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Very interesting. May I ask was what your approach is wrt the Mac GUI: are you going to use XCode's GUI builder or rather build a fully programmatic GUI (that is creating View Controllers, etc. by hand in Objective-C++ )?
Have no direct experience myself but I intuitively find the latter approach more appealing. I have seen examples of it here and there.
Is there any (non software)industry consortium that developed any usable software? I wouldn't bet on that effort, and even if it is done perfectly it will still take at least 5 years to match the complexity and feature completeness of AutoCAD. Instead they should force themselves to boycott AutoDesk and use something like FreeCAD and fund the development. Yes, there would be some loss in productivity, still much more probable that it will work out in long term.
First, thank you for hating PHP, i'd hate to see it ending up like javascript, especially when ppl misunderstand basic things like this. This 'braindead' system is how the web has been designed from the start. And that issue can easily be mitigated by having using an index.php that simply does require('../app/app.php'). Serving files as text really has nothing to do with PHP since PHP interpreter isnt even invoked at all.
PFAS accumulates in animals and plants, so if all rainwater is unsafe to drink, I would guess most of the world’s food will be unsafe to eat soon, if not already.

Luckily, ‘unsafe’ here, for now, means a relatively small increase in the risk to get some diseases.

⇒ Apart from trying to buy less stuff that contains these chemicals, I think it’s not worthwhile to worry about the health impacts on our individual lives, as it’s an as good as unavoidable risk now (eating only food grown using melting ice caps or millennia old aquifers would work, but has other disadvantages. Filtering PFAS out of all water used in agriculture seems infeasible)
The downvoted commenter would still have no way to tell whether the downvote was related to the reply, since those would most often be coming from different users.
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>> You can build a small profitable SaaS business on a few hours a week.

Sure but that’s a wide spectrum too. How profitable? Do you want to make $200/mo profit, $2,000/mo or $20,000/mo? You can do the first with a few hours a week. The second, maybe if you’re lucky or have a wide network you can sell to. The last one? I doubt it’s possible with anything less than 20-30 hours a week, at least upfront.
Agreed.

Just trying to stimulate a discussion on what I find an interesting topic. Curious if someone would opine about "free markets" or "democratic governance". Didn't think I'd live to see the ISS politicized - and science generally - but here we are.
France seems to be unintentionally decreasing nuclear in their mix because of unreliability.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/paris-faces-a...
So you have a city like Los Angeles or NYC. You convert all housing to single family homes. Can more people of fewer people live there now?
> HDDs have typically bottomed-out around 3 W/h

I am pretty sure they mean W. I find reading anything online about power and energy mentally tiring because it basically requires disregarding written units and finding out the correct ones from context.
I should probably rethink my 8 to 14 espresso shots per day then.
> You can always control your attitude, more specifically. You can always control what you tell people.

Controlling one's attitude and tongue are excellent goals, and they usually pay great dividends.

It's probably worth mentioning that good mental health goes a long way in achieving those goals. Lack of sleep, high stress, drug addiction, etc. all make those things harder.

I just mention this so that people facing those headwinds don't add to their troubles by feeling guilty about things that (at the moment) are somewhat beyond their control.
Hardly nonsense considering the speed of implementing new things far exceeds the research and attempts to scale back once harm has been identified. Private interests are far more powerful and well funded than the few scientists sounding alarms and attenpting to caution people. There were warnings about greenhouse gases causing climate change at least as far back as 1912, yet despite this the car and oil industries pushed forward against ethanol fuel, electric powered vehicles, public transportation, etc to spread and strengthen an automobile-centered norm of going about, which we take for granted as the way to get around and turning away from that is far more unlikely today than it would have been in 1912 if the science had been heeded and changes had been made. This is the norm of industries vs science, and it is present in almost every facet of our lives. Additionally, the issue with the ozone layer is still very much not a non-issue.
Game development has an interesting relationship with software engineering.

Clearly, engineering is important. But games that are too well-engineered tend to be not fun. A lot of what makes a game fun are the exceptions to fundamental assumptions/rules/constraints.
Those mortgages are still subsidized though. A 5-yr term before it adjusts, with upward protections on rate increases is still not what a "free market" would provide. These are government sponsored (in some way) programs to increse demand for homeownership without a corresponding investment in increasing supply.

Housing being used as a bet on appreciation, which fuels buying, which causes appreciation is best solved by building more housing. The way to make housing cheaper (or not be a speculation vehicle) is to build more housing. Full stop.
Pointing out the deficiencies of intermittent sources isn't ignoring the externalities of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels have bad externalities to put it lightly. Intermittent sources require storage which we lack the capacity to build at anywhere near relevant scales. That leaves nuclear as the viable option.

There's also the possibility of using both nuclear and intermittent sources. But between the fact that peak demand happens when intermittent sources are at their lowest production in the evening and the fact that nuclear is just as cheap to run 100% of the time as it is to run at 50% of the time, renewables become redundant. If we're building enough nuclear power to fill in the gaps of intermittent sources' periods of non production then we're building enough nuclear power to fulfill 100% of grid demand anyway. So just skip the intermittent sources.
Drake looks interesting, the visualization looks fun.

I don't see any evidence that it handles refunding of steps when transitive depended on code is changed, though. E.g., if script BBB.py includes CC, and CC is changed, then all steps transitively depending on BBB should be rerun. My make-booster specifically deals with that case.

I also expect drake to have a slow start, which slows development.
You don't have kids do you? Silence is under-rated.
I'm sure this isn't allowed anymore, but when I went to Tokyo over 10 years ago, me and my friend were just wandering around aimlessly. On a whim we decided to find the tallest building we could and go to the very top floor to see what the city looked like.

So, we spotted the tallest tower near us (a totally random and generic office tower), got into the building, and took the elevator to the very top floor to peer out a window.

I still remember what the view was like. It was an endless city as far as I could see.
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I think you have the units, the number of the zeroes, and and the actual figures wrong. Each µg/L is 1,000 ppt (part per trillion, i.e. ng/L).
But they haven't, did you look at the graph (here is another one for electricity only https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:France_Electricity_prod...)? The portion of nuclear has remained constant since the late 90s. Also France at the moment has turned off between 40 and 100% (I read about 40%, but saw 100% on TV some weeks ago) of their nuclear power plants, due to heat and maintance. Guess who is picking up the shortfall at the moment, German renewables and coal.
> Maybe things would have worked out

It is highly unlikely that things would have worked out given your description. A healthy relationship is an honest one and sometimes life sucks and a supportive partner will help you through those times, and vice versa. Having said that, being constantly hyper-negative is also unhealthy and a relationship is unlikely to last if one only ever focuses on the negative side of things. If that describes you then that is something that a therapist can help you understand the address.
> Meanwhile coal pollution is killing people by the thousands but this is somehow ok?

Pitting nuclear against coal is fighting a straw man. The alternative is renewables. With a tiny fraction of the negative side-effects either nuclear or of fossil energy brings.
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Steve from Alabama is not the person complaining this time. It's Ignacio from San Francisco.

Let us ignore both the historical reality of US industrial mechanization and that "startup" is liberally defined in the US; you're still improperly identifying who (rightly) fears this.

The last 30 years saw the result of globalization on industrial production. However, technology has made knowledge work far easier to outsource than it ever was to outsource a factory. This trend and its inevitable consequences will lead to the community herein facing hardships they've mocked for a long time. Indeed, it's almost part of the tech identity in the US to consider itself as "other" from that group, as you've so aptly demonstrated. But a "Make Bay Area Tech Great Again" movement will be even less fruitful than attempting to onshore American manufacturing before its time: the economics don't support it and its community of practitioners is in denial.
I use crypto every day and I'll continue using it for the years to come. That is, until it's completely banned along with cash, and the totalitarian surveillance dystopia of the future has a complete grip on citizens everywhere.

Then we will look back on this era and wonder what the heck people were thinking.
I'm encouraged that we have made sweeping changes in the past and altered the course of a disaster. Two examples are atmospheric CFCs and DDT.

Agreed it's harder now with increased misinformation, corporate capture, and failed political systems.
As your quote says, titanium has a higher strength to weight ratio. It's not necessarily stronger, and it's not necessarily "tougher" against the circumstances described than whatever type of iron they think it might be. The meteor isn't out to minimize weight. The strength to weight ratio isn't relavent here at all and does not make titanium more likely to survive until the object comes to rest on Earth.
Yeah the dock thing sucks. My workaround is to permanently disable the dock (and the webcam's) mic device.
Destruction of wealth would be bad since that would impact everyone (homeowner or not). I would opt for wealth transfer. Build more housing! Once the demand decreases the price will decrease. This also solves another fundamental problem: we pretend that there are X houses and X people that need a place to live. In reality there are more people than houses. Way more. Build more houses. Build high density housing. Stop treating housing like some sort of holy grail investment.
I was responding to a poster who said:

> and then stubbornly do the square root of bugger-all about it.

That's nonsense. There's a world of difference between "we do nothing about environmental problems," and "I think some particular action should've taken five less years go do," and when you retreat to that position it's a different point entirely.

As to whether it took "too long" to regulate CFCs, what's your measure for that? Is it just vibes? If we had started the process of banning CFCs five years earlier, what's your assertion for the harm mitigated compared to the factual?
> Because the only method shown to prevent war in Europe is co-dependence.

> The same method, which at least has worked previously

it was a common theory prior to WW1 breaking out, then WW1 broke out and falsified it

and now Russia has falsified this theory again

(the threat of the Soviet Union plus nuclear deterrence prevented war in Europe, not the EU)
> Wish others a nice day.

I was mentally rolling my eyes at the parent post, because it seemed to have a lot of platitudes. Well, not platitudes per se, probably just good suggestions that get repeated a lot but rarely followed.

But the "Wish others a nice day." one stood out. It seems like great advice, and for some reason it just wasn't in my mental list of good ideas. So thanks!

And, I hope you have a good day!
Implicit in that argument is that these kernel developers are writing low quality code / coding mindlessly. That’s a bold statement to make when you don’t know who I’m talking about.

At no point has anyone suggested using the debugger in lieu of understanding what the program does and that’s a pure strawman. Understanding is step 0. Once you’ve done that piece, a debugger levels up your game. Same with other tools like profilers, printf debugging, EBPF debugging, etc. Hell, even simple things like executing the code in the first place / running tests / gathering metrics is a debugging tool. It’s rare that someone stares at a difficult bug until they see the matrix. It usually involves iteration cycles of some kind to test out different hypothesis / collect data and a debugger is one tool to speed up those iteration cycles.

There was a story on HN a while back about how one of the inventors of Ethernet had to hook up oscilloscopes to figure out what the electrical signal was doing to figure out why CSMA wasn’t working properly. An oscilloscope is an analog debugger and you can’t tell me that the inventor of Ethernet didn’t understand Ethernet or that the oscilloscope hampered that in any way, especially since the bug turned out to be very nuanced with a chip generating a spike switching modes.
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At some point, companies need a CUCO: chief user consistency officer.

"No, we're not changing that. Your changes don't meaningfully improve the product enough to offset the disruption."
Efficiency can mean a lot though. It depends on what you want to maximize and what to minimize.
Most people are more motivated by external factors than internal ones, so they simply work better when they are accountable to someone else. When you are working on your own, there isn't usually anyone making sure that you are actually getting things done.
> Up until Reagan it was possible to live reasonably well and even raise a family on a minimum wage. Now even middle class people can barely make it and are vulnerable to large medical bills.

This feels like an oft-repeated trope to me. Do you have books or stats that back this up?
I think of hydroelectric dams which can destroy whole towns. There is a single hydroelectric disaster that has killed many more people than all nuclear incidents put together.
One thing might be: In a paid job you can focus on your job.
As founder/freelancer you have to handle everything. Some people are good in diving deep but slow to context switching.

In best case they can pair with a co-founder that has a good intuition about „good enough“ and handles all the chores. But then a co-founder also adds its own set of problems.
Actually I benchmarked inside Julia as well and didn't see a difference so left it like this.
Why did they do this backwards? It sounds like they took the trip in reverse. I thought they recorded it forward (tracking an actual object the whole time) and presented it in reverse, but it looks like they didn't actually follow a real object. They just chose a path and took the path in reverse, using the types of transportation that such an object might in theory have taken:

> They write that, “Four years later we found ourselves on the largest container ship in the world on our way from Sweden to China.” As per the trip: “We had started the journey by truck to Middle Sweden, then by freight train to the port of Gothenburg, and after four weeks at sea, we filmed from a truck again, this time from the port of Shenzhen to a factory in Bao’an.”

The idea of following a single, real object from point of manufacture to destination--documenting all the transfers and hiccups along the way--is interesting to me. Presenting it in reverse chronological order is an artistic decision I'm ambivalent about. But it doesn't sound like that's what they did. They didn't track a pedometer; they just took freight vehicles along a path that maybe the thing went on, without following the actual transfer of the item from box to container, from truck to ship, etc.

I'm disappointed. I was ready to actually watch the whole thing. But it's contrived.
The economies of scale make this nearly no different than you wasting a locally grown banana. Very little energy was spent on that particular banana to get it do you.
That doesn’t really make sense to me. Although the charger may be grounded, any device connected is fully isolated and I’ve never seen a laptop charger with a earth wire on the dc side.
The beauty of energy density is that you pay energy to get energy. You pay 1 kWh to get out 4 kWh in renewables. Thus you have 3 kWh available for society. Oil provides 9 kWh for society per 1 kWh investment. Nuclear provides 19 kWh for society. In developed economies we are about 12 kWh for society per 1 kWh investment. Thus going to renewables will cut society wealth by a factor of 4! The energy is not gone but it is redirected to maintain renewables infrastructure. If you live in the US rn, your renewables living standard will be equivalent to Mexico rn.

Money is quasi-energy. The petrodollar is not a joke. It literally binds the US dollar to barrels of oil. As everybody needs energy / oil, everybody needs US dollars.
The conclusion that the types of things that can be arrived at empirically is preferrable to the conclusions of other means of reasoning, ironically enough, would not be possible to arrive at through empiricism alone, by virtue of is-ought.
That was a magnificent essay. Thank you for posting it!
I experienced this recently, and switched to using the grounded charger.

The tip of the charger that connects to the laptop the whole metal part, not just the leads) was quite noticeably electrified, while the laptop case only barely.

I'm not sure what the cause was in this particular case, as I had never noticed it doing that before.
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My approach to this is: I talk about the bad things that are going on in my life, but I always follow up with all of the good things: I live in a country that is not at war. I am not homeless. I have access to hot and cold running water that is (mostly) safe to drink. I even have air conditioning, which in many parts of the world is an unimaginable luxury. So yes, there might be some bad shit going on in my life at the moment, but no matter how bad things get they can almost certainly get worse. And unless you are living in an underdeveloped country or Ukraine, they can almost certainly get a whole lot worse [1]. So yes, I vent about things. But I always follow up by counting my blessings.

[1] https://blog.rongarret.info/2009/10/travelogue-beauty-and-de...
Why did they want the pedometer? Did they come to that desire in isolation, or were they advertised to by the pedometer maker?
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Hello folks, I never knew this day would come, but I need advice on how to proceed from here. I foolishly did not enable 2FA, kept a weak password. Wanted to know, if the hacker has my recovery code am I definitely f*ked ? because mega allows you to change your password using just your recovery codes and email id and the bad part is that the recovery code doesn't change, its the same since the inception of the account. I feel so naked right now, I had a lot of private photos of me and my friends and lot of office documents. The hackers even put a delete my account options lmao. I am sure the password got leaked to a number of places because I checked the logs and they show that my account has been logged in from all over the globe(8 countries, started from Mexico). Like why the hell did mega not even give me a heads up/email about my account being logged in from all across the globe. Google does it when my account gets logged in from a new device. I feel so scared. I am planning on deleting my account altogether.

Any advice on how to proceed from here.
After more than 50 years of nuclear power plants in use we can say that there is no nuclear waste problem. The ‘waste’ has been stored above ground for decades and nothing has happened. It’s clearly safe. We should just keep doing what we’re doing. No need to dig expensive holes.
I rarely hang up the skull and crossbones flag these days but when I do and I like what I sampled I buy a copy.
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I am not sure if this is what the earlier poster meant, but if it was a transient release rather than an ongoing discharge, the entire distribution curve you are referring to would be moving downstream. You have to work a flow model backwards to try to interpret where the pulse originated. It is a bit like trying to trace floating debris in the ocean backwards using models of currents and surface wave action. Because the velocity of flow varies throughout the cross section of the stream, this gradient will also get smeared out into a less distinct pulse as it flows downstream. If the contamination is not totally soluble, then this would get even more complicated as sedimentation would more likely occur in slower moving areas.
7 year fixed mortgage? Do you pay off in 7 years or does the rate readjust?
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Yea per usual you spend like $1k for $5 off or something.
This is why I switched to silk floss. Just search for it on your favorite Bezos emporium.
Look at hackerone. They absolutely do. Many top-tier companies take 4-10 months to patch things that could be explicitly used for significant compromise. A company you’ve worked for has probably done it.
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I had this experience years ago with an older Mac but not recently... until my M2 Air arrived. It buzzes when you touch it while it is charging - hate that sensation.
Many people choose worse reward rather now than better reward later. It's rational in many contexts. The problem is that we are unable to jump out of these local minima.

Just as in coding, when you have a problem and you're stuck, you look for a solution. But it's very hard to learn that there's some better solution to a problem that you've already solved.
There is an impedance mismatch between what is required out of filesystems in terms of backward compatibility and the features/capabilities that would be useful for applications like databases.

If you discard a requirement to look like a standard Linux filesystem to arbitrary applications, writing a purpose-built filesystem for a specific application often requires less code than trying to make off-the-shelf filesystems consistently deliver desired behavior and performance. And even then it is often difficult to guarantee that the off-the-shelf filesystem will really do what you expect in all cases. Installing a custom filesystem isn't always a practical option operationally but it is sometimes done for applications like high-scale data infrastructure because of the headaches it eliminates. I've built a few systems designed to be deployed either way.

I am not sure there is a "one size fits all" solution for this. Alternative filesystem implementations tend to make very application-specific and hardware-aware design choices.
At what level of regulation is a market free? As an example of a hard to capture word.