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> tomberek

1. Two independent use cases.

a) First was a personal use to carry my dotfiles/home config everywhere (office mac, home mac, virtual machines). Ended up configuring a flakes based home-manager setup.

b) Second is trying to get good devshell experience for the whole team. Especially in a monorepo setting with multiple languages and tools. Right now there is tons of setup required including installing right versions of java, python, nodejs, lots of instructions to get right python version, poetry install, setup aliases etc.

2. No, it is not. It didn't take much of research to conclude flakes are the way to go. Honestly, I am confused by so many responses about confusion between flakes and non-flakes as I don't think it take much effort to realize flakes are the way to go even if it is experimental.

Though, to be fair, it does hurt that two of the recommended resources - nix.dev and nix pills - do not cover flakes.
It would be awesome if someone could help classify huge numbers of Substacks (and other platorms) into one of these Taxonomies, and others.

I find Substack discoverability lacking and i'm yearning for more.

If someone could point me to a corpus i'd even want to try my had at it (I do stuff like this for my day job, so this is all i think about)
> past basic use of MMX

MMX is fixed point and shares register space with FPU. Afaik not a single real shipped game ever used MMX for geometry. Intel did pay some game studios to fake MMX support. One was 1998 Ubisoft POD with a huge "Designed for Intel MMX" banner on all boxes https://www.mobygames.com/game/644/pod/cover/group-3790/cove... while MMX was used by one optional audio filter :). Amazingly someone working in Intel "developer relations group" at the time is on HN and chimed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28237085

"I can tell you that Intel gave companies $1 million for "Optimized" games for marketing such."

$1 million for one optional MMX optimized sound effect. And this scammy marketing worked! Multiple youtube reviewers remember vividly how POD "runs best/fastest on MMX" to this day (LGR is one example).
> Your friend is just slow.

The issue here is that, in the US at least, referring to someone as "slow" is making a statement about their IQ.

There are many possible causes for the coworker's "slow"-ness here, e.g. anxiety, doubt, and high standards. Perhaps the coworker feels the need to respond only with well-researched responses and refuses to engage in speculation.
Honestly, while they are the same in overall, 10,000 foot concept, they are wildly different games.

SimCity was a resource manager and city planning game.

City Skylines is a traffic manager.

This is the hill I will die on.
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To answer my own question: https://guildoftherose.org/about

Seems like an IRL thing?
So ML systems are guilty until they can prove themselves innocent?

Requiring the claimant have some evidence might not be a perfect legal regime, but the converse is a de-facto ban on innovation.

Can a human _prove_ that their decisions are made without bias? No. Are we going to hold them to the same standard proposed here for an AI? Also no. In practice, rules like the one proposed here just enshrine legacy decision systems which are already understood to biased and ineffective.

The most mysterious black box we have is the human brain.
the actual simulation was being done on the servers, rather than on the client

I remember that's what they said, but I doubt it was ever the case. Wikipedia says the cloud functionality "enable[d] cloud saves and multiplayer functionality", and shortly after launch it was determined you could patch the game to run offline for an indeterminate length of time. To me, it was pretty obvious back then that it was purely an attempt at copy protection.

Beyond that, the game was just bad. The simulation just didn't live up to the hype, and while it did have a lot to live up to given its fantastic predecessor, SimCity 4 was old by then, and people expected a big upgrade. Specifically, I remember "sims not living persistent lives but rather going to the nearest available workplace for work and nearest available house after work" (Wikipedia again) as being a huge deal in the community back then. And then there was the limited play area, which was just ridiculous when you consider what people want from these games.
I agree the science is hard to do, but most people who have ever encountered women don't need a scientific studies to discover things that are blatantly obvious.

Generally speaking, Women are attracted to men who are above, or at least across from them in status hierachies. Men who are unfortunate enough to lose status become less attractive to many women, increasing the risk of divorce among women who are unscrupulous.

Liberalism makes a virtue of ignoring things that are obvious (challenging stereotypes, breaking down stigma etc.), by pretending that they don't exist. This leads to surprises when mundane reality reasserts itself.
>"go on rails"

You should take a look at Crystal and Lucky.
Nowadays a cup and a tablespoon are standard unities of volume. They are not any worse than milliliters. There are a few people that insist on ignoring the standards, but those also tend to not publish their recipes.
I hope they never take it away though! They don’t make money from me with it but it is an amazing cheap and no subscription kitchen timer, tell me the weather, play my sleep sounds device. For once, we seem to be benefitting from a company’s bad decisions. She’s also pretty great at answering basic knowledge type questions I may have throughout the day. Certainly an Einstein compared to Siri.
Margeret Heffernan has a really good TED talk on this topic [0]

"Social capital is what gives companies momentum. And social capital is what makes companies robust. It means that time is everything because social capital compounds with time. So teams that work together longer get better because it takes time to build the trust you need for openness and candor. And it’s time that builds better value."

Really good talk.

Brian Chesky of Airbnb also talks about this as "culture" [1]:

"Why is culture so important to a business? Here is a simple way to frame it. The stronger the culture, the less corporate process a company needs. When the culture is strong, you can trust everyone to do the right thing. People can be independent and autonomous. They can be entrepreneurial. And if we have a company that is entrepreneurial in spirit, we will be able to take our next “(wo)man on the moon” leap. Ever notice how families or tribes don’t require much process? That is because there is such a strong trust and culture that it supersedes any process. In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes."

When you have strong "social capital" or "culture", there's less management overhead, but it's very hard to come by and requires time (or hiring the right people).

[0] https://www.npr.org/2015/10/02/443412777/is-the-professional...

[1] https://medium.com/@bchesky/dont-fuck-up-the-culture-597cde9...
44 here

I think i lucked out by landing a 'green' word i.e., a close word as first guess today

I played semantle for a few days and it used ri take hundreds of guesses sometimes

so not sure if we can do much better than 10-20 guesses
Why should I spend the time and energy to deal with IPv6 when disabling it fix many issues ? The listed advantages are not worth the troubles in my experience.
It is impressive that Google manages to rank reddit threads very well though. They don't have reddits internal data, do they look at reddit upvote scores or what? Why would the helpful thread be higher ranked than all the content spam on reddit? Google must do something really clever in order to be so good at indexing useful reddit threads.
Let's hope your surgeon personality doesn't help them too much with hiding their drug abuse problem if they have one then and that you are not the one going under the scalpel when they first start to lose it.

> Alcohol and drug abuse are a significant issue among physicians in general and surgeons in particular. A recent 7000-member survey of the American College of Surgeons demonstrated a prevalence for alcohol abuse among male surgeons at 13.8% and for female surgeons at 25.4%. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstrac...

This dictionary and factoid HN comment war thread makes me want to waste karma.
So you are endorsing current violence against Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese citizen in the United States, before China has actually performed any invasions?!?
It may even vary depending on the game, the settings, whether D3D, OpenGL or GLide were used or which versions of the drivers were installed.
Not 'round these parts they don't
Alexa has worked well for remote support of blind/elderly/disabled:

landline call/answer via Echo Connect
voice/timer power control of lights/fans/aircon
voice-controlled microwave
motion detection to orient blind person
FM radio streaming via TuneIn
cable TV control /w Logitech Harmony
hourly chime + time announcement
remote maintenance of phonebook
remote-initiated audio or video call
remote cough monitoring
remote notification of motion/activity
But it's death allowed for "Cities: Skylines" to come into existence and the world is better for it.

https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/cities-skylines/abo...
1. Very few things directly monetized Alexa. Doing so was basically impossible. I was in a brain storming session in 2017 on this topic, I walked in very optimistic and walked out very pessimistic.

2. Voice interface is often slower than preexisting solutions. It's faster to pull a phone out of a pocket, unlock it, and load a weather app then it is to ask Alexa what the weather is. Loading the weather app will show you more information.

3. Alexa is kind of clumsy. It will trigger accidentally. It will not understand you.

4. ChatGPT is clearly better at answering questions. It's probably better at running commands. It doesn't directly compete with Alexa, but it highlights how outdated Alexa really is.

5. Alexa was awesome for some things. It was awesome for vision impairment. It was awesome for hands free situations, when you cannot spare the mechanical efforts of using another device or the visual attention.
> Same, they had a cross-promotion with Nissan, so your Sims would feel happy when they recharged their electric car, and the charging station has the effect of a park in your neighborhood.

Perhaps not as bad as all the BP solar arrays and windmills in SimCity Societies!

Game came out 3 years before the New Horizon spill.
Sim city is a phone game.

I want to build cool cities full stop. I think what was more the problem is that a LOT of studios realized that a sim city clone works better on mobile hardware, because that's where the target audience is at.

Since then they did realize it and I was playing it with my fiance for hours and hours on end. With the multiplayer with multiple cities.

Graphics and disasters where not so much the problem in 2013 but they more or less screwed the game by liming it so miuch
Pentax 645 [pdf]
I'd rather read overly technical language that assumes intelligence or curiosity on the part of the reader, rather than comforting euphemisms. When I was a kid I thought SimCity1993 really was "reticulating splines" during the loading screen and it didn't scare me off. Now Windows (which ought to be a lot less cheeky than Maxis) will print something like "We (who?) are just (just?) finishing some things (things?!) up for you"
Yeah there was basically no evidence that the game did anything more intense than the original SimCity (1989) but they loved claiming otherwise.
That’s why interview prep is so important. You need to sit down and remember things you did in previous roles and how they apply in the role you’re applying for.

Your competition for the best jobs do this. If you don’t, that’s up to you, but you’re asking for a five or six figure annual commit to you, it’s reasonable that in an hour or two you can talk about what you have done in the past in enough detail an interviewer can see how that experience applies in the new role.
Great idea. Now a question for the group.

What are the non-network team business benefits to IPv6 over v4? That is what drives adoption.
>The notion of hunter-gather societies living harmoniously in equilibrium with nature that some people seem to view as an optimal societal arrangement doesn't fit very well with this scenario.

Where is this notion? I've been involved in environmental circles and humans wiping out mammoths, giant sloths in south america, or logging easter island to bareness are pretty well known.
Nah, that's not true. People just don't like to spend money, especially when they are rich.
This is my curated list of Icecast / SHOUTcast / HLS / DASH internet radio stations. These streams can be played with mpd/ncmpcpp or VLC, or just through a web browser.

Maybe direct audio streaming will make a bit of a comeback like RSS recently has. :)
Definitely could be cool to have an intermodal aspect. Trains/trucks coming and going with excess resources from your and other's cities. Large warehouse zones on the city periphery...

Any "open" SimCity-like game?
Nuclear (mostly) requires megacorp or nation state funding and most players are in an equilibrium for now. Supply chains for nuclear are feasible to detect and control by existing players who want to keep the equilibrium.

When you look at markets with relatively low barriers to entry compared to nuclear with correspondingly high recreational and/or market value - humans have faired far worse at effective prohibitions.

Alcohol and other drugs. Illegal porn. Explosives. Sharing copyrighted material. Guns. Buying and selling humans. Cryptography. Etc.

Hop on any Silk Road replacement and you’ll find a nice list of failing prohibitions.

I do believe AI falls into the bucket of having a feasible black market. The supply chains are hard to detect and control. The cost is relatively low. And both the recreational and market value of it is high. It seems like something humans are going to do at this point regardless of whether it’s sanctioned or not.
The best use for Alexa is as a voice calculator for woodworking. She lives in my shop, so she can't listen to my regular conversations in the house. When I need to measure things, I can get a calculator out and do the fraction math (which I am not good at).

OR, I can say things like, "Alexa, what is 23 and 1/16th minus 2.1625" And she'll spit it out as a decimal and clarify as a fraction if I want.

It's amazing.
Pleroma has had this for years.... markdown, bbcode, and limited HTML support.

Pleroma has a lot of features that Mastodon doesn't, such as support for statuses of much longer than 500 chars. There's a running gag, "Pleroma does what Mastodon't."

I very much respect the work gargron has done is making Fediverse a place that's more moral than Twitter and popularizing the space with "normies" ; however it is good to note that there are alternatives within the space that do what Mastodon doesn't.
I recently upgraded my lab and network to support IPV6. I wish I had waited two weeks so I could have read this first.
How ChatGPT works, explained for non-technical people
Agreed. If content creators are more interested in getting something back (money) then they are creating something of value to society and disseminating it in a simple and clean way then I'm forced to think twice about their motives.

If you put the cart (making money) before the horse (creating value) then you are not really a productive member of society. Takers are like irresponsible children, they take without any awareness of the ramifications their behavior has on society.

This kind of attitude is similar to colonialism, an attitude representative of most of commercial enterprises today. Givers give value knowing that when they give, they receive, without any need to unnaturally focus on the end result.
A good start to see Mastodons upstream finally start to implement features considered so necessary that they existed in a fork for years beforehand[0].

I'm not trying to sound cynical, this is legit a good change. Other fedi implementations have supported different message formatting (mainly markdown) for ages and that shit still degrading away to plaintext on Mastodon is extremely aggravating if you decide to (for example) use a bulletpoint list.

[0]: https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1632452172196589569.html
I would argue that for a thing to be normal both of you would have to see it at least sometimes, unless OP lives on the moon and you live on mars.
I share the same dream; of one day charting my own path. I've been doing things a bit differently. I've kept my job and am building my product (www.bannerbox.io) on the side. I wake up early and dedicate a few hours to it in the morning. So far I've built the MVP but have no users. I'm fine with this because I'm learning.

Last year I've dedicated 100% of my time to building. This year I'm spending half of my time marketing. I'm struggling with this new arrangement. Marketing makes me uncomfortable. I haven't made meaningful progress on marketing yet but it's the right move as long I am consistent.
Thanks a lot for the same.
> the revenue generated per page view decreases

That assumption is worth reconsidering. It may be that fewer ads would just be more expensive to run and would work out similarly revenue-wise in the long run. The value of lots of ads may be diversification and smoothing out revenue, not increasing net.
i don't think what is sad about 'losing' this is the straightforward utility of creating stone tools, but rather no longer possessing this article of culture which was previously shared by all humans for all time, something that connected them and their experiences, their understanding of the world and a point of reference for their sense of meaning -- learning to fashion a handaxe from your father, sister etc was probably something that literally all humans shared memories of. we are utterly alienated from them in many ways, hardly the same species
Bias toward corruption probably means any prosperous company will have its pockets emptied by those with power within the company.
Is the key then perhaps to NOT use the default functionality of this type of analytics? I don't use this I use a pseudonymous "hand rolled" analytics method which is simply logging specific events in the program when a feature is used, and tagging those with a random session id and a persistent random pseudonym. E.g. "user 291281223233 used feature print_document in session 129871209182 ".

But I guess some of the attraction of a package like GA is that you don't have to spend weeks instrumenting your app? But I can certainly see the problem if ANY urls are sent. And I can see how weak GA would be if by default NO urls, no IPs, no User agent string are sent. You'd need to add quite a few "user_visited_page('pagename')" to your site code...
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So too was the 1989 (and original) version though.
At first, it seemed like a pretty useful device, but as time has gone on, Alexa has become increasingly problematic. It seems to have trouble understanding even basic commands. How many times have you asked Alexa to do something, only to have it respond with something completely irrelevant? Like it is regressing, which is curious.

The fact that Alexa is always listening, even when you're not talking to it, is straight up creepy. Also just plain annoying. Do we really need a robot voice constantly interrupting our conversations and playing cheesy music on command?

But perhaps the most frustrating thing about Alexa is its constant attempts to upsell us on Amazon products. Every time you ask it for something, it tries to sell you on a product that you didn't ask for. It's like having a pushy salesperson in your own home.
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Well said. For me, a person who admittedly has some pretty far-out beliefs/theories, it’s because there is generally no penalty for having these beliefs. Sure, at work where things count, I make sure my theories adhere to reality. But when I’m out chilling in nature? My goal then is to have fun, and entertaining crazy ideas is my idea of a good time. People who have to be correct all the time are kind of missing out and expending a lot of useless energy.

Plus, the universe is so wild that even modern science probably doesn’t cut as deep as we think it does.
Do you think your opinion is representative of the majority of folks who use technology?
D2 v0.2 (open-source text-to-diagram language)
There is no way a Pi with GPIO should be anywhere near any industrial equipment.

I have worked in the industry and it has been a mix of in-house and hired cabinet chimps.

If you have the time and money to work out how to interface a Pi to GPIO and write a software front end, you have the time and money to buy a PLC and integrate that with a COTS HMI front end.
The concern would be forking of the ActivityPub protocol itself, no?
I find myself thinking of this speech more and more often. It seems to apply to more and more of society, as I see it. The scariest versions I’ve personally come across is Cargo Cult Medicine and Cargo Cult Courts…
Not far off.

The simplest version (honestly oversimplified, but it'll do) is to imagine a graph. Time to respond on the x axis, quality of response on the y-axis.

Slowing down is just moving to the right. You take more time to deliver the same response. That would be bad.

Lowering quality is just moving down. Same time, worse response. That would also be bad.

What "slow (but deep) thinkers" do is move up and to the right. Better responses, delivered in more time. I don't want to call that "slow" though, it's just taking more time to do more valuable thinking.
I am like most people here. I have a bunch and use them for radio, kitchen timers, music (although less and less because the experience of getting a pitch for Amazon music every time is annoying, if it even plays what I want at all).

I also have it hooked up to a bunch of lights, the garage door opener. I have an Alexa in the garage as well for when I am wrenching on things.

I do not have one in the office, or the bedroom.

If they break, who cares. I may eventually try and create a custom web app to control all these things instead of using voice.
I find this strange. If someone wasn't able to get work done in the office the solution wouldn't be "OK, we all need to work from home because Gary can't get stuff done otherwise".
You really should take that chip on your shoulder to a therapist or a surgeon rather than on HN though. Acid comments won't help people consider your point of view if exposed with such aggression.
CS is a poor replacement for the otherwise incredible game that is sim city 4. The issue being that the traffic and population simulation engine in CS isnt very good.

There are still modders and a very active community for SC4 for that reason alone. Reminds me, I need to install some city again