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These kinds of articles which endlessly dissect semantics give me similar energy to the trite gymnastics many speakers do like assigning numbers of letters of a words and adding them to make a point. Or finding substrings in a word (leadership is a ship).

Context of our language matters. I wouldn't call my engineering manager technical in my software company just because he is really good at sewing. When program managers are called PM or TPM, there is a reason and function to it.

Also felt weirdly sexist tones in the article, if men do it it's making but if women do it is not technical?
Who is saying this? Where is the straw man coming from? Non technological skills are definitely called technical in every field from film making, arts, painting, music construction, cooking, wood working, metallurgy, industrial production etc. Is the article based on solely on opinion of few ignorant people?

It goes both ways. No one is denying that things like sewing, crocheting, hell even putting on makeup takes skill and practice. People similarly are ignorant of "technical" skills too. I have been asked so many times about what is so special about typing colorful text in a window all day. Or why I can't hack their ex's facebook.
As someone who only learned enough German to insult, I'd say it's part of the identity in the languages.

English borrows from everyone. German borrows from itself (to create elephant words). Many of the phrases in German are single words that amount to sentences.

English has some of the same, but it doesn't feed on/into itself
Not TOTP but a bunch of sites are doing this thing where they send an OTP to the registered email and have eliminated passwords altogether. I find it really annoying.
To me, "technical" in this context simply means how many layers of abstraction are you capable of piercing together with me?

I'm 20 years removed from any deep technical work at this point but I'm quite thankful that my CS degree's philosophy was that by the end of the program, you should be able to sketch out conceptually what's happening on a computer from electrons on a wire to how users react to your UI (basically, Nand2Tetris before Nand2Tetris). I've forgotten the fine details but that conceptual stack still exists in my head and it's an asset I'll always have.

There absolutely are many amazing managers of tech teams that are deeply non-technical and rely on their mastery of the abstraction layers they can grok to drive effective team performance. But there's also many times where the details do matter and the ability to dive deep into the guts of minutiae is an enormously valuable tool in your toolbelt. Management is a diverse set of skills and every manager rolls a different set of attributes on your character sheet and nobody is a 10 across the board. The art of management is to figure out what differentiated management style works with your character stats and build a team/environments to buff your strengths and make up for your weaknesses.

But the kind of technical knowledge you get from a solid CS education is too time inefficient to learn on the job and so there's real value to in absorbing it as much as you can in an collegiate setting.
How long before it's considered a piracy?
I can't imagine doing this: DVDs look SO awful on modern displays that it's just not worth watching them. Besides, you can get super-high-quality copies elsewhere if you want your own copy of something. Of course, then you have to worry about storing it long-term, using various backup and archival strategies.
It would be great to have a demo of how it works and/or a freemium tier to test out the platform before committing to paid tiers.
The Programmers' Identity Crisis: how do we use our powers for 'good'?
We use sparky in the UK for an electrician too.
The 2021 Fiat 500 sits at 1,683 mm width, a whopping 7 mm wider than the Model T at 1,676 mm: https://www.automobiledimension.com/city-cars.php
Yup, and in Norway where 90% of new cars are electric and about 50 % of personal vehicles on the road now are electric, we're charging them a lot. Which most people now schedule to happen at nighttime to save money.
Ask HN: Advice for deploying Arduino hardware into remote environments?
I've been building out My First™ Arduino project recently. The prototype has a few pre-sales already. Much excite.

The gist is that I'm providing hardware to control a 6V motor and a web app that allows users to configure the motor's schedule remotely.
The motor is going to be out in the wild where game hunters hang out and it's going to dial home over a cell network once per day to log stats about itself and learn any changes made through the web app. It all runs off of a 6V lead acid battery.

I've never done anything like this before. I've been a strict full stack dev my whole career, no hardware. I was using GPT to figure out how to wire everything together and how to write the C++ to run the device. I'm going to ship with off-the-shelf boards connected together via screw terminals for the first few devices and then look into getting custom boards made later. This means I've got a voltage sensor, buck regulator, relay, motor, MCU, etc. all on separate boards for the time being and a bunch of wires running every which way to make all the power needs work.

I know this is a little vague, but I was wondering if anyone had any hard-earned lessons they wanted to share about similar projects? Data you realized was important to log that you weren't logging until after disaster struck? Unexpected issues with power management or connectivity? Things that go crazy in Arduino/low power environments?

I guess I'm just looking to bolster my confidence beyond writing a bunch of tests for my code. It's a little scary knowing my code is going to be running on hardware where if things go wrong I can't just push a new version.

Thanks!
I would add one more category.

Beyond the in-office and the N-days-a-week-hybrid, you have within _actual_ remote roles:

- Country remote (mostly for taxation/regulatory)

- Time zone remote (remote first companies but constraint to within 2 or 3 hours of HQ time zone)

- Anywhere remote (actual remote but often as a contractor or EoR)
As a guy with an MA in fine Arts who now leads a technical job I think this is an arbitrary decision.

I would draw the line differently. The line needs to be between people who have to care about how things work and people who are not willing to or don't have to care.

If you are in a tech company ideally everybody cares to some degree about the product. And caring about the product means understanding the different alternate-reality versions of that product and comparing them. And that requires some technical knowledge.

If you're the janitor or the security at that company that does not apply to you. If you are running a team, guess what.
It's really too bad there isn't something like M-Disc with a 1TB capacity and the price of current BD-R discs. We're missing a good data archival solution these days.
I wholly agree with you, and on the other hand have seen enough researcher code that I know why they don't share it. Usually it's such bad quality, hammered by multiple students to get to some goal, that by the end I was surprised they even trust the output. Publishing would at least make them know from the start this will have to be open sourced and probably even increase the success rate of research by improving coding standards.
There needs to be some news equivalent of vexatious litigant, where somebody this persistently stupid can just get tuned out.

He's no better at prognostications than an astrologer.
Can't go wrong with FreeRTOS. It's basically an industry standard at this point.
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Yeah, its not surprising what a bunch of layoffs will do. The Authy people have been gone for a while.
This only proves even more how Python is magnificently fast. Only 5% difference from the native code...
I wonder if there's performance being left on the table because of the way programs and games are designed. It's no secret Qualcomm's mobile chips will run like shit when you try to use desktop code on them, because they're designed differently. I wonder if we're seeing aspects of that here. It would explain why Qualcomm convinced their press team of impressive numbers that nobody in the real world has been able to replicate.

There was a whole comic about design differences when porting desktop style games qnd shaders to mobile (I can't find it for the life of me) which was a pretty good beginner's guide to porting that stuck with me.
I have seen those people in wild. I have respect for non-technical managers but the ones that know their limitations.
RTIC is really simple and doesn't use it's own HALs. Also it's macro system makes it hard to modularize your code since all tasks need to be in one module. I've played around with it a bit and it seems like it could be great in the future, but currently not really.

Embassy has it's own HALs which makes it better at async and has also nicer ergonomic IMO
Why, though? Is there some kind of requirement that only fully trained carpenters can build fences?
> What’s the actual likelihood of seeing the same TOTP code from different apps at different times?

There’s only a million 6 digit TOTP codes, so I reckon you get to 50% odds of collision at ~1200 values.
For the same reason we apprehend people who expose themselves? A fetish is fine unless it impacts another party who didn't consent to it.
I've even started storing digital music on my own server, something I haven't done (checks timestamps on old mp3s) in 15 years.

Musicbrainz Picard is a huge life-saver when managing your mp3/CD-collection, it can tag even the weirdest crap with every mp3tag you could imagine.

Same with DVD/Bluray, you can get them crazy cheap nowadays and ripping is a breeze with makemkv. With the current storage pricing you really don't need to compress DVDs even - and if you want to, it's like 10-15 minutes with GPU acceleration.

I just need to build proper tooling to cross-reference a list of movies I want vs sales available in the stores I use, doing it manually when I remember it is a huge chore.
Fair enough. So let's complicate it a little. If you have hierarchical variable sized structures within structures (e.g. java class file), then you need a stack of work in progress (pointers plus length) at every level. In fact, the moment you need a stack to simulate what would otherwise have been a series of function calls, it becomes a pain.

Or let's say you have a loop ("retry three times before giving up"), then you have to store the index in a recoverable struct. Put this inside a nested loop, and you know what I mean.

I have run into these situations enough that a flat state machine becomes a pain to deal with.

These are nicely solved using coroutines. That way you can have function related temporary state, IO-related state and stacks all taken care of simply.
Authy uses a standardized QR code to seed your TOTP. This isn't true.
Electric Ford model T was never produced, only planned. 80 mile range figure is for Detroit Electric car that Henry Ford’s wife owned[1].

1 - https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digita...
Depends on the local laws. Over here ripping for your own use is legal, sharing isn't.

Actually downloading is legal too, you just can't upload (making Bittorrent effectively illegal)
This is a bit hard to digest for me who have lived most of my life in a culture where technical skills are not valued but soft skills are (Sweden). It has turned around to some extent over the last 15 years, but I still fondly remember how I “destroyed” my manager back at Ericsson by interrupting a long rant about how little she understood about engineering and pointing out that her title was in fact “technical manager”. If a look could kill I wouldn’t be here today.

I can understand that the Silicon Valley culture can be frustrating if you’re “not technical”. But just remember that the opposite culture (i.e. the old Swedish one) is a road to serfdom for everyone involved. If you don’t believe me, just compare e.g. Ericsson’s and Google’s market capitalizations over time.
So the tactics seem to stem from this https://web.archive.org/web/20240114171420/https://www.texas... "lawsuit from hell", tiring out the publishers.
I tend to use "conceptional skills" to describe someone's ability to understand a complex system. When hiring - especially for roles like "technical product manager", I could care less about "coding experience". CS education is a plus for sure, 1-2 years coding too. But beyond that, I feel the conceptual skills are far more relevant. How much modelling can someone do in their head? How quickly? How honed is that ability in them? Sounds like your university trained your conceptual skills, that's awesome. Other people train them through other means, consciously or not.

Hiring even developers with lots of experience but low conceptual skills has mostly been a disaster for me in the past. The same goes for "technical something" roles. Programming experience can be a bit of a red herring for those actually.

For the most part, my "technical" interviews go into conceptual skills and motivations. That's the stuff I really need to know to decide whether to hire someone. Some language/tool/framework, they can learn quickly, given conceptual skills, motivation and _some_ programming experience. (Disclaimer: I primarily hire generalists as FTEs. For specialist skills, I prefer to hire freelancers temporarily, where I focus on what exactly they can do today.)
Yeah, no. You don't need to use Authy.
And the driver is unlikely to survive a crash.
Heat pumps are improving to work in wider temperature ranges.
I spent far too many hours playing Trade Wars. It's really a game that I think would probably do well with a reboot. Such amazing depth, room for unlimited players, and such a great strategic layer.

There was also that one game where you went deep down into some dungeon, and had the option of taking various drugs for buffs while also dealing with side effects. It was weird, and fun.
Microsoft Multiplan for CP/M is the tool for you and only needs 46, maybe 60kB of free memory!
Interesting. I sense night time use could extend well to charging an array of batteries until Solar is fully up and provide some options.
Has one of those Androids been capable of running Samsung Dex? I've used it on my tablet (without an external screen) with a USB dongle and I found it surprisingly competent for a lot of desktop work, if I weren't for the lack of RAM in my device.
I would say so as well. I would take a manager who can't code, but is a car mechanic nut in his spare time over one who can code a bit, but has no private interest in anything vaguely techological 7 days a week.

The important bits about technological choices translate somewhat well between domains. A shitty overly complex motor looks impressive on the blueprint, but it is a shitty overly complex motor.
What people mean by "technical" is whether a person has a background and education in some field related to what they are doing now.

No doubt that conversations and sewing require specific skills and techniques. Certainly they are "technical" on some level, it just isn't what is meant.

"Technical" in the context it is used means what level of specifics you can communicate on. Which is why it can be total nightmare to have to work with "non-technical" people, as there often is a relatively easy low level explanation, but that is useless to the other person, so communication starts to break down.
Ok, we get it, you can do your job. But when I ask a fellow engineer if someone is technical I'm asking if they can do my job. So yeah, feel free to call me non-technical in conversations with other sewers.
If the option is not watching at all vs DVD, you still kinda need to pick the DVD.

There are many worthwile movies you can't find anywhere (legally) unless you own the DVD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma_(film)#Rights_issues

And then there are the ye olde Criterion Collection DVDs with exclusive extras like commentary tracks that can't be reprinted because of licensing issues.
Interesting to see Mann's evolution towards (maybe even during the writing of) Der Zauberberg (1924)?

(good thing he wasn't the inspiration for Orwell's 2-minute hate; that guy would've had a much harder time backtracking)
In Spain I get at least 4 or 5 calls a week from different providers.

Luckily at the moment, there's still a delay after you answer the call as (I assume) you're being connected to a human. How long will this last....?

Currently, when I don't hear a voice within 1s or so, I hang up. A legitimate caller will (hopefully) call back pretty quick.
Arguably from the point of On Disk Structure (to reuse terminology from NTFS' ancestor in VMS), all attributes can have names as well.

Now, implementation in ntfs.sys is another thing and I have no idea if it's just an unused code path or if something would explode, and from what I heard Microsoft ended up in situation where people are scared to touch it not because of code quality but because of being scared of breaking something.
I don’t own a 4k TV, yet, but someday I would like to watch the Lord of the Ring movies in 4K. It seems silly to buy the discs and a 4k player when I don’t anticipate buying a 4k TV anytime soon, but… I keep wondering if the physical disks or the player will go away before that day comes. Is this FOMO or a realistic concern?
Is tape reasonable for aficionado home users?
10 gallon gas tank https://www.speedwaymotors.com/shop/1926-ford-model-t-fuel-t...
Not yet, but they definitely could. It might provide momentum to bring improved memory safety to ARM in general.
Nuclear Stirling engines can run for a decade or more, but are still too heavy for a helicopter.
Presumably the margins on Chromebook are terrible compared to those of mid to high end laptops. I don't blame them for wanting to start with the higher margin market and eventually work down.
Oh yes, now I remember reading the P1 spec and it does indeed say that it has been in use in the Netherlands for many years already. In Finland we also call it the HAN-port or the H1-port. Also, I must clarify that it uses RJ12, not RJ26 which I don’t even think exists.
If your criteria of "not locked down" is being able to run a full-ass IDE on your phone, then maybe.

But if using a Web-IDE via a browser[0] is enough for you, we're already there. You do need to adjust how you work, and that's a huge sticking point for some people.

[0] https://vscode.dev
I can totally second this. Embedded rust in general has been an excellent experience for me. And async with embassy-executor works really well and takes a lot of pain off the whole rtos design process.
If it's a freezer you use often, it's worth considering upright, because you want to be able to see, access and use most of the freezer, instead of just the top.

Add to it small humans who may do the same and the $30/year in electricity differences can be dwarfed by the benefits of having a freezer contain meal prep, etc.

Combining a small standup freezer with something like a Foodsaver is an easy win to reduce waste / thrown away groceries, as well as helping with off-season wishes.

Buying less from the inflation fuelling large grocery stores is something that is well within reach.
I think the comment refers to the Detroit Electric cars, because it was driven a lot by Clara Ford. I am guessing their range is due to them going 32kmh/20mph and being loaded with 530kg/1170lbs of batteries.

https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digita...
Because reproducibility is the cornerstone of the scientific method.
Big batteries and low speeds? Also 80 was the advertised “reliable range”.

The “normal” T had double to triple the range, at double the speed.

and I don’t think there ever was an electric T, there were barebones prototype frames. What people call electric Ts are usually Detroit Electrics (the specs match).
It was always a lie. And it was so obvious. It pivoted on securing a deal with the EU to get back their buy-in, to maintain previously negotiated treaties in exchange for nothing but spite. And the EU held literally all the cards while idiot "brexiteers" just hamstrung their government by creating arbitrary deadlines _in law_.

I almost understand why people voted for it initially but I'm staggered by how many people still believe in it.
Ideally, gliders can be as big as the towing plane (or bigger) and more than double your capacity. That'd require rather massive size increases if you want to squeeze it all into one plane.

And bigger planes mean limits on what airports can be serviced. More weight per airplane puts even more limits on runways. (Just look at the A380's logistical tail.)

On the lower end, this could service remote communities that can't "just" enlarge their airport. On the higher end, it might save airports billions to fortify and enlarge runways.

At least in theory. We'll see how it goes in practice.
Having a smaller upright freezer for items that will be used in the near future is helpful. Leaves room to buy a larger chest freezer later on.
Are you saying that trans people openly existing as trans people is equivilant to MacIntosh wearing flashers who go about the place exposing themselves?

That netizens who choose to go to Asahi Linux forums shouldn't be exposed to trans developers?
I love how this response corresponds to your profile description, and I mean that in a positive way, just to be clear.
Agree. LTO devices are crazy expensive. I hope HAMR will boost HDD capacities such that you will be able to use a HDD as cheap archival storage. I would expect you can get a good 10y from a HDD you keep off but scrub once a year. Long enough for storage capacity to have increased another order of magnitude.
Having an "e" pronounced "a" in french is very rare, I would also intuitively only expect it to happen when the "e" is followed by two consonants.
A french person would likely mispronounce scheme either as "shem" or "skem", based on their familiarity with english. We have "Schéma" for "schematics", and we pronounce it "shem-a"
Exactly. I can see them doing the exact same thing with an exploit like this. The point wouldn't be to be undetectable, but rather to be sure the assassination attempt will actually work as intended, and to cause a big spectacle (few things generate news headlines like big airplane crashes).
I have zero experience in tailoring, but I have seen some patterns and they are not straight... You cannot just ask so can we get square piece of fabric and cut hole in it? And then later demand answers why you did not get fitted suit...

There are reason why things are done in specific way and in specific order. And understanding those are technical skills.
Passkey was a great idea. A brilliant solution which could have solved authentication on the web once and for all. If only Apple, Google and Microsoft had not completely ruined it by tying it to their platforms and using it as another moat

https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shatt...
Not every HD redo is better.

https://youtu.be/oZWNGq70Oyo

And honestly a ton of why dvds look so terrible is people forgot about deinterlacing. Toggle it on and things look a lot better.
Price is another important variable.

In any case, I'm not an expert in cars or what people need from their car. I would assume that the people who buy cars know what they want.
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