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> Spotify is a music streaming service.

I don't understand this objection. Every time people say "software is slow today: compare Spotify to Winamp/Xmms", the objectiion is that Spotify isn't Xmms, it's a music streaming service. But so what? Why can't a music streaming service be fast to start up? It's already a thick client. My life isn't going to end if I can start playing music within milliseconds but the playlist is a few tracks different compared to a hypothetical playlist that was hypothetically edited on another computer which doesn't exist because I use spotify exclusively on my phone.

There is something about Spotify that means if I play a track for the first time it will have to wait a few seconds to start streaming. But what is it about Spotify that means that it takes several times longer to start playing the same track I was listening to just before it crashed compared to how long Winamp took?

> I'm using the desktop app right now. It's using 160mb of ram and it's very responsive.

This feels a little like it's meant to be irony, except that you clearly mean it seriously. You don't see anything wrong with a webservice client that has local caches using 160 MB ram? And you think that's not bloated, in comparison to a music player that ran on a machine which had 8 MB ram - even for the operating system?

My experience with Spotify is that it's basically a loading symbol. I more or less switch between two playlists (Discover Weekly and Liked Songs, with occasional forreys into the albums of tracks I hear and like). Every time it gets kicked out of memory - which happens extremely fast on my phone with 8 GB ram - it takes ages to get back up to the point it was before. (Compared to my podcast app (Antenna Pod), which only gets kicked out of memory over night when everything seems to, and which is fast and responsive even when just starting.)
Is there more on this proposal (e.g., a preserved document)?

Something I found especially interesting is the decision to not implement "STX abs,Y" and "STY abs,X", while the decoding matrix would have easily provided for this. Was this to keep the instruction set arbitrarily simple (as in explicitly not orthogonal)? Or was there a more serious architectural conflict? Or was this just a legacy from the 6800, which had just a single index register, thus lacking a similar option?

(I added a note on this to the article.)
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> big companies are using the project and need a lot of things as well from it in order to keep their projects healthy, but in most of the cases this is a talk in just one way.

This is everything with what's wrong with open source. Many companies treat open source as something they have a right to consume and no obligation to support financially or with dev time. Some poor schlub is on the other end working their butt off and feeling guilty, while the company realizes all the value...
Reminds me a bit of how Charlie and the Glass Elevator, the sequel to Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, is also a weird departure from the original.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Great_Glass_El...
"If a decent enough quality version of lightroom that works with Linux comes on the market"

It's called Darktable. https://www.darktable.org/
> She spoke at length about how we should accept that our children won't have regular jobs - they would have a few 'gig' employments: driving a cab a few days each week before stocking shelves in the evening and maybe working part-time at an old-people's home.

This just sounds so staggeringly inefficient. A person doing one full-time job well is gonna easily beat out many people doing that job part-time (and thus poorly). Plus, think of all the extra unnecessary commuting that comes with doing lots of little jobs spread throughout the day vs just the one job. I don't know how anyone can seriously advocate that this state of the world would be an improvement for anyone, except possibly the employers.
Chrome seems to be overall the fastest on windows. But it’s negative is worse memory usage compared to the others.

So if you have a few tabs and want the fastest experience, it’s good I think.
I knew somebody will come, and post that there.

That particular factory stood semi idle for nearly a decade, and stood well in rank to showpiece Union's engineering like Moscow metro. It's nearly certain that the original factory built Albert Kahn only managed to make a few thousand units before accidents, a fire, breakdowns, and complete inadequacy of the fitting necessitated a complete rebuild (at the time, it was said to be "random, wrong, and sometimes completely unneeded equipment")

It was rebuilt, expanded, and retooled multiple times before they can manufacture even a "tin can" (as was called by Union's soldiers) T-26 tank.

And yes, the story of T-34 going to frontlines right from the assembly lines is a gross exaggeration.

No Americans had much of a role in USSR's alleged industrial proves on the eve, and during WW2 aside from Lend-lease, it was the fantastic, enormous resource expenditure which did.

The country remained largely agricultural until mid-late seventies.
If you click through to the linked posts they give numbers, for example it says that the short builtins change saves 10% on Facebook and 15% on YouTube.
During the current IC shortage, I've been buying quantities of assembled breakout boards that have chips I need and desoldering them.

In many cases it's actually cheaper than buying the bare ICs at their normal price.
> “It’s at least half way to able-bodied typing speed, and that’s why this paper is in Nature.”
The OP wasn't stating that the world is just. Like at all, nada. You are using a straw man argument.
Yes, I've seen corporate presentations on that matter, which basically focused on the zero-cost aspect. Well, you get what you pay for, I guess.
It's nice but I value privacy more.
Leasing and/or renting: Fine.

But making a monopoly on providing parts and services is not a good thing. People end up paying 2000 dollar for a 2 dollar repair.

Imagine the world when buying a new car/truck/tractor is less expensive than replacing the brakes for example. This is how the world works right now.
Color me surprised that dan’s site got front paged on HN.
Comic Artists Are Waging a War, and We Joined the Frontlines [12m8s]
Can it access Spotify playlists, or just local ones? I've been looking for alternative Spotify desktop clients but I've never found anything I like.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

Mindblowing.
Rope took 5610 ms. 0.001122 ms per iteration, 891k iterations per second
JS toString took 3463 ms. 0.003463 ms per iteration, 288k iterations per second

I guess you have a typo there in total time?
To be pedantic, technically they can't elide, reorder or coalesce a accesses to volatile objects any more they can do any other form of I/O, even if it is a local variable whose address is never taken.

Of course how accesses on the abstract machine maps to the actual hardware is implementation defined, although most will document to translate them to plain movs.

And implementations have bugs of course; here [1] gcc removing a volatile access to an otherwise unused volatile parameter is considered a bug, even when the parameter is actually passed via register (in this case I would say the standard is underspecified).

You are absolutely correct regarding non-volatile atomics though.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71793
The productivity/time tradeoff is a spectrum, and highly dependent on both the person and the nature of the work. Some people have a sweet spot at 40 hours for certain tasks, some at 60, and a rare few at 80. As a concrete example, think of a software engineer who works 40 hours at their day job but also spends 10-20 hours a week on successful side projects, or a mechanic who works 40 hours at the shop but obsessively tinkers with their own cars in their spare time. Even if the side projects are not directly related towards tasks at their day jobs, they still develop skills that have direct benefits at the day job.

I’m emphatically not saying that expectations will implicitly rise to 80 hour workweeks across the board. For many businesses, there would not be any implicit pressure at all to go beyond the hypothetical legally mandated 35 hours. But for some companies in certain lines of work, there will most certainly be implicit pressure to go above and beyond 35 hours, simply because there are sufficient people passionate enough about their jobs that they will put in more than 35 hours and remain productive.
Who replaced those parts for you and what sort of hell did they have to put up with to facilitate those repairs? And how viable are those same repairs for a modern MacBook in comparison?

Apple's goal (same with other manufacturers like JD) isn't to eradicate independent repair. They just want to make it economically in-viable so that third-party repair disappears and most consumers choose to buy new.
We want more.

We own more cars than before. We own more house than before. We eat out more than before. We take more trips than before.
The implication is that your dreams never involve any of these things.
> where all the features have been deleted

We're never going to go back to the old days. Back then desktop computing was 100% of end user computing and everyone assumed all users end up as power users.

Now desktop computing is ~30% of end user computing and shrinking and we realize that most people have absolutely no desire to become power users. It's not that they can't, they don't want to (think other interests, anti-intellectualism, etc).

Also mobile computing by its nature (being on the move, having to pay attention to real life, constrained hardware interfaces) requires simplified UIs.
יהי זיכרו ברוך

My grandfather was on a train to Auschwitz, but managed to avoid it and survive. A childhood friend of his survived in the camp until liberation. They always paid tribute to the liberators along with those who died in the attempt, at a ceremony commemorating their community.
I should say too that this whole attitude is older than the 60’s; the original Jeffersonian American vision was the self-supporting yeoman farmer. And right now today you have evangelical Christianity and new age spiritualism, which both promise self-actualization in one form or another. In evangelical Christianity you have a personal relationship with god- god talks to you individually and it’s up to you to interpret his wishes. There is no priest or community to tell you what god’s will is. That’s why the evangelicals and the new age people hate each other so much- they’re contesting the same turf.

And the thing is- it worked, for a really long time. You can deny collective interests and make everything personal, if you can hand out free land like it’s candy. And then we had the period in the mid 20th century when all Europe was destroyed, and profits were so high that conflicts could be again papered over by crazy fast economic growth. It’s only now that cracks are finally starting to show, now that the economy has globalized and the free stuff is running out. If I’m right about this, then we will see the re-emergence of collective struggle in the next few decades and the decline of the self as the center of all effort and struggle.
To clarify the Schindler analogy, I’m obviously not suggesting that we deserve medals for providing low paid work, just that the work we provide is not causing harm, on the contrary it’s a slight improvement on the alternative options for those who take the work.
Amazon is switching Sidewalk on — for everyone.
I remember starting out to code.. npp was a breath of fresh air.. due to my line of work I now do everything in vim via prompt.. but npp is the first thing I open when I work in gui.. can't express how happy I am to see its still flourishing..
The question is have they replaced/maintained everything since then.

The problem with a lot of navies is that if you refuse to decommission old rust buckets you end up with an navy that looks impressive on paper but rarely makes it out of port and i suspect this is the case for the Argentinian navy.

you don't need dozens of blue water warships to patrol against pirate fishing, you need a few patrol boats and a few long range maritime surveillance planes.
>Isn't this the dream of automation, though? That all those shitty jobs are replaced by robots, and the humans are left with only the interesting, creative, ones?

Hopefully. But what are the values that we hold that will allow that to come true? It's not just a matter of technology. Engineers, designers, and inventors will be the ones building that world. Do they believe their support staff (direct and indirect) deserve to benefit? How about the financiers, who often feel like they are the ones who deserve to benefit primarily, and give both the support staff and engineers short shrift? Deciding that those who work less important jobs than us do not deserve the benefit of our hard work is a race to the bottom.

Whatever the case may be, we can start putting those values into action now. Especially as we see work weeks increasing for people even in an age of abundance.
>IBM allowing shell access to one of their then new POWER systems.

Can remember that too, was sponsored by IBM at some university, but it's closed long ago, was actually really cool.
Last year I used Darktable and Lightroom side by side. They were both steaming piles of crap. Lots of bugs, crashes, and extremely high CPU usages. Darktable was slightly less buggy on MacOS but not much. Lightroom was easier to figure out but I’m not really using anything but basic features on both apps.
That's basically just a restatement of the problem of the commons, and it can definitely be extremely problematic. There are countless examples around us where problems are created because people think themselves to be special.
Based on FOSS surveys I have seen, majority of OSS contributions are paid for that way. The off the clock for free contributions are smaller part of it all.

I think the off-the-clock long term OSS maintenance is rare, because it is actual work. And contrary to stereotype, no matter how passionate you are, you will burn out if you work two full time jobs at the same time.
And how many decades if not centuries of daily CPU time are wasted thanks to ads on the internet?
At what wealth level does parents and community helping someone succeed switch from a laudable ideal to privilege asserting?
You absolutely cannot, unless you have an open ECU to begin with. Typically this is only sporty type cheap cars (evo, wrx). But even if you were to take on such and endeavor the difficulty of such a task and the knowledge requirement will scare off the unexperienced
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"I usually just choose to not pay artists for music, software developers for games and software libraries,
made some millions from an mobile game, using some suckers open source libraries and free assets. Also movies, I chose not to pay for those, you can get em free anyway.

Also I get to keep more cash if I just don't pay licensing fees.

I just found out that I don't have to pay taxes since I am making so much money not paying for all the other stuff, I just call it non profit.

I mean it is not hard. Made my first million before I was 20 with only 80k initial funding from my dads emerald mine."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27355789
https://samnewman.io/patterns/architectural/bff/
And even beyond UBI. UBI provides a way for people not to be completely washed away in a world with a lot more automation. But in a country like the US, where money is readily translated into political power, having increasing differentials of wealth and poverty, even with a UBI floor, will mean that a select handful of people will increasingly be able to shape the information ecosystem and political landscape in the service of their private interests.
WDs tend to be a bit more durable... especially in smaller capacities:

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-05-09/poor-disk-perfor...
I'm unsure if you've read this novel, but the translation "was to remember" actually works well here, and was probably a deliberate choice. The cycles of time are a major theme in the story.
As someone living and working in the developing country I say: please profit from my work!
I started my software development career making 2.5EUR per hour. Now, 10 years later, I can find consulting gigs in EU/US market for 40-50EUR which is really great for me, and stl affordable for the clients. Win-win, right? What is wrong with that?
I have a feeling that just comparing the numbers without looking at any of the logistics is just a convenient way to dismiss a theory you don't like.

There's all kinds of things to think about like how 2% may be less than 100% but in an elastic supply of a globally distributed good, 2% of (total yearly) supply called upon all at once can be a _huge_ departure from the norm. Maybe the shortage isn't just a hard disk shortage but a shortage of shipping space to take those hard drives anywhere else but to the NSA. Maybe it's that the factory(s) don't make 100% of the drives in an instant and then just distribute them for the rest of the year, but slowly make a constant stream of drives, all of which were swallowed up for a period of time by the massive order, causing the shortage.

There's a million other factors besides just "this number smaller that this number".
What about boredom, and the advantages of being less beholden to a single source of income?
You're not going to convince someone in the cult of Apple that their overpriced machine isn't worth the premium.
This is really quite upsetting. Potholer54 is a much-needed sane voice on Youtube. Is there anything anyone can practicaly do to fix this?
I don't think it's discrimination. In a world of finite opportunities, more and more of them going to the people that are born on level 50 when you have to start at level 1 will inevitably lead to revolution against entrenched interests, as people realize things are rigged against them. History has a few examples, notably in France and Russia.

What people call 'equality warriors' I call bloodshed preventers.
If you zoom out far enough you can always find a shared level of abstraction, but I don't think that's helpful.
A couple of things:

First, there was no need for the political rant… the answer to the above question is simple: people just read the headline, not the article.

Second, economics isn’t “science” any more than any other “social science”, so the left being “pro-science” or “anti-science” doesn’t really apply.

Economists are not seen as “agents of the enemy” by the left. That’s absurd. There are many economist across the left spectrum: from Stieglitz to Picketty and Kelton.

Stop it. You can’t try to make a point about “sides” having an agenda and then write… this. It looks foolish.
Wow. I was expecting a critique on how a 4-hour week causes harm to your colleagues through your laziness. Instead, the article only tangentially mentions this, with no supporting evidence or arguments. And 90% of the article consists of absolutely nothing more than ad-hominem attacks on Tim.

> The 4-Hour Work Week enshrines entitlement, providing an instruction manual for wannabe digital nomads: If earning a million dollars is too hard, you can just jet around impoverished countries where the dollar is strong (a legacy of colonialism)

How on earth do you get angry at someone for suggesting living in a low COL location? Developing countries around the world are extremely eager to attract tourists/nomads who can inject money into their economy. And yet, the author would prefer that we shun developing countries entirely. Because colonialism.

> See, a global economy can’t support millions upon millions of people jetting around the world and running businesses online. There will always be a sub-class of people working constantly behind the scenes, in sweatshops and kitchens, in order to sustain this dream lifestyle for a tiny few. The inequality is baked in. That’s where the private, selfish audience of one becomes so dangerous. We read books like The 4-Hour Work Week as if they were made just for us, because that’s how they’re written. Their authors are so far removed from the reality of normal people, they don’t even see us anymore. We’re rendered invisible. That’s what should anger us. It’s not that Tim Ferris found a new way to live and then wrote about it. It’s that now millions of “enlightened” bros all worship him and aspire to be like him, as if this is what our planet needs — more fragile white males with degrees from Princeton, and podcasts selling high speed internet.

Offering people advise on how they can better their lives, is now an evil thing to do? Not everyone in the world can work in a white-collar job, and therefore, it is evil to help people pursue it?

The author of this article genuinely scares me. There is no discussion of content here, no discussion about the consequences of certain actions, no consistent logical argument put forward. It is simply endless ad-hominem attacks, based almost entirely on Tim's demographics and career success. The fact that this is trending on multiple social media, instead of dying in a tabloid rag, makes me far more worried about the future of our society.
If a car smashed into me and I couldn't code, my company wouldn't pay me either?

Or are you talking about workmen's comp coverage?
This looks cool. What did you use to generate the documentation? https://docs.tooljet.io/docs/intro/
, the problem with that is the marginal benefit argument only works white collar workers, who still net value unless it truly goes negative. Blue collar worker value is usually tied to hours on the job.

Also, having personally struggled with overwork and burnout, I can say 60 and 80 weeks can be productive.. Until they aren't.
One thing you may encounter is that a large company may be using it for many things internally, and that still shows up as just a handful of clones, because they have some central artifact caching service in place.
This has happened with some pretty big names, too. gcc did this, and so did Jenkins. Didn't node.js do this a few years ago, too?
No, I think he's right. A chocolate cake may be tempting to you but not to me.
If that was true, nobody would’ve revolted in Europe since the potato famine (the former Stasi HQ is a short trip from me), and the potato famine would’ve triggered an immediate war for independence in Ireland rather than set one off a generation later.

Edit: before anyone suggests food shortages in DDR, based on what I saw in the DDR museum the shortages were of fancy food like coffee rather than staples like bread and potatoes.
I agree but I also think focusing on collective success allows us to all benefit from the increase in productivity and all stop working so many hours. In an age of abundance and ever increasing productivity, the work week should be getting shorter, not longer.
The past year has convinced me that UBI would be an unmitigated disaster.
> The participant was able to communicate at about 90 characters, or 18 words, per minute.

> By comparison, able-bodied people close in age to the study participant can type on a smartphone at about 23 words per minute, the authors say. Adults can type on a full keyboard at an average of about 40 words per minute.
Altium is a strategically important entity, the board isn't making a decision here.
Actually, the only mention I saw of life vests was two men in a canoe who died while wearing them.
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That's implying that automation costs that much every year, or that you must get an ROI of 100%. Almost in all cases, automation has a high setup cost but a low maintenance cost.
Everyone has a choice to stop working. Suicide is always an option. Therefore your statement is factually incorrect.
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