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"the IDEs is not as good as the java counterparts yet"

How do you mean? What IDEs are you referring to? Kotlin is fully (and very well) supported in IntelliJ Idea - unsurprisingly so, given that it's JetBrains own invention...
Go binary size makes it not an option for wasm.
You are kind of right. Install non standard stuff in python is sometimes pain. BUT you can do it absolutely right. Also most of the time only few packages make you trouble. So you just need sometimes a fix for them. That's it. You even can download it and make it completely offline. Instagram is running on python... so it is battle tested. By the way, I would always try to avoid anaconda in production.
What's weird is that octopuses are not a social species. So it's a bit of a mystery how they evolved so high intelligence without having to outsmart other individuals of their own species constantly.

It's theorethized that they have very rich environments and have to work very hard to hunt and to stay alive as they have no armor.

But the puzzle still remains why their intelligence is similar at all to the one that evolved through forced social interactions.
Facebook has literally hired BJP aligned individuals: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/27/21536149/ankhi-das-faceb...
'But when asked about this, Mr Libin has a surprising answer: "What if I paid the person in India the same as I pay someone in the US? Well, why not? Right? Like, why do I care where you live? I just care about how productive you are."'

BS, you can have 2x more skilled engineers for half the price and same quality, logic demands that you do not pay an Indian dev (which will still have greater salary than average in India) the same as US one.
I don't know enough Rust and Erlang for helping with that, but that definitively sounds great. What would you use for IPC?
Adding:

Mirrors don't have to reflect very much, they have to reflect as a picture. That's why one-way mirrors work — people generally don't notice that the light mirrored is much less than 100%. White paint is free to reflect the photons in any direction, so that >98% is a harsher requirement on the share of incoming photons, but a laxer requirement on the photons' direction.
Software Engineering for Internet Applications

About Face / The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Too long to read, I honestly tried... Someone please make a TLDR app and summarize the main content.
I am creature of habits. I like consistency in my world. I hate chaos. Java is not perfect language. But with Java I feel peaceful. At least I am not surprised by my own code. Underhyped or overhyped - I am with Java :)
> The BJP are Hindu nationalists that should be labeled as extremists

The core root of all the evil in India is the Vedas and its preaching on varna system(modern caste system). BJP is just another by product. Without educating the people on these text books its very hard to find a solution.
Your premise is that you are able to chose a language based on how appropriate it is for a specific use case. This alone shows you are not the typical user of Java!

Java is typically used in larger or long-lived organizations. It is rare to start new projects from scratch. Most development is maintenance and extension of existing systems. Even if you start a greenfield project, it would be most prudent to chose the same platform and language which is already used in the organization. An alternative language would not only have to be better, it would have to be very significantly better to make up for the overhead and headache in maintaining code in multiple languages - never mind the increased difficulty in hiring and training developers.

Geeks tend to evaluate language based on how appropriate they would be for a greenfield project with no organizational baggage. But this is an extremely rare use case for most business.

HN often has reports about startups rewriting everything from scratch every four months, when a new language or platform becomes fashionable. But this is not the world where most developers live.
Fast compilation is great for development and testing. Both local and in CI.
I use homebridge, although not with Blink, and can’t see how it could hurt a company who isn’t really interested in adding new features anyway. The’re just selling more hardware, right?
It produces the desired results in the short term. Pump and dump is only what people care about.
Yeah and btc is instantly authd by the user. You sort of proved the other person’s point haha.
How to Automate Everything from Content Creation to Marketing
The cool devs don't use the Singleton pattern anymore, we use @ApplicationScoped.

(Poe's Law disclaimer: yes, that was light sarcasm.)
How to responsibly spend your own money, budgeting, living in your means
You can profit when a stock tanks too.
Show HN: Papr app a “Tinder” for Covid preprints and papers
Doing Nothing – Sustainable Productivity (why being idle is crucial)
Google and FaceBook received funding from the US government in the early years of their existence. I think we all know why. All that information being collected was/is of massive importance.
Im building next Facebook killer. Meet new similar people at hyperlocal level
Hi, I am looking for a coder who has a chance of becoming a multi millionaire in few months. I have the next greatest idea of connecting people offline who are interested in the same things as you are but its mobile and hyperlocal and I have idea to integrate cryptocurrency in it! Msg me ASAP! Lets go! Hustlers only.
My main gripe with PoE2 (and the later Elder Scrolls games too) was that the urgency of the main plot detracts from the freedom of exploration and the flow of faction and side quests. Morrowind was great about this: you get to Caius Cosades and he tells you to go do other things before he gives you your first orders. There are a few other stopping off points in the main story too. It makes the faction quests and just taking your time exploring make so much more sense.
You still can't call it till they actually go bankrupt. And most of them don't - the underlying business and assets get sold off or absorbed somewhere else. And at the end of the day there's an actual service they provide - value is being created, just potentially not profitably.

Bitcoin is the opposite: what value it had (international transfers for Americans who live with one of the first world's worst banking systems) has been completely wiped out by the cost of transactions.

At the end of the day the hashes are valueless, no one has a product, or designs, or even any useful code.
Show HN: Dipa generates optimized code for diffing and patching Rust structs
NYC roofs are definitely painted with reflective paint. They're usually silver-ish though.
That's about normal at the high end...There's some $10-12k microphones out there...
Do they? Having a stable starting point for the “machine” you’re building on contributes to having reproducible builds does it not?
It likely rains enough in humid environments to make dust a non issue. Both because you get vastly less dust in the air and because it washes away most dust that does show up as long as the roof has a significant slant to it.

However you don’t need white to see significant benefit over a black roof, even just green helps.
always wanted for something like this, it'd be a browser plugin at best
Can’t tell if it’s performance art or not
This is mostly off-topic, but the title instantly made me think of this quote from Invisible Man:

> “Our white is so white you can paint a chunka coal and you’d have to crack it open with a sledge hammer to prove it wasn’t white clear through.”

Of course, I'm not implying any connection to this 'whitest ever' paint, but the book is quite good.
Lost me at "This cannot be understated: Java simply feels good to write."
They show any dirt really clearly so for houses it’s a crummy choice because it’s not hidden on out of view (on most houses, if it’s a modern house with a flat roof you could potentially use a flat white painted roof) which means cleaning a lot.
More importantly, there are likely billions of lines of java code in production at this point, and just having that as an option matters for those code bases.

It might not be what you choose for a new company, but it may not be fashionable here but it is very common and quality of life improvements are welcome.
> All of that to say: PHP is alive and doing very well.

Oh. I was hoping for good news. :-(
People rarely seem to add release notes for their changes and I don't think anyone goes back at the end of the release cycle and picks out the highlights.

For C++ features you also might be better off looking at cppreference.com [0].

[0]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support
I don't really know much about erlang, but I think this may be along the lines of what you are thinking of: https://github.com/bastion-rs/bastion

(I also don't really think the linux kernel people would be interested...)
It's definitely an artifact of my personality but I don't get the sense they are unwilling, though I imagine they would be coerced anyway and you could certainly start a discussion about how meaningful their consent would be in that context.

I'm a broken record but the profit motive is what will always always always enable this: people depend on this machine for their livelihoods and are only personally responsible for a negligible, ignore-able portion of its activities. Path of least resistance in a world of friction is these companies will continue to act with an agenda even its employees might disagree with (if that isn't fault tolerance though idk what is!)
For anyone else who had a hard time parsing the title:

The New Horizon probe, which is now 50 times as far from the sun as Earth, photographed Voyager 1's location.

No, you can't see Voyager 1 in the photograph.
That's a fair point, but a similar point could be made about the efficiency and energy density of solar vs. coal. Definitely about wind vs. coal. So I'd say based on that the entire original point is mastabatory at best.
Does anyone know where to find this feature in Google Earth for iOS?
It's meant to be a long read.
Thank you, your comment made me check the summary of it & I found a good one on Farnam Street → https://fs.blog/how-to-read-a-book/

Now I gotta give that book a shot :)
Why not hire people as contractors? So far it worked great for us.
Current quantum computers are way to small and noisy for any practical applications. To give an example, the largest number ever factored using Shor's algorithm on a quantum computer (without cheating) is 15.

These cloud services might be useful for researchers to test possible algorithms on. On the other hand, FOMO probably also plays a significant role in the emergence of all these quantum cloud services.
ALL Java developers should be required to watch this course (it's Free):

https://software-mastery.teachable.com/p/uncommon-sense

FYI: I am NOT an author of this course.
>It’s one of the most popular tourist destinations. The only issue is COVID.

Not true.

Since Erdogan took over and increasingly showed his true face (he started as a moderate muslim democratically elected leader and and basically turned into an Ayatollah since then) many folks in Europe (France, Germany) are very reluctant to travel there for vacation.
see also, color manufacturers that will sell to anybody who ISN'T Anish Kapoor

https://www.dezeen.com/2017/07/07/anish-kapoor-banned-from-u...
I get the impression those protections are for residential phone service, not the kind of stuff twilio does. Leaving that aside, though, SMS (at issue here) is definitely in the wireless realm, even if the messages come from an API call rather than a mobile device's radio.
Custom RSS News feed?
This stats is going to create mess without actual numbers

Can you provide value of X ?
Also #number of subscriptions?
also growth rate?
dropout rate?
timeline?

My point any advice without enough data is risky to give and take. I hope you understand.
Bitcoin alone has done more than that per year since since 2018. And there are literally thousands of other projects.

Credit cards are small by comparison.

https://mobile.twitter.com/yassineARK/status/134613927863667...
Well, shit. I've definitely been misled by this exact thing. Fuck Google.
Why would the carbon tax drastically drop bitcoin price? If electricity price increases, the difficulty dicreases.

As far as the difficulty stays high enough to keep the network secure the markets don't have a reason to care.
To expand on this, Wagner's ability to combine variations of different motifs in different modes enabled him to construct sentences, if not entire chapters of plot and story by music alone.

It's in part one of the reasons why Wagner's music is sometimes seen as impenetrable, as it demands a lot from you as a listener. This line of thinking is exemplified in this (purported) quote by Stravinsky:

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Where this ability to listen is something that is developed gradually either via osmosis or study, which is one of the reasons why listeners of classical/jazz tend to be musicians and/or elderly people.
Couldn't solar panels be used to achieve both benefits?
FLoC is a tracking mechanism. By replacing 3rd party cookies, this generally speaking means less tracking. 3rd party tracking + FLoC = bad bad. FloC only = less bad.
> Call me stupid, but what exists on android that users on iOS are begging for that only exists on android because of the "freedom" of the platform.

Right now, Fortnite.
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I also don't understand where is the "fun to write" aspect exactly that the author insists about.

"This cannot be understated: Java simply feels good to write"

But why?

The only explanation that follows is that "a lot of this is due to the craftsmanship JetBrains puts into IntelliJ IDEA. Everything is autocompleted, jump-to-definition is fast, find-usage works well, and refactoring is easy".

I too think that IDEA is an excellent IDE, but why should Java take the credit for it. If anything, the more it needs an excellent IDE in order to feel pleasant, the worse it says about the language itself.

It really looks to me like the "ignorant computer science undergrad" mainly worked with JavaScript (having only dabbled with C++ and a few other languages as part of his uni courses), and got excited by discovering a proper IDE and a statically typed language that happens to have a low entry threshold.
> The additional complexity and costs of having non-local employees can absolutely be prohibitive, leading some companies to just abuse 1099 status.
> Second, either consider a travel mod, OR start focusing on what fast travel the game presents you. There are boats and stilt striders, and then the mages guild can teleport you between different mages guilds. The Intervention spells take you back to the nearest Tribunal temple/Imperial cult shrine.

You missed the two:
- One of the official plugin that adds teleportation between any Dwemer ruin and the Caldera mages guild.
- The Mark and Recall spells.
If you look at old architecture in rural Georgia and Alabama. Houses are on rocks raised above the ground (air circulates underneath), 10 ft ceilings, a huge attic fan to pull cool air in in the evening, tall trees planted next to the house for shade (we have 4 pecan trees), and reflective tin roofs (if still shiny). This helped significantly to cooling in the summer. Winters aren't cold enough to warrant more than a fireplace in the common area. We have an old farm house built in the 1920's...the old original part of the house doesn't get uncomfortable until the temperatures outside get above 100. A newer part of the house with standard 9ft ceilings built in the 70's gets very warm and uncomfortable.
Thanks for the recommendation! I've tried AOE2 a long time ago (15 years ago) and I kind of enjoyed it, so I'll give the definitive edition a try.

Never heard of Factorio, so I'll have to check it out.
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I don’t think mining pools were what SN had in mind with that quote, although the solution you note fits smaller miners contributing hashpower, and not needing to store a big block.
Black in the winter would make the building lose heat faster - especially during the night.
That's super interesting, thank you!
Sony C800, anyone? With parts for manufacture being hard to source for Sony, I’ve seen these for nearly 20k, list price (not sure if they actually get that much), second-hand.

But then, professional equipment never had economies of scale.
Go's error checking is the 2020's equivalent of "Python's significant whitespace". Both are pretty common and rather shallow critiques of a language.
Erudite may be referring to generally well-read. Anyway, the sentence reads ok to me fwiw.
Does anybody seriously expect anything to change. On Capitol Hill, they are going to posture and make grandiose statements. Later in the day, everybody will meet at one of those fancy beltway pubs and get all cozy.
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The article will prob be on the long read podcast in next few weeks
The C800G is exactly what I was thinking of, but it's been $11k for years. Although yes, it's rarely in stock.
You’re right, but it fits in the mold of “nontraditional education” so I opted to include it.

I do know a handful of people who attended RC with minimal to zero prior programming skills, though this is definitely not the norm.
"It’s not fair"

Life isn't fair
I know this is such a small microcosm of the world, but I really love to see, just once in a while, that someone with power uses their power for the greater good and not for selfish benefit (realistically "we won't sell to Kapoor" is a marketing spin but it's still a risk and a strong statement).
What’s at Stake in the U.S. Case Against a Crypto Rebel
How do you define "last mile"? I worked at ISPs that housed Netflix storage boxes in their access layer, i.e. the last site before the cable/fibre/copper pairs went to customers' houses or mobile towers.

So do you specifically mean "except the access layer" (not accurate) or "except the last mile pairs" (accurate)? I think the distinction matters when considering monopolistic behaviour, because it determines service quality (access speed, loading times, maximum throughput...)
Is it really too much to ask, in 2021, that our computers be cabable of saying "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that", instead of "Halt and Catch Fire"?
Corrugated material could provide a white surface to the mid-day sun in the summer and a black surface to the mid-day sun in the winter. Of course you'd need to take latitude and roof slope into your calculations but I bet if you made the materials in 10-deg increments you could get something "good enough" for most use cases. Or you could just make the material change color based on temperature.

This is all known science but getting it cheap enough to be used as roofing is the trick.
On the memory capacity of social structures.pdf
You're correct that they are not social, but they appear social when it suits them:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2017/sep/1...
That is so shitty on so many levels.
Agreed, also the traffic in Indian metros like Delhi and Bangalore (and increasingly smaller metros like Jaipur) is horrible. That has certainly helped local e-commerce brands like Myntra and Ajio grow.

It's interesting how these clothing retailers still offer a very customer friendly return policy compared to electronics retailers like Amazon or Apple.
Thanks! I'll get Supreme Commander during the next sale.
I plan to try out most game recommendations in this thread then stick to the one I like most.
I think the problem is because of the virtual machine, instead of being compiled to an executable. I mean GraalVM is great - but why did it take so long to develop? I mean Sun could still be alive if developers and users had instant startup times, could have easily deployed Java to servers and clients, and that it was not only faster but used way less memory.
>Then you might get a letter from your bank telling you they just cancelled your bank account

Time to change bank.

And you're in Europe, which means you should be able to go bank-shopping beyond German borders.

Competition is a good thing, but customers must make use of it.
Sarcasm (I presume) doesn't transfer well on the internet. The parent is pointing out the absurdity of the whole idea of deflationary currency: sit and do nothing, and force the next generation to turn over more of their productivity then you ever produced.
No, it doesn't make sense.

Restrictions on land use at a local level are already handled via zoning.
> Can Rust be written to guarantee that no oom

Yes, easily, OOM is entirely a library created concept in rust, just don't use the standard library (or the `alloc` susbset of the standard library) and you don't have OOMs...

> (or other hard fail 128-bit math)

128 bit math, and floats, need to be avoided by just "not using them", the same as for floats in C code in the kernel...
Thanks! Quite a few people here recommended the game so I'll definitely play it.
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Perhaps a simple explanation would be to quantify the inputs and outputs, maybe from year to year. For instance the carbon footprint of farming should be shrinking if all of these green measures are coming online.
> Lastly, some of those unknowns are criminals: again, what's your point?

I think their point is criminals are bad, so anything they use is also bad. Like guns, and drugs, and cars, and food, and beds, and houses, and air. All bad. We shouldn't use those things, and we should ban them at the earliest opportunity.
> I doubt that's what Oracle is shooting for

My guess is that they're not trying to win over people from other languages with these features, but rather to not give Java people a reason to move to other languages. Why move (legacy and lock-in aside), when Java has the features you're considering moving elsewhere to get?
A bit off topic perhaps, but one bit of feedback to anyone thinking of publishing web-only books: I have yet to read my first web-based book from start to finish.

I find it horrifying to not be able to have any immediate way of knowing where I am in the book (which you have in both e-readers and physical books) and being able to keep a list of the books I'm currently reading, not to mention the abilities to highlight and add notes.
I don't dispute the assertion that humans thrive on personal social interaction, but why do we seem to have this baked in assumption that that personal social interaction needs to be with our co-workers ?

If we have a remote workforce, why wouldn't I want to move somewhere where I can find people of like mind and spirit and feed that need for social interaction with them rather than with my company ?
Disappointingly few of them, still. It's always depressing to fly over an area and see nothing but black rooftops, devoid of anything but HVAC equipment. I know green roofs have engineering issues but I hope one day I will instead look out my airplane window and see a sea of solar panels, small wind turbines, and rooftop gardens.
From Sony, but check Reverb... Sony has been out of stock for over a year now. The diaphragms are hard to produce/source, so second hand just keeps going up without Sony putting new units out.
Some mirrors can reflect a lot more light even if in narrower wavelength ranges. But that only makes the matters worse from a practical human perspective, when trying to use them on large surfaces outside. It would feel like staring into the Sun far too often.
If you don't mind a student rust enthusiast, I would love to take a crack at this.

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