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> - Blending colours is just a matter of linear interpolation.

I recall there being a particularly contentious bug report for Adobe Photoshop eight or nine years ago. The original thread is here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-g... - but all the users have been replaced by "FeedbackCommunityMember", so it's a bit hard to figure out who is talking to who (perhaps someone can find a properly archived url).

In any case, an Adobe product person was unbelievably stubborn about their assumption there is just a single way colours can blend one to another, and that all the other ways couldn't possibly be desirable. It was pretty hard to read.
I still keep a copy of CS6 installed just for Fireworks. It was the first design tool that made sense to me as a programmer that wanted to think of everything in terms of pixels and object groups. I should probably move on at this point but it still does what I need it to do.
Well technically you are correct but the underlying issue is Discord and unability of their tech support to change anything in regards to these blacklistings/flaggings.

It is infuriating and I don't see why these services would need my phone number.
Really? I feel like the article explained most of the terms.

I remember having a similar feeling when NFTs were getting big. It turned out that I did understand the terms, there just wasn't enough actually there, triggering a feeling that I must have been missing something despite my eyes telling me the emperor has no clothes.
Exactly.

Hey, since I played a roll in your success, can you please send me 10% of your paycheck every month? No doubt you won't protest since "the entire structure of society enabled" you to gain such wealth.
I guess you are being ironic, but if not, that applies to individuals commenting here, not companies acquiring other businesses.
Not many people can believe this (How many C&C gamers are on HN after all?) but I'm still pissed about it to this day. I could replace even the Google Reader, but not the fun I had playing the games from Westwood Studios.
Inkscape is unusable sorry. It can’t support any of my workflows. The only real alternative for Adobe at the time being is Affinity
Engineering[1] is a discipline, requiring professional licensure. I know of one actual Software Engineer, Margaret Hamilton.[2] We're programmers, NOT Software Engineers.

An actual Software Engineer would have an iron ring on their pinky to remind themselves of the lives placed in their hands, and the importance of their profession, the oath they swore to uphold.

We programmers don't profess anything. We have no code of ethics that we'd adhere to in spite of all pressure from management and others.

Mudge seems to have a code of ethics, perhaps he could help write that formal code once the Twitter nonsense is done.

[1] https://www.nspe.org/resources/pe-magazine/called-order

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_en...
Sketch only works on macOS, though.
Having a dark background used to be the default in the beginnings with CRT, colored/bright backgrounds look very ugly when you can see the distinct scanlines.
I've run the past fileservers for about 10 years before rotating the data set to a new machine with roughly twice the usable capacity.
The price of rust is so much cheaper that I doubt I'd get anywhere close to ROI with SSDs, and I'd not feel comfortable running them for much more than 10 years anyway.. Even when factoring in power usage.
Most people here aren’t hackers; they’re corporate employees. And you’re right. It shows.
Put a proxy on macOS or iOS and see how both incessantly phone home to Apple, including on both which programs you’re running and when.

Apple’s privacy reputation is mostly marketing and boils down to “if anyone’s going to spy on you it’s going to be us!”
> An overwhelmed parent who is at the end of their rope just snaps and smothers the baby to make the crying stop

Except that there is exactly zero evidence to support this.

Those sort of injuries would be as readily apparent as if you'd run the child over with a lorry, and they are absent.
As others will no doubt call out, Affinity have been my main-stay graphics apps for some years now. Affinity Design, Photo, Publisher....

I refuse to pay a monthly fee for something I use on a scattershot basis.
Compared to anything bought by Adobe, sure, but it's not really doing all that impressive compared to Gitlab.
Most people don't care about anything you mentioned.
I too really loved Fireworks (and Dreamweaver) back in the Macromedia days. As a kid then, it was really very intuitive to do all sorts of odd creative projects easily.

Riding on nostalgia fumes, I went searching for screenshots and in the process amusingly found: https://askubuntu.com/a/244128 - a Linux user still running Fireworks 8 in WINE. I'm almost tempted to try the same...
Great news for Invision. They must be stoked.
It exists because some of its products are productivity monsters and are enterprise staples.
I wonder what the ETH miners are doing now. Did they switch to other coins?

I doubt that they actually switch off their stuff. That makes no sense economically.
What alternative is there that has: screen sharing, voice calls, all your friends across every community in one DM list, meaning that you can make group chats across communities?
Na, he’s talking about parenting, not fathering
> Adobe is deeply committed to keeping Figma operating autonomously

What an 'incredible journey' for Figma.
That rule certainly doesn't apply to Adobe.
They paid 20 billion for Figma? :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Don't forget the riots and food/toilet paper shortages, that also happened in 2020.
MS's acquisition of Github seems to be going okay, and has arguably increased user value. It's hard to say what MS is getting out of the deal, though; the mistrust of MS runs deeply given its history, so the biggest strikes in this deal are speculation about what MS is doing with the massive trove of Github developer and code-over-time data. IMHO the longer MS owns Github without hurting or exploiting its users, they are restoring lost trust with devs, but there are lots of devs who can/will never really trust MS or anything it touches (which TBH is a pretty safe bet).
Really hope they won't force you to use Creative Cloud, but it seems inevitable in the long term as that's Adobe's core business model.

I don't even really dislike their software that much (although it is somewhat antiquated), I just hate the extreme bloat of CC and the poor integration between their apps. It's really 2000s legacy software. Instead of bringing Figma into the Adobe system, they should make Photoshop etc. more like Figma.
Arm Announces Neoverse V2 and E2: The Next Generation of Arm Server CPU Cores
What I think you're missing is the possibility of using these tokens as an attack vector in this case - social engineering. Impersonating a senior manager or a C level entity.
So while on the surface you can say that the risk is minimal this can be damaging to a business provided you impersonate the "right" person.
In my experience it's the exact opposite. Good design is precisely about constraints.

A good type system like Haskell's gains you much more than it costs. Sure Json and Clojure are open and flexible, but this is not what you want when you understand your problem and can specify the types are Ohms -> Volts -> Amps etc, instead of just Number Number Number.

Specifying them after in spec or typed racket was just not the same and always rang similiar to unit tests after the fact.

Haskell types is like having a pair programmer sitting beside me. For systems that I have in production that have been ported from Clojure to Purescript the reduction in bugs, refactorability and overall confidence is something I didn't know I was missing until I did.

I understand Hickey's point in his Maybe Not talk, either you have the data or you don't. But at the end of the day, Clojurescript apps subject my users to blank screens and subtle "undefined is not a function" bugs, whereas the Purescript compiler forces ME to diligently deal with those unexpected possible scenarios before I ever ship.
I was heavy user of Fireworks back in the day. Looking back — it had enormous influence over where I’m now today. I still can’t get over what Adobe did to it. It’s like Microsoft or some other behemoth buying JetBrains and then slowly killing it in favor of its own IDEs.
In a lot of parts of the US, "non-minorities" ARE the minority. Somehow, that doesn't matter.
Someone call the DOJ.
nothing tells me you've never even tried it as much as this comment of yours

it is "intelligent context-aware code autocomplete on steroids"
Finance comes with the additional wrinkle that it’s a tournament profession. The ceiling is very high, but it’s quite a brutal path.
You're joking but I'm not. It's a problem that's hard to find support groups for
These days it's mostly tiktok and youtuber/twitchers making videos about your game. Twitter is more for talking to other game devs.
I have never hit a ceiling and most of my friends have not either. My income has increased significantly every year of my 20+ year career.

There -are- ceilings within a given company though, which is why job changes every 1-2 years are pretty normal. Always another company willing to pay 30% more to gain niche experience you have that is stalling progress for them.

When you do finally max out what any one company will pay but have broad experience, you can pivot to independent consulting where $300-1000/hr is normal, and work the number of hours you want.
Ah yes, fixing the mistakes of our chemical experiments with more chemical experiments.

Sulphur dioxide is a toxic gas. Wikipedia says "Sulfur dioxide is a major air pollutant and has significant impacts upon human health."
"as a boot device"!
Once Russia resolves their supply chain issues and market substitution on sanctioned inputs, Iran will be a big aircraft market for them. It's not widely known, but Russia has several new commercial jet designs in production.
> This is huge news for Sketch.

Why, do they have an online editor yet?

As a cto/admin/manager/hiring person: Sketch is worthless for me because I don't have a Mac. But because of that, my company does not use it: despite designers working on macOS, if I can't run it to look at their work and actively comment/collaborate with them, it's not a useful workflow. Therefore instead we hire people familiar with Figma (sadly, because I wanted to avoid giving Adobe money. Well, fuck, eh?)
Too big to be regulated I guess.
Carbon dioxide is the source of all life on Earth.
It sounds like a "market opportunity" for someone with graphics coding skills. I hear if your app gets big enough, there's $20B waiting for you.
The problem with exploitable systems is that the 0.00001% is not random. It's not like a random 1 in a million transactions is dropped.

I think the bigger issue is that the system is somewhat arbitrarily controlled by the large players. That could work out well in some cases (funds hacked are returned) but it could also be less optimal (e.g. you're thrown on some list and all of a sudden your transactions are not valid). We've already seen hackers and obviously malicious actors dinged, which is good. But this opens up an avenue for things like forcing participants to go through regular banking protocols that starts to affect more and more people (e.g. political dissidents). By then you just recreated the modern financial system with all its flaws and gatekeepers, except its less efficient.
Anyone can use this AI art generator – that’s the risk
Not so fast. In both networks, the ultimate control is held by those who run end-user nodes. These people create demand for the asset, and creating demand is ultimately the way to control the asset.

An end-user node is like a device, which verifies that bank notes are genuine or that gold coins are pure. If everyone can independently reject bad money and accept good money, the good money will have more demand and therefore be more valuable.

Even if someone is very rich or has resources to mine blocks, they can't dictate demand for other entities. They must abide by the rules which are enforced by end-user nodes.

If there are entities which have power to dictate demand, and the network can't defend itself under pressure, means that the network is not properly decentralized.

Also, the decision between "good money" and "bad money" should probably be a game theoretic focal point, rather than something set by a foundation and large staking entities.
Did they? Typically, the intent to merge comes before any anti-trust investigation.
I think the 17m is only for the 2% of the voting shares the rest is political donation and thus taxfree
To make it unattractive to the current occupier.
Evil Supervillain: "Darn you jollybean! You have foiled my plan to make slavery legal via an unstoppable smart contract by stating the obvious. If only you didn't exist I would be the ruler of earth!"
> paid off the border guards

I am sorry. This doesn't pass the smell test for me.
Missed a great opportunity to call it "Rent the Driveway" /s

Congrats on your launch, interesting idea, not sure if I'd ever feel comfortable with it but I've seen lots of other things that I think are too close for comfort have success (ex: Amazon Key). Best of luck!
Does anyone here use Copilot with less mainstream languages? Curious to hear what your experiences are like...
Used BlueJ, then our Data Structures teacher showed us Eclipse and we were off like rockets.

A good IDE is what makes strongly typed languages far more powerful and productive than any dynamic language. It’s similar to a mechanic upgrading to power tools over hand tools, both will get the job done but one decreases effort.
Well, currently it looks like it will be more centralized, because before one could mine with just a single GPU, now one has to have a bunch of ETH to start.
Wow, I didn't see that one coming!

They're real close to having full self driving AI --- the only thing missing is "intelligence".

/sarcasm
They could have kept the UI the same, also the device ecosystem.

Why does software industry feel a heavy need to update the front-end when the back-end changes? That defeats the purpose of separating them!
I'm not having success finding the requirements, but I am almost certain there are requirements on window size. Purely by logic, as the window size increases, side impact rating will decrease.
They have been rising for the past 30 years for me, but indeed faster the past 10 years.
Try IntelliJ, it's even better! :)
Nothing in the rules say anything about malice or incompetence. The most charitable interpretation I could find for your assertion is this line:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Of course, the subject of this is a user's comments, not a corporation. I suggest you read the rules a little more thoroughly before accusing others of breaking them.
I think the point is that, practically speaking, there is no such thing as a "fender-bender" with modern cars. Even very low-speed collisions typically involve lots of plastic going "crunch". Instead of your fender being a little bent, you now have dozens of pieces of plastic paneling that have to be replaced.
Adobe can't eat penpot!

https://github.com/penpot/penpot

https://penpot.app/

https://help.penpot.app/technical-guide/getting-started/#sta...
Those could be exchanges ? Which would mean they represent very large numbers of users.

Seems the most likely explanation.

The idea that this isn’t true in BTC or PoW seems like a wild fiction to me.
I think you mean this one? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00503-x

The effect is basically non-existent in people under age 55. And I'd love to see them do a follow-up study since the scans were done fairly soon after infection recovery whereas there's decent evidence that for some people full recovery might take many months.
I miss those days too. Built so many sites in Dreamweaver + Fireworks. But it's probably not the internet that has changed, but you. It's not magical anymore because we're no longer kids and because it has become normal to be online. After having to deal with 56k modems for years, every moment of being continuously online felt special.
This made a huge difference for us when Gjcp_v2.0 was small enough to be in a rear-facing car seat.

You can see them, they can see you.
Good news for Apple too.
But once the company locks me out, I would neither have screen sharing nor video calls nor the DM list. Isn't it better to just use Matrix which may have less features but those features I can rely on for a long time without the risk of being locked out?
They really, honestly, don't think it would happen to them. It's not a risk to them in their brains.
We had minimal problems with the two oldest, but the youngest one is impossible. I think I’ve tried all the tricks in every book to make him sleep in his own bed the whole night. I think I can count on one hand the times that have actually happened. Hopefully we/he will figure it soon.
> Their influence still can override the mining process that’s supposed to be the final word on transactions.

Any attempted tampering would be highly visible and why would anyone with control of that much ETH risk loss of trust in their valuable asset?
seeing lots of comments about concerns given adobe's position in the market and past acquisitions...you can raise a compliant here: https://www.justice.gov/atr/citizen-complaint-center with references to The Clayton Act (https://www.justice.gov/atr/antitrust-laws-and-you-0)
Using electricity isn't the problem. Anyone could use vast amounts of electricity as long as they are willing to pay the price for it. The problem is carbon emissions.

The switch to PoS is a non-issue from my perspective: a centralized system changed from using method A to method B, I don't understand why I should care.

Bitcoin mining is increasingly being used to prevent methane emissions in stranded gas reserves. Having an economic incentive to not flare or emit methane but instead using it for generating bitcoin allows Bitcoin mining to become net carbon negative.

Reducing methane emissions is vastly more effective at preventing climate change than reducing co2 emissions.
Can you recommend any resources for noobs (laypersons)? What's state of the art and best practices?

I've been curious about fraud, counterfeits, grey market, and such for a while.

Authenticity, in all domains, seems like a huge problem.

And an opportunity. While I was working for a fashion retailer, I suggested we should emphasis our end-to-end chain of custody, so customers knew our Gucci handbags were legit. To contrast us with Amazon & eBay, for example.
No acquisition of this size should ever be allowed. Hard cap at no more than $1 billion in 2022 dollars. If Adobe wants Figma users then Adobe should... compete for them.
Powerpoint, Google Earth and Android are three that I use all the time and instantly spring to mind.

edit: Hotmail can arguably be on that list. Revit should probably also qualify
> (...) so it has to export people.

It's indentured servitude. It's exploitation that treats the fellow man as nothing more than an exportable good whose role in life is to be abused to cater to the whims of despots.

You cannot deflect the blame of these subhuman practices onto foreign regimes just because you feel a specific oppressive regime that you support could use some extra cash.
> It's a craze that started on TikTok, the same social media platform that encourages people who aren't disabled to pretend that they are in order to dodge airport queues.

Some people said != platform encourages

lest we start describing what HN "encourages"
I think Scott Belsky (bechance), Chief of Product, strongly influenced this acquisition! he's been the breath of fresh air and innovation that Adobe has needed over the years! As long as he's at Adobe, we're in good hands. Frankly, I'd be glad if my existing Adobe suite at $105/month covers Figma in the fold.

I do wonder if this means sunset for Adobe xD, which I'm totally cool with. This whole market was Sketch's for the losing, and I suspect at some point a merger with Abstract and Invision makes sense for them.
Remotely Controlling Touchscreens [pdf]
When you read US novels about 1920s and 1930s, there are actually fat characters in them.
There is nothing new in cryptocurrency. The only real difference is the ability to flout the law. Having escape hatches is nice but glorifying the escape hatch of the week is odd.
Adobe’s direct competitor is Adobe XD, which launched with practically no features and was slowly developed only to dwindle to death as a rarely used cloud service, while everyone does the important work in Figma.

The parent comment is spot-on. Antitrust legislation needs to be invoked to prevent this acquisition from happening.
Ask HN: In 2022, is anyone earning money from “blogging”?
Wut? I have no idea what you're trying to say here.

Suppose I make a proprietary electronic component. There is no other source of that component. If I can't keep up with supply, where are these "outsourced" parts going to come from?

[edit]
re-reading the article, I think the author or someone else who made the presentation misinterpreted the facts.

FTA: "Suppliers Atmel, Analog Devices and Siliconix provided the potentially counterfeit"

What's most likely the case is that the potentially counterfeit parts were labelled with Atmel, Analog Devices and Siliconix markings/logos and they were misidentified as the source of those parts. That's the only thing that makes sense.
The technology side of all this is definitely interesting, but don't be fooled into thinking it's too interesting; you can read one guys book (the recommendations below are good) and understand how it works in enough detail. The basic idea is a series of data blobs with a cryptographic signature for each blob, with (importantly) the signature of the previous blob in the series included in the next blob. Then there is some distributed consensus mechanism (of which many have been devised) to come to consensus on which blob is canonically the next one in the series. Everything else is details or game theory.
Sigh of relief. That opens up a lot of room for new startups :-D
I had a similar experience, but a clerk at a gas station wiped the chip edge of the card down and it worked on reinsertion. No idea how not really visible dirty (maybe from my very old wallet) was contributing to chip read failures but I have a much higher success rate after copying this fix.
Oh man, can't wait to never be able to cancel my Figma sub now
in many european countries tax will be 50% for contracting. to make 150k you need to make 300k... you cant take days-off,sick-days, might even need to make more for retirment match vs normal job... it is really not a good way to make money
What was he point of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin Wu-Tang Clan album?
It does make sense if you accept two hypotheses:

1/ cryptocurrencies are here to stay, like it or not

2/ The environmental harm done by PoW is a much greater risk to oneself than losing some money on staking.

Then staking becomes a « vote with your wallet » situation to nudge the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem towards non-polluting algorithms.

If you prove switching to PoS can be done at Ethereum’s scale, the case to ban PoW altogether becomes much stronger.
You also (almost always) try to preserve anonymity in a democracy. When was the last time you voted in person outside a booth?
This is barely "hacker" and definitely not "news".