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Knowledge/Skills Learning vs. Gaming Community
I had a wild idea...

I've been involved with a small handful of online communities, including gaming communities. Some of them were sustainable, others weren't. But each time there was a limit to what could be done based on the community member's drive, and willingness to "work" on a game instead of "play" it.

So that's where my wild idea came in. Many IT Professionals were introduced to the field early in through gaming, and similar hobbyist activities. Some folks are simply end-users, while others have a drive to contribute to a greater goal (whether community, learning a skill, technical experience, etc).

These thoughts coupled with my personal experiences of transitioning from hobbyist to professional, lead me to an interesting idea.

What if a Gaming community was formed with the intention of sharing skills, knowledge, and learning experiences amongst its members. Rather than focusing on the Gaming, and learning individual topics at a per-need basis, this sort of community might take the opposite approach. Instead, maybe spend a week or month learning about a specific tool, product, software, language, etc.. After which, have an open discussion about how the recently learned topic could be applied to the Gaming Community, or personal goals.

What is the consensus on this kind of community? Do you think it might gain traction, or crash and burn? Would this be something you might be interested in getting involved with? Should I delete this post and feed bad about sharing it with you? If you think this is a decent idea, do you have any suggestions of where to look for these sort of people outside of the general gaming audiences?

Feel free to answer as critically as you'd like.

Thanks for reading..
(Wrote this between a few tasks, so there may be some typo's or grammatical errors.)
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At that point, you can argue that you can't be sure whether the kill switches would actually turn off the radios.
How does this stack up against Nog [0]? I currently use it for my i3 needs and its very clean and works better than anything else I've tried.

0 - https://github.com/TimUntersberger/nog
> I haven't worked on any projects that were large enough to warrant type checking or where I felt it would make a huge difference.

Can I esk exactly how you're considered senior if you've not worked on any projects large enough to warrant type checking?
> And the current media landscape looks nothing like that

Yes, congratulations, you found the point.

The current media landscape is nothing like that, because the current media landscape is only about 10 years old. For all of modern history until the introduction of social media sites like youtube, twitter, and facebook, the only way to spread information or opinion was to get the editors of for-profit media companies to agree to publish you.

It is beside the point but also worth pointing out that also until very recently, like the last decade, the editors of those institutions have been of a very particular gender and racial demographic.

The new media, with all of it's "discourse" is democratic editorialism. Welcome to the freest market of ideas the world has ever seen. You can't call up your buddies Ailes, Rosenthal, Jordan, Sorenson, and Klose to tell the public what to think about you anymore.

> Lastly, again your third paragraph is a straw man.

We're talking about "cancel culture" here, aren't we? The phenomenon where members of the public decide based on new information to stop buying products because of the beliefs and actions of their creators? What is that if not the democratic free-market action that Mill so often advocated as the optimal way to organize society?
Now time for my personal opinion (because i reached the character limit):

I feel like the gaming community has evolved a bit over the years, and gamers are less inclined to want to learn how and why things work, and how to actually utilize a computer as a functional tool. There are certainly exceptions to this (modders, those inclined to host local servers, etc), but the general consensus appears to be to just "use" the computer as a toy.

I was able to transition from hospitality service to the IT field a very long time ago, and I relied solely on my charm and good looks to get the job. (Just kidding..) I relied solely on my learning experiences and people management skills I gathered during my hobbyist activities on my computer (gaming, managing a gaming clan, moderating forums, etc). I was lucky enough to find an employer that respected this enough to get my foot in the door.
Show me a less trustworthy hat choice.
What is Taproot and how will it benefit Bitcoin?
This is just whataboutism. Gold isn't used as a currency. Seems a stretch to claim the armies exist solely for the USD. And until the Lightning Network is actually implemented it will remain theoretical.
As someone who designs electronics sometimes, I would love to know how manufacturers are getting so detailed failure rate data on their components to achieve this lasting just past the warranty period and then breaking thing.

I think its actually just a combination of customers lying, ancedata and confirmation bias that brings about this impression. A repair shop like that is likely not seeing a lot of in-warranty repairs, and with a lot of devices they may quickly fall out of common use shortly after the warranty period, however long it is, so that also may be a cause of this impression. Then again, I have devices from Apple and Samsung that are way past their warranty period and still going strong.
I wonder if that ‘lots of small scripts together’ is a desireble situation. Can’t it be just one app that performs all the steps?

It is all about context to me. A shell oneliner is not something I would replace with python but as soon as you start up an editor, think again I would say
This article is incredibly factually incorrect:

>In 2019, all the models it sold were either hybrids or ran solely on batteries.

This is provably false. I have several family members who own 2019 or newer Volvos that are gas powered only. Some of the models do offer a hybrid option, though many DO NOT (the S60 in 2019 for sure did not come with anything but a gas engine). And of the ones where there is a hybrid/plug-in option, they are the most expensive and lowest volume.

I can't take anything else in here remotely seriously.
> My wife who does PCRs regularly immediately identified the issue in AUGUST 2021.

Well, heck, predicting the future and pointing out other people's mistakes is dead easy when you have access to a time-machine, isn't it?
If you have a specific product in mind, I don't recommend the strategy. Find investor funds and build the product.

If you don't have a specific product that you want to build, then I think it's a more viable path. Running the agency gives you a stable revenue and base to bootstrap a product when a product opportunity becomes available. Running an agency also gives you insight into pain points that multiple different companies are hitting.

So, an agency as a path to eventually developing a product makes some amount of sense but an agency as a path to develop a specific product vision probably doesn't.
I really hope Ghidra becomes the standard in reverse engineering, but the good old IDA with decompilers is just too good for now
Nearly any currency when used in commerce is primarily used as an IOU for time. Due how the POW is designed to ensure immutability of the blockchain it also is dependent on how cheap it is to generate energy for the people who mine.

Comparing it to a bank with fiat a bank usually ensures the consistency of transactions so miners perform this action (and also developers of bitcoin if there are security holes) and your wallet is an account and bitcoin have a transaction cost which is like using a debit card associated with an account.
I had the opposite experience. I like languages with static types a lot and I used to be a fan of TypeScript.

After using it for a few OSS projects and professionally, I came to the conclusion that, if I need types, I'll use a real statically typed language if I need types and JS for what doesn't matter.

TypeScript works but:
- it's a major pain to work with if your dependencies don't have type definitions
- if another developer in your codebase left a hole somewhere you won't be able to rely on your types, you'll get runtime errors and you basically ruin the capability to reason around your code
- it's slow (hopefully deno's efforts will bring some news in that regard)

TL;DR: TypeScript should be much stricter and don't compromise with JS.
I was an (on and off) paying LastPass user until 4 or so years ago, not because I had to, but because I felt like supporting it.

Switched to Bitwarden after Lastpass were bought and started tightening the grip I think (yep, I'm fairly sure they were testing the waters already 4 years ago).

Still pay Bitwarden (why not, the price is trivial for me at this point and they deserve it).
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Who decides who is a "trusted vendor", and how? You either give up on a lot of packages or end up in the current situation where everyone is trusted.
And I maintain this was not a refinement of a model.

As a challenge: name one piece of geocentric math that can still be modified by today's practicioners to provide a sensible astrophysical answer.

Static mass is still a useful fact in a world of relativistic physics. But we have not tabulated any facts from geocentric concepts in the last few centuries. No one would even know where to begin or what words to use to even describe them. That material produced from Kuhnian "normal science" under geocentrism had to be thrown out, as there was no way of fitting them in with the new paradigm.
Link: https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
So what, take the right of speech away from everybody? If the majority can't decide how the public feels about a person or company, and the minority can't decide how the public feels about a person or company, than who does?
It’s true that the pre-UAC situation in Windows was bad, but the function of UAC was to encourage app developers to do the right thing. Raymond Chen agrees:

”UAC is not a security feature. It’s a convenience feature that acts as a forcing function to get software developers to get their act together.” https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160816-00/?p=94...

On a single user machine, it does nothing for user security, because all of the things worth protecting, like your data, don’t require elevation anyway.

As for preventing fuckups, it prevents the wrong fuckups. Deleting my user files is a bad fuckup. A program trashing my files and emptying my bank account is a bad fuckup. Trashing my OS install, the only thing root can do that my user account can’t, is an inconvenience.
I'd argue that chrome OS sounds a lot like it's an OS built around the browser and Web apps.
> That does not make it less true that money does not have magical properties and bitcoin will not create a new world order.

Is anyone really claiming that? The OP's post doesn't seem to be in this spirit anyway. It's more like "Bitcoin has true usefulness, it will keep some meaningful value for a long time, enable other use cases that didn't even exist before.". Nobody is saying that it is going to replace all other forms of money.
If you form your understanding of programming languages from HN comments, Javascript is literally Hitler.
Now we will see the Streisand effect in full flower(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect). In essence, Xerox has just told the hacker and malware community that there ARE critical vulnerabilities in some Xerox equipment, so Russia, North Korea and all manner of bad actors will become interested.
> Having complete control of TCP/IP in userland like this, with so little code, is so valuable I feel like there needs to be some special name for the technique.

Yes! Userspace TCP/IP is how we implement firewall for Androids (which don't expose iptables on non-root devices but let you setup TUN interfaces via VPN APIs). Right now, we rely on LwIP (wrapped in golang) and it has worked wonderfully well; especially since it is light-weight without any locking-overheads (single-threaded) and that bodes well for battery-powered devices.

> The whole thing is kind of a vindication for Go's standard library network interface, which I have always hated.

The Fuchsia team at Google is re-implementing netstack3 in Rust (and hence you're probably right to call it "gVisor netstack") due to what I presume are performance and efficiency reasons (which is of interest to us because we develop for smartphones). Of course, flyctl doesn't need that, but since you wrote about pulling in heavy dependencies, I am interested in your take on it.
There are plenty of platforms for everyone out there. They're just not a path to riches, or indeed even to material "side hustle" income, for the vast majority of people. Anyone who ever thought otherwise is... let's just say optimistic.
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You can disable all motion on Android. One of the first things I do is disable all the animations. Everything responds instantly. It's great.
I recently decided to think deeply about Bitcoin and I think my initial skepticism about Bitcoin was wrong.
Most of the criticisms of Bitcoin are centered around the fact that Bitcoin has a very low throughput. However this is not necessarily a problem. And here is one hypothetical example of how we can overcome this issue:

When countries owe each other money they used to transfer gold back and forth or trust someone else to do it for them. So all transactions within a country would happen in a local currency and then once in a while "settlement" would happen.

Bitcoin is digital gold for settlements among digital currencies. For eg I could start a new Stable coin called MyDogeCoin HQed in Switzerland and each MyDogeCoin is backed by 1 Bitcoin. Anyone who trusts me can transact in MyDogeCoins and can convert their MyDogeCoins into Bitcoins if they are willing to wait and pay a sizable fee to account for Bitcoins slowness. However most people don't need this it just needs to be possible. Now anyone using MyDogeCoin can send money to each other quickly as long as they trust me. This isn't any different to how you trust a country. And many countries like Zimbabwe aren't trust worthy at all. This has BTC behind it.

Now suppose you want to send MyDogeCoin to MyMemeCoin HQed in Singapore and is similar. We trust each other and hence we do the transfer. Once in a while we do a "settlement" on the BTC blockchain. This way we don't need that many TPS. And large untrusted nodes can use the BTC blockchain as a trustless settlement layer.

Since BTC is the final trustless layer its a foundation. Now I realized how BTC can have long term value and it could be around even a 100 years from now. Doesn't mean its not over priced now but it will have a non zero value over the long term and is revolutionary. Unless the government goes to war against it. The US government used to use gold and then basically defaulted and forced everyone to accept dollars by force. Thats not sustainable.
Hey HN! I recently launched this app, and I thought HN might find it interesting.

I'm primarily a web developer, but I decided to learn Swift and build it as a native app instead of doing it with Electron and a JS framework.

The main goal with this app was to save myself time creating screencasts, but I've heard from people doing YouTube and podcasts that it's saving them a lot of time too.

Part of that goal involved keeping the app itself fast, which was a big part of why I chose to go the native route. (AVFoundation was another big reason!)

One thing I'm pretty proud of is the waveform rendering. It loads the whole file and then downsamples it to various resolutions, and then switches between them as you zoom in and out. The result is that zooming feels very snappy because the app goes out of its way to avoid drawing more than necessary. The trial is free/no email required if you want to see how it works.

Happy to field any questions (or feature requests for that matter) :)
A 1.5 trillion dollar joke. Thanks to the Fed who pumped trillions of dollars back in 2008
Again, you're simply quoting liars who make up controversy for a living.

The simple geometric shape of a stage isn't a nazi rune. Full stop. You're making shit up.
Promtail/Loki https://github.com/grafana/loki is an alternative to elk, but while it seems more lightweight, it definitely is less featureful. The integration with grafana/prometheus seems nice, but I've only toyed with it, not used in production.
Sad to say, $200k is not middle class. $300k is the line, nowadays. Very few of us are middle class, in the sense that our grandparents could be even on a regular wage. That is, there is essentially no middle class in the US anymore. Income is distributed strictly bimodally.

None of this is accidental: it is the consequence of a specific program started about 1970, outlined in the Powell Memorandum, to grab control of the levers of power. Perhaps the most important factor was using military-grade propaganda methods to get the poorer half of voters voting against their own interests. It has been running for 50 years now, and has been a roaring success.

Kids come out of college now saddled with decades of crushing debt, facing homelessness after one medical or legal hiccup; scared voters are easily manipulated. Half the nation actually voted for an out-and-out con man--twice!--pretending to represent them while doing everything imaginable to grind them down further. Meanwhile the opposition has been forced to pray to the same gods, and depend on hedge funds to finance a half-hearted alternative that has to use a vocabulary created by the propaganda machine.

The amount of money generated by the US economy has gone up and up and up since 1945, but the amount collected by regular people--the less-than-99%-ers--leveled off in 1975. All the rest has gone straight to the pockets of those at the very top, even minting billionaires left and right. Make no mistake, we could all be fantastically better off given pretty small policy changes.
Having tried running the whole stack on my local a few times in the past -- which didn't work well at that time -- I'm excited to use it now.

One question I have is: how much compatible will it be eventually with other tools like Roam/Obsidian/Logseq (when we want to import the graphs)?
Pretty sure this not what author meant
I wonder how the rise of deepfakes will impact this topic.

As deepfakes become more believable and prevalent, celebrities will be able to just label any kind of sex-tape type leak as a deepfake. So hopefully this scumbag's business model is destroyed.
What benefits? Bitcoin isn’t fundamentally better than a database running on a fraction of the power (i.e. every modern bank).

The claimed benefits of BTC are (1) to remove government control of money, and (2) to eliminate the need for trust, but (1) ignores why we have chosen to give governments control of money in the first place when gold still exists (and can be traded electronically), while (2) requires you to ignore the other half of the transaction where you buy something with the money rather than just putting it in someone else’s account — reports of being ripped off by a vendor goes back to Akkadian cuneiform, and things like chargebacks and courts are there to deal with this, putting rules on what was once anonymous shiny rock that anyone could mine in a literal rather than metaphorical sense.
I disagree so strongly with you that it upsets me to see this. You’re assuming such bad faith here. It’s especially bad when the issue being complained about amounts to “people are so quick to assume bad faith from the most minor things.”
I am actually spending a good chunk of time on the process of extracting myself from the ecosystem, I’m about 50% there. Two problems make your solution a non-solution:

1. Apple is “best of the worst” i.e. the other platforms suck more on a usability basis.

2. It doesn’t matter if only a select few understand the long term impact of trading freedom/competition for shininess – our money is a drop in the bucket compared to regular users who care about usability and have already changed the channel when you talk about anything beyond that.

And so, large companies will roll along with exclusive access to things like TSMC 5nm thanks to capital resources and returns 1000x of any upstart like System76/PinePhone/FairPhone/etc.

Free markets work great, except that monopoly-like things form naturally and suck all of the air out of the room; therefore anti-monopoly laws are one of the very few regulations on capitalism I think we should all support (who wouldn’t benefit? 100 people total?).

There’s probably a way to oust them that isn’t legislation, but it will require coming at them from an angle that doesn’t rely on having access to the world’s largest pile of capital and etc. I.e. entrepreneurs getting real creative and taking huge risks on opportunity cost (it’s easier to build an app and get rich, easier still to pull $500k/year in total comp as a mid level SW engineer at big tech co).

But based on my experience and judgment of the situation, I’d like to see concise and progressive (vs regressive) antitrust/antimonopoly legislation, I think it would be both great for the economy and great for individual citizens.
I used to use multiple cursors in sublime before i switched to vim, and 99% of the time the thing i wanted to accomplish with multiple cursors could be done easily with :s/pattern/replacement/ or some variant of that.

Then I switched to neovim and got :set inccommand, which visually shows you the replacement as you type it, which feels like it accomplishes what multiple cursors/multiple selections is trying for
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That is why I only get my python packages from Debian repositories ;)
> It’s not beyond the reach of governments to ban unwanted trade

Yeah, right, it worked so well for alcohol... It DOES (/s) work so well for drugs in the US right now...
And hey imagine whether it's easier or harder to ban something that doesn't take any physical space in your suitcase and can be transacted with only internet connection.
Assembly AI is at $0.5 per hour, not extremely reasonable these days. With open source models like Facebook RASR or Vosk you can get self-hosted solution with even better accuracy and cost of $0.05 per hour, 10 times cheaper.

Once any of your customers come to require private video setup, you'll come to hosted solution anyway.
If that were true, why do you care?

If it's a small unrepresentative number of people who dislike a person, group, or thing, why would anybody care?
Its the right tool for the job, so I would say its a good thing. Its a radiation hardened processor which has proven its worth in previous missions and is well known to the developers, while also providing enough computational resources to do what they need it to do.