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In early 2000s a mall in Hamburg did a similar thing, calling it a Männergarten, though theirs had arts and crafts:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Männergarten

A masters will be a faster, more expensive path.

Without a CS degree of some sort you're going to need to prove you can code. Dabbling helps but you'll need to show work experience.

Getting work experience without a CS degree likely means taking jobs that aren't otherwise appealing.

Contracting or freelance can be a way to get that experience since the bar for proof is often lower, especially when working in non-technical industries.

But those are jobs, and they pay money.

If you have the financial means and can attend a reputable school, I'd recommend getting the masters, or even a bachelors.

Having that degree, and learning what they teach you in a CS program, will help you get a much better job and will help you perform in that job earlier than learning as you go.

You're going to need to make the call if you can afford the short term financial hit/investment.

"P.S.: I'm unsure why anyone would think that this has anything to do with the Objective-C runtime. I guess it may if you pass any kind of ARC objects."

Because the comment on the commit that adds this to the swift source states that "It relies on ObjC interop".

https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/013aad13d4245a012cfb76...

So maybe not the runtime, per se, but haven't looked into what it's actually generating.

My guess is the former since there aren't any 32 bit Apple platforms anymore.

Exposing a c function from an objective-c file, and then calling into our swift code from there is what we've been doing since before this feature was enabled. That of course also requires the Objective C runtime, but we haven't changed to @_cdecl mainly because I'm more worried about the behavior changing than I am about anyone trying to run our swift code on Linux.

Assigning a block to a c function pointer is an interesting alternative, I thought we tried something like that but I can't remember now.

Hopefully @_cdecl will become a documented and supported feature.

With regards to being able to call a Swift function from C, stevetrewick pointed me to @_cdecl early last year[0][1][2]:

    @_cdecl("foobar") public func foobar() {}

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11650628

[1]https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/013aad13d4245a012cfb76...

[2]https://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net/#/repl/d68be430e72609717f71...

it's certainly great news that studios can make money producing high quality content.

But this isn't Netflix producing high quality content while the studios lose out. It's Netflix paying the studios for quality content.

Old media is still producing the content. Netflix doesn't own lots, or cameras, or catering trucks. This is predominantly a change to financing and a change to what type of shows get produced. It's not a change to who produces them.

What's interesting to me is that while Netflix is often the primary financier, the traditional studios are still the ones producing the content.

If Netflix has found a worldwide market for content, that's good news for the studios they're hiring to produce that content.

I'm curious if the additional revenue from Netflix, and presumably Amazon, Hulu, and a nervous HBO will be enough to offset the declining revenue from broadcast TV.

It was happening well before the tech boom. Venice was the last stretch of cheap sand in 200 miles, it was going to gentrify with or without Google or snap or any particular industry.

The retail explosion of Abbot Kinney, for example, predates any tech presence. Venice became cool (and safe) and then the tech companies moved in, along with everyone else.

Back in the '90s some government agency released a redacted report where someone had gone in and drawn black boxes in the PDF file, but the full text was of course still in the underlying data and people were able to get at it relatively easily.

EDIT: apparently this has happened repeatedly, according to a quick google search.

No doubt some sort of knee jerk process was put in place to ensure that any digital release of redacted documents must be scans of a physically redacted source.

Sort of like an analog memory hole.

There are slaughterhouses on multiple islands, and I can't find anything that states building a new one would be illegal.

At least on Kauai you can often find local beef, pork, and chicken, though it's still more expensive than meat from the mainland.

Likely because buying the rights to broadcast sports is expensive, free-associating talking heads are cheap, and subscriber revenue is down.

It's a vicious cycle.

I'm sure they are well aware that they're behind on the transition to streaming but are stuck with long term existing contracts that don't give them the rights they need.

The leagues want to go direct when they go streaming. Why would they need ESPN as an aggregator?

It's not like Netflix or HBO where you turn it on to browse, you're there to watch a specific game.

They're really screwed.

Yeah, figured as much. Look forward to that.

Very impressive. This has some features we've been missing in bitbucket/gitlab/github and it looks like the UI is well thought out and still simple.

The IDE-like source parsing is interesting, and I disagree with some of the other commenters here that that should only exist in an IDE, but the java limitation makes that just a novelty for us.

Particularly though the gerrit-style workflow and the rules engine for permissions is enticing. We'd love to move to something like gerrit but don't want to give up the friendliness of bitbucket/github.

Nice job.

It's how it grows, and whether growth is the priority.

Taking the HN comment community out of the context of the site makes it no different than any other drive-by commenting platform.

This thought process: "HN Comments are great. I want comments on my site. Other comment systems are terrible. I'll put HN comments on my site". Misses the point of why HN comments are great and why these comments-as-a-platform services have all resulted in the same level of awful, despite repeated and varying attempts to solve the problem.

Put a link to HN comments in your footer, bring them here, let the community and the mods help shape the discussion. Don't take the HN conversation out of context and splat it across the web.

If you want federated comments, use one of the existing, awful, toxic commenting systems that inevitably result from that sort of usage.

Can we not do this, please?

One of the reasons that HN comment threads are still mostly worthwhile when other sites and comment services are swamp fires is the community that has been built here.

That people have to come here to read and reply helps us form that community and our social norms.

Sometimes it's ok to remain a small club.

Sure but it's always "medium term": Taxes weren't fixed once, they are fixed at time of house purchase (and some other events).

It would only be revenue neutral if they had raised the absolute rates to make up for the fact that an increasing number of people are paying under the current rate.

One of the reasons that cities build office space while ignoring residential is Prop 13 which fixes residential property taxes. Taxes on equivalent office space and the business it generates are a better source of revenue over time for cities than the fixed taxes from housing. This disincentivizes balanced planning.

One thing that also should be mentioned: while it's perfectly ok to want your city to stay the same, it's not practical to put the burden of growth on other cities. And it's also not legal. California law actually requires municipalities to plan for and support their share of new housing[1]. Something many cities are not doing.

[1] http://wwwww.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_203PLR.pdf

Can't argue with anything in that list.

I think it would also be useful to survey people who looked into using Rust but decided against using it, as responses from people who suffered through the warts is analogous to looking at the damage to bombers that made it back to base. Still relevant, but not the whole picture.

I'd expect to see mobile/cross-compilation (which I know is getting better) to rank pretty high among people who didn't stick with it, but maybe I'm projecting.

Instead of the air resistance of a train-sized object (about a quarter mile long) you'd have air resistance equivalent to a train 300 miles long (think of the tunnel as an inside out train). It's inefficient by several orders of magnitude.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit

Among other things it's more efficient to send electricity than to send air.

Barrels.

I'd add that Rails was also hugely influential in its focus on developer productivity. A lot of it was magic and incredibly difficult to debug or modify when it went wrong, but it raised the bar for how you market a framework to developers.

Interestingly the need for base load is going away as we increase the mix of renewables: plants that can't load follow are becoming less useful and more expensive to operate.

Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in California is being shut down in a few years mostly due to environmental concerns but also in part because it can't be spun up and down easily to adjust for the output of the state's increasing mix of fluctuating solar and wind production.

We're headed towards a mix that looks like almost entirely renewables and peakers, or maybe eventually renewables and storage, if things like the tesla battery installation work out.

"This experience of “blacking out” probably speaks to the lack of frontal-cortex activity during the moment — hitters aren’t using the part of the brain that’s best for mapping out complicated, deliberate decisions, so maybe it’s not surprising they bypass the frontal cortex and use deeper, darker parts of the brain."

That sounds a lot like descriptions of the "flow state" from other domains.

The article mentions that the previous four are grid connected but it doesn't explicitly say the same for the fifth: "The four previously announced wind and solar farms deliver energy to the electrical grids supplying both current and future Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud data centers."

I doubt it, generators and motors operate at 99% efficiency. Do you have any reference?

A locked up torque converter or an engaged clutch is basically a solid steel bar. You're the one that is going to need to provide sources that show an electric generator and motor, operating in series, are 99% efficient across a wide operating range. (you won't find that that's true).

That assumes that engines are so small that they operate at 100% under normal conditions. This doesn't have to be the case, electric engines are so small, you can have bigger-sized engines where one single engine can use all the power. The nature of electric engine is such that the loss of efficiency by doing this is minimal. Plus you need to do this only fractions of the time, so the engine doesn't have to be designed to operate in high power mode at full duty cycle.

Look up the efficiency of electric motors running outside of their optimum power/rpm ranges. Also, you basically just said that you can get around a percentage problem by increasing the coefficient, which kind of misses the point. Also, if you're going to put four motors, you're probably doing that because you want to put them in the hubs, (if you're putting them inboard, you'd just use one or two motors and put a differential in there, like Tesla does), if you're putting motors in your hubs you want the smallest motors you can get away with, because larger motors increase unsprung weight.

Great car, and yeah, it's even more fun when you explain that the Haldex systems often pull off either the left or right half shaft...

The diesel-electric/hydraulic systems are used in situations where the gearing ratio would have to be absurdly high, they're not used because they're efficient or because they have good torque vectoring capabilities. The electric motor can produce nearly 100% of torque at zero RPM, which helps locomotives get several million pounds of train moving. In your car, truck, or even semi, first gear plus some clutch/torque converter slippage is plenty of mechanical advantage to get going, and once you're underway, a lockup torque converter or a fully engaged clutch is more efficient than the combination of an electric generator and a motor.

There's also the matter of power distribution, if you have four independent electric motors, you can only ever send 25% of available torque to one wheel, if you have front, rear, and center lockers, you can send 100% of torque to one wheel.