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> The works you can't find? Those are the ones people treasure.

I would say that you're mostly right, but it depends on the size and number of the print runs. If something's deemed a "classic" (frequently reprinted), or if it was a modern bestseller (mass printing), you'll find multiple copies and versions regardless of whether people treasure the book.

Despite being treasured by many people, there are tons of copies of "The Hobbit" in second-hand bookshops. 100 million copies sold will do that! [0] Yet there aren't many copies of "Tree and Leaf", and as you suggest, it's usually treasured thus not easily found. It was a special delight when I found a copy while browsing, as I'd never seen it before and haven't since, and I'm certainly not giving up my copy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books
I wish I could do that. I actually had to leave my last job because I was having too many issues. Lots of UI issues being missed. This was before I was diagnosed so I wasn't aware that it was caused by my vision.

In my current role as a contractor for faang company the work I do is very visually intensive marketing web design. There are so many subtle shades of gray and 1px borders that I often get QA tickets where I am literally unable to reproduce without visual correction.

You're right though. It would be easier for me to move into some kind of back-end focused nodeJS role which I'm quite strong at. But I have a fear of working on back-end systems that are directly connected to revenue streams. Like I don't think I have the engineering nous to do that.

Also I agree that pixel perfection is an outdated concept driven by the PSD to HTML era. These days layout should be determined by content (text, images) and not some arbitrary PSD comp. There has to be room for flexibility.
I know that Xubuntu 20.04 with the Thunar file manager still supports templates. I use them for my LaTex template.
Presumably that is already priced in to the going rate for “scrap metal”, no? Well, these aren’t the most rational people so maybe not.
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You very clearly articulated a huge pain point with brew.

I've been ruminating on making the switch to nix, you might already be familiar with it, but if not, here's an article I came across:

https://wickedchicken.github.io/post/macos-nix-setup/

Reproducible builds are super appealing: "Nix builds packages in isolation from each other. This ensures that they are reproducible and don't have undeclared dependencies, so if a package works on one machine, it will also work on another."

As is the focus on reliability: "Nix ensures that installing or upgrading one package cannot break other packages. It allows you to roll back to previous versions, and ensures that no package is in an inconsistent state during an upgrade."

From https://nixos.org
It isn't feasible because it wasn't designed as main way of transportation.
Maybe some a-b testing could be fun. If you want service to operate on starvation wages you stand in line A or sit at the right side, if you want fast service without anyone spitting on your onion rings take line B or sit on the left.
Mortgage interest is already reported to the IRS on Form 1098 and that form is required to be filed by the lender if you paid more than $600 in interest for the year.
Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone
Something that didn’t seem quite clear to me from the article, what was their motivation?

Was this straight up extortion with the aim to sell the Twitter id or did they just want to possess it for bragging rights?
All 1,2 and 5 eurocent coins are copper-clad steel. Much less worth. I guess EU learned something.
That looks reasonable. The NSO Group malware perform active attacks. By creating this front (the NSO Group) that is supposed to have private customers, they can put in their own targets and have some form of deniability.
TIL that twenty years ago, Paul Graham put Object-Oriented Programming under Pitchfalls and Gotchas in his notes titled Five Questions about Language Design.[1]

It is misguided, but perhaps it can help explain the origin of the numerous misguided attacks on OOP published here.[2]

[1] Five Questions about Language Design. http://paulgraham.com/langdes.html#:~:text=Object-Oriented%2...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
While I disagree with the article, I think your comment is a bit of an exaggeration and there is some merit for criticism.

Castigating people for negative thoughts and how they "ruin" ingenuity is ultimately a self-defeating argument.
The entire point here is that almost none of those generic (but very real!) issues really apply in this specific case for once (especially given the call number2 applies a bit, as I already said). "Police responding to a call about a shooter are armed, actually encounter someone with a gun, point guns and tell them to drop it, gun gets dropped, nobody gets shot" sounds like something that could happen in many places and is not a useful example for cops being way to fast to shoot people.
Are there many other "book villages" out there?
Most definitely, slaving away at a dead end job not earning anything is sucking up tons of those employee's opportunities by keeping them unavailable.
Naïve UI - A Vue 3 Component Library
Could be cultural, but a data point from France is that while I, personally, don't often see abusive clients, I have friends who work in this industry, and they do complain about this.

Some of them are Americans, and they tend to find working here more of a drag than in the States. They mostly complain about people being generally rude, followed by big parties each having extremely specific requests and later quarreling about the check (as in who has to pay for what).

They also mention that they usually make less money here, because although the wages are higher, they don't usually get any tips. Also, cost of living is higher (Paris, as opposed to US cities other than NY / LA / SF).
TurboTax recently tricked me using some dark UI patterns into spending 30+ minutes painstakingly filling out my tax forms in a way that made it seem like it was for the free filing.

Only at the very end, did they reveal that it was in fact for the paid version, with no way to change it to the free version and also keep the work. Essentially holding my work hostage.

So I had to redo it again in the hard-to-find free version. I am now anti-TurboTax for life.
Apparently, function overloading in a language like C# is done at compile time, while in Julia is done at runtime based on the type of argument given.
The problem with these kind of vehicles is that they exist somewhere between cars and bicycles, which means they won't be welcome on either bike paths or car roads. Hell, people even complain about people on race bicycles on bicycle paths. But then again, people wouldn't be people if they didn't complain (about traffic).
Nautilus (Gnome's file browser) does this. It's new menu is populated with files from ~/Templates
Here is a detailed analysis: http://info.lookout.com/rs/051-ESQ-475/images/lookout-pegasu...

Official manual: https://archive.org/details/nso-pegasus/
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Now I know why my professor explained breadth first search for an entire week!!
I live in Gilroy. They're still here, thankfully. I feel pretty lucky to have them nearby.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/bookbuyers-gilroy
Just checked the website - the Twike 5 (2021) with the largest battery should be able to do 190km/h and have a range of 500km. Those are optimistic numbers for sure, but not really "too slow", right?
You're right that calling it "cooperative" would be worse. Still, I suspect Early Access users are paying a lot more attention to the details (and are more knowledgeable users in general) than GA users will; switching thread implementation might be "easy", but I suspect most users will want to use Loom without tuning anything at all. So safe defaults are very important (and I'd suggest that for the default config, safely handling 32 spinning threads on 8 cores is more important than handling 320,000 mostly-sleeping IO-bound threads).

Which is not to say I have a better idea (other than "make the defaults magically do everything right", which is obviously hard).
No need to generalise based on your limited experience if you are unfamiliar with situation in Belarus
I'm not sure how much of it overlaps with Blender and how much of it is complementary to Blender.

But Adobe recently acquired Allegorithmic and their 3D texture tool Substance.

https://www.substance3d.com/

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/adobe-acquires-allegorithm...
> Compare that to the "application-centric" paradigm that dominates on the web, in mobile OSes and recently in desktop OSes as well: Here a program "owns" its data and you are supposed to interact with the data only through the program.

Which is a great step backward, unfortunately.
This thread is of course tragically incomplete without tagging the Sinclair C5:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
"I always feel like somebody's watching me

And I have no privacy (ooh ooh)

I always feel like somebody's watching me

Who's playing tricks on me?

And I don't feel safe anymore, oh, what a mess

I wonder who's watching me now (who?), the IRS?"
So, how much are we talking?
Why don't you have it anymore?
Wow. For that price, you can easily buy an electric car.
It is insane to me to be in discussions like this and see Europeans trust their government more than they trust their mothers. Literally every time in history they've gotten complacent with their governments their governments tried to kill them all, and still they never learn.
I believe the "New" menu of the file manager is mostly used by newbies and that's great it is there for them. For more experienced people the usefulness of an option in this menu probably varies from type to type. Being able to create a plain text file at any given place makes a lot of sense even for advanced users (especially if displaying file name extensions is enabled, I actually believe making hiding them even an option, let alone the default is the worst decision of whole Windows UX design). Word/Excel documents also make sense. BMPs make notably less (today). Some types make zero sense to be there yet get there occasionally.
You don't think indigenous people who are offended by caricatures of themselves being used as mascots is enough of a 'concrete reason(ing)'?

But I did ask you a question. I'll ask it again: Why is it more important to you to maintain racist mascots than it is to use something neutral in its place?
I have the same issue with staring into the sun. I basically have my machines set permanently to low blue light/night shift mode and it makes a big difference for me.

>4k at any size would be a disaster, a denser crisper display isn't helpful if your vision isn't sharp enough to give you the details.
- exactly my experience.

I've only tried Ubuntu but I found the font scaling, at least via the settings menu to be limited somewhat compared to Windows. I've found Windows the most comfortable to use vs my MacOS work machine. I'm sure Linux has ways to configure scaling under the hood but I didn't look into it.

I've also found that if I had a cold lately my eyes tend to tolerate the lenses much less. It's strange how the cold even manifests itself in my eyes and vision.

Thanks again for sharing.
In Common Lisp, multiple dispatch lets you provide a new specialization of a function at a different time/place. I imagine it's similar in Julia.
> Those "windows" are currently inconsistent and kind of painful, but I see the germ of an approach there.

There is an approach here, but I can't see it as anything other than a hostile takeover.

The "shared ownership" of application-mediated storage is not under user control. Depending on the implementation, it's either controlled by the platform and otherwise sandboxed (i.e. you can't get at the data from outside of a participating app), or - more commonly - it's controlled by mutual business agreements between app vendors. In that latter case, you still can't get at the data directly, and the app you're using can suddenly stop being able to access the data, because the vendor that provides access revoked API access to the vendor of your app.

For a random example, see e.g. Spotify revoking API access to SongShift for no good reason, and then restoring it later, possibly due to GDPR pressure by a fellow HNer[0].

Regular files are bits on your storage. They stay forever independent. Application-mediated storage is just a window into business partnerships.

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764371
> Having one of the fastest single-threaded speed was worth the launch day problems.

Strongly disagree. So waiting 6 months to do your work after purchase was worth it?

One of the reasons developers get these Macs is to do mobile development for iOS (Because a Mac is required for this). Turns out that the 'launch day problems' wasn't worth it for this person (and many others) [0]

When I saw those launch day issues, I knew it would take more than a year to get the software ecosystem fully supported. At that point, I would just skip it and go for M1X or M2 instead. Which ever comes first.

[0] https://medium.com/mobile-app-development-publication/apple-...
>and everyone involved is traceable. The system works.

The system does not work.

Everyone involved have been discovered by `rouges` like Assange that system holds in jail for either made-up or largely irrelevant accusations, out of the scope of their opus, full soviet style.

Everyone knows the king is naked and just comedians and activists at large (or in jail) has courage to say something about it, which is pretty medieval position for all of us to start with.
You should just name the startup already.
You don't eat Razrs. Food prices have largely increased, following inflation, while wages have not.

You don't live in a Razr. Purchasing a house is outside of the realm of possibilities for most people under 30. Rent does keep growing too, and guess what, your wages don't follow.

I don't put a Razr in my gas tank, but the price keeps skyrocketing.

You're just not looking at what people _need_. Nobody gives a shit about having an Alexa in their homes, that's just a bonus.

> some level of wealth inequality isn’t necessarily bad,

If I was born in 0 BC, and worked every day of the year until today with my current salary, I would be 8% of the way to being a billionaire. This isn't "some level of inequality". It's theft and is actively damaging for society.
Did the parent comment about the Netherlands also apply to business owners? I have dealt with business taxes in other countries besides the US (though not Netherlands) and you absolutely are expected to hire an accountant to do it. It may well be impossible to file them otherwise. In the US for the most common businesses you can do pass-through taxation and just add a schedule to your regular return.
"then there's this overall trend of stagnating wages for everyone except owners of capital."

So people should better buy some capital!

Also the lament about stagnating wages glosses over the amount of people that have been added to the workforce. The average wage per person may have stagnated, but the sum of wages that are being paid out has increased a lot.

I think it is not a small achievement to provide jobs for so many more people.
That's a good deal. I'm in the UK and I've never had anything like that. I currently have ten paid sick days per year and after that it is Statutory Sick Pay (SSP, £96.35 pe week) for an additional 26 weeks. SSP is better than nothing but it's not great.

Looking back, all of me previous jobs have offered 10 days sick pay and I've always assumed it is a de-facto standard over here.
> If it were, they'd have never added a pdf viewer in the first place. Everyone already had one. Near-zero benefit, huge cost.

Every time I clicked a PDF online, I dreaded the external viewer opening (especially Adobe Reader). I very much liked when they integrated a PDF viewer. Chrome also has one.

I'm willing to bet the internal PDF viewer has at least 100x (more likely 1000x) the users the FTP client had.
I thought calls could be traced? If an emergency call comes in from another country claiming to be reporting a local situation, I'd think police would do a little more checking before going in full throttle, guns at the ready.
Availability can absolutely be highly contextual.

Frank Herbert's Dune, for example, has been difficult to find in second-hand bookshops (even the old mass market paperback) because there is (and has been for some time... thanks COVID) a film adaption by a prominent director (Denis Villeneuve) on the cusp of release.
My boomer dad used to hate folders. His home directory was completely trashed with files. Impossible to find anything, and his aversion to folders became a self reinforcing problem.

But with the lockdowns he was spending more time behind the screen and actually started to structure the mess. Now he’s even happily using a NAS to archive stuff.

I guess the principle of having apps manage files is even easier to grok than folders. However if my dad can do it on his own then it’s not like people just can’t learn folders. It’s really only a matter of how do you motivate them.
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How do you keep people from taking justice into their own hands in such situations?
Thanks for the correction. Is there really nothing that would protect somebody in this situation from unjust punishment for a completely different matter?
> In general I would not be so critic, but this is a company claiming to run highly available, mission critical distributed computing systems. Yet, they publish a popular blog article and it brings down their enire web presence?

You may expect that company blog have a bit lower uptime than services it offers. As someone on purchasing side, I don't give a f** if a company website or blog is down for weeks, if their services are operational.

As a disclaimer - never heard of Ably, but wholeheartedly support non-kubernetes environment. Being CTO in large e-commerce company we do not use or even plan to use kubernetes.
This would be the most logical option for me. I do work a lot with nodeJS, building command line tools and such but I have this fear of being a "JavaScript Engineer" and dealing with commercial/revenue related aspects of the business.
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
UI per se is not my issue with KDE, But the stability of their builtin softwares and that their focus seems to be adding new features than fixing what's already there.

e.g. There are several threads on Memory, CPU hogging issues with dolphin(even when not indexing). Plasma shell related issues like icons go missing etc.

Obviously inspite of that, KDE is still a great option for those looking for a stable and fully featured Linux desktop environment.
I moved and lived closer to the city than before (where i had 14km of "Straight road").

I bought an electric bicycle instead :-)
The headline says there was a swatting, though.
Far more rational to convince a few people to give you millions of dollars you burn through in 8 months not launching a product no-one wanted leaving a burnt out team, disappointed investors and a dozen second hand Aeron's...
Most of the big ones can be done without a self assessment. If you make a pension contribution for example, you can call hmrc and tell them and they'll adjust your tax code
Same principle works within a single application.

For example, when (being dragged into) making PowerPoint presentations, I tend to manually style two or three slides (e.g. title page, chapter divider, content slide), and then create actual slides through "Right click -> Duplicate Slide".
This is clearly not whataboutism. I’m not gonna debate why, I leave that as either an exercise for you, or tale it as a trolling attempt.

> you can not be a dem and also not be a republican

False dilemma.

> Oh it’s no conspiracy, it’s a unified party fighting what they view as an enemy. The nutjob thing is just stupid already. In fact you’re starting to sound like one for having such and issue with it.

Sure sure
You could also say a true alternative will never be allowed to get big enough to have votes. Systemic something something.
I'm 100% with this idea. Managing the file system in a decent way is extra effort and a skill in itself. One that is just adjacent to the concept of using a computer for work.

In fact I'd dare to say having the filesystem as first and foremost UI, is bad UX. We just grew with it, so now it feels like the most natural way to work because we've spent decades getting used to it.

This became apparent to me when trying to teach computers to some people who were like a "blank slate" so they brought a fresh perspective to everything. The concept of applications seemed about right for them. But opening the dreaded File Explorer and swim through drive letters, virtual and real folders, having to be well organized, having to worry about backups of specific folders, etc... was (and still is) a daunting task for them. And one that is just tangential to the work they wanted to do in the first place.
And yet RedHat's recommended compiler flags for GCC [0], for example, do not appear to catch the wrapping assignment in the above example code.

0: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/03/21/compiler-and-l...
Brave Browser adds its own referral codes to some cryptocurrency sites (2020)
I'm not very strong socially and I tend to get bored quite easily so I think PM work would not work for me. I did consider it in the past but I don't think I have the temperament for it. And also taking calls from stakeholders is a nightmare for me....:D
There is currently no political (and therefore I assume public) will to go for privacy over transparency for large money transfers.

You can vote for someone who wants to reverse this, and it might change. Since this is pretty much an international system though (banks offering anonymous accounts will have difficulty interoperating with other actors), it’s likely not enough with political/public opinion in just one country.
I looked at the numbers when we replaced my wife's car a couple of years ago and it didn't work. We bought a three year old hatchback for £7K with just 13K miles, we will keep it for at least six years. With the low mileage we do there is no way any current EV could get close.

Having said that I doubt we will buy another ICE. At the moment demand is high and supply is constrained so of course the manufacturers are going to concentrate on high margin products. Hopefully this will change as the supply ramps up.
Why would you melt them down? If they abolish pennies their collector value would probably be much more than 2 cents.

Pennies from the 19th century can be worth several dollars, a few specific ones even several hundred dollars.
> It sounds like using systemd is a terrible idea for memory-constrained devices, so you really don’t want to see it in the embedded world.

On the other hand, proper event-driven init system (instead of horrible shell scripts with all sorts of fragile "sleep"s and other hacks) sounds sexy for an embedded system. I sometimes get annoyed how home routers, NAS, etc. are slow to boot up

Though the embedded systems I refer to have much more than 16 MB of RAM, more like 128 and up.
The earlier you teach kids that "actions have consequences" or responsibilities, the better the kids and in turn society will be. "They are just kids" is ok in some cases, but the incident at hand is quite a serious one and I don't think, the perpetrators should be absolved coz of their age.
I don't understand what's stopping them from just melting them down in their backyard. It's not as if pennies are tracked in any way.