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SQL is pretty successful as a DSL which was intended for non programmers. XML,HTML,CSS are also successful. YAML/JSON/... based configurations are also used in a lot of apps.

And then there are LISP dialects, which in theory are the best tool to build any kind of DSL quickly, but I have never seen them used in production anywhere I worked, and it doesn't look like end users would find it easy to work with.

How many of you had to develop a DSL from scratch for end users and domain experts? How did it go? Did end users actually ended up using it and were they satisfied with the syntax?
I miss the y2k aesthetic, it was interesting and hopeful and weird. Right now all of our future leaning things feel more like despair than hope (cyberpunk as a genre is full of things to be avoided not things to hope for).
https://wakatime.com/login uses https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3 for this and it's worked well so far.
>Would a crash be sufficient to cause a sudden aerosolization of the lng?

Well yes, but actually no.

You can't get a freight train up to the kind of speed you need to create an "instantly dump the contents of the pressure vessel" type crash without creating a "slowly vent the contents out" type crash first.

You would need to use a bomb to rupture a pressure vessel to get the kind of fuel/air mix you need for an explosion or fireball. Fuel-air explosives operate in this manner. But they are devices with countless engineering man-hours spent making them actually work and fairly precise manufacturing.
Parking ye ol' Winnebago (or Penske, if you're a history buff) beside the tracks and waiting for the train to go by is not going to be a very productive approach. Look at people blowing up propane tanks on YouTube. At best they get a fireball.

I'd much rather have nat-gas wafting up and away rather than crude oil, propane, or some other volatile that sits at ground level.
Seems reminiscent of the Baird television with the mechanical Nipkow disc. Is there any tech on the horizon that can replace this in the same way tubes beat out the mechanical TV?
Yeah they were slow and had limitations but on the other hand G3 iMacs were the cheapest DV-video-editing setups for schools and other lowend usage. Editing with them felt really good compared to some P3/K6 PCs I and my friend had. And of course the editing experience was a lot more easier with iMovie than with some ~~pirated~~loaned Premiere.
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For certain populations of data and authors, it's true that centralization aids in discovery, distribution, discourse, maintenance, etc.

Unfortunately many of these channels are hooked up to hyper-growth valuation needs and this necessitates volume over quality.

Look at Quora, Pinterest, Medium, and LinkedIn. And I haven't even mentioned the biggest offenders.

I don't think I'm better served in 2020 than I was in 2008.
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Well (heh), I think so, but I've also been participating there for 20+ years. It's not as active as it once was.
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The impact of the iMac is indisputably greater than all previous attempts at multimedia PCs. The iMac, and then iTunes, was instrumental to the digital music revolution.
What exactly are you looking to learn that youtube is not showing you?

The basic concepts of Big O should be well explained on YouTube. If you are looking at calculating time complexity for larger program flows, then you need to learn about mapping the process flow, figure out the complexity of each piece of that process and how it is invoked, then create an algebraic representation of that information.
I really do wish I could fix typos here.
Damnit you got here 4 hours before I did! Well played.

Maybe it's just a computer for really, really, ridiculously good looking people.
You can avoid the airlines that fly the Max altogether. Unfortunately it looks like Delta is the only major US airline that does not own any. Spirit and JetBlue also do not have any. United, American, and Southwest all operate the Max. I would avoid those airlines for routes that could be serviced by the Max.
Ask HN: Do you overclock your personal computer?
I'm reading and watching hardware reviews as I'm planning to upgrade my PC. The youtube reviews keep bringing up overclocking, cooling methods and motherboards. You might think half PC owners do it. But I see relatively little overclocking discussion on HN, mostly like speedrunners, for sport. Such and such overclocked a new CPU or GPU to X or Y.

My impression is that for the trouble you get buying better coolers and motherboards and finding stable configurations by trial and error you may as well spend that extra money on a more powerful CPU or GPU and run it at stock speeds. You gain a couple of percent, and while your CPU might not die before you replace it it does increase power consumption (so: money) a lot. So, a sneaky option if you aren't the one paying the electricity bills. And your computer might crash more often. When I buy PC parts, I tend to stick to certain power ranges, for example 65W CPU. Also, not all faults are fatal for hardware and silent faults might cause data corruption.

Do you overclock any of your home computer components? What are your reasons?

Do any of you overclock workplace computers?
I had the same reaction. Stow was first released (v>1.0) in 1996, git in 2013. Yet git is the old-fashioned choice? hahah.
Cute. No, I just heard about their intolerance and veer slightly to the right to a different brand when facing the shelf. Not exhausting at all.

Similarly I quit going to Chick Fil A. At first I'd just ask the clerk "Is this a hateful message day? I don't want to be seen as endorsing your company's hateful message." But the poor clerk didn't know how to answer, so I just walk to another shop (next door) instead. Again, no effort.
The problem isn’t a train with a single car of LNG, it’s a derailment of a train carrying mostly LNG. Trains of Oil, LNG, or other flammable liquid can become a major hazard in ways that a train full of say lumber isn’t.

Forty-two people were confirmed dead, with five more missing and presumed dead.[3] More than 30 buildings in the town's centre, roughly half of the downtown area, were destroyed,[2][4] and all but three of the thirty-nine remaining downtown buildings had to be demolished due to petroleum contamination of the townsite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-Mégantic_rail_disaster
Or maybe it's just some designer fiddling with screen real-estate and negative space.
Yes, it's true that at some point I have to stick with a tech I don't like. In general I don't mind doing that. At the end of the day I work for money. The question I'm asking myself is at which point that might be.
Sadly when interviewing I'm not in the position to point out architectural pain points. It feels impossible to argue against k8s. Every time I tried that I get some unreflected cargo cult answer. The people I interview with already invested in k8s so it seems pointless to indicate that there are some massive downsides.
My dad had 300Mhz beige G3 tower and it was always rock solid. Of course Photoshop and Pagemaker were a bit crashy apps...
If bitcoin is still in circulation, then proving is easy. If it is a relic, and something of interesting collectible nature, then it would be like proving your tablet IOU from the BC times is legit.

But in any case, most users have a hard time understanding cryptocurrency systems. Thus, it would be very easy to provide bogus info which looks convincing to a layperson. And because fakes would be common, it would take extra care to _really_ prove your collection is real.
The real question is why aren't they allowed to build more housing? I mean come on. All the profitable activities are basically banned. Building housing gets banned. Although I am in favor of environmental laws they basically ban certain profitable activities which now have to be done abroad.

To be honest all that excess of money should be invested into renewables. No country can have too much renewables because they are low maintenance. The excess energy can be used to create more profitable employment opportunities.
I remember writing stuff in Delphi 6 and making GUI resize correctly wasn't particularly convenient.

On the other hand Qt3-era QtDesigner was great at everything Delphi was good at and much better at layouts.
> LXD does not provide security for that case.
> (unprivileged containers do have some sort of security measure related to this by mapping the uid 0 inside the container to one that is not privileged outside the container)

it is what at least I need, it works with SW I was required to install

> X is not designed with security in mind
I considered risk, I understand that there are still vulnerabilities like some software can read keyboard input from other windows, but I take this risk. BTW, for full isolation I have seen that people start a new X.org session as well.
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I think that the code I'm looking at took things that could have been internal state, and pushed them out to external state, and, ironically, ended up making them more hidden and opaque in the process.

And I think that certain classes of old-school Java programs - specifically, the ones that use toolkits like Hibernate - have evolved a typical pattern for modeling external state that makes it relatively more navigable. The state tends to get proxied through these entity object horcruxes that aren't particularly well camouflaged.
You dodged the question. A security of what?
And yes they do that that right IF there is a security of some sort being sold OR IF there is a contract that implies some sort of security like benefits OF IF there is fraudulent promises being made like promised RoI or voting rights or something.

If you just sell something physically created or digitally created that you legally own and the other party agreed on the price and possible other agreements then this is not in the scope of the SEC.

We dont know the agreements ripple made but there has defensively been a price both sides agreed on and sell restrictions that prevented the buyers from crashing the market.
Non of that promises returns, special right or ownership of something else than the XRPs. There is also no allegation of fraud or fraudulent behavior so no sign of misleading statements or promises that where made.
The whole think boils down to that the SEC says the XRP sold with a contract where securities because of the contract alone. Something like that never happens.
Its not even possible that some XRPs are securities while other are not.

With ETH its a bit different it was retroactively declared as a security at the ICO which never held up in court because it was never challenged by anyone.
Its quite obvious they did this to stop the ICO scams but did not sue anyone so this statement would not be challenged.

Yet if XRP was once a security they would consequently call out the free giveaways and the XRP sold without contracts and even the XRPs that where gifted to ripple.
After all gifted securities would still have to be registered. Non of that is the case because they cant make up any real reason why 100Bn worthless digital nothings gifted to a companies could ever become a security of something or even of that companies.
It just makes no sense at all. So instead they attacked the contracts alone.
But you can't demonstrate it to be untrue by picking specifically crafted examples (which, BTW, are simple not because of any advancements Brooks was talking about in PL design and programming methodology, but due to hardware improvements and availability of OTS components). You could only demonstrate that by showing that most of the effort in software at large is of this kind, and that the improvement is due to language design and/or programming methodology.

When distilled, Brooks's claim is that the relative size of accidental complexity in programming overall is (or was) "low", i.e. less than 90%, while Dan wants to claim it is (or was) "high", i.e. more than 90%. His experiment does not establish that.
I got a weird vibe too.
No, when I was checking out I think. I knew before I paid what the plane was.
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Politicians should consult with experts. They almost never actually do. We shouldn't tolerate this. And yet, we always will.
Door handles should not retract at all. Anything that retracts comes with a risk that they get jammed in a retracted position due to rust, dust, debris in the mechanism, maybe heat, etc. Even if it's not jammed much, it's hard to get leverage on a flush surface, especially when you're panicked.

I just can't see that risk being possibly worth a small aerodynamic efficiency gain.
Heh, I started to learn Computer Science on Windows, then tried Linux and no way to be back to Windows if it is not required by a job or some tasks, like video editing.
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sexual/romantic partners though. if youre living in a shitty apt with a 200 dollar phone, good luck getting interest from potential partners.

whereas the king was swimming in booty, and at the end of it all, that's what moves most of us mostly.

id argue few ppl really want a lambo for the engineering of it as a machine, they just want to be seen riding in it. 500 years ago a lambo was a fancy horse drawn carriage.
Did I miss it or did the author not say how much he made on his trades? I think bitcoin is nonsense but without knowing how much he made, this reads like "do as I say, not as I do"...
The "dorm for adults" concept has been tried like 100 times by different startups and companies, always flops.
Natural gas is lighter than air.

Any such aerosolization would rapidly go up into the sky.

It would make a fire, but not a disaster.
Seems taken from wikipedia (an earlier redaction probably). Today wikipedia says “ S/MIME functionality is built into the majority of modern email software and interoperates between them. Since it is built on CMS, MIME can also hold an advanced electronic signature”, which is the same as in the OP but without NS/Outlook, etc.
Could be N correct approaches, but I guarantee you that for any set of criteria you devise, some group will come out of the woodwork and shout that it's Wrong. And you need testable criteria set by some central authority to determine whether someone learned the information from training course correctly - otherwise the whole course will turn into one big waste of time as it scales to large amount of training facilities.
They are. I’ve been geotagging 100 arts locations in Somerville ma for a decade.

A volunteer who likes to bike checks out the locations. There used to be some that were quite off, now it’s really spot on.
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> Boeing can’t seem to help itself from disaster

It obviously can. As long as it has regulators and legislators on a leash all this will always just be the cost of doing business.
It's unlikely that a hundred trucks will all crash at the same time in the same place.
Maybe they were referring to Prince Andrew's alibi of being at a Pizza Express in Woking, UK? Which has nothing to do with "Pizzagate".
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But it looks like if the CIA is following you you will be asked routine questions at the border.
I honestly don’t even know what generation you’re assuming I’m from and referring to. Is this supposed to be something old people don’t understand? Or young people?

Of course you can have standalone jokes, but “I’m six years old” is not one.
>In Polish "rower" means "a bicycle" because british company Rover sold them here first

Wait really?! I'm learning Polish and I was wondering about this.
Thx for the comment.

The story is still more complex than this. Basically Malma had a few credits already, then Pekao proposed a unifying credit + to help with the IPO as a way to get funds for expansion, but the IPO never happened.

Perhaps the timing of all those things was bad and company was too ambitious with expansion plans. But there are a few details about the bank behavior that feel off. If the company was in hopeless situation, why the bank offered the credit at all? I guess we'll never know all the accurate details.
I think the "New Deal" and taxes that were going with it, while flawed at the time, gave the US the basis to become the 1rst power in the world, and made most americana, even poor ones, better. Because infrastructure is for everyone.

Financed by taxes or by inflation, i don't care, but if one thing can be learn from USSR and now China, is that central planing is shit in most situation, but when its working (with infrastructure and networks) its a big net positive.
IMO a big reason why there is a decline in DSLs could be attributed to de-priotization of teaching compilers in Universities. There are certainly grad level courses, but (my university as an example) did not have an undergrad level compiler course, not even introduction to.

I think if you rekindle interests in compiler for people, you will simultaneously increase the likelihood of DSLs being used to solve problems.
13 Minutes to the Moon was my favorite podcast I ever listened to. I think most here will be utterly captivated.
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But we're supposed to prolong the temporary overreach of government power! /s
Well, it is actually bike path. I can't talk about whole road, but at the leg through the Czech republic is actually well marked on each intersection.

Here is a map I found: https://en.eurovelo.com/ev9 This route actually didn't end at Venice as it suppose to end (and didn't pass through the Baltic states), but it is nice overview.
...and once the pandemic is over and I start flying again, I'm going to fly exclusively with Spirit from now on.
This looks promising. An extension or bookmark let is critical for adoption as it’s the easiest way to get bookmarks into the system.

I would recommend trying out www.diigo.net to see how well their bookmarklet and extension works. It really is a game changer to get many more links into the system, combined with the ability to annotate individual sentences.
Thanks, that looks interesting. AFAICT it only covers the editor/IDE parts, though, and that's not even close to "most" of what I mentioned. How does it help create linters and checkers? How does it ease integration with debuggers and build systems? Plus, you have to use JetBrains to get even that. Nothing against JetBrains, but that's not going to help at most companies which have already settled on other tools. It looks like a slightly easier way to create the core part of a DSL, but I'm not sure that solves the problem of the result being an "alien" thing that other developers will develop distaste for.
I was thinking of mentioning the same thing. For me I think it is that the internal paragraphs are about the same size as the breaks between comments. Also I like the way that the Original Hacker News uses grey for the user name and dark for the comment, that provides more differentiation between comments. Also, using bold for user names attracts my attention to the least important part.

To give a positive comment, long comments are easier to read on this version.
As mentioned later in the article, the offending requirement likely isn’t a safety thing, but a 1940s era protectionist thing.
That's probably because you don't realize that the speaker is Andy Müller-Maguhn and don't know the history and activities of CCC very well.
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Natural Gas is lighter than air, not much would have happened.

The LNG would vaporize, rise into the air and there would be a short lived fire.

If you read the damage description it's mostly due to petroleum contamination and fire. None of that would happen with LNG.
The games you're showing have nothing special, it's just good lighting / textures off market. There is nothing complicated to display, almost no entitites, very small maps etc ...
I also remember Microsoft being involved in TerraServer pre-2000. Loading up satellite photos of my house on dial-up is an early internet memory that will stick with me forever.
Yeah that was a bit of a head scratcher to me as well- I consider myself to be quite "green" in my political views, and I could not really grasp why this was picked up as an issue to champion for environmental rights- and why it even became such a political football. Pipelines are far superior in just about every way, and cheaper to boot- there isn't even a cost component like there is against the argument for nuclear (another head scratching issue to me).

It's one thing to make a case that this is infringing on their property rights, and that may have been a true and valid concern, but for it to get coopted as an environmental cause, was just strange and made environmental advocacy as a whole look bad IMHO.
External storage per domain is not so conviniet. Time to reboot + USB3 cable doesn't work good to me. Probably, I can consider SD storage. BTW, if we talk about multiboot, I am ok with a few encrypted partitions on internal storage.
And what about countries such as Iran? Somehow I prefer a world with lots of space junk over a world in which the US effectively controls who gets access to space.

I honestly can't imagine an international organization that is fair in the least in allocation of space trajectories. See the UN, WTO, WHO, the Worldbank... No thanks.
Cool.

WorkBoy has a phone book with a phone dialer (you’d hold the speaker to the phone and dial using touch tones).

I’m curious if anyone has tried to create a GameBoy Phreaker Cartridge with Redbox / Bluebox tones.
Shouldn't experts be more politically active?
You get real differences of scale which makes smaller models inconsistent with what happens in a train derailment. Lac-Mégantic rail disaster for example had some serious explosions from oil.
> I used to be a big WikiLeaks supporter but these days are long gone.

Then you've been duped. The prosecution of Assange is based on his work with Chelsea Manning on US war crimes in Iraq.

But if the lives of poor brown people far away are not as important as cheap partizanship then the CIA can make you believe anything.

Not to mention the fact HRC called for the assassination of Assange and his treatment has been characterized by the UN as torture. I presume you're OK with torture too as long as you think it serves your club?
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> The majority of nodes on local networks only ever need to connect _out_ to the external network, they don't need incoming connections.

And that's how we can't transfer large files from one computer to another, and why audio and video calls over the internet are only done through well founded companies, so there's nearly no competition.
So an ad hominem attack is legit argument nowadays. Got it.

>Invest in yourself and others you believe in. A financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won't change the world for the better

If we're going to get into bad philosphy, this is pretty much the creme de la creme of bad philosophies.. that so-called "greed" is bad. That self-interest is somehow bad, that we should just all invest in other people and the world will be a better place. We'll all sing in perfect harmony. I don't buy it.

The world is full of bad actors, incompetency and smart people making bad decisions. I can't really dictate how you should behave, but I can always act in my best interest. If that means getting rich, I'm going to have plenty of competition.