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If high quality light field displays become common place they might be. Think like a 3D display that looks more like a window then a display.
Through middle school and high school I lived on my Palm devices. I carried them to class, broke out the portable keyboard, and did all my notes and assignments on them, then spent the breaks between classes beaming Strategic Commander game turns between my friends.

My teachers loved that I did this, because when you printed out notes from the Memos app it put a big white-on-black header at the top of the page. So teachers put my assignments front-of-line in their paper stacks and treated them as dividers between assignments.

Working this way was great for my ADHD brain. My elementary school gave me an AlphaSmart, speculating that I performed poorly or acted out in class because I got bored in the time it took to handwrite a sentence. Using Palm devices worked great because I could capture more of what was in my brain, and could edit and reorder my scattered, disorganized thoughts.

Those devices were excellent for what they were. I like what modern devices can do, but Palm devices felt like an extension of myself in a way modern smartphones don't.
BUt some manager's idea of what are business sites, and the staff's idea, can be very different.

I don't mean entertainment; I mean suits making decisions about what engineering needs etc.
It isn't really about which is "more important" morally. Both sides agree that infants have some legal rights, the questions are whether one of those legal rights is having their mother to bear them to term against their mother's will and if so, when that right begins and how much risk the mother can be required to accept in doing so.

Edit: One thing I don't see mentioned is how a ethically consistent Pro-Life stance seems to require support for state sponsored healthcare. Requiring people to bear the costs of pregnancy to achieve the state's moral obligations seems unreasonably cruel and counter productive if the infant's well being is the priority. Banning abortions without covering pregnancy costs seems more interested in imposing culture than in protecting the helpless.
How does the memory library detect use after free?
In this case, I think you wanted more opportunities and career growth and that wasn't possible in that role. I've been there before. I don't think this is burnout, you just outgrew your role, and there was no reason to stick around.
s/now flow/no flow
To me, Grim Fandango looked fantastic. What made it difficult to play were the cursed keyboard controls. I still did beat it, but never wanted to come back to it because of those controls. A couple of years ago, I replayed the modern remaster, and boy does the good old mouse pointer improve the game immensely.
> You might as well complain that you are missing out on being able to tell racist jokes with your same-race buddies,

I sympathize with your point, but object strongly to this analogy on the grounds that being racist is a choice, while benefiting from body language is not a choice. It's also very offensive, but that is a secondary issue.
Does this apply to vpns? Have we crossed the more normal people are using it threshold than criminals or should that be outlawed?

Will we reach a point where self hosting is seen as criminal?
From my point of view it isn't enough to warrant adoption over existing alternatives.

Maybe someone proves me wrong with some killer application that makes Zig unavoidable for the rest of us.
I don't know. Disclaimer: just a happy customer. What I do know is that all you know about me is the account number you gave me and the IP address I'm connecting from. I always pay cash, so that would be hard to trace back.

So I know you do the absolute maximum you can do to know as little about me as possible. As far as not keeping logs and not spying on me, I suppose I'll have to trust the audit reports.

Not much more you can do in my opinion. It's definitely good enough for me! Thanks for this great service!
I remember telling my wife once, around a decade ago, that I thought that of all the professions I knew of, I thought I could be really happy as a librarian, if I didn't have to worry about money (not that I actually know how much librarians make). For sure, I don't know much of the intricacies of librarians, but something about the cataloguing of and helping people find information feels very noble and I think would be very fulfilling.
Yeah maybe. I'd be curious to know how big of a factor it actually is. Would an extraverted person using a wheelchair prefer to work from home, or go in? I'd be hesitant to assume something like that is necessarily the biggest factor for somebody.

It could certainly trend that way though. I don't see that as super problematic.
It may be possible, but that doesn’t mean we could maintain anywhere near our current levels of output if we were to switch chickens over to grazing.

The only way to sustain this level of meat consumption is by utilizing the current industrial practices.
I'd love to have this freedom. As well as a nice cabin up in the Green Mountains of Vermont to explore. But 12mi a day, and you're basically a professional hiker for a living when you include prep time and post prandial hot tub soaks for recovery ;)
Right that makes sense. It’s not a big deal. An app I was using MoneyWiz, let you switch between providers so something like Venmo or crappy store branded credit cards were able to be included too via Yodlee. I dont do much crypto, but Salt Edge does help there.
Understanding motivation is ephemeral, while discipline is not and a sense of momentum is important, what keeps me going is having an “emergency mode” of my habits for my “off days”.

This varies by habit, but includes tracking at least one minute of work on a project per day, or just going for a walk if don’t have the energy to workout.

I think one has to manage expectations and factor ‘off days’ and ‘rest days’ into their model of productivity and routine.

I treat myself like a server with a bad uptime SLA. I aim for >= 90% adherence to habits, which over a long time horizon compounded is pretty meaningful.

I wrote a guide around this for a product I’m building if of interest: https://conjure.so/guides/habit-completion-types
> Can anyone honestly and sincerely tell me that online whiteboards are exactly equivalent to in-person whiteboard sessions?

Of course not. They're an ersatz replacement for the in-person thing. They do the job about 90% as well. Is that a problem? In the corporate world, most things are ersatz, if you're not an executive. Mediocre supplies, mediocre management, mediocre training, mediocre pay... why should we force people to shlep just to pretend their jobs aren't mediocre? A standard-issue corporate job can be done from anywhere.

> There is no value in having lunches together with your colleagues?

Again, of course not; but if a company is going to expect or require people to do it, it should foot the bill for the inconveniences caused.
I think you're misunderstanding the appeal of ecosystems here. It's not just about install base - it's about the mental load of adjusting to a new set of assumptions and paradigms for interacting with the computer.

To me, the way to think about "introducing" someone to Lisp and helping them understand the choices the language makes - you really want to focus on the things that make Lisp stand out, and one way of doing that is re-using a lot of the functionality of a language that outsiders may be familiar with.

I generally agree that if you want to build something substantial you probably would choose CL over Hy, but if you want to "try a lisp" while minimizing startup costs and you have a Python background I think Hy makes way more sense.
> Are you?

I think he's saying that no-one person can be better.

Stock market crashed on 9-11. So what happened the next time the world had such a huge hit (Covid)? the markets rose because everyone was piling to get that same post-911 dip. It didn't exist because everyone that was expecting it caused the same to not happen. So I guess if you think you know what's going to happen next. You're probably 1 of a million others that are guessing the same thing and so what you think will happen doesn't.

It also doesn't help that the government's reaction changes to major crisis events too - and those actions you can't predict- let alone what affect they will have.

It's basically a super large neural net (the largest). I mean can someone put in something crazy into GPT3 and before they enter it (something not entered previously) GUESS what's going to come out?
https://maya.land/bookmarklets/readable/ <-- I have a "do" folder for various useful bookmarklets, and this one has gotten some mileage
> No. Online whiteboards have benefits that in-person whiteboard sessions do not, obviously.

Is it obvious though? They're garbage for most of the teams I've worked with. They're tolerable to the rest.

> No, obviously there is value in having lunches together with your colleagues, just as there are downsides.

Ok, but I'm asserting some valuable things being lost by going fully remote only, it doesn't do either side of the argument any good to be so ambiguous and non-committal to a point.

> There is value in body language, just as there is probably more value in well-written communication.

Fair point! I don't know that I have ever, anywhere, read any informal text or technical document that could communicate the nuances of body language effectively and entirely though. I'm jealous that you work with such perfect communicators!

> Many people who oppose returning to the office would agree with you. It's a much-improved work experience.

I totally agree, it is much improved, even if we lost a lot of valuable things in the transition.

> A predominantly WFH experience is, in pretty much all your examples, a better experience than working every day from the office. Suggesting it's merely as good as working form the office does it a great disservice.

I did not do any such thing. I'm saying fully remote work is great, but we're losing a lot, so let's not pretend that we aren't. There are facets to in-person work that are completely lost and not translatable to fully remote work.
There are lectures on macroeconomics by Krassimir Petrov on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1BDk5Uyy8I&list=PLesgViD0jh...
I followed his lectures on microeconomics and found it good, but I haven't started macroeconomics yet.
Do you do any exercise at all?
"Coddling?"

Social anxiety is a genuine mental illness, and a protected disability. This kind of arrogant, ableist crap is exactly why we need to destroy the cultural norm that everybody being in the office all the time is the only way to do work.
Not sure what's the issue here, according to the spec you should be able to get it on the first request:

> Sites that wish to serve mobile-specific sites using UA-CH can do that using the Sec-CH-UA-Mobile headers that are sent by default on every request.

What am I missing?
After walking to and from work for 5 years along the same route, I found that I prefer walking without listening to anything on headphones.

Just thinking increases awareness of my surroundings, allows me time to process existing thoughts as opposed to consuming more inputs, and connects me to the people I would inevitably see on a semi-regular basis.

Personally, I have found that 1 hour + is a good threshold to aim for for some really quality thinking. After about an hour I've already processed normal stuff about family or work and have moved on to deeper topics.
Nubank Tumbles as End of Fintech’s $26B Lockup Looms
Seattle area has the same issue. My job encouraged return to office end of March (and I suspect other employers in the area had similar timelines) and traffic has been steadily getting worse ever since.
Arguably true for the EGA versions (when played on real EGA hardware), but the VGA versions used a 320x200 resolution, which was line-doubled to 320x400, and displayed on monitors sharp enough to be usable at 640x480. The pixels were obviously blocky.
I love 1Password. Easily my most used application. I think what people overlook is it's a great place to store all kinds of sensitive information, not just passwords!
Last year I used the CityStrides website to track and walk every street in my town. All told about 385 miles or so.

Some changes I've noticed since doing this are listed below. Not that they are earth shattering, but just a few things I've observed.

* My resting heart rate fell by about 5 BPM.

* I can now run and walk in my dreams and rarely have the "legs in molasses" thing (if you know what I mean).

* I now wear trail running shoes all the time - a total shift from the old Birkenstock and whatever shoes I wore for years before.

* My town has a number of fun, curious little sidewalk shortcuts between neighborhoods that I did not know about. They aren't secret, just not obvious at all.
I find it interesting that sequels in gaming are way easier than in movie business: game designers don't have to deal that much with stars ageing or dying, and voice actors are far easier to replace than on-screen ones. Though with deepfake technology this might be changing.
This'll probably be read by no one, but I want to correct the record... I was trying to set up rhetoric for the argument that TG is not "toxic", because from what I've read, she is not. The downvotes suggest that I was interpreted otherwise, and I'm sorry for this.
Insisting on a new solution being "exactly the same" to adopt it pretty much ensures you will never leave the status quo.

All changes in complex systems have tradeoffs. In-person whiteboard sessions can be exhilarating. They also tend to produce imprecise (or no) artifacts that rely heavily on the context of the meeting for interpretation.

I noticed that when our team went remote during COVID and ideation was done by async contributions to design docs, the completeness and reliability of our designs went way up. But again, it's never all positive. If there was a design that was underspecified or not fully understood by the team member leading it, the siloing could lead to analysis paralysis.
how exactly does making people come to the office result in a more white workforce?
Seems silly though. The term "growth company" seems a lot more authentic. Of course these labels are not black/white, but it's a useful distinction. There are simply different dynamics at a growth company vs. a startup.
Yes, it was an issue before COVID, but people who are disabled, or people who have processing differences that make dealing with the distractions of an open plan office extremely difficult (that's the "neuro-normative" part), or people who have to juggle children and a job, or people who can't afford to live close enough to have a short commute, had it much better when working from home and naturally don't want to give that up.

And for some people it's the other way around. I have a colleague who has two young children and a small apartment, and it was very tough for him when work from home and school from home was mandatory.
Man, this feels like the chrome extension buyouts by marketing companies.

A bit of a backstory. Postmark was a delivery first company. Initially they were actually transaction email ONLY (not even product updates, release notes). They broadened eventually, but manually reviewed each new customer AND if you were doing marketing often pointed you elsewhere

"If your needs are less about supporting application-based sending and more around enabling marketing promotion, there are other tools that may be a better fit for you than Postmark."

ActiveCampaign is the opposite. Marketing first. Fingers crossed.
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Explain how the HOV lanes are making it worse?
Yes, it is a bureaucratic pain for IT to request access to download a tool for testing, etc. and in many places that may be overkill.

Again, prior experience, we had brainstormed the idea of denying any executable downloads by frontline workers, while permitting it for IT, since frontline workers both were less likely to need to download random EXEs, and less likely to know how to spot phishing or grayware sites.
Note that in some areas, environmental regulation prevents once-through water cooling because wee-small creatures that go through the plant are killed. The outflow may also be problematic.

Local (to me) example: Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant killed all the abalone in its discharge cove during its first hot run due to the increased water temperature. There were so many that before the plant the spot was known to locals as "abalone cove". You could rock pick to your heart's content and not even need a wetsuit. On the other hand, they do have rather fascinating sea life in that cove due to the higher temps there vs. the cold Pacific just a few feet away (they used to have a show-and-tell marine biology lab onsite for visitors to check out). Anyway, to relicense DCPP, the plant would likely need to switch to cooling using the signature big towers people associate with nuclear plants, which is obviously a titanic effort.
For clarity, this is because Resolve seems to require OpenCL support. I haven't tried it myself, but the beignet package might serve to provide OpenCL support. I had a similar issue when using the OS AMD drivers and using Resolve, which don't come with OpenCL support.
> And don't suggest me to use the same markup for both desktop and mobile with adaptive styles. More often than not this ends up being equally terrible on both kinds of devices.

My experience is generally (though not always) the exact opposite. It’s usually the case that when designers and implementers took the care to ship a properly responsive design, they’ve produced a design that adapts well to many factors. Designs which treat different device classes differently tend to be rigid, and fail to anticipate subtle differences or factors within those device classes.

I hesitate to link to the snotty site most commonly used to point this out (though I will if anyone asks), but HTML is responsive by default. Knowing this, and building upon it, is a great way to start learning how to build responsive pages that work really well.
ah, I see. There's another shorter one below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsHxgP3SRTs In that one I get the debugger, I go to the erroneous function, I re-compile it, come back to the debugger and resume execution (seeing everything pass). Can you do that in Clojure? There's also the typical class change: in CL you can alter a class definition and the existing objects are (lazily) updated. Also (and it's like the only time I tried Clojure) you can't install a Clojure library from the Clojure REPL, right? And then, what's explained here: https://mikelevins.github.io/posts/2020-12-18-repl-driven/
Then why is C# or F# not more popular? Microsoft ships a huge array of first party supported packages that include low level protocol libraries.

I have yet to work at a Silicon Valley startup that used C# or F# though, despite it being a pretty solid choice in terms of "one language to rule them all" kind of thing like Kotlin / Java and (to maybe a lesser extent?) JavaScript.

I respect the tools and the language Microsoft has put out there, I'm not saying its objectively better or worse.

Especially F#, which is, to interject my opinion, an incredibly productive language on the same level as Go, and you get access to the rich .NET ecosystem out of the box.
I don't think I understand your comment here - zoom happy hours are not a benefit to me, the other things that they try to replace have more benefit to me.
SystemTap 4.7 Released
At one point a few months ago I tried to do the same in an 'Ask HN' post (not knowing how it was supposed to work), and the text portion of my submission was accepted as a comment on the post that got buried and led to lots of confusion.
How the mechanical keyboard went mainstream again
This reminds me of the book Recursion by Blake Crouch. In the book, scientists figure out how to use memories to time travel. Interesting concept.
Hubble Telescope captures image of merging galaxies forming an ‘Angel’ in space
Well, naturally, with people who use the other one: Arduino. I mean FreeBSD. Or maybe FreeRTOS? Wait, Android. Or NetBSD. Or Wasm. Or JS. Or the JVM. Or the .NET CIL. Or ReactOS. Or SerenityOS. Or FreeDOS. Or Illumos. Or OpenSolaris, heh.

Or just regular old GNU/Linux like 70% of the Web. But either Android installs or FreeRTOS installs easily outnumber those.
> technical ability to set up their own instance or configure the clients

This will be largely alleviated with managed or hosted services. For example, a lot of corporations used to run mail services on-prem but no longer need to do this, they've moved on to purchasing it directly from a provider like Microsoft or Google Workspace.

Also, this largely reflects the idea behind Discord and Slack - hosted services will be the dominant players once the ecosystem evolves.

also, I'll repeat my new business model Twitter should adopt -- take the underlying protocol (ActivityPub), white-label their services and sell them to orgs who want Twitter on their own domain (also allowing for control over the username namespace like email / @anyusername@domain.tld). I've been pitching this idea for years and no one's ever given a serious critique of the idea. A global unified namespace like the one Twitter uses is problematic (squatting/trademark disputes, etc) and awful.
Why would you think this court makeup would uphold a Federal abortion protection?

They largely won’t even uphold the VRA.
Yes, agree, correlations don't imply causation.

The TLDR is more that correlations throw a lot of information away.
Really? I guess running a VPN is a profitable business ...
During my time as a producer at a game studio, the office was located in a little business park surrounded by grass and rivers and small lakes, with lots of wildlife and some hiking trails. We had a tradition of going out on walks every day before/after lunch, usually a couple loops around the park. I made a point of going every time because I found that lots of conversations would happen naturally during the walk and some of them helped me identify process issues that weren't being addressed or discussed yet - the sorts of things that people were afraid to complain about in meetings because it would make them seem like a whiner.
Yeah, big surprise, and ridiculous criticism from someone who has helped shape the country as it is today. So why give him a platform? By publishing, the NY Times only helps spreading the fear for Putin and assuring that the lines stay closed. All in the name of quality press, of course.