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Cash may be imperfect and not technologically convenient

How many times does this have to be repeated --- no one is proposing to eliminate cash.

Everything that a CBDC will do is already being done --- in a slower, less convenient and more costly manner. See ACH.
some kind of visual gate or a schematic-toggle-switch kind of thing would help
Same - we now use systemd to sandbox our apps, set resource limits, hide the rest of the system, mount read-only FS, etc. Add a custom SELinux policy for your service, and you get a compelling alternative to containerization (at least at runtime).
As many misgivings about dead trees that anyone may have, they sure are the way better format if you're buying someone a gift.

Cool book by the way I put it on my list of things to check out!
But are we really lumpers and splitters? And is it blood or plasma? And are we actually shedding it? And who are we anyway?
I’d disagree that it’s a basic need or that it’s not too much to ask. I think most people on this board have had to deal with not automating a one off task because the time to automate it is longer than the time saved.

Spending time learning how to read a font optimized for hand writing that you might need to read a handful of times in your life seems like it would fall into the same category of work that’s not worth the time
It depends entirely on the type of information. If it’s something like Pragmatic Programmer I prefer physical copy. If it’s a reference book like how to do x in language y pdf makes it faster to locate information.
Nobel and Novice: Author Prominence Affects Peer Review [pdf]
> Social media posts can be made, doesn’t mean you have to follow or read.

... or share posts. The same applies to social-media-companies themselves. They don't have to "share" your post to anybody.

They have much the same rights and obligations as you do (especially if you believe that corporations are "people").

It is a different question as to are they monopolies and should the law do something about monopolies.

Social media companies' platforms are not "Town Square". How do we know that? Because tax-payers are not paying for their operations. Their share-holders are paying for that by retaining some or most of the revenues in the company.
Underlying biases are fine, even better when explicitly stated. It’s writing everything like it’s propaganda that’s an issue. Not everything needs to be an advertisement. Not everything needs to have something to argue against. When it does acknowledging that there might be another point of view, might be another set of values, or just understanding the best argument against you shows thought.
> From the outside perspective of a younger democracy, the fact that the US political system treats this ancient legal document with the same reverence that one might pay to the biblical stone tablets

As a whole, it doesn't, both the major parties have elements of it that they are strongly attached to, but each have also made amendments to it, and hacks around parts of it, key parts of their agenda.

> where it would be sacrilegious to even change the font, let alone bring it up to speed with almost 250 years of progress in ethics, political practice and technology,

Um, it's been updated quite a lot since initially adopted (and I’m not talking about the font or other presentational issues.)
Yes.

I read fiction as ebooks (basically exclusively since days of palm pilot and Treo, then kindle and phone and tablets), but far prefer physical books when learning a new topic including tech. Few reasons but I think it's at least partially because:

1. It's easier to mark or hold with my finger e.g. A table or reference or definition page, then return or glance at it as I progress next few pages of that topic. I find it hard to go back and forth in ebook,triply so on e-ink with slow refresh.

2. I cannot explain this but with ebook I don't get a sense of progression or framework relationship. I think with physical book my brain "maps" knowledge to something that's at beginning middle or end of book. And or it's keenly aware that this topot took two pagds thjs topic took 7 pages. Layout of tables and content and lists is firmer. Not sure how to explain it but I find that physical progression through the book solidifies it in my brain.

(I don't do much note taking or highlighting but I suppose it's good to have as an easy physical option. While I type all my work notes and my todos are electronic, I don't do really do electronic book annotation for whatever reason.)

Overall, it's at the point where existence of really good physical book may influence whether I dig into an optional technical / learning topic or not.
You might want to read up on Starbucks "Third Place" policy.. They actually DO want to be a public place.

"In the mid 90s Starbucks incorporated this philosophy into its retail design and business strategy: “We want our stores to be the third place' "

https://www.mjvinnovation.com/blog/third-place-and-the-starb...
I have found ebooks (at least on my Kindle) make reading code very hard. Wraps code which is not a good look for a language like Python and not much code is shown on each page. Also I find that I can not flip back and forth when I need to check up on something

I can scan through a physical book by just flicking pages, the Kindle does not update fast enough

For non technical books, books that I will read in a linear manner, the Kindle is just fine
That was observed in almost every review I read of it at the time.

Doesn't GTA V do the multiple dialogs thing too? I could have sworn it did.
Well, I know what my designer colleagues pay for stock backgrounds, so I agree that it's more than fair. Wouldn't even raise an eyebrow.

You're right, I do have an extension against common annoyances. Totally forgot about it since I usually screenshot anyways.
> That is how it should be done in any case anyway.

Not exactly. IT management should be always telling people stuff like "did you notice that the integration with XYZ that never worked well stopped failing?" or "did you notice that we delivered those few last features at record time?" and explaining why.
This post is effectively creative writing looking to probe the community for ideas and best practices, or potentially senior devs.

There's no 20m/yr 3 jr dev team, it's just to get the scene set for asking questions about "what if there was a bad code base that was making money, how would you bring it up to spec"

This community is great at offering advice and telling people how to do things the "better" way.

Posted on the weekend too so people that are having downtime on Sunday have enough time to reply.
Sorry guys, if you don't get contacted, you haven't passed the first tech interview.
Particular comments maybe, but probably not the account as a whole since it dates from 2007
software distribution had a quite different model in that era.
But it is fundamentally different in terms of what it represents.

It is fundamentally no different than what already exists --- just faster, more capable, more convenient and less costly.
If you play a lot of SimCity on Windows 3.1, then you upgrade to Windows 95 and SimCity stops working, who are you going to blame?
I had to look up the hack people used to do back in the day to have their cheap sennheiser basically become a model that's $100 more (https://hackaday.com/2011/02/12/uncrippling-lower-model-spea...). That was 10 years ago! So yeah, this trend is going to stay for a while.
It's good to hear that Amiga users are finally getting their act together and doing the open source thing after years of fighting over who was going to make a few pennies off the dated corpse of AmigaOS.

In the meantime, your tone is inappropriate for a post about an open source volunteer run project. And, no, the original title was not inaccurate or misleading. EmuTOS runs on Amigas and works fine on them. That you have some chip on your shoulder that someone might accidentally run it instead of AmigaOS (?! as if) is your own concern.

Finally, as for TOS being some woefully inferior garbage product that AmigaOS dwarfs in its inelegancy is ridiculous. It's fairer to say that both are products of an early 80s mindset just in different ways.

Yes, AmigaOS has proper multitasking. But it also had no memory protection for a long time (ever?), and from I remember doesn't use the 68k's TRAP syscall mechanism to perfom syscalls. It had no real standard GUI toolkit to start. It had some real sexy stuff, but also some missing stuff.

TOS/GEM was not multitasking, and was built to run things single process apart from the cooperative multitasking in desk accessories; but GEM explicitly has APIs designed for a multitasking environment and was built to do so later. Interprocess mailboxes and events. Concepts of process/workstation handles, etc. Hooks that later revisions to the OS built on. Why didn't they do it right away? Because at that point, on an 8mhz 68000 with 512kB of RAM this was, frankly, mostly silly.

It's nice the Amiga did multitasking, and the hardware was clearly awesome. But the lack of timeslicing (and the cheap beautiful monochrome monitor, DOS compatible floppies, etc.) actually made the ST more appropriate as a productivity machine in the context of e.g. music studios.

Other poster is right: leave the weird sectarian platform battles in the 80s. It was silly then but it looks even more ridiculous now.
I don't know. Google Docs is a linear tool for linear text, mostly. But the process you describe is anything but linear - it resembles a slow conversion from an unstructured mess to a final text. Intuitively, there seems to be a mismatch between that process and a classic word processor.
I really doubt you or I have any insight into active FBI investigations for good reason
In several online games I've been playing the last few years, I've made in-game acquaintances, people I look to 'party' with. I've noticed a clear pattern with some people.

It starts with a "light" "off-color" joke here and there to "test the waters."

Over the period of a couple of gaming sessions, things get worse and worse until they're being openly bigoted, such as declaring a certain playable character in the game as "that dyke bitch". I've also had people get really mouthy about "illegals", stereotypes about welfare/crime and black people, and so on.

If there are bigots specifically fishing around in gaming communities for like-minded individuals, from what I've seen, it's a target-rich environment, at least in first/third person shooting games.
> For years productivity porn and life hacks were in vogue. But the market for it has gotten big and bloated, the content overwhelming and over-monetized, so there's a cultural backlash against it now.

I agree. How is this a critique of any of that? They aren't calling out over-monetized SaaS products; they're calling out the entire market of notetaking apps. Their rhetoric doesn't support the idea that productivity porn is harmful, but rather that simplicity is paramount and everything else is superfluous. Which is simply wrong. Maybe it's easy for a solo-dev to piss on knowledge bases, but well-organized notetaking systems is what keeps the corporate world going round.

Unless the author has a better, simpler alternative to the organization products people already use, this article simply reads as whining. Who is even the intended audience?
Of course. Glad to be corrected.

Clearly I need to hit the abacas harder to bone up on my averages!
This is a good use case for deep learning. The entire human knowledge of converting cursive to normal could be learned into a (probably) compact model and then the utility/culture of older writings would be accessible forever.

Like a modern Rosetta Stone.
What you are describing is indeed called surrendering and it does happen, but what the article describes seems more like 'defecting' and it doesn't seem to happen that much.
Bootcamp windows installations on MacBooks run windows (and games) better than any PC I’ve owned.
That ocr exists, at least in some form. There are efforts to digitize old census records, which are written in cursive. Humans are just used to double check the work of the ocr program.
It's less than a stock background costs, and less than the work would cost to recreate it yourself.
It seems to me you're making a lot of assumptions and jumping to conclusions. How do you know these trolls are adults and not angsty teens? How do you know it's not a niche problem (I've only ever seen this cringe behavior in low-effort FPS like CoD)?

Not saying you're wrong but your experiences don't match my own. I'm open to having my mind changed but the idea of some conspiracy to influence kids by screaming naziisms at them at the end of video game matches just seems... hilariously ineffective.
Documentation, when it exists, is usually a band-aid covering up bad design.
Pretty documentation seems like lipstick on a pig.

I would love a doc framework that was structured in a way to expose that and shame bad design. "How to FOO because we couldn't manage to make it easy for you" and "3 ways to work around our BAR" would be wonderful help topics. Topics indexed by known problem with the software. Etc.

Diátaxis could be used that way, but is not necessarily a forcing function.

And as far as user-friendly, I'm pretty sure users would appreciate the honesty.
I don't know how normal I am but this makes me excited. It shows me they weren't just leaning on remastering GTA5 yet again for the upcoming PS6 and Xbox Series One X. I hear new dialogue. I see new mechanics. GTA5 came out in 2013 and they've barely shipped updates to it and left bugs for years.

This gives me hope.
I remember when you could change 24x cdrom drives to the 48x version.
I personally cannot make the same signature twice, it seems it is always different, not just different slopes, but directions and even number of spirals and crosses.
Anyone know how much the 'upgrade' costs, once the trial period ends?

It's hard to know how upset to be, without knowing the cost.

Also, will it be one time payment or a recurring charge?
To be clear I see the "gRPC server" that listens over a unix domain socket being something more like pid 10-20.

If there is a network "gRPC server" as well, I suspect it would be somewhere in the 20+ department.

I don't anticipate exposes the actual pid 1 over a network. I'm not a monster. I suspect there will be be an init/jailer mechanism that manages bringing some of the basics online such a system logger and any kernel services (EG: ZFS) right away. One of the first "services" would be a d-bus alternative that is written in Rust and leverages gRPC.

The main motivation behind gRPC is cloud, mTLS, and the support in rust. It comes with the ability to implement load balancing and connection error management/retry capabilities. I have week opinions on the technical detail as I don't suspect the network traffic will be very large. gRPC is more familiar for folks in cloud, as well as supports a large number of client languages for generating clients.
As the submitter you can edit the title after submitting to undo any of HN’s auto-normalization.
That makes sense, however, that's already the final stages of the product. I have my doubts that Google Docs is the best choice for the creation of the first draft, though. Once you have that, everything that comes after that is surely in good hands with a traditional word processor, and as you point out, the strength of Google Docs over Word etc. lies in its collaborative abilities.
Show HN: Wordle but you can challenge your friends to beat your time
I created a wordle site that you can play against the clock, set new fastest times & challenge your friends to beat your time.
Also thank you for the compliment. That was nice to read. Some of the other comments just get straight to the nit picks.
You haven't switched to Overleaf for collaborative editing yet?
I’m not so sure about company winning though - isn’t there a significant period of training that is involved in turnover?
I called it clickbait because the article does not contain the thing promised in the title.
In a private chat with a private group on a private server would you still not have that expectation?

The change Microsoft made to Minecraft applies globally and once you are banned you are banned everywhere including all private servers.
I remember experiencing intense anger as a teenager also, but I think it was situational - the vast majority of my time I didn't feel like I could make any genuine contribution, and didn't feel like I had much control over my situation. It seems like many people get through their adolescence without that kind of trouble, but also many (at least in norcal) who go through a period of intense frustration.
> Very rarely can a country's problems be blamed on its constitution.

Actually, the usually trace back to the constitution, one way or another.

> The UK doesn't even have one

Yes, it does. [0]

It's not an explicitly separate written document, but that's not required of a constitution. The idea of a constitution predates the spread of the practice of having them as distinct documents.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_K...
You never answered this, though:

Would you have a moral qualm with turning off a self-replicating roomba any more or less than killing an insect?
keep the space shuttle flying, do not simplify this code
> Not everything is life that is old and not immediately effective is “useless”.

Agreed. But I’m not the one who described cursive as “outdated” and “useless”, the parent poster did. I used their exact words. That’s what made me curious: they used negative words to refer to the skill, yet reacted positively to their kid learning it.

If their answer is “I’m glad my kid is learning it because they’re having a blast”, more power to them! But is that the reason? My comment isn’t a gotcha, it’s a genuine question to understand the reasoning behind an (at first glance) cognitively dissonant¹ situation.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
So a few of my friends are into information security research and were annoyed at a lack of curriculums that train people to pursue this directly. Instead, there's so much coursework on penetration testing.

I figured HN could offer some criticism on how to further improve it.
You asked me and I answered. I firmly believe that insects are not conscious.
I spoke to a right leaning friend the other day about this exact topic. She pitched it as a conspiracy to make people unable to read the past so that alternative facts could be taught. I very much doubt she invented this concept so there is likely an entire segment of people out there pushing this thought.
One of my favorite things to do in Watchdogs 2 is just walk around calling in arrests and assassinations on opposing factions and watching how ridiculous the fireworks get.
To be honest I don't remember the thrill; I would only replace batteries when close to a computer, and considering HotSync fully transparent backup/restore worked quite well (or even the pilot-link I was using...) the risk was practically negligible. The only problem is that that it was quite slow for a full restore (even with fancy serial cradle, sigh).

Heck, I'd sometimes just willingly let it hard-reset itself just for "cleanliness".
I like the physical book. Ebook readers just aren't large enough to accommodate the size that they print these books in, and I'd rather use my screen for the code I'm editing without needing to tab back to the book.
Poll: EBooks or Paper books for tech reading?
See additional discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32888730
Paper books
eBooks/PDFs
Yes, that’s still what I believe.
It's a good way to learn about FPGA's. Other thna that, the FAQ has a good example about where the Amiga software emulation falls short:

> Let's take a well-known emulator, UAE, emulating an Amiga. On a Raspberry Pi 3, you can run some Amiga CPU benchmarks and get crazy numbers like 100 times the original 68000 processor. So you may assume you have an emulated Amiga that is 100 times faster than real one. No, you don't. If you run different kinds of demos or games, you will see the video stutters sometimes. For example, if you play the well-known "State of The Art" demo by Spaceballs, you will notice video stuttering at some points, while a real Amiga 600 with 1x CPU speed plays the whole demo very smoothly.

https://mister-devel.github.io/MkDocs_MiSTer/basics/faq/#why...
I imagine it’s like “The US tradition of eating bull testes”. It took me a lot longer than 5 years before I heard about that one, and I suspect you’d get a similar reaction offering those “oysters” to a random US citizen without couching it in euphemism.
Right, my point is just: As new methods are added by the owners of new types it requires a common understanding and community consensus how a function should act on new types (i.e. about the "idea" of the function.)
I've a 2015 model that's becoming harder to use because of the outdated software and I'm not sure of a fix. The panel still looks great.
Or you know, most early stage development is about making the game work before actual story is built
I don't think this is how people view games anymore. Look how at phrases like "t-pose" and "hitbox" and "clipping through" are used among regular (non-nerd) kids/teens. There are certain things about games that everyone understands now.
It removes the need for a high-end CPU for accurate emulation, and potentially reduces video/audio lag.
That sounds super interesting, how does one get into simulating reactor cores? I'm very familiar with MC methods from computer graphics.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasE...
Agreed. There's still older shows, or even new simple "popcorn-flick" movies that I can watch without subtitles just fine, because of a simpler plot line and cast of characters.

For example, compare a show like Lost against Westworld. With Lost each scene was so drawn out, that even if you missed a line, you'd be able to figure out what's going on from the general context.
The discussion is interesting, but I also created a HN Poll, for those who like statistics:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32889294

6 votes so far.
We're talking early 90s. Not only were automatic updates not a thing, manual updates were hardly thing. If Windows wanted SimCity to work on their new windows release, the only option was to make the new windows release work with SimCity, not the other way around.
this idiotic idea that everything has to be a service and no one can build anything except google will die eventually
I noticed the same but came away with a different conclusion, "hey, k8s is reimplementing the OS.". In other words, concepts which have existed for years, battle tested and well known, are new and untested in the k8s world.
Palm pilot pros were great because they just ran on AAA batteries
While I agree, all of them required specific amounts of players to play, sometimes you keep friends out, sometimes you had randos who had no idea what they were doing.
And really... there were way too few of them. The playtime is not that long of them and they are too linear to be worth replaying. Saints row 3 arguably has better coop. Saints rows story is not built for this, but they just play the cutscenes at the same time and sync the world. Now if rockstar spent 12 days implementing that... The GTA story would be almost perfect to play together IMO. If they bothered to sync things up.

Your statement is not technically wrong, the best kind of not wrong. I saw a lot of games in the past which had some COOP mode which you can technically call COOP, but just has so few things to do that I feel like it was just an excuse to write COOP on the box. Battlefield 3, Far Cry 3 come to mind.
Even 35 years ago when I wrote exclusively in cursive, it was significantly faster than printing. Everyone wrote in cursive.

It's odd to even see people make the argument that cursive isn't faster. Literally no one wrote in print except young children.
Horrible site. Twice bothered me to login and then went gray on gray, very hard to read
It is really amazing what people take money for.