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> they should release LTS versions of some kind.

Uh? .NET 6 is the current LTS version. 8 will be the next.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy

I don't comment on Java or Python platform versioning policies because, like you with .NET, "I don't follow the ecosystem closely enough" so I don't have anything meaningful to say about it.

> It feels kind of scary committing to .NET 7 right now .. Or is the difference between major versions not that big?

Rolling forwards, the changes are very minor indeed. And there are utilities to automate parts of the update. e.g. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/upgrade-assistan...

There are of course new things that you will find missing if you're rolling backwards.
You might already know that all this leads to is actual transphobes expressing actual transphobia in whatever is the closest way that is tolerated. Right now, in the real world, the saying "biology says there are only two genders", despite not being true, is tolerated so that's what the transphobes say, and anyone who's been following this knows it's just a generic expression of transphobia, just as much as "trans men are women" or "trans people shouldn't have the right to use bathrooms"
> I'm definetly aware that I'm just moving trust from my ISP to the VPN, but most ISPs do not even consider privacy as a selling-point or a feature, while a reputable VPN often will.

This. However the critical point is that VPN providers are virtual, so there is in theory infinite competition; ISPs are an oligopoly in every country, so there is no real competition - If you don't like something about your ISP, like selling your metadata, it's usually tough shit because the other few will follow knowing there is no real competition and seeing a way to extract more money.
Yeah I hadn’t thought of it that way. Curious how designers feel about image generation. I imagine everyone will love AI that doesn’t threaten their job
> It’s like using a chess computer to get an idea of a good move

They did this for Backgammon and found styles of play humanity hasn’t discovered in millennia. Now humans can use those when playing each other and it makes an old boring game feel fresh and exciting.
Center Cam is pretty good with its narrower field of view and decent color handling, essentially what a typical webcam should be. I think primarily what sets it apart is it was designed post-2020 and has to compete with the high expectations we all hold from ubiquitous cutting edge phone cameras. The incumbent webcams (even that term sounds dated) are all from an era in which sending video over the internet at all was an impressive feat.
I think this is a tough one because table top often involves reading, writing, and mathematics that a 5 year old might not be able to handle. My 11 year old niece is getting into D&D now, but when she was 5, she would not have had the wherewithal to play.

When she was 5, though, she did enjoy collaborative storytelling. I would start by building the character with her:

"Once upon a time there was a..."

"Squirrel!"

"Yeah, and this squirrel was named..."

"Elsa!"

Then, when we'd established the character she wanted, we'd establish the type of "campaign" she wanted:

"So, one day Elsa the Queen of Purple Squirrel Kingdom was sitting on her throne when one of her squirrel subjects came to ask her for help, 'Please, O wise Queen, I need your help...'"

"Finding Taylor Swift!"

Then we'd proceed to tell the story of how Queen Elsa the Squirrel saved Taylor Swift from the next door neighbor's dog together (actual example), stopping every few sentences to get her input.

I learned to play this game with her from her father, who also happens to be a great D&D GM.
What I call the "square eyes" syndrome.

After you use one for ten hours, you go home with a weird tension/buzz in your head. Doesn't happen with LCDs.
It looks like a decent way to produce concept sketches.

Currently, working with creatives (including programmers) is a very iterative process for non-creatives.

"I want this."

"No, I meant this."

"Can we try making that line longer?"

"Eh, I'm not feeling it. Why don't we try brighter colors?"

"Ugh. That looks obnoxious. Can we tone down the red?"

etc.

If the non-creative can use this system to reduce that iteration, it will make life easier for them (maybe not for the creative, if they are banking on the hours doing the iterations).
One of my favorite experiences was sitting on the balcony of a cruise ship, watching the ocean go by, with my laptop on my lap. I really wanted to live and work like that for a while. Of course, I can't afford it, and the internet was barely able to pull up sites like HN. But the internet is part of how I relax and connect to people.
Been a longtime D&D player since high-school (cut my teeth on the soft-cover D&D Basic Rules Set), with a long hiatus between college and recent years.

While saddened to see the increase in rules complexity since that time (my attention dwindled around 3e), imagine my surprise and joy when I came across Basic Fantasy!

If you’re looking for a nearly zero-cost way to get into a game that “feels” like classic D&D (less focus on tactical combat and more on the role playing aspect, supported by modern d20 rules), I’d highly recommend it.
if you think thats ridiculous I once got a two month script for opiate painkillers after my wisdom teeth were removed. "just in case" was the excuse as well. pretty pathetic when most of the discomfort was easily controlled with half an aspirin and some rest.
>> This! x100!
>You can't turn N=1 into N=100 just like that ...

You're right - I probably shouldn't have used the language I did. In retrospect I see how it was confusing. I just meant to express how happy I was that healthy lifestyle changes were helping someone. :)

> I do hope someone will keep an independent scientific record of how this approach actually helps people (if at all).

Yes! We want to contribute to the scientific literature (e.g., by identifying new lifestyle interventions that help reduce inflammation levels) and do so in a validated way!

In the meantime, we base our service on existing scientific literature regarding which lifestyle interventions are associated with decreased inflammation levels: https://www.begolden.online/post/lifestyle-interventions-ass...
I have two pocket SSDs that I archive to on an irregular basis (basically quarterly) of selected documents and photos. Each is in a small faraday bag, whichever one is in the house is in a safe, the other is in a safe deposit box at my bank. The drives themselves are unencrypted but some of the documents are encrypted (e.g. I export my 1Password vaults quarterly and encrypt those). I don’t have any kids nor plans to have any but have lost about 30% of the digital stuff I thought I was keeping safe (through bit rot, fading CDRs, regrettable document retention policies I was unaware of).

My advice would be to cut selected items to an SSD on a routine basis and either stash it in the family safe or wherever you keep important files. Use an existing filesystem, not whatever the latest newfangled vendor specific one, and use a fairly well documented format for images. Store documents as text or rtf.
NetDragon Appoints Its First Virtual (AI) CEO
Given the choice between running a few coherent scripts to host my niche community site and architecting a high-performance community content distribution platform with an AWS account and variable, uncapped costs, I too would choose the latter.

But that’s also why I don’t stand up a lot of these sites. Maybe it’s overkill?
On the one hand it's cool that they are improving but how do people keep up with all these additions? I find this really hard.

Seems a lot of the changes are new stuff which you have to evaluate and see how they could actually be used productively. For example a while ago I tried the new nullable stuff and while in theory it looks straightforward it turned out to be very difficult to use nullable with existing APIs and code in a productive way. The same applies to a lot of the other new features.

I feel .NET Core after a good start is falling into the typical Microsoft trap of constantly cranking out new stuff to do the same thing and leaving it to developers to keep up. That's how we ended up with several .NET desktop UI frameworks that are more or less in maintenance mode without a real upgrade path to the currently fashionable framework (which will most likely be abandoned soon too).
Having said all that, do you have a recommendation?
> It feels kind of scary committing to .NET 7 right now, when in a year, it will be replaced by yet another major version promising ever increasing performance gains... Or is the difference between major versions not that big?

Switching between major versions these days is incredibly easy so it's not like you pick a version for life. They're also not changing THAT much.
My requirements may be different but my experience is that it's usable for remote work but, yes, you need to be tolerant of it cutting out for a bit every now and then (but, hey, that happens with Comcast 50 miles outside of a major city) and maybe drop off video for a call especially if you have reasonable cellular backup.

It really is pretty much Starlink or nothing in many rural locations in the US.
They have an excellent track record of not breaking compatibility, most updates are drop-in & forget (unless you want to utilize new lang/runtime features)
Nothing interesting about arguing with someone who just defends their point to the death, never listening to anything you say.
"Intellectually-qualified" means selective admission based on aptitude, prior work, and initiative.

There are too many students in four-year colleges (public or private) who might be better suited for technical / trade schools, or, alternately, traditional career-based training (e.g., the older two-year, non-college nursing school model). This creates a scenario where negative achievement is built into the coursework of larger-sized classes, in order to reduce demand to those students who have the aptitude and initiative to achieve positive results in a smaller class size.

We need to remove the stigma associated with an, errm, associate degree. Nothing about academic credentialing matters at the corporate level when the actual work starts, hence the "or equivalent work experience" callout in most modern job postings.

And–at the opposite extreme–some highly-motivated persons might not benefit from post-secondary education at all, which is the recruitment challenge that many top schools face (i.e., the talent and achievement exceeds the formation and knowledge transfer that can be provided by the school at its price).

I cannot solve the problem of existing debt, for which capped loan forgiveness (as currently proposed) is a first attempt. How does one deal with evil in the world? Don't be evil, for starters.
The most impressive drone going now to me is the one NASA put on Mars since it's working at the equivalent atmospheric pressure of around 100,000 feet, though the lower gravity helps it out. Obviously it's not a consumer drone, but it used as much off-the-shelf gear as possible - I think I remember reading it just uses a few Sony 18650 lithium ion cells like you might find in your cordless drill.
I think both are fine. One source of the difference in reception (aside from the selfish aspect) is that the space of work generated by Copilot has fewer degrees of freedom than visual art. So the things it produces are much more likely to be near-identical to existing code than Stable Diffusion is to images. I.e. if SD were just providing near identical copies of artists' work, people would be more sympathetic.
Because new viruses appear after Oumuamua fly-by, they may contain some alien code - right?

But if it didn't stop at atmosphere it's 70% chance it's under water.
I had fun building this also because of the project's stack. It's extremely simple, it's mostly a static page with React. It's small enough to use in-browser Babel and a single (messy) JS file. For production releases I transpile and minimize the JS, but at this point it feels optional and I like having the option of skipping the build process completely.

Doing audio with web technologies can get tricky, there are compatibility and performance considerations. Because of that I also opted against real time audio. I'm mostly targeting wavetable synthesizers so I can live with just exporting to .WAV files. A nice side effect is that because there's no immediate audio feedback, the visuals receive more of the user's attention.

All this simplicity lets me work on the project faster and add new features quicker, which made this more enjoyable.
.NET Core 3.1 and .NET 6 are LTS (though 3.1 ends this year). Also in general things don't break that much. There are cases like nullable checks whose default changes and so if you go with that default you will have to update, but it's tweaks more than overhauls.
> not any more-so than I stole from him when I looked at that image

I spoke with the author, the author disagrees with you.

The reason he consider that stealing is because they took that image from the online shop where the disclaimer specifically states "2022 © Magnetic Press LLC by Arenathemes. All Rights Reserved" without even trying to contact the copyright holder.

https://store.magnetic-press.com/products/viewpoint-by-lrnz

> But when I publicly put my code out there, I was also giving people the opportunity to learn from my code and reproduce similar things to it as well.

Not really, IMO

I can enter a bookshop and look around, open a book, read some pages and maybe learn something.

It doesn't give me the right to republish a similar book putting together what I saw, unless the license specifically grants me that right or I obtained a license that does.

Code Pilot is a commercial product, free licenses don't automatically grant the right to commercial use of that code.
> While we believe we have an obligation to restrict the content that we host ourselves, we do not believe we have the political legitimacy to determine generally what is and is not online by restricting security or core Internet services. If that content is harmful, the right place to restrict it is legislatively.

Agreed, but realistically: for the near future there will be no legislative restriction in the US on harmful content. Congress is far too grid-locked for that, not to mention the question if meaningfully combatting hate speech and bullying can actually be done via laws or requires constitutional amendments - which are even more unrealistic.

Meanwhile, sites like KF (or rather: their users) will cause a lot of harm, including cyber-bullying people to suicide. At what point will you draw the line? Or clearer: how many dead people will it require?

The whole insistence on "we need a legislative solution" reminds me way too much of European inner politics on refugees: politicians all over the EU said "we won't deal with refugees on our own, we want an European solution" - all while knowing that thanks to the destructive-obstructionist Polish and Hungarian governments there was no chance of such an "European solution", and as a result nothing changed - and thousands paid with their life [1] as a result as they drowned in the Middle Sea.

In the end it's always the same: placing abstract morals over clear and provable actual harm to people's health and sometimes life.

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/892249/umfrag...
Just curious, if you're on macOS/iOS - is there a benefit to using a 3rd party VPN vs just using iCloud Private Relay?
So BC is doing a good job of saving the lives of street junkies? That sounds like successful mitigation to me.
My HP laser will warn its toner is low but it will keep on printing. I keep using a toner until the pages have white streaks.
Ha, I was a student there at that time too. Spent my evenings down the road at the Dungeon though ;)
Sounds like privacy laws need to be updated such that any overhead imagery analysis by a private company requires permission of the property owners, or a warrant if it's government agency, even if the images are taken from space.
I agree with plenty of what you are saying, at the same time I believe that joining problematic start-ups or failing start-ups can teach you plenty on how not do things.

Remember that before succeeding you have to fail and improve in a cycle of n times until you succeed. If you succeed without failing then there is a high probability of luck being involved.
8chan had the whole mass shooter thing. Comparing the two websites is very hyperbolic.
Solid banks $63M [Series B] for easier deployment of embedded fintech products
Every other release is an LTS release, with three years of support. .NET 6 was one so this won't be.

They are pretty good about backwards compatibility, upgrading .NET Core and .NET hasn't been a big deal so far.
Margins must be hurting already. Ads their biggest revenue, guess what usually gets slashed fir during a downturn? Marketing budgets.
A shame his mouth counterbalanced much of the value from those fantastic stunts.
This whole thread is silly, the outcomes we've had in the US are a result of our particular mix of central planning and market forces. And lots of central planning in implemented in the form of adding incentives to push market forces in the direction we want. And there's a whole lot of corporate lobbying going on in our "central" planning.

Attributing particular achievements to one or the other is impossible.
I used to do this with my niece, who is now old enough to actually play table top. I still remember a couple of the weirdest stories we came up with together.
E-Books:I use zotero to store all my books and notes. Using webdav to back up data to nas.

Photos: I will manually copy the photos from the drone and DSLR to the nas and format the TF card after copying.

Phone photos: I use the software provided by my nas service provider to back up my photos

Web pages: I run my own docker version hamsterbase on nas. Store all the pages I am interested in.
US life expectancy was falling well before COVID in spite of spending much more in PPP terms than any other country in the world on healthcare. The country seems to prefer to be fleeced than to consider other options that might be labeled as socialism.
They're effectively saying they were wrong then:

> To be clear, just because we did it in a limited set of cases before doesn’t mean we were right when we did. Or that we will ever do it again.
Bed, Bath, Beyond will close about 150 stores and reduce its workforce by 20%
Why is it our responsibility?

Intervened on which side in Georgia? That Georgian government was absolutely terrible, putting dissidents in prison, firing on protests, etc. - just because they're anti-Russia doesn't make them good.

We should just try to live in peace and focus on our own nations and stop making enemies.
Free Market brought us Purdue Pharma and the Opioid Epidemic. Central Planning got NASA to the Moon.
> I'm not following. What is your argument for why this is an effective strategy but employees only use it when they feel bad?

Because striking comes with significant downsides. Cost, risk, and stress.

It's costly because you lose days of pay. It's risky because there's no guarantee you'll get a good outcome and there are often reprisals from the employer. It's stressful because of the uncertainty, and because most people don't like conflict.

Public perception is also important. People who are inconvenienced by a strike are more likely to blame an employer who has not been fair with workers. Well-paid employees would get much less sympathy.

> people who plan on striking aren't the people who do well economically

You have the causation backwards. People who don't do well economically are the ones for which the idea of striking becomes more attractive (or less unattractive).

> there are enough people to start investing in a better future

I was asking for specifics. How do they do this?

> Especially if they put their minds to making the future better rather than how to make life difficult for the employers.

You seem to have an idealist view here that's at odds with your statement of "I'm not trying to spare my employers feelings here" and "I'm pretty cynical".
100% - HCL just isn’t expressive enough to handle complex environments and you end up needing to do very strange things that would have been simple in a general purpose language.

I’ve been using Pulumi over the last year and it’s the best time I’ve ever had provisioning infrastructure. I actually enjoy it now. The automation API is also incredibly powerful, I don’t think the ecosystem has wrapped their heads around it yet.
I think typical ASP.NET applications likely won't use AOT in the near future. There is quite some "magic" in ASP.NET that I suspect won't work out of the box with AOT because it is heavily reflection-based. And while there are solutions for cases like JSON serialization, as far as I understand they require writing different code right now, so it's not automatic.

AOT is much, much more interesting for cases where startup time matters, and ASP.NET usually isn't such a case. But I can imagine that it will be much more useful and easier to implement for smaller, focused tools that don't use that much reflection-based framework code. CLI tools might be the ideal case for trying this out.
If you actually read their article, it seems they are saying that 8chan WASNT defensible to them and was a mistake for them to do so.
> One of the ways to inhibit mTOR for free to simply stop consuming nutrients for extended periods of time.

What is an extended period of time in this context? I happen to consume all my meals within seven hours every day and only drink water in between. Would that help?

(Not doing this for health reasons, it is just a habit.)
I have an old Samsung color laser printer. Where can i find information on maintenance? The printouts have developed some stripes etc. I'm sure it's something that can be fixed, hopefully trivially.
Would you be comfortable if you saw Buck Angel walking into the toilet where your teenage daughter was?

P.S. the reason people don't bother debating people like you, is that it's usually like playing chess with a pigeon and they know this.
Sorry! I’m going to make this recurring so hopefully you can come to a future event.
I agree. We use a distributed Userify infrastructure to take some of the sting out of key management for our teams; this gives us the ability to tie user authentication into our enterprise directory but still delegate an entire Userify infrastructure on a BU basis, which is pretty awesome.

To your point about clouds making it more difficult in the future, it's becoming more challenging to scale the CA across auto scaling groups with dynamic IPs and where you can't control TXT records. We've found that SSH keys are very flexible, and we simply needed a centralized management point (which we have now), but with decentralized operation in case anything is offline along the way. Also, it's very important to us to be able to kill active sessions globally when a user is removed, and there doesn't seem to be any other tools that do that except Userify.
Or kids using their parents' pins?

I was raised by 2 hackers/information should be free types and they knew I had an email address and a website when I was 7. They didn't have a problem with it, and they wouldn't have had a problem if I'd been making content in the era of social media either. Likewise, our library system at the time let parents choose whether their kids could privately check out books from the adult section and they gave me full access when I was 5.

My parents would have probably copied the pins and given 5-6 year old me (and later my siblings) their own copies and bitched about our recommendations/accounts being all mixed up. (That's why I had my own email address; they were sick of me tugging at their sleeve and saying 'mom/dad, I need to send an email, can you log in to your account with me?')