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Musty carpet?
This looks so nice. Nostalgia indeed, but I miss consistent UIs across apps.

SerenityOS must be mentioned in this context too: Win95-like UI on a Unix-like OS. Check it out if you haven’t yet!

Edited to add the link I missed: https://serenityos.org/
I speak English and live in the US.

So dates in the US are not RFC 3339, they're MM/DD/YYYY drunk-endian. And units are all US Customary, not SI. If you want something else, you need a locale other than en.US, and if you want other things (like spell check) to match US conventions you end up needing to create a custom locale.
There’s also a company here in Philadelphia that makes custom split-flap displays: https://www.oatfoundry.com/
A friend who grew up in Soviet Hungary told me that they got military training in high school. Every kid graduated knowing how to make molotov cocktails and disable tanks.

The Russians lost a bunch of tanks in Budapest.
I’m a greybeard, my first OS was either DOS or some OtherDOS, my first GUI environment was System 7 (Mac). The latter was mostly flat other than some dithered shading mostly on icons, significantly flatter than macOS is today. Even with MacOS 8 which gained more depth in its design I always found Windows’ hard bevels through 2k/ME overstated, and when I did use Windows I’d do my best to configure it to be as flat as possible. So yeah I think early GUI exposure might be a contributing factor, probably moreso than age.
You can't listen to someone's anecdote intended to convey one thing and assume they included sufficient detail for you to determine whether it also conveys some other thing.
Tilde - Command Line for Browser Start Page (OSS)
This comment makes me so happy. If I read it anywhere else I'd invoke Poe's Law and guess it was a joke. But it being HN I know it's for real, and I love it. Excellence in all we do
I'm not OP but a related point is that locale-aware formatting can be offputting if your application is not actually translated into the language. At a previous job we delivered an English-language product that used locale-aware number formatting. Our German customers asked us specifically to use English number formatting, both because it was a technical programming product and because the application was entirely in English. German number formatting with English text was undesirable to them, and they didn't expect us to translate into German. They saw it as an American product and that carried into their expectations about formatting. We went into the code and explicitly specified the American English locale for all string formatting, and they were happy.
Money has lots of properties and you seem to be struggling to understand 2 fundamental ones.

Money is a) fungible, 2 units of the same money are worth the same thing and b) general applicability. You can use money as a medium of exchange most places.

Brent crude futures contracts are fungible at the monthly contract value. I can literally swap 2 same month contracts with no change in count. I can’t buy coffee with them though (or even Brent crude oil without a lot of toil).

MasterCard debt is generally applicable. It’s spendable all over the world, but I can’t trade it for Amex debt without a conversion.

That makes money status contextual but not undefinable. Rubles are not usable where I live. That means they aren’t money here, I have to fx them, but they are money somewhere else, even places where the government says they are not, like Brighton Beach.

Long story short, you must have external validation of value for something to be money.
Surely this can only be true if a blockchain based currency can replace fiat currency end-to-end. The moment any part of your economy is reliant on the exchange of (say) BTC back to fiat, all the attributes and constraints of fiat come back into play.
I also have an older Tumi backpack and it has been great. However, I have noticed that ever since Tumi was acquired by Samsonite, the quality has gone downhill by an extreme amount. The zippers used to be made of very thick and sturdy metal, but those are gone, in favor of cheaper and flimsier zippers. The fabrics are much cheaper, thinner, and weaker now as well.
There was another sibling of the Lilith:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronos_(computer)
Please see my other comment in this thread. Either there is some hypocrisy involved or you just called basically everyone here (probably including yourself) a "piece of shit" for not shutting down the USA during its various invasions in the last 20 years.

Just because a country claims to represent you, you don't have the moral obligation to oppose it while risking your personal wellbeing.
Synthetic polyfibers are one of the primary causes of microplastic pollution, so for fashion items they should be avoided. That Rayon material which Cordura initially represented for example is biodegradable.

We need a different category than synthetic fibers in English terminology for these altered fibers.
No, that's not right. Optimizing repaint rectangles is kind of a corner case these days. It's a nice feature to have in some cases for reducing battery usage, but if you're relying on it to hit 60 FPS then you are certain to fail because there are always cases where you do have to repaint the whole screen. If you can't do that at 60 FPS you're already screwed.

Games redraw everything every frame, and yet good games have much better performance than UI toolkits generally.
You cannot escape 'global instability' by moving to a flyover state. Everything is connected, a few extra miles means nothing other than for few things like less noise pollution and urban crime.

Every, little, thing you consume has a long supply chain of value add at each step, that's what makes it all work.

The reason that we have to care about Ukraine, is because otherwise, we are faced with a mother Cold War. That is very bad.

This war is a battle for the future of the world order, in which everyone is a part.

An easy victory for Putin almost guarantees the Chinese Generals will be pushing for Taiwan and Xi will listen.

A costly bloody failure an economic ruin and a political coup in Russia means Xi knows the price for failure in Taiwan will be his head, almost literally.

Aside from geopolitics, there is a moral issue in all of these situations - Ukranians deserve to not live behind another Iron Curtain. Just like Poles, Czech, E. Germans etc..
New US Covid guidelines allow most Americans to go mask-free indoors
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday dramatically eased its COVID-19 guidelines for when Americans should wear masks indoors...
The Germans were engaged in the holocaust, which was evil. The Russians are invading a sovereign country to replace the government, which the US has done twice in as many decades.
> I don't think Windows 95 looks that good (compared to today).

Me neither. I dislike anything that reminds me of old Windows. Some people are the opposite — when they move to other platforms, they seek out things that look like old Windows so that it becomes supposedly easier to use (?).

I like MacOS. I liked the old Unity. I like Gnome 3 except for the fact that it's consumes a lot of resources. I shy away from KDE even though I hear it's now more efficient because it reminds me of Vista from certain angles.

And even though XFCE can be a little bit like old Windows, I like it because it's very efficient, and therefore I give it a pass :) . The no-bullshit DE.

I've been on Gnome 3 for years now. However, I might switch to XFCE eventually because I tend to do memory intensive things.
You either boil it or force it through a semi-permiable membrane.

In both methods you get two products: one one side pure water, on the other water with a higher concentration of non-water things as waste, most often just dumped back into the ocean.

That waste stream is just a bit closer to the end product than taking from the sea directly.
It won't convincingly look like Windows 95 to me without a ton of Invalid Page Faults in kernel32.dll. (Can somebody give me a basic explanation of what that was??)
I'd like to strongly second timeboxing here. This is how all really busy people do it in my experience.
> You can't be making threats and not expect people to try to avoid the thing you're threatening.

You should assume reasonable people already know SWIFT was going to be used as a threat at one point or another. So I'm not sure you're saying anything new. Those people continue to use it because it's permeated all over financial world very much like the dollar is. The cost to move away from it is non-zero and the alternatives aren't subsidized enough by the likes of China to incentivize others to join them and if not enough people are joining you won't have a network effect.
I normally have a hard time watching long "monologue" videos but I feel like Huberman usually does a good job of keeping my attention. He speaks with eloquent intonations and maintains a piercing eye contact with the camera. I admit his videos can be a bit tedious sometimes but I just frame them as "classes", which makes them easier to bear.

He could for sure add in some sugar to help the medicine go down, but it would make the already long videos longer.
Projects like these are what push me to expand my DIY skillset. (I enjoy making things so much I want everyone to share my passion, not feel DIY is beyond them.)

Sure, the guy has some fancy tools, but what I saw looked like something you could have laser-cut by way of Shapeko (or similar online laser-cutting services). He in fact referenced an acrylic version that would laser up nicely.

I suppose the electronics would be a learning curve but I might just go with the KiCad PCB he provides and go from there. (Curious though about the acrylic version — how it handles the electronics.)

Vinyl cut letters... This is do-able but also points out to me that the author is something of a perfectionist. Someone just getting their feet wet in a split-flap display might start out lettering their flaps with a Sharpie.

As you say, if the fun is in driving an analog display with software you could do a lot worse starting out with matte board, hot glue, a Sharpie and a handful of electronics.
I have been really surprised that there hasn't been any apparent innovation in educational technologies and classroom concepts.
I don’t believe it’s scientifically validated, and I don’t have a direct link off hand, but check out Trataka, which is staring at a fixed object for a set amount of time (e.g. a candle or an image with a dot).

HealthyGamerGG YouTube channel has videos on it.

Apparently the yogis have been doing it for 1000s of years.
NVIDIA published a headline on their site. I could imagine them bankrolling the open publication. Good PR, good science it's a win-win and a trivial expense.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/01/20/living-cell-simulat...
Indeed, my 40 year old generic nylon backpack from a sporting goods store has been my travel bag on nearly every trip I've taken, but I discovered a few years ago upon stepping out into a drenching rain, that it had lost all of its waterproofing. Oops. Now I line it with a plastic trash bag.
You embarrass yourself. It brings me no pleasure to watch it.

But it reflects also, perhaps unfairly, on Rust and its creators, who did not ask for foolish promotion.
There's still a 9/11 worth of deaths every single day, it's just been going on too long for people to maintain interest.

It's not the end of Covid, it's not even really transitioning to a fundamentally different phase, it is just that people are bored of making a small effort to safeguard their vulnerable fellow citizens.
Is there something similar for mac?
Does anyone buy packt books?

I view them as below free-tier content that you a) have to pay for, but since there is basically zero quality control, they're often out of date, full of errors or just either incredibly specific (here's one specific example of a thing) or copy-pasted API documentation.

I mean, just seeing packt as a publisher is enough for me to go: I'm not really interested in this.

You can make good content and publish it without packt (eg. the FastAI book).

If this book is actually good, why did you involve packt? They're the enemy of high quality technical documentation.
I thought I was reading my own comment at first. This is my main dev environment.
Awesome! Glad to know that someone out there is enjoying this tool. Has definitely given me more motivation to polish it up, rather than me slogging along.

I honestly did the referral link to the model search because prior to doing so I was trying to price check, but don't have a programmatic way of doing that without access to the Associates API.

I did it manually at first, but then saw price drifts within a couple of days. On top of that, some models on the list were out of production and I was hesitant to link pricing to models that were likely to be refurbished, old stock, or listed as used.

I wasn't aware of ASIN, I do like the approach better, so I can work on getting that switched over when I get free time over the weekend.

Thanks again for your feedback!
I don't understand science so this sounds like some bullshit but I have absolutely no idea why
> we hit peak desktop right around Windows 2000

I could not disagree more strongly. Win2000 buttons are tiny, drag areas are tiny, basically everything is tiny and unclickable. I strongly prefer the generously-proportioned, touch-inspired interfaces of the last 4-5 years.
If someone has a better summary, please post it here.
I think some of these examples are pretty easy to poke holes in, but the idea is pretty close to how I evaluate or plan around problems. Even when I’m making narrow and even urgent changes to something, I’m making a mental note if not a historical artifact tracking both my sense of the thematic problem and the general sense of where a holistic solution should go. I’m getting better at not getting too attached to the importance of every single long term goal—sometimes they’re a distraction, sometimes they’re wrong, often they’re both—but pretty much my entire professional methodology is a combination of trying to keep enough context to even think about end states, and using them to help guide short term decisions.
Amphetamines
The best guess I have is buggy programs passing invalid pointers to kernel32 functions (e.g. OpenFile/WriteFile).
Many of them have kids and other relatives in the West, living off their money. Releasing the information who they are and cutting them off can be the next step.
invalid page faults
I use it as my daily driver, and all the answers are here, plus familiarity.
This would be cool to make this into an airgapped TOTP device if an RTC is added
As a bad programmer who only really knows Python. I agree.
Nvidia confirms it is investigating a cybersecurity incident
If it takes 10 seconds to compute something once on one core, and it still takes 10 seconds to compute it eight times on eight cores, you have achieved perfect scaling. They're performing 8x as much work for the 8-core test. That is: they are converting 16 million numbers, two million per core. I think maybe you're thinking they're running the same amount of work for the 1- and 8-core tests, but that's not what this test is doing.
I'm sure the Russian offensive cybersecurity operations have access to non-Russian IP addresses, so this policy of blocking Russian IP addresses is likely to have zero effect on them and lots of collateral damage on Russian civilians.
I’m responding to someone who claimed this is a good fizzbuzz test which is different than the point of the article.
Ah I need to teach my Win10 qt project this look. Tried hard but the best I got was win7 style.
I'm guessing the reason for doing it this way is to avoid having to invent a build language. Instead, Zig is used as the "scripting" language for the build.

Compare with Bazel's Skylark language, which is approximately a subset of Python.

Since an imperative language is doing declarative things, there can be a bit of confusion unless you're clear about how it works.
> I bet you wish you hadn't spent those hundreds of bitcoin, don't you?

I don’t know if you realize just how disturbing and manipulative this sounds.
Okay, interesting.

Thanks for sharing!
There are multiple NATO countries that already border Russia. If Putin takes Ukraine it will nearly double the amount of NATO countries that will border Russia.
And even if we accept that a particular Democratic government is beyond reproach today, doesn't mean some dictatorial neighbors mightn't come visit one day and install a different government.
and GUI applications have become so bloated they take longer to open up then they did in the 90s.

...while somehow being even less graphically complex.
My issue with leaening ML isn't tensorflow, but that I'd need to figure out how to load the models into a mobile device running on C#... Which I have no idea how to do.
It's nice to see some good news for once...
I’m genuinely not sure what you think matters about this fact.
Very little discussion of performance trade offs here. At my workplace, the various disk encryption and antivirus slows full recompile time from 4 seconds (on an unsecured laptop) to 8 minutes (on the only laptop I’m allowed to use for work). It has an unbelievably huge negative impact on my productivity when the REPL cycle is 8 minutes per change.
Install the BSOD x11-screensaver hack.

(I used this for a while in rotation with others ... cow-orkers would occasionally tell my my laptop had crashed. I'd enter my password and continue working...)
I go the other direction: NeXT (WindowMaker), or good old twm.
Ah, I get your point. They are _pronounced_ little endian, and consequently written that way RTL, which works out to big endian LTR, of course.
You had me at Netscape navigator.
They are soldiers in an active war zone. They have far more serious and pressing concerns than a slightly elevated radiation dose.
I'm just defending the statement "Of course, we can't stop eating every animal".

Why are you here?
Iraq was a lot more about making Hussein pay for various personal bs, expending vast amounts of built up ordnance, and getting the next set of officers combat experience than oil.
I suspect such sites have a timer to ensure they take longer so people think it is a lot of work to find a match.
I don't doubt that the mechanics of how it's done are embellished to make a fun narrative, but the theme of tricking small nations into debt to secure a foothold is very believable to me.
> - The trait system is full of "but" that make it not as simple to use in practice (ej: Is too common traits require extra work because this or that rule in THIS case must be appeased, and also, is where is more obvious things are in disconnect with the rest of the lang)

Can you give a concrete example of what you mean here? I don't doubt that you have a legitimate criticism, but it's phrased in a way that I genuinely am not able to understand
Sure, but it makes it harder for an invasion force to reach Moscow or the industrial heart of Russia.
Did it make a difference either time?
i think they just want to read people's notes.
Please post sources.
Can echo this. My first Tumi was great but failed due to user error (internal spills that were my fault). My second degraded much quicker - zips and strap stitching failed. Moved to a Victoronix, which seems to be even better than the first Tumi, but its only been in use a few years so far.
Dose makes the poison. It’s very unlikely the amounts they’re getting will make any difference.
Ask HN: Consolidated Evidence of Google's Untrustworthiness?
Every week or so I see a post here on HN about someone losing all of their YouTube videos to a Google AI accusation of copyright infringement, or of their Google account being shut down because of content in their Google Drive being flagged as disallowed.

I don't think most people see this as a pattern, and I'd like to share evidence of the trend with friends and family so that they can protect themselves.

Is there a website that consolidates these cases and potentially summarizes them?
You posit that "the majority of liberals-leaning American"s hold the same beliefs in the "America-divided narrative" and yet conclude that everyone is "surprisingly united ideologically". That seems like a contradiction but it's possible we just disagree on what is ideologically important. For example, I think it is important that 74m Trump supporters think Trump is honest and an equal number of Trump haters think he is dishonest.

How do you think liberals-leaning and conservative-leaning Americans are united ideologically?
For what it's worth, if the rest of the pack is still good, you can often replace zippers with buttons, clasps, rivets, or another type of closure. It's worth attempting a fix if only to keep more junk out of landfills.
Have since learned that the reporting address is abuse@duckduckgo.com.
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As Ukraine crisis deepens, China lifts all wheat-import restrictions on Russia
Unless someone goes into the main containment building and starts licking things, this is unlikely to do much of anything.

Getting shot by Ukrainians however, is very real danger.
Good writing is probably like dressing up. It's not just what people think of you, you think of yourself better too.
I have used themes like this on Linux and also some to make it look like MacOS. What I really want on Linux are tools that are written to be exactly like Windows, no more no less. Why? Well in addition to the numerous OS related problems I seem to encounter every time I go back and do a clean install of a distro like Ubuntu I am also annoyed by how poorly designed many of the basic tools like the calculator is. The Windows calculator is so simple that it makes it super easy to hop in, do a quick calculation via the numpad and jump out. Just copy it exactly. To this day there is still no default Paint program as good as MSPaint. MSPaint is great for pasting screenshots, quickly cropping/cutting and then saving. On linux you gotta install some other junk like Gimp/Krita/whatever else the typical forum dwellers recommend this month. Just please give me MSPaint on Linux. Nothing more, Nothing Less.
Why don't you go tell them they're doing wrong yourself? They're probably not reading HN. Go volunteer to record the passports and documents while the enemy is on the horizon, and post videos so we can all watch and make sure you're documenting properly.
Curious that strtol() etc wasn’t profiled as this concerns turning ints into strings. Snprintf has a lot of other overhead.
' we have the option of controlling it to produce better outcomes '

Following that logic, every country can simply print fiat money until everyone is rich.
Yes, they aren't that bad. I think your right about them being lower quality than others, but I've seen some good ones. I think an earlier version of this Python ML book was quite good, I remember reading some of it and being happy with it.
It's definitely cool, but the 4% win here is nothing compared to continuing AV1 rollout. I also agree that YouTube and Google in particular seem well suited to incorporate additional AI models to massively improve compression, particularly in their mobile app. A 300MB, finely tuned model (either as an AV1 upscaler or a pure deep learning model) is highly likely to be able to allow mobile devices to stream at 4k for the same bitrate as v9 480p.
Feds rescind license extension for Florida nuclear plant
This. Putin is just looking for excuses for why he wants to take Ukraine.
> Cost-wise, it doesn't make sense for individuals to host a neural-network based grammar checker

Why?

We already do the same in the photography world in the form of apps like Topaz Labs' denoise/sharpen/gigapixel, as well as video enhance. Why would I care how many gigs of disk space and even a GPU might be required for an NN grammar checker if it literally makes back the money by improving the writing that influences my career? Hell, I can expense what is needed to run this if the payoff to my company is "the quality of work is better, and more secure".