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I hope we aren't resorting to AI agents to act as the final arbiters of sentiment. That's sure to end inaccurately.

The quote is matter of fact, as far as I can read.
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My intuition is that the games industry will be closest to creating the metaverse, but will ultimately fail.

I think the cultural expectation of realistic graphics will ultimately be a boondoggle.

Painters showed a long time ago that realism doesn’t really “get you there”.

I think a single rogue artist will create it,
not using any industrial tools at all. Existing tools have too much baggage, everything will have to be as light as possible, which means from scratch and half built. Each piece will barely function.
I don't recall the outcome of that "Apple claims ownership of rounded corners" lawsuit, but I suspect (being absolutely not a lawyer) that'd be the relevant case law.
My father hasn't had bypass surgery, but he's drank and smoked for 60+ years and has a number of health issues. He's stopped smoking (for my mother's comfort and health, not his own) but continues to drink, eat everything, and lead a mostly sedentary lifestyle. Everyone in my family has pleaded with him at various times to make some effort to get healthier so we'll have him around longer.

His reply: he's already lived longer than he expected to (he's in his late 70s) and is satisfied with what he's done. There's no doubt he loves us but he doesn't feel obligated to stick around for our sake. It's taken a long time for me to accept this as his right.

I wish I could change his mind and every day I try and think of ways to get him excited to stick around longer. I'd love for my (hypothetical future) kids to meet him. There's still so much I want to learn from him.

But I don't know what it's like to be as old as him, and I don't have a right to ask him to do more than he already has. Maybe when he's closer to the end I'll be mad at myself for not fighting harder for him. This piece - and your comment - have made me more determined to do so.
A lot of things need to change. Better transparent and accountable governance. Reliable and fair police/courts. Technology that can self sustain the population. (None of that patented seeds for farming).

Some level of sustainable land distribution (otherwise land lords suck all that UBI money anyway)

One could say SF is on average quite wealthy, but very broken. Even a UBI of $1000/month doesn’t do jack shit there until you solve the housing problem.

Basically people need to have good nutrition, have a roof over their head (feel secure), be autonomous and have some sort of self worth (mostly comes from doing some sort of work that creates value). All without destroying the planet (which we’re doing at an accelerated pace)

UBI doesn’t necessarily guarantee all those conditions are met.
If only people bonded as well over tea.
Thanks. So it is OK if it's specific.

I guess that's not so unusual, really.

Not that it doesn't suck.
> The linked article is arguing that C isn't low level because modern CPUs behave so differently than what their hardware interface suggests they do.

Which is right in conclusion, but wrong on reasoning.

C isn't low level because it allows, by design, allows writing code that works on very different hardware interfaces by abstracting away from what the particular machine is does independently of whether or not the CPU behaves the way it's interface suggests. This is why decades ago C was a textbook example of an HLL and nothing relevant to that description has changed in the intervening period.

> It is useful to distinguish between C and Python in terms of C is low level and Python is high level.

Python is in the general class of languages for which the term very high level programming language was created, and, yes, it's useful to distinguish between Python and C (hence the term coined for that purpose), but it's also useful to distinguish between Assembly and C (hence the terms coined for that purpose.)
I'm curious, and its a serious question. How do you get both sides of the story?
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On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.
Can you please link a few? I’m compiling material.
> Santa Clarita Diet

I'd automatically axe any show proposal about zombies.
how so ? that's the claim of the article.

I am not claiming that this makes it automatically true, but some data to back why it is false would help.
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> Following the metrics if the article

The metrics of the article may describe a useful distinction, but it's not really the one the language levels terminology was designed to capture, though it is not too distantly related.
I think you touched close to an opinion of mine which is anything lower lever than c becomes very hard for ordinary people to work in. I remember DSP's in the 80 and 90's. Where to program them you needed to deeply understand how the machine worked. And guess what eventually manufacturers ported C over to them so that programmers could be productive when working on the non-performant parts of the code base.

If anything modern processors are even worse under the hood. With the added problem that you can't feed one of them raw 'true' instructions fast enough to keep them from stalling.
The 737 Max isn't the only plane to fatally crash from failed AoA sensors. It's amazing that boeing didn't think harder when basing MCAS actions on a single AoA sensor and then making it hard to detect after their own pilots warned them it creates a dangerous situation!
Microcode. Back when C became a thing, microcode only existed on 'big iron'. That changed 20+ years ago.

The microarchitecture is the 'real' architecture you're running on, the ISA that assembly language and C code is written against is a facade. It has value in that we don't need to rewrite everything every few years when the microarchitecture changes, but the downside is what we consider low level programming languages talking 'directly' to the hardware are now going through another layer of abstraction.
Netflix has been steadily shrinking their DVD selection, which does not bode well. My local public library has a better selection. I do not understand why Netflix is doing that. I am glad I watched most of my "bucket list" of obscure movies while they had them.
My point is, i think there are _plenty_ of places like that.
Yes, there are many countries in which specific articles are blocked, for example when the truthfulness of their contents is challenged in court. Though in that case it's a judge that decides that, not the government.
Kudos to you. I wish you the best on the IndieHacker journey and pray that you end up making more than you would at Google, have better fulfillment in life and create more value for everyone else.

We really need more people working on harder problems that create a better future for everyone rather than figuring out how to spam more clickbait ads to people.

Google is great but it seems they’re quite astray of their mission of organizing the world’s knowledge and making it universally accessible. We have a long way to go to truly achieve this.
>As others have pointed out we're not just burning the Amazon, we are burning all the Amazons back through geological time.

I agree 100% and it disturbs me very deeply, along with the hundreds of other insane things going on these days, climate grief is definitely a good way to describe how many people feel about the magnitude of these issues.

>but the thing is all the CO2 eventually gets emitted, just more slowly

Not necessarily, we could (and should) sequester CO2.
Reminds me of this:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-190...

When a measure becomes the target, it ceases to be a good measure.
The problem with Penn Station's destruction isn't the destruction itself, it's that the building that replaced it is so hideous. Most historic buildings aren't valuable because they're historic, they're valuable because they're beautiful. We can still build beautiful buildings again, but with modern materials and code. Modern buildings don't have to be soulless abstract nightmares.

I'd much rather have codes that require a particular aesthetic on a site than try to retain a particular object building in perpetuity.
Thailand was never a colony. Granted, it is a complex issue.
> avoid breakage through things like minor version updates of your first level dependencies?

No, a much more useful use case is avoid breakage from minor version updates in your 15th level dependencies. You might be cognizant of your semver best practices, but the team who publishes the string utility library included by the query builder included by your ORM might not be so careful.
Very nice and fluid, also great to be able to instantly buy the pattern in wrapping paper.

The only things I would recommend are:

- The help screen in the beginning, doesn't look like a modal. It took me ages to actually figure out there was an "x" button in the top-right. Maybe add a darken behind the help popup, to show that it can be exited.

- "Show Grid-lines" should be a first class option. I couldn't easily find out how to show grid-lines and without you're clicking in the dark to find where the pattern begins and ends.

These are just some small UX improvements, overall it's an impressive tool and I wish you all the best!
Actual engineers make weapons of war; do you think they would not also make adtech?
That one hurt. AMD had hired Keller, and rumblings of a new generation were afoot. I'd just bought a house and had no spare cash, so told my trusted coworker to go all in on AMD. He had no spare cash either. Now we once a year have the 'so...AMD...yup...yup' conversation.
The internet connection is only required if the drone is incapable of broadcasting its own local ID signal. This will not be a problem for the kinds of drones that have practical uses in remote areas.

Also, as with many other drone regulations, this does not apply to lightweight units.

From a quick skim of the unpublished document it seems like a compliant transmitter could be built from hobbyist parts for under $100 and weighing a few ounces. Commercial options should have no trouble beating both of those numbers.

It seems like those with drones at the absolute bottom end of the "registration required" range could be limited by this but as long as your drone could handle having a basic flip phone attached to it you shouldn't have trouble with this.
I grimaced at “because holidays” and stopped reading at “because physics.”

I guess my distaste for that sort of writing is because English grammar.
With Youtube and Disney+ encroaching on their territory, Netflix is in a pretty precarious position in my opinion.
> If anyone suggests a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral)

I think the important insight in the article is "how alcohol and social activities trigger the endorphin system in humans".

I object to the article's proposition that alcohol is useful, except in controlled amounts. Two or three ounces of wine is enough, not the whole bottle.

As a taxi driver, I dealt with a lot of people who had trouble with alcohol, and trouble with "social activities". I had trouble with social activities, but talking to random people in my taxi was much more useful to me than any of the drinks I've ever had.

One of my most successful interventions was for the passenger whom I'd later learn had been written off by her family as a hopeless drunk. Her family and friends cared about her, but they didn't know what to do, and had their own problems to deal with.

I didn't know that when I arrived at that passenger's apartment. She provided simple directions. I quickly realized we were going the drive-thru liquor store. I took a few minutes out of my day to detour to a fast food restaurant, spent a few extra minutes talking to her, and called back a few times over the next two days. Then I forgot about her...

After her taxi ride, her friend called one of her sons and said, "GO SOBER UP YOUR MOTHER!" She did well for two or three months, that time.

This passenger later told me she'd fallen into alcoholism because drinking "made [all her problems] go away". Prison for her 3rd DUI did not actually provide the help she needed to pull herself together.

Eventually I told her daughter that what her mother really needed was to know that she had her children's support. They stepped up to take care of her. She's doing quite well now, and is useful to her children instead of a burden.

Johann Hari's book [0] talks about how social connections are what people actually need to break their addictions.

[0] http://chasingthescream.com/
> I think it is ok for jobs to exist that aren’t intended to provide a living wage... But what happens when those are the only jobs available for someone who _needs_ a living wage? I don’t know the answer.

The root of the problem is that a "living wage" in New York City is way, way too high. This is because the rent is too high, which is in no small part because of local housing policy, which does not want to see more apartments built, preferring to play games with rent control. (And economists are fractious in general, but the consensus position that rent control is destructive is as strong as the consensus of climate scientists on anthropocentric global warming.)

(In part this reluctance to build is because of other broken policy, such as the transit-construction policy, which means that new subways to these new apartments are impossibly unaffordable.)

But referring to it with the "living wage" mindset, we set about blaming employers for being evil, instead of fixing the broken housing policy. The consequence is that people who needed the higher wage to begin with are even more likely to be unemployed, as their employment is no longer profitable, and entry-level positions (for people who didn't get a fancy college degree in engineering, anyway) are unavailable.

There are other policy failures, of course. For instance, New York's education policy continues to fail its most vulnerable population, preventing them from obtaining skills that would render their labor more valuable.
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> Because... adding levels below C and conventional assembler still leaves C exactly as many levels below "high level" language as it was before and if there's a "true low level language" for today I'd like to hear about it. And the same sorts of programmers use C as when it was a low level language and the declaration doesn't even give any context, doesn't even bother to say "anymore" and yeah, I'm sick of it.

Not really. For many purposes, C is not any more low-level than a supposedly "higher level" language. 20 years ago one could argue that it made sense to choose C over Java for high-performance code because C exposed the low-level performance characteristics that you cared about. More concretely, you could be confident that a small change to C code would not result in a program with radically different performance characteristics, in a way that you couldn't be for Java. Today that's not true: when writing high-performance C code you have to be very aware of, say, cache line aliasing, or whether a given piece of code is vectorisable, even though these things are completely invisible in your code and a seemingly insignificant change can make all the difference. So to a large extent writing high-performance C code today is the same kind of programming experience (heavily dependent on empirical profiling, actively counterintuitive in a lot of areas) as writing high-performance Java, and choosing to write a program with extreme performance requirements in C rather than Java because it's easier to control performance in C is likely to be the wrong tradeoff.
You're mis-interpreting Bostonian's argument. He said not that preservation is bad but that the city ought to buy the building. We've got eminent domain for a reason: the state can't force someone to keep his building the same for the pleasure of the public. What it _can_ do is pay him a fair market value, via eminent domain, to maintain it as a public good. That's the right thing to do, rather than saddling the owner with the upkeep and tanking the value with no compensation.
What is the hit rate of Hollywood?

It seemed to me that most movies don't break even, but a few hits have 20x and higher returns.

Compared to that, Netflix's production just looks normal.
>can it possibly be any good for us ?!?!

Oh sorry, let's get back to the "correct" behavior of sitting still watching a screen with no interaction.

The author seems aware that this opinion is elitist. But the idea that putting on a TV as background noise is somehow wasting the planets resources... I mean, but why not compare it to other things you can be doing? Driving a car... Or traveling to a far off country... Using a phone while a TV is on has got to be one of the least pollutant activities a person can spend their time doing.
In my case, (and I assume this is common) is using the TV as a second screen and my laptop as a first when watching normal entertainment stuff like a comedy, talk shows, etc. And just the TV when I'm watching an interesting movie or tv show.
Where in Western rural Oregon has this?

I figured most people in the rural parts were still relying on satelite internet like they were when I lived there. Maybe cable internet in some of the developed suburbs.
> Fixing hardware defects using software

That is a thing. It's not ideal, but it's not the end of the world provided it works. E.g., the F-117 cannot be flown without a computer constantly adjusting flight surfaces -- the plane isn't stable. The other decisions are definitely intolerable.

The whole thing smacks of corner-cutting in the worst way.
Netflix has the Kleenex/Band-aid brand cache for Internet-streamed video. I hear people talking about "catching up on Netflix over the weekend" even though they show they're talking about is on Prime or Hulu.
They could be sites for work, for government business, a school website, or their doctor's website that is broken when they needed to schedule surgery or something and they wont have any idea it was ublock that broke it and wont think to ask you.

Ublock has broken all kinds of sites for me, and I don't know if it's because these sites used a third party JavaScript library or some video provider or what, but I know to turn off all the privacy tracking things I have in my browser when a webpage looks broken, and often that fixes it.
There haven't been any good video game-to-motion picture ever. What people love in games is really hard to put on screen (Witcher has the original source material books but they were never as famous or good as the games).

Honestly it's really hard to do it, to appeal to both the gamers and the wider audience
who never touched the game (inc the critics)

I'm playing games since the late 80s and seen so many movies and TV shows failing.

This list is perfect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_g...
>shouldn't go to some random person digging in the bin, but should go to the waste department

>expensive enough

>exploiting

the tone is clearly judgmental
That's what they get for not picking up their toys.
About three years ago I started intermittently paying for Netflix— watch some shows on nights and weekends and then drop the subscription for awhile while I wait for a backlog of new content to arrive.

I strongly advocate for this type of behavior.
Crystal has no major business running on it. Its one hope is maybe a Bitcoin billionaire is feeling philanthropic and thinks Windows support is entertaining.
"First, that implies there's some sort of authority - legal or otherwise - that determines "socially valuable.""

There is. The opinions of other people in your society - generally expressed via the ballot box in a democracy. All authority is, or should, derive directly from that source of truth.

That's sort of what society is - everybody else. Hence why we have social judgments on what is appropriate - like banning guns and the death penalty - and why we have different countries to encapsulate different views on those social judgments (my country bans the former, yours likely doesn't - but we both take a dim view of marrying off 12 year olds, something other societies are quite relaxed about).

There is no objective truth here. It's all a social creation by a set of people who have chosen to co-operate with each other and call themselves a country.
I mean, sure, it’s easy to say interesting things if you’re not being held to any standard of rigour.
I think training similar for what commercial drone pilots require isn’t far fetched, however. A hobbyist probably doesn’t need to read aerospace maps, METAR reports, etc., but should be able to answer the safety questions with ease before they start flying their equipment.

I’ve held off on getting my Part 107 certification because I’m too lazy to drive to the testing center, but this shit isn’t rocket science and puts up a high enough barrier of entry to keep the skies reasonably safe.

I wish the FAA had gone this route first before debating potentially expensive electronics on every consumer drone, I think it’s going to hurt more than it helps.
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>now has commercials

Commercials had invaded Cable TV thoroughly, well before the 2000s. I know it was 20 years ago, but I'd be surprised for someone to forget about the existence of commercials.

Today's are much more intrusive, however.
Sure, but why? Isn’t that insanely expensive compared to cable/DSL and VPN?
I'm glad to hear you're enjoying them! Thanks for writing XXL; I've found it really thought-provoking!
Virtually no one can write secure C code. This is different than “other languages allow some people to write insecure code occasionally”.
I sometimes socialise with a "high on live" crowd of sober vegans. In the beginning it was a bit weird because I wanted to say "who want to get a drink" but after a while you get used to it. You just stand around and talk about random stuff. Not drinking is actually ok, but I am not going to pretend I like their food. IMHO veganism is a missed-steak.
It’s cable TV all over again and it annoys me a lot. My process for watching something right now:

1. Use the AppleTV because no platform streams 1080p+ on Linux

2. Check Netflix

3. Check Primevideo

4. Check HBO (but not available on the AppleTV in my region)

5. Check if I can buy it from iTunes or something

6. Yes, but not in my region

7. Forget all of the above and go to a private tracker and chuck it on Plex.
New York City has the worst rat problem in the world. People referring to rats in NYC are generally referring to actual bona fide rats.

Consider this coverage of rats from the same source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/nyregion/rat-infestation-...

Or this lovely article by the Brooklyn borough president which opens with a story of a rat gnawing on an infant's face, in the slums of Brownsville. The child then grew up with a scar on his lip. (There's probably another policy failure there, too, with regards to public housing, as NYCHA is not good about extermination.) https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-our-war-on-rats-...

Homeless people (a prime bottle-collecting group) are if anything more vulnerable to rats, as they are likely to be sleeping where they are exposed to said rats.

And New York trash policy in much of Manhattan is your building leaves your trash (recyclables and otherwise) out on the sidewalk for pickup, where it is rodent-bait. This needs to change.