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> not learning enough bash to use it properly and then complaining about it

By the same logic, whoever prefers C over assembler, Python over C, etc just doesn't understand the latter language enough. I think this logic is flawed.

> google chrome windows

I wouldn't accept a shell that works only in a browser. If you would take a minute to actually look at https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UI-Design , it reads: "Ability to support several i/o modules", with sub-items "Console module" and "Later: web module"

> Bash is more than fine.

Depends on the situation and task at hand. For me, most of the time, bash is not fine. I do have a bunch of bash scripts because for their task they are the best solution in my opinion... and that's what makes me sad. That is not fine.

> You can't expect to get correct behavior without understanding your tools and your shell.

By that logic, whoever complains about any flaws in a language (error handling and missing generics in Go come to mind) just doesn't understand the language. I think this logic is flawed.

> You can't expect not to do error-checking and corner-case-checking and still have stuff working 100% of the time.

I don't. That's bash and that is how it works... and I don't like it.

Looking at two alternatives: exceptions vs error codes checking. I strongly disagree with error codes checking approach. I do prefer (in most of my scripts) uncaught exceptions (which would terminate the script) and smaller code. The alternative with error codes checking is either have substantially larger code or incorrect behaviour. I strongly disagree with the trade-off that bash makes.

> can you really blame it on bash

There is a lot of crap going around. Not everything is on bash.
What's wrong with this video? For context, I've lived in Paris for 28 years (left 2 years ago), and I just love the haussmannien architecture. Even in this video, you can see quite a few buildings like that, each more extremely elegant than the next. Is this video supposed to be a negative take on Paris? I didn't get why he showed the ongoing manifestation at the end.

EDIT: OK I read the description of the video, what a disgusting human being. He's making the point that no "French" (for the person in question, that apparently means "white") people is left in Paris.
If you make backwards-incompatibilities API changes like this, you also need simultaneous/atomic deploys across all services.

On the other hand, if you aren’t doing simultaneous/atomic deploys, then having a monorepo may actually be an obstruction.
It doesn't seem to be a full feature OS, just something to use if you want a static, prepared Linux environment for git to drop into quickly to develop on a Chromebook.

Check the .config to see what's provided.

Gallium is a local install. FireOS is live only and works out of git, so nothing is left behind.
I genuinely googled Mark Engels to see who he was - I was guessing a friend of Brian Eno.

Now I get it.

And yes, the commons may well be becoming more of the world than the private world. interesting idea
2019's Fastest Growing Programming Language Was C, Says Tiobe
Higgs Bostein (or is it Bostain?)
It's a pain, sometimes it's worth it, oftentimes not.
I have not, but will look into it. My initial fear with it, was that startup time is still the same and size is probablya bit bloated, but not 100% about these fears, so gonna have to try it out.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Using Google Trends to predict stock volatility
No one would be taking about Lambda School if the CEO didn’t court publicity through Twitter.

It’s literally the only reason most even know what Lambda School is. That’s my point.
this sounds cool, but why do we need it? why can't the web directly expose opengl?
Spotify is a music player. This is a commodity industry.
MS Outsourced Skype, Cortana Voice Analysis to China with No Security in Place
Not all capitals - it is a question of policy. Tokyo, for instance, seems to be very different.
I get the feeling big law is just as bad.
I don't surf. I know people who do. I've known them for the 35+ years they have been. I think getting it ultimately means living next to a place to surf. All of those people have arranged some period of their lives around surfing by living where surfing before and after work was an option. Some still do.

Living at the beach seems part of the price of getting good at surfing.
Ha! (fixed, thanks)
For people curious about synch rates, a friend just licensed the music (not performance) to an unknown song for promos for a major streaming production with A listers for $8000 on a two month license. This was with the assistance of an entertainment lawyer.

Of course every case is unique.
Is it similar to perforce? If so then github is also a monorepo, but much much more plesant.
> I hate this fraud because why good on him/her and not me?

> Carreyou didn’t want Holmes to fail because “why her and not me”

Why is envy assumed to be the motivation of the "hater"? If I recall correctly, Markopolous was driven by the idea that cheaters shouldn't win. Is that any different than the "hater" who is driven by the idea that person/product/concept "X" is unworthy?

The world needs haters for the same reason it needs entrepreneurs. They're usually wrong, but sometimes they're right.
I think it has a more tractable algorithm than darcs.
I wonder what would have happened if you told them you were in the middle of nowhere.
Untrusted JS can't be given direct access to native graphics APIs because they are not hardened against malicious code. (Or even benign code, it sometimes feels like...) Hence WebGL/WebGPU.
Algorithic Art Assembly, 2020, San Francisco, March 27/28th
putting on a second edition of Algorithmic Art Assembly
https://grayarea.org/event/algorithmic-art-assembly-2020/

which will feature amongst others:

Ross Goodwin, behind the machine learning generated script for the short film Sunspring - "filmmaker Oscar Sharp turned to his technologist collaborator Ross Goodwin to build a machine that could write screenplays. They created "Jetson" and fueled him with hundreds of sci-fi TV and movie scripts. Building a team including Thomas Middleditch, star of HBO's Silicon Valley, they gave themselves 48 hours to shoot and edit whatever Jetson decided to write. "

Hannah Davis, "generative musician and researcher based in NYC. She is the creator of TransProse, which programmatically translates text into a musical piece with a similar emotional tone. Her generated music has been played at The Louvre, the BMW Museum, the Fabrica Alta, and others."

Musical headliners are Myriam Bleau, "creates audiovisual systems that go beyond the screen, such as sound installations and performance-specific musical interfaces. Her hybrid electronic practice explores music performance as a codified cultural manifestation and recontextualizes pop culture elements and music history tropes."

and Richard Devine "combining influences from glitch music to old and modern electronic music. As a result of praise of his music from Autechre as well as a remix of Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy, Devine recorded an album for Warp Records which was jointly released by Schematic and Warp."

Past coverage from last year:
https://www.wired.com/story/algoraves-live-coding-djs/
https://cycling74.com/articles/on-the-road-the-algorithmic-art-assembly
(videos from the talks and performances on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJBkAVEuct1mx0ehLY1LkzA)
I would guess that most businesses in history were started with less than this -- it's a pretty broad question. Can you narrow it down? Are you looking for a lifestyle business? A specific field? Are you open to buying businesses?
I am cheered to see that we are applying the fundamental test of good science to a very political topic.

I would be interested to see how recent climate models differ from the (proven able to predict) models from the 70's. Logically, one could make an argument that we should trust the predictions of the (earlier, simpler) models of the 70's than the more recent ones, which are analogous to new medicines which have not been through a double-blind study yet to prove that they are better than the old standard.
Biography of saint Siluan the Athonite deeply affected how I view the world and people around me https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/898516.Saint_Silouan_the...
It would be cool to just scan a QR-Code at the register after paying with your mobile device and have it save/txt/email the receipt to you.
عالم الفكاهة والمرح وأحلي 100 نكته.pdf
You should take a look at: https://github.com/mateodelnorte/meta
While I am by no means "famous" in the sense of Paul Graham famous, this essay is spot on. I had a coterie of haters when I was getting started on my own. I would post a blog and they would counter with their own blog making fun of me. One of them was a better writer than I and his criticisms were cutting. But they were just mean. I suspect it was this guy who created a fake twitter account using my avatar. It was labeled "fake" so not an attempt to slander me. I felt somewhat like it was a compliment. And it was very clever.

I just disengaged from all these people. I don't read comments on my blogs or articles. But still, having negative fanboys impacts you the rest of your life. You imagine them calling you out. It pulls you down and slows you down.

Thanks for this PG.
Git commits do embed a timezone in the commit timestamp. And while lunchtime will vary by person, there may still be a visible effect around common lunchtimes over a large number of people.
I'm not making much sense of that article. It's rejecting both the mathematical definition of continuity, and also wants to compute with infinite real numbers, which is just not realistic to computers and languages. So the author ends up with a lot of absurd results.
Pardon the side step but it reminds me of my life not long ago. Replace browsing with drinking. Obviously less harmful 'addiction' but the 'do a single thing to somehow avoid life everyday' sounds like an interesting diagnosis pattern.
Prions.

It's just a superstition but I wouldn't eat veggies grown directly in human manure (although the guy has done and hasn't gotten the sponge-brain: https://humanurehandbook.com/ )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
We also have plenty of programs. Let's not write any new programs.
Get a big board. You have more to and. Our feet don’t need to be within 2mm of the correct spot to get up and going. I made the mistake of learning on a board that was much to short (basically the same size as my roommate, who could actually surf)
18 carat means: weight * 0.75 = gold mass.

AFAICT, this has a smaller weight and thusly smaller gold mass, but the proportion (0.75) is constant.
>Instead of management by mushy human judgement, hold people accountable for KPIs.

This is a distortion caused by management's desire for legibility

>Instead of letting teams invent and adapt their own processes, dictate a unified JIRA workflow based on the needs of your BI tool.

This is a distortion caused by management's desire for legibility

>Demand that your org's microservices architecture be simplified until it fits neatly on one Google Slide.

This is a distortion caused by management's desire for legibility

>Confuse investment in a report with investment in the subject of the report.

This is a distortion caused by management's desire for legibility
I think the code bases prove it in their own right...

When I look at how many games Raven was able to churn out with the Quake 3 engine (and most of them were pretty good! Elite Force and Soldier of Fortune are both games that I remember quite fondly).

Carmack saw the value of clean code in providing a quality experience. I'd also wager that was a big part in their ability to iterate on the engine so quickly.

> Wolfenstein doesn't seem to have much structure to it at all. Doom is still a mess of global variables and ugly code.

Part of me asks how much of that was by necessity, and by that I mean whether some of those things were intended as ways to get every last bit of performance out of the code (especially things like globals, and for something as old as wolf3d one starts to also ask about things like segments shudder)
I don't think PG is talking about accusations that the person is engaging in fraud. I think he's talking about claims that the person is a fraud - that they have (to use the singer example) no actual talent.

If I claim that Tom Brady, say, defrauded someone, that's an accusation about actual deeds involving actual money. If I claim that he's a fraud, though, I'm claiming that he's not actually any good as a quarterback. That's a very different claim. One claim lives in the realm of objective facts about actions; the other lives in the realm of emotional reaction to success.
https://nipfile.com/download/cf422e62a56f570a67f3d3503448630...
Assuming the "directly" wasn't the most important part of your comment, that is WebGL: WebGPU is designed to be more like Vulkan/Metal (with an initial prototype having been done by Apple, that has since been renamed WebMetal).
All those people of Algerian descent surely aren't there by chance.
OpenGL kind of sucks, tbh. I know because I work full time with it. There are so many things in OpenGL that are either inneficient, outdated, or plain stupid. You also can't directly expose it anyway because of poor support on Windows and MacOS. The former requires you to install proper drivers that users may not have, the latter deprecated it and to my knowledge already didn't properly support the latest versions.

So whatever you do in the browser, it would need some kind of translation layer to another API anyway. On windows that's usually DirectX via ANGLE. Even today, whatever you do with WebGL will actually be translated to DirectX calls. On MacOS, WebGL is probably be translated to Metal, right now. Same with Vulkan.
Met someone who used to be in the printing business. Cars and stationary back when that was a thing. Now he just sells thermal paper for Point of Sale terminals. He says he is doing better than he ever has.
Yeah, that's the part I left out because it does get complicated when it comes to releases. For simplicity's sake, let's say everything actually gets bundled into one binary and released together.
That's wrong. I was surfing teacher, and regardless of age it takes 2-5 years to learn it. Some environments are easier, some are harder, but surfing is still both, the hardest and most dissatisfying, and then the most elegant and satisfying sport.

Many people started learning at 40, and it still needed 5 years.
That would be a royalty trust.
The issue with those is just that my height is small; they don't fit my shoulders, which are a snug medium.
The best overview of spaceflight I've ever found
I love this. Absolutely fantastic, especially with all of the keyboard controls. I've not been able to get the PNG import tool to work at all, but everything else seems really solid.
It seems like there might be a pretty straight up tradeoff between difficulty of developing software and quantity of software produced. So the more we attempt to optimize at a lower level, the more time it takes to develop, and the less software someone can make and maintain. So, given that - would you rather lose 30-40% of the apps you use and like, but the rest are faster? Or keep using everything you have now?

There are exceptions to this, as with everything, but it's not as easy as this article makes it sound, i.e. "Just make faster stuff dummy!" There's always a cost.
Are you really trying to say that promoting a nutritious diet supported by physical activity doesn't work for "most people"? You call that engaged advocacy?

What he claimed is true and backed by multiple studies. Doing a healthy dose of physical activity with a healthy diet can only be beneficial, no downside whatsoever. It's quite underrated I guess. Too many humans wish for a magic pill, they delude themselves into thinking that it must be better than healthy living habits, since it's more modern. People are looking for the lazy fix.
PayPal acquirer honey for the data of course but I still believe it will be a write off in a couple years. Those kind of browser extensions are really low user retention a doing term something will come along and people just move on to it. Their users all are price sensitive deal hunters and the moment something comes up they will move.
In contrast to your experience, all VA physicians are obligated to use an ID card with a chip in order to login.
In a well-designed karma system, karma farming is something to encourage because it means users are posting content that helps the website.

(I don't know many well-designed karma systems, but, that's at least the goal. The feedback cycle exists for a reason.)
There's evidence of people being aware of Epstein's predilections. He was hardly secretive about it:

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/08/jeffrey-ep...

> There were lavish dinner parties with the likes of Steven Pinker and Stephen Jay Gould during which Epstein would ask provocatively elementary questions like “What is gravity?” If the conversation drifted beyond his interests, Epstein was known to interrupt, “What does that got to do with pussy?!”

It think it's fair to say anyone who was on his island, home or jet should be questioned by authorities about what they saw there. He was a child sex trafficker operating out of his homes and private jet. Those are crime scenes.

Not everyone who went there is guilty, but given everything we now know it's not unfair to question their presence in Epstein's orbit.
'Split ticket' rail fares to go mainstream say experts
Intellectual property didn't used to be rent seeking. It's a relatively recent phenomenon where you can no longer buy-to-own, you can only subscribe-to-use.

Virtually every company is moving toward this model - Microsoft, Adobe, Disney, etc. That's my main complaint.
I think that describes any enterprise software.

Likely at go-live/vendor selection, nobody wanted to revolutionize things in a way that could only be done on computer.

The successful vendor will be the one that can « make all of your paper stuff look/function/feel the same way on a computer ».

This minimizes training, development and changing the workflow you used for 20 years. Which checks every department’s checkboxes.

So you end up with the worst aspects of paper, with few of the benefits of technology.
And ofcourse, there is a limit to what you want to spend even if it might make some profit long term. You need to be able to find programmers to maintain things etc as well. If I needed something handling massive traffic while handling real business logic but not allowed to cost more than a few bucks in hosting, I would use something like [0]. But that would be silly for maintenance reasons alone. Does anyone know a modern (well maintained I mean really) equivalent though? I played around with this a long time ago and it is incredibly efficient.

[0] http://datadraw.sourceforge.net/ (github; https://github.com/waywardgeek/datadraw as sourceforge seems down)

Edit; maybe I answered that last question by finding a github version: seems waywardgeek does maintain at least to keep it running.
They are saying distribution is trivial from a technical perspective.

Acquiring the rights to distribute profitably is non trivial, of course.
No, this is not the case. Anyway, it would be good just to have the option to not use SMS, they don’t need to migrate everyone off SMS at once.
It is quite different than MDMA in practice though I think and even despite its name it does not bind to GABA I would still more liken it to the positive/social feelings of alcohol than mdma (don't mix alcohol and gabapentin though, it can be dangerous).
I think the Onion does the same thing ;)
you could have said the same thing about the google office suite. just run the existing windows programs.
doing it in linux lets google go vertical. they can own and manipulate the entire stack. and not pay for windows licenses.
now the games are the hurdle. get a critical mass, and then the studios would build for Stadia as a prime target.
Given that the monorepo is in Perforce, not git, I imagine `git status` returns pretty quickly.
Cynical answer: that requires a lot more discipline around data tagging and processing and dumping-on-request than most "move fast" internet companies can do.

A company that could do that would, from an engineering perspective, be a refreshing change from all the others that are like "shit, we don't even know all the places we might have stored information." :D
> this is sort of obviously not true... I mean the "for most people" part.

> I think it probably isn't good advocacy

That's pretty strong, can you at least explain why you think that?
Sure maybe Carreyou wasn’t advancing his career. I should have said that was one possibility. It would be a noble pursuit because he did the world good.
I think you can qualify a hater as someone who wishes someone else would fail for no good reason other than making them feel better about themselves. Maybe that’s envy, maybe it’s not.
This is the methodology of Gap Year[0] and ideally filled with some sort of extended internship, which I personally subscribe to even though I didn't do it - simply wish I did.

Theory is definitely fantastic, but not being exposed to the real world took me longer to come to grips with than it probably should have.

I think book-learning has great return on investments when applied critically. The problem is when it's applied dogmatically like it is today. Not everyone needs to go to college - for profit schools are scum. Universities can hardly call themselves impartial, but it still has a place and is useful.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_year
this is awesome. Congratulations!
Stock trader, because your risk is only 250k. Other businesses involve even more risk than your principle.
They're taking their Teslas (or hypothetical supercars) to the track?

> You don't buy a sports car to drive to the grocery store unless it's a status symbol (which is likely the great majority of sports car owners).

You seem to agree on the core thing there: status symbol. Marketing. Gotta pump out bigger numbers to protect the status. Look at M or AMG cars now vs 30 years ago.
A sim transfer/ account recovery process should come
with a transition period of multiple days during which SMSs with warnings are sent to the original sim card.

On top of that, one could think of:
A passphrase to authenticate a number transfer to another sim.

Sending a code through physical mail.
You have to take into account impact to future revenue. Even if the fine is less than existing profits, if it tanks the business then its not worth it.

You'd also have to find some employees who were comfortable to keep this hidden.
RetroArch 1.8.3 Released Angle Adds OpenGL Support to Xbox One
But you don't want your VCS to dictate your project management.

Maybe you want to apply the patch to the main development branch, let people try it there for a while, and then decide which maintained release branches should get the patch.
"I love Paris, but what shocks me every time I go back is the quantity of dog poop (and also trash) in the streets and the inability of city officials to do anything about it."

Is the amount of dog poop in Paris even worse than in Berlin? I cannot imagine that.