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The meaning of life is to reproduce, which implies to survive until that age at least. Without this, there would be no continuous life and the "meaning" question cannot even be asked, as it's a question asked by living things. Or only one living thing that we know of.

The why question has no answer nor will it ever have an answer. Life doesn't need justification or orchestration. It's a freak accident of molecules. It could have never happened and it can end by means of a disaster and the universe will happily continue without it.

As to what a human can/should to with their life other than not dying and trying to reproduce, that's an entirely cultural question. Cultural is a fancy word for: we made it up.
I just got onto a new project, and one of the first things the lead said was that they do a Zoom happy hour every Friday at 4pm. I told her, "That's fine. Keep on doing that, but don't expect me to show up. If I want to socialize over Zoom I can do that on my own time."

No, I'm not fun at parties. I'm the designated driver.
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That is a useful way to think about it for sure, I’m mostly using it as an illustration of what is probably a philosophical difference between myself and the Rust maintainers; in other words, I don’t see why we need if let when we already have match with _ wildcards. It’s the sort of syntactic shortcut that gives authors of code relatively little benefit (save a few keystrokes) and readers of code yet one more syntactic variation to contend with.

I guess another way of putting it is that I think Rust has a lot of sugar that’s confusing.

Kotlin is an example of a language that has a lot of similar syntactic shortcuts and functional underpinnings that implements them in a more readable and consistent fashion imo.
Then there's the bank owners etc. They got rich when banks were deregulated and then began skimming from every transaction. You do that for long enough, you have all the money.
It's pretty clear the epidemic of obesity and metabolic disease is largely caused by sugar

https://youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM
It doesn't seem like a great option compared to a normal USB-C or A ethernet dongle because of that. Those are slim enough that they're basically a continuation of the ethernet cable and as a benefit also unplug when yanked. This one doesn't even fit within the normal adapter form factor of the framework.
One of the sad things about the Internet these days is that into every conversation descends the Screaming Loonie™.

The Screaming Loonie doesn't waste any time but immediately dives into some world-class conspiracy theory - in this case, "Almost all the world's doctors, medical researchers and public health officials are in a century-long conspiracy to present a false theory, that masks help prevent infectious respiratory diseases."

I used to find this sad, but now the Screaming Loonies have killed a lot of people by hampering our response to COVID, and it's not sad or funny any more, it's enraging.

If we can jail people who call in prank bomb threats, we can should certainly jail the gloating and arrogant medical liars who have caused such carnage.

In a just world, medical liars would be given the same sort of sentence that we give today to
Right. However, jQuery isn't just for cross-browser.

It provides a clean API for manipulating the DOM, as this site demonstrates (which is ironic): https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/

Personally, for simple sites, I aim for vanilla JS but use jQuery (cash, actually) where it makes sense - such as working on collections of elements.
Unions increase labor costs.
drone.io (https://www.drone.io/) has worked wonders for me.
The guy has a warrant out for his arrest and is currently in hiding. He’s brilliant but this was stupid.
The US government has a very long history projecting it's will on other countries. Under the guise of national security, what is stopping the US government from changing Rust to prevent it from working in Russia, Iran, or Canada? The scenario is somewhat hyperbolic, but the US and European centric nature of Rust gives people in less developed nations pause.
Power dynamics are definitely there, and they can sneak up on you. Injecting jokes can definitely break the tension, but I have also had it backfire on me a bit.

In my first time leading a team, a few months in one of the people on my team who I had known personally from before pulled me aside and basically said "listen, I know you, and I know that you are a sarcastic person and can understand it. But everyone else kind of thinks you're an asshole". Still very thankful that they pointed that one out to me.
It was some time within the last month.
As Privaxy includes blocklists, I'd argue that it is a superset of PiHole functionality. DNS blocklisting is actually pretty straightforward, and there are many tools which do it. PiHole is only one.

That said, which would be better suited to incorporate the other is an interesting question.
Oh, not even close. It does what most languages do and just elides, ignores, or hard-codes the answers to all the questions Rust has. That's a solution, sure, a very valid one chosen by many languages over many decades, but certainly not "much better". We absolutely need at least one language that doesn't hide all that and I think the programming language community as a whole will really benefit from the list of choices for that being expanded from "C++", which is getting really long in the tooth And I'm not even sure C++ was ever really designed to be this language, I think a lot of it just sort of happened by default and it sort of backed into this role, and frankly, it shows. Rust being designed for this can't hardly help but be nicer, even if we completely ripped out the borrow checker aspect.
Good luck getting prescribed that by any GP.

I am as above board as I can be when it comes to my medicine (never take more than 1 a day, never ask for more, etc) but the song and dance for getting refills, let alone a new or changed prescription, makes me feel like a criminal hunting for his next fix.

I can't imagine what it must be like for people who legitimately need opiates.
I can tell that you like to live in your own reality. He violated the Espionage Act. He is a foreign agent, he won't say but supposedly now has Russian citizenship. Quite the patriot, seeking shelter in one of the least free and most oppressive European nations he could find. He harmed the US and the UK, and assisted China and Russia.

I realize you want to make that coward & villain out to be a freedom fighter, but I already provided a real freedom fighter. The comparison is stark.

William Wallace didn't hide in Paris or Berlin. Neither did the modern day Wallace in Navalny. They stood in their homeland like men. Snowden? Good for a laugh, and will go down in history as such. He was just a boy who ended up harming, and outright turning on the nation he was supposedly liberating, then hid from the consequences.
Largely the same. Privaxy actually looks pretty sweet in that regard.
/Aside, The Economist has been stepping up their visual game lately — Article looks almost like an NYT special.
1. The issue here is one of failing to maintain the code, so I don't see how calling it unmaintainable is unfair

2. Google is absolutely doing a lot to prevent 3rd parties from reading your contacts and sending them to a 3rd party server (like this developer was doing). I'm not saying your data is private, I'm saying you have more control over data privacy... but probably not from Google.

3. You can still run this app on your device. Android Studio is free. Go fork, build & side-load it. It will however crash on later versions of Android. Manually giving it permissions should resolve that through at least Android 13. We'll see what 14 brings.
I'm now waiting for over a year for this laptop to be available in my country.

Would still really like to order one, but my patience is running out, don't have a laptop currently.

EDIT: I sound very pissed off. I know that it's hard to ship to lots of countries, it's just frustrating for me to not even have an estimation. Will I be able to buy it in 3 or 6 months? Or does it take another year? no idea.
A lot of the time it's not characteristics of the code itself but the business mission it needs to fulfill.

good code can give you a lot of headaches if the external business environment sees qualitative changes while that sloppy code over there is has being going hassle free for the last 6 years because the end-goal and patterns that it needs to fulfill didn't change much during that period.
> Sounds like OP isn't necessarily an addict: they have ADHD

Two sides of the same coin imho. Both mechanisms are dopamine-driven.
Clients have successfully redeemed 10% of outstanding USDT, which happens to be the fractional reserve requirement for major US banks. Evidence they are at least as liquid as any US bank is required to be.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebankin...
If you think any of this is sane, you have another think coming.
> And honestly, I'm skeptical whether functional adults as a whole enjoy the attempts at fastforwarding the process.

I certainly don't. I'm there to make money, not friends.

I've tried making friends at work before, and it was never worth it. They expect you to be there for them, they're never there for you, and once you've left the company you might as well have never existed to them.
Completely agree. I think of the extra syntax as us helping the compiler check our code. I have to write a few more characters here and there, but I spend way less time debugging.

Although I may have PTSD from Rust, because lately I find myself preferring Qbasic in my spare time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ask HN: How have your retail shopping habits changed in the last three months?
I’ve seen a pretty significant shift in my family’s retail shopping in the past few months and I’m wondering if others are feeling/doing the same.

For those in the US, is inflation actually affecting your decision making?
What do you mean by "Amazon is not available in all EU countries". Do you mean like a country specific TLD? Because that is true, but order and delivery is not a problem from any EU country as far as I know.
London is insanely expensive and you need a household income of ~140-150K£ to live like a normal person in continental Europe (80sqm flat with 2.6mt ceilings and insulated windows and working kitchen, I'm not asking for a toilet with a window because that would be super-upper class). If you don't go on holidays and are parsimonious with take-aways, the additional 50K to get to 200K are taxed at ~50%, so you get to keep 25K. If you lose your job, one year of savings earns you 3-4 months of survival.
If they don't fix this I'll switch to using CTemplar on an Anom phone. That'll teach them.
Theoretically I would expect it to be much easier (and cheaper) to get a static IP with IPv6.
It has been a similar experience for me but with Slashdot.
Out of consideration to your coworkers? I don't wear my button-downs on weekends. When working remote, I care more that you have a good mic than I care that you're wearing pants.
Yeah, and unfortunately the YC comment section has a real end days of Slashdot vibe. You can really feel it on these crypto posts.
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Interesing project, but I wish it would show me more about what doesn't work.

The bottom of the readme indicates the list of control flow instructions it supports, but it would be convenient to have in the table the ones it doesn't as well: yield, yield from, with, try/excep, match, lambda...

Does it support "else" in loops? Does it support unpacking?

Hard to know how much Python does this Python does.

Good luck to the project though.
> Well, these results definitely validate that. Once you're topped out in coding ability, better communication only helps!

I think it's close to this, but not quite as it's a sliding scale and not a step function.

From a business perspective, there tends to be diminishing returns as one's coding skills improve. And that's the point where returns on communication skills tends to become more important. So more often than not the higher the level the more important communication skills become over coding skills. This is not saying a high level engineer can be all talk and no ability, but rather a great communicator/good coder might become more valuable than a good communicator/great coder.

Apologies for all the hedging in the above. I'm trying to take into account that there are always exceptions to the above. Some positions need that absolute wizard. It's the exception to the rule, but it exists.
> No matter what, you are trusting a compiler vendor that the code it compiles and the functions it links against don't have bugs.

I guess the key factor about a standard is that as a corporation you can point fingers if something goes wrong ("the compiler and/or the MISRA C checking tools you sold me are not compliant with the standard because of this bug!").

Also the committee can point fingers back if required ("the UB is clearly specified in the standard!").

If I were a team manager at a big automotive factory in charge of the ECU system, I would go the private way, with guarantees, and paying a lot of money. In case of failures, I can point fingers and someone would answer the phone on the other side if I complain.

Who should I call or who should I point my finger at, if something goes wrong because of a bug in Rust? A Github user on the other side of the planet?
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Still no retina display option. Steve Jobs made the right call over a decade ago... the only scaling that looks good after 100% is 200%. Any in-between scaling will have display artifacts.

This laptop has 150% scaling. What sort of display artifacts can you expect because of this? Go to a web page with a grid, with 1-pixel horizontal grid lines. Even though all lines are set to 1-pixel, some lines will appear thicker than others.

I blame Microsoft for this mess. Windows supports in-between resolutions (with display artifacts), and hardware manufacturers therefore manufacture in-between resolutions. Framework laptop is limited to what the display manufacturers put out.
For sure. Worst case you don't gain anything extra.
The psych literature on expertise draws in part from studying chess masters, and this expertise in chess mainly consists in recognizing a large number of critical positions. But this is founded in a fluency with tactics.

The parent is doing probably the most effective thing at their level by focusing on tactics, tactics, tactics. Learn the basic tactical motifs, practice finding them in puzzles, and practice employing them in games.

When you are starting with chess, don't study openings, just learn basic opening principles -- how to develop your pieces. Learning opening lines is the least productive thing you can do right now. The same positions can arise from multiple opening lines, so you are better off understanding principles and learning tactics (and how to calculate).
It means the tx consists of

1. take out huge loan
2. do a bunch of things with huge loan and exhaust gas fees if any of them have don't have desired effect
3. replay loan

The only way miners can include the tx with the loan taken out, is if all the things the attacker does in step 2 do have the desired effect. Otherwise the attacker pays the gas fees of a failed tx.
Definitely not Fetch. I don't believe anyone can argue that Fetch is more complicated.

I think this really seems to stem from a "I'm only used to jQuery, anything else is a big mental effort to learn and I'd rather stick with what I know".

I get it. Vanilla JS, if you're not used to it, is scary. But if you're advocating for jQuery "for simple interactions", and assuming it's simpler than vanilla JS, at some point you should ask yourself if you're just letting your skills stagnate, and staying stuck in the past. You owe it to yourself to update your skillset. If you decide you still need jQuery (e.g. maybe you need a plugin/library that requires jQuery), then fine. But at least you'll be making an informed decision, not a FUD-driven one.
Reminds me of a chess mod a friend taught me: acid chess. Pieces capture like normal but move however you want. So on your turn you can pick up any one of your pieces and put it on any empty square. Or make a normal capture. It turns out to be a surprisingly interesting game.
Except anchor was lending at lower rates.
A considerable chunk of the left-wing in the US would be considered right-wing almost anywhere else, so it's no surprise a non-American would see it that way (seeing how the majority of Reddit users are American)
It can be, but I wouldn't recommend it personally:

https://golangdocs.com/system-programming-in-go-1

EDIT: formatting
I think what you have written is very valuable and has to be taken into consideration. There is, however, a difference between the “scorched earth” entrepreneurship you’re talking about and the more organic type rooted in smaller(often self funded) ventures. It doesn't even have to be a registered business per se, something like a shared veggie garden in your neighborhood can be defined as "making it" for some people.
Some of the replies to that second tweet thread are hilarious in retrospect:

> But is this any more likely to happen than, say, the global thermonuclear war that is held at bay by the principle of MAD? I feel like we are surrounded by doomsday scenarios; economic and existential. Who would pull the pin on this one? Or is the problem blind faith in an algo? - https://twitter.com/thestephoflife/status/151220218743844864...
What's the difference between those two?
>However, it is important to distinguish poker from a pure game of chance, like roulette.

I feel like this is becoming an all too common trope on social media and for young people, where poker is portrayed as a risky but cool thing to do because you can convince people you’re skilled or better than others at it, and that means taking other peoples money with skill. Which is indeed something cool. Sure there’s reading people. But it’s a game of chance. Selling it as something more has literally no benefit.
Honestly, was a little bittersweet for me too, as we got into this process. I'm one of those folks who was a coder working at a cubicle reading the early days of Joel on Software, and I still think about that history a lot. I do think we'll do justice to the legacy, but you're not the only one who feels that little pang around this transition, even though obviously I'm super excited about it happening.
I think your reaction is understandable, since "Everyone is/has a little X" is commonly used to dismiss or minimize the severity of a condition the speaker doesn't understand.

But I don't feel like that's the case here.
700k solo?
There are two upcoming features, let chains and let else, to counter the sideways drift.

Sometimes it's also the formatter though that outputs intensely sideways drifting code: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/1.60.0/compiler/rustc...
The rates of failure of those is tiny. So tiny that I don't think it's a real reason. I think that people who say that's the risk they don't want to take actually just don't like having to take safety measures, but if they say that out loud they realise how ridiculous they sound so they come up with something like that instead.
I am an extremely niche programmer myself so I'll check it, thanks!
IMO, one benefit of religion that is difficult to capture anywhere else is that it creates a mutually supportive community. I personally can't get over sacrificing my own intellectual honesty for the sake in group acceptance, but in most cases, I do think this is a trade off worth making. Secular Jews seem to be able to have it both ways, though I'm not sure this is something easily replicable.
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As an actual addict I was thinking this would be about actual addiction. It’s not.

For future reference, dicking around on the internet is not an addiction.
Whooooah there! Ass is a slur that is offensive to many horses' donkey partners and mule children.

Let's be respectful, not negative neigh-sayers
This is excellent. It found a $350 flight from Tokyo to Sydney via a short stop in Fiji, which is not an option I even knew existed (I'd normally consider $6~700 to be cheap).
> This advice simply doesn't work if the recipient is an atheist.

Then try Buddhism? More of a philosophy than a religion, and seems to have hit on the idea thousands of years ago that most problems in humanity are to do with mental illness of one sort or another.
In February 2022, Luna Foundation Guard Raised $1B for Bitcoin Reserve
There is always some fluctuation in the market, and it is impossible to tell if after hitting .99 it will go back to 1.0 or drop to 0. Sure, you mitigate risk of the asset going to 0 with this strategy, but at the same time you bleed 1% of your investment every time the market has a small shock that brings it below 0.99

So what about 0.98 then, or any arbitrary value between 1 and 0? The lower you go, the lower the chance it will bounce back to 1, but the higher your loss if it does. Ultimately it all balances out and each of these bets is just another gamble with no outsized return.
besides the fact that "retina display" is a marketing term invented by Apple, I don't really see what the big deal is. I have pretty good vision and I don't notice individual pixels on my 1080p screen. More pixels means more load on the GPU.
When you are dealing with less than 5 "interactive things", jQuery is awesome... beyond that it might be better to consider a front-end framework.

Jr devs have the tendency then to discard jquery because "is old" not because it isn't working anymore.
The first comment on the article was "Germany has fewer deaths per capita and doesn't do any of this", but it's probably also the case that more Americans are driving more often than Europeans, because Americans have to drive to do practically anything. Are you tired? Have you had 2 drinks? Did someone just shout insults at you? Do you have a cold? None of this matters, because you need to drive 20 minutes to get toilet paper.
For some heavy and consistent drinkers, they should check themselves into a hospital or clinic when they quit. But the vast majority of alcoholics will not develop delerium tremens when they quit. I personally worried about DT when I was drinking a six pack per day and used it as an excuse to never miss a day of drinking. I am probably not alone in my neurosis so telling people that they are likely to develop severe alcohol withdrawal is probably not a good way to help them to quit.

Surmounting all of this is very much like a lot of difficult tasks - often made more difficult by well-meaning people who want to point out all the difficulties you hadn't considered yet. What we need is more resources like: do you drink this much? Go to this clinic when you quit. Worried? Then quit sooner rather than later when you are drinking even more.
People are distinguishing between being friends with their boss and friends with their peers. Is there really a difference? Are people really cutting loose and opening up with their peers in a way that they wouldn't if their boss were physically in the room?
A lot of my analysis is personal and subjective based on 5yoe as a full time Android Dev.

The ancient APIs is using Runnables/Handlers with Tasks more than it is using Java.

The single (or reduced) Activities with many fragments will improve stability.

Kotlin has been the official language of Android for a relatively short period of time, true, but it's entirely interoperable with all Java code, and improves maintainability _significantly_.

The main issue he's facing here is your last sentence: He refused to change how the app was configured. Use of illegal calls (which he helpfully posts the Stack Trace as a comment when it fails) means the app just doesn't work on modern Android without having to manually grant permissions.