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Uhhh ... macOS is exactly what you're talking about. It's unafraid to let some things just go. They just said during the State of the Union this week that Obj-C and UIKit were legacy tools, and that the future is Swift and SwiftUI. They said it, and I promise you they will deliver on this. I predict that within a decade Apple will truly deprecate UIKit and AppKit and stop any new app from using it. Microsoft has never been able to do that.
Yikes. He clearly got fires for the "Ock / let me get it the Ocky" way comment. Not for not liking bodegas.

I'm not saying the firing was deserved. Just that the headline is clearly misleading.
Think of it this way: cyberpunk choker
Freedom is messy.
Dane here, I am not required to provide id, only to identify myself if asked by a police officer.
They are limiting the ability of the government to make and enforce laws. The EPA is created with Congressional authority and is empowered to act on their behalf.

Castrating the federal government will have negative repercussions. If the federal government doesn't have the power to control the states, then why bother having one?
Thanks for the sample.

That sounds very bad. Not quite as bad as any samples I had found, and still reasonably understandable, which some lousy device microphones (especially laptops’) aren’t—it’s bad in a somewhat different way. But I would strongly dislike having to talk to you with that as your microphone, especially if you were in a context where you could have used almost any other microphone. If I knew that you had put me through such a thing for no good reason (which could be context, physical disability, lack of possession of an alternative), I would be very likely to resent that fact.

Frankly, even if others don’t comment on it, you’re making talking with you far more stressful (whether consciously or subconsciously), because people are having to put a lot more effort into understanding you.

> Could Throat mics be the ultimate in high quality audio for cheap? (not really).

No. Absolutely not. Any podcast using such a microphone will bomb hard.
Your comment sort of works against BTC, because it was intentionally crippled. But there are many other coins that will do just fine for day to day transactions.

But also the premise of your argument (taxes and oil) is weak. The value of these transactions pales in comparison with the rest of the transactions. So government enforcement has little to do with the value of USD. It has value, because people believe it, they trust it will be accepted and / or easily converted to the currency of their choice.
People being paid by the hour is just a result of simplifying work, in the very past everyone was a merchant and they sold their goods/services.

The same old behaviour should be applied to machines, it doesn't matter how much resource a machine takes to do the job, what is important is the output. The pay should not be X*Watts, but X agreed in advance for training that specific neural network, this type of market incentives evolution, where the machines that can do the same job with lower resources have the lower hand
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I guess "not your keys not your coins" applies to other aspects like privacy too.
The supreme court ruled that abortion is a state issue. Any law passed by congress would be struck down by the same ruling.
I don't ever want to hear the term "activist judges" or "legislating from the bench" from a conservative ever again.

And, Barrett couldn't even cite the first amendment...
I can guarantee you wouldn't be making that comment if the post title was "Why don't more people code in machine language"?

But because it's a diy project, it somehow makes it laudable, even though it's a terrible idea and a waste of time and money when there are much better alternatives.

To be clear, I think "wasting time" in useless projects is not really a waste of time. But the title of the post implies that more people should waste resources in something awful.
It shakes out which products are necessary and which are nice-to-haves, but also can slow down the adoption of new necessary products for a while. This slow down, recession, will be the death of many saas companies who ran fast when money was cheap and have the bad luck to need money in 12 months or less.

The amount of preemptive firing and layoffs to extend runway is just beginning.
Super cool - do you have a write up link for your tricolor screen project?
Maybe they could create an agency for the protection of the environment and delegate some authority to it.
> too high maintenance to be a store of value like gold

Really? because the price/value flutuates too much? How is storing 1B dollars in gold lower maintenance than storing 1B dollars in BTC or other high-liquidity crypto?
This statement is an obvious assumption of democracy. Am I missing something more?
> Find home-cooked food here at Katr

It's a bit confusing, is Katr a place I can go? Can I order food from them? Does it just show recipes? Is it a subscription thing like Hello Fresh?

I don't understand what your app is or does.
Taxes aren't why money generally works (money emerges naturally in human societies), but taxes are what makes national currencies work.

If you don't pay your taxes, you don't get to participate in the local economy for very long. Men with guns will eventually come to your home and take your stuff and/or take your freedom.

You can't even do direct barter without cash without incurring a tax obligation in the US, https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420, so even if you live your life like this, you still need to find a way to get actual dollars to pay your taxes. This is what creates the basic and permanent demand for dollars.

The simple truth is that every government is at its core the biggest, baddest gang in the land. The old royalty were literally mob bosses, and often presented themselves as gaudily and arrogantly as the street gang bosses in the modern age. They have the monopoly on violence in their realm and then printed a bunch of tokens that they demand as tribute for the promise of letting you live your life in peace. Because they control the issuance of these tokens, they effectively control the flow of the economy and can more easily manipulate people. They can't arrest everyone, so there's still a fine balancing act required to keep the masses generally consenting of the arrangement, with just the right show of force to reinforce the system.

But other things beyond currency are still money, like gold and bitcoin, because money is just something scarce that you hoard in the hope that in the future, you can trade it for at least as much goods and services as you originally traded for the money, if not more. Anything scarce can be monetized when the currency becomes less scarce, which is part of what is driving up housing as people hoard it as a better store of value than currency. And importantly, making the thing you store this ethereal "money" in even more scarce relative other things increases the value of your own, which is part of the driving force behind NIMBYs who block new housing developments.
This is a silly decision. I don't respect the reasoning at all.

If Republicans want to abolish the EPA, all they have to do is pass a law. They could do it with a simple majority in each House if they abolish the filibuster (which itself requires only a simple majority).

There is no meaningful loss of democratic control here. Congress can do whatever it wants, with or without the EPA.

This is just the highest court in the land acting as toadies for the fossil fuel industry, legislating from the bench on a flimsy right wing legal theory.
They do, they just need to make laws that EPA can enforce. Not let EPA to act on its own. Isn't everyone always talking about unelected burecrauts going against the will of the people?
I think the parent's point was that the intern knew about github and assumed git was github.
It's a problem when thousands of bureaucrats want to "do a career" spending budgets on things absolutely nobody asked for.

I want society to experiment with firing all these bureaucrats. Then listen carefully at the silence. Are we missing anybody?
There can be no accountability, no responsibility, no change, without transparency.

The lengths that governments and agencies go to, fighting tooth and nail to resist turning over documentation is frankly outrageous.

As public servants, the default assumption should be that documents are available to the public unless a reasonable case to the contrary can be made. "Oh it'll make us look bad.", "We fucked up and don't want people to know." or "It'll help grieving families sue us." don't seem to be good reasons, to me.
To clarify, these are technical terms for income tax purposes, and are not defined by any label a bank may put on a loan, such as "HELOC" (home equity line of credit).

Since 1987, whenever you originate or re-finance any mortgage, the portion of the proceeds used to buy, build, or improve your personal residence is called "acquisition debt" (used to acquire the asset), and the remaining portion is called "equity debt" since it is secured solely by the pre-existing equity in the property and is used for anything other than acquisition.

When you re-finance acquisition debt, it remains acqusition debt, but any cash-out from the re-finance not used to buy/build/improve is equity debt. As you pay down principal on the loan, you are considered to first pay off the equity debt, before acquisition debt.
cool well if you have the votes then pass a law, and btw, BRICS will take over economically and keep pumping gases into the atmosphere the whole time
Great, so now we're reliant on congress to get something done. The same congress that's sat on its hands for the past 30 years and has been shown to be completely incapable of addressing the issue.

This is a massive blow to the US being able to reach emissions targets. Every day we're one step closer to the 'business as usual' path that leaves the world 3-4c hotter. That's a catastrophic scenario.
In my experience, people believe that programming languages are a solved space, and we should stick with what we have. It's an unfortunate view.

Languages are actually very polarized today. I think there's a lot of room for a mainstream language that could be safe, fast, and most importantly, easy. Today's languages are generally two out of three.

Luckily, a lot of languages are exploring that space!

* Vale is blending generational references with regions, to have memory-safe single ownership without garbage collection or a borrow checker. [0]

* Cone is adding a borrow checker on top of GC, RC, single ownership, and even custom user allocators. [1]

* Lobster found a way to add borrow-checker-like static analysis to reference counting. [2]

* HVM is using borrowing and cloning under the hood to make pure functional programming ridiculously fast. [3]

* Ante is using lifetime inference and algebraic effects to make programs faster and more flexible. [4]

* D is adding a borrow checker! [5]

[0] https://vale.dev/

[1] https://cone.jondgoodwin.com/

[2] https://www.strlen.com/lobster/

[3] https://github.com/Kindelia/HVM

[4] https://antelang.org/

[5] https://dlang.org/blog/2022/06/21/dip1000-memory-safety-in-a...
IMO the issue here is just that people think of git as it was something like SVN where you need to have some kind of external server to host project. Which isn't surprising as most of the time (when you cooperate with others) you do exactly that: push changes to one server. Idea of decentralization and independent copies of repositories may not be easy to grasp for newbe, because it's really technical concept.
I don't think this is correct. Congress can definitely delegate its power, they are just saying that Congress didn't delegate the power the EPA is trying to use in this case.

From the final paragraph of the opinion:

"But it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the
authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme in
Section 111(d). A decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body."

So it seems that Congress can still give the EPA a more clear delegation that they have this power.
From the articles I've seen so far it seems they can still regulate individual power plants.

Does this mean that while they cannot stop new high emissions plants from being built, once a plant actually starts producing they could regulate it?

That might actually work out better, because building a plant and then having it come under regulation would probably be more costly to the plant owners than if they had went for a cleaner plant from the beginning.
Well... The account didnt get someone fired. The video the person posted online did. Someone just brought it to their attention and it seems like they were a pretty junior employee that was easy to lose.
That's actually a great idea. Coupled with a Bone Conducting headphone it sounds like great gear for biking.
what does auk/auky mean?
They are aggregation points for responsibility. Without those aggregation points, responsibility can be too diffuse for effective policy setting, etc.
> All the issues with availability have turned me off on them.

The Pico in particular has never had availability issues. Actually, it seems to have much better availability than most competing products.
It makes sense in the context of the program being a spinoff of the Netscape suite (or early Mozilla suite) which had multiple parts including the browser. After all this program still has a NNTP client jammed in it, adding matrix is simply a matter of modernizing what was already there (the original IRC client).
"Kafir" is an Arabic word meaning unbeliever or infidel, and is used in the Islamic word as a pejorative for non-Muslims. It's also been adopted elsewhere, such as a nasty slur in South Africa for blacks.
I’ve been curious about using high heat combustion plus RF to create denser plasmas (ionized air) plus pulsed magnets to push the air. It seems impossible for earthly flight, but maybe with lightweight super conductors.

I’ve also been curious about using very large-area weak ionizers for future zeppelins.

Plasma propulsion has been used for zeppelin flight at a small scale. Plasmas are also used for flow control on wings and propellers. There doesn’t seem to be much unclassified research in the area, though.
Github has carefully nurtured this culture of centralization. It's a marvel of our times.
Would that be called sporting?
I enjoyed your article. I think it is very in the spirit of hacking and science that you asked a question and then meticulously chopped away at it until you had a solution-shaped object.
I have also been fascinated by throat-mics from e.g. cyberpunk novels.
Have you also thought about bone conduction to replace headphones? That would be very cyberpunk :)
> For example, I can't imagine it'd work very well somewhere like Germany

Germany has had multiple Neobanks since at least a decade and they're fairly popular.
My unit at Cornell uses Slack. Back when there was a Slack outage we were told by Cornell central IT that they didn't want us to switch to Teams.
Isn't it still a Unix derivative? Still have bash or something as cli?
Not yet but users are asking for it, feel free to add a list of the resources you think would be useful to here: https://github.com/infracost/infracost/discussions/985#discu...
It's mentioned a couple of times in the article as well as in https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/
This is really long and I gave it my best shot, but from the onset it's intellectually dishonest.

Anarcho =/= "centralized authority is corrupt and evil"

He has redefined anarchism (no authority) to suit his needs and attached the negative connotation in his defining characteristics.

The paradigm, which he has missed, is that the blockchain IS the "state". The authority of the system is derived from its working mechanism and therefore does not require outside governance.

Citing oppososition from leftist progressives as surprising....? The group that demands the most compliance to ideaology and greatest support for expanding federal government? This isn't difficult mental exercise or requiring some contortion to find plausible. Their opinion is the obvious conclusion.

I find here further evidence that VC is a bunch of wealthy hacks hiring their smart friends to wax knowledgeable to the rest of us, lower cretins.
I am interested in knowing more about your fancy business landline phone.
I can assure you its widely used by certain fields in academia. Im currently a research assistant in physics at a large lab, and mathematica is ubiquitous.
That's the gist of it but imagine the logical consequences. What the court is saying is that the EPA has no authority to stop the burning of anything, it only has the authority to apply the best-known commercially viable technology to make the emissions of that burning as clean as can be. So, for example, if you wanted to incinerate lead ingots - and let's just ignore the reasons you'd want to do this for debate purposes - the EPA cannot stop you, because there is no commercially viable (i.e. profitable) technology that would make the emissions any cleaner.

Now you may think this is a crazy example but there's an Alcoa facility in Texas that originally burned lignite but long since ran out of the good stuff and has just been burning dirt for decades. It is one of the largest point sources of air pollution in the world, and what the court is saying here is the EPA has not been empowered by Congress to stop that. If Alcoa wants to burn dirt, then fine.
Obviously, nothing can overcome strong background noise, but I suspect most people's home offices aren't so terrifyingly loud that it's a problem.

This video helped me figure out some microphone basics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sdft3WiLvE
> a government login called CSAM, but a lot of people here use a private company called "itsme"

It probably doesn't help that the CSAM term has an overlap with another english abbreviation.
It seems clear to me that they are a company that no longer cares about strategic investment.

Their forays (acquisitions) into version control have been so amazingly weak. Stash was devoid of even basic features. Now they have Bitbucket:

- they still can't get it to perform adequately after years
- it lacks syntax highlighting in PR views
- it took them years to get side-by-side diffs into PR views
- it integrates with third party tools poorly

I thought maybe the Github acquisition would spur them into recognizing it as a important product category, but I guess not.
I'll attempt to explain on their behalf: technocracy bad, regulatory capture good.
But we never had humans who could read so much code and "learn" so much. :p Our old system's rules and logical conclusions, taken up a level, now make us uncomfortable.
Seems like he meant "It's bad for me (the VC) to be profitable when you're growing"
I feel like a lot of people here would do well to try and understand the role of the Supreme Court, instead of treating it like a second version of Congress.
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Very few economic transactions are denominated in gold, but having it is a hedge for the contingency of finding yourself in a situation where you can only do a transaction in gold, and then it can be life-saving (bribing your way out of a European country in 1944, etc.)

The reason people believe gold will retain meaningful value in a situation where nothing else does is thousands of years of history where it did work out like that. It's debatable (to say the least) whether Bitcoin with its mere twelve years of history and inherent dependency on easily disrupted digital networks could have the same properties.
At the time of original publishing, the article didn't have any sound clips, so opinion is all we have to go on.

The addition of the sound clip definitely doesn't make me a believer.

I think a cheap Amazon microphone would beat this setup with far less complexity.
NFTs = attempted cultural prestige for crypto?
CTOS running on a 'MegaFrame' which had 6 processors on cards the size of a pizza box. Slid them in a case the size of a dishwasher. Each had 1MB(!) of RAM, all mappable into each others' address spaces.
$9M isn't too much; it's close to a pure play.

ROI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
Outreach doesn't explicitly state the reason he was terminated. There are a number of tweets suggesting it wasn't the bodegas video. It's certainly not a good look, but this title is jumping to conclusions.
On what basis is this claim plausible?

In my understanding -- and I've read good chunks of the leaked Dobbs opinion -- the above claim is not true. The Dobbs decision's reasoning is largely based on a lack of clear federal legislation saying that abortion is legal.
Red Hat definitely got acquired by IBM, but I thought the Ceylon decision happened before that. It's totally possible that I'm wrong on that though.
How’s the stability? There are a few reviews citing bugs and inability to restore purchases. I’d just try it myself if it didn’t cost $$ on iOS
This is very true and rings close to home.

I was a solo dev / sole entrepreneur for ~2 years, then raised. My product could be considered core. This meant that at about 1,5 years in I was basically unable to take a holiday (picture me sitting on the hotel bed during a family outing answering tickets, fixing infra).

Having continuity, support etc. all are basics you need to have once serious customers join. Even more simple, you need code reviews! You need a second pair of brains / eyes to actually make things better. Edit: and don't forget on-call. Being on-call for 2 years straight is not good for almost everything in your personal life.
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> You know, that "assembling things live in the sky" Lisp feeling (Yegge's phrase, not mine). The only other computation environment that is right there en par in flexibility and conveyance of the same trippy feeling is, of course, Emacs.

Do you know Pharo? The experience you describe is also typical in the Smalltalk family. See https://pharo.org/
Why do you see a blow to the chevron deference doctrine as a good thing?

I'd say that the doctrine properly tries to keep the supreme court, the least democratically responsible branch of US federal government, from being the most powerful of the three branches of government.
I think I'm missing all of the context. Who is this person? How do we know he was fired (or worked for the company)? All we have here is a video of someone talking to camera and no other information. And yes, I did search, and the only results I found were right here on HN.
Both platforms are noteworthy and are convenient tools for corporate communication. The solution choice is based on the tasks the business needs to solve in its specific cases. In our work, we have seen companies successfully using both products, customizing them for different departments.
We used both solutions, but when Microsoft did a great job improving the Teams functionality, our choice was irrevocably over it. An additional plus is that updates almost every month help make workflows more accessible and efficient.
The problem with this is that not only you 'think' it sells with that 'figure', but those numbers have no sources altogether. Thus, it can be dismissed as essentially unfounded.
Here is a positive 4.6/5 review of it being used on a motorbike

https://www.webbikeworld.com/iasus-stealth-throat-microphone...
-- America began the process of un-uniting quite some time ago - it's unsurprising that the supreme court is reflecting that - curious what Americans here think about this? - much of the country is trending towards "live in the state that you're comfortable in" - seems somewhat reasonable? --
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