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> Tom's Hardware, playing and modding video games

I think there's your "problem". There was a time (I'd put it 94-2004ish, but only because I'm too young) where there were major shifts every year. So if you were interested in that space... 286 - interesting, 486 - interesting, the first Pentiums - eh, kinda interesting ;), 3dfx - VERY interesting, and so on.

You could replace your hardware every year and the latest games would hardly run on a 1-2y old model/gfx card. Now compare it to "today". I last upgraded in 2019, from a 2012 CPU (with a 2015/16 gpu) and it was mostly "eh, about time, this is one of my main hobbies" and not because it was strictly needed. Now the machine is 2.5 years old and I can run everything I throw at it at 2560 with max details and I think this will hold up for a bit.

TLDR: If you're thinking about the same timeframe it was just a weird outlier of tech breakthroughs in the narrow field of personal computing/games every year. +20% more CPU performance is simply not exciting if the game already works.
cool idea! i like to explore someone's websites sometimes.
Shenzhen lockdown already ended.
That is much more common that people probably realize. I worked with maybe 60 or 70 different clients over my years freelancing and not one of them was using anything more complex than a basic shared hosting to host their sites. That’s just the reality for the vast majority of businesses.

Most businesses don’t need anything complex. It’s just basic sites and emails.
In the full release notes here[1] you can CTRL-F for wayland. You'll find 51 references, so definitely some fixes.

[1]: https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtreleasenotes.git/about/qt/6.3.0...
Of course, but the highest contributor was shelter/housing. Also if they are referring to core it's kind of important to make that distinction. It's not good to be loose with terminology around this just to make an argument stronger than it really is.
I think what's caused a disagreement here with you and /u/notahacker is the word "real" in this casual, seemingly fine phrase:

>> Except centrism isn't a real position - by definition.

There is something distinctly and genuinely different about centrism, but it is still a real position (it does in fact exist, and is thus "real").

I think what you're actually getting at is that centrism is a relative position (by definition), whereas non-centrists are absolute positions. Well...at least potentially. Fundamentally, few positions are not mostly relative (especially if one includes premises, axioms, etc), as the mind fundamentally and almost necessarily perceives reality thorough relative lenses (with respect to the individual's prior experiences, or in neural network terms: according to the training of their model). And if one is to discuss things in purely/highly absolute terms, the other person will balk ("That's pedantry/Gish Galloping / JAQing off!", behavior which more than a few HN'ers are not immune to themselves).

I believe a large percentage of the population actually possesses these abilities, and some subset of people even exercise these abilities on a very regular basis, with extreme skill (say, when we are programming software) - but only under specific circumstances. Take someone who has these capabilities and drop them into an object level culture war discussion, and these abilities will vanish. This phenomenon can be seen in large quantities not just on sites like Reddit, but also here - it is our nature, at least for now (perhaps some day someone will notice and try to address the issue).

There are also other hidden fundamental problems that are rarely realized or discussed: as just one example, the very language we use to communicate - take the innocuous looking word word "is"....oh, the problems this one seemingly simple word causes in "reality".
A while back I worked on a Qt 5 code base and a another with QML.

I would say I prefer QML over that other Qt GUI Framework, mostly because you can leverage JavaScript for fast development, but not that fond of the the GUI part of QML, but it is still better than the Qt GUI Framework because of better customization.

I found it difficult to adapt and style many of the standard widgets in the Qt GUI framework, like item lists and similar things.

It is sort of easy to expose "dumb" C++ functions from Qt to be used from QML's JavaScript and then you put all the GUI logic in JavaScript instead.

Qt makes the C++ easier with their own copy-on-write containers for the most common things you need, however the extra qmake build step is somewhat horrible and when you need to ship your application you run some command line tool that copies a bunch of dlls that you still need to sort out manually. And when all is done you have big zip file anyway.

But would I use Qt again? No, even if we ignore the licensing issues.

I'm not interested in writing GUI desktop applications in C++, it just too clunky (still with C++20) and does not fit a fast iterative approach (at least not for me) even with all Qt containers. And of course compiling C++ is not fun especially when you add an extra qmake step. (And now I see that Qt 6 has switched to CMake, oh lord, I truly dislike CMake, the main reason why I stopped using CLion)

If I remember correctly there was some complaints of lack of documentation for the Qt Python bindings, that you basically need to read the C++ code and then figure it out, but that can have changed.

If I want native widgets I write that in PureBasic, PureBasic is way faster to develop in than C++ or even C. I have instant compilation of my project on press of button out of the box. No asinine build step that I spend hours to configure.

And for QML I think there are better options. One that I'm in the beginning of building is with Sciter(HTML/CSS/JS) with a custom backend in PureBasic.

Nice thing with Sciter is that you can easily bind it to any language you prefer as long as you can load a dynamic library(dll/so/dylib) (I think if you have a license you can compile it against C headers). It exist many different bindings, C/C++ of course, Pascal, golang, rust, python, .NET, D.

Or you can just go with app bundle that Sciter ships and don't have custom backend at all (all depending on what you are trying to build of course). Sciter is not a browser either like electron, so it doesn't have the same resource impact.
Correct url: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-...
Sure, but prices are up everywhere for most goods. Are prices actually down for anything significant right now? So using the weather analogy, it is hot everywhere in the US.
why would they care? they would do the same thing themselves if they could.

Dictators dig dictators, it's that simple
British PM fined for parties during national lockdown
You're ok with knowingly doing this to an employer?

Do you understand the cost to them for something like this?
Here are some other helpful tips. mustache twirl

Try forgoing expensive medical bills.

Try not eating.

You only need some organs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ssNtIvD5sc
I would say that it’s human life at or shortly after conception. It’s alive, it’s a distinct organism, and it’s genetically human. If we found a blastocyst on Mars we’d say “human life found in Mars!” It’s in a stage of the human lifecycle where it’s completely dependent on the mother, but that doesn’t negate either the human part or the life part.

So I think the real debate is over when it’s acceptable to kill a human at an early stage of development. That is fundamentally a moral compromise, in the same way that e.g. the law of self defense is a moral compromise. Nothing in science says a fetus has a “right to life” just as nothing in science says anyone has a “right to bodily autonomy.”

I think partisans and ideologues try to take this issue to extremes based on principle, but I think most people (especially mothers) have a mushy view. They know miscarriages happen naturally in the early weeks and so support some abortion right. They support exceptions for life of mother or fetal abnormalities even in later stages. But for they’ve also seen ultrasounds showing something that looks a lot like a baby at 15 weeks and aren’t ideological enough to think you should be able to kill that without a really good reason.
> It’s a great way for a huge team of programmers to write a massive amount of code that doesn’t do very much (there are always exceptions, of course!) - with elaborate contortions to model and name everything just right. You might wind up needing things like Dependency Injection frameworks, mocking frameworks for tests, etc.

Damn. Talk about calling out my team. Like, perfectly describing our current project.

And, as expected, even correct unit tests will randomly fail.

Sigh.
Well yes, but flying drones are not exciting when everybody can build/buy one.
Well there is a benefit to using new hardware, No issues with aging caps, no issues with sourcing peripherals (Unless a pandemic comes along messing up everyones supply chains), no issues with compatability.

By only have a single platform to support out the box you are getting rid of having to support multiple hardware configurations which could cause headaches for newcomers on day one. Remember it was basically an attempt to remove the roadblocks of getting people into CS. One of those roadblocks is getting people to "hello world".

IMO its a simailar reason to why Arduino worked so well, sure we could push people to using any other microcontrollers but by having single known board (atleast to start with) everyone is in the same boat and makes it eaiser (and cheaper) to offer support and lowers the barrier of entry imo. Basically is solving the fragmentation issue.

Is it the best way to learn? That depends on how you look at things. IMO it makes it a great stepping stone to get into the field which can then lead on to other things/interests, but you will probally learn more earlier on by skipping the "spoon feeding" stage but that (imo) comes with a steeper learning curve which could drive people away from the subject.

I know I delayed my own learning of the NRF platform to start with simply because at the time the toolchain was a PITA to get started with (esp on an unclean machine that had other compilers installed) so on a number of times I got fed up trying to get to "hello world" I would put it down and come back to it at a later time. However that process of less handholding did teach me more about the toolchain.
YoY which everyone knew was going to be high. Core month to month shows inflation is slowing.

I think a lot of people have this doom fantasy of runaway inflation in the US, but it's likely to slow down quicker than people realize. Monetary supply is tightening (mortgage rates touching 5% now), and the supply chain is slowly getting back to normal. Heck, even gas prices have reversed where I am.
Haha, the old Java GUI builders in the 90s did something like this. You could either drag around the window (and the code would be updated) or modify the code (within limits) and it would parse it into the GUI builder.

Who's old enough to remember the Symantec Visual Cafe IDE?
There's still mirrors of AOL-Files on the web somewhere. I was looking at my profile I submitted to their "AOL People" directory back in '98 not too long ago
> Banking is pretty desperate for talent, probably because no one wants to suffer the complexity of the problem domain

I assume it's mostly because not many decent software developers want to suffer Banking's work environment
Sorry. We’re not hiring currently because our system is simple and reliable and we enjoy our excess profits.
So I ~lied~ erred when I said that there was no software other than a naked C64 involved - thank you for the heads up! I saw a talk by Raquel Meyers at a tech/art conference a few years ago, where she explained a few of her works, including this particular video. I guess I just forgot about the software because I was so impressed by the stuff she made :)
> Poor people driving economy boxes and living in a 4th floor walkup apartment with 3 roommates

People living in 4+ story apartment buildings have extensive options for transit that don't involve driving their personal "economy box" around. And to the extent they do, the "poor class" in the USA continues to pay lower prices for gas than any other industrial democracy, including in places like Australia and Canada with comparable per-capita driving statistics.

That argument seems like a canard. Yes, higher gas prices suck. They suck rather less than land wars in Europe though, so... what's the option here? I know there's a partisan angle there that says something about fracking, but needless to say short term inflation isn't well treated by half decade infrastructure projects. Gas is going up because Russia invaded Ukraine, and there's nothing anyone in the west can do about that right now regardless of whether they drive an EV or not.

(Won't lie though, that I'm totally loving the Tesla right now.)
This is it exactly, in the first year we had little to know information as to the severity of the illness or the methods of transmission. With time we have developed vaccinations to mitigate the worst outcomes and have a much better understanding of the transmission vectors. I still wear a mask around because it's such a small inconvenience, and I still won't go into indoor crowded event, but I am considering easing up my defensive profile.
Thanks! Tracker-radar seems interesting.

My personal privacy standard is still much stricter than Apple's, and therefore will not be met without additional customization: I delete cookies on browser shutdown, block all third-party JS by default and remove some elements through ublock origin blacklists.

I agree that this is overkill for a consumer product, and I may recommend DDG browser to people on platforms where Firefox is not available with extensions (=iOS).

In any case, thanks for your work and transparency!
> The nearside is home to a compositional anomaly known as the Procellarum KREEP terrane (PKT) — a concentration of potassium (K), rare earth elements (REE), phosphorus (P), along with heat-producing elements like thorium. KREEP seems to be concentrated in and around Oceanus Procellarum, the largest of the nearside volcanic plains, but is sparse elsewhere on the Moon.

Bait. Big pile of things we want, placed where we can see them but not easily reach...
Frontier is promising to buy $925M of permanent carbon removal between 2022 and 2030.

They have criteria such as Permanence, Cost, Verifiability etc.

Seems like a great program and we need many more like it.
If half of the US was under a freak snowstorm that would be pretty significant.
Certainly not going to fit on the real-time production instance, but two computers isn't a whole lot more than one considering how many extra features we just added.

There is a lot of elegance with this type of setup too. You can have your analytics system receive a synchronous replicated log from the production system (what else is it gonna analyze?), so it can also double as a manual failover site.
Here are the weightings of CPI [1]. It's not quite that simple (eg there are seasonal adjustments) but it's a good rough estimate. You'll note that Shelter (Housing) is 32% and Energy is 7%. Two key events YoY:

1. We went from Covid discounts in housing to a corection and a surge in the other direction. Housing is certainly a problem but the impact on inflation is slightly exaggerated because of that swing; and

2. A war started in Ukraine and this allowed energy companies to arbitrarily raise prices for massive profits that have little to do with actual or potential supply issues.

Housing takes a long time to turn around. I honestly think we need to start punitively taxing property held by corporations (including LLCs), foreign-owned property and illegal hotels (ie AirBnB) as these are restricting access to a necessity for no real benefit.

As for energy, as much as many in the US in particular like to blame this on Biden. It's worldwide. The real problem though is profiteering by oil companies. It maddens me when I see governments suspending taxes to reduce the hit but somehow the energy companies can't take a hit? They're making absolute record profits. But no one even speaks about that.

Where Biden is responsible is in the same way every US president is, regardless of party. And that is in promoting a reckless foreign policy and dangling NATO membership to Ukraine to keep it aligned with the West when it was (and is) never going to happen for exactly the reasons we're seeing now. Of course, Russia is to blame for a completely unjustifable and horrific invasion and everything that comes from that but both of these things can be true at the same time.

Put it this way: you park your car in a crappy part of town and leave your Macbook on the hood and there's a good chance it'll be stolen. Sure the thief is responsible but you also could've taken more care. And no, that's not victim-blaming.

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/01/24/as-inflatio...
When did it stop being cool to you? Plants are fascinating tech that is really old. There is tons of physics tech that is cool, check out space weather, very cool stuff. My question is "when did you stop being inspired by the world around you?"

I would prefer to inquire as to when tech became net negative for society
That makes sense!

If it were the correct url it would have hit the dupe filter
"... if the app had a reasonably complex business logic I wouldn't want to write it in Dart though."

I'm surprised by this as I've been working on a pure Dart library lately and really enjoyed it. Anything in particular you dislike?
>"Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March, slightly hotter than expected and the highest since 1981"

The qualifier "slightly hotter than expected" reeks of media manipulation. 'Spin' at best, 'propaganda' at worst. It seems obvious to me that the reporters are trying to dampen or downplay this obviously negative news. Whereas this exact same news could be harped on and used like a weapon against the policy of the current administration. But don't worry, this was "expected" and only slightly worse than our central planners predicted. Keep calm and carry on.
Same here! For me hangovers are just dizziness and nausea. I've found myself though saying "this is giving me a headache" in the past even though I've never had one lol.

As someone else mentioned, though I have crappy allergies. Give and take...
> but obviously if you increase budgets its due to higher costs

That isn't remotely obvious and in this case is very obviously not true. This is a chronically underfunded program that Democrats have been lobbying to increase for years. AOC, for instance, has been pushing for this since she first entered Congress, well before any inflation showed up.

It's entirely disingenuous to point to a budget increase in a single extremely-small Congressional staff program and paint it as evidence of broad-based inflation.
Well said. We do so much damage to our own bodies and environments. This compound each other in unknown ways. But it is hard and takes specific effort to correct.
It's nothing like that.

People live in one place and only care about the weather at that place. Whereas consumers need products from all sectors of the economy, so an aggregate inflation indicator makes sense.

Sure, it's not perfect, since every household spends their money differently, but everyone needs food, housing, energy, etc.
>Sometimes they are not speaking to you at all, but rather to your listeners. And the larger your pool of listeners the more likely you'll encounter arguments in bad faith because it turns out that if the goal is persuasion then good-faith arguments don't scale.

I hesitate to throw this out there because, in general, I don't agree with all the hot takes such as "the internet has made us dumber" or whatever negative trait is the flavor of the week to blame on technology. But in this case, I'd say a lot of this is the direct result of forums/social media/etc.

People are arguing/debating the same way politicians do on stage with each other. Functionally we are millions of surrogates arguing everywhere for whatever individual/policy/ideal we believe in. The goal isn't to change the mind of your "opponent," it's to convince onlookers that you're right. And whether that victory is the result of the "better argument" is secondary - the point is to win over the most people by whatever means are deemed most effective. This is bad for dialogue, but (usually) great for winning debate competitions.
Especially banks on that list. They're slow to adopt new tech due to risk aversion.
I'm not saying that you should use a number input for credit cards. That's an identifier that happens to consists of digits, not a number. But for things like age, or number of items?
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I agree it may be slowing, but that's not what the parent asserted. I was just pointing out a mistake in their post. No where did they state "core" (unless it has been edited).
Indeed, this racist condemnation of all "white" people is compounded by its anglocentrism. The etymology[0] of the word "slave" is also historically interesting[1].

[0] https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=slave

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe
My wife's employer shut down their office and my employer did the same. It really helps build trust that they're not about to make us go back to an office.
That's great. We're clearly talking about the definition of number used by HTML and all major programming languages. Whether a dictionary counts it as a "number" or not is entirely besides the original point—don't use integer or numeric types for storing or processing this data.
> I don't think there's a strong argument in favor of the usefulness of Covid.

The strong argument is in favor of not living life as though we were amid a crisis, locked down and paranoid.
Yes majority of the inflation is caused by a lack of supply due to covid (lots of things shut down, from microchip manufacturers to international shipping to lumber mills to refineries and produciton hasn't ramped up), and of course crude oil prices increasing.

If you don't think this has any affect on inflation Ive got a bridge to sell you.
I think its to help with manual sorting.

Letters received need only have the W1 part read, to see where they should be sent.

When they reach Westminster, the 1AA part is read to sort them for final delivery.
Covid measures left a whole lot of people working from home, inefficiently, or inefficiently working on location (less customers, higher costs). The efficiency loss is also being paid for partially by rising prices, inflation. Same salary, less work output for it.