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> An app sitting in a chrome tab is significantly different than an app built on electron, they just share some rendering code paths.

That isn't really true, Electron is basically a thin veneer over the Chrome browser, with NodeJS tacked on the side. Just take a look at the source code.

> Electron apps have shown that you can use a browser's rendering engine to make high quality apps distributed on multiple platforms.

Electron has shown that you can use a re-skinned browser and NodeJS to ship applications on all platforms capable of running Chrome. That ranges somewhere between "acceptable tradeoff" and "absolute overkill", depending on the application.

> You don't have memory limitations, and you don't have to worry about browser sandboxing, malicious or well intentioned extensions that break the experience, etc.

You still do have almost all of the limitations of a web browser in your rendering code, and you have none of the features of the web browser outside of it. The bridge between the two is inefficient.
Because having control of your feelings is a skill and can be obtained through "suffering" for example, and older individuals have more experiences in life.
How can this be true? You're telling me that you don't have to consider HOW MUCH you're saving?

50% of a McDonalds burger flipper salary while a large percentage of their salary, is still a very small amount of money.

Where does this logic of 50% for 20 years come from? Seems like a serious broad "rule of thumb" kind of thing that is only just barely realistic?
The reason it is so feared is because it's next to impossible to contain once it starts without causing massive economic hardship.

In fact, the Fed could likely do next to nothing about inflation with our country's current debt levels.

Even at a historically average rate of 8%, our federal government would either go bankrupt, cut most spending, or massively raise taxes, causing a severe economic retraction. (Our $26T in debt would require half of the entire federal budget to service our debt at such rates.)

Many of our largest corporations would also fold, unable to service their massive debts. It'd be a disaster.

That's why people fear runaway inflation, even if it hasn't been a problem for several decades. Once you can identify it as a problem, it's too late.
If they were to officially support this use-case of arbitrary data transmission, you could also default to non-GPS-located transactions, which would save that power except in cases where the user has specified that they do need locations.

Also, coarse location (cellular and wifi) uses basically no power, and might be good enough for an awful lot of applications.
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CSS was originally intended to consolidate document style information, so you didn't have to repeat "24 point bold, blue" for all your section titles. It's pretty good for that, but then we somehow decided that it should also handle the entirely separate job of page layout. Which led to years of standards people yelling at us to use CSS and not tables, and then plugging their ears when asked how to implement complex designs like vertically centered text.
> But when the trial did happen every single accusation Apple made against Qualcomm turns out to false before they were quickly settled.

Sorry, could you expound on this a bit? I don't recall hearing about this.
That makes sense. One part I'm still not clear on is how you accomplish a "restore" to fix the broken state of a process with a bitflip. Is it enough to simply copy all the shared state memory over as a block and jump into executing it? That seems like it would require the invariant that shared memory never references private memory, and I'm not sure how to statically enforce that.
I loathe this saying, along with the entire "explain it like I'm five" trend that has taken off in recent years. Yes simple and concise explanations are valuable, but there still needs to be a baseline. There are certain things that just cannot be explained to a layperson unless they have some prerequisite knowledge in the field. I didn't know Einsten's grandma, but it is safe to assume that the lady did not exactly grasp the theory of relativity or quantum physics.

Here's a better quote (also sometimes attributed/misattributed to Einstein) – “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
I am hopeful that you have misread the consensus that vim is most commonly used by those on HN... emacs is obviously the better choice and needs to be perceived as the best/most popular to keep the community active :)
> Utter BS like critical race theory would never get a toe hold in our schools, for example, if people paid attention at all to what was going on in their literal back yard.

The toeholds would still be there. This stuff seeps into schools because it is taught in university education departments, which provide required credentials for schoolteachers. If people paid attention to what was happening in their backyard, none of that would change.

But if people paid attention to their local schools, they might do a better job preventing educational fads from growing in them.
The best way to get vendors to make security a priority is to not perpetually coddle them. At this point in time if a vendor cant react to something in under a month in a half that's more on them than the rest of us.

If anything the security community should be steadily decreasing the amount of embargo time. I wouldn't be opposed to different classes/criticality of vulnerabilities having different timelines. But for vulnerabilities where everyone's collective ass is proverbially hanging out there the times should be VERY short.
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i think copying some cells from excel into outlook, which i guess is the comparable transaction, works pretty well - what doesn't work for you? Maybe I am just missing out on some amazing functionality by not using google docs.
It is quite well know ( mentioned multiples times in this thread and in every other TV discussions for he past years ) the smart features collect data and shows you ads which earn the manufactures a continuous stream of revenue.
pedantic, tangential rant: I still don't understand why people include Netflix in that calibur. From what I heard and researched, Netflix doesn't hire junior talent and their scope of work is a fraction of Microsoft/Apple/Google. If competitive pay is the only distinction here, I'm sure we can expand that acronym to include a dozen more tech companies
It is worse in a democracy. In a representative system you only need to find one person who shows up for a bunch of like minded people. In a democracy you personally need to show up every meeting not matter what else might go on in your life. There are some small town democracies where the meeting starts, does good business, but nobody will agree to adjourn for the night, when the people with things to do the next day go home the remainder just revote everything that happened earlier in the night, this time getting it to go their way. As a resident you have to stay the whole meeting to stop that - even if it means you will be fired for falling asleep at work the next day.
Truly beautiful code. It is so clearly structured and written I feel like I could dive in an work on it easily if needed, that is quite rare.
You can run it behind a reverse proxy. It won't serve anything on the naked IP, the correct host is required in the http request headers.

I've been very happy selfhosting Nextcloud (and many others, including Vaultwarden). There are very few hits that even land on the login page, and essentially all of them only probe for /wp-admin or similar paths, then promptly leave me alone once all those probes return 404.

And then there's 2FA if any actually targeted attack ever materializes. Since it's entirely unknown what's inside the Nextcloud instance, there's no clear economic benefit (aka potential benefits are entirely uncertain, the instance might be vanilla). So I'm certain there's very little reason for anyone to actually try hard enough to achieve anything at all. Keep your system updated through the normal means and you're golden.
"There’s no evidence or reason to believe the payment system adds any additional risk"

Thats not how safety critical analysis is done. YOU have to prove thats it's physically impossible for the system to fail.

We already had boeing kill 300 people with crappy software and sensors in a plane.
Absolutely. The number one thing driving me to write better code is knowing that I will likely share it with the world, and that it should be presentable and clean as a baseline expectation.
The idea that he only hurt himself is simply not true. Behavior like this distorts markets and price discovery. Speaking of discovery (DISCK/DISKA), that's one of the stocks he bought and ran up from low $20s to $60s. Everyone who bought along the way thinking that the company had turned the corner because of their new streaming platform and that it was now in favor on Wall St. has been crushed. Yes, the market is volatile, but it's even more volatile when we allow some participants to come into the market loaded with cheap money and create havoc. If we're going to allow this unbridled behavior it undermines confidence in the "market". I know I've lost complete confidence in it since the GFC and now with the antics of the Fed over the past year. Knowing that there's no true price signal on anything makes you not want to buy anything, or else accept that the activity is nothing more than a turn at the craps table.

And yes, in theory you should be fine long term, but the problem is it depends on your time window. The market can go nowhere for decades because of all the future profits that get pulled forward. We're staring that exact scenario in the face right now is my guess.

All this is to say but one thing... end the Fed. Their recklessness is enabling this kind of crap.
You can't take the official inflation numbers at face value. If you look at real inflation it's been closer to 4-5% a year since 2009.

Which means if you had $100,000 in cash under your mattress in 2009, you can now generally buy half as much with it. Less in education, healthcare. More in consumer tech. About half in Big Macs or housing.

Source: https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/
We are seriously overlooking the general prophylactic and tonic benefits that would lead to fewer people landing in hospital ICUs and requiring serious medical intervention that itself often has harmful and long-lasting side effects. The healing properties of an anti-inflammatory diet rich in turmeric and wild-caught salmon are well-understood. Honey has clear anti-bacterial properties. Air rich in ions leads to improvements in general well-being. If we listened to what Mother Nature was telling us (especially about the healing wisdom of wildcrafted dark chocolate), we likely wouldn't feel a need to rush to all these unpronounceable drugs of dubious benefit.
There is an AT-AT right next to them.
The stoics got it right several thousand years ago, now we're just waiting on the rest of humanity to catch up.
I wonder if computing resources peak, which I think we are at now with hardware manufacturing shortages and price explosion (GPUs, HDDs, SSDs), is going to change this perspective.
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I really like Robert Harris in general, Fatherland being my favorite (shame about the terrible movie adaptation!), and the Cicero Trilogy being fantastic. But for some reason Pompeii didn't do it for me :( It's OK, it's by no means bad, but it left me unsatisfied.
I did a small project where I drew a large animated graph with SVG. Despite careful optimization, it ran at a mediocre frame rate and kept spinning up my fans. I know about another project (whiteboard with notes) that ran into the same issues.

PowerPoint, Miro and Figma all run in the Canvas. I don't blame Google for doing the same.
I remember there was a ShowHN post a couple of months ago of a product with a really beautiful web page that used Docusaurus. If I recall correctly, they offered some kind of service related to AWS. Their docs were on GitHub and used a custom dark theme with pink buttons. I can't remember their name. Didn't find them in the docusaurus.io examples. Anyone else remembers this product and its name?
That just moves up demand for the next week into the next two days. It's a spike but not that much.
> No, they don't have to be. It's exceedingly easy to avoid certain types of natural disasters by avoiding disaster-prone areas. Volcanoes are easy to avoid.

Volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and hurricanes are each fairly easy to avoid, but its harder to avoid them at the same time without giving up on things like freshwater supplies, trade by sea, prime agricultural land, etc.

There are reasons people live in places that periodically see disaster.
Would love to know more than company icons. How are they use the technology? Some links to relevant blog article or something would be appreciated.
...which plays in the same league as any large and modern wind turbine.

Minus the proliferation risk of somebody stealing this comparatively small reactor and builds a dirty bomb with it - oh, and you still have to dismantle it and store safely for millenia after use.

No, thanks... looks to me like nuclear is dead in the water.
Gentoo (actually Funtoo) was the last distribution I used on my main laptop before switching to NixOS. (I have tried Guix, but not GuixSD, so won't talk about it.)

> 1) Are these kind of systems overkill for the desktop user?

There is more to learn to be free to do everything — for some this might be too much (even though it is easy to start and the learning is mostly gradual), for others this is fine (especially those viewing the obstacles as opportunities to learn rather than distractions), and many others can be satisfied with their systems before achieving such freedom. While efficient usage of NixOS requires more upfront involvement, once settled or learned it becomes the easiest to maintain, and brings the piece of mind I had with no other OS with its easy global configuration, nondestructive updates, and manageable malleability (adding and customizing packages, effortlessly offloading their build to your other machines with Nix, even without NixOS).

> 2) How easy is it to customize/tweak these systems in the manner that Gentoo does? So, building from source by tweaking the software options on build time?

Nixpkgs have close to optimal balance between the ability to use prebuilt packages and the ability to extend them, and it's more customizable (thanks to Nix and Nixpkgs designed to allow reaching into the old definition of a package, writing tweaks just for the parts you need, while keeping automatic updates!), although it's geared towards users that want most of their packages prebuilt (in particular it does not have cross-cutting USE-flags). You can either replace a package (and cause dependent ones to be rebuilt against it), or override under a new name (and install it alongside other packages that may depend upon and actually use the non-overridden one).
Yes, and surprisingly there are not too many that use any indentation based syntax (about 1 in 50). However, of the ones that do (abc, aldor, boo, buddyscript, cobra, coffeescript, csl, curry, elixir, f-sharp, genie, haml, haskell, inform, iswim, literate-coffeescript, livescript, madcap-vi, madcap, makefile, markdown, miranda, nemerle, net-format, nim, occam, org, promal, python, restructuredtext, sass, scss, spin, stylus, xl-programming-language, yaml) there are some real gems.

Some more interesting read's in this space:

2003 - Egil Möller's I-expressions - https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html

1984 - Alan Kay's 3-D spreadsheet - http://worrydream.com/refs/Kay%20-%20Computer%20Software%20-...

1972 - Mark Wells' A Review of Two-Dimensional Programming Languages - http://sci-hub.cc/10.1145/942576.807009
World wide the most used screen resolution is 1920x1080 at ~9% all other top resolutions is somewhere around 720p [1]. Even on desktop computers the top resolutions is 1920x1080 at ~21% followed by 1366x768 also at ~21% [2]. I still only use 1080p screens due to superior performance in games, refresh rate, battery life and that you don't have to deal with scaling issues. Things have changed since I bought them three years ago, but I don't need to upgrade.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats

[2] https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/w...
The most recent example I can think of is Melvin Capital (a few months ago). They were bailed out by Citadel. Citadel was bailed out by US tax payers in 2009 via AIG.

Wait a second. Citadel is a fund manager. AIG is an insurance company. Neither are banks.
Ok, so you weren't sarcastic and/or misunderstanding my use of "atomic".

Sadly, I kind of gave up on getting a "HDR" display, at least for now, because :

- AFAIK neither Linux nor Windows have good enough "HDR" support yet. (MacOS supposedly does, but I'm not interested.)

- I'm happy enough with my HP LP2475w which I got for dirt cheap just before "HDR" became a thing. I consider the 1920x1200 resolution to be perfect for now (as a bonus I can manually scale various old resolutions like 800x600 to be pixel-perfect) - too many programs/OSes still have issues with auto-scaling programs on higher resolution screens (which would come with "HDR"). I'm also particularly fond of the 16:10 ratio, which seems to have gone extinct.

- Maybe I'll be able to run this monitor properly in wide gamuts (though with banding), or maybe even in some kind of ""HDR" compatibility mode", though it would seem that the current sellers of "HDR" screens aren't going to make that easy. I might be able to get a colorimeter soon to properly calibrate it.
"“Yes it was wrong, yes it was illegal. But in my eyes, in that time of moment, I didn’t really think about that...What went through my mind was, ‘Okay, I’m never gonna get this opportunity again.’ So I went for it. And, well, this happened,”

People, please note that this is criminal trespass. While it is a non-violent crime, it can still screw your future.

We have about 2 acres of greenhouses surrounded by a 8ft fence that is marked with private property/no trespassing signs. The same kid kept breaking into the greenhouses, and other than making my dogs go bonkers, the kid caused no harm. But as my lawyer demanded that a police report be filed, and because we have several cameras in and around the green houses, the kid was an easy bust and prosecution. And he saw no crime with satisfying his curiosity about our greenhouses until it came time for his scholarship and job applications. The boy is royally screwed.
Long embargoes only give companies cover to continue to not prioritize security or responding to security issues in a timely manner.

That we have had embargo processes for decades is utterly ridiculous. It's time for these vulnerabilities - especially for the ones that literally break everything - to be treated with the urgency they should be.
This is really exciting. Feels like the start of something way bigger.

With an app store and server infrastructure with public ports, I could also see API/automation browsing built-in.

And hasn't nearly every strategy in the history of computing that started with gaming succeeded wildly?
As someone who has been messing around with 8051 controllers because I found a tube of 1989 vintage Signetics P80C550s in a box of stuff I hadn't looked at in 15 years, I'd love to hear about these show stopping bugs in SDCC that were referenced but not explained.
That's true but misses an important factor: competition from other assets.

The cash flow stream from most tech companies usually looks like 5 years of large cash infusions (often from VCs); a decade or two of zero cash spun off as the company reinvests all profits in growth; and then a few years to a decade of massive cash being spun off for investors. For a historical example, see Apple - didn't pay a dividend for about 15 years from Steve Jobs's return until 2012, and now regularly returns tens of billions to investors in buybacks. For a current example, see Salesforce, which makes effectively zero GAAP profit but is growing massively as they reinvest that into product development and sales.

If competing investments - say Treasuries - are yielding zero now, there's no reason why you wouldn't buy Salesforce stock now and lock in those future dividends even though they're 15 years off. But if the 10-year Treasury is going to go up to 15% in 2 years - why wouldn't you sell your Salesforce stock when rates go up, buy a 10-year Treasury, quadruple your money over those 10 years, then buy 4x as much Salesforce stock right before they actually start spinning off cash as a dividend?

The 1970s actually looked like this. There was a big stock run-up in the late 60s, and then a very large stock market crash (~50%) in 1973 when the Fed started raising interest rates to combat inflation. Stocks continued to trade sideways during the high-inflation, high-interest period of the 1970s, and then they really took off in the late 80s once inflation was under control and rates started dropping.
Vendor lock-in is an inability to use another vendor without substantial switching costs. [1]

Changing Google Docs for .docx has significant costs, because their compatibility with MS Office is far from ideal. That said, using .docx is yet another vendor lock-in. As you might know, OOXML is not a true open standard: it was recognized as such by ISO only due to Microsoft's shenanigans. That's why it is not fully supported by any other software and trying to use alternative applications results in numerous compatibility issues.

So your best option is to use LibreOffice, because it is libre software, capable, available from several vendors, and is based on true open standard, OpenDocument.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in
The start of the Trump era. Trump made the left blind for the extremists on their side. Because criticizing them would mean siding with Trump. Not true of course but that’s what you get when people start to think in absolutes. “You’re either with us or part of the problem.“
Sounds like a TRIGA reactor.[1]

Those work fine, but are not cost-effective power sources. They're more for isotope production.

There's a Russian reactor in this category, the RITM-200.[2] It's a land-based version of their current generation icebreaker power plant. This is one of the very few "small modular reactors" that actually exists. There are about 30 proposed designs.

Here's the first real power reactor in that category. From 1957. [3]

[1] http://www.ga.com/triga/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RITM-200

[3] https://archive.org/details/FirstPri1957
There's a lot of effort going into researching ways to make booms from SSTs quieter. NASA's has a low-boom research program trying to turn the booms into "gentle thumps" by changing the shape of plane's shockwaves [0]. Lockheed are building the X-59 for demonstration flights for the program.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/X59
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> Sure, but the context is that they were doing very poorly and needed liquidity to survive. They received it. That is being bailed out, no?

No, it is not. If they were given free money, or a loan with basically no interest, or some other sweetheart deal, that would be a bailout.

Someone taking advantage of your misfortunate in order to buy you at a discount as not a "bail out".
Not sure why this is down voted. Real estate is a common hedge against inflation. It's just much more complex of an investment vehicle and you can't just jump in and out of real estate like you can stocks.

You could opt for a REIT instead.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reit.asp
Thanks for this! read through the first couple chapters and it's already plugged some holes that i didn't really understand.

Can you point me to some really good rust code on github? I've been reading through some and see how people do some interesting things but i don't have the mastery to understand which practices are better than others.