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Open plan worked for me when there was a very clear contract between every stakeholder.

Firstly, everyone had free, good quality, sound blocking headphones. Not just free as in standard equipment on your first day free. There were buckets of the things lying around and if you needed a new set you just grabbed some, no questions asked. VC funded opulence, yay!

Secondly, there was an understanding amongst everyone on the shop floor that “headphones on” meant do not disturb, just as much as a closed office door. Violations were not tolerated but it was a social norm thing not an HR write up thing. Maybe people were getting the latter behind the scenes though?

In return you end up with an office architecture that’s considerably easier to manage at the expense of turning the physical challenge of giving everyone an office into a — potentially intractable for some teams — people management challenge.
Sure, energy is a ladder, energy production tuned for higher capital investment ventures have lower long term operating costs. There is an opportunity cost to investing in one policy, like green energy, versus another, like nuclear; they traded a cheap energy future for false advertising.
These are all good arguments, but that does not absolve Apple from the responsibility of checking that their refurbished products are not registered to a different ID. That device never should have been accepted for a return, let alone shipped to a different customer.
There are two pins. One has 225V to ground, the other one has 230V to ground. So the voltage from pin to pin is still 230V-225V = 5V.
Wow, that's incredibly close. I assumed there would be a public database of CE (European) approved devices or manufacturers, but I can't find one from a quick search.
Rails is a library, though, the advice applies to application/business code.
Metaprogramming is extremely useful for making really simple-to-use libraries. If your business logic is full of metaprogramming, that's more of a problem, especially in this day of age where it's common for developers are only sticking around at any given job for 2 to 3 years.
Schopenhauer has few things that could inspire, not necessary his philosophy. He was like the only philosopher contemporary of Hegel who didn't even care what Hegel had to say. While Hegel was wildly popular and created a lot of following, Schopenhauer was just a bitter eccentric dude sitting in his castle... but he wasn't stupid / unable to appreciate Hegel's ideas. He really had a good point.

In a sense, he was kind of like that poor doctor who was ridiculed by his peers for suggesting doctors need to wash their hands (and who later committed suicide because of all the bullying). Sorry, cannot recall his name at the moment.

So, it could've been admiration of determination and confidence in one's own beliefs. More so than the admiration of the beliefs themselves.
TLDR its a sign of the lack of resources and national backsliding. Government chose corporations over individuals and here we are.
I don't think having physical buttons worked well for BlackBerry. My guess it'll be the same for cars. It'll look and feel vintage, maybe. I rented a car recently that had a physical key that turned in a keyhole, and each time I wanted to use the car, I'd look for the button before I remembered.
keyboards that are pleasant to type on and better functioning trackpads shouldn't be hard when even asus laptops do it better.
they serve as the interface for developers and operations folks too. The ability to get directly into the machinery to inspect and command the state of your systems is super powerful

Which was awesome and super efficient and kept developers close to the production environment and the necessary knowledge of that context to properly build applications.

Then DevOps came along with a bunch of great new ideas…………
UL isn't actually mandatory in the US. The only thing mandatory that I am aware of is FCC certification for devices with signals over a certain number of Hz, and they wouldn't care about a USB port being abused.
Self-attestation is introduced when the industry complains that having a 3rd party verify is too onerous and could hurt business. And they're not wrong, but the result is companies rubber stamp their own compliance. You see it a lot in DoD compliance now, for example.
> But it's not a bug deal for me.

Did you type this on a touchscreen? ;-)
If Computer Science Is Doomed, What Comes Next?
That's the reading from my UPS, I believe it's RMS since it reads 234 V currently.
Good. Can the regular roadworthiness tests be updated to fail cars that don't have physical buttons or dials for essential controls? These cars need taking off the road.
Their ad revenue is a local optimum. They could reach new highs with alternate business models but only at the cost of short term reduction in revenue from ads. And this is of course risky. So, they keep on dancing around the topic without ever committing to anything.

An additional problem they have is that running AI at scale is super expensive. Even for Google. Add to that legal risks, pressure from regulators in different countries, privacy concerns, copyright issues, etc. and you get a whole lot of risk and friction. Add to that the usual organizational infighting and politics and you pretty much have a company incapable of doing anything.
For context, this isn't an official mark created by China or any other entity.

It's just some fraudulent manufactures that are using a paper-thin excuse to illegally apply a fake CE mark.
If your existing app is a pure CLI app, you just expose your Qt objects to qml and it should be fairly smooth sailing.

If your existing app is a QWidgets app, then not sure how much benefit you'd have when mixing QML/QtQuick with your QWidgets side of things. We did implement such a thing at a little project before... where the "canvas of items" was written in QML and the remainder of the UI was QWidgets. For our usecase, it was good.
What’s a tabletop RPG? Are these D&D games?

If so, which are the ones that don’t need a dungeon master. I’m not really attracted to those as I would think no one around me would want to sacrifice themselves to play that role.
Thats a false equivalence. Asking a repo maintainer to fix an issue or implement a new feature is requesting their voluntary work. This has nothing to do with silencing disagreement.
It’s interesting to me that voice commands never come up in these discussions. Teslas have good voice controls, though they suffer from the typical lack of discoverability that all voice systems do.

Also, I think the original intention behind the touch screen was that you would be in auto pilot while using it.
I suppose “|| and or” mean different things was a little too loose or broad a way of expressing that, but I agree what the big is and you see how it fits in with my overall point I’m sure
You might prefer binary choice on more granular criteria: Like the pacing of the overall plot, dislike the performance of the antagonist
> just imagine if a small portion of standard-looking outlets did not output 220V (or whatever standard you have) and say 330V.

We have something like that here in Brazil. On cities which use 127V as the standard voltage (some cities use 220V), you can get 220V by using a pair of phases instead of a phase and the neutral, and it's common to find a few standard-looking sockets which are 220V instead of 127V. They might be colored red, they might have a yellow sticker saying "220V" next to it, or they might be completely unmarked. If your device is 127V only, or it has a manual 127V/220V switch which is on the 127V position, and you plug it into one of these 220V sockets, it will be damaged.

(The standard we use for consumer AC power plugs and sockets, NBR 14136, does not make a distinction between voltages; the same plugs and sockets are used for both 127V and 220V.)
> If you can unblock someone now so they don't spend 3 hours

Past your training period you are responsible for your own productivity. Don't make it the problem of your peers.
One private room per team works very well for programmers without the expense justification. The two most productive jobs I've ever had in an office were with that arrangement, not cubicles or open offices.
I have/had this cat water fountain too (my cats are now happy with a normal bowl) and I believe I just threw the wall wart into a box with the rest of my unused USB A wall warts. A little bit like electrical Russian roulette now, I guess.
Thanks will give it a go
Rust is much less complex than c++. Again, I’m not sure why you’re so focused on syntax. That’s the easiest part of a programming language to learn. The semantics, abstractions, etc. are what take the most effort to learn and MUCH simpler in Rust than in C++.
You can't you vote with your feet unfortunately.
And cabling for each of them.

At least: Y * (1 cable + 2 plugs + 1 port at the controller + clips).

Wire Harnesses for modern cars are seriously complicated affairs[0]. And even using more modern variants they still need to be installed manually.

[0] https://www.carscoops.com/2022/05/carmakers-are-rushing-to-a...
> Even weirder (anecdotally), the cheapest gas seemed to come to the wealthier spots first while poor neighborhoods stayed high.

Probably due to theft.
Google allowing for alternative payment systems in Play Store
Show HN: Kondo, OSS drive cleaner for devs
Hey HN, my open source drive cleaner for devs recently hit a major milestone, now supporting 20 different kinds of software projects.

It handles typical software projects like Cargo (Rust) and Node (JS) to things like Jupyter Notebook (Python) to even game engines like Unreal (C++).

Here's an example run from my pc earlier:

> kondo ~/code
/Users/choc/code/driving Cargo project (4 weeks ago)
└─ target (7.6GiB)
delete above artifact directories? ([y]es, [n]o, [a]ll, [q]uit): y

/Users/choc/code/aetherift-website Node project (2 months ago)
└─ node_modules (310.9MiB)
delete above artifact directories? ([y]es, [n]o, [a]ll, [q]uit): y
Projects cleaned: 2, Bytes deleted: 7.91GiB

It works by recursively searching in the given path(s) looking for identifiers of known projects. Usually these are specifically named configuration files, for example package.json for JS and Cargo.toml for Rust.

Once a project is identified it is presented to the user with how much space could be reclaimed by deleting the "build artifacts", and given the option to do so.

Build artifacts are any files that can be trivially regenerated from the rest of the project. In a JS project it would be node_modules, in Zig it would be zig-cache, etc. For many types of software projects the artifacts are often 99% of the size, dramatically bloating the size of the directory.

It's most useful when you want to archive/backup repositories without manually clearing all their artifacts, or if you're just running low on disk space because you tried a few too many JS libraries that somehow occupy 500MB in dependencies...

Kondo was my Rust learning project during some career downtime in 2020. It was a very practical transition from a bash script, to evolving a CLI interface, and eventually a GUI. I also experienced adding multi-threading to an existing project and I have to say I found it easier than expected. All in all I found Rust a pleasant and productive language to code in.

You can install kondo via the usual ways, `brew install kondo`, `pacman -S kondo`, building locally or even from your system package manager (though it may be an older version).

I'm open to any feedback, suggestions, and contributions. I have a refactor in the works to remove a few edge cases so I'm curious to hear from people who it doesn't currently suit.

Hope you find it useful
- Trent
I appreciate your thoughts on Google's UI strategy and the specific issue you've encountered. It seems like you value the practicality and accessibility of tools in your workflow, and even small changes like the positioning of the "Inspect Element" option can make a noticeable difference.

Despite these issues, how would you rate your overall experience with Google's products? Do the positives outweigh these minor inconveniences?
Yeah, it’s frustrating to always see fanboy comments about “security” when the actual anticompetitive reason is right there.
For one thing, stop cargo-culting? "Centralization" is a vague term that isn't inherently bad. Use specific terms, identify specific problems, and it'll be easier to find solutions for them.
>Sounds like the professionals are actually having a say
You think they're trying to make "Pro" mean professional, instead of its current meaning, profit?
Yea, the German insistence on "lüften" curing all ailments is legendary :D
You (or your landlord) should probably hire an electrician to get that checked out – especially the higher voltage might be indicative of some scarier failure modes.

A voltage drop of 25% could also mean you have semi-broken wiring somewhere, which can cause fires or shock hazards on faulty appliances.
Apple Watches being pulled from stores this week due to potential import ban
Part of me wants to do this.

Maybe with the 1990s.
Thats quite a spread. Is it up to spec where you are?. In Australia we have 230V nominal, but the allowed range is from 216 (-6%) to 254 (+10%).
The state is extremely gerrymandered: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/20/texas-redistricting-...
Where in Asia? I lived in China from 2010 to 2019 and the only voltages I've seen on USB A ports is ~5V and ~4.2V. The latter on the charger for some rechargable bicycle lights.
I used that analogy because it’s painfully clear how it can go off the rails. The common thread is that legality isn’t simply waived in all cases. Legality is determined by reasonableness and, in some cases, by an expectation of duty. I don’t believe the Chevy example constitutes a contract but not for the reasons you’ve presented. Thinking you can just say “lol nothing here is binding but thanks for the money!” without understanding broader context is indicative of a cavalier attitude and superficial understanding.
You still give them an incentive to do more, in a more extreme fashion, while funding their habit, offering nothing positive in return, sensationalising their plight, and profiting off their mental issues.

I hope for your sake you will never be in a position where people can exploit you like that.

So yea still as bad as an argument can get.
(buying a brand new Volkswagen in future) What's in the trunk in a plastic bag? your physical buttons, sir! You can stick them with double-sided tape wherever you want!
So why didn't prices rice before covid? Something changed, and it wasn't companies suddenly being more greedy.
Airbnb was open plan (it still is, I’m just not there anymore). They also have an amazing Food team who would occasionally, randomly, bake treats for us (this is relevant, I promise).

There was no sales bell, but there was an outage gong. Any time we had an outage affecting the “Book It” flow and revenue stopped flowing that gong rang out. Hearing the gong meant engineers would abruptly leave meetings or lunch to come help fix the issue.

As we scaled and hit the limits of various systems we had periods where the gong rang out semi-regularly (a few times per month). These were hard times for engineers.

Soon, engineering started to push back on Product requests, took the time to re-architect and build better systems, and calm was achieved. Months went by without hearing the gong ring out, then years passed. People joined the company and got promoted, never having heard it ring. Until one day in 2018.

I was working near a pod of project managers, and I hear the gong. Like Pavlov’s dog, it triggers an immediate wave of anxiety in me: something is very wrong. But my blissfully unaware PM colleagues have no idea, it’s the first time they’ve ever heard the gong.

One lady looks up from her laptop and asks: “oooh, did the Food team make cookies?”
While we are so damn real, it is the same with climate change. 99% of people dont care if the product they buy have bad CO2 emission stats or not. All they care about is the product, the price, and the use they want to put it to. Nobody really cares about the rest. If you can buy it in a store, people will do so.
You sound extremely self-centered yourself. Its fine if you thrive in a collaborative open office environment, and noise-cancelling headphones are all you need. But that's not true for everybody else.

Your argument that you need to maintain your flow by actively interrupting other people is incredibly selfish and frankly just ridiculous. Also, flow is overrated. If you are in flow-mode, you are probably not doing the hard parts of your job. Not having to context-switch is different from flow, but more important, I would say, but you are forcing that on your fellow developers. If they don't mind, that's fine! If they do, you should respect that.
“We’re not all the same!”, the nerds said in unison. “Frank here is into DnD while Bob is only interested in gaming RPGs; Liza doesn’t play computer games and is mostly interested in anime and Japanese culture; meanwhile Frank is into hiking, geotagging, and photo editing.”

When people see stereotypes or “types”, the point is never—unless they are genuinely denigrating them—that they are completely alien or that whatever institution they belong to is not “made up of humans”.
Great news!

By the way, are you Finnish? I've never seen an 'O with tilde' character before.
Having been there last year I can attest to that it's crowded however that's only a problem the first few talks of the day when motivation is still high. I've got a seat on the greater majority of the talks.

Only two regrets from last FOSDEM'22 were not having some large water bottle with me and not having cash on person. There's no (were no) ATMs nearby and not everyone takes cards.
One of my favorite Schopenhauer anecdotes is that he had trained his dog to do his shopping. He attached a small basket around the dogs neck, put in money and a shopping list, and the dog would walk to the nearest grocer.
Voice commands are awful. They misunderstand you, they require you to memorize a specific syntax to talk to a single car, your other car probably has a different one, and so will your next car. They're horrendously verbose and it takes seven hours to instruct it which address it should navigate to.
If you say it that way, nothing is worth talking about in life and nothing is worth doing because we all just die and end up wherever as is per the usual nihilism doctrine. The quote I cited, indeed, potentially applies to a lot of things but hey, we are talking Chess.

I appreciate this community since I can voice out things that people might be contemplative about and my negativity filled post was really just no false positivity comment about the reality of Chess in a random world country which I experienced time and time again.

The OP is "How to learn chess as an adult" and as I saw it, my first question in my mind was "Why should you learn chess as an adult?" and then I saw the lengths this person went to improve and while I don't want to be a toxic or negative bub about it, I also feel like I can contribute to this discussion by sharing my own opinion since I directly have a lot of experience with Chess. Now, I don't say that in an elitist way, I don't claim to be an expert but I feel like this blog post and similar posts are quite misleading and might trap uninformed people into thinking that Chess is something really worth learning as an adult or just increase the bias that Chess is some unique sport when it's just really a overrated game, kinda like Monopoly or any other game.

I spent a lot of time on Chess and I am glad to have provided some information on what it was like for me, because I think that it's really valuable for someone to read this and take away whatever they can from my experiences. I don't claim I have it all figured out, but generally, I suggest to keep Chess in moderation and no, you don't need to get better at it because it doesn't really get more fun.

Have a nice day!
Thanks for reading.
CE mark (the real one) is self certified
Its predominantly TSMC. I do get quite tired and sometimes annoyed when 99.99999% of the internet including HN stating it is just "ASML". As if buying those TwinScan would be enough to make you the world's best leading edge foundry.

Remember,

1. TSMC didn't beat Intel because they had the newer EUV first. They beat Intel before the whole thing started.

2. If having EUV Machines from ASML were enough, Samsung would have been the 2nd given they are or they will use it for NAND and DRAM. And yet they are barely competing.

3. It is not like Global Foundry dropped off racing the leading edge node for no reason.

4. TSMC has always managed to work around any road block when ASML failed to deliver their promise on time.

5. Quoting from CEO of ASML, half jokingly but also half true "Dont ask us about how those EUV machine are doing. Ask TSMC, they know that thing better than we do."

Of course there is large number of small companies around the whole Pure Play Foundry business in which TSMC ex-CEO calls it the Grand Alliance. You need every party to perform well for it to happen. This is somewhat different to Samsung and Intel, both are ( more or less ) much more vertically integrated.
Point of tests is to verify state of the pits after long storage. Plutonium is a bitch to manage because it is alpha-active and alpha particles are in essence, helium atoms, so over time a piece of plutonium gets full of helium caverns and develops internal tension. It's also very complex in terms of crystallic properties (has several stable crystal forms), which are impacted by temperatures and yes, those internal tensions. While it is modelled as much as possible, no one truly knows how good are the pits that were kept in storage for decades, anymore. They certainly still work, but whether they are good enough to properly initiate a secondary, no one really knows. Testing could be very instrumental in finding that out.
Cubicles are OK as long as there isn't a lot of chatter, people being on the phone all the time, talking loud, etc. Though of course id rather be in my own room no doubt.
I'll go a step further: any theoretical benefit that decentralization has (except ownership) can be emulated by a centralized architecture.

That said, I'm looking forward to reading this RFC when I get a chance. I hope there's some good ideas in it.

I think we're heading for a two-tier internet, though, in many ways. Look at the post yesterday about a facebook drenched in AI-generated dog sculptures.
In general, not all the maps from an object back to itself are the identity...
It happened all the time before the pandemic, I'm not sure what you mean.
Apple has had success replacing mechanics with haptics on their trackpads.
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> We all have access to the exact same information.

We might have the same access, but rather than dig through 20 medical textbooks, I'll go ask a doctor. Access is a really poor way of thinking about things.

> But 90% of the time someone taps on my shoulder, they want me to think for them. You can do that by yourself. Just send an email.

Why send an email when they're thinking for themselves?
How do you know which button your on without looking?
I absolute prefer proper physical interfaces for the most commonly used things. Like steering, acceleration, breaking, blinking, volume control, door handles, wipers, that sort of things. These are things I would use almost every drive.

However, I would prefer to plan my navigation, browse settings, configure the car, and peruse statistics on a nice snappy capacitive display UI. Please do keep/build that.
We're talking about about what "should" happen, not what allegedly does happen. There's nothing intrinsically problematic with saying any monopoly should be regulated like a utility, which is what the OP had claimed.
In my case, eat heavily seasoned high fiber foods. 6 weeks tops.