concept of input focus.
SpaceX had a huge and long runway, took over from ex-NASA guys who worked on the Shuttle. Thrust vectoring and other key technologies already had been developed in similar companies. John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace worked in the space.

Carbon capture is not exactly picking up where the Shuttle left off.

The most interesting part of carbon capture is the offshoot technologies.
It may not be obvious that it's dead code - in a lot of popular interpreted languages, it's impossible to tell if a given function can be called or not
Lockin.

It's the basic economics of SaaS, endoflife was just too soon.
That is impressive. I am wondering if it can be included in some desktop gui. Thanks for pointing it out.
Yet kids are still outside shooting hoops in the heat and construction workers and landscapers are still doing there jobs no matter the temperatures. My Apple watch says it’s 109 and I’m about to get my sunscreen on and work out in the garden for a couple hours. I guess the heat just bothers some people more then others.
How to Escape a Container
Motor per wheel doesn’t have to be in the wheel. Could be through a very compact axle, maybe with a fixed gear box to get the angle right.
It amazes me that I now find rocket landings ordinary.
remix run
Individuals don't matter [With a few exceptions]. Only populations matter.
Chesterton's Fence states that you shouldn't make a change until you understand something's current state. Removing code because it's dead is folly, if you don't understand 1) why it's there, and 2) why nobody else removed it yet.
Desalination is "solved". Main problem is the huge energy requiered.
> like enforcing Windows have a browser select screen,

As opposed to what Windows 11 is doing right now, where certain internal Windows programs (such as the Start menu) purposefully ignore the default browser setting and open links in Edge?

Windows 11 is changing this in an upcoming release - for EU users only.
You're very welcome, he gives a similar video rundown on Jack the Ripper; in both cases I find it fascinating how messy real life investigations are.
(for anyone who was confused like me, we know they're using typescript from the `.tsx` extension in the traceback)
Recent Okta Super Admin Breach: Resilience Tips for Users
about 2000, my father called me one day while i was somewhere in middle of mountain.. about something going wrong, entering the BIOS-setup of his machine... and in the next 15 minutes i had to recall and imagine all them 6-7 screens of BIOS of his computer, and lead-him-"by-hand", that is, key-by-key... Luckily i had same BIOS on my machine so it was been.. familiar. While even if he was seeing all the text there, it meant nothing to him...
Tackling congestion in 18th-century London
It’s not caused by general inflation, it’s a response to the attempts to mitigate inflation.

Increased interest rates have meant an end to cheap credit and put a damper on stock prices.

Companies are trying to shore up their valuation by signalling to investors that they are driving towards profitability rather than debt-driven growth. This means raising the price of their product and cutting costs (ie layoffs).
Leading to the protection to all the pine population in the area.
> Using a unique parallel hybrid battery-diesel system, the boat can travel at full speed using its diesel engine, then switch to a battery-electric motor when fishing

Submarines used this technology nearly 100 years ago.
Towards a typology of domestic climate migration impacts in US cities
Indeed, it's used in onboarding material at my employer.
It should be noted that the first person to chose AI over rules systems was George Hotz from comma.ai. I cannot find the video but he made a pretty powerful argument for AI being superior over rules systems years before the arrival of ChatGPT and it was enough to convince me this approach would be the eventual winner.
Automated deployments require planning before the time they're executed.

If code is involved, someone likely reviews and approves it.

There are naturally far more safeguards in place than there would be for a manual deployment.
Ask HN: What was a time you let fear alter a major decision?
The referenced paper is taking indirect effects into account. It is not just counting deaths that have "cold-related" or "heat-related" listed in the cause of death. It is looking at overall excess mortality due to extreme temperatures, i.e., the increase in deaths over what would be expected at non-extreme temperatures.
None of those are native species in California. Spotted spurge is native to eastern North America.

It can be useful to distinguish between weeds, which are wrong plant in wrong place, and invasives, which cause problems everywhere. Dandelion can be a weed, but also can be useful, Purslane is like that. None of those are considered invasive in San Diego, that requires removal. But the other aren't useful and spotted spurge is toxic.
Having worked in some Fortune 500 financial firms and low rent “fintech” upstarts, I am not surprised this happened. Decades of bandaid fixes, years of rotating out different consultants/contractors, and software rot. Plus years of emphasizing mid level management over software quality.

As other have mentioned, I don’t think “automation of deployment” would have prevented this company’s inevitable downfall. If it wasn’t this one incident in 2014, then it would have been another incident later on.
> Christians .. 6000 years ago

The Jewish New Year 5784, also known as Rosh Hashanah, will begin at sunset on September 15, 2023, and end at nightfall on September 17, 2023.3 It is the first of the High Holidays or Yamim Noraim, celebrated ten days before Yom Kippur.03 Rosh Hashanah means "head of the year" and falls on the biblical Feast of Trumpets.2 It is described in the Torah as Yom Teruah, a day of sounding the Shofar.3 In 2022, Rosh Hashanah began on September 25, 2022, and ended on September 27, 2022.01
Zinc starves bacteria via a variety of means, and a high zinc intake will see high levels of zinc in the saliva and in the teeth, helping to keep bacterial levels down, but RDA's are highly conservative amounts for young healthy people, not old or ill people, which then makes some RDA's woefully inadequate.

Very few products kill 100% of bacteria, even deionised water will still have less than 25 colony forming bacteria per litre in it, although by virtue of being deionised has less in it to help bacteria get established.
Acidifying water will make it harder for pseudomonas to get established.
But when scientists say they are searching for life on mars or an asteroid, they are referring to bacteria, mainly the bacillus aka rod shaped bacteria as it can survive in radiation 100,000 times more than humans can survive in, and extreme cold like space, so global warming and melting ice at the poles presents new viral and bacterial risks.

Diet can also reduce the body's own immune response, for example calcium disodium ethylene diamine tetra-acetate aka Calcium disodium EDTA found in a variety of products from makeup to food like Mayonnaise chelates zinc reducing zinc's ability to activate GPR39.

Zinc's inability from deficiency or chemicals like the one mentioned above, from being able to activate GPR39, creates a myriad of problems in human health, including reducing saliva production. [1]

There isnt anything wrong with using bacteria to out compete other bacteria, but adaptions occur.

Phages are viruses that kill bacteria, something the Russians developed decades ago as the West when with antibiotics[2]. I would also consider Georgia as a medical destination for some conditions as they are superior to Western options. Some of their doctors do scoff at the Western doctors!

You can find millions if not billions of phages in just 1ml of seawater [3]. The problem with phages is they take time to develop, so you could be dead before the bacterial strain is identified and a phage is developed, so antibiotics are the fastest immediate response, but the gold standard is antibiotics until the phages have been developed and then used as a part of a treatment program, but you'll only get this from very expensive private healthcare.

Of course drinking seawater when one goes surfing is a bit of pot luck, or lucky dip with regards to consuming phages. It makes me wonder if Surfers Against Sewage know about phages. [4]

So lots of different ways to tackle health problems, but medical experts cant always use them due to cost or simply lack of knowledge.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/8/3872

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6203130/

[3] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210115-the-viruses-that....

[4] https://www.sas.org.uk/
Are Bézier curves with handles “worth it”? I've always found the easiest method for drawing curves to be, simply, “give me the (cubic) spline curve that goes through these points”. You place your points and continuity conditions determine the cubic, as described in https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CubicSpline.html .
Because even customers don’t always know what they want. A lot of customers want peace of mind when they’re buying a product, and you can’t always build up that trust in a single call, so a white lie that gets them as a customers as long as you can fully deliver on that promise seems optimal for both parties.

Telling a customer “we don’t have that yet” knowing full well they just care if you have it, and knowing full well you can deliver it as promised, just creates unnecessary doubt that could lead to a worse situation for everyone. One where a customer passes on you because they don’t know you well enough to trust you can deliver, and you don’t get the sale because you didn’t happen to create some very simple feature before a customer demanded it. That’s a lose-lose.

This complaint just reeks of “I’ve never worked in a company or role that didn’t already have all the uncertainty figured out”. Building features nobody wants as insurance in case somebody finally asks for it is a waste of human talent.
Historical Objects: The Bees of Childeric I
Meta study,

> Taken together, the meta-analyses suggested activity trackers improved physical activity (standardised mean difference [SMD] 0·3–0·6), body composition (SMD 0·7–2·0), and fitness (SMD 0·3), equating to approximately 1800 extra steps per day, 40 min per day more walking, and reductions of approximately 1 kg in bodyweight. Effects for other physiological (blood pressure, cholesterol, and glycosylated haemoglobin) and psychosocial (quality of life and pain) outcomes were typically small and often non-significant.

So not nothing but a very small intervention.
Cache of Lithium Found in US May Be World's Largest
To nitpick a bit:

Yes, it is that Zeppelin Foundation. 1947 the old militarist Zeppelin Foundation got dissolved and a new one got formed. It is not exactly „owned“ by the city, but controlled by the city and the city is the benefactor, but not for the general budget, but for Science, Education, Art, Culture, Sports and some more.

The foundation ownes another Company: Zeppelin GmbH with ~10000 employees and a revenue of 3.7B. So also not exactly small. Zeppelin GmbH is the “real deal”. They built the Zeppelins back in the day and with their daughter Zeppelin Luftschiffbau GmbH they are building the new Zeppelin NT. the 3 current “Goodyear Blimps” are not some generic Blimps, but modern Zeppelins.
> Western Europe was more
> industrialized than we were[...]

One reason for this is that weights and measures in Europe were less standardized at the time.

While the US (mostly) used a consistent system, different countries, or even different cities and towns in Europe had incompatible systems when metric was introduced.

> Now here we are, the last
> holdout.

Don't forget Liberia and Myanmar!
The "blame the for-profit oil companies" ignores the history of government dictated economies. We don't have to like private ownership [of energy production], but removing companies just changes ownership to less accountable government.
Have you ever been on a boat? It's not safe to assume the existence of anything, including a toilet, on them.
>whoever decided that reusing an old flag was a good idea.

My understanding is that in high frequency trading, minimizing the size of the transmission is paramount. Hence re-purposing an existing flag, rather than adding size to the packet makes some sense.
Now, go live in a cold climate for a while, a little outside of a city.

There’s no single dimension of experience to rate these things on. I know several people who want an EV, but have been, fairly, dissuaded by their EV owning neighbors, especially when “per dollar” comes into play.
> Tesla is sub-Kia quality at BMW prices.

Indeed. Plus locked down maintenance (using DRM to prevent you from fixing your own car), and constant invasive spying (including video from the cars cameras https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens... ).

> not something that looked like a rolling doorstop (Prius)

Cars are shaped the way they are today for aerodynamic reasons.

> I live in a large city, I drive a small car and I only drive about 3000 miles per year.

Hopefully you can see that what works for you doesn't work for everyone.

Living in a city and only driving 3000 miles a year... Have you considered not owning a car at all? :)

Given your figures, at 3000 miles per year it would take 108 years for the improved fuel economy of the Tesla S to pay for its added cost over a Kia with comparable build quality.

This is part of the reason you don't see the improved $/mile being so heavily advocated for EV's especially high end ones: The improvement isn't enough to pay for the added cost, unless you're a very heavy user and heavy users have more range, recharging locations, and recharging time concerns.
I’ve had good success with actor based models. When you say “protocol complexity”, I don’t understand what you mean.

Observation requires good logging, but this isn’t out of line for any complex system. Debugging (as in actual breakpoints in an IDE or post-mortem analysis) can be facilitated with stack tracking (this same problem occurs with async await patterns and is solved in a similar way).

The advantages and disadvantages exist, but I think it’s an extremely effective programming model for many use cases. Formal state-machine programming, that’s the worst model, unless you need it.
Wall Street Fears a Too-Hot Economy as Recession Bets Plunge
MusicGen Studio: Create beautiful AI music without using a single instrument
You can get this view only when the aircraft is flying directly towards you, any change in direction will reveal its true shape. For me this isn't very convincing.
https://archive.ph/nbmSt
This sort of fanaticism is why there is no progress on this issue. Let's start by banning low hanging fruit like cryptocurrencies, private jets and superyachts. If it's insufficient we might have to do more, like build sufficient high speed rail and force the third world to contain their population boom, because if that isn't contained nothing will work. Only then would it be reasonable to go after ordinary people.
A mix of the two

"partially Unix-like via certain components which are based on FreeBSD and Android"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_softwar...
Most jobs do in fact contribute to the well being of humanity, however little. It's few jobs, like most in financial trading, that actively reduce the well being of humanity.

Never will you meet a more self-deluded and pathetic set of humans. Desperate money addicts that often become other kinds of addicts. Whole thing should be abolished.

Source: I worked in finance when I was young and dumb.
Weekly meetings were the norm when this happened to me. I guess maybe "platitudes" isn't quite the right word but there just often wasn't much to say from one week to the next and saying "same as last week" was never enough, it was like we were obligated to spend 30 minutes talking about work because that is what was on the calendar. So a lot of it was repetition of stuff that my manager already knew (or should have) but for some reason wanted to hear it again week after week.
Why would I bother building something new that there’s no guarantee I can ever use, that provides no competitive advantage whatsoever, when I can just use the existing standard, no matter how outdated or inferior it might be? Legislating a specific tech standard is short-sighted and stupid, and you badly overestimate how quickly legislation can be updated, especially if there’s resistance.
Look at it as liquid and secure. Not much can beat a savings account in those two regards
1. memorize the top 100 leetcode questions for the company you are interviewing at

2. memorize the top ten system design questions for the company you are interviewing at

^thats it, do anything else and you are wasting your time
> Insane that these idiots picked the one time a problem is actually really real as the time they decided to call out the tactic.

If you take every shot you're probably going to miss a lot.
Wealth inequality changes the economics of everything.

As long as they can get a proportional increase per student, there's no fundamental reason to care.

Obviously, there's no moral or ethical consideration. But most people need to be reminded that as long as there _are_ consumers capable of paying, the absolute number of consumers isn't a evidentiary variable (ie, if a single consumer will pay all the costs, the product will be profitable)
I would also like to know this.

Edit, yes: https://unit.nginx.org/howto/django/
I've worked in various small to medium IT companies, a FAANG and another fortune 500 tech company. 6 months ago I moved to a proprietary trading company/market maker and it's the most interesting and satisfying place I've worked so far.

I hope to continue to "waste my life" for many years to come.
No they're preempting someone coming along and claiming this. Haven't seen it in the replies yet but there's typically one (or a lot in some cases) person(s) claiming ChatGPT will bring Jesus back from the dead sort of thing.
Depends what you mean by “the impact of contention”. It is possible, if you build a lock-free system, to end up with threads that keep churning and never make forward progress.
Surprisingly positive. Personally thought activity trackers might have a fairly short term interest effect, with boredom or laziness after several months.

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-7500%2822...

"wearable activity trackers increased step counts on average by around 1800 steps per day, walking time by approximately 40 min per day, and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) by around 6 min per day."

"effects were in favourable directions (ie, negative effects suggesting improvement in BMI, blood pressure, cholesterol, glycosylated haemoglobin, and waist circumference and bodyweight, and positive effects suggesting improvement in aerobic capacity)"

"strong effects on step counts at 4–6 months (increase of 1127 [95% CI 710–1543] steps per day), [...smaller effect on] step counts up to 4 years (an increase of 494 [251–738] steps per day), [...another found] small but non-significant beneficial effects up to 1–2 years (BMI –0·21 kg/m², 95% CI –1·06 to 0·65).
A great and semi related book is The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
Small prey compelled prehistoric humans to produce appropriate hunting weapons
Hard to understand unless it’s converted to football fields.
I see this as a problem of not investing enough in the deploy process. (Disclosure: I maintain an open source deploy tool for a living).

Charity Majors gave a talk in Euruko that talked a lot about this. Deploy tooling shouldn’t be a bunch of bash scripts in a trench coat, it should be fully staffed, fully tested, and automated within an inch of its life.

If you have a deploy process that has some king of immutable architecture, tooling to monitor (failed/stuck/incomplete) rollouts, and the ability to quickly rollback to a prior known good stage then you have layers of protection and an easy course of action for when things do go sideways. It might not have made this problem impossible, but it would have made it harder to happen.
> It's like writing code that flies a jumbo jet.

and upgrading it from a coach seat
Also make sure, that the people who need to develop it are on board. It is a bad feeling, when there is time pressure, just because management thought they could promise something that does not yet even exist.
Thanks for helping me catch a 10 year old typo!
> talking about degrees variation, not taking speed into account

If you discount this of course we aren't effecting anything unprecedented. We were once a ball of magma. But, as has been pointed out here, rate and cause of change is incredibly important. A swing set and an explosion will both launch you into the air.
In an ideal world, sure.

In the current one, we have Facebook's "Move fast and break things" being applied to many things where it has no business being.

Banking and communications infrastructure comes to my mind, but there are definitely others. :)
Thank you. I empathetically agree with both statements.

What should happen when prosecutors won't prosecute, doesn't issues Brady disclosures?
It's wild that people still talk about the Warren Commission as having any relevance. The House Select Committee on Assassinations is the last thing the government 'officially' said on the case and they concluded there was a conspiracy and most likely not a lone gunman.
The problem is that UI/UX people are product and design people whose backgrounds were predominantly in art or similar. 99% of these folks have no background psychology, human factors, information science or the cognitive sciences.

What can be expected when you hire these people?
Which really means is a failure of leadership for being so incompetent as to allow such an intensely risky situation to exist.
Yes the benefit of the cloud is the ability to change deployed capacity quickly.
Not sure if parent comment had this one in mind, but look up "ZF reverse only" and "no drive after revving engine briefly in Park".
How about deaths due to crop failure? How about deaths caused by mass migrations? How about deaths due to the increased spread of disease? et cetera.