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The swaths of well built, wood frame, old homes is just evidence that the author’s premise that wooden houses are intrinsically flimsy (defined as “dont last long”) is wrong.

Wood houses can be well built or not well built.

And I would argue that flimsy houses aren’t a recent phenomenon. As others pointed out, the crappy houses built 100 years ago were likely torn down.

And why are flimsy houses built? My guess is mostly cost savings either intentionally (that’s all the buyer can afford) or surreptitiously (builder cuts corners to increase profit).

And as I mentioned in another article you can have poorly built concrete buildings as well.

It’s not that one is superior to the other overall, it’s all trade offs.
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The OP shouldn't be the highest voted comment.
I'm not sure what your experience was or how long ago, but syncthing is one of very few programs I've ever had 'just work,' like absolute magic. sudo pacman -S syncthing, syncthing was all it took to stand it up, followed by extremely minimal in-app setup that was no more complex than working a modern music player. It keeps everything synced across my PCs and my mobile without any intervention on my part.
Sending 10,000 mails yes, but will the email be actually delivered by large mail providers?
Yes, we almost certainly could have. But it would have been a process that stretched out over many days. So in the end we did give up — the files weren't worth the hassle. But the hassle was considerable.
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The strangest thing to me though is that the OP finished this work last year and sat on it until very recently. They explain it as "I wrote this for a client and didn't feel like sharing it." That attitude seems a bit in contrast to the purported motivation to, "Make it so people don't suffer like I did in school."

So I guess in a way OP is (sort of) seeing the light on free software here too. Don't like it? Fork it!
Have you tried accutane? I have a family history of adult acne, took accutane in my early 20's and after six months it was permanently gone. They used to call me "Pizza Face McGee" it was that bad.
Having lived in concrete buildings in Asia, they do an amazing job of transmitting construction noise.

Someone drilling into concrete 2 floors above can easily be heard while in a wood frame building you wouldn’t hear it.
> Firefox now supports the new AVIF image format

PARTY!

I've been waiting for this for a long time. The last big hurdle for this was that color spaces weren't applied correctly.

If you haven't taken a look at AVIF, do. You can get a similar looking image in AVIF at half the size as a JPEG. I find AVIF's image artifacts preferable to JPEG's.
This was one of the original motivations to develop technologies that made cryptocurrency possible. Adam Back released the first proof-of-work implementation, Hashcash, in 1997 as a denial-of-service countermeasure.
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You just need a handshake where the receiver sets the level of work required. Now you can whitelist people. You can also provide modest levels of work for "more reputable" email addresses, and set the default high for everyone else.

Done.
I was looking to buy parallel EEPROMs (DIP) a couple days ago and found they were pretty expensive and mostly unavailable. I was wondering if that's because this type of IC is rather niche these days, or whether it's due to what's called the "chip shortage".

If anyone knows or has an educated opinion, please let me know...
It just says what not to do, not what to do instead.
Tell HN: the HN flagging system has become a tool of cancel culture.
When the cancel culture arrives, when the cancel mob arrives on Hacker News, they flag and they flag hard.

HN’s flagging system has become a tool of cancel culture.

All you need to do to cancel a message you disagree with is hit “flag”.

If you’re wanting to feel offended, hit “flag”.

If you’re part of the culture police, hit “flag”.

If you hold the most righteous social position, hit “flag”.

If you decide it’s not socially acceptable, hit flag and it’s booted off HN. That’s you need to do to cancel a person or a topic on HN.

Somehow cancel culture has to stop somewhere.

HN must end the flag which has become the tool of the cancel mob.

“Flag” may as well be called “cancel”, it amounts to exactly the same thing.
The only reason you don't consider all the other safety mandates you comply with on a daily basis to mUh FaScIsM is because the time for politicizing them to your ends has passed. I guess surgeons washing hands, smokers barred from restaurants, drunks barred from driving, schools and military requiring all kinds of vaccines, seatbelts, smoke detectors, two points of egress, ADA ramps, drivers licenses, commercial kitchen food handling procedures, etc. are all fine because the administrations that enacted them are long gone.
Grouping won't work at all since if I group the accessories, I will lose control of the individual lights.

Really, this is what scenes are designed for but Siri is just too stupid to understand what they are.
I am suspecting the problems you have are due to the name of the scene. It appears certain keywords do overrule locally-defined names. Whenever I put an address book entry for a taxi company with the name "taxi" in it, Siri isnt able to call it because it assumes I want to search for a taxi nearby. A similar thing might be going on with "apartment" and homekit. Frankly, a bit cynical, but by now, I am suspecting some intern put a rule in which contains "apartment" and has a very high priority, or somesuch...

Not directly related to Siri, but VoiceOver icon labels are also getting worse and worse over the years. For example, the weather app. In the beginning, when you scrolled with the VoiceOver cursor through the hourly forecast, it would say "Sonnenaufgang" and "Sonnenuntergang" (Sunrise and Sunset) at the appropriate places. Starting with iOS 12 (or was it 13?) the spoken label changed to "Sonne aufwärtspfeil" (sun arrow up). So someone went in there, decided that the nice description from earlier wasn't good enough, and replaced it with a literal description of the icon, ignoring context altogether.
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I'm from EU, finance and IT are neck to neck for highest paid professions. Absoute pay numbers are lower than US, but under no circumstances could they be called average.
And https://www.nocodb.com/
I would expect the same rules as for secure contexts [1], namely "Locally-delivered resources such as those with http://127.0.0.1 URLs, http://localhost and "http://*.localhost URLs (e.g. http://dev.whatever.localhost/), and file:// URLs are also considered to have been delivered securely."

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Secure...
I have never worked in a place where anyone knew everything about how the product worked.

Google Search has been getting worse rapidly. I get more and more irrelevant ads crowding out the organic results, and more and more results that simply ignore my search terms. Nowadays I only use Google Search if I haven't found what I'm looking for by result-page-3 on DDG; and that usually doesn't help.

I think the people at Goo that want search to be "the bestest" possible, are now in the passenger seat; the driver is obviously advertising.

Wouldn't it be nice if "different methods of indexing and new features" really brought relevant content to the top? Instead, they seem to make relevant content disappear completely. Google could easily have the best search engine in the world, again, if they cared enough.

But I guess money is more important; revenue from pure search: $0. Revenue from advertising: I dunno, $1billion PA?
It's true - China's numbers, unsurprisingly, really don't give light to how badly they were impacted. I remember reading about how they were building brand new hospitals to cope. Literally building a brand new hospital.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/31/pictures-china-builds-two-ho...

Looking back on that, it's interesting to think about how that should have been a major warning sign of things to come for the rest of the world.
Do you really think it's possible to make kids socially distance? And surely the social effects of that will be much worse than any possible positive benefit for the children?
(Developer behind Arq here) Nowadays many folks have lots of free cloud space in Google Drive/Dropbox/OneDrive and use Arq to store their versioned encrypted backups there, which makes restoring/downloading free.
I bought power supply rebuild kits from Reactive Micro[1] for my IIe and IIgs. I paid a lot more than just recapping the existing power supply, for sure, but it was dead easy to install.

[1] https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/universal-psu-kit/
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Which was pretty stupid given that public health professionals (and indeed people here on HN) were forecasting the pandemic lasting a minimum of 18 months from around that time when it became clear that it wasn't going to be contained to China.
Yep, that's all it was.

I have a few things that I can't stand and I have no problem ditching something that doesn't offer me what I want. For example, I ditched Kitty because it doesn't let me disable italic variants of monospace fonts. In a hypothetical scenario, if tmux/screen didn't exist and Kitty was the one terminal which had these features, I would be frustrated as well if the dev didn't budge from his position of not letting users disable italic fonts. Fortunately, tmux exists and Alacritty lets me disable italics.

It's pretty naive and immature to get married to the tools you're using. Unfortunately, you see this a lot in the FOSS world.
Is this the simplest sorting algorithm ever?

Quite possibly, but the paper is seven pages long!
I have plans to add support for iTerm format, but I'm not a Mac user, while of the work should not be on the derasterize part (image -> unicode text: easy), but on the passthrough part (when to abandon the image).

If you are a Mac user, could you please consider writing a patch? The ability to dogfood it means whatever you write will still be better than whatever I may come up with.
Too late for me. I won’t use them again.
Wow, no there's a blast from the past! Great to see it back
rustup: unrecognized OS type: OpenBSD

EDIT: googling around, it seems to be possible to build rust programs for openbsd, but it does not really work "out of the box". May try to install it this weekend.
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Sounds like you're just increasing the demand for botnets.
> This is still a lot more work than in many countries, and you still need to either fill in a paper 1040 (plus state taxes where appropriate, and some of those (cough CA) are far from simple), use tax prep software, or someone like H&R Block.

Not in my experience. The online options the IRS provides free of charge is pretty easy, and many states have similarly simple online forms for free.

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

Although I do not dispute other countries do have it easier, and do it better than the US.
Had? Im pretty sure I saw my local MicroCenter have issues of 2600 recently (which I also find somewhat amusing)
Change employer if you can. When I moved from small webshops to a consulting corporation that served very rich clients pace dropped by an order of magnitude while salary increased. As a rule of thumb you should change employers every two years to avoid underselling yourself and stagnation. You'll rarely get your market worth if you remove yourself from the job market to stick with a single company for years.
i'd pronounce it the same way i read it, hurl something.
I’m almost 30 and I’m still chasing the career I want.
I’m in IT, but I want to be in software dev.
I want to build things, not just fix them.

When I was 17 a company poached my from my technical high school and put me in the field to learn by doing. It went great, but it’s not the career I want.
I need to find the same opportunity but in a software developer role. I’m confident that I’ll be a sponge and I’ll produce results quickly under someone’s wing, but it’s rare that someone wants that with such competitive market.

If someone here is curious about this, please reach out, I’m willing to take it as a second job part time if you can’t pay much, or even if you can’t pay. All I need is an opportunity to get my foot in the door.
Maybe there gotta be a paper or it does not exist xD
who. cares.

May the outage be longer. And May Mark be removed as its snakehead.
The parent comment spoke directly of nationalization. I was indulging their scenario, not seeking to argue with the original Tweet’s author or anyone in particular.
As a matter of fact, our first implementation of Hurl was written in Python. We switch to Rust because:

- we're a 30 developper team with Linux, Windows and macOs computers. Installing Hurl with Python on Windows boxes was always a challenge and the single drop Rust binary has been a relief for us,

- in a CI, we really want to run tests as fast as possible. The Rust version (the actual one) seems a lot faster that our Python prototype (certainly due to our lack of optimisation in our Python code)
Scenes are activated, they don’t have direction, they don’t work at all for turning things in and off, instead you have to create separate on and off scenes.

HomeKit should really support overlapping groups, it is a feature I also miss. But as a hack you could use rooms as a secondary group mechanism since you don’t need them to represent actual rooms.
Bubble sort will not make any changes to a sorted array. It's a similar number of comparisons. They're just different ones.
Don't take this the wrong way but... Oh great. Just as the environmental tire fire that is bitcoin and the other crypto-currency bros is winding down, let's replace it with email.
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They probably can. But it’s an HMO with thousands of doctors and a non-deterministic phone tree. I don’t even know if staff know what phone number they’re calling from.
they already do in a way through aws-service-operator and replacement aws controllers for kubernetes (ACK)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-service-operator...
https://github.com/aws-controllers-k8s/community
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Is this really a new algorithm? I'm fairly sure my "Algorithms" professor* taught us this sorting algorithm twenty years ago. To be fair I don't think it was taught as a serious contender, not something to be implemented in production in the future, but instead as the baseline to measure the other algorithms, and also as teaching tool to introduce the fact that computers can't "instinctively look over" the whole set (like a human sorting a small set would do) but instead have to purposefully compare everything to everything.

*: (or maybe it was my "Data Structures" professor, I don't remember which of those basic courses covered the basics of sorting algorithms)
Not if you give 1 out of thousands of errors windows loves to give. There's one where when you login all your user profile stuff is gone! People are very used to windows breaking.
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tmux in mintty ?
You've got that mixed up. The reason that supply chains are in disarray are because of the enormous disruption caused by Covid restrictions and lockdowns, not because people were literally dying of Covid on the job.

You could infer that if we hadn't acted the way we did, then what I described would have actually happened and things would be a lot worse. You could also infer that long-term and large-scale control of an airbourne respiratory virus through social means is ineffectual, and things would have been about the same anyway (from a death and disease standpoint).
In term of insurance systems, the 2 are extremely different, so the comparison is not justified.
Don't feed the trolls. These are the same folks screeching about supposed critical race theory in elementary schools.
Simple: the aliens fiddled with, then abandoned those other societies, but we're still their pampered pets. That's why we keep electing lizard people.

> the achievements of those who lived in ancient Greece or Italy, for example, are rarely questioned.

I haven't dug into "ancient aliens" since before the History channel went nuts over it a few years ago; so maybe the "scholarship" has changed. Before that, at least, in what I read, the achievements and ancestry of everybody hominid down to the orangutans was up for question.

I suspect this is like someone attending a Boston Robotics PR event and declaring "the field of robotics is driven exclusively by surrogate animal abuse fantasies." There's far flakier nuts in this field than the small sample the author is complaining about.
Yeah, I agree, and even would have done so in this case (despite the files not being that "important") but it wouldn't have arrived in time.

While I wouldn't say my dad's "not smart" like the title of this thread, he is 70 or whatever, and not technical, and would probably not be able to convert a fedexed HDD from his old iMac to a working setup on his new Mac Mini.
Someone close to me is mentally ill and off medication and I have to deal with the fallout of her choices.
The phone and watch are advertised as intergraded with each other so this does not happen. Just like answering FaceTime on one device is supposed to stop the others from ringing. It is a feature of the watch and iPhone to figure out which should be listening and it is broken.

To the article’s point, Amazon’s has no problem Determining which should answer a question if they are all the same account piled on your desk.
It is probably impossible to disband the mob, but it does not have to be given power. It is up to the leaders of universities and corporations to have the moral courage to stand up to the mob and ignore its outrageous demands.
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This has been (rightfully, IMO) flagged, so I'm screaming into the void a bit here, but:

- Claiming that you can build a system that is entirely based on merit is equivalent to claiming that you are able to determine merit in a way that is completely objective and free of implicit or systematic bias. This is a BIG claim.

- There is no such revolutionary method of determining merit being proposed - in this case, "merit" seems to be shorthand for "going back to the way things were before all this DEI stuff came along."
Satisfying curiosity is an almost sublime experience to me. I have a pretty kinetic definition of what it means to understand (the thing that curiosity tries to achieve and is satisfied by; of course, a curious mind will find more questions than answers). Understanding something means becoming something, to an extent, so you can play with it in your head. It's like empathy for systems, or aliens / animals.

Have you ever seen videos of someone hearing for the first time in their lives, or read stories of people who develop depth perception in their mid-20s after watching 3D IMAX movies? They go through absolute bliss. They feel as if a gift had been given to them, and they can interact with the world in an entirely new way immediately afterwards; they couldn't even understand that this was a piece that's been missing.

Perhaps understanding can be thought of as a means of adding dimension to your perception field. To further map the example of gaining depth perception to understanding a concept: when one truly understands something, they can look at the world as a picture and expand it like a 3D image, then walk inside of it in their minds. When they understand more of it, the perception of the world becomes riddled with dimensions and perspectives to play with it.

Perhaps I'm /addicted/ to understanding. My job literally involves understanding firmware that other people wrote to find patterns which lead to security bugs and fix them, and I'm right in my zone every time I get to so intimately know a new piece of firmware. It's like walking through a huge castle with all of its secret corridors and the pipes behind the wall... reverse engineering eventually tells you a story about the architects as well.

I don't know if compulsion to understand is only one of the ways curiosity manifests itself or if this is something else entirely. Do you model this in your research? It feels a double-edged-sword kind of compulsion that happens to lead me out of some of my darkest moments in life (and, without proper care, thrust me right back into it). I'm aware of the causality ambiguity in this relationship, that's something I'm not completely sure about yet.

I hope this helps you with your research in some small way; my compulsion to understand is leading me to read it (and enter a dialogue through this comment).
Even Nagoya (or in my case Gifu) gets somewhat cold. Cold enough that poor insulation is noticed.
TurboTax in made by Intuit which is an evil company that has long worked to make sure that the US tax code is unnecessarily complicated and prevented the government from providing a free alternative.
> The baseline of is this someone I would enjoy working with every day?

And a problem is that hiring managers, but especially recruiters are often relatively young, and thus biased towards people closer to their own age.
They also released vidoes of people literally dropping in the street "with Covid".
How do you feel about teaching critical race theory in public schools?
A book like this will sell very well to the contingent that always thinks everything's going downhill. People have been saying the same at every single point all the way through the remarkable advances over the last few centuries.

Running out of steam, as in a slowdown in the growth curve on various metrics is not the same as a decline. It's simply unrealistic to expect technology and engineering to advance as fast as they did in the mid-20th Century indefinitely. We've exhausted a lot of the low hanging fruit on the science and technology trees, but there are still plenty of fruit to pick, we just need to put more work into reaching them.

On the political side, again political division and policy confusion are nothing new. The scientific and technical response to the Pandemic are a resounding validation of our capabilities and the strength of our institutions, even given the many frankly inevitable policy missteps.

The big one is climate change. That's a huge problem that's a real test of our capabilities and resolve, but the main obstacles are actually political. We do have the technical capability to bend the curve on climate change and soften the blow quite a bit. Hand wringing isn't going to help, in fact it emboldens those who for various reasons don't want to do anything about it.
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