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Since I agree with the OP, here's my attempt at answering your questions.

I always wanted to paint portraits - I can draw people relatively well, but they never look like the people I'm actually portraying. And my drawings are very 2-dimensional, which is a conscious style choice that nonetheless doesn't lend itself well to real-life portraits.

I started following Bob Ross and, while I did get some okay paintings out of it, the end result was never what I intended. My brush simply didn't move the way his does and as a result my trees didn't look very happy. I next signed up for a popular online platform that's primarily focused on art lessons, but again, my exercises kept going out of control because I couldn't get the paint to behave in the same way as in the videos. And I found myself yelling at the screen several times because, say, the artist in the video would add violet to a person's skin, the end result would look very good, but at no point was there an explanation for why would you even think about adding violet to paint skin.

How did a random teacher help? Because they give me real-time feedback on what I'm doing, they warn me about mistakes before I build everything on top of them, they answer my infinite "but why?" questions, and provide useful background about how to reason my way into whatever I'm trying to achieve. No Udacity course will look at your code and say "this is fine, but this algorithm will not scale beyond 10k records and also your comments need to be more informative".

I found my current teacher looking online for well-rated teachers near me, but this has also been my experience with teachers whose online rating I truly don't know.
Pretty sure you're remembering TeamViewer instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRzaGUKEFA

EDIT: Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30113513
I feel like Reddit filled gaps in times that books don't fit in as well, like a short wait at a doctors office, and it's good at that, far better than flipping through magazines from 3 years ago. The problem is it ALSO fills in the gaps where books could go and that's when it becomes a problem.

I too uninstalled RiF yesterday. Not sure where I want to go next, but I hope I read more as well. It'll probably be easier to put down my phone at night and open up my book.
Even though I actually agree with your main points, I regularly upgrade my Nvidia drivers on windows and it definitely does not need a reboot to do so.
I used Bing and the first link it gave was to a working site.
Would be nice but remastering 10+ year old games is very profitable these days so I'd imagine that the industry would lobby very hard against it.
A tree falling in a huge forest doesn't negate the value of the wood, leaves, etc., in the tree, nor the effect it has on the surrounding trees, animal environment and so on.
It’s often relatively inexpensive to mothball a production line (relative doing heavy lifting) and sometimes you can even keep parts of it operational making things for other uses.
I can’t speak about the current job market. But once you get experience and build a network and a reputation, you can start being real picky.

On top of that, once you “get in a position of f*%# you” (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xdfeXqHFmPI) your shit tolerance level starts going way down.
Enumerations are never provided for non-cryptic crosswords in American publications.
Yes. The fact that you didnt dispelled any of my critics about independent auditing. None of those institutions operate outside of the government sphere of influence (even private universities). In the end you just said "it's safe because they told us so... and by the way I know a guy".

Seriously I'm appalled if you think your arguments are reasonable.

That's a very classic brazilian response, to have trust and faith in the smart people doing the work for you. It's probably a scar from the times of dictatorship.

I don't trust. I want to verify.
My app doesn't load any tweets at all. Just get generic, can't retrieve tweets try again later.
> If there are seven proven ways to success and your teacher can only show you the fourth best way, that still beats the two hundred ways leading to nowhere presented to you on the Internet.

My experience is exactly the opposite. Most teachers are about the same level as you'd get from a random blog post (since these are often the people writing those blog posts). But with the internet, you can find the absolute best book or video or tutorial in the whole world that blows your local teacher out of the water.

The only exceptions where a teacher is essential are areas where you learn by doing and being critiqued, not by reading/watching. E.g. instrument/voice lessons, team sports, dancing, acting, etc. Or when you're close to the top of your field and the remaining knowledge is only in top experts' heads because they haven't written it down yet.
Opposing abortion and same sex marriage is a pretty poor strategy of getting “picked.” The white people who own everything and run everything hate Thomas more for that than they do for any views he has on regulation or taxes.

Calling Thomas a “pick me” is comic book villain levels of racist. Have you ever been to the Georgia coast where Thomas grew up? Being religious and traditionalist, and even believing in bootstraps more than government, makes Thomas a typical member of his Gullah community. The only contrarian thing about him is following those beliefs to supporting the Republican Party. And even that’s not unusual. If you consider Thomas as an individual—not just a black person, but a black man from the rural south who worked his way up from poverty to the upper echelons of society—you’ll find many of the double-digit percentage of black men who voted for Trump.

And that’s the problem with having elite whites curate diversity. They don’t want a representative sampling of minorities. They want minorities who reject their own communities in the ways white elites agree with, like Obama or Ilhan Omar.
There was an update today that says chapter 11 not 7
Twitter link ? Nope for me
> If a single man can forgive $400 billion in loans with the stroke of a pen, why even have a congress?

I think we can all agree that in the interest of governmental restraint, he should be required to use something heavier than a pen, like a big hammer or crowbar.
I think the reply was very clear that it's not a given that the way a research site handles nuclear waste would be the same way as an actual power plant
The Republicans don't want to have an actual debate, who are you trying to fool?

It will be a complete rehash of every GOP-only debate we've had in the past 20ish years - morons trying to outflank eachother to the right, idiots proclaiming that they'll abolish the Departments of Energy, Education, Health, etc. Everyone will try to present themselves as the furthest to the right. They'll all shriek about Biden this and Biden that and ignore the fact that most of them represent states that have no economy, while bashing states that actually do have economies. Throw in a bit of religious bigotry, a few dogwhistles to the MAGA / White Nationalist crowd, and BOOM, you've got a modern GOP "debate".

There is no room for sensible, nuanced, serious adult conversations about the future of the planet and the role the US plays in it from a security and economic perspective.

And at the end, they'll all capitulate and say that their platform is whatever Donald Trump wants it to be.
Would you be open to speaking more about your experience? What level of Japanese did you have prior? And now?

I swear by coaches/instructors in other areas of my life, but haven’t had much luck with language teachers. I’ve had private teachers with middling success (great at correction, bad at longer term planning), and found I had more improvement by self-studying.
The real issue is politics and lobbying. It's extremely rare that the US would adopt foreign designs vs designing and building in-house. After all, we want to be the ones selling to the rest of the world.
10 years ago the corporation of evil was M$, when Google the Don't Be Evil eventually became more evil? I agree with the statement but seems like I
have missed the moment when it happened.
This isn’t exactly how Reddit worked either though. Each subreddit is a community with its own rules.

I’d also not exactly how fediverse works except for direct links. You read posts/comments from your instance.

Mastodon should figure out an extension to simply redirect links to your instance. It would remove a lot of confusion.
> anti competitive practices from Windows

You would more likely be amazed by all the dumb hacks in the system for backward compatibility, mostly for other companies' software.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050824-11/?p=34...
> Hundreds of millions of people use Twitter, and we are to understand that there are an enough people scraping to the extent that they had to suddenly take drastic action by shuttering unauthenticated access

Suppose 1 million people are accessing Twitter at any given time. An actual person might only be making 1 request / second. That's 1 million requests / second.

Suppose there are 100 AI companies scraping Twitter. A bot like this can make thousands to tens of thousands of requests per second. That's an additional million requests / second.

There are probably more than 100 "AI" companies now, trying to train their own bespoke LLMs. They're popping up like weeds so I can totally see Twitter's load doubling or tripling recently. So sorry, I just don't get the skepticism. Sure it could be a cover for something else, but his actual stated reason seems totally possible.
> and when was the last time you used a proprietary compiler other than MSVC?

Yesterday, because embedded firmware development is pain writ large
I think you're equating teacher with lecturer because of how classes are taught in school. They are not the same thing. A teacher can just be someone that gives you feedback and corrects you when you make missteps. If I recall correctly, this way of teaching is the idea behind Montessori schools.
What are they gonna successfully guess you credit card number?
YouTube cracking down on if you're not paying them to block the ads [Reddit]
yes, but there is only a single line for Honeywell AGT1500, which is a bit ridiculous. There should be a second factory on another continent in case of a natural disaster.
There's no reason you can't collect social security and also make a paycheck. Many many people (unfortunately have to) do it.
One of the values of Hacker News is that the submission queue, voting, and discussion often (though, no, not always) serve as effective filters to surface interesting, thoughtful, relevant, or informative content.

I'm well aware that video and audio pose some challenges to ready consumption or perusal. That said, Tom Scott is among the more effective and informative YouTube creators out there, and I'd argue that this is among his best videos as well.

(Another that comes instantly to mind is his Royal Society lecture on truth and epistemology on the Internet.)

I'm also painfully aware that YouTube's policy shifts of the past day or so have made accessing and viewing content there even more obnoxious than usual.

Still, argument from ignorance tends to have weak foundations.
And?

This obliviates any need to verify?
Why is my post being censored?
Thank you for saving me from yet another overdone webpage.
Hey, it's my time to shine! I rewrote Chips Challenge in Haskell years ago:
https://github.com/egonSchiele/chips

It's not better than using C, but worked just fine when I wrote it in 2014. I'd say, unless you're planning to sell it, write the game in whatever language you enjoy.
I don't quite understand the Colorado bakery case, but it seems like it involves a custom cake and the majority opinion was very narrow, intentionally not addressing the broader intersection of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and anti-discrimination. This website designer case seems to fill that legal gray zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
A couple years ago I committed to answering all phone calls and keeping spammers on the line as long as possible. Within a couple weeks it had real effect, and now I’m legitimately excited when the rare spammer calls me.

Probably 2h net investment for the near-guarantee that calls to my phone are legit. Totally worth it.

Steps:

(1) If it’s a robot, punch numbers until you get to a human. (2) Act like you’re 120yrs old, incompetent, and forgetful. Tell them some stories about your great-grandson on the baseball team. (3) When they call you on it, switch to your real persona and just tell them you’re setting the phone down on the table and they’ll have to hang up. They hate hanging up, it messes up their stats or something.

This is how you get put on the _real_ do-not-call lists - the ones in India labeled “unprofitable_numbers.txt”.
And here is thought the way you describe holding them was the proper way....

It's how I've pretty much always held them...

It feels like only a monkey would full palm them...
Those kind of questions themselves suck -- but generally here on HN the reply chain is interesting, and even such basic questions produce such interesting and sometimes 'expert' responses that I end up learning something from them.

so, I guess I mean to say that without the dumb questions I wouldn't get to enjoy the expert answers, so I appreciate them for that.
I’d love to see how you use it. My encounters with jest have been painful, and it seemed unnecessarily cruel to run browser tests in node, where you couldn’t just easily put a debugger statement in there and use the inspector to see what was going on.
Has someone managed to compile this? In the reviews on the linked web page the user 'MobCat' states that it does not compile
While the far more cost effective step would be to dismantle these outdated production lines and ship them into Ukraine, where they can be operated by cheap, skilled labor, with much diminished environmental and safety overhead, as part of a war economy.

Every modern war is a production war, you either outproduce your opponent, or you get overwhelmed. If Ukraine can't achieve self reliance and remains fully dependent on western trickle down, it cannot succeed long term.
Thanks for the response! Very impressive results from Midjourney.
> The US has never purposefully tortured or starved to death millions of people.

If you believe this, you really need to start reading more books. Start with "Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky.

Let me give you an unsorted and quite limited selection of crimes against humanity conducted by the USA:

- The US enslaved large amounts of people with the consequences still being enormously present. This one should be obvious.

- The death toll in Iraq alone was 1m people for which the official explanation I believe is that they did a "whoopsie" because they thought there were WMD...

- Let's also remember when the USA provided immunity to Japan's army of Mengeles, Unit 731 [1]. A really wild story.

- Henry Kissinger is said to have killed 150,000 Cambodians. Of course that was in the context of the unforgivable Vietnam war. Some read up on Henry [2][3]

- Here is a limited list of USA's involvement in regime change. Often these regime changes included democratically elected leaders like in Chile [4]

- Torturing is also part of the USA's official policy program. Have a look at Guantanamo Bay [5]

- The US also has a standing secret court whose secrecy provisions were recently protected by its Supreme Court [6][7]

Start looking into this and you will find that you can go on and on. Now the last fact-let I want to share is that the US army has more funding than the next five largest nations combined. This is utterly crazy, yet confirmed on numerous occasions.

This large budget naturally translates into the fact that the number of US military stations abroad is unmatched. Now please consider that US military stations abroad are near someone else's home. How would you feel if a militaristic foreign nation would have their military stations located around your home? Let alone a nation that has been at war nearly every year since it's inception... [8][9]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

[2] https://theintercept.com/2023/05/23/henry-kissinger-cambodia...

[3] https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/09/henry-kissinger-birthda...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...

[7] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/01/politics/supreme-court-fo...

[8] https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/usa-only-1...

[9] https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/50473
Years ago people started 3DPrinting with hot glue guns on a square-cube frame. Don wrote it up as a "Santa Claus Machine" because it could deliver whatever you asked for. That caught my attention and I'm sure there were others that picked up on it. I looked at his column as little fires that kept my imagination going. He was a tremendous help to my career.
Earliest Strands of the Cosmic Web
In France it is: "engineer"-the-title specifically means having a degree from a state-certified engineering school, and when you get the degree the state inscribes you as an engineer in a national registry.

Whether it's software engineer or another domain is immaterial, the title "engineer" is heavily protected and making use of it without the degree is liable for pursuit the same way claiming to be a doctor and delivering medical advice when one is not: in the same way as with the Hippocrates oath, engineers are held to a high moral standard of ethics and integrity. The words "élite de la nation" often comes up - and often in derogatory ways from outsiders - but it is borne out from these requirements, that engineers are to be placed in position of great power and corresponding responsibility, meaning they have a duty to call the shots in high stakes situations in ways that go beyond technical knowledge and mastery but also factor in intellectual and moral values.

One can get a masters degree in computer science and/or software development though, which is the same "knowledge level" of studies (an engineering degree doubles as a masters degree), but that does not make one an engineer, which is a corps (in the same sense that e.g US Marines are a corps). This dates back to Napoleon and the creation of "classes préparatoires" and public (state-owned) engineer schools, heavily inspired by the military. Case in point Polytechnique is a military school (although the goal is not to produce armymen), and entering any of the three french military corps (the navy, the air force, and the "ground" army) as an officer goes through the same classe préparatoire process.

This design has been relaxed over time and for quite a time there are private engineering schools that don't require going through these first two prépa years, but they still require the state certification to legally produce engineers.
I'm always quite surprised to hear that.

We had quite a bad phase here in Germany before mobile phones became popular, but I haven't got one of those scam calls on my landline for years now. There isn't even much spam SMS, but maybe it's because I don't give away my number to everybody.
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I have seen ads that are OVER ONE HOUR LONG, often on long-form interviews. Am I really the demographic that "they"re trying to sell me late-night-infomercial bullshit?!? ...I guess so.
Is it time to ban Twitter URLs from HN? Nobody can view this.
The Russians have interests in holding a security border around themselves which extends to about a dozen American allies and trading partners Russia extends their security border to those allies and trading partners, they will almost certainly stop being so.

The Russian plans don't stop at Ukraine, they extended to Moldova, Poland, and lots of other nations.

Is it viable for them to do that in the long term? You never know. Right now it seems clear that the answer is no, they can barely take Ukraine so how are they going to handle Poland and the other countries when they've already expended their economic tools that could have done so?

But it's generally in our better interest so make sure that they are as incapable as possible of expanding those borders.

We would be fools to allow them to expand those security borders because it means losing those allies and a huge amount of trade and resources that come with them.

They are either in our circle, or they are in Russia's. Russia treats these countries as former colonies, so as long as they are given freedom of choice they're going to ally themselves strongly with the west.

For the relatively low price of funding Ukraine we slow down Russia's advance at worst, and we totally halt it at best. If we manage to totally halt Russian advances and equip Ukraine to be competitors for Russia, we've now got a country that has just survived a war with Russia sitting on their borders armed to the teeth and angry at them.

They are literally fighting the war for us, without risking nuclear conflict. Why shouldn't we be interested in this tragedy?

> You always have to take responsibility for your actions, and Ukrainians pay for these now.

We aren't defending Ukraine because we are nice people, or defending them because we quite like the consequences of Ukraine's decision, and we're more than happy to support and ensure that those consequences are as minimal as possible, while ensuring the consequences of Russia's decision are as high as possible.
So far I’ve been looking at my rss feed instead and have been experimenting with Lemmy, but Lemmy has some growing to do before it’ll be great.
Yah, MTR could do it 30 years ago so not sure whats being added here. Need to play with that 3D export thanks for sharing!
I get a generic "Something went wrong" error on web* but with dev tools open I can see it's getting 429 Too Many Requests with responses that say "rate limit exceeded". The app might not have been coded to show a rate limit error, maybe.

*except search, which does actually pop up a message saying I'm rate limited.
is he really charging money to reload it more then 5 times a day?
It’s not just economics. Manual labor and trade work are generally looked down upon by our culture; there is a misguided belief that white collar is better than blue collar. This has steered many people away from keeping these skills even as hobbies.
Let me guess. He got bored and moved on before making any breakthrough.
This isn't good, but it's an old spill, and not even one we just learned about. And, it doesn't change the fact that nuclear energy is without doubt incredibly safe, nor the likelihood that our world would be better off today if we weren't so irrationally scared by it, or so unforgiveably willing to overlook the millions of deaths from fossil fuel pollution every year.
Same for me, but that is really underpaid (even) for France though!
I know a lot of people with less than 5years of experience getting 60K in France

You should definitely look for something new
> If tariffs are raised then it's not hardworking Americans that take home or keep less money. It's people who import things that can and should be built locally instead.

Well, it's the customers that suffer due to higher tariff-induced prices. And if prices are kept the same and the company takes the hit, workers get hit by the lack of new investment the company now can't afford to make.
Because we have a massive ongoing and structural problem with racism in America, we need to be doing something productive about it, and there's no meaningful way to do that if we have no idea how many people of various marginalized groups are in places they're traditionally excluded from.
I am unfamiliar with this individual, but I will be on the look out for any related articles. Thank you for the heads-up.
Even better would probably be to run the state update X amount of times per second, not depending on framerate at all. Otherwise you mess with physics.

And then render based on delta and interpolate movements.