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Twitter killed blogging. Not just the popularity of it, but the expectations of both the writer and reader. When Twitter launched, it was described as a "micro-blog", because that's what it is, really, before morphing into its own thing: a tweet.

We all know what a tweet is: A short polemic statement, usually emotional, biased or opinionated, but expressed as self-evident without any justification, explanation or thorough analysis, which simply wouldn't fit.

I was an avid blogger at the time Twitter started, thousands of daily readers, and relatively influential in my tech niche. I had every reason to continue. And yet after I started tweeting regularly, my blogging slowed and then stopped. That day had passed, and now my blog sits on my website like a monument to the 2000s. Many others were like this as well.

The reason is pretty simple: When you blog regularly, there's a certain itch to express an idea or an opinion that builds up and you want to scratch it by writing a post. But you'd ruminate on it for a while, so that it could be a decent sized post with rationale for your thought.

But tweeting could scratch that itch instantly - no need to save up enough of an idea to write a full blog post of a few paragraphs, you could just write, "Wow, foo sucks. Totally prefer bar instead." And the feeling was satisfied.

You'd think at the time that you'd save up some ideas and write a longer post later, and at first you did, but as time went by, later never seemed to come. And then, when it did, you'd be so used to culling your opinion down to the essential idea for a pithy tweet, fully expressing your thought became harder. Besides, the more open-ended a tweet was, the more opinionated, the more it would get reactions. It seemed that expressing fully formed ideas wasn't worth as much.

It was a vicious cycle, you'd blog less. And others who used to blog their ideas or leave comments wrote less as well, and that great feedback loop stalled as everything moved to tweets. Intelligent analysis was replaced by emotional exclamations and hard opinion. There's no room for nuance in a tweet.

And that's where we are now. With a president who's a master of tweeting unjustified, irrational opinion and lies and a society that responds in kind because doing otherwise takes too much time and effort.

Blogging is never coming back. Even this comment is probably too long for most HN readers to do anything more than just skim. And if they don't like a word or two, they'll downvote and move on, rather than write their thoughts out in a coherent manner.
You're sincerely willing to wait an entire year for a vaccine that may not work when we already have effective treatments? That's insane
Okay, so why not say "safer utilities" or "more performant utilities" rather than focusing on the implementation language? If I'm an end user of a safe and performant utility why should I care if it's written in Rust, Go, or OCaml?
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From the ls replacement: "Why spend your time squinting at black and white text?"

Uh, because squinting at blue-on-black text is much more difficult. Human eyes focus best at yellow-green, they see that as brightest, and they don't even have long-wavelength (blue) receptors in the fovea.

I also looked at the alternatives to ps, top, cat, find, and du.

My overall feeling is that these are really not like UNIX tools at all. They are not very scriptable. Output is full of Unicode, color, column dividers, headers, underlining, and pagination. Values are in so-called "human readable" form, like "1.4M" instead of 1474560 or whatever it may be, which is a real pain for scripting.

I also notice some features that seem out of place to me, a long-time UNIX user. The tools waste space on displaying things related to git, docker, and network connections. I would expect the proper tools to be more like "git ls", "docker ls", "docker ps", and "netstat -p". (for those ones that don't actually exist, take that as a suggestion for a coding project) Not all the world is devops on a web site.
That's but rust has been a known quantity for 5(?) years at least now?
To be fair, that’s probably true. It’s just that the particles at that scale are other molecules and they are indeed very hard to filter out mechanically.
And the coronavirus is enveloped. https://theconversation.com/vodka-wont-protect-you-from-coro...
I believe webp images are generally smaller in size.
The Inca also practiced ritualized child sacrifice, which might partially explain why the Spanish reacted the way they did upon encountering them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacocha
I so miss the deep veins of content in blogs and forums. So much niche, rich knowledge lost. Not have to resort and gag on highly monetized social forums for a fraction of depth or worse Medium.
Gifs (and videos that people call gifs) wouldn’t be what they are today if it weren’t for their ease of copying/saving and pasting/uploading to somewhere else, which you could similarly call an application feature. So this application issue with video (as implemented in this article) is almost certainly what will stop gifs from being replaced.
Companies extensively keep trade secrets anyway. There was a case recently where an employee stole trade secret code to an autodrive system.
You can just blog a comment. Read something that moves your mind longer than the first barfed out comment? Blog it. Write down your thought process, discuss with yourself, do something thoughtful witout the stress of a public discussion.
No, its a os one.

windows, and most other os's, allow copy and pasting images as image data in the clipboard, but can only handle video links, there is no way to natively copy and paste the video contents.
The EV run is on government incentives worldwide, not cost per mile. Outside US the fuel price is marginally related to raw petroleum, i.e. in Europe dropped some 25% when petroleum went down to basically zero.
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As someone working with large health non profits on COVID tools, whose head is deep into the reporting and news around it, and who has 3 school age kids in NYC, I am of the opinion that there is no low risk population, no "safe to get it" group.

There are groups where symptomatic incidence is lower. Sure. But JFC some of those symptomatic cases are awful, with lifelong impact.

Someone used the Russian Roulette metaphor early on and it continues to resonate with me. We see over and over again surprising case histories all across the demographic, age, and health history map. Too many that are completely unexpected and for which there are presently no predictive metrics.

We are slowly learning more about what this virus can do, and we have a sense of what it will do when presented with a known vulnerable population. It is remorseless.

But even for "low risk" populations it is exactly like Russian Roulette. You and 9 others might be at the peak of known clinical health measurements and it may leave those others unscathed- that we know of- while it will destroy your lungs or your liver or cause you to have a stroke.

With all respect to the goal of broad population immunity, for my family- we stay carefully isolated and adopt all defensive protocols, we wait for a vaccine, and we advocate for govt entities to provide the liquidity to keep safely running the various life sustaining machines that our interdependent world depends on.
Yes please. The clickbaityness is not intentional
VP8 in a WebM container is pretty much the lowest bar for most browser support, and comes with no licensing requirements. I'm not disagreeing with the comment about "nightmarish mess". It indeed is one, specially when it comes user-uploaded content.
Kafka also has less moving parts even today before zookeeper removal is complete (2 vs pulsar 3).
Social media in general -- Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. -- have made it easier than a blog to get your thoughts onto the internet, and the extremely social nature of those services and the instant feedback and conversation they encourage (the social part) is very compelling.

Even though the major blog platforms (Movable Type, WordPress, Blogger/Blogspot, etc.) had a social component in the form of comments, the big social media sites -- including Reddit -- took it up quite a few notches. People like the feedback and the conversation. Blogs can be much more of an island. Some like that, too.
They can, and they do. This article shows you an example at the end. What's the issue?
So, what's the "most hated thing about programming?" I guessed and guessed and couldn't get it.

Deadlines? Users? Management? No documentation? Having to write documentation? Having to write unit tests? Debugging? Licensing? Having to reinvent the wheel since the good stuff is closed-source? Being forced to do Agile/Scrum/Kanban? ... aargh!
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I didn’t post anything yet but I’ve recently set up a blog using Hugo, s3 & cloudfront
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I'm still very much in the camp that moving pictures are distinct from video, and am eagerly waiting for a good replacement animated picture format before I move my website over to it.

apng could have been nice, but never took off.
It's not we can't use it, but rather using it for everything would make hiring, onboarding, and retention tougher, as well as maintenance.

Apologies if I have the wrong impression in the earlier post.
The 0.024% was for the age group under 50, that includes perhaps two thirds of the population.
Could you point to those ways? I guess I missed them.
My framework does GitOps for infrastructure automation. It includes the managed K8s and supporting cloud resources. Not just workloads on the clusters.

Only the development environment is local.
>There is no purpose to have a discussion when your thinking is so narrowly black and white. Your worldview doesn't seem to allow for the shades of grey necessitated by uncertainty.

There are no shades of gray here. We're weighing human extinction against an economic system here. These things are not comparable. The whole point of an economy is to facilitate human existence.

>If all skepticism was met with the same belittling as climate science, we'd still be stuck in the dark ages.

Your skepticism is not rooted in facts and evidence, but rather has an ideological basis. When all the experts in the field unanimously say we should be dealing with global warming, that's what we should be doing. Anybody who is not an actual climatologist needs to get the fuck out of the way.

>Don't think it's possible for an institution of sciences to be very wrong for a very long time about a very important topic?

Sure, it's possible, but only a fool would gamble the fate of humanity on that. The stakes are simply too high here. There are also no actual downsides to addressing climate change. Imagine the horror of having a cleaner environment and sustainable industry creating millions of new jobs and advancing our technology and science.

>Anyway I'm being rate limited by sanctimonious downvoters so this conversation is effectively over.

It's good to see that majority of people see the dangerous absurdity you promote for what it is.

>by the way, with respect to the lockdown controversy, did you hear about the atrocious academic modeling code that informed the lockdown policy?

And just like with climate change you ignore the actual facts all around you. 80,000 people died in US while 0 people died in Vietnam. Chew on that for a while next time you claim that following scientific consensus is the wrong thing to do.
There is a great lecture from Robert Sapolsky/Stanford [2010] about behavioral evolution / prisoner's dilemma / tit for tat strategy: https://youtu.be/Y0Oa4Lp5fLE
It's not like this for all mortgages. Some lenders are demanding a lump sum of the 3 payments after the 90 days.
Oh I have nothing against the fact that he's a bank CEO, I just thought his music was pretty bland and generic. Maybe I was too harsh. You would think that bank CEOs would be the kind of person to not really have any hobbies or interests outside of work, so I guess it's kind of cool that he's putting himself out there like this
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Cubic has to go to +infinity on either the right or left. Exponentiating doesn't help with that.
Writing docs and stuff is fine but the whole submission and review process is very convoluted and arcane. If we had some people who do this all the time they would get proficient at this. Right now a lot of the docs have a ton of errors that easily could be avoid that way. So it eats up a lot of engineering time plus the output is low quality.
No. All this app does is record a user’s location for the last two weeks. Then, after a positive diagnosis, that location data is examined as an aid to help determine who that person may have come into contact with.

Beacons, identifiers, constitutions, and public keys don’t come into it.
This isn’t too compelling a story on its own, I’m assuming this is someone who wrote a collection for themselves and made it public on their blog.

Glad they wrote their collection, but not something I’m excited about.

In general I’d love to hear “this was better in Rust because of X, Y and Z and the tradeoffs I had to make were A, B and C”.

But again, this isn’t on the author to do, I’m pretty sure I can find other articles on the internet that talk to that.

Edit: most of the READMEs of the projects look pretty good about that on a quick skim.
Why not a context menu entry to truncate the content to the correct length?

Or even better, some kind of warning when the paste happens, giving the user the option of truncating, canceling or continuing anyway?
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"Whiteboarding, naming things, stand-ups, OBOE (?), cache invalidation, and Jira" according to [1].

I don't think these questions are very fun.

[1] https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/e51c870f1b391ec0...
Have you checked out the Unicode character repertoire recently? There are a lot more than 26 letters to play with.
Most likely they are just hate being forced into something or Jira isn’t actually used correctly as in just a vanilla instance without integrating it into the organization no custom scripts, no plugins nothing.

Jira is an extremely powerful tool when used correctly by an organization and the entire Atlassian suite as a whole is pretty awesome.

If you essentially write all your organizational processes into Jira workflows it’s a whole other universe all of a sudden everything is behind a single paint of glass and all technical and non-technical processes are in a single place in a single a coherent workflow.

We have everything from the first steps of the project through its entire lifecycle in Jira it’s not just a place for bug reports.
Is it? That's different from the counterintuitive N95 filtration efficacy. PM2.5 designates particles of diameter 2.5 microns and smaller, and I've read nothing that implies particles smaller than 2.5 microns are somehow easier for the respiratory tract to keep out of the lungs. The graph of filtration efficacy as a function of particle size is U-shaped for N95 masks, but not for the human respiratory tract.
That's the holy grail right there, isn't it? :) We're definitely working towards runtime but still some work to be done there to account for additional complexities and balance trade-offs re: speed, quality, accuracy etc. of the rendered output.
I think they are talking about the webserver side requirements for streaming video so the browser will play it.
webp comes in lossy and lossless flavor. unless you want to degrade the gifs you would have to pick lossless and in that case it's not a clear win over apng even if we ignore the compatibility question.
If anybody has seen a good detailed comparison, I'd love to read one. The first dozen hits were pretty weak.
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Yes, broadening the context is my whole point. 20 years ago it was the OS, 10 years ago it was search, today it's social networks, tomorrow? The monopolies from each era struggle in the next. Let Google solve & dominate search while innovation moves on to the next big thing.
Saw your YouTube videos a few days ago and was very impressed.

Clearly you can't give away too much on your "secret sauce" but is there any insight you could share on two questions:

1. Do the individual voice talents need to express the emotion types you use or can you layer it on after? (ie do they have to have recorded say "happy" to get happy outputs or can that be added to neutral recordings retrospectively)

2. What are the ball park audio amounts you need per voice? 10 hrs, 20 hrs or more?
There's also an extension called Don't Fuck With Paste.
I do have a Hugo blog, and I agree that pretty much all static-site generators are too nerdy for most potential users.

WordPress is still around, and I recommend it. It's more "social" than ever in some ways, and the built-in comments are looking better and better as the years go by. (I use Disqus to moderate the comments for more than a dozen blogs in one network, but for an individual blog, I prefer the native WP comments.)
did you know that there is loop attribute in video tag?
Frankly I don't think it matters at all. Consider if you wipe down a surface with 70% IPA it'll dissolve all sorts of crud.
My distro's ls already does coloring by default. It turns it off somehow if it detects the output is a pipe, so that "ls | less" still works. It also turns off multi-column in that case, so "ls | wc -l" counts directory entries.
There is no problem with their logic. The number of contacts does indeed go up, which is all that they said.
The people of Atlassian are a weird bunch. It’s like they constantly run a content „who can piss the users off the most”. Like when they removed the permalink to comments from hosted jira „because ui had to be redesigned and it’s difficult to keep feature parity”.
This is not discovering. This is drowning in content.

If i were looking for front end blogs, I'd say: Thanks, but I'll rely on some aggregator instead.
didnt openstep use the native win32 for the ui on windows?
Inaturalist is a great starting point! What's really funny is I identified a few millipedes on iNaturalist a couple weeks ago and the Twitter poster in this article (Derek Hennen) came along and narrowed it down for me. Very kind and knowledgeable person!
That's why ksqlDB exists and handles all that for you, turning streams into tables that you can query.
There seems to be this common problem among relatively new technologies, that they're not actually aware of what the average person knows about them. So let me be the moron in the room. I work at a company that uses Kafka. What I know so far is that Kafka is broken. It seems to me that this article is more about what every software engineer who plans to re-skill as a kafka engineer should know.
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Consider this. If a program is written in Python, and becomes popular, it is usually a matter of time before it gets rewritten in, and replaced by an implementation in a faster language.

There are fast implementations (C) and there are somewhat safe implementations (Python, Java, ...). If I were to place Rust in this hierarcy - it is both fast AND safe, and there's rarely a good reason to replace it, so you've software that's already at the top of the hierarcy. This means that the particular implementation is likely to be the one that doesn't get replaced.

"...in Rust" has a lot of implications other than being an exercise in marketing.
You might enjoy George Lakoff's book Metaphors We Live By.
https://linux.die.net/man/3/isatty :)
Do you have any advice for setting up a test Kafka environment? I'd love to be able setup a lightweight in-memory Kafka for unit-y tests without going through the whole Docker compose rigamarole.
Tap water will be fine. The alcohol you're diluting will disinfect it.

If you want to be ultra-sure, then use distilled. But be aware it's also bought by people who use it for their CPAP machines, so don't go nuts.
> C++ code that uses raw pointers instead of references or that uses std::vector but never actually bothers to bounds-check anything.

When is the last time you accidentally mutated a raw pointer? My opinion is that references are just another C++ feature that solves a non-existent problem and has severe disadvantages. And that is non-orthogonality / combinatoric type system explosion. I've seen more than one codebase that consisted to a large degree of adapters for calling the same functionality.
>You don't need any scheduling code, Linux does it like it does normally for kernel and user threads.

That's interesting, how does Linux implement it's kernel threads without any scheduling code?
The article compares a single img tag with a single gif src url to a video tag with 2 child nodes linking to 2 separate files encoded with 2 different ways, as mp4 and webm.

That’s already more than 2x as much work to post an animated image, not to mention limited support for transparency and needing to pay some extra attention for seamless looping.

Video on the web needs to mature quite a bit more.
I don't get the feeling you've really given it a fair chance, or tried to understand why it does what it does.

Swift really is much more readable than Objective-C, too.
I've only made it partway through this so far, but footnotes 4 through 7 make me think I already don't understand the author, since he seems to be presenting these as self-evidently absurd sentences.
My 2000s Blogger sites are all still live. I've ported some of those posts to other sites, but most just live over at Blogger.
This only worked properly in Firefox since 2016 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664717 so that's probably not it.
One blog that TTTThis talks about right here: lostbookofsales.com

Writing for years, and only now I start to see more visitors per day as well as other sorts of traction. Don’t be discouraged and write something that you yourself would enjoy reading.
You don't need to have been very long lived to see that.

My grandfather was born in 1914. Cars existed, but most people hadn't seen one yet. The Wright brothers' maiden flight was 10 years prior. He went to med school before WW2. Penicillin did not exist yet, not even in labs!

In the 50s (his 40s), he traveled commercially on a 747...

1950s futurism predicting flying cars and moon cities by 2000... they weren't being as silly as we tend to think. They saw planes go from nonexistent sputnik within half a lifetime. The projection was linear.
But it's being done above the format level entirely.

Every browser that can decode video has a "Copy Video URL" context menu item. It's just that the websites hide it to discourage hotlinking
Isn’t it mp4? That is pretty universal and displays well in all platforms. Webm isn’t that ubiquitous in support.
1. This is more of a "taste-teaser" than a tutorial in my opinion, but it's nice enough I guess.

2. Perhaps a different page for each chapter/part would have been nice.

3. I wonder how different would a C++ "taste-teaser" with the same scope and goal be.

4. I'm not a Rustian (Rustic? Rust-guy?); this seems strange to me:

// Try to open the file
let file = File::open(&input_filename)
.expect("[ ERROR ] Failed to open file!");

why am I expecting an error? Shouldn't that keyword be "on_exception" or something?
Anyone remember Tera Copy?

It (was?) is a Windows file copy/move utility that was fantastic! It support multiple file copying, and drag/drop operations to queue files and add to an existing running operation.
st3fan agi0 and myself are all people working on Firefox Preview and its underlying technologies. Is that sufficient?
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It's kind of odd that they are not pitching this as the primary use case. Seems much more plug and play than game voicing