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> something as trivial as listening to people's Google searches

It's never about Google searches, it's about The Four Horsemen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
This is pretty nice, I used to make an app for projection mapping which this seems to replicate.
But I used syphon a lot, along with Quartz Composer for inputs, now that QC. is almost dead, I know a quite a few people have to moved to generating live visuals with other tools like Unity and Blender, I've been meaning to look into it myself. But I also got myself a job developing another app now. I wish I had the time to get my previous app up to date
Op means grinding fresh. You can buy salt in a plastic spice grinder, for example. It's cute, but doesn't improve the salt like grinding does for spices.
Money or time? What's more important while launching a startup on the side?
I'm working on a company in my spare time. I think it's going to take at least 6 months to a year to escape my corporate job and work on it full-time. At the same time I've been offered a position with higher pay but much higher responsibility, social pressure and time pressure at my current company. If my long-term goal is to leave and start my own company, should I take the new role and extra $20K per year or should I stay in my less demanding role and spend that extra time on my company? My savings are ~$7K so the $20K would be significant in helping pay living expenses while transitioning to a startup. Thoughts and experiences appreciated :)
I had the same opinion as the OP, when this started, but I have come to be OK with it (in my limited use case).

I need the Adobe Suite, MS Office, and a couple of developer tools, as a day-to-day requirement to do my work. Not an issue. I was already paying to maintain them, usually on a yearly basis.

I used to pay about $900/year for a subset of the CS Suite (I don't remember what it was called, but had Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and maybe Dreamweaver or InDesign -neither of which I used).

The full CS Suite costs me about $600/yr, and gives me access to every single one of the apps. I don't use InDesign, but every now and then, someone sends me an ID file, and I can download it, open the file, then delete it.
I don’t mind paying rent for my stuff. What I do mind is paying a lot of rent for not a lot of stuff.

When you have a $29 a year subscription for a one off use utility app they can fuck off.

When you have a $29 a month subscription for storage, music, TV, fitness, games that spans 6 people I’m fine.

What has changed is extortion for some products which have dubious or little value and really difficult to exit contracts.

The last point is incidentally why I want apple to manage my in app purchases entirely, because you are not submitted to the cancellation will and drama of really horrible organisations with bad policies.

Regarding free software I am probably mostly done with it now because I can’t even pay people to fix issues as a rule nor can I get people to accept fixes I’ve done for free. Usually met with silence on both.

A point on the apple ecosystem is you can share purchases in your family. I paid £7 for a perpetual use of GoodNotes which is used by three people. That’s amazing value.
Internet, not the web, is for sure the greatest achievement of humankind so far if you consider the human effort and collaboration such a massive network requires and the multiplier effect it has on absolutely everything.
You don't need seatbelts if you're going facing opposite to direction of travel, so this is safe for driving forwards.
> the UI/UX of LibreOffice not even comes close to MS Office's one.

Except 'Import CSV' wizard, it's light years ahead of MSO's one, which didn't changed for two decades. Which is understandable, nobody [from the corporate customers with tens thousands of users] cried loud enough.

Also it doesn't even look good. MSO would use ClearType (and whatever) and looks good, LO looks like I'm in 1995 looking at 640x480 14" monitor.
what kind of music do you use? Any playlists you can share?
Because it’s way less funny?
Your showreel is wonderfully quirky :)
Why should they not look at the gender component?
Probably, people cleared the roads first (here in Canada this is at 4am typically, and again and again if it is still snowing). Then, as clearing the roads throws snow large volumes of and such everywhere, later the sidewalk clearers show up.

So now they probably just had the sidewalk clearers start work earlier, and clean an extra time, problem seemingly solved.
Anyone here using N++ instead of an IDE for development?

Do you use vanilla N++ or have added some extensions?
Yeah, I don't understand their claim around Microsoft either. They're still offering perpetual licenses, and sure, they're integrating OneDrive a lot, but you can still save a document wherever you want on your computer and last I checked, Save As works the same way it always has.
Salt doesn't keep roads ice free when it gets too cold, it works in warmer climates but in Sweden it gets cold enough that you will have ice patches anyway. They would stay a shorter period, but they would still be there, so cars still need winter tires so they can drive on ice anyway, so can just as well not put toxic salt on the roads.

People who slip mostly just needs better shoes/tires, the difference between good and bad shoes/tires is huge. I have biked in Sweden during the winter, no problems at all, winter tires fixes most issues.
Accomodating corporate lawyer intransigence should be solved with them paying you $$$ for a separate license, not picking a different license.
I laughed out loud at the section describing working outside. Like I'm going to wear a thousand dollar blindfold in public.

Way too vulnerable.
I've seen some people using Cannabis in the way you describe over longer periods of time. In the short term there is no difference. Over the longer time (say a decade) the effect is noticeable to the point that they were no longer able to function in a job that they held down with ease beforehand.

These are pretty heavy users though. I don't have any heavy user in my surroundings that was not affected like that, but the sample size is small enough that this could easily be coincidence.
BTW, I should have added “in the US”. Did not mean to imply that the spread of Delta worldwide started there.
When my wife and I were dealing with our daughter spending 9 months in the NICU at the childrens hospital, any time my wife would cry the nurses would “tattle” on her and the psychiatrist would contact her trying to give her antidepressants. She’d be extremely irritated each time. “My child is very ill and could die, the way I’m reacting is precisely the correct response and I wouldn’t want to blunt it or negate it in any way”. It just felt like we lived in the land of the Lotus Eaters or something.
And it's poisonous to dogs!
I use N++ along with NppFTP and PHP Autocompletion.

I have NppFTP pointed to the `www` dir on my dev webserver, and it's so convenient to just be able to edit files in N++, and whenever I Ctrl+S, it automatically uploads and updates content on the server.
> The puzzles are interesting but I'm not sure how much they overlap with the field of linguistics in general

Same thing with programming Olympiads, but it isn't necessarily a bad thing
I used to be a big time notepad++ user, but at some point decided to try to use VSCode as my go to text editor. The ease of use and the large number of good quality extensions more than makes up for the slight latency at startup. To my big surprise VSCode can easily handle files of the size of hundreds of megabytes, it’s just great. I like notepad++, but needless to say, nowadays I only start Notepad++ accidentally on my machine.
How “communicating with the dead” got me into PKM
Some people like Gnome. I like using gnome on my Lenovo Yoga as it is as efficient being keyboard driven as it is using the desktop as a tablet.
People need gold for its properties. As the number of people grows faster than the available amount of gold, its value goes up. Crypto tokens are not needed for anything because they are inferior to alternatives for all the purposes they have been applied to. More people needing 0 tokens means the value of the tokens should remain 0.
In the case of local software, I agree. But most users expect connected services nowadays, which mean recurring costs for the developers as well in many cases.
A large part of the problem is that we have no idea what the proteins do, and how, where, and when they interact with one another.

It's like trying to understand Linux from just looking at the /bin directory. Simply having the executables tells us very little about the system as a whole.
It's very similar. If Java had had a good sandbox model and not shipped with a large runtime available to all applications, from the beginning, there would be no reason for WASM to exist.

WASM is like Java bytecode without access to the Java standard library (like, no `java.lang.String` or even `java.lang.Object`... just the primitives).

But it has a mechanism to call "host" or "imported" functions and to use linear memory (an array of bytes which can be shared with other modules and the host), which is how it actually does anything useful.

I can imagine a version of Java that works like this as well, actually, I wonder if there's ever been anything like that?
In theory, with the internet, civilization could go back to full decentralization. You need writing, printing, sanitation and food production to aggregate humans in cities to create a human network.

With the internet, people can be hunter gatherers and spread all over the world and still pool their knowledge to maintain the infrastructure. You still need electricity and machines, but the internet links it all together.

*edit: changed web to internet, along dgellow's comment
Duuude there is no election in gaza since hamas (armed) takeover:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Palestine#In_the_...

you are protecting a terrorist group. they harm palestine future the most. stooop.

You are consistently wrong on every fact of this conflict.
That’s an accurate addendum but NPR isn’t necessarily omitting things.
It does, but so do interpreted languages and the many compiled languages with different compilation targets.

It's less of a problem in 2021 than it was in 1995.
I stopped using Notepad++ a while back, switching to VSCode as it gained maturity.

Just curious, other than philosophical, why would a developer keep using Notepad++ today? What are its relative strengths?
"I need to increase my prices" /s

Or start charging in Euro :D
Your point needs more attention IMO. Most updates for most software don't add usability or convenience for the end user. The way conversational rhetoric with my family and friends seems to have transitioned from "wow, these computers are cool! This will really help with x" to complete frustration.
CLOUD ACT is the problem. Even for data stored outside the US, authorities can demand access to data. This is why for example in the EU you are a customer of AWS SARL in Luxembourg instead of AWS Inc.
I actually suspect that the internet was designed to spy on the citizenry better, but was sold as a mega-connectivity technology.

Its an indispensable part of the tech required for technocracy, but now it has done its job and there is a tracking device is every hand, its time to rein it back a few notches. (Reining back has been underway for a while to be fair..)
I did the same thing and switched to a Nokia Flip. So far, my experience is the same. But my actual goal is the Mudita Pure [1], which is supposed to arrive soon-ish.

[1] https://mudita.com/products/phones/mudita-pure/
Here’s a comment summarizing the official rationale: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/847#issuecomment-642...

TBH, I don’t find those arguments convincing, but then, WebGPU is largely a political compromise, not a technical one. In a politics-free zone, they’d have standardized a “WebVulkan”, not made an entirely new thing. That would have been on the table, but Apple vetoed it. The same for a “Web-SPIR-V”.

However, I also don’t think it’s that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. I’m glad we have a viable standard at all.
Of course it does. Software and the components are never bug / loop hole free. SW development doesn't simply stop just because a version was released.
That's a strawman. Who exactly demanded "free in cost" plus "always receive new features and updates"?

If the software companies (in mobile in particular) had a race to the bottom, it's on them - and on those (hobbyists etc) that undercutted them (though, if hobbyists can undercut your prices, is your product really worth that much, or could it just as well be replaced with a hobbyist-made app?).

Users have since forever paid top dollar for shrink wrapped and then downloaded software like MS Office or Abobe Creative Suite and co, that now is nonetheless "subscription based".
Personally, I have been a heavy user for well over a decade and I'm attaining not only promotions including greater responsibility at work in tech but high educational achievements as well so YMMV
You're right, they cut in the original space and average-pool the features before an L1/L2 loss
This proposal bans all targeted ads unless you give consent. Targeting minors and certain protected groups is banned even if they consented to targeted advertising.

There's also this gem:

In order to avoid fatiguing recipients who refuse to consent,
terminal equipment settings that signal an objection to processing
of personal data should be respected.

Yes, please, bring us a legally binding No Consent and Do Not Track.
I used to hack away in N++ as Freelancer. At some point, I landed in a team for the first time, after hacking away solo for decades. It was like visiting a different planet. Fun experience. I got to see IDE's and even learned about NPM for the first time.

Even though I was way more productive (...solo) they looked at me like I came from a distant tribe, with just Notepad and no formatting, code coloring, code completing, packagemanager etc.
Maybe. It may be worth considering, however, that the reactions humans/other animals have to these substances are not necessarily accidental. Mammalia is young, plants are old, and have tamed us in many ways.
I've probably used your app at some point, what was it called? With Blender back working nicely on Mac (Metal support so realtime Eevee renderer works), I'd love to see a Syphon add-on for it - be fantastic to be able to send a Blender cam through Syphon for live projections etc.
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Isn't getting nothing in return even worse?
>Yeah, it's not really about free software; it's about paying salaries

Well, that's on the software maker.

Why pay salaries in perpetuity for something made and sold once?
I think there is a case about using day to day the product they want to improve, but there is also a case about knowing how competitors are doing it.

The hardest part I think is working and sharing work 2 different systems at the same time. Not that the technical solutions do not exists, but muscle memory will always make that one system end up feeling unbearable and it might not because it is worse but by resistance to change.
I'm hardly a SJW but it's 2022, can we stop equating rape which is a shockingly violent violation/assult of a real a human being with anything less. I'm sure I'm gonna get slammed for this but whatever.
Fly isn’t really edge in the sense that they are colocating with lots of ISPs like Netflix might for video at the edge.

Fly is edge in the sense they have hosts in N regions and manage the anycast for you so traffic seamlessly routes to those regions. They don’t publish which data centers they operate in only the regions (https://fly.io/docs/reference/regions/) but most of those regions line up with equinix data centers which are all physically secured professional facilities.

It’s a great question though and one they should have a document about.
In the abstract I totally agree

But if you limit their targeting the entire method becomes much much less effective and hurts the economic incentive. Right now that seems the best they can do. The policies have to be realistic.

The issue is information following you…but good luck solving that
So, what's the point of delineating between adults and minors? Seems like if they have the capacity to decide about this, then they have the capacity to make other medical decisions.
You left out the part where running WebGL via Unity was an absolute nightmare, and was fudged in as a stopgap when NPAPI was deprecated and there was no more Flash web player target. Barring that, before you even got the build up on the web you got to sit through 20 minutes of emscripten and wasm magic compiling, hoping and praying you considered any bridging methods to .Net from the frontend that don’t appear until they’re useless emscripten errors in the unity console. Oh, you’d like audio/video comms in your product? Well, hope you’re ready to build the non-supported WebGL compatible version of Photon/Agora’s voice subsystems.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m card carrying Unityman and just backed off of XR development recently in favor of more stable webdev work… but WebGL as a solution to high-performance browser gaming was an absolute shitshow from start to finish and I’m not even sure WebGPU lands in time for anything useful to be done with it to deprecate WebGL “support”. I assume that the lightweight 3D solutions based on threejs, etc. are going to drag the rest of the game engine industry kicking and screaming into whatever best solution arises and this wasm-as-k8s sounds like a neat component of that.
Ok. What is the solution? I see the list of complaints, and empathise with most, but what is the solution? It’s been pointed out elsewhere in this thread that FOSS devs are complaining about not being paid, so clearly that model is broken too. What is your solution?
>What has the world come to, where technology has been appropriated and we are left paying rents every month and companies are increasingly becoming user-hostile and predatory and monopolistic!

This is the issue. While the subscription model may be the right choice forward it may also be the catalyst of a collapse (like the dotcom bust) if the users get bullied enough.
Any high quality design team should be regularly interacting with users. They should be during users studies, with both the shipping products and mocks of new features.

And design team that thinks they can make changes and new features just by sketching in their notebook is mistaken and ineffective.

You can't have every user inputting on each change so the design team needs to be the voice of the user. They are talking to users anyways.
Never thought it that way, but they are absolutely right. When we listened to Meatloaf as kids, it was always turned all the way up. And now, he's a crowd favorite when out on the boat which also must be turned all the way up.
> DRM heavy gaming.

As someone who's now playing League of Legends from his Linux desktop, even that is going away.
> Having to study random fun things and being rewarded for it was peak happiness for teenage me.

You must be good at SWE interviews.
I'd certainly try LibreOffice which is much better supported and modern than the sort of abandoned OpenOffice.
Also: after you use it, you are not even holding it anymore, and don't know you used it. You most likely have no reason anymore to want to use it, so it is in a drawer sonewhere.
100%.

The reality is that most managers have done little to no thinking about (nor have they ever been formally trained on) actual management. So when taken out of the environment in which they "learned" to manage, largely through example, they have no framework or theoretical knowledge to fall back on for what effective remote working looks like.

We have a hybrid working model but some of our employees are genuinely remote and never come to our in-person offices.

It works well but it takes co-ordination effort by leaders to make it work.

I think there genuinely are benefits to in-person work for certain collaborative elements of work but it makes no sense to just say "there are productivity costs to remote work" without actually answering the key questions, namely:

-For what kind of roles?

-For what kind of tasks within those roles?

-By how much? Does any loss of productivity get made up for saving office costs, commute costs for employees, lower cost of living? If your productivity goes down but it's by less than costs... well maybe that's ok actually!

-Have you quantified other benefits like retention? Even if a remote employee is now less productive (not proven tbh) they are still more productive than the new hire who isn't up to speed on your tech yet, not to mention certainly more productive than the person who no longer works for you and the people who have to interview their replacement.

It's bizarre that people say, well there are costs and benefits to remote, without actually even attempting to quantify them.
OT but related... Starlink would really be useful in Tonga right about now, with their fibre-optic connection severed and expected to be out of commission for at least a month.
Do you believe everyone should use the same editor and no alternatives have any reason to exist anymore?

I used several editors (not Notepad++ since I moved away from windows many years ago), as they all have their own strengths and use cases where they are best at something.
I can't be classified as a developer (though I'm occasionally write some code), but VSCode on my external monitor is unusable because it plainly ignores ClearType hints. All GUI text in it looks like I had a 24h marathon and didn't clean my glasses for a week.

Everything else (including Notepad++, lol) on that monitor looks just fine. It works on integrated display, but thanks, I prefer 38" to 14".
Best way to look at this is to wait until you’re at least 50 and compare with your peers who used it regularly for the last 30 years or so if you didn’t. There’s a 100% correlation on what you suggest.

I’m glad I didn’t bother with it at this point.
The internet was not design to spy on citizens, it was design to connect citizenry!
A similar experience can be achieved with the VSCodes feature called Remote Development where it connects via SSH to a remote machine. Its quite convenient.
Mozilla gave all the Rust trademarks away and the opportunity to create a consultancy out of Rust (Since that has taken off) has been completely ruled out - which may have been a way out of not depending on Google's money fo 90% of all their revenue.
She discovered she'd have to quarantine if she landed there so had to avoid both chinese and NK airspaces.
I dislike them too. Not only because it's an inducement to duplicate everything, but because the documentation usually loses important context that

* Helps you locate it by knowing what you want to do but without e.g. knowing key words.

* Lets you know which APIs to use it with.

* Lets you know how to chose between sounding seeming APIs.

All of this context can be added but then you add it everywhere and suddenly your comments are ballooning in size and you're duplicating the same context multiple times across multiple methods.
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