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The Coffee part of this article resonates with me.

I have a stovetop espresso machine, and I'm constantly amazed at the new and ingenuous ways I come up with to mess it up. Making coffee before you've had your morning coffee is the great connundrum of our generation. Here's a short list of failure modes I've run up against:

- Machine on stove, no water
- Machine on stove, no coffee grounds
- Machine on stove, completely empty
- Coffee and water in machine, machine in refrigerator
- Coffee grounds in water reservoir
- Coffee grounds in brewed coffee reservoir
- Brewing correctly, brewed coffee reservoir still filled with water from washing
- Brewing correctly, head off to work
- Brewing correctly, coffee grounds returned to microwave

That's just a subset, and amazingly I still come up with a new one every few weeks.
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Depends on which part you mean, the platform, the drag&drop UI or the WYSIWYG editor. In the case of Boomla, you can write code on the platform and fully generate the result yourself, so that way it is up to you. As for the drag&drop interface, because it manipulates the underlying data structures and the final code is handcrafted by whoever wrote the code, it also tends to be as good as you want it to be. That leaves the WYSIWYG editor. Slate and ProseMirror are completely changing the game here, as they use a normalized data structure instead of working with the less structured HTML directly. They still have some rough edges but they are already amazing.

Time, wooh. I'd guesstimate 30k hours.

Would you maybe help kickstart a Show HN thread next time with an upvote? I'm struggling with this, that would help a lot. My email is in my profile (or you can reach me via the website..).
Golang got many things right (and many things wrong). Why wouldn't you make use of the parts that work? That makes no sense.
That crosses into personal attack as well as breaking the site guideline against insinuations of astroturfing. It's not cool to do those things here, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
trying to paint the parent comment as a misleading trickster isn't very helpful, and just stating PG&E's net income doesn't touch on how regulated utilities work.

Removing all the profit puts a couple 2-3 year band-aid over the fact that PG&E's infrastructure recovery requests make up the bulk of their cases.

CPUC sees all their projections, plans, requests, and expenses, compensation when they come to them for rate cases. They also make decisions on executive compensation and incentive plans. Whether or not you make the assumption that CPUC is in cahoots with IOUs, what changes when you liquidate PG&E, when the new boss is just the old boss' boss?

You're probably better off trying to rebuild some generation system avoiding transmission lines in risky areas.
In the context of programming language design, "stealing" sounds like the wrong term. Every programming language is inspired by others, isn't it?
I prefer Hitchens answer to the question: "We have free will, we have no choice."
I would query Wikidata for a first try: https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fvolcano%20%3Fvolcano...
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Why does the word "ENRON" keep flashing on and off in my head?

Fake energy shortages was why Enron was able to charge exorbitant prices for electricity. You'd think that Americans would have that seared into their brains.
Set theory is your friend. :)
So true. So very true. I wish I could up vote this more than once.
every country has their own version of SWAT, some will make USA SWAT seems like angels. Also, I replied to "there's nothing illegal in running a TOR exit."

In short, my reply was: maybe it's not illegal but you might suffer quit a bit by the time it's all cleared.
My pursuit of happiness consists of meaningful work. My startups reflect that. If I ended up on a beach long term, I am sure I would be starting a new business right there, removing pollution or whatever.
Birds get out of the way of slow-moving aircraft that make a lot of noise.
The free, cross-platform program Stellarium [0] will show that (among other things).

[0] http://stellarium.org/
So long as drones are reasonably slow (bird-like speed) birds will get out of the way. Now, animals might be stressed or displaced by this which could be a bad “impact”. But I doubt they’ll be falling out of the sky. You don’t see many birds colliding with bigger/faster birds.
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Just finished bath time with new toys...I didn’t think the old, mouldy, janky beyond repair toys would be missed. Oh boy, was I wrong.
They're not related.
I like that. What you measure will end up as an indicator for you, and you most likely will begin to optimize for it. A friend of mine runs a private blog as a hobby and she uses GA. She doesn't monetize her blog at all, and every little peak in daily users made her happy, the steady climb gave her validation. Recently, she's seen the visits first plateau and then decrease a little, yet they remain at a high level for a personal niche blog. Still, "it's not growing any more, the people no longer like my content" is her mindset and she's closer to quitting than she ever was before.

If you blog because you want to share something (and not because you want reputation, or ad revenue), looking at how well received it is will probably not help you (especially since it's not a vote by the public, it's a vote by Google).
I guess they never miss huh
But he's no idea how deeply integrated it is?
But I am dedicating my time and my life to mastering a skill. That skill is Rock Climbing.

To do so, I have also needed to find a way to live at a world class bouldering area and to spend 4 full days per week training and climbing, which means not having a full time job. Building a software business is a means to that end.

Keep in mind, also, that if one begins programming at age six and does it every day for 40 odd years, one tends to achieve mastery of programming as well. Even if one figures out a way to not need to do it full time for the last half dozen of those years.
We don’t have amazon so I’m not used to this extreme hurry this seems to be targeting. If I order something I usually go pick it up at the shop on the corner after 48-72h. In rare cases the day after or even delivery to my door (I prefer pickup tbh). I thought same-day or next-day delivery was already widespread in e.g the US. Is this a push to shorten delivery even more? Hours?
These is value to vehemence in arguments.
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talking of greeks, it seems worth mentioning laconic humor. The "if"[0] thing is still funny after centuries, imo.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconic_phrase#Uses
You make a good point - deploying local generation on a per house basis (via renewables) would decentralize utility operations and remove the need for the remotely located transmission and pipeline infrastructure that could potentially ignite dry surroundings.

Even maintenance divisions that routinely trim trees and foliage growing up on high voltage lines must cover lots of ground because everything is so scattered (they sometimes even use helicopters wielding huge saws). Preventative measures like this consume labor and profit margins, and apparently aren't always sufficient (Camp Fire).

A neighborhood in a dry area equipped with its own energy storage and generation assets would likely never be completely vacant - at least one resident would always be present to sound the alarm in the event of a Powerwall or solar short prompted fire. Even so, smoke detectors are probably connected on the web or allocated emergency frequencies? Fire hydrants are legally required to be near homes. Fire stations shouldn't be far.

A decentralized grid fire outbreak wouldn't be up a dirt road in the mountains - paved road access to a neighborhood would diminish response time relative to what it would require to scramble expensive firefighting aircraft.

A residential transformer is bringing it down from nearly 14 kV...
They're going out of business because their inventory sucks. Every recession makes them suck more as MBAs optimize for lower quality and less selection.
Someone needs to start a home device company with open-source firmware.

Yes, susceptible to cheap Chinese clones, but if done correctly could control the market.
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that does eem interesting, thank you!
Maybe oblib is also trying to regulate cars.
In your very own link it says the term is used to refer to "run-of-the-mill, low-quality literature".
Claims to "being able to now compile itself in 0.09 seconds" whilst pushing the need for an AST to the side represents a serious problem in the language's general direction (and I mean general in an aggregated way). Of course shelling-out to curl for your download function is a bodge to be fixed, but the language's issues are not merely one specific problem. The author's misrepresentation of the language, of course, hangs overhead upon all of this.

https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/35

I don't want to discount all of the work people have put into V. It is clear that they have made considerable progress since earlier this year and I commend them for pushing the language into a more usable state. Nevertheless, I still retain a considerable degree of skepticism.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've done it repeatedly and we ban accounts that do that. Also, no personal attacks please.
To give concrete examples of "parents with children":

6-year old "Child uses sleeping mom's fingerprints to buy Pokemon gifts" - https://www.cnet.com/news/child-uses-sleeping-moms-fingerpri...

"How A Clever 7-Year-Old Boy Bypassed Touch ID On iPhone 6 Plus" - https://www.redmondpie.com/how-a-clever-7-year-old-boy-bypas...
How can I use V as a scripting language? I managed to use TinyCC as a scripting language but V seems to make more sense.

I'm also interesting in C++ interop...

This language looks pretty great. Simple, fast, nicer and lean syntax.

I'm still curious why I often see "name string" intead of "string name". I guess it's easier to parse? pythonic indent would make this language perfect.
I looked into cars from your comment and it seems working hard toward regulation is the right approach.
Amazon Prime Now (select locations only) already has delivery within a couple hours. This is about reducing costs of such services.
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I think I might have to try v for scripting. I've been wanting a non-dynamic language for that purpose, and v having few dependencies and fast compile times might actually make it usable for that purpose.
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Perhaps you read my comment as a defense of PG&E. I carry no water for them! I'm a Californian and I hope only for reliable affordable power, and climate change leadership.

> Maybe they could use some of that to a) not burn down california and b) provide their customers with reliable power.

Unfortunately they cannot because they are literally bankrupt.

> PG&E needs to be dissolved

Dissolving PG&E does not magically cut back vegetation or modernize the grid. That's the whipping boy: it's like blaming Exxon for climate change. It directs the energy of our anger to impotent punishment for past misdeeds, without solving today's problems.

CA's electrical grid has maintenance debt and underinsured fire risk. I think you're saying that my utility bill is more than enough to cover that - if so, that's great news! I'd love to be convinced that Calfornia can have reliable safe power for no more than I'm paying now.

But from what I've read, PG&E has a backlog of work and liability risk, plus limited ability to raise rates. So either our bills or taxes go up. And when then do, hopefully it also provides for the grid modernization necessary for climate change. (And wringing out the PG&E rent seekers would be fine by me too.)
I can’t tell if you’re trying to sarcastic or not, but accurate estimates for software releases are notoriously difficult.

...it seems completely unremarkable to think the 1.0 date is too ambitious.

I mean, you can tag 1.0.0 today and say you’ve made it, but that doesn’t actually achieve anything meaningful.

Are you actually confident about your roadmap to 1.0?

It seems very ambitious to me to have these done by December:

- V can translate your entire C++ (wip) project and offer you the safety, simplicity, and up to 400x compilation speed-up.

- Loading complex 3D objects with textures (wip)

- Camera (moving, looking around) (wip)

- Skeletal animation (wip)

- Translating DOOM from C to V and building it in 0.7 seconds (x25 speed-up) (wip)

What about macOS and windows support?

/shrug
The Wyze cams are very cheap and you might be able to use them locally as normal network cameras without any internet connection.

A year or two ago I looked into this and there was a 'jailbreak' to load different firmware onto it, but I think it stopped being functional due to updates. However, I have heard things about an official offline firmware being released by Wyze which you may want to look into.
There is also the paper craft spectrometer kits sold by the Public Lab. I can’t find the version I bought which included a cheap USB board camera but here is a smartphone version:

https://publiclab.org/wiki/papercraft-spectrometer
as good an advice now as it was thousands of years ago.
I think the "Consent required" column for Germany is wrong. Just because you have an existing business relationship doesn’t allow you to send marketing emails. Marketing usually requires an additional opt-in (under GDPR). Although in practice, I see this being violated quite often. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Why can’t I have a CNAME at the zone apex?
And the issue of cheap commercial off the shelf hardware being able to deliver a 1.5kg bomb or a gun anywhere within 10km with pinpoint accuracy also strikes me when I ses these. With a good camera and some image recognition, autonomous assasins arent sci-fi any more. It’s economically and technically within reach not just for non-state actors but individuals now. That has got to have some implications.
`p_enemy.c translated to p_enemy.v which can be compiled and replace p_enemy.o` <- that's extremely impressive, good on you! :)
> But I am dedicating my time and my life to mastering a skill. That skill is Rock Climbing.

I'm not certain that rock climbing qualifies as a craft, as you aren't creating anything. Nonetheless, that distinction isn't important, and I certainly do think there is merit in the idea that a starting a business is a good way to earn income in order focus energy on something more important.

However, that isn't the viewpoint that you expressed in your initial comment; it is the opposite ("lounge on the beach, travel the world...")

> Keep in mind, also, that if one begins programming at age six and does it every day for 40 odd years, one tends to achieve mastery of programming as well.

How are you defining mastery? As the ability to make a respectable income with low effort required? That seems a fairly low bar. I'm not entirely sure that programming is best thought of as a craft, but assuming that it is: someone programming every day for 8 hours a day for 40 years would surely have a greater mastery than someone who only does it part-time.
Boeing pilots' messages on 737 MAX safety raise new questions
I have experience with flying small airplanes, and their windshields got pretty icky with bugs pretty quickly. These days I have a motorcycle, and after 2 hours on the highway or 1 hour in natural undeveloped areas your helmet gets completely covered by bugs.

On the other hand, bird strikes are relatively uncommon, and drones are tiny so the risk is even lower for them. So it might not be that big of an issue.

But they would be great at exterminating bugs.
Many cities regulate maximum vehicle noise levels.
And you link to the very same thread by another language author that claimed there's no way V could be built in V and JSON decoding is impossible without an AST.

> Claims to "being able to now compile itself in 0.09 seconds" whilst pushing the need for an AST to the side represents a serious problem in the language's general direction

Critique for focusing on fast compilation times? :)

Any valid criticism?
I think implicit in PG&E's decision to neglect maintenance was that they weren't allowed to raise rates and it wouldn't actually be very economical to do maintenance to reduce wildfire risks, so shareholders preferred profits were returned to them rather than reinvestment into e.g. maintenance. So adding the "motivation" to reduce wildfires might've made them more likely.
Good luck. I like how you don't have any trackers on your site (according to my browser bar at least, didn't actually look into it). I'm sure you could use that as a selling point somehow.
It's going to be difficult to prove that VW cheating led to asthma deaths and pollution. It's easy to say that VW is the root of all evil, but the most popular vehicles sold in the US are pickup trucks, which have a diesel engine variant.

But pickup truck are not classified as cars, so their emissions were complying to the higher truck limits of 0.4g/mile of nox, unlike VW which was supposed to comply to the stringent car limits of 0.07g/mile. And of course they found that cummins diesels also cheated (less blatantly).

And anyway, the US is still the biggest contributor on earth of air pollution, and I doubt that it comes from the few VW vehicles sold there
> The feature bloat makes it very hard to learn D

I suppose you aren't using any maths either because of the existance of semisimple lie algebras and topological quantum fields ?
My shop did an application cutover today and when making DNS changes it hit me that the app has it's own domain, with the <domain.tld> A record == front end IPv4 address.

Lucky for me my websearch on the terms:

> can the domain RR be cname

took me to the authoritative site and helped me not shoot my wee-wee in the foot :-D

DNS: so easy, anyone can eff it up.
Please don't use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting someone when you're not.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
>There was never any need for crypto currency

Of course there was and still is. The three main purposes as I see them are as follows:

1) International money transfer free of regulatory oversight.

2) Anonymous purchase and money laundering

3) Decentralized currency free of government manipulation - Bitcoin falls short of this.

Cryptocurrency is a great solution for all of these needs. Of course I agree that most currencies add little or no value to their core product, especially the ICO crowd.
You might as well say that "C++ stole from C" or "Linux stole all ideas from *NIX" which is nonsense. I would say V was influenced by Golang.
Prison is the only fine that hits all citizens equally
The shockwaves are everywhere - you, right now, are in a density node.

Inflation wasn’t something that happened from a single point - it happened as a result of vacuum collapse, spontaneously, all over the place. Some of these inflationary zones went much faster than others, and where they intersected, regions of increased density, and therefore matter, occurred.

The filamentary nature of the very macroscopic universe reflects these shock intersection zones - they’re full of galaxies. We think that the voids are likely centred around points where inflation occurred.

So yeah. You’re the shockwave. Sorry man.

Here’s a decent vid from PBS Space Time where they explain some of this nice and clearly - I recommend their channel generally if these topics interest you. https://youtu.be/72cM_E6bsOs
That crosses into personal attack, which isn't allowed here. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules, no matter how wrong or annoying some other comment is?
Scripting is one of V's main features[0]. Just a couple days ago, it was incorporated into the 'master' branch[1] so you can now use it.

0 - https://vlang.io/docs#bash

1 - https://github.com/vlang/v/commit/5cd38ec91bc1919aca9f63432e...
Since you need to log in now, I wonder if they're also keeping track of which users are viewing what content, and what subreddits etc. that content is associated with.
Or for those who disable the location requests. I never give websites permission to see my location (not that it's very useful on desktops without GPS). Almost all websites fall back to a search box when they can't get the location automatically.
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Sure, but even before that we didn't have rugs or floors to clean, we just died in damp caves and made stone blades.
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Nearly everything is open to subjective interpretation. As a moderator here, it's my job to interpret the site guidelines. We try to do that as fairly and consistently as we can, but at the end of the day if you keep breaking the guidelines the way we interpret them, we're going to have to ban you.

If you read back through https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang and https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sctb, I think you'll find a fair degree of consistency—nay, monotony—in what we tell users here.
With police drones in pursuit of the thieving drones making off with stolen goods.
birds will get out of the way

Windmills are completely stationary, yet birds collide with them all the time.
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Are you advocating for implementing langauges in an AST-less way or are you working towards maturing your language? You don't sound diametrically opposed to ASTs (which are evident in essentially any modern language), so I have to ask why V was not originally implemented with one and why you don't consider it a more important problem.

Using codegen to handle the JSON stuff is clever, sure, but it certainly makes me uneasy! It gives a very Jenga Tower impression of the state of the project...
Wow. What a great explanation. I'd love it to be translated in other languages so I can have my younger kids spend some useful screen time on it!
An MSSQL indexed view is like a materialized view, except it's not actually materialized beyond the index, as I understand it, and there are restrictions on the view definition that mat views don't have, and it updates automatically.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16574021

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
A bit of advice: remote desktops suck for professional developers. A workstation is more than just the software and OS. For me it already sucks to switch from standalone screen to the laptop. You also won't be able to support all the different use cases well.

My advise is to focus on one particular workflow (say vscode with Js) and perfect that one.
Isn't that convention just the English language?
Just as a possibly-useful reference: https://guacamole.apache.org/
The Enron rolling blackouts were manufactured arbitrage bookkeeping nonsense, but there was nothing fake about the Camp Fire smoke that covered the Bay Area. It was horrifying.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287701 and marked it off-topic.
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Are people willing to pay for it? How much? I’d probably rather go for 5% cheaper and delivery within 48h, for example. Is there a big market for “stuff, now”? I realize once you get used to it, you get used to it. I used to live in a smaller town where normal delivery was a week, now I live in a big city and can usually get 1-2 days and I can imagine how I’d feel if I had to go back to a week.
The title is misleading. The interview took place in 1986, but the game was released in 1980. [0]

Also, it's Pac-Man, not PacMan.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man