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The systemd drama is redhat drama. The pulseaudio drama was redhat drama. The glibc drama was redhat drama. This is redhat drama. It's not all redhat drama, sometimes it's Microsoft drama or Gnome drama, but it's funny: all of the sources have really good relationships with each other and commingle their drama until it's nearly indistinguishable. Get involved with one of them and you now have dependencies on all of them.
This guy keeps a Gemini site where he puts all of his articles as well. He's very intelligent and has an interesting perspective, I like his writing a lot.

gemini://drewdevault.com/
How does MacOS make zoom conferences painful? That's a strange claim to make.
I agree! Saying it's false repeatedly likewise doesn't make it false.

Where am I wrong? Can you point out my error and make a case for your position? What makes you think RHEL is still "stable" but suddenly a distro a tiny bit ahead is now wildly unstable?
For things that are directly generating revenue, it makes sense to have per-X pricing because it aligns your vendors' interests with your own. In that case, you want to incentivize the vendor to maximize your usage, because that usage is making you money.
It depends. I’m very light sensitive and can’t stop squinting even on cloudy day outside, but common light on dark makes my eyes get tired in minutes on any screen quality. Light scheme, night mode and brightness zero+ is what I’m using in bed.

On subj, I wish such sites to publish their colorscheme css that would be easy to modify and drop into stylebot (iirc that extension name). It’s often a couple of colors and a background that have to be adjusted besides defaults to look good enough. We’re all different.
right

besides, most probably would learn themselves the hard way when put in the same position the OP detailed

problems with Goo are widely known in circles of the Mac-communities ever since Goo-acc's first became avail in the beginning only by invitation, back then

also worth to look into the history of why, when and by whom LS aka LittleSnitch was developed in the first place -- tho this was more related to issues with that then must-go-to site 'versiontracker' [for all sorts of Mac shareware] and a vintaged firewall [3rd party] product widely used that time that didn't work as advertised

a Mac OS w/out LS these days ? back then very few only were concerned with 'calling-/phoning-home' issues on a scale nobody could imagine, least speak or post about in public, in those pre-iPhone ages
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I love this comment because it articulates a dynamic that I think is often overlooked much better than I could. I might even go a step farther and suggest that anything that is core to your business flywheel should be built and not bought (in general).

Mostly because you don't want pricing to act as a disincentive to exercising the flywheel.
If you want to try to read something from the humanities that doesn’t use any specialised words, you could try Plato. But note that it will be very hard to understand and talk about and Plato himself was likely limited by the lack of suitable language to express his ideas.

It seems pretty contemptuous to suggest that people in the fields you don’t really know about are trying to obscure some secret bad opinion so that it can become accepted. Maybe these people are actually trying to express something complex and nuanced?

I think there are a lot of issues with academic writing being obscure but I don’t think these are unique to the humanities. Indeed I think you’ll probably find many people in humanities fields are better writers than those in the academic areas you may be more familiar with.
Yes, just one of the numerous pitfalls you always have to be mindful of when using Unix shell commands.
Alas. Then the company doesn't get the contract, while the next company who lied, with a bright white smile, does.
I've seen this more and more, but I wish sites would provide a way to switch themes. For example, the Ghost blog default theme follows your device preference, but AFAIK there's no way to toggle to light mode, which is quite annoying considering how common it is.
Yes, WCAG are guidelines, but they are not just suggestions in a lot of cases.

WCAG has been adopted as the standard for a variety of regulatory purposes. For example, with Section 508/504, the US Access Board requires procurements to be compliant with WCAG 2.0 AA. Germany’s BIVT is harmonized with WCAG 2.1 AA, California requires state entities and procurements comply with WCAG 2.0 AA, etc.

At least in the US, the main sphere where WCAG has not been specified as the regulatory standard is with Title III places of public accommodation.

However, Federal Courts have repeatedly upheld that places of public accommodation must make their websites accessible, they just won’t say how to accomplish that (nor is it their job to).

In the case of GitHub, I can tell you with 100% certainty it has been provided to, at least, the Federal government as part of a procurement, is subject to Section 508 statutory requirements, and WCAG 2.0 AA is the required standard.

This is to say, it might not be a good idea to arbitrarily decide that color contrast sufficiency is just a suggestion.
I am working on dozens of website themes right now and I am stymied as far as dark mode colors, accessibility, etc. I hate dark mode myself so this is enervating. Can someone point me to a good article describing dark mode best practices?
Totally agree with your perspective here. There's security research and there's bug prospecting. Both have streaks of narcissists and showboaters but the latter seems to be thick with them.

(edit: to clarify b/c this can easily be interpreted otherwise, I'm not calling the writer of this article either of those. The headline is a bit of cheap clickbait but the article is a good walkthrough of their mindset)
The problem happens when Ops software tends to be GUI-based and overly complex, and you just want some programmatic / command line tool you can properly integrate into your software / processes.

It's often simpler to take open source software and adapt it to your needs than to buy commercial software.
If you can plug it into a wall, have a Raspberry Pi 4 series driving a 4K TV of the size of your choice.

The cheapest one I see on Amazon right now is a 40" 4K HDR from Vizio, with quite a small bezel - $240. Hang it on a wall and paint the bezel white, or make a nice wood frame for it.
> If you want to go as far as creating a whole domain to blame Chrome, yes, you do need more than just "I deleted it and coincidentally my computer got fast".

I think the fact that the site exists and is a pretty highly ranked story on HN probably proves that incorrect.
Imagine an infinitely long hallway in a hotel, as a mental exercise. And imagine every room is filled , and each light is on. And imagine looking at this hotel for a long distance. It will look like a continuous line.

And now imagine every other room is uccupied. Still an infinite number of rooms are occupied, but this line, from a distance, will be half as dim.

Now imagine ever millionth room is occupied. Still, we have an infinite number of occupied rooms. And now, depending on the distance from which you are viewing this hotel, you may notice points of light instead of a dim continuum.
Thanks for your answer, i will check it out. I also bought the book :)
> I think what's holding me back is being unable to decide on a field / niche to really own. My current specialty is design systems, and I'm getting to know then pretty well, but I'm not sure how translate that skillset into charging more than a React developer without a specialty might.

So, this crossover between design and development is something I have some experience with. My question is whether you just mean UI and similar on-screen design systems (and whether you actually do the design yourself), or if you've extended this to things like signage and wayfinding, packaging, organizational identity, and so on.

Second, when you identify as an Individual Contributor, do you mean as part of a team (and if so, what sort of team), or are you more interested in working alone on projects you can complete yourself?

A bit of a digression, but I think this may help:

Design work tends to go to individuals and teams that specialize in the type of clients they work with, whether that is determined by size, sector, industry, geographic location, or business model, rather than (or in addition to) the type of work that is required. This is because clients typically aren't just looking for skill and expertise (which they may not be able to evaluate), but for emapthy with and understanding of their challenges needs and even fears and aspirations.

Deep and heavy stuff, huh?

Not to worry (much, anyway), a shortcut to this achievement is the specialization in type of clients, mentioned above; by signaling that you have done (or seek to do) work for other clients JUST LIKE THEM, you're giving them what they need in terms of reassurance. It is also helpful, though not essential, if you yourself match the client along one or more of the dimensions you're targeting, even if they aren't necessarily relevant to the work.

Of course, this same reassuring information will turn away clients that don't match your target profile, so deciding on a particular type of client almost certainly means sacrificing other opportunities (though these days setting up several business facades targeting different types of clients isn't too difficult).

And so, offering a range of services can be attractive to clients, which makes it rather important to be able to handle project management at least, even if you don't want to start an agency or studio and be a manager per-se.

Anyway, enough of the squishy handwavy stuff. A specific resource that I found very helpful back when I was billing myself as a web designer/developer is the book "The Business Side of Creativity" by Cameron Foote. Many of the pre-SaaS small business mechanics described (such as around accounting) are now outdated, but the sections on how to specialize and seek out the clients that need what you're selling are probably what you're looking for. They are just as applicable to software consulting as they are to design work.

Another is "Selling the Invisible" by Harry Beckwith, which is all about marketing services (which are usually intangible) rather than products.
Maybe culturing mushrooms at home.

I set up a sort of glovebox/laminar flow hood with a HEPA filter, sterilized nutrified agar/plugs in canning jars, and cloned some shiitake and lions mane. I also made some 4"x4" glass slides for spore prints and inoculated some logs.

There are a lot of interesting fungi out there. Many have interesting and surprising properties. And they're delicious.
I learned the same thing while writing a log structured merge tree. Single threaded writes are a must - not only for performance but also simplicity of implementation.

I'm curious what about your use required implementing your own storage subsystem rather than using an embedded key value store like RocksDB.
Some types of mistake that I have made: Chess and uncommitted obsession
That nearing age 60, I am an animal lover. I don’t even have a dog, but I have just purchased a farm and plan to fill it with chickens, goats, pigs, alpacas, and perhaps emu.
You still have to run the selectors for all components on each change and check if their result has changed and if so, update the component props. So the more components, the more memory/cpu you waste on each redux update. So now you have to use something like reselect to start caching results...
Huawei worked on several surveillance systems promoted to identify ethnicity
> But you see that’s exactly what you are, because you can’t refactor Java code with what you call “Unix tools”.

"refactoring java code" is really not an exceptional task that vim (or emacs) cannot handle.

In situations where grep -r is too stupid, ctags exists.
Never thought about that, thanks I will look into it.
Is there still a market for this? I own a lot of IPs and would be interested in learning more. It would depend on what they’ll be used for, but maybe there is something beneficial.
Pretty cool project, the LEDs are pretty nice!

In case the author or someone else knowledgeable reads this, is that application for the load cells used for sensing are able to handle? The load cells are rated for 50 kg (~110 lbs), and even if there are four load cells, the dynamic load might not be evenly distributed. It's also likely that the 50 kg limit is a static load, not a dynamic one.
Web APIs with high RFC number tend to be unstable and may decay spontaneously.
again. the comparison needs to be apples to apples.

it's true that outbound traffic does cost (and in theory if you do a lot of traffic), but the budget instances don't have that much bandwidth to start with. Also if you have a huge amount of traffic depending on what you do you might be better off with S3+cloudfront
re2 implements captures as "tagged DFAs" (Laurikari algorithm) while zero-width assertions are implemented as running the algorithm "one byte ahead". Neither of these techniques is very well known.
Sign me up for someone who hates the shell. I've always tried to write scripts in Python or even C++ is so much easier than bash, awk, etc. Bash has no repl, no unit tests not debugger its anachronistic. Don't get me started on emacs.
Details are available on Apple's Platform Security guide: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/cloudkit-end-to-end...
hah, awesome, I know exactly what issue this is without clicking through - Myndex is wrong on this, shockingly, but unfortunately my lips have to be sealed, for now.

Look into the correspondence between the space Myndex uses, the space contrast ratio is measured in, and then again at the W3C docs: TL;DR Myndex's approach doesn't account for reflectance off the screen
Sending money worldwide is still often problematic (YMMV).
Patent term should vary based on the field. In IT, let it be like 5 years. Maybe less. 20 feels like an eternity. And no extensions, ever. If you missed, well, congratulations, you failed, now someone else will implement it and make the world better anyway.
I enjoyed this comment - as someone that is occasionally skeptical of these lofty ideas in the humanities, the analogy to abstractions/concepts in programming never occurred to me.

On the certainty thing, though - I see what you're saying about tech folks desiring certainty, but I've also found that quantitative or hard-science thinkers are often very good at dealing with uncertainty. One reason being that they have the strongest sense of what true certainty is, and the ability to measure uncertainty relative to that. For example, proving the efficacy of a vaccine: we really can be extremely certain that a vaccine is effective. Other areas of study (that I believe are still entirely valid and important), just can't achieve that level of rigor.

I should note my views may be skewed as the entirety of my career has been as a software engineer at an options trading firm, where we are buying and selling uncertainty in a sense, so we have to be comfortable with it.

After writing that all out.. maybe I'm just confirming you example of constraining uncertainty until there can be certainty, or at least a well-quantified form of uncertainty.
yeah no. inbound is free on AWS.
Pretty interesting annotation. Looks like an absolute nightmare to do by hand, but it does clarify my thinking process. Thank you.
Maybe you've already seen: https://hackaday.com/2020/11/27/repurposing-large-electronic...
Some ms windows docs turned dark recently, afair. Can’t remember which, but it often turns up when troubleshooting their fantastically clear 8001fcd8 etc error codes.
Indignation attracts upvotes, then flags. When an indignant post is relatively empty or misleading, flags will eventually win, but it's like the immune system—it takes some time to marshall enoguh white blood cells.

This is a nice case because moderators only saw it after the process was done.
ok, I'll bite. What kind of skill to you need to have, besides being born attractive, to succeed in such business?
Also the antibody test, at least the one I did, involves sticking a needle in you and paying money. If you are going to get stuck you may as well just stick vaccine in I figure.
That pipeline sure does look convenient. Let's see how it will handle a path with spaces.

$ git status -s | grep '^ D' | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs git checkout --
xargs: unmatched double quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option
$ git status -s
D "g h i"

I'd be lying if I said I was surprised, to be honest.
Can you please share more on "Java open sourcing in development"? Any release plan?

I am also interested to contribute.
I thought Amazon held them, my bad. I was interested in this space around the time of the Kindle Fire release. It seemed to me like they just didn't want to chase a form factor that couldn't sell 90% of their media. So maybe there is a way, but no will.
I'm not a linguist, but I believe there is a direct relation between the French article and the Bulgarian one - Bulgarian articles are characteristic of the Balkan sprachbund[0], likely influenced by medieval Romanian, a romance language.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_sprachbund
I think the answers are no they haven't been tested on people dying of covid and no it probably wouldn't help.
Create a second account. Create a script to retweet all the tweets recieved under the first account. Have the second account follow the first. Add accounts as necessary to follow the people you want.
The contrast ratios used in the article are the worst case ones, for 20/80 vision, the average uncorrected vision of people 80+. They're well over 3.0/4.5, which W3C recommends as defaults, and is for people with uncorrected vision of 20/40 or more
The probability can then get arbitrarily small, meaning that the expected amount of time needed before the probability of having observed a photon would get progressively larger.

My argument above is semi-classical, but it shouldn't change with a full quantum mechanical approach.
Personal attacks are not ok here. Please don't respond to a comment that breaks the site guidelines by breaking them yourself. That just makes the thread even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's no deeper reading to my post. I'm claiming that you're literally a dog.
Au contraire, there are and they're quite valuable their enterprise customers. The most important is the detailed security errata published along side their RPM packages which are necessary to do things like "only install security updates" or "check if any packages have upatched vulns."

RHEL but not CentOS also come with security/regulatory profiles like STIG which are necessary to run in certain environments like the DoD.

Red Hat also has a license to distribute Oracle Java that CentOS lacks and so it's not available in their repos. They also ship with the Cisco network drivers that CentOS again doesn't have a license to distribute.
Because some people check the linked article only and might never look at the comments.
"Assume good faith."

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is there a class of "noble" APIs that are completely non-reactive and just timeout?
Yet another PG essay in which he defines as positive characteristics those which he thinks he has, and in broad strokes completely dismisses the value of anything else.
Does anyone know how to tell Twitter engineering that they're screwing up (if indeed you believe that they are)?

Does finance and marketing run the show? Should I be trying to talk to them?
When it comes to color schemes, personal preference comes into play. I actually prefer the GitHub dark mode color scheme to other dark modes. And I've been using dark mode forever: http://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/stuff/darkmode.jpeg
OK so to summarize this thread if I'm reading it correctly, TFA makes claims that are easily proven to be related to an old technical snafu in the auto-updater

Now consider

> The [other thing] has a universal back door through which that $G_GAFAM_COMPANY2 can forcibly change the software. This is called "auto-update". It puts the user helplessly at $G_GAFAM_COMPANY2 mercy.

- richard stallman http://stallman.org/amazon.html

This right here is the root of the problem

we are all at NSA/Alphabet Google+Microsoft's mercy, and auto-updater although arguably useful for normie-facing software like the world's standard web browser has downsides.
For a lot of people, the IDE does end up being a crutch. I was one of those people, and I can honestly say that over reliance on IDEs really held me back. I became a much stronger programmer when I ditched the IDEs for most tasks. I'll still use IDEs for a few select things, but overall they tend to hide a lot from you and you end up learning the IDE instead of the concepts of whatever language or framework you're working in.
Sounds too good to be true – are there no downsides to a solid state battery?
I could not agree with this more. I've worked on projects with some unholy combination of (gnu) Makefiles and VS Solutions. I've never "got" Visual Studio and have always found it very jarring -- but I mostly don't use windows much, and that always feels like it has a way of thinking that is...very orthogonal to mine. KDevelop has honestly been the best "not in your face" IDE I've personally found. I mostly do not do any MacOS programming, but when I have occasionally played, I've realised that xcode is brilliant but it seems like it utterly reinvents itself every major revision number. Eclipse, something I rarely-if-never used has sunk from a popular zeitgeist without a trace. Many of my colleagues (in a medical imaging setting) use jupyter, RStudio or Matlab, occasionally venturing into julia.

The winds shift, and the ship of progress sails a direction that is difficult to chart, but vim....vim never changes, and for that I am very glad.
I think the screenshot service is a perfect example of a service suited for buy don't build - it's something complex to implement but with a really simple API to integrate with.
Other than the fact that this method gives a full message, the message contains actual phrases which are very very relevant. For example "THAT WASNT ME ON THE TV SHOW" refers to someone who called a TV show 2 weeks before this letter was sent [0] pretending to by The Zodiac. Similarly, in that talk show, they discuss fear of "THE GAS CHAMBER", another phrase that appears.

These two alone make it astronomically improbable that this is random. There are a couple other similar phrases, such as his common misspelling of Paradice, and him frequently referring to people he killed as his "SLAVES" in the afterlife.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yrtcRBTg-I

(The talk show happened on October 22, 1969. The letter was sent on November 8, 1969.)
Yes, I get the same! I was using mbasic on mobile and messenger.com on my desktop. But an update last week made messenger.com very slow on my ARM laptop.

I hope it's just a coincidence that messenger.com is updated and mbasic stops working for messages during the same week!
Note, this applies to federal officials. I don't expect that it overturns qualified immunity for police officers, for example.