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> Retain sufficient in-house production manufacturing that it is possible for future engineers to acquire the skills needed to develop new products, without which all businesses will fail. Even the work that is out-sourced requires internal expertise to write the specifications.

This x1000 is what has led so many large government projects - no matter if in IT, construction, healthcare, military - go completely nuts.

When there is no one to write the specifications, the "consultants" writing the specifications instead will write them in a way that allows their closely related industry friends to deliver bullshit, and since the government doesn't have experts any more (because they are "too expensive" for shoestring budgets), it can't realize that it's being led by the nose.

When there are no experts to audit a project, no one can detect bullshit being designed, built or delivered until it's such a colossal failure that it cannot be hidden any more.

When there are no experts to maintain a project that miraculously got completed and delivered after years of delays and billions of overruns, eventually even the best project will go and rot.

And even in the private sector, this same concept holds. Just ask any F500 employee whose company "outsourced" their IT or anything else not "core of the business" to India or Pakistan to the cheapest bidder, or their building cleaning service or facility management, about what service quality they receive and how much upper management cares about that.

The general ideology of outsourcing everything that's not "core of the business" is the single utter scourge of modern ultra-capitalism.
FPTP essentially means that the actual government is operated as a time-limited dictatorship, since it's a winner-takes-all system. That means that once the elections are over, there is no need for actual politicking and bridge-building, the reigning champion or party can do whatever they like (according to some, even including killing their rivals /s).

In multi-parliamentary systems, the politicking does not end when the elections are over.
This sort of story is highly prone to selection bias.

Most startups fail. Ask any VC.
You jest, but the article is proposing exactly that.
i know, just was responding to the mention of maturity in the parent
A console wants a competitive GPU and a competitive CPU. Nvidia has the first, Intel has the second, AMD has both. The first one is more important, hence the Switch, and AMD's ability to do it in the pre-Ryzen era. (The original Intel-CPU Xbox had an Nvidia GPU.) Console vendors are high volume institutional buyers with aggressive price targets, so being able to get both from the same place is a big advantage.

For PCs, discrete GPUs are getting bought separately so that doesn't apply. AMD does alright there but they were historically the underdog and highly budget-constrained, so without some kind of separate advantage they were struggling.

Now they're making a lot of money from Ryzen/Epyc and GPUs, and reinvesting most of it, so it's plausible they'll be more competitive going forward as the fruits of those investments come to bear.
It's not the 4 pound savings they are paying a premium for.

It's the ironclad guarantee that the carbon fiber bike won't gain that 4 pounds back in the coming weeks and months. :)
> If you take out London. Britain now has the same GDP per capita as Romania. Right wing economic policies have consequences

The UK's economic self-immolation under the Tories has been awful to watch, but it is still a far richer country than Romania.

Romania nominal GDP per capita 2021: 14,858 USD (2021, Google)

The poorest region in the UK is the North East with a nominal GDP per capita 2021 of 24,575 GBP = 31,210 USD.

Things are much closer at purchasing power parity, but then that really should be accounted for at the UK regional level too given housing is so much cheaper outside of London.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/bulle...
That's exactly the problem. It's purely a status play, in the narrowest and meanest sense.

It's unthinkable and insulting that some of the lower orders might have actually have valuable skill or important agency.

The primary product of corporations has always been hierarchical status for the owners.

But sometimes there's been some sense of generosity and mutual obligation. Now there's none - just myopic selfishness which often leads to disastrous consequences, sometimes affecting those afflicted by it.
You guys trying to revive the FrontPage/Dreamweaver era?
I do wish more of the younger generation would be willing to hang out on forums/irc/etc. I would not install Facebook even if it cost me friends
I don't understand this syntax unfortunately. My point was that such configuration can definitely be implemented currently, but not in a scalable way. By scalable I mean - can change frequently (ideally without a lot of dev work), easy to add new variables and conditions (again with minimal dev work).
Sounds like an aggressive liquidation when all the stock holders suddenly don't want the company to continue anymore and want their money back. Most of the time I thought asset value << market cap though so if someone makes profit it's definitely on the expense of others.
When I was a kid, the whine of CRTs was genuinely annoying, and those 'keep pests away' things hurt when they went off. I was looking forward to not having to experience that as I got older.

Now that I'm middle-aged, I can tell there's a little loss around the vocal frequencies... but damn if those old tubes and pest devices aren't as annoying as ever. Ears are weird.
That's exactly what DP is, every DP formulation of a recursive function is bottom up vs. top down (eg. think of the steps you need to do to get from recursive Fibonacci to DP, or knapsack). LCS is not special in that regard
Yeah, essentially Boeing has 3 aircraft, 737, 787, 777.

Airbus had 3 as well. Those are A320, A330, A350. Then added A220.

That basically covers the majority of the market.
May I ask for more precise anecdata: What EV is that? And which EV are worse for the colds snaps?

Around here it's -5 to -7, so much less severe and if I understood my wife correctly, the Ora has a ~20% drop in range. Still good enough for our use case, but when I'll replace my PHEV with a proper BEV this might be more relevant.
Build more railroads.

(I used to work for an autonomous truck company, and when you factor in the cost of roads in addition to the development of the trucks, it makes absolutely no sense to do autonomous trucking when you could do trains. As a culture, we've been brainwashed not to fund trains. We collectively spend billions and billions on roads but would not dare spend money to build more tracks. It is shocking and ludicrous, but that's what happens when you suck up a century of propaganda from the fossil fuel and automotive industry).
Good point on the two Reacts. Call me old-fashioned, but I still prefer being able to serve a React app over a CDN instead of needing a Node.js server. Might be in the minority these days though.
AMD holds an arm license and uses them as part of the software tpu in the pro series processors as I understand. It's not unreasonable to assume they could make some ARM x86 hybrid CPU (like apple did for Rosetta) or a mixed arch chip we've never seen before that can run emulators native. Who knows.
Right so maybe just have more trains and less road traffic generally
They also more or less won the PS4/XB1 generation by default as the only supplier capable of combining a half decent CPU and GPU into a single chip - Intel had good CPUs but terrible GPUs and Nvidia had good GPUs but terrible CPUs. That tide is shifting now with Intel's renewed push into GPUs, and Nvidia getting access to high performance ARM reference designs.
That's not an apt comparison.

Lots of people and companies use identical chips. Only boeing uses boeing airplane bodies.
I mean that being offered interviews is often preferable to sending resumes and being ghosted
Generative AI can copy the style, if they's all you have as an artist, then it's barely art TBH. AI can't copy the thinking / motivation / juxtapositions behind the art.
Ask HN: Why do computers/tablets/etc "freeze up" as they get older?
By "computer" I mean: desktop computer, phone, tablet, VR headset. I'm not so sure that the problem happens with game consoles -- but it also doesn't seem to affect PC games. (The machine annoying me the most right now is an 8th generation iPad.)

So far as I can tell the problem started around the time Win95 came out and also affected MacOS Classic at around the same time. It did not seem to affect minicomputers like the PDP-8, PDP-11 and VAX. It did not seem to affect home computers like the Apple ][, Commodore 64, and such. I don't think it affected PC compatible computers running DOS. I don't think it affected Sun or AIX workstations or Linux machines running X Windows until KDE and Gnome came along, now it does.

(I think it happened around the time that most GUI systems started to incorporate distributed object models and RPC mechanisms like COM, XPC services, DBus, Binder, etc. Certainly all the systems that annoy me like this have something like that.)

Reinstalling the OS seems to help for a short time, but as time goes by the length of the honeymoon seems to get shorter and it is faster to get slow again.

Back in the day it helped to defragment hard drives but we're told we don't need to do this in the SSD era.

If I had to describe it, it is not that the machine gets "slower", but instead it has periods of being unresponsive that become longer and more frequent. If it was a person or an animal I'd imagine that it was inattentive, distracted, or paying attention to something else.

If you benchmarked in the ordinary way you might not see the problem because it's a disease of interactive performance: a benchmark might report 10 seconds on either an old or a new machine: it might take 0.2 sec for the benchmark to launch on a new machine and 2.0 sec on the old machine, but the benchmark starts the clock after this. You might need to take a video of the screen + input devices to really capture your experience.

Any thoughts?
I always find it interesting that whenever an article about psychedelics gets posted, the comments are always “We don’t know yet if this is positive, we need much more evidence and science!”

Yet the standard of rigor for alcohol, weed, SSRIs and tiktok is somehow not as stringent.
I seem to remember an article some years back that determined that CAT5 network cable made excellent speaker wire; though very thin, the wires were entirely capable of carrying the electrical signal, and the twists prevented interference from nearby electrical fields.
I agree. Lynch's Dune is a really, really rough cut gem, but it is a gem. The last half-hour is obviously rushed without the ability to make it a longer film. Honestly it needed at least another hour or more.

Villeneuve's adaptation so far has been really good, but it's a piece of keenly honed metal compared to Lynch's. Better engineered, but sterile, and missing the kind of messy beauty that I find in Lynch's adaptation.

The Dune books are really, really weird, and the social order they depict has all the ugliness of the historical precedents it apes. Lynch's weirdness captures that, and the "mystical" feel you talked about in a way that Villeneuve doesn't.

Incidentally I agree that Mamoa's Idaho is one of the highlights.

EDIT: On that tentative connection I finished with. I do also worry that in this era of film, Villeneuve's Dune will become somewhat Marvelised. But we'll just have to see.

It does disappoint me a little that at the end of the day, Villeneuve will be the canon adaptation. Just good enough, but unless something radically changes, not nearly so weird as it should be. But we'll see. First movie could just be the first stage of boiling frogs, who knows.
I think the idea is good but execution is poor to reach mass adoption because:

1. It tries to replace ALL package managers due its extreme philosophy. I had a lot of issues when it tries to replace Cargo for example

2. It uses a functional language, which will lose 95% of users

3. It never had a great user experience especially if you’re new and trying to learn or if you’re not using linux or if you bring your own tools (e.g. vscode)

I think something like that could totally exist one day, but it’ll have to restart from scratch on a cleaner base IMO
https://keeb.io/collections/sinc

https://keeb.io/collections/kbo-5000-split-staggered-80-keyb...
Java didn't win, you are still free to code in whatever language you are comfortable in. At least until the great big Jenga tower stack of modern-day dependencies and API's your language relies on eventually stop working, which is the real killer, not how good or bad your chosen language is.
An explanation of tandem adjustment (with diagrams) can be found here: https://www.bigtruckguide.com/know-how-to-slide-your-tandems...

It involves moving the trailer's rear axles forward or backward based on the load's weight distribution.
> as soon as Ancestry mandated MFA for all accounts, I lost access to my father's. This was a good thing, because we weren't supposed to be sharing in the first place.

Don't let the smiling bastards gaslight you into thinking that's a good thing.
Basically, most professors can't navigate it then until they get tenure? They need to self-censor until tenure is achieved? That's a lot of years of self-censorship.
Metal MILO [1] tins are pretty good. The tight fitting lid provides a continuous RF seal and being tin-plated you can solder though connectors in place, providing good ground continuity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_(drink)
NixOS is honestly the single most game-changing thing I've been introduced to in my last decade of experience in tech.

If you're interested in trying out NixOS I highly recommend either running it as an WSL2 VM[1] if you have a Windows machine or deploying it on a cheap VPS[2] to play around with.

I personally still use a Win11 desktop for compat with Adobe software and a few other bits and pieces, but I do all my serious work on a NixOS WSL2 VM.

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/nixos-wsl-starter

[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/nixos-hetzner-cloud-starter
Memory overflows.

Defragging freed up space for virtual memory
How does discriminating againse a group of people create a “plain level field”?
The entire JIT, garbage collector and most of the C#'s VM are all implemented in C++. This has caused various issues in the past which are exploitable from managed code. The amount of unsafe code used to implement C# vastly outweighs the amount in Rust's standard library.
I didn't see any slight. I prefer it, for example, when a doctor uses less medical words when discussing things. I'm not a doctor, I don't know the vocab and jargon as well as he does.

Would you rather he just use a bunch of technical terms and jargon she won't understand? That seems pretty condescending.
You can use git and it isn't too difficult or unfriendly. But I totally get it. I'm paying for sync and I do love Obsidian, but it feels a bit steep. I do want them to stick around though, so, I just pay for it.
They have the fat tires because they're purposefully melting tire rubber into the pavement for a bit more traction. Rubber tires have maximum grip at 7% slip; just about the only material where sliding friction is greater than static friction.

Road-going tires won't get hot enough unless you're skidding far below 7% slip.
Most of them are going all-in for automation of everything these days, either classic robots or some fancy iteration of "AI". Chinese labor got too expensive, even Apple is fleeing, most of Asia is too unstable politically given the potential for multiple hot wars in the entire region (most involving China, but there's also India and Pakistan), Southern America is too unstable as well with either lunatic politicians or drug lords running the show, most of Africa just doesn't have the infrastructure required for either low-skill industry work or IT offshoring plus the looming effects of climate change and, again, multiple hot wars going on. Oh, and machines don't go on strikes or demand market wages.

So, the result will be even worse, with people not even having jobs and left to fight for scraps instead. Or maybe one of the hot wars will eventually go global and humanity will be nuked down to 1% of the population, Fallout style. Who knows.
Dynamic programming is not a black magic, _proving it can be dynamically programmed and their correctness_ is. You need to use mathematical induction to formally proof it just like with greedy algorithms which are very counterintuitive (take for example, greedy coloring) when I learned them both in uni.
> People are doing this to themselves

You could make this argument about anyone who lost money in 2008, a bank going bust or fell for any kind of fraud.

‘Should have done more research, made better choices’
First of all, yes there is, because it creates a culture of hands-on expertise, and appreciation for how the real world works outside of a spreadsheet.

Second, productivity in the US is fine. The problem is the profits are very unevenly distributed.

You can't run a consumer economy by underpaying your consumers, forcing them into debt, and bankrupting them with - for example - health care costs.

Third, the kindest thing you can say about outsourced manufacturing is that it's strategically unwise. It's good if you want cheap Chinese chips with unknown abilities in your military and civil infrastructure, but not so good if you stop to wonder if perhaps that isn't all that good an idea.
The intent at the beginning of the paragraph, but not at the end. Is an IMG meant to be in the paragraph? Is a SPAN? They are inline elements that can indeed be inside a P.

I honestly don't understand this level of laziness in 2023. Editors close tags automatically, ffs. For the sake of saving a keystroke or two we end up with unintuitive and ambiguous crap.
Nix respiratory has a lot of good work done in it but I've found some bad packages.

Alpine also sounds like a nice system but I'd bet it has an even worse issue with bad packages because of musl.
Putting together a lot of different foods inside the category of "carbohydrates" is stupid, and telling people to restrict it is even more stupid.
It’s not a sustained draw all night for every car. I averaged 17kWh/day in the last week. My energy provider schedules the charge in 30 minute chunks. It will charge during the peak time if it wants too ( and I get off-peak charges).

Both the UK and US have this already.

https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero/ele...

> Through smart charging EVs can in fact help to balance the system, helping consumers use green power when it’s plentiful (and often cheaper) and avoid times when there’s more load on the network. Vehicle-to-grid technology could even send that power back to the grid when needed.

> With this in mind, the UK Government has introduced Electric Vehicle Smart Charge Points Regulations, which ensure that EV charge points will have this smart functionality.

> Similarly in the US, Smart Chargers and Time of Use Rate programmes will support balancing the load throughout the day.
Cries in American
The majority of houses in the Canadian prairies do not use electric heat. Natural gas furnaces are the primary heating type. So they still use electricity for the forced air system, but far less than your quoted 5kW. Usually less than 600W
Author of the package here. Joining 5 tables is not a problem.

The training does not necessarily require you to write the queries by hand. A trick that we've seen people do is to just train with DDL statements and then ask "leading" questions if it can't answer on the first try.

I've been using the package myself for about 6 months and while I haven't forgotten SQL, what I have forgotten are the fully qualified table names and which tables live in which schemas etc since I never have to think about that.
How is it condescing to use language the other person would understand?

Do you want experts in their field to use jargon and terminology you're not familiar with when they explain things to you?

Or do you want them to break it down, use analogies and comparisons that you would understand?

It seems pretty tone-deaf to communicate without understanding your audience and their knowledge.
Wait, wait, wait! There's stereo cream?

Do I apply it to the speakers or the walls or the listeners or what?
Mailogy: AI command-line assistant for large email corpora
Video in tweet: https://x.com/granawkins/status/1746548729250017581?s=20
Probably not, these modular bits of silicon are usually tied to eFuses that are blown at the factory to irrevocably disable them in SKUs that aren't supposed to have them. Many years ago it was sometimes possible to re-enable disabled cores by poking the right registers, but manufacturers learned their lesson and now they make sure that silicon stays dead.

Besides, even if you could enable these DSP cores you'd be hard pressed to do anything useful with them, I don't believe there's any public documentation or tooling whatsoever for Cadence DSPs.
You can pin versions with apt-get install...
Unfortunately we didn't expand upon thinking about multiple intersections and their traffic lights being a network. We have fixed programming of lighting schedules that don't change unless a traffic survey is done. In most cases these are limited in their occurrences which doesn't reflect the dynamics of driving.

As an example I'm sure most people don't mind moving as long as they feel like they are getting somewhere. With the dynamics of traffic you could re-direct people to a different on/off ramp even though its further away to keep the same rate of speed for everyone. Maybe you send people down a different or parallel road for longer because it will get them there at the same time verses stop-and-go traffic because everyone wants to use the same or well-known road.
I always have the right amount of well-formed (and well-spanned) TD and TR, making my markup actually logical and simple to understand. Which is not the result we get from open P.
This is completely ignoring that RVScript has really nice APIs both ways. While being lower latency.
The readme says that I can convert Jupyter notebooks, but to what extent does this actually work? What if I've imported custom JS to render mathjax or added custom CSS? What if I've added inline graphics or videos?
But what would be the point of that? If you're already buying it from AMD and the previous generation was x86 so that's what gives backwards compatibility, just do another x86 one. The reason to switch to ARM is to get it from someone other than Intel or AMD.
Publishing minor things and blowing them up to influence public opinionn is a hit piece
How difficult would it be to build a semi-autonomous system where e.g. the forklift operator (or whoever else is involved in unloading/loading/connecting the trailer) performs the manual actions on the trailer while the robo-tractor does the parts that require driving?
Sounds like Magic Leap "overspent" on a custom chip design and fab, like they overspent on everything else, and ended up with a fraction of the sales they expected.

And then Valve "underspent" (although perhaps more of an MVP) by taking an existing good-enough chip, perhaps able to get very good yield out of fab (at a time when fabs were costing a fortune), and found yet another corner to cut on a device that is overall pretty low build quality, to hit an aggressive price point. I love my Steam Deck, and I loved the low price, but the build quality is "good enough" at best.

Valve have reversed course with the new generation, having a custom chip now that they've proved out the demand, and I expect the device will improve across the board as they take advantage of higher volumes, and perhaps an ability to price a little higher too.

I wouldn't be surprised if Magic Leap also reverse course (or already have done? are they still around?) by moving to much cheaper off the shelf or pre-existing hardware.