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My first real experience programming was when I was 19, before ever having a class, teaching myself PHP/JS on the job to write custom wordpress themes. I started writing inefficient spaghetti code and progressed into writing object-oriented, then started looking at performance. The performance aspect was definitely the deepest rabbit hole.

I would say that I learned more doing that than I have getting a CS degree at my state school (aside from writing performant code, which classes have helped with). But it is mostly because I viewed getting good as a way to escape from some bad circumstances at the time - every word I didn't know was a low-hanging fruit waiting to be picked. I did a lot of reading, and I practiced at home in my spare time as well.

I got really good at front-end stuff and learned how to use the terminal so that I could host and manage our company's websites on a digital ocean droplet (running centos). I learned a lot on the linux terminal - writing bash / shell scripts, managing configurations, etc. Improved speed a lot by configuring apache... then again by redoing things in Nginx on the next site, which I've preferred since.

Since I've gone back to school, going overboard on programming labs has also helped a lot.
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You can buy stainless steel straws. Reusable too.
Pretty sure ethereum pos is going to show up around the same time tesla's FSD does.

Ie, "next year", every year.
> handwriting C /…/ reading out what I'd written, semicolons and all, to the interviewer.

I had to re-read it to make sure you are not joking. The fact that you were not made me laugh harder.

I'm now just saying "retuuurn" in various exaggerated accents.
I've been playing with an app idea that helps people communicate these sorts of conclusions to each other to whatever level of detail they require. You can drill all the way down to the premise/axiom level if you want but you don't have to. The graphical animation is nice, but like you say, a private wiki can get you most of the way there.
Yeah — seems like all you need is Snowflake-esque separation of storage and compute and bob’s your uncle.
Self Governance 101: The Legislative Branch
> Once I can recall something, that usually leads me to where I need to go. It's sometimes that initial failure to recall what I wanted to remember that can prevent me from acting until much later.

Exactly my frame of thinking, if I start worrying about structure, I forget the thing I wanted to write about in the first place.

> I like Apple Notes, but it really sucks in a lot of ways. The search function is crappy as crap gets. I don't know how indexing could be so poor. There's no way to tag or label notes other than by placing notes in folders. Notes does nothing to try and help you extract meaning from your unstructured text.

It lets you get the job done quickly, you just remembered you had to write something down, you can just write it down as quick as possible without worrying about other nonsense.

> What I want more than anything that tries to impose the job of organization on to the user is something that lets me treat it like a dumping ground, does its best to extract any implicit structure or meaning and keywords from my notes, lets me add relationships optionally, and then gets out of my way. I don't need silos or folders or schemas or graphs or any such nonsense.

Exactly, this is what I am thinking too, organization shouldn't be worried about when you just want to write something down NOW, as apposed to later after you've worried about organization and you've forgotten the thing you wanted to write about in the first place.

The actual thing that you are using the write notes on should do the organization itself, make tags automatically and link notes automatically, without you having to worry about anything, that for me, is the best way.

And you should be able to search through notes quickly and find keywords etc.. all just by looking at what is inside the notes that have any sort of structure.

> lets me add relationships optionally

Totally agree, relationships should be worried about after the note has been written down, not before.
There's loads of examples like that around the place. The "great vowel shift" is also responsible for many of them.

Near here (Yeovil, Somerset) is Leigh - not "Lee" but "Lie". Elsewhere in the UK Leigh will be pronounced "Lay" - I'll put money on it.

When I first saw your village name, I instinctively went for "husted kens". We generally shorten syllables and clip consonants, except when we don't! We insist on aspirating "h" (herb vs 'erb) but will turn beauchamp "bow'shamp" into "beeshum".
Relax, it's just culture. People who have open relationships tend not to talk about it. Some because they don't like getting lectured on cultural inventions like monogamy. Others because they don't want to get advances from sex-mercenaries.

So you may just not know what your friends are up to, because why would they tell you of all people? If you allowed a bit of nuance, you could learn surprising things about humans.
Absolutely, so let me take a different position:

I acknowledge that all of the Monsanto Infringement lawsuits have involved farmers who a) Purchased Roundup-Resistant seed from Monsanto b) under contract with Monsanto c) that included a provision not to replant the seed derived from those crops.

It is my opinion, as a political stance, that that provision c is against natural law as well as the laws of man, and is therefore null and void. Farmers, even big corporate ones, should be allowed to replant the seed of their crops, and it's unconscionable to restrict that.
What is the value of projecting our collective oil dependence onto the companies that provide it? Pretending it's somehow oil companies fault while not making any personal changes is delusional.

I think focusing on straws is stupid, but so is pretending that but for oil companies we'd have no problems
Does everyone in your team take the same day off?

Or do some take Monday off, and others take Friday off?
I believe that Fidelity allows investing in bitcoin, not crypto in general.
Why are we using the "Alt" designator?

These are media figures. In a state of things where our media is functioning as it needs and is intended to, we have a diversity of opinion and that is presented from many perspectives.

To answer the question, frankly people are way more complex than the media allows for, or speaks to.

Unless their speech is somehow criminal, blocking them financially is showing more of a disturbing trend where we see corporations stepping into what is basically thought enforcement.
Show HN: Color Orbs (Generative Art)
Hi all,

This is a generative art project I worked on over the past year or so consisting of about 100 little artworks generated using P5.js.

I have an overview and technical write up here: https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs

You can play with my interactive demo and make your own here: https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs/designer

And the gallery is here: https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs/gallery

This project came about after reading a HN post about a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712767) by Atul Vinayak on generating beautiful 'Noise Planets' and I got kind of obsessed from there!
I agree but the same logic applies to "remove oil from the ground, burn it, capture the carbon from the smoke using expensive equipment, then bury the smoke" which describes all major carbon sequestration plans if I understand correctly.

I think that both forms of sequestration (sequestering gaseous CO2 (or a solid-stabilized form of it) vs sequestering plastic) are worse than not drilling the oil to begin with, but better than letting the CO2 end up in the air.
Wow, does this ring true for me.
I had been using Evernote for at least 7 years, then switched to Notion a few years ago, completely "reinventing my digital life" and creating my "Second Brain" with the P.A.R.A method by Tiago Forte.

I loved that for the first few months, then slowly but surely the sheer amount of interconnected nodes became... oberwhelming, to the point of me almost completely stopping to enter in new data.

I recently realized that I kind of hated my Second Brain, and did a painful migration away from it, to the stupidly simple Notes.app (the built-in Apple one).

Feels much better now: Less worrying about bloat, I deleted a bunch of stuff and do less procrastinating and fiddling about with the structure of it all.
thx for the info.
My 2 sites' certs are valid from (before June 2020) Set to auto renew in July.
5/9/2020 to 7/7/2022
5/10/2020 to 7/9/2022

I'll try re-keying one of them and see if that solves the problem... based on your info seems that it would. Thank you!
> You literally said

My mistake, I meant Ethereum of course.

> Sure, let's re-assert the power of authoritarian regimes over their people because some people don't do their due diligence

Your argument is that people subjected to dictatorial misgivings in the financial realm should become internet and tech literate enough to... pick a chain with a stable valuation and guaranteed low fees and no scammers? You must be joking me, or literally paid to write what you are writing.
is it possible, or how hard is it, to plug in custom proprietary models?
I'm of the opinion that with the modern usage of WASP in the US, the P could be replaced with most sects of Christianity, including Anglo-Catholicism, or just straight Catholicism.
"fail" here is not just being outbid, but still paying most of the money you bid. That's not acceptable.
I mean, that kind of gets at the fundamental conceit of Marxist critiques of capitalism, doesn't it? That there are two classes of individual, an upper class of those who primarily get their income by owning assets and not doing work (the titular capitalists) and an underclass of those get their income for doing actual work (the proletariat).

Everyone is incentivized to join to the upper class by easiest and most accessible means possible, and get-rich-quick schemes are the natural endpoint of that incentive.
PFAS are ubiquitous in paper food containers too. One weird trick to make paper waterproof: coat it in fluoridated chemicals!

https://toxicfreefuture.org/new-study-finds-pfas-chemicals-i...
Anything you persist in doing you will get better at. So, I got better at programming by programming. So what if your code sucks today. Keep programming and it will get better.
For humour sake, if I had time i would set up a raspberry pi to run psql and node and provide an alternative centralised blockchain that would compete computationally.
Is it really hurting Russia?

Their currency is up against the Euro since the sanctions; and against the dollar, it's the same as where it was before.
> Imagine if you had to...

Given the historical context of these systems working reasonably well for decades, I've decided to take for granted that I won't get rugged by my public transit, or my electricity company, or the food in the grocery store. Still, I do assess tap water before I drink it, even in the US.

If you're the type of person who likes to blindly trust systems without studying them, that's fine; you can wait to partake in crypto until this sense of trust has been built. No one is holding a gun to your head and saying "run arbitrary code against your crypto holdings." Yet people do it. This is their fault. If they don't want to take the time to study the code, then they should have waited until the community did the due diligence for them to whatever is their own personal level of satisfaction.
Kind of too bad we lost Blackberry - they seemed to be focusing on this sort of thing.

Maybe this is someone a large country could develop internally themselves? Create their own fork of Android, private app store, etc etc?
What’s striking your me is they knew veins, strata, faults, crust, etc., but never quite realized plate tectonics till a century later!

Nice illustration palette —and on Linen! Kids were spoiled back then.
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Other cutlery only needs washing on the outside. How do you ensure the straw is also cleaned on the inside?
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Women choosing to have less children is the other half of the failed mass starvation predictions. World’s population will peak this century and start to decline. We currently produce enough food to feed 10 billion, if waste is accounted for.
ESG browny points is probably a key component of that. It's dangerous to let politicians decide what is considered green. There has to be a quantifiably measurable way the impact on the environment from any single product is judged. If there isn't a clear way to do so then we should refrain from blanket banning a product.
This is probably misleading as most people present it.
The IRS does require you to report illegal earnings. But the justice department can also use that against you[0].

There’s quite a bit more case law on the matter, but tl;dr is that it’s a very fluid and ill-defined area of law. Personally I expect tax returns to be used as evidence more in the future, rather than less.

0: https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...
See my sister comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31241852 you can bet there, using free paper money and if you win donate (via conversion) to charity which is cool.
What would be the effects of a blanket ban on single-use plastic food packaging
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In the article they mention they're generally using vi for editing. The learning barrier for git is so much lower than vi.

Git, when used without branches and merges, is really dead simple.
Accidents are not common. But they're not impossible either. [1]

1: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-dies-after-accidentally...
Off-topic: Submissions with query strings in the URL are annoying, because at least Safari mobile doesn’t mark such links as visited (since presumably they aren’t idempotent).
California’s population shrinks for second year in a row
PKM is not bullshit; it is extremely helpful to a lot of people. This article seems a bit pointless. Yes, the graph is used to advertise a lot of these systems, but the point of the graph isn't the graph itself; it's just showing the power of backlinks. I use Obsidian and haven't looked at my graph since I started. But I use backlinks regularly. The graph is merely advertising the power of backlinks.
There is no challenge, we've invented plastic straws. The challenge is to use something that the people who are worked up about straws do not identify as plastic.

Wax is a hydrocarbon that I believe comes from oil. I don't know how it breaks down on the environment but it's not immediately clear it's actually "better" than plastic, other than maybe not being seen once it falls apart.
I believe you have missed the point of my post. I have updated it in the hope that perhaps I have made the point clearer.
But people would want to see it for the explosions and destruction worldwide, which seems wrong to me given that the movie would be partly based on current events.
The wikipedia page on the code has a photo illustrating the code. It would make a fantastic movie poster, but no such movie could be made then:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thou_Shalt_Not_-_Whi...
Let's say you have a friend who is always in debt. He knows it. You know it. Everyone you both know knows it.

He has a few friends, also deeply in debt, who try to pretend it's not an issue, but most people roll their eyes in frustration at that subgroup.

One day, your friend comes over in a brand new high-end Mercedes. You and all of their friends are appalled. Why on earth would they buy a Mercedes when they are already so far underwater that it's unclear if they'll ever be debt free.

To me, this is the problem with the crypto space. The world is full of problems that are threatening the planet. The world can't yet agree on how to solve those problems, (and some people pretend that problem doesn't even exist).

And along comes this new thing that consumes more energy than entire countries. And it's not really clear if it'll ever provide enough value to warrant the cost.

Yes, this will require some difficult conversations along the way, but people are quick to jump all over this because quite frankly, it's exactly the kind of problem the world doesn't need on top of the existing problems that still haven't been solved. There's a kind of exasperation that comes with the feeling.

When people bring up climate change, it's rarely just to marvel.
The best workflow is to consciously underthink it. If you find yourself spending more than 10 seconds thinking of where to put something then you're doing it wrong. Force yourself to go with the first place you were thinking. You'll most likely find it later using search tools.

Sometimes you don't even need to take notes. Just the act of pasting in a link or a snippet from an article you read is enough to reference it in the future.

If you insist on making things clean, then you can use some sort of version control and review all the notes that you've taken once a week and organize them better. The most important thing is to take the note.
Why does wax defeat the purpose of a paper straw? Aren't there some biodegradable waxes?
"We can consume our way out of problems caused by overconsumption." — well said
I think it really shows how crypto would struggle to scale for mainstream use
I try to reserve flagging for comments and posts that flagrantly violate the HN norms, since they are likely to create work for the moderation team. I don’t feel like any of our comments in this thread rise to that level, which is why I didn’t flag (or even downvote!) your original comment or any of your comments in this thread, despite its running afoul of the HN guidelines (assume good intent, don’t engage in flamebait or off-topic controversy, don’t comment about votes), although others seem to have.
As I mentioned in a sibling comment (specifically talking about bubble tea) metal straws are an excellent and, generally, superior alternative.

People don't pick plastic straws - companies pick plastic straws and they stir up anti-environmental outrage to reinforce their fiscally based decision.
Slight correction, it leads to loads of herbicide usage (glyphosate). The process of desiccation also leads to loads of glyphosate being used just prior to harvest, on non ‘Roundup Ready’ (glyphosate resistant) crops, which may be worse as it doesn’t get rinsed off since it’s used in the drying phase. See:
https://ensia.com/features/glyphosate-drying/
I'm also skeptical, but let's remember that the point of the fable is not "the boy's repeated claims lost credibility because the wolf never came", but rather "the people eventually learned to ignore the boy's claims and were caught by surprise when the wolf finally came" ツ
Climeworks is doing some work with atmospheric capture and sequestration in basalt via underground water injection (I believe they site with hydroelectric plants which gives them the reinjection well infrastructure mostly for free).

You can do the same thing by grinding basalt and spreading it on fields, which... given that I live on a pile of basalt, might be useful eventually. I keep collecting the stuff to make a greenhouse with, though.

It may be better than leaving it in the air, but given all the other biological activity of plastic, I'd really rather we not use the stuff in the first place at this point.
There's a method entirely based on group theory, a version of the original computer algorithm created to solve the cube (the Thistlewaite algorithm) simplified for use by a human [1]. It iteratively solves the cube into simpler groups that need a smaller moveset to solve (the last step uses only half turns on each face, no quarter turns). It requires only a bit of memorization, and you can understand exactly how the algorithm works. It's not a great speedsolving method, but you can get relatively fast with it: in [2] there's a solve below 30 seconds.

[1] https://www.ryanheise.com/cube/human_thistlethwaite_algorith...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmjYWYDPhiM
Seconded. The Code also ruins a bunch of noir type collections from the 40s and 50s because the bad guys have to die and the cops are infallible.

I love the Preston Sturges films.
Obsidian is an amazing piece of software.

Perhaps PKM as a cottage industry is overdone, and the author's point that everybody's system is highly personal and should not be replicated is valid. That said, Obsidian has allowed me to organize all of my reading, learning, writing, and thinking into a format that allows me to recall knowledge and make connections that I wouldn't have otherwise found. Seeing in what other contexts you have read about a concept or a historical figure or an essay, etc. is so valuable for life-long learning that I can't imagine going back to disconnected or separated note-taking.
Let's say I enjoy trading crypto. What puts that enjoyment as lesser to an equivalent amount of meat consumption that creates the same GHG emissions compared to alternative?

This time without appeal to the naturalism fallacy.
Supporting & evolving my own code/projects for years.