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I look forward to Advent of Code every year.

So far, I've used it as a way to learn new languages - I've done it in D, C#, Swift so far. I don't bother with the competition aspect, but I do have a few people that I bounce solutions off of.

This year I'm taking a different approach though, I'm going to use it to re-learn an old language - UniVerse[0] Basic[1]. In my first IT job, I supported an in-house system that ran on UniVerse. I then moved on to working with a commercial system built on UniData[2] (a close cousin to UniVerse). These products mainly exist to allow Pick-style MultiValue applications to run on modern systems. They are closed-source commercial products, but there is a limited-use personal edition available.

One nice thing about these is that they don't just emulate a Pick environment, they also give it features that Pick systems never had. For example, UniVerse Basic is capable of making HTTP/HTTPS requests, parsing XML and JSON, and at some point UniVerse Basic even gained the ability to interact with Python objects. One of the first things I built in preparation for this was a subroutine to retrieve the input data, downloading it and caching it if required.

It's been about 10 years since I've worked with this technology, so I'm really looking forward to re-learning it.

[0] https://www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-universe-0/ro...

[1] https://docs.rocketsoftware.com/nxt/gateway.dll/RKBnew20/uni...

[2] https://www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-unidata-0/roc...
Hi, I work for the company that developed and maintains LA Wallet (Envoc) and can help answer some of your questions.

F5bot just alerted me about this post.

Not sure why OP posted this but it's a bit outdated.

LA Wallet is now free, no $5.99 cost to add your driver's license.

You can also now order duplicates and renewals through the app. There are fees associated with that.

Your concern about handing an unlocked phone over to a police officer is valid. I've posted this a few times so I'm just going to copy and paste it here:

"If you are concerned about this, you may be interested in learning about Screen Pinning on Android devices or Guided Access on iOS. These features easily solve the above scenario. Basically, you can 'pin' any app you want on your phone and hand it over. If the person presses the Home button or tries to exit out of the app, it takes them back to the lock screen. They can only access and view what you pin. In this instance, you would just pin your digital driver's license app."

It is also a feature we plan to implement into the app in the near future where it can be interacted with on the lock screen and have a more 'secure' method to access it.
Bitwarden does TOTP generation and is open source (also has a CLI tool), but I do not know if it would fit your use cases and needs.
My Fuji has lossless RAW compression and as far as I know quite a few others too.
Yup. As I mentioned, it's a tool.

But the biggest reason I use Wordpress is I can't handle the friction of treating my website like code. My author hat hates programming and needs a faster feedback loop than flipping back and forth between different windows to see what's happening.

Being able to click Edit, fix a typo, and hit Publish, without any other steps, is what I need.

That's before I get into all of the features Wordpress supports. I installed the JetPack plugin and now I have mailing lists, analytics, monitoring, and a bunch of other things with No Extra Work.

For any website, the complexity has to go somewhere. If you're a programmer with simple needs, an SSG is easier than wrangling an angry kraken like Wordpress.
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It's good, but also very, very introductory.
Hi, I work for the company that created and maintains LA Wallet. I was alerted to your post here by F5bot.

Did you have any questions about it or just felt like posting the PDF?
Get your exe signed?

I dunno, number of clicks seems like a weak argument in favour of web to me.

Start -> type "f-i-r-e" -> click Firefox -> click bookmark in the menubar

That's still 3 clicks. Doublclicking the icon on the desktop maybe but that's 3 as well. Launching a native app would be no different.
It captures my mouse cursor in a weird way, having real slow acceleration compared to when I move it outside the browser window.

I didn't even know that was possible, and also it's annoying me that it's possible. Maybe it's the "Pointer Lock" JavaScript API?
> All that horrible forked kernel stuff is the realm of companies with closed development teams who don't care and just want a product out the door.

Or people who gave upstreaming an honest try but got fed up. It's not the easiest project to contribute to.
That's correct, though there was plenty of other asm and bit level evil graphics voodoo that made quake able to run so fast on consumer hardware a few generations earlier than if they were stuck using slower division:)
Not a comment about ETFs, but in general, the word "foolish" applies to someone entering the scheme, not someone running the scheme. And as is the way of humans, there are always enough people willing to be misled into bad decisions. In that sense, these schemes are very smart.

To repeat, this is NOT a comment about ETFs; it's only about where the word "foolish" goes.
> The web is a kind of meta-OS with a very minimal and simple API

You may have missed the last 20 years of Web evolution, because the Web is now a very messy and hard to implement platform. Even Microsoft gave up on implementing a browser and switched to Chromium.
You can set the "Compressed" flag of a folder and from then on everything in that folder will be compressed/decompressed transparently. I have most of my disk compressed that way and never have seen problems.
Compute? Rendering JSON and HTML via a template I imagine are roughly equivalent.
The way to become a good writer is much like one becomes better at any skill. You attempt the skill, and then you review and revise, or get feedback from others and revise based on that. You suck at first, it will be awkward, but you get better through practice. Sports, coding, soft skills, writing, it's all possible, but you may feel dumb or bad at it in the beginning. That's good, that means you are learning.

The first thing you need to consider is your fundamental thesis, the big high level idea you want to convey. You may not know at the beginning, or maybe it's just, "there's this interesting thing!" Honestly that's a fine thesis. You may also find, as you write, that your thoughts clarify and your thesis changes or develops. It's okay if not though, sometimes you just want to talk about the way something is cool to you.

Now you have to consider your audience. Who do you want to read your work? Is it for kids? for adults? for developers? For developers with kids? Maybe you aren't sure, and that's okay, but thinking about who you want to read it will give you a better sense of how to write, what metaphors or similes are useful, etc. Keep in mind your audience as you reread what you write imagine them reading it. What parts are boring? What parts would they be less likely to understand?

Now you need to develop your thesis. The way you do that is you share ideas related to, or that are aspects of, your thesis, and then you provide evidence for them.

One thing to consider in doing this, if you feel like your content isn't structured well, is maintaining a consistent level of detail returning to it after going down a step or two. I feel that one to two levels below your central thesis is enough. You might break your thesis into topics and those are sections or chapters. Or maybe they are paragraphs.

For example if you are talking about python abstractly, say generators, you might provide a real example, discuss why you use a generator for that, then go another level down to give example code, but you probably shouldn't talk about python byte code, C, assembly etc.

If you want to practice, I find a good place is open source documentation for stuff that lacks sufficient documentation, and there is the potential for feedback built-in and your practice also generates something useful. You can also write book reviews on good reads, write emails or letters to friends and colleagues.

But yeah, I'm told I'm a skillful writer, and maybe that's true and the way I got there wasn't a coach. It was basically reading a lot as a kid, and then writing a lot. I'm still not sure I'm all that good, but I don't worry much about being a good writer. Maybe it's crap work, but hey, it's done. Done is better than perfect, as the old saying goes.
They don't, actually. The R5 is the first, and currently only, Canon camera that records in 8k. They do have a line of cinema cameras, but all max out at 4K currently. Likely because they use the smaller Super 35mm sensor to match the film size film folks are familiar with.
Hah, true. That was absolutely the wrong chip at the wrong time, poorly implemented and lacking the software base of other platforms. I have no idea why they built the thing rather than put more resources behind Xeon, which was basically the end result anyway.
Looking forward to learning Rust this year!
So it's OK to use Age for sending secure emails?

FYI, no I'm not in the millitary/intelligence agency. I'm just a software developer who like to send, say source codes or documents securely.
lots of plants are made into tea, although most don't have a psychotropic effect. Seems entirely plausible that two separate teas were brewed and consumed which, in combination, caused quite a notable effect.
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Completely blind interviews by interactive text chat session only are the closet thing to fair I can conceive; possibly with a shared blackboard or big screen of somekind on provided interview hardware.
thanks for sharing, had a quick couple of follow up questions, how do you unsubscribe from paying monthly rent ? also did you get married and have kids ? if yes how did they factor in to your life ?
I wrote an extension to pass to show password age, using the git history. To see "age" listed was momentarily confusing to me!

$ pass age
..
9 months ago Debian/wiki.debian.org.gpg
8 months ago Git/bitbucket.gpg
8 months ago Websites/hub.docker.com.gpg
8 months ago Websites/heroku.com.gpg
8 months ago University/helsinki.fi.gpg
7 months ago Financial/ukko.fi.gpg
...
There is no "best version" there are many reported with variations of the MAOI or DMT source and with other additives. Species of the Solanaceae familly, such as Brugmansia, being the most commons. But there are also some Ilex species containing caffeine for example.
Wrong. Norway.
Just write more.

Focus less on presentation, more on content. Write shorter things and ship often. Everyone gets to 20,000 words ~50x within their first million [1].

Just write.

[1] https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1317627674810929152?s=20
I am not that old, my first console was PS2
Sort of similar to how did the Chinese & Japanese get the right combination of aspergillus(which can cause all sort of skin & ear lesions, as well as ulcers in humans, and is also what is known as black mold) along with a yeast to produce sake.
Nice. That gave me inspiration to finish my shitty SSG. It already powers my personal blog and my wife’s as well but it need some polish for a full launch
While I can’t categorically say it gets better with time, it has for me. I have an 18 month old and an almost three year old. I’m back to quasi-normal sleep now. I do wish we had kids when we were younger (I’m 37), but we weren’t planning on having any.
I had a friend in undergrad that was moving a pretty significant number of modded (original) XBoxes at a pretty significant markup...but it turned out that he also offered a particular service that was largely driving sales: a larger hard drive filled with ripped DVDs from the 'Red Light District' adult film studio.
If it helps, I’m the same. Generally I’ll have to allocate 10-12 hours in order to get 6 or 8 of actual sleep. Always been the case.

My savior has been audiobooks. I listen a lot, but put a book I know and love on when I wake up 4x/night with a timer and that helps me focus on something new and not stressful (dreams, “I need to go to sleep” etc) while still being something that my brain is familiar with and can naturally drift away from into sleep.

Works 80% of the time. Been a life saver for me
I saw something on the Bitwarden site about needing a paid license if you wanted to self host and use sharing features and got confused as to how “free” it is. Do you know more about this?
There is plenty of linux software that runs on arm64 though. Even if windows remains the dominant deaktop OS, there is certainly a niche for developers and other who would want to run linux on a high-performance arm64 laptop. And then there is chrome OS.
Workloads that IT should move to the cloud
Generally good design and user-centered design (but that's being eroded with every new release) along with attention to detail.

Small examples: you can scroll a window without having to click on it to make it active, applications don't refer to files using paths but file ids instead so you can generally move files around a disk while they are open without things breaking.
https://thrivethemes.com/blog/ Has good content on how to blog better.

They also have exclusive training for their customers.

As a side note it is the most featured Wordpress theme I have worked with. It is great for marketers like me.
Thanks for your response. Didn’t know about that functionality on either platform, will check it out.
It's a tired, un-nuanced concern that doesn't indicate any understanding of why Apple favors lock-in.

Well, why do you think that is? As far as I can tell it's some combination of protecting users and protecting app store revenue, both of which apply equally well to macOS as iOS. The only difference is that the Mac app store isn't as established so they can't force everything to go through it today.
I really really miss being able to take a work Macbook & run a real OS on it.

Fucking tragic. The good world falls. Crap capitalist garbage keeps asserting itself harder & harder.
Surely microplastic generation is quite a bit lower with total weight being an order of magnitude lower
I work for BCG. It’s like McKinsey but nerdier (and maybe with more scruples).

Most of the time, we’re explicitly hired to keep things quiet. We rarely advertise clients, much less engagement outcomes.

But be sure most revenues come from long lasting relationships. In some cases, decades old relationships. And unlike what some commenter said, revenues are growing double digits % YoY, despite BCG being over 50yo (McKinsey is almost 100yo)

So I guess MC delivers at least for those singing the check.
Having proper sleep is so important in your mental health.
woah! This is brilliant! Very creative :)
I found that an odd but a reoccurring theme.

* Virtualization not supported

* Gradle is extremely slow

* Webkit crashes

* No Docker yet

* Builds not as fast as their top-end Intel based MBP

* Builds not nearly as fast as their Hackintosh

* Can't wait to migrate CI to it

wut
at no point does the author attempt to substantiate his argument
VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) in Advertising – How Does It Work?
This is a good exposition of some formal definitions for 'interpretability' in the context of machine learning, but I am still not really clear on why such a property is necessary or even desirable in the context of high dimensional statistical learning algorithms. In some sense the power of modern machine learning (as opposed to a set of heuristics + feature engineering + a linear classifier) is that it is not limited by what its designers are able to imagine or understand. If it were possible to give a simple explanation of how a high dimensional classifier works then it would also likely be unnecessary to have so many parameters.

As an example, if we consider natural language processing, then we might say that we want our NLP algorithm to be interpretable. This is clearly a tall order since the study of linguistics is still full of unsolved riddles. It seems silly to insist that a computational model of language must be significantly easier to understand than language itself. If interpretability is not feasible with language - a construct that is intimately connecting to the faculties of the human brain - then why should we expect it to be feasible (or desirable for the wide range of applications that do not come naturally to people?
> they would smell competition from Linux in any of their core business fields

I don’t think you or Apple or anyone else has to worry about that
Various people have suggested to Intel that they made a mistake by not selling desktop/workstation chips with AVX-512.
Thanks Mahesh
I think this is a great way to approach starting companies. I hope you didnt have to go through poverty due to lack of an income on those 5months. But I am sure that the learning experience and the ability to align tech and business goals will payoff. I didnt go through the struggle so I dont understand your struggle fully but I hope those 5months served as a great management course.
Thats me too, I almost never dream , although I am sure I do dream every night, just that when I wake up I have no recollection, perhaps if it was an intense dream then I may sense if it was a sad dream or a happy dream, but rarely do I remember anything specific. I've always wondered if this is normal.
I'm probably going to need some help with the connection here.
Whenever I use the CLI on a mac, I am frustrated by the absense of all the GNU extensions that aren't there when I use the core utilities, and that the version of bash is ancient.

I mean I still prefer it over windows, but it is not the same experience as linux.
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For me, the reason was simpler: it took less effort to write an SSG than it did to learn any existing one, and I got the fun of doing it.
Monolith mystery deepens as Utah desert object vanishes
The phrase 'I seriously doubt' should have to be backed up by money.
Sirum (YC W15 Nonprofit) hiring many roles to make medicine more affordable
> I’ve been nomading for ten years.

The most i've ever been able to do was half a year. How can you choose to be without a real home that long?
gopass[0] is more or less a superset of pass written in Go that will do this for you. I’ve been using it for a few years syncing between iOS and macOS with no issues.

[0]: https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass
Right: the comment I replied to was saying that they don't think the 30% cut is fair since the user paid for the OS. I was just pointing out that doesn't seem to check out since they didn't actually pay for the OS (if it's Android and not Google hardware).

They might reasonably say they'd rather pay for the OS upfront instead though.
Anki-xiehanzi: Practice Mandarin Chinese by drawing strokes in Anki
What does FTR mean?
vanlife, digital nomad, etc. It's all the same. You are only presented with the highs, not the lows.
The main reason for me is that Apple hardware is (from my experience) unacceptably unreliable and their warranty service is infuriating.

Add to that a lack of expandability, customizability, (user) repairability and (hardware) compatibility.

Life is just a lot less miserable without having to deal with Apple hardware. PC components seem to be very reliable when you spend just middle-range prices and you can easily buy and swap out components when something does go wrong.

I generally go many months without having to reboot my Hackintosh, and I can't ever remember having a kernel panic after initial setup. Both of those things were not true with Apple hardware.
Could also obtain water usage data from the city water dept. Fairly reliable indicator of occupancy, although you’d need to ensure someone wasn’t running the taps needlessly to avoid the tax.
Ask HN: How to get focused and calm myself before an interview with investors?
So I have been involved in a new startup that has been fortunate enough to land some interviews this past week. We pivoted an MVP and landed customers within a month which was really exciting and it helped us land so some meetings with huge potential. Queue my social anxiety. I tend to ramble and that can lead to me being a bit defensive. I am just curious how others deal with accelerator or VC meetings and more specifically the rapid fire questioning. I love what I do and spend my time trying to ensure our customers
are as happy as they can be. I just don’t want to get flustered and ruin things for my partners, if that makes sense. We try not to mock interviews or focus too much on our couple competitors but instead find what our customers want. Thank you so much for making it this far, I greatly appreciate any and all advice.
They have one specific ability, which doesn't require much math at all.

Death to the halo effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
In New Zealand, we're so young and small that we only have one distinctive regional accent - the Southland accent, typified by a rolling R - as typified in someone fresh in Christchurch telling you that they're from Gorrrre[1].

(As a South Islander, I can often, but not always, tell that a Pakeha (NZ European) person is from the North Island because they have more of a Polynesian influence in their pronunciation - South Island being notoriously white for the most part, the difference is slight but noticeable).

The Gore escapees get lightly teased about it "Hey Sharon tell us how far you went to the bar in your car" etc., but otherwise treated the same as other Kiwis.

"Accentism" as described seems to require a long history of a rural peasantry / working class and an urbanised middle - upper class - in other words, it's just a proxy for class based discrimination.

I guess we're lucky that talking like a farmer isn't considered an impediment to being Prime Minister... so far, although I still put it down to not even being a 200 year old bicultural country.

That said, in the past, speaking in the Received Pronunciation was mandatory for newsreaders etc., and people correctly pronouncing Maori names and place names etc. is still an ongoing slow improvement.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore,_New_Zealand
The idea that English (in this case Spanish and Mandarin as well) will kill all other languages is debious and forget a very important fact: through most of history and in a lot of places bilingualism is the norm. Current examples are some African countries where languages local are spoken and French is used as vehicular language; Standard Chinese while people speak another Sinitic language. What is likely to happen is more people being proficient in a second or even third languages (like it is in Hong Kong).
The Myth of Self-Esteem
They can code, yet many remain painfully ignorant about people and the world.
Fairly easily gamed though with some sort of IoT taps.
+1 for this. It's quite python-specific, but I found it amazingly insightful.
For The Record.
"Psychological operations (PSYOP) by the United States began in mid-February 1981 and continued intermittently until 1983. These included a series of clandestine naval operations that stealthily accessed waters near the Greenland–Iceland–United Kingdom (GIUK) gap, and the Barents, Norwegian, Black, and Baltic seas, demonstrating how close NATO ships could get to critical Soviet military bases. American bombers also flew directly towards Soviet airspace, peeling off at the last moment, sometimes several times per week. These near-penetrations were designed to test Soviet radar vulnerability as well as demonstrate US capabilities in a nuclear war." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83#Psychological_o...
It boggles my mind that the same people who support mainstream news coverage as legitimate journalism would also agree with you that people need to stop reading so much news and news is the reason there is so much polarization.

News is good and legitimate, and news is also causing huge societal problems?

Not accusing you of this sentiment, more just frustrated that any respects journalism in this day and age