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I see what you mean. But in Python a function can be turned into a full fledged callable class at a later point without any change to the rest of the script.

Not that it matters much either way.
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Honestly I don't think one really needs such. Nowadays Linux distros are very similar, only thing I could imagine would be a translator for package managers.
Most often the answer is yes, unfortunately. If you have options make use of them.

If you have to stay, it helps to try and make your team a nice place to be. I remember a manager that would organize team lunches and would give Fridays off (unofficially) making the team an oasis in the middle of a corporate desert. But I can’t imagine it was easy for him to deal with a dysfunctional leadership and coworkers…
Seems like they compiler could generate the trampoline itself and just ignore any recur that occurs.
Yeah. “Oh no, here comes Behringer, they’ll make a cheap clone of your synthesizer.” Or something like that. Most of what they make copies of is stuff that’s 40 years out of date, but “classic” for whatever reason.

The Minimoog came out in 1970, and you can buy a new one for about $3500 today. Or you can buy a Behringer Model D for about $350. It’s not going to have the same level of performance, but it still puts that sound in the hands of way more people.

If you can’t compete with an imitation of something you made 50 years ago, selling for 90% less, then you’re not innovating.
Being a landlord actually involves a lot of work and risk. If it were free money, everyone would do it and it wouldn’t be free money anymore. I don’t have the nerve or free to be a landlord myself, but I’m sure I own some small parts property management companies via the index funds I own shares in.
Is there a reason there’s a short limit on how long my Backblaze password can be? That’s what put me off using it before, because who knows what kind of encryption you guys are using if it can’t handle what my email provider is able to handle, all the while securing more sensitive data ;)
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> Metaverse comes from Snowcrash, and there it was... very unquestionably a VR experience as far as I can remember?

There was a two dimensional interface called Flatland that worked like a CLI. Hiro used it to manipulate the virus without viewing it.
I was surprised to see this in the article:

$ pi=$(echo "scale=8; 4*a(1)" | bc -l)
$ echo $pi
3.14159264

What? How did the last digit end up as '4'? That's no kind of rounding I've ever heard of!

So I ran `bc` on my machine and tried:

[jeff@prism:~/path]$ bc -l
bc 1.07.1
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
scale=8;
4*a(1)
3.14159264
scale=16;
4*a(1)
3.1415926535897932

I guess you could say "learn bc before using it", but even after a quick skim of the man page, this is not what I would expect.
Facebook over the years had several opportunities to buy game studios and become a gaming company themselves.

This metaverse is a VR video game and Facebook has demonstrated zero abilities to make a video game.

I would bet on Minecraft and Fortnite creators to be a better position to create this "metaverse" because they've done this before.
This article is bashing BigCo while letting move-fast-and-break-things Startup inc. off the hook.

Just because the fires are different every day at Startup Inc. doesn't mean we're not being conditioned to endure suffering.

Case in point, a previous BigCo on call roster that I was required to partake in, sucks, makes you lose will to live, keeps you up at night, nothing documented, on-call phone ringing 5-7 of the nights in the week.

I tried to improve this process and was mildly sucessful even if that was just to get these incidents recorded.

Fast forward to my next job at Startup Inc. and their on call roster, sucks, makes you lose will to live, keeps you up at night, nothing documented, on-call phone ringing less but still often enough and with higher urgency.

The source of the two problems was different most of the time, one being a lack of training and effectively giving children knives.

The other being moving fast and breaking things resulting in things breaking after it was declared that version x.x went out without any issues just like the CEO wanted.
And soon clojure-dart.
I think FIRE is mainly about not needing to work anymore. Passive or investment income isn’t the goal, just an (important) way to be done working earlier. E.g., in a hypothetical world where you only had interest-free savings accounts, you could still retire early, you’d just need to save more first.
Finally someone on hacker news comes up with the brave and original idea to blame everything on MBAs in an extremely simplistic way.
> One of the big advantage of the mode X is that the pixels are square

On the then-ubiquitous 4:3 resolution monitors.

(Made this addition because on first reading, I wondered why square pixels would occur on anything but 320x320 resolution)
I'd love to see the research here. Because searching the software engineering Google papers from 2021-2021, the only somewhat relevant papers I found were case studies (such as [1] and [2]), which were based on Googlers' perception of their own processes. While self-perception can indeed by used to measure efficacy, there's a reason why it's used with great caution in surveys. I'll be honest, I have a hard time believing in readability myself.

[1]: https://research.google/pubs/pub47025/

[2]: https://research.google/pubs/pub43835/
I've used fset and cl21. The problem is that once you start using those you no longer are able to use libraries. Data structures have to be built into core.

The common lisp community has rejected reader macros for interop reasons the last time I checked (in the case of cl21)

Even the docs for fset doesn't show the use of data literals. it does things like (set) and (isetq s2 (set 'c 1 "foo" 'a 'c))

This pretty much proves my point. it's not fun typing (set 'c 1 "foo" 'a 'c) instead of #{'c 1 "foo" 'a 'c}. It's also not possible to put those on the wire (easily) for communication between common lisp processes. Breaking the whole point of homoiconicity.
It’s not about being old in school, in fact I’m fairly sure I could make much more of it now then had I gone at 17-18.

It’s about being old when I finish. Losing the rest of my youth being out of place (funny enough I’ve always been the young guy among older people and school would just invert that, it’s not the biggest issue in the world, but it does become very isolating at times) and losing years of earning power on what feels like a gamble. Being the oldest candidate applying for a new job, etc.
GrapheneOS demands takedown of code from CalyxOS
The study is based on a group of drug experts going in a room and assigning point values to harm of different drugs. It's not really a 'study' at all in the empirical sense, it's just a social group expressing its pre-existing biases.
The study cited says 5% of UC students are homeless vs 20% at the city colleges, so UCSD would be about 1550 students which is still insane.
yep, that's why I called it a story, not a scientific experiment. It could even be read as a kind of anecdote of parable.

While oversimplified, it can serve as a good example on how an initially rational practice could easily became dogma even when the initial stimulus is no longer present.

Part of my day job in the past 2 years has been to consult a client in refactoring/rewriting an old platform. The client's old team is still in place and even if we've added some new people just to try and change the mindset, the inertia of the spaghetti codebase coupled with the client's short and mid term financial goals as well as the "traditions" of the old team has stopped us from enacting any groundbreaking changes.

I guess the moral is that there are many forces at play in this kind of setup and stories like these can help in framing some of them in a fun way.
I'm curious what you mean. I tried "css guidelines" on Google and DuckDuckGo, and cssguidelin.es was the first result on both.
Emailing dang requesting for this to be made a monthly post might help us.
Lichess: short enough to enjoy while compiling

Everything by clarus victoria (e.g. Marble Age): They got "incremental gaming" right, and fitted it to a civ theme. I wish there were more games like this which were turn based and not some weird idle time based format.

Slay the Spire: a bit too fun to the point it's addictive, but thankfully it gets repetitive after the first 40 hours

Kairosoft games: a little expensive, but top quality gameplay. The new ones have too many event pauses, but they're all fun. Ninja Village is probably my favorite.

Cultist Simulator: top tier game for Android. It fits your puzzley, stages and open ended request. And there's a fun unlock once you win the game the first time.

Hero Generations: also puzzley but not as casual

Scribblenauts Remix: casual, light, fun with kids too and good for a laugh. The base game is a few hours, but the single pay DLC goes further than I have interest in

Project Highrise: Nice and casual, but not too casual

Concrete Jungle: A city building puzzle. Great graphics and story, but harder than Project Highrise

Cook Serve Delicious: cooking sim x action game. Gets the sim part pretty well. But may suck up a 15 min block of time

Conquest of Elysium 3: A real 3X game for Android, but you'll have to squint on a phone. The controls are well suited for touchscreens though.
“You’re telling me a shrimp fried this rice?!”
Except not all sites need or should really use JS
This is an interesting moment to reflect on the wacky nature of IPO vs ICO valuations. Backblaze and Filecoin are, roughly speaking, in the same business (providing bulk file storage). Backblaze is looking to raise ~$100 million at a valuation of about $0.7 billion. Filecoin raised $250 million in their ICO, and the coin has a current "market cap" of about $7 billion. Backblaze owns about 1.8 EiB of storage, Filecoin has about 13 EiB "pledged", so if you consider those measurements comparable the $ of valuation per EiB is similar. Businesses generally get valued more on what they bring in than what they own however, and Backblaze takes in ~$65 million/year revenue (~$175K/day). I'm not entirely clear what would be analogous to revenue for Filecoin, but they "mine" ~330K coins per day, which at current prices is about $21 million (or $7.8 billion per year?). Now here's where it gets crazy... based on the current average reward if Backblaze dedicated all of their storage to Filecoin mining they could (theoretically) generate about $2.5 million a day (or $900 million/year, about 13x what they bring in now).

Backblaze did look into farming Chia at some point[1], don't know if they've done similar experiments with Filecoin, but it definitely seems like there is a profound disconnect between these two worlds (which could be the result of some other factor, like the USD value of Bitcoin).

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/chia-analysis-to-farm-or-not-...
> An email provider would need a "to" code from you when you registered with them. Then with each request to download your mail, they send you a randomly generated number encoded with your "to" code, and you respond by decoding it and sending the number back encrypted with another number they give you.

I agree you could do schemes like this (although some of the details here would need finessing), i just don't really think it fits the description of at a low enough protocol level its transparent. Like this is custom application logic - it doesn't get much higher level than that. How could an application forget its there if it has to keep track of storing numbers and finding/sending/decoding the right ones. If this generalized to something that fit every application, i'd say fair enough, but it seems incredibly specialized to the example at hand.

If all we're imagining is a standardized set of primitives, we already have that. AES, SHA-256, HMAC are all very well studied and well supported (the public key world doesn't quite have as much of a clear "winner", but there are still very standardized well studied options).

All of these things are very secure when used correctly. People however invariably use them incorrectly. Composing primitives (incorrectly) is one of the big ways people get into trouble with crypto.

I guess what you're suggesting is an opinionated library that has a bunch of safe options to make it less likely to shoot yourself in the foot? I mean, i certainly agree we could do better when it comes to usability of crypto libraries. Ultimately though, no library is going to prevent a programmer from (for example) giving the secret key to the attacker. By extension, we're never going to have a library that takes the thinking out of using crypto. A big portion of computer security problems are simply the programmer accidentally telling the computer to do something silly, and the computer blindly following orders. I don't think its possible to get rid of that if the programmer is the one calling the shots. Which is why i find the idea of automatic encryption on the tcp or ip layer so enticing - your average programmer would have no influence over it - but the idea also seems to have severe technical limitations (or at least it needs someone smarter than me to figure it out)
Very sketchy source.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22institute+for+pure+and+ap...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lyons-Weiler
> Ultimately, my goal is challenging the hegemony of scientific knowledge and neoliberal “solutions” to climate change by bringing to light the depth and breadth of different ways of knowing the world. My central tenet: We need to engage all relevant knowledge systems to find enduring solutions to our shared predicament. This includes revaluing and repatriating Indigenous knowledge and local knowledge systems, both through policy changes and Indigenous activism, within a world from which they were systematically disqualified and subjugated.

A worthy goal.
US spy planes over South China Sea likely surveyed nuclear fallout of sub collision, observers say

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3154476/us-...
loved this course!
When enforcement or the news (being very generous here to qualify torontolife.com as news) come up with these numbers, they often use the retail value of drugs.

For instance, the big players sell drugs in kilos or dozen of kilos but enforcement calculates the value at the street price of an ounce. It makes for bigger and more impressive numbers but isn’t the reality. When we value a mining company for instance, we’re talking about bulk ore value, not finished retail products made out of that ore value.

21B is a lot of money, but it’s probably not very close to the actual amount.
A cursory glance at what assets REITs own would help you answer that question.
They have super high value cargo sitting at the remote port wanting to be moved. Loading empties takes time and pays little, so they profit optimize by not waiting for them to be loaded, and instead abandon them to clog the port so they can get out a few hours earlier and do their next run faster.
A good example of why allowing for stress tolerance can make a system more efficient in the long run.
Maybe don't write an Xorg window manager right as the replacemeant for Xorg starts to take off though
Then it's just VR
Not empty, but significantly below what they could carry.
I just implemented basic RSS functionality. There's now an "RSS" link at the bottom of all blog posts and pages.

Thanks again for the feedback!
> All of my friends that are truly veracious readers prefer physical books. I've wasted a good bit of money gifting kindles.

Interesting. I'm a voracious reader (several novels every week), and while I suppose reading a paper book is a bit nicer on average, there is really no substitute for being able to tote around hundreds of books (both read and unread) in an ereader.

There are certainly exceptions. Graphic novels and large format art books don't work too well as ebooks. Poetry can benefit from being typeset in a fixed format (line-wrap weirdness is jarring). But anything that is mostly prose that I'd otherwise be reading as a mass-market paperback might as well be an ebook instead.
Why don’t scalpers provide liquidity?

If Alice has season tickets to a basketball team, and Bob buys some of them to scalp later, isn’t he adding liquidity?

I know nothing.
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Wow, this is a ton of extremely specious reasoning, starting with his ridiculous claims about mental illness.
It's actually even worse; a fresh coat of paint can truly hide actual problems. I've had that experience house shopping myself. I tended to shy away from places that smelled like paint, even though often they're painted for "good" reasons.

Hell, just last weekend I read a home inspection that specifically cited inability to assess interior and exterior wall cracking due to recent paint.
I completely agree with you. If you use all their plugins you’ll get a flattened song especially if you don’t know what your doing and are focused on identity politics, turning musical melodies into racial statements and see music software through the lens of experimental cultural forms, historical communism, technological development, the means of music production and pop song composition.

It’s a not very subtle attack on music software though the lens of oppression, and even making the software more accessible is seen as bad because they didn’t make unique music with it. It’s like not knowing how to play a Stradivarius and so the violin is the issue, not the player who didn’t use it properly. It’s quit telling they don’t publish the music they made, or show samples, it’s a bad artist blaming everything but themselves for the bad music they made.
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29063371
But there is already a market and for the cost of a home people don't JUST check facebook market place. Right?
Fortnite, yes, almost definitely. Epic is a true leader in videogame technology.

Minecraft, no. Minecraft has failed to truly innovate since Microsoft acquired it, imo. I think the evidence of this is apparent in the existence of both Minecraft Bedrock and Java editions.

The metaverse is about creating the one true videogame. The final videogame. The holodeck where gamers themselves can make new games at a rapid speed.

The Unity Asset Store is actually a treasure trove of value for Unity in this regard. I could see Facebook buying Unity for a massive sum or licensing the engine and asset store somehow to make a play towards this vision of the metaverse.

That is, unless Epic just makes it first.
The metaverse? That's where I'm a viking!
When you have the population density and city pollution levels they have in big Indian cities, I don't blame them for trying to discourage the use of petrol. Even if you don't believe in climate change, there's real haze over many of their cities which has well documented effects on respiratory health.
> Don't I still need to know shell programming for Ansible?

No. Ansible has its own built in functions for creating files, managing systemd, docker and so on. These are built with idempotency in mind.

You can however call out to shell for situations where there is no built in. There are a lot of people who only ever use this role, and just see ansible as the fleet orchestration layer. Which imo defeats most of the benefits of using it, you might as well ssh a full script in that case.

As a side note I wouldn’t actually recommend Ansible for server management. Like you say learning all these blessed roles feels like relearning basics you already know and the syntax and directory structure is messy. It has no place if you use containers.
Its not gnome specific but the daemon used is new and gnome and kde have only got integration recently.
FYI: Most female IG influencers are considered to be pros. What's been discussed online is: You can identify pros if their photos show luxury goods with no visible means of support (online pros collect luxury handbags for either personal use, store returns for cash, or sale for cash), or multiple hotel rooms or plane trips.

As far as Tindr goes, there's 2 problems:

1) sure, some pros

2) but a much bigger problem is rampant casual sex causing the destruction of establishing normal relationships - Tindr is a giant orgy. Currently 25% of US women are on antidepressants, and that's rapidly climbing, often due to failed relationships.

100% of women members are selecting the top 5% of male photos, and since those men have options (20x more in fact), they maintain temporary relationships - because they can.

Tindr creates a false sense of dating abundance in women, who have a limited reproductive window. When they age out of dating in their early 30's, they're left with no family. One day men just stop swiping right, filter them out of results by age, or just hookup and ghost them.
Lol same person it's always been for. If this surprises you at this point you've just been willfully ignorant. Don't worry, it's hn, you're in good company.
I definitely have a great mistrust of the near future. It just seems pretty ominous right now. We'd be lucky to have mere stagnation, but I'm afraid these "bad times" are about to be made to look like child's play soon, by at least 2026 and likely sooner.

You raise really good points. Insightful, like many of the responses here. My main thought in reading is this is why I'm buying as cheap as home as I can that is functional. My strategy is just to buy the cheapest home that I'm happy with. If things go to hell, and I really don't have much to lose with the anchor around your neck that home ownership is. If the fridge breaks that's annoying, but I've been renting a long time, few to no landlords want to spend a dollar anyway. They don't lose so owning is the ticket to financial freedom, even if it's not a money maker and merely a way to get expenses down to taxes + utilities. Which is how I see it.
I couldn't find it in your profile, but do you write/vlog about this somewhere?

Would love to follow you and learn something!
I agree but I hate the misuse of the term "vaccine" here. To me that's brainwash. These are closer to the flu shot than a vaccine that conveys sterilizing immunity like the polio vaccine.

I'm uninterested in the flu "vaccine" and the COVID "vaccine". With their narrow band of immunity, that wanes after 6 months requiring yet-more longterm untested vaccine shots. I am interested in the polio vaccine, or any COVID vaccine that's sterilizing.

I don't really want exposure to the real estate market. I put every tax-advantaged dollar that I can into index funds. I hate it, but I don't have a better option as a retirement vehicle. I figure if the stock market is down in 2040 from today's market, we have a lot bigger problems going on in the world than just my retirement. Should have invested in Glocks, Brownings, and ammo. Which I am, but not for that purpose, but rather home defense. When I finally own a home that is.
Germany, Junior Fullstack Dev. Just made my Bachelor in CS. 44k€
Zillow Offers team was isolated from the Zestimate team. They didn't share algorithms.
Agreed. This is the linuxy open source metaverse that nerds like us will promote on forums like this.

The general public will use the walled garden capitalistic metaverse because it will be better.
I'm still salty CrashPlan pulled out.

I would have been very happy to keep paying.

- one of the salty people on Reddit who ended up building another NAS off site to make up for it.