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Show HN: VSLauncherX – better recent list management for Visual Studio
Just released (first beta version, that is): VSLauncherX - better recent list management for Visual Studio.
Launch multiple solutions with visual studio in defined configurations, quickly search recent projects and solutions, run as admin automatically, and more.
Financial decision aside, buying a _whole new car_ when you drive so little will never offset anything. The sheer amount of greenhouse gases emitted and materials consumed will never be offset.

You need to keep to keep the old car. Unless you're straight up rolling coal, the most ecological car is the car that never gets produced. If you absolutely need to buy something, just buy something like a Citroën Ami (https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a36351549/citroen-e...) (well, it's not actually allowed in the US, but that kind of car is what you need.)
Maybe?

However we would need to do two things that just aren't going to happen on this planet with humans:

1. Ensure that these robots will work for humans for free forever with no ethical liabilities (Is it ethical to keep a conscious robot as a slave?) or long term existential risks
2. All value/money/etc... created by the robot would be 100% be captured by the individual using/running/owning the new robot slave

Perfectly possible to do technically but unlikely as the political-economic structure that dominates the world will destroy whatever it creates along with the customers and employees to the temporary benefit of a tiny group of people.
The Baader-Meinhof effect is possible.

I did also recently learn about the ALA's president's philosophy towards library management, so I could be drawing parallels between that and what the MIT is doing when there's none.

I will probably give the listing a more rigorous look again.
OSM should be scraping Google maps.
> {name of a local chain} - {neighborhood or city name}

What I'm starting to see a lot which is frustrating is:

{name of completely not local chain} - {neighborhood or city name}

Such as "Local Town Plumbing" with a national telephone number to some plumber referral service and will be located where there is an empty field or other non-business.
What should this limit be?
Personally, I think the limit should be nothing smaller than a thousand characters. Or even allowing something like a hundred characters or more would be better.

I remember at some point Hotmail had a maximum length limit of sixteen characters.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/secre...
The phones don't stop to function.
Have you considered radios? I have a few Motorola Talkabout T200s and they work great for checking in when they’re riding their bike around the neighborhood.

As a bonus, it gets them into radio. “Why can’t I hear you down the block?” “Maybe there’s a thunderstorm on the way.” “Huh?”
The movie Thank You For Smoking about a tobacco lobbyist introduced a term for this.

The Yuppie Nuremberg Defense, I've got a mortgage to pay.
That's very nice. All DIY efforts to make visual astronomy more accessible are more than welcome as consumer products are priced for the global market.
Rationalization. I've seen developers I thought were reasonable doing much worse things with cellphones.
I tried it. It started pinging me mid drive to call out the nearby Burger King or something and offer to reroute me there.

Last thing I need when I’m trying to navigate unfamiliar urban areas while operating a heavy piece of machinery at high speed is more distractions and more things to process.
Ah, TIL. I didn't knew the author of svardos was the same one as Gopherus'. But it has lots of sense.
"Your backlog is someone else's opportunity" is great line but I fear I would get tons of messy un-usable stuff that isn't really of any value to me. I wonder if you should pair this with like teaching and I should get the PR + some cash to review it?
The question here is not telemetry itself, but the infinite over-reach in what data is collected. Categorized websites have nothing to do with driver crashes or performance issues.
Lights can be turned off if you don't like them: only the proposed trigger and solenoid action is worrying.

As a professional pianist, have you ever played this kind of instrument? How good are "weighted" keyboards? How good are electric (or, why not, pneumatic) actuators in stringed instruments?
I think this is a cool idea worth exploring.

At a lot of jobs I've dealt with using contractors, there was an internal concern that people external "didn't care" enough. How do you plan on addressing this concern?

It's a system that will depend a lot on trust, and it may be difficult to build that with companies whos DNA does not lend them to trust outsiders AT ALL let alone let them come in and muck with production level code (letting juniors do it!)

I'm playing devils advocate, like I said I think your idea is cool and worth exploring. Not enough companies invest in juniors to grow them into their full potential, and I commend you for this effort. Good luck.
I have a Vintage V62 ICON that I modded heavily. All new electronics (including pickups), replaced the bridge with a Babicz full contact, and I had to do a lot of work on the neck, especially fret sanding, aligning and polishing.

It's really cool to see your work improve an instrument. That's now my favourite guitar to play. Pretty low action with zero buzz, pickups can give me everything from full dynamics and great range, to easily distortable power solos.

I'm now in the process of building a new guitar with a 3D printed body. I bought an unfinished neck, so I'm also learning about applying lacquer which is interesting.
> They were already in widespread use in 2010.

I'm interested in knowing the stats of this, but 1Password's first release was mid-2006. I know personally I started using 1Password in late 2008, 2009. But I'd argue even then that they were not "widespread" then and even now are not entirely widespread. (Unless you count Cloud Keychain).

Arguably I think the more security conscious were using them, but even now, after several years, I STILL have to remind my wife about it and to put passwords in there.
There is absolutely no benefit to me the user to force me to create an account. What a deeply frustrating user experience (especially when I have to dig around for my password just to update a graphics driver?!) I hope someone wakes up at Nvidia and removes the account requirement. Why do they even do it?
Hyun-Tak Kim, one of the Korean authors, says it's a one dimensional superconductor.
KDE is great but also very, very buggy. I'm using it since 2016 and some bugs just won't go away and good luck with openeing a bug report - nobody will care.
Especially multi monitor support just isn't good. Multi window support is also, by default, not as good as Windows does it. Sicne a few updates I'm getting some polciykit errors everytime I'm doing anything session related just because - I have not found a solution since then.
I am currently trialling Bitwarden. I have found that it's not that great at picking up that you are creating an account, offering to generate and then saving the result (using Firefox with Bitwarden extension). I am looking at the other options as they are reportedly better at that sort of thing.

It's a shame though because Bitwarden is philosophically what I'm looking for.
> though computation time is still an issue

This is what I got hung up on. I was doing some independent research on real-time cloth simulation for sailboats and I reached the conclusion that the physically accurate techniques are not real-time. I was looking at simulating tensions applied at specific vertices of the sail, the stiffness of the cloth, wind pressures, etc... and I gave up on finding anything that was doing it in real-time.

Am I wrong? Or is there a SIGGRAPH paper I haven't found yet :P
Unlike a physical map, we can't go back and access old google maps, so those changing preferences in style leave a memory hole.
A few MB is acceptable for https POST these days. This gets hashed down to 64 chars or whatever.
Yes all the time. Anything that would otherwise beat up my storage is performed in ram and then committed back to disk. I also use that any time I need to repeatedly grep large data-sets. I also log non critical data to ram and then rotate it out to disk so that web visitors are not thrashing my storage regardless if spinning disk or SSD. My daily driver creates several tmpfs mounts with specific UID/GID's on startup for my home directory to keep some applications from persisting data.
New, simple and accessible method creates potency-increasing structure in drugs
I’m personally a fan of Clojure, in part due to how practical it is. Some of that practicality comes at the expense of simplicity, however.

I wonder if a Scheme dialect would be a better fit for you? They tend to be smaller and might let you focus on semantics more.

Full disclosure: I haven’t spent nearly as much time with any of the Scheme/Scheme-inspired dialects as I have with Clojure. I’m basing this off of their design philosophy and others’ observations.
Ask HN: Who are examples of ethically upstanding founders/CEO to model after?
I don't know if I'm overly sensitive and wholly unfit for the founder journey or have just had a distorted experience thus far, but increasingly it seems there is no "making it" it in this corner of venture without cutting ethical corners. Lying, backstabbing, amoral (read: inhumane) politicking, disregard for user well being and privacy, etc, all appear to be basic tools in every startup toolbox.

Call it delusion, but there is a small part of me that hopes to prove that startup success, however you define it, is possible through honesty, authenticity, and empathy. In an effort to do so, I'm in search of successful founders/CEOs who seem to exhibit these qualities.
There's an understated bonus to "correct horse battery staple" passwords — they're easier to type on iPhone and Android keyboards.

So besides being of questionable security benefits, 0bScur3 passwords also bonk that advantage of nice-long-easy-to-remember passwords.
I believe it, but do you have a source? I have a few friends I'd like to inform of this.
If that's not the reason Nvidia is doing it too, why should we believe this is the reason Intel is doing it? Truth is they're just greedy and they're doing it because they can.

Edit for FirmwareBurner: I will, after you point out the part of my comment in which I claim that some F500 companies aren't greedy.
Well, for some features you might be able to. Based on around 20 seconds of googling it seems like GeForce Experience has some flags that'll start some things up directly (this may be how they're managed by the interface, I'm not sure). This should include shadowplay if you pass it the `-shadowplay` flag.

It's a bit worrying that it already requires this though, the whole thing is as close as it can be to DRM without obviously being DRM. And Nvidia is known to DRM their GPUs a lot.
> Everything works.

...if you're a software engineer. If you need Photoshop or Word or another industry standard software then you don't count.
They suck at it basically. My understanding is it's really the software, Nivida supports AI first-class with the drivers (or whatever.) AMD has next to nothing nothing.
Guessing "high availability"
There is no such thing as 'public data'. There is public domain, but data always belongs to someone if not expressed otherwise.
Yes but that's not what they're discussing, it's about the sites that have some low limit like 8-16 characters.

And if someone knows why banks are specially prone to having crapshit password requirements... Flashback to my french bank that had a password that needed to be exactly 8 digits, no letters or other, and that you could only type by clicking on a digital numpad that had the numbers randomly sorted.
I'm not sure how safe this is against dictionary attacks. And it's still not overly easy to remember.
I recently saw a video about this in /r/Documentaries on Reddit. He Made A Million Dollar Shot And They Didn't Want To Pay Him - https://youtu.be/Lk4N2epJzgg

The ESPN predates the YouTube video (April 11th vs July 14th)... possibly the inspiration for the video. Still a neat watch with other background information about how the insurance factors in.
I intended to imply that uBlock Origin was the difference.

The choice of browser just represents what I had available to test with where different results were shown.
I came here to say the same. And let me just say, that with special needs children, it truly is the hardest thing I've ever done. I remember older people saying that sort of thing before I was a parent and I was SO DISMISSIVE. Like, "oh yeah sure, you put you heart into it, it's important to you," whatever. But holy fuck. It's actually really really hard. Love is NOT enough. Strategy is NOT enough. Patience is NOT enough. It takes everything you've got.
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The OP's technique reminds me somewhat of this site I stumbled on years ago:
https://www.passwordcard.org/
Unless you are a high profile target, the risk of someone burglarizing your house without you knowing it and actually making use of a password book is virtually nil.

Plus, you should really keep a physical copy of your passwords anyway in case something were to happen to you and your loved ones need access to your accounts, insurance, banking, photos, etc.
This is what I tell my 90 year old mother to do.
As important as drawing the casus belli is laying out alternatives. What are the alternatives to Zoom, supporting Linux, OSX, mobile and Windows, with decent terms of use?
> Why won't you show me the street name?

This, beyond anything else, is the main reason I use Apple Maps: if I'm not actively in a navigation mode, then 99.9% of the time I'm looking for cross-streets.

Apple Maps is also not perfect about this (you still need to pinch-and-zoom sometimes to get it to show the street), but it behaves far more consistently than Google Maps in this regard.

The only reason I have Google Maps still installed is because they have all of my pins; once I stop being lazy and figure out how to export those, I'll be only too glad to delete it permanently.
It is not too bad. Better than easy to guess passwords. The threat is friends/family and maybe a burglar. Backups are an issue though.
And I'm curious what Team's current terms are too.
> Write down your usernames and account numbers as well.

...but not in the same notebook as your passwords! Ideally, don't even store them in two locations which could potentially be compromised simultaneously due to burglary or theft.
And not just “permission” as a mandatory click-through, but freely-given permission. The permission may not be bundled with any other agreement, and the product must remain usable regardless of the telemetry settings.
What is the Mac OS side of telemetry looking like? It feels like Apple having commercials about how their computers don’t record everything you do would be a great knock against chrome os and windows, but I honestly don’t know if that’s true.
Ironic that I find functions with multiple return statements to be much less readable than declaring a return variable at the top named for what the function will be returning, usually with the default value that the function would return, setting it in multiple points throughout the function, and then returning it once at the end.
Out of the hands? How so? Do you think they're going to lock it in a safe and not make it commercially available? Or are you under an impression that humanity does not benefit from inventions it pays inventors for?
Here's a great YouTube video on the same story: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lk4N2epJzgg
A cellular enabled Apple Watch might be a good choice if they can wear/charge a watch. It's pretty easy to navigate and doesn't require them to have their own phone. It's pretty easy to send text messages with one, too. As for the pre-paid issue, watches are often ad-ons (in the States at least) and are (usually) not expensive.

There are also a couple of companies that sell purpose-build wearables for this, but their privacy situation is sometimes murky.

It's probably worth buying the cheapest pre-paid android phone you can and doing some test runs. When my kids were that age, battery management was the biggest issue we ran into (that and trying to explain Spam calls).
I'm curious, do you apply the same puritanical moral judgement to all entrepreneurs, inventors and innovators throughout history?

Only the ones that pass your moral standards are allowed to be celebrated for their achievements?

Sounds pretty anti-science to me.
Taking away sanitized srpm drops probably does affect those distros who would like to be a downstream of RHEL.

when CentOS started, there were no sanitized srpm either as far as i know. it was part of the CentOS project to sanitize them. the only difference then is that those unsanitized srpms were previously public, and now they no longer are. is that correct?

if that is the case, and any clone project can get access to these srpms by paying for a single license, i don't see what the big deal is. there is nothing red hat hasn't already been doing "worse" ever since RHEL started, with the only possible exception of making srpms no longer public.

again, assuming this is correct, is there really any downside to making those srpms public?

But why wouldn't you want to collaborate with us in the upstream? Are they maybe implicitly recognizing the value in the engineering that Red Hat does? Or maybe even just the name Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

as far as i can tell it is the promise of long term stability and security updates. and the compatibility.

small businesses who can't afford a RHEL license but need that kind of promise without the other support features that red hat offers. or they develop applications that need to be able to run on RHEL. there is a market for that, and the current CentOS stream or any distribution based on it can't make the same promise as a clone.

but time will tell, alternative distributions based on CentOS stream previously didn't exist. there is one now, if i read that right, and it should be able to take some of the market that RHEL clones are in. and maybe eventually also show that their releases have an almost equal level of longterm stability and updates, as well as sufficient RHEL compatibility.

the only drawback of a distribution based on stream is the security updates that don't come until they are in RHEL. but then how long should it take for an RHEL security update to make it into CentOS stream?
Spectre does that, is OSS and multiplatform: https://spectre.app/

i.e. it generates password given your name, a master password, and the website hostname (or whatever).

Quite handy.
Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture (2006)
> Be indemnified by me if it turns out someone else owns the IP or has their rights infringed

Does this mean Zoom expects their users to take on the legal burden if someone on a call uses a copyrighted image on a PowerPoint slide?
> Cows may not like milking machines

Ok, off topic, but having grown up around cows, they will line up each day waiting for their chance to get on the milking machine. They very much do like them.
OpenStreetMap has at least some of the data: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/40.67540/-73.95641

so an interface could be made to present it better: without being zoomed in so much, with filters and so on.

I know of https://www.toiletmap.org.uk/ which does this for public toilets.

I just found this which has an example for restaurants in one town: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/where-to-eat-in-middlebu...
Clojure's lazy sequences by default are wonderful ergonomically, but it provides many ways to use strict evaluation if you want to. They aren't really a hassle either. I've been doing Clojure for the last few years and have a few grievances, but overall it's the most coherent, well thought out language I've used and I can't recommend it enough.

There is the issue of startup time with the JVM, but you can also do AOT compilation now so that really isn't a problem. Here are some other cool projects to look at if you're interested:

Malli: https://github.com/metosin/malli

Babashka: https://github.com/babashka/babashka

Clerk: https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk
The really sad thing is, looking at these pages, I see the things I want to do in one spot- naive but refreshing.

But they are bloody ugly. They all attack usability with a baseball bat. Except for Apple- it looks different. the only somewhat prescient site by 2.0 standards at least. but not responsive of course.

I helped people design webpages on the early www and even with 1.0 limitations you could make sites look a LOT cleaner than this. But very little thought was given to usability. I don't even think accessibility was a concept in the 90s IIRC.
> but if you want real security, use a security token (e.g. yubikey) or some other smartcard solution.

In the past I thought about it but my head kept coming up with ridiculous scenarios like "what if your yubikey breaks, AND your backup yubikey breaks?!". I'll just keep using KeePassXC database (backed up in multiple places).
Perhaps someone on here can help me. I'm one of the poor souls who has this device. I ordered the replacement hub late, it arrived while I was on holiday and I only just tried to install it. Unfortunately the migration instructions seem to require that the old device is on and functioning, which it isn't because it is past the 1st of August. I can't find instructions on how to connect the hive 1 thermostat to the new hive hub. If it turns out this is impossible and I need to rewire my boiler I will be very sad indeed.

Edit: a quick WhatsApp chat with a British Gas advisor sorted it. For anyone else reading this, the v1 thermostat is compatible with the latest hub
I created a simple site to review GitHub repos. One might ask, "why review a repo?"

The purpose of writing a review is not to flag issues, but share UX stories.

For example:
- a repo could be working as intended, but *might not be a suitable fit for a particular user, stack, or implementation*
- a repo could be *losing momentum, core team moved on, orphaned, or have other development meta-issues* that would be helpful sharing
- particularly *critical issues are `wontfix` or `not planned`* or on a long-term dev roadmap
- multiple repos could be attempting to achieve all or part of the same goal

The *process of comparing repos can be very time-consuming*, and the venue for such a comparison does not lie within one of the reviewed repos (nor their issues, discussions, slack, or discord).

In these cases, it can *save a person hours if not days of work* to read a review.

UX stories can also be written once, and repeated queries funneled to the same point: "sure, take a look at my review here".

Multiplied across multiple teams and orgs this is a *significant increase in community productivity*.

I hope that helps to explain the goal of sharing UX stories in an independent, transparent, and centrally-located repo.

I'd love to get your feedback and anyone who wants to contribute is welcome to. Here's the link:

https://repo-reviews.github.io/

https://github.com/repo-reviews/repo-reviews.github.io