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Upvoted this and all the others, including OP's sibling comment. I hope nobody downvotes anyone either way, and I should have put that at the end vs in order since it's just my own feeling on the phrase and it wasn't like this post in particular was in any way a particularly egregious example, just one of those straws on the camel's back that happened to get to me. Apologies to nickjj.

But I don't agree with you that the phrase can't be read to have those connotations in general, and it feels like it's been becoming more frequent.

>"Am I the only one out of billions of humans who does a obviously pretty common thing" (like sticking to default values which by definition are default because whomever set them thought they were a decent starting place)

kind of feels irritating the more I see it vs some sort of

>"Does the effort in setting this up and number of moving parts/dependencies it adds really justify itself, or is it more for fun/learning? I'm quite satisfied with my [vanilla+ setup], what does this bring to the table and at what point is it worth sinking more into these tools if ever?"

or even

>"Though this and similar projects are interesting I think most including myself are better served staying as close to defaults as possible."

100% though: this may all be subjective subculture and learning. I can see how it could be treated as an innocent opening phrase, just a form without any deeper meaning. It rubs me the wrong way though anyway, there is a defensiveness about it. Like even, what if you were the only one? So what? You can still be right for yourself anyway. How many other people are that way or not seems both peripheral and distracting (bringing in social pressure) from the meat of it.

Anyway, Sunday morning HN procrastinating from fighting with getting some crufty old infrastructure running on a new vm platform! Very genuine apologies as well that picking on that nit clearly irritated a bunch of other people in turn! There was nothing wrong with the question content, it's certainly something I've grappled with and not always well in either direction. In the past I've spent way too much time diving deep into things that I barely ever used later, or conversely cruising along for years without fully learning a tool that could have saved me enormous time by automating stuff I did manually. I know there is advice along the lines of "if you find yourself doing this tiresome manual task for the Nth time now it's time to figure out how to automate it" or even tools that themselves track your usage like the open source ActivityWatch [0]. Run that for a year and see where your time is going. I never learned or did any of that early on though and still struggle with the tradeoffs there.

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0: https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch/
> Yes it was a game of whack-a-mole with syntax errors but at least it was a straight forward process to getting something to compile

It also helps that Turbo Pascal was an extremely fast compiler for its time. So you could fix one error, re-rerun the compiler, and get another error quickly.
I have struggled with depression and anxiety for most of my life. I just completed a full year without depression for the first time in my life, and a big part of that in my view is my use of headspace every day. I just crossed the 365 days in a row mark and I’m really proud of the progress I’ve made.

I use it not only for guided meditations (which really help my anxiety) but also and almost more importantly, I use it for sleep. The wind down visualization is a nightly ritual for me, and sleep casts are great for when you want to let your mind wander off to rest.

I am in no way affiliated with headspace, ymmv, but I’ve had great success with it and happily pay yearly.
I took this essay's main thrust to be around a lack of nuance in the discourse. His own behavior indicates he's pretty unwilling to have any nuance himself; pot calling the kettle black, etc.
A literal Prometheus has just passed. No matter the disappearance of pushing rocks up hill, he did carry us a booting Net/2 to the lowly i386 PC crowd. We are lucky to have been blessed with his gift.

RIP
Scientists are worried about the W Boson: 'Something is amiss'
Well then there isn’t much to do nor any reason to care is there?

> see our pathetic withdrawal from Afghanistan

Eh withdrawal was fine. Needed to get out of their ASAP. A little chaotic but the military (woah Biden made the MIC do something they didn’t want to do???!) didn’t think he’d actually order them out since everyone has talked about it for years and they were too far invested to cut their losses.

But sure. The Us wants to sell more weapons. So does Russia. The Russian MIC started the war so Putin would have to buy and upgrade equipment. So there ya have it.
The key is they have scheduling priority - and if they arrive at the segment on time, they get to go - but the moment there's any delay, they lose their slot and the freights are now in priority. Combined with how much of the USA doesn't even have passing sidings let alone double tracks it ends up with "late trains get later".
There are a bunch of these services. I use https://hnreplies.com
I was in the same boat. I switched to https://logseq.com/ + Google Drive. Markdown based so there's no issue with being locked in at least.
“Does losing your job kill you? If not, you are missing the point.”
How screwed are commercial rail companies going to be when coal finally phases out?

What will replace that space or will their revenue just slowly drop?
I guess the original article didn't take misleading statements into account. Because your statement might indeed be factually true, but very misleading.

What about "Can a statement be x-ist, for whatever value of x, and also true, when the statement is clear in its intentions and not misleading?". Would you agree with that?
Seconding Joplin, but noting that there is currently a bug in the iOS client that has broken Dropbox syncing. Hopefully will be fixed soon, because apart from that I can’t recommend Joplin highly enough.
Yes, I have a problem with teachers talking to my kindergarten kid about sex.
I suppose you have to unpack pronouns when you are evaluating truth or falsity of a statement and maybe add some additional context. If you say "I am hungry" when we evaluate that sentence we have to unpack it to something like "Yojo is hungry at time X" so that way your statement would be equally true or false if I said "it" (the unpacked version) or an hour after you said it and had eaten a full meal.
This only possible if command, and control infrastructure is intact.

If C&C is destroyed, Russia cannot do a coordinated launch of its full arsenal. If C&C in Moscow is taken out, it will be up to people in command bunkers in Russia to decide on taking own action, fully knowing that random fire at will launch is futile against a seriously NBC prepared adversary.

Only silo based ICBMs are kept in state of high readiness, and can be fired "with a press of a button." That limits targets by range, number of delivery vehicles, and whether the warheads have their own individual last stages. Russian has 3 major silo based ICBM field, each built with 1 major target in mind: 1 for Europe, 1 for the US, and 1 for China. We don't know how many of missiles will be retargeted, or how many can, but we are certain that a lot of ICBMs employed, say, in the Russian Far East, cannot reach most of the US even with a single warhead.

The highly improbable scenario of Russia being allowed to launch all of its ~1000 at short notice, and launch them only at densely populated cities is predicted to cause 50M deaths in USA without BMD, people taking to nuclear shelters, and no civil defence defence response.

In reality, it's practically impossible to successfully fire their whole arsenal without prior notice, and fire it on designated target only in Europe or North America.

The realistic estimate is that the US will face 300 to 500 warheads.
Abandoned Bridge.
I specifically wanted to learn meditation several years ago and used the headspace app to do so. After going through their several basic programs and then the various 'pro' levels I stopped needing the app to meditate.

The app was invaluable to learn how to sit quietly and control my mind but after like ~2 / 3 months it stopped being useful as I was much less interested in the 'medititaion for running" "meditation for relationships" etc. I just wanted to learn the basics and not apply the meditation to a specific topic. For that it was great. As with anything though, YMMV
I feel like this is rephrasing the issue in an unhelpful way. Sure the app isn’t going to do the work for you but it’s still valuable to know what the average marginal benefit is relative to not using one or using a different one, especially considering these are paid services and therefore need to be considered for value.
I read that as "Truths can be stated by anyone, and are still true". If you are saying some truths can only be said or are only true for some groups... We'll have to agree to disagree.
This assumes a more powerful or wise government than I have encountered.
This is quite mind-boggling. Thanks for sharing.

I just wish the bureaucracy in so many levels of government was vulnerable to change. It seems like bureaucracies are quite resistant to change because the system fundamentally lacks a structure for improving itself. It reminds me of how GM's poor management style and lack of respect for its workers led to labor strikes and entire facility shutdowns. Eventually they teamed up with Toyota to form a new facility [1] that used Toyota's style of continuous improvement. They managed to increase production while making workers happier to work there, in part because management listened to employees at all levels and empowered them with the tools to directly influence change. A worker thought a part could be made faster a different way? Perfect, just show a team leader and send it up the chain. Constant improvements were being rolled out and it was the respect for the individual's capacity to think that drove the improvement IMO.

I wish we had levels of government that worked the same way. Dedicated pathways for suggesting, researching, and implementing organization-wide improvements that can change everything, even the structure of the organization itself. Seeing our lack of reasonable governance just frustrates me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI
Respectfully, I don’t think you understand mediation. It’s not about intense focus, it’s about awareness.
Except there are plenty of facebook profiles for both cats & dogs
This essay was somewhat high on opinion, somewhat low on evidence. Paul Graham tweets a lot about this issue, and cancel culture is something he is apparently very sensitive too. It makes me wonder what happened - as given his lack of evidence - it appears to be an emotional reaction rather than a logical one.

As an aside, most examples of people being fired for expressing opinions seem to come from academia. I’ve wondered if that might be due to a change in the cost of university education, which means universities are more akin to businesses servicing clients. And the first thing you’ll always hear in a client-facing business is…

_”Don’t piss off your customers”._

A sad commercial reality because a diversity of opinion in education is valuable.
First in shadow volume rendering, maybe? Did anything else make use of this technique at the time?
If it is a inconvenient indirection for you, than w3m is probably not the right tool.

The linked article mentions some reasons. I use it, because it fits my console-focused work style. It's blanzigly fast, removes all the distractions like unnecessary images and ads, doesn't require me to take my hands of the keyboard, works very well if I'm working on a mobile hotspot, can be used while being ssh'd into a server... and because opening the side in a regular modern browser is only a key press away.
I think the idea is that you do not believe your coworker to be royalty, in the same way you do not believe them to be male/female.

Even if there is no harm in calling them ‘your majesty’ it doesn’t feel right.
There are a lot of factors.

- There are about double that number of trains if you count the Regional (which you should) so ~hourly trains.

- A lot of people still fly. Especially if you live in Boston proper, flying means you can easily make a morning meeting without flying down the night before (which people with families etc. may prefer not to do)

- Especially if you're south/west of Boston or in New York's Connecticut suburbs, it's probably cheaper/faster to just drive, something I really try to avoid when it comes to NYC but nonetheless for me taking Amtrak actually involves me driving for an hour in the wrong direction/
You think it is due to some virtue these braindead activists possess that they don't kill people?

Sorry, I mean 'intolerant people'.
they've been at this for many years now without any traction at all. all they can point to are some collaborations with 2 Swiss based ISP's and a start-up spun out of the university. They seem to be utterly lacking in business acumen, or willingness to engage with the business community which is surprising considering the momentum they could have had if they tried. I've filed this as failed already 2 years ago.
I don't think python will tell you you're missing a semi colon.
This is somewhat related to the "robustness principle" that was guiding internet development in the early days. It wasn't about programming languages, but about protocol data, but the issue is similar.

Yet it turned out that doing that introduces a lot of subtle security issues. Today many people came to the conclusion that the robustness principle was a mistake:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-iab-protocol-maintenan...
Right, I'm not claiming it's ~cancel culture~, it is however anti-heretic behavior. See other comment; she's a professor and aspiring public intellectual. This combination of "I'm an authority so you have to listen to me" and "you can't challenge my beliefs because it's oppression" is a recipe for bad thinking.
Evernote got slower and buggier every year, until I finally gave up.

I switched to Joplin and I like it a lot. It's very fast. It uses markdown syntax with all the features like LaTeX equations. It stores your notes as regular files in the file system so you can export or grep or whatever. Syncing to the mobile app works OK.
Life on Bitcoin is a documentary about traveling using only Bitcoin, but it was made years and years ago. It's very interesting, and by some accounts is the most expensive documentary ever made :)
I agree with this, but I do think that there is a genuine debate to had about:

1. Whether people of different sexes ever ought to be treated differently (and if so, in which circumstances).

2. Whether people of different gender identities ever ought to be treated differently (and if so, in which circumstances).

My own view is that in the vast majority of cases we shouldn't be treating people differently on the basis of either sex or gender identity, and that identity-based gender and sex-based gender are about as bad as each other!
There is definitely an iOS chess app that deal with defensive problems. Usually an obvious move where you had to do to avoid checkmate or loss of material
I think they do work but until you learn the basics, afterwards is just burning money
I agree this is true. But we can do better than we are now. There was a time when an Episcopalian wouldn’t consider being friends with a Baptist. We are a better society for the fact that this is mostly not true anymore.

I’m not saying it should be unlimited or anyone should be legally or morally obligated to refrain from social consequences for any and all speech, but I do think a society where tolerance is extended to a majority of the other people by a majority of people is healthier than one where that isn’t the case.
"This thing where people want to say horrible things without consequence is just so weird."

It's really easy to think/say horrible things. The main defense humans have against it is following orthodoxy, which is a social construct that imperfectly represents historical knowledge about good and bad.

If you think you are naturally good (whatever that means), you are wrong. If you think you are good because of your intellect, you're also wrong. It takes many generations to build up the kind of orthodoxy that keeps humans good. And the lessons behind it are too many to learn in a lifetime.

So, we need to mostly follow orthodoxy, at least in our actions. But that poses an intellectual problem: orthodoxy is imperfect, and to discuss and advance it, or even understand it well, you have to challenge it. If merely by challenging it you transgress, then it will never be understood very well and certainly not advanced.

Granted, there are good and bad places to challenge orthodoxy, and the workplace is usually a bad one. But sometimes orthodoxy changes very rapidly in certain areas, to the point where something orthodox ten years ago is firable today. That's not a good situation.

Remember: gay marriage was illegal almost everywhere 20 years ago. Imagine the surprise to, say, a 60 year old, that "misgendering" (by using pronouns associated with one's biological sex) might be a firable offense today.
They do auto correction while parsing. If you have a C code and forget a semicolon or something else. It will try to guess a way to fix it in order to parse the rest of the program, in order to give you other possible errors it found.
There even is the -Wfatal-errors flag to disable this functionality.
I’m happy it’s worked for you, that’s my experience too!
My understanding is that, if the compiler can with 100% confidence correct a mistake or a missing label then that means the language has a redundant/useless syntactical appendage and we can just get rid of it. That has happened with ";", in some newer languages, we no longer require those.
> For example, here are some heresies common in the Silicon Valley startup community:

You're basically just saying it is heresy to be moderately left-wing in Silicon Valley.

Which I don't doubt is true, even if I hope it is not quite as dire. Just wanted to point out the connection.

EDIT: though if we're talking "in front of CEO", that might be like talking about French Revolution in front of a monarch, or mentioning Mao in front of landlord, so I can understand why the CEO would not like it.
Aside from being development-only, note that you also need to wrap a component in `<React.StrictMode>…</React.StrictMode>` to opt it into this.
If/when interactive VR experiences go mainstream, network latency will have to be much better--not the average but rather the p99.99 latency. Having an immersive 90-120+ fps world stall/stutter routinely makes it unlivable.
I suspect LA-San Diego might be better (Pacific Surfliner is an Amtrak cooperative with the LOSSAN corridor). Those trains end up really full (though off-peak ones are comfortable; the rush hour trains are standing-room only).

The only way to get consistent usage is to commuter rail; commuters travel five times a day in both directions vs "travelers/vacationers" which may travel once a month or less.
I’m very skeptical about “blank slate” approaches such as this. Can you tell me what the advantages are? From a glance I see two big downsides already:
- Tightly coupled components unlike the extremely modular design of TCP/IP means that further innovation will probably be difficult.

- The design seems to mandate source routing, where the entire path needs to be known by the sender. This is much less resilient than the current internet where each hop decides how to best get a packet to its route.
Who are the major anti-cancel culture pro-CRT figures?

It seemed to me that the firing of Timnit Gebru at Google was superficially the political reverse of the firing of Antonio García Martínez at Apple. And yet the latter case is considered cancel culture, while the former is not.
How can I help protecting nature as a programmer?
Like many of you here, I am a programmer / data engineer. I do not work full time as I am trying to find something meaningful in my life. I realized I would feel happy if I could put my skills to work by helping to protect nature. What options are there for me? I do not expect any financial compensation for this.

Some obvious, simple stuff I am doing already (picking up some trash while hiking, recycling).
Their current models are ugly, but I owned an ES350 and it is absolutely the best-made car I have ever driven. And when, rarely, something breaks, it’s a Camry under the hood, and every mechanic everywhere can fix it.
It says "as it rained down" from the sky -- once it hits the water it is no longer raining down.
> because I am not in fact a member of the opposite sex

Does this change when it legally changes? Or does the gender you were born with forever stay the same?
Not related to this, but since we're talking trolls... I noticed that n-gate.com hasn't been updated in more than half a year.

I always enjoyed reading their over the top critiques of HN posts... anyone know if they're okay and maybe just burnt out -- or that something else is going on?
Would be great to be able to categorize these using crowdsourcing to have a permanent directory to browse.
DSG is the status quo as far as I’m concerned. In the most liberal US state a decade+ ago, we had to have parent-signed slips to attend sex ed at all.

The idea that you could introduce homosexuality or anything else without the same basic check seems backwards.

Granted, the DSG bill has some badly-written foibles but the general idea is on the mark.
As long as compilation is instant, or nearly so, recompiling after each error fixed is likely preferable. The reason being that the error correction is frequently flawed, so that anything beyond the first error is usually suspect, and often will disappear after the first error is fixed. The novice programmer may not realize this, and thus become quite confused when they try to diagnose the later errors, only to realize they don't exist.
Have you ever seen GCC or Clang give more than one error message for a program? They're able to provide more than one error message because they correct the first error, and then continue parsing.
> You would essentially have to be a robot to make this statement without purposefully implying that women are less capable of running a Fortune 500 company.

I highly disagree. Imagine this statement in an example context:

A: Most fortune 500 companies are lead by men, we need more women at the top.

B: Very few women are capable of running a Fortune 500 company effectively.

B could either be sexist and imply that fewer women than men are capable, or they could simply state that selecting a random women to promote just because she's a women won't help the situation. The reading you have depends a lot on your biases, given that you have no information about B at all.

If you need another example, you can replace "women" with any other subject in this sentence - even fortune 500 CEO's:

> Very few Fortune 500 CEOs are capable of running a Fortune 500 company effectively.

I bet you can still find people agreeing with that, but it reads a lot less like it implies that a random person not included in the subject group is more capable.
Unflagged again. This is super weird.
I don't think you can't really blame someone for that when their activism is a core part of their identity. People wouldn't become activists if they weren't deeply affected by these things. It's not their prerogative to (in their view) waste time with people who are just going to argue and push in the other direction. That's my experience from talking to a lot of activists, anyway. They have to be very careful to pick their battles.