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The UI is absolutely horrendous and despite decades of opportunity to fix it, there’s been zero attempt.

Blender has made some big UI gains. I used it a long time ago, and the hidden menus and backwards control scheme made it unusable for anyone with basic computing knowledge (right click was select? Insanity) and doubly so for anyone with 3D knowledge. They revamped it a few years back and it’s usable now. I went from a blender hater to happily dropping paid 3D software and preaching about how good blender is.

Companies could throw money at gimp. But that doesn’t mean it’ll ever have a control scheme that’s usable to the 99.9% of people with prior digital art experience who go in expecting something similar to 99.999% of other software, only to find it’s completely backwards.

Literally just putting aside all other development plans and going all in for a year on making the UI usable would launch the project to success.

And comments like this always get a “well, it’s open source so you could fix it yourself if it’s that bad!” I could and so could others. But there’s usable software out there, and instead of dedicating loads of time to trying to fix a decades-old mess, we’d all rather just use a better product even if it costs money and get to work, or make something different from the ground up.
Dont forget Goog literally owened the anti spam industry with gmail after their integrating POSTINI purchase in like ~~2006

And now in 2022 any gmailinbox is fn full of spam...
The backup password prompt is just a reminder. You can just cancel it to access your keys.
This "well over a decade" claim needs some qualification. GCP only became gevnerally available in Nov 2011. Before that, there was App Engine and Cloud Storage, but not GCP.
Fresh they taste almost like sweet corn, I got to try a few American chestnuts last year, they are sweeter (but smaller) than the chinese chestnuts. My landlord boils the chinese one and eats them like mashed potatos, I roast them in oven or air fry them. To me they are like bread from the trees.

The English ones are starchy I guess? These are common to see in grocery stores when in season.

Also handling changes how sweet they get, some say they must be chilled in fridge for some days to get starches to convert to sugar. For me the Americans are perfect no matter the treatment. Chinese chestnuts I'm fighting getting to them fast enough before any mold grows, processing them immediately to kill chestnut weevil (I use a sous vide and let them sit at whatever temp the rutgers publication suggested to kill potential eggs) then I dry and fridge them for a few days before putting them in oven/airfryer. It sounds like a pain in the ass but it's a lot easier and less foul than the year I gathered and processed gingko seeds (which smells like dogshit) or even black walnuts which will stain your hands for over a week if you don't know to wear gloves.

Another protip: Don't plant a chestnut tree near a swimming pool. Those spines are sharp enough to pop a bicycle tire and the catkins smell like a callery pear when it's dumping pollen which is pretty gross.
That sometimes is about quality. For example the quality assurance one can put into welding at a factory is much higher than what can be realistically guaranteed on site.
How to Terraform Mars for $10b in 10 years
They gave less than two weeks: at Feb 28 people recived the letters about "asking" to GTFO by March 6, 2022.

I would just point to my comment back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30507975

Also I would remind you what other services were cut immediately:

> Additionally, and with immediate effect, you will no longer be able to use Namecheap Hosting, EasyWP, and Private Email with a domain provided by another registrar in zones .ru, .xn--p1ai (рф), .by, .xn--90ais (бел), and .su. All websites will resolve to 403 Forbidden, however, you can contact us to assist you with your transfer to another provider.

Also I would point out to the other comment in that thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30505934 Looks like someone wasn't satisfied with the ban by the country and resolved by greping by the names/last names. Doesn't remind you anything?
There are two “no GMO” markets: the one you mentioned, and a much smaller market of people who object to GMO for pesticide resistance instead of GMO for disease resistance.

I don’t avoid GMO foods, but I do think our current scheme incentivizes finding the strongest poison and correcting the plant to resist it, without concern for how that poison affects the rest of the environment. I would much rather we engineer the plant to resist the disease directly, but it’s harder to double dip on profits (RoundUp and RoundUp Ready) in that scheme.
Using arrows for assignment is annoying on keyboard, should have chosen :=
(note the username!)

Check out Aerospike. It's the most robust and truly "zero effort scale" real time data platform I've ever seen. Properly configured and used, it whups everything in terms of TPS and performance/machine aka TCO. By a huge, huge, factor.

Downside is ... everything else. :/ Less polished developer experience, docs, &c. There are so many huge customers, but very few who are talking about it. Requires more of a time investment -- because you're learning a new platform, not using a drop in replacement for what you already know. But the reward is performance beyond anything else.

(the VLDB 2016 paper is a good high level overview of the architecture)

If you do check it out, be sure to use version 6.1 or later, in particular see what can be done combining secondary indexes with container data types.... A, uh, birdie told me that. :P

edit:
Same birdie told me Aerospike has customers who replaced CockroachDB, when they found out it has trouble scaling past a point.

I really hope they can get their act together in terms of communication and marketing -- it's sadly "the most advanced solution you've never heard of".
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I have a hard time seeing anything named "Gimp" ever becoming a great alternative for Photoshop.

Names have a lot of meaning, you think about it constantly, if you are thinking about a crippled person unconsciously even while developing software, maybe that is why Gimp is in the state it is.

Many Open Source projects are just named damn stupidly, like with the KDE suite does it really make any sense naming your projects starting with "K" just to follow the KDE ?

Or with Gnome you have so many stupid project names, beginning with the whole name "Gnome". All I can think is a forest gnome when I think about that desktop environment. Maybe it's supposed to be Ge-nome, but who thinks it's a good idea to call a desktop environment a small dwarf like bearded old person .. Combine that with Gnome Gimp, you have a crippled forest gnome handling your image editing, nice.

Everytime I try Linux and it's modern desktop environments, the application names just make me cringe, it's like somebody just decided that "Yeah hey naming conventions for software don't matter, just call it the terminal emulator "Kerminal" or whatever shit that suites the stupid naming scheme.
Artemis I in Numbers
That's abstractly true, but in this case we also have studies that show long COVID, including one that compared brain scans before and after COVID and could see macro brain damage. The brain is an incredibly delicate organ, it isn't surprising that a severe virus can do damage do it.
Gas stations are our public toilets in the US.
I’ve worked in outreach; the average homeless person has a smartphone but can’t afford data, only very basic prepaid call/text only top-up cards. And because they’re frequently losing phones (stolen, damaged by attacker, etc) they can’t keep a stable number, either.
Can you also agree that there are fundamental similarities? No one is being punished for following a law, people are being rewarded for rebelling against an unconstitutional law while everyone else just ignored it or got lucky and were never caught.
Show HN: Locfetch – Count the lines of code online
The Economist writing is not what it used to be. I've noticed many more grammatical errors and bad writing in the last 4 years.

Perhaps they have fewer editors?
I'd be somewhat skeptical of anyone trying to product manage an open source project, and I think unless you were a truly exceptional product manager, most contributors would perceive your contribution as net negative if you tried that. The point of open source is people work on the things they want to work on (for the most part, obvious exceptions apply) and via a Darwinian process, what survives is the result of the best ideas of the people who stick it out.

Open source contributions I've made have been mostly because I need a certain feature or there's something that doesn't quite work right etc. Eg recently I took up qubes os. I like using the i3 window manager, and it had some problems on qubes, so I made some small contribution (I can't even remember what it was now) to fix that.
>> Why is NameCheap getting thrown under the bus across the board?

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecheap

'In February 2022, Namecheap announced that they would terminate services to Russian accounts due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, citing "war crimes and human rights violations". Existing users were given a one-week grace period to move their domains. The company also announced that it would be offering free anonymous domain registration and web hosting to all protest and anti-war websites in Russia or Belarus. Namecheap at the same time said it had over 1,000 employees located in Ukraine, comprising most of its support staff, mostly in Kharkiv (which was a major location of fighting).'
Vector shapes were added in 6.0.
Ah, cheers. This is very close to what I have actually, using a custom mapping heavily inspired by miryoku on a 3x6+3.

The reason I feel limited regardless is partly that even after giving it some time, it drove me nuts to have asymmetric layer keys (that is, I want to be able to activate the nav layer from either thumb), and some of the movements (notably pinky as a common modifier) ended up causing pain after a while. Plus I have need for at least another one due to often switching between a handful of languages and scripts (this would normally be addressed by AltGr - which would collide if at any a-z - plus an additional key only present on some standard layouts). So I feel a serious need for more thumb keys. And you somehow manage to get by with only two per side!

Maybe I'll take another attempt at getting used to deduplicating the thumbs before I start looking at printing custom PCBs... At least Ergogen mentioned above should make that a lot easier if I go there.
Paint.NET, Inkscape, Krita, CinePaint, ImageMagick (command line - yes, it can be very useful at times), and various others when certain needs dictate.

Also, Photoshop CS3 which is my last paid version (moreover, I can still reinstall it as Adobe temporarily released a general version with an unlocked key when it abolished the CS3 licensing server some years ago).

I even use IrfanView viewer as it has a nice batch converter (although it's no good for 48-bit work).

Frankly, there's no shortage of image editors even after eliminating GIMP and Photoshop.
Presumably this is how the centuries old water rights all get figure out - through the courts.

The waters right work fine when there is enough water, but when there isn’t - well, they need to figure how to make it work with less.
> just revert back to organizing emails by date of arrival

You can choose to do that: Settings / General / Conversation view off

It's so much better to simply have emails in the order they arrive instead of hunting them down in "conversations".
You are too generous. In practice, silencing science is not about good of the people, it is about censorship.
Even if all software is open-source (which I doubt), that does not mean that nobody can earn money from it; there are still ways to earn money, too.

Others:

MS-DOS / PC-DOS -- FreeDOS

ZZT -- ZZT (the source code was rewritten to produce the same executable file; the original source code was not made available)

MESH:Hero Hearts -- Free Hero Mesh

Windows NT -- ReactOS

BTRON -- B-Free (incomplete and seems to be abandoned?)

(And, the above are definitely not all)
Stacker (YC S20) Is Hiring Product Engineers
Obviously Ethan knows this and just isn't going into it because this is more a history lesson than a theory lesson, but the same applies to white keys. So B♯ and F♭ are perfectly valid notes. C♯ major for example contains B♯, despite that there's no black key between B and C.
Nothing is non-toxic if you try hard enough ;)

https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/ToxFAQs/ToxFAQsDetails.aspx?faqid=1...
You may find this repo useful: https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
This something always ignored, environmentalists were very strongly against population increase. Books like 'the Population Bomb' I consider this essentially, anti-human philosophy.

Many people for example wanted to prevent technology exchange with India, in order to make sure Indians starved now, rather then millions later.

They also wanted domestic population control measures, harsher then even those in China. Forced sterilizations and so on.
Short answer: they aren't. This is the musical equivalent of the fact that English has "guarantee" and "warranty" and they mean the same thing.

Long answer: they aren't. They are enharmonic equivalents in the vast majority of music that uses any of the conventional Western systems of tuning (as the author sort of goes out of their way to demonstrate in the article), and if you use or invent a different system then what you call the notes is kind of up to you since it's your system.
> The usual answer is that you are only supposed to use each letter name once in any given scale.

And why is that important? Answer: This lets you write the key signature once, and then not have to bother with accidentals in front of notes.
In my opinion this is all a good thing, a sign of increasing efficiency enabled by the Internet.
There's something to me about this that smells like it leads to bad assumptions; especially on things that have unforseen effects. You could argue that the internet was saturated in the 80s based on being connected only by a few universities. I don't think this is a well known science by any means or a well known concept.
This link is only about LNG, i.e. natural gas in its liquid form. I suspect that's why Germany is missing from the chart altogether. In any case, it does not show the whole picture.
Just found this very rare and valuable data point.

https://www.newsweek.com/identical-twins-raised-apart-differ...

There was a 16 point IQ difference between twins. Nurture had a strong impact on IQ in this case.
Derek Lowe did a nice write up of a serious study that found 189 long Covid cases and 120 controls. PCR positive and having long term Covid symptoms was the inclusion criteria.

They then did a massive battery of tests - inflammation biomarkers, nerve damage biomarkers, lung function, congestive ability, etc.

And the conclusion? There was no difference between the groups: there are no diagnostic findings that would allow you to even say for sure that post-Covid even exists, biochemically.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/search-long-covid
1) You just rephrased 'God has infinite history' I don't see the point.

2) 'nature say everything has to have a beginning' uh??
If you imagine the Universe expanding then contracting cyclically where is the beginning?
Cloudflare's domain management has sadly also had some questionable actions/decisions.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31573854

1: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/domain-not-working-after-...
Said app should include forecasting based on climate change.
More insight from Wikipedia:

> The term synergy was refined by R. Buckminster Fuller, who analyzed some of its implications more fully[9] and coined the term synergetics.[9]

> * A dynamic state in which combined action is favored over the difference of individual component actions.

> * Behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately, known as emergent behavior.

> * The cooperative action of two or more stimuli (or drugs), resulting in a different or greater response than that of the individual stimuli.
This x1000.

Krita is an amazing piece of software. The GIMP has it's uses, but if what you want to do is draw, Krita is what you want.
Well, no, that would only work if you were committed to never using notes that weren't in the key signature. That would be an unusual choice.
>Writing from Abundance is the art of collecting ideas so you can think better and avoid writer’s block.
>Writing from Conversation is the art of using dialogue to identify your best ideas and double down on them.
>Writing in Public is the art of broadcasting your ideas to the Internet so you become a beacon for people, opportunities, and serendipity.

Pretty interesting 3 styles of writing, probs the biggest highlight if monetisation isn't your objective.
Correct answer: they are.

Not on a piano, but for all the other instruments with variable pitch (e.g. fretless strings, voice, trombones) they are. The enharmonic is useful information and we'll know whether to place that note just a little under or above its usual pitch to make the chord more in tune. We don't need to invent a new system to do this, we do it every day within the 12-tet system we already have.
How would they block this exactly?
It must be twice a week that I think about getting involved in custom mechanical keyboards: it seems like such a cool interest!

I've been pretty happy with the HHKB (no caps, obviously), but it just sounds fun to make something truly your own.

Does anyone have a good pointer for the right place to start with this (huge) topic?
More and more I notice that people have a huge cognitive dissonance in accepting that all people were once children and that these people they know and esteem were once someone’s burden. I also find it somehow naive to believe we are somehow not bound by our biological husk. We enjoy a good and full life on the backs of our parent’s toil, and due to not remembering or not being in contact with families we can feel that life is great and immortal and it always was.

I like to think of the hard part of raising children as paying the debt we owe to our parents and ancestors. If not for their survival I would be able to say I am very glad and grateful to be alive and experience the wonders of the universe, wonders like math.
No, Socialism. Let the local people decide.

If the offenders thought that the locals might punish them, they would behave better.
The explanation of enharmonic equivalent (though the author didn't use this term) is right, but I do take problem with this sentence:

> but what musical difference does it make? In the present day, the answer is, none whatsoever.

This is not quite right. On all fretless instruments, including most bowed strings and the human voice, enharmonic equivalent notes still have different pitches. The subtle differences in intonation is incredibly important and noticeable on the violin, for example.
> Long answer: they aren't.

This is not true in general. It is only true for instruments that use the well tempered tuning, e.g. a piano. But for example, the violin and cello do not.
They are enharmonic equivalents in the vast majority of music that uses any of the conventional Western systems of tuning (as the author sort of goes out of their way to demonstrate in the article)

I don’t think that’s correct -- they are identical in 12-TET, but all the other tuning systems either treat them as different notes, or attempt to compromise between the alternatives in a way that favours certain keys over others.

Maybe this is isn’t critical info for a lot of people, but it is important foundational knowledge if you’re a music student, or just interested in music theory.
If we could terraform Mars with this little amount if money - wouldn’t that money be better spent terraforming Earth back to its state from 100 years ago?
That would exclude the worst offenders. But it doesn't solve the incentive problem of tragedy of the commons. Once people have paid $1, that's immediately a sunk cost, and from then people have no reason (aside from morals, which are absent in some people) not to shit on the toilet seat and walk out. But it still may be an alright solution (when combined with regular cleaners), even if it isn't a perfect one.
I don't have anything specific. I think most websites have a slow-and-painful cookie/GDPR dialogue because they must have it so there is no real reason to make it good, they can just blame the law for why it sucks. But, for example, many many websites I visit load up, and then a few seconds later (massive JS download? Some cute animation? I don't know) a dialogue pops up asking for my consent. They could optimize to make this experience better, there is nothing about the web tech stack that requires this sort of thing to be unpleasant.
My dad used to say "contented cows give more milk" and in like sense having profited from the HK special economic zone, the Chinese government knows how quickly it can lose the benefits in human capital, as Hong Kongs entrepreneurs move away. 260,000 homes short of affordable housing stock is a big deal.

Couching this as a social contract also reminds us that the CCP do in fact govern at the consent of the people. It may not feel like it to outside eyes, but internal opposition is not always met with lead bullets. If the property bubble explodes and the wealthy middle classes lose their shirts and the Chinese working poor don't get housed, it can go bad very quickly.
It's not precisely the same, but the ZSA Moonlander has the same layout with stilts and a wrist rest so that you can position it how you feel best. The real winner is their Oryx firmware that makes reprogramming the keys on the board a breeze. It's the best investment I've made in my ergonomic health.
Krita is great for drawing with a graphics tablet, especially with the pop-up palette.

I don't miss Photoshop at all.
I have given up on Samba on my home network. It's just 2 pi, 2 laptops but client randomly loses connection to folders or dolphin/nautilus stop seeing folders, hit refresh, there it is again, etc.

I just use sshfs and I am done with it.

I just want to easily move files around my network and samba took too many hours of my life to look at what's wrong this year with client version or spaces in shared folders. It's always something.
This sometimes might be true, but there are many counterexamples. If you look at the web content management systems, the market is dominated by well-engineered open source CMS products, e.g., Drupal, ez Publish, typo3... Even for webshops this true: presta shop, opencart, ...
Ask HN: Music Audio AI? Like Dalle and Midjourny but for Music?
I have a full subscribe to both...

But I am curious - is there an audio version in the works any place?

prompts like "a tuba played in the style of techno" or some such?

You get the idea.
Why is a tax break the mechanism you suggest?
>In 2001, with the economy still reeling from the U.S.-sponsored civil war, El Salvador’s right-wing government adopted the U.S. dollar

>El Salvador’s politics were dominated by two parties rooted in the Cold War: One was the conservative ARENA party, which has its origins in U.S.-backed death squads

>...six people in his cabinet have been sanctioned by the U.S. government for ... undermining democracy.

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Surprisingly, yes, there's really not a lot of McDonald's or other chain fast food restaurants downtown. You can try exploring in Google maps to get a feel for it (consider eg the area around Mercer and Dexter Ave). You can get to one, but it may be a half hour detour on foot. What is closer will be awkward as they describe.
Yet we happily buy Macs and IntelliJ licenses and pay for alternatives to Gmail.

Linux, is quite frankly the best dev environment you can get. MacOS is a nice compromise if you need some commercial software too. At least it’s still a Unix.