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"In war, truth is the first casualty."

~ Aeschylus
New image from Webb, another milestone achieved
> Maybe it's part of a potential new "free OS" offering, where you get Windows 11 for free, but with ads.

Who are you kidding? The paid versions of Windows 10 already have built-in ads. The installer even asks about "personalized" ad preferences.

The ship's already sailed - Windows is ad-ware. The only question now is how blatant they want to be, and it looks like they're figuring that out now.
> of a culture historically regarded as inferior to my own to the supremacy of western culture

I see your point in general (a bit harsh IMO) except this sentence.

As an Spaniard, I would never think of the idea of Spain as not western or perceived as inferior to the US. I needed to read it twice to understand what was being said in your comment.

This reminds me of an interview in the US Olympics where the interviewer (US) kept asking the athlete (South African I think) about being African-American. She was very confused.

It also reminds me of the time a colleague (from the US) argued that I am not white (I am Spanish), since in their mind I was a latino I guess?

With all these anecdotes I mean to politely say that while there are similarities in many ways, you cannot simply extrapolate the US perceptions on race to the whole world.
>> Any recommendations on the best folks to pay on the libreoffice side to squash some formatting bugs etc for complex word docs.

These guys contribute a lot to LibreOffice, and also have their own offerings:
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/

I haven't looked, but I think their work ends up upstream eventually.
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My personal prediction is that Deno is never going to take off. It's just not a significant enough improvement over Node.js that abandoning the existing ecosystem is worth it.
I will never ask you to do anything I wouldn’t do myself
If your point is that some people will accept some rule breaking, then rule breaking is okay, I simply don’t agree.

Of course some people will accept rule breaking. There’s always people that will justify it post hoc. There are also others that won’t. The real problem is you’ve now created a culture of rule breaking. Soon everyone will be violating policies as a matter of due course.

This is exactly how you get lawsuits and criminal complaints. If you’re lucky, you just have a toxic culture that hurts recruiting and retention. People here always complain about “politics”, but that’s exactly what this is.

If you need examples of where exceptions came back to bite people and companies in the ass, it’s everywhere. Theranos, Uber, Zenefits, Google, the list goes on and on. Even so, I fully expect advocates for capricious enforcement (ie protecting their friends) will further justify it by saying something about how the fines and settlements were “good business decisions” or something, because self justification knows no bottom.
Eh? I literally gave an example - asking the user to pick a file or open a hardware resource (audio stream, for example, or USB device). The trusted system process shows the file picker & opens the file, and then just gives the requesting app that open FD.

It's a pretty straightforward & extendable way to do permission handling, rather than needing the kernel to do all of that natively. Whereas if you go the RPC route, then you're into not just a monolithic kernel but a larger-than-ever monolithic kernel as it's now doing permission management, too.
Demoralised Russian soldiers tell of anger at being ‘duped’ into war
Micromobility Will Change Our Cities
How is it closed source if the source is openly available to view?
This person is totally guilty of violating the rule on self promotion:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

Promoting your app in every single otherwise okay comment is certainly distasteful.
Transistors!

E.g. EPROM (memory type chip) is typically deleted by shining a uv light on the actual silicon die, through a uv transparent quartz window in the final packaged chip.

edit: fixed EEPROM -> EPROM
In practice I don't think it's just OSI which gets to decide this.

Debian and Red Hat have their own teams determining whether something is Open Source enough to allow into their distributions, and obviously the Free Software Foundation keeps their own list of licenses which they consider Free Software.

If these groups of people disagree on whether a particular license is Free/Open Source software, it's not going to be considered an Open Source license by everyone.
Clear menus that aren't hidden away are great, but a significant problem with horizontal 'sausage' menus is that it isn't obvious that you can scroll, especially on Apple devices that hide scrollbars. The article mentions this as a bit of an after-thought ("Without proper fade / cut off visual cues, users may not understand they can scroll") but it's the key reason why you should avoid them.

To demonstrate, I've forked the example and set the main element to 625px wide instead of 600px - https://codepen.io/onion2k/pen/mdpVWmr
> Everything will just be Amazon at some point.

It is almost there. When AWS has a blip most of the popular apps/products stop working, including my Roomba
OSI doesn't need to control what licenses qualify as "open source" for neo4j to be sued for false advertising.
How does xlsx solve this? I was pretty sure i've had to deal with this same issue with xlsx files, but maybe I am misremembering...or the problem was introduced as an xls file that was then converted to xlsx.
They occupy the term because they literally coined it, if you know your history.[1]

OS came to us from the OSD, written by the OSI and after hot debate in the early days of what should and shouldn't be Free Software. It was specifically a reaction to the FSF and a rejection of that group's activism, which didn't fit what they were trying to do.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software (specifically the first section starting with End of the 90s)
Im not at all drawn towards Lee Kuan Yew. He's a thug.

This particular policy was stolen from Singaporean communists in the 1950s out of a kind of desperate pragmatism. Lee Kuan Yew didnt really want to do it but he wanted the commies to win even less. They airbrushed that part out later.

It was similar in America in the 50s. When the ruling classes were desperately afraid of communists you got social housing, medical care, subsidized education and the middle class thrived and could easily afford cars, homes and education.

No more though.

All that bollocks about individual freedom (freedom to pay more rent!) was used to drive you into poverty while a state that works on "spreading liberal values" with tanks decided to trash the 4th amendment because what American elites really thing is that too much freedom = terrorism.

It's all rather ironic.
Very much agree.

Regarding transportation, I have been living here for 13 years and still don't own a car.
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I snagged a 4 letter domain name about 10 years ago and will never abandon it. Even if it's a .org
On PCs, at least. On mobile, it's very natural.
Probably stupid idea, but why don’t you put your system at the end of a factory co2 output
There you ll have more than 400ppm ?
It's always amazing to see companies make upgrading harder than moving to their competitors.
Shouldn't be too strange that people might want to play a game themself instead of watch other people play a game they never knew of on TV in Dutch.

There are probably a lot of good games out there that could be thoughtfully ported so that people can play. But you'll find that a naive clone by itself doesn't guarantee success.
That implementation is annoying to scroll on my desktop. I can only imagine that I'd sausage-finger a button trying to scroll it on my phone. No thanks.
The n1 rule I follow (and push everyone to follow) is: "Don't write shitty commit messages." It helps in general with everything related to Git.

Otherwise I decide ahead of time and focus on one area at a time that I know is a small chunk of functionality (like adding boilerplate for a small script, unit testing a piece of functionality, implementing an endpoint) and as long as I'm working on it I just use git add -A ; git commit --amend --no-edit . Once I move on to new self-contained batch of functionality I make a new commit and repeat the amending. It requires a bit of discipline to keep commits small enough but I like it since it's an easy process to follow.

Before I make a review request I usually do an interactive rebase and reword commit messages, sometimes reorder them and squash small stuff if it makes sense. After a review is in process I generally no longer rebase (to keep review transparent) and commit each fix separately.
I find myself coming back to this Steve Jobs quote more and more:

"It turns out the same thing can happen in technology companies that get monopolies, like IBM or Xerox. If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful.

So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product.

They have no conception of the craftsmanship that's required to take a good idea and turn it into a good product. And they really have no feeling in their hearts, usually, about wanting to really help the customers."

Creatives build companies, and if you are not careful, sales will destroy them.
Your posting history suggests you are a Russian troll.

Reuters confirms the maternity hospital attack is genuine.

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-ukraine-war/fact-c...
Ah I see you're new to using Microsoft services ;)
How to validate your idea and get your first customers with email outreach
DDxHub – Differential Diagnosis Hub
I have moved all my library development to Deno and described the experience in a blog post[1].

To summarize, the two killer features for me are Web APIs and the built-in toolchain.

I understand the skepticism other Node devs have when faced with Deno. I have been using Node since 2010, and there is hardly anything I cannot do with it (or didn't do at one point), yet Deno makes a lot of these things much simpler. My last straw was trying to run Jest tests on TS code compiled into a Node.js ESM module. I believe I spent more time figuring out workarounds for a myriad of issues in Jest+ Node+TSC chain, than it took me to switch to Deno where all of it came out of the box.

[1] https://itnext.io/moving-libraries-to-deno-the-whys-and-hows...

edit: spelling
The maybe later option will be in tiny print in the corner with a background that doesn’t contrast much and will be followed by “are you sure?”
Oh he was a trained surgeon. Meh. LMK when the most experienced nearby medic is a meat-packer.
I decided to look into this. And there's some interesting facts on the op-ed [1]. Up until 1921 op-eds didn't exist. In 1921 they were invented by an editor who remarked, "It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America ... and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts."

Oh the times when we were more honest. That paper went out of business 10 years later. He only allowed employees to publish said pieces. The modern editorial where papers began allowing "anybody" to publish opinion based articles only began in 1970, with the NYTimes.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed
The civilian version of this class us called TECC (in the US) i took it last october- quite good. It is an adaptation of the military TCCC “combat casualty“ class. Thus class was specifically for EMTs and Paramedics but there us a more general class called “stop the bleed” intended fir more general audience. I think everyone should take a cpr/bls class and stop the bleed if they can. Good skills!
Obviously you have to secure your control plane. The question is who is securing it. I would rather be segregated from other users so I'm not swept up in a breach in tailscale that can compromise every user at once. It's a big single point of failure.
Android's Binder driver can send arbitrary FDs as can unix domain sockets via sendmsg. SCM_RIGHTS isn't limited to sending sockets, it can send any FD (open file, open socket, a memfd shared memory buffer, handle to a hardware resource, etc...)
Does similar confusion exist when asking people what the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative or Sustainable Energy Initiatives are about? Do you think there is a similar level of misperception among laypersons about the meaning of those initiatives? The common misperception regarding "Free Software" is that people think it means "gratis" rather than "libre". The common misperception with "Open Source" is that people think it means "source-code publicly available". But if the argument about common misperceptions being muddied water is not entirely convincing for you we can take another look at how the terms are defined.

The Free Software Foundation disagrees that "Open Source" and "Free Software" are the same thing. The discussion about whether they are the same thing should end there if we are to accept that the authority defining "Open Source" are correct in their definition of "Open Source". The same credence should be given to the authority defining "Free Software" providing the correct definition of "Free Software". If we are to accept both of these definitions as given by the authorities defining the terms - then they are necessarily different because the authority defining one of the terms says so despite any attempts of another authority who did not define the term at claiming otherwise.

In other words: X defines X and says X = X and X != Y. Y defines Y and says Y = Y and Y = X. Since X defines X and Y does not define X we must accept that X != Y per X's definition of X despite Y's attempt at redefining X such that Y = X.

It's uncharitable to point to OSI's definition of "Open Source" and OSI's claims that they are one and the same while completely ignoring FSF's definition of "Free Software" and FSF's claims that they are different.
Fully agreed.

The wonderful thing is that many (if not most) Discworld novels can be read standalone in any order. Yes, you'll miss some references and subtleties, and recurring characters are better if you know their traits, but still they work standalone.

Some are truly standalone (Monstruous Regiment, Small Gods, Going Postal, The Truth, etc), some aren't but can be mostly read in random order (wizards, witches, city watch).
This will force me to migrate to Ubuntu. I've been growing more and more reluctant upgrading from Windows 10 to 11 because of all the surveillance but I will never use an OS that embeds ads.
This looks good, are they now a CodeSpaces competitor?
Hopefully onethumb (Don) can comment, but I'd like to naïvely assume that existing private photos are grandfathered in.

E.g. if you have 100 private photos from 2014, those are still private, but starting today you won't be able to set any other photos as private until you're below the 50 photo threshold.
I fully agree. If I see those names attached to a project I take it with an extremely healthy dose of scepticism (and usually run the other direction).

I'm somewhat glad I made it out the other side; as a babe in arms programmer I was fully taken in by these ideas. It's a great game of fun creating these overly complex, but ultimately arbitrary, sets of rules. They serve no real purpose other than creating and solving mental puzzles. There's a reason Software Architects don't (shouldn't) exist any more.
> So GRRM doesn't owe fans anything.

I would say sticking to your word matters, and he is consistently unable to do so.

He is very excited about all the attention his public promises get, and then is very condescending about any sort of reminder (years later) that he made those promises.

I personally don't think he owes anyone content, but I also find the man incredibly distasteful.

Don't make promises you know damn well you won't keep. Especially don't make those promises because you delight in the attention and fawning fans, and then turn around and act like those fans are utter monsters for, ya know, maybe expecting you to keep your promises.
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What? Open source was always about the license, and has never included "shared source" / "source available".
Flickr was one of the best things to happen to the internet. Not quite to Wikipedia level but its in my top ten.
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
It was originally designed as a game asset storage format[1], wasn’t it? Which is why the reference implementation assumes trusted input by default[2], for example, unlike Protobufs, Cap’n Proto, or SBE.

[1] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2014/06/flatbuffers-memory...

[2] https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/flatbuffers_guide_use_c...
You are correct. I will retract my statement.
I haven’t studied MMT enough to be able to comment on it beyond a surface level, and the economists behind are smart, accomplished people. What I do know is that in the real world of policy, MMT will just be used as an excuse to spend limitless amounts of money by politicians that also don’t understand it.
eau de vie has an ABV of 72%, according to [1]. That's high enough to kill coronavirus, according to [2]

[1] - https://blacktailnyc.com/wh
at-is-the-abv-of-cognac/

[2] - https://www.marthastewart.com/7796118/isopropyl-alcohol-perc...
I think you got the point.
In 1 telegram group, i saw increasing over the last week from 200 technical profiles to 3800 ( this morning).

Most of them want to relocate outside Russia.

I think it's more than an opinion though.
London housing is expensive, but I think still significantly less than SV.
Honest question but: What is a good alternative to GA?
Definitely not. When Google was small and growing like crazy the engineers had enough leverage that Eric Schmidt realized that giving them freedom and power to keep them was the best way to grow the company.

As growth moved more into just showing more ads and making them more similar to search results, power moved away from engineers.
If you set BPG to a large file size, you still get some of the noise in the sky of the Endeavor photo. But this is 1/20 the size of the original image which is incredible.
I know lots of pseudonymous people on Twitter who have large enough followings that they don't want to share their face or real name, and I've seen them do this sort of thing
As you mentioned, I'd love to see the carbon that's captured from the air turned into something valuable like building materials. Or do something wild and have a worldwide monument building contest where captured carbon is used to make incredible sculptures and artworks.

Injecting it underground is just turning waste into waste, which depends entirely on regulatory controls to become sustainable; though of course, developing an efficient process for capture is a hugely important step.

I'm curious what the latest developments are on finding a use case for captured CO2?
why cant we use filter at the point of production and collect them as separate garbage ?
The best way to start using Deno with React is to use Remix
Love the post and I don’t think enough businesses today see data as core to their ability to execute well.

First question, how do you see definitions getting managed between the client team and data team?

eg “this is the canonical definition of churn”

Second question, where do you think custom and 3rd party infrastructure management sits (especially in the case where the data team doesn’t sit under the engineering org)?
Heaven forbid we wait to see if Microsoft actually does this before criticizing them...
Inside The Mind of Putin's Attack Dog
Even in their 'modern' solutions such as Intune, the licensing models are so arcane and difficult to grow that you basically need an expert to figure it out.
Microsoft really leans on their VAR network and I agree, it feels so inefficient
I usually squash my branches to single commits in the end and write a nice message then. There are times when I don’t do this. For example, yesterday I was moving existing code to a separate project and I first committed the original version and then made necessary changes in my next commit. This made it clear where things differed from the original.

Overall I think commits that land in main should be worthy of landing in main. Random crap you tried isn’t important. Larger self-contained changes are.
These are not the sausage links I thought they would be.

The sausage links I remember were older than internet on mobile being a thing, they were laid out vertically, and they were proportional in size to the target sections such that clicking a link or clicking the scrollbar right at their side would essentially scroll you to the same place on the page.

They were, in my opinion, a much better paradigm than this.

Alas I cannot easily find the demo page again. It might have been lost to history.
F-Droid as an IPFS Repository
It isn't really worth pointing that out, because GP's quote was '... is equivalent to £50k in London'. (Which is also below FAANG range, but that's still besides the point.)
I guess the google tracker on archive.org doesn't count for you?
> I'd instead advice to read the whole Ijon Tichy cycle starting from Star Diaries

That might help, I should probably do that. I started with "Cyberiad", then got into Lem's other works just sort of at random. It doesn't really feel like the Tichy series is grouped together in the way say the Heechee saga or a lot of other "serial" or "extended universe" works are.
It would be really nice to have companies destroy algorithms based on knowledge obtained illegally (pretty much all of Facebook and Google). I just don't see it happening anytime soon.
I read that the heat/cool heat/cool pattern of the 50% power level cooking for twice as long helps the heat to dissipate into the food, melt the ice crystals, and gives a better overall experience for taking 2x the time to cook the food.

I've not put that to the test myself with any scientific rigor but I have noticed better results with it personally.
I've had to mentor a junior engineer recently and there has been lots of insubordination and questioning my knowledge, which I'm actually quite sure of, which has really been annoying. I think it stems from my approach of humility which inexperienced engineers mistake as lack of knowledge. Would not recommend being insubordinate or questioning your mentor if they have decades more experience than you or they will stop being your mentor.
Mark Wahlberg's character in Three Kings has to do this after getting shot while wearing kevlar because his lung collapsed.
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First off, nobody's praising C. Second, those other developments - which I quite likely know better than you do so stop trying to show off or make an implied appeal to authority - are out of scope wrt an article that's specifically about C. I think it would be great if the world had converged on something like Mesa instead of C, but that didn't happen and it's not clear that it would have prevented misguided rants like the OP from being written. Whataboutism is not the same as understanding/respecting essential context.
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