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Microsoft office. Unavoidable in a business context. Slow. Hangs. Crashes. Menu options hard to find in the constantly shape-shifting ribbon.

I actually have fond memories of office circa 1995 when it was a single platform app. Now it’s some cross-platform monstrosity with horrible performance.

So many features have been piled on top of each other that I suspect it’s impossible to debug now. Image inserted in a shape in a table and commented on? Good luck figuring out why that pauses scrolling for 5 seconds when it’s encountered. Or explaining to someone non-technical why they shouldn’t do it.
emacs -- Well, heck its emacs!

git -- Change history is your friend, and you get out what you put in (hashes verify data against corruption)

tinc -- There Is No Cabal: Mesh VPN lets you build a VPN across diverse environments including different clouds.
I'm not saying that newer versions of Windows than Vista don't include additional features. Off the top of my head, Windows 10 includes Cortana and Paint 3D. I just don't ever use or care about them, just like how I've never had occasion to "mark all folders for account read".

(And wow, I guess I was right to buy Microsoft, because they were eleven years ahead of the curve on message templates: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/send-an-email-mes... )
+1 to this. I worked at FB for a few years and Workplace is just Facebook re-skinned. My big gripe with Workplace is similar to what ceronman says, it is essentially engineered to create meta-work. People end up using it to self-promote every little thing that they do to get visibility and this leads to it being incredibly noisy and really filled with information that isn't relevant and important things get buried under all of the filler. The only real upside to workplace is that I think it is better for Q/A groups than something like Slack is, at least for larger companies.
I found alfred to just be bloat after they improved spotlight. I have it installed but rarely actually use it at this point.
I owned that exact machine and it was terribly slow, especially running Rosetta. Luckily the CPU was socketed and you could drop in a Core 2 Duo mobile CPU (up to a T7600) for a big upgrade!

http://www.o0o.it/mini/

https://lowendmac.com/2016/upgrade-options-for-2006-and-2007...
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Yes, living on a completely isolated island helps immensely. So does a government with extensive experience and dictatorial powers. The rest of us aren't so lucky. Flatten the curve and enjoy the ride.
Youtube music isn't an equivalent product.

Frankly it's garbage and when they finally pull the trigger and kill google music I'm going to stop paying them.
It is fun if you are seeking status or power, and thus it ends up attracting similarly inclined people.
People were always like this. You just weren't able to see it, because you were in an offline "filter bubble" of peaceful and reasonable people. There have been countless civil wars in history after all.
You can disable the notification badge: https://slack.com/intl/en-ca/help/articles/201355156-Guide-t...
I guess the beauty of being old is that I have experienced how software has gotten so much better.

It's interesting seeing negative comments about things like AWS, Git, JIRA, etc, and compare to what my career was like BEFORE those were mainstays.

It's cool that so many people aren't satisfied with the status quo, and will continue to push the to make things better.

To throw in my answer, G-Suite (as an IT Administrator).
I can type prose at ~150WPM pretty much continuously, with bursts of 200+ in short phrases.

I have never measured how fast I type in a terminal, but it's definitely far more bursty, and that's when lag becomes far more unacceptable.
True, but syncthing does not encrypt at rest. There is an open issue about it [1], but it appears that the assumption that you want to personally control all the machines you run it on (and therefore can trust the admin of those machines) is deeply embedded in its architecture.

[1] https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/109
Absolutely, and "can I see the billing" is one of the first questions I ask in my head whenever some new platform technology is announced.
For a lot of uses, scanning using my computer's webcam or my phone's camera is good enough.
1994 68k --> PPC
2006 PPC --> x86

As I recall, the first switch had the issue of the early PPC chips, 601, was kind of slow, and the boxes not designed well. The second transition in 2006 was annoying because Adobe doesn't like to rewrite their code... they carbonized, and then just kept charging for the same cruft. But frankly, I liked the Classic Environment, and I liked the first Rosetta. I'd like to run the whole shebang in MAME on whatever hw, if others were doing it to make it easier for me. If only MAME had a emulated coprocessor, I'd run A/UX on it.

Apple's current ARMs and OS running on it are already quite amazing, IMHO. So I don't think the new ARM Macs could disappoint. And the same thing here, Universal Binaries, a switch in the compiler to make it easy for devs, and I don't know how it could be easier.
Your scenario has changed significantly now to someone willingly driving at oncoming traffic in the same lane. I think you’ve inadvertently proven your adversary’s point.

Knee jerk black and white statements are very rarely correct.
I've been using Teams for some work and I also agree that it's pretty good. I really like the integration with OneDrive/Sharepoint so you can build up a project of files. Using remote files on local instances of MS office products is seemless and super easy to do. Of course, the version control isn't as good as something like git, but my coworkers are not familiar with git and don't have any interest in learning it. So at least with Teams I can have my work live on a Team's folder/repository thing so anyone else at my job can access it when they need to, complete with version history!
On the flipside - Let's not act like ycombinator doesn't benefit from hn. YCombinator gets free advertising to a TON of good engineers for their companies roles (the posts that you can't comment on that mention X random ycombinator company is looking for Y role). Surely that has to be worth something...

I don't disagree with pg's statement here, but IMO yc gets pretty big benefit from running the forum.
Not if you want to keep up with kids. Young people need work too. As I said, getting in shape or early retirement is better than the alternative.

Kids needs should come first; they outnumber staff 25 to 1.
I have no idea what the pictures in playboy are about. Nor do I care to learn. I just read the articles.
I know that in the US "amateur stations" may use "any means at its disposal to attract attention..." as allowed under part 97. I'm a ham, so I'm qualified under those rules.

I've never heard of permission for unlicensed operators. Do you have a source you could point me towards? Preferably something from the FCC, or a law that pertains to them.
I reckon the attenuation you can get will be something like the cosine of the phase difference between the speakers. Basically you'd need to them to be much closer than a single wavelength, otherwise they'll amplify the sound, rather than attenuating it.

I reckon you could probably do some extremely local noise cancelling (which would only work for a few people at most), but then the speakers don't only need to balance out the external noise, but also each other, which could require extreme volumes if the distributions of speakers is a bad fit.
I love it. A list where I disagree on everything you listed up. Then again, I understand where you're coming from, I simply don't agree.
Definitely a bit different but as a whole, it's performing the same task for me. Stream songs I like, and I get the ad-free YT perk!

I actually switched to YT Music a year ago as I preferred the UX. But it's indeed subjective.
Thank you for the feedback!

I consider adding this feature.
Just because it’s a non-profit, doesn’t mean the folks working for it won’t make money and have decent lives. In fact the post pretty clearly states that as a desired goal, “Part of the goal of the ZSF is to provide excellent jobs that make people happy to work, and leave them financially well off, as well as having gained the kind of work experience that they wish to invest in for their own careers.”

Now the question I have, is it possible to create recurring revenue at a non-profit that is based of contracts with customers, or must all the revenue come from donations?
Do websites count? Ebay can be pretty bad at times.

But the winner must be agresso, or whatever it's called now. Just awful in every sense.
For reasons I've never been able to understand many sites that have a separate subdomain for news and blogging about the site either do not have any kind of link on the blogging site back to the main site, or do but fail to make it obvious.

In this case the main site is https://www.soup.io/ and the submitted story is to their news/blog site at kitchen.soup.io. Go to the main site and it is clear there what they do.

There is actually a link to that at kitchen.soup.io, but it is easy to miss. It's the small red circled "soup" in the very upper right.
I am living this art. I'm printing it out to sit on the pump organ living in the living room. I think it'll help me ground in conflict. Looking forward to experimenting with it. Thank you for this useful reminder of my journey.
This looks incredibly interesting. Going to give it a try.
I don't think I have seen an official source saying "we're deliberately understating the utility or masks, so that care givers can have the limited masks". Instead, there are a lot of communications where their utility was understated; and at least I assume that was a deliberate policy, because that's the most positive thing I can assume about their motives.
That's not how trademarking works. They are in quite different industries, there should be little to no confusion that a package manager is going to ship a deck to you.
Don't forget your putty knifes! The Core 2 Duo upgrade was the only reason I was able to keep it alive as long as I did along with maxed out RAM. Never switched out to SSD. They were just too expensive.
Absolutely agree! Coming from P4 to Git, Git is just constantly getting in the way.

I need to make more decisions because of its limitations (single repo or one repo per module? Or maybe use submodules somehow? With P4, we had a single repo with all of the code of the entire organization).

Should I rebase or merge? Or squash commits? Should I cherry pick onto a new branch?

If I want to checkout a new branch while I have work in progress, do I commit it and later amend or revert, or do I stash it? Or do I rely on autostash?

Do I push directly to main, or do I rely on pull requests? Should those merge or squash commits?

I understand that all of these options and concepts make sense for distributed orgs, like the Linux kernel dev community and many other opensource projects. But I don't understand why so many traditional organizations are adopting Git. Its model is way too complex for the way normal orgs work (1 centralized server as the source of truth for the whole project), and it has serious limitations for anything which isn't pure code and isn't carefully curated.
well that's where the whole mantra of "move fast and break things" comes from.

Putting it out there and failing also accelerates you faster to the right answers. If you release it today, it'll take 6 more months of iteration to really get it right. Or maybe you spend an extra 2 years of development to get it "right", but then once you release, you'll still have to spend 3 more months of iteration anyways to get it right.
> the U.S. government will pay hackers top dollar to use whatever means necessary to get the data for them.

Probably the current state of affair anyway.
MacBook Pro 15". Probably once every three weeks.
I frequently have 3+. Github/Bitbucket if it's shared there, maybe a original repo if it's a fork I'm submitting PRs too. My server if it's something I'm running an instance of - I like to deploy my personal services via Git pushes. Sometimes a copy of the same codebase on another personal computer or two - if I don't feel like pushing it to Github, sometimes I'll push and pull between computers directly.
What really annoys me about the timer is that there's no option for it to chime for ten seconds or so and stop, instead of making me fumble with it and press the button. Because I use the timer every day when cooking, and my hands are often busy and dirty during that—while I can hear the timer loud and clear (especially if I'm listening to audiobooks).
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I could not disagree more with Atlassian. They are among the best software i have ever used. Especially bitbucket is superb. Confluence is by far the best wiki I have ever used. Jira is 10x better than any alternative I'm aware of.
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Same in Europe. With the notable exception of local elections, like mayors and so on. Thing is, you cannot purge a voter role, as the voter role is the residents role. But then we have ID requirements.
That seems to imply that zig is only right now being used to make the self hosted compiler.
It’s not broken. We nerds think it is because it’s no longer just for nerds. It used to be a DnD party but now it’s a keg party. The problem is we didn’t set up guidelines when we had the chance. We made agile manifestos instead. How do we do make rules now? That’s the new tech challenge.
your original takeaway was correct too =). there were multiple experiments covered by the paper, the earlier ones involving cues that the subject was aware of directing attention into the blind spot, and the later ones dealing with cues and targets both in the blind spot.
> Profit is the goal we're all maximizing for, like it or not.

Err, no. People want happiness, fulfilment, friendship, joy, meaning, safety, and a bunch of other things. Money can help obtain some (but not all) of those things, but it is instrumental in all cases.

> It seems to me that we can't change greediness, and we can't change the fact that companies run on profit.

Plenty of countries run system which are not optimised purely for profit. For example, Germany's corporations frequently act in the public good in ways that don't maximise their own profit. From my perspective, such countries seem to be doing much better than the US which is closer to being purely profit driven.

> It probably just means you get outcompeted by people who put profit first and can afford to pay their employees more competitive wages, invest higher amounts in Capex and R&D, and generally best you at running a firm.

This is a problem with our economic system, not a virtue, or even a necessary property.

> Capitalism the most successful economic system

Capitalism is only seen as successful because it has historically been competing with communism and feudalism. These are from the only possible economic systems. And given all its faults it seems far from likely that Capitalism is the best one.
Some questions: does Gradefinity have the ability for teachers to publish learning modules for collaboration purposes? And orchestrate tasks among themselves? For example two teachers both writing up 200 vocabulary words to make a 400 vocabulary words quiz - can that be merged? Sharing content both between teachers and between classes is extremely important and seems to be underserved by Blackboard. Also do you model classes as being able to span terms, i.e. a two-semester class is a single entity?
Does anyone have similar data for missed commercial lease or mortgage payments?
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You mentioned danger twice. Can expand on this aspect of the tech?
Tried them all. A lot of noise, perhaps too much. But weeding through it, it is definitely useful.

I prefer Ahrefs. Amazing backlink tools, and good keyword data.

All of them have completely wrong data on estimated traffic. Incredibly wrong!
Unfortunately, from some of the other comments in this discussion, it seems a lot of developers don't know any better either --- they've never seen what real "fast" is, so they think the amount of latency they experience is normal.
Exactly, they had the final say. They were merely making their decision simpler. And that's the best experience you'd get. If you have family and friends, it's likely a good chunk of your toys were bought by them too. Toy makers have to appeal both to kids and adults.
Ummm. Pretty close. 3 pots of coffee - poured over ice - from about 4am ~ 10pm or so? I tend to pretty obsessively sip during coding sessions. Although as I have aged, I have noticed that it might be disrupting my aging sleep patterns, so I may need to start cutting it back. But, in Japan, in my youth, when I was working in semiconductor - people considered it excessive, but not extraordinarily, you know, extraordinary. (I didn't drink or smoke at the time - now I do - so I think the combo is ganging up on my biology's ability to support this scenario)

EDIT: I was thinking about this a bit more... The first pot is 4am~6am, the next is 6am~10am(or so), and the 3rd pot is nursed over the next 12-or-so hours). I guess I am bootstrapping the system pretty hard at the beginning of the day... I haven't done a cost-benefit analysis, or even thought about it much, but looking at this conversation, it might turn out to be more cost-effective to take up meth (just kidding, that stuff sucks. Coffee is smooth).
You weren't the only one:

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Why? Because people shouldn’t know about something scientists are investigating or because you think Covid19 is over blown and this is just another thing in the bucket of “it’s not over blown” and you don’t like that?
There are programs like that. For example https://h20386.www2.hp.com/AustraliaStore/Merch/Offer.aspx?p...
No, what online media are doing is massive propaganda at scales and levels of insidiousness unlike ever imaginable before now. Cambridge analytica for instance targeted ads at people to maximize their outrage toward other citizens. Before advertisements were much easier to avoid or ignore and weren’t being used for outrage. Ads have to get clicks nowadays for revenue and in the past they just had to be associated with wide viewership. People click on what infuriates them more often than other content.
Chrome, VSCODE.
Maybe 5 or 6 times a year for my primary laptop.

So it's an old MacBook Pro, and it gets security patches that require a reboot sometimes. I'll usually defer them for a few weeks until I'm in a state where I'm ok to shut everything down.

Other machines, mostly Linux stuff, gets rebooted mostly by accident (ie. power outage). If there's a security patch that requires a reboot, I'm get around to that after a few months. I'd guess most things get rebooted about once a year.

Everything is set to go into sleep / low power mode as much as possible. But I don't like software which isn't capable of running indefinitely.
Does Visual Studio Code (VSCode) use any UI framework for its UI?
Black and brown people make up two-thirds of US coronavirus deaths under 65
im pretty sure plain drip coffee ends up way below 1. if you ate a bean how many kcal would that be? the amount of energy impregnated in the water is still way below
It was amusing to me watching this comment turn grey when first stumbling upon it, I wonder if some apparently think entithas is just lying about it or if they’ve truly never come across a moderator or group of moderators who were just a power-tripping JERKS in their internet lives, and so thoroughly disbelieve there are people out there who just want power over a measly phpbb message board or subreddit that they just downvoted this and ran away.

I envy everyone who has yet to come across it, yours is truly a blessed internet experience. Those kinds of rulers just sap the joy out of communities and lead to splinter after splinter.
I agree that their explanation and association with eigenvectors is a bit of a stretch... By describing it as "maximally discriminating" I think they're trying to make an analogy with how PCA works - the eigenvector with largest eigenvalue "encodes" more of the variance of your data than other vectors.
Nice work! I tried it out for my local area and it ended up suggesting some routes that are very similar to my existing runs/rides.
fwiw You can get urethane and silicone conformal coating in a spray can and it's not that expensive.
Unfortunately deep understanding doesn't put food on the table, concrete actions do.
So the base Apple builds their OS on is a huge security vulnerability? Or does it suddenly become secure when apple is involved?
I found this one to be pretty good:

https://www.sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/git/git-1.shtml
Okay, but you didn't answer my question.

Kids go to school, the coronavirus rapidly spreads and then the school has to shut down again. What exactly did opening up the schools in the first place even do?
Is that really all? That would be 3650 cores running full time. 3W per core sounds too little for power consumption. And do power costs really dominate the price of running CPUs? I'm guessing the savings here are at least one order of magnitude more than your $20/day.

I get about $1000/day based on some EC2 prices for typical machines I've used, though I'm sure Mozilla's requirements are different and they can negotiate better prices than I can.
yeah, this hits home for me because my team just spent a couple of years trying to get a product right and now it's on the verge of being replaced.

I think I've typically associated that mantra with pure software companies, so it's surprising when a company does this with rockets
Would be useful of them to show quick examples right away without having to click through two pages...
My company wanted me and the rest of the marketing team on Jira. Immediately I was like wtf is this. We were back on Trello after just a few weeks.
We have a very funny situation in our org, where AWS auth is setup using our MS domain, with app push-based MFA. However, the AWS MFA workflow seems to not know about push based notifications, so it asks for a verification code which can literally be anything. After you provide some code and click Verify, only then does it send the push notification, and the UI just freezes until you either accept the auth request or some timeout happens.

Not to mention, we actually have to provide the Domain password in the AWS UI, which seems to go against any kind of security I know...
> I think the whold concept of stage/index/cache is completely unnecessary though

I was thinking the same for many years. But lately started to use VSCode for some projects. To see how staging is integrated there was almost an enlightening experience to be honest. All it takes to make staging an extremely useful feature, compared to all the other IDEs, is a slight change in how diffs are presented: In VSCode line-change markers indicate only a diff between working tree and cache (and not working tree and HEAD, like "everywhere" else). After staging a file in VSCode all inline diff markers disappear and the file looks like it would be unmodified. Than, new changes on top of the staged stuff will result in line change markers and inline diffs (showing only the unstaged changes). This way one can track "changes on top of changes" without having to commit the intermediate steps. This makes building up even big commits quite convenient as one can do it in small steps, having a (directly visible) diff of manageable size at any time in this process.
Yet Dell and some other laptop manufacturers started to include a physical privacy slider right in the hardware. Considering Apple stance on privacy, I hope they consider this at some point.