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> If the market could build its way out of this, it already would have

I believe the author mentions that there was a proposed large apartment building (250 ish units) that could, presumably, have alleviated some of the demand but that it was voted down by nimby types to avoid CB “becoming aurora”

I’d think then that it’s less so the market preventing building than it is voters and activist home owners
I think I heard somewhere that the studies about line length don’t actually give very strong evidence in favour of short lines. On the other hand, I don’t have a source for that. Do you know if they are any good or is this just repeating common wisdom?

Some arguments in favour of longer lines would be:

- monospaced fonts are relatively wide so the line is not long in terms of the number of characters

- there can be a lot of non-length on the left hand side due to indentation (especially in Linux where tabs are wide)

- programmers are relatively literate and so might perform better than average at finding the start of the line

- editor features like line highlighting can help to find the line

- source code has a very ragged edge and so it is easier to find the start of the line than in dense prose.

- magazines or their readers prefer narrow columns for stylistic reasons. E.g. newspapers sometimes have very narrow columns that lead to intraword spacing that makes things hard to read
The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist
NSR vs. NSF
This is on point. I think the reason people do it without adequate pay is that some people like the feeling of being needed.
Answer to both questions: https://macroquad.rs/
Vaccines are in fact absolutely critical to not only prevent variants in immunocompromised patients but save their lives.
Mostly agree, but have you considered that perhaps falling sick once in a while allows your immune system to adapt and become more stronger? I mean vaccines have been around for all of 100-200 years...
I think both DHH and the poster do some projection because the message they both respond to is ambiguous.

DHH is completely correct that people who just wing it and then are proud of themselves are in fact ruining the profession for the rest of us who actually want to do good work. I've witnessed this, I've suffered from this, and sadly he's very right in what he says.

But the post author also hits right at the center of the issues in modern programming: that literally almost no skills are transferable and reusable. And I am not talking patterns or brain schemata here; they are of course very reusable and thank the gods that they are! I am saying that even working with the same language and framework, every next task in the project is ever-so-slightly and maddeningly different enough than all 10_000 before it so you can't really automate it and have to, yet again, do it by hand.

And even that's not the worse thing. As the article alludes to, you can have very hardcore and accomplished computer scientists and programmers who are forced to look stuff up because every single stack has its own weird list of quirks you have to adhere to if you want to get anything at all done. In that regard, most programmers are like your typical parents: no matter how misshapen or sick their baby is, they love it to tears and would do anything for it. And would attack anyone who seems to dislike it.

So yes, we absolutely should not normalize mediocrity but we also should not deny that our tech stacks are very often expressions of ego and personality and only very rarely are they actually an objectively technically optimal way of doing the thing they claim to do. And don't even get me started on good docs (or ergonomic "Getting started" pages, which are basically unicorns).

And I think that's what will drive me away from commercial programming one day. I am tired of fighting egos to get my work done. When I get to actually code I sometimes feel the urge to jump with joy. Yep, that's how bad it is on average out there, folks.
To be clear, I'm very much in favor of hand washing and have been using hand sanitizer whenever I come home since we'll before the pandemic. It helps with other infectious diseases, but I wonder about COVID
I'm confused. What's your plan for fixing Gmail on a Saturday night? Hope one of the devs doesn't have a social life?
I’m not aware of any, no. But I’d love to see one of these cities take a pro building stance
Actually, it is not the VIP package.

Disney replaced the free fastpass by a paying "Lightning Lane" pass: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/genie/lightning-lane/

The prices are adapting dynamically to trafic to maximize revenues.
I think a lot of founders would compare their startup to having a baby. Imagine if someone said “I want to have a baby but absolutely no waking up at 2AM”, you would be laughed at.

Likewise, lots of engineers in tech are compensated in equity so you have a stake in the business. in that case the lines on what constitutes personal time are less defined. I don’t see it as a bad thing if I’m on vacation and need to grab a laptop and help on an incident. I’ll take an extra day of vacation later or sleep in the next day. Life doesn’t have to be so inflexible.
I ask genuinely: is the basic economic argument in a mountain town like CB the same as it is in a place like Denver?

It feels like it might be different given how much surrounding land is (federally) protected, or just looks super expensive / impractical to build on.
or Library Genesis: https://libgen.is/
I just got the chance to see it this past week. Absolutely incredible. It looks completely different at every angle you look at it
Dr Youngblood MD, speaks at San Diego, County Board of Supervisors meeting, November 3, 2021. Discusses the dangers of the vaccine and the FDA coverup of known medical issues prior to its approval.

This is a sham, folks. Down with Medical Fascism!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD0nwFHJPuw
"Code is Law" was never part of Ethereum's ethos. It was some meme created by the company behind The DAO, and perhaps many people in the community supported it, but it wasn't part of Ethereum.
Viruses spread because of their hosts (us). In the past it was because of various sanitary conditions that allowed viruses to spread. Now that we have largely clean sanitation practices (showering, clean tap water, toilets), our practice of staying indoors and often in cramped places (elevators, transportation, work, school) is an easy way for a virus to chance on this way to spread.
The article addresses this. In short, NIMBYism from second and third home owners makes this difficult.
It's not "truncated" but not exist from the beginning of GameBoy.
I feel like we have experienced a second Eternal September with the rise of smartphones. I started using the internet in the late 90s (so after Eternal September), but even in my early days of being online it wasn't at all normal to spent lots of time on forums, chat rooms etc. Doing so made you a nerd/geek (not necessarily in a bad way). So the communities you encountered online, while less elitist than in the pre-Eternal September days, were still mostly drawn from a small, specific subset of society who shared common interests (and probably socio-economic backgrounds).

Nowadays the "online community" is not just the entire community, it is in fact larger and more diverse than any actual real-life community. It feels like a third age; the online population went from a handful of academics in US universities, to a larger (but still small, relatively speaking) group of like-minded individuals, to literally everyone.

The internet isn't dead, it's just different now. And sadly, maybe it's not really for us anymore.
The flashlight icon is designed to behave like a physical button, so you don’t accidentally trigger the flashlight in your pocket. It even gives you a little haptic “click” so it feels like a physical button.

Admittedly it’s not a very intuitive/discoverable design.
"Experts: Vaccine Immunity Waning, Signs Israel Facing Fifth COVID Wave"

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/experts-vaccine-immunity...
I would think the question of whether it's "abusive" should at some level be determined by observing labor practices elsewhere. Even if you don't, I doubt anyone is going to shed any tears for something "objectively" abusive if their own work situation is much worse.
While I know the performance cost is relatively minimal, it's interesting to think about the collective cycles wasted byte swapping back/forth to big endian for the network...now that little-endian machines dominate the landscape.
There's another one in Oregon: https://www.evergreenmuseum.org/exhibit/sr-71-blackbird/
> Yeah, who could need to know exactly how many items of a particular product they have in stock currently, or how much money a customer has in her account at the particular moment she wants to do a withdrawal? It's really hard to come up with any useful real world examples when this could be the case.

Having access to the current state of the world is useful, having a log of what happened / how it got that way is essential. You've got to get the foundations right before you build a monumental edifice on top.
Generating more content, especially on social media, will NOT make you rich. I doubt that’s what he meant (I’m not familiar with him.)
Replying to you via HACK on iPadOS; I just want to say thank you for making such a fantastic, affordable HN client. I love it, and I tell everyone I know that it is the best way to use HN on mobile. To anyone who happens upon this comment: give it a shot!
I've found AutoCAD can operate similar to how you describe Altium, in that pressing 'l' and enter gives you a line, typing 'str' gets you stretch, 'tr' gets you trim, shift-clicking with trim gets you the opposite of trim - extend. The command line has autocomplete. In this fashion, one hand operates the keyboard, and your other stays on the mouse.

I quickly fell in love with this interface and immediately switched to using the command line for the vast majority of functions.
And, not unimportantly, was built like a tank so if you were a musician playing gigs taking it with you without damaging it was possible without being ridiculously careful with it, as you would have had to do with other synths of the day. DX7's are incredible in this respect, to the point where 4 decades later many of the original series 1's are still playing.
Arsenic trioxide needs a bottle deposit.
I don't personally believe this, but I know some people who claim that Robert Malone who invented mRNA is saying that the mRNA vaccines are more likely to create worse mutations of the disease. It seems more intuitive that getting vaccinated is the best way to prevent mutations but I'm curious if there is a good response to people who do have these concerns about the mRNA vaccines.
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It depends on what you're doing with Docker...

Docker runs an arm64 Linux VM on an M1 Mac. My experience is that it works well for anything that has arm64 images available. It can also run x64 containers via QEMU emulation.

I found this to be hit-or-miss. I need the full version of MS SQL Server for one of the projects I work on. MS only supports x64 and the image won't start because of what looks like some kind of memory mapping/translation problem with the QEMU emulation.
you can use home RO if you boil it but distilled is best. I used to work in industrial water purification and I would never use water that hasn't been boiled first.

edit: and yes... look at the news every now and again where you hear of some kids swimming in a lake and dying from an amoeba or something else that jumped the brain barrier.
Are you running Silverblue on Mac?
Gatekeeping at its finest. The DX7 democratized the synth, and for that reason alone it deserves some kind of award.
What are you even saying? Prices go up because the locals are being priced out by people buying second homes and AirBNB takes up all the available rentals. The mayor of the town nearly got evicted because his landlord was going to convert it.
Kay’s favorite OOP language was Smalltalk:

receiver message:params

condition ifTrue:[dog bark]

There isn’t an explicit sender here.

Order of arguments is just an irrelevant syntactic detail as long as only the receiver chooses the method implementation.

There is an alternative approach called multiple dispatch or multimethods where every function argument can be used to look up the appropriate method to call. It’s implemented in e.g. Julia.
Following your logic I should have had residual immunity to keep most of the variants in check. The first time I had the flu in college it was brutal and I was out of commission. The second time diagosed I got tamiflu after the flu test and it was mild. I also knew I was sick. Anything in between was unnoticed and I have had a flu shot since they first came on the market.
In Canada a lot of our Ski towns are in provincial or federal parks, meaning there will never be significant housing built, to protect the parkland.
Cyclomatic complexity (which I think is the most common one used) also doesn't really map to what people understand as complex. A giant switch statement with one return per case isn't nearly as complicated as two large nested if/else blocks. Nesting almost inevitably means more contexts you need to keep track of when reading code, particularly nester conditionals.
Agreed, autocomplete on iOS has been trash for me from the start but seems to have gotten even worse recently.
Well, putting the pipe dreams people have about a global team so nobody is ever working outside regular working hours aside (hope you've considered holidays, guys), what's the alternative? One I've seen is that there's an ops, or "devops," team, that's responsible for picking up the slack instead. But if it's unfair for engineers to have to do it, it seems even less fair for someone who doesn't even have control over what code ships to do it, and to do it without a rotation.
I can think of many actually, but this is not my field of expertise so I don't want to jump on erroneous conclusions and I want to pay close attention to what I say, other than get feedback from others that for sure know a lot more than me. Just to get things straight, I am in no way saying that vaccines are not effective, there is strong evidence that indicates the contrary.

I was responding to a user who claimed that the more covid goes around, the more it mutates, and as far as I understand it's what viruses do and therefore is a correct statement.

I then linked this study and cautiously pointed out that it is "disputed", which may still be the wrong term in that case or I was erroneously giving too much credit to the paper itself.

You then point out that the study highlights the Delta variant peak when dealing with the Israel data, and I could agree on that.

What the study is trying to highlight, as far as I can tell, is not to undervalue *vaccination which has strong evidence ww to greatly lower hospitalisation and death risk from covid infection*, but it instead tries to tell that even in vastly vaccinated communities there are a lot of cases and they can't be distinguished from those in communities with lower vaccination rate.

So my argument was: if cases are rising in largely vaccinated communities, the virus will inevitably mutate in those communities too and it is not a pattern only related to third world countries with low vaccination rates.
> Malcolm Gladwell did some good research

This is not something you hear often.
True FM would have been cost prohibitive, phase modulation sounds just the same to all intents and purposes without the associated extra technical complexity (and with two massive custom ASICs this was already quite a complex machine).
Data Exfiltration via CSS and SVG Font
The flashlight button has intentionally been setup that way for years so it's not accidentally triggered.

In devices with 3D touch, it was a hard press and with devices without 3D touch, it's a long press.
I was a rear passenger in a model 3 on a hot day and the amount of fiddling the owner had to perform to actually get some cool air flow in the back was ludicrous. In my 2013 car with 20th century knobs and dials I could have done it myself in 2 seconds.
Effects on the emission discrepancy between two-dimensional Sn-based and
In my experience when you do something that requires transactions - i.e. some complicated calculation based on the current state of the world that you can't reduce to a sequence of events and transformations between them - you always end up regretting it. Almost by definition, you can't reproduce what the transaction was supposed to do, and if there are bugs in your logic then you can't fix them; often you can't even detect that they happened.
It's just thiamine(b-1?) in liquid form, plus probably some water and random inactive ingredients. But unlike the pill I had, it doesn't have a laundry list of other B vitamins. And it's supposed to be closer to 100% RDA than the 500% RDA pill.
Google is big enough to have teams around the world, all in their own daytime zone.
This mess kinda reminded me why I've stopped watching movies altogether.

It's simpler to do anything else than putting a lot of effort figuring out when and where to watch something.
> If they want milk and chicken for example, it might be better to get that from Earth.

If we have a self-sustaining Mars colony as a given then wouldn’t it be more likely they have at least artificial substitutes for such things? I find it hard to believe we’d have total war erupting over what would essentially be artisanal foods. This is especially true if they’d only get delivery once every 26 months or so, and, if they were advanced enough that the relative position of the planets were no object then they’re even less likely to need anything Earth had or for Earth to have a monopoly on anything worth waging total war over.

> I’m thinking more along the lines of a Martian Hitler scenario.

Hitler got started in his conquests by securing land and resources lost or unavailable to Germany. What would motivate a Hitler in a self-sustaining Mars colony?
counterpoint. I do. every time. Using the term "pirate" or "piracy" for copyright infringement annoys the hell out of me.
> But hypothetically, you could conceive of a disease with a high R value that is asymptomatic for the first month or two, and deadly in month three.

Why hypothetically? HIV has historically had an insanely high R value (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3880255/), delayed fatal severity - and a CFR of nearly 100%.

We are lucky we have medication now, after 40 years and somewhat 35 million lives lost to that disease.
This angle feels like giving up on all of the covid deaths. And is somewhat at odds with all cause mortality being attributed to undiagnosed covid.

I am open to the argument. Just feels to be begging a lot of other questions.
Safari has been a bit unresponsive at times on HN for me, yeah. But only when trying to upvote/downvote things. Sometimes I can't do the action unless I scroll a bit back and forth. It's weird. (Using iPhone 12 Pro Max.)

But as another poster said, some of the gestures in Safari can also lag a bit. It's not nice. :(
You seem to be a little confused about how vaccines work. While I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated, vaccines aren't very effective in immunocompromised patients. Even those who are vaccinated are at risk of persistent infections (depending on their specific medical condition).
The complexity of software has caught up with the GUI. Getting a generation of people to approach and use computers was great. But the GUI was never "intuitive" unless "intuitive" means that you can be trained to recognize a certain number of symbols. And that number is finite, when they're always changing.

Here's how it struck me like a freight train: I was looking at some instructions for installing certain "drivers" for some technical hardware. The instructions for Windows computers was a series of color glossy screen shots, with circles and arrows, and a paragraph under each one. Of course they were particularly hard to follow because they hadn't been updated to the last revision of the OS.

In contrast, the Linux instructions were:

sudo apt install foo bar blah ...
sudo add a line to this file ...

And even instructions for Windows computers are adopting this strategy:

Press Windows-R+cmd, enter these commands

I love the crude palette consisting of pressing the Windows key and typing some gibberish into the search bar, like "device manager" or "bluetooth settings." Much better than trying to remember where those things are located. And incrementally improving the search function will keep making it better. I hope. This could be the backdoor route into natural language computing.
This was fascinating to read. Thank you for taking the time to post it up!!
Still looks like it's there to me. Seems much ado about nothing until they actually, you know, do anything.
Covid hospitalisations have tripled in Gauteng (SA) over the last 2 weeks
Analog FM is not so unusual, but it's usually "real" FM, e.g. a modulation of pitch or linear frequency, and it's not so easy to tame into consistent musical pitches.

"Yamaha style" FM is however more of a kind of phase modulation. The operators are sine tables driven by phase counters, and the outputs of the modulators are scaled and summed with the phase counter of the carrier before the sum goes into the carrier wavetable. So you modulate the phase irrespective of frequency, e.g.

modulator(phase) = sin(phase * modulator_multiplier) * modulator_amplitude
carrier(phase) = sin(phase * carrier_multiplier + modulator) * carrier_amplitude

I suppose this could be replicated in the analog domain. A phase counter could simply be a ramping sawtooth waveform. Summing modulator outputs would be as simple as mixing. The hardest part I think would be to replicate the wavetable. You'd need a waveshaper that basically does f(x) = sin(x). There is an oscillator on the market that I think does everything except the waveshaping in the analog domain: https://wmdevices.com/products/phase-displacement-oscillator...
I miss rotation switch on iPad. It's the best way to change orientation on tablet. Enabling/disabling auto rotation in control center is horrible UI. What I should do is open, enable, close, rotate, open, disable, close. Android's rotation icon when rotated is acceptable.
Down with Medical Fascism!

Dr Youngblood MD, speaks at San Diego, County Board of Supervisors meeting, November 3, 2021. Discusses the dangers of the vaccine and the FDA coverup of known medical issues prior to its approval.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD0nwFHJPuw
The first rule of gunrunning is: Don't get shot with your own merchandise.
My opinion is that streaming services are a terrible value and automatic recurring charges from subscriptions are a huge headache to manage. I'm in a sort of financial catch-22 as a young adult, where I can only now afford these frivolous services because I saved my disposable income instead of squandering it on 20 different subscriptions to begin with. So why even start?
Thanks to the OP for the memories. Worked and scrimped for the DX100 when I was in high school. That keyboard, my buddy's CZ-101, his brother's TR-505, plus copious hair mousse were the recipe for some of the best and worst Depeche Mode covers of all time.
an electric motor, wiring harness and software to control vent direction versus a couple of injection molded pieces of plastic... which is less likely to fail and which is easier to repair/replace?