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is this an in-place update to the netcore3.1 runtime or does it install side by side for net5.0? just want to know what kind of risk it is to install. i got bit by the netfx48 in place update.
Ideally all investors want their returns. In this case, it’s a drop in the bucket for their portfolio and they are incentivized for investing in seed rounds (with the hopes of it being an Uber or a Salesforce). It’s quite common. Trend investing is happening too, FOMO, all of that, but their goal is to take $400k seed and turn it into a $40m exit. If you diversify enough it will happen, not if.
alternatives?
In FHE, you need some sort of key to decrypt the result. In obfuscation the result comes out clear text. General obfuscation is impossible, but iO gives you basically the best possible result which is "given any method of computing the same function (for some complexity parameter of the function in question) you will always be able learn at least as much from said method as from the obfuscated function" (in other words iO gives you a circuit that is as hard to reverse engineer as the hardest circuit of a given size that computes the same function, but it doesn't give you a guarantee on how hard that actually is).
>and you're in for an even bigger nightmare if you want to separate business logic and web code into two projects (which is a pretty common design). I've given up with the config DI and just assign them all to static variables.

So you have static variable in web project and then add reference to web project to obtain that config? Do I get that right?

I never felt like config DI was a problem once you did all the stuff that you do at the beginning of the project
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Thats great. But then when you get to the gate and there is a 737Max sat there waiting for you, do you board? Or do you accept that you won't get a refund and now need to buy another flight and just hope there is one today for an affordable price with a seat not on a 737Max?
Apple should print it all up on newsprint and fold it into paper covers, sort of like an old-fashioned phone book.
Well if someone wrote an article about the Poincaré conjecture calling it the "crown jewel" of math, and someone else said "actually I consider the primary goal of math to be in helping build low-cost housing and other practical issues," then they're talking about two different things. Both are math, but to say that the Poincaré conjecture isn't important to math because you use math primarily for different things is misleading.
Scala is my favorite language, even though I don't work with it professionally anymore. And I've seen it all. And yes, bad code in Scala is probably harder to read than bad code in other languages. It can be outright painful. However, good clean code in Scala is easier to read IMO. I think it takes a strong culture and strict standards for an organization to adopt understandable Scala. Unfortunately, those organizations are rare and there will be people who will likely abuse some of the "clever" features of Scala. I've been fortunate to be in those organizations with good clean code (and places with unreadable Scala code).
I had a choice, I decided not to develop any software for the Mac.
Totally fair, anyone in the Microsoft development ecosystem has to learn to be incredibly skeptical of anything new. Anytime I spent on adopting Silverlight was essentially wasted. I had one client that had adopted a random WYSIWYG released by Microsoft to design WCF services, when anyone experienced in the ecosystem knew it had abandonware written all over it.

Of course, other ecosystems have their own versions of this. But Microsoft might be the only one that essentially controls an entire ecosystem and still manages to give devs whiplash.
For reasons related to work, I went from daily visits here to occasional visits (about once a week) over the past 2 years. Meanwhile, I'd become more active on some Reddit subs and noticed some patterns in the discourse and vocabulary there.

Now when I visit HN, I notice some of the same patterns here. I feel there are many more snarky politically polarizing comments nowadays and see heavier downvoting of reasonable if unpopular tech opinions. I don't see any difference in links or questions or Show HN though. It's just the discussions that, I felt, have degraded.
Disagree, I've used VS since it was called VC++ and it's gotten steadily better. If you can afford to run a large-footprint IDE I think VS is pretty great. VSCode is an entirely different thing and I like it as well.

But then, I also like Vi and Eclipse so maybe I'm just too forgiving...
This is an extremely irresponsible headline, and should be changed.

If you read the paper [1], "mental illness" is defined as a spectrum of things, the most common of which (Anxiety, depression and insomnia) affect large numbers of people anyway, and even more so during a period where we've completely up-ended normal life for a huge portion of society.

Moreover, the paper makes it clear that 13.3% of influenza patients treated as a control also have the same spectrum of diagnoses (Table 3; 18.1% is the value for the covid cohort). For first diagnoses, the numbers are significantly smaller (Table 2; 5.8% for covid, vs. 2.8% for influenza controls). So while the paper has some ~possibly interesting things to say about relative risk (with the caveats I stated above), the headline is simply clickbait.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
It happens that the p in pwd actually does historically mean print from multics, but honestly I just do not care about that, let the p mean whatever you want. My inner monologue will always be "present working directory" even though I think that option is totally silly, my brain is stuck with it now.

I just thought I was offering an interesting fact about where "grep" comes from.
I think recent events have really made the answer pretty objective. Though I abstractly love the fantasy of a community self-regulating and finding the truth through all the noise.

That said, when the losing candidate declares victory on a platform, then alleges fraud, citing nothing, it's not even really the time for abstract philosophy.
Even Russia, China, and North Korea?
I don't recall. It was too long ago and it was a one-off job.
If anyone is interested in playing with generics in Go, here you go: https://go2goplay.golang.org/

https://go2goplay.golang.org/p/mUWfsZPHs5h
I'm suprised they did not mention kamala harris's page as a recent high profile example.

https://thepoliticalwarroom.com/wikipedia-scrubs-kamala-harr...
I'm not sure but for a while WeChat (the app) would not let you login if you did not give it location permissions. I think they've changed that but they still unscrupulously scan your Wi-Fi networks from time to time.

I haven't yet seen a website do that, but they conceivably could.
>but you also get a self-contained binary executing without the requirement of an external runtime environment.

I'm not sure whether we're talking about the same thing, but you can publish Self-Contained App (basically your app and framework together) and you don't have to install anything.
Congratulations to the team.

Microsoft has made exceptional strides in terms of performance and compatibility.

The whole vision is what is really impressive, not any individual part.

It is cross-platform, open source, and has almost complete coverage of the old .NET APIs. The new csproj format is vastly superior. The new dotnet CLI is a pleasure to use.

Many of the surrounding libraries like ASP.NET, Kestrel, LINQ, Entity Framework Core, System.Text.Json, etc are best in class.

I look forward to the Linker becoming stable, as this will really help in contexts such as Azure Functions and AWS Lambda.
Imagine if it wasn't a lab(with all the positive associations of doing science), and instead they were middle managers or accountants. That kind of behavior would be considered unhealthy.
Very much disagree just because, FAANG or not, working for a large corporation is not for everyone. That said, I would never work under a solo founder for the reasons exemplified by this outcome.

I don't even like VCs and I feel like what was pulled here was pretty galling. How does someone rationalize calling up an early investor and telling them to eat their investment because...more money for me?
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This is such a millennial take on the article, just needs a couple of suicidal jokes.

From the article: "Anxiety, depression and insomnia were most common among recovered COVID-19 patients in the study who developed mental health problems". It isn't about long COVID.

We're living in a uncertain, stressful time. Even people who haven't got COVID-19 have some degree of anxiety, of course getting it and not knowing if you will end up in a ventilator will have a bigger impact on your mental health.
Gastrointestinal issues are always present in ME/CFS which is what long covid looks almost identical too. Long covid has the additonal issue of lung and other organ damage but I wouldn't be surprised to find out ME/CFS is largely driven by gut issues that we don't know how to treat yet.
Both of those cases are likely to occur with high possibilities. (poor security hygene, divorce, etc)

Also, in this day and age, "tinfoil hat" is no longer an insult. It's a given that any security leakage scenario you can imagine already happened (ie in the world where government taps all cell phone, intercepts all bits going across all telcos, and likely stores them permanently for offline cracking, and you can speculatively attack processors, tap/attack ram contents via thunderbolt or pcie, I'd take the tinfoil hat over someone wanting to do a personal insult)
Yaya keep feeding us BS.

Everyone at my office had flu symptoms last winter/spring and now we are all recovered 100%

NO mental illness lololol
You developed what I like to call my toolkit for fixing the variety of things doctors have no solutions for.

Crazy facebook/twitter people love to talk about their cure-all (why is always essential oils??). But the reality is there is never a simple solution to solve the issues.

Think of it as a holistic solution. Things to examine:

- Nutrition | Are you eating regularly or too much?

- Sleep | Is your sleeping regular

- Movement | I hate the word exercise! Just walking, stretching, or being outside is helpful

- Meditation | Learning how to use this to reduce anxiety and activates your parasympathetic nervous system

All of these can be very low/no cost

As for things that cost some money

- Therapy | Learning to understand yourself!

- Acupuncture | This varies for each person, but has helped my anxiety
You don't need the .NET runtime installed on the target host.
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Docs for the 68k Mac were abysmal. There was a collection of books entitled "Inside Macintosh" that were nearly impenetrable, and only scratched the surface of the elaborate class libraries. Instructions for creating "Hello World" on the Mac were dozens of pages long.

From what I've read, Jobs certainly understood the importance of software, but only great software. He didn't want the Apple ecosystem to become loaded up with crapware like on the IBM, or on the Apple ][ for that matter. So, if a small time developer couldn't write and distribute a crude but useful app, so be it. Favored developers probably didn't fare any better with the documentation, but help was a phone call away.

This was the "closed box" philosophy that I don't think has changed much over the years.

The irony was that "crappy but open" attracted more developers than "wonderful but closed." This is why apps such as assemblers for microcontrollers were written for MS-DOS. Essentially, even after the introduction of MS Windows, the ability to write for DOS provided a way to create and share simple apps.
Hey, I've got an apu2c4 and was actually thinking about installing Ubuntu or Debian and try to run ansible on it, but your Nixos idea sounds good. Do you have any references for the setup? Have you found any downsides?

The reason I want to move away from pfsense is the lack of support for Wireguard.
This is the natural conclusion to decades of corporate lobbying, revolving door political appointments with overt conflicts of interests and regulatory capture. Those with financial incentives get control or massive sway over oversight. In the short run, I'm sure it's to a corporation's advantage, other corporations follow suit because, hey CorpX is doing it. Before you know it, and often suddenly, no one trusts anything. Oversight and regulation sucks when the process feels onerous on you but they have a place in society.
The difference with software is, for many reasons users most often need to know the recipe (code), but knowing the recipe is enough to trivially replicate the software for free. And incidentally, that's also the expected mode of acquisition (vs. feature films for instance, which are almost as trivial to copy for free but discouraged culturally).

With physical goods or services, knowing the recipe or at least composition is also often desirable, but the actual product/service itself is hard to replicate and brand inertia is heavier.

I believe some small changes in the delivery methods associated with a decent cultural shift could bring open-source software development into a position more similar to older creative professions. For instance, stronger security concerns could incentivize users to subscribe to privileged, paid update channels directly from the developers (like done by Unreal Engine or the TradingView charting library).
I don't think the flight safety record of the MD-11 bears that out[0] - most crashes of significance were either cargo flights (which are much more prone to dynamical issues than passenger flights) or flights in conditions that exceeded design specs (landing in typhoons). It sounds like most airlines sold it because it missed range/fuel burn targets, not because of safety issues.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_MD-11#Accide...
> From what we’ve seen and heard so far, .NET 5.0 delivers significant value without much effort to upgrade.

From the previous version of .Net Core only. They've done absolutely nothing to make migrating from MVC 5 any easier, while proclaiming that this somehow merges .Net Framework and .Net Core. Going from MVC 5 to .Net 5.0 MVC is a complete re-write of the web layer from an empty project upon up (even according to their own article[0]).

I think the poor messaging on .Net 5.0 bugs me more than the actual work required for the mitigation (which hasn't changed significantly). .Net 5.0 is just .NET Core 4 with a fancy new name.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/migration/mvc?v...
I use Rider now, VS got to the point of being so slow that frequently I'd have to wait 0.5 seconds for each character I was typing to appear. The performance is utterly, utterly terrible. Yet, all I see from the VS team on Twitter is "look at this new useless feature we've added", when all I needed was for the code I'm typing to appear.

God help you if you ever wanted to rename a symbol, it was Schrodinger's rename, it would either complete immediately, or never complete, lock up VS, and I'd have to restart. So I had to stop using it, and eventually I stopped using VS altogether.

Rider has its own quirks and annoyances, but it's quick, and lets me type even when it's doing stuff.

There seems to be something very wrong with the architecture of VS.
It's a mess. School kids really should learn the US constitution, but somehow that doesn't sink in and the pop culture does. People honestly didn't think Alexander Hamilton was an important figure until "Hamilton" came out.

Then they rely on media to tell them everything. Usually that's fine when it's straight factual news, but there's been a lot of spin in the news recently.
Everyone's mental health is deteriorating in these lockdowns. This interpretation of the data seems lacking. The same study should be done in places with minimal lockdowns with their covid patients: Sweeden and South Dakota.

What if it's just mental illness is just up due to the lockdowns, and recovering from COVID is just a false correlation?

My mental health is deteriorating. I hate all of humanity. I can't stand most of my friends. I can't even stand reading most of the comments in this thread, which feel like they're going on with this insane hysteria that's sweeping our planet.

Yes COVID is bad and has killed many elderly (95% over 55), but the majority of us have been put in lockdowns that are likely very ineffective. We're being told to cover our faces, our primary means of communicating with each other via facial expressions. Anyone trying to say the masks are not very effective (they're not) are being silenced on all platforms.

This is insane and it's hysteria. History will not look back kindly at this time.

We are not in this together. We're in this alone. Humanity is looking through the world through the eye of a straw.
Q-switched lasers is absolutely terrifying. I used to work with 10W YAG lasers and running normally, the laser is like a slightly stronger handheld laser you can buy online. With the laser Q-switched, the glow is so overwhelming bright that it seems like it'll burn both of your eyes away.
It'd also be worth comparing it to the population as a whole which I'm sure is also seeing an increase in things like "anxiety, depression and insomnia."
It's really a shame that a scrappy little company like Apple can't afford the resources to produce documentation, even if not for their own apps at least for the developers who write apps that cause their users to buy the hardware. Maybe when they can get themselves established in the market they'll have enough financial resources to invest in this critical area.

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I never liked Ballmer, and really never liked the win APIs, but I fell in (technical) love with him after the much derided "developers developers" dance he did. In that regard he clearly understood who buttered his bread.

OTOH Apple treats WWDC as the entirety of their developer outreach, when really it should merely be the cherry on top.
Yes, and I know the complaints.

Lets look at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/synchapi/...

Function description, supported version information, header-file and library file information, meaningful return code documentation, links to an overview of the system wait behaviors, documentation about what happens in low power situations, links to example code using the function, differences in behavior between differing versions, it goes on and on.

Can you point to something you think is better?

PS: I should point out, I have paper copies of the win32 api from the early 1990's that are falling apart from the use they got.
Yes... Updated my comment. It was misleading :(
Everyone is weirdly mean to you when you sell. I sold to fb in 2018 (height of cambridge analytica.) Even ppl who are now my bffs were mean on HN. (they didn't know me at the time.)
It doesn't link if the mental health issues is due to Covid-19 affecting the brain, or that that shock and prolonged loniness due to being infected + even more extreme isolation due to quarantine causes the problems.
I think it depends on what field you're in within medicine. I think I would be willing to bet strokes would be high up on that list. There's a lot of neurologic conditions that strokes can mimic depending on severity. One that gets missed a lot of the time is vision related strokes (like a central retinal artery occlusion or a branch retinal artery occlusion), since a lot of doctors aren't super confident in their ophthalmology training. Or mimickers like migraines.
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Yess, finally!

> This allows changing font size for individual draw calls, controls, or spans of text in the RichTextLabel control without creating new Font instances.

It was so frustrating to have different font sizes in a RichTextLabel.

Only downside is that we have to wait until Godot 4
Doesn’t this regiment render the subject rather dull? Trapped in a loop with little in the way of new inspiration this sounds like the life of a drone not a man.
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That article didn't really say what happened, it just listed a bunch of complaints about structurelessness (not just at Valve), while itself lacking structure.
There's the time-opportunity cost - they can't afford to be perfectionists and squeeze 100% of what they potentially could from a situation, which is arguably undue stress as well - and will cause further externalized losses in what their other focuses are.
Exactly. Yes I interviewed at a company where Silverlight and WCF was the future and they'd just rewritten everything in it. I didn't see it with the way everything was going. I dread to think of what happened to their business when the rug was pulled out overnight.

"Microsoft says you need to start funding your entire product to be rewritten from scratch"
Google has never focused on the end user’s needs.

Prime example - the non-standard print dialog in chrome that offers zero benefit, and just causes regular users to need technical support. They saved a tiny amount of their developer time at the cost of millions of hours of customer time.
I’m not a pilot. I’ve just read the Wikipedia page on this crash and the final report. I don’t know what is common or expected and planned for but I take your characterization to mean that you think that it’s not a significant problem.

There’s three pitot tubes. There were ADs issued over them icing over. Airbus replaced them multiple times with tubes from different vendors.

In the final report, the first major issue is “Temporary inconsistency between the measured speeds, likely as a result of the obstruction of the pitot tubes by ice crystals, caused autopilot disconnection and reconfiguration to alternate law.”

Icing over of pitot tubes seems more significant to me than I think you’re making it out to be.
For folk who prefer a video to text, I found the following high level explanation on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdv8uvDhbcQ
Isn't this a perpetual issue on Wikipedia? I don't ask to inflame the issue, just that my recollection is that edit wars have been a thing for years.
I don't see how slow flying would be a problem. Low flying certainly is, but current air defense systems have taken out cruise missiles. Of course the systems don't always succeed and they can be overwhelmed by swarms.

https://www.defensenews.com/global/mideast-africa/2019/09/26...
Seems to me contracting covid would also have a permanent HP deduction as well as constitution and willpower checks.
the reactivity behind spreadsheets is what inspired Svelte. And yeah, hope there was a widespread method of in a reactive way.
The feds basically offered a subsidy right? It's the provinces that truly made it a centralized public system no?
There's a huge disconnect between informed consumers and the average Apple product owner.

I read an ancedote from an aspiring SWE that after he saw the Apple product he couldn't afford, he knew he needed it.

People aren't buying because quality reasons, they buy because of various psychology tricks their marketing department is responsible for.

It creates a system where developers are dragged along to support 100% of users.
Sadly, regulatory capture seems to be the end game of capitalism.
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Regarding your back pain, try to start walking barefoot using a forefoot technique, as opposed to heel striking as most people do. I suffered a lot with back pain (for years, despite the fact I was very active), tried everything to fix it to no avail, eventually switched to barefoot/forefoot running and walking (with all my shoes being zero drop and minimalistic), my back problems went away completely.
You sound like one of those people poo-pooing chronic depression. Classic /r/ThanksImCured material, right here.