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> Their ecosystem of devices, even just sticking to the Google-branded hardware, are inconsistent crap. Take a simple, first part app like Google Calendar and look at how sloppily and poorly it works across Pixel phones, Android Wear devices (including the Pixel Watch) and Home devices. Google sucks at building polished, consumer products.

Uh, I think you're living in another universe. I have all of those products and I have no issues with the Calendar experience. What use case do you think works poorly exactly?
The question is whether the round-trip inefficiency of storing energy is greater than the cost of having energy-consuming equipment that sits idle when the sun isn't shining and gets stopped and started frequently.

For example, aluminum production is famously energy-intensive, but I've read it's not good for the equipment to start and stop it frequently because the reaction happens in molten aluminum salts and it hurts the equipment when you stop and it solidifies.

And while Bitcoin is energy-intensive, it's also capital intensive for the chips so it's not cost-effective to run it only part-time.

Reverse osmosis may have a good combination of high energy:capital ratio (so it doesn't waste a lot of capital on idle equipment) and not requiring complex startup/shutdown sequences.
Neumann Drive: A Pulsed Cathodic Arc Thruster for Spacecrafts
Which if true is still a burden that prevents simple self-hosting. You can (& I did briefly) install an XMPP server on a 10-year-old smart phone with postmarketOS on your network & have a reasonable experience.
Sure sure, but you can care about budget and get a printer with decent sensors for auto z and bed level.

I started with bed screws, and never want back to printer without probes or flexible bed sheet.
Or, for an even more analogous example, see Google's pNaCl which was a native compilation target that provided many of the same security guarantees as wasm does while avoiding the need for complex JITs. pNaCl utilized a set of rules about control flow transitions and address formation which were enforced by a verifier to allow direct native code execution.
Yes, but that's the company culture the one I'm replying to is advocating for. A culture where you never should dare asking anyone for help, as you're inconveniencing them. Just sit silent with your problems and schedule a meeting the next day, and they might find it in their heart to help you. Or also get annoyed by "all the meetings destroying their focus time"..
The wikipedia link is for the apple tree genus. The word generic literally comes from the word genus, i.e. they couldn't be less specific when talking about apples.
After advertising. Which is admittedly kind of useless in a world of anonymous, unaccountable, international advertisers.

e.g.
https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/person-s--unknown-a23-1198241...

Enforcement is very limited to "misleading ad must not appear again". Eventually they'll have to do something a bit toothier or we're going to have an all-scam internet.
To be fair it only gets memory intensive at higher levels (lets say 1800 fide, 2100 online) - before you can get by playing any not directly lossing line you want, since your opponents won't know how to punish it optimally.
As for privacy - Apple does most, if not all AI processing on-device. E.g. Siri understands voice commands when offline (although may work worse then I think).

A good on-device assistant would be super useful:
- instead of searching for a setting, you just tell it to change a device setting
- decent appointment/reminder setting ("remind me to invite joe to my next birthday party" -> and it knows who Joe is, and how to set up such a reminder)
- all kinds of search ("what was that book about startups that someone recommended to me a year ago?", "open up a tracking page for that thing I ordered last week", "show me a photo of XX I took last summer")
- managing e-mails the way old-school secretaries did - "any important messages?", or "reply to everyone I'm out of office, unless it's related to X"
If Apple ever bought Masimo it would be either merged into Apple or operate as a subsidiary.
Decision point questions to consider before taking the plunge:

1. Can you and them dedicate time for relationship maintenance?

2. Would you rather live with this person than anyone else?

3. If you had to choose someone to be your medical power-of-attorney, e.g., if you were incapacitated, would it be them?

4. Are they your best friend?

5. Can you both passionately negotiate and have disagreement without concerns of relationship damage?

6. Is there mutual, genuine caring and respect for each other?

7. Have you known each other for at least 2 years but preferably longer?
not necessarily true: many social phenomena stick, and later you can find usage for them. Gold was mainly a social thing for a long time (embellishing armors and weapons) before some usage was find (connectors and other stuff). This may, or may not, happen for cryptocurrencies even if they aren't very useful today.
Some are, some are not. Assuming all are valuable would indeed be incorrect, but so would assuming all are worthless.

In this case it's a "hey I want to make a patch, would you accept it?" type of question, and not really a bug report or feature request as such. I'd say that's valuable.
While I absolutely understand your point, I also feel like it's sometimes beyond someone's control to get sucked into something. I started playing with friends on school breaks and soon I was joining a Chess club with them and soon I was googling ways to get better and soon I was skimping out on social interaction because I felt it was better to stay home and play online chess because starting up a game was far easier than having to go somewhere physically and wonder if it's gonna be a good time and all.

Chess is a bit weird. I enjoy playing it. It's just a game but we place intellectual superiority on people who play it (well) but that's not true, a great Chess player wouldn't necessarily be a great engineer or an architect. There's some point of prestige to playing Chess, even in your wording, why is the elderly person playing Chess at a park a "gentleman"? It's because they play Chess and playing Chess is just classy in pop culture.

Anyways, my original comment was just an introspective on what Chess really is about on a higher level in my experiences, generally I see Chess as bit of a flawed game, since the better you get, the less interesting the game is and it just transitions in an overcomplicated memory game.

There's no glory to Chess. Good players were just kids that got shoved into this Chess lifestyle and kept at it. Adult players can get better but if you haven't played Chess as a kid, your talent is very limited and your progression speed is much worse, it's not impossible per say but it's also not likely.

"I am learning Chess so that if one day I find an elderly gentleman at the park with a board, I can sit for a game and a chat."

Since I quit actively playing, this is exactly my thought, it doesn't hurt to know how to play but any effort towards improving isn't really important, nor should it be any sort of priority. Take it slow, enjoy the ride but don't get too entangled.

A wise man once said, "The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life." and that just resonated with me, deeply, because it is really true on every and so many levels.
> is it to solve a problem, is it to learn something, is it to achieve a target, is it to keep yourself busy to wind down and because you like doing it, or is it to promote yourself.

Is it because you feel the need to keep yourself busy, but too lazy to plan what you're trying to achieve.
> but when you're rated so low, openings rarely matte

No way you get to 2000 by cheesing, maybe 1000 max. 2000 rating is not low, it’s top 0.3% on chess.com
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This viewpoint couldn't be more ruscist. Why do you push the terrorist mass murderer propaganda so hard?
Pretty poor article that has the usual Bitcoin bingo points - criminals and terrorism (because that didn’t exist before 2009?) and volatility.

It misses more interesting aspects or theories about bitcoin - it’s scarcity or how it supposedly incentivises clean energy.

It also misses an obvious reason it’s pumping which is the looming approval of the ETF’s supposedly in January.
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> and the bots suck at it

It is important to distinguish two thing: "Computers can't solve this problem" vs "the currently existing bots suck". One is when the best programers trying their darndest can't make a bot good, while the other is when nobody even really tried.

(For example I can reliably run faster than Usain Bolt when he is not made aware that we are racing. :P )

This case sounds very much the second kind. There can be many reason for this, the simplest is that the makers of the game don't win more players by absolutely crushing them. It is a case where after a certain level of advancement you don't earn more money by making better bots. In fact you might start earning less if you take away the fun of the game. And of course anti-cheating measures will hamper 3rd party bots if they are not explicitly invited, and why would they be?

Simply saying estimating which way someone will evade / evading randomly doesn't sound like the kind of thing a computer would be bad nowadays. If someone tries that is.
I am puzzled by the mention of a firewall. Are you afraid of code embedded in books?
Is that a common attack vector?
Never ever forget Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX.
I’ve always felt the same way - perhaps it’s because I get to work on interesting and hard problems at work so when I get home I’d rather veg out. I’d much rather swim for an hour than do something mentally taxing and memory intensive.

If I did something more manual I think I would perhaps crave that kind of outlet so I can kind of see the appeal. At least playing good chess does involve some improvisation and creativity.

Cubing on the other hand has not appealed to me at all since I learnt it was mostly just memorising some patterns and executing them. It just feels like a trick - it is impressive the speed some people can do it but I’ve never really been impressed by people being able to solve them.

Perhaps those are unpopular opinions though!
> mean come on, ox sensors

Yes and they would still be protected by those silly patents no matter who Apple hired
No it isn't. The law of the jungle is the natural state of things. I dont know about you, but i'd prefer capitalism to the natural state of things.
"The poet Paul Valéry once said that poems are only abandoned, never finished. I’m realizing that every project has a point where the creator, no matter how unsatisfied, has to stop iterating and decide to put what they’ve made out into the world. And it’s always a compromise, because they know every little flaw about the thing they’re making"

So true. At some point you stop working on it and start using it. When you start using it and stop modifying it, you start learning the actual characteristics of the thing. Only then will you find what you like about it and what not. Generally, as user or consumer, you will tend to adapt to the shortcoming and try to maximize the use or enjoyment you get out of it.

In addition, whilst working on something, it can be so hard to predict when quality goals will be met, because the incremental progress slows down constantly as the product grows (non-linear). The reliability and quality of a thing are often only known after using or consuming the thing for some time. Only through actually using and consuming, true evaluation is performed. Only in retrospect can one say anything about the quality of something.
Reply to myself: This eruption, unlike thebone before it, is not considered "tourist friendly", so no volcano shots.

Either way, most important thing is that there are no cassualties and property damage is minimal.
Gates still allowed Microsoft Research to publish an enormous amount of useful research. Something that I don't see at that scale at e.g. Apple. He is just a very clever businessman.
Most ebook formats are some sort of container + metadata + html +css. So you need only the files, extract the html and feed the text in it to the statistic model.
Ask HN: Where can I find some Christmas deals for Mac software?
I recently switched from PC to Mac and I want to know if there are any current promotions or discounts.
If you know of any promotional activities, please let me know.
It's almost irrelevant, I don't know why they pay for that. I thought it would be like a paper
I see you have weird imagination. What even makes you say something as silly as this without any provocation?

I don’t care particularly about Apple or their watches. Yet even Apple can’t win against a patent troll that means any smaller company would never be able to develop and sell their products without paying Masimo.
> I don't work in the UI space at all

> Adobe has probably captured back both mental and market share from Figma

I agree with your initial point - only someone not in the UI space could make such an outlandish, and honestly deranged, claim.
Does it matter? That's (mostly, in terms of its value) true of gold too for example.

I'm not a BTC/cryptocurrency fan or proponent (though I read the paper, was interested, mined as it was profitable at the time, and still hold some just as ~part of a diverse portfolio~ FOMO) but it's here, it exists, people can and do profit from it or store their wealth there - more volatily than gold, historically, sure, but it's not completely stupid and it's clear at this point it's not going to just go away.
Which issues?

I'm very happy with Qubes OS, using it as a daily driver for many years. It helps to organize your digital life and gives a great sense of security and control over your computer. I tried to list its advantages here: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/how-to-pitch-qubes-os/4499/15

Another report from a user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36267756
I love my Ollama click.

Codeup is hilarious when asked to converse as an online chat group participant. The only one to use emogies fluently. Speaks like a 20 something comp sci kid. Rich.

Samantha (and Dolphin, sorry Samantha), yarn mistral has a thing to say about this or that. Zephyr is quite practical and pragmatic. And when I want to get real work done, there is phind-codellama, wiazardcoder, and yes you codeup (you’re not only fun at parties.)

I still love you Samantha.

Prompt disposition for best results. I can’t wait until they can actually remember what we’re talking about.

And if your curious I do set my twelve core 64GB laptop on a block of ice (acclimate first to avoid thermal shock in the battery!)

And I can tell the difference between q4 and q8, it’s a degree of exactness that accentuates over time.
The patent isn't personal property that the company "owns" like how a person owns a house, it's a segment of the market where the government grants a company a legal monopoly. I don't understand why it should be a total legal monopoly. If the idea was that the company which employed the people who invented something cool should "deserve" to get filthy rich (why do we want that again?), you'd think that could be achieved by forcing other companies who want to be in the same space to pay money to the company which employed the inventors.

But instead we apparently want to say, "no other company should be allowed to make a watch with a pulse oximeter for 20 years unless the company which employed the inventor agrees to it". Why?
>It's not a matter of allocation

It's absolutely a matter of allocation, since the more you allocate, the more work the GC will have to do. If you write clean, memory-friendly code (e.g. reusing buffers, favouring stack allocation), then you'll generate a lot less garbage and the GC will spend less time collecting it.
> Let me guess: that 1 person will of course not be you, right? Because if it is you, I bet you will complain even more.

I don't mind it being me, as a matter of fact, it's often me, as I am in a more senior position and have a lot of historic context. However, a lot of time has been spent on documenting most things, so often I am just going over the docs with the new onboarder, which is okay, as long as it's done in a structural manner.

> You don't have normal boundaries. Grown-ups at work know that they will interact with other people. You inventing that people should not interact with you, or interact only in your own terms even when it is inconvenient for them.

I don't mind interacting at all, nor do I mind onboarding. I do mind, however, being interrupted all the time, on information, that could easily have been condensed in an onboarding package if the company gave people the space, time and initiative to create such a package.

What I am pointing out is that the OP experienced bad onboarding and thought the solution to that is being in-person in the office. I would argue what they simply had was a badly planned onboarding, with randomly shared responsibility across the team, and an ad-hoc learning plan. If the OP's company uses that lesson and makes a better onboarding process, that'd be great and they might even reconsider the need to be there in person.

> you are complaining about doing your job: working with colleagues and sharing information so that they can progress.

I would love share the information, but I want to do it in a structured manner, and not in chunks and without disruptions.

That's why schools and unis have classes, and classes have predictable and scheduled time frames. It's not just a building with teachers, and random children entering ad hoc and asking whatever question came to their head, then leaving, and coming back 5 min later.

And what's wrong with wanting lots of this information to be self-service? That's the whole idea of knowledge bases, of onboarding docs, of developer handbooks. What does it have to with people being in person or not? I'd argue if the OP's company spent the effort in actually putting all that knowledge in writing, they will have an easier and less disruptive onboarding to the team, with reduced bus factor, and clearly documented steps.
Maybe you are using a terrible technology for your UX work, or you are going at it wrong? As with any kind of engineering: less is more. Think about how simple some of the CLI interfaces are to tools like make or grep. And then there are countless examples of ultra simple graphical UX. If you can pay someone to do it, fine. But if you have to do it yourself, make sure it does not make you misable :)
Hah. It always seems to me in these threads that a lot of the hate starts from a point of not understanding the language very well. If you're used to seeing working on a software project as a static, batch-oriented process, Ruby - like Smalltalk - is alien. When people then try to force it into a batch-oriented process they're throwing out so many of the nice things I'm not surprised they dislike what they're left with.

But I don't let it bother me. I instead enjoy rewriting an ever-increasing part of the software I use day to day in Ruby (my editor, shell, file-manager, contextual menus, menu bar, font renderer, window manager so far - I keep telling myself I need to stop myself before I start writing an X or Wayland server too, or even worse, before insanity takes me and I start writing a browser)
E-Readers Were Supposed to Kill Printed Books, but They Never Did
Maybe. These patents seem pretty trivial though.

> Masimo has been on the cutting edge of pulse-oximetry

Maybe because they built an artificial patent moat around themselves and no other company can compete?
As for me, TBMQ proposes the same reasons to use it as ActiveMQ Artemis. ActiveMQ Artemis seems to be a great platform that states about its high performance, clustering support, and data persistence. We believe TBMQ offers the same advantages by relying on Kafka to provide high-throughput and low-latency delivery. Check out our performance results:
https://thingsboard.io/docs/mqtt-broker/reference/100m-conne...
We prioritize data durability by leveraging Kafka replication guarantees. The scalability of TBMQ is very easy to achieve without the need to configure anything. Just add nodes as you go to achieve better throughput/capacity/performance.
I think one is more inconvenienced than the other. If someone doesn't answer your question immediately, search harder. The answer is out there somewhere.
My prompts and responses are becoming more trimmed of needless niceties for efficiency but I'm not adding more meanness. I don't use it that often maybe once every 3 weeks.
In an area so performance dominated people will spend the time porting to get the performance. I think this is especially true on the training side, because that's the area where companies have engineers waiting for hardware.

Unfortunately AMD only claim parity with Nvidia for training right now, and uplifts on inference. That's the wrong way round to get people to spend time porting as a priority.
Whatever policies we have, haven't really reduced out CO2 emissions nearly as much as they should. The biggest reduction was probably last winter when everybody turned the heat down to save gas because of the war in Ukraine. I think I heard somewhere that that was a 25% reduction in gas use.
I bought a new (made in Japan) Mitsubishi in 2013, still have it, and it didn't have any failure yet whatsoever. If you buy German, American or (shudder) French cars, then yeah, they will become problematic after 7-10 years, or even earlier. Just buy Japanese (so, not Nissan, and sadly also no longer Mitsubishi, since, after a merger, it's now a Japanese-European company), preferably made in Japan.
> nowadays most of those topics are not even considered because there is no such thing as user preference for GUI.

very sad state of affairs indeed
I have a long history of woes with this stuff. I initially had a Wanhao that didn't have ABL, that worked fine as long as I didn't change anything. Then, I got a BLTouch, which made it worse because the Z distance would always be inconsistent somehow.

I realized that Marlin must have some sort of bug, because it claimed to be able to print on tilted beds with ABL, but mine just didn't. I upgraded to Marlin 2.x and that was fixed.

However, now I have this problem where the print lifts on certain regions of the bed. I have no idea what's up with that, I use one of those golden, textured PEI sheets and it works fine, except for these holes in areas.

I wish someone would put a pressure sensor on the nozzle so it would always know the exact distance in real time and could compensate for anything, but we seem to be far from that.
>What is the better solution that retains the anti-theft capabilities of the device?

I have a private key, not on the device, that matches a public key on the device. The device will not perform certain significant operations without a signature from my private key.

C'mon people, this is not rocket science.
Another project that aims to deliver this is Linuxkit (https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit). All the components they ship are written in memory safe languages (usually Go) and run as containers under containerd. You can build a custom image very easily, fully defined as a YAML file.
If Apple didn't actively block supply of spare parts, this wouldn't be as attractive as it would have been much cheaper to buy parts from the manufacturer than steal phones, ship them overseas and get (most likely) forced labourers to strip them for parts and ship back.

It Apple's corporate greed that fuels that and government corruption that allows it.
You can give genuine ones.
> And it's obvious that a feral cat kills orders of magnitude more wildlife than an outside cat with a cat flap and consistent access to food

(Genuine question) source?

My impression from our neighbourhood is that outside cats - who also come and sit in our garden - are interested in birds because that's part of who they are, not just because they are hungry.