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IMHO planned obsolescence and shorter design lifetimes is orthogonal to developments in plastics. There's a correlation but not causation.

While metals are known for their strength and temperature resistance, they are also prone to corrosion.

There are plenty of decades-old plastic parts in continued service everywhere, that you just aren't aware of because they haven't alerted you to their presence by failing.

One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plastic_(LDPE)_bowl,_by_G...
Usually if it is too costly, then you pass it via a pointer.
For example, Microchip XC16 [1]. It is GCC with changes to support their PIC processors. Some of the changes introduce bugs, for example (at least as of v1.31) the linker would copy the input linker script to a temporary location while handling includes or other pre-processor macros in the linker script. Of course if you happen to run two instances at exactly the same time one of them fails.

As far as the licensing part goes they give you the source code, but last time I tried I could not get it to compile. Kind of lame and sketchy in my opinion.

[1] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/mpla...
That quote is a bit outlier in my opinion. She doesn't do all that much technolecture like that.

The series is pretty full of sci-fi ideas and real application of them and exploration of their consequences though. I don't mean to imply it's sf in name only but really fantasy with search & replace.

It's a bit hard to pick a single first book to suggest, because while most of the series centers around a particular character Miles Vorkosigan, the first book I would suggest takes place a bit earlier and centers around his parents.

And then yet another difficulty is that book is a sequel to another, and it's hard to recommend not reading those two in order, even if I think the 2nd is the real heart and soul and spirtitual kicking-off point of the whole thing. And this is already including the fact that I'm already not being a slave to chronology, already skipping over some other prequels that really don't need to be read in order at all. They are hundreds of years earlier and do not need to be read in any particular order. It's just these two where, the real choice gem and spritual kicking-off-point of the whole thing in my opinion happens to be a close sequel to another that, IF you read the 2nd and liked it, then it it hurts the 1st a little to have to then read that after.

So I want to say Barrayar, but it is such a close sequel to Shards of Honor, that it should really be Shards of Honor. And really, it's not like Shards is weak. It's great. Very in-line with the rest in tone and quality. It is pretty much as good as any other as a litmus test for if you will like the rest.

The progression goes like, Shards is great and is I think a good place to start reading the whole thing, but Barrayar that comes next is even better, and BOTH of those still aren't even centered around Miles yet, who is the center of most of the rest. So it starts off great, gets better, and then better again, and yet I don't really think it would be great to start with one of the Miles books, even if you are testing to see if you maybe don't even care for the style or the series in general. Test a whole series without spending any time with that series main character???? Yeah. Well that's why I say a bit hard to pick a suggestion ;)

I guess I can say it this way: It's definitely safe that if you did like Shards that you then somehow won't like all the Miles books. The trasition to to following Miles around won't be like "Wtf is this crap? My good series went bad!" And it's pretty safe that if you did not like Shards, that the others aren't different enough that you would love them and miss out by a false negative impression from Shards.

Shards of Honor.
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Can you please clarify which retainer?
It doesn't change the fact if you're in the US and you really want 240V you can (usually) get it. Just about everyone has 240V service at their home. And I think we should normalize offering 240V outlets in garages.
The box doesn't appear to have (glass) fiber reinforcement, so I guess the mold is Al. The article doesn't mentioned the type of plastic being used, either - by the looks of the video PP or ABS?
Laptop like it's 1995-2014 all over again.
You may want to consider a short course of sleep aids to see if it can help adjust your schedule. This is unscientific, but I’ve found that if I’m dealing with persistent insomnia, taking something to help me fall asleep when I want to can lead me to “readjust” to the new schedule.

I used this the most when traveling and dealing with jet lag, but I still occasionally find it useful to take an OTC sleep aid when my schedule gets “off.”

Interrupted sleep is tougher. I’ve had some success by just accepting that if I haven’t fallen back asleep in 15-20 minutes I probably should get up and walk around for a bit and maybe try the couch instead, but it’s not great.
Generally, SEO is an opaque algorithm designed to prioritize content that is most likely to add meaning to users (therefore increasing their own importance) or advance an agenda (therefore benefiting the organization).

Unfortunately, the internet has devolved in the past few decades from a repository of variously-inclined content builders into a comparatively fewer set of monolithic semi-walled gardens.

To that end, SEO requires an ever-increasingly complex set of trivia regarding a few aspects:

1. The social media networks most likely to favor outbound links to your domain (pro tip: they all favor inbound links to their domain, then typically domains of other monolithic semi-walled gardens).
2. The means to gain traction in each of those semi-walled gardens, which varies heavily by domain, but effective distills to stuffing the magical set of keywords and hashtags at the correct timing.
3. The precise set of keywords on the site itself. They must strike a delicate balance between creating an easy x-ref to their social media presence, but also human-readable enough that people will navigate through a few pages (and therefore not adversely hurt the bounce rate).

I'm absolutely sure I'm missing a few details, but that's the general gist of the SEO business from my own deep dives.
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~$30 for ten pieces, or for one?
this post for the same author about their decent into madness and loss of sens of self is an interesting read. Specifically its interesting how a universal experience of ego destruction is made send of afterwards in such a way that is so individualized to that persons age and culture.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/L9q5iFJAggvoWNrRf/that-time-...
They don't actually sell the expensive stuff, they scam people with other plants
The advantage of using signed types is that you can reliably find overflow bugs using UBSan and protect against exploiting such errors by trapping at run time. For unsigned types, wrap-around bugs are much harder to find and your program will silently misbehave.
Cheers - I misremembered that it was a Stanford researcher. Updated my comment.
Tldr. Never, ever take a tam role at Amazon. My leadership actually told me to avoid that role when I worked at Amazon as I was curious about more customer facing roles.
Could you please stop doing this? It's adding noise to the threads.

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One of last vestiges of this fact AFAIK was libjpeg, which had a macro NEED_SHORT_EXTERNAL_NAMES that shortens all public identifiers to have unique 6-letter-long prefixes. Libjpeg-turbo nowadays has removed them though [1].

[1] https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/commit/52ded8...
Here’s why the in-office 9-5 is outdated—and why remote work is best for the next generation.
Maybe I'll read it later.
> closed source (despite their website proudly claiming "Open source")

HTTPie CLI has been open-source for a decade. HTTPie Desktop has yet to be open-sourced. We first want to get the product, architecture, and codebase somewhat stable. As the README says, we use the GitHub repo to host releases and issues.
I have experienced shooting pains along the backs of my hands. I had to lay off typing/mousing for a few days for it to subside whenever I tried typing. After that experience, I learned an alternate keyboard layout (customized-NIRO) and I haven't had any issues since. I don't believe my typing speed changed much if at all, it was all about reducing strain and improving comfort.
Behold: A thin Thinkpad X220 with a nicer screen, better battery life, and a worse keyboard.
It's the other way around, isn't it? If you have a culture in which people don't participate in recreational drug use then you don't need prohibition because you don't need a law to prevent people from doing things they don't want to do.

Sometimes I think institutions are killing us. We used to need each other. Now everything is a commodity except for the things you can only get from a bureaucracy. You want to have a personality but that's against policy. Diversity is exalted and prohibited.

People want to feel something real but you're expected to kneel before a book of rules made by fools. So they settle for something chemical.

But the prohibition is the problem. It's an example of how we remove choice to keep people in their box. One more form of experimentation locked behind a wall of paper.

You can't add a third floor to your house to make room for a new business, that's not allowed here. You can't install an app you wrote on your mate's phone, it has to be approved by someone they trust less than they trust you. You can't choose what to put into your own body, what if something bad happens?

What if something good happens? What if something good not happening is something bad?
Great memories of MiniDisc, being that the local radio station was my chosen hobby in the 90's. Playing commercials and jingles off of musicassettes was tedious and they were prone to wear. MiniDisc, being programmable and digital, solved much of those problems for us. Yes, some people had PCs with SoundBlasters, but that too was in its infancy, and we laughed at neighboring radio stations where the PC would crash in the middle of the night, and do silly things for hours. No, we on the other hand, had MiniDisc, and proud of it. (Until the whole local radio station thing collapsed. This was in Belgium, and most of those stations got gobbled up by networks soon after.) On top of all that, my early Sony MDS player had that dial that let you position and then edit your things really precisely, which opened up a whole new world of jingle editing for the teenage amateur radio geek.
Think of it as just another retweet(?) (re-X (?)) by Musk as he scans through his feed looking for things to boost - it's not a professional graphic, just a bit of fanboy material.

If you want to be really disturbed .. follow the source and see if you can spot any tell tale signs of just how rabid a fan that particular fan might be.

Less a Musk fan work, more a devoted offering from a Musk Acolyte willing to die at the altar of Elon.
As the first paragraph in the README says, we use the GitHub repo to host releases and issues.

(It’s not open-source yet as we first want to get the product, architecture, and codebase somewhat stable.)
Thanks for the recommendation. I definitely will be geeking out on that series now!
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37778771
These pros and cons seem to presuppose that Amazon launch a satellite ISP in the first place. If it doesn’t make sense for them to launch on SpaceX for competitive reasons and it also doesn’t make sense for them to launch on other providers because those providers aren’t cost-effective, Amazon could simply not launch a satellite ISP in the first place.
`const Foo*` and `Foo const*` are exactly the same and just a question of style (east-const vs. west-const)

Not to be confused with `Foo *const`
Finding the right abstraction isn't always easy. Sometimes if I just put it down and let it slosh around in my brain for a few days, it comes to me.

Like your idea of pruneDeadProjects()!
> I'm convinced there's nothing I own thats made of plastic that my grandparents didn't have a much nicer all metal or wood version.

Agree mostly unless it's for something that needs to deal with water in some way.
What will it take to consider a device repairable? Will it count if a laptop has 1 or 2 parts that can be user replaced? (Like swapping a keyboard key cap...)

What if they have two tiers of a device class. Where the base tier has 4 nearly identical models with different skus that are repairable, and a premium tier with 1 sku that is not repairable. Does that count as 80%?
That makes sense.

It's just that for recent distributions, if you have a reasonably common and modern CPU, you already get most of the optimizations you need in the pre-compiled packages.
I didn't even know it had that feature until now, LOL, nice!
Please use those. They are useful, make code clearer, improve bounds checking, ...

Don't let attackers influence the size of a buffer (neither for VLAs nor for heap allocations).
All my sliding door screens are shredded, because the cat used them to get us to open the door.
> Californians at the high end are paying almost the same price, and missing out on most of the benefits.

The context behind this statement is that Californians at the high end are also making over $650k/year. That said, I agree with your general point about generally insufficient healthcare and increasing taxes on corporations.
Bill to ban hidden fees in California signed into law
amazing how when you look through the lit windows you can actually see the walls and the floor
You're right, most of this is table stakes for production injection molded parts. The part that's particularly relevant for China is that they love to own the tooling themselves. Do not let this happen. Always either own the tooling outright yourself, or do as the article suggests and negotiate a more complicated agreement.

The other thing you have to watch out for in China is using low grade steel for molds. That might be a perfectly appropriate move... so long as it's what you are expecting (and paying for). Not so great if you paid for the best and got pot metal!

Both problems exist everywhere but are particularly important to watch for in China. The best shops will never do either, but it's still better to cut off these entire classes of problem by being proactive.
It is available sometimes (at a price). There are some upsides, namely in-house experts are more familiar with that specific suppliers processes and capabilities.

Downsides are obvious, they work for the supplier and not for you.
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Owls are bird hardware with cat software
I think what you're suggesting it is possible, to get halfway decent database using components, but I think you need to take a very high level view of these components. For a start, a parser. You almost certainly want a parser generator because that can be reused in other places. You need stuff to handle low level disc writes with logging, again, as a pluggable component (or maybe not, if you plan to shovel everything through your database [to clarify, that your DB effectively becomes the usual end to your filesystem, and everyone uses that, which isn't a terrible idea] in which case it's only got to be written once). You need an optimiser for the queries, even 'simple' ones. For this you might need a prolog-like facility, which again would be useful in other places. [to clarify, a prolog-like component system with some constraint+costs solver component built on top]

You'll need a lot more than that as well. You will have to take a very high level view of things, ruthlessly componentised.

I understand and endorse what you're trying to do, but a low level infrastructure with a bunch of libraries isn't quite going to cut it.

Just my opinion anyway, take it as you will!
That’s great! Hopefully more people are inspired to do so and it starts a wave.

I know I’ve been advocating a long time since studies have been coming out for the last few decades on this.

I have three kids and have lived in multiple houses that we had to retrofit the chimney /fireplace because we didn’t use it and they are a huge heat sump.

Would be great to have reduced cancer across the population!
Another approach, for low volume and if the target user can do a little assembly, is to make something out of laser cut plaques of plywood or plexi. It's simple to make and easier to ship (because it's flat until it's assembled). The Ikea way, if you will.

I do this for my personal projects (volume < 5) and the results are nice and functional. You can also cut holes for buttons and whatnot and you get something well tailored for your needs.
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Do you mean HTTPie also raised venture capital or just in general? If it is HTTPie, would you have a source?

Not doubting.
I'm compiling a table with Postman alternatives, VC-backed is on column and I like to add sources where possible.
This was famously an issue with the original NeXT Cube:

Recounted in an article in Fast Company:

As Isaacson relates in Steve Jobs, most parts cast in molds have an angle that is slightly greater than 90 degrees, because the extra degrees make it much easier to get the parts out of the mold. That’s the kind of compromise neither Esslinger or Jobs was willing to make for the NeXT, arguing it would ruin the “purity and perfection” of the NeXT cube. So the sides had to be produced separately, using molds that cost $650,000, at a specialty machine shop in Chicago.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3056684/remembering-the-design-l...:
I do not see any mention of an "AI engine" (HN title) in the article.
> eg: implement a simple top-N query (fetch 10 users and the most recent 5 articles for each) in GraphQL with a resolver tree, or even data loader.

A most_recent_articles view?
at this page, https://httpie.io/desktop, there's a logo that says "open sores, open hearted, open minded." it's misleading, then. at least remove that part in the page.
In Shipping, a Push to Slash Emissions by Harnessing the Wind
A very good tool
https://archive.ph/leE2K
A life changing thing for me was specifically scheduling time to do fun things in the morning before doing the things I have to do. If I wake up at six, I still don’t start my day until eight, and instead spend those two hours on things I otherwise would have done the night before. This broke the feeling of dreading mornings that lead to a negative spiral. Even if I know most of the day will be awful, if I can look forward to my me time in the morning I can convince myself to go to bed.
I think so!?

On a serious note though: We can probably expect that the number of library consumers is vastly higher than the number of library producers. Anything else would be quite surprising.
Agreed in China they'll respond to anything which is a Pro, in USA experience as well has been maybe they'll respond but the email will get a casual 1 line response in 2 weeks. There are certainly cultural differences between working with China versus other places and like anywhere else has pros and cons.
The factory can help with a lot of this (if you incentivize them appropriately).

The factory can never help tweak your initial concept, right at the beginning of development (when it's ~free!), to save tremendously on future production cost. That's what you hire the consultants for.*

*Disclaimer: I'm just such a consultant, though I work on the EE side.
I use socat for serial-line things (like simulating a serial port for unit testing). I didn't occur to me that it can be a netcat replacement.
Thanks for sharing - incredibly inspirational on a personal and professional level
Yeah, I feel like it would be similar to me keeping a bunch of pet crabs. Why would I want to waste my time and energy on this?
Ah! Got you.
Treason!