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> That's a strawman

How? That workflow assumes a 80-char b/w terminal for the most part. Try using any part of it on mobile or with large font size due to bad eyesight, it's awful.

> At some point, you're going to have to use git on the command line to stage code, push it up to the remote or pull new code from the remote.

Well... no, you don't have to.

> In my case, I have no problem doing this through the email account I have with my ISP.

In your case...

> The problem is that you're being too dismissive in your criticism and comments rather than specifically describing what could be improved within their process.

I have tried being very specific, just one sentence later you prove my point, it doesn't work and gets dismissed. I really don't plan on playing that game until I die of old age. Thankfully GitLab/GitHub et al have started the "fight" for me, making the workflows much more accessible and losing quite a few B/G-era relics.

> Effectively telling a project that they need to discard a process that they've successfully used since its inception and move to an entirely new process is a non-starter.

Yeah, this is exactly the answer I spoke about and have gotten, blanket dismissal and being set in old ways. There isn't a piece of workflow that they're/you're willing to move out of that toolset. Quite a few projects still enforce 80char columns, it's a testament to the fact that even the smallest things can't be changed.

> A lot of Webapps perform worse in terms of latency and input lag on my laptop with a multicore processor, gigabytes of memory and over a terabyte of secondary storage compared to the equivalent desktop application from decades ago on a machine with megabytes of memory, a single core processor running at less than a quarter GHz and secondary storage less than a quarter GB.

Yeah and you uploaded your patchsets for minutes if not hours. God forbid you had to download anything with any size at all, sometimes it took days. The non-stop hassle of having enough disk space. Delivering files via snail-mail and floppies was sometimes a viable option. Not to mention the equal amount of rather buggy and cumbersome software.

It wasn't all bunnies and flowers you are trying to imply it was. Some half-a-second slowdown, some minor input latency is not a valid reason to dismiss an entire set of tools. Not to mention, git doesn't really shine with it's responsiveness in quite a few cases.
"Hey, should I put this on my personal card?"
"No, just Brex-it!"
Didn't work out great for this guy from New Zealand: http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/cruise.shtml

(Not "go to jail" bad, but "The New Zealand government has moved aggressively to shut down this project -- and by using quite unscrupulous methods which appear to be in breach of the law." type of bad...)
Most 'opportunities' presented to me by my higher ups in casual interactions are just them trying to get more unofficial work done without being called out for it.

No thanks.
There are so many configuration files format and language already. The problem you describe seems to be fixed by XML for example
Well there is a difference between "avant guarde" music and certain things which everyone in a certain social group likes. When I was a teenager in the late 70s early 80s, it was mostly hard rock that was socially approved by my peers. In design school in the 80s, it was gothy stuff. Regardless, social groups were almost defined by their music.

Also, very few are ever going to admit, even to themselves, that their motivation is impressing others. More likely they will, uhh, take offense at the suggestion. Hey, I remember my sister accusing teenage me of only liking the kind of music that I liked because it was cool to like it. And yeah, I was offended. Doesn't mean there isn't validity there.
It amazing the traction that Blender is now getting. After a lifetime of delivering our 3D courses in Max, our school has recently switched to blender. Despite being long-time Max users, all our staff having nothing but praise for Blender. They are like kids in a candy store. It was the Covid thing that precipitated this move. Max is platform-dependent, making it unsuitable for home use. Today I returned to Max to tweak an old project and I am reminded of what a funckwinkle it is: full of built-in bugs and inconsistent UI choices.

The design landscape is very subject to catastrophic change. I remember when Quark Express went from being king of the hill to playing second fiddle to InDesign, in what felt like a couple of months. This was the outcome of some very poor customer-antagonising decisions by Quark.
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This would be objectively valuable if it was paired with a collection of brutality against police (curated by equally well motivated people). There are a massive number of both citizens and police in this country. Large numbers yield a significant artifact of outliers.

Holding police to a higher standard makes sense. But with very large numbers, a high standard still requires expectation of a significant amount of outliers.
Is the zero fraud liability policy normal in business banking? AFAIK it's a consumer thing.
To be clear, I'm not advocating taking a bunch of random classes to be a well-rounded person, although, sure, why not.

I'm advocating taking enough classes in some other, specific topic that interests you (like, say, linguistics) that you can now apply for jobs where you program using your domain knowledge of this other field, as well as your CS skills.

At most colleges, taking a bunch of classes in a single subject usually results in a major or minor; additionally, the extra lines on your diploma that say you also know a lot about, say, structural engineering will help you when your resume is on the desk of a firm developing CAD software.
> Do you want to allow downloads on “www.thisdx7cartdoesnotexist.com”?

Nope.
Yes, I agree, when there was a big shortage of tests and ppe they said reserve ppe for first responders (docs, emt, hosp workers) and tests for really sick. Now we have more information and more medical masks.
The problem with 56k is that it worked by having specialised hardware on the ISP end for the modulation that made those speeds possible over a phone line. As far as I know, no consumer modem can really do that, so you’re stuck with 33.6k or worse.
Users flagged it. That's usually the reason.
I don't think German engineering is particularly tied to the Holocaust in the same way German order is. It was used by countless people as a defense of their actions [1].

Now if you were writing an article about German engineering, I would be mildly surprised if there was no reference to their rocket program in WWII. But given the topic, I think that wouldn't leave the same negative taste in my mouth.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
> Brex minimizes their risk by offering a charge card versus a revolving line of credit. They also require access to your corporate bank account for liquid assets information to dynamically extend credit.

For how many businesses is "a charge card for 15% of your cash balance and you're responsible for fraud" substantively different from just using a debit card? (Genuine question -- this isn't a market I realized even exists.)
Please stop posting flamewar comments to HN. This is emphatically not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder if someone has ported dexed to WebAudio or something and the page could embed it.

Unrelated: I've played with Dexed a bit, but I just can't get over twiddling knobs on screen ...
You're talking about Linux desktop, no? It's apples and oranges because I assume we're talking about maintaining production systems here.

k8s is a mess IMO. It's a giant abstraction and you're forced to interact with the whole thing all at once. If you've done any kind of sysadmin/ops work on production systems then k8s makes you feel like you're re-learning everything all over again. That's a huge red flag to me. When a technology tries to reinvent every layer of the stack instead of gracefully integrating with existing tools then I immediately question the motives and/or competence of the creators.

I'm not sure how to express this next point without a touch of vitriol so I'm just going to say it: the way containerization is being promoted for general purpose use is ridiculous. We're living in a world where a 8 core 16G server is dirt cheap. The amount of WORK an application server can do with those resources is insane (if built well). The idea of slicing/dicing that mono application into 8 tiny pods with 3.33333 allotted millicores and a bunch networked cross traffic -- I, I... just don't get it. Why?

The vast vast majority of business critical applications can serve all of their traffic with a single server running on a modest (by today's standards) VPS. Add a little redundancy and auto-scaling and you're good to go.

When I see small startups trying to maintain the k8s black box I just facepalm myself into unconsciousness.

/rant, sorry
If GNU/Linux was unusable without various hacked-on helper frontends, none of which was comprehensive and none of which even tried to standardize, then yes that would be a red flag. In practice, you have things like Ubuntu putting a nice frontend on, but you also have things like the Arch folks, who explicitly refuse to provide an installer because the "manual" process is totally reasonable. So as an outsider, my understanding is that there are plenty of different k8s distros, and a lot of helper frontends (and no clear winners among them); are there people who find vanilla/handcrafted k8s okay? Is there an "Arch K8s" distro? Or even, is there an Ubuntu of k8s (successfully hides away the details and produces a clean working system that never requires a user to leave the comfort of the GUI)? Unfortunately, I don't have the domain knowledge to tell whether any given helper scripts are going to bite me down the road, so this is a genuine question from someone who'd like to get into k8s but can't see which option is sane.
The site relies on that lack of contrasting data and authentication (at least, objectively it can be argued).
Learn with an aim to create. It's the only thing that will keep you sane and interested in what will hopefully be a long and productive career.
Absolutely. AS3 bytecode was heavily inspired from java bytecode. There were a number of asks to get a server version of AS3 but Adobe was too invested in coldfusion to make it happen.

Adobe is a classic example of having too many products that they’d let internal innovation stifle. Can’t blame them but that’s why we needed Flash to be open source. Adobe did a poor job letting it realize it’s true potential.
It's not a matter of proportionality, it's a matter of context.

You cannot say: "Here's a gun, go into that house, physically get that guy to come out, dead or alive, but - if you do it just a little bit wrong, and you kill him the wrong way, you're going to jail forever"

The laws absolutely have to be different for police because we (and that includes you) are compelling them into situations of possible extreme violence, and in some case, constant low level aggression and toxicity.

Officers have to be held to account, but that account is definitely a different.

The argument however, completely misses the point - what matters more is a) the extreme high level of baseline violence in communities which necessitates all sorts of precautions otherwise unnecessary b) guns everywhere and c) just a general attitude towards over-policing and obvious unfamiliarity with the exact nature of how people should be apprehended or not. For example, the fact that 3 officers were on camera while 1 of them was kneeling on someone's neck AND they were knowingly being filmed, means that 'de-facto' it was allowed, ie they felt there would be no repercussions, in which case, the police chief should be out to dry first.

The problem is mass violence, pervasive weaponry and over-aggressive policing - most other things are secondary, if you solve the core problems, much if it goes away.

Surely in most other jurisdictions, like Canada, UK, Germany, Japan etc. the police are treated differently under the law and somehow it works out.
The article doesn't allege he was hit with a rock unbidden though. It says he was attacked after "chasing" "looters" with a sword. I'm sorry, but at that point combat has been engaged. Every 2A advocate here would agree that anyone in that circumstances would be entitled to stand their ground and fight back. And apparently they did.
This is a low value comment. You should at least state why you think referencing WWII is irrelevant. I think it is completely relevant in a discussion about a historical trait of the German people. Just posting a link to Godwin's law doesn't contribute anything and makes this thread more likely to spin out of control.
Patron Analytica
I just got a recruiter email today from them, yesterday.

They are claiming that they are growing their engineering team.
Oh yeah we're on the same page that taking classes in a different, specific topic is a great way to amplify your existing CS skills. I'm mostly making the point that going into college with the mindset of double major or bust can be counterproductive. The difference between a minor and a major can be a few extraneous courses, a lot more stress and a little less time to pursue your main interest.

I know I came into college determined to do a double major only to realize that I probably should have made that decision after taking a few courses and evaluating my level of interest in the two subjects.
Where You Live Is Who You Are
"When you build it" is missing from this list. In my experience, the "when" often tends to take precedence over the "how" and occasionally over the "what" as well.
I wrote this earlier, I love art projects like this, it's better than a million Ubers to me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23346004
How exactly "a like apple, c like cat" is worse than "a like alpha, c like Charlie"?
I believe if Apple can replace the stupid touch-bar with a row of e-ink keys. That will solve a lot of my problems. I myself have been imagining such a keyboard for longest time; happy to see somebody is thinking in same direction. This can be awesome thing for POS, and domain specific software getting rid of those finger twisting combinations.
I found Finland to be incredibly orderly and utopic as well.
The Geneva Convention permits the use of tear gas for non military crowd control purposes. It's use is simply prohibited for military purposes.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/aug/26/facebook-p...
Like I said, Janus doesn't do anything by default except for some core RTC stuff and push packets around. You have to implement your own use-case via a plugin. It sounds like the Video Room plugin that's implemented in C is not exactly what you want. You can write your own plugin (maybe based on it) yourself.

If you want to implement E2E via insertable streams then you can start right here:

https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway/blob/master/plugin...
Whattabout a puppeteer job?
> Do I continually push her to look at faces during conversations

I'm sure you asked this mostly rhetorically, but I thought I'd chime in with my two cents.

If your daughter is on the autism spectrum (guessing from the context) and is 13, she probably already finds socializing somewhat aversive and exhausting. Pushing her to make the experience even more aversive by insisting she look people in the eye is probably going to make things worse.

But I don't think that means that you can't change it. I would just suggest practice eye contact or looking at faces in small intervals only during some conversations. E.g. have a schedule and do a short conversation once a week where she deliberately practices it.

More generally, maybe try to think of the goal as moving the needle from where she is, not to achieve neurotypical levels of eye contact.
Again, how are people trying to "impress others" by listening to this music if they never talk to other people about that music? When I discovered avant-garde music, it was clear that this is something that I should enjoy alone and my friends would not react kindly to it. It was rather a source of shame and insecurity, not a badge of how cool I was. Yes, eventually I moved to a city where this music gets performed and I could meet likeminded people, but that was years later.
To be fair, that reaction is pretty common for anyone that has to travel through La Guardia.
I came across and learned the phonetic alphabet when I was 11 or so (in this wonderful video game which was tons of fun for the time: https://www.gog.com/game/independence_war_2), and I can honestly say it's come in handy a surprisingly high amount of times in my life since. Agreed with your recommendation :)
If your school offers an opportunity to study abroad, ideally in a country with a culture that you have personal interest in, please consider it strongly. I regret not doing this in college, as doing the equivalent nomad type experience is much more difficult after graduating.
I think it's precisely that. Beneath the superficial (your jaywalking example), lies an ugly reality.
Put it into a docker container, run with the `--rm` flag, then when it expires have it delete it's own git repo and other data before exiting, then it'll really be dead.
Thanks so much for the kind words! I agree. I love the internet for the weird and interesting things you can find. I’m glad this one has resonated with so many people.
This is a short term, no guarantor loans business. This is exactly the same predatory model as payday loans, subprime debt, ... I don’t understand how they raised so much money.
30-60 day float plus cash back rebates (1-7 points per dollar depending on spend category). Whether that provides you value is up to your business requirements and cash flow constraints. If you can’t get working capital otherwise (venture backed pre revenue), it’s probably not a bad deal.

I’d probably still go with Amex corporate cards and a personal guarantee, based on personal preference, a deep credit file, and a desire to outsource spend exception handling to the bank.
Oh yeah I'd bet crappy UIs are just laziness/sloppiness/prioritization rather than malice. The glamorous frontend work that gets lots of design attention is the stuff that has billions of users.

I saw some A/B testing for ad engagement that drove UI decision making, but it was always short-term and related to search -- like, "we updated the model today, and users click on the ad 1% more often in the treatment group".

FWIW I was pretty much at the bottom of the totem pole so if there was some nefarious plot to provide crappy UIs I wouldn't've been in the loop anyway.
I'm talking less about the artists than the people who, you know, spend $100 million on a Rothko. (and those that would like to have that kind of money so they could spend it on a Rothko)

I'm sure the artist himself was sincere enough. I guess he worked hard, but his paintings don't impress me that he had such amazing talent or was such a craftsman, only that he managed to find a particular niche.
I fly to Frankfurt 2-3 times a year for work. It pisses me off that the US based carriers (United, American) line up their cattle in the main thoroughfare of the airport and block everyone trying to get to other gates. All the other gates and airlines seem to be able to board without lining everyone up like pre-kindergarteners.
Scheduled AWS lamda using the Mechanical Turk HITRequest API to get some random person to post to the site once a day. Shouldn’t cost more than a dime a day.
I think its a silly response to the problem, yes if you were near the lever and you so happened to know one of the groups then you might argue pulling the lever one way or the other.

But is that simply you justifying your actions?

The problem isn't absurd when posed to humans because, how about the scenario where you don't know either person and you need to make a decision in a matter of seconds. That's the point.

If my mother was on one of the tracks, I might justify my actions to pull the lever and have it veer into the other group, but that isn't necessarily a morally correct decision.

The author in the article says that the problem is absurd when posed to humans, then goes onto applying the same principles of the problem to AI and cars but does not say that the problem is also absurd with regards to AI, despite coming to the same conclusion.
The amount of CSS went into those boxes is mind-boggling.
Procedural general works well for terrains and ecosystems, but not for man-made objects. There has been some great work on procedurally generated architecture, but they all need extensive manual tweaking before they can be used. This tells us a lot about what differentiates design from natural forces.
At around $3k per kilo to orbit, I'd bet he'd be _very_ happy with the $6k or so 1/48th of a ~100kg astronaut+spacesuit would mean per launch!

He ain't getting anywhere near orbit using Estes motors though... Not even 1/48th of the way to orbit I'd guess...

(Hmmm, spaceflight.com's pricing page says they'll send a 3U 5kg cubesat payload to LEO for $295,000... That's I guess pretty close to "1/24th of an astronaut to orbit"? Minus the ~10,000% surcharge for "manrated" though, I'm guessing.)
You know that scene in Archer where he spells "M as in Mancy" over the radio because he doesn't know the phonetic alphabet?

I've legitimately had that with phone operators. Just a couple of weeks ago I had a CSR spell out "D for Doris" over an atrocious phone line.
Chinese city’s health-tracking surveillance tech set to outlast the pandemic
I graduated in 2006 (undergrad CS degree), and at the time, we were told SVMs were a lot more practical than something like neural nets. Neural nets were framed as "we will teach you this thing because it's fun to code back-prop and it kind of works in a way we think your brain does too, but no one really uses them in real-life, except for classifying digits".

Funny how times have changed.
Miller's Japan's Modern Myth, though published in the 1970s, is still relevant in this regard. He wrote of how it is odd how Japan has managed to export a reputation of being a country of peace and contemplation when it likes its loudspeakers (another poster already mentioned the election-season cars with loudspeakers, goddamn) and you can find them even in some Zen rock gardens.
If This Is Your Inspiration from Space, You’re Doing It Wrong
> a new, Microsoft-blessed exFAT filesystem implementation

For those of us who lived through the "Linux is cancer" days, we are truly living in interesting times :-)
Chinese dominance of antibiotic supplies could put the U.S. at risk
I spent a little more than two in Berlin last year. I didn't find Germany particularly orderly. Spend an evening in Tegel airport and see what I mean.
Programming as Theory Building (1985)
I think the expression "it's only a few bad apples" started out as an ironic expression but got picked up by those who missed the irony. You're right, I do see it applied this way to police everywhere. And it's a self-defeating argument every time.
As someone who pored over magazines, book art, user manuals as a kid, i guarantee you some kid out there is slowly absorbing every detail.
It reminds me of Space Email but with a twist. This is cool!
really either c2sup (catsup) or k3hup (ketchup). Kinda seems to want to be a whole nother spelling (ket[?]sup).
Well, you asked why you were being downvoted. Stuff that you just make up can be corrosive the the public dialogue.
> Some interesting thoughts but this aversion to the word "guys" needs to stop. My wife uses it all the time to address both mixed and exclusively female groups, it's completely gender neutral. If words like "guys" are causing someone distress then there are obviously bigger issues we need to address.

Looking upthread, Hackernews has come to the decision that policing language like this is okay because values change and what was acceptable yesterday may not be suitably inclusive today. History is always happening, so watch what you say.