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> Firsr, to this date, stuff I absolutley need that is in 2.7 i have to either try to fix or venv or somehow get it to work is one of my biggest headaches (Not my code).

2.7 was supported for 10 years and it's support ended 2 years ago. There's been ample time to upgrade the code or look for an alternative. If I "absolutely needed" to use a piece of code that I didn't write, is for an unsupported platform and is itself unsupported, I'd absolutely find the time for it. As a developer if I use a library that hasn't been touched for 3 years it's a red flag and I start to look for alternative libraries or forking the code.

> That means all other libraries need to use the same or greater python version but what if your distro doesn't yet support the very latesr python version? It's such a nightmare.

if your distro doesn't support the latest python version you're probably on a very old distro. For example python3.11 installs fine on all supported versions of Ubuntu (18.04+) and Debian (10+) and both Windows (8.1+) and macOS (10.15+). And python3.9 installs fine even on centos7 (released in 2014) and still supports the vast majority of python libraries.

If you're on an OS nearing or past its end of support, you can't reasonably expect all the latest software to work on it. And it's usually fine to just use an older version of python / libraries until you're ready to update.

> New versions should come out no more often than every 3-4 years imho

If new versions came out every 3-4 years, that would mean they would have more drastic changes, because the smaller changes would accumulate over that duration. The longer the "new features" are out, the longer users have to upgrade their system and the longer developers can take getting used to them.

But in the end, it doesn't really matter how often a new version comes out but rather how long the old versions should be supported, right? And I think it's up to the library authors to decide how long to support older versions, not the authors of the programming language.
I have this cartridge for my Darth Vader VCS as well. It's remarkable what it managed to do with so little, largely because it emphasized what it would actually be good at. (And thus you didn't need to type a lot to make it do something!)
Spacewalk Preps Under Way During Multitude of Science Experiments
This stopped being true on October 27; where have you been?
This isn’t an issue for anyone but for people like yourself.

Like you said there are a couple words used for Americans in Spanish:

Gringo, Americano, Estadounidense.

That set of words does not intersect with any words used to describe anyone from South America. This applies to slang or official sources.

Please show me an example where a Paisa from Colombia or
Argentino would like to be referenced as “American”.

In fact, especially with the World Cup win, any warm blooded Argentinian would fight if called “American”.

Plus it’d be an easy fight as someone who’s pushing for “words are violence” has clearly never experienced real violence.
> Central banks want to cause inflation when they believe unemployment is eminent

Adequate inflation is also a sign of a growing economy. In Japan's case, Japan had full employment for over 20 years and they had no inflation for over 40 years. So no, I don't think curbing potential mass-unemployment was in their reasoning when they had decided to start QE in 2016.

> Inflation allows companies to effectively cut everyone's wages by x% instead of firing x% of workers.

I guess? but only because inflation often is related weaker currency, which increases export (making companies richer). This works for export-led economies like SK and Japan but their export growths are slowing down.

> So the question is 1. are they right that there would be large scale layoffs absent the inflation? and 2. Is it better for everyone to get a pay cut or some people to get laid off?

Well you already have your answer. There has been no mass layoffs absent inflation for a long time.
Different types of accounts offer different types of incentives.

Your standard free checking account won't have a minimum balance, but also isn't going to be earning any interest worth mentioning.

On the other hand, there are account types with higher interest earnings rates or other perks which require that you maintain a minimum balance. The minimum balance ensures that the bank is able to use the money in its other investments, which is why you are rewarded with higher tier perks.

Dropping below the minimum balance means that you haven't kept up your end of the bargain, so to speak. For example, the Way2Save savings account has a small monthly fee which is waived as long as you maintain a $300 minimum daily balance, or have automatic transfers, are under 24 years old, etc. The "Platinum" savings account tier has a $12 monthly fee which is waived only if you maintain $3,500.

It is of course worth noting that the "perks" of these savings accounts are practically worthless- the earnings interest rates are far below inflation.
Obsidian is designed to work offline using local files on your device, and us optimized for E2E encryption which so it would be more complicated to do as a web-based app.
Distros can keep their own lock file that is based on their own release branch's versions. If it doesn't build, the pkg maintainer will either file a bug report or make a patch, or neither.

Source: I maintain distro packages.
I recommend the video wherein you can paint a character using easy mathematics.
You don't need a branch in every country, they just need to remove the:

if($country eq "Slovenia") { print "This video is not available in your country!\n"; exit; }

from the current store.
They Were Just in the Way – Indian Removal
Money changes everything because you can't pay your rent with good grades.
Imagine complaining about people posting links as a response on the internet.

If carefully taking in their contents is an inconvenience for you, I’ll spell it out: the general narrative you’re invoking about twitter was always paired with specific pretense that it was conservative views that were somehow being unfairly squashed in discourse on twitter. To the surprise of no one who actually observed discourse on twitter (or understands certain frequent flaws in conservative psychology) it actually turns out that’s not true; they were plenty well represented and even arguably overamplified.

Does this mean progressives were oppressed on twitter? You tell me — if you want to tell the story that even progressive representation is the real problem to be solved on social media, be my guest. But it ain’t gonna stop it from being obvious that the story of twitter’s purchase as a virtuous crusade to bring balance to discourse where conservatives just couldn’t get fair treatment doesn’t hold water — in addition, of course, to the ways the ensuing circus has made it clear that balance not the new owner’s motivation.
Well I assume you are happy with a portion of you and your work's income for the next 100 years going to your teachers ( art and other subjects ) without who you could not have created the work.

Also any medical people who treated you or your parents.

Teaching and Medicine are skilled jobs that took years to learn. It is hardly fair that you and your heirs get to profit from some teacher's or Doctor's work without them getting a share.
And I'd rather live in a society where the punishment for assault is meted out by a court of law, via a trial if necessary or appropriate, and not via some privatized blacklist with no means of due process.

> I don't want to board an airplane with someone who has a history of assaulting people.

> Do you want a loose cannon who has assaulted people in the past on a tin can with you at 50,000 feet?

If this someone paid whatever price a competent court of law imposed on them, then I have no problem boarding a plane with them. People make mistakes, even grievous ones, and even ones that you or I wouldn't make on our worst of days. The law encodes the penalties for those. Beyond that, what you're advocating for is extrajudicial punishment.
if it's any consolation, I don't get it either. Heard about it a few months ago from someone at a kids birthday party, who said his life was completely transformed by it. He seemed to have the perspective that having a giant waterfall of amazing thoughts with nowhere to put them (until Obsidian!) was like normal for everyone. Whenever I asked him "well what are you writing" he was like, "everything! just download it and start writing!" OK.... Guess I'm just boring?
No, I'm saying 20 years is too short because it destroys the livelihoods of the already-few creatives who can make a living off of their work, because 20 years is based off of a completely ignorant idea of how creatives earn livings.
I'd be totally fine with this if they paid for the scooter.
My brain's takeaway: the credibility-challenged continue to insist that nothingburger is delicious, satiating meal.
Ask HN: Why is Prime Video so bad at keeping audio/video in sync?
It’s kind of surreal how bad Amazon is at streaming their own content over their own network onto their own hardware.

I’ve tried watching the newest season of Jack Ryan and the A/V sync is completely out of whack. I even tried watching a pirated copy and that too was out of sync in the same exact way. It’s genuinely funny and frustrating.
> what is a nation ? And why should any individual care about it more than one self

Regardless of the definition, the reason most people _should_ care about their nation is because their welfare depends on it to some extent. Most people wouldn’t be able to adequately care for themselves and their dependents without the entitlements and infrastructure that the nation administers.

There are some people who don’t have to care about which nations succeed and which fail, because they are either rich enough or skilled enough benefit from the institutions of any nation they choose (probably a reasonable amount of HN readers are in this category). But these people are an elite minority in this respect.
This is (was?) Weight Watchers. Gamified dieting before that was a word. They used points though rather than calories, which was easier to monetize and meant you didn't run out of fingers.
Because it’s just a bag of money.
not pissing off power users - who are the only people who use firefox - in an utterly futile attempt to attract the general population.

this plea - that many people had made over the years - falls on deaf ears. mozilla is now ran by the kind of people who knows better than its users what we need, and we're wrong if we disagree.
FTR in 2018 MariaDB Corporation acquired Clustrix, it's not just the MySQL fork under this corporation.
They literally say in the first sentence that they will run a public instance on Mozilla.Social. This means they will own that instance.

You could argue that no one owns anything exclusively in today's federalized world but that is not true in practical terms. They will own the identities/social graphs/content created locally. "Own" meaning they have total control over that instance and can, for example, enforce Mozilla-friendly policies, remove content, ban users (without the ability to export one's identity and social graph).
Your level as an engineer should be based on how much deep work you can do without screwing the pooch. The best engineers can be left alone for months and be sure to return with something cogent. The most junior will be required to have daily design check ins and regular code reviews as they go from start to finish on a project whose problem space needs to be well understood and mapped out before any deep work begins.

It is very damaging to an organisation when someone who cannot create understandable solutions is given the deep work breathing space to go crazy. It is a difficult but important thing to find out about candidates / probationary employees sooner rather than later. It’s important to keep a stash of pre-baked project ideas on hand so that you can use them to assess newcomers to the team, especially if you only have three months to figure out if they are able to meet your expectations before being confirmed as a full time employee.
I switched to linux a long time ago so now i use plocate, but on windows everything was a must! Also directory opus was a nice file manager, not sure if there's a new/better foss alternative yet.
AFAIK IntelliJ with the Python plugin is basically the same as PyCharm.
Those dates will be just in time for people to read the earliest wave cli-fi books as they're living through it!
Go, Javascript, HTML and CSS.
This isn't an article titled "what your kids should pursue to live comfortably", it's called "the future our grandchildren deserve".

Having the ability to pursue a "low paying career" when you're not financially stable is the future our grandchildren deserve, not just a future where some of them get high paying careers.
There is tax rules to comply with too, but I am sure a third party will be happy to make a solution.
“Omnia sends information about suspicious data streams to the Turris headquarters. The data recieved from thousands of routers are compared and if an attack is identified, updates are sent to all Turris devices.”

That sounds like a privacy nightmare. Anonymized or not I think most people would not like this feature.
I second this. I've done many company wide tests with VR meeting software (Arthur and Spatial) and everyone was impressed after trying it. Even the cartoony look didn't matter, though both products generate a nice avatar face from a picture. Horizons and its workspace wasn't even announced yet and it's still far behind these two.

People were sceptical but after actually trying always commented how much presence they felt compared to videomeeting and even dedicated conferencing rooms. It's most suited for the more interactive brainstorming workshop than the passive thing - incidentally also the most likely kind of meeting people tend to travel for at my work.

Pressure on alternatives to face to face meetings subsided after the pandemic. But as flying becomes more environmentally charged I think interest will pop up again.

This is the problem with VR IMO. Nobody can tell you how great the matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. That's the biggest barrier for entry, that red pill you have to take. There's not enough headsets around to introduce everyone.

Also, Google's project cardboard is a huge barrier to adoption. Many people think "I've already tried that VR thing and it was useless". I get this every day when I'm showing people VR. Yes, Cardboard was totally useless in terms of quality, capability and usability. But it's not even close to what a real 6DOF headset with handtracking is. It's like the difference between watching a 3D movie and experiencing something. If you've tried cardboard you have not tried VR.
> How? With “raise from”, Python shows you not only the stack trace of the error, but also the stack trace of the original exception, IIRC.

Because you can't catch the original exception, you're stuck with weird module.Error which is too generic to do something about it. You would have to catch the module.Error and then look at e.__cause__ to actually handle the exception. So you end up with the exact same problem Parthenon is talking about, but with extra steps.

And pray no other dependencies are following your practice, because you would then have to go into e.__cause__.__cause__ and so on.

What exactly is the benefit that module.Error provides to your users compared to letting the original exception propagate?
I have a long expired biochemistry degree, but I think the only answer you are likely to find is wild conjecture. Potassium is common in natural food sources, maintained at a fairly steady concentration, and has not previously received much attention as a potential weight loss treatment.

If you follow the authors, they are pushing a Lithium hypothesis where lithium is tilting the lipostatic equilibrium towards more fat. Potassium is supposedly able to compete with lithium in the brain and reset the body baseline towards a slimmer build.

I have no idea if the theory is correct, but it is more compelling than a lot of the standard hog wash you find. If nothing else, I hope these results push for some more standardized testing: easy enough to pump potassium into a colony of obese mice models.
You're forgetting the very significant property tax.
Crazy Story of Losing 180K in Tesla Stock
Whenever I come across some new AI hype thing in the wild with the usual buzzwords, a sentence Dijkstra wrote way back sort of flashes through my head. It always reminds me to be careful and precise with words.

"...the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim."

In the same "post" he also talks a lot about hype and how it hurts the field. The last few years of computing have been exceptionally hype driven, even more than usual. We could've been better with a few more critics like him in that period.

[0] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd08xx/EWD898.PDF
> Pot ash manufacturing was an extremely important industry

Still is if you have a Dwarf Fortress running.
Ignorance has never been a valid defence and checks are never 100% guaranteed, by computer or human
I know for myself it is very refreshing when a young person comes to you with question or problem that they have clearly spent a lot of time on. It certainly motivates me to provide detailed and extensive feedback. In the industry you unfortunately end up answering the same “dumb” questions ad nauseam. When something different comes along it is a joy.
No they don't. Property Taxes pay to make schoolteachers millionaires with gold-plated pensions.
I fizzled on Malazan. Despite warnings that the first book isn't that great - but the series is! - I really enjoyed it. However I subsequently found the second book to be an unsatisfying grind and then so was the third where I stopped half-way.

I have just started The Book of the New Sun and am hopeful it will be a better experience.
You missed the part where I doubted this had any practical value whatsoever.

I just want a SNES with serial console output and a dedicated sprite monitor ... just for the sake of it.
I went to the dollar store today looking for stocking stuffer items. It's now the "dollar twenty-five store" due to inflation, with some items four and five dollars.

Here are my observations.

* The food will likely make you sick if you eat it regularly, the food options are highly processed and made of cheap, poor quality ingredients.

* Kids, lots of kids. Lots of lower income families have multiple kids and the dollar store is one way to stretch the budget.

* Dollar stores do a decent job at keeping things at $1.25. There were definitely some products that I would see 2x or 3x the price at other stores.

* It was busy, very busy.
I should have also added Mendelssohn to the list here. He loved playing JS Bach both on the violin and the piano, and edited a book of organ toccatas and fugues that is (suspiciously) the first known edition of the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor (the one that all the movie villains like).

Personally, I suspect that Mendelssohn himself wrote the Toccata and Fugue in D minor based on a few fragments from Bach (particularly the subject of the fugue), and as a tribute to Bach. The Toccata is not really in JS Bach's style at all, making several harmonic choices that Bach makes in no other work - although I think the people who suggest that Bach himself wrote that piece would argue that it was likely a transcription of an improvised work, where the counterpoint could be a little less perfect.
Not everyone can consistently write books that get popular. Most authors only have a single book or series get popular and the rest of their books do not sell anywhere near as well.
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There’s still 2 pedals, the only difference is lifting off the accelerator engages the generator, which can be disabled.
It's not really a mystery. The geoglyphs are visible from surrounding hills and other vantage points on the ground. They're essentially just giant works of art.
Yes! My music library is, indeed, where I use this the most.
> If you own you’re paying mortgage interest and real estate taxes and both are tax deductible.

"Tax deductible" != "Free"
K9s - https://k9scli.io/ Terminal (ncurses?) Kubernetes client

Bash “wait” command to do multiple things in parallel without extra _stuff_. Eg

(
dothing.sh &
slow_stuff.sh &
more.sh &
wait
)
Yes. I don't think they should invest into social media experiments. In my opinion they did a horrible job at that so far (Pocket was promising but is unusable because of its "social sharing" confusion). Social media introduces wrong incentives.

[reposting my earlier reply] Furthermore, I imagine the reason they are so keen to be a player in social media is because someone at Mozilla really promotes the idea that there is a community around Firefox (sure, Thunderbird, MDN, etc). There is no community. People who use a browser are not a community: we don't need a place to "hang out" because we all use Firefox. It's a ridiculous aspirational thinking that only moves Mozilla further into irrelevancy.
I will contribute $$$ funds to anyone working on something like this ... I've meant to post a bounty for this kind of hardware project in the past ...
It's not all or nothing. At least it doesn't make sense to talk about it as if it was. It doesn't have to do away with all programming jobs to make it to the list. (Especially, since the list itself defines differing levels of dangers.)

And, of course, it doesn't have to be at the level of producing a perfect solution for the input "Write a program that automates driving trucks". Programmers can't do that either. It's enough if it can produce usable and testable code based on user input and then it can refine the solution based on the feedback and then get to a complete solution with this method. If it can start asking questions, all the better.

BTW, ChatGPT can already do some of this without being tailored to do so. You can tell it to create a todo app (I know, that's just copypasta), defining the language and the framework to use. (I went with TS and Vue.) And then tell it to create a backend and to connect the two. Then you can tell to add persistance to the backend (because it does not, by default) and it will update the backend code. Before ChatGPT, I thought that back references like these would be the tricky thing. Sure, in my experiment I didn't talk like a non-tech person wanting an app, so you might say I was programming, but I really wasn't. And that's where things are now.

> it doesn't matter that programming was the first of the jobs automated in the last 48 hours of the age of man.

Now that's the thing I have always been unsure about. Whether automating programming is far enough from (super strong) AGI for programmers to feel bad about their job :)
Pinboards dev already has some kind of problem, whatever it is.

Raindrops dev doesn't, as far as I can see.

Also raindrop look nicer and hasn't scammed anyone that I am aware of.

Basically one is approximately 100% chance of not getting what I am paying for and the other one is an unknown percentage.
Seems like video game engines and the like would be useful ways to get lots of 3d models to corresponding point cloud data. What's the blocker to doing that? The models shown on that page look like 3d graphics circa 2000's or earlier.
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