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> I wonder where this trend - fortunately a limited one - with putting confirm buttons at the top comes from?

it comes from gnome developers wanting to do things different for difference's sake.

it makes no sense and brings no advantage. truly an unnecessary change.
I use yt-dlp (the maintained fork of youtube-dl) for school videos and put them on our in house Jellyfin.

If we can’t do that I email our teacher. I would rather them miss homework than unban YouTube. Schools need to stop using addictionware sites to deliver videos.
Honestly no one really cares about VR that’s the problem.

I feel like this is definitely the elephant in the room everybody is ignoring. Almost nobody gives a hoot about VR!

I'm a software engineer with a lot of (surprise, surprise) nerdy/geeky/whatever friends and interest in VR is close to zero. A few friends vouched for various games like Half-Life:Alyx and Beat Saber, but nobody was claiming it was a life altering experience and nobody is clamoring to live more of their lives in VR. VR definitely makes a great game controller for some kinds of games and there are even a few killer apps, but I mean like... Wii Sports was a "killer app" for motion controls and that doesn't mean it was a technology that shaped our lives in the long run.

And needless to say non-technical folks have less than zero interest in strapping a computer to their head and face.

God bless John Carmack, but it feels like he and FB are arguing about execution issues on a product nobody cared about in the first place.
Such a clever name for a language. He only killed a 10 million or so. I wonder what were the other name ideas that lost to 'Stalin'
Now fix your synchronous dbus calls to gvfs on the UI thread in the file dialog init code that hangs everything for 20s whenever gvfs shits the bed (not rare when you have more than a handful of mounts).

That bug is probably similarly old as this one.
Belmont Report
It takes less vertical space because it reuses the (mostly empty) title bar.
I disagree about the negative correlation between humanitarian studies and war-like behaviors, however it's an interesting point nonetheless.

Personally, and it's a rather flimsily held opinion of mine so I'm open to challenges, but I feel like it's quite the opposite. Isn't it the non-humanitarian things that have brought together unlikely sides? At the height of the cold war, Americans and Russians still visited each other's countries for Chess championships, but not much else, right? My history knowledge isn't that great :P
He could have been me as well. Like you, I found Meditations (even the same translation). I went from being academically suspended from my University, depressed and in a dead-end job to being a happy, healthy, fulfilled person with a loving fiancé and the best job in the world (that happens to pay >6 figures). I’m 30 now.

I wouldn’t say that stoicism is perfect for everyone, but I found it stabilizing when everything was falling apart for me. Good luck OP, pm me if you just want to talk.
I use OmniOS - its actually not that rare to use if you want a good ZFS server. I am about to do a fresh install on new hardware of it as well. Its not legacy at all.
Huh, weird, I thought the exact same thing when I hit the summary. Something in the wording feels like ChatGPT answered a “explain the difference between Emscripten and WASI” prompt.
It’s interesting that people complain about vapid reels/TikTok, while also hating on medium-length educational content.
Ask HN: What are the hacks you tried with ChatGPT?
Internet is fooled with ChatGPT buzz and everyone tried something with ChatGPT. It's good to hear what hackers/developers do with ChatGPT
They give us what we wanted after years of pleading, but we pay dearly and mercilessly in other ways. Truly Faustian.
I think the biggest thing that chafes at people is that Taibbi is meant to be uncharitable and distrustful of big corporations. But he's not. He's charitable and trustful of the current management of Twitter. It's the exact opposite of speaking truth to power. The old twitter was a set of weak, fragmented, individuals doing their best and getting absolutely excoriated for it constantly. Now the company is run by the richest man on earth beholden to no one, and he faces literally no skepticism from Taibbi (although it looks like Weiss is about to break).
I always feel like I must be crazy because Gnome / GTK threads are always filled with comments about how terrible it is. Personally, I find it to be the most aesthetically pleasing and usable desktop environment I’ve used (having spent many years on Mac and Windows). I’m not sure what the disconnect is.

Anyway, good thing we all have a wealth of choices. If you don’t like Gnome, there’s a huge universe of choices available to you! Long live OSS.
If you lower the brightness on an LCD screen, it's going to have terrible contrast even if you use the lowest possible black because the "black" on that kind of screen is achieved by filtering out polarized light. Additionally on some screen models, low brightness is obtained by flickering the backlight which only adds to the discomfort.
I stopped using soap and shampoo in the shower years ago. If I'm really dirty I'll use soap--I'm not a barbarian. But in general, yeah, the skin's natural oil remains if you just take a hot shower with no soap, and, at least for me, no-one complains about BO (in fact the opposite!). I feel clean, smell clean. Interestingly, this really helped my dandruff - just rubbing the scalp with hot water completely stopped it far better than any shampoo.
You can tweet from Mars..
You can't be happy with 95 or 98. They were terrible. NT4 was nice though.
I’ve never really understood this. None of the things you actually want to click obey Fitt’s law. It’s really an argument for having the toolbar at the top of the screen instead. Or having a taskbar at the bottom, which Windows had long before the Dock came along.

(I’m not really the target market for any of these things, to be clear, gimme the screen space back and don’t make me touch the mouse).
One of the first things I did when I got access to ChatGPT was to ask it to explain jokes to me. Being able to pick up on what's funny is going to be really important if we want it to pass a well-rounded Turing test.

It's very clear, after doing it repeatedly, that the results are closer to templated responses than in other ChatGPT contexts. Almost always, the response identifies some part of the joke as "a play on words to create a punchline that is unexpected and humorous."

On the other hand, one area where I've found ChatGPT to exceed my expectations is in creative synthesis. For instance, asking it to retell a story in a vastly different style than the original (e.g. "Write a dark, post-apocalyptic thriller starring the cast of Peanuts") or to write a story combining elements from two different stories (e.g. "Write a story where the princess from 'The Princess Bride' and 'The Princess Diaries' are the same person" or "Write a story where the plot of 'Shaun of the Dead' takes place in Stars Hallow, as depicted in 'Gilmore Girls'").
> That responses are generated by any system is no grounds for assuming anything.

> Give a chicken cocaine, give a boy Valium; give a bear a lobotomy, and so on.

What can you conclude from these experiments that does not depend on anything about the responses generated by the subjects?
The periodic tiling conjecture is true in dimension 2: if you have a single tile that tiles Z^2 aperiodically by translations, then it also tiles Z^2 by translations periodically, this is a result of Bhattacharya (and the reason why the expectation was for the conjecture to be true in general)
I am 30. I guess that is young-ish. I try to take care of my health.
The man who was just forced to buy a 44B company, and is liquidating shares in his self-driving car company to pay twitters rent, and is now beholden to weird Saudi financiers who bailed him out, is certainly not steering lol.
> Now that I’ve matured a bit, I enjoy not having much of a TV habit

I don't think you can draw the conclusion that this is because of your childhood restrictions. I have not watched TV in ~10 years, and most of my friends don't have a TV, but I have never had any restrictions. I had the TV on in the background for 8+ hours a day when I was a kid. I don't think there is any correlation at all.
Coming from Granholm this reads like "we have investigated ourselves, and found we did nothing wrong."
The fact is that ChatGPT never emits anything other than bullshit.

The surprising thing is how much of human conversation is successfully approximated. The bullshit fails when we ask the software to attempt to perform inductive or deductive logic or to derive information from a theory of mind.
Here here! I miss my NeXT (I used way beyond a reasonable length of time lol). Fantastic UI.

So many modern UIs are so damn space inefficient. Drives me mad. It’s like designers think everyone is an 80yo with Parkinson’s and bad eyes. Massive screen waste; white space everywhere; blah blah.

I hates it.
As a spiritual predecessor I would recommend the movie The Long Goodbye (1973)
Good analogy. Ideally ladders are designed based on problem type - simple to complex. But in corporate wonderland, the ladder climbers regularly change that ideal to stay on the ladder.

You dont need a miracle. You just need to recognize early, who the most mindlessly ambitious over energetic unimaginative people, in the room are and keep them on leash/direct the energies away from ladder reconfig.
Funny, this is my exact approach. Love it. Only comment, is that even if storing "dumb data" is the goal, we use Cloudflare KV, you still need some backend CMS or database to ensure some data integrity. So we build a simple bridge between the CMS/database and KV.
Oh, you mean the doctrine that is openly vilified by the "originalist" majority of the US Supreme Court? Not that consistency is their strong point or anything, but maybe that's not the authoritative answer you thought it was.

FWIW, to appease the cowardly-downvote brigade, I personally believe the concept of a penumbra is valid and important. But the world doesn't always bend to my will. Merely invoking the concept without considering current context is weak because it won't convince anyone of anything. If you want to make an argument based on that, you'll have to put in a bit more effort than just pasting a link.
Yep. There are lots of talented people, programming wise, who can't communicate vision, lead, or inspire teams. These are mostly orthogonal to technical skill, but are extremely important if you're building something that requires more than one person.
We are already there. I see videos on Instagram and question whether they are real. Would not have happened 2 years ago .
Due to (i) a laissez faire public attitude, esp. in the US, that "if this was a serious problem, someone would have done something about it", (ii) a pervasive misunderstanding of how important information privacy is to democracy and society and (iii) regulatory capture by big tech it, will be a long time before there is a regulatory solution (esp. in the US). As for historical parallels, they're not promising. It was decades after the excesses by the "robber barons" and their unfettered capitalism in the late 1800s before the US government built institutions and laws to push back by creating consumer protection (child labor laws, the food and drug administration, the social security administration, etc.) As an alternative to waiting for government, some of us are exploring a combination of contract law and a personal "identity agent" (an app running on your devices that includes a personal datastore). This agent makes your data available to a service provider's apps and sites under "human information license" that states a set of reasonable, non-exploitative terms. This approach requires voluntary participation on the part of the service provider. There may be sufficient incentives for some kinds of providers to participate, but admittedly it's an uphill climb. WRT the contract notion, what I envision is similar to JLINC's information sharing contract (https://sisa.jlinc.org/v1/3b39160c2b9ae7b2ef81c3311c7924f1c4...)
Here is my take as someone that is involved in farming in the Midwest. Both row crops and livestock:

Taking out productive land to put in a solar farm is not practical. There are loads of acres that would be a perfect fit such as pasture land no longer being utilized for grazing. Or if there is pasture being used for grazing with sheep/goats would be another good place for these to be placed.

Another suggestion would be utilizing the roofs of hog confinement buildings, poultry buildings, cattle sheds, machine sheds, etc. This also pertains to roofs in urban areas as well. I actually helped with a business putting up a new chemical shed to place solar panels on their roof. There are so many hog sites and poultry sites in my area that this would be a no brainer to try and push towards. Everyone saying eliminate or reduce meat consumption...all it is is a wish and prayer. It won't happen sorry that's just the cold hard truth so the above suggestion is what the world needs in a lot of situations...a compromise.

The next suggestion is some sort of portable solar paneling during the non-growing season. Pull them out of the crop and field work has been done, and remove them before the next season begins.
The exchange will have a wallet or collection of wallets they control. They can prove they control them by announcing they will move the coins in them at such and such a time and then doing it.

I am stuck between "there must be some reason this is more difficult than it should be" and "they won't do it because they also have their hands in customer accounts."...
> timewarrior.org

I assume you mean https://timewarrior.net/
I tried "Take Me to Church," famously a gay protest anthem, which it totally missed:

https://www.songtell.com/hozier/take-me-to-church
No. 6: How can an ISA "be closed"? It seems to me like all ISAs are open by definition, since they are simply an interface between the CPU and human (essentially). See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_x86_manufacturers. Many of these haven't acquired any "license" from Intel to implement a processor that complies to the x86 interface. If things are as I assume, I find it disingenuous to portray RISC-V as an "open" ISA since it implies people can't build on top of other ISAs. If there's something more to it, it would be helpful if someone could explain.

I still think RISC-V is superior to x86(-64) FWIW.
Not sure how that's relevant to my comment; Microsoft was indisputably "inspired" by Apple, in the same way that Apple was indisputably "inspired" by Xerox.
The effect is stronger than that as it scales with population densities. Geoffrey West's works explore this in some detail.
Audio as a remixable meme is the most obvious one. TikTok lets you effortlessly use the audio of another video for your own. This leads to things like “Chrissy wake up” being remixed and repurposed in thousands of ways all from an initial viral piece of audio.
> In the last post, we discussed deprecating treeviews and cell renderers, among other things. All these deprecations cause a lot of work for applications and libraries using these APIs, so why are we doing this?

> One of the reasons is to enable new features. Such as a grid view for the file chooser. It only took us 18 years! You can see the original feature request in Bugzilla. This is easily possible now because GtkListView and GtkGridView can use the same data models.

This is exactly why I do not use GNOME. Absolute insanity.
Let me google that for you:

https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+shadowban&oq=defin...

verb: shadowban -
block (a user) from a social media site or online forum without their knowledge, typically by making their posts and comments no longer visible to other users.
The Art of Writing Efficient Programs
Even the most primitive levels of cognition lead animals to feel fear and fight for their lives. That's one of the first things cognition did.
The government suggests something and the person making the decision at Twitter agrees with it or doesn't. But the government isn't compelling Twitter to do anything.

People are ghost banned for poor language and insults. You have to imagine that Twitter is generally not very permissive based on how they treat average users. Many of the #NAFO folks are shadow banned.

This whole spectacle seems like a giant straw man in the making. The people that ran Twitter set it up based on their own belief of what is acceptable and there is nothing wrong with that.
What advantage do asymmetric connections give you? Does it enforce a hierarchy?
> people have determined that the location doesn't make sense for what he's claiming.

Details on this?
There are barely more children in the world today than twenty years ago. Increases in population are down to not dying young. In almost all regions of the world people are having fewer children and trending towards lower than replacement levels as the necessity to having enough children that survive to adulthood and can care for you in old age disappears. These are hard facts. Given these facts the suggestion that we tackle the “population problem” implies all sorts of horrible utterly unethical “solutions”.

The “population problem” is a solved problem (not ignoring ongoing efforts and regional as opposed to global problems such as Madagascar population/land use issues which are largely political anyway) and there is nothing left there that we can do to solve the global environmental ecological degradation.
Reckon the cost of doing an MBA has a big role to play in this. MBAs are just stupid expensive. If you’re 200k in debt at graduation, you’re likely going to make conservative choices in your career.

Siding with the in-group and perpetuating the bureaucratic structure is one way to ensure that you stay employed.
Beta max vs VHS is another one.
This was the same firm that stood behind the now convicted Trump organization's financial statements.
But you can prove you have X Bitcoin and that your customer deposits of BTC are about the same amount. Whether you have borrowed from third parties to fund general activities is separate from that no?

I'm not asking for proof these companies are profitable. Just that they actually have the coins they're customers think they own...
If it would be adults nobody would care but the problem is that a major part of the tiktok userbase is quite young, many under 16 yo. Children or teenagers shouldnt get incentivised to dance in a very sexualized way (twerking just for example).
Do you have any evidence to share which might suggest that GDPR treats private aircraft differently than ... literally everything else?

If not, why would we just not accept that GDPR treats aircraft exactly how it treats everything else? The law, as written, clearly offers no specific coverage or exemption for any types of vehicles.
It's difficult to replace soldered RAM when it malfunctions, but that's not the only drawback. The most immediate problem with soldered RAM is that it cannot be upgraded like a standard SO-DIMM stick. Even when a laptop with partially soldered RAM has one free SO-DIMM slot, the soldered RAM limits the amount of total RAM that can run in dual channel mode. Manufacturers including Lenovo also charge much more for soldered RAM upgrades than aftermarket SO-DIMM prices, which is price gouging.
Customer fund liabilities are easy to do.
So how does that work if an employer in a state where they are enforceable hires a remote worker in California, and later tries to enforce that agreement by suing in a court in the employer's state? Are the choice of law rules in that state going to say California law applies?

I know that when a company in state X has a remote worker in state Y generally Y's employment law applies as far as things like minimum wage, paid leave requirements, and such. But those are things that the employer must do upon or after the employer/employee relationship is established.

The employment contract is a contract between two parties that are not yet in an employer/employee relationship so I'd expect state Y's claim that its laws govern would be unclear.
Maybe this will come one day. Revit and Rhinoceros do have python-scriptable 'nodes'.
All the parentheses close at the same point, though.
>Humans naturally read from top to bottom. It naturally follows that the final action in any UI should be at the bottom.

Pretty bold of you to assume such thought process occurred at any point during design. Someone just thought "this looks good", where good may mean "modern-looking", "trendy", or "looks great on a screenshot for a product page", and slapped the button there.
> I apologize for misunderstanding the joke.

One thing that’s quite interesting with the coming AI assistants is that you can treat them like shit and they won’t mind. :P

Not that I have a secret desire to treat people like shit, but sometimes it would be better if you could just say “no, this is all wrong, you need to start over and…” You can’t say that to an employee (very often), but you can to an AI.

Yet another way in which ChatGPT is already superhuman.
Really? That’s a real response? Because that is pretty awesome.
I loathe applications that put controls all over the title bar.

The title bar is supposed to be a mostly empty expanse that you can grab with a mouse. Now it's littered with controls, and I can hardly bring windows to focus or move them around without accidentally searching something or confirming something.
Marc Benioff tells Salesforce workers that new employees are less productive
The costs of fraud aren’t distributed evenly over a credit card companies customers. The ones that pay off every month obviously don’t pay extra, but those that fall into debt traps pay through the nose.

> IME businesses that take cash are mostly doing it for tax evasion, not to save you the transaction fee on cards.

Business don’t give a shit about saving you money on transaction fees. All of their competitors build it into their prices, so it’s price that drives up consumer costs pretty uniformly, so there’s little advantage in trying to keep that cost down. It not like the businesses customers can find a competitor offer substantially better prices due to lower transaction fees.

> And of course the responsibility for committing credit card fraud is on the criminal, not the bank.

That doesn’t change the cost involved. I personally don’t give a shite who’s responsible, I just know I’m not responsible, and I don’t want to pay the cost.

The current card network fee system is very similar to the US healthcare insurance system. Pharmaceutical companies can charge crazy high prices for medication, because the cost is paid for by insurance companies, the end user is never given the opportunity to shop around. As a result there is little competitive price pressure on pharmaceutical companies, there’s so many layers between them and actual price sensitive user, that they can basically just ignore the user, and rely on insurance companies to find a way to extract the rents the industry wants.
Similar deal in the mountain west. 11.09 cents per kwh and my power has only blipped once when they were tuning the voltages at the substation vs. regular planned and unplanned outages when I was on PG&E.
Yes, I'm not trying to defend their modern design (in)sensibilities. :P I switched from Windows to Linux (with an aborted attempt at Mac) after realizing the OS-level ads weren't going anywhere.
If it was just “ow I spilled some coffee” I’d totally agree but it was serious burns requiring hospitalization. It looked like an industrial accident not something one should get from spilling food.

If a steak house brings you a super hot plate they warn you profusely. McDonald’s didn’t do that here. I for one would never expect coffee handed through a drive through window to be so hot I am at risk of second and third degree burns. That’s crazy.