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The damage on discourse primarily. If people are going to be able to have discussions then littering them falsities or non-truths from major media outlets would add needless friction to already difficult conversations. There's probably some amount of distrust each of these organizations gain when they affect a given group with misinformation that is close to them.
Then you were rightly flagged.
You’re missing the point. I wasn’t suggesting CGA was brilliant. I was just saying that CGA actually works best when differed because the screens of the time blended the pixels to create new colours. And that the reason CGA uses the colour scheme it does is because that allows for more colours to be created via blending.

EGA was definitely a massive step up, no question. But people also miss the point of CGA when they look as sharp screenshots rendered on a pixel perfect LCD display.
No, this is saying "If we can not change the world, let's do other productive things instead of meaningless distractions to feel good about changing the world."
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> still do not have the confidence to become a developer.

You've identified your core problem, your obstacle to leveling up, and yet show no interest in solving it. What's up with that?
By which I mean to say: the greedy rich wanting to preserve or increase their wealth at all costs is what got us into this mess. Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency pyramid scheme is going to do bugger all to improve that. No amount of wealth or technology will turn vice into virtue because: “If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.” —George Carlin

Prosperity boils down to good policy and governance. Thus, good people. Unfortunately, as far as I've seen, cryptocurrencies have produced some of the worst kind of people.
Classic heavy-handed information suppression tactics, good for her for sticking to her guns and good for Figma for supporting her.
Understanding that time is change, and that’s all it really is. Simple now I think about it.
Absolutely. I cleaned (removed cursing) more hip hop tracks than I care to remember with the highlight/reverse in Audacity. There is no other program that allowed me to do this so simply and efficiently.
I find it hard to believe that there isn’t Falun Gong text on the Bitcoin blockchain already. There certainly will be soon, now.
It's sad that, albeit being a major contributor of open source code during the 2000's, Sun Microsystems was getting a lot of hatred from many quarters the open source community. Not sure how much that contributed to Sun eventually getting acquired, but I think when it happened the world was left poorer.
a complex project where there is multiple maven projects
You don't fall into the target demographic, it's as simple as that. My comment was a gesture, openly inviting those who might wish to discuss the content of the article and the ramifications of the technology through the lens of "Brave New World", which in and of itself describes, by the virtue of its title, a wide breadth of topics which are at play in the narrative (which can be dissected manifold). I this way, I assert that I can communicate the whole architecture of the book and cut right away to the meat of the matter without entering into a lengthy expository analysis on how the book compares to the people who are intent on discussion in the same orientation.

And as to how you're defining and establishing clichés in a novel technical process, I do not know, since the nature of novelty means there is no meaningfully recurrent pattern. And I must say I don't appreciate you wantonly imperiling the accessibility of my comment. Also I suggest you read the book, it's very good. The Island is also quite good, if you're interested. I can't speak to the rest of Huxley's work.
Scientists use TeX for writing papers that they can submit to journals. As I already said, the journals don't accept ConTeXt. So of course mathematicians will rarely use ConTeXt.

> care about the technical level of its implementation

It's not about the implementation, it's about the interface.
> I think you overstate the level of lasting alienation and understate the cumulative impact that a bunch of small "trivial" changes could have over years.

Not even close. Everyone I've talked to about it makes some mention about the left having lost its mind, myself included.
So the take away something everyone has access to, and replace it with something only they can provide as a service.
> Apple's claim you're referring to is that they're environmentally friendly?

They aren’t making this claim. They are simply announcing progress in improving their environmental impact. That is what they are claiming.

Your counterclaim is that their efforts to improve their environmental impact are ‘just greenwashing’.
Yup, they are very similar as both are used to run code at high performance.

WebAssembly was designed for the browser. Users want their websites to load quickly, so startup time is crucial. Also, users want to browse sketchy websites, so security is also crucial. WebAssembly is more like an instruction set for a "fake" CPU. It's very low-level and is not ideal for running high-level languages like Ruby (though it's possible!).

On the other hand, GraalVM isn't constrained by these browser requirements. This lets Graal do nifty tricks so that highly dynamic languages - like Ruby or JavaScript - run as fast as possible.
Another happy Audacity user here, great to hear it's going to get a refresh. My only request is that performance is kept top-of-mind - using Audacity is snappy and responsive even on ancient hardware, which makes it just a pleasure to use. UI interactions feel instant. The contrast to a slow Electron app like Slack is night and day.
> But if it isn't... what's the harm?

Well for one thing it teaches people to be confused about the idea that meaning depends on context. Look at the dictionary definition of 'master' and you'll see that it doesn't exclusively represent the idea of a person who enslaves people. Consider:

* master of disguise
* grand master
* master's degree
* master tape

I would say that "master" as used in git is closest to the "master tape" definition: "an original movie, recording, or document from which copies can be made". That isn't quite what a master branch is, but "common name given to the main branch of a Merkle tree" probably isn't going to show up in your average dictionary.

It also creates conflict for no good reason between people who are comfortable with multiple meanings of words and people who view any objection to their interpretation of the English language as evidence of racism.
There are signal processing techniques to cleanly separate audio into different logical tracks, using an array of microphones. These techniques are used e.g. when recording concerts, but also to reduce echo and background noise in voice calls.
R with StatET?
As a daily user I'm glad that eclipse is still around. After so many of my colleagues switched I tried to use Intellij for Java+Maven projects twice in earnest, but there were too many small things it felt like it did not quite as well.
Or it will create enough wealth to pay the wealthiest 1% $1.3M a year, which seems the more likely outcome given that most AI infrastructure will be owned by a small fraction of the population.

FTA: "However, if the government collects and redistributes the wealth that AI will generate, AI’s exponential productivity gains could 'make the society of the future much less divisive and enable everyone to participate in its gains,' Altman says."

There is nothing special about AI wealth---comparable technologically-assisted gains have dramatically increased the income of the wealthy over the past few decades, and government has so far shown little interest in taxing and redistributing those gains. It's hard to see why the future would be different, absent some dramatic social shift.
Babies' demands certainly do compel parents to figure out what to do so they can get enough peace to grab time back for themselves.

What changes once babies grow into toddlers is that they develop the capacity to learn new behaviours, not just through the trial and error of stimulus/response, but through instructions given by language. That's where mothers and fathers excel. The quality of their instructions can be measured by the agility and resilience of the behaviour these instructions impart.

Done well, parenting is not just coding - it's software engineering.
Press the “LaTeX online” button under a code snippet to see the rendered result.

PS: Do you have JS enabled?
if you acknowledge that the “best universities” dont create better or more productive programmers for what companies in the sector actually do, and those universities’ demographics are perpetuated by socioeconomic disasters then you are simply expanding your recruiting efforts

also this person’s company doesnt do any recruiting so that not a strong argument for them
I think you seriously underestimate how ugly society would get if the government went bankrupt, and how quickly bitcoin would be rendered useless. Moreover, if governments are corrupt on fiat, they'll be corrupt on bitcoin as well.
I have tried a few times to use it and man is it bizarre and hostile.

SoundForge was fantastic. Now I just do everything in Reaper. Both non-free of course, but Reaper is really cheap and works everywhere and does so much more than just audio editing.

Edit: the love Audacity is getting in the comments inspires respect! There is obviously something that I missed...
Thumbs up for Tim Pool. He was my big discovery a year ago.
> Funny that rain is part of the sounds

Ireland. Rainy country. That's why, I guess.
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Exactly right. I specifically remember someone excitedly telling me at the time that the VGA Indiana Jones "is completely photo-realistic!"
Love it, this is going to save us so much time not having to develop a stream management app.
It's offensive. I'm actually pretty sad that people here are so reactionary to the change. I don't understand why people would be angry, particularly because changing the name wasn't some initiative created by a giant corporation. It seems like common decency to me.
>We didn't have an abrupt, acute disruption in the money supply, though - at least not a negative one. The quantity of money available went up by 40% in March 2020, and velocity went down correspondingly.

I will abuse this opportunity to talk about why inflation is necessary and why the current way of merely increasing the money supply did not cause inflation.

Dollars are like flour. Just another commodity that can be bought. Instead of benchmarking assets against the dollar we start benchmarking the dollar against a theoretical benchmark currency that always retains its value perfectly and never changes. I will call this benchmark "Effort".

For simplicity we will assume that on day one the value of the dollar is exactly 1 effort until the value of the dollar changes (either through a reduction or increase in money supply).

If the dollar is deflationary and the supply goes down over time then it will become worth more than 1 Effort. As I said earlier the dollar is a commodity just like anything else. This means that if the supply of the dollar shrinks then there is a shortage of dollars, exactly the same way there could be a shortage of houses or a shortage of food. We must create more dollars until the dollar is worth around 1 Effort again.

The question is, where is that supposed shortage of dollars? Who exactly is desperate for liquid cash? Definitively not publicly traded companies and their owners. Holders of cryptocurrencies? Maybe but we are reaching deep into trickle down economics because of the small portion of retail traders. There is a case to be made for infrastructure investments and maybe unemployment benefits/stimulus checks but even then the amount of money that is truly needed isn't enough to explain why the quantity should be increased by 40%.

The only thing that is certain is that the wealth transfer effect is not considered undesirable by the Fed and that they would do it again, even if it doesn't solve any real problems.
I've used NetBSD, FreeBSD, CentOS and Debian as a desktop OS, and they all felt similar in terms of setting up the desktop stuff i.e xorg and then more DE and OS specific stuff... if you are expecting Ubuntu style one click install straight into a ready made desktop then you should be looking at DesktopBSD and similar variants... honestly though it's 1000 times simpler to install a desktop from a minimal OS than it was 20 years ago when you had to generate your own xorg config.
ebay have been randomly censoring stuff for stupid reasons for a while (e.g. they (approximately, details best double checked) won't sell historical records involving slavery much to the annoyance of historians).

I'm minimally troubled by the discontinuation of what I'm fairly sure actually -were- underperforming titles while also extremely pissed with ebay.
haha my first thought when seeing this is "this is pinduoduo but without the team buy button"
I found Bill Brysons : “A short history of nearly everything” rather including regarding people who nearly made history standing in the shadow of the people history remembered.
Thanks, rather eye openning. Wonder who are these "third part[ies]" and what sort of services they provide to ycombinator.
In college, two of my roommates were tussling and knocked a hole low in the wall between the kitchen bar and the hallway. As the only one with much craftsmanship ability, I took the roomie who was to pay for it down to the home center to buy drywall, tape, mud, and paint to fix the hole. Going to check out, we passed the air intake grills and the light bulb went on - we swapped the repair stuff for a grill and filter, went home to hack out a rectangular hole, and installed a new bogus air intake in the wall in just a few minutes. (The real intake was in the hall ceiling a few feet away, so it wasn't noticeable.)

Way quicker, cheaper, and easier than actually patching the wall and trying to match paint, and it got our deposit back, which was important since we were all broke seniors with no money coming in until we started our jobs. I've often wondered if anyone ever changed that filter! (My wife won't go for this method, so I've gotten pretty decent at matching drywall texture since then...)
That was then, and this is now. To call the descendants of people who went through that period either "privileged" or "marginalized" is no different than visiting the sins of the father upon the son. It's morally reprehensible.
The contribution of the 4-day week on its own could be negative for productivity. It’s possible that without it you would have higher improvement to productivity than 40% due to the other changes in the experiment.

You don’t know whether you got that extra 40% by getting 20% from the change to a 4-day week and 20% from the other changes. Or -20% from the 4-day week and +60% from other changes. Or any other combination.
What's a super-minimalist Eclipse configuration that's just good enough for Java development?
FreeBSD by default installs command-line only. FreeBSD is intended to be a base system suitable for both servers and desktops, so X11 is an optional install. The guide for newbies [1] and the FAQ [2] both point to GhostBSD or MidnightBSD as more suitable for full-desktop.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies/

[2] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/faq/
It won't be mandatory, you'll simply lose a bunch of - entirely optional - rights, such as the right to travel abroad :)
Sadly many people's world view seems entirely influenced buy social media jerks, and weird "news" sources.

Folks a few miles from me believe the city another few miles from me have Somali dominated 'no go zones' and folks in the city think everyone outside is a racist county bumpkin.

Fortunately they can agree they both dislike the suburbs, where I live.
I think a more suitable pair of common antonyms is “predictability” and “unpredictability”.
Depending on where the load balancer is in the protocol stack, it might be hard to signal the client to please reconnect. I've tended to run/use load balancers in tcp mode or direct server return mode; in both cases, the load balancer can't signal the client or server (except by killing connections, which isn't ideal).

If you do restart with reconnect, many clients will need to reconnect multiple times, as it they get kicked off early, they'll tend to connect to another old server, and have to get kicked off again later. This isn't great because connection startup is usually expensive; also a (hopefully) small minority of clients may have difficculty connecting because of network issues and it may take them a substantial time to get reconnected.

If you have a working hotload path, you get clients to new server server code faster using less resources.

Load balancing software is also often behind some other layer of load balancing/availability (DNS or ECMP or BGP or CARP), and a hot load means you don't need to churn that layer, which can avoid any issues with changes in that layer.
Bunch of republican politicians tried to claim it was "Biden's fault" and Ted Cruz is now selling autographed copies of Green Eggs and Ham ... which continued to sell just fine and there's no reason to think will be discontinued any time in the forseeable future.
> FWIW I live in Paris, France and I think the tech scene is quite diverse here.

Having free education for everybody surely helps.
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This is the most insane thing I have read in quite some time.
I think you should check out Tentacruel’s videos on YouTube about the UX of music composing suites!
You’re going to claim authoritative representation of American mainstream opinion based on a blog post by a Canadian author who lives in Europe?

More importantly, you’re conflating two very different situations: saying that the Russians _interfered_ with the election is a factual position and random people who are not in power complaining about it or saying that the legitimately elected candidate doesn’t speak for them is very different than the current President baselessly claiming fraud and trying to use his office to get legitimate votes thrown out or request that fake ones be manufactured. Trying to equate the two is simply dishonest.
That is an unbelievable pun. I really try to avoid these sorts of comments, but this is extraordinary. For the greater good, even.
EV production is only constrained on a month by month basis. Going year over year the ~40% compound annually ramp up in production would hit 100% of new car sales going EV in by 2032. That’s clearly not going to happen so things are slowing down.

That said, grid batteries should ideally be using different chemistry to handle the increased charge/discharge cycling.
One could use some Unicode bracket character instead, e.g. U+276F: https://gist.github.com/claybridges/8f9d51a1dc365f2e64fa
Congrats to the Audacity team. This project is legendary.
7-8 meter diameter mirror in outer space would be too small? Should be possible to put into orbit in one starship launch. And a system of big mirrors could be probably assembled and aligned together, without gravity and outside vibrations.
Thanks! This is good to know as well. And thanks for pausing to help someone who honestly has no spare time whatsoever to dig in. I know that is probably frustrating for some (not necessarily you, it’s just I’ve been there and it can be exasperating)
Hi! So while fastlane is great for automating the parts of the process that usually live in CI, we think a big chunk of the process lies outside of the realm of CI. For example, things like understanding what work is going into the release, communicating progress on manual regression testing, and triaging issues as they come in from internal or external beta testing are all parts of the process that can’t be automated with CI.

We think a holistic solution should exist that can pull everything together to provide a true representation of progress towards a successful release that takes into account these parts of (and people involved in) the process.
The lab this is from has a nice page with some of their publications here: https://thehumananimalbond.com/publication-media/
Isn’t this already the case? Legislative offices in some countries are eavesdropping-proof, so one would imagine that drowns out sound coming from the outside. Protestors these days are under no illusion that politicians are looking at them as they protest, rather their goal is to win over members of the general public walking by, and make a splash in the media that might then get the business world and politicians’ attention.
About 70% of transactions are in USDT, and bitcoin’s price rise has followed increases in Tether tokens. It would appear the price surge has been backed by USDT because currently the bitcoin market accepts USDT as equal to USD, despite evidence USDT is not backed.

Bitcoin itself is powered by the miners, but the fiat value of bitcoin is backed by USDT. If there was doubt about the peg you’d see a run.
I know you're one of the Terminal authors from GitHub - a pity the title isn't better as your work would get a lot more attention for the announcement.
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Snake Plisskin? I heard you were dead...
The Java IDE download of Eclipse - it's just the base IDE with all the Java addons. The editor is fantastic, I hate the rest of the design paradigm but I also hate IntelliJ's - it never clicked with me.

The quality of all the other addons are variable from amazing to trash (because there is a commercial version they'd rather you bought).

That was always the problem with Eclipse foundation - the struggle between what's free in the IDE and what's commercial and how to drive spenders towards the commercial solutions.
>> I don't know how people can do that, slaughter an animal they've raised themselves

From "So You (Don't Particularly) Want to Be a Farmer", https://scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2010/02/24/how-to-exp...:

"Wait until you have either a sick one that desperately needs to be put down, or some animal so obnoxious and unpleasant that the thought of eating them is actually kind of appealing (my three year old still announces, with some satisfaction "We ate Corey" - the mean rooster who kept attacking him.)"
> They should be removed from the equation entirely.

Yeah, this always ends well...
Not eating meat.

Not using crypto currencies.

Not contributing to increase the population of humans.
You've used the term plugin interface, but would API be a better fit? Have an API that exposes everything a user would need to see in the UI. Then whatever knob/button/fader/etc can call the same APIs to interact with the data. At that point, you could have a UI on a tablet calling a more powerful laptop/desktop install doing the lifting and connected to monitors/etc.

To me, plugins are something that provides additional functionality to the native abilities of the program.
But they fixed the wrong "errors"

C++ is actually a good language. But everything that comes from C is bad.
main is less typing, big win for me!
Yes, not having to install and integrate 5-6 workflow plugins of questionable provenance to have acceptable devex out of the box.
I don't disagree - and that's part of the reason (other than generally disliking the act of whitewashing our history) that I'm happy that this take down wasn't activist driven - but it certainly is portrayed in some media outlets as being an attack by the left.

I've seen some of his WW2 propaganda and saw a lot of the contemporary artwork from other artists while I was in school - buck-toothed squinty asians in rice hats abound - and he very rightfully walked that back and acted in a reasonable manner. I don't think this has particularly tarnished his image but I also avoid twitter and facebook zealously so I tend to be outside of most of the outrage bubbles.

I do hope that his image continues to do well since he was ahead of the curve on a number of issues near and dear to my heart.
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