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> Mostly everyone else seems to define the bitness of CPUs by their capacity to add numbers in one go, not by the address space they can address.

Nah, only historically. Yes, "8-bit" refers to the ALU. Back in the day, 16-bit was similar. But even then it was muddy, because when talking about operating systems like Unix or NT the key question about bitness would be in the context of a 32-bit flat addressing model, not really the data width.

By the time the 64-bit era rolled around, the "64-bits" definitely referred to address space.. The original Pentium had a 64-bit data path and had instructions (MMX, eg PADDQ) that could operate on 64-bit numbers - no one would call it 64-bit.
By the early 2000s with the big push to mainstreaming 64-bit, it was all breaking out of the 4GB address space limitation - not the width of data.

> define the bitness of CPUs by their capacity to add numbers in one go

This is nebulous and therefore troublesome to define. Are we talking about the ISA or the internal circuitry (ALU and/or data path)? Is the 68000 a 16-bit or 32-bit CPU?
This is part the problem.

Plex for me is for accessing a specific server. Or maybe one more if I added it. It shouldn’t require internet access and shouldn’t break if internet goes down and the server is on my LAN.

It isn’t for grabbing some stuff off the Plex site.
I assume that content has all been comprehensively pirated already. So apart from the optics, it’s not clear it would do much real damage.
Would the hard disks be unreliable too?
In theory, yes. But I do not believe an oil field would be suitable.

Hydro relies on a pressure difference. This means you want the turbine located at the lower reservoir, which is going to be tricky with an oil well. Oil fields are not a hole filled with oil but instead are just porous rock, which greatly limits the flow rate you can achieve from a single well. Oil fields are already pressurized, so you'd actually need to put in energy to get water in there.

And of course you'd be contaminating the water with oil and gas, which makes the upper reservoir a bit of an issue.
Use it as one of those BitTorrent storage servers.
I think the author is missing a fairly major point, that Markdown was intended to be a way to process text written the way people already wrote it.

ASCII is absolutely the best way to write documents, if you're working in a primarily ASCII environment. Crabbit old bastards like me who remember the dialup BBS days consider Markdown-like text to be standard - underline things with a row of hyphens, mark a heading by underlining with # symbols or = symbols depending on how "strong" you want the heading to be, emphasis words with *asterisks like this* and italicise with /slashes like this/ (okay they got that one a bit wrong but still the point stands). Make a bulleted list by indenting a bit and putting a * at the start of the line, and so on.

Before Markdown-the-specification and set of libraries to transform text to HTML existed, there were already a wealth of documents in somewhat Markdown-like syntax. Being able to transform them into something that "kids these days" with their high-resolution 800x600 pixel bitmap displays can view in a cool font came long after.
Not OP, but...my email and password managers are not websites. I have a local app that does email, I have a local app that does password management. So the extension could certainly access passwords I put into my browser, but I don't see a vector to the "keys to the kingdom" so to speak.
In France for some strange reason, banks are forced to have a stupid 6 to 8 number as a password.

Literally [0-9]{6}. They have "secured" it by forcing each bank to implement their own keypad, that randomises the order of keys in order to make scripting much harder.

It makes no sense, my password manager freaks out about it every time. There is TFA (thank goodness), but still, it feels so stupidly unsecured.

I wonder why, and who to complain to, if anyone has any info on that I'll take it
Unfortunately, water has the nasty habit of dissolving salt. As the Lake Peigneur Disaster taught us, mixing the two is generally a really bad idea.
Oh I have one more tip. Most of the Ortofon OM moving magnet cartridges, including the Concorde models, are exactly the same with the only difference being the styli that you pair them with.

That means you can switch from a spherical DJ to an expensive elliptical stylus depending on what you're doing without rewiring the headshell or keeping a second set of cartridges/headshells.

e.g. if you want to sample, record or just listen then use the elliptical set for better sound quality and lower wear.

The spherical styli have a smaller contact patch with the groove but track better when scratching or cueing.
That didn't stop someone testing rockets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pn0rHTpwvo
> the lazy copywriting they have now

It’s anything but lazy. You may not like the style, but it’s a very well-developed vocabulary and they’re extraordinarily diligent about making sure that they speak with one voice.

Imagine how operationally efficient their marketing group has to be as a point on the critical path of everything Apple does publicly.
Didn’t Gruber and Swartz originally make the MD spec (as in the original perl parser)?

For the derivatives Gruber also repeatedly said that markdown was made to parse to html, hence it by default conserves any html tags.
Even more maddening: clearing land for growing crops, which are fed to cattle.

We can just cut out the middle man (cow)
Can you see why a person would find trivializing diet restriction a little militant?

I'm not sure the rest could be considered an "attack."

If being vegetarian feels righteous, that's great, and I am happy for anyone who feels good about restricting their diet for ethical reasons. The rest of my post is stating that I don't think (ethical) vegetarians are better people, and the corollary, that I am not a bad person because I choose to spend my ethical attention on things other than avoiding chicken. There is clearly no shortage of ethical endeavors.

I am not even an ideological enemy. The post I was originally responding to was somebody who successfully made a website showcasing an emotional appeal to the amount of animal consumption in the US. I added the information of an emotional intensifier (male chicks getting macerated en masse) as something that would intensify the web page and something that causes me (someone who doesn't have a lot of qualms about meat consumption and its consequences) discomfort and cognitive dissonance.

When it's you vs me, that guarantees there will be conflict. When it's us vs the problem, there is a chance.

> You can "handle that" by no longer eating meat. It's that easy.

What do you think would have happened if the person had instead said "What prevents you from giving up eating chicken?"

Alternatively, what do you think would have happened if this person had instead said: "I saw something like that and was motivated enough to give giving up meat a go, I found it much easier than expected and haven't regretted my decision for two years." Same content, wildly different level of righteousness, conviction, and condescension.
The author clearly doesn't understand the appeal of it.

Some of the points don't make sense. For example, he says it separates the design from the content. Er, no, it doesn't. It puts the design in the content, but in a human readable and writable way, like an old type-written document.

The chief selling point of markdown for me is I can write simple, portable and usually short documents which can be easily read and edited in a text editor, and that you can put under version control. And you can transform it into other rich text formats if you want a pretty document too. In that sense, it's a bit like LaTex, but not as hard to understand or use.

I would agree that the lack of standardisation is a problem, and that doing complicated things in it starts losing the benefit. But for simple documents it's just great.

Edit: I guess it does separate the design from the content, if you mean things like choosing what fonts to use when transforming it into a different rich text format. I was erroneously thinking he meant the structure of the document.
Are you equating "computer science" with "coding"? Because it's really not. CS studies systems, complexity, requirements, domain knowledge, etc.

I'm not arguing against people from other fields bringing valuable insight; I'm disputing that CS doesn't also involve the study of complex heterogeneous systems or that it is about "coding".

Seems like you're describing a bootcamp or coding school instead.
Is that the case for all Hydro? Or only for specific types of Hydro applications?

I am curious to understand the different technologies. I am also asking because in the end every kind of power generation will have some effect on the ecosystems. It's always a question of trade-offs.
The butterfly one reminded me of how much I liked reading the now elusive and Pagerank murdered non techie blogs that would pop up a few results under Wikipedia in biology/physics related queries.
https://dxe.pubpub.org/pub/dreamadvertising/release/1

Are in-deep dream-ads for deep-dream sleep-aids appropriate?

The Sleeper Must Awaken!
Can you extract the overlay data to give a geographical way to search the footage?
It did not emerge from the Ruby community.

Edit: typo.
I would prefer first-class support for self publishing. Want to install some app, open some-app.com in a browser, and click "download" button.

Since the parent mentioned Debian: this is the model that Debian provides (and yum as well), and Ubuntu extensively uses: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptURL

Open some-app.com in a browser, click the apt:// button, and the system will not only install the requested app, but also use the configured channel for updating your apps.

There are numerous improvements to be made in this area, for example to automatically pin a package to an origin, or to limit third-party origins to only installing in /opt/$origin, but the mechanism has been available for two decades.
GDP is essentially the total yearly revenue of a country, so it's not directly comparable to a companies market cap.
A DIY startup school toolkit for solopreneurs
That's not a mixer, that's a controller for software. Make sure it's not a crappy one and that the whole setup works reliably so you don't inadvertently ruin it for the kid. These are generally only good for mixing sets, not really for turntablism.
> Back in the 1980s, most of the major CPUs in the world were big-endian, while Intel bucked the trend being little-endian. The reason is that some engineer made a simple optimization back when the 8008 processor...

The article started talking about the VAX and how it was the gold standard everybody competed against.

The VAX is little endian.

Little endian is not a hack. It's a natural way to represent numbers. Its just that most languages in earth write words left to right while writing numbers right to left
I have my PC setup to be fanless for the majority of tasks, except for gaming pretty much. With a massive CPU heatsink I can tune fan profiles to only turn on when nearing a maximum temperature. I run the equipment fairly hot, in other words. My fan curve is just one giant step, with hysteresis so they don't cycle on and off near that step temp.

I am likely trading some component lifetime for silence, but it's a trade I am willing to make.
I signed up to Utility Warehouse here in the UK recently and it prompted me to create a password with the following requirements:

- 8 characters

- 1 uppercase character

- 1 lowercase character

- 1 number

I used KeePass to generate a password with the default 16 characters. Specifically, it spat out:
\y%/T:tMAS#1\&e9

It took me a solid 10 seconds to figure out why it was failing the first requirement: UW were only counting the alphabetic letters as characters.

I sent a screenshot to a mate in disbelief, then randomised a new PW until I got one that just happened to have 8+ letters in it.
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And if you’re interested in how Netflix’s CDN works:

- https://www.theverge.com/22787426/netflix-cdn-open-connect

- https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
This wikipedia page includes reference to WhatsApp... Should it?

I understand that you can use bold, italic, underline, but that is where the comparison ends - the answer to Features is "No" in the comparison table versus others. Not all other comparisons include it.

It's almost as if someone shoe-horned it in for greater visibility. "Hey look at our app, it's better than competitors because it's listed here!" Yet it's competitors offer the same or more.
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Losing a second factor is an underappreciated threat. Adding 2fa can definitely increase the risk of losing an account, and a responsible person will weigh the costs and risks of doing so.

You can reduce that risk, e.g. by keeping a piece of paper safe somewhere, but it's never gone entirely. What if your house burns down? Oh, a fire safe. What if that gets stolen? A safety deposit box, etc. Those all have their own risks and costs as well.

It's completely reasonable to not add 2fa to your accounts, if you believe that your ability to keep safe a second factor is less than the chance of someone guessing your password.

I have lost (/stolen/destroyed) more physical possessions than I have had accounts hacked. By a lot.
The Vestax's MIDI controlled pitch looks pretty sick. What's the closest one can get to it in software these days?
Land surface ... 71% habitable land, rest glaciers & barren land

Habitable land ... 50% agriculture, 37% forests, 1% urban and built-up land

Agriculture ... 77% meat and dairy, 23% crops

We would need just 25% of agriculture land we're using to feed the world on vegan diet, no shrinking necessary.

But on the meat diet? We'll shrink for sure, just you wait. We'll diminish and go to the west.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
that's something I've been looking for a long while and the only places where I find it is usually on interviews from programming language creators who have been successful and talk about the topic tangentially, but I've seen no book on the ergonomics of programming language design.

Some common resources which I already identified are the talk simple made easy[1] or the famous everything is an X[2] which was here in HN a few days ago. Also a common problem I see, is that many scholars and intellectual people confuse what the meaning of "semantic" is. For example they might mistake "semantic" with "meaning" and do not understand as semantic problem collapsing two different variables in a single variable (e.g. the classic "0 means unlimited" like some old C programs did).

If you do find a resource, just let me know, but I hope there is more on the topic beyond using a regular math model, just for the sake of uniformity, and try to make everything "as easy as possible" based on a gut feeling.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4&t=1250s
[2] https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/everything-is-an-x-patter...
I'm starting to think the reviewers have a quota of rejection to fill up and they reject apps randomly over some arbitrary concerns to meet it. Or maybe just to show they are doing they job. Or worse, the app store off shore validations, so the sub contractors script it to reject random stuff to pretend they have humans behind it.
Depends. The comment you replied to has a point. I have a family business. From personal experience this is how it works in practice for most entrepreneurs.

As for funding and business strategy, it will get bit tricky because you will now have to think of different ways of financing instead of VCs. But it is nothing different than VC financing (and you get to keep 100% of your company).
I'm obviously overthinking it, but I love that the visual style manages to somehow marry minimalist typography with a 90s geocities vibe.

I was trying to see if there's a way of "visualising" some of these numbers using audio, but at 285Hz (for chickens), we're at C#4/D4. For the other animals you can distinguish between the specific beats, but this is just uniform noise. (cue the quote about one death being a tragedy, 1000s a statistic lost in the noise)
Yeah, I'd agree that it is gradual. What helped me more was joining a few subs related to my hobbies (ex: fictional books). That meant using reddit as something I enjoyed as a consumer and self-promoting became secondary.
I imagine it's promoting fairly poor posture. I would end up with a migraine from the neck strain.
Classic Software Engineering Mistakes Enumerated – 1996
Congrats to Parag Agrawal on getting 42 million.
During the pandemic I paid for a concierge care doctor and man it was the most convenient experience I’ve ever had with a medical provider. Cut out the insurance, he had a nurse and one office assistant and virtually no paperwork. Guy actually had brain power leftover to know who I was and what my situation was. I feel really bad for anyone wanting to become a doctor in this day and age, it seems absolutely grueling. I don’t know why anyone would go through all that trouble.
Please don't editorialize titles

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Volkswagen brand will only produce electric cars in Europe from 2033
> Except the irony is it's baked into their systems as well, so you distribute your own national security threat...

From the article posted by OP

>sets the 'High Assurance Program' bit, an ME 'kill switch' that the US government reportedly[11] had incorporated for PCs used in sensitive applications[12][13];

[11] links to a dead website, but it makes you understand the US called dibs on disabling it
Is there really nothing that is being done, at all? No solar + wind farms? No process optimization for energy saving at industrial sites, no highly efficient insulation for buildings etc etc? You could argue that not enough is being done, but nothing? That's ridiculous.

Instead of seeking media attention, protesters could also just learn how to install solar panels or build wind turbines. We have a tremendous shortage of skilled labor in those areas, which increases the price of installation and limits the speed of transformation.

But it's harder than gluing yourself to something and bringing a photographer, so they won't. Which suggests to me that it's not really about climate change. Climate change is the medium, the message is narcissism.
> unproven cures

Unproven, or disproven?

I think we're one the same page when it comes to the government informing people of what is state of the art in research is, what is unkown, and what is bogus and disproven - but not when it comes to restricting access to people to (unproven) cures that might work for them.

There are a number of drugs whose highly beneficial side effects were only discovered after people took them for other reasons.
This is an unfounded dichotomy. The implication that you cannot have an industrious society without a level of corruption is not supported by your argument (nor any I have heard of).

Equitable working conditions make working more appealing to a worker - and this is extended to the "fairness" of your workplace. Tips are not "the cost of doing business", they are similarly an expectation passed down from authority to the workers to extract their wages opportunistically. People being accustomed to it does not mean that the issue is resolved, because it still leaves the financial risk in the hands of the worker should the business' profitability shift. And so bribes are similarly unethical.

Moving on from the issue of bribes to the bribe receiver, they are also very obviously an imposition to the giver. Not further, they make the "true cost" of a transaction less clear to varying degrees, allowing a services cost to vary very highly compared to what the public might think it is.

There is no good argument for a bribe.
The Fairlight CMI – the first commercial digital sampler/sequencer [video]
“I don’t like popular thing. It sucks. There should be something better.”

Markdown is popular because it’s useful. It’s useful because it’s easy and free and portable.

I know html very well, I use markdown because it’s faster to take notes or make simple posts. Also I can teach someone in 5 minutes and they can be productive editing headers and bullets and text.
With enough redundancy anything can be made reliable. ZFS can do some crazy RAID levels that will pretty much make anything reliable given enough disks and CPU resources. Whether it's a good idea (especially in terms of power usage) is a good question though.
> So how do you watch the media on your PC remotely?

For stuff I'm planning to watch on my PC I just let sonarr/radarr import the files directly to my PC.

For stuff I want to view elsewhere I have a NAS and a raspberry pi with wireguard configured to make a VPN I can use to access my local network.
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> There's an old (and sometimes forgotten) idea in AI that perhaps things we think are simple, like vision and control (robotics), are actually incredibly complicated and took millions of years to evolve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
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> Adding in any sort of extra meta data usually requires using YAML, the rules of which are a mystery to me.

That's not the fault of Markdown and not part of Markdown at all. Markdown doesn't say anything about metadata. Use of YAML at the top of Markdown documents was invented elsewhere (Jekyll, I believe), and any tools can use whatever they like.

> Numbered lists. Again, you need to use an editor to stay sane.

Or you can just type 1. in front of every line and let the Markdown renderer take care of numbering.

> What the hell are task lists anyways? Why do they exist?

Again, not a standard Markdown feature. They are a GitHub invention for adding checkboxes to issues and tracking the progress of things. They're convenient for places like GitHub, but if you're writing some documentation, you can just ignore them.

> The HTML output is antiquated at best. Though the basic structure of headers and paragraphs is generally semantic, there's no modern semantic elements such as main, article, section, nav, header, footer, figure, picture, etc.

YAGNI. And many of those would not necessarily be part of the Markdown document - in a blog, the <article> would be outside of Markdown and instead part of the main template (which is by necessity HTMLish).

> Embedding videos, social media widgets, etc. isn't possible at all.

Why not? I can just copy-paste the embed widget from YouTube and paste it in my Markdown. The (Gruber) spec allows HTML inside Markdown. A thing that knows how to turn a link to the social-media-site-du-jour into a nice widget is outside the scope of a simple markup language (it would need a large database and constant updates).
> Curious that since a lot of things are popularly rewritten in Rust or Zig

Are you referring to personal or professional codebases rewritten in Zig? Personally I haven't seen the Zig language used professionally in 1 company. And my impression from the last discussion about Zig:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33331549

was that the compiler was still too unstable to be used for real work.
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> The fact is that some security people are stupid

Bold of you to assume that these companies have any security staff at all.

> Taken to the limit, let's call it "User Side Security" (USS), we build interfaces so that the user gets to decide their chosen security solutions (obviously compartmentalised so as not to affect any other users assets or choices).
> (I feel a tremor in the Force, as if a million security people suddenly cried out in horror then suddenly fell silent.)

And rightly so. There's a lot of things broken in the security industry, but letting users pick: "Hmm, i want AES 256 ECB instead of AES 128 GCM, because 256 > 128" is not the answer.