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To me what seems really weird about all this are all the attempts to "franchise" LOTR that fundamentally misunderstand the property by taking what seems to be a core idea of the setting, when it really isn't.

The idea behind LOTR is that Tolkien tried to create a modern "mythos". The guy drew on and expanded a lot from existing mythology and folklore (especially Norse myths) when creating the setting of LOTR/the Hobbit. Trying to keep the story of LOTR focused on the One Ring and all the other attached rings seems... wrong?

In the grand scheme of things, Sauron is a fairly minor villain of the setting, he's merely a high ranking general of Morgoth/Melkor (name depends on the published version of Return of the King where he gets namedropped once, Morgoth being the one used later and the intended one). The rings are just the instrument Sauron used to try and gain power. Other stories don't have to keep focusing on the rings, in fact, they're probably more interesting when they don't. The other book written by Tolkien, The Hobbit (the book, not the movies) understood this; the One Ring provokes mystery but ultimately is just a tool for the actual narrative which is Bilbo and the dwarves restoring the dwarven kingdom. Sauron doesn't even play a role in it!

If someone wanted to expand on something in the "mythos" of LOTR, then it'd be much better to just... tell a new story and tie it through sharing locations and maybe a few background characters instead of fawning over The One Ring constantly. That story has been told. Tell a different story, there's plenty of possible "room" to fit it in, even if you don't own the rights to the Silmarillion.

But who am I kidding, that idea would never make it past a Marketing Executive who wants to milk the original story for what it's worth by overfocusing on stuff that doesn't need to be focused on.
Granted, I'm not in the UK, but Germany's market is somewhat similar regarding pricing etc. Not even my mother uses SMS, most people use either WhatsApp or Telegram, with some Threema and Signal mixed in.

Apparently Germany has ~8bn SMS for 160m contracts (don't ask me why there's an average of two contracts per person), which is like 50 a year. Edit: that number seems to include automated messages.
> Also notable that SpaceX keeps finding these cool (revenue generating) use cases to further cheapen the cost of sending things up to space.

Like sending Ukraine "free" base stations and charging them $4,500 a month for service.
Yes, I think macros and regex-based Vim features are more fitting for the comparison to Photoshop than AI-powered features which are a new addition to image/video editing as well. Piping a selection through a shell command or regex based replace is like applying a filter to a selected set of pixels.
It's just a a poster being dramatic. Arborists don't intentionally push to chop down tree that aren't overgrown relative to the space available to them.

The problem is that people like big trees and big houses, and they aren't compatible long term.
> Sometimes I think the fact that some devs move into management / senior type roles, not always great for communication. Yeah they can talk about bits, but the rest gets lost at times.

Not a single person I had in mind was previous developer. Just to be clear. As much as it is popular to knee jerk assume that developers dont have social skills, this one is much LESS pronounced with developers.
I see this take a lot, and I don't really understand it.

I'm sure you know that you always have the option to just not use the in-flight wifi. Is it that the availability of the wifi will tempt you to use it, therefore removing the feeling of disconnect?
The bulk of the media is served from appliances they give out to ISPs, so their AWS costs might be reasonable.

It's also a huge company and a massive distributed system, so moving that off from AWS is an insane amount of effort and there might be legitimate benefits from AWS' management and autoscaling layer that aren't as valuable for 37Signals which runs simpler, monolithic systems.
Surfing is a good one for focus. The conditions constantly changing and you can get knocked out if you don’t pay attention.

Incidentally: my government has cameras now to check phone usage while driving. Demerit points and possible loss of license.
Saudi government has shown this is who they are over many years, who is surprised? They butchered a guy with no consequences. But who cares they have a golf tour now
This would be excellent as part of a hybrid solution. Dynamically switching between standard ground to air and satellite to accommodate availability and bandwidth constraints.
I'm loving this.

No one has pointed out how cool it is that you get random instruments at the start.

It's a looot of fun to be able to 'doodle' songs based on a cool thing you made inspired by a drum sound, or a hot synth line. The equivalent would be having a magic art supplies drawer that gives you a few coloured crayons, or watercolours, or charcoal etc at random, paired with different types of paper and scales. And if you don't like your random set, you can make another in 3 seconds.

The 'quick start' aspect with the touch of randomness is just so cool. I don't know how many times I've opened Ableton, then gotten bored before I could pair an instrument with a drum track and a bass. This leapfrogs that pain point beautifully.

I also really like how intuitive it is for an Ableton user. To be fair the learning curve for Ableton was pretty steep - but so, so worth it.

One area that I think needs improvement: there are many finicky little problems about setting and correcting the length of your loops. For example, I love that it auto-guesses your tempo and loop length, but it can be very wrong sometimes and I'd like to be able to change it without going into Ableton Proper. I hope they can solve that.

I'm also struggling to figure out how to lengthen notes once they're put down - maybe it's not possible? This results in some rough edges, but nothing not very easily fixed in desktop Ableton.

Overall, this is really fun. I made about 15 little song seeds yesterday, and it was enjoyable.
Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their work after burnout?
Sorry for the mini-rant, I’m just a bit lost at the moment. I don’t know whether it’s worth looking at changing careers, trying to stick with it or something else I haven’t thought of. I’ve been working in the industry for 14 years and feel like I’m old and jaded. I got a bit burnt out a couple of years ago working 70-hour weeks and haven’t been able to bounce back since. Now, whenever I’m coding, it just feels like an enormous effort to get anything done. I’ve tried to work on different projects and things that are more in line with my interests, but that hasn’t really seemed to help. I’ve worked in various management roles over the years and have been drawn more towards that side of things at the moment, mainly because it isn’t coding. I feel like I’m average at best as a manager, but I have ASD so there are a few aspects of it that I really struggle with. I feel like I could work on these aspects, but it will always be draining and it will never be easy the way coding used to be. The other problem with management is that most people want you in-house for that, whereas I enjoy the freedom of contracting.

Has anyone come back from being burnt out to love what they do again? If so, how did you manage to do it?
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No 5G home internet available? In most cases it’s a better alternative to StarLink if you have good coverage. Also surprised there’s no Spectrum cable, I thought they were available almost everywhere in the Triangle (assuming you mean UNC Chapel Hill).
His son died a few years back and he’s got a staggering amount of material published.
Your last paragraph is already close to how birthday greetings work on Facebook
Ties with Russia were growing until they decided to start annexing other countries. You can’t cozy up to someone who is literally annexing their neighbors. Germany is finding this out the hard way.
Was going to say the same, a couple of years back I led a team shipping an audio app on iOS and Android (pretty simple in terms of audio demands) and Android was a nightmare. Different devices vary so much in terms of audio performance due to drivers, bugs and performance optimisations (e.g. Samsungs would ramp down the CPU to minimum frequency if you weren’t actively touching the screen) so testing is a huge undertaking if you want to cover a wide range of devices. Latency was a big problem, and the Android audio stack itself had plenty of issues. The situation did seem to be improving last time I looked though.

Then on top that you’d have the complexity of shipping a cross-platform app and either building large parts of it twice or using something like Flutter or React Native.

It must be annoying for Android users but the reality is that shipping an audio app for Android is (or was a couple of years ago at least) a huge challenge and probably much harder to make a compelling business case for.

WebAudio has similar issues in terms of wildly varying performance across devices (it used to be pretty poor on iOS for example, though I think this has improved) and relative to native, you’re pretty limited in terms of processing power. Again this is improving all the time, but I’d guess Note has a cut down version of Ableton’s synth engines and effects running rather than remaking them for the app, and running something of this complexity with WebAudio is likely to be very challenging if not impossible, especially on mobile.
They really missed an opportunity to cash in and call it Skynet.
So what? The BRICS countries are a thing, even if they do not trust each other.

Biden already repels Saudi Arabia, too:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/18/saudi-congre...

"Over the weekend, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, on a visit to Riyadh, said that MBS had expressed interest in joining the BRICS nations, an economic bloc of major emerging economies including Russia."

That may be a false pre-election leak, but the current U.S. policy of repelling every country on the planet and treating Europe as vassals will backfire eventually.
Agreed. It changes but hobbies still happen occasionally.

7 or 8 is probably a good threshold. My 8 year old can be left alone for a little while and not notice you missing.

I found if the hobby needs you to commit a fairly large block of time to get going it is probably not going to work.

I’m introducing things to him, but he’s work adverse. Any time he realizes it needs any sort of practice or effort it is a hard no. Work in progress.

I’ve always seemed to need less sleep than most, so I just used nighttime.

However, there are quite a few activities that are frowned upon or impossible with sleeping kids in the house, like guitar or drums.

I probably wouldn’t kayak in the dark either. I’m not very coordinated and they’d never find my body.
Minus 10?
I don't regret it. I've managed to make the time thing work, even writing a book when our first was still an infant. I've also had experiences I never otherwise would have had without kids. One of my sons wanted to learn to scuba dive so I did it with him. Also been on some cool adventures like canoeing in the boundary waters because my sons wanted to do it.
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> Many people will also tout, that making a family was the best thing they ever did. However, studies show, that people are not necessarily happier after having kids and one explanation for this is, that it is not socially accceptable usually, to say things like: "Ah getting children was a mistake, I wish I had not done that.". People will paint you as asocial or worse, if you say those things. Also people need to justify their own past decisions to themselves and might really believe, that it was the best decision they made.

I don't think that is true. I think most people will say that having kids was the best thing in their life because it truly feels that way to them. Seeing your child growing up is work, but it's absolutely magical and most people don't see it as unpleasant work. Everything in life can be labelled as work, but just as we agree that working on your own business is a different kind of work than going to an office 9-5 every day we also know that the work that is required to raise a child isn't the same as the work which we normally associate negative feelings with.

Besides, studies have shown that people with children live longer and not only that, people who become grandparents live considerably longer as they get new purpose and life injected into them, so I assume there is somewhere a strong correlation between having children and being happy.
three (3) hours! ha! i wish. and i'm still inside that hurricane.
For me it's more the _expectation_ that you can be reached that is the difference. Even if others might not really expect this from you, the possibility being there changes the situation.
I like to think of it as starting a new Minecraft survival world. Time-intensive at the start, but that's you setting things up to gradually needing less and less attention.
> America badly flubbed its Russia-handling strategy in the last decade with the unreasoning anti-Russia rhetoric in an attempt to get Trump.

This is motivated thinking that doesn't match the actual timeline.

Russian expansionism - taking part of Georgia in 2008, parts of Ukraine in 2014 - significantly predates Trump's candidacy. Mitt Romney was, to his credit, warning about Russia in his debates versus Obama in 2012, as well.
Good luck trying to control how people use language. I was just saying that it was already a common enough usage that you should be aware of it, even if you disagree with that usage.
Just to put it out there, my mother was 38 when she had me, and 40 when she had my brother. When I was younger, I babysat a kid who's mom was 42 when he was born. It's not that there aren't possible complications, but the window isn't "closed"
The silly support tickets that stay open forever and ever and ever is just a company being cheap.

If you don't fund, hire, and staff your support org with good people at multiple tiers, don't be surprised when you get crap. There just aren't enough good minds to service the incoming workload.

Oh, and for god's sake have a decent "to engineering" escalation path for the support folks.

Unfortunately, the support function is almost always a cost center and beholden to only, if anything, response time related SLAs. Instead of customer satisfaction, etc.
There was/is also a BBC TV show from late 90s about a "spacecraft" of the same name[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquila_(TV_series)
It's also great. Hard to explain. I would be careful telling childless people how great it also is. (If childless is by choice, I don't want to obnoxious. If it isn't by choice, I don't want to make them sad for something they might never have.)

It changes your life in a weird way. Stuff can be hard and still worthwhile.
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You don't recall correctly; elves awoke to only stars. Both the sun and the moon come at the same time, much later. It's true the elves preferred the moon but I don't recall any explicit reason for this; I'd interpret it as part of the overarching theme that elves are more staid, less visibly intense, than men in general.

Which is all to say - I don't see any relationship with skin color.
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That's a bizarre statement, because chaining leads to shorter lines because each call can gets its own line and there are fewer assignments.
Yes, after a few articles.
Best answer. I am happily child-free, but I love parents like this, and their li'l ones.
Jackson's vision wasn't exceptionally far from Tolkein's vision.

Possibly true for the LoTR movies, decidedly less so for the Hobbit movies.
>>I like to think of Moby Dick kind of like the Bible. Every chapter has something to say about the human condition, and was written earnestly by someone who cared to translate their experience.

That's intresting take, I will give Moby Dick another chance, and try to look at it from Your point of view.

>> looking at your username I assume you are french speaking?

Not even close :) I'm Polish, and nick is just an homage to favourite author from my childhood (Around the World in Eighty Days was one of first books that I read and still remember from that time).
> I've seen quite a few projects migrate to things like cmake in part because not having that kind of build system just doesn't work anymore

The problem is that CMake is also a cardboard castle built on numerous hacks that break every time a wind blows by. For library users it might be bearable, but for library writers it is absolute hell. And the consistent churn of new half-baked features and subpar documentation really doesn't help. (People talk about "modern" CMake like they do with "modern" C++, the churn is so similar...)

The solution that I've found now is: I've built my own build system in Python that outputs a Ninja file, dead simple. Don't really have the urge to use CMake again (unless when I need to at $WORK)
I'm neither American nor a snowflake. I know the gamble, and for my personal account and expenses I'm OK with it. But I'm not OK with it being a systemic and calculated abuse.
It depends on the kids, the ages, and the phase of the moon - but I've had good success making a daily habit of "kids, time to pack up" half an hour before their bedtime routine.

We go together through the house and find good places for everything, figure out what they want to do with in-progress activities, etc.

When I started this practice, it took three people and twenty minutes to do five minutes worth of cleaning, but the kids get faster as they learn (a skill they might find useful in their own home, one day).
So, trying to solve problems about the nature of intelligence?
Maybe another perspective on your circumstance might help? You talk about your regret as though, had you made the decision, a child would have been a given. That may not have been the case. For many people this is what they have come to terms with.

I don't know if this is a possibility for you and your partner, but if you want children in your life, maybe they are there already and would appreciate you being a bigger part of their lives? Uncles, aunts, nieces, and nephews are amazing. Often times very close.
If I were a hacker I could try to MITM this site that serves executables like games and applications and inject something nefarious. I don’t see not having HTTPS as a positive thing.
If you can't see a problem in making a broad stroke judgment on the culture of a billion people on the basis of a single documentary, I am not sure that I can have a conversation with you. Have a good day.
I’m guessing that $150k hardware fee is supposed to cover that.
Public web access doesn't equal search-engine index-ability. Search engines are notoriously bad at crawling Javascript heavy sites like chat apps. We spent several months of engineering time getting this right.

This involved redesigning our pagination system to be a cursor based one so search engines can paginate it consistently, rendering a static version of Linen, generating sitemaps for large communities (50k+ members), and updating SEO metadata for search engines.
At this point, my entire family, including my 80 old grandmother, use Telegram for communication. I often find myself having to visit her house to show her how to “report spam and leave” random crypto groups she gets added to.
Check out now Kagi does it. They give you privacy by not logging queries, but you have an account and pay them. You can tweak your results by creating rules to promote/demote/block different domains.

I’m not sure how I would want results re-ranked for me. Maybe some limited promotion of geographically nearby things?
Tech stack frustrations exist regardless. Some people need things to be easy and thus expect some framework to do their job for them. I would rather write the lowest level universal solution possible. Being in the office never resolved these conflicts. The only solution occurs when somebody makes a firm decision. I have always attempted to make my case in writing and in my career it seems many developers are hesitant to put anything in writing.
Most airlines I've traveled on have stated at the beginning of the flight that video calls aren't allowed, they could always just keep that rule.
eBay and Amazon are also outlets for the same Chinese goods.
I'm not sure how you got from someone directly responds to a question about a specific thing to this is the only thing you care about, other than making a huge presumption.
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I honestly have no idea how people tolerate iOS keyboard. No numbers? No common characters? In 2022? Really?

I often contemplate switching to iPhone to get away from Google, I've previously used 3GS and 4S for multiple years. But the keyboard is definitely in the top3 negative factors keeping me from it.

PS: I can't judge modern iOS autocomplete, but on Android it's a complete garbage. Simple typos when I press a nearby key are NEVER autoreplaced. Typos like - r4ady or hscker or ma ufacture etc. It seems to me it shouldn't be to hard to make an algo looking for all valid words checking each letter for replacing it with a 6 surrounding keys on a typical US keyboard and looking them in dictionary. But nope, no luck.
> My life is now dominated by regret every day.

I am sorry to hear that. 40/39 isn't actually too late, but risks are higher. Adoption is a big deal, and I know many "late bloomers" that have gotten married in their 30s and 40s (sometimes, for the second or third time), and adopted, or had kids.

I never had any biological children, but I married a woman with a daughter, so I have a stepdaughter.

Regrets? A bit, but not that much. It's a long story, but I have extracurricular interests that probably exercise some of the emotions and drives that parents of biological children have.
IIRC, 42 is around the age where the window closes, at least, that's what my physician told me. Regardless, if that gap has closed, it may be some consolation to bring this up to your friends and relations who are on the fence about having kids. Everybody's chuffed to tell others about how they made the right choice for them. Rarely, does one hear from another with the courage to say "I changed my mind, and wish I'd taken another path", particularly in the having-kids domain. When I hear your comments above and think "Is this suffering rooted in a desire to contribute to others?" If so, consider telling those you love and respect about your choice and its consequences. Especially tell those who have the potential to have kids - and be a support system in their lives.
Of course the Rust features being used by that Event type are runtime polymorphism and type introspection, so another obvious C++ approach would be just to use a pointer to a virtual based class including the type, then:

switch (event->type) {

case EvKeyPressEvent:

{

auto kpe - dynamic_cast<KeyPressEvent*>(event)

...

}

break;

}
Koala is a fun one for making sample based beats, it is inspired by the Roland SP404 which is a legendary sampler used by e.g. J Dilla.

Drambo is my personal favourite, an incredibly powerful semi-modular groovebox somewhat inspired by Elektron’s sequencer, but with infinite possibilities for sound design (especially when combined with AUv3 plugins) and a great UI. Not as beginner friendly though.
I dunno, some people's works are only discovered or are rediscovered years later - think Kate Bush and Metallica's recent surge in popularity due to the Stranger Things TV show. Or book authors whose work is picked up decades later as source material for a film or TV show - the first Game of Thrones book is from 1996, yet the TV show earned and is earning the channel (and the author, I presume) millions.