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Ask HN: How do you build relationships when you're weird and socially inept?
Hi, I'm sure HN is not the perfect place to ask for this, but there is probably some slightly older/smarter like-minded weirdos who'd have an interesting take on this.

If I had to summarize my life:

gifted nerd weirdo growing up in the hood, 8 years of severe bullying, dropped out at 15yo, stayed +/- completely socially isolated until I was 18, couldn't talk to a girl until I was +20yo

Still managed to get into a good CS/SWE school and get a decent job despite dropping out of high school, since I've always been teaching myself stuff since I was a kid.

Never been able to form long-term relationships/friendships.

During the last 2/3 years, my only social interactions, were at work(remotely), and a few extremely brief flings, with women that only seemed interest by my money, desperate or too mentally unstable to be tolerated by anyone else.(often all of that at the same time)

Socially I feel like a freak/alien/monster, who missed most of the normal social experiences normal people seems to have, and who can't seem to fit in anywhere.

I've tried about 15 shrinks through my life, meds(prescribed or not), psychedelics, nothing seems to have a significant/lasting impact on my ability to have a normal social life. Even other weirdos don't seem able or willing to put up with me.

If you were in my shoes, what would you do? I'm open to any suggestions, even extreme ones.
I agree with everything you said, but I don't see how it's relevant to my comment, unless you misread me?

UI in general is regressed continually - completely agree with you there, yes.

The article however is specifically about Jetbrains. Jetbrains may be regressing their UI. Perhaps someone should spend some time looking at Jetbrains' new UIs and analyse whether it does in fact constitute yet another example of regressed UI.

This article doesn't do that - it makes a very lazy & exceptionally poor case.
These are not true hypersonic cruise missiles (e.g. a SCRAMJet), instead they are ballistic missiles with an unpowered hypersonic glider warhead. Thus, they aren't too dissimilar from the way ICBMs work for missile defense with EKVs being needed to intercept. The intercept speed of EKVs IIRC is over Mach 25.

Thus, the interception goal would be to get them in their boost phase, or mid-course phase, rather than the terminal phase after they've launched the HGV (hypersonic glide vehicle). HGV phase, I think only laser/particle weapons would work given the time between detection and firing solution. But for mid-course, they could use SM-3/SM-6. The SM-3 is specifically designed for targets like the DF. So AEGIS systems with SM-3 might be effective in protecting US carriers as long as the launches are detected. The problem is, the HGV only spends a much shorter time in ballistic phase, and once it re-enters the atmosphere, it is no longer on a predictable ballistic trajectory.

That said, military tech often works much better in theory than in reality. The USSR/Russia had a fearsome military tech on paper, the evidence in Ukraine seems to be it was hyperbole.
I wonder how they are predicting that others are losing $$?
> Something as conceptually simple as a docking station that instantly brings your phone into your desktop as a first class integrated app, able to interact with other applications, including browsers, would have been a huge step forward and a massive selling point for Windows Phone

What would be amazing about this? I have one subscription to Office365 and I can start working on a document on my Mac and then work on the sabe document on my iPhone, iPad or on the web. I can take calls from my Mac from my iPhone, copy and paste between them, bookmarks are shared, I can send a text message from my Mac, my AirPods seamlessly switch, my iPad works as a second display or I can use my keyboard and mouse to control both.

What would one docked device do for me?
On the other hand, I wasn't sure if I wanted kids, and the borderline decision to go ahead was the best decision of my life. YMMV.
Nope. But you can run Quartus Prime Professional in 30-day eval mode, I just did this for a Xilinx / Altera comparison. [Xilinx is ahead for deep combinatorial logic, I think because of the 8-level carry lookahead in each CLB. Altera was fine for well pipelined code. 1 Xilinx DSP == 2 Altera DSPs. YMMV.].
When they fail to investigate blatant inconsistencies, they are culpable.
Flagging is the right thing to do with articles that are too spammy, whether that's because of the content or the presentation.
> leading American socialist movements are focused on democratic socialism

Is there possible anything democratic without free speech?

( Speaking of which. In the Soviet Union all western media - newspapers and magazines - was put under the lock. Foreign propaganda. Sounds familiar? Only trusted persons could get the key. Funny thing is all former Party media - newspapers and magazines from former years - were put under the same lock. Protocols of former Party congresses too. Dangerous, same as foreign propaganda. And now I see this:

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/youtube-demonetizes-tk-content

YouTube demonetized a video showing years of audio and video clips, tweets, and headlines produced by the Party politicians at about and after 2016 - nothing else.

So we may be not there yet but we are sure sailing in the same direction ).
Maybe because of this

https://youtu.be/bTeVgfPM0Xw
How the gig economy inspired a cyberpunk video game
> because you know damn well WWII is irrelevant to the question of current threats.

Well that was a sarcastic joke at the end. The US has not made any threats to Japan since after the bombing. The other countries listed are a different story though.

Russia: I think you have forgotten that the Kuril Islands are still contested territory between Japan and Russia. Russia's same policy is there that they will retaliate if their territories are "attacked." The exact same line with Ukraine. Putin has suggested he would take out Japan and (South) Korea quickly as they are the US's main launching points of an attack. Getting them out of the war quickly gives Russia a serious advantage and the US a serious disadvantage. This is ongoing and has been in discussion since the Cold War. Policies have not shifted on this. Russia has actively been violating international nuclear armament treaties and this has been big news since 2014. So, current.

China: Has been much more explicit and aggressive, stating that they will nuke Japan until they unconditionally surrender if they even send a single troop to defend Taiwan[1]. This video is 2021. They have also made similar threats to Australia after a deal with the US for nuclear powered subs (which would not have nuclear weapons) saying that any nuclear nation is not immune from nuclear attack.

North Korea: idk, last week when they launched their test missile directly over Japan?

I get that searching with respect to Russia might be difficult right now because everything is focused on Ukraine and Google overfits search results. But this has been in military discussion for decades. Maybe it is just saber rattling, but these are still things that have been said.

[1] https://twitter.com/jenniferzeng97/status/141497128516000563...
Data Parallel Programming in Java Using the Vector API [pdf]
Did it ever make sense to put it there in the first place?
>I've never seen "less bugs" on a product comparison sheet, for example.

Those show up, your sales department just uses the more formal names for the actual customer demands that “less bugs” encodes.

That will look like some combination of

• “We have an SLA for an annual 99.9xx% uptime and average sub x00 latency!” (so if a bug causes significant annual reduction in service, your business gets penalized),

• ”We guarantee regulatory compliance!” (so if a bug or business use causes regulatory issues, it’s your ass on the line),

• “We guarantee 24/7 same day chat or email support!” (so if a bug causes an outage, they have a warm body they can yell at, demand an explanation for their customers, and ask questions)

• “We guarantee backups, data redundancy, and worldwide data replication!” (so if a bug blows up one of your data centers somewhere, or the intern fat-fingers an accidental deletion of the production user database, the customer doesn’t even notice something went wrong)

• “We guarantee API backwards compatibility or a service maintenance guarantee until 20xx!” (So you’re forced to fix bugs, and the bug isn’t ‘your PM team might try to #KilledByGoogle’ the service you invested in building infrastructure on.)

Teams that believe in the health, care, and security of their design are far better equipped to offer the above valuable terms to customers to gain competitive business advantage, and teams with bad engineering hygiene are likely to be scared off.
On the GTK/QT3 icons, Tango/Tango2 have a similar design.

Theme: https://github.com/Rakksor/Blueshell

As for the font, just use the one named Go.
How do we know they did not already know how to play pong?
Hardware revision numbering schemes can sometimes get wonky... but it's almost as-if the USB folks live in a bubble and are completely unaware of the meme their naming scheme has become.

There has got to be a more simple naming scheme that's easier to follow...
https://www.thelocal.de/20210914/why-are-americans-being-tur...

American regulation made it too much work for certain banks to keep American customers. From what I've heard it's still an issue.
Can the app be used with an external DNS provider? Or would that impact the IP > DNS mapping
Maybe you need to delete all messages inside a folder before you can delete the folder? Not certain, but it is a common low-level limitation.
> Photoshop doesn’t use AI models to generate new things for the artist, photographer, whoever

It certainly does have this, such as tools to remove objects and paint over them as if they were not there, automatic sky replacement (replace a cloudy sky with a sunset), super resolution (AI up scaling) and a range of what they call 'Neural Filters'.

You want your low quality boring midday image of some famous bridge to be a high resolution, taken during sunrise without that person riding a bicycle? Photoshop will do it with very little user skill or input.

Some beta features include style transfer, makeup transfer and automatic smile enhancment.
Yes, it's not a paracetamol replacement, more like an option as a combination with paracetamol and ibuprofen to treat pain that would otherwise require opioids.
'The specification may be terrible, and everything good about it may be implementation-specific, and every touted feature you're looking for may be missing from the only implementations anyone uses, but you can always just break compatibility from all the de facto standards, and so that's no reason to come up with your own base standard' seems flatly wrong, and that actually is a pretty great reason to come up with your own base standard. IRC beat the 'the standard is just fine as it is' drum for many years, and they were so amazingly correct that basically all IRC communities jumped ship to Discord within the span of a few years.

Not to mention nobody uses Mastodon either. Who should Jack be trying to placate, exactly? The extremely few people who were so fed up with Twitter that they left for Mastodon, are they eager to finally start federating with Twitter?
Windows 10 will be supported until 2025 though. (And to be honest, I'll be surprised if Microsoft doesn't extend that given Windows 11's system requirements.)
Zoom does a similar thing with it’s closed captioning feature. Not sure if this was generated from zoom or something else but I’ve seen these sort of scripts come from automated closed captioning features.
Could you write that example as an s-expression? I can't quite parse it.
> until the kids are down at 7.30

Yours sleep at 7:30?! How do you not consider that to be literally oceans of free time?

That said, yeah, you give up the whole evenings spent trying to solve some problem, but honestly, I don’t think that, on my deathbed, I’ll ever regret that I didn’t get to solve problem x 30 years ago.

What I’m almost positive I’ll look back on very fondly though is every evening spent going in the bath with my kid, then taking him to bed, watching some youtube and reading books.

My biggest regret is that (barring a miracle) I won’t have any more than one (for his sake as much as mine).
One of the worst "gotcha" takes I've read in a while. I'm sure people who believe covid was a lab leak are _also_ upset with this.

Try not to interpret everything around you with an us vs them lens.
Yes, specifically they lacked an immobilizer system consisting of a chip in the keyfob, so for those model years, all that was required to drive the car off was a screwdriver.
I don’t know if it’s true for everyone, but it was for me.

It’s night and day difference between looking after someone else’s kid and my own.

I guess it’s the sense of responsibility that you are the main caregiver and how your kid turns out is pretty much up to you and your partner.
Among other standards, OSHA reporting requirements:

<https://www.hseblog.com/osha-accident-reporting-requirements...>
If Facebook had built Gliphy from the ground up, there wouldn’t be a problem. Besides MS is not a monopoly with messaging. Are you saying that bo company should be allowed to include a free messaging app?
>It depends on your threat actors.

This is my whole point. Most VPN customers aren't trying to commit high crimes, they're doing things like getting around region blocks (e.g. Netflix doesn't allow viewers in the USA to watch show X, but it is available for viewers in Canada for some stupid reason), torrenting (much safer legally if your traffic is going through a different country), or trying to obscure their IP address and/or location for some reason. Offhand, I'd say the region block thing is probably the #1 reason these days.
Intel's product segmentation strategy used to keep the -K parts' unlocked multiplier and the Xeon E3's ECC as mutually exclusive features, so the ECC support on the 12900K is the most surprising and significant part of this strategy change.

Aside from the -K parts, the consumer CPU product line generally offered just a subset of the entry-level Xeon series capabilities, at roughly equal speeds
USB-C is a connector.

USB4 v2.0 is a protocol.

Different things. No need to be this excited.
I didn't say Android or Linux make as much money for companies as MS does off, say, Office, only that it is the OS that runs the most devices and websites we interact with.

Winning looks like a race to the bottom because the abstraction layer matters less to consumers than apps.
Deep Learning seems good at approximating things or iterating on things in coordination with humans. Or if you are doing things that do not need an explanation for how the magic box came to its results, and does not need guarantees of correctness, it is a great tool.

Thus, it is perfect for human assistance tools, lossy compression, brainstorming, art, games, and so on.

It is also great for things where the answers are verifiable, like protein folding or various other kinds of problems where all that matters is that you find the best-fitting solution and don't care how you arrived at it.

But it seems particularly ill-suited for something like fully self-driving cars because in that case there would be no human feedback, and the decision-making process matters. If you cannot defend in court why the system performed the actions that it did, then it is a non-starter.

Even if you personally are comfortable with the probability that nothing bad will happen, the regulators and courts likely won't be. And if you don't really know why it is making decisions, then it could start making bad ones at any time with almost unlimited severity.

Which is why it is the wrong technology for any life-or-death matter.
It's not like a monkey coughs out the window and we get a pandemic. The spread is to the workers in the lab and then to the general public. The location of the lab doesn't really matter if the workers still live in cities.
You really think the majority of Mac users are creating iOS apps?
I have no data to support this but I'm willing to bet that the likelihood they do keep those values is significantly greater than the likelihood that they don't.

So, a very low risk bet.
Here is another great choice in the US, sourced directly from the NOAA, I think it used to be in FDroid but now is a direct download.

https://nwsnow.net/

>NWS NOW is a FREE weather application with no advertising, no user tracking using the National Weather Service™ and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration™ public API.
Themes still work, wdym?
I get your point, but your comment made me search for a Photoshop Stable Diffusion plug-in. I had no idea.

I’m decent with Photoshop but have not had a need for it lately. This makes me want to fire it back up.

Each video is 1-2 minutes long. Mind blown again.

https://youtu.be/XdctF1uTLBo

https://youtu.be/mn1PV6HqXGU

https://youtu.be/Wo6ZDYFCWTY
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Looks the same, boring product from the last decade that represents a less than functional Microsoft Surface
Exponent.fm has been dead forever. He has three paid podcast now.
Reminds me of SimTower https://simtower.fandom.com/wiki/Elevators
afaict it will still use the usb-c connector, they're just playing catch-up to thunderbolt as far as bandwidth. now you can do PCIe over USB4 just like thunderbolt. Although I haven't read the whole spec yet, likely it finally supports dual high-def monitors which USB4v1 didn't do
All houses in this neighborhood use natural gas for heating and stove/oven heating, so they have minimal heating load in the winter in terms of actual electrical consumption, and you get rid of the 50A oven outlet.

In general, electric heat is a bit of a menace in terms of electrical consumption... especially given electric prices lately.
Why does mean something for nothing? Why is it unreasonable for a company wanting to protect their intellectual property and ideas from being exposed?

See what I did there? I assumed things about this NDA just like you did. I think we both shouldn't.

The NDAs I have seen were reasonable to me. They basically just put into writing what I would think should be normal during interviews anyway but apparently isn't always the case. Maybe someone has been burnt before and is trying to protect themselves.

The NDAs I signed basically said that they will share some company internal information during the interview in order to conduct it and I am not allowed to share those company secrets with anyone. Basically what any contract would say about company secrets if I were to be hired in the end. Same the other way around about me not sharing any other company's info with them and if I did its not on them but on me.

Duh.

Now the OPs NDA might say something different but we don't know. An NDA just by itself isn't bad though.
> I feel a tinge of regret for not being more in the moment.

That’s not really something you control. In that moment you probably just wanted to escape for 5 minutes of blessed peace.
> 2) The sleepless nights and diaper changes are a mere blip on the scale of a lifetime with kids. You deal with it, then the kids grow up quicker than you think.

The days are long, but the years are short.
They didn't reimplement anything. They're normal themes, just bundled with the browser and with a special chooser.
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Beneath a steel sky? Innocent until caught? I have no mouth yet I must scream?
You're really not giving us much to work with.
You can build new ones. Why always all this fatalism from US people when improvements are discussed? Richest country on Earth, nothing can be done about problems.
Actually you have to know less ;)

Configuring FVWM it's far more difficult, and I did it
several times under lots of Linux and BSD's.
CWM was a breeze. I just added a bigger border,
keyndings for tags,
xclock and xload at the bottom-right corner, stacked up.
Done.

I have it w/ OpenBSD under a netbook, it
flies.

I say this because I use FVWM for old unstable software from the 90's,
some computational nature (mandelbrot, chaotic systems, attractors)
code. The examples from the book crash CWM.
And setting up FVWM it's difficult for different screens...
Yeah, different countries have drastically different practices for paying bills. In Brazil, for example, you don't post them by mail or at convenience stores -- you pay them at the bank!

But in the US, the normal way was always by check in the mail, until online bill pay took over.
This is kind getting tautological here when you’re saying that just because someone/some group values it doesn’t make it valuable, especially when we have two fairly large organizations involved.

I’d need your definition of what “valuable” is before we could have a useful conversation
Then you won’t need to worry about 75% of your time with them being before they are 12 ;)
National security.

TSMC is one of the key players in the 21st century. As we've seen with the supply chain issues from covid and the Ukrainian conflict, high quality semiconductors are a vital resource for modern nations' security and economies.

TSMC is the only entity that can make the highest quality chips (3nm being not actually 3nm, but just called that way for marketing purposes). If Taiwan looses that unique ability, they then loose much of the backing of NATO-aligned nations.

Taiwan bet the whole nation on TSMC, and it's paid off thus far. They're not likely to let go the trump cards they hold.

More on the issues with Taiwan and China here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6sCsOdqXQw
Glad I picked up Neovim last year (can afford to make light edits and don’t need a full-blown IDE). No one will be changing my interface anytime soon :)
Why does India’s Cowin app keep sending fake vaccination certificates?
I've heard about Web Assembly/Wasm many times. I thought it was a new kind of JS framework, so I did not pay attention since I am not a JS developer. However, after seeing the egui.rs demo [1], I was impressed! Now, I am interested in knowing more about programming languages that compiles to Wasm. Is it possible to create that sort of UI using other programming languages?

[1] https://www.egui.rs/
I like the idea too but am somewhat surprised that I haven't seen any mainstream discussion about this given the momentum tagging has in most other classification activities.
By this definition, erlang and beam hot-reloading is the gold standard of live program.
I watched the talk last week, so perhaps my memory's a bit off, but "move fast and break things" was not the takeaway that I got. I thought of it more of "problems are going to happen, being able to debug them is important, and there are better tools available for dealing with that than what's common".

Additionally, I don't recall if he said it in the talk, but it's been my experience that type-based bugs often surface early and are generally incredibly cheap compared to other classes of bugs (functional bugs, logic bugs, security bugs, etc.).
Uhh, forgot a few. Only the lowest-cost PCIe FPGA dev boards on the planet

https://rhsresearch.com/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9G97JN2
they want ad revenue, thus advertising continues to corrode the internet; justifying the creation of fake content on which it may be displayed, and diluting the pool of real content

google has no interest in search quality so they happily vend such junk, and I'm pretty sure because they get paid to list it so prominently.
The one thing I'd love to see archived is the full back catalog of Computer Music Magazine and Future Music Magazine. Last I checked the company only has 2008 onwards, but there's so much gold in those early issues I'd love to see.