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We get so many developer tooling products thrown at us, either for free or dirt cheap, that over the decades it's conditioned us to assign much less monetary value to developer tooling products compared to what a simple opportunity cost analysis would yield, given the high monetary value of our time.

I certainly suffered from this myself to a rather extreme degree in the past, having categorically refused to pay a single cent for anything I used to build side projects with, until I started to seriously think about pricing for my own product. Eventually I realized throwing money at almost any problem where it could buy me more free time should be a no-brainer considering how highly I value my free time.

Tangentially, I think there's an interesting analogue in here to what Steam did in the PC games market, but I digress...
Until you want to ask google about googols
ReDoS Vulnerability in Svnurl.py #287
To me, search.marginalia.nu returns the best kind of website: hardware-resource-light and information-dense.
Annoyingly, HN logic strips out the URI fragment, here's the comment in question.

https://github.com/pytest-dev/py/issues/287#issuecomment-128...
I wish people would stop with this pointless comparison.

WhatsApp did not have recommendations, advertising, content moderation, GDPR, DCMA etc or the volume of bots. It is simply not a comparable system.

And it is the backend systems you don't see that make up most of the tech stack.
> Because everyone wants to arrive on time

I don't believe this requirement is specific to the shinkansen, to Japan, or even to travelling by train.
Music works for me if: a) it's without words, and b) I know inside out. For a long time it was Beethoven's fifth symphony :)

Music also works for me by triggering an emotional state that helps me focus.
I've got C++ projects on my website that I wrote when I was 10 years old.

Old code isn't embarassing, it's an unlocked achievement at a given state of progress.

If you feel embarassed by your code you'll never face the harsh reality that time is a limited contigent, and therefore limits the quality of code. Everyone has a trade-off equilibrium when the time spent on a project doesn't justify its workload complexity (or reduction thereof) anymore.
> god

*goddess

It's a girl :) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis
This is such an easy argument to throw around. Almost no way to disprove it or address it, and basically sweeps responsibility away from current failings.

Newsflash to you though, there is plenty of cheap labour still floating around in SA.

Yet the productive are leaving in droves, whilst the racist (literally) black ruling class in power continue to steal and drive the country into nothingness, perpetually throwing out excuses like you are as to why it can't work now.
In Denmark, you learn basic control of the car in a closed circuit, there you learn how to work gears, clutch, brakes, blinkers, steering, and then you practice by driving some patterns and have brake-tests, including on a slippery track (artificial ice). I feel this gives you the best from both worlds.. It's a very safe environment, and the first time, you'll have the driving instructor in the car with you, and he has a pair of pedals too, so he can break and kill the engine before anything bad happens. One of the things simulators suck at, are g-forces, like, what does it FEEL being in the drivers seat, hands on steering wheel when taking a turn.. And I also agree with nickjj, that it is probably best to do it in an environment with consequences, as not to build up unwarranted over-confidence.

Also, I find it disturbing that it is legal to learn how to drive with automatic transmission.. If you're not able to learn how to drive a car with gears, that is, you can't muster the hand-eye coordination and basic motorskill to get a feel for this simple operation, I'd expect you to be equally clumsy with steering, blinkers and brakes and that makes you're unfit to commandeer any motorized hunk of steel down any road in my book.
Let's take the c64 as an example.

First, you had to pull the right diskette from your shelf that contains the program you wanted to use, because all the programs weren't in the same place. Let's hope you know where you put it.

Then, enter one or more commands to load the program that, for purely technical reasons and lack of standardization, are different for each program (load first directory entry vs. load specific directory entry vs. load directory+list directory + load entry). Wait 10-20 seconds to load. Sometimes it was faster, IIRC because by default the 8-bit-parallel line to the drive had 7 lines unused and pushed bits in serial so there were "fast loaders" that just moved bits in parallel.

Then, after loading the program, you had to start it (unless it was autostarting), again with an application-specific command (typically "run", but could be by calling a specific memory address like "sys 4096"). Many programs hat to load other stuff again and again because, well, 64k memory isn't a lot.

Sometimes you had to flip the diskette over or swap it with another one.

Let's face it: While today's software is sometimes ridiculously slow given the hardware it runs on, claiming that the 80s were better is pure nostalgia. Consoles of the time were better (I think the NES had 0,5 seconds from power switch to the game's first splash / title screen), but they used more costly ROMs instead of diskettes and were seriously hardware-feature-limited.
Competition for developer tooling products is _fierce_, possibly more so than any other industry, precisely because we really seem to love spending our free time building slightly different versions of the tools we use that suit our preferences better, sometimes before we even try to Google if that slightly different version already exists.

Again, I'm totally guilty of this myself, since Reflame started as a side project initially to scratch my own itch, and I can't claim to have done an exhaustive search on the problem space before I started.

This results in a vicious cycle where every product, however innovative it might be at its inception, gets quickly commoditized by dozens of similar products immediately following any signs of traction, so they end up having to shift to competing on price eventually.

Combined with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33691132 means any product that isn't available for free then eventually rots into obscurity due to the unfair distribution advantage of "free" in this market. Thus they are forced to offer a free version themselves and the cycle continues.
Further analysis of this ad-hoc idea failed. You cannot gain pressure difference larger than the wave height. Solution: the tube gets wider and wider and we gain volume instead of pressure.
> generally due to the high amount of trains that run on a single line, being late or early even by a few seconds can cause other trains to be delayed even more

How many trains per hour run on a single line?

EDIT: "At peak times, the line carries up to 16 trains per hour in each direction with 16 cars each (1,323-seat capacity and occasionally additional standing passengers) with a minimum headway of three minutes between trains"
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen )

EDIT2: apparently the busiest line in Europe is the Paris-Lyon TGV line, which currently handles 13 trains per hour and is being progressively upgraded to handle 14 trains per hour from 2025, then 16 trains per hour by 2030.
( https://railway-news.com/paris-lyon-high-speed-line-to-get-a... )

Again, this still doesn't feel like the Shinkansen needs to time departures to the second any more than other busy railway lines do. Apart from that their reputation is that they do?
And here was me expecting an article about https://firebrick.co.uk/
Trump has fiduciary obligation to delay non-TruthSocial posts by 6 hours
Cult 3.0
It is always a hot topic, but England’s dominance can be noted in its absence.

Wouldn’t it be fair to say that the UK is synonymous with England in this case?

Exhibit A, that I have at hand. Rainfall gauges for only England using the UK domain:

https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/rainfall-station/2...
There is and it's extremely cultish.
Government has mismanaged infrastructure on a wholesale scale in South Africa. It's not just electricity. Roads, rail, water, healthcare etc is not far behind.

See also this graph - actual civil engineers have functionally vanished in the last 5 years from local government:

https://i.redd.it/lgi9xzxlc10a1.jpg

How do you maintaining key infrastructure without engineers? You don't.
Meh…

Culture = Cult.

How deep.

For those interested, read Bruno Latour, it’s a lot finer. It’s about how you compose with the various traits of your culture to make sense of the world. People build their own Frankenstein-like culture. A lot of scientists are also religious. We choose what we want to believe in, and how we do it is what is interesting.
The way I prefer to think of it, is the UK is a state comprising of several countries, and the US is a country comprising of several states.

I can't promise it's any more accurate, but it amuses me.
(HGV = Heavy Goods Vehicle)

The pilot thing is the same in AU too.
There's also "Feelings your cult has told you are of the devil."
Siri does not have a gender, and defaults to a masculine voice in many countries.
This is also how I fall asleep. I need to find the right podcast; not too boring but not too exciting either.
Outrage after a startup with Russian founders wins Slush pitch competition
The Ulster Plantations were 400 years ago, calling it a colony now is beyond a stretch and sounds childish.
I think this is a good game to train your eye for design optics.

Whoever did this has a good eye for design, so I'm surprised by the assumptions he makes in what is right and wrong. Some of the answers depend on the overall design decisions of the UI and you can't say what's right and wrong by one example.

The "invite friends" / "skip" is an awful example. One button should be default but the contrast is so great that it's much more suggesting a dark pattern than a good UX.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33690011
You can only blame the voters if the politicians leave them with a dearth of choice. If a society can't produce a single reasonable leader it's usually no coincidence. Cultural values matter and some societies are inherently more corrupt (e.g. Arab and African societies, as can be seen by the constant stream of corrupt leaders they produce)
I guess HKers are kind of simultaneously Chinese and not Chinese until they get old enough to form an opinion.

And I'm not sure if they actually have 'dual citizenship from birth', but South Korea has an open door policy to North Korean.. immigrants/refugees.
Misconceptions about Date and Time
Seems like Briar might be good for messaging to young kids. I could give them an old phone without a sim card, and run Briar on it.
Maybe even put a version test into the tests?
Sending a message, driving up their costs and delaying them slightly.
If the Pareto principle is always true, just keep on firing 80% of the remaining engineers until the company runs without developers.
I think they'd continue to refer to it as such but to me it feels a little odd. The "United Kingdom" was originally a union of the kingdoms of Scotland and England, the latter having already conquered and absorbed Wales. Losing one former-kingdom of that union and maintaining you're the "United Kingdom" feels a bit dishonest, a little bit "Democratic People's Republic ..." :)

"The Kingdom of England and Wales" makes more sense but "KEW" and "EW" sound odd as acronyms, and will just lead to most of the world referring to the place as "England" (as many in the USA currently do tbh). That is, if they decide to keep the monarchy...
How to Act More Wisely
> The developed world is distinguished from the developing world often by the strength of its institutions, by the general accessibility of legal recourse, by the prevalence of trust within the society at large.

The developed world is not immune to some of the problems, namely: genuine human errors, negligence and a great uneasiness to accept the personal responsibility for making mistakes, inadvertent or out of sheer incompetence (rampant in the British culture). The latter two somewhat step into a gray area, but I digress.

Ledger databases/blockchains provide a technological solution to the problem in multiple areas where a full immutable temporal history of changes is necessary even in the developed world where the governance is strong and corruption is less frequent.
Vitalik doesn't seem to be very smart. His blog postings are just useless rambles.
He's a snake oil salesman.
You are correct, the official name of the team is `Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team`
I think one of the parents of the child has to be a UK or Ireland citizen. For example, German parents resident in and having a child in Northern Ireland, the child is only a UK citizen (and perhaps German? I don't know that part of it)
That's great. Thanks for such a comprehensive reply and for sharing this project.
I think the organization that administers .cat would take issue with the idea that it is owned by "Spain" :)
Ayahuasca changed my life. But it is not for everyone!
Especially if you are using SSRI drugs or if you have heart conditions. Shamans will ensure you if you are eligible to use it.
Other than that, *every adult should use at least once in their lifetime*.
Watch "The War on Consciousness" from Graham Hankook for better understanding of it.
You can really get upvotes on HN for linking to common Certified Kubernetes Administrator concepts here? Y'all need to take the practice exam at https://killer.sh if this is considered noteworthy. It'll blow your mind, if not make my job easier with you all being able to help.
That's contentious. Technically the full name is the "Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team". Broadly the answer is "branding" and there isn't a strong enough push to change it.
Thanks for sharing. Very powerful indeed. Makes one question our place on Earth.
Inside The Airship Industry [video]
Indeed! Software development is not about writing syntax, but about "knowing what to write and where to put it".

Having a tool that rapidly creates setters, getters, or even common algorithms in function/method bodies is neat, crucial even. But also a problem that has mostly been solved for decades now.

The actual difficulty, where software devs spend (or should spend?) most time is indeed in what you say "reading, reviewing, designing, arguing". Where I'd like to add that the "arguing/bitching" is crucial if done with the right people (stakeholders, business, etc: creating a domain -or ubiquitous- language).

No AI can help me with that. And the current AIs make that worse. Rather than learning and applying ubiquitous language, rather than evolving a clean, maintainable architecture, it blurps a generic(ish) blurp of code. That often has no place where it was suggested, is inconsistent, breaks encapsulation or coupling and so on. If you blindly accept all the suggestions, the code often becomes worse fast; but you do write a lot of lines of code quickly. Whoever cares about that, though?
That's kind of like 'The United States of <two cities in the same state>'.

(Aside: TIL I don't think there's a US state for which I can name two cities. Edit: ah, no - Austin & Houston TX.)
So I read your comment first (that you stopped), went doing it, ended up stopping at the very same point. I felt disgusted.
How does this work?
Does it only work when searching?
When a user subscribes to your content, is it subscribed to the alias or to the server address behind it?
What happens if you want to switch servers? Can existing connected users find content on the new server if the webfinger changes?
Note, there could be option 3 whereas its fractional but a gov-owned central bank entity.

Where pure crypto exchanges get into problems with fractional reserves is loaning out, etc. via their own invented tokens. Why? Because then they are setting up themselves as Central Bank with their own Reserve without the power of printing money and other gov things to counter Bank runs.

FTX could have done less than stellar legal trading of FTT in bull market and would have still blown up as evidenced by some of the firms it acquired.

We are still at the original economic problem when a crypto exchange sets it self up as Federal Reserve
Since high res screen are becoming the norm, you could argue that border radius are becoming de facto the 'correct design' because it is a more friendly, inviting et legible shape.
> Does it bring "joy" though ? or does it bring a quick feel good response in your brain that pushes you away from activities that actually bring joy ?

It sounds like you're just describing joy. It doesn't bring long-term contentment and fulfillment if that's what you mean, but that's a different thing.
It's most obvious with video, but that's not the only change. Thirty years ago you couldn't:

* Run games that approach photorealism at 4K resolution
* Emulate a recording studio with virtual instruments/FX in your laptop
* Watch video streamed at 4K
* Stream video from home and add live video FX
* Record and edit video at 4K using a pocket device
* Download files from a global communication network at hundreds of Mb/s
* Search that network and get results almost instantly
* Take usable speech recognition and automatic translation more or less for granted

The OP is poorly argued. Presumably they're trying to ask why software isn't 1000X better.

In some ways it is. Phone apps particularly are much more usable and intuitive than desktop apps from 1992.

In other ways, especially on the web, there's a lot of cruft floating on top of a sea of bloat. But there's a conscious tradeoff between abstraction/development time and runtime performance. The web would not suddenly become more usable if everything was written in machine code.

Elsewhere there's a lot of drag because of backward compatibility. Office is still a thing because nothing better has replaced it. It's ugly and stupid but it fills a niche that needs to be filled and - for all their efforts - FOSS isn't a realistic alternative for mainstream, professional use. This also applies to a lot of other industry-standard apps like Photoshop.

The limiting factor isn't CPU, it's the user. Most of these apps spend vast aeons of time in an idle loop waiting for the human to do something.

You'd need to invent new kinds of assistive apps to get around this, and we're beginning to see those with AI. But they'll be disruptors, not replacements, and it's not obvious how that's going to work out.
> Vaping is significantly less dangerous than smoking

Agree.

> Without added flavors you can argue it is completely harmless

No, it's not. Filling your lungs with fine particulate matter/grease is stupid. You can still get COPD, some do. That's pretty shitty way to go.
What I like about ETL tools like Dagster and Prefect is that you get observability “for free”. You can set the granularity by deciding what is a task/job/flow/op and how they’re grouped together. And then in one UI you get logs, metrics, a waterfall view with timed executions, all kinds of useful information.

It’s so useful that sometimes I’m tempted to reach for it in non-ETL contexts. My problem is that these tools generally don’t mesh well with real-time streaming requirements.
> provide minimal assurance to exchange users

Worse, it provides false assurance that allows the operators of the exchange to loot the exchange more easily.
It's worth noting that "Great Britain" is very specifically the name of a geographical land mass -- an island off the coast of Europe that currently includes England, Wales, and Scotland.

In political terms it doesn't include NI ... or the Isle of Man, the Isle of Wight, and the Channel Islands.

(Also, in event of Scottish independence, using "GB" for the nationality would cause confusion because post-independence there'd be two separate nations on the GB land mass. See also [minor] confusion over "Ireland".)
I think the piece is supposed to prompt questions like "what isn't a cult?"
> uploading everything in my home folder

"just" the code you were working on, surely?
If you want to get really weird, look into City of London and some of the Channel Islands. UK very much retains living heritage of the medieval.
I decided to do it for my church, and got zero. I think most companies and countries score higher than that.

Although even for my country I could only honestly give a point for the title. (No idea if it's the king or the prime minister who counts as the leader here, but it's an impressive title. There's plenty of laws, but they don't restrict much on the relational front. Well, there's restrictions on marrying children, and criminal jobs are illegal, so that might be another point.)
Webhook delivery retry to improve reliability
It used to be the case that there is only a single UK government.
The local governments (Scotland, Wales, NI) are formed no more than ~20 years ago, and are in charge of local affairs such as healthcare and education.
There is never an England local government, but effectively the UK government only have to deal with England with regards to local affairs.

(A bit over simplified, of course)
Whatever efficacy it has, it doesn’t rely on being smoked. A delivery method that’s obviously a massive health risk.
No, that's not true or fair. The gov.uk contains stuff for all countries not just England. Although it may contain stuff for England that does not have a place elsewhere.

The fact England doesn't have a devolved government is insanity to me, but people were really pissed at Blair when it came time to vote on it... so here we are.
For example, like a blue checkmark after the nick for users who are genuinely who they say they are?
Basics of Platform Games [pdf]
Still for sale on their website $39.99.

Is that a different model? Is the website defunct?
Similarly I find the no odd numbers argument unconvincing, again because of the tolerances and also because placing two of the resistors in parallel yields odd values for 10 and 22 and almost 15 (14.9855) for 22 and 47.
I'm not sure it does? IIRC, the Kingdom of Scotland merged with the Kingdom of England as (theoretical) equal partners, but Wales was just straight up conquered, and to the extent it's got any connection with royalty (the Senedd Cymru is democratic so I don't count it for this title), I think it's just leading it's name to royal titles, and hasn't even still officially been a principality since 1542?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Wales