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After 5x bootloop I also quit Google hardware. Bought a cheaper phone that I won't feel bad about replacing at 18 months if it happens.

Yes,all the immigrants I know are hard-working people, more so on average than people born and raised here. "Are you willing to go through the current immigration process?" Seems to do a pretty good job of selecting productive individuals already.

As an aside, this is probably my last post on HN, reading the xenophobic and likely astro-turfed replies to this and other threads has really reduced the value of HN comments to me. Seems to be as an increasing problem in all online venues :(

I think the initial r&d to get to this point is more along the lines of a nation-state investment. Google paid much more than $110k to get this working. It's not clear exactly how much it would cost to "weaponize", either.

A jtag debugger isn't the same as just debugging a local program on your system. Normally it is required to do initial hardware bringup, where you need physical access to the cpu.

Probably not wise to ship one enabled on production gear, I used to work on things that required some soldering to get access.

My current car has "regenerative breaking" that charges the battery(not a hybrid, just a normal BMW). I haven't tried any testing without cruise control on, but with cruise on it will definitely do a little breaking on highway downhills to maintain speed.

Every generation of car is getting better at all these things, so statements about efficiency almost all need a "cars built prior to 20XX".

It's about expectations, you might want to not live next to a rental. Beyond drunken idiots, unknown people coming and going, dragging luggage through shared halls etc.

Sure, a worst case long term neighbor can be worse, but the average case long term renter is more desirable to most people.

I am willingly living next to resort rentals, I knew it when I moved in. Having it foisted on mw would not be the same. And yes, people can generally do what they want within the confines of their property, it's the shared space or spilling in to neighbor's space that is an issue.

I'm sure the hotels will charge as much as possible, but since they pay taxes that assumably (since it was illegal) AirBnB hosts didn't, sounds like a win for the City Government of NY.

Just an observation, I don't really have much of an opinion either way. I currently live next to a couple resory rentals and depending on the people it can be between "not noticeable" and "Holy crap, I wish those drunk idiots would shut up and go to bed". Since there are multiple issues on all sides, they might need some zoning for "short-stay resort" dwellings, so people can choose to live in a possible party place or not. Might also give renters some piece of mind, ala the A ratings restaurants have to post.

I had a family member lose upwards of $300k before one of her financial agents contacted us. It was a "security system installation and monitoring" guy. Had done it to many people, apparently being the security alarm guy gets a lot of older people to trust you. Luckily we saved some funds and a pension to take care of her, but it was incredibly maddening. It was after another person passed who had kept tabs on her business, as soon as he passed the scam artist started siphoning money.

In my case she still trusted me and we got control as she developed dementia, but it took some time and money. If there is anyone else she likes or trusts more than normal, that might be the only person who csn get through.

I'm sorry you have to go through this, good luck.

Probably not illegal, you are required to act "in the best interests" of the person. From experience with another family member who gave an outsider POA, even malicious POA actions are very difficult to attempt to prosecute.

Some people love teal and pink. Having to look at or try to sell a house next to a monstrosity can be pretty horrible (or the neighbors with junker cars all over the lawn). Having been in a couple of regulated areas, I'm not much of a fan of the micromanagement that happens. However, having had my value/quality of living majorly degraded by an industrial operation moving in next door in unregulated BFE, the risk of living somewhere without rules is higher than the cost of compliance, at least for me.

Alcoholic drinks sold in a package come with warning labels. I've seen reports 1-2 drinks a day may improve longevity, but I doubt it would be acceptable to label every beer as "youth potion", you have to limit intake for possible benefit. For the soap, to receive a benefit also requires more than the label indicated.

The substance banned takes hours to kill the bacteria (according to the article), so I would say it's marketed in a mis-leading way. I doubt many people actually buy the soap thinking a multi-hour exposure is needed.

Anti-bacterial is marketed as "better", but is actually worse. If cocaine was legal, you still wouldn't be able to advertise its properties falsely.

Homeopathy stuff is actually clearly labeled not evaluated by fda etc. You could probably still sell anti-bacterial soap if it is clearly labeled "not recommended for daily use, may cause harm to consumer and environment", but what market are you going to sell it to, then? Consumers buy it because it advertises anti-bacterial prominently as though it was a plus, my wife buys it because of this (sometimes she doesn't believe me, arguing "hey all these companies sell it, it has to do something!", And she hates I'm usually right on this stuff, heh. )

I have had some 0% years during the early 2000's. A couple times I've seen companies slash 5% across everyone to not do layoffs. Just nit happening right now in the US, enjoy the good times while they last!

Maybe wasn't clear, GW isn't an idiot, but closer than most leaders, I'd say. Did GW choose all those people, or were they all pretty much from the conservative cabal that got GW elected? I think things like Iraq lack of evidence due diligence and Katrina appointing super inept guy are the things that make me think GW's personal selection skills weren't great, he did have brilliant advisers as you listed.

I don't think Trump is an idiot, more of a huckster with extreme emotions, but certainly loves to pander to the idiot mentality.

Dan Quayle is really the only true idiot I can call to mind who had a major position in a US party I can recall.

That's the exact opposite of liberal, "open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values."

There are plenty of intelligent people in all parties, disagreeing with them doesn't make them idiots. Greenspan comes to mind, I think his basic market beliefs are wrong, but don't think he's an idiot, I have read his book. GW is a lot closer to idiot level because of his demeanor AND his actions, but let's be serious few actual idiots make it that far, just not all of them are way above average intelligence.

Sure, but you have to live in Houston. Austin house prices in good school districts are expensive. I just sold a house for 10k in a small town in a part of Texas with almost no jobs, so you can find houses, but houses close to the biggest job markets in desirable neighborhoods just aren't that cheap. You can, however easily retire in BFE with a cheap house if that's the desire.

Maybe we are all fatties that can't fit a big phone in our pocket.

Or, don't use the phone that much but like access to a decent browser and apps when we do need them.

I have a 4, but actually miss my ancient G2 with an actual keyboard. Damn you kids and your touch screens, you ruined everything!

On my phone in the airport, so only skimmed article. Is Amazon an apple app? Not an Apple guy, but thought older apple tv didn't have Amazon.

Regardless, the new TV just bought has netflix etc. and controls stereo cia CEC. Stereo supports airplay, so I expect in future my bar to buying another box is very high. Asking Siri does sound convenient, but not sure worth it to have yet anoyher device to deal with. Wife is exceedingly happy to have one remote that "just works" compared to the mishmash of deviced I had prior to buying new stereo and "smart" tv that support CEC.

In fairness, C: A Reference Manual(Harbison and Steele) is now 560 pages.

I agree C++ is pretty messy, but if we got a 3rd edition K&R it would be much larger than the original.

Also no sure most people could understand C, but "most programmers" should be able to understand C if they tried. I concede I can barely understand C++, but I use a bare minimum of its features and write C when I can.

I'm rubbed wrong by the people who present at "Brown Bag Retirement Advice Lunch Talks" and want me to buy into their managed funds. The index funds have overhead in the range of .02-.5% for the most part. The managed funds are largely 1.5% and I've seen some that charge as much as 2.5%! I'll let you do the math, but it's very hard to choose a managed fund that will outperform after fees vs. S&P 500 from say Vanguard.

Most retirement accounts also don't allow individual stock purchases (at least mine doesn't), so the options are fairly limited for most people.

Without owning the foundry, it's not clear if this is an IBM tech demo that goes nowhere, or if it effects GF's roadmap. GF uses a Samsung process for 14nm (really 14/20 hybrid), so it really looks like IBM is out of the foundry business as far as taking a process all the way to manufacturing.

GF might leapfrog down to 7nm, but if they aren't even fully 14nm at this point, does that really seem plausible?

Not clear what IBM doing 7nm means, really. They no longer own a foundry, and don't have any chips in normal products that compete with Intel. IBM also demonstrated some really high clock speeds previously, but the Power8 is still a 4GHz part and is built on 22nm.

Now, if Global Foundry actually starts making full 14nm chips this year (which it doesn't sound like it, seems to be a 20nm back end), that might things pretty interesting.

I previously worked for a company that used both TSMC and UMC, the jump to the next process level is always extremely hard, and the biggest deal is yield. Until the yields are high enough to actually get to a profit a lot of companies with specialized chips will stick to the older process (set-top box chips for instance) where it's good enough.

FD: I'm at Intel (not hardware), cannot comment on Intel itself.

This was more about the pains of learning driving habits for a Tesla, and also building confidence in the distance one can go in a Tesla. Gas-powered cars require little such planning, as there are many gas stations, so a lead-foot isn't a big deal.

He noted at the end that he thinks he could get the same road trip down in a pretty reasonable time.

No one I generally know writes good or relevant code in 15 minute increments. In my own experience, I generally get warmed up by the 3rd or 4th interview, and it's an acting class as I regurgitate stuff.

"What was your approach to the problem?" = I pretend to think for a few seconds, then answer. You're basically just figuring out if I've encountered your almost exact interview previously and I've got the canned answer ready.

Currently we have a timed programming exercise we let people do at home, then review and ask questions like this over email as a filter, it seems to work fairly well.

In person, I just like to ask people about their work experience, especially painful failures and learning experiences they've encountered.

Things like variable names are meaningless, imho. Every company tends to have an arbitrary set of rules they like to follow, unless someone is using things like 1a a1 11a1 a1a1 altogether where I can't read it, I've gotten over caring.

I've seen it lots of places, but Ripley is the iconic one I remember. (From Aliens, for you youngsters).

I've played a massive amount of Crawl. I already knew vim, but you get a lot of repetition with those keys for sure.

I'm a Software Development Engineer.

Doesn't really matter what you are called, it's what salary you negotiate for the most part. Some titles are only bestowed on certain levels of people, but there are very few of those at all the companies I've worked at (Staff Engineer at one was a title only bestowed on people who had been promoted to a certain level and had certain compensation bonuses tied to it).

Snake Oil salesmen never go away. I'm curious how he knows he is upgraded? Did he set a baseline of tasks before he started supplements? Or is he just "feeling" smarter?

I've had this happen to me a couple times, seems like when I'm doing something on my phone and answer a call, the sound from the app on my phone plays over that call, annoying. Then when I end the call, I no longer get voice on calls until I reboot.

So, basically, don't answer then phone when in an app until an update cures it.

Just about what I expect as far as phones these days, people just suck at making software.

Are you double taxed? Many countries have reciprocal taxing agreements with the U.S. whereby you get credits for foreign taxes. That's how it worked when I was a U.S. citizen in Canada.