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I’d say having a test suite available is the bigger advantage of something like python. Most of the big mistakes people make in Excel are logic mistakes and they could happen anywhere. It’s just plain old human error. But if you can run a test and it fails, then at least you know to go looking for the bug.

Either way you’re likely trusting that the underlying code is error free. But most people aren’t checking their python imports. They may or may not be aware of the problems floats can introduce. So on.
Hey! Peter from Snaplet here. This is really exciting stuff. We created the OSS postgres-wasm (https://github.com/snaplet/postgres-wasm) example a few weeks ago. An idea I'm playing around with is something like:

1. Visit https://postgresql.com/try?version=14.x
2. Visit https://nodejs.com/try?version=16.15.1
3. Visit https://edit.com

Edit.com opens a text-editor and terminal where I have access to the NodeJS binary and a connection string to PostgresQL. Want Redis? Open a new tab at https://redis.com/try, where the connection string will appear in the edit.com tab.
I assume this dev kit is leading up to an announcement of significantly more performant PC hardware. If I’m mistaken, that’s disappointing.
Don’t think this is important for gameplay at all, not like I expect skyrim to be historically correct, but as a random trivia and kinda of a tongue-in-cheek article I find this super interesting.
(^or^ with a competing resolver technology)
There is a huge round of "data observability" startups that address exactly this. As a category it was overfunded prior to the VC squeeze. Some of them are actually good.

They all have various strengths and weaknesses with respect to anomaly detection, schema change alerts, rules-based approaches, sampled diffs on PRs, incident management, tracking lineage for impact analysis, and providing usage/performance monitoring.

Datafold, Metaplane, Validio, Monte Carlo, Bigeye

Great Expectations has always been an open source standby as well and is being turned into a product.
Doesn't Alfred just use the Spotlight in the backend for searches?
Most companies are the same and have very little differentiators. Working at Google or Facebook is the same. So jumping around makes sense since that improves salary a lot more than staying put.

Every now and then you do find a company which has no alternatives like SpaceX or Renaissance Technologies or Steam. People don't leave those easily.
3. If the concern is mobile bandwidth cost, simple solution is for Apple to only enable this feature for desktop Safari (not iOS).

Short answer: no. A laptop could be using a metered mobile hotspot while an iPhone could be on a fast Wi-Fi network.

There’s away to indicate a user wants to save data [1]. This would tell the service to not do things like download resources in the background I may not need or use, which is what rel=prefetch does.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Sa...
Auto updates are fantastic if, and only if, the developer can be trusted not to break things for fun. Firefox's auto-updates consist of downloading stuff in the background, prompting me to "restart when you want to apply the update", and then changing next to nothing about my experience of the application between updates.

That is the perfect update story. Everyone loves it: the users aren't having their workflows upended, the developers are able to push updates regularly for security problems and the like, the only loser is the graphics designer who got hired because daddy owns the company and needs to constantly re-design the user interface to justify their job. (seriously, people in companies that do this kind of shit, what is it with re-designs? Why?)
The only thing that modern day companies value is decreased expenses so if someone has been with the same company for 5+ years it's very likely they are underpaid.
Apple raises the price of Music and TV+ subscriptions
The World Wide Web runs on JS. Which is a scheme with a C-like syntax bolted on. So I really wouldn't say functional programming accomplishments are poor.
I couldn't find an article, but a cursory search did pull up this: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2022/10/24/solus-dan-greenhaus-we...
How does that work if you're behind two NATs?
There are a few things we're excited about, many of which we fully recognize are used in marketing/buzzword bingo. But, they really are around portability (compile to a Wasm module and run on any architecture), isolated sandboxing (leveraging much of the research and investment used to protect web browsers), and super fast startups (obviously depends on the app too).

There are a few limitations right now, some of which lack of built-in garbage collection and multi-threading. You also have to use a language that can completely compile to Wasm, making it hard (sometimes impossible) to leverage already built libraries/binaries.

But... the tech is growing rapidly and we're excited for it! Happy to dive in or answer more questions if you'd like!
No, I'm saying that's one of many behaviours. They mine domains and URLs scraped from email addresses, email headers and bodies, online content, and more. Your site is not "secure" when that security can be circumvented by someone pasting a URL into an email.
There is no right or wrong answer but I personally do prefer to see some stability at least at 1-2 companies if you are senior. Reason is that unless you have spent at least 2-3 years at one company/team, you haven't come across bad stuff like tech debt, things becoming more complex/stale, data challenges, version/compatibility issues etc etc. If you keep jumping ship every 1-2 years, it tells me you have never worked on those challenging/boring issues and I wouldn't want you on my team.

It is much easier to work on shiny stuff and jump ship than taking ownership of crappy stuff. Remember, what is shiny initially can become crappy over time and I want engineers who have been through all of it. Not just the good parts.
Where are you getting that 26% from? PCGamesN reported, last year, that around 70% of the top 100 were supported. It's a different story for SteamDeck, which has further constraints due to its unconventional screen size; but even then, ProtonDB claims at least 48% of the top 100 are playable on the Deck[1]. In my experience, just about any game that didn't work well on my Deck does work well after I switch it to Proton Experimental.

0: https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam-deck/top-100-games-proton-com...

1: https://www.protondb.com/
I'm pretty sure you have to catch the mouse and you will be billed for it too. At least that's how the cleaning fee works.
> Do they all have other jobs and using their spare time to devote to such a serious project?

Yes, except when <daywork> is also OpenBSD related. But that has nothing to do with the foundation.

> $87.5k in 2022?

The year isn't over... and there should be some left from bygone years.

> That doesn't even pay for a single person after taking the rest of the expenses into account.

I'm not aware of a single full-time paid developer, by the OpenBSD foundation. It's more a gig thing. In addition for Hackathons the foundation pays for the venue and network, and the developers usually fly themselves in.

The foundation was founded b.c. the CD sales (back when there were still CDs sold) didn't even cover electricity and network costs of the main site anymore.

It's all done like in the good old days of Linux, before big business stepped in.
Finanically, it's probably a bad move. But I am happy at my current job (4th year in) and I'm getting steady promotions and progress. Over the years my impact increased dramatically and I don't think I would've done anything as significant if I left by end of my second year.

I don't see a person jumping ship every 2 years as a liability, as long as they onboard quickly and get their job done. It's always great to retain more knowledge but we move on if it doesn't.
Wow that sounds very powerful and a logical way to reduce the associated trauma from a memory. Good for you for working your way through that! And thanks for sharing.

For my moms case, she’s unfortunately buried whatever trauma it is that is causing her to eg always have her bags packed and ready to bolt such that I don’t think she can consciously identify a memory that has traumatized her. She doesn’t even think she has trauma (despite everyone having at least some trauma and her more than others). At this point she’s just put up all her defences and refuses to deal with the root of it. It’s ruining her psychologically and unfortunately negatively affects all those who are around her (considering she’s at 20/10 stress levels nearly all the time but she thinks that’s normal).

Thanks again for sharing what has been working for you. I’m trying desperately to find something that can help her become a functional human being again because I’ve been her full time caretaker for last couple years and now it’s killing me too. But perseverance they say, balanced with burn out.
27 years ago, Hoover offered two free international flights with any £100 purchase. Today, it’s remembered as the worst sales promotion in history.
I’m curious about this too.

I wonder if it could make testing frontend code that uses WASM (but not DOM) fast and easy since you wouldn’t need to fire up a complete browser environment.

I’m not sure that it’s possible at the moment. In the past when I needed to test a WASM integration, I ended up using that approach and it was kind of a pain not to get immediate feedback on the WASM code’s API tests since it was essentially only testable through the complete integration environment.

I like integration tests, but I like smaller and faster test suites for easing development in some conditions as well.

You can currently test a WASM-targeted API if you use unit tests or other language-level testing approaches, but you won’t get the constraints of the WASM runtime as far as I know. Maybe the lack of garbage collection could be a critical constraint to test against.

I suppose you could even test dynamically linked binaries without a browser as well.

I’m sure there’s far more to it that I’m not aware of, and maybe testing really isn’t that useful of a feature here — I’m just guessing based on my own experience.
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> Also some studies showed people preferred rancid oil!

I was once in a casual, blind taste test at an Anheuser-Busch facility where at least half of the dozen testers preferred the beer whose kegs had been sitting out in the hot sun for two weeks, instead of the kegs of the same vintage that had been sitting in the refrigerated warehouse during that time.

As they say, "there's no accounting for taste."
Yeah, I'm sitting here shocked at everyone's hate. I took a major leap and bought a Thinkpad X13s, with the same 8cx Gen 3 CPU this thing has.

I am beyond impressed at it. Windows 11 on it - while, yes, it's Windows 11 with its own concerns and issues - runs flawlessly. I've been able to run my traditional x86 and x64 workloads - even things like arm64 Tailscale without issues, and I get amazing battery life.

I am 100% for this thing. It's value for money in the high-performance ARM Windows rig market. It benches similarly to a ~11th gen i5 and runs the part.
As mentioned in the article, the r/RoguelikeDev summer code-along event[1] is a fantastic way to complete a basic roguelike. It provides both a bit of a push and group accountability that some people need to get started and maintain momentum. Unfortunately it takes place just once a year during (northern hemisphere's) summer break because that's when a bunch of young people have more time on their hands to do stuff like this. :)

1. Disclosure: I'm the host
As stated above, I do not usually consume that content, I did try to tell the algorithm that I'm not enjoying the content, it didn't care. Youtube Shorts is just substantially worse than tiktok at recommending me stuff that I am interested in.

I'm not sure how to phrase this politely, but your comment comes off as deeply arrogant and unpleasant. That acronym especially just sounds like it is coming straight from an unflattering caricature of a nerd from the 90s/early 00s.
I’m eternally conflicted by personal stories like this, with part of me going do we have to do this again? and another part responding with surely you don’t think Apple is above criticism.

No. Of course I don’t. Apple has made criticism-worthy decisions for years and they still regularly make them. But at times it seems like there’s just a…reach. I’m using macOS Monterey right now, and while I don’t think the Big Sur UI refresh is a substantial improvement over its predecessor Catalina and it made a few aesthetic choices I’d charitably describe as dubious, it’s hardly a catastrophic regression. Yeah, people are nostalgic about OS X Snow Leopard, but that’s not a particularly good indication of it being the pinnacle of design. People are also nostalgic about Windows 3.1, AmigaOS, and CP/M. (Snow Leopard is full of the old “metal” UI, glowy candy-colored buttons, and drawers. It’s adorable, but it’s very 2000s.)

And, I mean, okay, Mac people are stereotypically (over)sensitive to UX decisions, I get that. So when the author writes, “I’m not saying I’m dumping the Mac and switching to Windows or Linux,” well: no, he’s clearly not, is he. He’s just written a a fair number of words with the clear subtext, I am a Mac person who is stereotypically oversensitive to UX decisions. Apple will undoubtedly make other weird choices next year with macOS Fresno or Oxnard or whatever, but they will probably still on the whole be choices Mac UX nerds will like more than the alternatives.

(Also, dumping the Mac and switching to Windows or Linux will deprive people of the opportunity to write about how much they hate the Mac, and you know, where would the fun be in that.)
It's trickier than you let on.

At least for California, you have to look for the California Olive Oil Council seal if you want to be sure:

https://cooc.com/about-the-seal/

For example: there is a company called "California Olive Ranch." It used to have a popular olive oil sold in a lot of larger grocery stores that had the COOC seal. Then it started to source olives (oil?) from somewhere outside California and blend with the California olives[1]. That broke the rules of the COOC seal-- to have the word "California" on the label you can't blend with non-Californian olives. So the seal is no longer on that bottle, but the name "California Olive Ranch" is obviously on that label because it's the name of the company.

Thus, a shopper would be misled by your second sentence and buy an oil with olives and whatever else from imported non-Californian sources. That means the third sentence is also wrong-- looking for harvest dates and COOC seal isn't something that the shopper can do to double check their choice. Rather, that is the only thing they can do to be sure they're getting actual virgin olive oil of sufficient quality (the seal) that isn't rancid (the harvest date being within less than a year).

Edit: I don't have a link, but there was a recent COOC fiasco where a lot of the smaller farms got up in arms due to a proposed language change in the requirements for obtaining the seal. Don't remember the details, but it sure sounded like it would have made it easier for a member to blend with some amount of imported olives and still carry the seal.

Honestly, I think there's enough intrigue and drama in this topic of finding bona fide olive oil to start a substack subscription thingy if anyone is interested in that. :)
My stance on buttons has only hardened over time. I have an ID.4 and an older-but-contemporary VW-family car with enough buttons to necessitate a meaningful overhead switch panel. It's quite jarring how bad the comparative experience between the two cars, even with Airplay enabled. The wheel just feels cheap and unbecoming of the "sensible but not cheap" interior I expect from VW...it is well described in this article.

Beyond the wheel's downsides, the center stack has nowhere to place your hand to create a reference point to the contextual menu on the screen...so your hand is simply floating in mid-air, at speed, to change the fan speed in the AC. The light control cluster is also fully haptic, which is downright dangerous...it's extremely hard to turn on your fog lights accurately.

With a previous generation VW interior and its driving characteristics this car would be a knockout. Unfortunately, someone decided to cost optimize the interior and call it progress. It's simply dangerous. I suspect my next EV may be a Lighting Pro (assuming base models ever become available again), simply to get physical buttons back with an EV transmission.
I wasn’t aware you could buy anything from Amazon at all without fear of adulteration.
I'm not convinced plastic bag bans save the environment much in terms of co2 production or oil use or whatnot.

However - since the bag ban has been enacted here in Chicago, the amount of plastic bag litter is noticeably less.

Worth banning something? Maybe, maybe not. But I'd take an educated guess that more plastic is reaching landfills vs. waterways due to it - even if the total amount of plastic is more overall.
I've worked with medium-sized ETL, and not only does it have unique challenges, it's a sub-domain that seems to reward quick and dirty and "it works" over strong validation.

The key problem is that more you validate incoming data, the more you can demonstrate correctness, but then the more often data coming in will be rejected, and you will be paged out of hours :)
yeah that's technically correct, none of these problems would happen. there would just be different problems.
For future employers, what have you done in the many years being in one place? Can you show career progression, taking on more responsibilities (going upwards) or wearing more hats (going outwards) ?

Those who job hop every 2-3yrs do so (usually) for career advancement and nice pay bumps along the way. The salary bumps are unlikely to match if they stayed at one place.
That's funny! I never really thought about WHEN it was adopted. I guess I just assumed every nerd sat around on Dec 31, 1969 and pressed a button 1 sec after 11:59 GMT. (Clearly I'm joking, please don't correct me, folks!)
The existence of every law begins with something subjective. Just because something isn't illegal doesn't mean it shouldn't be. Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it should be.
You may like https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
Not my opinion, but I read these earlier today.

https://jacobian.org/2022/oct/14/when-is-short-tenure-a-red-... with HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33309342

https://jacobian.org/2022/oct/20/tenure-and-seniority/
It will be an oligopoly then.
I used https://wasm.supabase.com/ to make sure some SQL commands I was writing for a blog were correct. It was super useful and faster than starting docker desktop, looking for the postgres image name, starting it etc..

I miss a feature where I can share a link with some data/schema pre-seeded (maybe from a gist?)
Well, depends. Are you asking if it’s appreciated by the same company or by other recruiters/companies?
Being at the same company 20 years (in a few months actually), I think that yes, commitment and “loyalty” are appreciated.
I’ve had questions from recruiters asking me why I've stayed that long in my current company and I’ve heard good comments from others about how I stayed and climbed through internal positions.
I have to admit that if you stay many years at the same company, you’re going to lose money, but it all comes down to balancing: amount of work/personal time/money/career goals.
They stored data in the array and then did a bunch of queries against that array. Queries like "select * from foo where array contains value".

Shocker, that's slow.
Appreciated in the form of good feelings from your manager and teammates, yes. Appreciated in terms of financial remuneration? Less likely.
Yeah I have been using Magnet since longer than I can remember. It is limited though. It's fine for basic snapping side by side or in quads but can't do multi-resizing (i.e. resizing two windows snapped side by side that are not fullscreen), doesn't have layouts, can't place a window when it is opened (e.g. auto snap terminal to bottom left if first Terminal window opened), etc.

I would love to see a full manual or dynamic tiling window manager for macOS that didn't require disabling SIP like yabai does and wasn't super janky.
Thank you for your response.

How was your PI funded?
> it is a game, not a history lesson

In the case of recent Assassins Creed games, it's both.

"...freely roam Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt and the Viking Age to learn more about their history and daily life. Students, teachers, non-gamers, and players can discover these eras at their own pace, or embark on guided tours and stories curated by historians and experts."

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed/discovery...
If anything, A"I" would make the problem worse as it depends only on prior art and is not capable of any critical thinking.
Is it possible to sandbox the host system from the guests in WASM?

Are there namespaces and cgroups and SECCOMP and blocking for concurrent hardware access in WASM, or would those kernel protections be effective within a WASM runtime? Do WASM runtimes have subprocess isolation?
Read the specs—preload ≠ prefetch.
Do you have a reference for that assertion? Googling and the wiki doesn't seem to support that idea.

>Although it is the seed that features most prominently in the Chinese materia medica, both oral tradition and written sources indicate that the medicinal properties of the gingko’s leaves have been utilized just as early and extensively. One indication is the fact that before the seeds were discovered by the imperial kitchen, the gingko’s main name–Duck Feet Tree–was fashioned after the leaves. Furthermore, regional herb usage in Sichuan, Zhejiang, Guangxi, Hebei, Henan, Liaoning and other gingko rich provinces documents that the gingko leaf has been used as a folk herb for a long time. And most importantly, the gingko leaf received a formal entry in the official materia medica commissioned by the Imperial Academy of Medicine almost 500 years ago.

from https://classicalchinesemedicine.org/ginkgo-cultural-backgro...
Ask HN: What do you use for encrypting your personal stuff?
I used to use Truecrypt (file based virtual encrypted disk). But it shut down under mysterious circumstances.
Now there is veracrypt based on the same source code, but I am not sure I trust it. Are there better alternatives? What does everyone use?
I have contended that the only use for cryptocurrency which provides value for people is for anonymous transactions for which cash is not an option or a poor option. The only cryptocurrency that can do this that I know of is Monero. Therefore Monero will have lasting value. Whether you can make money speculating on it is dubious, which is probably why not many people do.

* Note: I am speaking regarding the markets I know; I cannot say anything regarding economies suffering rapid inflation or which lack access to banking
aren't there other industries with similar welding skills ? nuclear plants seem to have high grade requirements, maybe not space grade right off the bat but also maybe not too far off ?
I know. I grew up on a road with no name that numbered the houses with an odd cadence. But, well mannered neighborhoods have stuck with the scheme such that most people recognize the reference.
I’ve tremendously increased my salary, WLB and quality of work life by jumping every 3-4 years. Maybe if my junior roles had provided me with more of that earlier on, I would have been more inclined to stick around.
That's part of the world in the dystopian movie "Anon" - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5397194/

You can replay any moment in your life that your eyes saw or your ears heard... but so can the government.