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Not knowing some internet slang doesn't mean there is a stick up your ass.

Having your own aesthetic preferences doesn't mean there is a stick up your ass.

But, if you were to claim, as others have, that this is an affront to programmer etiquette, that this product has a mandate to change it, then you might.

>> Something that's meant for actually getting work done should generally not use naming that gets in the way of that.

Like this. The case that "smol" is getting in the way of getting work done is just silly. No one is shoving their culture down your throat, but if you like Deno then you should be ready to also accept the culture established by its developers and not demand that one word be used over another of similar meaning, after it's established. There are other options out there for people who absolutely cannot be near and nonsense while working.

>> You even provide an example in your next paragraph of a bad name.

I established the difference between a pedantic situation and a genuinely unrelated name. This is nuance that most software developers are able to grasp.

>> When talking function names and program arguments, names which convey their purpose are better than those that don't. It's not gatekeeping, it's designing effective interfaces

`--smol` does this. It just happens to not be as well-known a word, but it is in fact an established part of the lexicon of an entire culture. That culture produced Deno, and being encouraging and accepting of these difference makes our little nerd corner of the internet just a bit cooler and more culturally diverse.

There is absolutely nothing from stopping anyone from joining the Deno collaborative process and creating a GitHub issue that requests a change. But if the maintainers find they prefer `smol`, it should end there and not become a constant struggle brought on by non-maintainers. And seeing as how it's been brought into the engine already, that is a sign that a consensus has already been reached at least once.
That was his idea for the name at the start though, rather than a rebrand.

I think "Relentless" isn't terrible, but "Amazon" is vastly better for international branding.
> expects people to pay £100 a year for a social media site in the midst of a Cost of Living crisis.

Twitter blue is an optional premium service as far as I know.
I usually find a way to do it. But with "The Crew" it was different. I think the problem is, that even the "Single Player Mode" is not really single player but some sort of online hybrid thing nobody asked for in a single player racing game.
Now, I guess the most important is to quantify how much it feels disgusting Vs how much it is disgusting in it's effects.
Ask HN: Most controversial chess grandmaster of all time?
I have been following chess for quite some time now and reading about the lives of a lot of chess grandmasters. Which one them according to you has been associated with the most astonishing incidents?

PS. My bet is on Siegbert Tarrasch, guy denied a championship match because he was a doctor by profession.
Agree.

Not to mention that we speak of "tweets" and "retweets", not "mini-posts on Twitter" and "shares on Twitter"...
It's not pining, it's passed on! This bird is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late bird! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies! It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible!

This is an x-bird!
It's actually time for someone to adopt this character [1] at the gold level ($5,000), which is only allowed for the single entity and doesn't expire---so that X.com doesn't have a chance to sponsor the character at the same level.

[1] https://home.unicode.org/adopt-a-character/about-adopt-a-cha...
X.org doesn’t use that character. But e.g. TeX probably did before Unicode.
Is this like when that Roman emperor named his horse as a senator, or are we not quite there yet?
There’s a big difference between digital video editing and compositing vs creating completely artificial scenes with computer-generated 3D models and effects.
I wonder if it’s something that happened as years rolled on. He didn’t seem to be very contrarian or even social say over a decade ago.

Elon is self described with Aspergers Syndrome. This is from an interview :

“Other features of Asperger's syndrome include difficulty interacting with peers, inappropriate social or emotional behavior, and engaging in repetitive routines. Both children and adults with Asperger's syndrome are at an increased risk for depression, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), mood and anxiety disorders, and other mental health disorders.”
Can't wait to X about this and re-X other people's X's too. Maybe I'll sub-X or quote-X a few too.

Looking forward also to the news outlets having to talk about famous people and politicians having X'd about a topic on X.
Like always, it depends. The hardware section on the wiki lists some device specifics¹, and if you follow the OnDebian² links there are a couple that look like they might work-ish out of the box. Presumably -- or perhaps hopefully -- things will improve quicker with mainline Debian as an option and hardware becoming more available.

In the context of Debian, let us hope people aren't flashing a BSP³ in the hope of improved board support ;)

¹ https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V#Hardware

² https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn

³ https://wiki.debian.org/BSP
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He did revolutionize the space launch services industry. And jump started the transition to electric cars.

Doesn’t seem to know anything about tech though. And he’s burned his reputation to the ground this last year.
It’s not a popular opinion on this site, and I’m probably going to be savagely downvoted, but whatever talent Musk had for business was eroded at least a decade ago by him surrounding himself with ego-stroking yes men.

He drank his own cool aid.
A practical guide to front end package managers
If you accept that great harm can occur when somebody is deprived of vital services by a private company, why on earth do you think it's a good idea for one single private company to control all those vital services? Even if their current owner weren't a ... let's say 'less than stable' individual.
> thousands of religious/pseudo-religious systems.

I'll double down. Yes, I think all of these that have been practiced by large groups of people and demographics have had some utility of some kind. Their explanations for why they work may be completely wrong.

> divination through the study of entrails and birdwatching;

Note that this poster argued the value of astrology indirectly. It's not the stars, it's the value of thinking about personality.

One explanation of this is that entrails are a kind of canvas for a Rorschach test that allows the individual to examine their thoughts. Or perhaps just making time to examine the entrails gives them time to ponder in a quiet environment.

I'll give one more example which is divination rods, demonstrated to not be able to find water in controlled experiments. However, the current explanation for their usefulness is that it gives the user an opportunity to observe natural clues that suggest where water is.

Not a lot of people are emotionally invested in divination rods. It's safe to speak poorly of them and just suggest more direction tools. But in cases where many people derive meaning from it, I think it's best not to disparage.
Now you’re just doubling down on your own bigotry, sad.
I have a similar story as noduerme, but for me it was interest and laziness. I got by in all my pre-college math just by listening in class. But, if I couldn't connect it to something I found fun (like taking apart and putting back together my NES for the 100th time, or playing some sport), I just didn't do anything beyond the minimum. Then college came around, and I got an F in my first math course. I retook the course and found a teacher who connected most topics to gambling and/or business and I was hooked. I managed to take that teacher for almost all the math I needed for my CS degree :)
I don't see a problem with this, it's a generic character used in mathematics. If nobody trademarked it before, it shouldn't cause any issues. If using greek letters like λ in brands is not a problem, then this should fly too.

They could also apply for multiple trademarks with small additions if they launch a new product:

𝕏ₚₐᵧ
The problem with Portugal is that successive governments defunded the support programs for drug addiction. It's a real Republican move: first, defund the programs that were successful, then claim that they don't work, so you can abolish them. The practice "not working well" any more is a deliberate choice.
> I thought he would add a new membership tier along blue check mark to have some extra income. Instead he actually chose the bizarre route and sabotaged the verification.

Because the sell the whole time was to let people roleplay as famous people. And that would have worked a bit more if the actual celebrities didn't immediately respond with "ew, no"

The features are ... pretty crummy. Longform tweets nobody wants to read, up to what ... 40 hour videos that nobody will watch. A basic functionality like edit?

And now the funniest one: getting paid to tweet, which the biggest accounts on Twitter got joke RPM to entice people to sign up for blue. I feel really bad for anyone who thinks they're going to make their $8 back.

He can't get any of this right and he seriously is already talking about becoming a bank or payment system? Good luck.
> Does this have anything to do with the cage fight/dock measuring content with Zuckerberg?

They're both the results of a sad man's extremely public midlife crisis, so yes.
It's going to the Wikipedia page about x.com for me. EDIT: oh wait my browser did that. X.com now goes to Twitter. So now a sizeable portion of people who try to go to x.com is going to go to the Wikipedia page for x.com I guess.

Also the Twitter sign-in page says "X - Sign into Twitter".
The OP's point really only holds if there have been no bans. (I'm not sure how the ban quantities pre- and post-takeover relate)
This is extremely helpful FR. Thank you so much!
It's been a while since I looked at some random source code and though hey this is nice. This is also how code comments should be - I could follow it all because of them. Not too many or obvious ones, and not too few. I even got a chuckle from "poor man's C argparse".

Bravo!
I don't think he had any talent, he just got lucky and companies insulated themselves from him. With Twitter we're seeing what happens when companies don't insulate themselves from him.
Changing the Android captive portal page (2020)
>There are many, many pedophiles

If a person watches the CP - this does not mean that he is a pedophile.
If a person watches the CP - this does not mean that he is a child abuser.

Sharing CP != child abuse.
Viewing CP != child abuse.
Storing CP != child abuse.
Lol. As if that was copyrightable.

Of course, go wild.
I'd thought you might be linking Albert Bartlett's exponential growth 'splainer video. Turns out not, though the video you've linked is interesting.

Bartlett is a classic however: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=kZA9Hnp3aV4>
TIL Hyper-V is more than system calls, I didn't know it has a GUI (edit: apparently it's command-line only, and the GUI I saw on an image search is on Windows Server only, so 99% of people can't use this already). Thought that it was a set of APIs for vmware and the likes to use under Windows, and that Virtual PC was what Microsoft offered as front-end.

But which other "native" virtualisation platforms do you mean? I don't know that the Linux Foundation has an official virtualisation product, and couldn't name one for macOS or iOS either.

Edit: and Hyper-V is apparently missing basics like any audio support at all, so that makes it useless for most users. Not sure this would be anyone's default choice when you can use cross-platform, open source, and more featureful software
There are probably hundreds of thousands (millions?) of websites out there that have the twitter bird logo at the bottom either to direct link people to share the article or maybe a link to the profile of the author or whatever.

They are never going to change to the X logo.
I’m making some youtube videos with my 4 year old (mostly as a bonding activity). They’re fairly generic fare for that age group and genre - a bit of plot, I set a puzzle for her to solve, it reveals some clues or saves the day.

For the first puzzle she had to put the cities Tokyo, Paris, LA, and Brisbane (where we live) in order. Using colours, since she can’t read yet!

Then we had to discuss why those cities were in that order (answer below).

For the video, I figured I would doctor a Google search to land on a page explaining the answer. The actual article I found that mostly worked was about 12 results down.

Then I tried Bing’s Chat instead. It spat out the correct answer in 2 sentences. Deus ex machina indeed! (The four cities are the Summer Olympic hosts, 2020-2032).

So I disagree that it’s impossible. And I can absolutely see the value - asking “why are these cities in this order?” is a real question, like “what might be causing the squeaking sound when my car brakes?” or “what was the movie Audrey Hepburn made with the photographer?”

Search Engines aren’t great for those kind of questions - just google “What’s a good brownie recipe?”. LLMs can give the user exactly what they want, or even prompt for the additional extra context.

Not that they will always be correct; hence the flaw.
Yes, but those "classes" can be quite wide, there is for example no way they could trademark it for "Class 9: Computer and software products and electrical and scientific products."
You may want to give https://serenade.ai a try, they have browser support (might be chrome only? not sure), it's good enough,
It has the " click publish" feature,
and if it doesn't work then you can say like "show inputs" and it will show numbers next to each input so instead of saying "click publish" you say "click 14" etc...
One of those people is not like the others.
Theories about a global service app ala Chinese Platforms... Would make sense to try to recover losses by more in-app sales.
The rumour is that Musk will soon be renaming it to Wayland...
I hope that this will push government officials and structures to set up mastodon instances. Like one for the government where each agency has an account.

Europe did this [0] and I find that it's a very good idea to have control over communication (plus since it's open anyone can do what they want with the data)

[0] https://social.network.europa.eu/
I wish this "connect to my DB" architecture was more common in SaaS. I don't want to write synchronization code or extra APIs. Synchronization always gets out of sync anyway. I just want to set appropriate permissions for what different parties can see and do in my database.
Even if true, they've dropped so precipitously that they clearly were ignoring some key demo.
As another wag put it "Cancelling my X Blue subscription before my wife sees it on my credit card statement"

Something as generic is X is bad for an "everything platform", and something where lots of the existing use has specific connotations is worse
That one fits pretty well: https://catalog.monotype.com/font/monotype/special-alphabets...
> Is this even legal?

Probably not. But how would you feel about going up against Oracle's legal team to make the point? They, and other large companies, rely on this a lot when deciding upon whether or not to use dubious practises. I think Oracle's main business has become litigious & licensing arse-hole-ary, with everything else in their portfolio existing to support those functions, so they are rather good at it.

> After such an intrusion I wouldn't ever want to have anything to do with Oracle.

This sort of thing is why many people are wary of Oracle. The company has considerable form for this sort of thing and worse.
"I told her her beliefs were akin to racism."

Oh I like that one. Inferring personality traits based on where someone was born - "Racism". Inferring personality traits based on when someone was born - "Astrology".

"but she couldn't see the issue."

What a surprise...
I speculate that musk is trying to build something like weChat for the US
If Whatsapp failed to become WeChat organically, even though it's installed in most phones around the world and in some places you can already make payments through it, do you really think Twitter can pull it off by brute force?
I meant that, but I also meant the definition he uses.

Yes, it "complects" the types into a container, but then you write code to handle the container, and only the container, until you are ready to open it up.

With union types, you must write code to handle all types in the union always.

This complects the code written in the language. It is also an obvious entanglement and meets his own definition of complex.
"Social media app Threads, Meta’s new Twitter alternative, has seen a nearly 70% decline in the number of daily active users since its July 7 peak" WSJ: https://archive.is/WVkt9
Salt of the sea, as easy as evaporation (2013)
> On July 5 2017

2017 is not 1999
Recently I was working on something like that [1]. Basically I created simple C compiler (with IR and other stuff) that compiles code to basic X86 16bit instructions which can be directly booted into real mode.

[1] https://github.com/Mati365/ts-c-compiler
Grading is ineffective, harmful, and unjust (2019)
Do DMs become directX's?
Cause “X” is a cool letter. Just ask David X. Cohen.
NAT Types
I don't know how he can be this stupid to try such a thing. Many companies tried to replicate WeChat in the west, and they all failed because nobody wants to have some gigantic clusterfuck of an app on their phone. It works in China only because of China's political system, as in people literally have no choice.
If they do a photo app, would it be called Xzibit ? :P
and the Status page
This is the same kind of sexist nonsense that leads to double standards in everything from nursing and teaching to domestic abuse treatment.

Men have just as many body issues as women because they’re human and if you think it’s any easier for men then you’ve been living under a rock.
Agnostic is just a pussy version of atheist.
> It’s not a popular opinion on this site

Lmfao your opinion is literally the popular opinion on this site. Talk of bubbles within bubbles within bubbles!
Twitter is now a windowing framework? The domains are similar too (x.com vs. x.org).
And the domain is still Twitter.com.

He owns X.com, which was supposed to be his “everything app”. Has that plan been scrapped or is this a phased launch?
I think you missed the point: the domain has not been in Musk's control that whole time, as I had thought. His company X.com had it, then PayPal got it when it was created in the merger of X.com and Confinity, and PayPal kept it after Musk left, but then Musk got it back.
> useful filter

I guess it is useful to know when someone can't entertain hypotheticals, make light conversation, lacks sensitivity about other's world view, and is allergic to beliefs which are not promoted by large organizations.
At least the world's great religions have a track record of acting as a code of conduct that helps to build and grow societies and nations. Astrology - not so much.
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Does Musk have the same PR people as Kanye West? Being publicly crazy seems a really odd choice and, if it works, quite worrying for the future of humanity.
From an European perspective this looks like something happening in a third-world country. Anything can be bought and keeping your rights are based on luck.

I wish I'd never visit US.
Why whine about things you can't impact anyway?
$10 on the rebrand being so he can claim to be the founder of x.com.
Is he not aware thise times are long gone?
For $60,000 a year in tuition, they should gold-plate everything.
Sadly, no. It was over a decade ago. I don’t remember the cases nor do I have the books or paperwork.

Fortunately, case studies are really easy to find online. Try searching for “case studies in brand management”.
My money would (at least partially) be on the guy having bought a duff hanging system, or had it poorly installed.

I've just returned from a holiday where I visited a few art museums.

They all had hanging systems. None of them had frames tilting as excessively as the one in the photo on this guys blog. In fact, the tilt was barely perceptible (if it was there at all).

I'm sure he's making a perfectly valid point in this blog. But I'm just saying it doesn't have to be like that, or at least not so extreme.
I don't understand the question. Why can we only pump into aquifers 15% of the day? The point of having massive storage is that you can build a smaller plan and run it all day.

But anyway, arguments about cost of making drinking water are moot. We need it, so eventually all options will be explored as needs increase.
Take into account that old Model Ms tend to have their plastic rivets fail: those keep the sandwich plate-membrane-plate together, and after enough of them break some keys stop registering. There is a laborious fix, called “bolt-mod” which consists on drilling the rivets off and putting bolts with nuts instead.

So, you either get one whose keys have all been tested to work, or you should be ready to do some manual work.

As far as I know, internally all models (M122 terminal, standard Enhanced Keyboard, and Space Savers/TKL) are internally the same w.r.t. reliability, noise, and feel.
Coke is arguably generic across large portions of the USA: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/soda-vs-pop_n_2103764
Ask HN: Do you like Notion? Isn't it overrated?
Notion is clean and minimal aesthetically but using it is somehow quite annoying. If you're a Notion user, have you always found it easy to use?
> Ukraine had no reason to attack Russia other than to regain Crimea

Having a direct flank open to NATO troops at any time, regardless of why they might be on the march, was always a strategic problem no matter what. It was less of a problem when such troops where a couple of borders away; it is a pretty big issue today. They tried to address it with the dirty war in Donbass, but clearly it wasn't going as well as they hoped. Putin just decided to try and cut the knot.

Ironically though, by trying to claim the whole country and failing, he created a self-fulfilling prophecy. Before this, there was very little realistic chance of Ukraine ever joining NATO, nobody in the alliance wanted them in (not even Eastern countries for which it would be a useful buffer: they would lose the relevancy they get by being "the border"). Now, if they manage to maintain statehood by the end of this conflict, it will be politically difficult to keep them out.

> Russia had no reason for Crimea other than their naval base

That naval base is a key element of force-projection for Russia since boats had sails. They fought multiple wars for it and will not renounce it, short of catastrophic humiliation on the battlefield - something that today would probably involve exchanging nukes.
Seems there's a bug:

https://i.imgur.com/aL0ap8h.png

I'm clicking the X but the modal won't go away
I get the impression this 'rebrand' was announced with short notice and they probably have a skeleton marking/design staff after firing everyone else.

The x.com domain just redirects to twitter.com, not the other way around.
> "I've lost my password"

IMHO, this is the main reason L1 support "sucks" so much. Having been a support guy in a previous life, nothing feels worse than skipping the annoying trivial question (e.g did you install the software after diwnloading it?) only to find out after 25 minutes of debugging that they, in fact, did not actually install the software. That particular call started with "all I see are codes" as the opening line. Had I asked if they'd installed the web application on their server instead of extracting random .js and .aspx files and double-clicking on them in Explorer, I could have saved everyone a lot of time.