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I've used emacs for about 10 years (written plugins, declared emacs.d bankruptcy, gone all-in on org-mode), so I'm familiar with the pros of configurable editors.

Here's a list of more advanced functionality built into Intellij that would be difficult to replicate:

- Bullet-proof navigation and advanced refactoring that works every time across a wide variety of languages.

- Database integration: syntax highlighting for SQL code in strings, runnable sql, database introspection

- Debugging: consistency and polish across languages, not relying on external tools that might not be installed, visual debugger

Text-editors struggle with the "integrated" aspect of an IDE. It's not terribly difficult to coerce text editors to perform well for a single language. It's much harder to integrate plugins and provide a consistent experience.

There's good reasons to use text editors (learn how it all works, extreme customization, magit, lightweight) but there's many development tasks Intellij is just better at.
So how fast is Whoogle?
People don't see effects of any pollution that isn't particulates or perhaps deadly spew into potable water. So it is as dead on arrival as global warming.
"But the air is clean here!"

Climate change sounds too neutral. It should've been called climate destruction or such, but the name was picked by Big Oil.
What do you call the kind of tui graphics aesthetic that is being emulated on this webpage? and are there any frameworks to use it in the browser?
I can think of two examples. The first is somebody else's that I helped them with, and the second is mine. Context: Mid-2000's snack-sized hosting company with less than 10 employees.

A customer with a dedicated server called in one day. I knew him well, and he I. It was that kind of company and I loved it. Anyhow, he called in and said "I've been hacked!" I asked him to explain the problem and he said that his server wasn't working right and wouldn't reboot. I looked into it, and a ton of things were missing from the file system. /bin, /boot, /dev, etc. Gone. So I did a restore of the server and got it back online.

He called me up an hour or two later "I've been hacked again!" Same problem. Same solution.

An hour later he called me up, sheepish. "I think it might be ME. Every time I think it's happening every time I run this command." I managed to get him to email me the command he was running, verbatim (he was copy/pasting it into the shell) and it looked like this:

rm -rf /home/user/file; rm -rf /home/otheruser/directory; rm -rf /home/foo/thing; rm -rf / home/bar/otherthing; rm -rf /home/didyouseeit/thing3

The other harm was my own. I was budding system administrator tasked with designing and deploying dedicated servers (this is before VPSs were a thing, and way before cloud computing). I challenged myself to learn Perl because the greybeard admin (who cut his teeth on PDP-11's) was a master at it and I could benefit from his tutelage. But I didn't. Instead I got the SAM's book on Perl and started learning. Having an interest in security, I decided that I'd write a simple Intrusion Detection System for our dedicated server products.

I don't have the code, but it's irrelevant. A the time one of the bigger problems was servers getting rooted due to various exploits. The attacker would rewrite /bin/ls with their own version that hid their executables. The solution (obviously right?) is to look at the md5sum of /bin/ls, and if it changes, the server must be rooted, right? So I wrote code that would shut down sshd, close the port, and display a message via `wall` that said something very much like:

System Modification Detected! Shutting down system and alerting security staff. YOU HAVE BEEN CAUGHT! BUH BYE!

I was very pleased with myself. I couldn't understand why the aforementioned greybeard didn't revel in my brilliance. sigh I deployed the script on a cron job and felt very satisfied with my good work. Until a call came in. "Yeah, I ran a yum update, got some message about being caught, and now I can't get into my system."

Yeah that's right. I'd hard coded the md5sum for /bin/ls and had no means of updating it. I've since forgotten Perl but I never forgot this lesson: Take everything into account. Spend less time coding and more time thinking about what you're building and how it'll affect others. Since then I've written several utilities that are/were in use at the hosting companies I work(ed) for and I saved people countless time, effort, and trouble. But it sure didn't start out that way!
Allow me to say it's slightly different, because you could basically tell the difference by just looking at the connector carefully. The knowledge that if it connects, it'll 99.9% work is too ingrained in all of us. Usb-c breaks that norm.

Now you have to carefully see what the packaging says, which can range from inadvertently unclear to downright misleading. And to add to that, you don't know what to look for in the first place if you don't have prior experience with thunderbolt/usb-c. Example, I didn't know that a cable must explicitly mention DP in order to connect to an external monitor. Because it was the first time I had an external monitor that can use usb-c.

Not really complaining, usb-c is very very nice. Just pointing the minor annoyance of learning its warts.
No, that's an expression of my considered and long-standing opinion that Scott Adams is full of a whole lot of shit, which dates to well before he started making worshipful posts about how Donald Trump is a mind-controlling wizard. The turn to right-wing gadfly is just icing on the cake.
I honestly hadn’t seen any hard numbers and was hoping to become more informed on the matter. That study looks decent, thank you for sharing it.

I think the study mentioned that this is largest and longest study about long-term effects, which I find a bit disappointing given the massive impact of the pandemic. The control group was quite small with only 21 people.

Anyways, I have adjusted my priors a bit. I’m not some sort of rabid denier :). But I am a bit wary of people arguing for very strict measures. The vaccine exists and is widely available (in the US). We won’t have a more powerful tool than that anytime soon. We need to start moving on with our lives. Not recklessly, but it needs to happen. Thankfully, the numbers seem to be getting better and better. Hopefully the trend continues.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
You're misunderstanding the fundamental function of modern government. That $2600 goes to a contractor (political crony, friend, or relative) who then mostly pockets the money through salaries, sub-contracts, and such. This is the purpose of the spending and there was never an intent to help anyone in the first place.
Perhaps they have; you're just thinking of the wrong films. I keep wondering if this is a The Producers situation, with the caveat that I can't imagine this being as wildly successful as Springtime for Hitler. Frankly, they are running service so badly that I can't think of any reason other than purposeful sabotage.
You're not even presenting an accurate picture of the accusers side though. Two of them are apparently know each other literally because the original accuser told another accuser[1] that Pasquale was to blame.

[1] https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazo...
Wow. I both respect you and think you’re absolutely nuts.

Since you seem to be into experimental treatment, have you ever tried helminthic treatment?

https://www.healthline.com/health/crohns-disease/hook-worms
>Get the most efficient power rating and network speeds of 100GBps without the pain of cable

100GBps would be impressive, 100Gbps would be ... not much?

Even 100GBps(800Gbps) is not much for 2048 cores, depends on application, in certain applications, 32 cores could drive 100Gbps...
I usually think of this more in terms of "what's the reasonable worst thing that can happen, and then be prepared to compensate for it".

e.g.

- could cause this one page to fail to display - be ready to roll back, open the page asap once deployed

- could bring down the entire website - be ready to roll back, maybe try running this during off hours

- could delete the entire database - be ready with a backup to restore, maybe make sure your whole team is oncall at the time

- could cause ear damage - maybe play it with the headphones sitting next to you first
Another junk article about the fake right to repair.

Simple facts:

1) There's no monopoly, phones are available from multiple phone manufacturers

2) There are phones that let you self-repair repair them and retain the right to get part replacements

3) You always have the right to repair - or break - your phone. What you don't have is the right to compel the manufacturer to help you with that at their expense.

4) Techno-socialists keep posting this junk because what they really want is for customers to have fewer choices and be unable to afford mobile phones.
Meanwhile very few of these geniuses have shared with us how they switched to the self-repairable Pine64 despite it being readily available. I wonder why that is.
Since this is based on KaiOS, I really hope they do a classic flip-phone style device. There's no better form factor for a phone you actually use to call people, and a lot of the current devices on the market are set to die off when carriers stop supporting 3G networks.

There are a few 4G-compatible flip phones on the market, but many of them SUCK. Call reliability issues, awful janky Android forks, T9 without smart punctuation (so you can't type words with apostrophes)... it's a space ripe fpr a new player to come in and just, like, remember how we did good interfaces 10-20 years ago.
The name stinks, and the cover stinks. I'll introduce you to my version of the "Golden Rule". If a business or product has the word "gold" in it, it's garbage. Unless you are mining/selling gold or the Golden State Warriors (with Stephen Curry) avoid that word like the plague.
No. Laptops should all become more energy efficient.
This is demonstrably and unequivocally untrue. Lua is designed to be fast, lightweight, and easy to use as an embedded scripting language. Python is a general-purpose kitchen sink language. Python is 10x bigger, and 10x slower than Lua. It is bad fit for an embedded language.
It's a bit disappointing, really. There are people commenting who clearly have no idea what the tool even is, haven't even tried to figure it out, haven't read the other comments already here.

I'd really hope for better among the HNews readership.
This isn't really true under the friends and family exception. I'd consult counsel if you're unsure who it's okay to take funds from and with what restrictions.
Same here. As well as splits of tickets between related investors to spread risk.
Are there any inherent reasons that I should switch to neovim from vim?

Everytime I try to do that, I don't see immediate benefits and vim kind of catches up or plugins start to support vim and I just go back to vim as all my script keeps working there.
Not exactly, no. But I've gone long stretches where a compiler error demands 10 push-ups.
Statement by President Biden on the Investigation into the Origins of Covid-19
I... don’t understand what you’re trying to convince me of here? Are you trying to morally equate me hypothetically naming people who’ve abused me to stealing from them, if I couldn’t defend a non-legal claim of what happened in court? I sincerely do not understand what you’re saying should change.
I think it is entirely plausible that social media / attention mining / etc are absolutely making society less civil than it could be / has been.
I'll give you some feedback. The link color (#d4af37) and the background color (#eae4ce) is literally the worst combination I've ever seen. I thought magenta and emergency orange was bad.
Agreed, with perhaps the exception of Apple. They've remained a platform, with a healthy amount of apps they own and operate outright, and sweeping control of their ecosystem elsewhere.

Maybe not forever it looks like though.
It is a fair bet that the complainant was more pissed off by the misleading claim of license than the content of the writing. It’s the difference between a difference of professional opinion and a difference of professional ethics.

The analogy is the difference between a lawyer encountering ordinary bad legal advice on the internet and encountering bad legal advice on the internet by a person claiming to be a lawyer.
What in the everliving biohacking heck? I though I was leaning into things by modulating my caffeine levels based on workload (just dissolved in liquid and pouring out X mls based on need). I've thought about having a dispenser I could track metered doses with, but arionhardison here has a robotic pill press. Man, I gotta up my game now.

I wouldn't be comfortable without some sort of closed loop to be reasonably confident it was dispensing what it claims. Also helps to have the active ingredient pre-diluted so you are mechanically capped at a certain volume.
Apple is looking to strike deals with ‘alternative payments’ providers
People with extreme views believe that everybody who doesn’t pursue the extreme is against them.
"I'm passing this quote around, not attributing it to being satire, and then when that's pointed out saying it's exaggerated and it works because it accurately represents people's beliefs, even though I said it was exaggerated."
It looks like they did have a control group, although it was fairly small with only 21 people.
In my sons 4th grade class (now back to 4 days in person) there are several kids that have not participated in virtual school. Knowing these kids, I know they live in marginal situations. Before the pandemic, they were mostly OK, despite their situation. In part because they had a lot of support via public school system. Post pandemic some of these kids have had serious behavior issues, and I really feel terrible for them. They clearly were stuck for long periods in a poor home situation.

I think of these kids quite a bit whenever anyone is an absolutist about not having in person education.
Don't fool yourself into believing that conservatives at Stanford value diversity of thought. The college republicans have made plenty of efforts to get people they don't like fired. They've also harassed a number of my friends.
Agreed. But more typical is publishing the on dead-tree pulp.

I am aware about the views held by the older generation of developers on this topic; most of those unix heads (especially on this forum) are desktop thinkers and end up buying physical books on latest software themselves. ;-)
Wow. That’s... bold. One suggestion, maybe have it email your dosing to a trusted person so a human being can at least establish whether the numbers look approximately right? Although that still doesn’t cover any mechanical failures unless you’ve got a rock solid redundant closed loop setup. To be honest, the whole thing sounds ill advised, but I guess you already knew that.
If one of those sides specializes in ignoring verifiable facts, and is of the "opinion" that entire groups of people shouldn't exist, I'm not sure there's much to be gained by any sort of "dialog".
You could design a port with multiple contacts onto the same cable pin. One contact does voltage sensing while the other takes the current.

Then any amount of dirt in the connector can cause whatever heating it likes, but the device can always calculate how much heat is being dissipated in the connector.
Properly implementing OKRs.

Governments are completely run by monetary expenditure.

You don't spend all your budget cause you savy? Great, we'll put that money with someone else next year.

Spend all your money on junk? Great we'll give you more money next year because you clearly need it.

What needs to happen is to decouple monetary spend from incentives.

Incentivise saving money and use escape hatches to protect budgets from fluctuations (saving one year might not be recurring, this shouldn't affect your spend next year)
New York held a competition for establishing a campus on Roosevelt Island, and Stanford competed strongly, and was considered the shoo-in candidate, but they were sent home with their tail between their legs when the Cornell / Technion team won the bid. Nobody on the Stanford side nixed it; they lost and everyone in Silicon Valley was astonished.
> Many languages "without implicit casts" e.g. Java still have this problem because they allow widening casts.

I'm reading this as, "Many red boxes are blue circles." If the language allows implicit widening casts, it has implicit casts.

I don't think more powerful checks are necessary. It's just that the implicit conversions in C are a bit wild, and they result in unexpected behavior and surprise programmers, and from experience, making all casts explicit is not such a burden (except for stuff like char ptr -> const char ptr).

I think the fantasy here is simple... as much as we want to explore new ways to make safe programs with better type systems and runtime checks, there is still some design space near C which is safer but not really more complicated.
Not OP, but I have done this for allergies. N. Americanus, 10-15 eggs at a time. No side effects other than an awful itch 12-36h after administration. Been great for my allergies. I've cut way down on fexofenadine. I also live with a cat and a poodle and only really feel symptoms if I literally rub my face in the cat, or groom the dog inside without a mask.
Startpage should have an option to disable sending the large proxy URLs. These make the Startpage SERP very large (relative to other search engines), especially for anyone who does not need them. Plus Startpage limits to 20 results at a time and requires sending a cookie just to change this basic setting. (Why a cookie. This is supposed to be a privacy focused website. Why not accept the settings as parameters in in the URL or request body.) Finally, Startpage is somewhat quick to block an IP if the user is doing a number of searches in succession. Even if it is a viable privacy solution, IMO Startpage has uneccesarily become too slow and cumbersome to compete.
This is horrifying, but interesting. Thanks for posting.
I've once started a small fire. I had a software-controlled voltage regulator connected to the printer port (it was for a high-voltage programmer for 8051 chips) and I was writing a Linux driver for it. I accidentally put the chip in backwards... I ran the software and suddenly had a physical manifestation of lp0 on fire on my desk. ;)
No, the temperature differential is necessary. If life is consuming some food in a high energy state, converting it to a low energy state, and then using the difference for itself, it needs to put that waste energy somewhere once it's done with it. It can do this if the bath is at a lower temperature. But if the bath is at the higher temperature (i.e., if there's no differential) then the organism will be unable to convert the food into the lower energy state.

Strictly speaking, the important thing is to have a differential in entropy. The processes of life produce entropy, and that entropy has to go somewhere else if the organism is to live. But a differential in entropy implies a differential in temperature (though you may have to be careful about how you define temperature since there are different kinds of temperature).
For this money the city could outright buy an apartment building or motel.
Promoting an author who’s book is literally titled, “In Defense of Looting”[1] isn’t progressive. It’s promoting the breakdown of the rule of law. That wasn’t an accident either.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178...
Hmmm, I couldn’t find how exactly the study population was selected. Where did you see that?
The solution would be for devices to test cables before letting them work.

If my iPhone tested the cable was up to spec before charging and said "error, bad cable" if any test failed, then china-cables would be forced to pass all the tests.
1. If the domain has WhoIs privacy and it is registered with GoDaddy, the WHOIS will show GoDaddy's contacts.

2. The domain, if listed on certain domain marketplaces, will show it as sale when you search through the affiliated domain registrars.

Disclaimer: GoDaddy is not my first choice, nor second. However, these are a couple of possibilities.
I don't know about hurting myself specifically, but at my first job I programmed PLCs. You know, those little computers that control industrial machinery... my code could definitely hurt something (or someone).

One example that stands out is a case where we had a heating element to seal plastic bags. It turns out those heating elements get ridiculously hot and only need to touch the bag for a fraction of a second. Naïve me felt that 3-4 seconds was a "reasonable" amount of time for a first attempt...it caught on fire.
That wasn’t the question.
Won't these programs just expand ad infinitum if we don't address the root causes of homelessness? I'm glad we're helping the homeless, but the lack of housing is a symptom and less so a cause. LA has way more homeless people than it used to. Why don't we address that?
That isn’t at all the analogy. Quit reducing this to a war on climate. The “way the world is” corporations are highly mobile, and they engage in regulatory arbitrage. If RDS’s home country wants to put an onerous requirement on them, they will leave to a country that won’t. If landing a tiny little punch on RDS in order to lose hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars in import revenue to their country, then sure, this is a win.

But this won’t materially affect climate change. This won’t even materially affect RDS. It will materially affect the Dutch people who have come to depend on the economic benefits of having RDS headquartered in their town/country.
There is also Armadillo and Happy Buddha from Stanford.
Partly because of the rise in legally mandated standards - in california there are laws stating the minimum area of housing for a family of a given size which is way higher than the minimum that people would settle for if the price was correspondingly lower - most poorer people including me earlier in life would prefer to pay half or 1/3 the amount for half or 1/3 the space. The aim of the minimum is sometimes stated as “we don’t want people to live in slums”…and the result is that people either commute up to 2 hours each way, break the law, or end up on the street
This is the second news story about diamond mining in Arkansas state parks I've seen in just a few days. Is Arkansas doing some sort of tourism media campaign or something? Trying to distract from the bad press of recent anti-trans laws?
Mass Effect 2. Learned the importance of team building and cooperation.

RuneScape taught 10 year old me basic economics and how to run a business (running lobsters and runes).

World of Warcraft taught me how to manipulate (in game) markets. I sucked at the game but I was good at talking to people to buy bulk materials from them and following auction house trends to make big profits.

Finally call of duty taught me not to get mad.