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Are we slowly losing a joy of reading blog post because there are so many?

Yes, but...

What are your thoughts?

I think it's inarguable: 99.x% of blog posts are trash, and a lot of that trash is specifically SEO-bait trash where the author wasn't even trying to produce something of value.

That said, the remaining 0.x% of blog posts is insanely valuable. The low-stakes environment of blog posts (and tweets, etc) sometimes facilitates great insights you would never find in a book.

Practically speaking, my solution is to only read things that have been (1) shared by people I trust and/or (2) upvoted by a community like HN.
Technical:

Reading a bunch of books. Wrapping up the Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook right now, then moving to some eng org structuring and probably wrapping back around to devops over the next month or two.

Doing an AWS cert early next month that should be a breeze. Not sure if I'd do another though, since the rest get very proprietary focused.

My work started a $2k education stipend that covers this stuff, which I've very grateful for.

Personal:

Cooking more different foods. I always fallback on the same few boring and easy to cook meals, so I want to branch out a bit and do some more interesting recipes.
I would share their side as well, but I never heard it. This is a violation of their own code of conduct, which requires them to notify the affected person, explain why, and offer the opportunity to mediate the situation. This is not the first time I was banned from the Go community without notice or explanation, and the first time turned out to be frivolous -- the ban was overturned months later with an admission that it was never justified in the first place. Community management in Go strikes me as very insular and unprofessional.

Regardless, I don't really want to re-litigate it here. The main issue is that Google has been DoS'ing SourceHut's servers for two years, and I think we can all agree that there is no conduct violation for which DoS'ing your servers is a valid recourse.
Would this be considered a “funding clawback”?
NES tetris has a RNG that can be manipulated so you always get the piece you want as long as you never need duplicates. You don't even need a junkyard.
The plot is a very close take on Solider by Harlan Ellison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_(The_Outer_Limits)

I don't think they needed to steal it from anyone else :)
It now forwards to onlinesbi.sbi SBI Bank owns the tld .sbi
Thanks for the clarification. The talk page of the wikipedia article that I linked already shows that this is quite a "hot" topic.

These scientific controversies are really fun to follow. In mathematics there's not as much drama! We barely have a handful of crackpot proofs of Riemann hypothesis per decade. (Except in theoretical computer science, thanks to the inestimable input of quantum computing people).
It's open source and additional pins are broken out on the PCB so you can easily add additional sensors yourself.
Even more fun, Google doesn't even use Go modules internally! They use their own homegrown build system abomination that requires teams of people to maintain.
I think the machines should do the scut work to free up humans to do the really important human stuff, like parenting, teaching, and, yeah, lawyering and judging too.

Another angle: if there is some legal task that's simple enough for machines to do reliably then (almost by definition) that task will turn out to be pointless bureaucratic busywork, eh?

Last but not least, who gets to keep lawyer-bot's pay?

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edit to add a link to James Mickens' USENIX Security Keynote address: "Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k

If you think AI lawyers and judges are a good idea please watch it.
> laughing as we chanted it on the days when we took acid and went swimming.

WTF, even without the additional "challenges" of Yellowstone Lake.. I neither would nor could imagine go swimming then :o
If everyone followed your solution, nobody would ever read any interesting blog posts!
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I'm thinking about making an authentication workflow where you just ask for one time login link and it gets sent to your email/phone, you click it and get your session. Any reason this is a Bad Idea™? It's for a not super critical service and users might go a couple months in between uses so I was thinking it'd be nice to not give them a passwordless option.
Oh, I agree. But at least they can't bottom-line my time.
Couple of thoughts: Probably just leaking voltage, so not a full circuit shock, that is my first guess. Also, even wet your skin has high-ish resistance. It also may have traveled on the outside of your body to ground, path of least resistance? I have been bit by 120 and 240. When it is a full load it hekkin hurts.
Nice! I made a 250-byte Snake game (265 as a URL) a few years ago after spending far too long code-golfing it:

https://danielgjackson.github.io/tinyjs#snake

...and even a 224 byte version (240 as a URL), but with a few too many sacrifices.
> You really can't do worse than standing barefoot, soaking wet, on a stone floor, and grabbing a live fixture, can you?

Would the wetness have actually helped? Why go through all that higher resistance human flesh when the current can go straight to ground via the electrolyte solution that's around you instead?
Why would our body behave like this? why would gene expression, hormones, etc. all benefit from IF? I'm having trouble understanding if this is just a "fluke" that IF has all these benefits or if it serves some evolutionary purpose?

Also, more speculatively I wonder if the food we eat is even worse than we already know it is and these studies are basically observing what happens when "poison ingestion" for lack of a better word is temporarily halted
Love this idea, would like to read more. Got a source?
I’m using the most important measure - risk. Regardless of whether your claims are true or not, they are simply moot if the risk is low, and the risk is low, very low for young and healthy people.

Much like needing a seat belt in a stationary car parked in a building where no other cars move around.
They may own it, but do they 0wn it? :)
Sorry, remembering fg isn’t that hard.

The real issue is when you do ctrl-z from muscle memory on Windows while running nvim from cmd (through wsl runner but not from an actual shell) and then it just disappears and takes your data with it.
- Your parents are dead.

That deadpan delivery always makes me laugh.
Sociopathy is far more common than many people realize.
You should eat regular meals so you poop at the same time each day. Meals trigger mass peristalsis which helps cause a bowel movement. When you start messing with this you start causing constipation, which then leads to haemorrhoids. If you are 30yo+ you know that you cannot rely on nice soft stool anymore by just doing whatever you want with your diet. I really think people don't talk about this enough.

It's funny that these studies don't address any kind of side-effects like this.
Ok, maybe my statement was too generic... it's more about the environment in cities that looks suspiciously similar to nature but isn't - trees that are tested regularly for stability, paths that are kept free of roots or stones you might trip over, guardrails and warning signs everywhere there might be the slightest possibility of danger etc.
Would that be WASM?
Risk can be fun. I don't feel bad if someone gets hurt or killed doing an activity that is inherently dangerous. They died doing what they enjoyed and feeling alive. Don't feel bad for me if I go that way either.
This problem is by no means limited to the US. Germany has that problem as well in rural areas and there government is also providing subsidies to expand broadband access.

Sometimes this can even be a problem in cities when the available infrastructure is at the limit. It's quite possible to move to an area, after having checked that good internet is available and suddenly the provider says no when signing up.
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interesting! unfortunately the board would be too small to build more than one or two gates before you start to run into row clearing and the ceiling.

edit: is this your article? thank you for the wonderful post!
I love when plausible sounding factoids is dismantled by people who actually know history.
Yes, but the EU would immediately follow suit.
My thoughts are that getting noticed by another culture is the great filter, so cultures make it through occasionally, but we will not notice them. "The benefits of not being seen"

Of all my concerns for humanity, excessive intelligence is not one of them...

Our earliest (and easiest to detect) transmissions should already be far enough away to be far below ambient noise I think/hope. So maybe we made it through unless someone starts shouting. Own-goals are also certainly a thing, but it would take a serious mistake to end all of us, or even set us back that far technologically on a geologic time scale.
Horses originated in North America, were wiped out by the comet strike and then re-introduced, and did well. There are ongoing federal programs to slaughter them wholesale, out of mistaken apprehension that they compete with cattle for open rangeland.

Horses range much farther from water than cattle can, so do not compete with them for fodder. They did once compete with bison.
It depends on if you want to continue to grow your income above inflation. As a salaried employee, to grow your income (salary - we're not talking about flipping houses), you need to be 'promoted'. Promotion works by taking responsibilites beyond your current role. For a lead dev, those additional responsibilities are things like people (clients and more junior technical staff), operational (making sure that someone is there when the system falls over at 3 a.m.), and others (e.g. taking on responsibility for information security, compliance). In a small business, the biggest need is for people-project-task management.

Assuming you don't want to suck it up and keep doing management you have three options:

* You can choose not to be 'promoted', where you'll be happy in your job, but your salary stagnates.

* You can hoose to move to a larger organisation, where you can be 'promoted' and add significant value without all the management stuff that you don't enjoy, but those jobs are in short supply and competitive.

* You can keep job-hopping as a senior dev, and keep pushing your salary up with each jump.
That 'video selfie' is untrustworthy, which was sort of the point.
Hello HN, My wife and I developed this game as we like word games such as Wordle. The game is designed to run about 5 minutes. The goal is to guess 5-letter words within a decreasing time constraint.

The words can be entered with a keyboard or by tapping the letters in the correct order. If the word is not guessed in time, it will drop in one of the 7 slots below. After guessing the next word you get another chance to guess the word that got dropped and recover.

At the end of the game you see a summary of the play with a view of color coded bubbles. This summary can be shared by copying it to the clipboard and then pasting it in a post.

Since we found new players sometimes struggling getting the game, we added two low stress practice modes: Chill (no word time limit, just an overall 5 min limit) and Easy (a 30s timelimit, opposed to the 15 with Fast).

We also added the game as an App to the App store, it has the same experience as the Web App version.

We hope you enjoy the game and look forward to your feedback, specifically the game play.
I recently updated my telephone contact with a large brokerage service.

Part of this was to voiceprint me during the conversation.

The agent assured me that this was more secure than asking me the customary identification questions, and that their system would just use the voice identification in the future.
I agree.

An additional aspect which is the reason I'm fairly left leaning is that I really dislike encounters with downtrodden people so I will gladly pay more taxes to prevent/save them from being that way.

I could not live in a place with a homelessness issue like LA.
And yet go mod is far superior to anything that was created before, having used dep which was honestly very slow and buggy, go mod works just fine and is one of the best pkg mgmt right now ( all languages included ).

Package managment should not be created and maintained outside of the core team, maybe the process in which they decided the solution was not the best but the end result speaks for itself, go mod is very good.
Since low income people don’t occupy new construction, and given that gas stoves last for many decades, this is legislation that won’t have any impact for another 20 or 30 years? Besides the impact on wealthy foodies who want good stovetops in the kitchen remodels?
Sure, but how many of them were people who set up a no-move Vampire Survivors build and just walked away? =D
I was wondering how could they achieve it despite the randomness in piece generation, but they assume infinite width to avoid that issue altogether.
I like that a lot. Judging from the criteria (in my extremely limited French) it’s a measure of effort rather than outcome, but honestly effort is all we can really ask for.
According to some comments in the linked GitHub issue, including [1] from last May, Drew could have simply asked to be excluded from automatic refresh traffic from the mirror. If I understand correctly, that would still leave traffic from the mirror when it’s acting as a direct proxy for someone’s request, but that is traffic that would be going to sr.ht regardless.

For some reason he did not do this and instead chose an option that causes breakage.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-11378...
Technology like this should absolutley be regulated in the same way guns should be - not at all.
> I don't understand what gives John Derr the right to prevent me from modifying it

OP described exactly what prevents you from modifying hardware you own how you see fit:

> hardware manufacturer from making the firmware impossible to modify for example by using hardcoded signature verification.

If you don't understand this entirely technical mechanism, then you should read into it to find out what we're really up against. Basically, the chip running the software is set up to only run software that has been cryptographically signed by the manufacturer. If you modify the software, the chip refuses to run it.

If you painstakingly opened the chip and managed to change a few of the right bits, you might be able to convince that one chip to run different software. But you wouldn't get any information that would help you run software on other, unmodified, chips - the private signing key stays with the manufacturer, the chips themselves only contain the public verification key. Of course manufacturers employ techniques to prevent such physical attacks, so you wouldn't have an easy time of it either.

The straightforward path to overcome would be to completely swap out the chip for another without such a restriction, and completely rewrite the software, but then you're up against the churn of the market - the model (and hardware revision) you've specifically designed a replacement for will be a tiny fraction of the market.
Actually, no, there's not enough RAM to run Doom. Not even slowly.
I mean, all the time people slip and fall on ice and then sue. You can see it, you walk on it, but you don't assume the risk and force the property owner to pay. I assume that most warnings are just there because someone got sued or doesn't want to get sued.
What happens when the users phone or email is hacked or compromised? What if they lose access to that email address, or get a new phone number? Email and SMS are not secure (despite the use of SMS for 2FA).
Feels like most of those posts, and people using StackOverflow + Google search popularity, somewhat misses a few key aspects that would cause people to search.

It seems to ignore technologies not present, or lower ranking, might just have better documentation and less confusing semantics? TypeScript isn't easy to use.
Can you explain the alleged humor here? It sounds like it’s just being rude.
"I started to program VisiCalc in November 1978 and we shipped the first production copy in October 1979."

Just one year.

"In November of 1978 I started to prototype VisiCalc. We eventually shipped that prototype."

Some things never change :)
I think the horror element in T1 that is particularly striking is the invasion and destruction of the police station. I recall the power of that as a kid: the dismissal of the concept of a safe place. I think it shows the idea-power that horror can have.
In the US we're taught to believe that the market will handle this kind of thing. But it won't. Relatively few of us are in the market for a tractor. We can't all "vote with our dollars" and go buy a tractor from a less shady vendor.

But as a human who likes food, my desire to make sure that nobody has a "press here to make the people hungry"-button is legitimate.

If it turns out that the existing political machinery is ineffective at preventing the creation of this button, US norms provide no recourse. If the government makes you mad enough, you overthrow the government (ideally peacefully).

But what do you do when a private company becomes a significant threat? Send them a strongly worded letter? Companies don't speak english, they're just sensitive to their bottom line. If you want to communicate with them, you have to influence their bottom line.

So I mean that I think we'd all be better off if we considered periodic slashing (drilling, maybe?) of for-sale tractor tires, and other forms of nonviolent sabotage, to be legitimate political speech. If certain lines were crossed, we ought to encourage each other to get off the couch and go practice that speech.
Essentially my answer to your question in your second to last sentence is “yes” when we zoom out to the business level.

It doesn’t matter that the physical activity taking place is the same, because what the activity is for determines where the company puts the expense on the income statement.
Just because he is an engineer does not mean he can predict how near future AI products will turn out.

Web3 was a circle jerk within the crypto community. It only convinced fools.

Recent GPT/stable diffusion products universally blow people away with their output.

Engineers and everyone else regularly dismiss new tech for its shortcomings and completely miss the forest for the trees.
It's useful running vim in git bash on Windows. I'll switch, though, if I ever figure out how to install tmux in that environment then I'll switch.
> Are we slowly losing a joy of reading blog post because there are so many? Are the books gaining popularity again? What are your thoughts?

One of the downsides of blogging is that bloggers very often do not have editors. I think just about every substack I see that isn't maintained by a seasoned writer or journalist tends to veer towards being far too wordy and meandering. People don't naturally understand how to maintain a reader's interest and remain sharply focused on the thesis of their piece. That's a skill that needs a lot of honing, and even great writers have a lot of trouble keeping things tight without a good editor to help.

There are a lot of posts people make where the central premise is good and I'm interested to see what they're saying about it, but the journey to get there is too long, involves examples and metaphors that add more confusion than clarity, belabors points that don't need belaboring, involves unnecessary digressions into tangential topics that would have best been saved to develop into a separate piece, and a number of other writing sins. Freelance blog-post editors should be more common.
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No. When a program is running in the shell, the default behavior is for Ctrl-z to suspend the program. Nothing needs to be done for that to happen. This snippet runs `fg` when you're back in the shell and press Ctrl-z.

That said, if you wanted to continue running in the background with `bg`, you could make that substitution to allow you to double tap Ctrl-z to do so.
Zebra can be tamed, but older ones bite.
Because much more is in software than it used to be.

In the past, most of the key aspects of the radio were pretty fixed in the hardware. Whereas now, more and more of the radio is in software (and/or FPGA), or at least configurable from software. Tinkering in that case requires a "per person" level of skill. Whereas tinkering with software requires one person to be able to tinker, and then lots of people can use the result.
Only the state and criminals should have something. What could go wrong?
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Switzerland for example forbids private cameras from filming public areas like the street. You either have to block those areas in camera or put the camera somewhere else. Door cameras are difficult because they sometimes point towards the street.

Public cameras must adhear to strict data retention rules and signs must be posted. Additionally in cities like Zürich doing face recognition on public ground is forbidden and will most likely be nationwide soon.

Dashcams are a gray zone. What is for sure is that the footage can not be used in court unless it's a very serious case and you can not publish footage without anonymiezing it. What Tesla does with storing footage in a Dutch DC is probably illegal but so far the authorities have not done anything against it.
True, but that doesn't mean that crypto miners aren't still evil.
Maybe exterior vents should be required? Does cooking on electric not impact indoor air quality?
There is considerable economic value in being able to control the eyeballs that visit the large subreddits, so it's expected that mods will want to monetise their power somehow.

r/HailCorporate sometimes goes overboard with their paranoia, but they also have clear evidence of how much reddit is gamed by users such as u/gallowboob
As others have said, there are dissipation considerations in a desktop, too. I would absolutely hate having to work next to a jet-engine or having a fridge-sized rig to fit some absurd cooler. Others don't care as much. My 135W-rated Xeon does get audibly loud despite the big-ass Noctua, especially when the GPU next to it is also working hard. If it wasn't during gaming, when I can't hear it, I would hate it.

But I also think the actual usage profile should be considered. Typically, my CPU waits around doing nothing. Occasionally, I ask it to build whatever project I'm working on. I can tolerate some noise during this time if it's not too long, and if it noticeably shortens the time I have to wait for it. So if the idle consumption is similar, but it can get very fast when needed, I'm all for it.
Starting a company is the heroic way to solve this problem. I mean head over to the dealership with an angle grinder and just start breaking things.

If the company is truly a threat to your community, and if the damage is targeted and restrained enough to be considered an act of protest and not chaos for the sake of it, then a jury of your peers ought not convict.
frankly, go mod is a much better solution than dep ever was
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I feel the opposite. I'm reading fewer non-fiction books and more articles and blog posts.

Non-fiction books are bloated with fluff to increase the page count to increase the perceived marketability of the book. A lot of the ideas presented in those books could be adequately presented in a 10th of the number of pages.

A huge time-saver has been reading the article versions of stuff that has been turned into a book. You get the same points, but in minutes instead of hours.