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Meta: current title is “Small B Blogging”, correct title is “Small b blogging”.

(HN does some title editing, removing leading articles and numbers, autocapitalising, &c., for better or for worse, mostly for worse in my opinion; but you can go back and edit the submission to fix the title if it mangles it and it won’t change it again.)
The payments use case has some utility for sure. Opponents of cryptocurrency over-argue their case when they say it has absolutely no utility. The problem is that this one use case is not sufficient to make its present valuation or the cost of PoW anywhere near rational.

The volume of actual commerce could probably support no more than 10% of current valuation and cost, and that is generous. I suspect the number is more like 2%. The valuation wasn’t that unreasonable until 2017 when all hell broke loose. Current valuation is batshit insane.

Some of the tech also has value and does contain some novel ideas. Some of these could be useful elsewhere.
I am from the US, and I did have to lookup what a philosopher's stone is.

Though I don't know if I would agree that knowledge of such a fictional or mythological object is any more or less sophisticated, so much as a cultural difference in what types of fiction or mythology are more culturally common.

I also don't know anything about what my "sign" is in astrology and I don't think that makes me less sophisticated than those who do. I just have different kinds of useless knowledge.
This is not correct.

Your edit is also not correct. This is not a "some people" thing. It is a "how you got yourself to stop" thing.

This is only true if you stop by using willpower. You need to reogranize your belief systems in order to dispel the illusions that it actually brings pleasure by understanding that it's just soothing a craving that doesn't exist when you aren't smoking.

If you feel this way, I highly, highly recommend you listen to one of the EasyWay books: https://www.allencarr.com/
Each though.
> ... just close stuff after awhile if the user doesn’t even look at it. Don’t delete it, file it away with rich metadata so it can be found if necessary.

Is it just me, or does it sound like "Just do the thing I will want later, and no, I don't have time to tell you, you should just figure it out!"?

Imagine a program randomly closing stuff and saying "Oh you weren't using me for five hours so I thought you didn't need it any longer?"
Isn't VS Code the most popular IDE currently?
Functional literary is quite high, but it is both a subject of research and social criticism that American culture is reverting to an oral - rather than literate - culture.
This is true, and an oversight on my part. I suppose what I meant to say is that more web apps should be like Figma.
I for one want nothing to do with this. File system access is for good actors only, and the advertising assholes have poisoned the well for a web browser being anything other than a dumb document browser with the privacy settings turned up to the max for me.
That may be because it's self-evident to most people.
The building that I'm renting in in Chicago basically just has quiet hours, regulations on certain types of home renovations (the pipes are partially owned by the building not the individual units, any structural or wall changes, etc), and a few rules about use of the property (pets must go through the alleyway entrance not the front lobby and packages must be picked up from the lobby or placed in the stairwell within one day). It also has things like a management contractor for dealing with things like shoveling snow on the side walks (all tenants and property owners in the city are responsible for making sure this is done). And they do other stuff like trash collection and removal among other things.

Largely, just read the rules and make sure you want to live by them. Most are very reasonable at least in the city.
What does the Cancel button do in that dialog?
Twitter isn’t really better than Facebook, it’s short content designed to provoke an emotional reaction. HN really isn't either, although the emotional reactions here are a lot fewer and far between.

Pick up the book on the top of the stack and read the first chapter right now. You’ll be happy you did!
It's hardly a monoculture, the canon of literary classics is pretty diverse.

It's about attention again. You are saying that we shouldn't give all the attention to a few arbitrarily selected writers. That it is better that our attention is shattered into innumerable fragments and dusted across the vast landscape of democratised content.

This is replacing literature with social media, and I can't agree it is a good thing.
Just Shift+Right Click to force the native context menu
I do not follow. I have two excel documents open. Each is presented to the user like an independent excel app. So in my windows taskbar there will be two excel icons stacked. If I hover I will get a quick preview of all of the excel instances that are open.

If I close one document the excel instance that is running that window will close too. The other instance of excel with its document will remain unaffected.
software history is like rest of history. it won't repeat, but it will rhyme.

c.f. endless attempts/experiences rediscovering basic principles behind UI toolkits now taking place in web-dev land. Not identical to 1990-2005, but rhymes like crazy.
The No CSS Manifesto
I think it makes more sense to compare against profit than revenue-- notwithstanding the old joke about how a business can lose money every day but they make it up in volume.

The operating income for Walgreens in the US (retail AND pharmacy, including mail order, but I dunno if Gross profit would be a better metric) is $324,000,000 across around 10,000 stores. So around $100 per store per day.
$1K/mo in Chicago is high but not abnormally high. It's basically a sign that they condo didn't have enough cash for repairs in the past.
I mean that is just basic chemistry. Basically your body wants to have a certain concentration of ions in your bodily fluid, so if you put more sodium in, your body needs to hold on to more water to dilute it until you're able to pee it out
I remember feeling fancy as a teenager when I implemented MDI for a Windows application. Likely an HTML editor. Probably in VB6, maybe VC++. I just did it because I could and now I wonder how many big corps also did that because they could.

Thanks for the nostalgia run there.
Are car bombings common enough in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that it's a reasonable fear? Statistically, having a fear that you're going to die in a plane crash or terrorist attack is totally unreasonable. Even if we ignore that, how is calling the NAACP an appropriate reaction to that fear?

Also I'm not sure destroying a device you suspect of being an explosive is recommended.
Does anyone still smoke? I smoke every day, heavily, and greatly enjoy it. I'm smoking a cigarette right now
JBS meatworks shut down by cyber attack
I built several Heathkits when I was younger. The last thing I built was a SW717 (lower right corner of the stack on the site). It never worked well because of a loud hum. I assumed the hum was from poor power regulation so I did everything I could to improve it, but it was still awful.

I sold it cheap to a Polish immigrant I knew at work, and I told him about the problem it had. He was determined to fix it and he finally did. The problem was poor shielding on the power transformer. The magnetic field was coupling into another transformer in the audio stage. He put some brass shielding around both transformers and it was extremely quiet after that.

I was pretty pissed off at Heathkit for either giving me the wrong parts, or maybe just having a bad design. I learned from others with similar experiences that Heathkit had a poor reputation for having problems like this. I never bought another one.

(Some ham radio operators refer to them as "Heathquit".)

Edit:
I read the write-up on the SW717 at their site here: https://people.ohio.edu/postr/bapix/SW-717.htm
They mention the hum, but claim they fixed it by reducing power supply ripple. That was definitely not the cause of the hum on my radio. I reduced the ripple to 20mV as measured with an oscilloscope, but the hum persisted.
I don't think that really needs a cite in 2021 but let me give it a go

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180109214939.h...

> At least 61 per cent of people who try their first cigarette become, at least temporarily, daily smokers, suggests an analysis of survey data by Queen Mary University of London.

This is actually stronger than the original statement. A substantial minority who even try smoking become smokers.I think it ought to be considered a given that people who smoke are physiologically addicted to nicotine. Having many relatives who smoke currently or have in the past. Smoking in America has been so pervasive that most of us likely have direct knowledge of smoking by either smoking having family members who smoke.
It's more like a program saying "oh you weren't using me for five hours so I moved into the system tray."
There are entire cities in Texas where every single residential property is covered by a HOA. Some times there literally isn't anywhere with sewer lines without an HOA.
I don’t think it would be fair to ban all motorbikes. It’s only certain types bikes, generally choppers (e.g. Harley Davidsons), crotch rockets and dirt bikes that are loud. Most of the other types are fairly quiet. Although the type of bike probably matters much less than who owns it—-I had a crotch rocket for a while and you couldn’t even hear it a block away.
All today’s new tech ideas must stand up to the question of whether they are viable in a majority bad actor environment.

If they were like cars, only bulletproof armored personnel transports need apply.

The modern Internet is basically a failed state.
Too Many Meetings?
As far as I understand, that’s not even really true in the case of the Three Gorges Dam. The community upstream suffered from the lost of ancestral land, while the cities downstream benefitted the most from the new, cheap electricity (and less risk of flooding).
>Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth went separate ways

* Was partitioned by external forces and eradicated from existence for decades.
Microsoft Releases WinGet 1.0
Hm, you're right, I guess I've seen a non-1000 user very rarely. However, for a company of tens to hundreds of people where you want them to be able to develop locally, you might very well hit this issue, and if you hardcode 1000 it's going to be hard for them to work around it.

This method works well until it doesn't work at all, and I think I would prefer one that works slightly less well but also had an easier way to override it. Then again, I might try this and see if we ever hit an issue, thanks!
Fun fact: Stuttgart is considered to be one of the worst cities in Germany with regards to air pollution, because of the geography ("Stuttgarter Kessel"). But the difference between any other German city and Stuttgart is obviously negligible when compared to Peking.
You’re missing the point. If the board makes a decision you don’t like, you can vote them out. They are elected officials meant to represent you so that the average homeowner doesn’t have to get into the minutia of contracts or managing common property.
Holy Shit! Thanks for introducing me to his Channel. Lots of exciting stuff.

( And somehow he is Canadian but speaks a little Cantonese )
Is it only because these games have some online features?
> Ever since the dawn of the Graphical User Interface operating system on mass-market computers in the mid-1980s, they have been designed primarily around what was then called the “desktop metaphor,” and is more usefully described as a document-centric system

I’m not a big fan of the Desktop as a file storage location. My experience on the Mac is that it just becomes cluttered with screenshots and old documents unless you babysit it.

My solution has been to have screenshots saved in a ~/Screenshots directory. You can change the save location of screenshots with an easily Googlable command. I have a shortcut to this folder in my dock.

I also have a separate folder ~/Temporary, which also has a shortcut in the dock. This is where I put any documents that I need to quickly reference only a handful of times. I have it set up to automatically send any documents that haven’t been opened in 30 days to the Trash, where you’ll have one final opportunity to recover the files before they vanish forever.

This strategy has essentially obviated the Desktop as a file storage location, and just generally allows for more organized computing. No more ugly desktops with 50 icons scattered around.

(I know this isn’t 100% related to the article, but it’s something potentially helpful that came to mind while reading it)
It isn't meant to. It's meant in large part to deter people from negatively impacting society and making otherwise good places to live deteriorate into shitholes. Which is what happens to those places when leniency and misutilized compassion allows for crimes to be committed against the citizenry with little or no recourse. It's that mindset that leads to the bizarre policies that plague many parts of the country.

It would be great if we somehow found a way to ensure that everyone had every need fulfilled. However, that is orthogonal to the issue of what to do when a person has crossed the line we've drawn in the sand for what is acceptable in a safe society.
A point is that there's almost no way to release owned lands in Japan (except died and not inherited) but taxed. That's part of why some property is released such low price.
Just disable scripts in the web browser you crazy cat.
On my Linux systems, both server and desktop there are a set of programs that I don’t use the package manager for, because they’re usually out of date.

This includes browsers, where I let the auto updates handle it, and programming environments (Python, R, Node), where I often use their specific updaters.

I don’t think it’s realistic to expect a global curated package manager to stay on top of the bleeding edge all the time.
A critic who only recommends what's on the best-seller list seems rather redundant.
I have said this before and was heavily downvoted.

If you don't agree with the counterargument of the parent, the simplest way to speak out against cryptocurrency is to stop using the word "invest" and substitute it with "gamble" or "gamble with whales".
Have you not noticed all the comments complaining that Macs see closing a document and closing a program as two separate things, while Windows still does not?

Edit: It wasn't until Office 2007 that some Microsoft apps (but not others) started breaking the Win32 MDI UI.
Jq is rounding 64-bit unsigned integers (2017)
> On the other hand, I've been a bit dissatisfied with amplifier and cabinet models based on traditional DSP and physical modeling approaches,

Have you tried the Fractal stuff? I've been using it since the first generation (consistently for live use since the Axe-Fx II days) and they've been ahead of the competition since their inception. At this point I'd venture to say that the majority of their amp models sound indistinguishable from the real thing with no advanced parameter tweaking.

That being said when I was between Fractal units about a year ago I spent a brief amount of time with the Pod Go and was immensely impressed with how much they were able to pack into a $500 floor unit. Most of the amps and drives still felt a bit caricature-y but were still very usable - a far cry from the Pod Bean days. It's truly a great time to be a musician.
i have never smoked but i have been around people who smoke in public spaces and have never found why it would be atractive in the first place. i think that this should be particularly stressed in COVID hit areas as it is bad for your lungs.
could someone also tell me what quitting vapes is like, i do not know and i think it would be similar
Ran across this today and spent a good 20 to 25 minutes trying to debug why my own code was failing when it was jq that was rounding an id in the JSON response.

Submitting this to let others that use jq beware of this :/
Most Linux systems have the option to auto apply security updates.
Sure, the USD is the world's reserve currency. And, while it's also the currency of the international trade, the US's share of China's import isn't as significant -- in 2019, China imported over $2T, or $2,000B, worth of goods and services globally and, of that, only $163B, came from the US. In fact, the US is not even the biggest import nation, it's South Korea, followed by Japan and Taiwan.
A neutral file system and standardized file formats are a huge part of what has made computing able to do interesting things in the past 40 years. The fact that one application can output a file, and another can open it and operate on it is basically at the core of the unix philosophy, and the reason we can have things like developer workflows.

If I, as an application author, can only work on data in ways that are intended and officially blessed by another application, we basically have the situation we have on mobile where everything is siloed, and the state of the art is limited by the imagination individual application developers.
Mirror: https://archive.is/nrxj0
The reality is we don't even need these systems you're talking about...
We are living in a multi-device, instant-access, access-anywhere, cloud-based world, and the desktop file-based paradigm has trouble with this reality. The vast majority of non-technical people would struggle with desktop-based files when they want everything everywhere all the time on every device at any moment.
He seems to be arguing that there is less centralization and network effect driving hits to his blog than a decade ago. I think the reverse is true. People are more walled within their corporate gardens than ever before.

But that doesn't have to matter for "small b blogging" because getting hits isn't the point and there's no profit incentive driving things. Just post what you want and if people find it useful that's cool, but secondary.
There has been a lot of advancements since Bitcoin:

-Ethereum created a general purpose blockchain

-Algorithmic stablecoins like DAI were derided as impossible until they started working

- DEX’s were slow and useless at first but now functional and doing tons of volume.

- NFT standards like ERC-721, and NFT platforms, have flourished.

-ETH2 promises a 99% reduction in energy vs POW

-Crypto will never go truly mainstream while scaling causes txs to cost hundreds of dollars. Sidechains like Matic are functional and being used by many, and L2s like Arbitum and Optimism are launching this year. I expect to see a real acceleration of use cases and usage by normal users once those things are live.

- Wallet software has improved enormously, with hardware wallets like Ledger and Trevor and software wallets like Rainbow.

-DeFi is innovating like crazy with AAVE, Alchemix, Mirror, etc.

Going from Bitcoin to ETH2 with L2s and stable coins and other primitives took a while, but those innovations were key. Once those are all live, I think the real use cases will finally start to take off.
Democracy is not a contract with a homeowners organisation. HOAs are not government.
I think one reason that quitting is so hard is that it is assumed to be a 100 to zero transition. I believe that just as getting addicted, weaning off is a process. Without having established a mindset of truly wanting to quit and without clearly understanding your very own reasons for it, it's way too easy to consider that occasional misstep a total failure of the project.
Their "decisions" over my freedom of speech (and artistic expression) should not be something that is voted on.
One formula that works well for me is audiobooks + jogging. There's really no escape from the book for the next 30-45 minutes.
I see you don't care for it but I often run Emacs in terminal mode (use cmd line option "-nw"). I always configure word wrap as well.
Most likely. It's not the best IDE but it is likely the best free one. Out of the box VS Code is pretty much good to go while others are either paid or take a lot of config.

I have attempted to use vim but I just can't be bothered working out how to turn it in to VS code. If I have to decide between multiple ways to install plugins with their own tradeoffs, its already too much work when vs code just works.
Tried it just once?

I had a few puffs once in a dumb college do-stupid-things game -- I guess I didn't manage to inhale properly because it did nothing for me.
Against Metrics: How Measuring Performance by Numbers Backfires
This, but in the other direction. The most liberating thing about computing for me was learning how to use a Unix shell effectively. Things that used to take 10s of minutes of tedious pointing, clicking, and dragging now take about as long as it takes to type out a one-liner pipeline.

Nowadays, when given the choice, I'll gladly trade desktop pictionary for a direct conversation with the computer. I think we should be optimizing for that experience.
You just said it was “after factoring for inflation”. How does it make sense to say this is due to inflation when you just said inflation was accounted for?
Thing is, nicotine is quite beneficial for the brain, there are numerous studies on it. The problem, of course, is that smoking as means of getting nicotine is unhealthy, due to tar and other cancerous residues.

I never smoked cigarettes regularly, but smoked quite a bit of pipe and cigars. I love tobacco taste and nicotine hit. While these are less unhealthy than cigarettes, because you don't inhale and the product is 100 % natural tobacco, I have since switched to Swedish snus to get my nicotine hit without any smoking.
Outside of the last two decades, real estate historically stayed the same price in constant dollars.
That sounds like nothing to me. Are you aware how expensive doing anything is today? That’s probably not enough to maintain a neighborhood pool.
I think an important thing is that there is not much common property in the HOA's domain, which therefore limits the fees the can collect. When there are high fees, HOA's attract the worst of society.

My HOA is $100/yr and the only common property are some pillars at the 2 entrances. We do have rules that I actually like, for example:

- don't leave your trash cans visible from the street

- no driveway basketball goals or other sports equipment

- no motor homes or boats parked in driveways

- no long-term parking on the street; guests for parties are fine

- fences have to be approved. We have 5-6 different kinds that they accept, but not 30

- sheds and other detached storage buildings have to be approved. Anything attached to the house doesn't require approval

These rules to me are to maintain property values of the neighborhood. It's not like the HOA's that insist you get a new roof every 10 years or paint your house every 5 years, or the HOA hires someone to do it and sends you the bill. My sister was in one of those in FL for a vacation home and she sold it, not just for that reason, but it was definitely a factor.
If they were trying to convince you against it, I'm guessing they weren't giving you a video of the average procedure. Kind of like how peta videos aren't exactly representative of how most of the farming industry operates.

I watched the one on my son, and while it wasn't nothing, it was a tiny amount of skin and it was healed up very nicely before even his umbilical cord had fully dried and fell off.
This makes them a rather unique class of dirty renewables.
Where do you type Cmd-N/Cmd-O "into" if you just closed the last open window? I am not aware of macOS continuing to give kbd focus to an application with no open windows, but maybe I just don't use macOS enough to realize that it works this way.