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Its great to see that Blender is slowly but surely becoming an industry standard.

I was talking to my younger brother about this the other day. He and his girlfriend have just finished Uni. My brother is trying to get into a career with CG for film, and his girlfriend into graphic design. Its not great for my brother as he does have to learn a few tools like Maya and the like, but 90% of his work has been in Blender, which is wonderful to see for someone who's been using Blender since the "old-old UI" days (you know the one) when it was considered as having no chance at being able to compete.

But on the graphic design side, the walls are much higher. His girlfriend can't afford the adobe suite right now, but it would seem has no other option. I naively suggested looking at the open source offerings and was, in the politest way possible, essentially laughed out of the room. I was told it didn't matter if the tools were as good or even better than say Photoshop, because its not industry standard. Bonus points as well if you use the most expensive OS. I'm not sure how true it is that you can't get a job unless you use those tools personally as well, but I'm no expert and I imagine they'd know more about this than me.

I thought it was funny to compare to programming, which I do know. There are industry standard languages, kind of, but all the ones that are industry standard (key word being standard, of course niche ones do apply) are all free. Bonus points if you use a free operating system.

I know they're completely different fields, and what "works" for graphic design would never work for programming, I just thought it was funny
That is the next step, data oriented programming, which many confuse with ECS, as they tend to be used together.
What does a rich tech bro make these days?
At least on my computer on Firefox it is so slow as to be unplayable.
When you went to 342 you were white hat. When you went to 343 you became black hat.
Isn't it states that control most voter ID laws and aren't "the wrong party" the ones pushing voter ID 99% of the time?

I'm a limey Brit, so I'm honestly asking...
Your original intention, I believe, was to comment on the natural tendency of the system we've put in place. The phrasing "doing their job" has a slightly different implication, I think, of a system doing what it's "supposed" to do and not what it actually does.
Having done incident response for many companies which allow byod for laptops, I can attest that this was already common before the pandemic and the trend has only accelerated.

One particularly fun outbrief included the head of their desktop support org talking about how much better their satisfaction scores were with the users when they were allowed to use laptops they had personally chosen. Chose metrics that align with your goals or reap the outcomes.
Your country is likely a unitary state where you vote in national elections with your national ID.

The dynamic is different in the US. The US doesn't have national elections. All elections are run by each individually federated state. The national government of the US does not have the authority to override this.
> To me pantheism just seems like a misapplied psychological need. People have a (understandable) revulsion against seeing the universe as mechanic, or random, or 'cold' or what have you, and pantheism not unlike Gaia type theories are comforting.

Pantheism is nothing more than seeing the universe, or nature, as god. What you’re reading is one particular flavor of pantheism. A pantheist can also view god, or universe, or nature, as cold and mechanical as well.
I'm in favor of a Federal ID. I've never understood the opposition to it, especially considering each of us already has a few ID numbers issued to us by different federal agencies.

>"It's amusing that conservatives are the ones pushing for this "papers please" approach. Apparently their fear of imaginary voter fraud by imaginary immigrants outweighs their fear of a new federal government-imposed requirement that impacts their precious "freedoms".

This is some really snide rhetoric.
>If everybody used VR headsets all the time

You just described Ready Player One, which in some sense is a dystopian nightmare.
> I remember one case where the red team was hired by the agency involved explicitly to perform pentesting, and when they found a vulnerability the government pressed charges!

If the case you’re remembering is the one where the red team assumed (without asking) that physically breaking into the courthouse at night was “in scope” of their engagement, I’m of the opinion the short-sightedness there was not the agency…

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/12/iowa-paid-coalfire-to-pen-te...

It’s _maybe_ grey area. But there’s no way I’d escalate a pen test to breaking in to a courthouse without explicit in writing permission from someone clearly authorised to give it, including in writing assurances that all relevant law enforcement had been notified (at least at high levels, if part of the authorised physical pen test was actually testing on-ground law enforcement capabilities).
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You are absolutely correct that Gnome 3.0 was bad. Even more importantly there isn't anything whatsoever inherently with going your own way. Doing so is ultimately how we end up with a useful marketplace of tools to pick from.

If you stop worrying about the victimless crime of fragmentation neither gnome sucking or the specific sequence of development matters.

For what its worth I think they date from around the same time.

https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestones September 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatpak September 2015

The larger issue would seem to be that canonical has a habit of betting on losers it ultimately abandons. Snap looks like the next roadkill to me. Far from being universal it will probably never see substantial use outside Ubuntu.

It suggests perhaps that they should exercise better judgement.
Ask HN: How to Overcome Stripe Ban
Our startup was banned from stripe as of yesterday. No warning effective immediately, appeal denied. Companies identical to us are using stripe. They’ve provide no clarification on the ban apart from we are a high risk business. Wondering if anyone has any suggestions?
> 2) the long delay between funding/approval/design and the first power delivers to the grid, and 3) the chance that when we do spend money, that we will actually get something out at the end.

So lobby your senator and congressperson to create and pass legislation enabling nuclear (changing radiation limits to be scientifically based, and banning NIMBY lawsuits, for example), and to fast-track the whole approvals process. (Type-approval of factory-made designs, for example. And automatic approval of coal furnace replacement with type-approved reactors.)
I don't think you are. Maybe I should have added that at the beginning instead of the end of my comment. I think your goals -- especially the ones you outline in this comment -- are great and I have similar ones.
Arch has a lot of the flexibility of Gentoo (no default desktop/window manager/network software/etc., very small minimal install) but binary packages (with pacman, a package manager that many prefer to apt/yum), as well as the optional but very enticing AUR, which is essentially a first-party hosting of third-party packages (kind of like a one-stop shop for PPAs, if you're used to those). Arguably, the only strong opinion Arch holds is defaulting to systemd; you _can_ replace it, but it's a lot of work and a lot of the package in the main repo won't work as-is if you do.
I’d say that unilateral geo-engineering by private entities becomes an option. Far easier for a private billionaire to fund this than for any government considering the geo-political implications . Who’s up for playing billionaire punk?
the universe could be considered to have achieved consciousness through humans (and possibly other life forms), but the only known consciousness is those lifeforms outside of those lifeforms there is no known trait of consciousness, its going to be a very transient trait of the universe as well, the universe will only have it for a blink of an eye.
This is not math what you can derive from some axioms, this is a system and software that other people invented. Good luck feeling and thinking just like all of those 41234 people involved.
When was the last time you used WSL? Also, what's your dev tool chain?
Agreed. Ubuntu aways broke more than my Arch system.
It's clearly a non-starter to suggest that only 1 party would do such a thing, but that's distinct from saying only one "group" would do it if by group we're talking about social philosophy built around, say, the idea that there must be an in-group that the law protects but does not bind and the idea that there must be an out-group that the law binds but does not protect.
Yes, the famous GDC talk.

Usually most stuff in game development tends to be rediscovered, as most people don't come from CS backgrounds.
GM crops can produce more yield in worse conditions. As the climate changes, humanity will become increasingly dependent on these crops for survival. And yes, at that point we will be locked in, in the same way we are locked into many other technological advances that make our lives possible. However I don’t expect that will ever make the GM crops more expensive than non-GM, since the land that is capable of growing non-GM will only become more of a rare luxury.
I think there are a lot of misconceptions about GM crops, most people think they are modified to be resist/repel vast types of insects/pests and what not, this is in average not the case and very complex to implement, what they are really engineered for is simply to be very resistant to specific pesticides, very easy to control/predict as you have to target only the few chemicals that you spray. Unfortunately we all know what this means... tenfold increase of pesticides and faster destruction of the environment. Not to say that there aren't GM modifications in that direction, but it's not the norm.
From personal experience at Microsoft, it's pretty common for laptops these days.
Users can only realistically do what their third party software providers tell them to do.

The third party software providers, however, owe it to their users to provide reliable and responsible mechanisms for users to consume their stuff. Providing a third party apt repository that breaks the user doing a future release upgrade is not it.

Now we have snaps, AppImage, Flatpak. These mechanisms can be used by third party software providers to provide safe and reliable (for the system) software. Any of them are better than providing third party apt repositories.

> Windows and macos don’t have this constraint. Installing applications from the internet never breaks windows update or macos.

That's because it isn't the norm for third party software to hack up the OS in order to install themselves, rather than use the mechanisms provided. It used to be - remember DLL hell? They got away from that, and our ecosystem needs to do the same.
In regional hubs, a lot of the angel networks are retired people. Most of them, in my experience, are playing at being technologists or investors. They usually made some money in more traditional business endeavors. Usually gets a bit of traction in the local government / business lunch / community innovation scene.
Living in a remote area can be as low-impact as you want it to be. The grandparent post said he was going off-grid so he should be energy self-sufficient. assume he'll grow some crops, hunt, fish and/or get locally produced/hunted/fished goods and you're left with whatever "luxury" he'll want to have which he can not take with him while moving out to the countryside. If you want to live the life of a city-dweller, getting commercial goods delivered at your doorstep at a moments' notice, yes, in that case you'll be doing everyone a favour by staying put in the city. Most people who plan on living off-grid in the boonies do not crave for that lifestyle, they tend to aim for self- or local-sufficiency as much as possible.
> Yea, that's not exactly a complete list. One example is undercounting. Another is changing people's party affiliation, so they cannot vote in primaries.

The first example I'd call "ballot stuffing"--it's really a catchall term for shenanigans around turning the actual returned ballots into an official count. This even would cover things like poor ballot design (e.g., butterfly ballots in Florida's elections) that aren't strictly speaking fraud.

The latter example is a fourth category of electoral shenanigans that I'd loosely term voter intimidation; essentially any mechanism by which people are dissuaded from casting a ballot in the first place, which I omitted because most of this category is unfortunately legal.

> In doing so you removed all actionable information from the threat types. What you did is similar to saying that all computer hacks are remote or local. They are, but so what? That isn't actionable, because it removes all the actual descriptive information.

No it's not. While it's true that the ballot stuffing category does contain a rather disparate list of potential frauds, they're all almost entirely solvable by auditing and oversight of the physical process of counting ballots. And more stringent checks on who can cast ballots (which strict id laws purport to be) don't affect it one whit. A more specific look at how to fix an election might dive into the details more, but grouping them in one category doesn't really affect the analysis here.
Bad laws and a corrupt justice system are infinitely more dangerous than a single man, however unpleasant he may be. People pointed out at the time, that the CFAA is totally broken, but nobody listened because the victim was unsympathetic. Well, now we see in TFA how nothing has changed.

"Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!"

And it should be noted, that weev's turn towards overt neonazism (rather than just antisocial trolling) took place in prison, where he was mistreated.
WSL2 uses HyperV for that.
To me, Serde is one of the killer features of Rust. Once you realize how much of programming is (for better or worse) shuttling data between different representations, it's hard for me to program in a language where I don't have a tool like Serde.

A big part of its flexibility is how modular it is. Most common Rust libraries support serde serialization (at least as an optional feature), so if you use crates that do, you can plug any backend in and serialize those data structures to it. It doesn't even have to be string-based; I've been using Serde to store arbitrary data structures as objects on Google Cloud Firestore.
I clearly used completely different CoCs, factoring in the different sensor sizes.

At this point I feel like you are just posting things hoping some future visitor will think that your commitment must demonstrate that you are right. I guess.
Small focal length cameras only have an advantage when the sensor size is the same. If you are decreasing the sensor size and keeping the resolution constant, the "small focal length" camera has zero advantage. There is no difference between a 4mm lens at f/2 that is a, say, 30mm FF equivalent and a 30mm full-frame lens at f/15. Precisely zero difference.
Fiber optics coming soon
It's infuriating when people use the "democrats were the conservative party disenfranchising minorities" XX years ago like some sort of "ha - gotcha. Your argument is now invalid. I am very smart." revelation.
> The only time Fear is more powerful than Love

I think I get what you're saying but above sentence is not correct. Evolution favored fear over love on short term gains and fear very much assisted survival skills for billions of years and love is only new (a few million years?). Not saying that love doesn't have a chance against fear but it is true that negativity (hate, fear, etc) spreads faster than positivity (love, hope, etc). No idea what the solution might be to this fundamental feature(bug?) of our existence.
When you take this joke super far and make a coffee enema website for your boss.

www.lifesapeach.club

>Backend Engineer (This is actually what we call all our employees, regardless of your job)
You had a ~3% chance of dying and a much larger chance of having lasting debilitating symptoms. Everyone you infected while having transmissible COVID faced the same odds. If you infected 100 people, it’s likely 3 people would die.
You clearly did not. If you scaled the CoC exactly with the crop factor, we would find exactly the same numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Levy
Yes, but those aren’t spoofed identities, they’re actual humans intentionally clicking the link. This is harder for the defender to defend against, but it’s also vastly harder for the attacker to scale. Defenses against this sort of “organic” traffic do exist, because this is something that people committing ad fraud attempt to do using compromised browsers of real people.

Edit: I mostly want to stress that there’s a huge body of (largely proprietary) work on this topic. Thousands of skilled people have been full-time employed for decades thinking about exclusively this topic, on both the offensive and defensive side, in a continuously escalating arms race. Anyone just getting started on this topic has a couple of decades of literature review to catch up on before they should imagine that their proposals are novel. I don’t mean to discourage you if it’s a topic you find interesting, but you should bear in mind that the answer to “But has anyone thought of XYZ?” is “Yes” for basically all values of XYZ. There’s a lot of money at stake if the answer is no.
CI is moving in Kubernetes everywhere I know. Builtin kubernetes pod autoscaler can add capacity based on job queue length metric, so no need for docker machine anymore.
Different names, same crowd. My state, Oregon, has made it incredibly easy and secure to vote, and we do elect people from both parties.
Is it really a commentary on the individual in question, though, or the state of reality?
It's pretty incredible what Gitlab has been able to accomplish considering the market space they're in.
I think in most ecosystems it's easier to use a prebuilt serializer/deserializer than your own format.
> I believe people should make their own decisions, while the protection offered by the state should come in the form of education and catching bad actors.

I agree with this. I think education and prosecuting scam projects are both good.

Although I suppose one could also argue that to catch bad actors ahead of time, there needs to be a way for new cryptos to file with the SEC, to then be audited to see if they are legit. However, I just don't see the SEC being capable of that, at least not yet. Crypto technology is moving too fast for them to keep up. We also still don't have clarity on some basic questions like if Bitcoin or Ethereum are securities or not. Former members of the SEC have alluded that they are not [1], but there are no clear statements on this yet from the SEC. Maybe there need to be more legal precedents set, like from the Ripple case currently going on [2], in order more clarity to be provided and for the path forward to become more clear.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/14/bitcoin-and-ethereum-are-not...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-338
You'll have to explain that to those who want 3+ children. I know a few that will fight for their rights to have as many children as they desire.

I personnally believe population control is just a way not to challenge our way of life. Because if you get them to actually care about the environment (our future), then people will ajust their family's dream (why have another child if it makes life worst for the first one?).
>Apple dictate what is inside their App Store.

Walmart dictates what gets put on their shelves. Should we throw them into this contest too?
I’m using a 7 year old Mac for software development and it’s not ‘too slow’. Cheap computers are readily available on the used market.
its also surprisingly easy, much easier than you'd expect
Yea, they hit us too (ages ago). How much effort do you want to spend? It took weeks to get contact, had a sit-down with their legal council on the line, re-did some underwriting process and -- were then told again "No".

My advice: start looking elsewhere and don't give it another thought.

Also, you may want to title this with an 'Ask HN:' prefix?
If I send a HTTP request, and the server -who I believe is acting on behalf of the publishing party- sends a 200 OK response along with the data, how am I to conclude I wasn't authorized? Since when is authorization the client's responsibility?
Some other examples, preserved here:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/cloud-to-butt/pool/
There are a lot of people in various "prepper-adjacent" communities that romanticize and idealize being fully self-sufficient. There's often a hyper-individualistic mentality that comes with that too. My comment is just to add context that going fully self-sufficient is extremely challenging and community is important, especially in an end-of-world scenario.

To be clear, I think becoming more self-sufficient is definitely a good thing, and I strive toward that myself.
I once sketched a story in which God is frantically working to reorder the possible configurations of the universe, so that no consciousness experiences too much torture or terror in a single timeline. And (maybe) He needs the Crucifixion as some kind of torture-sink to make it feasible.

I never actually wrote it because I couldn’t get it past my bar for logical coherence. I’d be so prolific if I had a practical writer’s tolerance for plot holes.
A butt that requires reinventing database systems? ... Yeah I wanna see that haha
I understand how people use their computers. I merely object to those people then blaming the distro for not writing software that can magically work around how they hacked it up.
In U.K. there is no need of any whatsoever id to vote.
I would agree that requiring a gas bill to vote is laughable but probably for reasons at the complete antipodes than yours.
Are you aware that these vote restriction laws are passed on the state, not federal level, that the party that currently controls the presidency is trying to ban ID-based voting restrictions, which the other party is trying to pass in the state legislations it controls?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/us/politics/filibuster-vo...

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-voting-restric...

Your comment reads like it's either from someone not really familiar with US politics, or someone who is being deliberately dishonest.
The developer would just query the sensitive field either immediately or at a seemingly reasonable moment (along with dozens of other sensitive and non-sensitive fields), put everything into a blob, and then send it to the server as an opaque web request to some innocuous looking endpoint like POST /login.

You either have to completely trust the developer today and forever after, or you need to make some fundamental advancements in homomorphic cryptography. "Secure data store that can be queried with a permissions box" doesn't work.
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> You probably don't recall how bad Gnome 3 was initially

I do, and I have never seen its face again since then and the huge upsetting of ruining what worked well, and to create something perverse. And unless it was fixed very recently, it still is, because I just tried `gnome-font-viewer` and there are fades in the interface that cannot seem to be disabled. Unjustifiable. Not just the desktop manager: the paradigm. Dis-functional effects imposed to the user for no reason. And in a context which replaced functions with minimalism.

I am still wondering what caused that stroke of lunacy - at the time, I thought it must had been literally a stroke.