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> Microsoft wrote a research OS back in the ‘00s to try this out but it ultimately didn’t turn into a shipping product.

They called it SIPs (software isolated processes). You can see the benefit of WASM for this problem, though. It has gained significant traction, and it is significantly simpler than CLR. I really hope something comes of it.
Let’s compromise: 1-253/234 for the thousands separator and the decimal. And YY.DD,MM for the date.
Hi, thanks for the tip, I will add that to the FAQ. There is no VIM key binding at the moment. We are planning to add one; we know how many developers (including us) would want that.
Which in turn comes from Bertrand Meyer, who probably stole it from somebody else in 1990. Code should act or decide, but not both.
Wow, the fact that the “rocket ship” Fast and its ceo were talking about was really the number of employees hired( graph from the article) just takes the cake: https://mobile.twitter.com/January_Capital/status/1354070050...
It feels like a continuation of the anti-self-determination trend of putting rounded corners and foam padding on everything. No passwords allowed on github, no running x program as root, make it as hard as possible to add unapproved browser extensions, etc. and now the raspberry pi has to be less convenient to set up to protect people who don't care enough to know what they're doing from themselves. I hate it.
Any chance you still have the link to the micro-commits post you mentioned below? Even better, do you have a post on your blog describing your workflow? I'd love to read a concrete example and apply it in my daily work.
And how, pray tell, do you discover all of the scenarios that need to be covered?

If only there were some sort of coverage tool that could tell you...
Sounds useful for applications that have heavy computations client side, and for those which need better security when using Lambdas (or similar), but otherwise not particularly significant for users/devs that don't have those problems.
Me using Linux after 25 years of Windows:

Wow, Linux on the Desktop is in great shape!

After Microsoft went to far with their Edge bullshit and "always online and always logged in" and hidden ads and spyware I had enough. So, I've started to play around with some Linux distros in a VM. It was OK. Ubuntu LTS was great. Fedora, too. Linux Mint also.

Some weeks later I installed Linux Mint on my workstation. I had to resolve one smaller issue with the NVIDIA driver, but using Linux was one awesome experience. Super fast, super easy. Linux Mint is really nice and easy for people coming from Windows.

I've recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS beta and it is simply fantastic. (Note: Wayland has fractional scaling issues, so I recommend XOrg if you need fractional scaling.)
It's called inflation
Making fun educational games (part 1/N)
I know right? That's why I put together Inviteable, I think we could use something just as simple to accomplish the same thing, just without Facebook. My goal was to make it super quick to create an event & share a URL instantly.

Would love to see what people think and take feedback to make it something great!
I use linux exclusively for ~15 years on all my computers. Last year i bought a Ryzen5 PC with an RTX3070 after only using laptops for around 10 years. I absolutely expected difficulties with the GPU but it was all smooth sailing from the beginning. I through the newest Ubuntu on there and checked install non-free during the installation. I haven't had to deal with drivers at all for years now.
Quick comment on this. I also work for a seed level startup and we have gotten dozens of Fortune 500s, plus most of the big accounting, auditing and consulting firms.

The reason this is possible for us is because our tech isn’t mission critical for them.

I doubt the CEOs/CXOs of any of these companies even know we exist.

We’ve just been fortunate that a lot of ops teams in these companies need our thing.

So - that has really changed my paradigm of enterprise sales.

Sometimes, if you’re SAP, you need to get whole of company buy-in. But if you’re SurveyMonkey, you don’t
Agate has about the same hardness of quartz (6½-7 on the Mohs scale).

I expect patience may have helped. If they did the carving with a slightly harder stone, it may have taken months to make (almost by keeping scratching it, rather than carving it), but it also would have been hard to mess up the work in a few seconds.
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But I was implying the choice isn't clear.

There aren't many good startup engineers with experience at successful startups who are floating around, especially from when the company in question was actually a startup.

edit: i re-read, my comment "failed startup engineer" may have read differently to what i intended. I meant they worked at a failed startup, not that they were a failure. It's largely unfair, but people do seem to think people who worked at a successful company are better than those who worked at a failed company.
Tesla plans to produce V1 Optimus, the Cybertruck, Roadster, and Semi next year
"Garg admitted to not being disciplined in managing the company’s cash and in its hiring strategy, which helps explain the company’s second mass layoff of over 3,000 people just three months later."

"You will not be allowed to fail twice. You’ll be encouraged to fail once, but not allowed to fail twice.”

Welp...
> the real reason that housing is so expensive in popular cities, which is scarcity.

This isn't really true though. Housing is expensive everywhere, even in unpopular cities, even in cities losing population. (Except for a few specific cities), housing is not scarce, we just pretend it is because we pretend all these fake financial transactions count as valid 'demand'.

> we're focusing on foreign buyers in 2022. And blind-bidding in 2021. And investors in 2019. And money-laundering in 2018. And Chinese money in 2017. All of these things should be addressed, but every one of them has provided political cover for the real reason that housing is so expensive in popular cities, which is scarcity

And why is housing "scarce"? Because we waste housing on fake buyers (every single thing you just mentioned). That's why it's all in focus so much.

My midwestern city has built 2x to 3x more housing units than it's received in new residents, for almost 15 years straight now, and housing still goes up 15% each year like clockwork. You can outbuild new resident growth (many places already do), but you can never outbuild investor demand while housing is federally forced to appreciate like this.

I'm so sick of people bullsh*tting that 'zoning' and 'nimbys' are why housing is expensive, when we have dozens of major cities with no meaningful zoning restrictions, no 'nimbys', and no restrictions on growth or construction of any kind -- and even in these cities, housing is shit and expensive.
Not the op, but these two systems clearly outclass US systems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status-6_Oceanic_Multipurpose_...

https://www.axios.com/kinzhal-hypersonic-missiles-russia-ukr...
You both have just arrived at the rub:

Capitalism has fooled the common man into thinking that desire is necessity.
Yep, totally. I wasn't even surprised tbh. It's just a good thing and it takes a good ceo/early sales person to get those deals even if they aren't mission critical.
I could easily see the UK trying to ban root access to personal devices.
The problem at your new company isn’t to do with location, it’s that for whatever reason, their culture is terrible. There are zero scenarios where a good-culture company doesn’t very effectively welcome new people into a team.
The top comment says it's the system sound for inserting/removing a USB storage device. I'm guessing it's a loose connector or shorted wire and the vibration from standing up and moving the chair is causing it to briefly disconnect.
It really does look exactly like a BattleMech from one of the MechWarrior video games doesn't it! Thats fascinating. Reminds me most of the Locust:

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Locust

https://sites.google.com/site/fineartofmechcombat/_/rsrc/146...
I stopped playing because I spent most of my time running around the map while being stuck with certain problems. If there was a speed-up button then I would've kept trying.
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It's not just the writings or workbooks that exist, but also the things that people read. For example, in his day, Mark Twain was a massively popular author. Were retarded people (projecting the Flynn Effect backwards) enjoying great literature? Seems implausible to me. If the average intellect at the time were relatively much reduced compared to the modern intellect I would expect the public to prefer simpler literature.
EDIT: Using "you" rhetorically, not accusing parent poster.

I actually have heard of this, despite not witnessing it much. Dark side of the moon, but yeah...I guess they must have some way of detecting my vibe, like I believe in paying taxes, not only when rich, but with little regard for how poor as well, and have never met a single person who agrees with me...well in the Bible yes, Christ paid 100% taxes. Just us two. Who knows if G-men have a way of detecting that, that would be so weird, like actually find a person who doesn't value the taxes they pay at 0%, which is identical to valuing the government at 0, and the work they do at 0, and even the help they provide you personally at 0 (otherwise you would value taxes at say .000001% of what you pay because that's how much is coming back to you, but that's my personal reasoning without any input from anybody claiming this, I've never heard an accountant make this claim), so I guess...if they pick up on people thinking they're worth literally fucking nothing in every way and in everything they do...they don't like that, and don't want to help you. Although they still help tons of people regardless. They may resent it though. And maybe if people weren't so tax-averse, but not just for what other people have to pay, but what they themselves have to pay (I've heard of this in Sweden, that's where I got these ideas), then the government would respect taxes differently because it's not as adversarial (putting myself in tax-hating shoes here, trying to see the moon's dark side from Earth with my imagination, because I sure can't do it with my empathy).

Now I'm starting to see why I disagree with everyone in this regard, little by little. Everyone hates taxes (meaning want to pay the minimum), except me. So everyone has an incredibly shitty relationship with the government (according to them, that's all I hear people talk about), except me. Maybe there's some link between those two things.

Note also if I choose I can reduce how much extra I pay unilaterally, I don't need literally anybody's permission to reduce what I contribute down to the near-minimum amounts like everyone else. Like if I judge that a government hates me with true hatred, I can develop the same hatred for paying taxes to it as anybody else.
As said in other comments the artifact is indeed gorgeous, the intricacy of carving stunning. I also agree with the idea that it shows our predecessors were as intelligent as we are today. Certainly no less "artistic" or creative.

Other objects from prior epochs reflect the same levels of intelligence. The astonishing "Venus of Dolní Věstonice" (National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic) [0] is a ceramic piece made ~25-29K years ago. I was privileged to see it about 25 years ago, its patina resembles raku-like ceramics. I've asked myself, how did anyone know how to do this 25K years ago? How did the creator of the piece manage to get the elevated temperature (~750C) needed to make it work? It was the product of intelligence to be sure.

Of course there are many other examples of ancient human ingenuity to point to. It's evident our ancestors figured out solutions to problems in surprisingly effective ways. We're smart too, but probably no smarter than those who came before.

[0] https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=2493
I can't help but feel like the "software industry" is in a slow decline (or race to the bottom). Back in 2007 before I even knew how to "program", I was a linux admin at a small start up. We found someone that we trusted enough to build us a basic webpage. But he wanted $75 per hour. Couldn't find anyone else so bit the bullet. It was written in php, took the guy a few weeks to do, and we paid him somewhere between $3k and $5k for the work. For the other side of our business (our actual product, taking GPS coordinates via SMS and displaying on top of a google maps like interface), same thing, we could only find one other person that we actually trusted to build our actual product. But he wanted $75 an hour. We bit the bullet. Two weeks go by and and he shows us a mostly working demo. A back end Ruby script writing the SMS to a mysql DB, and a Rails app displaying the coordinates with mapnik. Another week later and he is finished and invoices us for $16,000.

I was in college at the time and couldn't wait to graduate and start rolling in money. I mean, these two programmers didn't even have degrees and I was about to have one. That meant I could do the same thing only charge $100 an hour right?

My first "IT" job out of college I made $54k a year. After three years I got my first promotion to $64k but quit a few months later. Did a couple of 1099 contracts at $50 an hour over a year. Got hired by Apex and sent to AT&T for $35 an hour. Did that for a year and then back to 1099 contracts again. This time at $55 an hour. Moving on up! After 4 years of that, quit cold turkey and figured with 10 years of experience now under my belt that I could easily find some better contracts or full time work.

22 months and 110 interviews later, still nothing.
This seems like a perfectly sensible change that will enhance security without any real downsides. Take off your tinfoil hat.
Oh, that's a strict criterion! So not even Vim cuts it for you, it has to be neovim.
Exactly, the cost of turning on additional servers is measured in ~US$100's/mth vs an engineer's time ~US$10k-25k/mth.

If you can make the problem go away by spending more in servers always do it.

For startups, the life and death is product market fit and you only get there by iterating on the business as many times as possible, not making something more efficient.

Put engineers on business iterations.
I actually don’t remember in my 25+ years on the internet to have ever clicked one of those ads. Now they are more invasive, as they appears masked as legit content - reddit, fb, instagram, and video games they force me to see ads.

I was so disappointed when apps added ads on the iPhone to ger money! Such a scam.
Greg’s Private License Very Three, or GPL v3 is my new license. Not at all sneaky.
Tell us more about your video game company - any successes? titles out there? tell us more...
Put a spin on it and have some meat at your party
I don't follow, sorry. They aren't in the same "space" any more than files are in the same "space". Users put files in C:\ and so does the system, so filesystems are terrible?
> If it's only way you convey it.

Exactly. That's why your traffic lights example is puzzling to me? They're a notorious example of a case of something that can very easily be (and often is) ambiguous.
I don’t get this sentiment: https://twitter.com/dcarter_js/status/1509916298574442498

“I could not be happier or more proud of my teams and what they have accomplished.”

If the company wasn’t successful, then that’s partially on engineering. As employees, we win as a team and lose as a team.

It seems like they were way overbuilt and should have gone much slower from a hiring perspective.

Perhaps these are just words that folks say to put best light on things as they leave, but it strikes me as disingenuous and lacks that ownership mentality that engineering leadership should display.
But the icons are for individual actions rather than the semantic grouping the colors convey, no?
Two complaints I have with iTunes.

One is that it stores a "play count", the number of times you've played a song, directly in that song file. So it's always re-writing the source file of the track in the library.

That would be only mildly irritating -- radically blowing up the size of system backups, for instance -- but for the fact that it routinely corrupts the new song file stream.

I see so much bit rot in my iTunes audio files -- and nowhere else -- that the stupidity of not simply keeping some small database of play count veers over into uselessness.

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The second complaint is that they decided that any file I had ripped from my CDs were pirated, and therefore would require an annual fee for me to keep. I understand that's a concession they agreed to from music industry in order to roll out their "iTunes Cloud" stuff.

But yes, I bought more than 400 CDs new and yes, I still have all of them, and indeed, I never loaned them out to anyone else (no one asked).

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After a while, I just set my iTunes audio files to read-only, and a to-do item from ten years ago is to go through and re-encode my physical CDs. Still haven't done that, yet.

Stopped using iTunes, instead. Still need to rip them discs...
I think additional licensing for pickup trucks is a fantastic idea.
> ...or a sufficiently high tax on owned land (so that waiting and doing nothing has opportunity costs).

For non-primary residences? Sounds pretty good to me!
Could be uPnP setting up port forwarding
I’ve had ADHD forever and always coped with it until the pandemic.
I’ve lived what some might call an adventurous life. I think it’s reasonably boring but most people don’t have the same kinds of stories I have.

About 6 months in I started taking meds, the meds did help for a while. My understanding of ADHD or at least my type is that our brains require more stimulation than others.

I recently moved to Paraguay. I stopped taking my meds and most of my “symptoms” have gone away, the only thing I can attribute this to is how rich and varied the environment is. It makes your brain think and you have to use it.

Also find things you are good at and focus on those, I’m not a neat and tidy person but it’s essential for me to live in a clean place, so I have a maid because I focus on the things I am good at.
Hacker News has these as parent/prev/next buttons.
Couldn’t agree more. Seeing body bags at accidents on just about every commute in a large city (LV) between home/school really made that point for me. It started to feel like that city was engaging in some weird daily sacrifice since no one talks about “gee maybe we should drive more safely?” Or just ludicrously violent.
Maybe what you're not getting was that it was posted on April Fools day?
I honestly think it has to do with how much time people have. In all fairness my experience is similar to others in that after the 8-10h fighting with it I probably spent all my time outside of my day job using it without any problem. But I basically had no life outside of this at the time. Others either use Linux for a living or somehow can manage their time really well.

When you feel like you have all the time it isn't an issue but after I barely got away from a very busy and very long work and all I want to do is rest for 2h and watch some entertainment or edit some document/form or even keep up with a hobby project and Linux eats away my evening/weekend, that's a different experience.

But I still like Linux a lot, the community makes it worth the fight.
It’s called Hacker News but I can’t remember the URL - something weird about combining whys.
Its not though, something else is already named that, and it doesn't have one
Ah, celebrity investing. Of course, of course.
Doesn't this only give you DoH and DoT on the local half of the connection? Don't you need to also using cloudflared or unbound to send the remote half over DoH (which is where basically all of the security and privacy benefit comes from) as well?
Of course, the point wasn't that the colors should be removed entirely, only that they're only a partial solution.
The did open up the API again, or rather are in the process of doing so. Look at the new essential access tier and v2 endpoints. Its early but they are launching more and more.
Do we have evidence it was carved?

It’s possible to “shrink” a stamp by pressing onto wet clay, firing, and then repeating the process multiple times (clay will reduce after firing).

I wonder if this could have been etched or pressed, potentially with a chemical process?
The problems of the housing market is the exact same as any other expensive city in the US or anywhere else. Home-owners with local power messing with zoning laws to limit supply and boost the price of their homes. It's always a supply issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OZJClSdZ28
> In short, they've well expanded into any area where shitty morals is a strong business advantage.

I guess that's most of those businesses if not all business then
Taking a simple average like that implicitly assumes that nuclear technology has not improved in sixty years, and that we've refused even to learn simple lessons like "put a containment dome around your reactor." This is manifestly not the case.
I just got this automatic up/down/side-grade. DNS to be handled by a partner service provider, so they get all my data instead of my ISP getting it? Doesn't seem like an improvement. I think I will turn this off.
I refuse to sign into my rarely used account specifically for this reason.
Which brings us to the unasked question, "what's in it for them?".
This looks banging! Amazing work so far.

I found a typo on your /faq page:
> Of course! You can try the for 1 week.
basically all the court is saying is that a clause that says: you may remove any additional clauses
is meaningless.

maybe it needs to be written differently: any additional clauses are optional

or even: this is the complete license, any additional text is not part of the license

this clause is essentially a trap for anyone who wants to use this license with modifications. and if i wanted to do that i'd just remove this very clause to avoid misunderstandings.

the question that remains is: how does one add optional clauses that actually remain optional
Again, I used the word if.

Why do you keep removing the word if and telling me I'm assuming things?

Sometimes people rationalize things, and they're wrong about why they did something.

But there are logical planning things that only region 3 is capable of.

> The error in your mental model here is that you equate Region 3 with being the "plan maker". As I said previously, an awful lot of the time Region 2 is actually the decider and Region 3 just rationalizes it.

I don't understand this criticism, unless you're treating plan maker and plan decider as the same thing? I was already leaving it open for region 2 to be the decider.

If region 2 is completely on its own then it's not making much of a plan, is it?