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I almost did but I tried something else and found the likely reason: the file name contained an "ä". Par2deep also fails when there's a CJK character in the filename. After removing these non-ascii characters it works. But this bug is going to cause problems for many people.

Edit: filed a bug report
Can anyone with experience in cyber security attest to the value of the recommendations given in the article? Are certificates really that important? Is the roadmap a good roadmap to follow if one wants to get into cyber security? Any other recommendations for a beginner?
> has never failed to start, even when left standing for 6 months due to CV19

Aren’t there other reasons beyond just the battery draining to start the car and drive it a bit at least once every few weeks?

I’ve been working from home but still take my car for a short drive every two weeks to avoid things like flat spots on my tires, fuel spoilage, seals and gaskets drying out and becoming brittle, etc.

For most cars if I left them sitting for a month or more I’d expect to jumpstart the battery and don’t think that’s totally unreasonable.
> They do care about sending messages over wifi if they’re somewhere without a cell signal. (OK, bit of a Canadian thing, but the cottage has wifi and no cell signal.)

That you have to explain why you might be without cell signal shows that you are blessed up there. Today I talked with someone a few miles outside of Frankfurt (Germany) - huge financial hub - and the line broke down almost 3 times due to bad signal...
This bot is a pure joy to play against! For a 1560 rated bot:

1. It brings out the queen early attacking the f7 pawn when black plays sicilian.
2. So far has gone king's indian almost every time against d4 (e.g. catalan) and then has failed to challenge the center, instead going for a king side attack (exchanging bishop for knight to try to open the B file.
3. It sometimes drops its queen in complex exchanges and hidden attacks.
4. It sometimes drops pieces in complex exchanges (can't count how many pieces are covering a square).
5. It will exploit mistakes that *I can see*, unlike stockfish level 7+ where it will take you down an insane convoluted path to get you into such a bind to destroy your position (I've played GMs who ?can't?/don't do in this blitz).
6. Its attacks are shallow and lack depth, easily defended.
7. It sometimes moves a single piece too many times when it should be trying to advance its positional game (e.g. queen/knight), basically has very little positional play.
8. It sometimes pushes pawns aggresively to its detriment.
9. Won't resign in losing positions (*lol*).
a. Will play to the bitter end to try to get you to stalemate.

Couple things that could make it more human:

1. Moves fast! I think it actually moves too fast, there needs to be a better delay factor added in depending on rating. If we could make it think for a longer than usual amount of time after it finishes development, in complex positions, or when it's close to mate or about to lose an exchange. Also make it speed up when its getting low on time.
2. Make it randomly rage quit in a losing position like an asshole instead of resigning so you have to wait for the quit/disconnect detection and then claim victory/draw countdown (I jest, I jest, but if we do this, please make it some sort of setting).
Thanks for your replies! I think you helped clarify your position. It's food for thought.
The Department of Energy maintains a large nuclear weapons establishment for "stockpile stewardship", so the US doesn't forget how to make nuclear weapons.[1] That already happened once with a material for fusion bombs called FOGBANK. The original manufacturing plant was shut down in 1989. In 2000, there was a demand for more FOGBANK, to refurbish old nuclear weapons. But attempts to make more of it failed. Attempts to make an alternative material failed. It took until 2008 to get production working again.

"The new production scientists noticed that certain problems in production resembled those noted by the original team. These problems were traced to a particular impurity in the final product that was required to meet quality standards. A root cause investigation showed that input materials were subject to cleaning processes that had not existed during the original production run. This cleaning removed a substance that generated the required impurity. With the implicit role of this substance finally understood, the production scientists can control output quality better than during the original run."

That's one way an institution forgets how to make something. There are other ways.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockpile_stewardship

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK
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Its drawback is poor performance but it’s ok for basic use — surfing the web, typing docs and notes. I almost got one in 2015 if I could code in it but I tested it and it was way too sluggish.

However a 12 inch MacBook M1 would be incredible.
Hey thanks for advice,
Do you use suggest any resources
It takes money to build up revenue and get new clients, this are typically called the "customer acquisition cost" or CAC.

The time it takes for a customer to pay back this initial CAC is called the "payback period" which can be 1 month or 10 years.
The longer the payback period is, the more investment you need to bridge the gap.
The business may be super-profitable from a unit-economic point of view, but from a cashflow point of view is a nightmare.

Businesses with long payback windows are very common, but if the theory is that a customer stays for 7 years and you are in the 3th year of your startup, you will have to convince investors that this is true which depending on the fashions of the year they will lean towards true or false.

That's one important point, the other point you mis is that fixed costs cannot be avoided and don't prove anything vs. the viability of your business.
A good example is accountancy costs, office costs and hardware for employees... it's a must to pay for these things but every business needs them but they don't generate revenue.

Pinching pennies is a very healthy habit because again, everybody wants you to spend money (on them).. that's everybody's business model.
Getting a client to spend money on you and getting enough of them to cover the variable and fixed costs is the real litmus test whether you have a viable business.

There are examples of irrational frugality that we can agree on like hiring a zoo of interns that then take up all your attention to manage and train but then immediately quit once they actually get some experience.

Another example is hiring 3 junior devs that can't match the output of 1 senior dev for a combined cost of 1.6 times the cost of the senior dev.

Either way, frugality is a good thing but obviously you need to make the money that you do spend count.
My wife teaches small children. 4 weeks after going back to in person she caught Covid.
Several of her students had tested positive.

Kids in her class were definitely what got her sick.

This was with intense mask and cleaning rules.
Can you suggest any high quality, free text to speech software? As an avid audiobook consumer, if the book is not available in audio, I won't read it, but there are some books that I'd like to read anyway.
Personally I think element has a ways to go before it reaches the user friendlyness of even skype, the worst of those three.

The iOS app is a the most confusing chat app I've tried, especially if you run your own identity server.
> The right direction according to who?

You are asking the right question, but it applies to your comment equally well.

> For 99% of users, org-mode, magit and a pure terminal interface are not hard requirements.

You are narrowly picking the set of users to suit your comment. For 99% of users, code completion, syntax highlighting, etc are not requirements either, because 99% of users do not program.

In retrospect, it should be obvious that Emacs users are heavily weighted towards using org mode, because that's part of Emacs's value proposition. It makes sense that most VSCode users do not need/want org mode, because otherwise they'd be using Emacs, and not VSCode.

In almost every thread about Emacs, I always find the comparisons with VSCode amusing, given that the two programs serve very different purposes. The bulk of my Emacs usage has nothing to do with coding, so I personally don't see the value of comparing it with VSCode, and pointing out that VSCode is better is sort of irrelevant. Of course, this being HN, there is a programming bias. But it's the equivalent of saying "mplayer sucks because it cannot do video editing as good as some video editing tool."[1] It's great that you have found a good video editing tool, but that tool doesn't do much of what I use mplayer for.

[1] mplayer has extremely rudimentary video editing capabilities,
Contemporary states (like current Germany) that provide healthcare typically do it through mandatory health insurance and we call it free healthcare. So I think it is ok to call it that in nazi case too to large extend.

I am 100% sure it was not joke about that, it was joke about holocaust.

The germans of jewish descent were not considered citizes in Germany, so anyway I doubt the above benefits fully applied to them anyway.
If they're transparent, why don't they expose their commits to server code to the public?
Not too long Scottrade (2 or 3 't'?) got bought by Ameritrade. All Scottrade accounts are now accessed exclusively under the new domain name.

Recently Ameritrade and Charles Schwab Corp. merged ...
the key is that it has to hit the limit for the maximum amount of trim that should ever reasonably need to be added before it is disabled for the remainder of the flight. If it hit the limit it is an indication to the control system that something isn't operating correctly and it should stop automatically operating the outputs (trim) based on the inputs (AOA) as it isn't having the anticipated effect and it should punt the problem to the human pilots.

Presumably there is some annunciation for both the function activating and also being disabled.
The comment in question was "stay safe homies nazis are about". Telling employees to stay safe is absolutely related to company business. Not having employees be killed by Nazis is absolutely an important part of product initiatives.
> Maybe by the time a civilization achieves the tech needed to really expand, they no longer want to.

Is that your candidate for the Great Filter?
Security is more interesting work than development for many.
Also, money and job security. At least from my experience, and intermediate Security Analyst will make about the same as a senior developer (Mid West market), and there does appear to be a much lower salary cap for developers than security engineers. In addition, Security seems to have far more available positions right now, as many corps are trying to 'catch up' and finally admit they need security.
Why do you have 9 factors? The classical Drake equation has 6 (and the L which is the avg. lifetime of the civilization).

Also: The Drake equation has one factor which is the avg number of planets per star, of which we are already quite confident it is above 0.1.
Exactly, SD card support would be largely meaningless as far as professional work is concerned.

My Sigma fp has to record 12-bit CinemaDNG to an external SSD (SD cards larger than 64 GB can’t maintain the required throughput and 64 GB is enough for probably minutes). I might use the SD recording capability if I take the camera for a leisure photowalk (as far from professional work as it gets); I keep reminding myself to simply get a Wi-Fi enabled SD card so that I never have to take it out.

A memory card format that might be a bit more relevant here is CFexpress; but then again, it’s unlikely that as a professional you’d ever use your laptop’s built-in reader for this as opposed to sticking it into a box that automatically copies everything onto a 4TB HDD while you fill up another card.

By the way, tethered operation (wired or wireless) is used in professional photography as well, not just videography.
Fair enough.

I was making a commentary more of what I see the difference between NASA vs SpaceX's approach today. I wasn't around for Apollo, and given their crazy compressed timeframe for getting to the moon back then, there must have been some agility there....

I was really agreeing with the previous commenter, which I guess is a statement about today, and not how NASA operated in the 1960s...

> SpaceX learns by doing, not by years of expensive analysis that ends up not preventing failure anyway.

My mistake for invoking the Agile vs Waterfall debate... (and potentially being wrong!)
I'm not sure from the screenshot that it was supposed to be a joke. The full comment was three one line paragraphs: "basically the same as nazis", "nazis gave the jews free healthcare", and "so", and it was in 2014.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA or "Obamacare") had started in 2010, and every election after that it became an issue. Some wanted to replace it with single payer systems, or expanded government run systems (e.g. Medicare for all). Others wanted to get rid of it completely, and not replace it with anything.

Those who want a more expansive or comprehensive system than ACA often cite the systems of other countries as potential models for the US. Those opposed to that point out what they perceive as flaws in those systems.

Wikipedia tells me that the Nazis did actually have a healthcare system [1].

I could see someone saying some particular system is a good approach for the US to take, and someone who disagrees seeing that it has some similarities to the aforementioned Nazi system, and so dismissing it as "basically the same as nazis".

The rest of the comment would then be meant in a "look how bad that turned out" sense with the (ridiculous) implication that if the US gets free healthcare we too will end up committing large scale atrocities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_People%27s_...
I use it to connect to the dock on my desk, so the cable weight wasn’t an issue, but I can see how the weight of the cable pulling down would disconnect the magnetic connector.
Are you a GitHub employee? Otherwise what is the purpose of this really weird and ad-hominem rant
There is another issue, I think, with Cloudflare serving in the middle.

For many websites the Cert is owned by Cloudflare and shows Cloudflare as the Organization and not the website owner. In that case there is no way for me to figure out whether I'm on the actual site or a phished site.

For example see this (it is the Visa opt-out website that was posted a few days ago on HN): https://marketingreportoptout.visa.com/OPTOUT/request.do

Supposedly the above it authentic, but the Cert is showing Cloudflare as the Organization. Now unless the claim is that Cloudflare will never serve phished websites, which I doubt unless Cloudflare is doing a human validation for each client, this is a problem.
It’s more about fair and equal treatment, whatever that is. The hypocrisy of modern policing is extreme. Should she have been given more or less time? Clearly give different treatment to some people. The law is supposed to be impartial. And in a case that is already political suppression of first amendment rights, it stands out.
I have been programming since I was 10, so 30 years. I feel truly blessed to get to write code, nothing makes me feel more like a little kid.

Early as a kid on it was AppleBasic, then QuickBasic, then TurboPascal in high school. I loved the computer lab from my magnet school where we would one up each other. I built an American football simulator using player stays, several games, and a simple 3D engine. I started college in 1999. We did C and C++ for the most part. Then I had about a 10 year stint doing embedded or Win32 development. Then I switched gears and now focus exclusively on building search engines.

The world has changed a ton:

- certain books that existed in the 90s and 2000s are replaced by the internet.

- because of open source and the internet, and less reliability on mainstream tech press, it’s easier for more obscure tech stacks to blossom. Nineties and Early 2000s were dominated by C, C++, Java...

- in the 90s and 2000s almost all consumer facing native software dev would be Windows. Some web app dev existed, done in Perl, Java, and gradually more PHP

- remote work was not a thing. It was rare to have VPN access. Teams were heavily collocated. Outsourcing was brand new and just starting.

- there were times where it was hard to get a job as a software dev if you can believe it! After the dot com bust in particular.

- version control was relatively new and primitive, with tools like visual source safe and CVS. Gradually Subversions became a cool thing in the late 2000s

- the posix command line was not the universal dev environment we assume nowadays. Instead it was often Visual Studio and a pile of bat files :)

- software was not well understood by management, and treated akin to how machine learning is treated today: something mystical but the magic fairy dust we can sprinkle on everything

About the current tech landscape? It’s very broad and diverse to say much about it. There’s much more of a long tail of low quality and low cost software development now. There’s many more jobs where coding is just part of the job. There’s few places that can do software engineering really well, and these places have increasing social power.

On the plus side, the number of options and tools we have is exciting. We never have to worry about being out of interesting work. We have good middle to upper middle class careers. In some places software and the tech industry is having a positive impact

If I could change anything about today it would be to increase tech and data literacy across all disciplines.

Advice for others: don’t just learn the surface stuff. Get deep to how things really work. Be able to write and speak well. Work really hard on your empathy for customers and colleagues. Find and work on the hardest problems. Pick a niche. “software development” is so broad it now describes a significant percentage of the economy. This is why I focus now on search engines.
I wouldn’t call sending codes by email “true” 2FA, though, since your email address can also be used to reset your password.
It's great that the built in ports cover all your needs, but my experience with laptops has been more complicated.

You use a projector as an example of a use for your HDMI port. In my limited experience doing presentations, I've run across a mixture of HDMI, VGA, and even DisplayPort for some reason.

Once, even though I was using a Dell Precision with built in HDMI and VGA, I ended up using a usb-c dongle with combo HDMI+VGA+DP ports I keep in my bag. My coworker had to wait for someone to get a more specific passive converter for their laptop which didn't have usb-c.

Obviously YMMV, but I've found the combo of usb-c plus a compact multi port adapter to be indispensable, even on a laptop with a crap-ton of ports.
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What kinds of value drivers exist? Are there any examples of outsourcing value drivers, either potentially or actually? I'm not quite understanding the statement.

If I ran a digital agency, I could build websites, but I could also hire people to build websites, is that outsourcing my value driver?
Update: Apple does the same.
Enjoyed the article. I think one can boil it down pretty simply: decisionmakers at Ethereum don't care about investors. They're going to make decisions that support and enable interesting decentralized applications, and "defi" is incidental to that, but in they end they wouldn't care if Eth gets massively devalued or something as long as the ecosystem is healthy and growing.

Disclaimer: this is just my own perspective and speculation based on a bit of reading and brief convos with Ethereum foundation people.
There's another useful way to look at this mathematically and practically: survival time. If you cut costs to nearly zero, you can survive nearly infinitely.

There are plenty of small companies that serve a small market and last for decades by being careful about spending. That doesn't mean scrimping on coffee, but it means not paying $20k for a stylish sculpture for your office reception or $2M for a beach concert with the hip artist of the day.

The exact same thing applies to personal finance. Often, working towards making a lot more money is the fastest way to get rich, rather than spending a lot of time eliminating small costs (e.g. cheaper coffee). However, for a typical person, eliminating big costs such as expensive luxury cars makes a big difference. If you want your money to last, you need to be frugal relative to the scale of your assets, revenue, and growth.
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My entire point was that people decry a lack of ports as a specific downside of the MacBook 12 and, in my opinion, that wasn’t an issue for me (or it seems several others).

Not all products have to appeal to all people, and products involve hundreds of trade offs. If more ports doesn’t mean increased weight or thickness, I’m not opposed!
What about third-party accessibility tools, input methods, logon methods, etc?
TLS is not decentralized in its common form, you just use a certificate signed by a third-party (CA). So you end up trusting this CA. Why are you willing to trust this CA instead of Signal's server?

If you self-sign a certificate instead, how do I check that the signature matches yours?

To get a (proper) secure channel, you need at least an authenticated channel first.
About 10 years ago OSCP was considered difficult, or at least definitely not part of the beginner roadmap. Apparently this has changed?
We all use automatic standing desks now, fwiw. Allegedly for period the door-style desks were actually more expensive than normal desks but they were kept as a "cultural statement". Don't know how true that is.
I'd draw the line at supervised access to conversation with normal people at: if someone is in jail maybe (this is a DIFFERENT debatable topic, beyond this context) their other rights are also suspended during the sentence.

Someone whom is not in jail, who is otherwise allowed to participate in society; abridging their rights of freedom of speech, expression, and discourse with others? That seems over-broad.
Well with wsl2 I gave windows a go for my work dev environment. And so far emacs had been amazing via wsl2 and a x server.

I should note I did modify the xserver to allow me to toggle individual windows going fullsceen. And am running native emacs (which is blazing fast)
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> ...charges $100/hr spending 5 hours on Amazon trying to save a couple bucks on an iPhone cable. Cool, you saved $3. But you spent $500 to save it!

I agree in general with the sentiment that people need to really value their time more than they do. It is a precious ever-depleting resource. That said, we mustn't discount the fact that:

1. One may get better at saving and wouldn't always have to spend 5 hours on Amazon when looking for better deals the next time around.

2. It is not just $3, but might also be that one is learning along way (reading reviews, getting better at identifying quality signals, etc).

3. Developing a habit because every buck one spends could have been saved for (future frugal expenses), because not every waking hour is worth $100 anyway.

4. Valuing all of one's time in terms of billable-hours could be actually used to justify not doing anything else at all; and life/learning/experiences would simply flash-by.
Hi Stanislavb - Care to elaborate more?