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> I prompted DALL·E for “Crumbling ruined city, sci-fi digital art by Simon Stålenhag”, and it produced a few images that were very much in the style of Stålenhag.

The image shown is nothing has some concepts in common with Stålenhag, but it has a lot more depth. I can't find any Stålenhag which evokes the same way.

In Stålenhag's work, or what of it is easily accessible online, there are some recurring gimmicks, which are absent in the DALL-E work, or present in a disguised form.

DALL-E doesn't juxtapose any mint condition 1970's Volvos or Saabs against a background showing a menacing superstructure from the distant future. It doesn't invoke any cheesy mechanical monsters or characters inspired by popular Sci-Fi. For instance, "

Stålenhag lays out everything plainly. In about a millisecond, you see what you're supposed to see: the easily recognizable elements like ordinary people or retro objects, against fantasy objects, set in some nice lighting: atmospheric effects like haze, sunset or whatever that completes the mood.

In the DALL-E there are some old objects, but they are not instantly seen, and they are in old condition. For instance what looks like the wreck of an airliner appears in the rubble in the foreground, but you might not see it right away. That makes the scene plausible. It is more of a spooky glimpse at something that could actually someday be, somewhere.

It has the DALL-E weird elements in it. Like why do the cables on what looks like a telephone pole seem to connect to elements in the distant background; DALL-E seems to have perpetrated an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_object there, but it's not wham-in-your-face; not everyone will spot it right away.

There is what looks like a channel of water through the debris, but what looks like a reflection in it is so weirdly wrong that you can't make up your mind whether it's a weird local reflection or a glimpse through an aperture in the bottom of a floating sky structure, where a distant reflection is shining up from some ocean below.

Stålenhag's work doesn't have any of these sorts of demented optical labyrinths in store for the viewer. He's like a Norman Rockwel*, targeting the nostalgia of that viewer who grew up on a diet of 70's, 80's and 90's anime and sci-fi, and is longing for the 20th century.

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* E.g. check out the cheesy fromage called "The Long Way Home". Rockwell plus Storm Troopers. This just screams "Hey, you look transparently like a Generation X geek; would you be interested in buying a limited edition print of me?"
Excuses that API will book it automatically and there’s nothing else to do are just that - excuses.
Sounds like US companies need to start making chips again. Apple-IBM-Motorola used to make the PowerPC processors. Maybe they can make ARM64 processors?
I could've written your post myself. Every time I see an article about how Apple or some other company is planning to wind down their work-at-home policies and mandate office attendance, I'm tempted to stand up from my desk or workbench, walk over to my window, open it, and simply experience ten or fifteen seconds of fresh air in a peaceful, wooded neighborhood setting.

Maybe once or twice a week, I do just that. It's a basic exercise in gratitude. At those moments, I remind myself that the ability to work at home in a comfortable, quiet, well-equipped environment is an extraordinary privilege, one that I must never take for granted.

My fellow engineers who have to drive, bike, or ride a bus to the Brobdingnagian toroidal panopticon in Cupertino are absolutely among the industry's elite. The best of the best, both respected and envied by their peers at other companies. Most years, the majority of them likely outearn me handily... as they should, because many of them are better at their jobs than I am at mine. I wouldn't trade places with any of them for ten times their salary, and I've told recruiters as much.

I actually feel sorry for those poor souls. Commuting is for suckers and open office plans are for livestock. The progressive companies that will eventually outcompete companies like Apple for engineering talent have most likely already been started in other peoples' garages, spare bedrooms, and basements... where they'll remain.
FWIW you don't seem that unhinged to me. Best of luck in that town.
Would that matter?

Unless those 21 different people had 21 different numbers, wouldn't one be just as good as 21?
It feels bad to make a database choice which isn't capable of supporting lots of writes. Lots of things start small but get big unexpectedly, and if you choose sqlite then now you have to rearchitect things.
I live in a generous but small basement, with windows on one side. I work from home 100% of the time. I spend nearly all of my personal time outside, and nearly all of my family (pup and me) time out walking and/or playing, and the remaining part of it cuddling. I’m not sure which four walls I should feel closed in by, but I pretty much only see the walls for the time I’m plopped on my couch or at my desk working, or when I open my eyes in the morning.

You’re allowed to go outside. It’s not hospitable everywhere and I get that. You’re also allowed to go any number of other places that would welcome your presence. If that doesn’t work well for you, by all means go to the office if you’d prefer. I want to spend all of my day at or near home, it’s a nice place to work and I love to spend the rest of my time out and about or snuggling my pup. You can enjoy what you enjoy and I can enjoy what I enjoy.
$800 for screen is ridiculous. This issue is not limited to Apple products. My Asus laptop's screen cracked overnight. My laptop was out of warranty period. But the new authentic ASUS display only cost me $100. So I got it repaired and its working fine since then. The point is expensive doesn't always mean good.
Most of those activities you listed, except for making friends with colleagues, can still be done without going to an office?
Wrong part of the world and wrong period.
Rockets are _fast_.

Wikipedia doesn’t list the flight speed of any of the compatible rockets, but it does list the “muzzle velocity”as 690m/s. My guess is they go faster than that once the rocket motors fire up, but even if they just fly at 690m/s it’s far from “simple” to intercept them with an accuracy down around 1m.

690m/s doesn’t give you many milliseconds between “it’s too far away for my explosive to damage” and “it flew right past me and hit eimrine’s house already”.

If your camera is running 25 frames a second it’ll have moved 26m between frames. My inexpensive thermal camera from Adafruit can only do 16 frames per second, so it’d be 43m between frames. And I only get 32x24 pixels with it, so it’s angular resolution isn’t going to make intercepting something moving that gas easy, even if it’s coming directly towards me.

It’s _possible_ maybe, but I doubt you’d even get close using hobby grade drones and diy grade electronics.
The GA view is IMO much easier to understand if you think visually. The fact you can subsume complex numbers and quaternions into a common framework is incredibly neat.
Learning the radicals is one of the most useful things you can do when learning kanji. With just knowing the radicals, you can sometimes at least know what a kanji represents, even if you've never seen the kanji. For instance, if a kanji has a fish radical in it, it's very likely a kanji for a fish. If there's a clam radical, it could be a clam, or related to money. If there's an animal radical, it's very likely an animal kanji.

Similarly, knowing the individual kanji and readings helps learning combination words, and guess at how to read them, when can be helpful sometimes when a word is written in kanji, when it's usually not. You know the word, and one of the kanji in the word and can use the radicals to guess the readings and know the meanings and realize the word.
I would be willing to be the tech guy for someone credible, with many years of experience building domain expertise and real connections in their industry who approaches me with a viable idea (even - and perhaps especially - if it sounds boring on its face).

I am not willing to be the tech guy for some 20-something business student "idea person."
My impression is that there is an idea, and they are intentionally not explaining it to the public yet
FWIW, it's perfectly fine to backup both MariaDB and PostgreSQL by simply copying files. It's one of the recommended methods to set up PostgreSQL replicas:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/continuous-archiving... (section 26.3.3.3)

You might want to configure the database to put binary logs into a separate directory (or you might want to leave them there, depends on your requirements).
I found my business partners through CoFounders Lab.

I didn’t pay for membership. Turned out it wasn’t necessary to make those initial connections.

The tough thing is that anybody can call themselves an entrepreneur. There’s no barrier for entry, so you’ll get a lot of jokers.
> that gets little media attention

It did not get little media attention. Indeed, the lawsuit got rather a lot.

> AIM has submitted an amicus brief in the case, arguing that Suzuki should be allowed to present its evidence to a jury. It is hard to understand how any judge could honestly rule that the evidence in this case does not prove that the defendant knew that its claim that the Samurai “rolled over easily” was false.

The source definitely has a dog in this hunt.

Who are we to believe, a partisan in the lawsuit, or the trial judge? And why?

It's very likely that AIM's goal is to present the best facts in their argument, and ignore or minimize other factors. Or as CU put it (quoting https://www.theautochannel.com/news/press/date/19970422/pres... ): "First it was the cigarette makers, now it's an automobile manufacturer. Different industries, same desperate tactics. Throw up a smoke screen, hurl ludicrous charges, and falsely claim (despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary) that their product is safe -- all to avoid liability for defective and dangerous products." ...

> "We welcome and invite NHTSA to evaluate our honesty and integrity.
Courts have done so and found unanimously that our methodology was beyond
reproach. For example, the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York -- one of the
nation's most highly respected courts -- has said that our work 'exemplifies
the very highest order of responsible journalism.'"" ...

> "On the other hand, Dr. Pittle said, in a decision that the U.S. Supreme
Court refused to review, a Federal Court of Appeals stated that Suzuki and its
attorneys "engaged in an unrelenting campaign to obfuscate the truth."

> "The truth that was revealed despite Suzuki's cover-up is that Suzuki
knew -- prior to first selling the car in the U.S. -- that the vehicle had a
'rollover problem' and that General Motors refused to sell the car because its
evaluation demonstrated the danger of rollover," Dr. Pittle said.

Do you really expect HN readers to act like trial court judges and decide which of these two partisans are correct, and dig through decades old material to offer a point-by-point rebuttal?

If the evidence is so clear-cut, why did Suzuki and CU end up with a rather mundane settlement?
That is literally not at all what happened.
> * I've signed up for Amazon's free one-month Prime trial at least 20(!) times.

I think Amazon just doesn’t care. For the last 2 years, I’ve been without Kindle Unlimited maybe 2-3 months, and that was because I was reading a series not on KU. Usually whenever I cancel, they offer me a deal. So in those 2 years, an expensive time was paying 3.33€/month, currently I’m paying 0.33€/month (for 3 months, same as the last 3 months period). Normal price is 9.99€/month. And that’s without me going out of my way to get a deal, or any referrals.
"Go is the slowest very fast language."
It's not a sysctl, it gets switched on or off during context switch. So, per thread.

In any case, I'm pretty sure that marcan is aware of that, and I haven't read anything from him that would point to the contrary.
Your response seems an overreaction to a suggestion that that article should be read first. GA is IMO without a doubt a very helpful way of understanding quaternions, which the OP doesn't really try to do.
If so, then the CEO of Pfizer is himself creating a lot of hesitancy by getting Covid despite four shots.

It appears to demonstrate the vaccine* ineffectual, thereby making people hesitant to use it, no?

* Using the definition of "vaccine" from 6 months ago, not the recent redefinition.
Many of the people who work at Apple HQ are not engineers pulling in six figure salaries and can't afford to live close to the office.
I've replaced two screens now on my 2019 MBP. The first one happened when I was cleaning the camera before a video call. Apparently I pressed just a bit too hard with the cloth and that pressure broke the connection to the screen and it went black with intermittent white lines. It was under AppleCare so Apple fixed it for $99.

The second time it happened my cat lightly bit the right edge of the screen and that was all it took to kill the entire screen. Again, repaired under AppleCare.

There's clearly a fragility problem with Apple's recent screens. My hypothesis is that in Apple's zeal to make a borderless screen, there's no longer any protection for the connectors at the edge of the screen. A little bit of pressure on the edge could never have killed the older MacBook screens because they had a border of metal around them.

The lesson is that one must be extremely careful with the screens on late-model Apple laptops. Any pressure near the edge beyond a very light touch can completely destroy them. Any dirt or debris on the keyboard deck when you close the laptop can destroy the screen.

I'd love to find some kind of case for the laptop that protects the edge of the screen to make it a little more robust, but it seems like any such solution would be too thick to allow the machine to close.
It runs on top of https://github.com/containers/libkrun. Similar to Firecracker but seems specifically targeted to making microVMs out of OCI containers (via CLI) as opposed to Firecracker which uses a downloaded kernel and rootfs and is managed via API ala https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main....

But I'm no expert, just my armchair take on things.
A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout
I don't care really about Apple being Apple or worrying about expensive Apple mothership related problems, but I've heard continued too many stories about idiot coworkers and managers especially going into the office sick and unmasked and not taking any steps etc and then being out of the office sick etc...pretending COVID is over, in denial and uncaring about anyone else who might want to go in and join the 'fun' but it just doesn't work in non-denial reality. If productivity has remained and so many aspects have adapted 2.5 years into the pandemic with work fr he and remote adjustments, Thera just no reason to risk getting sick unnecessarily amongst ppl you can't trust to make good calls on public health. It's not coming back spreaders.
You can't run Windows 3 software on Windows 11. You could on 32-bit versions of Windows 10 (after adding some optional Windows components), but Windows 11 is 64-bit only and 64-bit Windows can't run 16-bit (or DOS) code at all.

So, hypothetically, at least in the Windows world, we're approaching a point where some of the legacy cruft could go. Not quite all of it yet (still need 32-bit application support), but a lot of the 8086-era real-mode stuff will never be used on modern hardware running modern software (except perhaps for the first few instructions after boot, until UEFI pushes the system into 32- or 64-bit protected mode).
The thing that strikes me most about this article is that "digital" has become synonymous with "rented" - both the article copy, and the supposed 'experts' they interview, use it this way. When you consider that digital media and its inherent ability to be copied indefinitely without generation loss represented a nearly fatal blow to the media industry's historical control over distribution, this is a staggering turnaround of marketing that makes it difficult to even express the concept of rejecting rent culture. Consider this confused passage:

> "I always tell my students, if you really love something, buy it in hard copy, own it, have a DVD of it, a Blu-ray or a CD of it,” said Paul Booth, the associate dean of DePaul University’s College of Communication, who has extensively studied fandom. “Because if you only have a digital version, you don’t have a finite finished product. You’re renting a product from whatever service that you have.”

This is really just describing the language shift - if you replace "digital" with "rented", it becomes tautological! And all of those formats mentioned are, of course, digital. You don't need a hard copy. But apparently you can't just say "obtain a digital copy" anymore, because that language has been appropriated.

As a collector of digital media for exactly the reasons describes, who is increasingly seen as eccentric for doing so, it gives me the creeps that I can no longer reliably even verbally describe my rebellion.
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As an addendum, I've been on both sides of this argument. When I became the chief technical architect for a software company, I had to tell my colleagues to build a huge pile of crap to hit important commercial milestones and keep customers happy.

I pointed out that the total cost of doing this badly, then unwinding it and doing it properly would be at least double the total cost of just doing it right.

That didn't matter. We had to hit those goals. So that's what we did. It was expensive, buggy and kept us in business. My colleagues finally understood I had turned to the dark side :)
GDI32 has always had support for configurable screen DPI. You used to be able to customize it in Win95 but they hid the setting because too many poorly developed applications were written with inflexible pixel based dimensioning. If you lay everything out in twips it will scale without any special effort.
I think that HN is the perfect place, but perhaps there should be another monthly thread - not looking2hire but looking4startuppartner. I know there is a startup school matching thing but it does not seem (from my experience) to be crossing that chasm.

I certainly don't think we should sit on a web bulletin board and say thing like "only get business partners from IRL networks"
Goodness me, if I could stay in my house for an entire week I sure would! I've spent a lot of money and effort making this place perfect for me, why should I want to leave?
Seems like a timely nuclear war will stop both overpopulation and global warming and likely eliminate two ex soviet, but secretly still soviet, power centers
It's not that there are no people who would want to risk it "all" and fall in love with the idea, it's just that most people are hedging bets [1] and the ones who are already successful are not that inclined to jump on board with somebody with just an idea. Friendship really helps!

It's also very hard to fall with someone else's idea - you are attached, it's your baby, others are not that attached. The job is to allow others to meddle with the idea, so they can treat it like their own.

Personally I've hired 2 people over the past year, one of whom I wanted to become co-founder and he declined - even when he is young, we have a good relationship together and he really had not that much to loose. He is working for respected company and don't just want to dump it like that. That's why joining incubators like YC can help a lot - helps with potential co-founders to join full time, among other things of course.

Sooo, now the plan is to build MVP and achieve early product market fit hehe.

[1] https://youtu.be/ephzgxgOjR0?t=958 I really recommend these videos, as a solo startup founder, working on a project for the past 10 years, at 32 and being broke listenting to this makes me much less isolated. These guys are really articulating ideas perfectly
You just say this because of the pandemic.

The truth is if another guy has the same skill level as you and he can work on site you are out.

As covid comes to an end, companies has to enforce rto gradually in general and making remote as an exception. There is no way around it, because the company that allows you to walk your dog at 11am will lose to the ones that ensures you are at work at the same time. It is the competition, that’s it.
This sounds cool, but somehow doesn't work for me on iOS/Safari even with adblock disabled and location access set to allowed. Still asks me for location access, any idea why?
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You don’t even have to get that niche. SQLite can’t do ALTER COLUMN and triggers are very simple (e.g. you can’t assign to NEW in a BEFORE INSERT)
>Are you seriously telling me these billion dollar corporations can't manage to get in contact with some popular distribution's maintainers and work something out?

Nope, because those Linux distros aren't making them any worthwhile money while sending over far too many worthless end-user complaints.

If Linux neckbeards truly want to realize the Year of the Linux Desktop, they have to accept how the rest of the world at large works and play by those rules. It's how Android obtained mainstream success despite being Linux, and it's something any other Linux distro can do if they ditched the neckbeard pride.

Or to put it another way: The vast majority of computer users don't care about free-as-in-freedom or open-as-in-auditable source code. The only thing users care about is getting shit done. All other operating systems, including Android, understand and respect this. It's only Linux that chooses to be either willingly naive or in denial.
Yes, moving was the reason I started a way more minimalistic lifestyle. I got rid of all the books, video games, action figures and all that other stuff I used to collect. Today it's like an addiction, owning less makes me so much happier and I cant even explain why. No 20 pairs of fancy shoes, no outfit for every occasion, no latest technical device for fun - just less stress.
Ten pages in, an attempted summary:

Measured as longer-duration microstates, longer thoughts and fewer of them correspond to less sensitivity to distraction and more self-control. This standing in contrast to "strength" models of willpower and self-control.
> Using SQLite for a network service when the app runs on the same machine as the SQLite file is perfectly fine

If preventing data loss is important for your app then this would be more hassle than using a networked db because now you have to replicate SQLite across a network to another machine.
You do realize that you are extremely likely to write some crud app nobody cares about anyway?
I have this same conversation about AWS autoscaling all too frequently. It is a cost control mechanism, not a physics cheat. if you suddenly throw a tidal wave of traffic at a server then that traffic is going to queue and/or drop until there are more servers. If you saturate the network before the CPU (which is easy to do with nginx) or your event loop is too slow to accept the connections so they are dropped without being processed (easy to do I nodejs) then you might not scale at all.
One more thing to say about SQLite - is a simplicity of writing unit tests. Like this stuff. But my major concern is the file locking.
Yeah, you're definitely starting to look at a more expensive solution.
I've done this since 1998 and generally agree with you, although I've had a handful that get spammed. Maybe I sign up to more dubious sites.
“Apple releases M3 processor with embedded NFT of rust compiler written in go”
This is one of those articles where a map or graphic would speak well in excess of 1000 words.
This is by far the best logic game I have tried. It keeps you focused and challenges the brain
I imagined it and I am comfortable with it. It's parents fault if it happens.