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Interesting! Thanks for the great info. Do you know if anyone will have the opportunity to integrate observations into the model so it can continue to improve?

I mean, this is good news, but why was the efficiency of the system so misunderstood at the design phase? I hope someone's interested enough to find out!

...but why wouldn't they use AI as an oracle? From an outsider's perspective, it seems that there's already plenty of incentive to test the margins of acceptable academic practice in order to produce more papers or publish more quickly. Sadly I feel like it'll become the norm to have a chatbot interpret your results and write your paper rather than using those expensive grad students.

I don't have answers; just the lingering question "why are we building this?"

The first recorded use of the word "busybody" was in 1526, per Merriam Webster. Some people just feel like it's their duty to tell the world how to be. I think it's just human nature.

As a former iOS engineer at Apple, and a dvorak user, I can verify that this is exactly the thinking (during my time) of why dvorak support wasn't a development priority. The properties which make it good for typing make it bad for a phone keyboard.

I've been working in climate tech for about 7 years now, at https://sense.com. Very fulfilling. We're hiring in lots of roles. Feel free to get in touch. (Email in profile.)

Should be marked [2016], it seems.

I was wondering if you could defeat the beans/lentils by injecting some water vapor in there (while maintaining the vacuum & placement of the items), and freezing the whole thing. Then cut it open under hard freeze and maybe everything sticks together.

I made one of these halos 2 years ago, and my anecdotal experience is that the older (fully grown) sparrows can't figure it out, but the smaller, younger ones get through. Then, weeks later, I see fully grown sparrows at the feeder, ignoring the halo. Did the little ones "fit" and then grew too used to it to be spooked? Did the big ones learn from the little ones? I don't know.

Another observation: Because of the number of sparrows, I did pull the whole feeder down and kept it down for months. Then, when winter approached, I put the feeder and the halo back up, and no house sparrows made it through again. Did the adults who were defeating it before forget? Move on? Die? Who knows!

No. It only works if you're so familiar with the previous UI than your pattern recognition kicks in. Someone who sees this for the first time will have no idea what it means. It's inaccessible to the novice.

Also, tabs without a favicon don't start with an icon at all.

If you haven't yet, check out Scott Mabin's blog. He's working on ESP32 & Rust: https://mabez.dev/blog/posts/esp-rust-18-10-2021/

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I burned out my XPS 15 USB-C charging electronics by using a high-end charger. I think many laptops of a certain age were not rigorously tested for USB charging. Hopefully that's changing.

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"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

- Bertrand Russell

I am having a really hard time holding onto Firefox as my mobile (Android) browser. The interface takes several taps all over the display to accomplish basic tasks.

For example: Looking at a site and want to open your "hacker news" top site in a new tab?

1) Scroll up until you trigger the top bar reveal

2) Tap the boxed number button next to the address bar

3) Way at the bottom of the display, tap (+) to open a new tab

4) At this point the keyboard appears with the address bar focused. I don't want that, so tap in the tab home screen background where Top Sites can be seen

5) Tap on hacker news "top site"

That's 5 gestures, each in a new area of the screen, just to open a web site. Palm Pilot famously put nearly every common feature in the entire OS within 3 taps of the home screen.

I really hope Mozilla can do better than this!

Is this https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2366 ? It really bothers me as well.

Matrix supports this. (Check element.io for a good client)

I am going to try to move my family to Matrix (via Element.io). I really hate the walled gardens. The fact that people still use email addresses from decades ago is pretty good proof of the powers of federation. Wish me luck :)

If you want to make performance a feature, you need to (in order!)

* define a metric

* measure it automatically with every commit

* define a success threshold

* make changes to get yourself under the threshold

* prohibit further changes which bring you above the threshold

Just do it like that for pretty much every view in the system.

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I don't think that's the full picture. I think people "roll coal" because they get pleasure from causing frustration by their actions. It's all about "owning the libs" or similar.

I drive a prius, and several times I have seen coal rollers cross several lanes of traffic to sit in front of me with their stacks spewing. They don't know anything about me other than the brand of car I choose, but it's enough to make them go out of their way. It's got to be a positive reinforcement mechanism.

I think the reason why you can't have a rational discussion is that it will play directly into this cycle! Give someone a choice between an uncomfortable analysis of their own behavior versus a pleasurable peel out with yet another frustrated do-gooder in their wake, and they'll choose the latter each time.

Honestly I think they'll just have to get bored before they stop.

Curious if you use self-hosted or cloud jira? My main problem with (cloud) jira is that it takes about 30 seconds from navigating to the site until I can start typing my issue comment or description or whatever. And that's without using search... It's just _so_ slow.

The point of my comment was to focus on the harm which the OP did by posting the faked content in the first place. And my comment explicitly says to forget about Person 1 and Person 2.

There's a lot going on in these comments, but it's worth noticing the breach of trust which occurred. Person 2 is trying to uphold the tradition of trust and charity which is a large part of what makes HN as successful as it is. Person 1 can "see the pixels" and wants to call it out. Person 1 was correct and Person 2 was charitable but wrong, and of course that counts for something. But if you look beyond that fact for a moment, I think there was real damage to the community of trust within HN. The OP acted irresponsibly by posting the article at all. That he used the trust of the HN users to prove his point doesn't matter at all.

> I had a lot of fun doing this experiment. Some people will probably get mad at me for tricking people, but whatever.

OP even recognizes the externalized cost of their actions, "but whatever", as they say. What they did by posting fake content to prove a point was wrong, betrayed everyone's trust, and was completely against the spirit here. And as a community we could say that we don't support this behavior. I think that's a good idea.

Most of these are about people's (or groups') nationality. Man, tribalism sucks!

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We have an incredibly productive cross-functional technology team, doing nearly everything in-house: electrical & mechanical engineering, embedded linux, DSP, cloud backend, data science and machine learning, mobile and full-stack web. This means there's incredible opportunities for personal growth. Basically anything you're interested in learning about, there are experts in-house.

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