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~10 years ago I was a Sublime 2 user surrounded by sad TextMate users—sad because TextMate had stagnated and was clearly on its way out and "everyone" had jumped to Sublime. When Atom was released, Sublime became the editor in decline.

It seemed to me that there would always be an endless cycle of boom and bust with editors. It was a cycle with more in common with fashion than craft, and I wondered if I might end up wasting an inordinate amount of time switching editors throughout my career without any upside. So rather than switch to Atom, only to switch again a few years later, I set about with adopting Vim.

The choice seems to have been correct as there will always be a new editor (that's more or less the same as the old editor) that catches hold, but I wanted stability. Vim gives me stability, and the only other editor I'd consider would be Emacs for similar reasons.
Are your friends single straight men though? I don’t know many single straight men who ever move back. SF is unforgiving on that front.
> we (intentionally) don't have an algorithmic feed to amplify them into influencers

I’m curious why not. That’s always something that I’ve found is missing on glitch and just seems like something you forgot to implement. I want to see what’s popular, and more importantly, I want to give credit where credit is due - to their creators. That some become popular is just one of those things.
I use IDEA and VS Code and Notepad++ and ...

I'm kind of surprised you did a deploy from VS Code. I would have assumed there was another tool for that. I do most of my git and ssh/scp stuff from the command line because I'm never quite sure what the tool will try to do to "help me out"
Even though Atom was much "lighter" than VS Code in terms of UI, VS Code had so much more development resources thrown at it that it was ultimately much speedier than Atom. IIRC, even Brackets was faster.

I see people complaining about the death of Atom, but in the past few years there just hasn't been a use case where Atom was the best choice.
This will keep fuel prices high. Corn production is way down this year.
Why would they need to learn AWS? Their other skills, knowledge and experience is too valuable to do AWS plumbing work. Work can be delegated in areas that one is not skilled in if they bring other valuable skills to the table.

Unless the desired goal is to be an AWS engineer but that’s a different story.
The crimes this guy committed almost beggar belief. That he got away with it for so long with such prominent and visible victims is shocking. I don't really understand what precedent would allow them to sue for failure to enforce laws though. There's ample precedent that says you can't actually do that.
Some things I would consider:

- Have an emergency google account with stuff that is only relevant for the emergency, limited access, that you could login into from anyone's computer, not worrying that you would also compromise more important data

- Use Authy and remember its backup password for 2FA codes

- Use an offline password manager for important passwords, use an online manager with no 2FA for passwords relevant to an emergency situation

- Keep an online backup of all your data, encrypted, on some storage service in another region

- Have an emergency pendrive that has the encrypted backup of all your data and carry it with you all the time (I keep it in my wallet). Nowadays it's easy to get a 512GB pendrive. Bonus is if you are linux user and the pendrive also has a bootable system, so you can boot your entire system from a pendrive, on any computer.

- Remember multiple complex passwords and use them regularly - use muscle memory + have a recovery note just in case you forget it (see the last paragraph)

Note that it's unlikely for multiple things to fail at once. I.e. my laptop could get stolen or an external backup HDD could break, but it's unlikely to happen at once. All could be destroyed in a single event (like the post describes), but then there's the offshore online backup - it's extremely unlikely that it would be nuked at the same time (unless literally in a nuclear war, but that would be a bigger problem). You could also forget the encryption and password manager passwords, but again, it's unlikely it would all happen at the same time.

On another note, I did lock myself out partially and almost locked myself out completely, due to forgetting a password used for encryption. I mis-typed a password to one of my password managers once, then as I tried to enter it again and again, the pattern got scrambled in my brain. That was not that difficult to recover from. But I almost did forget the password that I use to encrypt my /home and all backups. I followed the lessons from the previous mistake, took some 30 min pause and retyped the password (after 3 unsuccessful attempts previously) and I logged in. Whew. From then on, I store a part of the password on a piece of paper, scrambled with other passwords and remember the rest. The point is, never trust on muscle memory alone to store the password. It's possible to make a mistake, once you make a single mistake, it's possible to repeat the mistake and untrain the correct password from your brain permanently.
Yes, but that doesn't give you a free pass. :)

My colleague gave a good talk on how we use MicroPython, as SOUP, in our devices:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YovngSLXoxw
This is how I got into programming around 2005/2006. Such a fun time!

Last I checked some kid created a MySpace clone to the original and it looks great
Not directly but a lot of birds of prey eat other smaller birds which cats do kill in large numbers.

Most birds of prey (well just about any predator species really) are usually endangered not because we directly kill them directly but because we destroy their ability to eat either by destroying the environment they hunt in or lower the amount of prey species available for them.

There are some exceptions like wolves, etc that kill livestock and thus farmers will hunt them usually to the point of wiping out the local population if given the opportunity.
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The yoke/sidestick is really a superficial difference. Though I will also point out that anybody that is good at the 10 differences puzzles will call bullshit on your claim they aren’t very different - in appearance at least - just look at the primary flight display. More relevant, look at the autopilot stack - they not only appear different they have some deeper fundamental differences in operation.
Do windows kill eagles?
Organise links into ordered lists to share knowledge within your team
Is there evidence for this claim?
VSCode is for Xbox gamers.
Some video games have tutorial systems similar to this. They will recognize when players are struggling with a certain mechanic or system, and pop up a relevant tutorial. i.e. if a user is trying and failing to jump across a gap, they probably forgot to use their hover boots.

This can get annoying though if the user is deliberately doing something that ends up triggering these messages.
Looks like a great start.

My own library Zapatos[1] is less ambitious (it doesn't try to parse raw SQL) but has similar goals. It also has no truck with runtime types.

[1] https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/
Seems like a good time to remind everyone that in general the police have no legal obligation to protect you or to file charges against someone.
Most likely, Android kind of proves the point that OEMs can do whatever they feel like without complying with GPL requirements, and hardly it matter to their bottom line.

Still, that increase in alternative OSes seem to be triggered by not wanting to deal with Linux despite of that.
Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism (1995)
Or the data is stored in js objects within script tags in the html and can be extracted programmatically. It's getting common with SSG sites using SPA frameworks.

For example, the new Google Play Store website stores the data in AF_initDataCallback calls and can be extracted with re.findall(r"<script nonce=\"\S+\">AF_initDataCallback\((.*?)\);", html_string).
> so that people can go to church more, and church is healthy. Really? That's highly debatable, and obviously another power structure which is also old fashioned

This one is so debatable because the definition and theological implications of Church 'healthiness' depend upon many different variables and can differ subtly across all Churches.

Church isn't a 'power structure' though. It relies on voluntary participation. You can walk out of Church whenever you want.

Doing what you want tends to be quite narrow, hedonistic and unsatisfying in the end. It's easier to make the argument for free time from higher principles.
That's not true, see: https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone. In fact "the Constitution doesn't apply at the borders" is what border cops want people to think, so repeating it is doing their work for them.
Modern nuclear power plant around 1GW. Modern wind 8MW per pole (175m propellar)
> No matter what anyone did, the currency would lose value week after week, month after month.

Cannot one convert their money to dollars or gold and start getting profit from inflation?

UPD: I forgot that in such cases governments usually impose large tax on currency conversion. Obviously you can't outsmart the government.
Agreed about the NLE. I tried using blender (iirc 2.9) to make a family vacation compilation and it was a lot of work and not very intuitive. I barely do any video editing though so I may just not have had a good workflow. I wasn't able to find very good workflows either, I'm assuming because blender was still awkward for this use case and others usually reach for another tool.

I'm very much looking forward to further improvements and judging from the breakneck pace of features and how much love the project gets, I'm very optimistic about the future!
I don't think that any profession or system with extensive state-imposed restrictions and regulations (education requirements, medical boards, licensing, exams, continuing education requirements, and so on) should be considered "private".

Perhaps such a system incorporates some aspects of private enterprise, but ultimately it should still be seen as a non-private system.

A truly private healthcare system would allow anybody to practice any kind of medicine at any time, without specific requirements and restrictions being imposed by the state.

It would be up to each patient to decide whether or not he or she will deal with a particular practitioner or provider of services. (Of course, this can be complicated in the case of an incapacitated patient, without prior planning.)

As is typical with non-private/socialist/communist systems of any sort, where natural free market balancing forces such as consumer choice, competition, and reputation are limited or absent, we should expect to see the inefficiencies you described, including significant quality variation, bureaucratic games, and misaligned incentives.

Healthcare in America seems very non-private in nature to me. It may not be as overtly non-private as the healthcare systems in Canada or many European nations, but it certainly does not seem to be private, either.
Exactly, Anki made me start seeing forgetting as a feature rather than a bug. By default stuff doesn't "take up" space in my brain. If I really want to remember it, I can ensure I do through addition of flashcards.
I used this recently to scrape a bunch of online restaurant reviews by a guy who I really like, use regex to get the postcode from the markup, do a geocode using postcodes.io, then plot the reviews on a Google map. It took about two / three hours and felt kinda dirty in a good way. Beautiful Soup made the first part really easy.
Exactly.

I think a lot of people ignore the realities of progressive policies, because to them, progressive policy means fighting systemic racism/sexism/etc. It doesn't have to work - all that matters is the intention. And you can't even argue, because then you're just a racist/sexist/etc, because who else would argue against them?
> those who use social media

This depends very much on what you define as "social media". It sounds like you see social media as a distinct "thing", with a distinct demographic - it is not. Those who use Facebook don't use TikTok & vice versa. Is Twitch social media? Is Minecraft social media?
* Textmate & BBEdit for people who were using Macs for development before they took over the tech industry.
I was able to make VSCode look pretty great with a bit of work by following the ebook Make VSCode Awesome: https://makevscodeawesome.com/

great fonts, minimal visual clutter etc
> emacs and vim for the wizards and furries

…respectively? TIL I’m a furry.
No different than any other BTO models.. you're offered upgrades at the time of purchase. Maybe that's just my conditioning as an American consumer speaking though.
Good memories with Atom. I had a silly "super mode" extension on it that gave me streaks when typing uninterrupted. It has lots of action graphics and screen shakes, I loved it.
Those specialists were the ones writing JCL jobs in "Cloud" v1.0.

It wasn't YAML, but was just as messy.
I went for evil-mode for a while, then I decided to just go full Emacs. I still use vim sometimes, but I've come to enjoy the Emacs bindings.

Now I just need to install keymapper and convert all my M-w and C-y inputs to Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26341931

Just found this. It’s a shame. I donno why but I just liked brackets interface.
Why is the box black? Because it’s more of a tangled mess. Many classical methods are absolutely appreciably less tangled.

Now, that doesn’t mean that the fact that a method is classical makes it by default untangled or a good approach. I mean random forests consisting of big tree are really not that interpretable for example. And ML in general is not always the best tool for solving a problem. Gotta use our judgment factoring in the time dimension of software/product development.

Also, I think it’s a question largely of how deep learning is used. If it’s used in a very compartmentalized way, either at the product level or the code logic level, where you don’t need to be able to disentangle the component (and it’s giving huge wins over alternative methods), it can (can!) be a good choice.
copy/paste really is a great tool. I bought a Windows gaming PC during the pandemic, and my other systems are Macs. I started to use barrier (a multi-platform software KVM-like keyboard and mouse sharing thing) and was pleasantly surprised to learn that it shares the clipboard across all of my PCs, and my Macs in turn also share the clipboard to my iphone. This works in both directions. It's convenient to the point that using multiple PCs with multiple operating systems is barely different than using one PC with 2 monitors. I travel a lot for work and this feature also lets me use my personal laptop as a slightly limited second screen for my work laptop. Total gamechanger for free.
I'm not sure "Entropy" is the right word for what the author wants to talk about, but the article raises some interesting points

> 1st poison: Unlimited and uncontrolled growth

IMO this is by far the biggest poison, and the one our society is most prone to ignoring. Every company, government budget, population, etc is considered "successful" if it's growing, and "failing" if it's shrinking. And the growth is always measured in terms of percentage, meaning the growth is compounding/exponential.

Sustainable living means getting comfortable with flat or even negative growth.
I like both.

Tumbleweed has the advantage of having very up-to-date packages, new kernel version drop fairly early, a rolling release distro. The downside is that a) you get relatively frequent (once, twice a week or so) large batches of updated packages, which of course take time to download and install. It can be a bit tedious at times, especially if you're offline for a prolonged time and then need to catch up. Also, since these are new packages, not updated versions of older packages, the delta-RPM mechanism is basically useless, so the download volume is pretty large. Sometimes things can break, but I haven't had any trouble over the last ~12 months; also, I use MATE as my desktop, I naively assume GNOME or KDE get more love due to user numbers. Each update is preceded by a snapshot, so if something breaks, the solution is usually to roll back and try again a few days later.

Leap, in comparison, is the "boring" version (in a good way). It's a point-release distro that tries to be reasonably up to date, but values stability over bleeding-edge-ness. I don't know the details, but for a while now, openSUSE Leap has pulled in parts from SUSE's enterprise version, SLES, which one might naively hope could result in a more stable, less-buggy base system.

I use Tumbleweed on my desktop and my main laptop for the up-to-date freshness, Leap on my Raspberry Pi and a secondary laptop so I don't have to deal with the large volume of updates on these machines.

As a rule, for anything "serious", I'd be very hesitant to use a rolling release distro. On the desktop, I have an nVidia GPU, which is a bit troublesome sometimes, because Tumbleweed tends to use very bleeding-edge kernel releases, and sometimes they'll release a new kernel package before nVidia has updated their driver to work with that kernel.

I think Tumbleweed and Leap relate to each other like Debian testing and stable, if that is any help.

openSUSE has a great system installation/configuration/administration utility called YaST that is very newbie-friendly.
No facility can produce 30 GW. The new Vogtle reactors are 1.1 GW each, which is pretty typical for nuclear or fossil fuel plant. Steam turbines over 2 GW don't exist afaik.

Also, the median new wind turbine in the US is over 3 MW now.
What would be the first choice? Nuclear is no option in Germany.
I'm well aware of the differences between the two products, since I use both on a daily basis. My answer was a bit flippant, sure, but they are both IDEs developed by Microsoft and Visual Studio is definitely the "Pro" version of the two.
I use Blender on macOS because it's the simplest video editor. Most importantly it supports webm.
I built the world’s fastest product reviews app for Shopify
And nor should ML systems be a blank slate, which is really my point.
It is amazing how many modern software applications rely on CodeMirror. A gift to the public. Thanks Marijn!
We know about how much wind power we need and how much space is needed for that.

Theoretically the federal government can define the regulation around the necessary distance of wind farms to where people live. However, the federal government gave that power to the states – which lead to some states creating very restrictive distance regulations, effectively making it impossible to build many wind farms and making it impossible to meet their targets that are needed for the energy transformation.

This is the federal government giving the states fair warning that those targets are non-negotiable and that it’s the federal government who has the power to make overriding distance regulations. But, obviously, the preference is still for the states to figure this out on their own, depending on their own unique circumstances.

If the federal government were to step in it‘s not as though the would build wind farms in people‘s backyards just to spite the states. They would then just define distance rules that would allow them to meet the wind farm targets. That‘s all.
It's smaller, and it runs on mobile are 2 big ones.
He should have founded a company that illegally sells user private data. A slap on the wrist and everything would be forgotten.
Just a noob here, but I love the way Atom displays and handles merge conflicts; still my editor of choice when I rebase / merge.
Just for an additional perspective, for most of the world's democracies both the US republicans and democrats are very much on the right-wing side of the political spectrum.

I am not saying there is anything wrong with American Democrats but if you look at actual policies they would be labeled centre right anywhere else in the world.

As an American friend once put it to me "Americans believe luck is made, so social handouts are basically perceived as tax payer theft".
You should probably read some different news sources.

The right hasn’t changed much other than they care less about religion/morality than before.

I’d say leftists tend to be more authoritarian and less liberal in general than the right. Though the right is also full of the authoritarians who just want it for their side.

What the political leaders love is when all the problems are because of the other side. Two wings one bird though.
I held out for a year or so after VSCode was released. It felt scummy how MS had swooped in and tried to hijack this new category of editor that GitHub had invented (this was before they'd been acquired, I believe)

But once I tried VSCode... man, there was no going back. It was infinitely more performant and cohesive. Atom (with IDE-like features installed) felt so sluggish by comparison. I think the main improvement was how opinionated VSCode and its extension APIs were; Atom extensions could have dependencies on each other. I remember you had to install an extension for generic IDE hover-overs and such, before installing the actual language plugin, and then there were competing standards for which generic hover-over framework each language wanted to use. It didn't just complicate the user-experience, I'm convinced this was the reason the editor would get so slow; the APIs were too low-level and all the plugins were fighting with each other instead of going through standard channels.

But, Atom will always have a special place in my heart. It blazed new trails in editor customizability (even if the degree ended up being its downfall, quite a bit of that legacy can still be found in VSCode). It invented the entire concept of web apps as desktop apps, which despite what some here would tell you, I think is a very good and important thing. And it always had such a fun, community feel to it that's been mostly lost with VSCode.

It was time, but I will miss it. I'll close off with the very cute and fun Atom 1.0 announcement video: https://youtu.be/Y7aEiVwBAdk
All the text formats are bad and verbose

Everything is much more efficient with binary format like protobufs or flatbuffers. And if the format has a schema, the schema is the documentation, an d you do not need to have comment in the config file itself.
I used to do that when I was responsible for a set of web crawlers to extract public records data, but the problem is that changes happen and these sorts of things become out of date fairly quickly.

Getting this working in a headless browser driven by Selenium would probably be easier for maintainability.
Most people require several attempts before they get over the hump
Why is it usually not worth claiming it? The payout is small if one succeeds in arguing it?
I use Atom for static Markdown blogging only. The reason is I customized Atom for this specific task and nothing more. Atom is mostly an advanced text editor than an IDE. I have Hunspell in both English and french, it detect word similarity and provide auto completion for this, it has some typewriter extension, etc.

I'm reluctant to use VSCode because of M$ pushing for its tooling, but it looks like I will have no choice on the long run.

Is there anyone in the same boat? Which highly configurable text editor can be use for this?
I agree with your assertion, war on any concept is doomed to fail and cause a backlash.

Your list begins to muddy the idea though. Poverty may be the only thing of great import mentioned.

Ignoring criminality (in the name of 'equity') develops into a situation seen in SF, Seattle and Portland. Preventing crime is not itself a draconian practice. Having some kind of penalty for criminal behavior is not draconian.

Ignoring crime and allowing criminals to go unpursued is a demoralizer for the entire community
So MS owns the default place where code is hosted, and the default tool people use to edit code. Neat.