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> Your pinned post on Twitter is predicated on double standards and lack of basic understanding of the tools you're criticizing

If it means that I get to see less Python, then I guess... Mission accomplished? LOL

My first, second and tenth experiences with Python were all negative. Everything from trying to exit the REPL the first time I used it and getting chastised for doing it wrong (which meant that it knew what I was trying to do, and instead of just doing that, decided to be a little snit about it, which is about the jerkiest attitude a tool can take), to the Python 2.x->3.x transition pains, to the significant whitespace, to every project stepping on the dependencies of every other project (you might argue that "I just didn't use venv right" but I did follow every package's installation instructions!), to... Well, just read this, he did a good summary: https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/python-is-a-bad-programming...

There's literally nothing I like about it. It just seems like a poorly written, older Ruby with a lot of baggage and a minefield of gotchas (except that I like Ruby... or did, before Elixir). Ruby should have absolutely fucking had Python's current market share, and I am 1000% convinced that if it did, everyone would be happier. Whenever Elixir tries to eat Python's lunch (like in the ML space which it's doing now), a part of me is as glad as a puppy. The language, despite its ubiquity, absolutely sucks in my mind, is not only a terrible introduction to programming for newbs but also likely an annoying language to work in, and the people who don't see it HAVE to be blind. That is the only conclusion I can come to, and I'm entitled to my opinion, strong as it is.

Next you're going to say that it is unprofessional to have such strong feelings about code and languages. To that I say: So what, dude. I care. Caring means having very positive feelings about the design decisions behind languages, or very negative feelings about the same. (I don't like Go, either. Python's basically a step above PHP on the "tech I want to minimize my time to zero with" department.)
Batteries use batteries, not solar.

Either way, Peak need is still determined by when residential batteries are empty because residential batteries are not sized to a day without sun, let alone multiple.

Therefore, you are always stuck with a grid built with capacity for the same peak.
Down voters fact checked me turns out Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia, sorry guys.
In most designs I've seen for projects like this, the "custom IO breakout host board" isn't really just a breakout board — it has a lot of bus controller chips of its own, because most modern bus protocols are just too fast/expensive to be run over GPIO pins. These extra chips usually raise the BOM past the point where it's worth it to build such a system; as at that point it's cheaper to just source old x86 parts (controller chips, sometimes CPU as well) from e-waste.

You want as much of that "motherboard logic" to be handled internal to the SoC as possible. Ideally, the board should only have the one SoC chip on it, plus jellybean parts and passives, plus ports and slots.

Also, let's lean on your example of video for a moment: "running an emulator full screen" isn't nearly the same thing as emulating the host busses — in that it results in the host describing that screen down its own SoC pins using something like HDMI. Whereas we don't even necessarily want a precomposed description of the screen on a signal line.

Remember, we're emulating the CPU and motherboard (and RAM, just because it's impractical not to) inside the SoC — but video support isn't actually an inherent part of an x86 motherboard. OEMs might integrate support for it onto a motherboard — but that "support" is just an embedded PCI-bus device, not some separate VGA bus.

Perhaps the system this board would revitalize, does something special with the communicated changes to the video data, such that pre-composed VGA (let alone HDMI) wouldn't solve the problem. For example, what if the system uses a custom PCI video card, that takes its VRAM and renders it out each frame, by compositing it together with another input video signal (ala the "video toasters" of the era)?

The only way to make that kind of thing work, is to emulate the PCI bus such that you can just plug the custom video card into one of the board's PCI sockets, and the emulated system will pick it up and use it.
> The idea that it plateaus is a well studied phenomenon; most people don’t get significantly happier after 75k or so a year.

Is that adjusted for COVID-era inflation? That number should be 20% higher, at least.
I understand all of that. My point is that people avoiding all 737 MAX variants over an issue specifically on plug doors that are no longer in the air, that we don't even know why they failed, are illogically filtering their flight options.
A door came flying off at 16k feet. They found a bunch of planes with loose bolts. On a plane with a history of problems built by a company with a history of problems. No one died this time. But hundreds died last time.

Nothing will stop Boeing except money. People not wanting to fly this plane will change airlines purchasing decisions. Boeing will feel the pain.
I don't have an idealogical horse in this race, but I bought a ~2500sqft home a few years back in an area where summer highs can get to 100f and winter lows can reach -25f. The house only had a 20 year old electric furnace and no AC. Replaced it with a large heat pump system with a new electric furnace for backup heat when it gets super cold. Also included an air filtration system. It was a big cash outlay, but totally worth it as we now have AC in the summer so we can keep windows closed when the smoke is bad, the filtration system works really well for the smoke, and the system almost never needs to use the furnace backup. Speaking with the previous owner, the winter electric bill savings have been around 30%.
it's not flawless but, it _does_ have a better safety record.
True but none of the posts about the recent developments have got much traction, is what I meant
https://course.fast.ai/Lessons/lesson1.html

Might as well learn python in a Jupiter notebook while learning AI?
Random memory/story, when I was a junior in highschool (so 2007), my friend and I coverted two old laptops to picture frames, using shallow shadow boxes.

I took Dillo? Linux, and customized the squashfs (or whatever it was at the time) to run a wifi setup script from outside the squashfs that configured wifi, connected as a samba to their desktop computer with photos in folders, and then would loop through photos with, feh, I think? Definitely my first real use of Linux and probably another pivotal moment in setting me up for the 16 years since then.

Thing ran up until a few years ago when the home wifi got replaced with Unifi and the house got re-decorated. I think I even took the CF drive (because yes, I even got CF->IDE adapters) out and imaged it about 6 months ago, for nostalgia's sake.
Anyway, this is a super neat project - re-used hardware, eink, and I'm getting to start to really appreciate glancing around and thinking of friends/memories. And though I know I'd end up giving it away if I built one, I am regretting giving away my old Kindle now!
Damn, this is SUCH a nice UI. Well done! Can't wait for Microsoft and iCloud :)
It is easy to imagine. Press team picks a question, googles or asks friends, then puts the answer on teleprompter or on a sheet of paper. The president has just one job — to read it with confidence in front of the camera when asked.

The president who would be able to do it by themselves has not yet born on this planet.
>POS (chip/EMV and PIN)

Although I went ahead and got a PIN for my US credit card after I had an issue, I don't know the last time I've had to use it in Europe. I do sometimes scrawl a not really signature now and then.
It's a domain registered yesterday and an account registered an hour ago expressly to post the website, so the barrier to entry isn't particularly high.
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Facebook, Twitter, the Internet of Things, Crypto in general, NFT's in particular... the marketing always seems to be the same. "Hey we're just some cool dudes with this nifty tech we made," what could go wrong? Initial concerns are dismissed as the wailing of Luddites, "subversive elements" or the jealous. After all if you were in on the fun/money/whatever you would love it as much as we do!

Then either the business model fails, someone high up is outed as a monster, or as with FB the entire business model is understood to be toxic. But then the next thing emerges and we're back to step 1, just "some cool guys with nifty tech, don't be negative, bro!"
Not trying to move the goalposts, but how old were these Airbus planes at the time of their incidents? Were they months old off the assembly line, or were they several years in where slips in maintenance and inspections came into play?
The article is more insightful than the title lets on. The author said employees should quit your demanding job and employers should help their employees instead of paying lip service about inner strength.

As for deeper changes, business self-help authors — who often make their real money not from selling books, but from paid speaking and consulting gigs at large companies — aren’t about to tell you to quit your draining job and take a (perhaps lower-paid) role at a less-demanding organization.
Nor do most of them suggest policy changes that contribute to a more resilient workforce — such as paid sick days, parental leave or flexible staffing models — that cost companies money. It’s safer for their business model to keep emphasizing inner strength. And maybe, too, that message plays well with an audience that hates to admit there can be trade-offs.
Thanks. I did test your new version but unfortunately similar issues. App completely hung and entire OS was sluggish. iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 17.1.2. Unfortunately I won’t have time to test any more but very good luck with the project.
Thanks. This should've been my first assumption. I should've realised there was no "for" after BS.
No, but I think they frequently make the mistake of assuming goods/services have globally defined values. It's possible for both the buyer and seller of something to come out ahead in a deal.

The option to start their own business is right in front of them. They even have a group of like-minded individuals with complementary skills that they could form a co-op with. Since they don't do that, obviously they're getting something from being a W-2 worker. It seems to me that they're not accounting for that something when asserting that there's some surplus value they're creating but not capturing. More accurately, that "surplus value" is being traded for whatever it is they get from W-2 work (e.g. a steady buyer for their labor).

IIUC Marx says roughly that laborers are beholden to capital owners because they need access to that capital to be able to perform their labor. But lots of programmers/IT people have better equipment at home than their job provides (e.g. multiple large 4k displays, powerful CPUs, plentiful RAM). Many also have hobby homelab or colocated machines that they could easily run a business off of. They don't need access to someone else's capital, but they still sell their labor.

It's the same as when people say that geo pay is "fair" because of cost-of-living differences. You're buying something (e.g. living 15 minutes from the ocean in an area with year-round perfect weather and lots of things to do) with that cost of living. Otherwise--obviously--you'd go somewhere else.
But in all cases there was no subsequent news that inspection of all airbus planes proved most engines were bolted to the wing wrong... or that all the windshields were glued wrong.

And this loose bolts thing shows up on a plane model where the "driving controls" were designed wrong.

Note that no one is complaining about the other Boeing 737 models.
The following related article was published on HN 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858185
> No single data model can support all use cases.

In theory, there is no domain (or finite set of domains) that cannot be accurately modeled using tuples of things and their relations.

Practically speaking, the scope of a given database/schema is generally restricted to one business or problem area, but even this doesn't matter as long as the types aren't aliasing inappropriately. You could put a web retailer and an insurance company in the same schema and it would totally work if you are careful with naming things.

Putting everything into exactly one database is a superpower. The #1 reason I push for this is to avoid the need to conduct distributed transactions across multiple datastores. If all business happens in one transactional system, your semantics are dramatically simplified.
I see a whole lot of people talking about net givers and net takers and how these dynamics affect the usefulness of a friend/acquaintance group.

This is HN. Private bit torrent trackers anyone? The higher your seed-to-leech ratio in a small community, the more use the community will be to you.

This applies directly to friend groups. If each person tries to seed the group with actions that benefit many but are trivial for them to accomplish based on personal stats, everyone benefits disproportionately to the individual effort invested. High ratios can then be tapped for uncommon and/or infrequent requests without compromising relationships.
In that light you can also call TSMC a Dutch company because it was struggling. Phillips (Dutch) bought a 30% share and grew the company.

Those shares are now sold again but Phillips had a big role in creating TSMC.
Standard symbols being reassigned also breaks macros.
Inflation is currently 3.1%
It's okay, we did the same thing for warranty claims when I worked CS and Tech Support for one of the major phone carriers a decade ago. If the LDI was tripped we wouldn't replace it under warranty, and I'm sure there was more than one warranty replacement I rejected that was a false trip instead of actual liquid damage (a better indicator for this is corrosion on solder joints than those stupid stickers).
From the article it is not clear if the storage capacity is installed in residential buildings or in commercial buildings/factories.
Any thoughts?
but many successful startups are by people in their 40s. i don't think you need to act like a 20 year old in order to start a business. on the contrary. you can start without taking huge risks.

i am obviously not in the same boat as when i was 20. at 20 i knew nothing, i had dumb ideas, and i would have worked my ass off building something that noone needs. now i have experience, and i know that i am not going to waste one minute on coding until i have found customers that will pay for it.

i am building a new consultancy right now. i just need a partner to help me with sales. once we get projects i can start hiring and together we can grow the business.

it's low risk because looking for projects is more or less like looking for jobs. anyone interested?
Clearly great work by the Nebula team, thanks!

That aside, looking at the whole game engine "market", I'm surprised that more game engines in 2024 don't talk about or differentiate on their net-code.

Syncing the physics sim between multiple clients and the server is one of the hardest problems in gaming today.

Are there any game engines or state management frameworks for game engines that really stand out?
This is not a solution that will work for mom and pop. Exactly the kind of workaround that relegates Firefox to being a "techies only" browser.
Big pet peeve is when journalists highlight the percentage change in profit in the headline just because it's a bigger, scarier number. Big companies swing from profits to losses (and vice versa) all the time, but you rarely see it highlighted as "Profits drop 158%!" because (a) that doesn't really make sense, but more importantly (b) it highlights how dumb it is to use percentage change in profit in the first place.

The more useful metric is given in the article: revenue was down 14.6 percent on year.
Counterpoint: Boeing clearly has cultural issues around safety and as consumers this is the only way to financially push back on the company. If Alaska and United start feeling the pressure because people start to avoid flying on them entirely due to the MAX issues then that should be enough consumer leverage to affect Boeing and Boeing's behavior.

I'm literally going to hop on a cross country Alaska MAX flight tomorrow (if the flight doesn't get cancelled) and I'm not much more worried about it than any other flight, but I'm tired of our country being run by MBA culture and having to make these kinds of risk-reward tradeoffs while considering that the management class of this country seems hell bent on turning us into a third world kleptocracy. We need to start punishing some of them for bad decisions. Otherwise they'll keep on gambling with our safety in favor of their profit margins and aviation may become a whole lot less safe.

And in the process it might just improve the long-term outlook of their company. Boeing could decide to become an engineering-led culture again rather than a short-term-profits-led company which would be more sustainable.
I think there are a few WiFI 7 shipping without MLO. Probably more to do with Qualcomm ( drivers ) than anything else?
> I know there are apps you can use but it’s a notably inferior experience to a dedicated frame.

Can you elaborate on how it's inferior? I was thinking of doing this and imagined it'd be straightforward with Single App Mode.
Yes autofill, which feels like cheating, along with automatically filling in marks. What this does, though, is let you focus on only the hard decisions and the auto does everything else for you.
NTSB are doing that lab work right now in Washington D.C.

You seem to not know the meaning of suspect, so here is the definition:

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sus·pect
verb
3rd person present: suspects
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1.
have an idea or impression of the existence, presence, or truth of (something) without certain proof.
"if you suspect a gas leak, do not turn on an electric light"

Have a great day sir.
Wow, the amount of incompetence to pull that off must be staggering.
It's easy for people to dismiss you as a cynic, but you are probably right. I learnt this when I was young and in a situation where I was in desperate need of someone to relieve me because of overwork. People who I though of as good friends didn't want to help me out for even one day (with good pay). Not lift a finger in the slightest to help a friend. The experience really turned my world upside down when it happened.

But I also learnt that there are people that you can rely on and get help from, even if you were never close to them. Because that's just how they are as people.

I think it was much easier to know in the past who you could count on, because life was harder and you'd pretty soon be in a situation where you'd find out quickly who to trust. People didn't have time for endless socialisation without action.
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>just jump on any dating app and swipe right once

This ignores the very significant potential risks to personal safety which are simply much higher for women meeting new potential partners than for men. In addition to the stated distinction between companionship and casual coupling.

At least right now an AI bot can't

- pretend emotional investment to get sex

- lose its shit and harass you over message and at work when the relationship ends

- pressure you into coming over after meeting for coffee and repeatedly insist around you declining

- demand nudes and pout/manipulate if they don't get them

- anything else in the big bag of tricks any women in your circle could tell you about that requires being a thinking, communicating human being with the capacity for manipulation and selfishness

I've seen smarmy remarks online by men who seem convinced that AI girlfriends will really show these human women what's what, and we'll be so upset about the competition. No, please, if there was a digital resource toxic people could demand companionship from instead that might save the rest of us from it.

Of course, until an AI bot can also do the dishes and the laundry, I don't think they'll be much competition to the relationships those sorts of men seek with women.
Throw on a few more decimal places if you like. The point is that in the physical world, “best” isn’t usually categorically different from “extremely close to best with high probability”.
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We don't know whether the reason they are failing is due to an installation issue or not.
The 'deleted records table' they suggest at the end of the article is a really good alternative!
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SSDs are already spiking. A 2TB Samsung Sata3 ssd went from €120 in October to €170 in December.
Yeah I was on the ispace M1 integration team.
Can't wait to see what the MAX 10 has to offer!
"Only two people would have died, so it's really not that bad," is wild. What if it were you sitting at that seat and you died? Still not that bad an outcome?
I don't know the inner workings of the fob, but my car has a pretty long range when unlocking with the key fob click, but the automatic unlock without click(keyless entry) works only when I'm next to the handle. It doesn't work even if I'm at the back of the car and someone tries to unlock driver door.