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MF DOOM brought me and so many others joy over a long and mind-blowing career. He had a varied set of collaborators, and just so many artistic achievements. So much of his work is now seminal in underground hip-hop (Madvillainy, Operation Doomsday, King Geedorah are just the first to come my to mind). It’s hard to overstate the impact he had with his meticulously constructed rhyme schemes and lyrics, and his unique tone and artistry in production. I also greatly appreciated the humor and liveliness he brought to his work.

I have to admit that this was really hard for me to process at first, and it will probably be that way for a while. I think this is the first time an artist I love so much has passed away. His music buoyed me through hard times and gave color to happy times.

Best wishes to his family, and those who knew him and worked with him closely. Undoubtedly he has left a beautiful and inscrutable mark on this world, and the world is better for it.
What could possibly cause it not to work?
For those wondering why: subpixel rendering requires knowing the subpixel layout of the display. It’s something your OS knows, but your web browser doesn’t tell the website.
At Ad Hoc, we have a version of this that expands on the USDS one with our own experiences and opinions: https://www.adhocteam.us/playbook/

If you want to make change in the government, and don't want to become a federal employee, being a contractor is an alternative that you might consider: https://www.adhocteam.us/join/

It can be frustrating work, but it can also be enormously satisfying; I've been doing it now for ~6 years. Feel free to ask me questions if you want, I'm not a recruiter, just an engineer that's been building government products for a few years and trying to improve how they get built.
they gave a credible theory to back it up though.
I was making analog synthesizers as a hobby back in the 80s while studying in the University.

For this kind of circuitry I would reduce temperature drift by enclosing it into a heated thermostat kept well above room temperature. This way after initial warm up period there is very little drift.
Yeah. Messing around with silly things like that breaking the game is what I remember most about it. It didn't really stop me from playing the game normally, it was just something you played around with to make crazy stuff happen. I probably spent more time playing games legit than using the game genie. It was fun, but the novelty wore off after a while.
Hm, joke piece apparently. And I’m not even sure it’s well deserved. I get that k8s and night have been overused but its hype is not completely undeserved, a lot of people have done amazing work on and around it.

That been said, I’d honestly love an os based on k8s’ principles. Manage apps, configs, secrets, storage, peripherals using config files? Sign me up for the alpha release please.
I guess marketers want to find all those interesting categories of people who can tell them early whether something is going to work or not. This category just happens to be the ones who always get it wrong. The other category is the "trendsetters" those hipsters who get on something (correctly) before everyone else does.
From the context, it's probably questions.

Creating and generating good questions and answers is a skill. Too vague, you don't know if your answer is incorrect or not. If your answer require too much, you're never going to get the answer right, and so forth.
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That vaccine might be harmful
It is, at a stretch, from a first person financial perspective, but I don’t think it’s even remotely functionally the same
The summers are now reaching 106F and above with 80% humidity. PLEASE stay in California, we don't want you here.

Austin is also horrendously not diverse and essentially still segregated.
Bitcoin is inflating, and will for 130 more years, though it is seeing increased adoption and is riding in price.

But in answer to your question,I’m glad you picked food fir your example— would you starve to hold onto your bitcoin?

Is your computer ten years old because next year better ones will come out? Or did you bite the bullet and upgrade because your time preference made it worthwhile?

It is true, deflation encourages savings, but that is the essence of capitalism, savings keeps people better able to avoid poverty in the event of a bad year, and capital accumulation makes you more able to do a startup and retain control.

Part of the reason there is so much VC money is inflation (VCs get new dollars cheap and carry trade through startups)with a hard currency like bitcoin the fotmula would be reversed, and founders would retain more ownership.
Like I said, people are bad at processing information, the article there isn't ambiguous, it talks about voter data and never about votes. It's sensationalized, but it's not hard to understand what it actually says either.

Voter rolls and campaign contributions aren't even maintained as sensitive information, the latter is published by the FEC, and most states more or less publish voter rolls. The Bloomberg article makes it sound like they tried to access/control the underlying storage, which would actually be problematic...
It's an interesting spin on the 1% of people actually post thing. How many people actually create, and create and share in general though. Since I got into art and sharing it people tell me they also create but don't share it online anywhere. People might want to participate but don't for whatever reason.

The internet does also give a equal megaphone to everyone. Actual crazy things can sound reasonable. The act if down and upvoting on reddit is also similar. 4 or 5 downvotes, which in reality is only 4 or 5 people can bury a thought, essentially censoring it and makes it seem more unpopular then it is. It was only unpopular to those 4 or 5 readers.
>>>>> There's no equivalent to the Dutch department store bikes that, if memory serves correctly, were cheap but simple, low-maintenance, and better outfitted for casual riding (fenders, a light, a lock).

Schwinn made such bikes for decades. Folks stopped buying them.
According to a seemingly verifiable cousin he died of an embolism. Man, is that shit.

https://old.reddit.com/user/Avinson1275/comments/
Unplanned reasoning mechanism for instance. Not something the AI was preprogrammed or biased into perceiving.
As far as I recall pinball had no micro transactions.

For what it's worth I always enjoyed the "stock" games like pinball, solitaire, freecell and minesweeper. But I liked them tucked away under the clear label of the games sub menu, and without any pressure to use them
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The problem is that the sites don't have feedback loops to the real world, just imaginary internet points. People who optimize for imaginary internet points are either ahead of the curve or insane, depending on how you look at it.
Don’t selectively quote. I said travel freely. We will need visas if we spend more than 90 days out of 180 in the EU
How about their bug tracking software, MS equivalent to Jira issue tracker (I assume they aren't using an outside product).

Do we know if they had access to their issue tracker? That would make it far easier to make zero-day exploits faster.
I'm a HUGE Nintendo fan. But non-violence? Just because it's cute doesn't make something non-violent. See Tom and Jerry cartoons.

Mario throws fire at enemies and burns them alive. How is that not violent? He stomps on their heads and squishes them into juice. He knocks them into lava and watches them melt. And let's not forget that most video game characters, including Miyamoto's loot and steal anything they can. Link walks into a building and empties every container he can.

> I also resist the idea that it’s O.K. to simply kill all monsters. Even monsters have a motive, and a reason for why they are the way they are.

He designed Zelda and Mario where all you do is kill every monster.

I love all those games but they aren't non-violent. They're just violence disguised in cute clothing.

Non-violent might include Animal Crossing, Pilotwings but certainly not ARMS where all you do is punch other people.
Hehe, it’s an interesting post so once every half a year i guess is fine :p
Happy NEW year!

Just another year :)...
https://youtu.be/3l9RXnILc0Y
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You haven't computed the effect of phishing on the fate of email.

At least 100M users have already seen intra-office email replaced with chatrooms. (Which, altho it solves the phishing issue, has created new productivity problems.)

TMTP doesn't have to replace SMTP overnight to be successful.

I'll leave it at that; thanks for the discussion!
I don’t know. Some people don’t like Sanderson. I love him. I still need to get around to finishing Wheel of Time just so I can get to his parts.

I really wasn’t crazy about Dune Messiah. It was just okay. The whole prescient man that can’t accept the future is changeable is so frustrating. The thought it got much better toward the end though. Children of Dune is great so far. His kids are the manifestation of the answer to all my grievances with Paul in DM. I think DM will be one of those books that’s good in retrospect when contextualized within the entire story. On it’s own, it’s pretty meh. It’s short though.

And Foundation is great!
Indeed, I ride both, and the complexity of dealing with the gearing is negligible.
Chalk it up to cool down time, so you don't over-exert your muscles!
Awesome to see someone actually using Flurly!
Of course you can short sell real estate. There is a famous motion picture about a group of people who did exactly that during the global financial crisis.

You don’t even need access to credit default swaps. REITs are publicly traded and can be shorted as easily as any stock.

If you are talking about price discovery of individual properties—-that stems more from the fact that property is generally illiquid and not fungible. Not from the fact that I can’t take a directional bet on the value of your specific house.
Shorting is based on fundamentals, but Tesla has not traded on fundamentals in years. Tesla stock is proof that the market can remain irrational for a very long time.

As for the evidence, simply read Tesla's SEC filings. The financial parts, not the marketing fluff.
> you can pay anywhere with US dollars

Huh? Maybe with a credit card that converts your usd to a local currency. I’d like to see you walk into a French or Japanese grocery store and offer them your freedom bucks
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Those are not incompatible. If anything it's the contrary, most of this change is towards mindless hedonism (and greed) in the name of the "Star Trek" future...
That tailing took place years ago. Nintendo has never been kind to anyone using their IP in ways they don't like. I love Nintendo, but there's no denying they can be very fierce and litigious.
FWIW, I'm a pretty dedicated HN reader and this is the first time I've seen it.
my sporting goods safe is the size of a full size fridge and weighs 1400 lbs
The crease in the seat leather? I don't think any non-luxury brand would bother with that.
I have implemented an interactive demo of this algorithm which can be found at https://nvartolomei.com/weighted-deterministic-aperture/. Make sure to click "Verbose state" spoiler.

Context: Earlier this year I explored using deterministic aperture for balancing writes/appends based on storage usage and implemented a visualization to help explain the algorithm to my colleagues.
Micro transactions do suck, and I wish the trend of them would just die, but that doesn’t make a game an ad. You also have a point of the games being tucked away with the option of bringing them out if you wanted. Microsoft should’ve done that.
Well, that's a different sort of time waster—they're trying to make the games more accessible. You can (and I would!) argue the approach is misguided, but it's not an attempt to optimize engagement metrics or some such.

It’s also an approach Nintendo has finally begun to avoid in the past few years, with games like Breath of the Wild.
I don't feel like this really changes much with competency due to Dunning Krugerand competency being a near limitless spectrum.

How many times have you come in to hacker news and read someone's complaint about x where "someone" is an expert with a decade of experience in the field only to have someone else chime in with the "well actually, I'm the creator of that project and..."
That would be a pointlike source.
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> Git couldn't be modified to work well with large files.

Apologies for the late response. Yes. I absolutely agree with that. The trick though is that when changes happen to a large file, what's the best way to do a diff? What if it's bzip2 or encrypted?

The other issue is that stagnant large files in your history need to be pruned. I'm not sure how to do that in git right now other than rewrite history.
> Rewriting it in C++ to magically solve problems. Good job, engineer.

Well it's a lot easier to make an app perform well in C++ than electron.

They should at least have for the VS Code team to help. That's one of the best performing Electron apps, it's strange MS never adopted those practices company wide.
I think there's a distinction to be made between a concept which can be violent and a violent depiction, specifically when said violence is depicted realistically. I think Miyamoto is referring to wish to avoid the latter.

You never see Mario's enemies burn, you watch them disappear in a puff of smoke. When enemies are jumped upon, they flatten in a cartoonish manner rather than a realistic. Even in Zelda, where some things can be genuinely gruesome to watch, enemies mainly flash red when they are hit rather than spew blood everywhere — and this is a series where most bosses are to be stabbed in the eye!

> They're just violence disguised in cute clothing

That's called cartoon violence. Yeah, it's still violence, but I don't think it's what Miyamoto was referring to.

For Miyamoto, his characters, his worlds, and even the enemies are all like players on a stage. They play their parts, including being the villains, and bowing out when their time is up. It's as they go off-stage, maybe to participate in a kart racer or a round of tennis.
Same. I was working on some personal projects that are not of a technical nature. There was a lot of information and discussions on the internet about it, but it was all incredibly wrong and written with great confidence by people who had zero authority on the topic. I ended up hiring professionals to help and I got my money's worth. My conclusion is the internet is mostly marketing and entertainment aside from a few very specific corners.
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One wonders, who is reading them, precisely?
I was worried it was larger than n^2. Thanks for clarifying.
> there's one huge one: It's slow. Really, really slow

This is spot on.

Its the same reason I hate Sharepoint - every implementation I've used was always incredibly slow, so I would only ever use it when my arm was forced.

I miss old school "legacy" style apps that cached stuff so moving around the app is quick.

Even simple apps like slack suck these days as it always takes a few seconds to move around windows, why the hell can't it cache things? IRC clients in the 90s did about the same amount of stuff and they never lagged swapping servers or channels.
A screenshot or photo would be helpful for people unfamiliar with the update.
The article has example prompts on its own content, served with the author's platform Orbit, I found these to be a useful (though meta) illustration of what he means by prompts.
I could not agree more. Findings like this in regards to first party content on the internet, in other words content written deliberately for consumption or gain of some kind - will always essentially trend toward a surface level and / or biased take. At least in terms of what you will find via most search engines.

This line of thinking I believe is one of the best cases to seek a college education instead of being self taught. The fallacy of "you can learn everything you could in college online" is quickly becoming more and more wrong. I hated college, I was bad at it, but I still value the time I spent working on hard things and having smart people provide a curated palette of application based knowledge. I know people who are self taught engineers, however by their own admission they're likely more focused or motivated than the average and acknowledge they likely closed the doors on many future opportunities given their lack of a degree.
So you're making an assertion about something that the human mind cannot comprehend. Nice contradiction + random dig at people to make yourself feel superior.
Now you're the one misrepresenting him. We can have society without a school system that abuses kids, and for that matter, a prison system that's much less abusive as well.
Prompts is a piece of jargon, unfortunately confusing but crucial to anyone trying to memorize anything using an SRS. A prompt could take the form “What is a X” or be a blank “the dog ____ over the log” or just be a foreign word like 中国. So in some ways its a more general concept than a “question” but calling it the front side of a flashcard is probably clearer.
For goodness sake, take some damn profit! Sell 15%, 30%, or 50% -- whatever you want. It will be good for you and you will feel better after you do it :) It's good mental training to be able to sell a piece of your holdings.

You will still have skin in the game. You can still still keep tabs on new developments. But you will also have a more balanced portfolio.
In the long run, it may not make much difference, but I suspect there will be an economically rough transition.

But honestly, I’m not an economist and haven’t read a great deal about the projections. And many Brits will accept any difficulties in exchange for increased control over their own political destiny.
On the other hand, the Nexo is storing a much larger amount of energy. At 6.3 kg of hydrogen and at 33.3 kWh of usable energy per kg, that's 209.8 kWh. The Y only stores 75 kWh in comparison.

Fuel cells are around 60% efficient today. The system efficiency is probably around 55%. This is a number that will increase as fuel cells get more efficient. I believe the gap will eventually close altogether, or at least shrink greatly.
I’ve read some content produced by schizophrenic people. It’s pretty obvious. I would say that those mega comment guys are as insane as writer or artist. 99.9% of people don’t write books or pictures.
Unrelated, but the missing space between Kruger and "and" had me go down the rabbit hole of trying to piece together what your comment had to do with Bitcoin. Dunning-Krugerrand is used in certain circles to refer to the crypto coin, in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek fashion.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32508375/apple-live-phot... gives some of the details.
Just to give a bit of context, I've been programming for almost 30 years, using many different languages. I've worked on many things, but of particular relevance I was part of a small team for several years which amongst other things had a 100kloc Python project that I did significant work on. I continue to use Python for all sorts of smaller projects, and for the most part enjoy it a lot. I've worked on large C++ code bases for years as well, and many of the usual suspects.

To take the most subjective part first, for me, I just find implicit blocks much harder to parse than with explicit start/stop symbols/keywords. My eyes and brain just seem to have an easier time identifying the explicit blocks. It's like writing sentences without using a period to end them, but just three spaces say.

Yes it's a bit more verbose, but I find it really helps readability for me. This of course might very well be the way my brain works, or the way my brain learned to work as a result of my first programming experiences, hence being subjective.

A bit more objectively, in my experience it seems easier for myself and others to make mistakes at the end of implicit blocks, either having a line indented that shouldn't be or vice versa. It is my experience that with explicit blocks those faults tend to stick out like a sore thumb.

I even have an add-on for my current IDE which, amongst other issues, complains loudly about that. If the language had had implicit blocks it couldn't really do that to the same degree.

I also find explicit blocks is easier to use with tools, especially when diffing. When using a language with explicit blocks I can enable the ignore whitespace feature of the diff tool and if say an outer "if" was added, you get about two lines that changed. With implicit blocks all the lines of the block change, so you got to scan through them to make sure no "real" changes were made. I tended to spend a lot longer on non-trivial Python merges compared to say C++ due to this.

I've also had the misfortune to have to edit Python code using only simple tools, without any Python-magic or similar. It's a royal pain if you have to copy/paste code around.

But yeah, I accept it mostly boils down to preference. I mean clearly there are some more objective metrics, but how you weigh those will be subjective so, yeah...
> I don’t see why this is controversial. Video is content. Google has always shown content from other sites

No, Google have never promoted video from other sites, only youtube. And they got away with it because to most users, video is youtube indeed.

Now that they have competition, that youtube cannot compete, they decided to give in and finally show video on their searches. And that is shocking everyone in this thread.

Google is a monopoly worse than microsoft.
> I suspect will eventually equal batteries on efficiency too (fuel cells are technically batteries themselves).

Fuel cell vehicles also use batteries. The fuel cell charges the batteries, and the batteries power electric motors. So it's impossible for a fuel cell vehicle to be more efficient than a battery-electric vehicle.

Not to mention the massive losses generating the hydrogen, during electrolysis and compression.
So what they would have been created anyways. It’s satya’s business mind in propelling Microsoft’s business that made it a huge success, something ballmer was failing to do
Damn right, I still miss Infoman for change management, you could just type ahead with command line interface to do everything if it was under load.

Now everyone uses service now with 50 unnecessary subtickets and multi second delays moving around the web interface.
what happened exactly?
Agreed, clearly a selection effect going on, not just in long content-filled opinions/articles, but also comments, even here on HN.

Use caution and don't take the average commenter to represent reasonable consensus opinion -- in either how you think you should feel about your own opinion, or what you think others think. You have to have your own external sense of what's reasonable or not, tested by multiple sources.

People who are opinionated here are generally outliers on the spectrum. (particularly on non-technical opinions about public policies) Those who feel strongly enough to take the time to write may not represent the mainstream.
"My Wrongs 8245–8249 & 117" is weirder than Brass Eye. And brilliant.
Breaking updates are not frequent, there's never been a breaking update on the ethereum blockchain.

Bitcoin changes all the time (e.g., taproot)
It happened to me a couple of times this year. It was really annoying to go make coffee, and come back to an updating screen. Even better, one of these failed and spent another 30 minutes rolling back the update.
I haven't. Mac is still the best platform for web development. As a web developer, I'll be sticking with Mac for the near term.

That said, Windows is my daily driver for personal computing and side projects (including my own web dev projects). WSL is really great.