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Check out the Tactris, some rethinking of good-old-game.

I've written it for myself during pandemic, for long zoom meetings with my colleagues. I've noticed, that the game doesn't occupied all of my attention, and even more - boosts cognitive skills.

> The rules are simple: you have 10x10 field and two different shapes to draw. Each your move will randomly regenerate one of the shapes. The main goal is: build the lines, collect points, and struggle with other users in the leaderboard.

No ads or collecting data, no internet communications (except GameCenter integration, which is optional).

If you find it interesting - feel free to rate the game in the AppStore!
Honest question from a non american. Who is Joe Rogan? And why is he a persona non grata?

And what is his relation to Jordan Peterson? I'm seeing a weird attempt to link the two in the media (presumably as an attempt to use the former to discredit the latter) but I've never even heard of Joe Rogan except in the context of trollposts (which usually do not give the necessary background I need to know what's going on)
> We need something better then that too.

I agree, but I just can't think what that would be. If you restrict propaganda; then you need to define propaganda. By doing that; you are perpetuating your or someone else's bias which would then be amplified by restricting everyone else from hearing of alternative ideas.

To be fair, you covered that; but I don't see how restricting speech does anything else.
No relationships, moved multiple times, and never stayed at a job for long. Sounds like a recipe for having no roots or committed friendships/community as you chased the cornucopia of worldly experiences… that has now dried up and been found wanting.

You’ve got plenty of time. What you need is connections. Who/what/how is up to you, and talking to an understanding person about it (parents, lifelong friend, pastor, therapist) would probably help more than us all here.
I had one bout of this (by far the worst) in like 2003. I think I tried every SSRI out there at the time plus lithium plus a bunch of stuff that like 3 different psychiatrists prescribed over a year. I would try something for like 2-6 weeks and then try another. I honestly don't remember the full list. None of it helped me.

SSRIs in particular did not work well for me because they really interfered with my natural sleep cycle and this did not go away after 6 weeks as the doctors hoped. I would just bolt awake sweating after like 3 hours of sleep which made things much, much worse.

I never tried any illegal drugs. I've read good reports about psychadelics in some cases. But I've never tried anything like that.

I did try benzodiazapines during my last bout like 3 years ago. They were wonderful at first. Klonopin made me feel so relaxed somehow that it fixed everything else. I slept great and was interested in everything again. I thought I'd found the fix. But then it stopped working. They recommended increasing my dose. But I read horror stories about what happens there (see Jordan Peterson saga). So I tapered off. It was awful. I would wake up after 2 hours having a panic attack and not be able to get back to sleep. It took like an extra 3 months after tapering off until I was back to just regular depressed :). Would not recommend these! Read the benzo recovery reddit.
Get married? I dunno bout that. Kiss half your wealth goodbye.
Children? You can be jailed for not paying child support on imputed income. That's imaginary money you don't have.
Tor was for privacy.

No one cares about privacy anyway.
More or less, yeah. And it did until it happened.

Should Japan have sent troops over in the Mexican-American war of 1846 to stop America's imperial expansion into California and Texas?
A very large display. I got a 4k 43” display, with a bit of retina magnification, and I can sit properly without slumping, my back fully straight on my seat.

I don’t suffer back pain anymore.
I've been plagued with lagging and crashes on Linux too in the last few months.

But then I rebuilt from master in an attempt to get a traceback or profile to report and it went away, so hopefully whatever that was has been fixed and just got released.

Though I have to say I think hiding the snap controls behind a button, as opposed to a toolbar, is a mistake.
Crypto is sort of like the increasing plethora of streaming services, except crypto projects seem to reproduce at a much higher rate and further deprioritize UX. It's not every day, if ever, that I'm dealing with fiat currency conversion. In crypto, it's another one of those seemingly unnecessary hassles that is tolerated as a matter of course.
Only Connect is brilliant and the host is great.

In that vein, popular youtube creator and one-time only connect participant Tom Scott makes his own game shows, including one OC-inspired called Lateral. Lots of fun.
Long, LONG ago I got a MicroSolutions 300 Megabyte External Hard drive, you could plug it in to a parallel printer port, boot the driver disk, and BAM... all of your tools were available.

A decade ago, I got my first SSD drives, those were game changers. Boot times dropped like a rock, and performance went through the roof.

I got a 32" HDMI monitor just before Covid hit... I'm VERY glad I did so. I've been stuck at home with Long Covid for almost 2 years now, it makes it so much easier to see what's going on. It was well worth the money.

As for software, GIT is the best thing since Turbo Pascal. I assume you use it already.

Oh, and consider getting a 3d printer of some form, along with a CNC router. Those might come in handy for home projects.
Image OP being in the same state of mind but with 20K in the bank. Now, that’s miserable.
Doesn't GTK4 address your complaints? To a certain degree, I think they've realized what you say. GTK4:

- decouples GNOME and GTK. They've created a new library, called libadwaita, that hosts the GNOME stuff.

- brings big performance improvements (it has GL and Vulkan backends)

- is much better on macOS and Windows.

Anyway, I agree with you on your points. One of the issues of opensource graphic programs is that the toolkits that are available are quite problematic/don't care about this use case. This is not just about GTK, as QT has also been causing a lot of headaches to the Krita developers. It is not by chance that Blender, which draws the UI using its own toolkit, is not affected by these issues and has a fantastic, fast UI.
The energy consumption of a blockchain is not publicly available anywhere. What are you talking about?
Maybe you found the key. Don't sit back down in front of the screen unless you have to. Fill your day with enriching activities, instead of filling your day with screen and breaking it up with the occasional enriching activity.
From the paper: "On the other hand, the SMBH mass (MBH) estimated from broad Hα is ∼ 4 × 10^7 times of solar..." So, looks like each of them is about 40 million solar masses. Other methods estimate 2 × 10^8, so 200 million. Two galactic nuclei are about to be smashed together!
I'm a couple of years older but I felt very directionless around your same age. I don't know if it's similar to what you are feeling but I'll share my experience in case it helps.

One thing that helped me was to schedule regular time to be with my own thoughts. This became mornings at a coffee shop with a book and a journal, sometimes after a hike through a local park. I take the time to read last week's entry every time and reflect on it.

Set small goals and forgive yourself routinely. It's through small goals that get transformed into routines that long term goals are achievable.

For me, giving myself "protected" time to actually think helped me a lot with my feeling of directionlessness.
Why does it need to link the transaction that happened to a specific account? They certainly need to keep inventory records, but it's enough to note that an item was sold without linking that to a specific account.

Are we using different definitions of the term "purchase history"? To me, that means a list of purchases by a single person. You can derive PII from that, so that's a no-no under GDPR. If you just have transaction records but can't group them by customer, then that's (probably) fine.

Also note that sometimes you're legally required to keep PII for a certain amount of time, e.g., invoices with PII for tax reasons. GDPR says that's fine but you have to keep them for no longer than needed.
What is the definition of socialism?
I found a bug once in one of our geospatial pipelines. We were removing all points with invalid coordinates, i.e those with abs(longitude)>90 and abs(latitude)>180. Problem is, it's longitude that goes from -180 to 180 and latitude that goes from -90 to 90. We never noticed because all the points we were interested in were in Africa. It's a really easy mistake to make.

I always say "lat/lon", it sounds better in english. Just like click-clack, zig-zag, criss-cross, ding dong, king kong. It feels like one of these rules but I can't put my finger on it: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20160908-the-language-ru...

On the other hand, if thinking about them as x and y then x is longitude so it naturally comes first.

In the military I learned the rule lon then lat and was taught to think of an elevator: first you step sideways in to the elevator (lon), then you go up or down (lat).
The USA has 900k covid deaths from 74M cases. The real number of cases are likely to be double that, but it's still a very high rate - from the richest country in the world.
Web3 is just a buzzword. It has no real substance or use case. Because crypto requires an endless stream of hype-terms to keep the pyramid growing, we get increasingly nonsensical ideas like NFTs, DAOs, DeFi, and Web3. Basically no one uses any of these things for anything other than pure greater-fools speculation.
Ask HN: How do you find good discord servers?
Exactly, some woman may be in a situation where an inaccurate reading from that one test they can afford could result in a seriously bad domestic situation.
Taiwanese tech giants are struggling to adapt to India's democracy and workforce
In fact, 3 years is too lucky that I must predict this is a false alarm. https://www.science.org/content/article/crash-titans-imminen... reports "Fabian says the chance of such a merger taking place so close to Earth in any given year is one in 10,000" and evidences presented don't seem strong enough to overcome 1:10,000 prior.
having the strip insertable may make the brightness-assumptions inside the device a bit more muddy. The idea is, that the environment is well-controled. People inserting strips will, over time, put dust on sensors and LEDs. There goes your finely calibrated device and you're in no better situation than the woman outside a well-lit bathroom.
I am a European citizen and I don't give a crap about cookies or "my data" being accessed or stored in the US or China or wherever. The web has been working like that since I started surfing, 26 years ago, and it literally never had a single negative effect on any part of my life or that of anyone I have ever known. Also, the idea that "my data" would somehow be safer in European data-centers than in American or Russian or Chinese ones is ludicrous and borders on nationalist/racist bullshit.

Cookie banners, on the other hand…
Man go check your t levels. Had similar symptoms, Innosupps t-drive made wonders
There's an interesting interaction with implicit parallelism. For a given reduction to occur at most once you need communication across threads so that two don't do the same reduction at once.

I suspect at most once per hardware thread is a faster choice - repeating some calculation for decreased communication.

Or you need a static assignment of reduction to threads which means predicting how long each reduction will take.
Accuweather (which relies heavily on the national weather service data for its forecasts) lobbied for a bill in 2005 to prevent the weather service to provide data directly to people; the bill failed.
Then during the Trump presidency the former Accuweather CEO (whose family still owns the company) was nominated undersecretary of the weather service, but he failed the confirmation hearings.
Subsidies are a measure of how distorted the market is. If you exempt something from sales tax that would otherwise apply it’s a subsidy because it’s cheaper relative to the rest of the market.

For example, excluding the trucking industry from fuel taxes is a fossil fuel subsidy because fuel taxes are used to pay for roads. The net effect is an increase in the number of trucks vs rail as rail is forced to pay for it’s own infrastructure while trucking would not be. The same applies to EV’s vs ICE as EV’s avoid paying for roads.
Everything has es CLI tool that searches instantly.
> there is no obvious single problem to solve which would affect these nations' governing bodies' attitudes towards energy policy

Well obviously there is: the submission of political power to economic power.

Of course, easier said than done what to do about this.
Look up "GDPR pseudonymization".
I remember seeing his essays on Digg before it cratered and I moved to Reddit.
I don't understand it either. In fact, I don't think it's true at all. I think if you think technology is a substitute for well-functioning democratic institutions you're an ignorant fool.
This is report on taxation form European Court of Auditors.
The purpose of the report is to describe how incentives and goals match taxation,
carbon pricing and energy subsidies in countries. This report has a clear purpose and data is well suited for that.
One does not simply add a target to LLVM.

If it was trivial I can assure you the Rust folk would have already been at it.
The lateral line on a fish goes from head to tail. :)
Disabling mitigations could improve performance, but I'm not sure whether it would change how the performance distribution looks.

So, in my experience the distribution is a finite set of pulses, equivalently, the performance largely falls into some predefined level, where the fastest/best performance level is usually the most likely, and the levels roughly get less likely the worse/slower they are.

So what I'm saying is that disabling hw-vuln may make all performance levels faster, but I doubt it would eliminate many of them. I'll for sure play around with that some day, though.

Linux hw-vuln docs: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/
I’m all for vaccines and masks but your ideas on how to deal with dissidence are terrifying.

I just hope in comes from a place of ignorance and heat of the moment.
The issue is code readability while dealing with memory efficient arrays of DoubleArrays, which are used by geojson to represent geometries.

You are right about the function call :-). Actually you can also do fun PointCoordinates.f() {...}.

The reason I have function calls with latitude and longitude in there as equivalents for their point coordinate variants is just convenience. If you have some other library using its own point representation, having to first convert to my representation before you can use my functions is a bit verbose. And of course, people into OO programming usually get a bit carried away reinventing their own Point classes. It's one of the reasons I stayed away from using object hierarchies in this library.

The geojson classes are an exception to this and were actually bolted on fairly recently so I can support geojson compatible serialization/deserialization.
1. Your numbers are incorrect.

2. They would still be way too low to account for all the negative externalities.
Well there is still a pandemic happening which could be another argument for still having the state of emergency but I'm sure it's only because the governor doesn't want to give up his power.
I use both PayPal and my bank for different transaction with no issues. I won't care to use some crypto app if that's popular, too. At any rate, I'm not personally advocating for crypto here, and the projects in crypto which I'm following are less about pure payments (which I don't mind doing via debit card or equivalent, whether built via banks or on top of crypto) and more about more complex smart contracts (e.g. the dex approach vs traditional exchanges and its assosiated different profit incentives, mechanisms and safety profile).
That is basically unrelated to my question
A 3rd monitor lets me see live preview, documentation, and code all at once. I'm out of desk space to test the effectiveness of a 4th

An nvme drive made everything boot faster

A good chair (either herman miller or steelcase) fixed my back pain
Ask HN: How can they go from banning plastic straws to having millions of RATs?
They probably end up in landfill, right?
> I increasingly wish I could go back to my 20s. Now I feel too old to go to festivals, bars and clubs and make new friends that way.

This is all in your head. When was the last time you were somewhere, saw someone and thought "ugh, oh my god look at that old loser"? Probably never if you're a good person. Most people are good. So go out and enjoy your life!
Pretty handy tutorial for DataPalette users.
There are other things like this. For instance, between WMS version 1.1.1 and 1.3.0, the order of the coordinates in bounding boxes changed, and you choose a projection with the "CRS" parameter instead of "SMS".
I haven't read it yet, but Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo has written a book titled "Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth" where he explores different channels.

Here's some video content: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpNwgXYhL09_afXgVjigb_kqx...
Undocumented x86 instructions to read/ write microcode
Oh, absolutely! A GOOD therapist will encourage you to confront your problems.

The problem is finding a good one. My experience is that the vast majority are on the wrong side of the couch, or assist you in suppressing the problem instead of confronting it.
One can not be loyal to an entity that has no conception of what it means. Language like this is why people are constantly confused about where their loyalties should actually be. One can be loyal to people, one can not be loyal to a workplace.
When I read the tutorial and run on uvicorn with my lack of experience in Python language, it's significantly slow (3,000+ rps using this framework manage.py vs <500 rps on uvicorn)?
Finding a partner and starting a family is a boring social norm and has been for millennia. It does provide a sense of purpose. In terms of professional success, what would be enough? Making millions on a startup? Billions?A turing award? Starting the next computing trend?
You're not old, you're young, and by any reasonable measure fabulously wealthy. Kudos! If you spend the rest of your life telling yourself "I should have done this 10 years ago" as an excuse not to do it now then yes, you will never live your life. But you have infinite opportunities and nothing is stopping you pursuing them except you.
Why do you think the underground economy isn't more popular? I mean you can't get more privacy than that, no taxes, no regulations... it should be more popular right?
Not enough characters allowed in HN title to explain that it requires Intel hardware to execute, sorry.
If a microplane counts as "hardware", then I can't not bring up my whetstone!

Cost all of around $40, is a genuine joy to use, and keeps all of my knives sharper-than-sharp.

I started out with a very expensive knife (Wusthof classic 8", around US$150 or so at the time) but nothing to sharpen it with, and this was a mistake.

If I could do it again I'd recommend young cooks on a budget start out with a $20 IKEA knife and a stone to keep it sharp. You'll get better long term results than you would with an expensive knife on its own any day of the week.
Tangentially related:

Somebody created a github containing domains he thought should be blocked: https://github.com/chadmayfield/my-pihole-blocklists

A year later I bought a domain that had expired under my country TLD. It turns out that domain for some reason was previously added to that list.

Now, as you can see, the man behind that Github repo has decided to archive that repo and therefore make it read only.

As you can tell from both pull requests and issues on that repo, people has asked him to remote legitimate domains (e.g. *.urbandictionary.com). But those calls remain unanswered. It is fruitless to contact the author.

So this random dude causes real problems for legitimate business and individuals and we should just accept it?

Obviously he doesn't act on friendly geek requests. It seems lawyering up would be the only recourse in this situation. I find it analogous to somebody standing on a soap box in a village and announcing: "Don't trust James. Don't trust Mary either. There's problems with Charles" and James, Mary, and Charles have no way of stopping his libel.

I don't have the funds for legal action, but it is obviously wrong that he can announce "these domains are bad" and offer no way of fixing mistakes. He should take down the repo, but oh that sweet sweet Github karma probably discourages him from doing so.
I feel like my time for everything is running out. Have you been through a similar thing? How did you deal with it?

Professionally, I have felt that. I have been in academia for a long time, and there are always people who are smarter, more successful, etc. So by my mid-30ies I often felt like I had an ok-ish academic career, I could probably get a permanent position. But I have frequently felt like the point of making a mark has passed (which is probably false) and that I failed. For me it helped to do something really different. First, I consulted for about a year, then I was offered a position in a really nice company and I am enjoying it a lot.

I used to go to a lot of concerts and go to clubs, but by the mid-30s I noticed that my body needs much more regular sleep, etc. and I can't take alcohol as much, etc. Also, that lifestyle becomes much harder with a child. So, we have a far more disciplined life now and I only drink a glass of wine with a nice dinner every few weeks or so. However, we found a lot of enjoyment in other things. E.g. we usually take a 1 week break every few months were we hire a small house near a national park or on an island. We usually cycle a lot, go to restaurants, enjoy nature, etc. It's always a lot of fun and there is always something to look forward to.

I also re-read Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind every few years [1]. The book is about Zen meditation practice, but the idea of finding and approaching things with a beginner's mind is widely applicable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Mind,_Beginner%27s_Mind
You can start by forgetting what age you are and hang out with the people of the age you feel like hanging out with. Bars are a waste of time, sure -- they're noisy and pretty mindless. But that's not what you really want. There might be younger people you might get on with but literally all you need to do is be the age you are inside, and make those friends. You're at the age when you have figured out what doesn't make you happy, evidently. But then maybe you know what `would` make you happy, if you could attain it, so go after what you want.

Feeling is the Secret (1944) by Neville Goddard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffNWoefuwPM
I dont get why you feel kike you dont have those options? I see plenty of people in their 40s and 50s going to festivals or going backpacking. The only one stopping you, is you.
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