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That interview with George Plimpton (I think) is great, but Hemingway does eventually go into a bit more detail when pressed. My interpretation is that he admires people who have a deep well of talent and knowledge and use that to push art and science in a new direction. Bill Watterson is an excellent classical painter and painted the Creation of Adam on his dorm room ceiling, and although Calvin and Hobbes doesn't look like Michelangelo, that painting and experience is "in" his comics. Dali, Cezanne, and Mozart could have easily mimed past art and music, but they saw beyond what was done before to push in new directions. For his part, Hemingway goes on to explain that (to him) writing is like an iceberg - 7/8 of it is experience and knowledge hidden from the reader - they only see the part sticking above the water.
Well, some say (I disagree) that C is a bug.
My thoughts exactly--Having a fleet of client-side machinery open to the Internet sounds like a larger overall risk footprint than having one hosted solution. I'm guessing a bit part of this is just customer psychology and lack of education.
"async-std variant, tokio variant"

So we're not even seeing the problem here? A giant turd in the middle of the room everyone is politely stepping around.
And Plato before him had his cave.

For a while now, I’ve been intrigued by the possibility of literally unthinkable thoughts; something that is outside the capacity of human neural architecture in the way that HTML is outside [0] the capacity of RegEx?

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
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I wish, but that is now my goal to find that number! https://howlett.sexy/ its over on here if you want to see ;p
FYI we're actively working on native Linux support. It will be rolled out in phases, but we're targeting parity with the Mac and Windows platforms. The first release is planned for this April.

The client is in early field trials right now. I don't think we have public links to the client as yet. Also, we're still fighting the "which distros" battle. We'll start with Ubuntu and CentOS / RedHat, with more to follow.

Here's our announcement about it from a few months back: https://blog.webex.com/team-collaboration/webex-community-me...
It is now. Was it then? AFAICT from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11 none of the PDP-X machines had a segmented architecture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment
Indeed. That's where our idea was born. However, most of those companies (especially the 2 that you mentioned) focus more on graphic design instead of product (ux/ui). They also outsource all of their work to low cost, junior level designers, while we do everything in-house.
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Does anyone know a tool or a way to mute specific apps like Zoom or Microsoft Teams?

I am on a lot of meetings, and sometimes I just have to show up on the attendee list without having to say anything, nor is anything interesting being said.

I would pay for a solution which is live transcribing text of these meetings so I can parse them for interesting words I need to follow up, or unmute the app to engage.
Sometimes, if I have eye strain, I will use a sleeping eye cover mask and listen to an audiobook. After about five minutes, your ability to visualize and remember the words gets noticeably better, even with something super dense like William Gibson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAmurh7HqWI
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> Try it if your Windows 10 is updated enough

And if it's not, please go update your Windows. You should not be reading HN with out outdated operating system.
“The gap between most writing and pure ideas is not filled with poetry.” It’s a simple sentence, filled with ideas, humour even. And it comes across vividly for me as some prone to over elaboration. It always comes back to “as simple as possible” being a rule to live by, write code by.
You ever try to read some social science papers? Or a consultant's slide deck? They're quagmires of "wtf does this even mean?"

In college (and then consulting), I was basically trained to write like I'm trying to convince someone I'm smart. It only got in the way once I left and started trying to communicate real ideas. Graham's advice is very good for mundane, day-to-day writing.
Yes, but tsc is super-slow if you don't use watch mode (and to be honest even if you do). The advantage of using esbuild is that it doesn't slow down the edit-test workflow.
While I completely agree that this here collective aneurysm (or shall we call it "cryptocurrency derangement syndrome") is painful to see, your lack of understanding can only be explained by the fact that NFTs of digital images don't work on a technical level. There is really not much else to discuss.
"Many" schools. Why do you need more information than that? It must be a lot of schools, since it says "many".
Literally everywhere. HN just strips out emojis from posts, because they're obnoxious.
Well a lot of professional investing is done on margin. Which is a fancy term for "borrowed money".
Back when I went to high school, the tech curriculum was so rudimentary that the most knowledgeable programmers in the school were the self-taught teenage hackers.

From the school's perspective their relationship with programming was adversarial, trying to prevent students from breaking into things or defacing the lab equipment.

I wonder if this is still the case.
I think it depends on where you are from and what you read growing up. I hail from a place that most outsiders would describe as unsophisticated, so naturally I rebelled in my youth by reading the most technically and prosaically dense language I could find. While I do still enjoy that type writing -- fiction books where I have to keep a dictionary, calculator, and pad of graph paper handy -- for professional communication pg and Feynman and all the advocates for simplicity are right.

There is no benefit to insiders or outsiders in a field to unnecessary use of jargon when simpler forms of expression are available. I greatly the prefer the no-nonsense, practical, straight talking, ignore the eggshells on the floor, git-r-done communication of a classical sci-fi engineer.
We have very different memories of the early 2000s.

I distinctly remember hunting down and deleting all the DLLs and registry crap these uninstallers left behind.
ps: the Handbook that desribes Church discipline is available online to all, and such discipline requires witnesses or confession (edit: or evidence, probably); so fabricated accusations, while probably painful, won't cause excommunication. There is also (to us) scripture that says Church discipline can only deprive one of membership, not of personal property or life, and that we should obey the law. Appeals are possible, and again, God knows everything anyway and things really can be OK.

pps: I have lived in and visited a variety of places, and I read a lot. The Church is the best influence in my life, helping me and others I know, in some very hard times. A lot there.
Can you explain that? As an engineer I think generally anything that can be done more simply is nearly always better.
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Even people coming up with stories about greek gods were "about trying to understand the nature of reality.". That phrase is far too vague to be usefull
They should block it just based on how terrible it is. Worst editor I have ever seen.
but why? there is literally no need for that kind of tech in elections. That aspect of election ain't broken, don't fix it
Which schools? And what is this online petition going to achieve?
I am curious about your use case for these tools. What do you find them being so shitty at?
I think his point was that folks who participate in open source have higher demands for changes and support. If a business is pure SaaS only with no open source code behind it, there is less interaction in general. I'm sure there's still support tickets and whatnot, but there's not the same level of "please fix this" requests. People just move on from commercial packages if they don't do what they need, in my experience.

From the post:

> In the past, when it came to running a business as a solo-founder, having it open source created too much maintenance burden for very specific feature requests. In particular from non-paying users, who sometimes sent me emails directly, demanding I look at their issue, or help them fix things “as soon as possible”.

This lack of interaction is both a feature (lets you focus, you have time to take care of paying users) and a bug (less interaction means you could build the wrong thing, the source is no longer a marketing mechanism for you).
FYI I just commented about our upcoming Linux client in another thread in this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425669
I see ingredient purity as a cultural thing. Every culture has some version of it, especially as a form of conspicuous consumption. Wine, tea, and coffee immediately come to mind.

Chinese people can be absolute snobs about tea, but the same people like bubble tea which isn't made with high quality tea because you wouldn't taste the difference through the milk and sugar. Both are delicious in their own way.

Just speaking for my own diet (mostly Chinese), it's common to steam a fresh fish with a bit of salt, ginger, and scallion, and let the fish speak for itself. But the very next meal might be a curry or some other dish that relies heavily on the sauce. But then none of that carries over to making steak (buy high quality, cook neurotically), or making gumbo (get a few specific parts right but otherwise it's a high-tolerance dish), or making coffee.

There are definitely different paradigms for food, and I think if someone is unable or unwilling to appreciate that, it's their loss.
How do scanning tunneling microscopes work?
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Not everyone agrees with the line "Rust is a C++ replacement, not a C replacement." I work with a bunch of C folks who never considered C++, but love Rust now.

It's sort of the same thing as people who say "Go is a C replacement." That is a thing some people say, but to me, it never really made sense.

The key is, what a language means to the person who uses it can differ between people. And what benefits they see out of another language can differ between people.
Could be they overzealously blocked a load of things that could be used to cheat on exams (a REPL can be used as a calculator). Never attribute to malice etc.

Not saying it’s right but I think it’s unlikely there’s some nefarious current in teaching to stop kids learning to program.
> And we would buy ourselves time to solve energy storage coming from renewables.

To my understanding, the intermittency/baseload problem is a much larger problem than people give it credit for. And I don't think it is safe to assume that we will eventually "solve energy storage", any more than we can count on eventually developing commercially viable fusion or any other still-pie-in-the-sky technologies.

Perhaps we will, but dangerous to count on.
Disclaimer: I am not a hard core consumer of async utilities and idioms.

Does anyone remember Aspect Oriented Programming? Past the peak of OOP excitement, there was a set of problems that OOP hadn't just made magically simple, and aspects were the solution. I recall it was always the same basic three examples that were used to illustrate why everyone needed them. Compilers were enhanced, libraries were written, lots of papers submitted, lots of conference sessions and talks. And then it all kind of faded away.

Is the async movement going to be a case of history rhyming with itself? I see some similarities (and of course some differences).

(If iOS Grand Central Dispatch is to be considered an async implementation, I consume a bit of async that way I guess)
From the petition[0]: "Some schools have called the site a "distraction" as kids are choosing to learn computer science and programming as opposed to working on other subjects."

[0]: https://www.change.org/p/schools-of-the-world-unblock-replit...
I've found I do this, but the reason I tend to (especially in technical conversations) is to try and establish a shared vocabulary. Often times I find that I understand the words people are saying but not enough of the context. Injecting an example of my own helps anchor the conversation for me and keeps the exchange of ideas going.
Given that the main software is AGPL, the extensions would also be open source.
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Stretch before sleeping.
https://github.com/kragen/XCompose for those who prefer a more methodical approach.
Not for me. (I suspect the details of this vary between system versions, and they certainly depend on settings chosen in System Preferences / Keyboard / Shortcuts.)
> On the other hand, if you batch records into files of appropriate sizes

Too much work. If you're a startup that's too much stuff to maintain. Much easier to get a hosted MongoDB and launch tomorrow.

And when you only have 2 months rent in the bank and investors want demo after demo in order to give you cash, tools like MongoDB do make a difference. And yes, I've been in that situation before.
There is no privacy with sites like SearchPeopleFree (dot) com

That's all u need to find out almost anything about anyone! Even if a prospective online dater gives you their Google voice number the site is gonna most likely tell you almost all about them.
Yes, it was I guess that was a bug I'm the student name to email generator. They quickly provided me a convenient alias but I was still able to receive mail at the address with the apostrophe, and it was cool. Having an apostrophe in my name still triggers a surprising numbers of bugs to this day...
That's usually true even with a good curriculum...
That seems to have the same problem as property deeds. Unless the compelling example is something like "tax evasion" it isn't obvious why this is particularly useful or desirable, so we're right back where we started.
We publish a lot of content.

Previously we had a virtual assistant:

1. Create a Google Doc

2. Title it according to a specific standard

3. Copy/paste information into it

4. Make the link publicly shareable

5. Update our CMS with the link to Google Docs

6. *1,000

This work sucks, and it's much easier to depend on a machine than hiring, training, documenting, managing, QAing someone to work in a bad job.
I don't think I agree. I find 'engage' to be a fairly average verb in this context. More importantly, if that's the most hypocritical word you can find I think he's probably taking his own advice in this article.
They are referencing the line about the employee discount.
It's pretty close. There have been PRs landing to close the gap with Multicore for a couple of releases now.

You should see an OCaml 5.0 branch (which brings parallelism via Domains) in the next couple of months. The time between that branching and release depends a lot on how the review process for the Multicore patches go though.
One of these days I'm gonna have to try it. Every time I read it, a lot of things strike me as Wrong (special preprocessor, obfuscated names, bypassing the "intended" way to use CSS). But so many people say "I love it and use it for everything" that it's worth investigating. (I had similar complaints about React and it's practically indispensable now.)

in a rare case where CSS actually seems to have an intent rather than throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks
sure, but I'm afraid I'm not skilled enough to explain metaphysics in a short form. Perhaps I should just link to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics
I think this is the true reason that telemetry is as raw as possible.

The happy-path telemetry tells you very little you didn't already know, but when something goes wrong, those last few bits before the transmitter went silent can make or break your analysis. Sitting on bits until you have enough to run a block through the cipher seems like a terrible idea, even if that's only a few microseconds.

Things happen mighty fast when you're trying to get data that might represent the structural collapse or propagation of a blast wave through the body of a hypersonic vehicle.
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Another 'cloud default pricing' casualty. I'd buy more than 5x as many services if the default price was $2/month.

Maybe cloud infrastructure is still too expensive?
Yes.

It's right there in bold: the customer is provided with the source code of the extension when they purchase it. So long as the user is free to study, modify, and distribute this source code, then it's FOSS.
Brings back some memories because this was the first "large" program available to me for study when I was first learning to program, around 1978.

Having talked my way into using the local university EE dept's 11/45, I found the source tree was mounted (they had a 90MB CDC "washing machine" drive) and decided to print it out on the 132-col Tally dot-matrix printer.

Some minutes into this, the sysadmin bursts into the terminal room, angrily asking "who's running this big print job".

I timidly raise my hand. He asks what I'm printing. I tell him the C compiler source code because I want to figure out how it works. He responds "Oh, that's ok then, no problem, let me know if you need more paper loaded or a new ribbon".
Open source == no protection. You rely on the morals of your customers. At any time somebody bigger than you can take your free source, modify it, make it better because they have already a base and sell it as closed proprietary software and you can't do anything about it.
There's a new technology that allows concrete producers to inject carbon dioxide into concrete. Two of the leading companies in this space are CarbonCure and Solidia.
As it happens, my degree is in physics. the majority of high radioactivity elements that you are describing decay within 5 years the remaining waste that sticks around for 30k+ years isn't nearly as radioactive. The rods burning off hot radioactive material are not intended to leave the plant and hence I didn't call them out in the waste products.

When it comes to low concentrations of radioactive heavy metals like those in spent fuel rods after 5 years the bigger danger tends to be heavy metal poisoning where they are dramatically more toxic than lead.
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It’s pretty much a given that in most recipes the quantities are a rough estimate. But at least you have starting point. With gnocchi I have no idea where to start and I have never seen them made so I simply don’t know what’s “just right”.
We don't have data sheets, like professional electronic components have. I guess we value Turing/Church more than predictability.
I think he’s talking about “engage” in the meaning of the word before it became a metric. Like to think about it, try it out in your own life, and discuss with others. Not view, like, share, comment, subscribe.
Title is probably sensationalist. More likely that stretched IT departments at schools implement one-size-fits-all content blockers for websites and this particular site is caught up in a blocked category. I have strong doubts that schools are collaboratively targeting and blocking repl.it in particular.
A big part of being 16 is thinking that you know everything.

But to be perfectly blunt, to a young man I would just tell him girls aren't going to really like you unless you get down to a healthy weight. That's the only thing that will probably get though.
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There’s a whole economy around buying and selling carbon footprints. If you run a factory that does nothing but release CO2 into the atmosphere, you can legally be “carbon neutral” as long as you give enough money to green companies who do the work of offsetting your impact for you.
I don't get why this is an issue. I slacked off on many boring subjects to do the same. Building software and other digital stuff helped me think like an entrepreneur, and was a hell of a lot more educational than the rest of school.
Are there projects built on top of this branch already ?
The most interesting thing, to me, is that if you abandon materialism, what does it say about Consciousness?

Consciousness can't come from material if it doesn't really exist. So is material "created" by Consciousness?
Ah! What a coincidence — I registered my Banana Republic account with a gmail "+" email (eg, my_email+bananarepublic@gmail.com) as is my standard practice with retail accounts, and I have the same login issues. It's quite odd, but I'm glad it's not just me!
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OK HN help me out on this one. This whole NFT phenomenon just has to be primarily driven by money laundering right?
Like there's no possible way a person, who is in possession of $69 million dollars, has decided that they'd rather have this image file right? It's impossible.

So we must conclude that what's actually happened is they have $69MM in gains, and they're a known entity, and they'd like to offset that with $69MM in loss somehow and transfer the gain to an unknown or untraceable entity. Or whatever the more accurate version of that basic dynamic is.

Am I wrong?
Absolutely — this technology would work very well for cargo ships, and after we make it work for semi trucks, we plan definitely to scale up to help decarbonize other hard-to-electrify forms of long-haul transport like locomotives and cargo ships.
Is there a good table charting the unique strengths and weaknesses of databases (or database types), so that people that are looking to build things but don't have the background could choose the right tool for the job?

If not, that may make a popular HN post!

Cassandra, CouchDB or Mongo? Redis? SQLite? Mysql/Maria/Percona or Postgres? Cockroach? Timescale or Influx? Why in the world do all these tools exist?
Yeah I think it's like a hand written letter. One of my younger friends saw an old mini boombox I had in my garage collecting dust and pleaded with me to let her have it and to make her an 80's mix tape of some of my favorite "hits" from the period. It was quite fun to clean the old thing up and clean the play area then get some songs off amazon that I loved and make a mix tape. She loves it and mentions it to this day (I did this like 5 years ago) and says she pulls it out a few times a year to play that tape and some other she's found since. Anyway I'm glad some people still appreciate the effort adds a bit more TLC than sending a spotify song list :)
No problem at all. Definitely does, it's a broad problem and we're still figuring it out too.

As a dev, I almost always miss my GitHub notifications unless I'm constantly checking the platform in my browser. We want to bring all the platforms we use for work into one native place. Does that make more sense now?
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Maybe because repl.it can be used to bypass other school restrictions?

A quick search trying to find anything in the news about this just brought up a bunch of threads of people teaching others to use repl.it to bypass computer restrictions.

https://repl.it/talk/learn/How-To-Visit-Blocked-Sites-~-Usin...

https://repl.it/talk/learn/Bypassing-School-Restrictions/245...

https://repl.it/talk/share/Proxy-Get-Past-School-Filters-Or-...
I kinda agree with this, one thing I'd add is that what is "intuitive" is what matches our intuition, honed over millions of years to...survive wild animal attacks, throw spears accurately and not fall out of trees.

There isn't really any reason to expect physics to match our intuition, when our intuition isn't built for dealing with the sorts of things modern physics deals with.
They are talking about this line:

> Me: sure, can you remind me of the employee discount again?

Which suggests that you would/did ask for (an employee) discount code when renting from that company.