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> “I have nothing against investment bankers. They could all retire and nothing much would change. [Truckers] all quit, everything comes to a halt,” President Joe Biden said this week at a White House event...

I don't agree with the president on much, but I share this sentiment.
People often ask me: why am I always preaching life extension and immortality research?

Here is why: so you can be 41, 441, 1041 and still have millions years ahead.

Once 41 years old no longer means you wasted your youth away, you will be able to concentrate on one thing per day and don't feel tragic if this thing fails.
Mastodon is really my favorite thing out there.

quick disclaimer I am a mod of the /r/Mastodon subreddit so there may be a bit of a bias there (not really though, I just like the software).
which company is the bigger user of crystal at the moment? i would love to read more case studies.
I'm shocked to learn that people with money funded another charlatan to the tune of $120M /s
Wait a minute.....you are not the person I replied to!

So can we expect a release next week?
Cool idea! It seems like you are trying to extend the whole "optional types" idea of Typescript further to add optional low level programming. One thing that came to mind. One of the major reasons why Typescript's optional/gradual typing system works so well is because the the type system and the runtime logic are mostly orthogonal. All the types that are used and declared in typescript, are stripped away by the compiler and don't affect the javascript logic. This means that if I import some other team's typescript code, I can freely write javascript on top without worrying.

Low-level operations like manual memory management are not like that. They are part of the runtime, and _do_ affect the business logic. It's a leaky abstraction. So if I import some other team's Rust code and I try to write RustScript on top, I might have to worry about some special edge cases where the argument I pass in isn't properly garbage collected or what not.
Wow, I thought it was just me. I've tried to "get into" twitter for the past decade, but I could never figure out how to read threads. I just gave up after a while because I was too proud to hunt for an explainer article somewhere. And I have too much noise in my life anyway...
I don't disagree that they don't fix the problem entirely, nor that they don't address the core problem of housing affordability. I don't think they're useless though. They affect what many people see as an unfair practice. If stopping it is as easy as regulating it away, why not do so? Nobody is going to then turn around and assume the housing affordability problem is fixed, and if they did nobody is going to believe them. It's not like this is some new and not understood problem, nobody believes blind bidding is causing all the problems.
Cost of housing in first world countries requirung two full time incomes is a big pressure point.
user hostility. there are tons of reports on /r/Twitter about phone number requirements and other sign-up flow bugs.
Thank you, I looked at the pricing but the "per month" is near the dollars in all the plans (e.g. $19/month), so the "Free" tier doesn't have the word "month" anywhere, hence my question
Didn't you hear? Every system has to be designed with full multiuser authentication capabilities. Never mind your threat model or lack thereof. We're all IBM customers now.
I worked in the same building in Honolulu as these folks. Several of us were able to buy various bits of hardware left over after they wrapped. I ended up with a massive monitor that I used for years after. My recollection is that one of my co-workers bought a rack and a few servers, but sadly I can't remember the details (other than that it was a hopelessly impractical purchase on my co-worker's part).
_definitely_ not it Bucha.
The Little Prince: Footage Unearthed of Superstar at Age 11
I think the difference in my case is an atomic commit works in isolation and pass tests. The micro commits don't always do that. That's where I differ from the article author in my workflow.

I have a "micro commit" sitting in a branch right now that's just a single line change, for example. That's not super common, but I don't have any strict rules for myself about when to or not to quicksave.

> Have you considered advocating for a change of company standards?

Oh trust me I did. I'm at a better job now :p My current company's git policy sounds identical to yours. But I still like this workflow for myself.
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Yeah, I can imagine that non-intrusive advertising works on me, via subconscious and brand name reinforcement. But if I notice the advertising, I'd rather buy a cheaper and better product from a competitor who spends their money on product quality or discounts than a company that spends heavily on advertising. One of the evils of manipulative advertising is that consumers end up paying for it, and once you recognize this you start sticking with the less well known brands.
> You obviously don't understand a thing about neurodiversity. Not everyone can control their brain to "Stop" doing or thinking all these things.

That's an assumption on your part. I understand this very well, I'm probably just much older than you.

I say this with an absolutely sincere motive: You cannot make most people care about your ADHD. What you can do is live with that set of symptoms and navigate it, figure out a way forward, adapt life to those circumstances (for example, the podcasts a mentioned are a strategy for me in particular: They make certain the dishes get done after all). For a lot of people medication helps (if a professional agrees), I personally have never tried for various reasons, and because I found other ways to address my specific symptoms.

> No, it's not because we can't take harsh criticism, not because we're "making excuses", not because we're staying comfortable in our "victimhood".

I have said none of those things, nor implied them.

The strategies I've offered don't even make sense if I thought you'd "make excuses".

> We've obviously tried all the things you've suggested (and more). The problem is our brain can't do whatever we want it to do.

Who exactly is "we" here?

And what kind of answer are you looking for, then?
It's nonsense of course, if investment bankers were unnecessary, they woudn't have jobs.
Good.

They recently clear cut a ridge top in my state. What a waste. I hate to see the environment ruined in such a way. Trading one evil for another really.
Zapier does allow python and JavaScript code to be run as a step in zaps.
Ask HN: Paste and keep source formatting, legitimate use cases?
I was just writing an email in Gmail and pasted an order number into the email which was copied from another website, the order number text was bold and massive which didnt match the rest of the text.

Can someone please explain a legitimate use case for the _default_ functionality on applications like Word, Excel, Gmail & numerous popular note taking apps to keep the source formatting? It seems to _always_ be more annoying than useful.
That's a completely fair point, and unfortunately Windows does require a restart on pretty much every Windows update. You're right -- Linux only requires a reboot on a kernel update, which is far less frequent.

That said, I don't know of many third-party apps that require a reboot.
This is... disheartening.

You would think that the easiest shortcuts should be granted operations based on how often they are likely to be used.

If I want to maximize a window in Windows:

- If hands on keyboard and mouse: Click Maximize.

- If hand on mouse: Click Maximize.

- If hands on keyboard: Windows + Up.

If I want to maximize a window on MacOS:

- If hands on keyboard and mouse: Option-Click on Maximize.

- If hand on mouse: Move one hand to keyboard, Option-Click on Maximize.

- If hands on keyboard: Move one hand to mouse, Option-Click on Maximize.

That's a lot of ceremony for moving a window.

Yes, I understand that they're not as bad as they used to be.

(I remember when they forced users to hold down a button on their keyboard before they could right click, and when they prevented users from resizing their windows on anything but the bottom right corner of the window.)

But tweaking the shortcuts would be a pretty small change in return for a large quality of life increase for users.

I mean how often do people want to rename a file/app instead of opening it. (renaming multiple files aside, since you're probably going to batch rename anyway)

> I have no idea what the rename shortcut is on Windows

In Windows: F1 for Help, F2 for Rename, F3 for Search. You'll generally see their function written on more workstation keyboard key caps.
> The point of hobbies is not "getting good at them". It's enjoying them for their own sake. Otherwise they turn into ... work.

Put like this, it is actually mind blowing and betraying the belief of my whole life.

To me, hobbies are activities that you enjoy so much you eventually get good at. My definition of talent is the ability to persistently and consistently improve yourself in a field. This definition includes the ability to efficiently obtain positive dopamine feedback to continue training and effectively curb burnout.

I really wished I can say I am talented, both in my works and my hobbies. But maybe, just maybe. Getting good is not really important after all.

(And about work: Maybe getting good at work and advancing career is also not the point? What is work anyway? Contributing to society in exchange of being let alive? Lol)
SpinLaunch will loft NASA payload on test flight this year
Specialty, hazmat, oversized loads are the higher-paying jobs. Drivers need more training, experience, and licensing, that is why they command higher pay.
Reforming would also improve our supply chain efficiency
I don't know if they've changed it, but I can think of one very simple disadvantage to the registry in about five seconds, and that is that they combined windows registry settings and user application registry settings into the same registry which meant that they were acting in the same space which from a security / permission standpoint as well as from a possible data loss and corruption standpoint is TERRIBLE; they should've had physically separate registry hive files for each of these spaces to keep them separate and protected.
Thanks for sharing. I'm in a different boat but essentially the water is the same. I love the fact that you are striving for mastery of your craft. I don't have the luxury of that (switching jobs frequently) so I wish you good luck and stick ti your principles.
The F-15 was initially sold only to a relatively small set of foreign operators - Israel and Japan. Saudi Arabia was added in the early 80s, but it took 20 years after that before another foreign operator was introduced.

Now, the F-15 is flown by the Israel, Japan, South Korea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the USA - but SK, Qatar and Singapore were all sold the F-15 after the F-22 made its first flight.

Had F-22 production continued, it's quite possible we would have seen a similar pattern there.

EDIT: in comparison, the F-16 is operated by Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Turkey, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, the UAE, Morocco, Indonesia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Chile, Venezuela, and of course the USA. 26 countries vs 7.
> It's nonsense of course, if investment bankers were unnecessary, they woudn't have jobs.

By this logic, con artists are necessary.
This is why I run `fail2ban` on my pi.
> All this is true and bad but the Canadian market is primarily driven by supply issues, not red tape. There just aren’t enough houses/condos.

You forgot cheap debt. There's also a ton of speculation. Jack up those interest rates and see where we're at.
Have to disagree with the idea that you have to advertise. Word of mouth still dominates in many industries. Restaurants generally don't need to run ads, and even some chains like Krispy Kreme don't bother.
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Exactly. Film equipment is heavy and expensive. Why pay everyone to move however far away the desired house is, for a few shots of the exterior?
His results on cellular automata are clearly solid contributions. Any academic would be proud to open a whole line of inquiry. I understand that he's also done good work in Physics.

I was just surprised to see this particular result about propositional logic in particular highlighted because, as a logician, I really don't care :)
I have used qemu-static a lot to work with ARM images and it works surprisingly well. That was before arm64 was a thing, but unless someone tells me the opposite I would not assume it makes a difference. The only thing that I remember not working is strace(1) because ptrace(2) is unimplemented. But even for that there is a special qemu option to get something similar.
Parasites are considered living organisms.
It is much the same in any industry that's a mix of independents and salaried folk. I write code for a living, and genuinely would not want to freelance or work short contracts. OTOH some associates I respect wouldn't want it any other way.
> The real difference seems to be that no one knew that it existed.

It was pulled after one week, hardly enough time to build word of mouth. And more than half of the all star cast were people who won awards over half a century prior. Other than Freddie Prince Jr or Jennifer Love Hewitt, would modern audiences know any of those people (not that I think name brand actors are important.)

Without interesting story, graphics or actors people are excited to see, I'm not sure why you think it would do well regardless of the advertising budget?
This is such a physically demanding and brutally unsafe job so this is what I'd expect it to pay considering its hazards. It is not for everyone however.
It’s a post from around a week ago. They went from embedded JSON, to something else (equally crazy), to embedded JSON again. Lots of laughs were had (and a lot of, just use postgres).
The Marvel / Disney effect, CGI is so commoditized that you have far less truly passionate, highly skilled individuals working on CGI as an 'art', rather than to knock another scene out the door.
OTOH he gets to see what ultimately is succeeding or not, but that comes with the caveat that the metric by which what is "succeeding" is what ultimately gets more money, which he has a ton of influence over.
I agree. Also, most OSes have a way of dealing with that, e.g. on macOS: paste and match style - cmd-opt-shift-v instead of cmd-v
Twitter plans to host Elon Musk for a question-and-answer session with employees
That's a start. Next we need to ban the Chinese from buying more than the $2B worth of farmland they already own in the US.
My point is that in bash, all you have is the bash language, which is just layers of hacks to cover up the fact that you're just slinging strings around, and the ability to start other processes with command line arguments (again, strings). In powershell, you can certainly run programs with arguments, but you're mostly going to be calling functions that take actual objects as parameters, not just escaped strings that you hope are in the right format. Most OS functionality you can imagine is exposed as powershell commands, and most of the rest can be called as .NET methods (which are just as easy to call). And with a little more work you can call win32 functions. Between all of that, that's the entire OS API surface. You have variables with data types, both basic types like int/string/etc. but also objects with fields and methods like arrays, hash tables, and such. And the functions are designed to receive such objects as inputs and as outputs. Again, in bash, you accomplish the same thing with stuff like xargs and array expansions, all just fancy string manipulation.

Yes, bash is obviously Turing complete. Yes, you can accomplish anything in bash. But it's not pretty. And since everything is just glorified string manipulation, it's hard to write rigorous and robust bash programs that don't blow up in the face of weird directory or file names or other edge cases.
I wonder just how much difference it makes that all this wacky startup action is private equity (writ large) rather than the public markets. Seems like... maybe a lot?
The invisible hand does not deal with parasitism efficiently. Investment bankers may be necessary but the return they get from their work says less about the value of their services than it says about the demand for their services by entities that are willing to pay.
The head movement of birds is a mechanism for depth detection since they do not have binocular vision.

By moving their heads back and forth, they can determine distance based on the rate of size increase of an object.

See for example: https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/zoology/item/why-do-p...
Correct! I couldnt recall Alias|Wavefront name when I made that comment... (Alias became Maya)

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I was focused on Softimage, as I liked the UI better. (Should have picked Alias though)
Yes, the exact sense in which maps are bloogidy-blop to one another may vary considerably, but if they cover the same geographic region there'll be some bloogidy-blop, ie common reference points, which would relate to the maps. Maybe blobblytoids always go in valleys. Or whatever.

We seem in agreement on the object question in any case.
I haven't done a survey, but from what I've seen, most establishments have moved on. They moved on to C++, python, and julia. Fortran is still fast, but it no longer is unambiguously the fastest, so you need a really specific reason to write code in a less expressive language. (There's a reason the Fortran people are writing their standard library in Python)
That seems to be the general bend of the diagnostic help over reddit, though it seems we may never know for sure. Its been 30 days since Mr. Kanasta's last post.

KaptainKanasta, if you're out there, I know I speak for others who would love to hear if the chair was indeed the culprit. Though if it wasnt the chair and was indeed a malevolent spirit, I fear the worst.
> I'm surprised sociologists would take Zuck's words seriously. I ve watched him in interviews and in his own podcasts and he doesn't sound like having any kind of sophisticated worldview.

Of course they take him seriously, just not as an analyst or scholar, but as a sort of random force of nature whose utterances and whims inform the actions of the people most directly shaping the system through which so much social interaction is now mediated.

I don't know if any of the FAANGs allow outside sociologists, linguists, and anthropologists to study them as organizations or societies (as opposed to merely giving access to their platform in order to study users), but it would be fascinating to get that kind of glimpse of how things really work and change over time.
How did you find out about 3D animation and the hardware used for it way back when? Were there any particular forums you visited or magazines you subscribed to?
No one needs luxury goods, yet jobs exist to make them.

Jobs exist because there is demand, not necessarily a necessity.
> when an upstream library changes, update downstream libraries' dependency manifest files

As someone who's more systems oriented, ideally projects are locked in to a specific versioned dependency, and nothing changes unless a developer of a project explicitly asks for it.

What I've seen is the opposite, someone owns a dependency and is lazy and and wants to perform a breaking operation, and rather than version the change or orchestrate a backwards compatible change, they use mono-repos to "solve" the problem. IMHO it's a bad pattern and leads to a lot of risk.
Devs for Ukraine (Conference)
I can only speak of my local area in North Atlanta suburbs, but it does not seem like builder are building as many single family homes as before. I see complaints on our local social media and I have observed it as well. We bought our house new in 2016. There were many new neighborhoods at the tail end of completion. Every corner had huge signs telling you to stop by. Our house was not designed by us, but by the builder and it was good enough at the time.

We have been eyeing for a new construction neighborhoods in the last many years so we can get something larger and more specific for our needs (multi-generational). All I see are town homes and apartments. For reference, our city population is ~25,000...we have lots of land.

For the record - we don't need new construction and if an existing home fits our needs exactly we'd go for it. But I'm just referencing that no new single family home neighborhoods have popped up as abundantly as before...just townhouses, condos and "Luxury Apartments" with rents more than my monthly mortgage.
And most companies can't seem but try to run them off.
> It is astounding how many people require 24/7 ops

Yet when us-east-1 goes offline, it's mostly just shrug wait for it to come back because it's not our fault...
The silicon valley world. The HN world. Such a different mindset to the corporate Windows environments. Not really shocking, just different.
You’re right, but if you study history, you’ll discover that every generation has their own take on this phenomenon.

#vanLife is just the latest version of it. Remember, Dean (Neil) transcended the Beats, became a member of the Merry Pranksters, and drove the bus for Kesey’s hippies who lived in it. It’s all connected.
I'm picturing in my head a tractor-trailer driving itself, if I were to take the headline at its literal phrasing with no mention of any involved drivers.

EDIT: Journalists should be upholding a certain amount of integrity when reporting facts.

Assigning agency to vehicles who can not make decisions is not what I have in my mind concerning journalistic integrity. You people like to downvote things when it conflicts with your view of the world so please continue to inflict downvotes upon me in exchange for the cognitive dissonance I've inflicted upon you. I'm used to it by now. The truck did not crash itself into five vehicles, an operator did.
> It is unclear to me what a default is supposed to indicate when the the collectors are the ones holding and freezing the assets that easily could be used to pay it.

Should an alleged thief be able to pay his lawyers with the proceeds of that theft? Should a charged murderer inherit their victim's property so they can defend the murder charges? Should Russia be free of their obligation to pay their debts just because the nations (not the organisations) to which they owe the debt are implementing punative measures due to an alleged illegal act?
I read the whole article only to get a crypto sales pitch at the end -.-
People also just suffer silently. Buggy, confusing, incorrect, whatever it may be, in my experience a lot of people just put up with all of it and never think to complain or look for alternatives. I find this especially true of less technical people who often think bugs are due to something they did wrong.
Only if your $1M solution is already integrated.

Otherwise it’s just a sunk cost fallacy.
The main catch with Walmart is that you need a pristine driving record and can fire you for any small mistake.
I mean you're not wrong, but at the same time I figured that stuff out on day one of using my Mac simply by just googling around a little bit and from then on I knew it... You only have to learn these things one time so this feels like a pretty minor nitpick.
Presumably, they didn't spend on ads because they knew it was going to flop though right?

Movies effectively get "free advertising" from reviews, actor interviews, and things like your example of Conan making fun of it. I'd assume vastly more people heard of the film than saw it, they just heard it was terrible.