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> self-described socialists like "The Squad" ... banning ICE, defunding police

These are not positions of the mainstream Democratic party. The Democratic party is still basically constrained to its traditional function of channeling constituents frustration into boring status-quo corporate-first policies, much to the chagrin of people who do support the things you've listed.

> green energy

I don't know how you're saying green energy is authoritarian. If it's the economic meddling with subsidies, I'd say it's disingenuous to focus on that when fossil fuels, and overproduction in general, have been so heavily subsidized. I'd much rather the government did not print trillions of dollars and give it away as corporate welfare, but if it's going to, I'd rather it go to forward thinking technologies rather than just lining the pockets of existing industries.

> It's always "Them". Never "Us". If only "They" could wake up they'd finally love "Our" version of big brother.

I'm not an "our". I routinely get into arguments with Democratic friends advocating bureaucracy-centric corporate-first policies that their politicians have convinced them are genuine attempts at reform. I've read plenty of reactionary writing and think it has fantastic critiques about the Cathedral and the deep state. I think those structures are ultimately at odds with personal liberty and enlightenment. However this does not mean that I view every attempt to attack those structures as a good thing.
Start using version control (git) and put a (probably very simple) CI/CD pipeline in control of deployments. The pipeline might just sftp the files from git to the server; that’s okay. The point is production deployments cannot happen outside of fit commits. (Change server creds if necessary so this cannot be bypassed).

Doing this will put a safety net in place enabling rollbacks, introduce the team to version control, and give you a beachhead for automated testing in the pipeline.

Definitely DO NOT do a rewrite.
sadly I think apple stock holders demand growth and one way is through forcing the user to listen to 5 ads before the can check their SMS or make a call.
> For company projects justifying expenses during the experimentation phase is a hard enough problem that I'd just not bother.

Seems like you're probably costing yourself a lot of money then. We make the decision to buy instead of build quite often in this phase precisely because the economics make so much sense.
Early 2000s forums were a special place. None I was part of were quite as close-knit as yours sounds, but the general quality of discourse of those I frequented back then was a good deal higher than what’s commonly seen on social media these days.

It’s too bad they’ve gone extinct. The few old style forums that are still hanging on do so by way of sheer momentum (huge numbers of posters) or by having become fringe echo chambers and are just as bad or worse than social media.
Oof, that sounds bad.

My current company has an internal ‘secret sharing’ tool kind of like Pastebin (but encrypted, one time open links, etc) for one off sharing of things like that. For all other creds we use Vault heavily.

PII, passwords, things like that are NEVER to go over Teams or email.
Whoops! Missed '2 pecks to a kenning'! Which is a half-bushel.
While this comment looks ok, there could be some system effect going on. A quick perusal of the comment history with "showdead" set to yes (its in your profile settings) provides a different view - especially when one goes all the way to the first comment left.
I agree, the title is a little self aggrandizing. As a game designer, I feel it disingenuous to claim it is a "new" kind of puzzle. The person just made a puzzle by adding rules to a set of constraints.
Making a quick and dirty terminal emulator
What part of this makes sense of someone saying "there shouldn't be bags at conferences because it takes up my only free hand when I'm drinking" ?
> It's kind of weird to see you assert that with no attempt to establish its truth when Scala is something like... the ~20th most popular language? Whereas Python, C, C++, Java, VB, C#, etc. are right at the top

The barrier to adoption of Scala has to do its functional programming side, as well as its complex libraries and types.

Kotlin also uses ": type" syntax, by the way. As does Python!

> I'm pretty sure the popularity of {most software technologies} outside the US and inside the US are very far from being independent variables.

It's hard to understand your point. Are you arguing that programming languages are less popular outside the US? Or "most software technologies"?

So let's sum it up: SHIFT concerns are very minor in comparison to other programming language ergonomics (in which need I remind you, C++ never fared very well), and the ": type" syntax is very common and mainstream in programming languages, with no hindrance to adoption.
Spared because he slightly cares. Slightly, or else why did he instigate the hostage situation in the first place? On a gradient you can say he cares about 0.001%.

0.001% rounds to 0 which is inline with what I said. On a fundamental level, we don't care.

>It is very different what we know when we sit on the couch and muse about it, from what we know when we are directly engaged in a particular set of actions.

You're musing too. And you mused the opposite of what I mused.

I would say, my analysis goes beyond simple musing. It's evidence based.

Observe the actions and inaction of the world and yourself. How much of your wealth have you donated to people in need? You have enough wealth to save dying people. There are definitely people in the US who need money to pay for chemo or some other treatment for some terminal disease. How much effort did you spend to find these people and donate a fraction of your wealth to save a life?

None. People have already died because of your inaction. Entire complex stories have been already been lost... And does this inaction keep you awake at night? No. Because you don't care. And neither does anyone else.

This is evidence that what I am saying is more inline with truth then simple musing.
Both true - that's what makes it seem feasible.

I suppose the real comparison is [cost of refining material in orbit] - [cost of collecting on orbit (which must be done anyway)] vs [cost of refining it on the surface + launching it into orbit].
"Write better notes by writing notes". Thanks..?

No idea what this blog post is getting at. Maybe they're trying to point out that consistently writing notes will produce higher quality notes than changing styles every 6 weeks?
Faraday and Babbage: Semiconductors and Computing in 1833
I think that's jurisdiction dependent. It could be $1 is some places, whereas other places a judge might require fair value
Thanks for the gentle let off on the memory problem. Now, how to find similar explanations for all of the other things that can't be remembered ;)
Yeah, having the experimental code base pointing at the production data base sounds like fun. I did that. We had a backup. I'm still alive.
There plenty of films made by very creative film makers that had plenty of artistic freedom, but still have muddy dialogue so I don’t see how any of that is relevant to the particular issue.
Games do this as well, to monitor for apps that enable cheating (like auto-tappers)
Still remembering the slight thrill of replacing (non-rechargeable) batteries in my Palm III.
There was plenty of time, but what if I'm going to drop a battery and it rolls under the desk? I did do a recent backup, didn't I?

There were mods for turning the cradle into a charging device for rechargeable batteries, but I never managed to try it.
why isn't it possible to have 99% of apps be completely silo'd off from others? essentially a walled garden within a walled garden. Sure a few will need to communicate with other apps, but that should be a user permission and not available "just because"
I'm almost in my 30's and my opinion looking back on what work used to be like (from what I can get from books) is that pensions had a huge impact.

Pensions formed a compelling reason not to quit or get fired. Having to switch jobs came with substantial risk/drawbacks. That's not true today. Most people don't have any drawbacks to switching jobs other than the job itself. From a pure optimization perspective, quiet quitting offers workers a "reset period" where they can mentally reset before they quit/get fired and start a new job.

It's an extension of an environment that rewards switching jobs more than keeping jobs.

I think the proclivity towards trying to punish QQs rather than preventing people wanting to quit is only going to make it worse.
Was early into computers and we used printed copy back then - your 'listing'. I'd letter changes on the code then use an editor then run then get another listing.

So I was going to write a letter to my brother who'd moved out to Silicon Valley, and I found I could no longer write in cursive. Several years of just lettering had beat it out of me. Anyway I could hand-letter faster than cursive anyway.

I let cursive go 40 years ago, and never looked back.
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Unless you're Christian Bök or reading Gadsby.
Kudos on the puzzle; very easy to understand what needs to be done/achieved to solve it.

You could change the page title from "React App" to something more appropriate.
Your original contract is binding. The new one without consideration may not be binding (in your jurisdiction).
I love cursive.

For me, it's faster to write and faster to read.

The idea of drawing the words instead of printing them, putting a smidge of creativity into my writing, makes the whole exercise of writing and taking notes easier and more enjoyable. I put my emotions into the drawings/words and can tell my emotional state years later. The larger curves, the more joyous I was. The sharper the lines, the more i hated that particular meeting. The 'faster' the drawings the more hurried the meeting. ETC. It adds an extra layer or two of information to my writing that I just don't seem to be able to manifest in print, and at no cost to me in terms of time.
There are tons of sources if you just type anything in Google, but here is just a snack as an example: octopuses recognize individual people:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20563906/

There are also articles about how they use tools, estimate intent, etc.

Here is one about how they use deception:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440998/

This entails that they have a mental model of what others think of them, which ranks very high on the evaluation of animal consciousness.
"pointlessly" neat?
Obligatory https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/

For real, advising someone to use Manjaro over Arch is kinda weird.
I mean sure, but google has done zero to make me think they care even the slightest about privacy (security != privacy). Apple at least takes some steps. Trust me when they go rogue I will be just as harsh.
Each time (e.g., Rust, Go, Carbon, Cppfront, ...) before clicking, I hope that people would remember that Pascal pointer syntax is better than C's convoluted '*' and '->' and '.'. So far, I've been disappointed. I mean:

'p.x' just like 'p.x' in C, but
'p^' instead of '*p' and
'p^.x' instead of 'p->x' and
'p^^.x' instead of '(*p)->x'.

Just admit it: Pascal is nice, clean, compositional, and less surprising.

Don't you remember? Or do you honestly think that C syntax is better?*
I didn't even notice, as you can just right-click and download. It's also not mentioned in the FAQ, which just states that "You own the copyright to any patterns produced using this tool, just like you'd own the copyright to a design you made using Photoshop or Illustrator."

Soo... a hybrid of donation button and tax on people who don't know about right-click → save image?
"Github actions!? They don't even have source control to begin with."

Right: no point in adding any tests until you've got source control in place. Hence my suggestion for a shortcut to doing that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884305
Great games for an RTX 3090 and some of the best of all time:

- Dwarf Fortress

- Europa Universalis 4

- Caves of Qud
> I’m fairly busy, but just use my inbox with search, Apple notes and Apple reminders. Works fine for me.

That's the key. It works fine for you. It wouldn't come close to working for me though. I've had to dedicate many hours building a system that works for me.

That said, I've never been into productivity porn. I've spent my time figuring out what wasn't working and how to fix it. Reading about 'productivity' is an unproductive use of my time.
Its design is similar to absl::Mutex, which is available to c++ users. They may also have been written initially by Mike Burrows?
I thought it was just me, glad you posted this.
These are features, not bugs.
It's probably good that your 7yo is better at reading than many adults.
It depends. We’ve seen this “thoughtful content” of HNers posting in detail about their personal notes-taking systems ad nauseum in uncountable threads already. No one asked for them to do it again here.

The whole point is that an elaborate system for taking notes is unnecessary and likely detracts from the actual work getting done.
> I’m imagining many lists, with a nearly frictionless way to say ‘do this today’, and the task moves accordingly.

I think org-mode does this. You can schedule tasks and get org-mode to compile an agenda for you.
Yes, I too have come to this realization too. I too hated memorising something as I didn't consider it an "intellectual" task. But you are right that it is a necessary part of education to train kids. Indeed, now when I look at some professions as an adult - like the Indian administrative services (civil service bureaucrats), doctors, lawyers etc - I understand why the ability and skill to learn some fact quickly and retain it in memory is highly valued in such professions.
Health insurance is more comprehensive so I would expect it to cost more. The issue is it cost far more than it should in no small part due to lack of competition.
This feels very very similar to learning how to complete sliding puzzles for the first time! Recreating that feeling of moving around pieces to eventually understand the logic is great!

Also feels similar to the problem of getting a fox, a chicken, and a sack of grain across a bridge.
That is not my intent, but I see where you're coming from. Today's reactionaries were conservatives yesterday because that is what the politicians constrained their viewpoint into. To me, the only peacefully-resolving course is to hope there are enough actual conservatives (ie people who respect institutions and want to slow change, and would therefore be against the recent bans on fundamental medical care, the Republican party's disruption of the pandemic response, etc) that will distance themselves from the reactionaries and not continue to blindly vote Republican.
The Firefox "Allow Right-Click" addon remedies this situation: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/re-enable-rig...
What separates humans from insects, I would say is consciousness. The same thing with the roomba.
Cobain and others considered Nevermind Pop Music. It's wide appeal supports that. The songs largely followed the roughly verse-verse-chorus-verse-bridge-verse-chorus-chorus patterns of all Pop Music. And let's not kid ourselves about In Utero. Regardless of texture, it was expensively produced, had mountains of headroom, and is nothing less than a national quality, high fidelity record.

Another example of the point I was making was Superdrag, who's very high fidelity Head Trip in Every Key was produced by industry professional Jerry Finn (his fee alone was $50K). Head Trip was extremely popular, with its singles on heavy radio rotation; Do the Vampire still gets airplay. Their subsequent self-produced record, In the Valley of Dying Stars, which can not be described as high fidelity, basically failed and sadly dropped them back into relative obscurity. I don't think one can find a better or more consistent song smith and performer than John Davis.

But there are exceptions, like Dinosaur Jr, who still came to wide loyal popularity even though J Mascis self-produced many imperfectly produced records, but that still sold very well. But though they were never quite produced correctly to national standards, they weren't really low fidelity records, either, though often classified as such. Elliot Smith is another exception, with tracking on his classic analog equipment and bazaar levels of analog compression. Beck's Mellow Gold is another exception, probably saved by professional mastering, it is entirely a basement recording that somehow broke through the high standards long set by major labels and consumers.

Generally, you can have a band with a singer that can not sing (such as Fred Schneider or Black Francis) and/or a guitar player that is embarrassingly limited (such as Peter Buck or The Edge in their early days), but if your rhythm section (bassist and drummer) is decent, and the records produced to sufficient quality, the band can do very well. Also, if you have a band that is touring constantly to promote their music, the hard work seems to pay off (The Grateful Dead, REM, DMB, Phish).

Everything I have written is just my own opinions, btw. Everyone seems biased towards the idea that an artist is intrinsically great, but most nationally recognized are often put together, so to speak, part of the evolution from obscurity to fame involves changes made often against the artists' ethic or wishes. Elvis and Frank Sinatra didn't do it all by themselves, there was massive support and significant image crafting.
I'm sorry but that is just not true. That kind of naturalistic acting has been the dominant trend in movies since Brando. TV may have been more stage like but definitely not movies.
I became a big fan of the Monte Carlo method when I watched an economist torture a problem until he found a way to turn it into the heat equation, a differential equation he knew how to solve. He made so many bogus assumptions that the answer was pretty much worthless. But, hey, he could claim he had a closed form solution!
I have never seen such indecipherable cursive writings here (somewhere in Europe). Most of them look like signatures to me. Maybe they are cursive, but around here it almost never looks like this, if ever.
A high-karma Reddit account has monetary value, you can sell it to a bot operator.

Does an HN account have any value, or do you think karma farmers are just in it for the ego boost?
> Commit the entire production codebase to git and push it to a host (GitHub would be easiest here)

Git on his own machine would be easiest. There is no need to consider a git host that the others can access until things are at the point where the others are ready to use git.

Even when they reach that point I question whether GitHub is the way to go. He didn't say much about their IT department but they have web servers and databases so evidently have people who can manage such things. It would be close to trivial for those people to set up git hosting on one of their own servers.
> home-written framework towards Laravel

I would think about that very long. Over the years, experience has shown me that regardless of what framework or library you use, you introduce a lot of dependencies to your app when you build on such a framework or library. The common sense says that they should make things easier, and at the start they definitely do that. But over the years, you start encountering backwards-incompatible changes, major moves etc in those frameworks and libraries which start taking your time. And sometimes a considerable chunk.

I would only use a framework or library that has a major backwards compatibility policy or viewpoint. JSON's 'only add, never deprecate' is a very good ideal to strive to. Even if this couldn't be entirely feasible in software, it should be at least strived to.

So I'd say if something that is built in-house works, easy to use and keep maintained, there is absolutely no reason to move to an external framework.
Looks nice, but $8 for a PNG? Come on.
Certainly anyone can have philosophical questions, but OP pointed to VCs and such, sounded like a question of interesting business/tech conversations. So, yes.. production.
Ah, the failure is yours, but the downvote is mine. And you wanted to converse in a philosophy thread? It's almost as if you are proving why programmers are on average poor thinkers. Too used to the computer and herd mentality to actually think without a prompt.
I'm 47 and I haven't written anything in cursive (other than my signature) since age 16. In 11-12th grade we had to type all reports and I always did homework and tests in print not cursive because I hated writing in cursive and the teachers hated reading it. They would explicitly tell us "PRINT NO CURSIVE!"

The author answers their own question.

"How will they interpret the past?"

"In the future, cursive will have to be taught to scholars the way Elizabethan secretary hand or paleography is today."

Fine, I don't see any problem with that. The author is concerned with people being able to read historical documents. If you really need to do that then be prepared to take a short course on that. It's not like learning a foreign language. People should be able to learn to read it in a week or two at most.
I remember a science and technology TV program on Belgian TV back in the early nineties where they showed a PC program that could convert handwriting to text. Amazing!

But when they showed it in action, it couldn’t do cursive “because nobody writes cursive anyway”, according to the American developer.

At the time, I assumed that the guy just made that claim to excuse a serious limitation of his software: why would anyone not write cursive (which is faster)?
First, you absolutely have to ignore everybody here that tells you that this is a fine situation, that it's all about the business etc etc. You have to tell Senior management that they have created a Golden Goose, and while that it is admirable that it's laying golden eggs at the same time it's also playing Russian roulette.

You have to convince them that not only is this situation a drag reducing their future revenue, as they cannot develop it further with any speed, but it can also come crashing down catastrophically at any point in time.

It also sounds like the current team is not up for it you need more people and a dedicated project
Indeed, and in the USA, stenographer's notebooks only disappeared from craft aisle of supermarket and drug stores during my adult lifetime.

// They're the pads with spiral at top, stiff cardboard back, Gregg Ruled with horizontal lines and one differently colored vertical line down the middle of the page.