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What about desktop computers? They are arguably more long-lasting, adaptable (upgradable), more powerful and cheaper than laptops. But of course, their prinicpal disadvantage is their lack of portability.

If portability isn't a consideration, them I still recommend desktops when buying a computer. My home desktop is 8 years old (bought in 2012) and running fine and fast. Of course, it has been upgraded e.g. it has more memory and a second hard drive.

Desktops give you the space to upgrade without having to wastefully throw away perfectly working components. Can one say the same about laptops?
Amazon Warehouse was the best deal I found a few months ago.
> why pollute

How is running AMA polluting this place?

> don't want to see AMA on Hacker News

Are you sure that all the AMA buried instead of not just happening?

I don't get your hostility toward AMA.
A crazy memory I have with this game is related to its successor, Championship Lode Runner (mentioned in the article). The original allowed you to jump to any level through its title screen, so you could skip hard levels, or play them in any order you want. The Championship game, however, had 50 levels that you could only play through in order, and only after you had beaten the prior level. As my brother and I got stuck in one of of the lower levels, this was very frustrating since we had no way of enjoying the higher, more advanced levels.

Somewhere along the line, we figured out that you could start the original game, go to the level-jumping screen, remove the 5 1/4" original floppy disc and replace it with the one for the Championship game, and then enter the level you wanted to play. The original gameplay would load the Championship level as if nothing was out of the ordinary! I only think this was possible because the two games shared so much code structure. It gave me an idea of how the memory vs disc model of the game was operating. But I don't think it would be easy to do today since switching the floppy discs was so instrumental to making it work. Maybe today you could do kernel dumps or swap the in-memory vs disk binaries, but we were just kids not advanced computer wizards. Hurray for analog hacks!

By using the trick we were able to enjoy all 50 of the Championship levels at our leisure.
> Matrix multiplication is an embarrassingly parallel task.

(GPU programmer take). This is a common misconception. In reality, matrix multiplication is _extremely tricky_ to implement a fast parallel algorithm for because the number of useful instructions you can perform per byte is limited and you end up getting memory bound very quickly, so you start needing to think about properly employing LDS, managing bank conflicts, etc. For many applications that actually need to run fast, matrices are great for sorting out the theory, but then it's a good time to come up with something that will actually run fast after the paper problem is sorted out.
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We understand the aerodynamics of bird flight, and used it to make fixed-wing planes optimized for carrying lots of cargo. Once we understand the principles behind intelligence, we can make very efficient AI optimized for our usage. But we're still at the point where we don't understand intelligence as well as we understood aerodynamics when building the first planes, so we still have a lot to learn from "birds" - animal brains.
Yes, sure. Then again I'd prefer my kids to grow up in a society where almost everyone has similar access to daycare, schools and uni, as opposed an increasingly stratified one that ultimately isn't safe outside of your gated community..
There are just so many projects that we've either canned or try to do on the cheap with disastrous results.

We're the only nation to develop launch capability not to use it, for example.

British soldiers had a barely functional, unreliable, rifle for years (the SA80) because the phrase "Buy cheap, buy twice" still hasn't entered the minds of own managing classes.

We are of course also running straight off a cliff soon, thanks to Brexit.
In Europe you get security + enough money to life comfortably, but not really enough to accumulate any capital and gain financial freedom. The system is constructed so that you give your whole life to it in return for the security and comfort. Whereas in US, you can save enough to escape the system before you're old. From what I'm reading, even just regular engineers (not software) in the US often retire at 55 or 58, as they have saved enough by then. Compare that to the retirement age of 65-69 through most of Western Europe.
You don't need a config file for simple cases. There's no firm boundary between simple cases and cases where you'd want to use a config file; it's partly a quantity thing, partly familiarity.

It could probably be nicer with a way to specify a file to read options from, but it's not as if there aren't plenty of ways to represent an argv as a text file already, so it doesn't seem like a high priority.
I wonder if anyone here can offer any good financial advice for people whose company recently went or is about to go IPO in this market? (and who hold a significant chunk of vested equity now)

Are there tax strategies to consider? Selling / holding strategies? Should one consult a tax advisor for a few sessions to learn about any specific issues to take into account in holding, selling, planning, and taxes?

Thanks!
It may be temporarily, but as far as I can tell, the linked page has the entire article. A few clicks also gave me https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S09609822203166... which, to me, looks like a PDF of the full article.
That's a dang auto correction!

https://old.reddit.com/r/TronScript/
That’s a pretty sweeping dismissal: many millions of people need healthcare even when young, and it’s not having a family is something you start in your 50s. Having a more democratic political system is also important when you’re young since you’ll have many decades to live with the impact of decisions about things like climate change or racking up debt irresponsibly.
Definitively recommend watching micro men if you want a dramatized version of the acorn and Sinclair history
The malfeasance that brought on the financial crisis is illustrative. It ultimately led to one criminal prosecution that involved a small single digit number of branches Chinese-American community bank (Abacus Bank). The prosecution was ultimately unsuccessful. If the government couldn't pull off a successful prosecution of such a small fish then why believe they'll be successful with the likes of FAANG? Best to devote the limited resources the government has to proactively utilizing its powers and enforcing anti-monopoly legislation. If it was readily capable of doing so in the past, why not now?

In passing, the debacle that was the prosecution of Abacus Bank was the subject of a great documentary 'Small Enough to Jail' [0][1]. It's demonstrative of whom the government will ultimately always chose to prosecute. In the case of Abacus Bank, an institution that had a significantly lower default rate than most large banks.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/video/abacus-small-enough-to-jail-suqmxe...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus:_Small_Enough_to_Jail
This is a weird perspective when all newer Apple laptops use a standardized port which is reasonably well supported by third parties and will be for another 10-20 years.

Right now I'd say the third party power options are better than OEM, even for Apple.
But F. Scott Fitzgerald will lose all incentive for writing more novels!
Almost 100 Apple Stores Closed Again, Including All Stores in California
The PC was the outlier, a serendipity created due Compaq's cleverness, that is all.
Does that make sense? I'm glad it got funded in the first place but the invention of the RISC concept itself seems like one step amongst thousands.
Correction: I meant to say Tron Script.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TronScript/
People build things without understanding the underlying principles all the time, e.g. the steam engine. You could probably make the case that building things has helped our understanding more than our understanding has helped us build things.

Having said that, you can certainly improve a design when you better understand the fundamentals (vs intuition + trial & error).
Thanks for that detailed explanation. The fact that all main functions live in a single process probably helps a lot with CPU and RAM usage, compared to k8s where etcd, API server, scheduler and controller manager live in independent processes, which means serialization/deserialization and less optimization opportunities.
I don't know but I have a portable dac from iFi that uses a XMOS processor for some operations. They warn against flashing firmware meant for other XMOS-based dacs, so it must have a certain market share in the segment.
Wasn’t the original post complaining about avoiding a gazillion lines of config in the first place ?
And for every one you've heard of, there are IPOs you've not heard of, acquisitions, etc.

You might not get rich, but there are plenty of folks out there who have made a few hundred thousand in a small company IPO, or an extra $50k for 6 months of work, or whatever.
Where I live, we are record savers ( Belgium). Everyone can go on pension at 56 ( much lower pension though) and can have a break for multiple years if they want, during their active career,
that's not possible in the US.

I have 1 year to go for being debt free ( included buying a house) at 32 age.

I also thought it was US citizens that didn't save money?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

Even then, Europe catched up with productivity and some even doubled it vs. the US ( quoting : https://www.euractiv.com/section/innovation-industry/intervi... )

> Hours worked does not mean more productive.
"... upwards of $500k for an individual contributor ..."

Sucks that I suck.

Edit: Why are you down voting? I suck and will never make that sort of money.
That level editor was a thing of beauty. It inspired me to write my own level editors for other games. Ugly text based things that worked by editing the (cracked) game's data files. I learned so much doing that kind of thing.
I've been using the FLIRC case, which appears to be die-cast and looks a little bit more family friendly sitting next to the TV on your entertainment center.

https://flirc.tv/more/raspberry-pi-4-case
https://flirc.tv/more/raspberry-pi-case (for RPi 2 and 3)
Attacks are not kinetic anymore. We've been under constant cyberwarfare for years now.
Be your best friend. Be kind and gentle with yourself.
Imagine Europe during 6000-2000 BC. That is basically the equivalent of what colonizers came to. There wasn't enough to be discovered because the majority of them were still nomadic. Even the cahokia mounds showed that North American civilizations were short lived.
Amoled and different colours power consumption (2018)
What about not using it at all, just plain application servers and VMs as always.
I didn't say you made your thesis after buying it. I'm saying you might be overweighing your thesis when you bought into the stock, being the natural hopeful optimists we all are. That being said, there's always the chance that Tesla could be an Apple for cars, which pretty well sums up my opinion about the car itself - great design, but lots of sharks in the water. Of course, Apple has it much easier.
I think the point was that aviation at the time did start mimicking birds and that was why there was so much failure. It was not until they let go of mimicking birds and took a different approach that they found success.
For YouTube and TikTok at least, a "creator middle class" isn't possible. People become popular on these platforms not so much for what they do but how they look.

Pokimane, for instance, doesn't have 6 million subscribers because she plays video games. She has 6 million subscribers because people find her attractive. The content she produces is incidental.

As long as the content produced involves the creators themselves, the most attractive people are going to bubble towards the top and take the largest slices of the creator pie, and that can't be changed.
At the of the day how it is received is down to the individual. Our family is healthy and we've all kept our jobs and none of us are suffering any form of hardship. Lockdown was temporary.

Some people have lost businesses, jobs or careers and they're going to be less happy about that.

From my day to day perspective my life is very normal. I remember the level of background anxiety grew rapidly the more it spread into the community in the initial outbreak. The second and third waves around the world look increasingly terrifying.

I'm calm. Im at peace. That suits me perfectly.
> In the EU, I suspect most developers have very little savings and plan to just work until old age and state pension kicks in.

This is also true of developers in the US. The number of lucky ones who can retire significantly early is a tiny fraction of the market — but companies have very successfully used those dreams to get lots of free overtime from people who didn’t notice where most of the money ends up. FAANG developers do well but even there early retirement is not a reliable plan.
Again, I totally understand this. What I don't understand is the huge price difference.
Agreed - there was an old thread on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24438641

Basically if you're in college and reading this on HN don't listen to HN comments that discount equity or value it at zero.

Know that it's hard to value, but that isn't the same as zero. It could be worth millions, it could be worth nothing, it could be worth somewhere in between.

There are lots of angel investors in the bay area because of exits that netted them 2-5M or higher ($10-20M) as regular employees. This feedback loop is part of the reason the bay area generates so many companies.

It's a bet like anything else, try and judge what kind of people the founders are and how solid the business is. Learn about ISOs and what questions to ask/how the basics work (things like the linked article here). It's an investment - owning equity in a good company is the quickest way to get real wealth if you don't already have a lot of money.

Ignore a lot of the people that make over-confident statements about it being worthless, consider the risk, value the company and founders, decide for yourself.

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Today Stripe seems like a good choice to get a good equity return as an employee on IPO, Roblox and Robinhood are others. It's not obvious how things will turn out, but it's not impossible to make a good guess.
Agreed. I think the PS4 Pro and equivalent Xbox model really muddied the water when it came to the newest consoles, especially since both the PS5 and related Xbox version are at least backward compatible with the previous gen.

Target PC, make a version for the latest console gen.
There was a empirical trail in Denmark. The difference between infection ratio and wearing a mask vs the control group was not significant.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

Infection with SARS-CoV-2 occurred in 42 participants recommended masks (1.8%) and 53 control participants (2.1%). The between-group difference was −0.3 percentage point (95% CI, −1.2 to 0.4 percentage point; P = 0.38) (odds ratio, 0.82 [CI, 0.54 to 1.23]; P = 0.33). Multiple imputation accounting for loss to follow-up yielded similar results. Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection.
Is it possible to try to decode the signal we’ve received so far? Could there be information in it?
Apple is also the company that decides that 'x port' is the new greatest thing ever and drops support for previous ports
Same here. Two other huge games for me were H.E.R.O. [1] and Dropzone [2] (the latter a re-imagining of Defender), both of which have a lot in common with Fort Apocalypse.

Both are still extremely playable. Dropzone in particular has some great graphics for its time. It was made by Archer Maclean, who's more known for International Karate/International Karate+, which I also played incessantly as a kid.

Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, and Pitfall 2 also come to mind as examples of classic early platformers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpzN0fagzi8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSJ5Iuv-0gU

> At the start of the pandemic, a friend gave me all of his old Atari 2600 carts. A couple of weeks ago I finally got around to trying Miniature Golf. The graphics are terrible by any post-1982 standard, and the hand-drawn screenshots in the paper catalogs of yesteryear made it look worse, so hardly anyone bought it. But it's actually a pretty good game. You can sit down with and play for several hours while relaxing, instead of gnashing your teeth and swearing at other players.
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> But I imagine it will end up like most platforms for content, yielding to superstar economics and a race to the bottom for everyone else whose work has become commoditized and faces unyielding competition for attention.

With 700k creators earning a cumulative total of 700m, and a few of them earning hundreds of thousands or even millions, it sounds like it already has.
Isn't that mostly because all the RISC's either killed themselves or got killed, rather than ARM outcompeting as per se?

With the Alpha especially, it was a good architecture but (before my time, so I may be wrong) DEC seemed to have no idea how to actually sell it sustainably. Those companies probably would've been shocked at the idea of today's world where your average consumer can buy 20 billion transistor chip just to play games on and everyone owns about 10 other smaller processors (as opposed to a computer being a thing you either bought for your family, or a massive workstation that costs as much as a car)
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How much of it is genius and how much of it is just an amazingly productive work ethic?

Or maybe it requires genius to be this productive?

I'm just amazed at what some people are able to build. Especially open source. Does he make money from ffmpeg? Or just do it as a side gig?

Reminds me of the photopea guy. He has basically built a browser based clone of photoshop. Something that took Adobe thousands of engineers and decades to build up over time.
More than 4000 Amazon employees are on food stamps
> JS as the extension language

Just to reinforce why it is a bad decision. One of the selling points of JS is that vast amount of libraries available to you. But in GNOME's case they use spider-monkey as their JS engine, which means that although JS is the extension language not using node means _no_ npm (or node APIs like the fs module)
That's not true. I've tried every setting (opt-out, manual, automatic) on every device and Apple essentially does it the same way regardless: repeated notifications to manually update.

Opt-out works the same as manual. The only difference between manual & auto is that auto will pre-download OS installers, but you still have to manually run the update.
You have to take into account their skills as soft. eng. relative to their skills as VCs for it to be true.

Maybe some are better at leading startups to success as soft. eng. and not so much as VCs.
Entangled Photons Created 100 Times More Efficiently Than Previously Possible
Be able to code better than God.

Then give God's code a review.
Complex is a boon in this case, is it not? It -can- do everything. You need to invest some time into understanding it. There’s no fancy UI, no modern branding. It’s a work horse. It’s so powerful, I love it! Amazing piece of software.
How sad it makes me that this site requires js and new browser to view... It would have been so easy to make it compatible in the spirit of the web.
I have a lot of doubts this will ever happen. If I'm not mistaken, the relative open-ness of modern PCs (being able to build a gaming pc for example) is basically an accident. It would be nice to have some regulation backing it up, too.
> It’s fine.

> Some people reading this probably have processor-intensive tasks they routinely perform. But most of us don’t, even developers.

I stick to newer systems. For me, sluggish IDEs and slow builds are disruptive to my workflow. I can usually either resell or gift my older still useful systems.
Here: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~charley/papers/DavisLineweaver04....

The weirdest part is that there are photons that are currently receding away from us faster than the speed of light but they will still be able to reach us eventually anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_cascade
Also don't be afraid to insist on learning the current valuation and anticipated future valuation from stakeholders if they are trying to give you an equity grant. You have a right to know!
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>You can't get the Happy Meal toy without paying for the burger and fries.

I'm sure your general point stands, but you absolutely can. And in San Francisco, you technically can only buy the toy separately, though for much cheaper when paired with the meal.
Please note that I have limited experience with domains where Event Sourcing is without a doubt the weapon of choice. Hope my input still helps. Maybe there are other people that can give more qualified input on that. In the end, I am not trying to advocate for the pattern.

The project was about building a SaaS for structured meetings, both for on-site and remote use. It involved topical areas such as collaboration, moderation and presentation. The model defined that every meeting consists of six steps, where each is facilitated with one specific method (out of multiple). There were also additional functionalities such as a collaborative whiteboard and audio/video communication.

I briefly mentioned this in another comment: With regard to software architecture and pattern use, the project is a negative example. CQRS and Event Sourcing was prescribed on a system level. Regardless of conceptual/technological boundaries, every part made use of it. This decision was by no means reinforced with domain- or business-specific arguments. However, for us as developers, it was a great learning opportunity.

In terms of significant benefits for specific contexts, I can only think of the whiteboard part. However, even for that, it is about a feature we never got to implement. At some point, we wanted to add a "Undo" functionality. With Event Sourcing, you can simply append events that represent the reversal of previously persisted state transitions.

Independent of domain-specific aspects, I experienced three universal benefits. I hate to say it, but one was in fact reporting. Another benefit is the increased possibility to solve concurrency conflicts in a domain-specific way. Third, an event-sourced service is an ideal foundation for sending notifications, such as when publishing Domain Events. In the project, it helped us to build a real-time reactive User Interface. Of course, I'm not saying you necessarily need Event Sourcing for that.
> ...are largely same group of people who ultimately led to Nokias downfall.

I think the people who ultimately led to Nokias downfall worked at 1 Infinite Loop where the iPhone was developed. Prior to the iPhone, Symbian was the dominant "smartphone" OS in Europe, or at least competitive with Blackberry, but the carriers shut Nokia out of the high-end phone market in America. I think Elop's strategy was to win over the American carriers/market but the strategy backfired and accelerated the exodus to iPhone/Android in Europe while not gaining a foothold elsewhere.

Apple left the door open for one or more alternative smartphone vendors. Nokia and Blackberry dropped the ball and Google filled the gap with Android that Verizon marketed splendidly. I'm not sure if Elop's strategy could ever have worked but it certainly had no chance when both Nokia's employees and customer base resented the approach.

I have not read the book so I'm not sure if my views mesh with what was written there.
I thought it only rotates when it's Wangernumb?