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I feel the same. I'm tired of languages, can't even muster the energy anymore to give Rust a serious try - although I'm considering I'll have to do it in the future anyway, given that the hype hasn't ebbed away.

To me, C is almost entirely a non-language. It's a culture where you focus on what you want the computer to do (and optimize that), instead of optimizing what you write (and ending up with something convoluted that will be hard to read in 1 month).

I refuse to do things that many don't even give a second thought - such as, do I really need to implement the Into<T> trait and use x.into() to do a conversion? Isn't it better if I just write the function that I'm using explicitly? That way it will be easier to see what function is used, and the likelyhood that I'll have to change that code later I deem comparatively small.

C has its flaws but I know them quite well by know and have learned to walk around them. And it has some "flaws" that are misunderstood strengths to a degree.

More and more "humble" languages have been started in the recent years, but there is little incentive for me to try and switch. And even of those, almost all add some clever things that I'm nervous might be _too_ clever.
Wouldn't smaller chips make the problem worse?
A lot of the higher MP cameras are gimmicks. Lots of MP with a tiny sensor.
Understand that at the end of the day, it is a job. You will eventually get bored on some level of anything you do. It can be exciting to learn something new, but before you do, you should be okay with boredom, too.

Existentialism is heavy stuff for what is ultimately a job at the end of the day. You don't have to wrap your identity up in your job or whatever your current role or project is. If it pays the bills, great! It's a CRUD app? Fantastic!

If you want to start your own thing and your partner is on board, and y'all have the runway for it, great also! But since you said you have no great ideas, yet, you may want to hold off until you do. Starting a business is exciting at first but turns into a grind at some point, too. You'll have to go through lots of drudgery when you run your own company. Make sure you're okay with the boring stuff.
For my qualifying emergency I called the duty officer, explained the situation, selected a 9am appointment, spent not even 10 minutes in the passport office and was told to come back to pick it up at 2pm. Walked in and was handed an envelope in less than a minute. Most pleasant government experience, by far — it just doesn’t scale.
The western industrial revolution started by replacing both paid and slave labor with machines. Note, while Rome built many great technologies like roads, aquifers, indoor plumbing, sewers, architecture, and standardized tax law. There was no such thing as due process within their democratic process. i.e. if a dozen people from the community dropped your name on pottery shards into the anonymous legal pot, than you were banished from the city without trial.

It has also been argued, that a series of incompetent leaders starting with Caligula had caused the empire to enter a downward trend. Much how Julius Caesar grew the empires influence through bloody conquest, his successors ambitions simply exceeded the civilizations limits economically.

It is fascinating how a whole civilization could collapse simply by having a few greedy fools in charge. However, I am certain we are different.. ;-)
> Anytime the government spends money on anything it prints money to do so. This is how governments work.

According to some economists. Not all economists agree with this.

> Can we debate the ROI of the activity, rather than “inflation bad”, “printing money bad” or “politician bad”?

Essentially you are asking everybody to accept the debated point that you are making (Modern Monetary Theory) and then argue for their position while accepting yours as fact.

I disagree that government must print money in order to spend. We could use a system of private banks and physical backing as a medium of exchange instead of government money. Some countries transact trade in the US dollar. Are those mereley vassal states of the USA?
My experience (2 years old):

- Each baby is unique so whatever others said might not make sense to your case

- Sleep: Yes good sleep is a thing of the past, you would be lucky if you can grab a full 6 hours. The problem is that even when babies can sleep tight for 10 hours, they start their sleep too early so the best you can get is around 6 hours of full sleep. The first year is the worst so eventually you will get accustomed to it.

- Time: Well it depends. If you are the primary caretaker (basically means you sleep with baby) then yes, you will have very little time to yourself. My wife sleeps with baby so she has very little time and I don't think it's going to change in the near future. Basically, my recommendation is to mentally accept that you are going to have ZERO HOUR for hobbies and such for the first few years, and then you will feel a lot better when you actually do have a couple every day. Lowering the expectation is the key to a happier life. Also, sometimes you do have time, but you have NO energy.

- Depression: It's a real thing. I'm sure I'm depressed because I'm way more easy to get irritated after than before. Not sure if it's going to be your case though, again every family is unique.

- Efficiency: As others said, you will become more efficient, because you have to. A lot of things have to give way and the best way is to do them efficiently.

- Health: It's probably too late now, but I'd advise you to exercise as much as you can before the due date. Losing sleep + everything else create a lot of issues with my health. I was never allergic to anything but this year I was suddenly hit with a half-year long allergic session. Some days feel so bad that I have to take a sick day. My back is also suffering from holding the baby for too long. Basically, expect that you are going to suffer some weird illness in the first few years if you do not have excellent health.

- Relationship: If you are the husband, expect your wife to be further away from you from now on for an indefinite period of time, maybe until the kid leaves for college. I think it's just hormone. The moment my wife gave birth to the baby, I realized that she changed significantly. She now has a new purpose that is going to override everything including her own life. So expect relationship to slowly go away (and I have a hunch that it has a lot to do with men's mid-life crisis).

- Overall I'd say it's not a good experience for me. Yeah for sure the baby is cute, but cuteness does not override everything I lost. Hell no. And there is going to be more trouble (or learning experience as others say).
Yes, it is. But keep in mind that the USA traditionally has been able to print a lot of money without having horrible inflation. USA can get away with this due to the petrodollar system and the fact that it's the world's reserve currency. Defense companies are an integral part of the petrodollar system: Iraq priced its oil in Euros, look what happened to them.

https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~norman/CurrentAffairs/DeeperNew...

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/072915/how-petro....

Anyway, with this as a given, why should only the rich benefit? Printing some money for the rest of us is only fair.
I can't wait the the marathon series on paramount plus I'm sure it would make more sense after they redo Halo to actually follow the story and it's cyberpunk! Which is sooo hot right now
In what way does it simplify 'things'?
Passport services and the Bureau of Consular Affairs are normally funded out of fees, so agreed funding politically is less of an issue, FWIW.
If the Western European neighbours were a bit more politically neutral and as compassionate as their eastern neighbour, there wouldn’t be politically induced tension in the region. Every sane person would rather spend 2% of GDP on health, infrastructure, research etc, but when you observe year after year western abuse and provocations, you kind of start divesting into defense budgets. Where was the outcry for the last 8 years of bombings, civil rights abuse, threats etc?
That second one would make a nice 3d display.

Are tunable uv lasers a thing?
Other countries see passports as a normal thing to have - a second identity document to keep at home in case your wallet is stolen, etc, and so charge a reasonable price for it.

I think the US government might see it as a thing that wealthier people use for travel abroad, and so feel justified in charging more for it.
That’s a good question, because now that you asked it I remembered that there were some buildings that did indeed have that odd number of steps you mention, on the ground floor going up to the first floor, that is. I remember that I was finding that strange.

Each block of apartments had 16 steps between two floors. The building we were living in had those 16 steps “split” in two, that is you were climbing 8 steps from a given floor, there was a small “platform” of 3-4 meters, and then you’d climb another 8 steps until the next floor itself, after a change of direction “architected” through that platform I mentioned. And then there were the bulldings where you’d climb 16 steps straight. I liked the 8+8 version better, imo it gave the architect the chance to add more and larger windows to the staircase, and hence more light, the 16 steps straight staircases seemed to have smaller windows, hence less light.

Back to the odd number of steps on the ground floor, I think there were 15 or 17, can’t remember exactly how many.

Interesting discussion, I have to admit, I sometime compare the staircases from today’s buildings to those I knew as a kid, and it seems that today they don’t care about light coming in or “ergonomy” or anything like that (there’s also the very interesting discussion of the “perfect” height for a given step).
Your solution is actually worse.

You've introduced several hoops to jump through. And in order to make sure no one is cheating, you're going to need people to investigate. You've basically created a shadow welfare system. Because that's going to require people and training. The government will have to pay people to make sure the "wrong" people don't get money. You think a one-time payment of $10k to $20k is bad but want to replace it with yearly $50k payments. Every employee will have to find 3 to 5 fraudulent claims per year to just break even.

And why should you only get to discharge the debt if you don't get a job? What if you can't get jobs in the field your degree is mostly related to? If you get a job in an unrelated field, we could argue that your degree was also "meaningless" in that fashion. Although whether or not we should be treating college as "white collar vocational training" is another story.

You are paying taxes because that's your dues for living in the USA. You get things you want, I get things I want, they get things they want, and they're not all the same things. But through pooling our money and leveraging collective bargaining, we can make all of these things not only cheaper, but possible.
There's also self selection: You're only going to submit to a top conference if you think there is a slight chance of your work being accepted. Thus, one could argue that papers submitted to top conferences are already better than average. This means that the acceptance rate is way lower in fact.
I know you're kinda trying to play gotcha, but it's insane that a single defense program costs about the same as the entirety of current US student loan debt. I don't think you've made the point you wanted to.

Plus, the OC was definitely talking about the student loan forgiveness that's actually been approved. Which is a measly $300bn in comparison.
Related:

Oberon OS Walkthrough (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25786470 - Jan 2021 (59 comments)

Oberon (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6498878 - Oct 2013 (31 comments)

Oberon, a delightfully insane system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=593323 - May 2009 (30 comments)

(Lots of previous Oberon threads generally so maybe I won't list them)
Now give me a crypto over this and route it only through satellites (put a crypto sat up there). Remove money controls from the hands of governments. That would be a crazy revolution.
Tom of the YouTube channel "Explosions & Fire" actually made this stuff in his shed, its nowhere near as atrociously unstable as Derek implies it is.
These threads make it very obvious how different the compulsory contributions towards the state & social safety nets are among the high earners in Europe and the USA.

You’d cap out around this in Norway too; in fact you’d probably break 50% and that’s before considering taxes on the consumption your post-tax money is used for.
> the responsibilities the US has as the world's only superpower

Nitpick: the world's only good superpower. China is a superpower too, but an evil one.
Have you ever looked at a pie chart of mammal biomass by species. It goes Humans then cows then everything else is way back. I strongly strongly doubt that big dumb slow cows would be number 2 in biomass absent our loving burgers.
Yeah, that is annoying. They should feed themselves. Maybe give them a small plot of land where they can grow their own food on the side? Let's call it feudalism.

People still romanticize the antique so much they miss that the medieval period saw quite a few advancements.

Why did the Romans not have an industrial Revolution?

For that you need a society that actually has incentives to efficiently use the labor available. Like in capitalism where you pay the workers based on hours. And the prerequisite for that was feudalism, the development of cities, start of manufacturing and so on. One economic system leads to another. Not easy to just leapfrog from a slave-holding society into the industrial age.
The valuable thing about conferences is the “hallway” chats and networking opportunities. If you just want to listen to talks then you can pretty much get that online, but running into other like minded people and grabbing a beer together is a fun experience.
This topic is close to my heart. I do research on the fundamentals of 2D graphics, some of it cutting edge (especially GPU techniques), others just selecting the best known techniques (for example, right now I'm doing a bit of a deep dive into robust cubic and quartic polynomial root finders, not really academically publishable, but potentially hugely useful for others working on similar problems).

I made a serious attempt to submit some of my GPU monoid work to academic conferences earlier this year, got rejected. As someone who doesn't have the "publish or perish" incentive of actually being in academia, it's really just not worth it.

I'm also doing inquiry into UI, for example architectural patterns in reactive systems. The current state of academic literature on this topic seems to be terrible (though please point out counterexamples!). Most of what's written is marketing material for UI frameworks - there's an explosion of those, especially in the JavaScript world, but very little synthesis of the core concepts. I wouldn't even attempt to try to submit an academic paper on this topic, though I think it would likely be useful to the world.

It feels like there should be a space to publish work that is not novel in an academic sense, but useful. Wikipedia is not it (their articles on cubic and quartic equations are garbage when it comes to numerical concerns), Stack Overflow is not it, academic conferences and journals are not it. I'm using my blog, generally successfully, but it feels there should be a more systematic approach.
If methane is a fuel, why is it considered waste and released into the atmosphere?

Edit: Oh, here it's literally being released by rotting garbage, the idea is to harvest it.
In Roman days, craftsmen had trade secrets and no patents. If you lost the trade secret for whatever = your monopoly was broken. Slaves employed in secret crafts were unable to write and well guarded.There was no IP as we know it. This carried on until widespread printing and reading permitted easy IP spreading - and letters patent = a king granted monopoly that evolved into the early patents - to-day's melange. Copyright on writing evolved to life of author - until Disney came along.
Software jumped onto writing's coat tails.
>> I think they should have looked at how much the cost of college has increased over the past 2+ decades and forgiven that percentage from every student loan

At which point colleges will raise tuition by that same amount.
From a customer perspective, with a fixed bid, isn't contractor incentivized to cut corners? Especially because software 'quality' is so subjective and hard to asses (comparing to a bathroom remodel for example). Is project billing mainly used for auxilary, non critical, work? E.g. build a static website for a company that sell shrink wrap software, not the core software itself?
This is simply not true. There is absolutely nothing about current climate change that can be explained as merely continued epoch-scale changes. There has been a very sharp and very pronounced hook in the temperature curve over the last few decades (and a bleedingly obvious hypothesis as to why) that matches almost nothing in the geological record (supervolcano eruptions and global-scale impacts are the only things that happen on this kind of time scale, not ice ages!).

There is absolutely zero scientific basis behind the idea you're positing here. Please stop.
Squashable computer runs calculations depending on how you squish it
Since it is UB, I'm going to rewrite the parent comment to say "I like cabbage!".
That is strange for renewals, but also- is there anything specific they are able to vouch for you? Like your place of birth, current residence and workplace, things like that? Or is it simply someone you know?
Yep, my dad used to sum this up as "All Engineering school does is teach you where to shit." I guess I may have gone with "where to eat" but he had a flair for the dramatic.
Etsy demands some sellers submit banking credentials to Plaid
Sure, but imagine if Google was really good at something that was inefficient, like 8-11 week passport generation using old techniques and then try to change it?

The larger the org the harder it is to change in big ways (at least in my experience)
I remember back in 2012 or so someone made a really clever karma-farming bot on Reddit. Here’s how I (foggily) remember it working:

- It subscribed to subreddits like /r/pics and /r/funny that largely consisted of posting links (not text posts)

- When it calculated that a post was rocketing toward the front page, it would look at all the past times the URL had been submitted.

- If none of those had made it to the front page, it would find the most upvoted top-level comment, copy the text verbatim, and make the same comment on the post that would end up on the front page.

For the longest time, everyone just thought that this account was some super-interesting, super-funny person who always had the perfect joke or perfect comment for any given situation. Sure it was a bit odd that they never replied to anyone, but that also just felt like part of their mystique.

Then someone got the receipts and outed the account as a bot and the show was all over. I wouldn’t be shocked to see someone on HN do the same thing, but I also think HN isn’t big enough for a grift like that to pass by unnoticed.
> To convince them otherwise, they were dispersed with other observers around the laboratory, at distances up to a quarter of a mile, and one drop of either acetone gem-dithiol or the mother liquors from crude trithioacetone crystallisations were placed on a watch glass in a fume cupboard. The odour was detected downwind in seconds.

How is the smell able to travel so quickly? And through walls no less?
If it leads to more actions taken to tackle climate change, I’ll take it.
New attack can steal data from air-gapped computers using a phone’s gyroscope
Doesn’t matter where HN is, what matters is where the community lives. And large part lives outside US.

On immigration to China: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_China.

How’s judiciary in US? Still imprisoning millions of random people for being poor and using them as slave labour?
> it's "illegal" but there's no actual penalty on the books.

Actually, there is. They can deny you entry, which means you get put on the next flight back.

Not sure if that qualifies as "penalty" in you mind or not, but if we start getting pendantic, "illegal" is not always "criminal", i.e. does not universally imply crime.
> It is fascinating how a whole civilization could collapse simply by having a few greedy fools in charge. However, I am certain we are different.. ;-)

Marx and Hegel really were visionary.
In the US, the only time the average person interacts with the government (that they notice, so not like roads an air traffic control) is filing taxes and going to the DMV which are both terrible experiences in the US. This shapes everyone's view of what the government is capable of.
Since when is the amount spend a could indicator for the defensibility of a country.

You could spend 5% of your GDP in scrap and consultancy contracts and would be worse than a country spending 1% in good weapons.

By your logic Russia should have won already.
Much of the highly innovative infrastructure (roads, bridges, aquaducts, etc.) was built by the Roman army, which could be considered a form of slavery (with a freedom coupon at the end if you survived), but which had to be maintained at a certain level of effectiveness (i.e., couldn't keep them at near-starvation levels to save money), and was certainly not zero-cost.
If there were no cows, there wouldn't be so much biomass for feed in the first place.
Man, now I really want a reservation at Dorsia. Gonna listen to some Huey Lewis on my way home.
I was suggesting ideas. I don't think they are the best ideas, rather that the main idea being presented of a one-time bailout is the worst of all worlds.

This is not built to be a one-time bailout. This is going to need to be, to be "fair," a bailout of past people who paid in; and a bailout of future generations who will look back to it and complain about it.
Yeah - this is was(?) a silly rule. I just looked it up though and it looks like this has changed? Not sure when this happened.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
Not all Chips are digital logic. In fact most are not. An FPGA is reprogrammable logic. You can not replace a rectifier or regulator with an FPGA.

That's kind of like suggesting someone use a stapler (not a staple) when they need a lag bolt because "well they're both steel".
I own single bedroom apartments and my monthly payment is $20 for electricity, water, etc and $10 for Internet. Plus $10 at winter for heating.

Renting single bedroom apartment must be something around $500 here for good apartments and down to $200 if you're not very picky (we don't really use concept of bedroom, we use total number of rooms excluding kitchen, and one-room apartments probably are most popular for renting).