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I generally was too. There were some fun games on the 32X, but I bought it at fire sale prices after it failed.

Unfortunately the combination of the 32X mistake plus the rushed Saturn launch just annoyed all partners, retail and development. It’s likely a big reason the Dreamcast did so poorly.

It was a nice system but Sega was already on their back foot, not many people trusted them, and piracy was way too easy. Their partner in MS wasn’t helpful. And then the PS2 was coming…
It would be a real shame if EMF could propagate.
>I want to be transported and immersed into another universe, not see AR stuff floating around between the same four walls of my tiny apartment that I see all day everyday. It would drive me nuts and I can do that stuff on the cheap with my phone/Ipad.

Yes, because you are the target demographic for the current crop of headsets that are essentially just expensive niche gaming peripherals. There will always be a market of a couple hundred million people for that. But the other 7 billion people on earth do not want that. They want spatial computing. They want something that fits as seamlessly into their lives as a smartphone, and can be used in public without looking like a weirdo. They'll never even consider VR/AR until that is achieved.
Hey! Right now our focus is getting the core tech solid and we can do that much faster if we aren't juggling multiple platforms and plugins (we learned this the hard way), but after that we are going to blitz into as many places as possible.
Just wait a couple thousand years, and add the threat of murder/dismemberment/incineration for not participating, and I'm sure some alternatives would arise...
Weird new electron behaviour in stacked graphene thrills physicists
> You'd be able to view a business's information, watch videos, etc etc etc, just not create your own.

so...everyone - that Facebook or whatever considers to be in Florida - has to provide ID to post, then?
Hi antirez. I like you too. I essentially agree with you, but I think you are underestimating the importance of network effects of users herding to one particular branch of the tree.

My blog post is an appeal for users to choose one branch over another.
AI could make better beer
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I watched the first season and don't think I'll be watching the next ones. The decision to move a great deal of the plot/characters out of China was disappointing and I'm not really sure what their rationale for that was. It felt like an unnecessary change, as did changing up the characters so drastically. Making just about every major event in the universe revolve around a group of young friends in their 30s also stood out as strange to me. Comes off as less of a "great minds of humanity from all walks of life and backgrounds are forced to work together (or against each other)" and more of a "gang of superheros save the world" kind of feel.

I'm also not a fan of the writing style, though that seems to be a common trend among many new movies/shows. The constant vulgarity/quips/banter aren't very pleasant to watch. I'm not sure why so many shows/movies feel the need to add characters that are constantly swearing, drinking, doing drugs, cracking constant jokes and back and forth "smart" sounding sarcastic humor. It comes off too strong, like they're trying to sell the notion that this media is for adults, as if they don't believe that that notion could be sold off the content itself. But it feels like it has the opposite effect, like teenagers writing dialogue for what they think adults with freedom should be acting like.

That being said I think if someone 100% knows they will never read the books, the show could still be recommended and they will probably enjoy it for the ideas alone. So I think in that sense, it's not terrible. I'd dissuade potential readers from picking it up but if you don't like reading, or aren't a diehard sci-fi fan, the Netflix adaptation is good enough.
A recent court filing heightens concerns about whether prosecutors hid from the judge who authorized the raid that Burke was a journalist.

I don't entirely get how "being a journalist" is determined. We don't have any register of journalists. You don't need a certification. We're all "journalists" now -- and probably always have been.

It sounds to me as if he was not in violation of the law, regardless of whether he was a "journalist". But I am not a lawyer, and I've found that I rarely understand lawyers' reasoning.

In this case, the "victim" was Fox News. Perhaps they're claiming their own special protection on the grounds of being journalists, even though it was their own mistake that let this become public?
You should never double click to open a csv file in excel. You should ALWAYS import the file into excel. Set your types during import. Many of the complaints about excel's csv handling in this thread are user errors.
Both engineering managers and engineering project managers are results of an obscure or non-existent vision. When you don't know why you have an oar in your hands you need a person with whip to remind you.
Apple supports third party controllers they just don’t provide any.

Which is the ideal balance since they are an inconvenience if you have a keyboard/mouse in front of you and are using the Vision Pro as a replacement for multiple monitors. After all not everyone is using it for gaming or entertainment.
What functionality blew you away? What part of OpenVMS, architecturally, can not be replicated today on open systems?
We are in the process of adding the lyrics editing feature, as well as chord and rhythm types. It will be released soon.
If you think JBang isn't dynamic enough for such scenario, check this out: https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/scripting

Scala is a lot less exotic than Clojure or JRuby to most Java devs, as expressive as Groovy, yet fully type-checked.
Ask HN: Moving from the "tech industry" to LOB/internal software
Like a lot of people right now, I'm between jobs and struggling to land a new developer role. My career so far has been all in "tech companies" in/around Silicon Valley. I know there's lots of software development that happens outside of tech-focused companies, but I'm not sure how to access those roles.

Has anyone here transitioned between the tech industry and line-of-business or internal software at non-tech companies, in either direction? What was the transition like? What can I do as a candidate to make myself attractive to companies outside of Silicon Valley?

The most obvious difference to me is that industries like banking look for people with .NET experience, which I really don't have. I'm happy to sit down and teach myself C#, but my impression is that hiring managers in these fields only care about actual "work experience" and are unlikely to take portfolio projects seriously. Is my impression accurate?

And of course, if anyone is hiring a generalist with recent C++ experience, I'd love to talk!
Ahh, memories. Roughly 20 years ago, I took part in a research experiment which had as its aim to figure out which brain areas were involved when a blind person reads Braille. TL;DR: They had a hypothesis, which was mostly confirmed. It happens in the visual cortex. Anyways, back then, MRI was still newish tech. FMRI wasnt used much in typical medical settings, but for research. As part of the deal, the MRI technicians did share a lot of gossip and random knowledge during the rather long preparation times. Long story short, this is when I learnt about the tubed earphones. And all the other mechanisms which were constructed to transport the braille strip wthout operating a real motor inside the magnetic field... Was almost worth the 4 hours of having to absolutely lie still...
When you play about with game engines long enough, you start to realise that momentum is the key metric to track rather than speed. Especially in water magnitude can be very deceiving but to give some quick math, this vessel had a momentum at impact of about 154,000,000kg⋅m/s. For a car to have equivalent momentum it'd have hit the bridge at 156,580 mph. Humans are just less adept at appreciating mass vs velocity.
She reads the newspaper on TikTok – and her videos are going viral
But maybe that's beside the point. If someone wants to "learn French" they can learn by the official rules and communicate with other french-speaking people regardless of how many slang variants exist in France. They can also probably watch French television and understand it.

The point of esperonto was to make it easier to learn. French is regular, but extremely complicated. English is complicated and has a million special cases. Both languages are hard enough to master that society starts to judge a person's intelligence by how well they know the rules and special cases.
If you had read the entire message. And put single thought in it you would have noticed "Thus if you are not rich". Meaning that you don't have the coins to provide as collateral. Making your entire example entirely pointless and even fraudulent in the context.

So you cannot now take loan for house in bitcoin. At least not using the system you linked. Thus it is entirely useless to even post it in the discussion.
No! General purpose scripts should almost always be written in bash. It's basically the best language for doing simple things with files, it's universally available and it makes almost no assumptions about the environment in which it executes.

Have windows users use WSL (the VSCode integration is great!), and mac users should install GNU tools since the system tools are obnoxiously incompatible.

The only time I've found that scripts should be in another language is:

1. You need to call libs that to do something fancy and it would be too troublesome to make a small Unix style executable to do the thing.
2. The developers on your team lack Unix/bash experience, and you don't trust them to learn in a timely manner (sad).
This post describes my note taking/task management system pretty well.

Some points from my experience that have stuck out for me:

- Timestamp. Every. Single. Page. ISO8601 works nicely here. You can now link to other notes. You can also use the context provided by the timestamp to corelate your note with emails and call history around that time. Huge leap in QoL here.

- Being flexible and adaptable is important. As long as your note is timestamped, it can be anything. Your notes should be able to adapt to the task at hand, if you're trying to fit the task into your note taking system you're just creating overhead. Think of your notes as capturing raw analog output. You can do all sorts of post processing later, but your task notes should basically just be a raw dump of what happened at that time.

- One thing under "write everything down" is to take notes on all of your business related phone calls. I even do a preamble before each call, where I write down the number I'm calling, any information I might need for that call, links to other relevant notes, etc. During the phone call I write down the person's name, the gist of the call and and any information they give me. This has saved my ass more than once.

- Just use a paper notepad. There's no batteries to run out, no software to go wrong, and by writing everything by hand with pen and paper, you'll be more likely to remember it. Legal pads work nicely, they lay flat and the binding rings dont get hung up when you remove it from your backpack.
> How many pilots, trained or not, really have any experience with a 100,000 ton ship in a crash situation with responses where seconds matter?

I would expect anyone piloting such a ship in a harbor/under bridges. We requite airline pilots to train for many unlikely plane failures because the alternative is letting planes crash that we could have saved with better training.
I owned one and this article is perfectly accurate. This guy hit the nail on the head on everything.

Passthrough is massively oversold, even if it's technically impressive. They set expectations way too high.

The comfort is the #1 reason I don't own a Vision Pro anymore. I feel exactly as the author put it, "relieved," when I take it off.

I feel significantly more disconnected from my family when I have it on because I have no easy way to share my content with them. A massively improved guest mode, better casting, or something else would go a long way here.

The eye tracking + tap is incredible, but Apple tried to shoehorn this into everything. It should have been the primary mode of interaction with a detailed/precision interaction when needed. Eye tracking + tap is simply not good enough for power user use cases. It was such a relief to go back to my Quest after Vision Pro because the controllers were so precise and easy to use.

And finally, I'll mention that the OS + standardization of UX is HUGE. The Quest feels like a crappy Chinese clone in comparison. Every single window has a completely different way of moving, adjusting, etc. Sometimes you click in the center, sometimes you click under, sometimes you can't move it at all. On the Vision Pro, everything is standardized. I'd love to see Meta fix this.
I remember putting my ear up to the little holes and faintly hearing the audio even without anything plugged in.
How much of this is falls on the protocols of the shipping company? I.e. the same shipping companies that gouged the planet during covid - did they strip away safety protocols in order for profits/expediency?

Is this similar to Boeing for the shipping world? I realize it is early to come to any conclusions.

The question of this being a rare one off vs container companies deprioritizing safety protocols is what I am interested. The power failures make me go down this logic of thought.
>> Do they also review the original tooling? Why would one single out third-party packages?

Everything used for software development is explicitly approved. This includes programming languages, compilers, debuggers, IDEs, etc. We are primarily a Microsoft shop, so the majority of our development tools follow that direction.

For FLOSS libraries, the approval process covers both IT security review, a source code scan / static analysis, as well as a legal review of the package's license to ensure it is not on the prohibited list.

This makes management happy since it prevents potential security and legal issues. It keeps our customers happy since they get quality software made from fully traceable components.
Off topic: I thought (probably incorrectly) that the EU required that the cookie preferences for sites were supposed to offer "Reject All" if they offered "Accept All". I realize The New Statesman may not need to comply since Brexit, but their opt-out logic seems almost to be calculated to make people give up before they opt out of everything. Net result is that I didn't read an article that might have interested me, and I didn't see any of their advertisements because I didn't want to be tracked.
Everything is a Remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9RYuvPCQUA
Zoom added a mail feature. Tell me why?
Completely tangential story. A few months back I was getting an MRI. I stashed my belt, coins, keys, and phone. The machine started its clicking and thumping when I realized I had my wedding band on my ring finger. Immediately my mind raced to a video I once saw of an MRI machine propelling a fire extinguisher across the room. I braced for my finger to be torn off while I slowly took the wedding band off using only one hand. Luckily it stayed put through the whole scan and nothing happened.
I've always found it weird that the NPM ecosystem doesn't have something like Rake from the Ruby world to run tasks. Javascript things tend to be VERY task heavy, with dev servers, bundlers, testing, and coverage all being defined in the project normally.

The package.json scripts "work", but it's quite clunky, and relying on shell scripts that run node.js scripts causes issues. (cross-env solving a problem that really shouldn't exist.)
This thing is gonna look great on people's shelves
Simply pop from the bottom of the dresser.
China's EV price war is killing brands and infuriating consumers
I look at my local Catholic parish, and one thing that really helps keep it alive, is the parish school. A lot of parents who don't really believe in it all will still take their kids to be baptised so they can get into the school (and then for the other sacraments to get into the local Catholic high schools). And, once you have a large number of people with that connection, a few of them may decide to take it deeper. One dad I know from the school is officially converting (from some kind of Protestant) this Easter Sunday, he told me "my wife and kids are Catholic, I might as well be too".

It surely helps that here in Australia, private schools receive extensive government funding, roughly on par with what public schools get, which assists the Catholic Church in running lots of (relatively low fee) private schools. In effect similar to the idea of "school vouchers" in the US, although not actually implemented that way.

I note Methodists don't have as strong a tradition of running their own schools as Catholics do. In Australia, if you go back to some point in the 19th century, there were no public schools, only private religious ones, Methodist included (although Church of England was most common). Then, the Protestant churches made deals with the colonial governments, the colonial governments would take over most of their private religious schools and turn them into public ones, the churches would keep only their most prestigious schools (aimed at the upper classes)–the Catholic Church refused to take part, and then spent decades agitating for its schools to be publicly funded ("why do Catholics pay taxes to educate Protestant children but not their own?"), until finally in the 1960s the federal government agreed to fund them (in part because it really needed the Catholic vote, in part because the bishops threatened to close all their private schools, which would have completely overwhelmed the public system)
Sometimes categories are confusing as they seem incomplete/some of the papers found missing from a category. If you ignore them the ranking score itself seems better way to filter.
> and assembly is not needed anymore even for very performance-sensitive use cases like video codecs

People in this thread, writing video codecs for years that you use daily tell you that, no, it’s a lot faster (10-20%), but you, who have done none of those, know better…
It's 10 mph which is pretty slow as speeds go.
Podman 5.0 has been released
I thought at first it was related to Snowflake Inc., the data cloud company. But realize now that their logo is slightly different, https://www.snowflake.com/, so probably unrelated.
Thank you for the clarification.

Not sure I understand the snarky turn at the end there but I imagine I'm just lacking whatever context you have! No problem :)
There's no cost associated with bash unless you're hiring muppets.
I'm not sure I've even seen a recent, large C++ project that didn't depend on Python or some other external scripting language just to build it, so it's kind of hard to imagine using C++ itself to solve the problem that using C++ creates.
Certainly not. But a good church (and not all of them are) actively promotes parishioners to connect in deep ways, sharing vulnerabilities and weaknesses in ways that usually don't happen without some intentional guidance. Unfortunately, this "feature" also opens up churches to be places where different kinds of abuse can (and does) happen.
> The initial point (and randomness) has more influence on the solution time than almost anything else.

On that remark, a theoretical tool to choose the initial point is the Newton Polygon. For univariate polynomials, this leads to some of the fastest solver [1]. The idea to choose the initial point in this case is notably described in Section 6 of this paper [2].

A very rough intuition of the idea is that a polynomial p(z) doesn't vanish if one of its monomials is significantly larger than all the other. Reciprocally, the polynomial has more chances to vanish for values z such that two monomials have the same order of magnitude. Hence this is a good value to choose your initial point. Finally, deciding if two monomials have the same order of magnitude can be done by taking their log, and then it becomes geometry with polygons, hence the name Newton Polygon.

[1]: https://numpi.dm.unipi.it/scientific-computing-libraries/mps...

[2]: https://woelen.homescience.net/science/math/exps/polynomials...
This is the core of the injustice of what is happening to him. He is currently in prison (in England, not the US) with no charge, no trial, and no conviction. It is a mockery of justice. The US has drifted far from our principles of "speedy trials" over which we fought a war of independence, but at least when it happens in the US there are charges and an indictment.
I haven't flown for many years; but I think I remember airline headphones that were connected to the seat-handle with a hollow plastic tube.

They were awful.
Cars aren't the terrible thing that many pro urban folk here seem to make them out to be, and I suspect most people prefer driving them to cycling or using public transport.

Similarly, the whole idea of automated driving becoming the default and humans not being able to drive is something I'm 100% against, since it'd be both a privacy nightmare and take away a lot of people's freedom.

The problem is really more that some places are designed to only be usable in a car, and that's what's poorly designed.

Speaking of which, also that suburbs aren't a bad thing. Again, it feels like people take the car focused design common in the US, and assume that's how these have to be. Thousands of identical houses in the middle of nowhere with everything interesting a 30 minute drive away.

But that's not necessarily true, and (as seen in most of the world), suburbs can be quite nice places to live in. A walkable one (like many in Europe) can be just as valid a place to live as a dense city neighborhood or rural area.
It was not an old settlement, it was federal legislation (Dodd Frank 2010).

The 2018 Ohio v Amex ruling is about steering provisions not violating anti trust laws. Basically, Supreme Court ruled that AmEx could prohibit merchants from offering cheaper prices to Visa/Mastercard/Discover credit card users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_v._American_Express_Co.

This ruling was actually very beneficial for tech companies.

It would be funny if, due to this settlement being only for Visa/Mastercard, merchants can charge different prices for using Visa or Mastercard credit cards, but American Express credit card users still gets to enjoy the lowest credit card price, while American Express gets to enjoy the highest credit card merchant fees.
Most highway tunnels (including the Coentunnel and Zeeburgertunnel on the A10 ring road around Amsterdam) are category C tunnels, which means some hazmat allowed depending on the nature of the materials, the quality of the containment, and the volume transported. Notable exceptions are the Schipholtunnel (category A, fewer restrictions) near the airport and the Arenatunnel (category E, severely restricted) under the stadium.
I like guide comments because they show intent and because if you're scanning a function in an editor where comments stand out visually then it gives you a quick recipe of what the function nominally should be doing, which helps when you're trying to come up to speed in a code base.

They are even more useful if the author hates whitespace and tries to be too clever. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out code someone else wrote and appreciate anything that can set me in the right direction when trying to figure out what a particular function does.
The testing model for guitar separation is currently under development. The test results are somewhat unsatisfactory due to the significant variations in guitar instrument tones, especially for electric guitars. This adds to the difficulty of training
Apple is user-hostile and user-empowering at the same time.
Germany has its problems when it comes to rights and freedoms, but they seem to have this one right. Good for them!