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> For its part, Git was designed specifically to make software development distributed without a centralized site.

Just yesterday I had to explain the basic premise/history of Git to a young intern. I had asked him if he was using Git to manage his little pet project the company gave him to play with. “No”, he replied, he didn’t know what the company’s policy was to posting code in public on GitHub. As I explained to him that “git init” was all he needed, no GitHub or even no repository on our local GitLab was necessary, his eyes grew wide: “But how does that work??”

I’ve had to explain this same thing to multiple novice devs of various ages. It baffles me. I consider it one of the greatest ironies of software development today.

It’s like explaining to people that they could just talk to each other using a thousand means, instead of having to communicate by netcasting at each other through some shared social media platform.
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That's like saying magicians don't exist, they're just people who present the illusion of magic for entertainment. Yeah, that's what 'magician' means.

You literally explained what a woke corporation is, while simultaneously denying its existence.
Ionizing the air? Couldn't that be used for hypersonic flight to eliminate air friction plus eliminate sonic boom?
That is incorrect. The Bank of International Settlement definitely uses gold for payment. In rare events, a country will do physical settlement via shipping, but it is usually done via paper claims.

https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc200831.pdf
I'm organising my bookmarks and adding them when finding time, check the git commit log

Resource are getting added frequently.
#5 Biological Weapons Shelters: I wonder how many of these already exist that are just classified. Or if an alternative is just to invest in SpaceX or some other team with a vision of making humanity a multi-planetary species (or long term self-sustaining space habitats)
You're right that BTC has a floor because there's some economy behind it. I'd say in the 100USD-1000USD/coin range.
Human beings understand this, which is why any manager with half a heart will translate to the plain language version instinctively after they're done reading the HR-prescribed spiel.

HR is a profession whose purpose is to turn the process of hiring and employing human labor into a pantomime of financing and procuring capital goods or raw materials. Since their business is treating people like anything but people ("resources", contracts, "headcount", "cycles", etc.), this often slips their mind.
I would want to exchange peanuts and consequently owe no taxes. That is why the US has very complicated rules to discourage bartering and gives every sign it would complicate and eventually outlaw quid-pro-quo family/friend arrangements for things like child and elder care if large and powerful groups of people weren't still extended family oriented.
I do appreciate hearing that. My parents aren't as worried as I am either, but they've also turned their backyard into a very large garden just in case. They also lean heavily on religion as a means of assurance, which I find less comforting.
Right, but the median Boomer is not invested even indirectly in risky asset classes that influence early stage company funding, which is why the predicate (median retirees diversifying into more conservative investments) does not imply the conclusion.
Seattle software firm Outreach.io employee fired for not liking bodegas
FCC Commissioner Calls for Removal of TikTok from App Stores
Samsung beats TSMC to mass produce 3nm chips
Not as long as the science and statistics is junk. Some people actually still believe that meat causes cancer based on a study that didn't even control for highly processed meats, equating a slice of baloney with a grassfed filet
On a technology that has proper closures, there is no reason why OOP used functionally wouldn't be a good fit for the proposed problem.
Many people might consider it obvious but as far as I know, intrinsic value isn't a concept in modern economics. Whatever someone is willing to pay is what that thing is worth to that person, that's it.
It's... nuanced.

There is absolutely fraudulent pricing in the collectors market. But it does calcify in people's minds to cause real transactions. Insurance values for your illiquid possession because they're based around a fraudulent but highly publicized price elsewhere, a charitable donation of an illiquid asset and tax deduction being based around a fraudulent but highly publicized transaction elsewhere. Of course, all currently unknown as fraudulent at the time, and unproven to be fraudulent, and by completely different people in the transaction.

The other thing to help you make a rounded opinion is looking at price distortions across all niche collectors markets. Delaware license plates went absolutely wild in pricing over the past several years, just like some trading cards, just like some video game cartridges, just like non fungible tokens. So its almost unproductive to put too much scrutiny on any specific market.

Yes, there is fraudulent pricing, yes, it affects how people do real transactions that also happen. Pricing is based on prior pricing, not based on whether there exist anyone sitting around willing to pay it.

The last prior price exists indefinitely at a volume of 0, until someone negotiates something different.

In some opaque markets based on magic, like at fine art galleries, they manipulate prices slowly upwards by using their market position to resist negotiation pressure and simply saying what the price is, and guilt tripping any buyer into saying "surely your interest in this piece is exclusively because you love the piece, it should bring you joy, market dynamics? hogwash!". with the only variable being if some collector or estate floods the market with a specific artist's work, which rarely happens so they don't need to adjust.
I think it’s fair to say that the documentation system of Mathematica is the best documentation for any software language anywhere in the world at any time. Not exaggerating one bit.
There are not only practical example snippets for every language function but also tutorials and technical deep dives on related topic areas such as signal processing, video analysis, partial differential equations such as the heat equation and wave equations with rich 2D and 3D visualizing s of potentials and flows over surfaces.
It’s very powerful for exploratory research that involves deep math and nothing else comes anywhere close.
The fact that it’s a functional language makes it much easier to compose functions while just trying out new ideas but it’s not really a general purpose programming language as much as it is a mathematical computation system.
And the huge bonus is that you never ever have to import anything or worry that a new version of a critical lib will topple your version dependency house of cards. All subsystems and libraries are internally consistent and always available, without need to import and with context sensitive help.
I guess what I was trying to say that Excel as commonly known, is a programming environment, rather than a language. Where you can use the "Excel" programming language for performing most (if not all) tasks a general purpose programming language can.

But it's still a bit like saying "Eclipse" is a programming language. You can do programming in Eclipse, that is true, but you can also do other things that are not programming, which makes Eclipse a programming environment. Just like with Excel.
> These days, I drive past busy social hangout areas or visit diners with the family; I see people wearing AirPods or AirPod-like knockoffs as an always-on ornamental addition even while not talking (on phone). My brain always cries in silence, "Batman."

Could they be listening to something?
whatever the details, they fully control online economy (except crypto)
Is providing service scalable business?
I've been in the service related business for almost four years now. I provided a service for people who want to make VR apps. But, I still struggle to build a system that runs without me being involved in technical things. And from the financial aspect, I often feel insecure and worry if we can cover the company's expenses for the next several months. I just feel that my life and the life my company depends on the projects that's still a mystery right now. With all those experience and feeling, I start to question; is providing service is a scalable business model?
Better? probably. Being honest with people is usually better.

But this is a good time to remind everyone that you owe zero -- ZERO -- loyalty to a company. Be just as ruthless to them as they are to you.

As an employee know that the company that employs you does not have your best interest in mind. They will dump you as soon as the asymmetry between what you provide to them vs. what they provide to you is no longer in their favor. I mean, it has to be that way, but you need to keep your eyes open to it.

This is a very cynical view, but ultimately, the company couldn't care less about you. You are disposable, and will be disposed-of at the first opportunity it's called for.

Remember that asymmetry can go the other way too. The very moment they are no longer providing high-value to you as an employer you can (and should) start searching for something better, where the asymmetry is more in your favor. You can ditch them just as quickly and easily as they ditch you.
Ask HN: Tools for tracking self-directed remote teams?
"Self-directed" might not be the exact word. I'm in a team where almost everyone has other commitments, sometimes taking priority at random, and I'd like it if there was a tool where I could go and announce "I'm not going to be working today...".
We all believe what we need to, or something like that.
Do not worry; I pay for you! Seriously, I presume that enough people pay that making it harder to circumvent the paywall is not a problem. Yet.
Your throat mic example is when listening through a radio link, versus a direct connection with the dynamic microphone example.

I'm sure the dynamic mic sounds better than the troat mic, but this is not a fair comparison. Every mic sounds terrible through such a radio link.

Antlion ModMic Wireless looks nice. I'm using the usb version with my wired headset. I'd really like a proper bluetooth dongle to combine wired microphone with wired headset. But that's almost impossible, because transmitting voice over bluetooth means the receiving audio switches to a very crappy codec.
A dongle could theoretically present 2 bluetooth devices, one for audio and one for voice, but I'm not sure a phone or computer would play nice with that.
There are shelves and shelves of it in UK supermarkets, it's very popular here. I live a walk away from a dairy that produces it (including kefir soap bars) https://www.instagram.com/wildcroftdairy/
I'm glad it worked out for you since you learned Java, but hearing stuff like this makes me sad. Scratch needs a "make me feel like an adult" visual setting which darkens the colors or something.

I was actually showing Scratch to an adult non-programmer friend last weekend. She was very impressed, saying that if she ever wanted to learn coding, she thought Scratch would be a great tool for her.

Programming in Scratch is programming. The only real difference is that instead of typing instructions, Scratch users drag them out from a list of options. I think we would all agree that memorizing syntax isn't a major part of programming, but it's a major source of cognitive load for beginners. Scratch removes that barrier.

My company sometimes describes Scratch as "learning to talk before learning to spell." I think that's a great analogy.
Every crypto coin trading at 0USD is likewise scarce.

You need to pay attention to the actual economic transactions taking place. Looking at a graph of pure speculative value and calling it an economy is, more or less, a scam.

You'll see that when it all disappears.. moreso than the cashflow of, eg., an actual business.
>> Throat mics are an improvement over a standalone wired microphone (if that’s what you are using)

>I'll go as far to say that the author is making a completely false claim

It's an opinion, they are neither true nor false. It's fair to disagree with it though.

Tomatoes are the best vegetable. Opinion. I'm sure I'll get plenty of disagreements and even some reminding me that a tomato is actually a fruit.
Yeah, but availability only helps poor people, while license enforcement primarily helps rich people. No money in A, loads of money in B.
That could create something of a moral hazard.
This looks very interesting. I'm curious if the author has looked at Erlang/Elixir — my first reaction on reading this is that it sounds similar to the actor model and the way that Erlang handles state and state updates: as messages to autonomous processes that are modeled as a continuous fold over the message stream.
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Blueprints are a pretty fully featured scripting language, they just happen to not be text based.
Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions
Not exactly what you asked and I am not sure how correct is this number [0], but it is said that the average Bitcoin purchase price is $21k.

You can’t tell how many buyers are underwater from the average buying price being higher than currently price, but it does tell you that a lot of people is currently losing money with Bitcoin.

[0] https://m.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/survey-showed...
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You can get direct link in comment below by mtmail.

Why i didnt posted direct link?

2 Major problem/reasons for doing it:

1. There was no way to get real feedback from users. So I never know if the resource is adding some real value or just another waste material.

2. I'm making some report on web3 trends and having email can help me send that reports to web3 enthaustics. (for Free)

I made this gumroad link 3-4 days back. And contacted the first few users who downloaded it and got some valuable feedback.

For example check this feedback: https://prnt.sc/RYwBlPfT3KtW which is really a good feedback and planning to have something like this (you can also do it if interested)
I actually do most of my tasks in various GUIs. This has a large advantage in discoverability (and for my brain: memorability). So I find no need for cheat sheets in general.

If on command line, I am typically following an installation guide or something so no need for a cheat sheet.

If scripting, I refer to past scripts or use a search engine.
Both bubbles largely ended via Fed tightening. When inflation runs hot, the speculative sectors get damaged the most via tighter monetary policy.

It just happened to be that metaverse as a concept took off near the end of this cycle.
> might have enough power to run offline, this isn't clear yet

It's very unclear and misleading to put "it can run completely offline" if you're not 100% sure it can actually run "completely offline", hardware be damned.
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Another issue of HN debates values.
Long hold for Aluminum didn’t exactly work out.

https://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/gilded/jb_gilded_monument...

I actually agree with you. :)
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> On Bluetooth audio issues: try switching from PulseAudio to PipeWire; it’s better in every way now save perhaps for one or two remaining tiny niches, and pipewire-pulse lets it act as a drop-in replacement for pulseaudio. The usual installation experience is completely uneventful: you install it, restart your session, and everything works at least as well as before.

I did! Pipewire is working awesome -- I'm using pipewire-pulseaudio actually, there's a package on arch that IIRC bridges the two so I can use pavucontrol etc.

> On the throat mic itself: what does it sound like? I need a sample. I’m having difficulty finding any not-obviously-bad audio samples (e.g. not recording the microphone, but rather the output of a speaker after radio transmission!).

Just put up a I'm going to put one up right now -- just updated the blog and it's deploying, should be up within 3 min or so.

> From the impressions I’m getting, I’d be surprised if “not detectable” was accurate—rather, people are used to lousy audio and are not likely to comment on it unless you ask them or it’s just too bad. But yeah, I’d rather like a sample to judge myself.

This definitely might have been the case, but the friend I was talking with I most certainly have run bad audio by before -- so he's seen worse and better.
> And similarly, crypto rewards its early followers and doesn’t promise an expanded pie, but a changing of the guard.

Nearly all crypto does indeed concentrate wealth onto early adopters, by emitting the majority of supply in the first few years (or even all at launch).

But fixing the block subsidy avoids such concentration, leaving most supply to later generations, much like gold.

Such a purely linear emission deters speculation while encouraging use as a currency.
Is there a way to reliably measure sentience meaningfully?
I'm kinda sad that we have really ended up with essentially two operating systems or families of such dominating. Unix/Linux/BSD and Windows... Both with their own issues and historic loads...

I feel that we could do so much better in modern age if some of the things were just let go, but trenches has been dug and nothing will likely happen.
Many have. I'm pretty happy using (and paying for) sr.ht.

How do you get the bulk of the users, for whom convenience and features seem to be the primary motivators, to quit?
Cooking up a conductive alternative to copper with aluminum
Would the warmer water not have currents present from convection? Those are a source of inertia. There is a case for the warmer liquid never actually reaching the same state the cooler liquid is in.
AI/ML is so abused these days, we stopped using them entirely while pitching our Startup even though we wrote two home-grown algorithms already. It has become an addendum, "We also wrote our own Machine Learning Algorithm and we train them against 1-million acres of high resolution satellite data."
That video is 3 years old.

Do you know if there’s anything new with this project/technology?
"Review" sites nowadays heavily rely on joke of a benchmark suite called "Geekbench" which only measure burst performance only lasting seconds.

More serious sites like Anandtech only focus on performance of the chip itself (not the product it's in) , so they apply extra cooling measures to eliminate that variable from the equation.

So no, you can't actually rely on mainstream reviews and benchmarks to decide on a specific laptop.
Unlike turbine-powered planes, the aircraft does not depend on fossil fuels to fly. And unlike propeller-driven drones, the new design is completely silent.

I suspect that the design is silent due to its low power and that something with enough thrust to perform some useful task would be louder even if the noise is that of wind only.
Also known as shotgun mics.
> Office also basically killed word processing innovation

This is partially true, but importantly, very much untrue as well. Word itself was a massive innovation over the dominant word processing program at the time, WordPerfect. DOS-based, no GUI, obscure commands and yet so widely used that virtually every keyboard came with a WP cheat sheet for the function keys (4 commands per key).
I have several electronic banking security tokens. These produce a random number that has to match a random number generated at the bank for your account at the same time. I have used used these very successfully when travelling overseas. They obviate the need for an SMS code to be sent to the phone.

http://myanmargazette.net/167029/commonwealth-bank-3-net-cod...
Ah, thanks. Note to OP, most of these are outside the city proper. I am from the Vancouver area so the weather there never bothers me ;).
What does power consumption look like? Is this useable for battery-powered applications?
My main filter is the same as my BS filter, assuming they otherwise have basic competence and at least one strong leadership quality.
The main point is that it's a commercial service that doesn't respect other people's licences.

Previously it was free and the noises that GitHub had given made it sound like it wasn't finished. Turns out it was.
Awesome thanks for finding this -- One of the pictures on the ASUS site was of people in an operating room... but none of them were wearing the throat mic so I was wondering...

Another use case that's almost the polar opposite of the other use case.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/whats-the-bee...

> Red and processed meats do increase health risks.
Muslim culture is probably the most successful culture if you are looking at growth over the last 1000 years or so.
I don't think this is a true dividing line for a programming language. The Smalltalk language for instance combines both the programming environment and the language together. I don't think anyone seriously argues that smalltalk is not a programming language.
Human bodies are evolutionarily maladapted to sitting at a desk all day
I think Bitcoin will have as much value as the hypercard protocol has now. It's not really as valuable as Mona Lisa but you could say it has some value.
>no brownie points for just building random things

That's kind of what hackers do though isn't it?
not known this, thanks!
I have never understood the attraction of tropical places. It's hot, humid and you get sand everywhere. What kind of a relaxing vacation is that?
To that I'll add another common problem: people don't monitor their own mic, thus even if they invest in a decent dynamic mic, it's easy to fall into bad mic technique, too much gain that results in clipping or insufficient gain (+ bad mic technique) that either result in low volume or as in many conferencing apps triggers some sort of make-up gain compressor which end up amplifying background noise as well.
I don't follow the last statement. If a cryptocurrency was used for decentralized buying and selling, folks were not using it for speculation, and thus it became a stable currency would it not flourish?
I think edible inkjet ink dots or differently dyed parts of the filler mixture (think he two colors of rice in some basmati rice from Indian restaurants) would be easier to implement and still keep the shape and overall color of the pill identifiable.
I don't know the collector personally, but for having been/witnessed friends being interviewed by entertainment press reporters a few times, it's totally possible the article author just wanted to make the story more dramatic and overwhelmed him with oriented questions full of superlatives :)
The answer to the question is "because we also use cameras". That said, if this tech was made smaller and didn't give off cat-collar vibes, people might consider it.

Technically better is not always sufficient, but it's interesting to see what's out there.
I suspect the OP's throat mics weren't actual laryngophones like the one in use by the surgeon.
This is true. I had a leg up when I chose my setup, because I've been active in the headphone hi-fi community for a few decades and had a collection of various cans and some knowledge of what I was looking for. My WFH setup uses Beyerdynamic DT880s, which are generally known for being comfortable with low clamping pressure, minimal weight, and because they are open tend to not cause ear sweat as bad as some other options.

Obviously, YMMV
I've worn Shure SE215s for 4+ hours at a time countless times for professional broadcasts. I found them to be very comfortable, and actually do use them at home for conferencing. It's definitely a personal preference thing, although I'm sure the more expensive ones are even more comfortable.
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Kefir is one of the most popular milk-based drinks in Poland.
Does anyone see an irony that these pieces would have been less likely to be stolen if they were on a shelf in plain site?