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That has been true in the past. But, in the past, there were no computer-based games, nor a computer gaming culture.

Consider the analogy with big game hunting. The image I imagine of a British club includes the heads of a bunch of formerly live animals hanging on various walls. Within that subculture, hunting adventures and stories were very much social currency.

As gamers age, gaming clubs could form as a third place to hang out, and gaming stories would also be of great social value. May not be to your particular taste, but it is just a matter of taste.

Additionally, as knowledge of sporting teams and their performance during current season break down conversational barriers between people living in different parts of the US, knowledge of gaming, and the ability to play with others at any age, could do the same.

There isn’t as strong a general piano culture among a random set of people. Maybe music, but depends on the group. It brought Boomers together, but that essential core value of current music as a glue for a demographic isn’t there as much.

What music does do is directly feed the soul, and computer games aren’t at that level. Yet. Whether they ever can be is an open question. They aren’t an art form. Yet.
unless they allow no phone accounts, its a non starter for many. including me. having been persecuted for having whatsapp installed on the phone, (which i personally dont, btw) for an adversary like a police state, whatsapp encryption is somewhat moot. public 'news' groups on whatsapp have admins and they are made to report to the local police station where that malware is installed. then its just a matter of time waiting for people to talk. the issue here is every account is linked to a phone number. easy for police to cross reference a person with that number because of already stringent kyc norms on phone numbers.
oh, telegram also suffers from this.

oh, and being beaten for having installed a vpn

https://scroll.in/article/952355/vpn-for-terrorism-in-kashmi...

https://www.kahawatungu.com/whatsapp-admins-in-kashmir-now-r...
That is not the point I was making. There are situations where this preciseness is utterly useful and required (e.g., law, literature) and cases where this isn’t the case (e.g., sciences).

I’d buy the english original book on any topic 100% of the time instead of a german alternative or its translation.

Ask any german university student in computer science or engineering or business - 9/10 prefer english textbooks.
He's referring to the phenomenon of certain groups of students cheating on homework and justifying it by claiming it's a cultural difference in approach to learning. It's not. It's outright splitting up work between peers, often with the use of illicit solutions manuals, for the purpose of gaming the grading system. It's especially beneficial in classes where the professor just writes exams from homework problems or problems very similar to them.

There isn't anything special or insightful, mystical or different or "eastern" about cooperative learning. I'm thoroughly "western" and had plenty of homework groups in both undergrad and grad school. Nor is there anything special about the cooperative cheating I described: "certain groups" applied to plenty of western peer groups I saw in undergrad especially, though they didn't claim what they were doing was some "cultural" thing, as they knew it was simply cheating.
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Not sure you even read the piece. OP doesn’t link assuming that you’re below average with being below average, but rather being more humble in the way we approach other people and other activities.

And by the way, I’m curious who bestows this “duty” and “responsibility” to care and hone one’s “talents”? You obviously come off as thinking you have at least one...
Except when there is cache warming when you turn it on?
I thought color blind people would configure the color blind mode in their OS? Is it not common or is it just bad?
Imo this is not good advice for junior software engineers that work for a startup. The truth is most project managers and technical leaders at startups are happy with the quality of their codebases being way below the industry average.

Most senior and mid-level engineers are well aware of this fact, but they avoid bringing it up due to workplace politics and how awkward it is. This leads junior engineers to think they are just learning what to do, while the truth is that they are learning what NOT to do as well.
When has Apple traditionally required employees to be on site? I know a few people who have worked remote at Apple for over a decade.
It probably makes it easier to implement things like variable frame rates.
I used to keep a rat, and considered her about as smart and enterprising as my cats.

I regularly feed squirrels coming to my window. Some of them are curious and brave enough to enter the room through the window, and they definitely learned what actions of mine lead to food appearing at the windowsill.

Animals are fun.
I understand. But I don't consider Uber's success a good thing - it was a ruthless company that cornered the market through illegal and antisocial behavior, and unfortunately set a path for other startups to follow. I believe we'd be better off if Uber died very early, and allowed one of their above-board competitors to disrupt the taxi space.
No, we're saying that currently the platforms enjoy unlimited immunity.

Courts have departed from the most natural reading of the text by giving internet companies immunity for their own content. Section 230(c)(1) protects a company only when content is "provided by /another/ information content provider". Nowhere does this provision protect a company that is itself the information content provider.

And an information content provider is not just the primary author or creator, it is anyone "responsible, /in whole or in part/, for the creation of development" of the content. (words of justice Thomas)
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> Group calls are currently limited to 5 participants

Compared to other apps which offer group E2EE video calls:

Duo - 32 participants

Facetime - 32 participants

Zoom - 100 participants (or 1000 w/ a Large Meeting License)
Dropping any phone on a pile of sand at any height is unlikely to damage it too much. Terminal velocity is low and drag would slow it down, plus the sands loose structure would absorb much of the impact.
HSP makes the headphone quality much worse, and mono. Even while using the mic, that's not ideal. You might not notice if you're just having a conversation, but if you're sharing a video or watching/playing a game, you want the audio output quality.
When you work with huge codebases, 80% of the time is spent reading/navigating code.
The IDE hides the boilerplate, I really don't mind it.
Why don't you hear people discussing in German on Hacker News? Is it because German is unsuitable for informal, everyday discussions?
It was never official, and the people behind it folded into the new ReScript team.
Low inflation and high inflation are entirely different things, especially if you mean hyperinflation. During high inflation, monetary transactions break down because nobody wants to hold cash. Why would you sell things today if you would be better off selling tomorrow? Business breaks down, and that's reflected in the stock market.
In HN, having (1930) in title implies this article was published in 1930.
How confident you come across is huge part of how others see you. Especially in chaotic environments where leader is not even in position to look closely at your work. If you really overdone it while producing complete crap or stop learning because of it, then yes, it harm you.

But in most situations, very confident people do better then humble people of exact same capabilities. Especially in startups and such.
I have zero familiarity with practice in the USA, so someone else is probably better placed to comment.

That being said, I suspect the absence of "loser-pays-costs" does make things worse in the USA. This mitigates most of the potential downside to litigation, capping your exposure to a known (controllable) quantity.

But even then, it's still a huge problem in Commonwealth countries. I'm more interested to know if it's less of an issue in civil law jurisdictions like Germany.
It looks intimidating, but it seems to me that most of what happens are standard XML operations. E.g. 1: read XML, 2: use XPath, 3: read element names, structure, and attributes, 4, some parts of: apply XPath or XSLT, if specified, 5: serialize XML (which implies whitespace treatment). Given that the authors of the standard considered the standard XML operations to be readily available, the cryptographic additions do not seem to be that complex.
As others have already suggested, wool is king.

I would recommend having a look at https://varusteleka.com, they're the biggest outdoor/surplus store in Europe, and they ship just about anywhere. Their wool flannel shirts and field shirts are the best I've ever owned, as are their worker wool pants, and they have enough merino clothing to layer for any weather.

Aside from the own brands, they often get very good surplus winter gear in, like thick Swiss knitted wool sweaters, Czech parkas, Finnish wool pants and so on.

My current winter outerwear workhorses are a Czech parka and a pair of Finnish M65 wool pants, total cost less than €50. With long johns and a woolen sweater underneath, I have yet to encounter winter weather that would make me uncomfortable.
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The palm oil land is being cleared from rainforest and has a limited growing range. Sugarcane, not so much.
We just bomb and murder them in response rather than making sure they're not extremists
> Ricky Rubio

Ricky Rubio is famous for playing elite basketball since he was a scrawny 14 year old.

And Ricky Rubio has pretty much the same height as Steph Curry.
You can tell by the plethora of realtime audio production apps for iOS that it’s pretty solid. CoreAudio is the best in its league.
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The piece starts by running off statistics about everyone who has been wrong about being exceptional. Basically "Don't bother; by all wagers you're at best average." It then settles into the comfortable safety of "I'll just assume I'm average." No guts, no glory.

Even worse, those statistics are basically about believing without evidence. Talents produce evidence when exercised (provided you're ready to recognize them). If something comes easier to you, you focus and push harder, seeing how far it can go. But you have to believe that you can or else you won't put your full weight behind it.

Man's greatest asset and his greatest enemy is his mindset.

The lucky talented just know in their bones that they are. For the rest, your mindset determines the success of your talents, and that mindset takes work to maintain.
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For the Apple II there are already some reproductions of the Rev 0 PCB but there are already plenty of originals (non-rev0) out there in the wild, they're not really rare enough (particularly given their use in the US schools system).

I have six a ][ EuroPlus, three //es, a //c and an ITT2020 and once upon a time had a lot more. The biggest issue is the RIFA caps going in the PSU.

As Apple I diy kits these are a little bit too modern for my tastes. I prefer my retro remakes to stick much more closely to the original design. The only real "fake" that I have is the PiDP 11/70 front panel which has a Raspberry PI running an emulation as it's CPU.

There are a long list of modern remakes around in the retro computing community, but most stuff earlier than 1981 uses discrete components so if the CPU is still available should be cloneable.
Palm oil is a nightmare in our food chain. It is horrible for the environment and horrible for the body (an aspect totally ignored in this article). And yet it has become near ubiquitous. Living in a big European city I can for instance buy 30+ types of margarine at my regular supermarket. But every single one is full of palm oil. Even supposedly healthy ones based on olive oil (looking at you Bertoli) are to a large degree palm. Even the bio/organic shop has nothing. It's nearly as bad for chocolate, spreads, cakes, veggie or non veggie charcuterie, ... Anything that's not a standardised/pure product is just palm.

2 years ago it was perfectly possible to avoid palm. Today I basically don't see any chance. Even organic and supposedly ethical products are full of palm, just under the pretense of some certification that sums up to 'the forest was killed 10 years ago so we are now able to call ourselves sustainable while the problem is shifted somewhere else'.

Our food systems seem fundamentally broken. Unless I buy basics at the local market and cook everything from scratch I basically have to eat palm, glutamate, bamboo fibre, gelatine and whatnot other waste every day.
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Maybe something like 1930: When Italian Futurists Declared War on Pasta?

I have to admit, I was also expecting an article from 1930 being used to hn.

Though still an interesting article or at least i'd never heard about any of this before anyway.
Funny you mention this - my "smart" TV (Vizio) had a recent software that made it so opening Prime Video crashes the whole smart-OS (no home menu and no apps)... with the exception of Netflix's app, which works flawlessly.

I assume Netflix ships a much lower level integration that doesn't rely on nearly as many of the TV OS's api's and therefore can launch even when Prime has decided to bork the whole system.
Id hazard a guess that unaffiliated hacking groups don't have the same capability as the following codewords protect.

FORBORNE
PENDLETON
PIEDMONT

They all seem to suggest some level of breakthrough with regards to cryptography, including public key cryptography.
HN is a tough crowd, especially for technical products that are familiar to many.

Even though it’s pretty clear who your target market is, I think technical products cause commenters to roast your product from a technical end user frame, rather than from a non-technical user frame.

Anyway, wishing you the best on your entrepreneurial journey!
This might help

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/signal-desktop-beta-bin/
I have never in my life heard any of these words. They are poorly translated and unpronounceable.

Yes, you would not make up these words just for the sake of speaking in German. We are not in the 30s any longer.

But no person in its right mind would speak German with 30% of the words “borrowed from english” because “all the other advantages of the German language outweigh borrowing so many english words”.

I love how people are downvoting me in their evening frustration about their lives - but yeah, if you miss like all the relevant vocabulary in a language why would you state that communicating in it is “smart of efficient”? There is no inherent reason. English has -for many fields- the best vocabulary. The english language does not get lost in four line sentences so easily like the German language and it’s not made up of 80 character words.

Have any of you ever read a German paper or textbook on a topic? Its awful. I love english textbooks I love english papers.
Not that I'm defending the theft or IP or technology, but it is interesting how some things we consider stealing, others homage and some that we simply ignore. No one would complain if spies from your own country stole from a rival nation during a war (hot or cold). The US used to steal technology from Britain and the rest of Europe.[0]

The more you magnify on any country's history, the more prevalent shady dealings comes up. This goes doubly so for superpowers. It seems that at some point in time, everyone has done unscrupulous things to get ahead and we often forget to be introspective.

On a personal anecdote, I dabble in fashion design and it continually baffles me as to what is considered "homage" when large, established companies blatantly rip off designs. Large companies like H&M or Zara can literally steal pieces from famous designers, make it worse and cheaper and sell it in malls worldwide. Obviously, when an Asian brand does the same thing, it's a knockoff. Peeves me to no end.

[0] - https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-eur...
I bet it’s due to a weird corporate structure that Facebook has.
I disagree. Signal on Fedora works very well for me. Even video/audio calls work surprisingly well. And it is available as a Flatpak.
Anyone got a TL:DR? The crux of their argument isn't even on the first page...
> When you work with huge codebases, 80% of the time is spent reading/navigating code.

And you don't see this as an indication that reducing code size is important?
So where the sugarcane for oil's land comes from?
Current land for sugarcane is to produce sugar.
> it really is just syntax

It's really not. When the impact of "syntax" are non-local like that, it's more than syntax. A compiler would handle this beyond the parsing stage. At the very least, it would seriously massage the AST to remove `defer` from it.

> if we assume defer is implemented like attribute cleanup and fix up the compile errors, your first and fourth example compile to the identical assembly code:

This is to be expected: they ultimately do the same thing, and optimisers are known to do significant, non-local transformations to the code.

> move the "business logic" into a separate function, one that takes the necessary resources as arguments.

So now I have a function with (likely) too many arguments, that's used only once, and my eyes have to jump around to get to it (or I have to reach for the F2 key). The pyramid may be more visible, but that's a meagre advantage.

> In my opinion the nested if style is better than using defer because it's completely linear with no backward jumps.

Not even a criterion in my book. I suspect you're having an overly operational mindset. A mindset I suspect has held the whole field back a couple decades. Don't think of it like a backward jump. It's meant to be viewed as deferred execution, triggered by scope exit.

> you can hardly complain about cleanup code being far from init code because the whole resource handling function is less than 20 lines of code

That was an example, dummy. In real code, I'd have more than 3 things to initialise, and their initialisation might not be as trivial (or as repetitive) as what I've shown here. That's when I really want to read the code from top to bottom, with concerns packed together. Defer/cleanup lets me do that. The other solutions, less so.
A friend sent me this Tweet: https://twitter.com/zntfdr/status/1338423623149707265?s=21.
That's interesting. Thank you!
In science or engineering? Like how?

I mean, like I said for contractual arrangements etc. German is more precise.

But I never found that the “English language was not precise enough” to convey something - unless it was a choice by the author.
EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants
Interesting, thank you. Just a feedback mechanism, not a limiter, though. And I imagine you'll be able to turn it off...
Same. I really wanted to like the sleeper train I went on but I just couldn't sleep. It might be better for heavy sleepers.

The second one I took the train turned up at the station but they forgot the sleeper cars. We had to take a bus in the middle of the night across Germany to what where they left them. It was 3am when we got there and they still didn't just let us sleep and were checking our tickets and everything. Our stop was at 6am.

The best overnight travel I did was on a ferry from Oslo to Copenhagen. We had the cheapest possible cabin (no window) but I slept like a log. You can even do a multiple night trip all the way to Helsinki.
Having DOCSIS is the worst. The connection is unpredictably unstable and I personally reject any belief of a "tuned cable system" existing. It's all a mess. And by design since DOCSIS auth is done on the CPE (modem), the device is not trusted and you cannot use your own unless the ISP [is forced to] allows it and whitelists it.

So DOCSIS is hell.

GPON is ... depends. The technology is great, but some ISPs can and will ruin it because they're greedy and shortsighted. Someplaces you can get a bridge CPE (ONT) that does have remote access but doesn't allow configuration, someplaces the ONT itself is fine (i.e. HG8245 series for which too you can disable TR069 interface and CWMP and change the passwords - which I did), but someplaces you just get the "DOCSIS over fiber" experience, with hostile ONT in your home network the ISP uses to make your existence miserable.

Personally, DSL is fine for me. I am so used to low speeds (~20/2 Mbps) when I am in the village (since march due to COVID, working from home), I have started bonding [0] DSL and LTE for around 95/45 Mbps and that is fine for me.

So, I'd rather stay on tried-and-true, stable, low ping DSL, than muck around with DOCSIS and fear any rain or wind.

For GPON it depends on the ISP, but the technology does not dictate any remote management requirements except OMCI which is not concerned with "higher layer" configuration such as WiFi or router features.

[0] https://milankragujevic.com/openmptcprouter-true-bonding-of-...
I don’t know what the solution is or whether the article’s alternative is viable. But please do try and avoid buying products palm oil. It’s absolutely devastating and we will not get the land or the millions of species that we’re losing back.

I once flew into a tiny airport in Borneo, from above it looked like a neat lush jungle, but as we descended the horror of millions upon millions of neatly lined up palm trees stretching for hundreds of miles became clear. The tiny scrap of jungle left was condensed around the river and all the large fauna had gathered there to escape. It’s tragic and the scale is unprecedented.

I don’t know if not buying palm oil will stop them, but at least it sends a message that we need alternatives and raises awareness about one of the most visceral impacts we humans have on the earth.
Yes. That was my point.

You miss 30% of the vocabulary, well, you won’t have a great conversation about a topic...
At which price point for CO2? Current estimates of >70€ per ton could make a flight from London to Berlin about 10€ more expensive.
I would be surprised if terminal velocity is much below 400mph...
Some things can be mocked quite successfuly -- like ORM stuff.
You can also write an integration test for the mocked component, let the rest of the code blaze away with the mocked version, it is usually a very good compromise.
> subroutine calls requires implicit allocation and deallocation of stack frames. Real Programmers™ use goto and manage the stack by hand.

Could u point to an example of programmers doing this ?
I find it odd that packaging for a specific distro is an upstream effort. I never understood why upstream source should include Debian/Fedora-specific files.

The way that Arch Linux approaches packaging makes much more sense to me - a single bash-like PKGBUILD file that describes how the upstream source should be transformed into a package that the distro knows how to deal with.
90% thinking they are above average could still mean that almost 50% underestimates themselves. All it proves is that people who are less than mediocre rarely realizes it.