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The graphics people often change, though technically the UI would remain the same (keyboard characters, etc).

However, there are additional tools that let you do "bulk actions" by directly editing the Dwarf Fortress memory while it is running - these are technically a UI bypass.

The actual UI is just difficult to learn but once you do it's surprisingly easy to use - it's consistent in its own inconsistent way.
I’m not aware of studies showing that gifted programs have a positive impact on student performance.

My hunch is that the typical school district is looking for a palatable excuse to reduce funding needs.
Microsoft kills another great open source project. This is sad. Don't rely on Microsoft.
>I agree that it is unacceptable to have eighth grade Algebra I classes and gifted education programs that disproportionately exclude Black and brown children. But if equity is the goal, we should be mandating that every eighth grader takes Algebra I—and then structure the entire pre-K to seventh grade student experience to ensure this is a legitimate possibility for every child. Since when does equity mean everyone gets nothing?

I don't know whether Algebra I is above or below what eighth graders can be expected to do, but raising the difficulty of every class to what the most advanced student is capable of is not the answer either. Everybody knows someone else that is better at math than they are, and someone who is not as good. It is universal common knowledge that the ease with which one takes to math is different for different people. Why can't we just admit it and quit trying to make people who are unique the same?
For a very exceptional candidate, we'd consider it but we have a strong bias toward US only because it really simplifies our admin / payroll.
To sound a slightly different note:

Yes - there's lots of friction. Bureaucracy is inevitable, given the cost of turning the ship/the risk level if something bad sneaks through.

That said, there is a ton of potential leverage at BigCo - the scale is extraordinary.

It is a trade - you get a far bigger lever, but it takes way longer to pull.
I tried, and failed. I shall know for next time :(

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Hi, what is really cool about micropython is, rapid prototyping on the CU, which allows for real time interactivity with the HW, see what you are doing on the board. All this without and IDE, just a shell command!

Wait, where have I heard this before, and with the capacity to expand your language to meet your needs at near close to the wire speed without the needs for all the resources needed by MicroPython... Forth any one?
It’s all Harrison Bergeron all the way down.
"The current population of students we identify as academically gifted and talented is unacceptably whiter and wealthier than the actual student population of academically gifted and talented students should be."

A typical IQ threshold for a gifted program is 130. The average IQ overall is 100 with standard deviation 15. For black Americans the average score on IQ tests is about 85, which explains why blacks will be under-represented in gifted programs unless racial preferences are used. The makers of IQ tests would like to reduce racial differentials while maintaining the predictive abilities of their tests, but they have not been able to.
The Z-level stuff is so ingrained into me as a default (I started playing just before it was added) that it's amazing to think that some of the most famous DF stories are from before it was added.
Any screenshots to share?
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I understand the distinction. I was mostly refuting what seemed to be a suggestion that the collective police did nothing because they technically didn't have to.

One organization (FBI) failed, another (MSU Police) did not.
When I read "fatal" I don't imagine the "death" but more "inevitable".
Problem is you're normally still judged by what you deliver, so you can't just chill and wait for things to get done
Eliminating “gifted” programs because they offend the racial sensibilities of the managerial class is a blatant exercise in privilege and ladder-pulling.

I think it’s grotesque how many privileged people are happily destroying the lives of others (often, those they pretend to care about) so they don’t have to think critically about or be uncomfortable thinking about race.

Seattle is the epitome of “privileged White liberals hurt everyone for their comfort”:

The bourgeois have become the baizuo.
It does sound like magic! This is what got me into this field; it seems like something that should intuitively be impossible… but it’s not!

Parameters only need to be changed based on the number of items in the database (not the content of the items). Also, they don’t really need to be modified as long as we are within the same power of two number of items. So, I think client and server agreement on parameters seems feasible. Right now, it’s just hard coded :)
I agree. I've both done Zoom calls and watched YouTube videos in HD over plane wifi. There's only one zone towards the end of my trips to the other side of the country where it stops working, but hopefully more dead zones will be patched over the next decade. Internet access makes all the difference in my ability to tolerate long flights.
I can’t speak for everyone but they kept me from dropping out.
I don’t think that’s true. I used VSCode when it was first released and the team was just a dozen people in Switzerland. The performance was blazing.
Sit back, and enjoy being paid to do nothing. #Friction is accepted at #bigco so while you can enjoy speed, they probably don't.

The company is paying you to work to their schedule, and unless you're working on "efficiency" or workflow improvement - just take it as it is and keep on top of it with your calendar.

Yeah, it's silly to file a ticket for a self signed cert, but it also puts the onus and responsibility on that team ,not you. Yes you'll miss out on small wins like that, but really - it's a cert in the end, and once you raise it up - let the team deal with it.
I think this is more semantics than anything.

I used "Higher Power" in a slightly tongue-in-cheek way. Obviously there were one or more people who Epstein was "connected" to, who pulled the right strings, not some sinister black-robed cabal that meets every Tuesday to discuss their plans for world domination.

The mystery is exactly who these people are, and what kinds of pressure were applied to get them to act this way. Was it a courtesy to a friend? Blackmail? A quid-pro-quo?

The world is dominated by hidden, informal power structures (friendships, alliances, etc). They are quite normal and natural, but at the highest levels can lead to the same kinds of anti-democratic, anti-social outcomes you'd expect from a sinister black-robed cabal.

C.S. Lewis did a good job describing this dynamic: https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/
Credit rating is more about authorization than authentication.
I would add the whole monetary system is designed this way with inflation.
Hello from the Irish midlands! I live near several large wind turbines and think they're awesome. They also help us stop cutting peat for fuel, which is good because it's a unique habitat and one of the best carbon stores in the world.
This is a pretty weird article given how much party politics changed in the 1970s. Membership between the two parties shuffled in response to civil rights and other legislation in the 1960s. The reconstituted Republican party invented new extreme positions on stuff like abortion and gun rights. The shift toward ultra-low taxation and minimal government moved out of the fringe and became Republican mainstream with Reagan in the 1980s. At the same time the Democratic party reacted against all that while slowly becoming more inclusive of various underprivileged groups.

I feel like the article plays into and tries to reinforce the idea that Republican conservatives represent good old-fashioned American values, but both parties today would be almost incomprehensible to most voters from the 1960s. I don't think it really matters how far voters in either party have drifted from positions staked out by party operatives between the 1970s and 1990s.
> When I asked my co-founder for rights to use the existing code in my new venture, he refused, citing concerns over sharing IP.

OP seems to imply that their co-founder intends to use much of the existing code base they've developed over the last 6 months for the proposed pivot. If that's the case, it doesn't seem like co-founder would be open to resigning as an employee and director and creating a new code base from scratch, especially considering that the co-founder seems to have control of the existing company.
You're not being paid to accomplish work, you're being paid to not work for a potential competitor.
serious question: why do you want to "get work done"? You are getting paid regardless. Maybe take time out and work on an open source project. Maybe do consulting on the side. Read a book or something, perhaps?
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zed sounds like a great project. What are your thoughts on the existing Rust GUI frameworks? Naturally the core editor widget will need to be custom no matter what, but for the rest of the UI, have you considered using one of the Rust GUI frameworks already being developed?
I'm from Maine. The transmission line was voted down because CMP (a widely hated organization) was basically getting free use of land for no reason. The power was strictly going to Massachusetts
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tl;dr - work at smaller companies in less regulated industries

I'm a PM for security at a CI/CD company, and adding "friction" comes up as a feature request in 50%+ of calls with customers and prospects. As companies grow to a certain size, as a practical matter you can't trust employees to not do bad things. Also, in order to win more business you have to comply with more regulations. Access controls, separation of responsibilities, etc.

Restated, one person's friction is another person's compliance.
Exactly. I used Atom for a while, but then it started getting so slow. My coworker mentioned I should try VSCode, and it did everything I wanted Atom to do but faster.
The lap was 6:43. Not 6:58. Might wanna do some research there.

Also, the new C8 looks like crap with those massive side pods and enormous trunk/rear. It's been panned widely for that. Front looks okay, though.

Your argument is frankly stupid because the 911 in higher trims is consistently an extremely sought after vehicle, year after year. It's good looking, and it's not broken, and they won't 'fix' it. There's nothing to fix. Stop with your inane attempt to pass off 'neat', or debatably good looking bodywork, as what makes a supercar a supercar. It betrays your lack of knowledge.
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One lossless png (a screenshot) was converted to (default web quality, which is lossy) webp, and visually it was identical. Original png was 151k, webp was 23k. Converting it to a jpg results in a size of 66k (equivalent quality to the webp).

So in this case webp was a third of the size of a jpg. Typically, webp will be about 30-50% smaller than an equivalent jpg, which is a pretty significant amount.
One good work around for this that I've found (it's not perfect but it gets the job done) are Cloudflare tunnels. You could also use something like ngrok but you can use CF Tunnels for free.

I just setup projectname.mydomain.com or projectname.local.mydomain.com and I have that use a CF tunnel to my local dev environment.
I love Elm, but it drives me nuts how many static pages guarded by JWTs I'm forced to write because the industry MO is to script everything in the browser. We don't even bother learning how CSS and HTML work anymore because we can just script all that behavior. SPA is the antithesis of DRY, and combining TEA with SPA guarantees spiraling Msg types and sprawling Model records that inevitably enable impossible states by nature of their increasingly incalculable cartesian product.

And now most of the design patterns that get dialectic attention in the Elm community are aimed at addressing the problems we inflict upon ourselves by trying to adapt TEA to inappropriate use cases.
They're every bit as connected as "straight in your face on every corner" and "drug use". Which is to say, not connected in the least.
Have literally been building something with BS today. It’s very much still a current library, I imagine in some areas people have moved on but I will continue to reach for it.
It's been a few years since I used Flutter, but doesn't it still require you to use the related language Dart? I liked the idea of it, and I thought the tight integration between Flutter and Dart allowed them to do some cool things. But I wasn't a huge fan of the language itself. And I think it's a lot to ask prospective extension-writers to learn a new language.
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NY has a law that requires the city to provide shelter to everybody. So despite the fact that it also has an acute housing crisis, it does not have thousands of people, or even tens of people, sleeping in tents on the sidewalks. The recent book "Homelessness is a Housing Problem" dives into inter-city comparisons of housing and homelessness and discusses in detail the difference in outcomes between NY and SF.
I didn't read past the first few paragraphs where the author clearly had no idea of the difference between weather and climate.
I think OLE used the compound file format which was modeled after a FAT file system image.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_File_Binary_Format
I generally make abstract or surrealist pieces. I don't know where ideas come from, but I do a certain amount of "making things up as I go along"

Realistically, though, sci-fi and fantasy objects are based on objects we have in everyday life. If you look at sci-fi through the years, they have the era's aesthetic: The lines of 50's sci-fi are different from the 80's appeal, for example. And this is where you start to draw the imaginary stuff.

Sci-fi ships? Based off of a combination of naval ships and planes. Get reference photos and use these to guide you, adding and taking away as you see fit. Plant life on another planet? Use plants and fungus from earth as your guide. Again, get reference photos and use these to guide you, changing what you like. Want an easy way to start something more surrealist? Find 3 unrelated reference photos and combine them into one image - use a digital art program to combine them if you'd like.

Note the heavy use of reference photos: I use them whenever I want something shaped in a specific way. If I want a goldfish in a space portal, well, I look up a picture of a goldfish. If I'd like koi instead, I look it up.

(and by the way, my stuff, if you would like to see how it plays out in my work. It hasn't been updated in some time. https://www.deviantart.com/disgruntled-peon/gallery)
> think of a family gathering

Great, you've considered the case of N ~= 100. Don't need a state to manage that.

How about N ~= 1,000,000,000?

Anarchism (and any fully decentralized protocol) "works" for small N because the average node can keep all the other nodes of the society in memory. If you need something, you know exactly whom to ask. And if you do something wrong, everyone will remember and hold you accountable. This plainly doesn't work with millions of nodes. Same principle why Bitcoin will never take off without hacking on traditional centralized finance mechanisms like Lightning; at some N, the resources required for individual nodes to maintain an accurate representation of the entire network becomes impractical (either impossible or just way too slow).
> I do not doubt the good intentions behind the decisions educators make in the name of equity.

I do. Or rather, I doubt the good intentions of the decision makers. I don't think educators are making these decisions. The more I experience the public education system through my child (I did not experience it myself, as I was homeschooled), and the more stories I hear from parents, the more it looks like school administrators are politicians looking to cut costs and get on a track to end up in city council. The actual welfare of the children doesn't really look like it ends up a part of the equation.
There always is a date some place. Find or derive them, order them by how resource heavy and/or crappy they are. Chose wisely for the type of reader you are making and/or create configuration options for it.
Regular apps, Windows Store apps are sandboxed. Some of them are quite popular (eg: Netflix).
Explain Italian fascism, the very original. Their big boss (not named) was a socialist. Nazis were socialists and current Germany is socialist (not in name, but in behavior). I am not disputing the extreme part, just the right versus left, nazis were never classical liberals, nor religious.
Author cites the research on minorities being less likely be identified as gifted given comparable test scores, but selectively leaves out all of the research on the effects of eliminating gifted programs.

I guess Teach for America assumes their readers are too dumb to notice?
Ask HN: What user data should I collect for online-only business?
Its a US-based online-only business (no shipping); planning to use Stripe (and maybe ApplePay) for payments. Do I really need to grab users' phone numbers and addresses? Maybe I need them for sales tax reasons?
What do you do when you lose it though? Or it burns in a fire? A surrogate token still needs a replacement mechanism
Gifted programs are "unacceptably white". WTF does that mean? I had to pass essentially an IQ test to get placed into those classes.

For me, it made a big difference in being engaged in schoolwork when every class consisted of reiterating content for days which I had mastered in minutes.

Edit: I removed "I don't see what race has to do with it." I do see how race can affect this when the gatekeeper is a teacher with biases choosing who takes the test to be in the program. This does not however make it ok to say "unacceptably white"
Enjoy the 35-40 hour work week and stock options that are actually worth something I guess?

For what it is worth, I am at a BigCo and while yes it is true you cannot just hammer out 4000 lines of unreviewed code and push to production without someone else being involved, you also benefit because people aren't just changing stuff willy-nilly. E.g. your project you've been working on wont suddenly stop working in production out of the blue because Clive decided to totally change the database table schemas at 4am on Wednesday morning and nobody told you about it etc etc
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There's usually gifted programs in poor schools as well. This isn't a private vs public education thing. It's more about keeping bright students stimulated and not bored to tears and have their potential stunted.
Nah man, clipboard on Linux, mainly KDE, is really good. KDE splits out selected text, and ctrl+c text, into separate clipboards, allowing for some really good workflows.

Selecting text and middle clicking is so much faster than ctrl+c, ctrl+v. Having the two separate, allows you to essentially copy two separate things at once, and paste them separately, which is great for filling out forms.

Also, KDE provides an absolute gem of a clipboard manager, which stores all recent copies in to a list, from which entries can be browsed in order to recopy some text that you may have copied a while ago. IDK where you got the idea that Gnome apps have a different clipboard, as I have never experienced that. Maybe that is an old thing? Definitely not how it is now, thats for sure.

Copy/paste works on files / file-managers, images, text and HTML. This is not a Windows only experience. In fact, the clipboard manager even has little file icons, and image previews, for copied objects.
Did you read the part where he pointed out that black/brown students are 66% less likely to be in a gifted program with the same test scores ?
Those punctuation marks make sense and came from old-old school notations for typewritten manuscripts. I remember them from my Strunck and White /Elements of Style/ book from English 1A (sorta-old-timer here).
Microsoft Office apps still by default apply those marks for you. Quite annoying when you are trying to send an email with a file spec and it bolds things like *suffix.*
Edit: and HN does it as well :)
Equity matters for education, but not the sports teams? If the conversation about gifted and talented programs doesn't include the other activities the school sponsors, then its not fair. We've eliminated voc-ed and now g&t programs. I bet sports cost a bunch.
But these `setup`, `loop` and `delay`, as well as the terrible "IDE" are central to the "simple" user experience of Arduino and are, imo, false friends. Teaching people busy loops and blocking behavior from day 1 is counterproductive because you'll have to unteach them later and jump through hoops to avoid them. Arduino libs are strongly optimized for "easy", not efficiency and flexibility.
There was a "white slavery" panic back in the day, a century or more ago. It was mostly driven by the puritanical assumption that any woman engaging in sex work must be imprisoned against her will, but it often went hand-in-hand with racism towards the supposed perpetrators.

I think the idea that random middle-class people were abducted off the street and forced into prostitution hasn't been mainstream in a long, long time, but it seems like a perfect fit for the current appetite for right-wing fantasy, so I won't be surprised if we start hearing about it again.
In SF, rapes and robberies are both down in 2021/2022 compared to 2018. Murder and shootings are comparable with 2018. Car thefts are up. All of which completely goes against this narrative you've described.

The rising crime narrative is entirely an artifact of the pandemic causing historically low crim because for like 8 months no one did anything.
It's not a matter of personal preference if your work for someone else. This stuff is bound to happen in the years to come. Local development of course will still be possible but will become the minority in the global workforce.
Right, thank you.

It is a simple principle that works in pretty much every situation I have encountered.

To live a moral life (ie do the right thing) you can do whatever you want, but don't initiate harm.
They were the only interesting classes.

Project based learning.

Being with other students that actually gave a shit.
I depends. I think the threshold is more like 120, but IQ may not be used anymore as a criteria
I agree but in Norway, most of the government incentives for electric cars were in place 10 to 20 years before the car manufacturers started to sell good electric cars.
Very much so. As the first Electron app we were so excited about people being able to do anything they imagined. It was cool but ended up really constraining us. This time we really want to drive our API based on the most important things people actually need to extend. We need to navigate the trade-offs more intelligently.
YC and every other Vc recommends founders to vest
If you are physically in the US and your domain is seized, it's the least of your worries, because you almost certainly have been seized yourself.
Stacked Futures and why they are impossible
Atom was the first editor I wrote plugins to and contributed to core. I prefer it over VSCode, as it does less, and it's easy to customize for web devs. Sad to see it go, but it's for the best :(
no, not really. You are judged relative to others. And others aren't producing crap ton in this sort of environment.