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Ask HN: Creative Coding Communities?
Hi HN!

I'm recently starting again [1] on visual creative coding (currently learning TouchDesigner), and I was hoping to find whatever online communities where people share work and their code so that I can contribute and learn.

Do you know any online communities?
I've found shader.zone so far but was also looking for any others.

Thanks!

[1] I say again since I've done some Processing, moved to p5.js, and then custom GLSL shaders in Three.js. But this time around I have more math and programming maturity under my belt so I want to revisit this stuff and take it further
Freedom on the Centralized Web (2017)
I built an iPhone that charges in 9 minutes
Different societies have different political formulae and therefore different sensitive points. In KSA, that’s the monarchy, in UK, that is the assumption of human equality (which is the assumption undergirding human rights and all biology-blind policies). You can already lose your job and your money for speaking out against egalitarianism in the UK, and slowly you will be losing freedom as well.
I was a chemist in my first career incarnation. I always argued there should be a journal of failed chemistry. There are so many methods that you try and fail and it can take a few days of work to give up. Imagine if there was already a reference to see what was tried and failed. I know there’s a lot more money in what works, but still.
First of all thanks! Not sure if you know any of the Linux maintainers, but if you do I'd love to know how to get in touch with some of them.
> is it really fair to blame America?

Absolutely, much of that shitshow in middle east is directly or indirectly thru the actions of US government
> It’s incredulous how atrocious Western foreign policy has become.

Always has been.

Have we forgotten Afghanistan, circa 1980s to 1990s? Who could have foreseen that when you uncork the 'religious nationalism' bottle, the end result might be something that won't dance to your strings...
Really interesting question.

As primarily a maintenance programmer by inclination, I'd not ever given the possibility of self-employment a thought.

However, if you need to be paid, you need to create value. So the answer to your question is to find someone to pay you to fix bugs in software that 1) they use and depend on, that may not be well-maintained, 2) that you have the source and all dependencies for, and 3) that they would trust your expertise in understanding their requirements whilst being at 'arms-length'.

To be honest, it sounds a bit difficult, but you might try looking for support / developer roles. These are often unpopular with developers that want to do the new shiny, but there's lots of $$$ in keeping existing software working with updated APIs, fixing bugs etc.

Or you could be a framework evangelist / fixer on site. That largely matches my current role, where my job is to ensure that a large customer is happy, and utilizing our framework-type software to it's best advantage.
Why does the us even import oil from SA? Between the US, Canada and Mexico isn't NA self sufficient for oil and gas? About neutral for consumption and production is what I read. Do we import, refine, and export?
For me, coding in Assembly language during the C64 and Amiga Demo-scene in the 80s is the major reason that I went on to study Computer Science and ended up working as a system developer for the past 30+ years. One of my fondest memories from my developer experience is writing the first Amiga Demo Creator entirely in Assembly language back in May 1987:

https://coding-and-computers.blogspot.com/2022/05/first-amig...
He made some big mistakes at the beginning. What mistakes did he make in later years (I’m not too familiar with after 1776)
Also the feedback loop of the charging network good enough for X% => more EVs get bought => more charger demand => more chargers get built => charging network now good enough for X+Y%.
TFA mentions 102k signatures collected to petition to ban. Did you know the person with the clipboard gets paid per signature? All the incentives in these conversations are messed up.
I guess it's more about what if they die tomorrow ... if I died tomorrow, dunno I guess I would a little sad that I didn't have a substance abuse problem - but would depend on the substance.
Having read that, I still don't get the point. Especially when running on Kubernetes, where coredns and kube-proxy provide service discovery, load-balancing, and dynamic configuration with no overhead (kube-proxy is not a proxy, it uses NAT). Especially with your own microservices, where you can put all the observability and TLS you want in the services.

Is this another of those things that has valid use cases for very specific applications but everyone is mistaking for a best practice somehow?
BBC fell off my radar when they stopped being truly informative so I’m out of the loop on this: how did they become US propaganda?
When I've looked in the past, Interface Builder was (as far as I could tell) a first-step-and-don't-return thing. Meaning you could lay out an interface visually, but when you want to start coding it becomes a code definition of that interface, and once you start updating that, you can't (easily) return to the visual interface-definition interface. Has that changed, or was I wrong?
Realizing that motivation is not a symptom of discipline, but rather that it is a neurotic emotion that will flee from you when it is most desired and needed. This came with the realization that discipline isn't something we are born with and is something to be practiced. One can thereby increase the amount of discipline available to them to exercise in times of trouble, thus increasing the amount of torment they are able to endure.
Her relative obscurity highlights how we stand upon shoulders of more giants than we are aware.
I’d love them to focus more on their unix underpinnings in the next few releases. License issues aside :/
Risk is not all-or-nothing, and I am not saying glyphosate should be used without worrying about the risks. I am saying people have their relative risk assessment all wrong. There are different degrees of risk, and believe it or not, the known risks of glyphosate are dwarfed by the known risks of other alternatives.

Show me someone who can come up with a better herbicide, and I will show you a wealthy person.
The East India Company were the world's first narcos.
How was the creation of the Milky Way political?
Because it's an undisciplined collection of many people's hard work, boiled down to overly simplistic attributes used to highlight some repositories and put others down.
> The reason the referendum succeeded was a big decline in the native population combined with large amounts of immigration from the U.S.

Is that a fact, or just your conjecture?

All I could find was that in 1940 about 46 thousand people voted in favor of becoming a state, and 22 thousand against. Are you saying there's evidence the native population voted preponderantly against?

In any case, it took 19 years from that referendum until the Congress approved the statehood. There was a final vote in Hawaii to approve the statehood. There were 132 thousand yeses vs 8 thousand nos. Was that a fake vote, like the Russians just did in the occupied territories in Ukraine?

[1] https://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/c.php?g=105252&p=687...
> No they don't, not if they have to spend the money now -- like on a down payment for a house

If they have to spend the money now, it would already be in cash.
But it’s rants on my part:

You guys just rant and move on?
Ecclesiastes is my favorite book of the bible. Timeless in the questions it poses.

Even post-Christianity, I still revisit it. Is everything actually meaningless?Even if so, it's still worth living life today.
This could work great with sql2sheets[1] new feature[2] I launched yesterday, which lets you collect html form responses directly to google sheets, if you want to stay on brand and not use the google forms product.

[1]https://sql2sheets.com

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAgbhPRT9D4
I think it depends on which level of live patching you're talking about.

At Basho, we would load module fixes into Riak instances for customers...I hesitate to say "fairly regularly" because it's been long enough and I had limited visibility into it, but it certainly seemed like a routine operation.

The full "upgrade the entire application" hot loading definitely requires more planning than most companies will ever be willing to do.
> Power is nearly-free in civilized countries

Western Europe crying under the bed ...
> You just aren't going to find such strong belief in anything that absurd on the left.

The 4 years of russian meddling? It genuinly seems to have been widespread to me.

And with the biden one, AFAICT it is not directly about stealing it, but rather enacting stuff that resulted in an unfair benefit to democrats, that seemed unlawful. (Mail in voting by default, for example)

So, no, I don't believe it's mostly one side. But rather that both sides have the loud, crazy, minority.
Apple is doing what every platform should do: deprecate OpenGL completely. Use DirectX, or whatever low-level API your platform provides.
Writing for the Curious
The 'just the facts' or 'big idea' styles of most pop books are fueling suspicion of experts. How can scientists and scholars better communicate what we do and how we know?
I am on iOS Safari, and everything seems in order. What problems did you experience?
I think TikTok will likely have to rework their method for paying creators. But they have a platform that’s made for creators to work directly with advertisers who will see more revenues that way.

That’s why I said there’s a lot they have to work out. They don’t want to fall into a model like Instagram where the bulk of ad revenues go to the largest influencers. But I would not be surprised to see them rework their payout scheme to something more predictable like YouTubes. The “big pot of money, split evenly” was a simple way to start but now is getting stretched.

One thing I find interesting about TikTok is they have one of the best, completely in App, ways of targeting users. The short format videos allows them to assemble a ton of data points very quickly on user interests and more and more product and recommendation searches are being done on their platform.

I could be wrong but I don’t see YouTube shorts catching up anytime soon TikTok has too much of the social Zeitgest going their way and it’s far easier for new creators to get noticed there as well.
> With open source, you would not be able to get it in the first place, period.

Which would indeed have avoided this problem. This bait-and-switch is worse than just never having been able to use Pantone colors at all would have been, because now they're holding your existing .psd files hostage.
Even if ads were 100% legit verified links, they would still be scams. Advertising is inherently untrustworthy. Why do people trust anything a corporation says about their own products? In the best case scenario, they're highlighting the pros and omitting the cons. Usually they're just straight up lying.

I want real opinions written by real people with no conflict of interest. People who are't getting paid by the corporation.
The creeping barrage was "creeping" in some sense. This is what I don't get. Surely, it would've been enough to aim it at the opposing trench, and not have it "creep up" at all.

I feel like every explanation I'm getting now is deja vu.
Who told you I missed anything?
Thanks! I don't work much on WebAssembly anymore, but I'm super excited to see all the progress being made.
Considering the thermal properties, diamonds would make pretty good heat spreaders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond#Thermal_Conductivity
Yup the later gen Z's are great for videos, but by the time they developed that line it was already way too late.

Same story with mirrorless to be honest. Too little too late is the story of Nikon's plight with digital photography for the last decade.

The thing is, they were really innovative in the DSLR space and could go toe to toe with Canon, but in the last decade or so Nikon has been late with each product focus (video, mirrorless, etc)
This is untrue in my experience.

I've used FreeBSD a fair bit in the past and Ubuntu and Debian more continuously. Unless something radically changed recently. My experience is about 6-8 years old now but FreeBSD requires a lot more configuration when setting up common services, whereas Ubuntu and even Debian have good defaults that you can usually bring up without having to first consume the entire manual for that service.

There's probably a reasonable sounding argument buried behind this like "you cannot run a service securely if you do not fully understand the configuration first." but in practice this just results in poor initial configurations because it takes time to fully understand all of the knobs of configuration on a service.

FreeBSD can be a solid system, but it's less practical in many ways for reasons like this.
How often do consumers plug power connectors into a GPU for that to be a problem? Spending a few minutes routing multiple power cables for an expansion card that once installed sits in place for years doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
you'll just have to imagine "the line" will be a huge prison, people will not be allowed to leave
Ancient practises for good health and the modern science's light on it
So I incorporated 20:4 interminent fasting into my daily routine and it has been incredible for a lot of things lately. Things like:-

- No more evening slump.

- Much more alertness during what used to be my dinner time.

- A general feeling of lightness.

For those who might not know, it's basically I can eat whatever I want to between those 4 hours in a day, and can not for the other 20 hours.
Roundup is also available at your home center in a big flashy display. This seems like criminal deception and disregard for public safety.
Time spent reading books is time not spent deploying. The only thing that matters is deploying.
Maybe it was a prank but there is strong reason to believe that he'd want to use his Dojo AI engine to do heavy data engineering for twitter. that may mean some overlap & slightly different technical profile than existing team. Oh and um .. Loyalists!
> coredns and kube-proxy provide service discovery

Is service discovery an anti-pattern? Is someone is already in your house, do you want to give the burglar directions to where the valuables are kept?
That's a super dangerous way of thinking. Being anonymous online today is hard. Even operatives with nation-state resources behind them like Guccifer 2.0 screw up.

You have to think through what you're doing, and then execute perfectly every time. Anyone who wants to try to be anonymous needs to start practicing their opsec well before relying on it, and keep in mind the risks they're running.
got any examples of this being used in popular FOSS software?
Shortlist of those other herbicides?
I think Blockbuster was an anti-brand at that point because of choices they made to navigate having national brick and mortar shops, making an unknown startup more trust worthy.

I'd used them begrudgingly in places that had no independent shops and the various inventory they didn't have were usually rumored to be that their management was christian conservatives, though I think it was more that they avoided a few arbitrary hotspots of potential conservative boycotts that would hurt them in other regions.

I remember that when a friend suggested them, I was quite pleased to be paying $1 more not to help them.
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Everybody knows you've got to launder it by having the campaign by services from a company you control. Besides, you can just bribe the people on the FEC (or rely on party loyalty) to not investigate.

https://www.salon.com/2022/05/17/fec-block-action-on-alleged...
I like this take on SAFe. Steve Denning has great talks about what agile is, and what it is not.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2019/05/23/underst...

The SAFe training is predominantly a bunch of pointless games, marketing, and baseless claims. Leaving all that aside, it's just fake agile.
https://thanks.dev has a good model for this. By default they'll split your monthly contribution equally among your dependencies (and exponentially decaying among transitive dependencies) but you can go in and "boost" or "unboost" specific dependencies or developers by up to a factor of 20 up or down. So if I have 2 dependencies which are equally important to my project but one is vastly higher effort to maintain, I can reflect that in the allocation.
Who was that candidate?
Always be prepared to use opportunities when they appear. Because they will appear no matter how bad the situation is.
What a disastrous rabbit hole.. It seems like the switch in police command led to lack of proper crowd control, and with hot spots, led to the crushing.
Rather than poor theory of mind what about good understanding of economics. The cost of absolutely clear context is too high to bear in many situation, it is often better to get the message across in whatever way works for those who are also in the know.. that way collaboration can cheapen the cost of constructing context. Of course if there is an off-the-shelf context available that you can refer to then there is no communication problem in the first place.
I'm inclined to agree with you, possibly.

However the risk to human health is (in my honest opinion and according to my best professional judgment) very minimal, and the greater risk is environmental. In part for this reason, I would think industrial application to be orders of magnitude more concerning than some old lady applying it in her patch of tomatoes.
Interesting, I certainly see cases where searching harder as you put it, has helped me, but how do you contrast this with not overthinking?
Using Vuex Stores with Composition API in Vue 2.7
I admit this may sound a bit odd (and possibly even mildy schizophrenic), but I adopted the shell-kernel model for interactions. Now, when someone says something I agree or disagree with, it goes first through the shell, giving me some time to filter it, analyze it, and consider whether or not a response is really required. If the shell says, hey, take a look at this, only then does the kernel respond. The result is that most of the time the kernel stays calm, cool, relaxed and can focus on important things (and also, ensure any responses are polite rather than overly aggressive or confrontational).

It was a bit tricky at first, because people might think I'm ignoring them (or even somewhat autistic), so the shell has to be personable and pay attention and act like a normal human being. The real benefit, however, is that the whole 'triggered' thing (rather prevalent in today's society) just stops being a problem, and you get a little breathing space in which to think about how best to respond to someone.
The phrase that should have been used is "campaign contributions" and "PAC contributions". All corporate PACs are purchasers of influence. It's especially obvious when the same company funds both sides.
It's not wise to subscribe to none.
This is possible with all advertiser platforms, they dont validate for your domain and will happily link to any domain.
This one is going to be controversial, but as much as I despise misogyny, the motivational videos which I watched out of curiosity of Andrew Tate are quite powerful.

You are feeling bad ? Get in shape, work more. Do the thigs you have been trying to avoid doing.

Feeling depressed / suicidal ? No youtube / reels, do 1h of kickboxing or fitness everyday, sleep well. No excuses. Ever. Your mind IS stronger that you think.

Dont know what to do / how to start ? JUST START, do ANYTHING beside nothing. Do it for 6 months. Be disciplined.

Of course its not for everybody, and I disagree with many things he says but the guy has definetely an aura and sometimes if you hear the right things at the right moment it can make a difference.. personally Ive literally lost 5 kgs in 6 weeks because of 1 video and ive not started beating women as a side effect so so far so good i guess^^
You’re gonna love SimpleLogin
https://archive.ph/avCeI
I’ve been helping founders with fundraising for some time and compiled my thoughts here:

https://www.lore.vc/

It’s a guide explicitly written with first-time founders in mind. Hope it helps; feedback is welcome.
> Sure, but if the data lives on my property then they need to get a judge to sign off on probable cause and show me the warrant. Then at least I am aware of what is happening and can challenge it in court, or go public, if it is unjustified.

In principle, but not in practice. All they need is a witness for probably cause, and once they have your stuff, you aren’t going to get it back without a bankrupting fight, if at all.

If you think the government plays fair in the real world, you might want to have a discussion with a Mr Assange, currently a guest of King Charles III.

> When the data lives with Apple or Google, they can just secretly take it, even in bulk. The NSA wire taps on Google and others were a real thing that actually happened.

The NSA wire taps were ruled illegal. How satisfying.
Ad-blocking just shows how "the digital naive divide" evolved without them.

I can't say enough nice things about gl.inet deviced and switched to a cellular model when ad-blocking on a 4G ipad was too much trouble.

I orginally setup a Spitz gl-x750v2 and removed the ec25-af lte and put it in an external enclosure and move it between better spec'd gl.inet routers to run adguard home.

"Halt" is a good browser on IOS to block all YT ads, but a portable router workes well with a dedicated sim or tethering a phone.

Ads are soooooo 1980's TV :p
"Easily" by the way does not mean clip one in in 5 minutes :)

These things need like 15 hours of maintenance for every flight hour (and this is regular flying with no parts coming off)

I have no experience with military planes but I think in this case "easily" means more like "possible in a few months of work". I suppose when an airframe costs hundreds of millions it takes a lot to make it a write-off.
> he desperately didn't want to buy Twitter.

I think it's more precise to say he acted as if "he desperately didn't want to buy Twitter.".
I personally don't know of any that we know is better than glyphosate, so literally any herbicide.

I admit that there very well could be better options that I don't know about (especially if there are new ones that emerged in the last 10-20 years), but I think it's no exaggeration to say that almost anything else is worse.
I don't think I've seen "cardiac arrest" used like this in Korean news until recently. Might be a recent shift by journalists.
Ask HN: Obtained a laser printer, what would you print?
I just got hold of a laser printer and a few 100 A4 pages. Looking for suggestions of what to print.
> The only open-source AAC-LC encoder I'm aware of is ffmpeg's, which is pretty awful for quality and featureset

FDK is open source and decent.

https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Fraunhofer_FDK_A...
I stopped halfway through book 4. Was content with the first sub-trilogy and found it lost a lot of the appeal as I got deep in. They started to feel like totally different books the further in I got.
I was working in a small firm. Just killing it. My billable hours were twice what my colleagues were doing.
I asked my boss (who I didn’t have a great relationship with)
“Where do I go from here? What’s my promotion path?”
He said “the top of the company is full, if you want to go up, you’re going to have to go out”
I was astounded. He’s telling his most lucrative employee to quit. But, boy was it the right thing for me. I’ve never looked back and I’ve acted on that advice twice since then to achieve more upward trajectory.
Thanks Ben, I know you didn’t mean it in a positive way but it was just the advice I needed.