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I completely agree. When Google decided to invest in a mercurial front end to their version control system a few years ago, I was confused, but after using it for a while, I can honestly say it has much better ergonomics for common workflows. Creating a tree of dependent commits is simple and trivial. I sometimes wish I could create a dag instead, but that's probably more trouble than it's worth.
you people live in a bubble of denying that bitcoin has become way more useful than you ever thought it would be.
This. While I'm not sure I'd build a website or something with R, for pretty much anything data related R is a first choice. Even for big data on clusters or something. It's absolutely amazing at what it does. Super easy Fortran and C++ interop. Bonus that it's well enough known in academia and fields like statistics or economics.
a lot of people like mushrooms over LSD because “they're natural”, they are poison and can make your stomach ache throughout your first trips until your tolerance builds, this can exacerbate negative aspects of your experience

Acid (LSD) is much stronger in muuuch lower doses and is more of a refined component - its a totally different dose scale. Doesn't mean you wont have a bad trip though, just that your stomach won't hurt lol. Buckle up. Great way to spend 500 years in an afternoon.
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I build a lot of technic models that have functions. I like to both improve and motorise them, or use them as a base to make a model closer to something I want. I like truck cranes and 4WD/trial trucks the most
Arguing with the Don? It was nice knowing you...
Why don't you explain why it isn't like this? Instead you accuse me of having an agenda, that is a very weak argument in a discussion.

The fact is, you cannot touch crypto currency or take it home, you can just tell somebody else to move it to another vault. You cannot do it yourself unless you are lucky enough to mine the block with the transaction in it, which is futile unless you have a mining farm.

It's closer to a document than a physical key to a safe deposit box at a bank.
bitcoin does it better by not being a pre-mine scam and still having 0 fees and instant transactions on lightning.
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Instructions unclear. Install Debian 11 and be done with Microsoft?
Somewhat related, what's the Go laravel/rails/django equivalent?
PHP is perfectly fine, and all of the "better languages" are only better in an academic sense. But you can't really use PHP. It's too uncool. If you use PHP in 2021, you had better have a really good understanding with your manager, because your manager may read that PHP is "bad" or "a fractal of bad design" and start to question your competence.
Some people build guitars other people play them. They are related disciplines and guitar builders know how to play a guitar but it's not their primary pursuit. Biking is no different no? Some people are interested in how to setup and combine components in an optimal way. Others want to ride.
I found the colored browser cool, but the infuriating part is that Firefox is deliberately only offering features for a limited time. And if I didn't want to pick a color, not being able to click outside to close would be annoying.
Sigh another language to learn. Just released but I will see recruiters asking for five years experience in it for job openings.

It is like they took the macro language of Excel into its own app.
Well, you could still use the multi-hash thing for the identifiers without distributing them on IPFS,

though it would make it much more convenient for people to pirate them, because then people wouldn’t have to look up “what is the multihash for the thing with this doi?” before requesting it on ipfs.
Post crypto as collateral -> get fiat loan at 2% -> die massively in debt, never paying taxes. That’s the way to win the fiat system.
I don't think I agree.

The different political alignments are really just different sects of the nationalism/religion. Liberals simply idealize a different subset of the core tenants, and maybe are more tempered in their zealotry. But they are nationalist to their core nonetheless.

Having said that, there certainly are other groups that don't prescribe to Americanism, and are loyal to other 'religions' be it globalism or some other political ideology that's incompatible with American ideals.

I would even argue that Bitcoin is itself a flavor of globalism, albeit one that the establishment global elite aren't cool with, because they missed the boat on being early adopters and their power would be radically diminished if it wins.
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Wikipedia too. And probably many WordPress websites with a lot of traffic.

If anything, PHP has proven it works in this regard.
The process for establishing an encrypted session goes like this:

0: Know the public key of a fixedTPM+fixedParent primary key (e.g., the "endorsement key") on the TPM ahead of time[0].

1: call TPM2_CreatePrimary() in the clear to "create" that key (this is deterministic given a public template and factory seed secret to the TPM) -- you need the "handle" for this key

2: call TPM2_StartAuthSession() with that handle as the bindKey, and various other parameters

3: use that session in all subsequent commands.

Note: only one parameter of every command can be encrypted: the first parameter (command or response parameter) of type TPM2B_PRIVATE. The rest can be authenticated but are otherwise exchanged in plaintext. This is mostly just fine.

[0] Well, you could validate the EK's certificate, and then you only need to know the trust anchors for the TPM's vendor. It's roughly the same thing, but with more steps, and it lets you replace the TPM w/o having to re-learn a public key for it (which might be important).
> to something closer to the gold standard.

So you prefer the great depression style of economic crisis as opposed to inflationary periods?

Also people here greatly benefited from vast liquidity flowing into startups. You think that is possible in an inelastic currency?

Crypto solves problems very few people have. The enthusiasm relies on uneducated naivete.
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I tried it but somehow couldn't get the extension to populate the data in google sheet. Also the UI sort of feels convoluted.
If people (specifically, the police and soldiers) stopped believing in the local monopoly on violence, it wouldn't exist either. Historically, this is a thing that happens pretty often, every few decades.

Gold in coinage is only about 2700 years old, btw, not 5000, and that was really electrum. Gold, silver, or electrum by weight may go back significantly further.
The closest this post gets to supporting its thesis is this section:

> You might have heard people say that PHP was "doing serverless before serverless was a thing", and this is kind of true.

I believe that PHP is...not bad I guess? I'm sure it can make good things. But after reading this I have no idea why I would pick up PHP over any of the other capable tools out there.
>opening up to more repairability

How can it be more repairability when the hardware itself is unrepairable by an average individual who could repair most other electronics?

This seems more like an attempt to shoot down 'parts whitelist' criticisms while telling 'You aren't technically capable to repair our devices' to anyone asking for more user repairable devices.
It's rare to find these thoughtful and sincerely kind threads on the internet these days, but this thread, the one you started, really touched me. HN is truly a wonderful and magnificent place in this wide cosmos of ones and zeroes. Thank you a lot, rubyist5eva, for being such a valuable member of the community and for starting this immensely valuable thread. What you did isn't easy, sharing one's own low points in life, but you did so anyway and made a lot of peoples day! Thank you for being you, keep at it and allow yourself a break now and then. You got this.
So many things. Academia lives in pdf-land as do many governments.
I'm not (yet) a Browserflow user, but it's something that I'm going to either pitch or just skunk into my workflow. But when that time comes, I will absolutely need a first-party way to download screenshots. I'd be open to pulling them from an S3 bucket, but absolutely not from Google Drive.

That time is at least a few weeks off, though, probably after the new year.
I don't think Google has succeeded, for the same reasons you state ironically. "Making money/having power" isn't "success", it's "making money/having power". I don't find it at all ridiculous to say that Google and Facebook are failures, I (as the author) contest the synonymity of success and money. It's actually telling of how shit our society is that you (and most people) say "success" and mean "money", and find attempts to separate them laughable.
I'm sorry but this is near unusable since the death of XUL and introduction of WebExtensions. I was an truly avid user of VimFX which did the same thing.

Vimium these days does not work when a page hasn't finished loading and it doesn't work on blank pages (about:blank) or any other "system page" (like the preferences or addons). The "o" key can no longer highlight the address bar but brings up a non-native address bar that does not find my bookmarks as it should.

Imagine you couldn't click on another tab with your mouse pointer while the current active one is loading. Yes, it's as terribly frustrating as it sounds.

In the XUL days I could even hit a key to make every button in Firefox UI accessible via keys. VimiumFX gave me the best browsing experience I've ever had and it's gone. WebExtensions Vimium is nothing buta painful reminder.

Qutebrowser may seem like an acceptable remedy, but giving up all the add-ons (mainly uBlock Origin and Tree Style Tab) makes it a no go.

As the_pwner224 points out, Vimium-FF is probably the way to go if you want to give this a try despite its shortcomings...
Not OP,I'm just a happy matrix user.

Yes the matrix spec is all standardized. You can use any client with any homeserver.
People keep repeating this, but this isn't true. It doesn't solve this problem for the general case

Why not? A signed distributed ledger isn't a complicated thing, so it's hard to see how a blockchain would fail in.

Cryptocurrencies are an application of blockchain as a technology. They may or may not need to use one. That doesn't have any impact on the use of blockchain in other areas, like supply chain validation for example.
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Yep. The problem is not that that programming languages are create an undemocratic force field around programming, it's that only very few people can efficiently translate any sort of requirements into any sort of machine-comprehensible instructions, doesn't matter if it's code, excel formulas, multitude of ERP checkboxes or something else.

The high demand and pay of the last few decades brought a lot of people into trying to be those few but it looks like the percentage of the "worthy" people remains as low as it was decades ago and move from Fortran to lowcode did nothing.
this is only valid for growth-above-all capitalist outlook. nothing is wrong with "hoarding" money, in non-biased language it's also called saving for retirement, yet your capitalist overlords created a view of reality where nothing good ever happens if their investments don't grow steadily. but for that to happen - money has to lose value steadily.

don't be a slave to your capitalist overlords. you can save yourself by just rejecting their view, way easier than what slaves of the past had to do.
Am I missing something, or without registration, I can’t read anything?
I keep hearing from the futurists that massive job losses from automation are right around the corner. Yet any unskilled profession has no workers. If the automation was coming, wouldn’t we be in massive structural unemployment rather than massive unmet labor needs?

The true morons are the Marxists and their labor theory of value, as well ask MMT idiots. Crack pots are everywhere.
for me the biggest advantage is the size of the market. I know Python and PHP quite decent but I've never found any quick job (or long time job) for my Python skills. For PHP I have to convey some of jobs to others, I am getting so much of them (I even run some job advertisement site only for the purpose to redirect people pinging me with offers, really).

But maybe this is just me.
To use the color picker, click on a color swatch, and it will copy the color name in the format selected to the clipboard.

the source code for this color picker is on github https://github.com/magicmouse/beads-examples/tree/master/Exa...

If there are any other output formats that you need, please let me know.
that's like saying meetings alleviate the need for emails (documented decisions). Ideally you need both, but pair programming/meeting needs to be scheduled, with all the associated problems, async communication doesn't. If you have to pick one over another, then obviously that's async communication. A meeting without minute is a meeting that didn't happen.
I highly doubt they dispose of any information in the sequence of requests, acceptance/decline and cancellation. That would require actually deleting things that were already in their database, and they have no incentive to do that. They certainly have an incentive to make those things inaccessible to the riders, but not to actually flush them.
Yeah, I gave up, and I actually like long form context. But this just wouldn't even start saying something...
This argument may have worked in the years before Heroku (or Docker even) but it’s really outdated in 2021.

Then you have the myriad of static site hosts that also take 2 clicks to host something without even having to write any code.
Now the question is:
How do I get this to run on one of OpenBSD, Alpine Linux or Haiku?
> I would dispute

Why? Because it makes you feel good to think everyone else is dumber than you?
Some, yes in various conditional ways, I posted links to age breakdown and some other population representative data.
I understand you are committed to this but you should understand that the adults in the room don't take any of it seriously. Jeff Bezos started a book store which he diligently grew to a eCommerce juggernaut. He did not start a project to buy what was rightfully his as a citizen of the United States. I'll repeat what I said previously, if you want people to take crypto seriously then the crypto community will have to start doing serious things instead of just having fun and shilling memes to buy a piece of paper at a Sotheby's auction.

Your generation is going to be faced with unimaginable hardships and the faster you folks grow up the faster you can start working on addressing real problems instead of wasting time on stuff like this.
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Matrix has it, but it's e.g. disabled on the matrix.org instance because of performance issues.
absolutely false and misses the entire point - with document you own nothing but the document. whatever that document says can become false in an instant. whatever gold you are promised by that document might not even be where it purports to be.

with bitcoin key you own the bitcoin and you always know (can trivially verify) that your bitcoin is there.
Good jobs though? Lots of PHP jobs in Canada, but the salary is nearly universally always laughably low.
I'm very glad we're all collectively killing the planet so that we can keep a massive ball of digital detritus alive.

Crypto has gone from "It's a currency!" to "It's a commodity!" to "It's a battery!" to "It's art!" in under 10 years.

Early days it was fun to watch. Now that it's destroying the environment, I'm ready for it to end.
I have been pondering a scheme where each ballot would have a field for an arbitrary token in addition to the vote. After the election voters could query a database of what ballots were cast with some token. So they could check that their vote was counted without revealing who they voted. While people are poor randomness generators, those who happened to pick a popular token would just use another one in the next election.
100% agree. I can go to any number of hosting providers and have a working WordPress site or even a simple PHP Server up in minutes, the longest part of which is entering my credit card number. Then there's an almost infinite number of agencies that can use an almost infinite number of plugins to make it look nice, perform well and do lots of stuff. If the site isn't more than a marketing front-cum-webshop, honestly, I see no reason to use anything other than PHP.
> Seems pretty clear that we've just dislocated some percentage of the financial incumbents to create new ones. And, even the old incumbents are buying back in. Reminds me of the early promise of the Internet itself giving way to corporate overlords and capital.

And yet again a bunch of tech-enthusiasts are forced to face that fact that their breakthrough technology does not infact lead to the techno-utopia they imagined, and instead is heavily directed by human factors, and leveraged/exploited by the same types of systems and entities that had the most power/influence prior to it.

Can't wait till we start again on this cycle with widely deployed machine learning systems in about 15 years. The same exact arguments of "it's just a technology." "It doesn't matter how it will be used in society." "By nature it's more [democratic/egalatarian/...]" "It will help to remove people problems by being tech".

Which will yet again change to: "Wait what?" "Not like that." "It's not supposed to be used like that". "It's been corrupted and taken over by X. Who could've foreseen this??"

If you're designing tech without designing how it will interact with society, you're just designing foot-guns. Hopefully at somepoint as an industry we'll get past this stage from teenage "look what I can do isn't this cool" to resonsible adult "Yes I have the freedome/ability to do this, and here's how I'll do it responsibly."
Bitcoin "the system" doesn't require faith to work. It works by pure cryptographic rigor that is provably infeasible to cheat, along with an adaptive ruleset that responds to changes in external conditions to keep running as designed. It just works, and I don't need any faith to know that. I just need a solid understanding of math and computer science.

Bitcoin "the price" is fundamentally different from the system, and really just serves to operate as a signal for how much collective human attention and trust it is gathering. It's incredibly volatile because it's still so young and finding it's place.

I also don't think the religious element of bitcoin is likely to be a long term thing, but a kind of bootstrapping mechanism to both draw attention, and nurture a core foundation of devotees who are committed to working diligently to integrate "the system" more and more into the real world.
It actually reminds me a bit of consumer credit. It’s bad in every conceivable way for society, but good luck explaining that to people who can now buy things they can’t afford because of it.

You can’t fight a hurricane, so I have a card I use for travel points. When in Rome, or this trash fire world we live in…
Does this really hold true in an App Service world? Just load your repo and go.
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No.

Let's do a fucking carbon tax and actually solve the problem, rather than just scapegoating an easy target and wasting political capital on attacking something many people value that doesn't directly or necessarily contribute any more to the problem than anything else.
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But it isn’t. Fiat currency is tied to a _countries_. What tanks are going to line up to save an attack on crypto? What standing militaries defend crypto? Exactly.
> I can't even keep mint alive in my backyard.

There is something that is killing it in your backyard. Mint should be difficult to get rid of and easy to grow.
I'm curious why you see TCL as a "competitor" to Forth?
Ahh feature flags, the new #ifdef.
> Apple is not known for good web services.

Woah what? Having a 10TB+ media library with Apple what are you talking about? They use both AWS and GCP to host their services. So again, what?!?

For reference, I’m a few months into downloading my library to some spindle drives, and haven’t had a hiccup yet.
> Hey presto, you have a functioning web shop, business website, charity home page, or whatever other thing you want.

If we're talking about simple templates to open a store or a simple landing page there are so many no-code options like Wix/Shopify/SquareSpace/Square that I don't think PHP offers any significant advantage.
Why does Hacker News so studiously dismiss the innovations that other projects such as Monero, Nano, Ethereum or the so-called 'Proof of Stake' chains have made in favor of trashing Bitcoin, as if Bitcoin were all there is to cryptocurrencies? Most of Bitcoin's (technological) problems have already been solved.
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> A signed distributed ledger isn't a complicated thing, so it's hard to see how a blockchain would fail in.

Right, but a signed distributed ledger doesn't inherently provide any trust, so that is where your thinking fails.

> Cryptocurrencies are an application of blockchain as a technology. They may or may not need to use one. That doesn't have any impact on the use of blockchain in other areas, like supply chain validation for example.

Certificate authorities for signing things like products or documents already exists for many things, blockchain isn't a new solution to that.
It's for advanced Excel users, they basically deal with the complexity of programming, just in their strange way, and I think it's a good way to reduce "Excel abuse".
“It’s a religion/identity” is true of just about everything these days (sports, political movements, subreddits, whatever). It’s not specific to crypto.

It’s a symptom of the lack of meaningful identities for people to adopt, and the social media push toward outlier-ism (nobody follows a boring father of 2 with a reliable job and a stable marriage) - so they choose trivial things like crypto or wokeness or Q to identify with and be extreme about.
You are going to be shocked when you learn what we do to tomatoes. We are oppressing fruits and vegetables so much ...
Why would you pick any other language instead of PHP for web dev?
There's Hugo (mentioned elsewhere ITT) and I hear it's pretty good. If I were making my own personal site that I was going to spend a lot of time on and I was more into Go than I am (I like Go but prefer Node.js) I'd totally use it.

But if you need a site spun up for something and it's not the main focus of your business, shooting for the middle of the market makes a lot of sense. Wordpress is super easy to set up and create pages on, and there are tons of people with expertise in it. It's the kind of thing even non-programmers can administer, which makes it accessible to people who have skills in other stuff like marketing or social media management.
What enables the exclusions of actors from the traditional banking system if not a different trust model?

Instead of having a 'trusted' 3rd party mediate your transactions, you use a blockchain. Difference being that the trust is now distributed over a large set of actors that are directly financially invested in maintaining the integrity of your transaction.

We can talk about cost and convenience if you want, but they were never at the core of blockchain/BTCs value proposition as far as I am concerned. In well-functioning societies anyways.
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Yes, because bitcoin doesn't haven’t any of those things you mentioned, except for people who want more money.