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I do exactly this when I’m out running. The Apple Watch is a great bit of technology when paired with some AirPods.
A long time ago, countless projects started using X in a way that wasn't documented (specifically, using X to define multiple modules in one file, instead of one module per file), and it has worked forever just fine. I consider it an unintended (and nice) feature.

X no longer wants to support this use-case, because they discovered that by not supporting it, they can clean up X's code a bit, and it makes X more efficient at certain tasks.

So X turned this into a warning, and is waiting for downstream projects to fix their (new) warnings, before axing this feature. But one popular project, Y, refused to make the change which clears the warning (possibly hoping that X will be more careful to support, not break, idiomatic uses of X).

In the end, project Y voluntarily and without friction added a maintainer who would be willing to keep up with these changes (which were considered by Y to be frivolous). Eventually the system was renamed.
I agree! Let’s come to terms with the ubiquity lesson of JavaScript and make a proper vm, that for now interplay’s with ubiquitous-JavaScript. But also will not leave out the evolution of other languages or software concerns at the language level. Let’s go down a layer and have a ubiquitous vm. I think the possibilities for this are huge.
Before you say “ok but the jvm”, “history repeats” - I don’t think that argument is fair. the jvm was built at a very different time and has its own niche and it’s own bloat. Again, we’re transitioning from JavaScript first. Great things will follow.
Okay, fine. It’s acceptable to damage the body to heal the body.

For example, exercise, where you damaging muscle fibers to heal, maintain, and/or improve the body.

Also for example, intoxication, by virtually every vector known to exist, often damaging the body in order to maintain the body.

Being alive is about tradeoffs, not about minmaxing. You can max out any statistic, but only at the cost of the others — sanity included. Alternately, being alive is about the exquisite joy of minmaxing, being able to hyper focus on one specific body goal at the cost of everything else in your life, including sanity (if you’re not careful).

“I’m sane without intoxicants”: so no nature, no music, no games, no social joy, then.

For example, this is either a description of an acid trip or of someone listening to orchestral music on the radio:

“It was so amazing. I’ve never felt so alive. It was, like, there was a train running through the mountains, and my room was one of the train cars, and I could see it right there, and I just stared at the wall for like half an hour and enjoyed the ride.”

I find it simpler to discuss mind and body in separate terms since people have trouble seeing transcendent experiences as intoxicants, but I hope this use of your terms helps clarify my viewpoint.
> "Cannabis is the third most consumed psychoactive substance in the world (after alcohol and nicotine)"

Where did caffeine go?
That's my pet peeve as well. It should read "activate feature x" not just "feature x" and then change to "deactivate feature x".
>Alcohol/thc/caffeine/nicotine (you name it) do not fall in the "natural" diet of humans.

Well Sapiens likely consumed naturally fermented fruits even 200.000 years ago, after all we evolved to produce certain enzymes to digest ethanol.

Alcohol have shaped human cultures for thousand years, hardly unnatural.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/alcohol-...
Well, being able to identify potentially locally optimal solutions without having to go through an entire optimization process yourself is a pretty powerful heuristic in my book.
A classic of Spanish nationalism: produce laws/actions that create obstacles in the use of other languages, leading to Spanish being overwhelmingly used. Then those asymmetries in use are utilized to justify other laws that further deepen the inequality.
Random thought: If there is a plant that can impair cognitive function, there must be a plant that can improve it.
I have both types. Something like what you've just described and then flying, traveling through insane and beautiful places and spaces. And it usually goes in periods. Few days of one type and then few days of the other. In between I might not see / remember nothing for a few days as well. I am 60 if it means anything.
These aren't substitutes, but more like you are trying to tell folks how much better chicken is and that you'd rather have chicken breast over an apple any day because it is so much more enjoyable.

It isn't like being outside is lost on folks smoking weed. Do you have any clue how much smoking takes place while camping, on nature walks, in rustic cabins, and so on? You just do it sober.
> So what? Yes people are richer, more gifted, more athletic than others. Can't we celebrate an achievement because not everyone can do it?

Because one of these is not like the others. You can play Soccer with four stones and a can. Consequently, legends have arisen from the working class, sometimes from abject poverty. We can say with certainty that there are not thousands upon thousands of people who could run circles around Cristiano Ronaldo. In a sport that excludes 99% of the world's population, we can only guess.
From the article I came to know that Victor Korchnoi passed away recently. Was the news of his passing featured in HN?
Loneliness is also detrimental to the heart.
The keyword here is _persistent_ as opposed to permanent. Significant bread consumption would lead to weight gain which would in turn also lead to a persistent but reversible impact on my overall health.

Keep it to a reasonable level, folks.
No UX designer worth their salt would ever say search wasn’t an essential part of most interfaces. It’s 101. Even I know that. Sounds like you just had bad UX designers, which fits the observed data.
I stopped cold turkey smoking weed daily after 25 years, i can tell you from personal experience this does not apply to everybody.

It also seems rather strange to take one property of their lives and use it to explain their in your eyes loss of abilities. Not doing something for a long time also has this effect, so perhaps they for many years didnt need to do calculations in their head, or use their high school french and so on.

If you said you knew a twin, and one of them smoked weed daily and they had identical lives, and one of them lost cognitive abilities and the other didnt, i would be more likely to give your reply any credit.
I've been in my fair share of incidents so I'm aware of how they work. But they knew it was an issue related to Consul within hours. It shouldn't take more than two days before they check for recent deployments made to Consul.
I get what your opinion on the subject is but your example is hilarious to me since literally every time I have to download a device driver, it's on a manufacturer's website that looks (and performs) like it's been in continuous operation since 1986.
I agree that the grouping doesn't make much sense at all in most programs. It would have been nice to at least be able to reorder things like in classical UIs, which I also find superior from a usability perspective.
Thank you for your effort & for fighting for the users.
This is a dangerous statement! Alcohol is not good for the mind, even in small amounts. I feel like a cloud has been lifted since I stopped drinking.

I strongly recommend everyone read Allen Carr's Stop Drinking Now (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stop-Drinking-Now-Allen-Carrs/dp/18...) - a fantastic book in which the author logically argues why every perceived positive of drinking is actually a negative.
I think it’s perfectly healthy to use it all the time as long as you don’t sit there doom scrolling on instagram. It’s not what it is but what you use it for.

This morning I’ve had mine in my hand since I woke up. I’ve done my schedule for the day, worked out a food and exercise plan, organised an evening out with my friends, done my finances, edited a couple of photos and given my daughter delivery estimate for her new iPad. It’s just gone 08:05 so I’ve got half an hour to shitpost on HN :)

I am completely set up for a productive day.
it's possible that remote meetings are effective for those investors because they have a narrow band of requirements from such meetings (gathering information and analysis etc), but effective for long term employees who would benefit from physical close-proximity (the water-cooler style propagation of ideas for example).
Oh yeah, totally forgot about it!

In case anyone would like to try it out, it's under:

View > User Interface > (pick one of the Tabbed options, there are quite a few)

Now there's one more argument for open software - the developers caring enough to giving us that many options to support the preferences of many people without needlessly deprecating anything!
You're right that whether we're deterministic or not isn't settled, but that argument is mostly a physics question, not a biological one. (It reduces to: is the universe deterministic? And it is a very much a debate at the center of different interpretations of quantum physics.)

But we still find it useful to talk about different strata of intelligence and to make predictions based on that. Like I said, your argument is basically, "It's all just chemicals." And that's true, but just doesn't move the conversation in any interesting direction. There is utility in reasoning about these things at the macro level, and that's what this article is about.

It's kind of like saying, "Is this apple red or blue?" And you object, "Red and blue are just labels on an infinite spectrum and don't exist as specific wavelengths!" That's true. But you can still, with high utility and reasonableness, talk about things being red and blue, despite those terms not being perfectly well defined.
I have developed this pet theory that humans have grown fond of fire and will feel secure in its presence. How do they know they're at a fire instead of just basking in the sun? When they are inhaling, I mean smelling, its fresh smoke of course!

I don't find it far-fetched to assume that an affinity to fire was selected for over the last millennia. Why, we even have a mutation that makes us less susceptible to carcinogens in smoke compared to other mammals. That would make smoking, and smoking indoors, an activity that replaces the open fires we're accustomed to.

Standard disclaimer for evolutionary theories: They are ill-suited to determine social policy.
Would there be anything wrong with a clone?
the thing about iphone is: it didn't start the smartphone era like many say, it ended it
suddenly people started desiring device as expensive as business models were that coul'd only do half of things their mainstream ones could so by market rules it wasn't profitable to struggle and do things right anymore, do you remember cheap Chinese portable music players that required dedicated software but we beared with it because they were cheap? so... iphone isn't cheap
I'd say it's really a time tradeoff.

In my experience, the main reason to not eat healthy or exercise is because doing those things takes time, easily a LOT of time (e.g. cooking and cleanup easily account for 2-3 extra hrs/day and the numbers are similar for exercise [both active (dedicating time to it) and passive (walking around everywhere)]).

In the same vein, use of psychoactive substances is probably also a tradeoff between taking time to properly conduct mental maintenance v.s. a quick and dirty solution.
While it's cool they found some of these long tubes or straws, we've known that Sumerians would communally drink from beer barrels through long straws for a long time. There's art depicting it, descriptions on tablets, etc...
Most IT/Data entry guy will have a similar story so I'm pretty sure it's true because I've had a similar story from when I was working in a Fortune 100.
But, it doesn't enable time travel. It just makes calculation easier, like «bending» of space-time array.

If you switch from relativity to regular physics with medium instead of pure vacuum (10 years passed since 2012 already, so relativity is busted at this point), then c is the speed of light in medium, so we don't need to bend anything or use negative t to calculate outcomes.
Maybe this "working less" undertone of remote should be taken seriously, from both sides of the argument.

As you say, it's nearly impossible to negotiate for less working hours. The only real possibility I see is freelancing/contracting, and the best bet is taking some months off (or a sabattical) - not working less days per week.

With high salaries in IT naturally there came perks like flexible hours. This meant that nobody really checks if you work 8, 7, or 6 hours in a day anymore. Of course, if you'd consistently come in say for ~4h a day, then there would be trouble because Jerry over there clocks in his 8h and that wouldn't be fair.

Now with remote work, the "hours worked" are mostly invisible and barely guessable by your peers and managers.

The bottom line, personally, is that we want to work less time. I take a salary that is lower than FAANG in a remote startup, but I and my peers work less hours, yet our boss is happy.

If I could work for 4h/d (or 3 days/week) at some corp, in office, I would do it. But that's just not gonna happen right now. And here is my hot take: I think that big corps are just too successful in squeezing out so much time from their employees, especially with the american mindset of "working hard" / crazy 80+h weeks.
No , Competition should not be for competition sake but for the benefit of the consumer. If competition results in worse conditions for the consumer it should be eliminated. Especially in the tech space where things such as security is sometimes compromised for the sake of competition
probably because most people wouldn't consider all ad targeting illegitimate.

Most countries distinguish between so called protected classes that deserve to be outside of the marketplace and classes that are not.

I don't really see the problem with ads that discriminate based on profession or income.
My guess here is that WebAssembly will become more popular for new developments, but I don't see it supplanting containers/Kubernetes across the board.

One of the reasons that containers have been successful is that, in many cases, you can lift and shift an existing application into a containerized environment with no or minimal changes. I don't think that's the case with web assembly at the moment.

I kind of liken it to Serverless, which is great where it fits your application architecture, but hasn't really become ubiquitous the way some predicted it would.
Somewhat related: what have you found to be a good replacement for alcohol as a habit/relaxation device?

I enjoy my evening wine, but I slowly realised I mainly crave flavour (sorry hydrohomies). I don't want to do the sugary drink/juice route so am attempting to replace wine with roiboos tea or similar infusions, but I haven't found the right spot yet. Maybe it just takes more habituation or there is some element that simply doesn't bring me the same enjoyment/pleasure as unwinding with a glass of merlot or primitivo.
> Languages are tools for communication.

Not really. Or, they are, but that's not their primary purpose. (When we need to communicate precisely we use highly specialized technical jargon or math, not natural human languages.)
The money will be recovered. That amount cannot be washed anymore
Indeed! And I wonder what happens if there's a delay (weather, repairs, etc) or change of plans, some countries are fairly strict about entry dates and that type of thing.
Have you a link to anything about this? That’s incredible.
My father was on sick leave for six months waiting for surgery. When he finally reached the start of the queue and got the operation he was back at work the week after, again becoming a taxpayer. Of course it pays to have working healthcare. And it even pays more to have a healthcare system which gets more people back to work as quick as possible. That's so short from "directly monetary" that I don't see the difference.
If you're fortunate enough to use Python 3.7 or newer, then you can forego the importing of 'pdb' and using 'pdb.set_trace()' (I think you had a small omission there) in favor of just writing 'breakpoint()'[1] directly.

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[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/changelog.html#id325
Ouch. I do have smartphone but do not have data plan. Use it strictly as a phone, camera and offline GPS. It has close to zero social value to me. If I want to socialize I either talk to my friends on Skype from my PC or just visiting in person.
This market repricing can only be temporary (at least in nominal terms), because where else would money go? For decades interest rates have been shrinking, making fixed income a safe investment. That’s not the case anymore, interest rates are on the up, where should money flowing out of the stock market go? You are going to see more sector rotation within the stock market, rather than money flowing out of it.

Today’s world depends on tech to an incredibly high (and increasing) extent. Eventually that will be reflected in market valuations.

The venture capital industry today has a much more mature and robust structure than even 5 years ago: the structure of the funds, the fund commitments, the size of the funds and the management companies. They are much more resilient to market moves than in 2000.
Or, you code worse but don't have the 'reflective' threads of cognition running at the time to notice?
The trick with exercise, I find, is to find something that is fun first, exercise second.

What that is will be different for different people: if you're a social person, you might try dancing(think salsa or other pair dances), or if you're the competitive kind, try some competitive sport that doesn't rely solely on physical fitness: anything where technique is as or more important as physical form will help you forget you're exercising and just focus on having fun/winning the game.

The perfect exercise is the one where you don't realize you've been exercising until you stop and smell the sweat!
Not sure if the article is referring to this but you can see the shockwave from the blast move the clouds before the plume of ask appears here:

https://youtu.be/zoMRwyNhqJ4?t=6
I would generally agree that it does focus me pretty specifically on minutiae type details, which is sometimes exactly what I need.

Other times I find myself in a "stoner revelation" moment, which is not some groundbreaking breakthrough into the underlying fundamentals of how the world works, but instead where I will have something that I know, and is generally well known, but because it's so well known, not something I ever give much thought. The impaired state I'm in will force me to think about it at a more-than surface level, and sometimes those things that I normally take for granted get that surface stripped away and I'll end up with a useful thought. I've definitely had some successful changes to both my personal relationships and work organizational processes that have come about because smoking pot put me in the right state of mind. And, obviously, pot was never a requirement for those thoughts to be possible - they just didn't occur to me in my normal mode of operation.

And, of course, I've had plenty of "stoner revelations" that upon further inspection while sober, were completely stupid.
I cannot agree regarding enums.
I want enums exactly as they are.
In particular, I insist on decoupling their names and their values.
I want to rename/update their names, without affecting their representing value. I want them to work with both integers and strings (as they do).
Their raw values may appear in external data, for reasons that are none of your business, and thus must be preserved, maintained and under control.
The enum as it exists was created by people who know what they are talking about when they talk about enums.
People are free to go in their corner and play with their union types and crayons, but they should not confuse them with enums. There is nothing wrong with union types, apart from them being union types but not enums.
The language with the best enums is java - enums in java are so great, that I often regret the hoops I have to jump through with enums in C# (you might well say, enums in java are overengineered).
yes, anyone who cares about looks would pick win10 pre-neon over mac, they would pick win8 over mac, they would pick win2000 over mac
Windows 95 was a hard changeover for me from Workbench 3.x, but after the initial shock I actually liked it a lot better. Not needing to hold down the right button to select things in the menus, the taskbar itself was amazing after flipping through endless screens using amiga-m and n. Being able to resize the window from any corner. High contrast UI components... It was all leaps and bounds better from a UX perspective.

Sadly and disappointingly, Windows 95 was the apex of UX for desktop operating systems. After that, everything on the whole was just in systematic decline. Sure, there are plenty of things that could be improved over Win95, and things that did improve with later OS releases. Unfortunately the other baggage that came with it all wasn't worth the sacrifice. MacOS looks pretty, but there are too many things I hate about how it works because it keeps slowing me down or getting in the way. Now Windows is the same.

It feels like we've gone from the renaissance of user interfaces to baroque, and now to unusable minimalist (dare I say brutalist?), all to stroke designer egos.

Now I use Mac for work because I can only do certain things on a mac, and Windows for anything I can only do on Windows. But whenever I can get away with it, I just use Mate desktop. It's not the best, but it's fast, gets out of your way, works well with remote desktops, and has most of the important big ticket UI innovations (plus I can spin up hundreds of remote desktops using LXC).
JAQing off is a concept introduced by the rational/skeptic community. The fact that you found the description in urban dictionary doesn't take anything away from the word.

But if your points are so weak that even urban dictionary and knowyourmeme calls you out, perhaps you should reconsider your position? ;)
Source: https://googlepress.blogspot.com/2006/08/google-launches-hos...

"A standard edition of Google Apps for Your Domain is available today as a beta product without cost to domain administrators or end users. Key features include 2 gigabytes of email storage for each user, easy to use customization tools, and help for administrators via email or an online help center. Furthermore, ORGANIZATIONS THAT SIGN UP DURING THE BETA PERIOD WILL NOT EVER HAVE TO PAY FOR USERS ACCEPTED DURING THAT PERIOD (provided Google continues to offer the service)."

and

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20070222003704/http://www.google...

"GOOGLE APPS FOR YOUR DOMAIN BETA AGREEMENT
[..]
18. Fees. Provided that Google continues to offer the Service to Customer, Google will continue to provide a version of the Service (with substantially the same services as those provided as of the Effective Date) free of charge to Customer; provided that such commitment (i) applies only to End User Accounts created during the period when the Service is considered a beta service (the "Beta Period") by Google (such Beta Period determination at Google's sole discretion), (ii) does not apply to the Domain Service described in Section 4 above, and (iii) may not apply to new opt-in services added by Google to the Service in the future. For sake of clarity, Google reserves the right to offer a premium version of the Service for a fee."
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Class action lawsuit?

-np
Jesus, those days of manual modeline hacking, because I could get an enormous, 42kg (had to carry it 6 stories up and later down), 21" fixed frequency Monitor from an old Workstation for small money...
iphone always was behind, basic things always were either convoluted or just impossible, ios is the most painful mobile os I ever encountered