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It is just a matter of practice. I did that with print without any issue, and since I used print more than cursive my print was faster.

I would guess cursive is slightly faster if you practice both equally.
I think this is the article you mentioned: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/03/tenet-dialogue-...
Yet if wrong, what then? What if it is a mold or fungus which eats crops, yet was designed to be resilient? And cannot be killed without killing the plant?

Now you have a year or two, as it spreads, until starvarion causes total societal collapes, wars, dead, destruction.

And meanwhile all grasses around the world die, photosynthesis drops, animals, insects, and plants are dying off.

The problem is, any solution which hopes to contain, can mutate out. Cross-species genetic transfer is a thing. Mutation is a thing.

Expecting what you make, as a biological organism, to work as you wish is... not sensible.

Compared to programming languages, biological processes allow for change. Yet we can barely make secure code, and are endlessly surprised at our own lack fo security, and bugs, and issues in code due to unforeseen circumstances.

If you came to me and said you can make perfect code, make it secure, and bug free, I'd laugh and laugh until I wondered if I should fire you for incompetence.

And working with genetics, and with entirely new orgamisims, is more complex that the largest of codebases.

And at release, into the wild, there aee no issue trackers, no patches, no fixes.

It's shipped and gone.

To me, your comment highlights how unready we are.
+1.

I'm 56 and essentially can't write decent cursive anymore since like decades as I stopped as soon as I could. No problems reading when it's correctly written, but as a leftie I found cursive handwriting hard since day one, so I resorted to capitals only, save for my signature, which however is different every time: I have 5 filed at the bank as I can't produce two seemingly identical; I often joke with the clerk that for me would be a lot easier if they asked for a blood sample for DNA recognition:)
This sounds good in theory, but in practice doesn't work out so well. In order to write cursive legibly, you need to slow down. Think of how most people's signatures aren't readable at all, that is because they evolved to be written fast.

Whereas you can learn to do fast printing. My writing speed improved later in life once I convinced myself to switch back over to print characters -- I can speed up the process without losing legibility. Also some people do a mixture of the two, which really is writing out ligatures for common character pairings. I don't really do that, and it seams everyone sort of figures out their own stile, but it would be nice if written ligatures were taught as an in-between style.

Edit: To see examples, do a search for "fast printing", I know there were several good posts on one of the fountain pen forums. The style I liked referenced "bookhand", and to get good/legible at it you start by practicing writing small circles (both clockwise and counter-clockwise) and small straight lines (horizontal, vertical, diagonal with various starting positions). This also helps with general technical drawing, things like writing circles and making them larger and smaller. And learning to draw a straight line across a page freehand will help with character alignment.
it wasn't warranted IMO. Topics on HN which incite feelings of insecurity, or which drag up strong negative emotions, tend to result in a lot of brash negative replies and a lot of sarcasm anymore.

This topic seems to be striking a nerve with a lot of folks who struggled with the teaching/skill at an early age.
Sidebar: if I wanted to eventually transition from Android dev to C++ game dev, is my time building C++ ImGui tools a comparable experience, or is game dev a truly different beast? Curious for some opinions :)

The reason I like mobile and small desktop applications is partially for the tight cycles of build/test/fix/ship. Even writing it out now, the experience of working on any game of even moderate complexity must be entirely different, right?
This is sad verging on pathetic.

I work with professional engineers that look like they can hardly write their own name. I'm embarrassed for them.

Can you imagine writing or receiving a love letter or note that appears as if written by a child?

It's hard to convey the extent to which someone's stature is diminished to me when I see them write horribly.

Just saying, this opinion exists too
I could believe this is real..also Perl rules!
This seems a bit like an extended version towers of Hanoi.
Offense is taken, not given. If you take offense to questioning the problem is yours and yours only.

Why is it the replies to my questions do not answer the questions, instead saying 'google it'. How can google answer what is mean in that context, in that article? I have asked here on hackernews, and I have still not gotten an answer - only piffle: nobody has forced you to engage here, so don't spout nonsense such as time-wasting; I have asked you a question, not subject you to an interrogation at quantanamo.
(agree)

> but something practiced in a couple of villages in Gifu prefecture

It could say "the Gifu prefecture tradition..." and still "actually only a couple of villages do it" would be valid, and so on and so on...

On the other hand the way we write headlines lends itself to misinterpretation deliberately. It could say "A few people in Japan eat wasps" but nobody would click.
I have a puzzle generator in zig (tuned to be super fast at brute force graph generation)

The front end is boring JavaScript, because I use react relay a lot on other projects, which is not clojurescript compatible
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The fact that you think the friendliness of people in anglo countries is fake is very sad...

EDIT: trust me the banter between two strangers chatting in the UK is not fake. We are not americans. We are simply willing to talk to people we don't know. Germans do not do this. Isolating yourself from strangers is not something to be proud of.
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RDR2 didn't have survival stats, you could eat and stuff but it didn't matter and just buffed you.

Personally I'd have preferred it if i I had to eat and had to set up camp for the night. That level of roleplaying really helps the world feel tangible for me.
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> Next, make it possible to spin service up locally, pointing at production DB.

I think this is bad advice, just skip it.

I would make a fresh copy of the production DB, remove PII if/where necessary and then work from a local DB. Make sure your DB server version is the same as on prod, same env etc.

You never know what type of routines you trigger when testing out things - and you do not want to hit the prod DB with this.
Just a static image, no animals or anything to click on, tried on Chrome 83 (no add-ons) and FF 88 (uBlock, disabled).
> made from crickets (enago)

I once had grasshoppers (inago) cured with some sort of soy sauce marinate. Was that the same thing? They were pretty yummy, similar to eating little shrimps with shells and all.

The other insect I have tried was the dried larvae of silk worms, which are apparently quite popular in Korea. I found the taste of that one vile and repulsive. Hard to describe. Maybe it's an acquired taste, or perhaps I did not eat it in the right way. It can't be that bad if it is popular.
Taking up a lot of screen space too?

Reminds me my dad said when he first moved abroad before he learned the local language, everyone would read the subtitles and laugh at the joke and then he couldn't hear what they had just laughed at.
This is what I’ve watched happen to my son in school. Genuinely neat, readable writing that was plenty fast, ruined by hours of lessons on joined up writing, all of which took away from actual learning.
Agreed. Looks better, polished.
All caps in drawings and technical documentation is appropriate though.

It's just profesional.. writing legible cursive is also part of the skill.
When I had a 5.1 setup, I had the center channel volume set higher than the side/rear channels and it made speech understandable while explosions weren't overpowering. Maybe the receiver you have allows the same?
How dead wrong was David S Platt about iPhone. That's why I am not in prediction business.
1000 million? Maybe eventually but probably not yet. The real answer is some wealth inequality metric though not some count
No. In my experience, this does not stop organizers from doing dumb things.
Professional fakers are charging people to sit in their job interviews for them
A neat, unadvertised trick we have in California: if you use the online voter registration, it uses the signature you have on file with the DMV. That signature is printed as an image on your driver licence, allowing you to have an exact exemplar of what they will be comparing to.
> We will become reliant on a small group of trained translators and experts to report what history—including the documents and papers of our own families—was about.

I think we know this won't be true based on AI getting better and better at handwriting recognition, despite the downsides of offloading this work to machines (e.g. if trained in closed system, could result in censorship and potentially limited validation at the endpoint).

However, I do see a lot of upsides to using computation for such efforts: increases the scale of processed documents by orders of magnitude and enables indexing, search, categorization, and further analyses which would otherwise take many man-months for trained translator and experts to complete.
Wow, I can't believe the amount of skepticism and hate the guy initially got! He posts what will end up being a historically important leak that'll hit the mainstream news, and the first comment is "Sorry bud no pic no click".

Gamer forums can be a prickly place, haha.
Cursive is a practical (this seems to be the point most heavily debated) art form. At a point in every day use. I'm awful at it, but glad I learned it. My block letter writing is also far less legible than my cursive. I've just stopped using it because I'm a keyboard cowboy and have been for 20 years. Like all art forms, we'll be lesser for its demise.
The internet are the roads (also the commons), social media is the town & national square.

The stores would be equivalent to stores. So Amazon, Etsy, etc. you can get there through social media.
Having programming background, especially grinding the fizz buzz algos for fangs prep definitely helps with this puzzle.
My first instinct was "get some testing in place" too. That served me well in recent projects where I was in a similar situation. I was wondering if anyone has any advice on how to make sure your tests are... comprehensive? I was fortunate enough to have full flow tests in place from the beginning and a great team which knew the intricacies of the subject matter. We made lists of usecases and then tried to find orthogonal test cases. But that was my naive approach wondering if there are better methods out there. Especially if there is zero testing.
Why are we acting as if the 2000s never happened? There was no large-scale censorship (what is now disguised as 'moderation') and the communities flourished independently. Turns out, people like to choose what they want to see.

These days, anything and everything that is slightly uncomfortable to groups is labeled as 'hate-speech'. If nobody can define what 'hate speech' really is and if the definition changes person to person, then you're arguing for the wrong reasons. What you're looking for is tightly-isolated communities with consent, bridging and moderation in their own spaces, not worldwide censorship.

I don't like it when others are disrespectful to me, but I always have a choice of shutting down the discussion and moving on. Online communities that spread dangerous ideas are going to form in their own space, no matter what we do so banning any opinions that do not adhere to certain political views is not only dangerous but also creates a division of 'you vs me' and that thing gets ugly quick. If we know 2 communities clash, we keep them separated, as simple as that and it already happens so no big deal. It's like having a work and family chat group, different purposes, different people, different ideas, 0 clashes.

The problem is you're looking at everything through the lens of offensive content. If you tell me that majority of the banned comments on the social media websites are illegal by constitution, you'd have a point but this isn't a reality. People are banned for the smallest of things, for disagreeing with someone else respectfully, for following certain political ideas.

Here's another example: John Stossel was censored even though he posted factual statements - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qmht6Tbtzg
Also, writing by hand has been shown to increase comprehension and retention.

Developing your own short-hand helps a lot or just going with a standard
If that's the case you can't be typing very fast in the first place. Two finger typing caps out at around 60-70wpm
Depends on the state involved. I’m sure that would be perfectly fine in Austria, or other countries with nominal free speech rights like Germany. In the US the First Amendment is generally interpreted maximally.
IMO children should be taught cursive writing both as a meditative exercise and as a teaching of motor skills and the lack to do so is a near criminal impediment of their development. I'm in my fifties and worked in a optics research lab and it was shocking to me how PhD students in their twenties, brilliant young men and women, lack the most basic tactile skills to handle precision instruments. Many of them would be better off working as elephant handlers.
Last release they did was re-releasing the GTA games which was not polished at all. And they were just re-releasing.
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I was a civil engineer for a few years and left to do something that interested me more. I was glad I had the broad university treatment rather than a narrow practical one, it meant I had the knowledge to go on and do what I wanted when I figured out what that was.
Isn't next month's salary the consideration?
> Even for technical users, if you want to post a political video, is there really an alternative to YouTube with any audience for it?

To be fair, Rumble is a decent alternative. Some videos have millions of views, they basically accept anything that’s protected by the first amendment. A lot of banned creators have moved or are moving there.

That said, I’d still argue YouTube is “the commons”. Just like you can have multiple malls and a town square, there’s no real argument there should be a limit.
This definitely needs an answer.

In fact, until OP can give us the right answer, we immediately need even wrong answers!

You reading this. Yes, you. Give your best wrong answer below.
The article isn’t just talking about the Supreme Court. Yes that’s where this has had the most prominent effect, but the influence of textualism (and concrete legal analysis in general) has filtered down throughout the courts and even those bastions of liberalism, law schools.

To be sure, the overwhelming majority of lawyers are liberal, and indeed the majority of very smart lawyers are liberal. But legal conservatism punches way above its weight in shaping the turf everyone is playing on.
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But the statement is perfectly fine. It's not naive. It explains, correctly, why Kapisa stays cool in the summer: The accumulated snow from the winter stays throughout the summer, or most of the summer (that would be in mountains, mostly), and that leads to cool summers. It's exactly the same where I live: Surrounded by snow-covered mountains far into the summer, and even when warm winds come from south-east they have to pass across those mountains - the result: Cooler winds when they arrive here. When the snows finally retreat most of the way and those mountains aren't white anymore we can finally feel the hot winds.
Exactly. They want it both ways. If you are algorithmically boosting some views and deleting others, now it’s your speech and you should be liable.
Having an audio receiver and cranking the centre channel helped a lot for me.

Turns out I’m also half deaf in one ear.

Anyway I’d recommend both a centre channel with adjustable volume and a hearing test.
I wouldn't call that "a big release" and also, Rockstar was not the developer of that re-release AFAIK, merely the publisher.
1. Grab a copy of Working Effectively With Legacy Code

2. You say you don’t manage the team. I guess you have some kind of ‘tech lead’ role. I think to get things to change, you’re going to need buy in from management and the team. If the budget is tight it will be harder to say ‘we need to invest in fixing all this stuff instead of whatever it is that actually makes money’. Whatever you do must have a good business case. It sounds like there needs to be better communication about the state of things with whoever in the business unit came up with the aggressive roadmap.

Perhaps a roadmap like this would work:

- First, set up source control and separate prod from however people are developing things. Hopefully this will reduce trivial outages from people eg making a syntax error when editing prod. I think this will be a difficult fight with the team and management may not understand what you’re doing. You’ll likely need to be ready to be the person who answers everyone’s git questions and un-fucks their local repos. You’ll probably also want some metrics or something to show that you are reducing trivial errors.

- I think some intermediate stages might involve people still developing in prod but having source control there and committing changes; then developing locally with a short feedback loop from pushing to running on prod (you won’t get but-in if you make the development process slower/more inconvenient for the team); then you can hopefully add some trivial tests like php syntax checks, and then slowly build up a local dev environment that is separate from proof and more tests. At some point you could eg use branches and perhaps some kind of code-review process (you can’t be the only person responsible for code review, to be clear)

- You’re going to want a way to delete old code. I think partly you will be able to find unreachable code and delete it but also you’ll likely want a way to easily instrument a function to see if it is ever used in proof over eg a week or two.

- Eventually, improving the dev environment enough may have already led to some necessary refactors and you’ll have enough tests that the defect rate will have decreased. At some point you’ll hopefully be confident enough to make bigger reactors or deletions and wean people further off messing with prod. For example moving some routing, bit-by-bit outside of nginx or perhaps using some lightweight framework.

- you should also get the team involved in making some smaller refactors too and they should definitely be involved in adding tests.
Can you just... Walk away? Not because of the technical challenges, but because:

- team is 3 junior people

- productivity is abysmal

- budget is tight

- resistance to change is huge

- aggressive roadmap

- management and HQ have no real understanding

I have never walked away from a technical challenge, but I've exited from management clusterfucks and have never regretted it. These people will block you, blame you for anything you break during the refactor but give you no thanks if you fix it (because they don't even understand the scale of what you're trying to fix)
What happened to 2 dollar bills?
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I'd be grateful if someone could explain why this has been flagged so I can avoid it in future. Thank you.
It's not a question of precision; nobody cares whether it's 10M commenters, or 10 million and one. It's that without a clear, agreed rule, then everyone can draw the line wherever they like. If it's drawn by legislators or judges, there'll always be lots of people who think it should be drawn elsewhere. No rule based on counting grains of sand is ever going to gain consensus.
I don't think anyone can read cursive comfortably. Especially if it's written by others.
Not in contract law in my jurisdiction. It may be for others though.
My best wrong answer is that there were different colored pixels for different front-end versions, and the app had some radically different responses depending on the version. Maybe MENA would return white, SE Asia green, people who signed up during a sale would return blue, whatever. After a while, the other pixels were removed and only one shade of purple were used for everyone, but the code for processing them was not removed. So now, if the tracking pixel is not a precise shade of purple, some unexpected shenanigans ensue.
Hard to say from a far, but having a v2 mvp totally from scratch might actually be better in this instance.
well at least it does not overwrite it it could possibly be recovered. a backup trash folder is a good idea for those things aliases are great for a lot of things including larger scripts that would probably be in a separate file.

shred or similar functions do overwrite files.
Nuclear power is not great and environmental groups were and remain correct to lobby against it.
Besides faster writing, children also learn fine motor skills by practicing different forms of handwriting. We had cursive in third and fourth grade and half-uncial calligraphy in fifth grade, not because we were expected to illuminate manuscripts but because it gave us time to learn how to control our hands.
"There is a great stupa which constantly glows.", is that metaphorical or real?
Exactly. This is why 2FA is being discussed, and this software breaking 2FA.
These cords are useful in certain unusual circumstances. A family member had a cabin in the middle of the forest in Russia. Through enormous effort, he and a small group of neighbors managed to secure an electric connection, which lasted for about a year until thieves stole the power line for its copper. Rather than replace the power line, he got a portable generator and a male-to-male extension cord, and electrified the cabin that way for a couple hours a day, long enough to cool down the fridge, charge phones, and pump some water.

Of course, in an environment where a power line to a house physically exists but is temporarily out of service, a male-to-male cord and a running generator is a good way to electrocute line workers.
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- do the task (with some unique element ie kill the character who was fucking someone’s wife)
- return to the original location
But it doesn't make much sense to combine them. Wind and Solar, as well as nuclear have similar cost characteristics. The cost of an additional unit of energy produced is very low, almost all of the cost is in building them & keeping them running. It almost never makes (financial) sense to throttle them. Thus nuclear being a so-called baseload. It doesn't make much sense to use it in any other way (for example, like a peaker-plant).

Both are best served with a complement that has low(er) capital cost but higher cost per unit of energy produced like storage or gas plants (maybe with P2G) for periods of high demand or when generation falls flat (mostly for renewables, but as we're seeing in france some nuclear reactors are having trouble as well in high-temp environments).