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A few years ago there was a Swedish tourist at a hotel where I was on vacation. He had a blue-yellow hat with "SWE" written on it in Courier font. I felt an urge to steal his hat because it looked better than most of the Google-branded swag I got as a Google SWE :)
What the sibling comment said, but also, the minimum wage is still $7.25, with some companies only now pushing this up to ~$15. For many, including married couples, $24 an hour is a pipedream.
How are they able to raise money with established players already present in the market like Swiggy and several others?
Own a bunch of shell companies that own a single property each.

Real estate ownership is a mess. It can be nearly impossible for people to figure out who actually owns property if the entity buying wishes to remain secret.
Alright, the main developer of Meadowlark here. Let me answer some concerns I see in the comments.

* edit - To make it clear, neither I or anyone on my team made this post in HN *

First off, it's always great to see the growing interest in this project! I know it's very ambitious, but it will never happen if someone doesn't try, right?

Second, yes the design doc is just for the MVP product, not a fully-featured DAW. When I mentioned fully-featured, I meant it in regard to the end goal of my vision, so people would get a better idea on what the project is heading for and why I made some of the design decisions. I thought there wouldn't be any confusion on that, but apparently I was wrong.

Third, my plan in regard to time signature is to abstract away all the logic into the `https://github.com/RustyDAW/rusty-daw-timeline` repo. It's sole purpose it to be a black-box that takes a function of musical time (f64 of beats) and returns sample time (represented as i64), and vice versa. This will allow us to add time signature changes as well as automation of tempo changes in the future. I figured 4/4 time was good enough for a proof-of-concept MVP. Apparently there is a lot of demand for other time signatures, so I could add it higher in the priority list either after MVP or in the MVP if we have the time.

Fourth, my decision of Rust was mostly decided because of the great Rust community. I've found many friends on the Rust Audio Discord server, and I would never have started this project without them. Plus I also believe that the better memory safety and modularity of Rust will make it much easier to maintain a larger project with less time spent debugging and fixing crashes.

Fifth, it's a dream of mine have a whole FLOSS ecosystem of creative apps that any artist around the world can use without restriction. Apps like Blender, Gimp, Krita, Inkscape, etc. However, I personally find the current state of FLOSS DAWs to be lacking, especially when it comes to MIDI editing, automation, and sound design. Ardour is okay, but only if you don't mess with MIDI. Nothing I've seen yet comes close to the usability of commercial DAWs, and I wish to change that. (With maybe the exception of ZRythm, but it is just too unstable to use imo, and it's also not truly FLOSS as it requires a paid license to download the binaries, (same for Ardour on non-Linux systems)).

Finally, not much development has been done on the GUI side yet since I'm still waiting on the GUI library to stabilize and add the features I need. Hopefully I can have more to actually show fairly soon!
Coincidentally I just bought a ThinkPad X230T this past weekend and it's powered on next to me at this moment! It runs great. I actually bought a couple, and a regular X230. Such nice machines, and very repairable. I am observing the fate of modern computing and trying to get a few easily-repairable machines to hopefully last a long time, rather than weird difficult-to-repair stuff. I have absolutely zero interest in brand new machines that are increasingly locked down with impossible-to-repair and "you don't really own this computer" features.

The X230 was having some weird power/sensor issue so I ordered a replacement motherboard for like $40 CAD in case it dies. It could be years before I need it, but like, this stuff costs peanuts and I am so much more comfortable using a computer I know I can easily maintain (and has excellent performance to boot).
I love it! Though the results for "buoy" were mixed! (British guy catering presumably to intl/US audience pronouncing it incorrectly :D)
Invest in my startup :D haha joking

Great one, I would recommend not taking too long to get back in the game of goals as they keep you moving forward, also maybe start looking for a life partner if you haven't done yet.
The principle being demonstrated here is persistence, and it exists on a spectrum. In a single Minecraft server your inventory is persistent, but across Minecraft servers only your account identity is persistent. In Valheim or Terarria both your account and your inventory is persistent across servers.

Right now the talking heads are trying to sell us a metaverse on the idea that one account could have a persistent inventory between Minecraft and Valheim and Terraria, but anyone who's ever played a game can tell you immediately that this makes no mechanical sense whatsoever (cross-game promotions are common, and welcome (e.g. an Aloy costume in Monster Hunter World for PS4 owners, or Nintendo Amiibo giving you random rewards in various games), but don't involve literally round-tripping your character between games of potentially wildly disparate genres), and anyone who's ever written a piece of software can tell you immediately that this would be an infeasible logistical nightmare to implement.
Its not better, its different. Anyway vscode just uses electron, and electron wants the modern Google web.
> One Reddit user wrote, "I moved it from the end of my driveway to my house this morning and just looked back and [the availability date] had changed to 2022-2023."

Why would you do that... you should be all set when they have your address?
High-fidelity remote communication
Nuclear power was invented in Illinois. They got the jump on it and it’s paid dividends for 60 years now.
Miners are incentivized to keep adding hardware/electricity until total cost = revenue. To pay their bills, they have to sell their new bitcoin to people which is effectively like a fee as their selling of 21 billion dollars in new bitcoin supply to pay their bills reduces the price of bitcoin acting like a fee on buying it.
I've been blown away by the explosion of "urlfest" concerts teenagers have been running on Minecraft during shutdown. A ton of really good music because everyone was stuck inside and needed something to do (digicore / hyperpop blew up last year).
great service !!!
Yes. I do know this (in 2016 I recommended that OpenOffice should get 4.2 out the door pronto or accept that they are done and should gracefully shut down the project).
> Most of the good features that people associate with Ubuntu are actually in Debian, with none of the proprietary weirdness that creeps into Ubuntu year over year.

A lot of what you find in Debian also comes from what Ubuntu does. In fact, I believe that many people hired by Ubuntu in the early days were experienced maintainers for Debian.

20 years ago, the problem was all about getting Linux consumer desktop friendly. On the server side, it was mostly OK, people there were not afraid of a TTY, because it was the primary entry point to learning Linux, and Unix in general, whereas in the Windows world, people first approach was (and still is) the GUI. Debian wasn't as good as it is today in the desktop area.

Ubuntu appeared on the market mainly to solve that problem (they were not the first ones to do that), and "leverage" on the acquired expertise to make money.

Nowadays, the money is in servers and IoT, so they are focusing to that segment of the market.

The nature of open source meant that of course, Debian benefits from their work.
I guess properly made sausage is now "ultra processed", despite just being smoked ground meat in a tube with some spices.
Ah yeah, the unlock to do this is called "1vyrain", right? https://github.com/n4ru/1vyrain/ Friend was telling me about it as he accidentally ordered a non-Lenovo battery and was considering sending it back but also considering trying this "unlock".
Are you sure? I know this is the case for Debian buster (I am using sysvinit on buster on a low-RAM NAS), but on bullseye on my laptop, if I try to install sysvinit & sysv-rc, it wants to remove things like network-manager and lightdm.

Installing openrc doesn't do that, but also doesn't remove any systemd components, so unclear what would happen if I tried to do that.
Well, one will observe that brew manages to package it, without any similar stone throwing about the project's "hatred for pypi" or other meta commentary. It seems every project has *some* kind of quirk, but if the packaging system pays that cost once, then its users get "brew install awscli" instead of waiting 18 months for the AWS team to "see the error of their ways" or whatever one is expecting to change about that situation

I apologize if "puritan" was too emotionally loaded of a word that hurt people's feelings -- I didn't think "strict" was the right word but maybe I should have used "opinionated?"
The other thing that cemented my decision to switch from Edge was when I went to set my default browser from the Windows settings, and upon selecting Chrome it gave me some pathetic, last-ditch prompt that said something like (extreme paraphrasing, but it was the idea): "Are you sure? Edge is much better now!"

If I was having second thoughts before, I'm definitely not now.
Toy libraries are fantastic! They're relatively common here in NZ: https://www.toylibrary.co.nz/find-a-toy-library.html

Are they uncommon elsewhere?
Currently Teams will not work with my Mic. Half the time it doesn't recognize its there, the other half its there but not picking up anything. Every other app I tested worked fine with the mic except for Teams.

I've had to switch to using CHIME of all apps because that actually worked 95%+ time.
Annual odometer reporting is totally fine, of course. I read "logger" as "continuous data logger." That's never going to be acceptable.
Any form of storage will have poor efficiency compared to primary production, particularly pumped water. We're talking about under 50% efficiency.

Moreover, you need an absolute MASSIVE amount of storage to make intermittent sources like solar and wind equivalent to baseload power.

In winter months, solar in New York will produce less than 5% what the same facility will produce in the summer. Shorter days, lower sun, snow, leaves, clouds... all contribute to this.

One cloudy winter and the entire state would be without power - for weeks. It would be catastrophic.

The size of the water reservoir needed to replace plants like Indian Point plant don't exist on the East coast. You would need to flood absolutely massive areas of land.

Nuclear isn't an option. It's a necessity.
Precisely tc and netem. To give an idea how powerful and tuneable netem can be, we had a piece of network gear that lost messages if they were too close in time to each other (less than N microseconds). Probably some 'copy packet during interrupt' stuff. We couldn't change anything in the applications or the network gear. The solution was (on the sender side) to 1) classify with tc the specific packet sequence and 2) delay the second message in the sequence. It's a large command-line, it does the job perfectly. It's marvelous.
Imagine it as "I want to have a http://foo/~me/ type path where I can park 5 TB of stuff and other people can fetch from it when they feel like it".

5 TB of data made available, not 5 TB of transfer/bandwidth/etc.
I've been saying for quite some time that the next big thing (for me) would be some kind of hybrid between a virtual coworking space, VRChat and Minecraft. I feel like being in a 3D space is a completly different experience from being on a Discord server for example. I'd love to go build a house with friends, then code a bit with them inside, and then invite a few people in.
> Why are they moving away from nuclear?

Because in the US, Twitter determines policy priorities, not science or reason.
Brainwashed propagandists are everywhere. Watch out for them and you may be able to find the truth and the agenda.
we'd say, about spoken mad scientist style requests, if it's not in radar, it never existed. :)
[I have a close family member that works in publishing]

As far as I can tell, part of it is that the bigger publishing houses are able to get lucky more often; they're more likely to get a bestseller than a smaller publishing house. This is apparently due to a combination of

1. Being able to pay more authors as a raw number (they're numerically more likely to get a "hit"), which is partly because of

2. Inertia from already having big authors, so people look to sign with them before considering the smaller publishers.

Note that this is really only for mass-market stuff; specialty genres are different.

The big publishers are also able to cut better deals with distribution centers and booksellers.
The opt-in is at https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=facerec -- I definitely remember intentionally opting in when it was added, and it's off on some of my throwaway accounts so I assume it wasn't auto-checked for everyone at some point.
Yup, I feel this.

Take for example "Regina", I've always pronouced it re-gih-na, how Regina Saskatchewan was pronounced on CBC and elsewhere.

But here was a lady with same name of Regina who pronounced it re-gi-nah which I guess is more common south of the border?
Probably not as good but https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tree-style-tab/oic...
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/verticaltabs/imimo...
How would it be easier than the proposed Python example? Which only relies on bog standard Python (unless your steps are more complicated) and can (by virtue of encapsulating steps into a class) be wrapped up in nearly any user interface.
A 3 month trial with 1500 participants in the vaccine arm is a joke.
> This is a real problem. If we don't come up with one single correct way to pronounce every single word, English will fork into multiple different languages.

It is probably unpreventable. Language change occurs precisely because of insufficient contact/exposure, causing divergence, or allowing it to persist. Dialects with lots of bidirectional exchange tend to shift towards each other.

Besides, that ship sailed. English dialects have arisen on multiple continents and are diverging. I speak fairly standard Canadian English and there some dialects I need a fair bit of time to acclimate to when I encounter them. Unless electronic media and social change pulls some wildcard on language acquisition (who knows?) it's quite possible that in a few hundred more years the gap between spoken English on the street in New York and London may be as wide as German and Dutch today.
notice the raw_input(), it's written in python 2.
Thank you for your reply!

I've managed to dig up these (that's where https://ideas.mozilla.org redirects me):

- https://mozilla.crowdicity.com/post/719914

- https://mozilla.crowdicity.com/post/724883

Guess it's just a matter of making an account and voting/commenting on these now. The thing is, most people don't go through the trouble of leaving feedback like this. What they do is install Firefox, look into the available functionality, see that there's no profile button, assume the functionality does not exist and call it quits.
You do realize Google Chrome is closed source, right?

> Unlike Chromium, Chrome is not open-source, so its binaries are licensed as freeware under the Google Chrome Terms of Service.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Brandin...

I greatly prefer Firefox to Edge or Chrome, but unfortunately the world we live in is where some websites only work in Chrome, or corporate functionality requires plugins that only work in Chrome.
I play a fair amount of dota2 on linux. It does seem to crash more than I would expect it to on Windows. But other than the occasional crash, its pretty well flawless.
It's also true if you sell a house in San Francisco and move to South Florida, or North Carolina, or all of the other places millions of people do exactly what I described. Retirees don't need massive houses, to minimize commutes to downtown, or being in the best school district, which opens up many options which other people might pass up. If your goal is “on the beach in South Beach”, yes, it'll cost a fortune but if your goal is “near the beach, any beach” you have plenty of options for well under $100k.

I don't disagree that this isn't driving the housing crisis — my point was simply that it's not like many older people aren't strongly in favor of the housing market staying high until they can cash out, because for many people their home equity is the largest component of their retirement plan and they aren't interested in continuing to need to deal with the maintenance required by a single-family house.
Great article. From the perspective of someone who's getting older, you have to come to grips with the fact that your mind and brain change in ability just like your body does. At first it can be frustrating, and you see it only as a negative. But strangely, having your brain change a bit in terms of its speed or its ability to memorize and recall things can actually give you a new perspective on solving problems and thinking about things in general. I'm not saying it's a bed of roses, for the most part it's a loss. I'm just saying you can learn to accept that and move on with the capabilities you have at the moment, rather than wallow in self-pity and see every cup as half empty.

There's also the fact that as you get older you simply know more, you've seen more patterns and data. You're like a machine learning algorithm that's been trained on a larger corpus.
>My rent alone is more than that.

Maybe he'll buy a house for $50k?

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/142-Abiguchee-Ln-Richwood...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/26-2nd-Ave-NE-Mayville-ND...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/107-S-2nd-St-Greene-IA-50...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/0-County-Road-19-Scottsbl...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/421-N-11th-Ave-Fairview-O...
"scaffold scripts" that actually has a nice ring to it and is alliterative which makes it more memorable
You might be better suited with jupiter notebook.
The 14.6 update has destroyed the podcast app
> Software engineering doesn't require talent any more than learning calculus requires talent. We aren't that special or gifted imo.

Derailing a bit here, but I don't think this is true, and I think it's an example of a part of Dunning-Kruger that is often forgotten - Highly competent people underestimate their competence and incorrectly presume others find a task just as easy as they do.

There are a lot of people that struggle with algebra. They could never learn calculus without putting in a ridiculous amount of time into studying it.

What makes software engineering different is that it requires abstract thinking, something not everyone has. You have to be able to understand how to break a problem down into tiny steps and be able to express those steps in a language that a compiler or interpreter will understand. And even with training, we get people that can't FizzBuzz.
I think part of the plan is to build VR spaces and then connect them together. Take the "things" in that space and expose them to non-vr software clients.

eg. maybe your vr home has digital art, but that art can also exist and be viewed in other mediums. Or you can all sit at home and watch VRTV with friends, but one friend just watches on their phone on the bus.

Or a virtaul office desk, that can have coworkers visiting. The office server can be hosted on your corp servers (or, the social networking, maybe you self host your personal office), but when you leave to go virtually home, you're now in your home, hosted by fb nee meta.
One minor nit: I've got a System76 Lemur Pro as mentioned in this comparison. It does ship with the round barrel connector, but is also capable of charging over the USB-C port.
Ubiquiti makes the Amplifi line.
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?dummynet

The dummynet system facility permits the control of traffic going through the various network interfaces, by applying bandwidth and queue size limitations, implementing different scheduling and queue management policies, and emulating delays and losses.
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The dummynet facility was initially implemented as a testing tool for TCP congestion control by Luigi Rizzo, as described on ACM Computer Communication Review, Jan.97 issue.
That makes no sense. Landlords are going to charge the maximum rent that the market will bear, regardless of how much they pay in taxes for the land and building. And if they can't make a profit at that rate then they'll eventually sell the property, or develop it for a more profitable use.
If you seriously consider a state actor to be a threat, then you likely make many other compromises to your ability to conveniently perform disaster recovery.

There is not much overlap between these use-cases:

* I need an easy way to recover my family pictures because I didn't make backups

and

* I have state actors interested in my data

If you really have state actor threats, you probably like that M1 Macs are very hard to perform data-recovery from.
It takes practice, but it can be overcome. With enough practice, you can flip them convex and concave and back, at will. In the meantime, flipping the image over, top to bottom, often helps.
Perhaps there ought to be an adjustment to the regulation that differentiates between megacorp landlords and the small landlords who only own a few properties. Maybe some threshold below which both sides qualify for right-to-counsel.
> Also, don't YIMBY's want to eliminate SFH anyway?

No, only the zoning designation, meaning that if you want, you can build a SFH. Or a 4-plex. Or maybe a corner store.
Conceptually, a VR workroom sounds like it could be extremely nifty. As someone easily distracted, I'd love to be able to sit in space with only a text editor open and do my thing.

In practice, excluding resolution, wearing a headset for hours on end seems even more straining both for the neck and eyes than the alternative real life workstation.
The sites are deployed on Vercel and Digital Ocean. Both platforms allow users to connect their custom domains, and they auto-generate the SSL for these domains.
There is still a SPI chip from Winbond on board. Also the NVRAM contains variables like "boot-volume". Question is if you can easily change it.
Hierarchy is the only tool it gives, you can't really have one dir with all your files, unless there's very few of them.

My typical scenario is multiple copies of something in progress, like traveling with friends, copying photos to each other phones on the way and then downloading the whole mess to one computer. Query language would give me precise information for every file but it's overwhelming.
I feel like taking an object from one simulation to another and having different simulations are oposites. Either you have the same simulations and thus objects share behavior, or the simulations are different and the objects are just 3D things.
Pennsylvania is not in the Midwest. According to most regionalization schemes, it's in either the Northeast or the Mid-Atlantic region.

e.g.: https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us...
I think whatpeo9's post succinctly captures my opinion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29085647
Raph Koster, for one. https://www.raphkoster.com/2021/09/02/online-world-or-metave...
Green guy should be making a all of that a one click process to start up a service shell that does all of that for you although. Then as you write it up an automatic linting & rules engine will highlight what is missing before you make a final pull request to get the necessary human approvals, ONCE.