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True - but hydrogen is still immensely cleaner than the jet fuel powered planes we have today. And for aircraft the weight savings could lead to the aircraft carrying more useful cargo, which would probably offset the efficiency loss.

Edit: The link you provided describes hydrogen-combustion engines, not fuel-cell airplanes, which is also a promising concept, but not what I'm proposing.
It is not the fact they are a car chase but their relevance in the story.

Personally when I rewatch the Back to the Future trilogy, I skip much of the car chasing stuff.
Don't do this. Get serious man, you know what is a PR and what is a demand for a free work. That's what you're passive-aggressively asking for.
Google "Ford Pinto liability"
Slices allow catching a lot of bounds errors that you can't reliably catch when using raw pointers.
> never discuss karma

- Dao de Dang
I do it manually and fully on a desktop Macintosh.

It begins with scanning at high DPI on a flatbed scanner. A mid-range Epson and 600 DPI is more than adequate for old photos, I find.

The raw scan then gets pulled into the photo editing software. Levels are the most important thing to adjust (again, manually). Playing with exposure, shadow level, highlight levels — always trying to get a good dynamic range from the photo (not pulled down so dark you lose shadow detail, not pulling too bright that you clip/bloom the highlights).

I like to try then to remove dust specks, scratches and other defects to try to make my digital version superior to the original. For this step I myself rely on an older version of Apple's Photos app (from like High Sierra?) because the retouch tool is quite fast in that version of Photos (the retouch tool has since fallen way off in speed, usability. I believe however I am missing the Brightness adjustment in this older version of Photos, that is unfortunate).

Adobe Lightroom though is still I believe the gold-standard for photo-editing apps. No doubt they have an excellent retouch tool (but I refuse to pay an annual subscription for software). But there are plenty of other apps that will give you all the photo editing capabilities you might want. I have Pixelmator Pro and Affinity Photo but I have not tried to learn either with regard to restoring old photos. They are probably more than capable. Additionally I have briefly played with apps that focus on B&W (grayscale) images and offer a rich palette of tools that focus on adjusting "tone" and other things I can't quite grok but would like to explore more.
THE PRIVATDOZENT PODCAST
Episode 2: Kurt Gödel's Brilliant Madness

https://www.privatdozent.co/p/episode-2-kurt-godels-brillian...
It's so odd to me that since the dawn of time, humans find this innate need to live in slave morality. Living a life of moral slavery based on stories and tales previous humans made with their own minds. It's a definition of insanity, from my own perspective.

To contribute to the discussion: I practice nothing, no religion, no meditations. Nothing. I find peace enough knowing that I'm not morally enslaved and that I trust in natural workings of this possibly created planet. It's not that I do not believe there's some God or force out there, potentially, but I fully trust in living a natural life, the way I was born and in a somewhat Stoic fashion. When I die, I just am. I will become nature once more. So be it.
> it’s a bit of a bummer that there’s no way to use them on modern systems

I agree. It's odd knowing the original classic theme still exists in some form in Windows 10 and 11 for compatibility reasons, but there's no way to access it. You can install themes and lookalikes, but it's just not the same.
The former is explicit, and an IDE can help with highlighting unused ones. The latter is difficult to audit because the code that uses relevant APIs is disconnected from the privilege-enforcing mechanism. It's either some sort of abstract policy framework or explicit privilege dropping
If you don't know what "downloading a car" is referring to : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU
> That violates the principle of equality before the law

Quite the opposite. It would restore equality in the punishment, as it should hurt the same to the offender no matter how wealthy they are. As it is now, we're favoring the rich overwhelmingly.
Dart has a lot of really neat features that should have caught on in other languages by now. In particular, the Dart ".." operator, implicit interfaces on every declared class, and mixins really should have made their ways to C# and Java by now.
I was surprised that the moon only measures two degrees across the sky!
12 million light years is around the corner in cosmic terms. Andromeda is our neighbour is about two million or so light years.
The issue is that the image will always exist in a decrypted state if you're presenting it to the user. You can push that decoder further and further down the pipeline, but there's always a clean framebuffer to rip, no matter how you frame it. Yes, they could make it harder, but I could also design an Arduino that dumps the serial output of your decoder before it reaches the display controller. It would take some borderline space-age technology to design an IC resistant to that sort of vuln.
The link isn’t working but I found this one https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c03924
Or Deno. But only on the back end.
That is _your_ definition of self-hosting. Do you rely on an entity for your internet connection? At some point, you _will_ need to rely on someone else's infrastructure.
In my experience, its exceptionally rare to have vendors release code like that, if for no other reason than opsec concerns. Obviously larger clients have much more leverage, but even in those situations its usually because they're getting a bespoke branch of whatever mainline firmware is produced for their other retail products (assuming its not from-scratch for a client that size in the first place).
I don't think that's the issue. Starlink won't even let you move from one cell to another even when the cells are served by the same ground station. And moving from one ground station to another is no harder than handing off from one cell tower to another, which I assume was solved 30 years ago. They just aren't allowing it.
> A likely mistake seems to be trying to get this off-the-ground in the US regulatory climate. It'd be much easier to do this in a friendlier regime, more tolerant of occasional crashes, get experience, and move into Western markets after the concept is validated. California seems like just about the worst place to start.

Where would this “more friendly” regulatory climate exist and how to you get the best aerospace engineers in the world there?

There’s nothing to prevent this company from testing models in California, and unmanned. What’s the point of starting somewhere that lets you kill test pilots with fewer consequences.

This is mastabatory libertarian bullshit. No high tech startup wins and loses on regulation.
Thanks for raising this issue. I had to back from meditation entirely due to disassociation and energetic unwellness. Heavy physical exercise helped get me back in the body.
I just checked, it is 'Low Magick' by Lon Milo DuQuette. The entirety of Chapter 11 is on 'Pop Goes Ganesha'. It might sound a little irreverent, but here is a snippet from the book --

> I first created it to be a whimsical meditation that I could quickly perform mentally to begin and end my morning routine, but it soon became for me something more. In fact, within the context of its goofy simplicity, I have found not only a powerful banishing ceremony, but also a profound and breathtakingly effective technique of invocation.

DuQuette is a great author (Chicken Qabalah, Magick of Aleister Crowley, especially) with a good sense of both humour and the serious, and I'd highly recommend checking him out.
What "Debug options" are you imagining will provide runtime checks for overflow and underflow in C and C++ - languages where this behaviour is deliberately allowed as an optimisation?

In C it's simply a fact that incrementing the unsigned 8-bit integer 255 gets you 0 even though this defies what your arithmetic teacher taught you about the number line it's just how C works, so a "Debug Option" that says no, now that's an error isn't so much a "Debug Option" as a different programming language.
For galaxies, it pretty much is. It’s about 5 times as far as our nearest neighbour.

There aren’t that many big galaxies in the radius.
Well, yes, but on the whole, that one doesn't seem to be working: there are still plenty of people more than willing to plop down their $60+ for the latest and greatest AAA games...with loot boxes, microtransactions, always-online requirements for single-player modes, and extremely dodgy privacy policies.
More probably it ate thousands if not millions of stars.

It would be tricky to get it to swallow a star so big before that went supernova, while on the way in, on its own initiative. Whether the resulting black hole would then be swallowed up, or also be flung out at near light-speed with the rest of the ejecta, is an interesting question.
So this is where all the chips are going during the shortage. Good to know we finally get some answers to that.
"everything else you list exist in the C++ ecosystem with generally better alternative than in C#."

That seems a little questionable. Maybe "sometimes better"?.
Diverting the discussion to the subject of the nerd identity is always on topic for Hacker News.

I'd say there's several centuries worth of precedent on Western interest on Japanese art, history and culture. The US sent gunboats to force them to show the goods at one point, when they were unwilling to share them.
Atheism since 2020.
Here is a company that offers refurbished routers with DDWRT installed https://www.flashrouters.com .

Note -- I didn't realize this when I originally bought mine -- they bundle support in with the starting price, and you have to have 3 months of support minimum, after which you can cancel. So assume you have to pay an extra 60-90 dollars on top of the hardware price.

But then you own a router with open source firmware that you can manage locally.
+100% ... well, straight here ... but I was 7 when I realised that religion was not only bullshit but actually dangerous as it represents a way for people to justify reprehensible acts by putting the importance of pandering to the alleged whims of a "supreme" being above any rational standard of decency and morality.
I'm sure there will be a few people here that are much more knowledgeable than me in all things licenses and GPL, so if I may:

WordPress states the opinion [1] (I'm not aware of changes on that claim) that the PHP code in themes and plugins are derivative works of WP and therefore must be GPL (or compatible) because the PHP parts of themes/plugins are "combined" with the rest of WP at run time.

Is that (still) a common opinion on the matter? Has it been tested in court?

[1] https://wordpress.org/news/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/
I suppose I can say I practice these: throughout every day I deliberately consider whether I am closer to truth in all matters; reaching for truth scientifically on all the grand questions (what is life, why anything exists, etc). Being a non-believer helped a lot while I was undergoing chemotherapy a few years ago. I felt peace in the knowledge that cancer was nothing personal (where there is life, there is cancer).
> That violates the principle of equality before the law.

No, it doesn’t; a fine of N years income or N% of wealth is at least as much equal treatment as a fine of $N. And current law recognizes it, because even though fines are typically stated with a fixed upper limit, which in some cases is low enough to make them ignorable by the rich, within that upper limit, the law already recognizes that equality before the law doesn’t mean “same $ amount for everyone”. E.g., for federal fines, see 18 USC § 3572(a): “In determining whether to impose a fine, and the amount, time for payment, and method of payment of a fine, the court shall consider […] (1) the defendant’s income, earning capacity, and financial resources; (2) the burden that the fine will impose upon the defendant, any person who is financially dependent on the defendant, or any other person (including a government) that would be responsible for the welfare of any person financially dependent on the defendant, relative to the burden that alternative punishments would impose; […]”
Windows 10 ships with Candy Crush.
I'd be really curious if there was an API to consume data my watch tracks on my health. Such a wealth of lazy tracking data i imagine.
Yes carbon neutral synthetic liquid kerosene is the clear path forward for long haul flights. It is safe, requires no changes to aviation infrastructure, and has already been tested in civil and military aircraft.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/united-becomes-first-airl...

Weight and energy density obstacles will limit electric propulsion to short range flights for the near future. There could also be a use case for hybrid aircraft where electric motors are used to assist the initial take off and climb, then turned off for cruise.
Thanks for this. I'm such a noob I'm a bit surprised you give special attention to compressors, I'll have to look more closely at those.
I have a few questions but you don't have your email in your hn and profile. :-)
From the US and I've also taken exams when applying for all kinds of jobs. I applied to work in a convenience store and had to take a test on simple math and alphabetizing things. I applied to IBM and took a strange test full of math word problems (the IPATO test; I was amazed they still did that in ~2013). There are certain employers in the tech industry that are well known for their standardized exams, like Epic Healthcare. And that says nothing of the many, many low-wage jobs that require you to take a bogus personality test to prove you're an extrovert before they'll let you stock shelves.
Well, they're all -functional- without one. They also all have games that are only sold digitally, check in the background for patches for both the system and the games, and may refuse to start if you're running a version of the OS that is older than what is known to exist at the time of printing a physical copy. The Switch is no different there.
Why Health-Care Workers Are Quitting
You really let that strawman know who's boss...
Cardinal is absolutely fantastic. It's advertised as a "work in progress" but already works really great. You can download frequent builds in Github actions / artifacts; they are available for almost all platforms.

The limitation is it comes with its own modules (most open source modules available for VCV) and you can't load external modules. But it's already super powerful. Highly recommended.
My approach to optimization. I do a fair amount of work optimizing
I think the fermentation process of getting the bioethanol is not as carbon-neutral as we hoped. Then there is the issue of monoculture (although that is a problem with more industries).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpEB6hCpIGM
`for` is a foreach. If you want to increment a number through a range like a typical C `for`, you have to use a `while` loop. I don't really see the draw.
You can just make jet fuel that would work in existing airplanes from renewable sources today. The only problem is it costs orders of magnitude more than fossil fuels.
Yea I just bought a netgear router and it didn’t require a cloud account. It did push creating one very heavily during setup.
> you have to believe this and that and also hand over some cash and vote for such and such.

My feeling is this is an Americanism. Here in the UK I've been to church events in the past - usually stuff linked to school events (harvest, nativity etc), or weddings/funerals, and been in a few old cathedrals which have a donation box, but the stuff I see on US TV shows like the Simpsons -- collection plate passing, advertising, televangelism, etc all seems very different and far more obviously "con artistry"

There is some cult that does some low-key advertising in the UK (occasional posters on bus stops in London) over the last decade or so, the alpha church or something, which is mildly concerning, but the general course of religion, from what I can tell it's just a place some people go and have a chat and a sing-song, no different to the pub really.
> all projects trend towards becoming an unholy mess as they grow large, so being able to accomplish a goal in significantly fewer lines of code has tangible benefits

This is a really good point that I didn't realize before - sure, languages like bash and Lua and Tcl might scale very poorly to large codebases, but because they're more expressive than some other languages (coughjavacough), you might be able to implement the functionality you need without needing a large codebase in the first place.
Thank you, sorry I must have had an issue with the copy paste.
From a language design perspective, is it easier to build a compiler that considers `;` or newline as the end-of-statement operator, or one that works like Lua, where statements can appear anywhere?
I lived in Kanazawa, attending Kindai (Kanazawa Daigaku, Kanazawa U). Kindai is a second tier university, first tier are like Ivy League in the US; Kindai was still a good school.

Until they rebuilt the university, it was one of only two universities within original castle grounds (the other is in Germany).

As the article mentions, it's an interesting place because it was one of the few major cities not bombed during WWII, so lots of the street layouts are still intact. The note in the article about the open air gutters was funny to me, I saw a few cars rip off their bumpers after the fell into those gutters that would have been rerouted in other cities.

Kenrokuen is an amazing, incredible garden there. I live in Portland now which has what many consider the best Japanese style garden outside of Japan. But, those imperial gardens like Kenrokuen put the Portland Japanese garden to shame. Absolutely worth a visit to Kanazawa just for Kenrokuen.

When I lived there it was considered a bit of a backwater. My Japanese friends said it was the "waki" (armpit) of Japan. Now that the Shinkansen goes there, I think things have changed radically.
"One could theorize that the descendants of chattel slavery will have (for example) less family wealth than whites who are descendants of property owners and indentured servants. "

People have even less family wealth in less stable places, plagued by war, genocide, forced expropriation, violent regime changes, state bankruptcies etc. For example, both Germany and Poland were big heaps of rubble in 1945. Nothing to inherit there but destroyed, burnt-out cities.

The 20th century in general was pretty awful outside North America. If bad history was such a universal determinant of future failure or success, the world would be one giant hopeless poverty-stricken hellhole.
Me too. It sounded like an idea from Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series.
The runtime safety checks are enabled in Debug and ReleaseSafe modes, but disabled in ReleaseFast and ReleaseSmall modes. They can be enabled (or disabled) on a per-scope basis using the `@setRuntimeSafety` builtin.
Yes, like a stream, or an iterator. Where you fetch also a reverse iterator if you wish, filter by some predicate etc. A lot of overlap with both relational algebra/sql and with functional programming filter/map/reduce, I guess. Indexes seem convenient, but they're a hack in most cases.

Consider what happens when you sort your array, or delete or insert an item in the middle, or start. Now all your indexes have changed.

React had this issue, and this is why they had to add stable "key" to collections so that when you mutate a sequence of <li/> items for example, it doesn't get confused which is which.
IF you do discover that it's purely user-side network issues - that doesn't mean there's nothing to be done. You could work on caching certain request and making your app more functional offline (if possible).
Sean Carroll and David Wallace, who know their sh*t, doing a deep dive on entropy and how it relates to time and the "past hypothesis".

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/08/02/158-...
I just logged into my new netgear router from 192.168.1.1 without unplugging anything.
Actually “we” don’t call it “purchased”, they do. It’s a deceptive marketing practice for rentals.

Take for instance Amazon. They say they sell you a digital video, but they actually can’t, because in reality they have a revocable license, which does get revoked, thus all your “purchases” disappear. If you owned physical media, this couldn’t happen.

https://www.slashfilm.com/574053/amazon-sued-purchased-movie...
20 Minutes of Meditation which either takes the form of Transcedantal Meditation or Self enquiry as taught by Sri Ramana Maharshi.

The goal is to initially, quiet the mind, and then realise that there is only Brahman and that there is no such entity called 'Mind'.
Me too. I think that people are on a spectrum of estrangement from love, and beyond a certain threshold we can't help but see them as "actually evil."
> If you're accessing indexes directly you can have the index '0' in a table.

Sure, you can, but in practice you won't. For example, something like `local pos = {x, y}`. You now have to use 1/2 to access the x and y coords. Making the same table with 0 indexing is awkward and not idiomatic.
I’ve never had it take longer than 5 minutes for them at the computer… when and where has it taken them 3 minutes?
Christianity started out for me as a fear-based "obey the rules or die" approach to life but over the last few years it has been moving towards a "I love God & love what is good" theme. These days everyone labels emotions like fear/shame/guilt as "toxic", but I think they have their uses, in the same way fear keeps us from simply walking off a cliff.

Spiritual practice is best when dynamic over disciplined like any relationship, but find that Bible reading / reflection before bed seems to let things marinate over night, and also talking w/ God and simply telling him what I need throughout the day (peace, self-control, etc) is a fruitful practice.

Even if I wasn't a Christian I would still hold an unshakeable belief that this universe has a Creator. It's just far too wonderful of an engineering marvel to say that there isn't a Grand Engineer behind it all. I think that's part of the joy of living, we get to discover the Creator through his creation.
Minor correction: many motherboards, especially high-end ones, have had this feature a decade or so
Half the width of your thumb held out at arm's length.

Sun, likewise, of course.

So these radio lobes reach out another moon-width from both sides of your thumb.
Search for "If you lend your car to an incompetent, reckless, or unfit driver"

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/car-accidents-neglig...
HD != 4K
original: https://github.com/ddddddO/gtree
There are probably thousands of terms of service agreements that are not legally binding in the EU.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treat...

For example, in 2012 the Court of Justice of the European Union declared that reselling digital software is legal no matter what any EULA attached to the software might say.

https://www.engadget.com/2012-07-03-eu-court-rules-its-legal...
Not “orders”. Maybe one order. That’s still a lot, but definitely within realm of possible.
IMHO, skip OpenWRT. It is much more difficult to get working correctly than HN likes to admit. There’s a non-trivial chance you will spend hours and hours reflashing your router and reading forum posts until you eventually brick it. It’s just like Raspberry Pis. Theoretically the right choice but practically speaking a huge time sink and poor, unstable experience that is best left to hobbiest tinkering or networking professionals with a lot of spare time.