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I knew this was possible but I still completely deleted my account. Didn't want to have anything to do with Facebook at all. Friends and family know my number/email if it's something that matters.

Plus, deactivating an account still leaves you the option of reactivating, and I didn't want to do that in a moment of information-starved weakness, so they must still have your data.

Of course, you then have to trust that they actually do delete your data when you delete your account.
I think you've misunderstood my comments.

I saw this recurring theme on HN that electrophoretic panels were expensive due to patents and evil misdeeds by that most evil corporation called E-Corp.

I thought, hey, I work in this bloody display industry myself where everything is about volume, volume and more volume, and I hangout with their guys at conferences and events, and I've never heard such a thing as them using patents to attack other industry players. Are they really attacking people and hurting customers that want to use their technology as alleged?

So I asked a simple question each time I saw that claim that E Ink uses patents to attack startups or similar claims. What's the evidence?

And guess what. Now it turns back to people like you who ask what is my evidence that there's no evil misdeeds. And to which I just feign shock, oh no, it must be true then, since a lack of evidence for them being innocent of the alllegations must mean they are guilty.

So we're left back at square 1. I hope people with a smarter mind than mine can arrive at whatever the correct conclusions are.
C doesn't have a reliable portable way to silence a known warning. Inevitably, some warnings will be irrelevant/imprecise/overzealous (after all, they're only warnings, not errors).

To silence warnings in C without vendor-specific pragmas, people fiddle with the code until the warning goes away. This can be messy, cause bugs, and isn't even guaranteed to work on any other compiler, including a newer version of the same compiler.

So lack of -Werror is harmful, and -Werror is harmful too. C needs to sort it out.
Was social media ever really anything but an echo chamber that sought to recreate the mob mentality of collective lynching for dissenting voices? I mean cancel culture and wokeness have made it clear that seems like the means and methods to create (coerced) consensus amongst an incredibly vocal minority.

I'm less troubled with conformity, many Societies throughout the World have made that a part of the Social Contract where the unity and harmony of the whole is greater than one individuals happiness.

At least the reputation economy in it's current state, is mainly limited to online so you can opt out, where I think you can see how pervasively terrifying this can escalate to just look at China's Social Credit System. The guilt of association in one's social circle ensures that not just conformity is re-enforced, but that actively marginalizing those who dissent are made into 2nd class citizens as it impacts everything from access to capital/loans, employment opportunities, and travel restrictions.
Fair points. Perhaps I was a little overzealous with that statement, I'm not going to change it as it's critical (by incorrect) to this discussion.

The problem, as I understand it, is with the condition of the grid, not its capacity. I know homes in London who literally have flickering lights and power issues as a regular occurrence, I've experienced it myself, it's large cities like London which would benefit most from complete electrification of vehicles and the supplies and equipment is ageing.

With tenders being awarded to those who claim to be the most carbon-neutral (National Grid's words) as opposed to actually providing high quality equipment (warning: my opinion), I foresee the problem worsening.
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I don't like Facebook, but these "Facebook is declining" pieces have been appearing for 5 years now. FB (and Google) have made traditional news much less relevant, which is one possible explanation for why these articles keep appearing -- part wishful thinking, part hatchet job. Both parts mostly ineffectual so far.
It really is feature-complete. And I still use it for writing! Word 97 beats anything else I've tried in both polish and performance.
Remove section 230 !!!
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I'm porting Linux packages that compile for GCC/Clang to an EDG frontend based compiler and I need to remove forced -Werror from build scripts because different compilers have different warnings (and even false warnings due to compiler bugs). So what I want to say to people who force -Werror by default is that your software is no longer portable. Do not do this.
Yeah I'm not judging. Also I can imagine people whose lives depend on petrol (taxi drivers, delivery drivers etc.), at least I sympathise with the position.

In any case it seems to be the exceptions, not "everyone fills up the tank, then 20 jerry cans and a bottle of Coke".
The statement was incorrect, I agree, I've clarified my point in response to another comment, I'll leave it as-is for the integrity of the discussion.
I think it's fair to say that we've moved forward leaps and bounds since the the 80s. There have been major advances in compute and AI methods since that era.

There's certainly much further to go and we may end up hitting another wall sooner than later, but AI is delivering tangible results today in ways that it never could in previous eras.
>If you look at monthly active users, you'll see a line that goes straight and up.

It's a question of quality though, not quantity. Facebook's MAU growth is almost entirely international users from the developing world at this point, who are orders of magnitude less profitable than US users. They will remain an advertising juggernaut forever, but their cultural relevance has passed.
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WOW I absolutely love, love, love this idea.

A really great way to play with guests. This was done a lot in older horror movies, where the eyes in a portrait seemed to follow people.
Joe Manchin is not in the 1% by net worth either, He has a net worth of 7.6 Million[0] and you have to have a net worth of over 11 Million of be in the 1 %[1]

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/joe-manchin/ne...

[1] https://dqydj.com/top-one-percent-united-states/
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Have you ever heard of libraries (as opposed to binaries)? Or open source software packaged by distributions?
Exactly right — and I think his intro explains the difference: if you’re used to working on closed source projects, you have dedicated staffing to deal with this ongoing work and it’s likely that all of the parties involved work for the same place. Open source maintainers rarely have anywhere near that much available time and will get random complaints from people around the world saying that their project sucks because some unreleased version of GCC on RISC-V gets a warning[1]. For cases like this, I generally go back to what the goal is: helping the developers be safer – turning it on in CI testing is nice because it gives feedback when you’re already working on it, but having it in build scripts run by strangers is inviting support requests.

1. This will take a couple weeks of back and forth before the person who filed it either updates to the latest version or admits that the error was in a modification they were working on.
Craigslist is the biggest loss for me. It's such a nice simple website that doesn't require much of me to get things listed. I refuse to get back on facebook just for the market place, but damn if it doesn't make selling off old equipment/stuff much easier.
As I said in another comment, Egas Moniz won the Nobel prize in medicine for the lobotomy procedure for mentally-ill people!!
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Yeah. So irritating. Adblock Plus is owned by Eyeo GmbH which supposedly earns millions through it's 'acceptable ads' program.

[1] https://nitter.mailstation.de/gorhill/search?f=tweets&q=%22e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Edit: Just use 'Ublock Origin' instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
True, so more clicky than not clicky at all would put any clicky one in the "more clicky" category (blue/green/???) :)

The silver speed ones on this kraken keyboard aren't bad, but definitely take some getting used to (even resting idle fingers, I sometimes press the keys by mistake).
Predicting 2 hours ahead is one of the most useful weather forecasting tasks. 2 hours is enough time to prepare for rain in loads of situations.

And sure the title is a bit ridiculous. Anyone can predict incoming rainfall. The question is can it predict it accurately. The abstract says:

> we show that our generative model ranked first for its accuracy and usefulness in 89% of cases against two competitive methods

Probably a bit better than your headaches.
Interesting. I've also run into the problem of lack of real-world microservice applications for benchmarking purposes (albeit in a different context). This might be a useful contribution.
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You may be conflating the mRNA vaccine with viral vector ones.
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People whose jobs are to protect the public should have a higher bar for acceptable behavior than "someone with a gun"
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If you disable warnings such that they're disabled for the whole project you're just doing it wrong imho. Warnings need to be fixed by making the compiler happy and only (locally!) disabling them if there is a bug in the compiler.
I'm speechless and stand corrected. $9 is incredibly cheap.

> The default card, supporting USB4, 20V/5A charging, and DisplayPort Alt Mode for connecting monitors, all on either side of the notebook.

I'm really looking forward to them finally getting more keyboard layouts, only reason why i havent bought one yet
>If cryptocurrency-fiat exchanges were banned

The ethics of taking this freedom out of the hands of legitimate users aside, wouldn't this would just immediately lead to a black market for cryptocurrencies the same way countries with currency controls have black markets for foreign currency?

The government can't even keep items as easily identified as drugs out of tightly-controlled environments like prisons, how does it expect to keep cryptocurrency out of the hands of the people? We don't need more restrictions and more bureaucracy, we need our governments to get their arse in gear and use the existing tools they have to tackle scammers and other criminals rather than their usual "remove more freedoms with a knee-jerk 'we're doing something' for the press, then do the square root of sod all to actually address the problem at hand".
The big question, of course, is not whether media--mainstream or social--have ever "gotten it wrong", but what steps we can take to make them better.

The mainstream media very much got it wrong on Iraq. I agree with you. Yet the reality is more complex than your anti-elitist tirade suggests.

It's inconceivable to me that a well-functioning democracy can exist without trustworthy--and trusted--institutions who (yes) have an outsized influence on public opinion. The policy issues faced by citizens in a modern democracy are too complex to expect everyone to "do your own research."

So the question is, how do we foster those trusted institutions? How do we hold them to account when they go wrong? And how do we make them more deserving of our trust?

If the answer is, "We won't, but at least we'll have an algorithm that rewards CTR", well...I respectfully disagree.
> And it certainly has an anti-Tory Remainer bias

And so does reality. Brexit, recent Tory governments are mismanaged unmitigated disasters. Is there anything broadly positive that can be said of them? Vaccination was decently managed, that's for sure.
It is a meme: https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

That doesn't have a date on the page but there's an HN link back at least to 2015 and I think it's older than that.
> Stock price is not an indicator of aliveness. Facebook is morally dead. It is the new smoking. Slowly but surely people will ween themselves off it

It sounds like you are predicting that their user base will shrink significantly? Since the stock price is essentially people estimating the expected value of the company, including future growth or decline, it seems to me like the stock price should be a good indicator of this?
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I don't think my Oneplus 3 with USB-C supports USB-PD. At least I can't find it in the specs.

It really is confusing...
Not necessarily. Just changing the newsfeed to show most recent first instead of their algorithm that is designed to make you angry and/or sad in order to get more clicks would be a huge step in the right direction.

The next FB could be smart enough (or regulated enough) to require this change.
Years ago, I set up a simple website that screen-scraped the BBC's weather predictions, and compared them against the day's weather report to calculate a very crude and basic accuracy.

For the UK towns it monitors, a dumb prediction of "tomorrow's weather will be the same as today's" gives a 34% accuracy - which only falls to about 25% when predicting the weather for next week! Luckily, the proper weather forecasters do a bit better than this :)

https://weather.slimyhorror.com/

Excuse the basic site, I set this up over 17 years ago, and with minimal tweaks it has been left to its own devices since then.

The stats also compare the BBC accuracy over the last year vs all time, and it seems that they are getting better - I wonder if new AI techniques will really make a big leap in predictions or whether they are just more incremental improvements.
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Oh and you can change font

Here's with Courier New: https://imgur.com/t88wwTx

EDIT: And here's with JetBrains Mono: https://imgur.com/HYEYtGb

EDIT: Do I need to make a font parade?

EDIT: Consolas! https://imgur.com/klPufrd Where can we go without the classic? IBM Plex Mono https://imgur.com/e5tQ0NB
I'd like to second this and add that this is partly why I feel it's important to develop games directly for all your target platforms rather than target one or two consoles and then port the game.
I disagree.

Tell me, how putting actual human on Mercury helps building a megastructure? It is not like they will be able to do shit while on the surface of Mercury. They would be just sitting idle in a single polar crater that happens to be shaded from Sun and have access to water. Then if you want to send anything to an orbit where you would want to build Dyson sphere you would actually have to expend more energy than if you tried to send it from surface of Earth. That makes absolutely no sense.

I think these types of megastructures will be built by swarms of autonomous drone ships that can collectively gather, transform and deliver resources, use gathered resources to produce more drones and use the rest of resources to build whatever megastructure has been programmed in.
I'm not sure what was the last straw for me: Either seeing anti-vax posts in my feed, or my fear of seeing "Trump really won" posts.

Yes. When Trump started claiming he won the 2020 election, I was too afraid to open Facebook.
Twitter is just an hopeless platform really, the combination of commenting out of context (everything is out of context), low character count, lack of scoping & zero moderation (beside the most illegal stuff) is just a recipe for disaster, you even have external websites to enable you to read threads... Unlike Facebook, I'm not even sure Twitter is fixable.
Yeah but that's because the zero value for slices is an empty slice, not a nil slice. This is what we should have more of.

If in the proposal (x==nil) == false then we get the ridiculous position where:

var x int
x=nil
if x==nil {
//this never happens despite having just set x=nil
}

which seems ridiculous.

Though the other case, of returning true, also seems ridiculous, because nil and 0 are not the same thing at all.
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I find this to be a problem with a lot of (all?) social media products. Lack of user control over the experience makes them less of a "bicycle for the mind" and more of a "chain gang for the advertisers".
Ah, I forgot that it was used by iPods as well. In fact, I completely forgot about iPods altogether. Suddenly I miss the tactile feel of their scroll wheels.

Maybe I’ll finally get an iPod.
Micro blogging was super cool.

A random feed of micro blogging posts/status that is not random but heavily leans toward resharing led to outrage porn addiction.
This is the dumbest thing I've read in a while.
Ah, yes, who doesn't want to sit in a cramped unventilated space with dozens of other people during a pandemic.
> it's impolite to not accept friend requests from e.g. coworkers or relatives that you know but don't really care about.

This always confuses me. I feel like it's more impolite or disrespectful to be two-faced about this.

What's wrong with telling someone, politely, that you try to curate your social media and restrict it to personal friends and family?

If they get offended, is that not their fault? Should they not respect your boundaries?
It drives me nuts that NYT podcasts run Facebook ads about how Facebook “wants common sense regulation” or some nonsense. It’s one of the reasons I didn’t renew my subscription.
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I don't know much about meteorology -- what is "true weather prediction" then?
Why is null even an expected value for strings? I get that it is a design decision for a low level language like C, but as soon as you go up a level the fact that strings are implemented as pointers to character arrays should be an implementation detail not visible to the language's user. Need a Null\Nil string? Use a pointer to a string, just like you would for an integer.
Nonsense. We're currently doing nothing, equivalent of no route at all. We have regulations for many other areas - and for good reasons too.
Saying there is a playing field is not at all totalitarian, and shouldn't really be seen as that extreme of an idea.

I also dont see why a notion of "freedom of chance" could not go both ways: "the totalitarian route" would offer equally little _chance__for the individual.
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But they probably still use insta, messenger or WhatsApp.
The death of 230 would bring chaos and destruction. As much as I like chaos I'm not sure blowing up the internet as we know it is worth it at this time.
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I think for most intents and purposes, option types and Kotlin’s approach are more or less equivalent. Either way, the compiler helps you avoid null dereference errors.

I like Swift’s approach personally, which is that there’s an Option type, but loads of syntax sugar to make working with it easy (just append a “?” after the type to flag it as optional, “if let”, optional chaining with “?.”, “?()”, etc etc.)
The whole point is it’s not innate differences but it’s a bad solution. There are better ways of providing equal opportunity that don’t compromise the integrity of the system
Interestingly, creating difficult to understand or implement tax codes also raise the barrier to entry.
No argument from me. I’m just pointing out that it’s wrong to assert that programmers are general incorrect when they say something can be optimized. Many times in my career, optimizations were trivial to implement, and the impact was massive. There have been a few times when the optimization was impossible without a major rearchitecture, but those times were rare.
It's one of the classic "hard to explain" Dutch words. Only the German "gemütlich" comes close.

The word contains "gezel", an old Dutch word for companion, which is where the [ multiple people ] qualification comes from. We also find it in "gezelschap", meaning "a group of people", and "metgezel", meaning "close companion".

But where those words only refer to the collective itself, "gezellig" indicates more than just being together. It encompasses a specific kind of uplifting atmosphere as well.

Like I mentioned before, there is an element of spontaneity. But more important is that everyone involved is either having a good time, or it can be expected that everyone involved will have a good time.

It usually implies an event that will bring people closer together. There are hints of an explicit freedom to be yourself (a temporary absence of social judgement) and the clear desire of everyone involved to sustain a good mood all around.

For those that are familiar with the concept, the casual playing of a board game usually qualifies as "gezellig" (unless very fanatical players are involved). A plan to go do something with one or more friends can be gezellig. A gathering that turns out to be a lot more jolly than expected is gezellig as well.
A friend of mine has been into computers for as long as I have. He bought a Windows 10 PC that is still in a box. He claims he doesn't need it because everything he needs to do he can do on a Tablet. He doesn't care about Windows 11, never heard about it.

Android tablets and iPad Pros are going to replace PCs because they are easier to use and you can carry them around the house or to a coffee shop.

This is now officially the Post-Microsoft and Post-PC and Post-Windows world.
I've been finding value in Facebook Marketplace recently. It's kind of a step up from craigslist- basically people on it are more willing to ship things to you and Facebook acts as a financial middleman. Facebook has been enforcing quality standards on the sellers- at least they will not pay the seller until a tracking number has been provided for shipped items. For buyers, the prices tends to be better than on eBay.

Anyway, they could give eBay some real competition and could be a future revenue source if it keeps expanding.
How is that not crappy?

It only works because he's the sole developer. It would be impossible for a team of people to work in that fashion
If you're still getting warnings that you think should not be ignored (which is -Werror iirc) in your build by the time you're ready to distribute, you need to take a hard look at your development and merge process, too. Ideally nothing goes into the main branch if it's not done and ready to be deployed.

One of the things we finally managed to do at a previous job was "master=live", where a build was automatically triggered that put the product ('just' a website, but still) live in production. While I'm not advocating this per se, you SHOULD put everything in place so that you could do that. (see also: continuous integration vs continuous deployment).
> "Back in the days", it was a bunch of different ports of different sizes and shapes, and each thing had its own cable that fit into that thing only, and into only port only on the back of the pc.

When I was a young kid just getting into computers and didn't know what the hell I was doing, I would try and connect the parts solely based on what wire fit into which hole. And amazingly, it just worked.

Today, I'm still replicating that clumsy behavior, albeit in different ways.
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