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Apple doesn't make any serious profit from Logic Pro, it is straight up sold at a cost or less. Look at the major competitors.

Ableton releases new major versions of their DAW once every couple years. Standard edition is $450. Full edition is $750. Upgrading to the next major version is $240 or so (provided you already own a previous one).

Logic Pro? You pay $199, and you are done. Logic Pro had a massive major update a year or so ago, fully free. Not only it is cheaper, there are no different editions or costs for upgrades. For a one-time cost (that is already cheaper than major competitors), you get perpetual massive updates with no bs or extra costs. In terms of major commercial DAWs that are actually used in the industry, Logic Pro hands down is a great bang for the buck.
The most important stable coin is the Costco hotdog
For me its the overwhelming amount of decision making that prevents me. Imagine for a moment you have to make decisions that impact a lot of people and you can't just do stuff on a whim. Under this model, you would delay an important decision to the very last possible moment.

In addition as engineers, it can feel like you are walking in circles when examining your solution. It's not just writing code that is the issue, its dealing with these valleys and troughs of emotion that comes with undertaking work.

Even labor jobs require a certain level of internal rally cry if it makes sense. It's even more tougher that require constant mental attention and analysis. Which is why the financial buy-side for me was too much. The anxiety alone, the uncertainty aspect of it would make it very tough to execute, especially because there are few variables that is completely out of your control. Many burn out and many only end up collecting the management fee. Few that make it seem to not too sound either.
Wasn't Patton a PTSD denying, proto wheraboo who thought he fought the wrong enemy? One that was removed from Getmany due his treatment and view of displaced jews?

As with all WW2 generals, I would take his quotes, and memoires, with a ton of salt.
> Yeah the Shahs rule was a paradise for regular people...

No it's not. That's a tactic the regime used to silence any opposition for a long time after the revolution. I can't tell you how many times I have turned on the TV and heard something along these lines. Nowadays, however, they have new favorite bogeymen.

Shah was a garden variety dictator backed by the United States. You can find the likes of him in today's Saudi Arabia, for example. It certainly was not paradise for regular people.

But Islamic Republic on the other hand is a theocratic dictatorship. It's like an octopus that wants to wrap its tentacles around every matter of people's personal lives. From their bedroom to the women's bodies to the clothes they wear. Ironic for them, as a result, the current generation who were born after the revolution are more pro-US than ever and unfortunately are even more sympathetic to Shah than one might expect; which is not surprising.

So Shah's misdeeds are no excuse for the demons who have forced themselves upon the country right now.

Context: I was born and used to lived in Iran in a non-Musilm family whose members were in opposition to both Shah and the new regime alike.
Very interested in this company and the associate PM role. would love to chat more about it
They might not know how to navigate an iPhone or TikTok, but those are not foundational skills.
star trek, which depicts a moneyless quasi-communist society but with the fleet organized along traditional navy lines is an interesting concept
They're not changing the rip register at all. They're setting the contents of the memory location pointed to by the rip register to 0x050f. The equivalent of "set {x}y = z" in C would be "*(x *)y = z;".
I wonder if it's social interaction that human cognitive health is predicated upon, or just the ability to externalize one's thoughts along with a feedback mechanism. I've done a few lengthy stints of social isolation, and while real-time social skills invariably suffered, I was cognizant of this topic here and took steps to counteract it. The main tactic I used was writing long posts on forums and blogs. I conjectured externalizing/organizing thoughts was the core benefit from real-time, in-person social interaction. In fact, if you don't care about a decline in social skills, it seems this is a more efficient way of doing so and I'd go as far to say that my periods of isolation were of net benefit to me.

The only caveat I can think of now is that many of the outlets for such interaction online are perhaps less useful for such purposes at present, and perhaps even counterproductive. For example, I'd recommend doing so anonymously and without being nudged by karma/upvote systems; like starting an anonymous blog would be a safe bet.
I don't agree with him. Continuing with Nuclear just for geopolitical reasons is only a stopgap. No country except finland has a permanent storage option for waste, and I think it's very admirable that Germany is going nuclear-free. It's just as unsustainable as fossil fuels, it's just on a much longer timeframe so we can push it forward. The current climate crisis shows what that leads to.

And it could be that those fuel rod offers were refused for a technical reason or something. It feels a bit like we're only getting one side of the story here.
> Republicans stormed the US capital. Do they get any lectures?

Almost daily during the congressional discussions and by several news outlets.
I'm still shocked that nothing really came of the report that the anti-Corbyn activities within the Labour party. It should've rocked the party to the core and caused heads to roll.
I think the grievance husbandry is part of the cocktail too.

Obviously if your message is too complicated you’re going to lose people, but if you’re operating at an effective complexity level, you still need a story to tell.

“You’ve been very badly treated by not rich people, rather someone else” sells in job lots even today.
The wage graph in the article you linked shows that they have not actually been stagnant. They went up by 25% in the period.
So we'll have a right party and a far-right party. This is looking more gloom every year.
Given the combined supply shocks associated with the pandemic and Ukraine, I'm a bit curious why things haven't been much worse.

For better or for worse, human labor and fossil fuels are the two most indefensible ingredients of our current global economic system, and the supply of both has been badly disrupted.

Obviously a lot has changed since the 70s, but why exactly aren't we having 70s stagflation or worse in the US? Do domestic oil and gas play a role?
Purpose is only a component of what fascism is about.

Wielding power - owed power - is certainly not a byproduct of fascism. Its the core promise of the ideology to its "chosen" people.
So it seems. Same goes for islamic terrorists and extrimists, white power neo nazis and incels. Those guys have way more in common than they think, and like.
> are producing less stuff

Are you sure? Numbers I looked at suggested both global and US manufacturing output is up both in terms of output and percent of GDP. So consumption could rise.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/manufacturin...
And the saying “Good times create weak men”.

And it’s true. You often see a growing discontent among wealthy societies where everything is taken care of.

People need purpose in what they do and “my purpose is to fight for the survival of my country” is a pretty compelling one to many people.
I started using Firefox ages ago because of firebug. I’ve been using it as my primary browser ever since. I’ve never had an issue with it (other than the occasional web site that is designed to only work with Chrome). Maybe I don’t know what I’m missing since I haven’t given Chrome a try (other than loading the occasional website that only works on Chrome). Maybe Chrome is better than Firefox, but I don’t have any complaints about Firefox (though I do have complaints about bad website developers).
Yeah charisma is one of those things that can draw people in. Look at many cult leaders too. Charles Manson often went on just entirely nonsensical tirades, but could sound almost profound while speaking them. Jim Jones speeches have a similar angry rallying cry type of feel.
UK will not ban video games loot boxes despite problem gambling findings
Why would you store it? You can recycle it
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/frances-efficiency-in-t...
This is a really useful book review, thank you for sharing it (and thank you to the author for writing it!).
What hack for me was stop thinking of it as "complete A or finish B". Instead I see it small pieces. "lets just hack this script on SO that will let me wrangle an API". "hey lets build an endpoint that will just take care of authentication"

doing this way I am not working on a dozen things trying to be perfect. rather each work feels just like a coding exercise.

having said that even getting into this mode is a challenge. you get carried away. you make love with your side project. you get attached.
they did in the Soviet Union very admirably.
I'm not completely sure your TLDR is a well-founded and fair distillation of your comment.

And your comment itself reads as if it's a skim of the post itself. Yes, IoT security is obviously a huge risk, yet Wasm would dramatically reduce the possibility space of many (but not all) types of attacks.
> Once everyone has been exposed to the antigen a half dozen times and the virus is forced to mutate off of its naive optimum then the disease burden will drop even further. Then we just have another human common cold coronavirus.

This is presented as a fact/certainty, however, I'd like to caution that it is still unclear whether multiple reinfections will add up to lasting damage (unlike the common cold), see e.g. [1].

That said, I agree with you that it'll be hard to eradicate this virus given how quickly it mutates (I'm just not as certain of the consequences).

[1] https://erictopol.substack.com/p/a-reinfection-red-flag
humbug. just because men have different measures of status and success does not mean women don’t have some of their own
Netflix wasn't a cable competitor- it was a Blockbuster competitor. They started out as the king of the DVD rental market, putting essentially 100% of the competitors in that distribution-only industry out of business.

They eventually reached a scale in the streaming category (which they essentially invented from a business standpoint, even though they did not invent the technology) where it made sense for them to produce their own content, both because it was more economically efficient generally and to prevent studios from starving them of content and shutting off their revenues. Their move into producing some fraction of their own content matched that of both cable companies and TV studios before them.

Netflix's primary advantage, in both the DVD market and the early streaming market was 100% a radically disruptive distribution advantage. Eventually, in both cases, they became so dominant that they redefined their own industries. It's not that Netflix is a cable company, it's that cable were forced to become Netflix to stay alive and avoid the fate of Blockbuster and Netflix's original competitors.
"On its face" is commonly used when a person does not have the capacity to explain something. I see this is the case here. Further, your invocation of "apartheid" is a straw man.
> How often are we ordered to do something by another person in our communities that we can't readily disobey

Psychologist Christopher Ryan touches on this topic through his research and books on pre / post agriculture.

Basically it boils down to loss of freedom through territorialism and resulting patriarchy of modern civilizations. I can recommend both "Sex at Dawn"[1] and "Civilized to Death"[2].

Cheer up, at least we've got donuts and dentists today.

[1] https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24521078M/Sex_at_dawn

[2] https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27911904M/Civilized_to_Death
No one who lives in either place would consider it a distinction without a difference. Ireland abolished slavey in 1171, although, like the English, they were involved in the Atlantic slave trade.
Meh, it's quite easy to set up a website without third party (or first party) trackers. Even some github.io kind of website is better than a website with loads of tracker spam on it. It is not about black and white thinking, it is about putting in minimal effort and sticking to ones principles.

Maybe it also involves greed for viewership, "wanting to make it big" with some
article, who knows. There is not much preventing people from setting up a blog by themselves or ask someone else to help them publish in an ethical way, at least in many countries.

I guess at least some positive outcome can be concluded: People, who read on those websites might learn a thing or two.
> It's just as unsustainable as fossil fuels, it's just on a much longer timeframe

What good is solving nuclear waste storage that might become a problem in a thousand years, if we are done in by global warming (which nuclear can help offset) in a hundred?
Illegal Pete’s must be cleaning up.
Don’t aim your weapons at the publishers, who are generally working as morally as they can within the parameters they’ve been given.

Aim them at the ad technology firms that set the ground rules for the industry decades ago. The publishers are generally not the ones who let it degrade like this—the ad industry, which set the expectations for advertisers and marketers, did.
I have not been able to get excited about WASM due to the poor memory management situation. It’s been years since the MVP and we are still in limbo about freeing memory.

A great issue documenting a lot of the pain points around this is here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1397

Until this is solved WASM is dead in the water for a huge variety of applications. I am rooting for WASM, but it has been discouraging to watch this go unsolved over the years.
That’s a good point. A poor commitment to backwards compatibility on Apple’s part hasn’t helped. However, I assume they did it to smooth the transition to Apple Silicon. On the long view Apple Silicon is going to be a bigger benefit than the ability to run old games.
Lets translate your question.

What exactly is your solution to the sort of [war] by Hitler in [war]. Is war not a solution to [war]?
Love FF. Container tabs was a game changer as it allows for easy contesting switching between different identities.

For those who are more privacy focused LibreWolf is a good fork.
72B of those 80 are chickens, cattle come in at 325M. At least chickens are a superfood animal in terms of converting calories into food, and generally being lower impact than cattle, pork, etc.
I think possibly cooperation and violence. Or even cooperation for the purpose of enhanced violence.
I agree, and will add that with ordinary HTML+CSS (not a game), I've occasionally seen Chrome/WebKit rendering bugs which I didn't see when testing during development with Firefox.

Testing in Firefox is a pretty good way to approximate standards compliance, and then you have to deal with bugs when running on Chrome, if you do it that way around.
Research Suggests That Software Piracy Lowers Poverty
Just recalibrate your scale.
Patterns (YC S21) is hiring to build an app store for data warehouses
I write a short summary that tries to condensate the main idea, theme or point of the book. I'm satisfied with the result.

I don't always have time for that, so I keep a markdown notepad with bullet points on books.
> I would imagine that those who actually spent some of their childhood in a war zone would have a very different perspective.

They very much play war games, even incorporating the realities around them into the games, like checkpoints, airstrike alarms, and such.
I don’t have a Netflix subscription, but I do have a Disney+ subscription. Is there a similar thing for Disney+?
I've paid $16 for a sandwich in Boston.
I can't believe they flagged and censored my reply, which addressed that point of censorship. Are these people irony-proof?
This is why I still think we are early on with tech stock corrections. I.e current P/E ratios assume that past earnings are still accurate.

Specifically apart from rising rates I would expect this to eventually hit public company earnings in a big way and hence prompt more layoffs in public/private tech.

Last earnings season didn’t see much of an impact. We are a couple of weeks out from earnings, I wonder if this or the next quarter will be where we will see more layoffs and the tech jobs market generally tighten?
Is this for premium pizza (eg. at an independent store with wood fired oven) and/or with delivery? I went to dominos.com and saw they have a 3 topping large pizza for $8 (pickup).
The population pyramids are there for everyone to check.

"Extinction" is strawmanning it though, the case is about living in a society with a shrinking wealth and growing dependency ratio.

The expectation is that the average standard of living in such society will fall compared to an era of widespread prosperity.
It's not a critique of the idea alone, it's forcing it into context.

If we take a common example of how I've seen this play out:

A: iPhones and Apple are evil because they require child slavery.

B: But.. you own an iPhone?

A: Oh so I'm just supposed to go live in the woods?

I don't think B supports child slavery. B is pointing out that even people espousing this idea participate in the system because the alternative (not owning the iPhone) results in a worse outcome.
Infrastructure Self-Service with Crossplane
What if both are?
Manifesto Project: quantitative analysis datasets of political party positions
Eh, war is simply fun. It’s appealing to males in particular, and our testosterone tends to lock in the intoxication. There’s a reason that Battlefield is one of the most successful gaming franchises of all time, and that it’s very hard to find any videogame that doesn’t involve some kind of warfare. (There are dozens of wonderful counter examples: Minecraft, celeste, undertale, sim city, stardew valley. But for every one of those, there are dozens of Halo wannabes, and even Quake and Doom were one-man wars against demons.)
> it's exceedingly difficult to explain to a working programmer why "referential transparency" is gonna meaningfully improve their lives.

I think the Simple Made Easy talk, by Rich Hickey (of Clojure fame) does a pretty good job on this front.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4

Discussed:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4173854

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23905051

Hickey did another similar talk called The Value of Values.
Giving in to the violent tribalism that’s obviously part of humanity’s matrix is bad, but pretending it isn’t there will get you into a tight spot pretty fast too.

Violence sells better than sex at the cinema.
It means that rather than posting about themselves, they're posting about the pet. Nobody is going to bully a cat or dog, so they can get used to SM without any of the drama that might be aimed at them by their peers.

It's a clever solution.
So You Want to Hire in Tech?
To be precise, the blue camp is also a right/far-right party because it wants the gov to control more and more things. I don't even know if we have a party or a faction with the mission "more rights to the people".
Queen Victoria killed more people with famine than Stalin did.

The only way people can lie to themselves that women rulers have less blood on their hands is by not studying history.
It depends... some parts of Canada use corn, others use barley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_feeding#Country-specifi...).

In EU it's a mix: https://www.dairyherd.com/news/european-cows-eat-more-foreig...
https://www.beefmagazine.com/americancowman/beef-and-busines...

In general different countries will "finish" their cattle with different grains. Only a few places have the right conditions to have their beef be grass-fed through its whole lifecycle.
The vandal may have a point. The Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(I_Can%27t_Get_No)_Satisfactio... ) is missing any mention of the Chipmunks cover (https://youtu.be/MwmVkQtEzFI?t=9 ). The Chipmunks must be avenged!
This will get flagged to death. But in the meantime, surveys have shown that the right and left have shifted further from the center over the last 20 years. The left has had a much more dramatic swing than the right. I think the left could easily adopt a few of the issues that the right is currently championing and take full control of the government.
Is this speaking about just IRL interactions or does an online interaction count as an interaction?
Ask HN: Using sed/awk to bulk generate static HTML pages off of a template
Hypothetically, consider a social photo platform - each pic gets its own url, this page contains the image, text about the image, buttons for the user to click, related pics, and some user-specific elements (maybe notifications, etc.).

There are different ways of going about the frontend. In each case, elements specific to the logged-in-user and the related images get fetched via api calls and are rendered client side.

For rendering the rest of the page -

1. Everything is rendered client side - one can use a single page application to handle the routing. The page structure stays the same, and new image uri's and the associated content are fetched via api calls.

SEO is a priority, so pure client side rendering is suboptimal.

2. Server side rendering for each page with NextJS or even Express is another option.

3. Another way is to do a static export in something like NextJS - which will generate separate html files for each image.

4. Now my thought is to skip all of that and go old school with sed/awk. We'll have a template file with all the styling elements and placeholders for the image uri and its description, etc. Then a script iterates through a list of values (queried from a database) specific to each image (img source URIs, description text, etc.) and uses sed to replace the placeholders in the template file and output a separate html file.

Each file has the same javascript to load the user-specific components.

Every time someone adds a new image, the script runs with the uri of the image and the description, etc. as the variables passed to it, and adds a new html file in a flat file structure.

These "variables" are stored in a database. So whenever we change the "design" of the page, we repeat the same process again - regenerate each html file.

The flat file structure will run into limitations, which is solvable with a directory structure. Nginx remains performant with large numbers of files.

Right now, we use NextJS with a mix of server side rendering and static pages, so it is all good. But I have been wondering about achieving something similar with more rudimentary (and performant) tools.

There's not too much additional work involved - templatizing the html file is straightforward, and this won't be difficult to script.

What's good and bad about this?
It blows my mind to see people saying that people starving and barely getting by is great for the economy. But I guess it is because it creates a system where people are desperate for income and that leaves them vulnerable for abuse. Hence norm of today's wage slave culture.
| Humans are not peaceful by nature

You can't make a broad sweeping generalization like this. There have been so many peaceful, even pacifist civilizations throughout history.

That they have been wiped out or dominated by the violent ones is a valid historical point, but it doesn't disprove that human "nature" can just as easily be peaceful, given the right conditions. Failing to protect yourself from external violent pressure is not the same as intrinsic nature.

The only strict statement about human nature that we can confidently make is that we are extraordinarily adaptive to and malleable by the conditions we live under.