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> Hardware companies just can't figure out a way to give us free OS upgrades and make money

The biggest question is : why does it take so much efforts to design an upgrade ?
Unfortunately Google never made it mandatory for chipset/hardware designers to have an abstraction layer (similar to BIOS/UEFI/ACPI/system tables) that would make a single Android kernel and OS install and work on every devices...
(And I have criticized Microsoft a lot for many things, but I have to acknoledge that they have an amazing backward-compatibility track record, even for device drivers, while Linux has its stable_api_nonsense policy...)
Thing that annoys me is I know that debuggers could do a quick grab and dash.

Either stop the program snag the state of a variable and go. Or set a sample point where when it gets hit the debugger takes a sample of local state and continues. It aught to be able to do that within a few hundred clock cycles.

Myself I use error/debug printf, a command line interface, debugger, and sometimes an oscilloscope.

With error/debug printf I leave them in and just turn them on/off with a compiler switch. Over time they tend to evolve into something that provides good info on what's going on.

The command line interface allows me to inspect the program state on the fly and run tests on the fly.

The debugger allows me to do random look sees of what the program state is and follow the call tree.

Oscilloscope allows me to inspect/debug/verify timing issues.

My suggestion to you is implement a command line interface to you program so you can interact and inspect your program while it's running. It's really not hard at all. Implement commands as a table. { "command", handler, extra_data}
I installed a brand new unit last month, I’m now the proud owner of 900kg equivalent CO2 on my roof. It’s 20 times less than before, but not nothing.
An alternative, R7RS implementation that I also maintain for (CHICKEN) Scheme: <https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/transducers>

I believe I've submitted my own blog post on transducers in the past. See <https://www.thatgeoguy.ca/blog/2023/01/04/reflections-on-tra...>

To bjoli: Have you seen my library? Any intentions to update the SRFI and incorporate more types?
For anyone who is upset with the performance of their dishwasher there is a really really easy thing to try.

First, replace your pods with a box of powder detergent, then add some detergent to the prewash cup on your dishwasher in addition to the normal dispenser. If your dishwasher doesn't have one you can just put some on the door before you close the washer. This gives your dishwasher detergent to work with on two of its cycles rather than just one and in my experience it makes all the difference on really difficult dishes.

The pods are effectively identical to the powder detergent but at a huge cost premium and don't give you the ability to adjust your amount of detergent to match the water hardness in your area which can result in a film on your clean dishes.

for more info there is a great Technology Connections video covering it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04

Alternatively you can test this by just throwing an extra pod in the bottom of the dishwasher to start with. If it works well then you can consider switching to powder to save costs.
Both pensions and social security scale with the cost of living. inflation isn't new, and this isn't the worst we've seen.
I did lose weight, I went from a BMI of 39 to 33, so still obese. That has definitely helped, but I'm quite sure that exercising has been the bulk of feeling better. We already ate fairly healthy, but did ramp it up further as part of losing weight.
Nobody is asking: Are these step counters accurate?

It can be very enlightening to wear two of them (one on each wrist) for a few weeks.

I find one is often going to read 50% more than the other one.
Having grown up rurally on a limited water supply, I know you can do the dishes for a family of four in about 10L/2.5 gallons of water. You just have to scrape off all the solids first (four-legged helpers excel at this). If you want you can have a second small rinsing sink.

When I moved to a city I found a lot of people wash with running water or change at the first hint of it getting dirty.

However now I live in a city and have things to do, a dishwasher is great because no matter how long it takes I’m not doing the dishes.
> Now we all have HMOs

Everyone I know (ok, not literally everyone, but more than a few) has a PPO now. Am I in a weird bubble?
Not sure how relevant the energy consumption piece is if you just hook it up to the hot water instead of cold? That's what you're supposed to do anyway to get it to actually clean something, right?
The shade is the important effect. Air conditioners have to use energy to remove heat from the indoors. That means that if the indoors are less hot, then you need to move less energy out of the room. Trees are great here, because the trees stand in the way of our solar system's largest energy source and the indoors.

To be fair, things like insulation are also good here. You want something outside to get hot when the sun shines on it instead of whatever space you're cooling.

(There are, of course, many heat sources inside that are annoying. I was running some fuzz tests yesterday and was annoyed to watch my air conditioner scale up in power to remove the heat that was wasting. I guess that's why people use The Cloud for everything. You can heat up someone else's city while enjoying the comforts of home!)
You should double check if the express cycle actually attains the same cleaning performance, because that would be pretty surprising.

I did see examples when shopping that were in advertisement only. i.e. the 'express cycle' skipped something, the drying stage, or rinse stage(s), etc.
The problem I had with clubhouse is that I felt the hallway was too much of a walled garden. I just saw whatever it wanted me to see and not a collection of everything that existed that was searchable. I'm not sure this is the update I'm looking for, but honestly, I haven't used it in a long long time.
It's pretty damn low. Probably even below 90bpm. Can't remember.
I wondered this a long time ago too (if solar panels cause more heating by absorbing more), but actually they still reflect a fair portion of the suns energy. [This article](https://www.treehugger.com/ask-pablo-do-solar-panels-contrib...) says earths average reflection coefficient is ~0.35, and that cities are more in the range of ~0.1. Solar panels are ~0.3, so much better than many existing roof materials and of cities in general.
(Shrug) It depends on what you "master." Mastering symbolic integration isn't going to do much for your career or your country's industrial prospects. Life is short, and there are too many more-useful things to learn.
"We didn’t build Clubhouse because it was a smart thing to do. Social products rarely work"

Wow, they're already prepping their "our incredible journey" blog post next.

"We did it because we love this product"

That's why you're pivoting into a new one?
Someone should correct Wikipedia then. It’s got errors for sure sometimes.
And how would you invest in companies ?
Repent, Sinners, Repent! The End Is Near! https://youtu.be/xVlRompc1yE?si=kTZOC1ZSV2RKAAg0
How refreshing. A non defensive critically thoughtful reply to feedback during a public discourse
Are you sure that wasn’t simple IP-based targeting because you or your friend was browsing the App Store? When suspecting conspiracies, it’s usually the dumb simple answer that is correct.
Anatomically correct skulls have an hole where the bottom of your nose is and the eyes are both smaller and higher up than you probably think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_(anatomy)#/media/File:Ey...

Looking at yourself in a mirror, if you hold your finger over the top of your nose your eyes will see under your finger. Move your finger just low enough so you’re seeing over it and you should be touching the bottom of your nasal bone. At that point your nose should be more than a finger width froward from the bottom of your orbital socket which is where the hole in skulls starts in those skulls.
The miele cutlery drawer is a game changer
Mate, nobody's writing comprehensive laws in the hacker news comment section. Stop engaging in bad faith.

The rest of your comment is also wrong, and I'm sure you know why if you stop to think about it for 30 seconds.
There's a lot of customers still to be served, especially once you have laser-comm interlink between the satellites. Currently a user has to have a view of a satellite that has a view of a ground-downlink station. Once that limitation is gone it opens up lots of things, like middle of the ocean airplane links, etc.

Plus with laser interconnects they can actually beat fiber optic speed for cross-continent or cross-ocean back haul. (speed of light in vaccum, with fewer switches)

There's a lot of use-cases. I bet on them being able to make money long term.
Back to "origins of intelligence", I'm not sure what's the cause and what is the effect here.

The reason why humans are different from other animals is that our intelligence makes us adaptable. Take a lion, or a spider, or a hawk and the whole species exhibits basically the same behavior, which is based on instinct. If you saw one of them then you've kind of seen them all. Humans can change their behavior, develop new tools, new hunting methods, which is why we've been able to make some of our prey go extinct.
AFAIK dishwashers all internally heat the water. The machines tell you to hook up to the hot line in the US (I've heard they say to use the cold line in Europe but I don't live there), but the chance of actually getting hot water from your line is pretty minimal because they only fill for a few seconds at a time.
Ya they're hoping to strike lightning twice. If it doesn't they're folding soon, as there's no incentive for any employee when the next raise at $300m valuation means that investors own the whole company as the common shares get wiped out.
Agreed, I didn't lose weight by exercising. I lost weight by going into a calorie deficit. It takes about 3,500 calories to gain/lose one lbs. Like you, my target deficit is around 900 calories a day, I really don't count the calories in exercise. "You can't outrun a bad diet."
crutch?
Mess with peoples transportation options and they notice in a big way.

Whereas nobody cares where their electricity to the grid comes from, provided it does.

EVs are an excellent option for exactly this reason: what we need is to mess with transportation minimally, ideally with benefits (i.e. quieter, cheaper fuel, maybe self-drive) but ultimately get the usage of energy for transportation disconnected from any specific fuel source.
That's more likely because there was no way to record Betty, but you can record Mozart.
Indeed, BLDC doesn't use EM induction to excite the rotor, instead it uses directly macroscopic magnetic force due to current in stator acting on the permanent magnets in the rotor.

The EM induction is present in the winding of the stator, and to some extent has to be present, to keep the current there low enough, otherwise we would get locked stator situation, and the winding would burn out.
More likely a reflection of my partner and I's diet. A lot of broths, soups and similar. Even 30 minutes of the plate being static in the dishwasher means the food dries on and sticks.

We don't rinse our plates, just scrape them. If I have to hand wash 1-2 bowls and plates over the week it's a non-event. We're still saving a lot of water compared to hand rinsing all of our dishes before putting them in the Miele.
Also a huge Miele fan but in our case their water softener is the game changer. (On top of the other stuff :-)
It depends on what you're doing. I find console statements helpful when testing out a new function that you don't necessarily expect to misbehave so I check the internal state is correct without having to stop the code.

Debuggers provide much more information, but stopping and stepping through the code is much more time intensive than printing out variables at various points and running the function and doing a quick double check that they're correct.

It also allows you to check the state of the program earlier for problems that may only emerge after the fact. Instead of having to stop what I'm doing and retry and step through with the debugger, I can just look back at the log and see what went wrong where.

I think both debug logs and debuggers have valuable use cases.
It used to be somewhat common on HN. Then it got bigger and covid introduced the entire internet to Eternal September on steroids.
Also helpful: running the sink's hot water before you run the dishwasher, until it heats up, so that the dishwasher has access to hot water from the moment it starts.
Isn’t the problem that they regulated the phosphates out of the powder detergent, so it stopped working too?!
What are you concerned about that will survive 100°C? Or even 70 if you want to retract that hypothetical, since I'm not aware of any consumer dishwasher that will boil it's contents.
Apparently a good part of the reason (parts of) the Midwest can get uncomfortably humid some summers despite being so far from large bodies of water is the evapotranspiration from the crops (mostly the corn). So too much evapotranspiration is not always a great thing!

(Of course those are being watered regularly.)
Lived in Manhattan for many years. Never own a car until my first born graduated to a toddler car seat. That was way too heavy to lug to the car rental location.
So if you safety processes made 99% of situations 1,000,000 times safer, but 1% of situations remain high risk you may as well throw out all your processes and incur 1,000,000 times more risk 100% of the time?

That is positively absurd.

It might make sense to reevaluate what is the most efficient allocation of resources which would result in the greatest holistic safety increase per resource spent, but throwing everything out to reach the lowest common denominator is just straight up nonsense.

The only way that makes sense is if you assume a completely uniform risk tolerance, completely uniform mitigation ROI, and you assume the highest risk activity is the true underlying uniform risk tolerance with the other 99% of low risk activities being the outliers. Literally every one of those assumptions is ludicrous.
Its studies like this and my own experience that makes me so annoyed that Google seems to be intentionally killing the FitBit brand.

They first removed all of the social features, which was a massive encouragement for large swathes of my friends and family. You have one family member that is training regularly for 5ks, half-marathons, marathons, etc and its always nice to just be able to get anywhere close to their steps for the week. Have a friend that you usually can beat, all of a sudden you're encouraged to hop on the treadmill and get an extra 1000 steps in that day. Theres a poor alternative called Stridekick, that seems to check all the boxes as a replacement, but just somehow is just poorly designed enough to be an app no one actually wants to use.

Now they've issued an update that is bricking Fitbit devices and are just sending out coupons to buy a new one.

Whats frustrating is that the market seems completely devoid of anything currently to replace them. All the halfway decent options are all huge clunky smartwatches. If you have no interest in apps on your wrist, because you already own a phone, it seems like the only option is the ugliest Garmin I've ever seen or Chinese ones of unknown quality that do not connect to any of the fitness ecosystem. When my FitBit seemingly got hit with a bug that killed it, (worked fine one day, then suddenly battery only lasted an hour after just over a year of owning it), I desperately looked for an alternative and ended up stuck getting the cheapest FitBit. It really wasn't an option to forgo not having a device as my insurance pays me up to 90 bucks a month for hitting my step goals.
Quick google suggests that while more people use HMOs than PPOs, it's not a majority. My job offers both, but the HMOs are only available in a few states.
I stopped using tablets and started using powder after watching this exact video by Technology Connections. Highly recommend the watch.
This is usually bs
No, that's not what I'm describing. Stop putting your ideological spin on my words.

The government doesn't need the private sector, it allows the private sector to exist where it's deemed beneficial.
While nice automated deployment is the wrong lesson here, it's really not anticipating backwards incompatibility and poor altering and incident training.

Flags should never be reused and should be retired after they're no longer useful.
Yeah, you honestly don't even need worry about anything besides the labor efficiency, because that alone is already a big deal. I guess some people just forget that labor saving devices were invented to save labor. Maybe they re-use the same dish over and over, don't bake, and don't cook with any fats or something.
I still use the pods in the main dispenser, for convenience, but after watching the TC video, I started dumping a spoonful of loose Oxyclean into the washer before closing the door. That also provides detergent during both cycles, and the difference in cleanliness is night and day.
Thank you! Actually, they could also take this strategy to protect kids from adult/violent/sensitive content. I suspect their strategy is to replicate, with Internet, what they have done with the Financial industry. So it should not be considered as incompetence... on the contrary. (See my other comment for further details
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37457745#37461669 )
I really enjoy Charles Platts’s Make:Electronics. It’s written as a series of experiments runs that give you a good “through-experience” knowledge of electronics.

Also worth reading are the US Navy’s “Basic Electronics” book. It is thorough, and really straight forward, written for any recruit.

Also worth noting that the basic prototyping tools (Arduino type stuff) enable a lot without a lot of electronics understanding.
I have a new dish washer and it works very well of you don't block the jets from the detergent pocket. However, it takes so long that I have determined that its not practical. I just wash by hand. Wondered WTF people were thinking with it taking so long.

It's a GE which has a food grinder in it. Very quiet.
Also worth checking your dishwasher manual to see if it has a minimum temperature requirement for the incoming water. If it does, run the kitchen faucet till the water gets as hot as it can before starting the dishwasher. Many cheap dishwashers have a heating element which cannot heat the water to the required cycle temperature unless the incoming water is hotter than a certain temperature. More expensive dishwashers can work with cold or hot water.
At least one such insurance plan has been around for a few years now. See e.g. All Savers Motion. (Can't find a link that gives plan details that isn't a PDF, sorry.)
No. Worst case scenario is that the competitor has more resources than you and can be even more nimble at adding new features and fixing bugs. Because you made all the source code available, you lost all the 'head start' you had against such a competitor.
It's weird to see Emacs lumped in with VI in the editor wars rather than being thought of as an IDE. Emacs is the ultimate and original integrated development environment. The joke is that Emacs users have integrated everything into Emacs, so much so that Emacs is the OS.

That's one of the main reasons I picked up Emacs back in the day -- it provided a nice integration with gdb.
Meta Is Developing a New, More Powerful AI System as Technology Race Escalates
Unlike the past, new battery tech and reductions in manufacturing costs are an arms race with huge incentives for the industry.

10 years ago, $30k bought you a Nissan Leaf with 80 miles of range.

Fast forward to today, and the same not-inflation-adjusted amount of money buys you a Chevy Bolt with around 240 miles of range.

I expect that within the next 10 years, a vehicle with the average new MSRP will get 400-500 miles of range on a charge. Even if that prediction doesn't pan out, we can almost guarantee that typical charging speeds will increase and charging networks will expand further, blowing past critical mass.
So we printed 40% of total money supply two years ago and this year we gave an 8% social security raise. What a sham. Please let me opt out now.
I can record myself doing my dishes by hand if that helps?
You're correct.

HMO = you have access to one provider

PPO = you can't preferred access (lower patient costs) to one provider, but access to all
Interesting. In my house handwashing is orders of magnitude more efficient than using a dishwasher. I guess on average neither is more efficient.
Dog germs are literally good for you.
No, not at all. I’m not sure what that line means. We all have (access to) HMOs? Not true, but slightly closer to true. They’ve become much more common? A weird way of saying it, but I guess that is what they must mean. I thought maybe it was something specific to the author, like is the audience for the blog specific to Columbia? But I don’t think so.
That's an illusion because from certain angles the mirror is much brighter, and you don't pay as much attention to all the angles where the mirror is darker.

An ideal mirror reflects 100% of the light, and so does an ideal white surface. The white surface just spreads out the light.

If you light a mirror evenly from all angles, it will be indistinguishable from a white surface.
If you want you can turn on automatic GPS tracking on most smartwatches so you won't have to worry about that. That said, I haven't had that experience - my watch and my phone are bang on if I am to count the steps myself manually.
How often do cops roll up on a 10-year-old being raped, such that graphic things are recorded on the body camera?

And, if that did happen, and I was the 10-year-old, I would prefer proof that justice was done over privacy. Source: I was sexually abused as a child, and the perpetrators only paid fines ("victim restitution") to avoid prosecution. One of my goals in life is to end that.

If I were the accused, I would also prefer evidence over privacy.
Obviously GP means the units should be converted to whatever they actually want usage/cycle to be.