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Canceled Batman Concept Art May Have Been from Arkham Knight Sequel
Jack Black Is Playable Character in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2
Masterpiece: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Should you buy a Wear OS watch or a Galaxy Watch?
Hard cheeses contain almost no lactose; it's consumed by bacteria during the maturation process.
It sounds nice in theory, but in practice programs like this strike me as not very effective in achieving their stated goals.

The applicants who get accepted will tend to be those whose ideas are within the Overton Window and who are good at playing the game, politically/career-wise, under the current system. Real change tends to come from the margins and tends to be overlooked initially as nothing worth anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

I've lived without a car for over a decade. When I worked at Aflac, they had a number of programs to try to encourage people to car pool and the like and these programs were mostly useless because they were mostly created by people with car-centric lives, for people with car-centric lives and they defaulted to car-centric assumptions. They mostly didn't fit my life -- a person actually living without a car -- and I stopped participating in some of them for fear of getting in trouble after there was an incident where the parking privileges of a friend of mine were revoked under one of the programs when it came out she was giving me a ride to work, but not home again in the evening.

So I have some first-hand experience with how such things go and I'm not hugely impressed. Real change tends to not qualify for this kind of support.
Well gangsters, heroin smugglers and hit men probably got paid billions of dollars too.
Pablo Escobar was one of the richest men in the world. And most of it was not stock but actual cash.
Hence the fact that billions were paid for something does not in any way prove that it adds value to society.
Nursing is hard work but it is not paid like crap.
> a company needs people to write code

Most of these companies would only need 1/2 - 1/4 as many "coders" if they'd get rid of their Not Invented Here syndrome and let the coders dictate how the product functions (technically). So many times I've had to build products that are arbitrarily designed by non-technical folks who don't realize that dictating their preferences, instead of flowing with the existing tech, quadruples the implementation time.

That's just my rant of the week on stubborn folks who think their company is a snowflake that requires a bespoke software solution.
Amazon's deal will let spy on you through your electricity meter
Hm. Confused by Node.js async fs operations in this context. Does it just not actually work asynchronously behind the scenes?
Why did Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 feature a booby trap banned by the
Forget the Nvidia RTX 3000 Series, AMD Is Selling Bikes Now
Grocery stores were an enormous business before Walmart, it just made them more efficient. And it opened doors for lots of smaller products to reach far more customers.

The entire mobile app market was not even one hundredth the size of the App Store before it was created.

The walled garden Apple created made safest and easiest app purchase environment ever, which is why it attracts the highest spending by app customers and highest spending app customers.

If Apple had taken the Google play route that $35B a year would be closer to $4B a year.
If are interested in this topic and you haven't seen the independent documentary "The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire", you owe it to yourself. It's a superbly done documentary on a budget of ~4k£.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8
There's a difference between knowing all the pieces that go into a working machine, and knowing how, in what order, to what end, and all the little interactions and knock-on effects in the form of of unwritten knowledge that keep a company cranking along.

Go ahead and set yourself up a Tomcat cluster, an internal Tomcat cluster, some Oracle databases, and even go so far as to reverse-engineer a UI and maybe a data model if we're being extra ambitious.

A business, you still will not have.
> "But from where on Earth do you derive the right to repair your tablet easily and without any specialized tools from this?"

Suppose you have passed your right to repair. I can design a device so that it takes unreasonable effort and eqipment to repair it. Makes it more expensive to repair than to buy a new one. You would have achieved nothing.

This has already happened - have a Samsung A50 with a broken screen, and you can buy a new screen for £40. However the phone is basically a glue sandwitch, and it costs the same to repair and to buy a new one.

On another note, Microsoft Surface laptop is unrepairable - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...

If you pass right to repair without any provisions for ease of repair, it will be a toothless, useless tragedy of a law.
This seems like a strange issue to get hung up on. In the event that the government is receiving hundreds of billions in tax revenue, that can just give money to the public so that they can buy the stock, or just accept the stock as tax payment.

This would help with the inequality problem of ~10% of the richest Americans owning 90% of all stock.

You could even have a baby bonds program where isn’t of cash sitting in a trust there’s an ETF with a bunch of stock from taxed billionaires.
Huh. I cannot find any information about that on the net. Sun had positive net revenue in both 1985 and 1986, so this seems very weird.
Labor is not valued based on the "benefits to society" it provides. It is valued based on supply and demand. The low paid jobs are jobs that basically anyone can do with minimal education or on the job training. If those jobs were harder to do then they would certainly be paid more.
Now this is just my conspiracy theorist side coming out, but I think the only reason the government cares about frequency of exchange is that they get a cut on each event. The more frequent the exchange, the sooner they get 100% of it back.
The next gen can blend in very easily, if they go to kindergarten and school there. They will grow up bilingual and only use the original language at home, and may not even pass on the language to the 3rd generation (because it's seen as a useless extra burden and the 3rd gen can talk to their grandparents - the 1st gen - in the new language). Happens all the time in Europe.
If given a choice, I won't buy gold mined from this mine. Hopefully it's all traceable.
Yes it is - if the battery isn't just a dumb power source, and has some kind of ID verification built in, that's a monopoly on repair, and if they don't even sell the replacement part, it's impossible to repair.
I never said anything about me.

And yes there are people who are over 18 and are subject to physical punishment.
My 25+ year career has been mostly C/C++ and over the past few years started using Python. It constantly blows my mind how much more productive I am with Python vs C/C++ or Javascript. Ideas just seem to flow directly from my mind right into working Python code.

It's great for prototyping and for anything which doesn't require bleeding edge performance.
not it isnt. the mortality rate is in the same ballpark.
Who is not breaking laws but being shut down?
These are not "power user" features.

Every single IDE and text editor for programmers can do this stuff, and they are often the only features that 90% of users learn.
I specifically asked about the arson and other violence that has been going on all summer.
Money is simply a tool used to facilitate the transfer of goods/services among people. You can use cryptocurrencies just as well or you can use direct barter but a common-use currency provides benefits that people enjoy.
so you like being scared of things that are objectivly not scary?
> Ordinary Linux file i/o for example cannot be made non-blocking

well reading and writing can, opening can't. there was also a good conversation about that on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17654550
I work with geometric algebra (I'm the developer of Grassmann.jl) and I disagree, I don't think it matters whether the two topics change their name.
Thank you for taking my comment in the (well intentioned) spirit it was posted in. The 'frustrated rage' was not directed towards you personaly and I thank you for not taking it that way.

Thanks & have a great day :)
Low end computers cost peanuts compared to what we spend on education in the USA.

Any perceived computer shortage is due to lack of will, not lack of funds.
The only Democratic politicians interested in doing what you sincerely wish for are the further left flank, and they’d have no where near enough power in a Biden administration.

I’d be interested to check if any prominent Democrats that are more in Biden’s lane have actually come out and said that Obama errors in bailing out the rich during the GFC.

I’d guess no.
World's Fastest Pitch – Supersonic Baseball Cannon
Which is a shame, because I remember there were a LOT of highly talented individuals in Russian academia right when the Soviet Union dissolved - owing to the SU's strong showing in mathematics research.
Leechblock is good, but it's too easy to get around. I have several browsers installed since I do web dev, so it's an easy matter to just open a different one, or use private browsing, or disable the extension.
It would seem that Amazon could notice that a particular item got a lot of reviews from addresses it knows have only ordered from more establishe accounts in the past.
No, my threshold for downvoting is quite high and I rarely do so.
Democrats supposedly claim to want to "tax the rich" and give people social welfare programs. Of course at the same time democrats have been well known for corruption (see city of Chicago as an example) so I think their talk is rather fickle. Actions speak louder than words as they say.
I suspect the majority of programmers who say this have internalized the core api features they depend on (function calls, syntax, common algorithms, etc.) that make them super productive. Whereas average programmers and below need all the help they can get from their editor to tame the wild goose chase of looking up common functions, scouring StackOverflow, and even looking for random snippets on long abandoned blogs, etc.

In other words his mastery greatly reduces his dependence on IDE/editor features so this makes perfect sense.

Watching Carmack live coding, he types with conviction and gets things done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydyztGZnbNs

Sitting down with OpenBSD during a cabin retreat:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Carmack-...
I teach colour use in a design school. The most important point TFA makes is to understand colour in terms of HSL. This is the perfect 'thinking space' of colour.

The next point key point it makes is to visualise hue on the colour wheel, particularity with reference to their antagonist pair (i.e. complementary). One point the author does not make is that artists, designers and Adobe Color define complementaries using the RYB colour wheel not the RGB. The complementaries defined by RYB are 'incorrect' in this regard.

Aesthetic arrangement of hue is easier to define as a set of don'ts rather than dos (which is why I disprove of Adobe color). Thing to avoid with hue use: hues from only one side of the wheel, hues from every point in the wheel and hues from equal sides of two halves of the wheel.
> I don't believe most Arabs think of themselves as white or are seen as white (nor do they want to be), especially if they are religious muslims

As far as I know the religion has no effect on your skin color.
Ignore the haters. I loved this game. Yes, it is very difficult, but every play is totally different, and the environmental effects are truly things you have to think through before just blasting through.

The game may be difficult, and in fact, too difficult, but I still enjoyed it. Finishing it seemed unimportant, as just making progress feels like an incredible accomplishment.
There is more than ample financial market liquidity without needing some of the brightest people in the world spending their time trying to shave half a millisecond off trade execution times.
I don't think OLPC has much if any advantage over Chromebooks today. IIRC the OLPC laptop (not tablet) never reached $100; it was more like $200 with specs (e.g. VIA processor and 7.5" screen) that were weaker than even the cheapest $200 Chromebook.
gedit doesn't even indent a new line, does it?
“By August, we were sick.”

I realize doom and gloom is the new black, but could we at least wait a few months before declaring an end to the universe?

Grant Achatz was ready to end it all over a decade ago, and it’s a few million X more likely I will get Covid than face what he did.

People are terrified enough. Thx.
Ask HN: Is This Racial Discrimination?
So, I had a founder of a newly funded American startup tell me that he thought I was going to be either "Pakistani" or at least "brown" when we were talking on a video call (because of my name). He was (I believe) Indian American. And when I told him that while I am not Pakistani, I am in fact "brown" by some definitions since I am mixed hispanic, black, and white. He seemed dismissive of that.

Anyways, did not get any follow up after that video call.

So, I am wondering if I should report this? Go public with the name of the founder and startup? Contact their investors and let them know?

Discrimination of any kind is disgusting and I was unsure of whether to do anything about it. But, I do not think that discmination should work in any "direction".
Thanks for the suggestion, looks good. I'm on windows and android mostly, though.
Come on, switching geometric algebra and algebraic geometry makes no difference.
So the gains would be taxed as normal income, does that mean that losses would be deductible?
Quare FreeBSD?
Facebook is directly responsible for violence globally and in American society
You can actually implement that sort of logic in pure Lua too using `...` in your parameter list and then using `select('#', ...)` in the function body. For example:

> function f(...) print(select('#', ...)) end
> f(1, 2)
2
> f(1, 2, nil)
3
> "There's a name for this effect, but I don't remember it."

It's Bloom's 2-sigma problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem

> "Bloom concluded that one-to-one tutoring is "too costly for most societies to bear on a large scale", Bloom conjectured that a combination of two or three altered variables may result in a similar performance improvement."; that was in 1984.

My suggestion for this is join a small but active Discord/Slack/IRC group, ask many questions and strive to answer any you can. I wonder if that has been studied, it's not structured, directed, one-to-one tutoring but many moments of one-to-one and many-to-one explaining and helping do happen within it.
Some of the hardest jobs are underpaid, and level of education means less than it used to. Nurses and scientists for example. Partner is a microbiologist PHD graduate and starting salary wouldn't be much different my self taught first coding job - not that getting a job right now is really possible anyway.
Sure, so basically I keep a small eshell window at the bottom of my current frame at all times. Full screen commands like man, info, or less will automatically open a new Emacs buffer. You can seamlessly mix and match shell constructs and elisp, allowing you to leverage elisp and traditional shell scripting together. It also makes it really easy to open a file from eshell since you're already in Emacs. Instead of things like top, I just use Emacs process viewer.

For full screen apps that absolutely have no Emacs equivalent (quite rare), I have a term buffer that I occasionally use.

You should check out a list of eshell features, its much more powerful than even zsh.

Also I use company-mode for command and file completion, which is a lot nicer than zsh 's completion method, for example. Once you get used eshell, it's hard to go back.

I think you should be able to use eshell+Emacs for almost everything, and for me at least, I find the experience quite nice.
"custom" violates Apple's UX philosophy.
Mass market is demanding products nonsensically thin to the detriment of other properties, because it was told to. It could be told otherwise.
> Tools like just searching through open buffers let me use search in large codebases without having to wait forever for results.

Is there an IDE that does not have this feature?
You claimed Amtrak is an example of the ills of privatization, when it’s owned by the federal government. And attributed the effects of strong government regulation in the healthcare and broadband markets to “privatization”.

My criticism is only low effort because you know so little of the subject that your world view is built on obvious misinformation.
How is this legal at all: “ For example, it allows assets to be decanted from one trust to another without any notice to beneficiaries who may be cut out of the new trust. It also allows DAPT assets to be protected from alimony, divorce and child support claims—so long as those claims didn’t exist when assets were first transferred into the DAPT. ”
Please don't spread misinformation about what you don't understand. Look up what a re-org attack is. Frankly, binance and other exchange websites are bad ways to learn about the bitcoin protocol.
Thanks for the insightful post, specially the Dyck language plug. Really cool stuff.
> I feel sad that we need to educate

Why? Education is never finished. New people are born every day and they do not know anything. If it was not necessary to educate people on "the right to repair", that would mean that this idea is not useful nor interesting. Now, that would be sad!
This seems like a fundamentally bad idea for software.

Simply put, living software contains a constant stream of patches, which "reset" the clock continuously.

It would be one thing if this license were used on a book or some other work which is substantially finished. Once the book is published, the clock starts ticking and users eventually get to the MIT pot of gold at the end of the timer.

With software, the only time that happens if after the software is abandoned. At that point, there's rarely many people interested in using it anyhow.
We've had replaceable batteries for decades prior, and the only time there was a PR nightmare over phones catching fire was when Samsung itself supplied phones with faulty batteries that caught fire .

Otherwise i have never come across a story of this happening, so it seems lime a fantasy scenario thats just used as a talking point.
Well, my lament in the first place is that Lua could be a good and fast general-purpose scripting language. Instead, I can have ‘good’ but then I'll have to sit around twiddling thumbs while Python or JS start up. Especially Fennel runs circles around ClojureScript in terms of toolchain and build-cycle lightness.

JSON is pretty non-specific to JavaScript, which is probably a part of its popularity. And it's not the only serialization format. Null works about the same way in the majority of popular languages—so you're bound to need it for interoperability if you go outside C.

By libraries, I mean Lua libs like Penlight. Once you touch functional programming and function composition, you want structures to be preserved as they are, unless explicitly mangled.

> And yeah you keep saying 'sentinels' in quotes

It's because I haven't seen that notion before, at least under this name.
> the toy-ishness of the language

I think that this is a feature, not a bug. Part of my maturation from a junior to a senior engineer was learning to trust that simple implementations are ok. I remember often not trusting that the simple thing would work robustly (passing around a list) and reaching for something way more heavy (perhaps a wrapper around sqlite persistence). I now recognize that the simple implementation is better and almost always more robust than something fancy, and I definitely attribute that to internalizing the zen of python over time.

> JS is a pass by value language... except when it comes to arrays and objects, it then becomes pass by ref. Go figure.

It's all pass by value. For objects and arrays, the value passed is the reference.
How would that even work? Just drop some bacteria that can process inorganics on mars?
Chrome also asks for confirmatiom before destructively closing any tab, even if you don't quit.
Experts blasting proposed federal guidelines limiting alcohol to one serving/day
Most states ... except California.
Not to be "that guy", but this references Windows XP which was released 19 years ago.

I also think you don't need to keep referring to phones as PDA. You can just say that cell phones merged with what we used to call PDAs, or became more PDA-like. Somebody in a coma since 2000 would get that.
Can you elaborate?
Or is this a pun about wave particle collapse;)

“Planar geometry is sometimes called flat or Euclidean geometry. The geometry on a sphere is an example of a spherical or elliptic geometry. Another kind of non-Euclidean geometry is hyperbolic geometry. Spherical and hyperbolic geometries do not satisfy the parallel postulate.”
https://math.hmc.edu/funfacts/spherical-geometry/
How do you measure if the liquidity is "ample"? And does that necessarily mean it would stay "ample" if market volatility went up?
This is why the virus is spreading like wildfire in countries without universal healthcare, like the US. For those who are against it, now you can see very clearly that the health of others affects your own health. No one lives in a bubble.
Chip 8 emulator running on the web using WebAssembly
You think the consumers are wrong about what they want, and should be told to think like you instead?

Such arrogance!

People just don't want the same thing as you. It's not a conspiracy. Different people have different priorities.
The fundamental mitigation is full memory encryption using a randomly generated key that changes each time the CPU boots. That exists for some CPUs.
Weve had replaceable batteries on laptops and phones for decades, and that was fine somehow. Has either of these scenarios ever happened?

The wildlife scenario is particularly fantastical - people have campfires, they carry gas stoves, torches, guns, drones, cameras (with replaceable batteries!), candles, bikes, and hundreds of other things far more dangerous.
Poland is not a great place to live either. Sales tax is 23%, stores are all shut on Sunday (by decree of the Polish Catholic church, essentially), real estate prices are similar to the midwest USA due to restrictions on new builds, and taxes on labor and small business are high and complicated.

The language itself uses a bastardized version of the Latin alphabet which is inferior to Cyrillic, and general pronunciation is the much more difficult compared to Ukrainian or Russian.

Many of the cities are cold and dark owing to latitude, and in winter filled with air pollution from out of control coal and trash burning in urban chimneys.

The main thing Poland has going for it is a massive flow of EU funds and no refugees from Africa or the Middle East, as well as a population with a generally Western mindset and work style.
If only there was any choice.
It’s also much easier to tinker with your editor (at least at the very beginning of your coding career)

You get immediate feedback on every change. It feels like you’re doing something.

For much of my self-taught coding ability, I’ve been tinkering with configuration files that don’t seem to move the needle.

The time I spent on my editor was the distraction.