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The thing about pressure cookers is that they are basically a time saving device; what you get out of them is similar [1] result to what a long, slow cook in the oven would have been. They cook at higher heat without boiling.

You aren't going to roast in them, or anything like it. But a stew that would have taken 3+ hours can be done in less than 1. Typically you should be using different cuts of meat for these applications.

[1] the big caveat is you don't lose moisture, so liquid amounts all need to be adjusted
Great comment. I think this applies for pretty much all products or projects, especially in their early stages. There will always be people who don’t get it or have different priorities. It’s ok. When I showed people early versions of EnvKey[1], it felt like half loved it and half thought it was completely pointless. /shrug. At the time I found it discouraging, but now I see that getting even a single person to genuinely love what you’ve built is a major accomplishment and a really good sign that you’re on the right track.

If you can find one, you can find ten. If you can find ten, you can find a hundred. And so on.

It’s also extremely important to remember that the opposite of love is not hate, negativity, or criticism. It’s indifference. Harsh critics can become some of your best users/customers/advocates if you’re able to learn from them and win them over.

1 - https://www.envkey.com
Introducing FirebirdMonitorTool – tool for processing Firebird’s trace output
Drugs.

I feel like I'm making the same comment on any of these articles, so I'll just post this one word from now on.

You can't buy drugs without bitcoin. A significant portion of all bitcoin transactions in the world are going to Russian drug marketplace Hydra. This forces bitcoin on many, many people who are not technology or finance enthusiasts, but just want to make a transaction.
Launching Version 12.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
A big house, an SUV and exotic vacations are all actual real things with real world values.

Not strictly necessary and sometimes extravagant but they are not just burning energy for nothing.
I'm an American; I don't like this, too.

My experience mirrors what is described in the article, but only with people from Europe. Non-native English speakers from Europe look down on Americans, in a sort of "gate-keeping" manner where Europeans "own" the language. They have a better grasp of the "precise and elaborate formal English" and do not hesitate to correct Americans and tell them they don't understand grammar and are uneducated. (I'm inclined to agree with them.)

My experience speaking with non-native speakers from Asia, India, and Central & South America has been different. Maybe we are more willing to accept that there is a language barrier, but no one "owns" it.

And, like the article says, trying to use a culturally relevant idiom is a futile task.
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We can't have communist countries in latan america because of the good ole u s of a. You think you are going to get some slight utopia that helps people b/c of their ideals? Never going to happen... sadly.
Try out Pianoteq! Connect your digital piano to a computer (even Raspberry Pi) and try it out: https://www.modartt.com/pianoteq

This software will make your piano sound like a $20k grand piano.

ps - another fun project: adding an LED strip that responds to the piano keys - to create a beautiful visual rainbow when you play.
I feel like I'd love the Quest 2 for a month or two and then I wouldn't use it after the novelty wore off.

Are there any AR/XR applications for Quest? It'd be pretty interesting if I got multiple for the fam and we could all be in the same environment somehow. Even if I needed room reference / locator devices it would probably be worth it.
The compiler is allowed to act as if this loop executes exactly 16 times. That means it could unroll and vectorize it for example.
> does not have a guaranteed loop count with the current rules. The loop body will execute 16 times if param <= INT_MAX-16, but if the expression "param + 16" can overflow, the behavior is undefined. (I'm assuming param is of type int.)

And the standard permits us (among other responses) to ignore undefined behaviour, so it does have a guaranteed loop count under a reading of the standard which the standard specifically and explicitly allows.
Yeah it's all in good fun, kind of like you have the Chuck Norris memes.
so why not use uint64_t ? makes semantically more sense, doesn't it?
I use koinly.io and it does a nice job of preparing the 8949 for me, and syncs with my various wallets and exchanges. Plugs right into TurboTax.
The point is that you’re not always the person who gets to decide which distro, which tools to install atop the distro, or which dependencies your scripts will use. If you own those choices, of course you can add in your own tool, but you frequently don’t own those choices.
It's not binary, both of these things are problems.

When a some one points out a problem, if it turns out person is a hypocrite, that does not make the problem vanish in a puff of smoke.
Did you read the post? You might be pleasantly surprised :)
That's a healthy attitude, I'll try to remember that one next time I get harsh feedback.

It's tough to separate my ego from my work.
That's precisely my point? Because the overflow case is undefined, the compiler can assume it doesn't happen and optimize based on the fixed loop count.
I thought the whole point of capitalism was to make things cheaper.
Its just as often people that like to show their bodies as well as software developers, so bad take. Your observation happens, but you're reading way too far into it.
Snap announces Story Studio, a new standalone app to edit stories
Must be some sort of tunneling, because it works outside the browser too
So would someone have two or more native languages if they can change which one they formulate their thoughts in? I guess that just emphasizes your point or the article's point more that it's a vague term to begin with.
The affect is the same, it's most apparent in chat apps.

Because of Apple's abuse of its ownership of people's phones there are no popular decentralized chat apps. It's not feasible to maintain a chat app for iOS by volunteers because the app authors must also maintain infrastructure for push notifications (Apple does not allow this to be delegated to, for example, the chat server operators who already have volunteers that can handle this.)
I researched the heck out of this before getting one for a rental. Mitsubishi is the way to go if money is no object and you want the most reliable/lowest hassle system.

If you want to save a little money, Daikin is almost as good and a little cheaper. Below that you’re rolling the dice on service calls.
Producing the goods.
Bitcoin can't die soon enough.

The initial idea and the ideology behind it is really admirable, but it was done as a proof of concept and failed terribly. But instead of "alright, PoC done, does not scale, let's move on to something better", too many people can't or don't want to move on because there's too much money on the line.

I find it personally exhausting - I had a coworker until recently (he left) who was a super nice guy but completely into the bitcoin-bullshit (with zero understanding of how it works, naturally). The fact that he made significant profits with it gave him the idea that he somehow is right about it.

The bitcoin bubble and all that goes with it can't burst soon enough.
Cryptocurrency company accidentally sends users millions in Bitcoin
Well, it's called WebContainers. One would hope everything is containerised
Cool concept. I was trying to develop something along those lines. I'd like to feed an image to an algorithm and have it draw it, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8mwFDJgWR0 (but better)
This is like dismissing Al Gore's climate advocacy because he flew private. It's perfectly possible to have a valid criticism of waste in one specific area even if you have unaddressed waste in your own life.
This reminds me of something I read about the other day (probably also from HN), a mechanical exploratory rover: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/a-clockwork-rover-for-venus

This really helps visualize how one might make "computation" with mechanical parts possible!
Dude, I think you should loosen up a bit. When I see someone calling people white trash for wearing comfortable clothing, all I can think of is "they think they are better than other people for no reason".
> But I also think a lot of discussions of this topic caricaturize compiler writers to a ridiculous degree.

The inflamed backlash should tell you just how damaging it is to impose silent failure on meticulously written, previously fine programs.
I find it remarkable that about half of the 14 articles that I see linked on the Bloomberg home page "above the fold" (in my browser window) are cryptocurrency-related.
> That's not the case if they had invested the same money in a 401K.

The unquestioned assumption that the stock market is a source of infinite growth is both foolish and, for anyone that thinks about it honestly, very likely to be wrong.

Even if we completely disregard the fact that limitless growth is impossible on a finite planet, and that we are daily seeing more and more cases where we are brushing against our limits, the very nature of 401ks is a pretty ridiculous way to build a retirement for a society.

Putting your retirement into a 401k means that your retirement is based on the future success of the economy. Typically what you would want for retirement would be some sort of investment structure where the economy doing worse when you are older will not impact your quality of life.

But instead we have set it up so that if the economy does poorly then, aside from all the normal problems of a bad economy, suddenly an entire generation of people will lose their safety net right away.

Like so many aspects of our society, we've let irrational optimism allow us to be highly leveraged in many ways, such that small bumps along the way have the potential to drive the entire system into utter catastrophe. The fact that we respond to these small bumps today by even further leveraging ourselves means this disastrous end becomes increasingly likely.
Pretty much. If bitcoin (or any cypto) can be a stable currency, I would jump on it. Otherwise, it is just a gambling tool at the moment. I don't gamble with things I don't understand (unless I am in Vegas and willing to lose a few bucks for fun). So it is a hard pass for me at the moment.
But remove the advantage of having situational awareness :)
There are also my favorite, which go over the ear canal rather than inside: Mack's Pillow Soft Silicone Earplugs
Using "NIMBY" to mean "people who don't want to be near homeless camps" is a bit of a stretch.
I use mine a lot but have had to do two rounds of replacements due to hardware issues. The battery life is unsurprisingly short (right about 4 hours now) which only comes up on looong calls without a break.

They'd still be on my maybe top 5 list for recent purchases.
I like zulip a lot, but is it really comparable?
IRC is built as a simple open protocol and the clients are tuned towards being able to join multiple servers at once.
This is a hard requirement for mass adaptation in for example FOSS communities IMO.
There is no way that people will bother logging into the zulip or mattermost instances for the 5-15 different FOSS projects they are interested in.

This means either a centralized solution like Discord or something like Matrix which is 100x more complex than IRC.
I recognize the ways in which this is a difficult problem, but it remains frustrating to me that the application isn't capable of providing this information directly to end users. Instead you end up with confusion, missed communication, and occasionally people thinking they've been fired! Surely we can do better.
What legal and organizational constructs can help maintain the original intent of a project even after the passing of the creator?

A foundation wholly owned by a public benefit company?

I don’t expect or even want Freenode to “innovate” or develop new lines of business. I just want them to run the network. I am reluctant to contribute to such an organization because I fear their success.
Very true. If you're pushing power out onto the grid, you're no longer a consumer but rather a producer and there are other issues that come into play.

Twenty, thirty years ago the amount of power from rooftop installations being pushed out onto the grid was minimal compared to the size of the grid and it wasn't an issue.

If you had an energy producer that was producing 10% of the power and doing significant swings in its production without participating on the wholesale energy market (and not signaling those swings)... the regulators would have shut them down.

But when you've got 10,000 people each contributing 0.001% of the grid power (and all having the same swings)... and not participating on the wholesale market and not signaling their swings, that can be disruptive (and damaging).

https://learn.pjm.com/electricity-basics/market-for-electric... is also a good read and https://www.pjm.com/markets-and-operations.aspx is the live market for that part of the grid.
I think it was around 2013 that I paid a busker with Bitcoin (their suggestion, not mine, I'm not that weird). That briefly felt like the future.

I hope he hung onto it!
I think a better correspondence is "a utiliza" -> "to utilize" and "a folosi" -> "to use".

Edit: Mediterraneo10 explains it better.
> We understand that 90% of startups fail

Starting a startup is human activity, and you - the human - can have multiple activities, hence multiple start-ups (add to that pivoting). So while the 1st startup might fail, do it long enough and you'd be successful.

IMO the key is to work hard at MVP and iterate a lot.

Since you're here, have you thought of https://www.startupschool.org/ ?

As far as your point 1 to 7, not bad; I have a different approach but that's where we are all different. At the end of the day, if you build something that people want and are willing to pay (MVP/Lean Startup concepts) the money (investment) will follow.

Now, going from the garage stage to "#6. Grow/market and gain more customers??? " it's a different skillset; by the time you are there, you'll know more about your product offering, your audience, yourself and you'll have co-founders, early employees and investors to help you out.
Interesting you say that. Used Panameras in my area are more expensive than Cayennes.
You didn't mention keeping customers' personal financial data private during your pitch, so I'm guessing that's not a big selling point of your service?
I'd rather have Zoom outages, actually.
> The fungus takes over their bodies, causing them to lose their lower abdomen and genitals. And it pushes their mating into hyperdrive.

Unclear. How do they mate, or even attempt to mate, without genitals?
One of the most frustrating things about this legislation is that it's set up so that the only outfits with the resources to do the requested censorship would be a GAFAM. Which is utterly perverse, as on one hand the UK govt is despairing about the extent to which the UK is dependent on Big Tech social media and the control they exert on society... whilst simultaneously pushing through legislation which effectively ensures that GAFAM are the only people who can operate!

The Matrix approach to addressing abuse is https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix... (and we're in the middle of building out the first implementation of the decentralised reputation proposal right now) - but it is not pleasant to think that if a judge considered that approach inadequate, the directors of UK entities providing Matrix hosting (e.g. Element, running matrix.org on behalf of The Matrix.org Foundation) would be eligible for jail time \o/

Needless to say, we're doing our best to explain to the UK Govt that their Bill is throwing out the baby along with bathwater...
There has been lost of theories to explain how jets from black hole systems form. New observations of light polarization from M87 jet show twisting magnetic field lines which suggest one of the theories might be right. That theory says that spinning black hole's energy can be extracted by these twisting magnetic field lines and therefore power these jets.
Check out the frequency response curves yourself of the airpod pros [0] and say, an open-back sennheiser hd650 pair [1]. The airpods have a huge bump at about 1.5kHz to 3.5kHz (mids), while the sennheisers are more neutral in low frequencies but also have a bump at ~3kHz to ~7kHz.

Nothing will beat open-back headphones on a good system, but apple's stuff as of late is plenty good.

[0]: https://reference-audio-analyzer.pro/en/report/hp/apple-airp...

[1]: https://reference-audio-analyzer.pro/en/report/hp/sennheiser...
1. reserve requirements have been 0% in many first world countries for decades.

2. I agree tether runs their operation in a bit of an opaque way.

However, that should be the criticism indeed, not the composition of their portfolio, which is much the same as any other bank, really.

To steelman Tether's position, it seems that their opaqueness is an intentional strategy to make them more resilient. They could easily get a bank charter somewhere, however you lose control, and must share it with the regulator. Regulators will review and approve directors/offices of the bank, you may in fact lose control over your own business. It also comes with all sorts of jurisdictional and political risk. Having been in that industry, I can sympathize with Tether, it's extremely hostile to large fintechs.

They could be targeted simply for political reasons, or because someone connected decides to destroy by leveraging their regulator buddies power.

How do you prevent that, without being opaque and telling those that may target you, exactly where all your assets are so they can just freeze them directly?

I really wonder if they ever disclosed to NY AG whose commercial paper they hold.
For many decades, people have observed jets of hot gas spewing from the centers of some galaxies. There are multiple theories as to how those jets form.

Radio astronomers got together and built a synthetic telescope the size of the Earth in order to be able to take a picture of the gas near the black hole at the center of a nearby galaxy, M87.

When they did, and looked at the polarization of the light, they saw twisting lines, which agreed with the prediction of one of the most-favored theories for how these jets are produced.
Yeah my first thought was “if only...”. Sadly, it’s still working just fine for me.
True. It also points out a new problem.
Lots of people say "PoC done, does not scale, let's move on to something better," it's just that core Bitcoin devs and r/bitcoin mods kicked all those people out, so they've moved to other blockchains.
Line 6 PodGo electric guitar/bass effects processor, purchased earlier this year. I have been playing for decades and in the 90s got one of the early DOD multieffect stomp boards, but it's amazing how much the technology has advanced since then. It's not just the ability to change up your sounds or really fine-tune what you're looking for ... the integration with other platforms is sweet. All kinds of outputs for amps, or USB to go straight to my Mac for GarageBand integration.

Zwilling J.A. Henckels electric kettle for tea and coffee. Wide lid/spout, one button, very fast. Used similar devices overseas, but in the U.S. they haven't been so common except in hotels. We got tired of using gas and old fashioned tea kettle every day, which takes longer to boil and causes wear to the range, and bought it a few months ago and use it several times per day.

We also have a Cuisinart electric kettle at the office, but don't like it - too many buttons and settings, and the lid/spout is too small.

We got a tiny lightweight fridge for the office that is really good for keeping drinks and small things cool. It doesn't make any compressor noise ... AFAICT there is no compressor or gas inside, and I have no idea how it works. Just a very quiet fan. It comes with a car adaptor, too, and reviews showed it is popular with people using it for camping trips or long car journeys. It's branded "Frigidaire" but the mechanics and finish don't match, and we got it at Walmart, not an appliance shop.

Regarding cast iron skillets: Yard sales and antique shops are your friend.
Magic beanstalk? What you need to know about AWS App Runner
> You can't buy drugs without bitcoin

This is patently false. It also doesn't even make sense to say. Bitcoin is not anonymous, I'm not sure how this misunderstanding stays alive considering that it's the exact opposite of that. All transactions and wallet ID's are stored in the blockchain forever.
Don't forget the hardware divider and the DS's sound capabilities!

I don't think retro 3D is a bad idea though. Just do what the DS does (keeping it separate from 2D in the process) and I think it would probably be the greatest console ever made.
If this happens to you:

1) The creditors are full of shit. Don't accept the estate, don't acknowledge that you owe any debt, and you don't owe them a damn thing. If no-one accepts it, they're simply screwed. They'll try to trick you into paying anyway, because they are, in fact, monsters, but they're full of shit.

2) Look up (online) the correct magic words to tell the creditors to go fuck themselves, or else face charges. They'll stop. On the off chance they don't, a call of complaint to your representative(s) or to the correct state agency will do the trick.
> Reloading Slack (Command + R / Ctrl + R) may help Slack to load as expected.

Well, it went from readable to "Server Error something went wrong". I haven't seen the entire slack app 500 before!
The very clear and main thing it brings is getting rid of the middleman, at least for transactions, whether it be governments or businesses. This is a bigger deal than it sounds, as the middle man defines most policy around transactions, whether it be who can trade, when, and how, which creates huge imbalances in fairness and accessibility, and also can be enforced at nation state borders. These may be seen as cons by many, but to be frank, many find great value in these properties, and because it's a more efficient marketplace it will naturally take root.
Two disclaimers: Worked telco, I am in Europe and that data is erased afterwards due to GDPR.

So in the telco in the old days one could use bayesian and accross different days data and pretty accurately know where people are. And it wasn't that useful. Identifying through combination of phone, phone contract, landline, wifi over landline which people were in the same household woukd be useful apparently easier but in reality a total mess in terms of edge cases.
> "Hey guys, remember when _all of IRC_ went down?"

I certainly remember downtimes, and netsplits bad enough that it would have made team collaboration impossible depending on who was connected to what.

I think the lesson here isn't "run and maintain your own version of X", but "make sure you have other ways to communicate besides X".
I suspect curl and rsync power more things on the internet than people realize. They are both completely amazing tools that I use almost daily.
As someone with a decent amount of money in crypto, I welcome this. I want to pay taxes on crypto capital gains in a way that makes sense instead of trying to guess my way through it, and I also want clear rules for exchanges, pools, etc. to follow to make reporting easy at tax time.
Coming from English, I struggle with when to use я vs Мне.