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> Sometimes you get a GameBoy Color.

Which, given we're almost quarter of the way through the 21st century, is a bit parachronistic.

(Still, grandpa, I appreciate your effort; given that your understanding of technology ends at color CRT TVs and VCRs, a GameBoy Color is actually a surprisingly good pick. It may not be the Switch, but hey, it's still lots of fun!)

> Sometimes you get a terribly ugly hand-knitted sweater from your grandma.

Which is your favorite gift, because she made it to show her love for you, and it took her a third of a year to finish.

Or it will be your favorite gift, after she passes away before next Christmas, and you realize this ugly sweater is what she spent some of her last bits of energy on.

> Sometimes the homeless person you found online and welcomed for Christmas Eve turns paranoid, becomes convinced your family wants to poison him, and just leaves screaming.

To which you react with a huge :eyeroll: and go back to finishing the dinner; some homeless have their demons, but at least this one got a chance to warm up, fill their belly, and enjoy some kindness - all of which means they'll still be around for Christmas Day, instead of being found dead in the morning, on a park bench, buried under 3cm of snow, killed by exposure after they stopped there to rest, just for a moment, on their way to whatever temporary shelter they were planning to sleep in that night.

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I get your point. I want to balance it out a bit. Gifts, Christmas or otherwise, are often entirely different to what they may look like to an outside observer.
A question indeed that has to be answered before everything else. We can't criticize eg search engines for "previewing" content on search result pages and for sending you to copycat sites with the most ads and ignore gross content copying at the same time. We also have these "helpful" insertions of links to archive.ph copies here when the original story is paywalled and sometimes even just ad-ridden - to copied content on archive.ph with third-party ads which I find at least unethical.

That said, personally I do use Wayback machine about once a month for genuine search of historic content.
Easyeffect is a great application, but the UI was significantly worsened with the change from Pulseeffects. Especially the management of the effect chain. It has bad feedback when using drag and drop, and a sungle wrong click on remove (next to the similar deactivate) removes the effect and any settins are lost.

In arch I have issues with missing icons (that no othe gtk3/4 app has on my systems).

I also find the layout pretty no responsive as even on 1920x1080 widgets don't fit.

None of these issues occurred with Pulseeffects.
Controlling licensing terms on non-abandoned works is evidently pretty important to creators though - think eg the ability to police GPL violations or even what Taylor Swift did by refusing to licence certain rights for use in movies/TV (thereby effectively forcing producers to use the new "Taylor's version" recordings).
Media bias towards negative reporting, people are just reporting the media image of happiness in their country vs their own level.
https://archive.ph/X0zPv
Much negative bias in press and a culture of suffering?
Tapping would be much more satisfying if it didn’t take so long for a tile to get bigger and then start turning. Maybe it could smoothly get bigger and smaller and turn in one motion.
If your kid never, ever saw a pornographic image (or an erotica one) before 15, you and his friends' parents are really monitoring them closely.

For me it was a playboy at 13, for my friends probably the same, but I'm sure the internet bring the age lower,and pack more actions.

When I think about your link of a graphic novel and the first playboy I read, I'm pretty sure any parent would prefer the graphic novel where a poorly done 2 image strip depicts a fellation, and the text besides is... Less than erotic let's say.

And btw: i read 'when I was 5 I killed myself' from Buten at around the same age (maybe 14), as well as flowers for algernon and 1984, I don't think they are age-appropriate books, but they are worth reading when adolescent, because you experience them harder, and formative.

Buten in particular wrote hard books.
I expect the same sentiment holds despite the geography.
Not surprising when media hyperfocuses on doom, crime, death and conflict. Society clearly sounds like a terrible place when viewed through that extreme lens, so people’s everyday worries would be mild in comparison to what everybody else seems to be going through.
A new wave of mass migration has begun
https://archive.ph/IaVZu
Article seems to confuse Lean with agile (delivering small chunks of value).

Everything else is an explanation of the project management triangle, including using the image without ever mentioning the triangle directly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle

And it's filled with nonsense that nobody believed ever:

> It’s not worth waiting to learn from a failure that can’t be recovered from.

This seems to follow a pattern in the author's articles: ignore the obvious, show misunderstandings/straw men, and then appear to say something deep.

Consider the TDD article which represents TDD as writing tests after code:

> If you always create a test to justify the code you write, then you never have to worry about writing the code you don’t need.

https://itnext.io/you-dont-know-tdd-691efe670094

Consider the article on JavaScript's success that fails to mention the language being bundled with Netscape and then with all browsers, instead ret-conning reasons into place post facto. Here's a tasty WTF from that piece:

> As developers fluent in Java, C#, Python, and Ruby move into non-coding roles within organizations (see the Peter Principle), a new wave of JavaScript novices has risen to take their place.

https://fagnerbrack.com/the-reasons-behind-javascripts-succe...
I hate to be a pedant but I see it used wrong a lot. "DDOS" stands for Distributed denial of service, specifically indicating the traffic is coming from many sources (wide range of ip), which is what makes it so hard to defend against. Someone scraping too fast would be performing an unintentional DOS, because they probably arent scraping using a botnet (and if they were they probably do in fact intend to attack)
back in 2004 I remember coming across "understand for c++", which cost something like $1000/seat but which was absolutely the best thing I have seen for navigating and working with a large inherited codebase.
Interesting, can you tell more? I’ve tried oral probiotics without much effect.

Did notice a difference for a couple of days after taking antibiotics for a week for something else, but it quickly subsided (my regular micro biome probably quickly recolonised the mouth).
If you’d rather use a self-hosted alternative, we are building Hocus [0]. It’s still in alpha, but already supports prebuilds, VSCode, shared environment variables, and more.

[0] https://github.com/hocus-dev/hocus
>IME secure systems are hard to use in practice, and performance is usually worse than less secure systems.

If you're talking about tacked on layers of lockdown like SElinux, AppArmor, UAC on windows, "Access to X" on your phone, etc... that's obviously true. However, a capabilities based system should be almost identical in terms of the users view of things.. instead of calling a dialog to get a file name then directly opening the file, a "powerbox" is used which returns the capability to access a file.

As far as the user knows, the code behavior is identical, and they don't need to change their interactions.

We've all adopted ersatz capability systems when we moved to virtual machines, containers, and the like... just a far more course grained control of access instead of individual files at runtime.

I'm hoping that we finally fix computer security before I leave this world, but I'm having my doubts. WASM is a good step in the right direction, as long as they don't bypass the capabilities model in the name of "ease of use", it should help quite a bit.
This sounds more or like like what factotum (https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man4/factotum.html), from plan9, tried to do
Yes - in the UK at least that's one of the reasons why the ultra high fluoride toothpastes are effectively only available when prescribed by a dentist.
I just threw in the 100 watt as a baseline because my 10+ year old rig runs that while idle and we seemed to be talking about using our older computers as the media player or home server.
I'd add reverse mortgages[1] and any similar home equity release deal into this mix. Stay away from those also if you possibly can.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/mortgage/reverse-mortgage/
Or it shows most people answering surveys claim to be happier than they really are.
I dumped Signal when they dropped SMS. It no longer meets my use case.

Upgrade your phone, get an Android, stop using Signal. I think that covers your options.
The distinction between the two concepts is real. The word choice... I don't know. I haven't heard of the blog post. I'm ESL speaker, and yet when 'PaulRobinson made the distinction, I immediately knew what they're talking about, and I even though "nice" vs. "kind" is exactly the right word pair to use.
Same here. I don't read news. I'm much happier. I believe in the old boomer saying: If something really important happens your neighbor is going to tell you about it.
A use-case for -0.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_zero
There's also (the imaginatively named) powcaptcha https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/pow-captcha
That's why I love Hacker News. I've never heard of PaperWM before, and now I'm a convert. I'm sorry I can't help you with your question, but your question certainly helped me. Thank you.
Have you tried reporting your issues on Github? In my experience the maintainers are responsive to these problems and really care.
Then we have come to terms, you understand the awful truth, but are in denial about the reality of it because it is so awful. That awful truth is that we are directly responsible for democracy, and that if everyone shirks that responsibility and that requirement of sacrifice, there can be no democracy. Someone must sacrifice.

You cannot have democracy or republic without citizens who live the ideal of "live free or die" or an educated aristocracy that can see the bigger picture and are convinced that they must exercise their power with responsibility.

You understand that in the game of prisoners dilemma, if the aristocracy defects and there are no consequences, that choice of defection is a winning strategy. You understandably don't like the answer because you bear responsibility for your half of the strategy, your strategy multiplied over the entire population is the game. It takes an MLK to bear that burden and we have none.

I think you underestimate unionization as a 2nd amendment alternative. Unions are not a legal construct, but a power construct. Companies and the economy at large cannot function without labor, and unions purpose are to use this property to get a seat at the negotiation table.

Do you think if we start shouting "no taxation without representation" it's going to be easier next year than it is this year? Of course not. Power is consolidating and will continue to do so, and the cost of taking it back is only going to go up unless our aristocracy can sort itself out, which is just "hope as a strategy." If you work in tech it should be obvious that hope is not a strategy. I'm sure the average Russian citizen used hope as a strategy, that's certainly the consequence of inaction.

FWIW, you might like the works of yale history professor Timothy Snyder. I think I am more extreme than him, but he is definitely the modern embodiment of the ideals of our founding fathers. He prescribes investing in our institutions as the potential back-pressure on our decay (my choice of word, not his). "On Tyranny" is a great very short book and he also put it on youtube. Very much worth a read/watch.

I think you would enjoy Snyder's talks on the "politics of inevitability" (on youtube) and the idea that democracy is something you do, not something you are. Which means democracy is the sum total of actions, culture, and beliefs of a society, not a structure and not a ritual. He would likely critique my post as one advocating for "mob rule."

Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig also has some pretty choice words on the state of our democracy and has hope that we can alter it's course via education and campaign finance reform, particularly starting at the local level in an effort to eventually promote it federally.
I made a version of this and it was great fun: https://blog.jgc.org/2022/12/the-rogers-watch-retro-display-...
FAQ: Where is my BTC?
You said it correctly. "Average woman programmer" is un-idiomatic English.
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You’d have to come up with some way of doing that with machine tools, and in the process of spending all that time, money and difficulty you’d work out why people tend not to do that at any decent volumes! Excepting of course where there are very specific reasons to, such as some of the metal printing done in jet and rocket engines where the geometry would be impossible to do in single parts with casting and machining. But again that’s not exactly low cost, volume manufacture.
The Statistics Handbook (free culture LaTeX handbook)
Wrote this 30-page essay that aims to explore an approach to statistics for the layman - from simple average to stochastic gradient descent.
Open source, free culture code - happy sharing.
This is a pretty good analysis of the movie's themes: https://crossingthethemes.wordpress.com/2020/03/13/film-anal...
Gmail goes to some pretty extreme lengths to keep you logged in. Yes, you will need a password but that’s not super different from the case of the traditional way to handle this: a password manager.
Donations to religious organizations were about 28% of donations in the U.S. If you excluded all of the charitable donations to churches, the U.S. numbers would still be more than twice as much as Germany.

Also, while a large part of the religious donations go to the operation of the church, churches do a lot of other charitable activities such as food pantries, shelters, disaster relief, education, etc.

Having lived in both places, charity is simply much more of a part of the culture in the U.S. I think the general feeling in Germany was that taking care of people in trouble was the job of the government and that they paid their taxes and that doing more was not necessary.
I’ll be honest, as someone old enough to have lived through the animosity, I never thought I’d live to see this. I’m glad they acknowledged the history and bad blood caused by Balmer et al. Rolling their own distro makes sense in that context. I wish them well. Strange times!
Yes, this is the way. When I was purchasing a car last year I scraped a popular used car website for cars I liked to keep track of deals. I added a random sleep in between each page so the entire script took a few hours to run.
Who in the world is okay right now?

Sociopaths.
> female, adj.; feminine; woman(ly); womanlike; womanish;
effeminate. These adjectives all share the sense “of, relating to, or
involving women.” Female is a neutral term usually used to indicate the
sex of a person (or an animal or plant), in contrast with male <a female
cadet> <my female coworkers>. Feminine typically refers to what
are traditionally considered a woman’s favorable qualities <feminine
grace>. Womanly often carries these positive connotations as well
<womanly intuition>, but it’s also used to distinguish an adult female
from a girl <her womanly figure>. (Woman is sometimes used
attributively where female would be more natural <a woman lawyer>.
These constructions are best avoided.)

Garner's Modern English Usage
Humans that know how citations work and are honest aren't going to invent completely false ones. We'll make up a lot of things, we might even convince ourselves that a citation source says something it doesn't say. But we won't make up completely nonexistent ones, with nonexistent pages, wrong authors etc.
> it is beyond my power of understanding how this could be mandated by law in USA

It isn't mandated by law in the USA. All water contains some naturally occurring fluoride, some localities choose to add additional fluoride to their water in the USA but certainly not all. I'm pretty sure it is added in something like 60% of city water supplies.
A word of caution: until the "performance" is actually here, better stay humble.

As far as I know and specs wise, RISC-V has been kind of ready for a while, only missing very high performance implementations.

My first real risc-v target is a 100% RV64 assembly keyboard firmware though. Looking at mango pi pro mq boards, but I wish we had 'smaller' RV64 GPIO/USB boards for that, maybe a small GPIO/USB board with a USB block+FPGA with enough gates to instance a small RV64 core.
Drama is actually the name of a town in Greece
really cool to read that thread and see neovim devs looking at it as well. we need a sort of open source hall of fame and axboe should be there for sure
Edrogan declared winner of Turkey election
He's very much out there saying that he was wrong about many things. I have been aware of him and not a fan for as long as he's been publishing, but I kinda became a fan in the last couple weeks.

I was guilty of the same optimism in the 90s, but 2016 was the last lesson I needed. Took him a bit longer.
> If containers and WASM are in fact competing technologies, as you and the article imply, then this shouldn't be possible.

That doesn't make any sense to me. Just because you can put a thing inside another thing doesn't mean they don't also solve an overlapping set of problems.
In the book, the ":" is typeset in monospace and the "." in proportional font, making their meaning clear.
This might be dependent on the country. This may be a choice between "no escape hatch at all" and "no easy escape hatch". In the Philippines, a divorce is legally impossible, but it is not a crime for a man and a woman to live together and have children without marrying. So why bother?
That will almost certainly have been renamed to another name early on in its lifetime. So unfortunately you probably need to know what it was renamed to.
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Are you assuming that the intent behind feedback is always benign?

IMHO, in work settings it can represent a sort of a power play, esp. if done in public. I, wise, experienced, and objective, have the perspicacity to critique you, a humble, inexperienced, unskilled clod. See how awesome I am?

This likely to be quite a bit more subtle than I've framed it above, of course, but the dynamic remains. And, these dynamics aren't mutually exclusive -- one may have a genuine desire to help and get an ego/status boost from it, (which makes it sometimes tricky to handle gracefully if you're on the receiving end.)
Knowing someone who grew up in HK, they're the most impossibly optimistic person I know. Maybe there's something in the food :P
I am now converting an app from htmx to unpoly. Indeed, much less attributes to write and now my app has proper browser history and full page rendering linked to this history, all with minimal effort. This is brilliant, how come I never heard of unpoly ? Thanks for pointing to it.
I have the same gripes about the "shorts" thing, but YouTube without a premium sub is just unwatchable due to the adds and not allowing background play on mobile.
>Zero-based numbering creates an asymmetry across the grid origin making it difficult to notice the subtle “off-by-one” mismatch between two seemingly symmetrical cell references.

No, it doesn't... the fault is assuming that the cells have a "width", or alternatively, that the cells coordinates aren't in the center of the cell.

If you treat the cells as if they are centered on coordinates, the problem is resolved. (-2,0) is 2 to the left, and (2,0) is 2 to the right of the origin.

[Edit] I'm not talking about the display format, I'm talking about the representation/metaphor... it doesn't matter how things look on the screen... -2 is 2 cells left, +2 is 2 cells right of 0.
I think this is why the movie is so polarizing! It's full of symbolism and metaphor - check out the movie's trivia on IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099892/trivia/).
"This content is not available in your country/region."

This should be removed from HN: the content is not on the Internet.
We’ve been running Mariner Linux in Production for just over a month and it’s been absolutely rock solid. Nice to see this get an official name.

I’m genuinely sick of Ubuntu, and for our non-AKS workloads I really hope this becomes an option there too.
> a case decided before the DMCA was law

Decided in 2000, and the DMCA was signed into law in 1998?
That would be nice, but unfortunately improving the default styles now would break an ungodly number of things. Cat's out of the bag now, people rely on the crappy defaults (save for the minor differences between browsers).
I see RISC-V as a time bomb.

These are known "detonators" set up for next year. There's more we don't even know of. It is going to happen.

RISC-V is inevitable.

>As far as I know and specs wise

December 2021's batch of extensions done the magic. No hardware out there implements them.

Once it arrives (e.g. Veyron and Ascalon), the thorough disruption of the whole CPU landscape, from microcontrollers to supercomputers, starts.

The acceleration and massive momentum that we've seen to date is nothing compared to what's to come.
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This chart beggars belief. Could we have a link to the actual studies, and not an anonymous image, please??
People watch videos in their idelogical niche anyways, so ideological downvoting aint that much of a problem.
My dude people have died from ingesting too much water.

So you don't get to say "well obviously it's dangerous just cuz".

The dose makes the poison, and you are making a very specific claim about the dose.
> ie: if happiness is relative then you can't be happy unless you think others are less happy

I don't _think_ most people think along those lines. I'd certainly hope not.
> Svelte/Solid/Qwik are clearly steps forward from React

<sigh> I thought you were going to take the, "Everyone settled on React and now it's all super stable" line.
This is very very recent North America-and-other-settler-colony history. Even today, most Americans live within 20 miles of their parents. Most people don't live in different settlements to their parents, let alone cities, let alone countries, _let alone_ continents.
Yeah I'm getting this shit too with Marginalia Search. I'm getting about 2-2.5M queries per day that are definitely from bots that would 100% sink my server if they somehow go through the bot mitigation. It peaks at hundreds of search queries per second. To be clear these are search queries, and search queries typically trigger disk reads of about ~10-20 Mb.

I get about 20,000 queries per day that may be human.
Most meat people eat is from sentient beings. Cows, pigs, yes, even chickens are sentient. I'd urge people to consider the capability to suffer and not mainly the level of intelligence.
I feel exactly the same way. I also feel like Microsoft's recent strategic moves (eg the AI-powered content graph thing they announced at Build[1]) are really interesting. It's so incredibly strange to anyone who lived through Ballmer, the SCO suit etc to see this.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/build-2023-bu...
This has been broken for the past month (just stuck on waiting for workers for several days), did they fix it?