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C# is a Java for the poor

Missing:

- native compilation, of course

- mateprogramming, ctfe, mixin etc etc

- raw performance

- free c/c++ interop

- optional GC

- manual memory management

At best it is a Java clone that tries to eat NodeJS cake at the same time, but is then eaten alive by GOLANG

C# is plagued with enterprise bullshit (OOP, dependency injection, factory bullshit, one class per file bullshit, etc etc etc)

Worse, it only has a JIT, no AOT native compilation (there is one compiler but AFAIK Microsoft is focusing on JIT) so it can't do system/native development at all
Is there a case for programmers to unionize?
Maybe it's random? I get the dark in Chrome and white in Firefox.
Wood boilers are common enough. Pipes and radiators won't do all that much good if you aren't moving the water, and at that point it makes sense to optimize the whole thing for heating water with the minimum required fuel.
Yeah the car example also struck me as a real shortcoming -- sure, the training set probably included very few if any images of upside down cars, but I would expect basic data augmentation to have addressed that.
It's not a difference in marketing. Types anotations are part of Python, but not of JavaScript. CPython will happily run a program with type anotations, V8 will fail to parse Typescript.

You could draw similarities with using Typescript to check JSDoc comments and MyPy to check Python 2.7 comments, but that's again because type hints are neither part of Python 2.7, nor JavaScript.
Addiction is more perverse than that: I'm sure the players could stop if they wanted to. But they just don't want to. They too start rationalizing "it relieves so much stress", "it calms me down" etc.

F2P games are nowhere near as dangerous as casinos. 90% of players waste nothing more but their time. They're more similar to social media.
Really, i wonder why social media hasn't figured out a way to have meaningful microtransactions yet.
At least they chose a modest name.
You are forgetting that drinking milk was beneficial(lots of extra calories for example), this obviously outweighed the downside of lactose intolerance.
> Hey Siri, play some Jazz.

"OK, playing Supertramp."

Somewhere along the way that became my normal Siri experience, and it wasn't always like that.
You press z, type a few letters and then hit tab until you get the thing you want. It's not spatial. If you use ctrl-r frequently it's similar.
> just a result of certain design/engineering choices

I think this is the point. Things are engineered for the environment which they are expected to operate, and to be optimized for those environments[0]. I would not expect a wind turbine that operates (and is designed to operate) in Antartica to not fail (potentially catestrophically) when operating in 100 degree Texas heat,

[0] One could (and should) argue that these systems should take climate change and more extreme weather events into account, but that is a political problem more-so than an engineering problem.
30mb for a hello world

60mb + for a HTTP server is not what i call a single binary without runtime

at best it is called packing giant runtime together with user executable hack

and their AOT story is far from being perfect, it has to deal with the fact that C# is a managed language first

so exit system programming needs, it's just not playing on the same field

c# is aimed at webdevs and game scripters with unity
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z.sh is a 243-line shell script. What makes this Rust version better or more modern?
don't forget about CDPATH

$ export CDPATH=~/Workspace/src/github.com # in .bashrc
$ cd brigad/ops
It's quite sad how the same old story unveils: an agile company with a great product and large community sells off to a large corporation, which destroys both the community and the product on its quest to squeeze more ROI...

About 3 years ago, having been fed with regular price hikes without any good reason and/or new features, I switched to 1Password and never looked back.
> which seemed always to be hampered by some tedious task or another.

IIRC, Factorio does have a sandbox mode where you can just create arbitrary designs without having to gather/assemble the stuff first.
I'll save anyone a click who was as puzzled as I was.

> All humans can digest milk in infancy. But the ability to do so as an adult developed fairly recently

Is it just me or would "Adult humans were drinking milk..." been a far more clarifying title. I clicked on the link just to make sure I hadn't lost my mind. Humans have been drinking milk since whatever first glimmering of 'human' existed.
Oh that is more than enough, thank you! What I am curious about is if I could get a job there without having education. Here in Eastern Europe they still want a CS degree in many places, showing projects, that are on, say, GitHub is not enough. You simply do not even get to the interviewing part.
No, having a distributed grid is what makes you more resilient. If every house had solar panels this would likely be a non-issue.
The emails asked me if I still want "less secure apps access" to be on for a couple of gmail accounts so I'm pretty sure they were wrong in that case.
For me, and the places I've worked, "Front-of-the-Front-End" is usually described as "UI Engineer". However, I am fully aware that can and does mean something different to other people.
It’s more efficient to burn natural gas directly for heat than to use it to generate electricity which is then used for heating. Typical gas turbines are around 40% efficient, plus a few percent for transmission loses. Though apparently there are some cutting edge turbines that are 60% efficient.
CAISO says it has 10k MW in extra capacity[1].

http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx
> that does not mean that people living in Tulsa can pull power as needed from a dam in Washington

Not directly, but by way of demand shifting, effectively yes. Northern California is fed by Washington, SoCal by NorCal generation, etc. until you get excess capacity closer to the demand sink.
dude mentions it every chance he gets...
Yes of course, that's trivial. Grid connections are measured in power, not in energy units.
A good example of this is the PNW interties which move (primarily) hydro power to California from Washington and Oregon.

One system is DC. The other is AC. They both do primarily the same thing through elaborate systems.

Washington can send electricity south via AC - doesn't really mean CA and WA are functioning on the same grid.
Glad to see another I can relate to.

I don't shop (in person) often but when I do visit the Walmart, next town over, the chemicals of all the new products literally bring tears to and irritate my eyes. I have to stop and rest and try to find places to breathe that don't feel toxic. No one else could ever related.
Curious how exactly the market assigns a valuation to companies like this. I mean, to value Ford, we can compare it's financials and projected future growth to rivals such as Honda, Toyota, GM, etc. But SpaceX is utterly unique in the market, so such a comparison is impossible.
A lot of people like sport. If no one liked it it wouldn’t be there.
> claimed to shut down

I would guess that there is an ~0% chance any bitcoin mining operation, who's main cost is power, is still operating with power prices as astromonically high as they currently are.
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I think the price of BTC will continue trending upwards depending on the economic outcome. It will basically become a hedge against the system every time there's a recession (every 10 years or so).
Why does this type of ad work? Do people want to be addicted to something so badly? Don't they have something better to do?
So who gets to keep the interest on the money while the case languishes through the court system?
As far as I can tell, the EU tends to lean towards privacy protection for individuals against businesses or other private entities, not against the government, and the focus doesn't always seem to be on governmental datasets being used for private purposes. A lot more governmental data collection is needed to handle things such as mandatory resident registrations in most EU countries, single-payer healthcare in some EU countries, relatively pre-filled tax declarations in some countries, etc.

Not Swedish, but the relevant one in the parent comment is probably mandatory residency registrations, and I'm surprised the data is so publicly accessible there. There are usually attempts at creating firewalls in many countries so the data that one agency collects isn't directly linked to that of other agencies, preventing broad files on individuals.
I think Freicoin is what you're looking for:

http://freico.in
> That said, Tesla's Bitcoin purchase does make a lot of sense ... They then announced their Bitcoin purchase with fanfare that drove the price up, marking a quick return on their investment.

Tesla is a car manufacturer! It doesn't make any sense at all! At any company that made sense, a CEO would lose his job for gambling $1B of company money in a casino totally unrelated to the company's business interests.
Can somebody explain as if I were a kindergartner why exactly natural gas is down by such a large amount in the state? Did the pipes freeze? Does natural gas not burn efficiently in snowy conditions? How will raising the spot price dramatically help with these physical conditions of the pipelines/other power production/distribution apparatus in such a way that providing power becomes available more quickly (if at all)? [1]

Has Texas never had weather like this in 350ish years and there was no reasonable justification for preparing for something like this?

[1]https://mobile.twitter.com/jmontforttx/status/13617035547890...
PROTESTing the removal of the statue of General Lee was the stated goal of the murderous Unite the Right protest.

PROTESTing the outcome of the 2020–21 U.S. election was the stated goal of the murderous Capitol protest.

The self-proclaimed protests that prove you wrong are suddenly not protests anymore? Once you learn what a strawman is, google "moving the goalposts."

I provided two examples where murderous right-wing protests were monitored and recorded by police, completely contradicting the idea that "I doubt we would see any news articles about it."

You've provided zero examples to support that blind speculation.

don't use stupid stats like this

The stats that you didn't read already made this argument for you:

Explanations that rest solely on the conservative politics and culture of the police...neglect the ways political systems, identities and organizations shape interactions between police and protesters

...but--my confirmation bias! How embarrassing, I can understand why you had to dodge the question.
What's the motivation for the vendors to vet use cases/limit sales?
> No electricity = no heat, regardless of natural gas supply.

You're confusing furnaces and fireplaces.

A fireplace is soemthing that sits in a living space usually with a visible flame behind glass and is designed more for aesthetics than function. They typically run using a millivolt valve for the gas supply, with the voltage generated from a thermopile sitting in the pilot flame. They're often controlled by a regular light switch or a simple two-wire mechanical thermostat.

There's natural gas and propane models, and they'll run so long as you have gas flowing.

I upgraded mine to use an older wifi thermostat, but kept a light switch on a small cable underneath so I could always use it in case of a power outage, and it's come in handy a couple times. [1]

Mine also has a mains-powered blower fan built in (that's the plug on the left), but electrically it's completely separate and controlled by its own thermostat. It turns on when a certain temperature is hit -- usually about 5-10 minutes after the fireplace is on -- and stays on for some time after the flames are off. Obviously the blower doesn't work when there's a power outage but the fireplace still generates a usable amount of heat for the room.

On the other hand, my gas forced-air furnace -- which distributes heated air via ducts around the house -- is, as you describe, entirely useless without electricity. Even if it was running without the main blower fan, it would just be heating up the air sitting in the duct coming out of it. At best it might get some heat into the house via convection but I suspect it would cut out on thermal overload before actually doing anything useful.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/secdqaR.jpg
About the only non-computery course we had was a business / management / entrepreneur type course. I don’t remember if it was something we chose to do, but it wasn’t part of the core set of courses that made up the degree.
I agree with the sentiment, but wouldn’t say its so simple as just wire transfer. Its very possible Bitcoin will become a reserve currency/asset for macroeconomic exchange. If its not controlled by any one country or bank, it removes the effects of currency hegemony we have seen across the centuries.

Countries will still maintain their own currencies for legal tender/monetary policy purposes, but they will likely be in the form of CBDCs and have interoperability with public and private blockchains.
Not really, it’s more common in parts of Saudi Arabia and Africa than Germany or Russia. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Lactose_...

It’s one of those things somewhat associated with what is considered race, but not all that closely. Further, the underlying data is very messy.
Apparently its not, there was one in the 1940's that was worse. So its the usual "ignore any outlier we don't like" attitude that seems common in so many things. Plus, its not like this is unusual. The random unexpected heat wave in oct -> rolling blackouts. Unexpected storm during hurricane season -> power goes out for a week due to unmaintained power lines, etc.

Its why you need engineers running your grid, not some politically connected organization which seems to prioritize free market theories above delivering power.
You need to read the whole thread for context. The original post claims education quality in Sweden deteriorated. username90 argues it didn't, using unchanged KTH test results as support. JorgeGT says KTH is an elite institution so there is a selection bias. You disagree, saying that KTH is not an elite institution. I'm saying the selection bias is still present because KTH students are not a representative sample.

In this context it does not matter how elite KTH is. It only matters whether KTH students on average are materially different from general population.
On the Design of Text Editors (2020) [pdf]
Why Lightning isn't adopted well? Is it unreliable or can be frauded due to it's not blockchain? What's the point to use non-blockchain tech?
> They can make doing so a crime, but don't have the technical ability to, say, freeze funds.

If the governments of the world made it a crime for miners to include transactions involving certain blacklisted addresses in their blocks that could be a big step towards a freeze.
Not to sound like a jerk but why do you think this would be some "OMG" response from AWS? This is not some sort of "hacking", this is a tool that is being used to detect whether you misconfigured API access to be overly permissive. The tools job is to find them and them "abuse" them. Its not like AWS is not aware of user misconfigurations. The issue is AWS does not provide tools to detect these very well. Tools like CloudAware also exist because of things AWS don't provide. Not like AWS isn't aware of the ability to make such tools, considering these are just crawling and attempting to use a series of already existing AWS calls.

The tool is great as a free tool and very helpful, but its also not like AWS doesn't already have the people smart enough to make something just as good, if not better. It just obviously not AWS's priority. They can just leave the blame on the user for not properly managing IAM permissions.
For natural gas you want a sealed one so effluent goes up the chimney but the heat radiates through the glass. But heat rises so you create convection. I think a fireplace is an 80% loss so for $10 spent you get $2 heat.
I think TS had better tooling and implementation. Flow continues to improve and had some better design decisions early on. Flow has focused on internal FB needs over open source needs.

All in all, I think the soundness is not a negative / defining character and Flow could still gain in popularity, especially for projects closer in requirements to FB’s codebase.
I wouldn't count on it, the motherboards are also currently catered towards system integrators.

> The vendor, when asked about on-shelf availability, said that they don't particularly plan on doing a full retail packaging, but should AMD push the TR Pro CPUs into the consumer channel, they will prepare the appropriate boxing. In that light, as it stands, it looks like it will depend on AMD to decide if they want to enable the regular consumer retail channel.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16396/the-amd-wrx80-chipset-a...
Theres a reason protestors where mask. We have a history of those on the left being gunned down by those in authority.

Your childish act like you want to help falls on deaf ears. We know your type.
What I'm interested in, and what I'm talking about, is judging each method of power production from its total current output relative to nameplate capacity.

All I'm really arguing is that non-renewables are able to accommodate bursty and unpredictable demand much better than renewables. For every dollar spent on solar and wind, if that built X amount of coal or NG plants, they would have such an excess of capacity that the few plants that have gone offline would be completely irrelevant.

My point isn't that Texas shouldn't have invested in renewables. It's just that this is really not an appropriate time to be lecturing Texas about renewable energy, because had they invested their money in non-renewables instead of renewables, they would likely not be in this situation.

The problem is not a lack of regulation. It gets below freezing every single year in Texas. The problem is that it doesn't get this cold in Houston every year, and they misjudged demand.
Import features alone should work, but if you’re absolutely desperate you can roll your own import process with bitwarden-cli (it’s on github and various package managers).
What's funny, is chrome renders the page worst out of the 3 browsers installed on my machine

https://imgur.com/a/fh0BAzV

E: Edge
F: Firefox
C: Chrome
I'm not an expert but I do work at a VFX house: GP's assertion about people working in Hollywood rendering on their workstations 24/7 seems unlikely and your data centre vision is more accurate in my experience, where shots are rendered out via dedicated render servers. The ultra-contemporary move is actually to build your pipeline in the cloud.[0] But on-prem, you still need a lot of power in the box when you're working in the scene, and if you just want to bounce out a preview of something small without waiting on the render queue, having that power gives you flexibility. So you're both almost right?

EDIT: Oops, leave a tab open for a few hours and come back to find your reply's been scooped. I'll leave this up and add some more links for anyone curious about cloud rendering though[1][2], it's an interesting space.

[0] https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...

[1] https://utopiancorps.com/cloud-rendering/

[2] https://www.awsthinkbox.com/studio-in-the-cloud/cloud-render...
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HN discussion when the news first came out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222045
Cold weather.

It’s not always someone’s fault.
Denver Metro was -15F the other day. Though they are built for it, unlike Austin. This cold snap is having a fun time with the whole middle of NA.
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I suggest the author consider connecting with one or several of Marcuse’s well known and respected students from the 1960’s. Angela Davis studied under Marcuse while he was at Brandeis University and later completed her PhD while he was a member of the faculty at UC San Diego. Another of his star students was Dr. Andrew Feenberg who completed his PhD at UC San Diego with Marcuse and was also with him in Paris in May 1968 and has written about their experience in an essay titled “Remembering the May Events”. Feenberg to my personal knowledge was well acquainted with Marcuse both academically and personally for his entire life and has written extensively about Marcuse’s philosophy. While Marcuse was a member of the faculty at UC San Diego, Feenberg was a professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University, SUNY, Buffalo and most recently at SFU-Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
The third former student of Marcuse at UC San Diego is well known journalist and former professor of journalism at UC Berkeley, Lowell Bergman.
If the author is interested in acquiring a more personal understanding of Marcuse and his philosophy, I know that Angela, and Dr. Feenberg are still living and healthy and would very likely be happy to share with Taibbi. I’m not sure about Bergman.
It's almost impossible to get a permit for a wood or pellet stove these days.
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Yes. In areas of Africa with higher milk drinking, more have the gene mutations leading to lactase persistence.
I used FreeBSD at Yahoo (even on my desktop) and purposely avoided Linux at all times, and I was very happy because of it.

Linux got a lot of usage where FreeBSD would have been a better choice simply because Linux was the "hot new thing" that people wanted to use. They didn't want to use the best thing, or look at alternate things, they wanted to use the thing they had heard others were using.

It's a shame, because FreeBSD is a great operating system that almost no one has used seriously.
Node.js is absurdly complex in typical deployment scenarios leading to serious difficulties when you're trying to create production apps. Let's just look at the common case of transpilation from TypeScript:

- Did your TypeScript properly import all of the @types packages required for it to compile properly? They need to be installed alongside the source packages and match the version numbers. They are often maintained separately and may not match the underlying implementation of the code.

- How do you run this in production? Do you check the compiled TypeScript into the git repo? Do you run with ts-node? Do you do different things in production, development, and test?

- Do all of your native dependencies support the node versions you're using? How do you install the correct version of node? If you ignore these issues by using Docker, how are you managing your images and containers?

The list of problems requiring solutions goes on and on. And of course those solutions exist, but this is a summary of why node projects are not "easy to learn". Don't get me wrong, Node can still be the right tool for the job, in particular if you're sharing a lot of code between an app and something that will run in the browser.
In fact, we never marketed to children. Adults are much more profitable, because they can actually pay up.
Tech rollout takes time. Because paying for your coffee is insignificant and you dont need nuclear level security to protect it. But nevertheless it should be very secure.