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I don't expect end users to have VS Code or VS Studio and things are tested in end-user appropriate environments? I don't see what development tools and target environments have to do with each other - 'bloat' in the latter does not necessarily mean bloat in the deliverable?

Edit: I've worked with people in my career who complained about 'bloat' in C (vs assember), C++ (vs C), Unix, Emacs (vs vi), Java (vs C++)

Complaining about the latest round of tools being bloated is just what a subset of the developer community does at any moment in time (and this is not necessarily a bad thing).
This comment is vintage open source jihadism.
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Title of the year. I like the thoughts provoked by the title better than the actual text, in fact.
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Set up your own website and host the content. Nobody is removing that ability.

You just don't have the right to tell a private company what content they must allow.
> However, I live in the real world, with real patients. I live in a world where I can tell a patient that a mole is completely benign and it still makes them anxious and they want me to cut it out.

What I am saying is that things need to change, not that this is a trivially fixable problem. Exactly how you would change things is not obvious to me, but I would say that not doing tests because of the information hazard issue is a symptom that something is wrong.

Perhaps the more general version of this problem is "don't set up systems that give billions of people nonconstructive negative feedback". It's applicable beyond medicine, I would point at unrealistic celebrity beauty ideals as another manifestation.
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I also noticed they seem to shutdown products when the main guy behind it leaves. Typically no one has interest in taking over because it was niche stuff with little chance to go big. Also, original guy would have already milked out credits and there is no career path at Google to be the maintainer in charge.

So the sequence of events are:

- founding guy leaves

- new guy becoming in charge sees career going down drain

- makes case for shutdown/half assed merge with other products to get out as soon as possible
Given no Internet back then, at least as impressive I'd say.
A block is just some arbitrarily short distance. It’s the distance between two cross streets, maybe 1/10th of a mile. It’s not intended to be precise.
We used bots to do that, but in todays world it's so easy to just stay logged in all the time, just leave a screen or tmux session running as a background process on a server
Didn't know about it. Thanks, it rocks.
Per the text, the screenshot you are seeing is what happens when someone links to a jsfiddle using a url shortner but posts linking directly to jsfiddle are rejected.

>Twitter is rejecting posts with JSFiddle URL inside.

>If a URL shortener is used the unsafe page warning is displayed[1]
At home in Sweden I have 250 down 100 up for around $38. I can get 1000/100 for $74 here too but I don't have use for such a huge down link.
I think that screenshot was from a link posted with a URL shortener. Weird that it makes a difference.
Actually the 2600 has 128 colors, which is pretty insane comparing to later systems like the Commodore 64 and Spectrum, which only had 16 colors. (But you can only use 16 colors per line though, on the Atari.)
He is being context-aware. He is pointing out that as the size of the group increases the complexity of the system also increases while accountability decreases.
You can use the log command and then run in on a screen instance.

This may be inconvenient for some people, but for me this is a feature.
How misleading.. There are a ton of places to invest money. My personal favourite are businesses and real estate.

There's two things in common with businesses and real estates as a form of investment:

1. They build equity for you in two ways: cash flows and appreciation

2. Businesses & real estate are some of the most transparent vehicles when it comes to doing research on whether it's a good investment or not. This is in comparison to investments like stocks where information might not be as transparent or as easily accessible as doing research for a real estate or a business.

Not only that but when it comes to an investment like real estate, some people are unknowingly leveraging in an environment where real estate has consistently appreciated 4% per annum for the past hundred years.

Consider this:

If you purchase a $100,000 house at fair market value for 10% down, you borrow $90,000 and drop $10,000 as down payment.

If it appreciates at the historical average rate of 4% per annum, your house is worth $104,000 next year.

You sell your house at $104,000, and paying off your mortgage ($90,000), you pocket $14,000, a 25% return on investment ($4000/$10,000).

Obviously this excludes variables like rent, interest, or mortgage but the illustration shows how a simple real estate investment can turn out to be a far better investment than it would otherwise show on paper (4%).

If there are 'too few places' to invest your money, there's always businesses or real estate. There's a compelling article here that further suggests why real estate might be the most consistent way of building wealth: https://digitalyse.io/why-real-estate-investing-is-the-most-...
How would you do it without using screen, or bots as you say?
Avoid the fediverse please, the point is to have a more humane environment, not follow #thoughtfluencers.

If you do join choose your instance wisely, beware that many instances block mastodon.social, freespeechextremist.com and similar for being hot messes that have no moderation. The latter instance in particular has a very persistent hellthread spambot problem, where bots sling nudes without content warnings at people constantly.
Yep, must say I miss the Escape-sequences for changing channels. Works fine via wee-slack though but unfortunately you need permission to join via wee-slack since it requires an API-key.
When you could run Solaris on the same hardware (x86), it was noticeably slower than Linux.
You can detained and held for days without any charge and then released with the stipulation of that if you talk about your detainment, you'll be arrested for violating state secrets.

Watch "Secret City" ... it's fucking nuts!
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If you're still wondering and/or interested in finding out, there's another thread with some discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20100492
My negative record is "getting access to the server" until "hard disk died" is 12h. And no, this isn't 1 out of 1 server.

I'd never again run anything business-critical on Hetzner metal. I'm not even running my irc bouncer there, tbh. The cloud stuff I'm really happy though, higher uptimes than on most physical servers there.

Oh, and remind me again of the time where we regularly called them because of outages because our monitoring was better than theirs and the customer support people hadn't yet learned of the network outage...
> why do you give a shit?

Given your tone, I'm going to guess you're not asking the GP a question in earnest. You should try to think about why they might "give a shit".

Twitter's userbase is its primary feature. Not its shitty UI, not its awful character limit, and none of the stuff mastodon's various UIs are copying. Its userbase.

If you want the fediverse to succeed, you need to understand that. And you need to stop being so accusatory of people who don't use the internet the same way you do, FFS.

(And for the record, I want the fediverse to succeed, but I also use Twitter because userbase)
But developers do expect them to run the crapware that they "develop", such as Slack, Spotify, etc., which are often worse than VSCode. Neither should be acceptable.

> I've worked with people in my career who complained about 'bloat' in C (vs assember), C++ (vs C), Unix, Emacs (vs vi), Java (vs C++)

That's a big hyperbole.
A fascinating piece of chemistry. I like everything about the article except the claim, near the beginning, that it melts into two different liquid forms. I would have preferred to express it as two different melting processes (one catalyzed by tiny amounts of impurities, the other not catalyzed).

Normally, it is chemical reactions that get catalyzed, not state changes, but the behavior of this chemical is an exception.
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Co-dependency is not 'part of the deal'. It's something toxic to a relationship.
Improving the mobile text editor is high priority (and has been tried a few times already), but currently there's no good React Native or web mobile code editor that can be used. CodeMirror for mobile is being developed so maybe we can use that once it's stable. I've actually already tried to integrate the beta in Joplin, which worked but it's not stable yet.
Hosting video isn't cheap, especially when the traffic picks up.

While in theory you aren't losing that ability, in practice most people can't afford to.
> I have never encountered a business that does not require backups.

Me neither. But unfortunately the most I've encountered don't either have truly full backups (missing stuff), actually working backup process (some issue with backup media, process, etc.) or any idea how to actually restore if something does happen.

Almost no one does drills to restore backups to some test system.

I can't talk about the other cases, but I can tell about one small startup I joined a long ago. The worst one. They did backups on a 3-disk RAID-5 server... with one disk broken and one with SMART warnings. Their backup process also failed to backup anything with too long path names, so in reality almost half of the data was actually missing! There was also some unicode issue that lost files with characters above 128 ASCII.

My first days went to just actually ensuring their data is backed up...
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I've used GnuCash, but the UI is very ugly (programmer design—disclaimer: I'm a programmer) and it doesn't work over the web.

At the moment I use waveapps.com. It's not open source, but it's free. From the outside, it looks like it's for businesses, but once you create an account, on the top-left you can toggle between business and personal!
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> How does that make the author's statement wrong?

The author's point is not relevant: the App Store is not the preferred distribution method for most Mac apps.

> "Nobody seems". Subjective. Also sounds wrong to me since it goes against my personal experience.

Subjective…except you replied with your own subjective opinion? Video streaming apps don't really need a native UI: they don't run constantly, and they don't really need access to platform features. Sure, it's nice to sometimes have them be so, but the real focus tends to be on social media apps and productivity tools.

> How does that make the author's statement wrong?

Because the author claims that Netflix will "keep using Electron", but they won't.

> Not my experience.

I mean, this depends on the apps you're using, but I don't think a lot of them will work well without work put into them to make them adapt to Chrome OS.

> Irrelevant. How does that make the author's statement wrong?

Because they can check a box in Xcode to make a Catalyst app out of their iPad app? It's not as hard as the article is trying to make it seem.
So in short, they are demonetising/shutting down also the ones trying to counter violent extremism by proper record holding and public accountability?
I just discovered ##hackernews on freenode :-P Also, #startups is the official hackernews chan.
I don't want the fediverse to "succeed", frankly its the only space for us LGBTQ+ to not be harassed, reply guyed, and screen-capped online that isn't a corporate hellhole.

Edit: "Success" in our current world seems to be defined as the transition Reddit has gone through, where the userbase has exploded, its eaten Facebook's lunch to a fair degree, but the quality of discourse and interaction has dropped like a rock.

I've stopped using Reddit, and such a change would kill my use of the fediverse.
Couldn't any link point to anything that runs arbitrary code? Does it matter if it's on jsfiddle or xyz.com?
Hi, author here!

I’m really excited by the conversation this has generated and I’m happy to answer any questions.
I'm not disagreeing with that, but let's talk about priorities.

If you're living in some of the farthest most unreachable corners of the earth, you;re life is probably more and more in-danger from the threats of climate change through drought, fires etc.

Yet another plan to launch thousands of satellites into orbit so it's easier to order more junk from Amazon is a low priority for those people I'm afraid.
Or just host your own instance where you yourself decide what you want to see or not see, and what you want to write or not to write.
I'm the Joplin dev and was impressed by his smart scrolling, because currently we don't have this :-)
Python, Rust, and Postgresql have all had really great IRC communities. Unfortunately, stakeholders in Rust decided to move to discord and decommission the Mozilla server, but there remains a determined smaller community on Freenode, ##rust.

IRC remains one of the best ways to connect with technologists and talk shop.
Yes I suspected as much. So really this is bragging about continuous power for 11 years. Which is impressive.

I never saw anyone measure uptime in that way before. But it make a lot more sense than measuring the OS uptime.
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Given the nature of the product, there is no way for the maintainers of Js fiddle to prevent it from being used to run arbitrary code, because that is what it's meant to do.

There are things they could do though - such as limiting the execution time of a fiddle to a couple of minutes, or limiting the size of the code, or blocking certain calls, and so on. Users are running code that's been saved to the JSFiddle server, so it's not unreasonable to suggest JSFiddle have some responsibility to their visitors. They could make it so the code runs fine if you're the owner or if you've explicitly said it's OK to take up more resources, but defaults to running with these limits if you've just browsed to a Fiddle from a link. They could block common mining scripts (which would only work against 'scriptkiddie' attacks rather than anything sophisticated, but whatever).

There are things the JSFiddle maintainers could do. They don't have to, and in their position I might not do anything either, but the cost of inaction in this case is Twitter blocking links to their site.
And it would be good to listen to sensibilities of advertisers for a platform that exists because of creative content of its users? I think not, Tim.
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Now if they would only drop Pascal case so that I can distinguish a method from a class I might give it a shot.
> they are actually outperformed by hill climbing

That depends on the particular problem you are trying to solve. If hill climbing works for your problem, then you are lucky and you should not use GAs.
I think that the most fun part of writing this article was coming up with simple examples that adequately demonstrated the components of a GA. I agree that creativity is a huge asset in the topic!
Saying Stadia will "inevitably" be shut down is an exaggeration and trolling regardless. It implies every single product Google launches shuts down, which is obviously completely incorrect.
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That takes me back! gtetrinet was the first program I reported a security-bug in, which eventually lead to the first Debian security advisory I can take credit for:

https://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-205

And of course I only started poking around because it was a game I played very very often in the office at the time.
This is the path my product took, a stock option scanner [0] that I originally created to find trades for myself. I noticed requests for such a tool being made in the investing communities that I follow, so I polished the UI and released it as a freemium product.

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Right, it doesn't address that at all. Browser's have minimal support for local cross-browser apps.

The fact that you can't easily piggyback on the local browser irks me somewhat. If it's inherently a behemoth, maybe have it be reusable, i.e. piggyback friendly. You wouldn't want a per-app installation of Qt, for example, but even that would be less stressful on the system.

I have a lot of fantasies about how the web stack could be different. I guess that's reflective of some kind of frustration.
Just because the challenge is relatively trivial to solve, doesn't make it any less important though. Experiment management, and the transition to production, is recognised as having potentially high impact to successful delivery. My understanding is that this takes care of details, which can otherwise get forgotten in the race for the best model. But YMMV.
Yes, Toyota is one of the best performing car companies in the world. I don't know what the parent comment is referring to either.

By the way, my only criticism against Toyota would be that their cars don't always seem to keep up with the style and aesthetics trends. However, their newer Yaris for example reminds me of a samurai helmet, which to me looks good. On that front I think there is room for improvement to challenge how we think a toyota should "look".

Apart from that, I think they are performing very well.

EDIT: The same holds for when they release EVs. The Prius is an unattractive car, but it did sell well despite (or because of) that.
I'm going to propose a critical point of view, but stay with me.

I feel that the only people that are lonely choose loneliness up on them selves. In this day and age You can do so many things. Why only job, home, whine, repeat?

You can join a dance class, go to meetups, do volunteering, try yoga (acro Yoga my favourite), go to group gym classes, organize treks, events, hikes, meetups, go hitchhiking or go to Asia.

It's up to You to either spend Your days alone or with other people. Just say "hi, how are You doing?" to people in events. Everybody is looking for someone to bond with.

Unless You are really shy or only care about Your job and making money.
The person I'm replying to clearly does.

Nethertheless, if the usefulness of something depends on it failing, something's wrong.
OP describes how they like having content from the famous spoon fed to them. They won't get that experience in most of the fediverse, and the dev teams of the various software (Mastodon, Pleroma, Rustodon, etc) aren't optimizing for it.

Better for them to stick to a platform that can feed the famous and techbro gruel to them by the shovelful.
So .. Forcing other people to pay to host your "not cheap" content is okay?

Maybe I can use my neighbor's power to operate a giant billboard with my personal views? I mean, it's not cheap, but I really think my POV deserves the largest possible platform.

Anything less is effectively my neighbor censoring me.
Monthly payments for an SSH client? Like, seriously ?
They made Go faster (priorities), added some very niche number types and TLS 1.3 support?

The only language features they seem to have added are small improvements to error handling.
I read once that women tend to do it for attention; like a cry for help in ways likely to fail such as pills, wrist cuts etc.

Men to do it to end their own existence and choose things like hanging, gunshot, jumping off a bridge etc.
I am actually glad a small portion of the car industry is working an alternative to Battery power.
Hydrogen makes sense is some very limited areas right now (long range scenarios), but inefficiency of it makes it very dumb system right now. I could see it making more sense if in the future we would really implement a lot of cheaper electricity power plants (fusion power).
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Toyota Hybrid Electric cars are also quite successful.
Every news is to some degree manipulated.

Together with a friend I was one of the geocaching and confluencing pioneers in Germany.

Some large papers and TV stations reported about this "phenomenon" and wanted to make an article/ documentation about us. Every one of them came with a story in their head which we had to fill with our pictures and quotes. No one was interested in "reality". For a news clip we had to shoot situations several times, I remember leaving a house 5 times until they shot was done. Up until then I thought news would be unstaged.
World's is going to shit anyways...so whatever you say :)
The person your replying to explicitly states that you should follow random people off main (the federated timeline) and have a sense of wanderlust rather than following a handful of #thoughtfluencers.
It's worse than not precise, for a large part of the readership here it is utterly meaningless.
>Not to excuse the behavior of your drivers, but you should understand that men are having a difficult time with approaching women these days. We feel really inadequate and sort of aimless. The dating world is seriously dangerous right now and to be honest

Are you in the US? Leave it. Seriously, I encourage all men to become expats if they don't already have children in the US that they are trying to raise. Just completely abandon a system and society that is failing to meet your needs. If you feel inadequate, ask yourself A) by whose metrics? and B) why?. Go to the gym, dress better. Have goals in your life (outside of dating) that you aggressively pursue. The US dating scene is increasingly insane, and men don't even realize it because they aren't exposed to kind, helpful, friendly, feminine women that are simply abundant in other cultures (or even in Flyover states, if you look there).

And finally:

> there isn't a lot of guidance from women

The more women you date, the more you will realize that most dating "guidance" from women is absolutely useless. The cognitive dissonance most of them have will blow your mind when you witness it first-hand. And women don't want a man that they have to "guide" anyway. They want to attach themselves to a guy who's got his sh*t together and knows what he wants.
So then find a way to monetise the website.

You can ask users to pay for it just like Netflix, New York Times etc do. Or have advertising.

But of course just like YouTube you then need to factor in their needs.