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>The laws of physics as we know them today don't forbid time travel. In fact, they propose a fairly specific means of doing it via accelerating one side of a traversable wormhole to near the speed of light.

That applies to time travel into the past.

It's obvious, but it bears noting that the converse is a lot simpler. I say that because, IIUC (and that's a real question), quantum mechanics treats the time dimension as symmetrical, which contradicts observation, at least to this point.

Is that because QM is wrong on that point? Which seems unlikely, since it's one of the most precisely confirmed (by observation) theories we have.

Or is there something about the "macro" world that destroys that symmetry?

I don't have the answer, but it's clear that in a particular reference frame, we move forward in time at a rate of 1 sec/second.

Again, that's obvious, but based on my (limited) understanding, that seems to contradict QM.
> Wasn't Windows 95 a social movement?

Umm, no? Or, if it was, that aspect of it was never apparent to me, even when I beta tested it.
I think the issue goes further than that into being a societal problem.

Majority of America is overweight, staring down at their phones day and night, and dread physical activity. They also like to flex their position and wealth to others, one of the reasons why pickup trucks and big SUVs sell in great numbers. These people are in no hurry to transition to riding bikes.

The only way biking might work is if some popular celebrities on social media or otherwise started doing it, since many Americans just like to imitate what's popular.
An Edgley Optica apparently, looks wicked!

https://orbxdirect.com/product/optica-msfs
there was going to be an x300 chipset for ryzen that was basically just a boot rom. afaik it never happened.

but i definitely imagine, at some point, the main memory becomes semi optional too. basically we just have chips, with huge huge buck converters around them. and a couple data pipes optionally reaching out.
I mean, they do have a motor, so I don't see why they should be less regulated than other motorized vehicles. They're just as dangerous to the user as a moped.
NASA and USGS Release First Images from New Landsat 9 Spacecraft
It's actually the opposite.

Liars suspect everybody else is lying to them. Funny that.

The CCP doesn't reciprocate on any treaties they sign. So liars. Most of their weapons are built with money from the West, and pointed at the US (they don't need hypersonic missiles or nuclear submarines for any of their neighbors.)
From the readme:

"The master branch is considered a stable branch capable of being released at any time. Reviewed, stable changes land against master via pull-request."

Last update was jul 13.

It's pretty stable and has been around for a while, so i wouldn't expect a flurry of constant changes (durability and stability are exactly what i look for when self hosting)
> If it's a company, please have the forum integrated into your software.

Counterpoint. Other companies absolutely suck at making forum software. It's because it's not their core business, so why would they put more than token effort into it?

Edit: upon re-read this seems to be exactly what you are suggesting, so please disregard my reply.
The solution here is a forum set up with robust and plentiful SSO solutions, so existing authentication providers can be used.
Riding a motorcycle is easier than a bike. In a motorcycle there’s three evasive actions: brake, accelerate or swerve. On a bicycle there’s only two, and that lack of speed is exactly what causes some of the riskiest behaviors from motorists (e.g. close passing.)
> Would it be a good idea to hire someone with 20 years experience in Python+Go+JavaScript+Perl+PHP for a C++ role?

I my experience, when working in a programming job, your programming skills rather degrade quite fast if you are not actively working in your free time to work hard against this degradation.

I rather get better in programming almost exclusively by the side projects that I do in my free time.

So, I would rather say that x years of job experience show nothing; what is important is what you do in your free time (if such side projects are possible).
Vladimir Panteleev wrote the forum software D uses:

https://forum.dlang.org/

It's all completely searchable, it works with NNTP (yes!), and I wrote a program:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/ngArchiver

to turn the message database into simple, fast loading static web pages:

https://digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/index.html

It has served us well.
Exactly - .NET ecosystem and community is structured around cost center development.

I see Microsoft attempting to make C#/ASP.NET more lean and faster to get started with (eg. minimal APIs) but I doubt they can overcome the stigma.
I haven't used .net. But how memory management happens when you are running a binary executable? Does it have a builtin CLR (Common Language Runtime[1])? Because CLR provides the tools for managing memory & security?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Runtime
Why would it be on rails?
Not at all. Just pointing out that a high bar for hiring still leads to shit code. And that's fine, its called growing pains.
DMA was my first introduction, with good old Cheat Engine. I have very fond memories of digging through my favorite games, changing values incrementally to try to find their place in memory.
>And Visual Studio is almost dead, why aren’t you on Visual Studio Code?

That's incredibly weird take in my opinion.

Whenever I use VS Code, then I feel huge gap between this and real VS with Roslynator extension.
Bingo. The company I work for even gives certain locales, that are prone to IP theft, VDI only access to company systems. They are given a laptop with nothing on it except tools to access the VPN and VDI.
"An important assumption going into the theorem is that neither Alice nor Bob is allowed, in any way, to affect the preparation of the initial state"

The assumption is that the past can't change the future, which it obviously can to any observer. You change what you do today and it will change the future. If the two particles are entangled, one particle would change the initial state of the other wouldn't it? Sort of a two way street/two way radio going back and forth potentially?

Seems like you'd be sending information to the future about the changes the information coming from the future was making to the past at the same time as the information from the future was making those changes, so the theory about not changing the initial state would be flawed.

How to read those changes with a machine?
What you said also applies to the people behind this university. They believe that most American universities are no longer pursuing truth. What do you think these people would say is the motivation behind that change? If you ask them, I am betting most would respond with something about a hidden agenda including words like "wokeism", 'intersectionality", and "leftist".

These people don't actually want truth. Their motivation is that our societal definition of truth has broadened as we have started to listen to voices that were previously powerless. Critical Race Theory is one prime example. The people behind this university want to reverse course. Instead of truth, they want something that reinforces their preexisting worldview because what modern academia is now accepting as truth contradicts that worldview.
Not sure about that, but from my understanding that's because with kerberos the encryption level doesn't matter as much because cracking DES from such a small amount of bytes still shouldn't be feasiable
> The industry has been pushing HDR and support for variable refresh rate, and that seems way more useful than 4k@120hz

FWIW, I haven't seen a 120Hz display without variable refresh rate support. Any resolution.

HDMI 2.1 (January 2017) and Displayport 1.4 (March 2016) support 4K 120Hz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Version_2.1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#1.4
With Discourse, you can enable mailing list mode and read all the Discourse instances from your email client. That’s what I do.

Personally, I only have one Discourse instance I keep up to date on, but if that instance weren’t right there in my email client, I’d have zero.

edit: The main caveat in my experience is that you probably want to click through onto the website if you’re planning to reply, both to be able to preview formatting, and to double-check that the post you’re replying to hasn’t been edited in a way that renders the reply unnecessary. (I wish there was a way to deliver edits over email.) But most of the time I’m just reading, and for that I just stick to my email client. The loss of edits doesn’t seem to be a big deal in practice.
I’ve done a fair bit of gamehacking myself.

When PUBG came out on the Xbox, I built a tool to sniff and parse gameplay packets to determine the exact location of loot and enemies. Radar cheats are much more common now, especially because if the developers do not use any type of encryption, it is rudimentary to setup a packet capture with a 2nd PC or laptop.

On PCs where the communications are encrypted, I use a hardware device plugged into my motherboard to grab the encryption key directly from memory.
Wow, TIL! Can't believe I missed that, thank you.
This is a great example of a "feature" that seems to make sense but, for reasons I can't quite put my finger on, really bothers me.

Maybe it's that Discourse's search functionality didn't really work well, or suddenly started searching across threads rather than only the current one (IIRC); maybe it's that it's the only system I can think of (other than google docs) that hijacks the shortcut, but it gave me a very negative first impression of the tool.
Windows Explorer gets it (mostly) correct also.
E-bikes allow a wider range of people to exercise and travel quickly. That’s their advantage over both electric scooters and traditional bicycles. As such they are really worth incorporating into the urban landscape.

Also, it’s not obvious but the highest throughput per unit area at street level is sidewalks, bike lanes, and then the least efficient traffic lanes. Sidewalks need skyscrapers and a massive subway system to really scale, but bike lanes are mostly limited by adoption which again makes E-Bikes really useful.
These examples at the start are great. I read the first thinking it was a bit silly and contrived but it worked super well to prepare for the second which was succinct but sounded familiar and then the third which sounded relevant to businesses but more positive and constructive than the first two.
Popular celebrities on social media already work out - why do you think Americans aren't already imitating it and why would they imitate bicycling?
>From a management perspective, this is not bad. You get movable team members.

I have a friend-of-a-friend who has a successful 30 person contracting business. They do C#. He, the co-owner benefits from this.

I was responding to a question from a FAANG developer. FAANG developers don't get moved. FAANG developers move when they want to move: to projects that they find interesting; to other FAANGs; or to start-ups.

And FAANGs don't pick one language because "hey, it's possible to do what you want in it".
I just feel like Pinterest hijacks other creators' content, sticks it on their web site, hijacks google image search, and adds a level of annoyance to most users on par with pop-up ads.

Do I have this wrong?
I don't know if it exists yet, but I can see ActivityPub (or even Matrix?) be used as a federated method for content sharing by combining the base protocol with some basic grouping and threading.

I'm not well-versed in ActivityPub and the systems interacting with it, but I believe Mastodon can do threading at least. I don't think it can do the categories to build a full forum system out of it, though.

Matrix is currently optimized for chat applications, but its "rooms" architecture could prove to be very powerful for building forums. You use rooms within rooms for categories and subcategories, and then either use threads (feature in beta) or more subrooms for the topics themselves.

You could make an overlay that renders the entire system as a forum, and people using Matrix chat clients could use it as an instantaneous chat system. Signing up for a forum could be done through a regular Matrix account, without forum accounts for all their users, or it could host its own Matrix account for new subscribers if they choose to partake in chats. The annoying chat popups you get in "modern" forums from direct messages would just be bog-standard Matrix chatrooms.

You know what, I'm kind of intrigued. I'm adding this to the pile of projects interesting projects that I'll probably forget about or never finish.
Where can I get PDFs like this printed and bound for convenient offline reading (like when on a plane)?

I'm going to assume it can get stupid expensive for a one-off job.
> Safer roads means more people will bike, which means biking will stop being seen as an elitist thing.

I don't think it is just safety. Most people understand an e-bike is going to be more dangerous, but they are popular anyways.

The other factor is distance. e-bikes increase the distance that can be covered by a significant amount, which changes a lot of commutes from "too far" to acceptable. The only people who can afford to be within a bike commute are at least above-average income-wise.

Even satire news sites have caught onto this:
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2020/09/i-bike-everywhere-brags...
Do you know about NATOs chat app?
Flat design was never about flat design but about layers and animation. The idea was to get rid of the fake 3d and instead use layered animation to create the depth.
More broadly, the electoral college is still a thing.
GitHub.com is almost entirely non-free code, when seen through a web browser. Unless you're talking about just the git portion?
I think people on this forum think that anything that's not liberal is trumpism + unsubstantiated anti-science BS. That's not what I am referring to and going against the slightest here would get you downvotes.
When people mention this, I always ask what percentage of cars are following the speed limit—a rule of the road all the more important when piloting a vehicle which can easily kill. Cyclists disregarding the rules of the road are lower percentage, and primarily endanger themselves.
I once thought to apply at Nike and remember two things: their application site was (at the time at least) gorgeous and they did the thing where you have to retype your resume into awkward, albeit attractive, forms. I didn't complete the app.
Oh nice! Have u had any experience with a no code tool to generate an open api compliant endpoint given some database call? I’ve been trying to find something that would help reduce the amount of time I spend writing boilerplate code
Telecordia is a disaster. When your primary customers are fixed line telecoms, you don’t have to be that great. IBM isn’t good either.
not really, though socal on the whole is a sprawl. greater LA is decentralized into a bunch of blended edge cities[0], but the city itself is basically split into the LA basin and the san fernando valley. within these sub-regions, it's eminently bikable, with the two areas linked by subway and rail for bikers. central LA, encompassing downtown through mid-wilshire and toward santa monica/venice, is relatively dense (20-40k/sq mi), and roughly 15 miles from downtown to the beach (also connected by light rail). if you live in this central LA area (or central san fernando), most places you need to go are less than an hour's e-bike ride away, and most likely less than 1/2 hour away.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_cities
If you design the road to feel unsafe at high speed, travellers will automatically slow down
For years I didn’t manage it (I’m 40 and have had my suspicions since I was 13), ADHD is to me a huge boon for programmers. I’d basically come into work late and outsource many of life’s responsibilities. And drink A LOT of coffee.

It’s was only when running my own company during the pandemic during a massive decline in revenue that it all became too much and I got a prescription as well as managing my sleep much better that I was able to cope.

I still sometimes forget to take the meds tho, and some days it’s good and some days it’s horrible. It’s mostly bad news that triggers it to the point of it getting out of control.

I’m still not entirely sure that I have ADHD but the non-amphetamine meds def help with whatever it is. The amphetamines messed with my sleep too much.
Thread discussing the Aaron/reddit story etc in great detail, with a lot of comments from Aaron, gives a good taste of what he was like.

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_co...
WPF has no such concept. Even if you don’t use a library for this, it’ll then just use the built in style after detecting your OS version and adapting to that. But it does this by pulling out hard coded resources shipping with WPF. If you wish, you can override and tell WPF to look like XP on Windows 10 instead… It’s all just a good try, but still a facade. It does not and can not (per design) rely on “native controls”. I suppose because it’s DirectX based rather than GDI.
There was a time before the Great Firewall too. These things can change. I bet China isn’t too happy about over the air video transmission that can cross borders either, and would prefer for citizens to use approved digital streaming methods.
Yeah, I'm sure it's possible to do so, but unfortunately my BIOS locks me into the OEM modem, there is no linux driver for it and the windows one is not documented so no luck for me in that regard. At some point I'll pour some more sweat into it and try to unlock the bios or something but sadly for now this functionality that my computer absolutely has is unavailable to me.

Same with getting NMEA sentences off the GPS, I have to use windows' idiotic location API for that. 9600 baud serial worked just fucking fine, I don't understand why that isn't available as well. It's so annoying that I have to fight this hard for functionality my hardware already has.
Post that uses specious word: "performant" and a reply starting with "Actually, " - can we not create a prize for this? Maybe hn bingo cards? Dang, that would be good.
This misses a big point: highly skilled craftsmanship will never again be affordable on an architectural scale. So we'll have it again when it can all be done by machine.

It costs human lives to build a Notre Dame, both in deaths and in total lifespan output, and as for Sagrada Familia it's still not complete. We now value human life and labor too much to be able to afford it.

I personally can't wait to have detailed, warm, organic architecture back again, but I damn sure don't want to carve any stone.
I am a developer and I understand the need for person-power to continue the development of software. But that doesn't mean I have unlimited time (or money) to support the development of all of the software I might engage with.

If a new user (including devs using libraries) needs to join real time chat in order to get help with a "I tried X and I thought I'd get Y, but I saw Z instead" type problem then that seems pretty hostile.

Most users are going to be transactional in their engagement with the software, open source or not. The community around software grows over time as the top of the iceberg of users forms a community of active participants.

But forcing a "community" by trying to force transactional support style engagement into a real time conversation framework is detrimental to the users as well as the "community" you are trying to force into existing.

Edit: Plus as a Kiwi I am, as a general principle, against anything that reinforces the tyranny of time zones. Which synchronous communication definitely does.
He’s doing what he wants to do. He’s much more passionate about the “luxury” market than tech.
Pedestrians in NYC act like royalty. I've never seen pedestrians so fearless as in NYC. They will step out in front of a moving truck if they have the right of way. And sometimes even when they don't, if they sense the driver's hesitation.

And you know what? I like it. Cars are given special treatment everywhere else in this country. I was in D.C. and VA last week and had to wait 5 minutes (!) to cross many intersections. So in NYC I sympathize for the commercial traffic and the people commuting from places without train coverage, but for everyone else, I don't really care if pedestrians hold them up. They could have been pedestrians too.
Is anyone who does swiftui stuff willing to answer my stupid questions? I have so many
> taken a stand to remove misinformation

From what I've seen this doesn't enter into it, HN isnt some ideological arbiter of "misinformation". Posts get killed (still visible with showdead on as the parent says) when they are unsuitable for the site. It applies equally to random job postings, celebrity gossip, dupes, and other random stuff that is inappropriate for the site. In general, inflammatory posts that will just result in fighting instead of some meaningful discussion are also killed.

All this to say, there is no "taking a stand" to support your politics, it's just removing posts that will degrade the quality of the discussion. This approach is much better than having moderators try and decide what it "true".
People appear to be mixing units here, I believe the parent commenter was using kph, not mph.
I like the rule that says inappropriately seized property must be returned alongside a penalty roughly equivalent to (some version) of the optimal investment strategy with the property's values as initial value across the period of seizure.
This is great Carl! Glad I follow you on Twitter as I missed this on HN.

I too have really wanted something like this for a long time (have some ideas about extra difficult parts like learning to draw the outline of a country) and really enjoyed playing it! I just did one round and got to a score of 123 but had a wonderful time. Well done on the great game!

A few suggestions:
1. This is mentioned already and I see you're aware, but it can be very hard to find somewhere like British Indian Ocean Territory
2. The dropdown options seems to be correct on the default option a good bit more than you would expect by chance.
3. The app doesn't seem to keep a long term history of ones I've seen, so got shown some—Comoros and Papau New Guinea were particular offenders for me
4. Sometimes I think you can cheat using the hover tooltips?
5. Dropdown options are sometimes pretty easy as there is only one option that you have actually encountered.
6. The flag dropdown could be bigger—some flags are hard to distinguish when they're small

And the final suggestion that is (presumably, though I could be wrong) out of your control: There are too many Guineas! C'mon planet earth, get creative.

I also did really enjoy hunting for the small (but not too small) islands and think that will lodge them better in my brain! And thanks again for making and sharing your game—really appreciate it and I learned a lot!! :) Think I'll be coming back for more!
Visualizing the microscopic world of fast ions in fusion devices
The state might want to move people or things secretly by air.
We'd have "power too cheap to meter" from fission if it wasn't sabotaged by politicians, fossil fuel lobbies, and an ignorant, easily frightened public.
Funnily enough, I remember leaving Cheat Engine running while playing Counter Strike a few times, I was surprised that I never got banned for that. Abusing client-side scripting with friends (in a community server, at that) did get me VAC'd though.
Which hardware device, out of curiosity?