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GIMP gives me really weird vibes every time I use it - Still, I didn't expect to read

> Introduced Wilber, a little cute mascot who traveled the world and, admittedly, did some kinky things. They grow up so fast!

today.
This only concerns auth?
Nah, it’s called the profit incentive and it is the bedrock of free enterprise. There are profits to be made even in a tough market, but at no time are people morally obligated to lose money just because losing money has become the norm, particularly with government restrictions that will make it more difficult to profit in the future.

Fortunes don’t magically rise and fall with the “market”, the market is merely an abstraction that represents the multitude of transactional choices that anywhere from thousands to billions of people make on a day to day basis.
"Being deficient in essential vitamins makes you more susceptible to a virus" and "taking this vitamin will cure you of an active infection" are two _very_ different things.
I think it's more that the massive engineering effort that's gone into improving JS has leapfrogged it over languages like Python, Ruby & PHP in terms of performance and tooling. And since you're stuck with JS on the frontend there are some significant advantages to using it on the backend as well.

I don't think any of the current JS frameworks are as comprehensive as Rails but it's clear where the momentum is.
I don't like articles about COBOL, because most of them talk about how young people don't want to learn it. I'm fine with learning shitty technology. The real issue is the money. Look at the salaries for COBOL jobs. They suck shit.

If banks need to update their software, hire people and train them. It will take time, and time is money. That money could be invested into something else (there is an opportunity cost). If that something else is a higher priority to you, then maintaining the integrity of your critical software is not actually as important to you as you say it is.

I will not take a pay cut to work on COBOL for a bank.
Alright, now if I can just click into it to see what I was doing that week... couldn't change anything, but still would be interesting!
It doesn't matter what the theoretical intent of the fee is. (Which would be impossible to prove either way.) They make a billion dollars from those fees.

Source: https://www.zdnet.com/article/should-apple-raise-its-99-deve...
Thank you! I used to read the Economist a few years ago but had to stop for various life technical reasons. The latest one is that my infant tries to tear anything made of paper apart -- but your comment made me look up whether there's a Kindle edition of the Economist and there is! Maybe not on par with the print one for me, but certainly better than nothing!
Rent control is why you have to pay 3K/month if you want to rent an apartment in San Francisco. Someone has to subsidize the cat lady living downstairs from you paying $800/month, and it's not the landlord - it's the new renter paying so much that's allowing her to pay so little.
Large handed composers will start composing works with intervals you need large hands AND a small piano to reach. It's probably already happening on mini digital keyboards.
It would have helped if you had actually explained your terms, since you made up your own definitions we don't have a common understanding.

The real question is, of course: are you ever "stupid"?

And what I mean by that is you set out a very black/white view of who is worthy and who isn't, and I bet dollars to donuts you don't live up to your own standards because that's where black/white thinking leads. It helps everyone to not think in such subjective, judgemental, and largely pejorative terms. I think the world would be better served if we started from the position "everyone has value."
Apple's new M1 graphics makes resolution shifts instantaneous
They are absolutely not pensions, and you are not paying into it now to fund payment later. It's a tax. You pay it now to cover those taking it now, and the social contract says future generations will do the same.

This is a very important distinction, so I'll repeat it. Social security in the United States is not a pension, it's just a government program. We're told it will continue, but that's only because the current government says it will. A future government could just decide to stop payments, and there would be no recourse because it's not a pension. If you live in the United States, please plan accordingly.
My post is provocative and not explaining, true.

However, your comparison does not make sense. JOOQ and similar libraries don't make you write SQL, even if their API is closer to SQL than what most ORMs do.

If you replace "ORM" in your example with NoSQL or some other technology that directly competes with SQL then it would make sense.
But if landlords make too little money, then there will be fewer landlords and more owner-occupied buildings. There will be less construction of rental properties. In the long term, economic theory predicts that such a supply shortage would increase rents, pricing out the poorest from being able to afford to live in that area.

I am not arguing that we need landlords to make more money. But until leftists overthrow our current capitalist system, we do need to incentivize capital owners to invest in rental properties to increase the supply of rental properties (which should decrease the cost with all else equal). (That last sentence is positive and not normative.)
Any average metric where poor people were better off 100 years ago will do.
I think the common interpretation is that a living person fraudulently used the identity of a dead person to cast an illegal ballot.
I also wouldn't expect much from giving D3 in a hospital setting since it takes time for D3 supplementation to affect serum levels.

That's why the MATH+ protocol [1] recommends Calcifediol or Cholecalciferol. According to their own review [2] the protocol reduces hospital mortality from 20-30% to about 5%.

[1]: https://covid19criticalcare.com/math-hospital-treatment/pdf-...

[2]: https://covid19criticalcare.com/math-hospital-treatment/scie...
I haven't found anything about tenancy durations while searching, but the owner is actually living in the building so having a free unit after buying that house is pretty much a given.
"Antifragile" doesn't feel like a very robust word to me.
> Thus indeed if you have basically any heavy freight at all on a road, the rest is negligible.

Racetracks don't carry freight, but the surface does goes bad in a couple decades.
Microplastic pollution discovered near the top of Mount Everest
No, it's the enormous bargaining power of the landlord obtained through luck and lobbying. Nice try fobbing responsibility off on the cat lady, who is a comparatively minor cost of doing business.
"I wrote a custom encryption library"
This is the “corect” response to the question above. :)
This solution is at least 40k per year for just the disk controllers, so be prepared for that.
Many Java developers say ORMs are the problem. Not so. JPA is. It is complicated, has lots of implicit behaviour, has a really bad query language and is horrible to optimize.
It is why you never hear 'ORMs are horrible' from ruby on rails or elixir developers: they have a proper ORM!
Actually Java has too, and probably several - Ebean, for example, solves all of the complexity problems, adds a query creation tool that stays very close to SQL and allows very simple object fetching, allows for simple batch operations, and requires a proper explicit save instead of the complicated implicit JPA one.
Because everyone benefits more from roads that are less congested.

If everyone rode bikes or the bus 90% of the time, there would be mostly empty roads in the 10% of time that they do use a car.

If you had to pay a significant price per km in congested areas, you'd probably drive less, but it would be a nicer experience when you do drive.
How some countries control spending in a fee-for-service system
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Haven't you heard of food subsidies at all? Food is insanely price controlled.
I think the author strawmans MVP: clearly a single tire or a burnt pizza is not viable for hauling stuff or eating.
FUD? You still do not see the frog boiling after years of pushing Chrome and mindwashing developers into creating sites that only work in Chrome?

Google is the one "spreading FUD". Just look at the downvoting going on in the discussion and you'll see some pretty obvious attempts to silence anti-Google criticism.
The Economist and Real Simple. Great recipes in the latter.
I just meant the interface.
Reading the News: WashPo on GOP and Trump
This is absolutely not true, many people get refunds in excess of their payments, and many people in this category pay no taxes and still get refunds as a result. This is by design.
Current Affairs strikes me in some ways as the anti-Economist. Brilliant and even if you disagree with their politics their critique of the current state of capitalism is well-researched, well-argued and insightful.

Jacobin is the house publication of the resurgent socialist labor movement. Given the generational sea change in attitudes toward socialism, the resurgence of fascism, and economic conditions we haven’t seen since the Gilded Age (1/4 of the US population unemployed or earning starvation wages) it seems wise to keep an eye on what may become future policy.

The Believer is a simply amazing literary and culture magazine nurtured by Dave Eggers / McSweeneys. Amazing interviews, off-kilter features and some of the best illustrators / graphic novelists of the past 20 years.
Is there something like Google Photo's Enhance filter in GIMP? It's basically enhances the photo a bit and in most cases it looks good enough for sharing over social media.

See suggested edits section - https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6128850?co=GENIE.Pl...
> X and Xorg and X11, and whilst I've read up on each I'm admittedly still struggling to understand how they all come together.

An "X server" is the program that owns your graphics card [0], your screen, your mouse and your keyboard. Everyone who wants to use them is an "X client" (e.g. a text editor), it communicates with the X server via a network connection (Unix socket or TCP/IP) and speaks a protocol called "X11". In order to speak to the X server, X clients use the standard library "libX11" so you don't have to reimplement the X11 protocol. For example, when an image viewer wants to show a picture, it opens the picture locally, then pushes the pixels to the X server by calling a function in libX11.

An analogy is "userspace vs kernel", kernel is the X server and provides many services for the userspace, an userspace program is the X client, it communicates with the kernel via syscalls to do things by speaking a protocol called the calling convention. All the syscalls are encapsulated inside the C/POSIX standard library, libc, so you don't have to replement the calling convention by putting parameters in the registers manually. For example, when a text editor wants to open a file, it asks the kernel for the file by calling a function in libc.

"X" is usually the catchall phrase for the software in general, but sometimes especially refers to the X server. "Xorg" is a particular brand of software implementation of X, which is maintained by the "X.Org Foundation" (other implementations include XFree86, XQuartz, etc). "X11", in a narrow sense, is the protocol that is spoken by all X servers and X clients, and can also refer to the broader architecture of X server in general. But since it's extremely unlikely to be updated to X12, so "X11" is also another way to say "X".

Again, analogy. "Unix-like" is the catchall phrase for the operating system in general, but sometimes especially refers to the kernel. "Linux" is a particular implementation of Unix-like operating system [1] (other implementations include FreeBSD or Solaris), which is maintained by the "Linux Foundation".

[0] We only consider 2D graphics without hardware acceleration. If OpenGL is involved, it's more complex.

[1] It's only a kernel so it's not entirely correct. But let's ignore it for the moment.
It is not about discoveries but the ability to stack them. Newton indeed stood on the shoulders of giants. But there is no reason to believe he was the first or the only one to come up with the core ideas of calculus. There probably was somebody in Kerala, Tobolsk or Nairobi thinking about these things but leaving no notes, using a rarer language etc. But Newton was the first, whose work was picked up by a wide body of researchers and rapidly developed further. For whatever reason (the Brits did not get there until much later) the Kerala school was not successful at sparking that uptake. Unfortunately the history is full of brilliant people who simply aren’t at the right spot at the right time. This is true in the west, too, by the way: the story of Scheele, for example
I wish there was an easier Gimp, like Paint shop pro 5 easy, because it may be the most powerful tool for image editing yet I've hard a super hard time creating a simple screenshot with a red arrow. Found some stack overflow tutorials to import some stuff that were broken for which I had to go to internet archive.

Wasted few hoours, still didn't work, so started looking for alternative solutions. Finally found a tool called shuttr which has an in-built image editor which finally does the job that I want including surprisingly most of my other image editing requirements.

I think my fault is when I was using Windows I used Photoshop for everything so I assumed Gimp is the linux version for Photoshop.
Very long time Gimp user, also photoshop user here.

Full credit to all the hard working developers on it over the years. You should be proud of what you created.

However.

Gimp was always just slightly too good, mature, stable and complete, to justify alternative projects.

Gimp IMHO is the reason we don't have a layered raster (& vector) editor in 2020 which can hold a candle to Photoshop.

There have been attempts, but Gimp really sucked the wind out of the motivation to do competing OSS projects - for all really good reasons mentioned above.

So no criticism of the software it's self here... just sometimes something succesful can stifle competition.

I'd love to see more clean sheet 'Photoshop alternatives'.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_T._Carey
Right. I grew up hearing that COBOL and Fortran devs would become extinct and extremely valuable in my lifetime.
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Your argument doesn't even have internal logical consistency. You claim that landlords have "enormous bargaining power" and yet assume that they are too weak to charge higher rents based on the knowledge that their property is subject to rent control, so that they will be compensated for the risk of seeing a long term tenant.

How can this be?

Of course they will charge more in rent to adjust for the fact that a percentage of their tenants will be long term, and therefore short term tenants end up subsidizing long term tenants, exactly as I claimed.

I get that you don't like landlords. But think this through and try to use reason rather than emotion.
Nice job. Will be following it.

Feature request - conversations grouped by tag/topic (eg hololens) similar to how HN has from/source.
> I don’t think that’s the case.

What annoys me about this is that you can do the research instead of relying on your a priori thoughts, which are wrong. There are 5x more empty units than there are homeless people pre-pandemic [0] and it's the case for all cities with rent control because landlords don't want to be stuck with submarket rents for decades.

[0] https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/3/20993251/san-francisco-bay-a...
Hmmm,

At least in rails 6 it moved away from the asset pipeline to a webpacker thing. It always was opinionated, and imho for many applications the classic full-page-reload cycle is still good enough, or a js client-side app doesn't bring any benefits besides being the cool thing to do. The docs were a problem from the beginning, but that improved a little with the official guides. As someone who used it on and off since version 1.x, it is obviously familiar and I am biased. Though it still feels like not really getting in my way when doing things and I can just write a feature and be done with it, when following the rails way.

In the past I spent a lot of time in the freenode #rubyonrails channel, and a lot of beginners would have benefited greatly from understanding how a MVC app works, and along with it stuff like request-/response cycle. Especially since this also translates well into API/client-side apps.

Sorry if this is a little incoherent, I am a little sleep deprived and back to the baby now :-)
The cost comes with abuse and that goes with anything, it could be beer, pringles and even food. I’ve consumed in moderation for 20 years and not on a daily basis and honestly I have nothing to regret and I doubt I ever will. There’s more damage done to my body from sitting down on a chair starring at a screen for 8 hours a day than the ocassional mj puff. Quite on the contrary, it has made me a lot more productive in moments when I was stuck and lifted the vail of the mundane conformity in thinking, enough to make me aware where I am too complacent and help me shake it off.
Sounds like they need a Land Value Tax on empty places, and to keep Rent Control.

Making it more viable for him to sell the apartments outright would be a massive win. Why let this failed slumlord keep property he can't use productively?
that'd be rewrite
Quite common in basses, which are going to run up against physical limits much quicker than violins.
I am in the part of Australia that didn't eliminate it well before winter. But with 112 days of lock-down _during_ winter we certainly had the numbers come down dramatically and have had twenty-three days so far of no new infections or deaths.

From tomorrow we no longer have to wear masks outside unless it gets crowded such that you cannot maintain physical distancing!
I have started using old interface since yesterday because the new interface is extremely slow on Desktop.
I just don’t understand how showing bunch of images can be this slow.
I dont know for sure, but I would expect this project to be run like vim - any drastic or useful UX changes lead to you getting told off. But I'm not sure, it could also be that in 25 years nobody ever tried to change the UI/UX.
Stripe has a software magazine called increment that’s pretty cool.

I’ve also liked a lot of writing in the Atlantic.

Recently I subscribed to some Substacks: Persuasion, The Weekly Dish, The Diff which are usually interesting.
The same here :) I love to work with other software considered user hostile by others, but Gimp... WTF. It's like they took the most horrible stuff from Photohop s horrible UI and mixed it with more horrible ideas... But PS manages to be horrible and still productively usable and had all the required features, like non destructive editing smart objects etc.

Something like Affinity Photo is the other end of the spectrum, with nice and intuitive UI for almost everything... Though it stills falls short of old Corel Photopaint's nice and intuitive UIs
Northern roads are often (but not always) designed with more substantial shoulders to mitigate frost heaving on the edges of the road bed and plow damage.
this sounds so stallman
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I don’t consider this approach to be possible to operate usefully at scale with completely non-technical users, as they aren’t interested in operating a minor bureaucracy for their thermostat to work.

I am capable of operating my own CA out of my home in a matter of minutes in order to solve this problem, yet even I consider it a waste of my time to do so. In-home transport encryption should not demand a burden from the user. To quote Brazil:

“Listen, this whole system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a twenty-seven B stroke six.”
Okay... I see the value of it, not sure why it's not getting more well deserved attention. I'm not a teacher myself though I have worked as a student teacher before, but wow... this is awesome. I shared it with my teacher friends and my programmer group of 200,000 -- probably some teachers there.

You could monetize this if you wanted and expand beyond math to either come up with your own questions or those that are submitted by a community of teachers.
BJJ in my late 40s. It was a total mindfuck and upended what I thought about learning.

I had to unlearn my well-established ways of learning and learn to learn by flow and feel. At times, you will have huge wins, and at times, it will crush you. Whatever you must do, it is: show up to the next class.

Another key point was not quitting. I’m now a blue belt. I think about 90-95% of those who start, quit. All of the people I started with have long since quit. Sometimes I run into them in town and they talk about how they plan on getting back to class soon.

But I know that will never happen. I just smile and wish them well and hope for their best.
Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway are now generally available
This is rather genius. Nice work on the styling too. Love it!

EDIT: you could have a masonry style gallery with CSS only using the CSS columns property.
Landlords provide benefits: renting a property means getting somewhere to live without being responsible for major systems if they break. Just because some landlords don't do a great job of maintenance doesn't change the fact that they are legally required to perform a minimum.

In addition, property purchase is legally complex, time-consuming, and risky. If you cannot find someone to purchase the home that you purchased, you can't really get rid of it. Renting thus provides optionality - the choice to walk away. The landlord takes on the risk of not being able to find a renter and having to cover the mortgage and property tax costs for a space they're not using. If you think that'll never happen, take a look at Detroit.

This is not to say that landlords are perfect, or that having them is better than the costs of them. But when you are going around making, in my opinion overly simplistic arguments, you weaken the strength of the underlying case. It makes it hard to take other things you say seriously.
Could we just replace the ice with concrete (before it thaws)?
ObjectiveFS takes a different approach to high-availability durable file system by using S3 as the storage backend and building a log structured file system on top. This leverages the durability and scalability of S3 while allowing e.g. git cloning/diffing of a large project (even cross region) to remain fast. To compare we have some small file benchmark results at https://objectivefs.com/howto/performance-amazon-efs-vs-obje... .
ARM is a joint-venture between Apple and Acorn, each had 43% of the capital back in 1996. Apple has a lifetime architecture license, they couldn't care less about who own ARM...