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> So as a Wine end-user, it looks like this release means no more having to have multiple wineprefixes to support both 32/64 bit applications

WoW64 prefixes have been possible for a long time.

> and also no more need to ensure libraries like libpng zlib etc are installed, either 32 or 64 bits? That seems quite nice

That seems to be the plan, but according the release notes there are still some native 32-bit libraries that will be needed.
By whom?

Who's taking the other side of this trade? Write out the sentence without the passive voice: "Games companies will pay players in 5 years" and "Investors in game companies will pay players" etc.

If you look closely, in many of these examples the people paying are "new players", in which case it's the straightforward pyramid/MLM approach. Herbalife for gamers.
Yeah, I’ve had 2 or 3 soft bricks or bootloops. *Always* after doing a mistake when flashing a new ROM. Even with custom roms, the worst thing during normal usage I encountered was an unexpected restart.
You can probably make that work, just have to be careful deleting from S3, make sure to only delete those emails you imported and not accidentally delete an email that arrived during the import process.

My personal setup makes heavy use of rclone so I used that instead of awscli:

https://gist.github.com/boronine/661fd24ba6671f687ff714969d9...
> with >400 "partners"

You can update the number to 500, as that's what Yahoo has (something like 530, but I don't remember for certain).
Question for you guys: Just randomly spotted my post here. I have posted it 2 days ago (as shown in my profile) and thought that it was overlooked or just didn't receive any responses. But, now, on the front page it says that it was posted "5 hours ago".

How/Why?
and now all we need to do is the same for video...
See other comment: by whom?

(you can actually get paid to learn by the government in non-England UK, it's £15 a week. https://www.gov.uk/education-maintenance-allowance-ema )
The cheapest electricity source is the one you already have: fossil.

Also, what good is the added capacity if it's being used up by bitcoin? Everything you pour into btc isn't going into an EV.

But so you think using more energy will solve our energy problems. Sorry, but that's stupid. It's like thinking using more money will solve your money issues. Or using more water will solve you water issues.

It just doesn't work like that.

You may think "but solar panels create electricity from something that comes from outside the planet, therefore it is unlimited."

And yeah, there's some truth to it.

On the other hand, if we capture that energy and turn it into heat, which is essentially what bitcoin does, we're adding heat to the planet that, as you would have pointed out, wouldn't stay here in the first place.

So yeah, unlimited energy from the sun, limited capacity of the planet to soak it up before we all die.

Seriously, proof of work must die. And proof of stake... well... as far as I understand, it's no better than boring old fiat currency.

PS: oh, and if you think that merely writing on a technology forum grants you "the ability to see the future better than the average person", boy you're mistaken. Or at least I foresee a different future than you do.
The iOS app is meh, the webmail is much better but otherwise I'm a happy Fastmail customer and they're 100% worth the money.
There are a couple to be honest.

1. Intermittent Fasting. I had gained a lot of weight after an accident. It helped me get back into shape. I was always a very active person. So I never had to watch what I eat but late twenties and my injury forced me to watch I eat. I'd often feel bloated, heavy, and tired. Fasting regularly for at least 18 hours was something I had to work on but it's just second nature to me now. Feel a lot more energetic and light :)

2.Picking hobbies that I'm serious about. I've always been one of those people that would pick up something and drop it after a couple of months after getting that initial sense of achievement.

I didn't change this habit right away. Instead, I actively searched for something that would really, really click. Landed on drawing and downhill skating. I've been skating for 2 years straight now and drawing is catching up. I think around 6 months now.

Having something you're really passionate about outside of work, man, it's like a different kind of medidation. Especially something as dangerous as downhill skating. I started it as a fat and out of shape, tech guy in his late-twenties. The improvement I could see was what kept me motivated through the scary novice times where I'd get injured frequently. Honestly it was really scary. But now, it's a great outlet where I can get into a hyper-focus state and just exist. Because if you don't do that, you might actually die, haha.

3. Not a hack but something I've noticed in many part of my life is that the more relaxed and loose you are, the more precise you can work. I had learnt this while learning to play the drums back in highschool but never thought about applying this to my daily life. The realization hit when I was learning to draw. But it works in almost anything.
If you need some inspiration: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
I use Feedly, which is pretty nicely designed (it has other drawbacks, but it looks and feels like a modern, proper app).

The real frustration is that websites only put short extracts of their content into the RSS feed to force you to go and... look at their ads, I guess? But I'd imagine the number of folks using RSS feed readers who don't also use ad-blockers is vanishingly small.
It's not a useful metaphor. It's a misleading metaphor, actually.
Classic National Geographic Documentary : Survivors of the Skeleton Coast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce09ZygnMLg

The only place where you will see a Lion feeding off a Whale carcass on a Beach !
Hi-NRG, Eurobeat and Garage House are not produced anymore.
If I was to do this, I would:

1. Change password of each account

2. Enter credentials into tool

3. Wait for process to complete

4. Check process completed successfully

5. Change passwords of each account back to what they were (or new passwords)

This at least minimises the window of malfeasance. There's no guarantee, however, that said untrusted tool doesn't also syphon all mail off into its own data-mining database.
> Adele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ASj1L6_sY

The tone sounds manipulated to me. There's a weird effect I hear a lot these days that seems to remove the smoothness.

> Sai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW6-0PhCkGs

Lots of electronic effects applied.

> Ariana Grande

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcYodQoapMg

obvious autotune

> Madonna

Why do you say she was terrible? Are you listening to the stuff she did in the 80's, or now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s__rX_WL100

This video shows her tone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fzeNUqQbQ
I wonder if that strategy is an unavoidable modus operandi, if so much of your management / work force motivation is derived from increasing the stock price.

...and at least consumers in that are not the customers, but the product...
How to Ask Great Questions to Customers
> Apple desktop: slim chance at best. There's a similar effort to port cocoa. iOS: Forget it.

For reference, the macOS not-an-emulator is Darling [0] but yes, there does not seem to be enough interest for it to catch up any time soon.

[0] https://www.darlinghq.org/
> Netflix solves this by offering German sub titles.

This is my pet peeve about streaming services. Why would they have only German subtitles in Germany? The licensing costs of all major languages can't be prohibitive. I only watch content that has English subtitles -- Netflix has thankfully improved on including them, but otherwise you're mostly out of luck. Even Blu-rays need to be imported if you want to have English subtitles on English movies!
Video does the same thing, except you can autoplay it if it's muted.
Speaking of fads, it's always fun to revisit the naysayer comments on Slashdot when the iPod, iPhone, etc. were announced.
Yeah erlang is great
Every geocities site back in the day had a MIDI file autoplaying on view. This is exactly on point.
If your IService has 15 methods and your ctor has 20 dependencies injected, then you have other issues. :)
For comparison, here's Whitney Houston:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3giaIzONA
Maybe you know, but it might help someone else. Hold shift when right clicking and it works :D
The only thing worse about this than whichever 2020-era website was the "Right click is disabled!" as I tried to leave. (That made me chuckle). The other stuff is just nostalgia and not really related to the degradation of web UX. Irrelevant gifs and ugly colors are easier to ignore than 1000-page cookie dialogs.
Actually I believe the term "software engineer" was coined by Margaret Hamilton while at NASA in the 1960s. Her Wikipedia article has some relevant quotes and references: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_...
For a real DDoS being woken up at night won't make a lick of difference (either your ADS/pipe can handle it, or it cannot). As such, waking up for it makes no sense at all. For this, you should blame your employer.
> There’s plenty of great singers out there, plenty of mostly or completely acoustic groups. But you have to look for them, they’re not chart toppers, they haven’t been for more than a generation.

Exactly. They're out of fashion.
One of my favorite examples being "Johnny Cash" with "Hurt". Most people don’t even know the original is by Nine Inch Nails.
> The Americans gave us Cartoon Network.

...and MTV, and the Brits the music to go with it! That's how I learned English as a teenager anyway.
If that's really so, then India is leaps and bounds ahead in their "tech-savviness" on all age groups, compared to the rest of the world. I needed to install that stuff for my parents, same with the friends of my parents. How would they know about it otherwise?

Also, how do the common folks block ads on their smart tv, a very common means to watch Youtube? I only know because I'm a programmer, but most people won't know about a wifi-level adblocker.

I appreciate you have these ideals but have you wondered what will happen if every Youtube user in the world starts using AdBlock?
In the process leading up to it, people lagging behind will get increasingly worse ads, and when that singularity hits people will need to disable AdBlock to access Youtube, and a mass amount of people will just opt-in to Youtube Premium anyway, or deal with the ads again. There is no alternative to Youtube.

I'm not going to fight against this type of stuff, I think it makes sense that this app which has been free for over a decade, now has an option to subscribe and get an ad-free experience, it makes total sense, we've just been spoiled.
Yet the current zeitgeist is "Trust the experts, fool!"

We never frikkin learn.
AT&T and Verizon Now Rolling Out C-Band 5G Spectrum
Results were disastrous. Looked at the code the next day, threw it all out and started again. Every time.
Not disagreeing but in a lot of jurisdictions the Graphic Designer would not be able to use the Engineer title.
This appears to be very much on purpose.
2.6M doesn’t seem like a whole lot of money…
All sales comes via organic search traffic. I plan to try and drive more traffic this year through content.
As many here I use own domain with free Gmail. This Google move changes everything and maybe it's time to move to Microsoft 365 subscription which provides possibility to use own domain even with personal and family plans [1]. For the same subscription Google asks, with MS 365 at least one gets 1TB of cloud and the latest Office suite. 6TB with family plan. No brainer I'd say. Just needed a motivation to finally ditch Google.

1. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-a-personalize...
Agenda is pretty awesome, but I worry about getting my data out of it enough that it’s become a no-go for me.
The first step is to convince people who grew up with the western "individualism and freedom are the most important" culture why they should care about elderly that they are not directly related to.

Those old people who have lots of family that cares about them will be fine in any case. So the "problem" are those old people that are socially isolated and went all-in on the governments' promises of public retirement care. But now we're finding out that the old retirement system is too expensive for the young generation to handle, plus the young were taught not to care about anyone but themselves...
> I'm honestly pretty sick of all the 60s-80s stuff I've been listening to, but what else is there?

Well, as you mentioned yourself, there are lots of great musicians doing their thing, but mostly flying under the radar - you just have to find them, which has become easier thanks to Spotify et al. But then it's sad to see that they only have 30.000 or even 3.000 "monthly listeners", while Ava Max has 30.000.000. And, I did notice that even for new music I tend to be attracted to stuff that sounds more or less "retro", but I guess most music that's not > 90% electronically processed sounds retro nowadays.
It's one of those things that takes effort. When I was younger I had a constant stream of gigs and recommendations from friends, but that's faded away as we all got older. It felt easier, but that was mainly due to it being a collective effort

You've said you're against streaming, but you could just use it as a way to find new music before buying the physical albums. I use the radio feature in Spotify all the time and often end up finding new music through it - you basically pick an artist or song you like and it makes you a playlist of similar music. You do need to change the radio start point occasionally if the algorithm starts getting repetitive, but it works well enough
Ask HN: Free mail service for custom domains - G Suite alternative
Free alternative to paid G Suite.

Your custom domain.
Unlimited amount of users.
No storage limit, but attachments stored only for 1 month.
Option for saving attachments before deleting.
Some safe ads in web client.

Would you register?
It might be a default set of coordinates used for geolocation of some IPs used in a larger region (or even state). This sort of thing has in fact caused trouble in the past at least once: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/09/maxmind-m...

> IP mapping isn’t an exact science and so MaxMind assigns a default address when it can’t identify its true location. That address just happened to be the Arnolds’ property, a remote farm that is located slap-bang in the middle of America.

> More than 600 million IP addresses are associated with their farm and more than 5,000 companies are drawing information from MaxMind’s database.
It's missing links to other dumb shit so that I can surf but otherwise, it's on point.
Yeah it was a bit predictable but not a bad movie IMO.
Switzerland here, Telegram seems just as popular as well as Signal having a big community. Many people have WhatsApp sure, but many simply dont.

I am sure this depends on your circle and language region, but this is my POV
Kristen Bell Being Canceled for Controversial Photographs
yo its the UFO mouse that got me
In Eastern Europe the Soviet Union was that "hegemonial force", yet most people didn't care to learn much Russian, even though it was mandatory in school (for instance in Eastern Germany) and fluent Russian would have opened up some juicy carreer paths. My English was much better than my Russian, mainly because of the cultural influence via Western radio and TV. The Soviet Union simply wasn't "cool" for an East German teenager in any way.
It works really poorly on mobile for me. Completely a no-go.
wait I thought these folks used VROMO as their backend...
Office Space is interesting, it’s one of these movies to which I see references all the times while I have never run into someone in real life who actually saw it or even heard of it. The other one being This is Spinal Tap.
> - Horizontal scrolling because it isn't properly responsive.

It actually is properly responsive: it has horizontal scrolling on desktop too, and by just the exact amount, no matter what the window size is. (At least on FF.)
The good ol' days. When people had limited resources, infinite imagination and they made compromises in there design choices. Now we have infinite resources but we have design and standards and guidelines and boxes and structures and grids and SEO and accessibility....

I think if you are building things on the daily we have to go through a resource limitation sabbatical.
Since the old have done nothing to help the young (quite the opposite in fact) that will be an uphill struggle.
> Solar and wind unless supplanted by batteries are no help here either.

Solar systems are on inverters, so capable of very fast response - unless the controller decides it doesn't like what it's seeing and trips out again. A bad inverter trip was the cause of this UK outage: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/orsted-and-rwe-... (missing a software update from Siemens!)

Grid batteries would definitely help a lot here as they're similarly capable of fast response, and providing artificial "inertia" to the system.
In India. Whatsapp is defacto for everything. group, 1:1 messages, calling, sharing photos/wishes in family/friend circle. Even for business communication in small orgs, reaching out shops, ordering to local stores.

It works phenomenally on iOS/Android/Windows/Mac and even on Windows Phone till its very end. Call quality is good and messaging is fast and very reliable. When you take phone off aeroplane mode, you receive Whatsapp messages first even before SMS etc.
Free mail service for custom domains - G Suite alternative
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30006596
I have a number of users at user1/user2/etc@mydomain.com on G Suite. If I started to use Fastmail, could they all continue to use their existing email addresses at Fastmail to send/receive mail, access their historical emails (if I copy those across) etc using whatever client?
And second question: if after this G Suite shutdown in May (or whenever) Gmail is stopped for these users they can presumably still link Fastmail to Gmail? Or would they have to use some other email client? Would they each get their own credentials for logging in or would I have to trust them with my "main" Fastmail credentials? I've never used another email provider before.
> There's this old idea (~10 years old) of having the USPS become a PKI-token agency

I remember common discussion of this in the early 90s, so way more than 10 years.

It does make a lot of sense. For the vast majority of people the local post office is the nearest federal government office. And the post office already handles passport applications.
So what did you do with this knowledge? I was 11 in 1999 and couldn’t do much.
I started looking at all of these (dendron, obsidian, etc.) and in the end set up vimwiki with Markdown and have a reasonable setup that even works on an iPad (via a-Shell’s vim).
> Once enough people do that, I have exhausted the capacity of the team and will surely see the team enter a spiral of burnout that I can only solve by adding dramatically more people or radically reducing our commitments. This will negatively affect our business, potentially putting the entire team's jobs at risk.

There it is: address the issue before enough people do that. There will only be lots of people taking a year off if you ran them into the ground, if capacity planning is decent you won't have a significant percentage of the workforce out sick...
Just to add, one of my golden rules for online stuff is to never use one of the ecosystem providers for my email or anything critical.

I have accounts with MS, Google, and Apple, but my domains are elsewhere and my emails are with Fastmail.

The reason is simple. There are too many tales of the ecosystem providers cutting off accounts with no reason and no recourse. If that happens I may well lose some purchases (which ought to be illegal, and I don't buy from the ecosystem providers anyway personally) but I will not be locked out of anything other than devices that need their account (iOS, Android, Azure, etc).

Give one of these providers control over either your domains or your emails and you have a single point of failure for your whole online life (emails, banking, password resets, etc) and whose main concern is policing their obscure Ts & Cs for their other cloud properties. The risk is huge.
> I've found that a lot of people are really proprietary about documentation, (not even getting to architecture yet) and treat their time spent documenting as time spent giving away their negotiating leverage.

I have observed this also. I’ve even had colleagues voicing this explicitly to me. However, I think it is a little bit near sighted. A good manager will never assume documentation can replace a senior developer who helped build the system from the ground up. However, a bad manager might make this mistake.

But in reality I feel like there are two types of companies. The ones that understand that the experienced developers are their true capital and so everything to keep those with experience - and the ones who live under the illusion that they can substitute individual people with processes and organizational structure. Those will also let good people go instead of paying them what they are worth, because of “compliance” reasons or company policies and will pay a multitude of what the extra salary was in lost time and burned hours afterwards when the people who come after try to understand the ins and outs of the legacy system.
It's easy to make this kind of one pager, when you don't need to include complex user flows. No registration, no account, no search, no products, no modal, no navigation, not even a form. There's literally just text, images and one embedded HTML5 audio component. When you do, design tends to be attracted to the conventional side.

However, I do miss the concept of websites taking the lighter approach, not trying to imitate enterprise design by fully optimizing every part of the website, and just thinking what's fun.
Maybe op ment poor as in 'poor internet coverage' ;)

Germany trying to ban telegram is new to me tho, sucks how stupid old people are trying to understand the modern world ...
Yes, I'm from UK.
put the question into the title and start with "ask HN:". otherwise this post will be ignored. i almost flagged it as bogus.
Impact and Potential of Open Source on Climate Technology
Everyone running a fossil fuel engine is engaged in their own little bit of weather modification...
I've done this before, it felt like a bit of a hack tbh, but I'm glad to hear someone else is doing it!
Depending on your genres (there’s not a ton of music that is being played on the radio), you might want to check out Bandcamp [0]. You can follow labels or musicians to get notified of new releases, most of the time you can stream the whole album unlimited times for free before deciding to buy it, downloads have multiple formats available including lossless. It’s where I get 99% of my music from (the outliers being some very few I have to get from Amazon, and one Danish dude [1] who hates the modern world and only sells CDs via snail mail)

For new Metal releases, I used to subscribe to the RSS feed for a Metal torrent tracker, I mostly stopped listening to bigger bands, but before that, the notifications were better than what I could find elsewhere.

[0]: https://bandcamp.com/

[1]: https://nagelfestmusic.com/