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This is closer to my opinion.

I write a fair amount of Typescript, but it's frustrating to see it used so ubiquitously, when in a lot of cases it's just not necessary.

A strongly typed language definitely has a place in web UI development though. But my hope is to see it replaced by a WASM based language, or better still, a choice of WASM based languages.
> they have really good CPUs, GPUs

The GPUs on macOS and iOS are incredible for mobile processors, especially in terms of power efficiency, but they don't compete with the GPUs in gaming PCs or current generation consoles.
They also are part of the same company as a big promoter so a venue which doesn’t go along with them has to worry about losing the most popular acts, too. They prefer pre-packaged slates so that can be a big difference: play the game with Ticketmaster and you’re basically booked full
with popular acts, or go it alone and have to spend more time finding bands on your own.
Pelikan, Twitter’s framework for building caches
> But instead of being so "black and white" and insisting it must be nuclear that powers things

It sure is a good thing I didn't say anything of the sort or wow I'd be a hypocrite.

I am definitely not the person trying to shoehorn the entire earth into one energy mix box in this conversation. I think the answer to this is likely to vary a lot all over the world.

Also a lot of the world's population is far enough north that winters produce relatively little solar or wind energy. And those places also tend to be massive energy consumers because it's also very cold.

Right now that doesn't show up in electricity stats because of how common in-home gas heating is. In order to decarbonize the northern parts of the world we will need to dramatically increase both electric energy consumption and production, during winter, because heat pumps will almost certainly be replacing gas furnaces.
Wait, how slow is it starting for you? On my 2012 Mac Mini, a clean clj 1.11 REPL (with no namespaces loaded) starts in under 5 seconds (using JDK 18).
Exactly, with a Pi-Hole.
Possibly their next game is less refined so they learned the dev stack on something that was less up for debate. Now the know the dev stack to focus on content.
Such an insightful article.

I'm really curious how one acquires the knowledge and develops the skills needed to write so eloquently about a deeply complicated topic. What does patio11 read, who are the people he interacts with, what helped him nurture his exploratory traits, how does he structure new knowledge. It's all a fascinating mystery to me.
Yes, that part was nonsense. Typescript maps one to one for supported features. However there was comment there that ts doesn't generate code by itself unless downgrading to historic versions, which is not true.

It would be nice if not only type system but all ts would be erasable, ie. so you can write ts to js transpiler by replacing ts code by spaces and the remaining part would be valid, runnable js.

With enums, modules/namespaces it's violated. And if it's violated already then they should just go ahead and support things like match expressions and move statements to expressions coffeescript style. Because you have insight into types, performance would not suffer - you'd pay overhead of expression-instead-of-statement if you'd actually mean to use it, which is great tradeoff.
The ability for remote people to either work at all or get something higher paid I counted as obvious benefits in my original comment.

The concept of a company maybe relatively recent in humanity, but that doesn’t mean the social bonds with it are something worth throwing away, and given modern society is organized around it, with it will come a lot of loneliness. We don’t have a culture in the US that values community for the most part, with exceptions obviously. Hell, one of two parties does nothing but call half of the US the biggest threat and enemy to the country. This isn’t an environment to grow ties in.
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“Vladimir Putin’s latest frightening gambit lies at the bottom of the ocean”
This is a pretty cool idea. Trains make a surprising amount of money, so there's probably a lot of money to be made if it increases efficiency. The costs of errors here are measured in lives though, not Jira tickets, so I hope he's done some very careful testing.
I just learned about SigNoz. I spend a lot of time flipping between New Relic and Splunk, and my company spends a ton on both. I’m interested to hear from users and learn if it’s prod ready as a New Relic alternative. I’m especially interested in something that could run locally so I can profile using the same tools that run in prod. Any feedback?
And I think Factorio uses OpenGL (which is cross-platform but deprecated on MacOS) and doesn't distribute via the app store, and is only distributed as x86-64[0], bypassing most of all three of GP's points.

[0] It was recently announced for Switch, but from what I've heard there aren't plans to release it for ARM on other platforms in the immediate future.
Not associated with the project but a quick look suggests: a database (clickhouse), alertmanager, query-service, frontend are signoz components, otel* and hotrod are for distributed tracing. Otel stands for open telemetry (https://opentelemetry.io/), hotrod is a tracing demo app from jaeger: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/tree/main/examples/h....

Without thinking too much about it, I assume that: hotrod is a demo data source pushing traces to the otel collector, which stores data in clickhouse. Frontend fetches data from clickhouse using the query service. Alert manager probably looks at traces coming in and detects anomalies, so that you can get real-time alerts when things don’t look normal.
Is there any effort ongoing to add optional type declaration to Javascript? Runtime type info. would make lot of use cases possible.
Ask HN: How to transition as a Senior Engineer?
I've spent most of my career (7+ years) working within a single 'stack', call it 'backend web services written in Python' as an example. I'm very comfortable in that sphere but feel like I'm stagnating; there isn't scope in my current workplace to use anything else and it's all pretty standard stuff.

I want to move to a different stack. This is for both professional growth—to learn new ways of doing things which might lead me to working more effectively—as well as for personal growth. I've found some other technologies and areas that excite me and which I really want to be a part of.

Senior positions using other stacks understandably require several years of experience; those I've applied for have resulted in rejections at the application stage. Some substantial demo projects in my portfolio would be great but I struggle to find time outside of work these days.

Junior positions don't have sufficient compensation given my family needs and have fewer or none of the other responsibilities I enjoy such as team management and project ownership.

I'm hoping my exact transition isn't relevant for receiving advice, to make it useful for others in similar situations, but some examples of transitions might be:

- Backend web services written in Python to those written in languages with substantially different paradigms, e.g. Elixir.
- Consumer-oriented web APIs to real-time services, e.g. fintech.
- Backend web services to a hyper-focused subset of that, e.g. database engineering or operations.

What advice do you have on transitioning from one stack to another? If you're part of a hiring team, how can applicants win you over if their technologies don't align with your own?
Why can’t we pay attention any more?
I made it once. You have to put a weight on it while it's curing, like a gallon bottle of water. Did you do that?
Anything that hit the metal directly could cause problems, yes. You had to be pretty careful and test stuff first.

TBH I didn't use these multitasking tools much. I was a support guy then; I worked on other people's PCs so I needed to know how to use the built-in tools to best advantage. I could not rely on additional apps, utilities, etc. because the PC I was fixing almost certainly wouldn't have them.

Late in that era I carried around a wallet with about 20 floppies full of freeware tools and utilities for this reason.

But for me it was occasionally very handy to be able to go and make a directory, or format a diskette or something, while in the middle of something in an app.

But I wouldn't try something that wrote to the hardware, do file transfers or something. Serial ports if you were very careful to set them up so they didn't share IRQs, which of course on the PC was the normal standard config -- COM1: shared IRQ 4 with COM3:, and COM2: shared IRQ 3 with COM4:

While LPT1: was on IRQ 7 and why on Earth can I still remember this 35 years later? >_<
How would you explain homosexuality with this model? Historically, it has actually cost in terms of status, certainly doesn't confer reproductive fitness on the individual, and sorely restricts the individual's sexual market.

It falls apart rather quickly without the tell-tale signs of a tortured model, like modelling our solar system as the motion of circles because you won't admit the ellipse. You can do it, but you probably just need a better model.

For starters, the over-focus on the individual misses competition at level above and below, genes and groups. Secondly, it glosses over emergent phenomena too glibly. If you try to model a presidential election in terms of quantum physics and general relativity, you won't get very far. I can even point out an emergent phenomenon that radically changes this calculus, the human frontal lobes. Unlike most animals, we can suppress our immediate reactions and get mental time and distance from the world, to remap our motivations and act in ways completely absurd from the point of status and sexual market value, like suicide bombings. Status and sexual market value drop to dead zero. You can try to tie it back to status and sexual market value, passing through the activity of the frontal lobes, which would only prove my point about emergent phenomena and a tortured model.

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken
In some sense there already is a lottery - except the scalpers use bots and other methods to firstly inflate the number of people seeking a ticket, and secondly to bid faster than normal humans can. A lottery of only people who actually intend to go to the concert (or resell the tickets at face value) would be the best for consumers.
You piqued my interest and now would love to know more, are you selling ticket yourself for your own events and acting as a ticket selling platform for others?

It's sad to see you have such a big amount of automated traffic, no wonder why it's so hard to get tickets for high demand events as a human when you're competing with this.
Here you go: https://coffeespace.org.uk/tools/css-64.htm

A 64 byte CSS dark theme with a monospace font based on the 58 byte CSS theme [1] and a page that could be an entry for the 1kB club [2].

[1] https://gist.github.com/JoeyBurzynski/617fb6201335779f8424ad...

[2] https://1kb.club/
Sightlines are often tuned only for seeing oncoming traffic far enough to turn into it and not for seeing fastish stuff going the opposite way.
The idea that Apple are experts in UI/UX has to stop. Nobody should be copying them.
Because pushing more of their cost of doing business into fees allows them to advertise a lower face price on their tickets.
Mainly because of how easy it ks to install steam, mesa-git, and latest kernel. Back when I had Nvidia card, Arch also was least painless when it came to the drivers for some reason, alongside gentoo.
AUR was certainly useful with getting game related stuff that wasn't in repos or so
You should look for both a CTO and a COO.

Whatever you cannot find a person for, you do yourself.
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> Also see https://rescript-lang.org/ if you're considering learning Typescript

I'd never heard of this, so here are a couple things I think are true after poking around a bit:

• TypeScript is a strict superset of JavaScript that compiles to JavaScript, while ReScript is unique language that compiles to JavaScript.

• ReScript is apparently a re-brand of "Reason(ML)", which is apparently derived from OCaml.
Goodness I hope this is good because I will make my company gobble it upppp if so.
> What's with the hacker community and their obsession with a terminal emulator?

Because unlike web apps, terminal apps are often fast (and even faster when the terminal has HW acceleration, see for example https://alacritty.org). Unlike native GUIs, they can easily go through a low-bandwidth network connection (e.g. ssh). They are often portable and can be easily made stable without a huge stack of dependencies.
The link is correct - here is a clickable version:

https://tinyurl.com/yt3zp4m3
I mean, nuclear might be expensive, time consuming to build, and difficult but at least we've been doing it for 70 years. It's not clear that projections of long term costs on things we haven't even done at scale are going to be realistic when we try them in the real world.

Even if it takes 20 years to build a nuke, that might still be sooner than "power to x" becomes a viable, affordable option for most of the world.

This is the weird thing about this argument: it so often rests simultaneously on an argument for practicality and/or cost effectiveness, but literally any criticism is met with a gish gallop of unproven technology. You can't have this both ways.

In the end, my central thesis here is just that if you think the be all and end all of this issue is cost effectiveness you are optimizing for the wrong goals and it leaves open a giant window for carbon emitting sources to justify their use when renewables don't work for various local reasons.

The thing to be black and white about is carbon emissions. "What energy mix works for place X right now if we try to eliminate carbon emissions asap" is not a decision that's gonna be made on an internet forum.
There are a lot of tech incubators in the Paris area.
They messed up with contributions to flow-typed where they were not accepting partially done typings, ie. not having some kind of incubator. People would push stuff, others would fix it. In community run projects you need to focus on low friction, not perfectionism. That killed typing coverage while ts was growing like crazy. Typing coverage worked like magnet for ts vs flow decisions. So it killed flow in effect.
> Game consoles don't use Vulkan

The Switch does.

Windows may be better served with D3D12, but Vulkan is fine for almost all cases. If you choose Vulkan rather than D3D12 you also get Android, Switch, Steam Deck/Linux and if you aren't too bothered about performance, iOS/macOS via the MoltenVK translation layer.

PC+Mobile is a pretty massive chunk of the gaming market to get with just one graphics backend.
>Viagogo is a horrible company and has been scaming people in Switzerland as well as all over the world.

I went to a very well-known university (in the US), and they had business courses that literally invited speakers in that had startups that were ticket arbitrage.

I was taken aback that they would be bragging about buying out all the tickets for an event and then charging more for them. Their response is something along the lines of "well first we are getting the 'real WTP' price from the consumer and second we sometimes buyout events that turn out bad and lose money, so it's fair!"

But the whole time it was discussed by professors as if this was a great idea!
No, because it is, by definition, no longer "luxury".

Something everyone can afford isn't a luxury. Food is a luxury in certain nations. Food is just another everyday regular bullshit item here in America, or in Sweden, or Denmark. Not everyone can afford a Rolls-Royce Cullinan. That's why it's a luxury SUV.

Ticket prices aren't really any different. First off, these tickets do have "fair" pricing, but what they don't have are protections. If I want to buy 153 tickets for $40 each so I can bring my entire extended family to an event, should I have the right to do that? I don't know. Obviously in America, I tend to lean more towards "yes" than "no".

I do agree with one of the posters above who said, "If someone really wants to go see a show, they'll pay whatever they have to pay." I do tend to agree with that. I don't even remember the last concert I've been to because, based on my experience, it's going to be hot, entirely too loud, entirely too distorted, and I could have a way better time in my home theater cranking a recording of a previous concert up to 50% volume and rocking out.

Frankly I don't even understand how someone could pay $50 to see a show, much less $250, but each to their own I guess.
“I can afford scalper prices so I don’t see what the big deal is.”
It's not "bad" in a cosmic sense, it's just a different set of tradeoffs. It leads to shortages and queueing and situations where people who really want to attend aren't able to even if they would have been happy to pay more.
I think it's possible to be proud of your children for adapting to modern interfaces more quickly and easily than you, while simultaneously remaining cautious about risks those technologies can present. I don't think the straw-parent in your example needs to know how to work the remote (or the computer) to understand most of the important risks, e.g. of unmoderated content consumption. I'm pretty sure it's still unacceptable in most spheres for parents to admit no boundaries or limitations to TV or internet usage, especially conditioned on age or subject matter.

Understanding the technology and understanding its attendant risks aren't completely orthogonal, but neither does one imply the other - or else the kids who "instinctively know about technology" would also instinctively know the risks. On the other hand, it's probably faster and easier for someone who understands the technology to learn about the attendant risks, and understanding the technology may be required to personally validate the risks or to invent the best remediation strategies. But a considerable amount of parenting is, and always has been, received wisdom, for better or worse. I can see an argument to describe "lazy" as neglectful, but I take issue with "stupid": the scope of a parent's best reasonable effort to understand and mitigate technological risks for their children should be conditioned on what level of understanding they can realistically achieve, or else "neglect" is reduced to an IQ test.
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This issue isn't as cut and dry as simply banning scalping. I spend most of my discretionary income on music... merchandise, vinyl, concert tickets. At any given point in time I have tickets to about 7-8 performances in the future. Sometimes life gets in the way, and I simply cannot attend an event. In those situations, I have a very legitimate reason to want to sell concert tickets, and I do. Sometimes I will end up selling for under what I paid, other times I will make a small profit, more rarely I will say fuck it and just give the tickets away on social media to friends or coworkers. In the long term, this generally nets me out at zero in terms of gaining/losing money on ticket purchases.

My point, I guess, is that there's a legitimate, healthy reason for a resale market. Throwing the ticketing resale market out with the scalper bathwater is a myopic solution.
Really lightweight, nicely done.

For even more sites/pops, https://gcping.com exists which I believe pings each GCP region worldwide. It feels a bit heavier, as it takes at least a few seconds before I see (relevant to me in the US) results.
Post Elizabeth: Palace video footage demands are an early red flag
>Although the unedited broadcast remains online temporarily — through platforms such as BBC iPlayer — what happens to the material in a few weeks is unclear. “Royal staff sent messages to the BBC, ITV News and Sky News during the event with the timestamps of footage they wished to exclude from future news broadcasts and social media clips,” the Guardian reported. Five video clips removed from circulation included members of the royal family.
155mm was the diameter. According to Wikipedia they were 34 inches long. So quite a bit bigger than a 10cm sphere, which is what was implied in the question.
Maybe it was too early? Compiling stuff to JS came popular after flash died.
because I have no interest in doing coding interviews and because I think there are "ceilings" for engineering positions which is less the case for leadership roles outside engineering.

engineering people also tend to get into pissing contests of who is smarter, and the crab bucket mentality is real. I've experienced this about 2 years ago when i considered engineering roles and went through some interview cycles.

also, i have experience that is way broader and more valuable than my engineering skills, and in an engineering role, i will not be able to leverage those skills and be compensated for them.
> Their works don't feel new, novel, and original: I've seen parts and pieces of it, reflections of its essence, expressed all over the average Slavic person.

The problem with the classics is they become so inspiring to future artists and readers that the themes, parts and other things disseminate into the culture to become stereotypical and boring. It's a big chicken and egg problem often enough. What was slavic art like before these people I wonder. Something impossible to separate.
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> the product may even be labeled as lox and they very well think they are enjoying lox, but what they are getting, instead, is smoked salmon.

I thought these were synonyms, with lox being a NYC and New England dialect choice.
Had a 2nd hand Commodore 64 as a kid and copied small BASIC programs from a worn copy of the Programmer's Reference Guide, filling in pieces from a few partially torn pages. But I wouldn't say that taught me programming. Didn't have a PC until I was 16. No internet until 17. Last couple years of highschool, I made a few trivial web pages with PHP, and I wouldn't say I knew anything about coding then either. Nor would I say I really learned programming while completing my CS degree. I felt like I had learned to program while being unemployed for a few years after graduating, and I didn't feel like I was any good I until after my first few jobs. Now, having held a senior engineer title for some time, looking to move on to a principal role, I realize I never really knew anything.
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Welp, why make a small one then? Just make a big one :-)
Why does something need to reason about things the way a human would to be "truly intelligent"?
True even in the early 1980s, when I somehow managed to call in and got two front row seats to Elton John at the Hollywood bowl by calling in right at 10 AM. The system was known to be rigged by then, and I had called straight into Ticketmaster. My victory was so unusual even 40 years ago that I didn’t actually believe it had happened until they let us into the seats.
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