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> For limited definitions of 'preserves' if you aren't a paying user.

You might be thinking of slack. Discord preserves unlimited scroll back for everyone.

> Not really, you can't tell who pinged you half the time

Which is still an improvement over IRC.

> (and this is a common complaint from most everyone in a discord server with 70+K members.)

And how does a 70K user IRC channel handle this?

> Limited ones unless you get a bot to add in granularity (such as duration of moderation action.)

They recently added "Timeout bans", and other features to reduce the need for bots (regex actions that will auto-filter, flag or timeout on match).

Which is far more than IRC offers without needing a bot.

> can think of a few HTTP chat sites from the late 90s that had better moderation for all users

But discord isn't competing with HTTP chat sites from the late 90s. It's competing with IRC.

> I should note IRC had video chat functionality with pIRCh98.

I don't really think you can use a propriety feature of a single (obsolete) client to defend IRC.

It really doesn't matter what did what first, or what IRC could theoretically do if you extend it. The only thing that matters to users and communities is the that the out-of-the box experience for discord today is far better than the out-of-the box experience for IRC.
But that is their hypocrisy. If you have a thousand times more than most people, nbd. If you have a thousand times more than them, then that’s an outrage.
This reminds me of a software engineering project in college where we had to re-write an old DOS game called Chopper Commando (https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Chopper_Commando.html) given the Turbo Pascal source code, which was used as an example of terrible code that works just fine, and required to establish a cleaner architecture that manages to achieve feature parity with the original.

We all talked shit about how bad that code was (like we were some experts or something...). People who want to talk shit will talk shit. People who don't know what they don't know will talk shit. Do what you want to do.
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> It's not your stomach, it's your mind.

> Truffles are also rough on your stomach

This is my experience. And apparently your experience too although you took it as an opportunity to lecture.
I think the main reason why managers don't devote resources to fixing smaller tech-debt issues is that they can't correctly measure the value of such fixes or reason about them.

As an extreme example, the task of "Update the SSL certificate" is a low priority item that doesn't deliver any value, right up until about an hour before the certificate expires, at which point it suddenly becomes the highest priority task that everyone needs to drop all their other tasks for.

A slightly more realistic example would be the task of automating the certificate update process, or writing tests for that process, both of which might fail a short-sighted manager's heuristic of asking "Are there more important tasks right now?".

(Then, when something inevitably goes wrong due to the lack of automation or lack of testing, the manager blames whoever was supposed to be responsible for manually updating it, or blames the person who wrote the automation code but wasn't given the time to test it, while telling their own boss "There was nothing I could have done to prevent this!").

So, to align everyone's incentives, and make the problem less abstract, I propose the "jelly bean method". What this involves is having a jar of jelly beans, and whenever a manager tells you to ignore some technical debt to work on a "ticket" item instead, you should say "Sure thing, boss. That'll cost you 2 jelly beans". Then you take your jelly beans, and go work on the ticket, ignoring the tech-debt. However, when the next ticket estimation session happens, you bring with you the jar of jelly beans, and you weigh how full the jar now is, and use that as an inverse scale factor for all your estimates. For example, if the jar is half full, then you double all your estimates, and if it's a third full, then triple them.

Of course this isn't a scientifically rigorous methodology, and it won't make the estimates more accurate, but it should have the effect of making the manager and the team more aware of the long-term costs they are adding to the development process, which should make people less hasty to add tech-debt without accounting for it in some way. The system even allows for giving developers days or sprints where they can pay off the tech-debt: you just have to buy more jelly beans to fill up the jar a little. And even if the system doesn't have the desired effect and the level of tech-debt spirals out of control, at least you get to eat a few delicious jelly beans to take your mind off it.
A self hostable version is OnlyOffice and then I guess you could also just have a plain old on-prem licensed non-cloud Sharepoint farm.
Sure, you can watch Milli Milli [1] (for one example) if you're seeking a contrast between Central to Northern Western practices:

> takes the viewer on a cultural travelogue through the three regions of the Kimberleys: the coast, the rivers and tablelands, and the desert.

and you're correct about the breadth of languages across Australia as a whole.

The point stands that this group were first hand direct testimony to Western Desert lifestyles prior to colonial invasion.

One of the more interesting thing about growing up in the less inhabited parts of Western Austrlia (ie. most it given its 3x size of Texas with a pop of > 2 million mostly living in the SW corner) is the direct interaction with many people that still directly connect to traditional lifestyles [2].

[1] https://www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/710/milli-milli.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmKxmxk6Gas
Not sure I get your point. Say you use IRCCloud on your phone, you don't need anything else, do you?
On the one hand, items as close as some of these, you're truly just guessing, and taking the exchange rate an hour earlier or later could change the result.

On the other hand, my average was about as close on the close ones as the non-close ones.
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The only time I ended up in a hospital due to substances was because I thought I was dying after eating too much of an edible, even though it was really just my first, and only, panic attack. Be careful.
That's the irony. Both parents work and the market swallows a good chunk of the second income.

But now, simultaneously, there are two income households with zero kids. That's the new benchmark.

I'm not going to judge / critique / question why it is, but the shift from one income per household to two has create economic chaos. Chaos we have yet to come to terms with.

But more irony, from an economic POV there are couples opting out of families because of the costs. And the new benchmark nudges up...
Definitely. Alongside the push for legalization we should also be pushing for more edibles and vaporization and less combustion. Inhaling burnt anything is terrible for you.

I believe there's been studies showing that people with fireplaces in their homes have meaningfully lower life expectancy than those with other forms of heating too.
If the general population cared as much for education as much as they do their high school and college sports, we'd fix our education problems overnight. We can defund anything you want in our public high schools, but touch the football team and watch out.
Because the temperature spread a given heat pump uses isn't really suitable for district heating, your output water would only be in the 50 to 60°C range at most, too low for typical district heating systems. One can get around that with multi-stage heat pumps or different coolants, but both are expensive investments typically not viable for existing systems.
I get it but that’s not how I want to use my chat app. I understand my workflow is unique but that’s why I prefer IRC
The explanation was good but I have a quip with treating video games as lesser. We were doing NAT punchthrough and other complex UDP NAT traversal well before STUN/TURN was an established thing.

That said most of it has centralized to so that there is an authoritative server to handle cheating which means that you can mostly get away with not needing a complex traversal these days. Some of the stuff in the early '00s did some pretty impressive things(ex: dynamic host migration when the hosting console would drop out).
There’s no such thing as bad, embarrassing code. There’s only unreadable and non-performant. Neither of these are that important if the code itself serves a meaningful purpose to others.

There IS such a thing as asshats in our industry who will find any excuse to bully others.
Love it! Cool game
Which is pretty incredible in a day 1 driver. It's already playable. What a great year this team has had. Thanks Alyssa, Yuka, and Lina.
It's more than enough to build on. If a government simply decided that it was important to have ownership of their code and interoperability & future-proofing of their data & documents, then relatively over night any rough edges and weaknesses could be cleaned up.

It's like saying a house is unusable shite because the sink has dirty dishes in it.
There is a parody sub https://ps.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/ all written by a set of GPT bots, where each bot writes in a specified tone.

Something like that *can* exist for HN too.
Interestingly checking previous submissions going back to 2016 the project had subtitle "programming copilot."
It's mostly a private tool, but I also license it out to ~15 other small/medium businesses.

I've often thought about open-sourcing it, and I think in the long-run that could happen. I haven't done so yet mostly because I'm weary of the feature requests, support, and the same bloat over time that made other formerly "slick" solutions degrade over time.

Software is complex and expensive. In order to pay for it, it needs lots of users. In order to be useful for lots of people, it needs more features. With each feature, more adjacent and tangential features are necessary. They all succumb to being "everything for everyone", which is another way of saying "really useful for no one, but has a feature or two that every user might maybe possibly could perhaps need one day."

I took the the "quality over quantity" approach because I can be profitable with a handful of paying users, who are essentially paying to keep it small. That way it keeps being very useful for them, rather than marginally useful for thousands/millions. Most software, particularly CRMs, become a tax on your time or wallet rather than a tool in your belt.
The argument is about industrial espionnage and French ruthlessness in doing it.

There are clear evidence that French neocolonialism has had terrible impacts on Sub-Saharan Africa for instance and beyond (The Ivory Coast crisis is a more recent example than the ones you chose). However, they barely indicate anything about an ability to conduct industrial espionnage in, say, the USA. At best, it is adjacent.

Bombing the Rainbow Warrior says nothing about the French government's industrial spying capacity as well. It shows how shody the DGSE was in fact.
Because they have different opinions doesn't mean they are detached from reality. IRCCloud shows images in the feed, for instance. I just like the fact that I don't need that overhead in my client if I don't want it.
The Overwatch lootboxes were purely cosmetic too. The Call of Duty ones weren't. The new CoD battle pass isn't entirely cosmetic either, but the worst it does is give you faster access to weapons that you could have unlocked through regular gameplay for free.
He is 76. He has had more than 3,000 lawsuits against him. He has been breaking the law for decades. Still nothing. There is a reason why he is called “The Teflon Don”
> Why can't growth be sustainable

Because resources are finite. Sure, we haven’t tapped all the energy the sun shines on earth. But if we did, we would be doing the equivalent of painting the earth black, absorbing all possible light and making everything a scorched wasteland. Space travel enables a form of sustainable growth, but if you want to stick around here, the growth needs to stop eventually. I, and many people, believe we’re bumping up against the upper limit of humans the earth can support.
Eh… sort of.

The two gambling props failed because they came with baggage.

I’m pretty sure that California citizens are ok with sports betting in general.
My entire point here is that just because the system now allows the cops to be capricious doesn't mean we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater and say there is no speed that is so unsafe that it warrants punishment.
Every time there's crypto scam and/or collapse someone writes an article about the long and lasting and deep scars. I've yet to see any. Dumb money gets taken, esp. in an unregulated market.
10K seems arbitrary, why not 14K as discussed here: https://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-i...
Have you tried IRCCloud?
https://arbtt.nomeata.de/ has been around for quite a while. Never heard about it being abused for surveillance. Hm, but was it?
I just moved to UK from Sweden just 6 months ago. I was guessing, there would be a strong will to UnBrexit at this point with all the empirical evidence that Brexit failed

But quite surprisingly, this is not the case. I don't have enough information to say why, but I am definitely shocked on the lack of discourse on the matter.

There are some small movements, but it goes largely unreported by the mainstream media. There was a 10.000 people march recently in Westminster to UnBrexit and BBC didn't even report it.
> announced a $5 million grant to ProPublica on Feb. 28, 2022. Over three years, the donation will support investigations…

Curious does the full $5M still stand or does the remaining $3.75M disappear or go back to creditors?
If you're not legally constrained, would you say more about when and how?

I'm curious if it's pre or post BERT, for instance, and also what kinds of things you had to do to induce that large a boost in speed.
Wyze camera with it's official (but not supported) RTSP firmware. You have to flash it with the firmware and once done it's a rock solid RTSP cam in my experience.
You’re playing hateful (disguised in civil language) rw culture war games based on fringe talking points which ought to be more unwelcome here. You’re pathetic
> I don't care about how big a page is. I care how fast it loads.

you should care about both, not everyone has unlimited data capacity.
good days... I have fond memories of LAN parties.
Not really. More living sustainably, retiring comfortably.
I believe that any smoke as a byproduct of combustion will do this. Even more so if that's the only thing you're breathing in for minutes at a time.

Just leaving this in as a reminder for anyone. It's not worth it. Don't smoke.

Nonetheless, the claims presented shouldn't be comparing both as independent from one another.
https://archive.ph/swOsR
This is one of those channels I stumbled upon, and figured I would watch one and move on. Nope. Super fascinating channel on stuff I never knew or thought, how it worked.
These open-source GPU driver guys are sick! About two decades ago, I had a Via Unichrome integrated GPU and the OpenChrome project had me able to run games on Linux. It was sick. I played Unreal Tournament (which had a Linux version that worked better for me than on Windows), and I think at one point my introduction to open source was having to modify another game's source code so that it would allocate less GPU memory for a texture (the texture then kind of smeared over the rest of the screen, but it was for a UI element so the game was still playable).

Love to see there are people still doing that stuff today, especially since this stuff is probably more complex than then.
The right move for everyone is to stop having kids. Wait until things change so that it's economically comfortable to have kids, though this may take a generation or two.
We play red alert with custom games by creating ssh tunnels to a public server. Not strictly necessary, but easy to do with ssh.
Briar's "F-Droid" installation option wants you to add a new package distribution repo to the F-Droid app.

Rather than the usual way, which is to have F-Droid verify the source build of each version, and distribute through the official F-Droid repo.

(And normally that "Get it on F-Droid" button links to F-Droid's page for the app, rather than to another page of the project.)
https://archive.ph/5dEFc
10 years ago the police stations (the "gendarmerie" to be precise) in France moved away from windows / word to Linux / openoffice. source: my did who is now a retired officer. I remember him asking me some cool tips on Linux so he could show off his colleagues who were lost by the transition.
I'm curious is they are comparing marijuana in states where recreational cartels have taken over or if they are doing much to check the quality of the content.

I've noticed almost all recreational marijuana now is just bad. Like it will hurt your lungs and is sprayed throughout the grow with lots of pesticides bad. There are a lot of factors, from mineral buildup to curing conditions that could all have to do with the impact on health.
It clearly demonstrates a ruthlessness in the French Intelligence services through the delibrate bombing of a foreign flagged ship in New ZEaland Government Territory and, by extension, the ruthlessness of the French Government via their arm, those same services.
If it doesn't now, it can be made to in a figurative 11 minutes once a state level entity simply decides it matters.

All that's ever been missing is for a few politicians to have the vision or fortitude to ignore MS/Apple/Google sales pitches and then stick with it through the inevitable difficult transition period and complaints and address them by addressing them rather than by just going back to the familiar comfortable bad deal.
Vaporization ain't that great either.
Gambling has always been extremely widespread https://www.casino.org/blog/medieval-gambling/ https://historycollection.com/the-intriguing-past-times-of-p... that's why so many laws have been made around it. The lottery and scratch off scene in the US has always been insane
I remember the interviewer as being firm but polite about it. But I think it's a bit ironic considering that Shapiro posted videos to his own youtube channel with titles like "Ben Shapiro destroys liberal college student" or something to that effect. I believe it was one of the questions in the interview. I thought combative was his forte.
Open-Source Passive Radar Taken Down for Regulatory Reasons
Building a language generation model from scratch
I don't think american express travelers cheques are their own currency, but the bills banks originally created definitely are. It is obviously possible for a large organization and I had another example in my other comment, but I don't think these are feasible for an individual. I didn't know about all the community currencies though.
It's utterly incomprehensible to me that networks are allowed to advertise and then insert gambling content into their broadcasts... you think we would have learned our lesson with cigarette ads. And the saddest part, when I see Wayne Gretzky, the greatest hockey player of all time, who can't possibly need the money shilling BetMGM, my heart breaks
Malice is just the intention to do evil, it depends what you categorize as evil.

If the bar is "primarily intending to hurt other people", then I would agree this wouldn't qualify. If the bar is "primarily intending to enrich oneself, knowing that enrichment comes exclusively from hurting other people", we hit that one.
Related ongoing thread:

Colleges and sports-betting companies ‘caesarized’ campus life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33681023 - Nov 2022 (12 comments)
The internet killed the LAN parties.

It was too much work and decent internet gave you the games without the effort.
Related ongoing thread;

A lobbying blitz made sports betting ubiquitous - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33684467 - Nov 2022 (18 comments)
After dabbling with early stuff from the sadly scrapped Apple effort, I started my full time Mac ZFS journey in 2011 with the then Z-410, which then became ZEVO which was 10.8 only, and then staying on that (and in turn 10.8 doho) on a Mac Pro 3,1 for a solid 4 years or so. I was really sad when that effort didn't pan out and the company got acquired and then the whole deal was killed, but O3X revived the torch and I moved directly onto that. I've carried my pool forward continuously the whole way, with snapshots and everything, all data scrubbed and known good with no more data rot. It's a damn shame events (software patents) conspired to keep that from becoming a universal native fs, but it's still a wonderful thing and Lundman's amazing consistent efforts have been fantastic. The main site at https://openzfsonosx.org/ has decently active forums for something niche. Happy to see it pop up here on HN.

Without Apple on board or a much bigger effort ZFS on the Mac will probably always have some real limitations particularly with the GUI. For one of my desktop systems I've migrated to running my home and data folders as HFS or APFS formatted iSCSI targets, so it's still on ZFS underneath but appears native to macOS (and that also means that the effective death of towers isn't a limit on storage). But this remains an incredible project IMO.

Also for anyone who wants some limited GUI interaction capability, there is a small project called ZetaWatch [0] which will put some ZFS control into a menubar widget.

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0: https://github.com/cbreak-black/ZetaWatch/
I've studied quite a few religions, and the Zen I'm talking about isn't one. No God, no gods, no worship, no orthodoxy or dogma or gurus or priests or masters ... just mental liberation. A book of koans is the bible.

It's as easy to get trapped in the conundrums of material reductionism as any of the myriad traps that may involve our minds, monkey-and-cocoanut-style.
Lecturer, not professor. Professors can't be entertaining until they have tenure, and by then, many have forgotten how.
absolutely insane development pace. Congrats to the asahi team
Thanks for the film ref. Like most Australians, my knowledge of indigenous folk is patchy at best - a few books and local interactions here and there. I have actually helped hunt/collect & eat goanna (not bad) and turtle eggs (yuck), which probably puts me a bit outside of the Australian norm. But in truth the indigenous world is an entirely 'foreign' culture to most of us. As is European culture to many indigenous folk outside the cities - I came here from the UK and I remember being asked in Cape York whether or not we hunted much Dugong where I came from.
> outdated

If it works, it works?
If Marijuana is a serious medicine, then I’d personally expect it to be packaged by professional laboratory in some sort of precisely dosed unit, and to only contain the compounds required to derive the therapeutic benefit.

The amateurness of it I can kinda get past, but I’ve never been able to take the idea of smoking your “medicine” seriously.
You're right.
Since it's a KDE project I assumed they would be more aligned to WebKit's roots, sad.
Related:

OpenZFS on OS X - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7457917 - March 2014 (24 comments)
Show HN: Averaging the Corresponding Fields of Two Integers
What country is this? You just made me realise I haven't seen anyone wear a mask in person for ... months I think. I'm in the UK and covid has just become accepted as being here to stay. If anyone wears a mask here they are the odd one out, and I think people will assume they must be extremely vulnerable in some way since there is no societal or government pressure to do so, and catching it is kinda just a matter of time now.