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> VSCodium is not "designed" to be less functional, since it is a project maintained by developers who are unaffiliated with Microsoft.

In today's (OSS) world, employment or affiliation doesn't matter much. Microsoft can propose what they want and get what they want from the project, at the end of the day. I don't think these independent maintainers have power to say "No" (if a VSCodium developer can chime in here, I'd love to be stand corrected), or they risk VSCodium to be forked to VSCodiumX, by developers who are friendlier to the megacorp which loves Linux.

Yes, VSCodium is a node to Chromium. "-ium" has a ring akin to "-ish" in today's conjecture. Freemium - Free-ish but not. Chromium - Chrome-ish but not. VSCodium - VSCode-ish, but not. This might be curse in the naming, but it feels, looks and works like that, in practice.

The blog post I linked (for further reference, it's [0]) quotes a tweet which supports what I'm saying, heck even the blog post does a much better job of detailing what I was trying to say here in my previous comments.

To circle back, the problem with -ium projects are, they are effectively banned from participating in the main ecosystem which drives these projects forward, and to be in "The Ecosystem", you need to use the closed source versions with pervasive data collection and whatnot. Heck, even Google abuses Chromium with "Experiments and Proposals", which they use to politely yet forcefully push the web to the places they want. VSCodium is the same getaway drug and test vessel for Microsoft.

Lure with Open Source version, trap with closed source version for "Full Benefits" (for the company, because user is the product).

> You're entitled to your own opinion, but Atom was developed by GitHub...

Yes & yes.

> which was acquired by Microsoft.

Yes.

> It doesn't help that Atom was discontinued last year, with the final version having been released in March 2022

However, it's forked as Pulsar [1], which I meant by "current form" in my previous comment. Again, it's MIT licensed, and that's not my favorite, but at least it's not a company editor now.

Atom's original developers started to build Zed, which is worst of both worlds currently (Open source with a closed backend, plus "All your data belong to us" clause).

At the end of the day, from my perspective "-ium" projects and their sanitized versions are just open-core versions of the "main tools" developed from them.

Just because these versions somehow work, and have a permissive license doesn't make them open source in the meta sense. Pedantically they are open source software, yes, but they are just the "Open Core" or Demo/Shareware versions of the tools which companies use to strange to ecosystems.

This is just enshittification of open source in my eyes.

More power to you if you're happy with the -ium tools, but I'd rather use truly free software (Like Eclipse), or use completely honest closed source software (like BBEdit), instead of using tools designed to look like open source but not.

[0]: https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

[1]: https://pulsar-edit.dev/
Family restaurants almost always come with a lot of built in hierarchy, even beyond the owner structure. Non-family members always rank below family members and the internal family hierarchy tends to become the restaurant hierarchy, almost regardless of what the formal ownership and leadership structure on paper is. 4 waiters and 2 line chefs will never be able to vote down 'mom' no matter what the paperwork says.
Or, you know, those things are not a panacea that magically turn a country into a utopia and they actually still have problems too.
Because the green party in the government abides by their ideology instead of pragmatism and retaining wealth.
Was there a mechanism in place to prevent people from abusing this process? (I’m assuming this is what you’re referring to when you said “at least serious consideration”)

I ask because based on personal experience and from reading comments on HN, most engineering orgs tend to be ego-heavy.
Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense
Calibre is like the mupdf of epub
I started a company in Germany recently, which is like a 29 step 3 month process that costs around 1000€. I’m trying to get some seed funding support from the government, because seed investing from angels in Germany is weird (odd angel rounds with multiple angels, who require the company to have revenue already but also true innovation but also want a high percentage of the company).

Anyway, there’s lots of funding programs, which on paper is a great offset for the lack of risk and venture spirit. But the programs are all Byzantine in their requirements, long applications, small print in their rules which exclude you etc. For one application of a R/D program for small companies, which is done in a smart acrobat pdf (wow), on the cover page, it asks for the company stamp.

What is a company stamp? I’m not quite sure, it doesn’t seem to be a legally required thing. It’s just a ink stamp with the company name and some basic info, that you can stamp paper documents with to make them appear more official.

So I spent another 25€ to get a company stamp and ink pillow for my startup. Another startup expense, and strangely representative of the entrepreneurial experience in Germany overall.
Same, the search feature is the major added value to Google Photos
Also maybe because Europe has deep economic issues and growth has been slow or non-existent pretty everywhere outside of Eastern Europe over the last 10 years or so.

Back in the 1990s and early 2000s productivity wise Western Europe and the US were almost on the same level. Look at the gap now..

> universal health care and strong worker's rights

And generally low wages and high living costs. e.g. real estate is about 2x cheaper in the bay area or SF compared to Paris for instance adjusted by median income, while London, Munich, Rome and some other major cities are only 40-60% more expensive.
I'm not sure we can really blame users for mistaking "saved items in the google app" and "bookmarks in the browser app" considering everything Google has done to blurry the line. Look at some screenshots:

https://www.guidingtech.com/guide-use-google-collections-mob...

Searches in the Google app open in an embedded browser. It has a handy "save" (bookmark) icon. Wait, you mean this is not a Chrome bookmark ? How could I know ? I just tried it, and the icon appears even if you have never interacted with https://www.google.com/collections.
>The scary thing is: worker's rights in Europe, notably including Germany, have been crushed in the last two to three decades.

Schröder's infamous Agenda 2010[1] that sought to crush unions power, workers rights and welfare programs, in order to force more Germans off welfare and taking poverty wages to pump up the economy. It pumped up the economy indeed but it didn't have the promised effect of increasing wages of living standards, quite the opposite, the rich got richer and the poor were poorer.

When they ran out of poor Germans to exploit, they turned to Eastern EU workers form Poland and Romania. As those markets are drying up of cheap exploitable labor as well, they invited workers from Africa and the Middle east to make dangerous journeys to come to Germany, hence Merkel's Germany's famous open borders "Willkommenskultur", despite backlash from other Schengen and EU members who's borders and asylum centers got overwhelmed.

The unpopular opinion that nobody is allowed to discuss is the country is unsustainably addicted to cheap immigrant labor for its exports to be competitive and to prop its over-inflated housing market. It's burning the economic candle at both ends to pump up the GDP.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_2010
It’s both sane and welcome. the alternative to unsolicited testing is your app getting owned and your customer data being sold and you being sued into oblivion. unsolicited.
Your vulnerability doesn’t cease to exist because you don’t want people to look at it.
I would have used that map a different way: Find close locations (to save on transportation cost, time and footprint) with a radically different climate (for the change of scenery etc).
When you do code for fun, do you usually enjoy the coding, or seeing what you coded? I.e. when is it the most fun: when you type the code, or when you run your code?

My pet theory is that there are two kinds of (hobby) coders: those who like making things, and those who like making things. One like myself is more excited about the mental task of wrestling out the minutiae of coding. Like making types agree or implementing an algorithm. The other is more excited about the product of the labor rather than the labor itself.

For me as a person who likes writing code as a mental relaxing excercise where sketching out a set of domain types or implementing an algorithm from a textbook is the fun part, and actually seeing the result and "banging out the remainnig issues" is the part that reminds me of my day job, I think AI helpers just help me with the wrong bit. It makes me do code reviews, bug hunting and nagging. But that's already my day job...

I should add that I never do anything with lots of boilerplate (e.g. no web dev). If I ever needed to touch anything with js/html/css/containers/yaml/sql/ then the AI would probably not just be helpful but completely necessary.
I work for a company with a very similar customer base (LiveEO), but we focus on satellite data. Your blimps look really cool and I like the storage/buoyancy idea.
LiveEO actually started with drones and satellites, but quickly switched to satellite only, mostly due to regulatory issues. Not only do some countries have strict requirements on UAVs, but a lot of infrastructure companies are not crazy about the risks associated with flying them near their infra.

But, like crubier's comment, some notes and questions:

- How big is you data/ML team? you are going to be collecting loads of data, so storage and processing will be quite a feat. Or are you selling raw data?

- I hope you have quite a bit of runway. The customers you are courting are hella conservative so getting someone to take you on for an actual contract (not a PoC) is gonna take a while.

- Which geographic markets have you identified as viable given the strict regulations on beyond line of sight flight for UAVs?
Agree to disagree here :)

Not every program is a basic CLI app with 3 network requests, and the only tool we have against complexity is abstractions.
Yes. I spent a week in Rome last month (first time visit) and ended up downloading four different apps for public transport and city guides, all
of which were useful. This is on top of Google Maps, Trip Advisor and everything else.
Since it mentions video disc players as 10^10 bits...

5gb of data (encoded as digital audio) really could be stored on a single vhs in the 70s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSnrQBfBCzY although computers didn't leverage it at the time. I guess i/o would be impossibly slow.
I definitely do.
Also a demon with two frontal fat lumps, is a giveaway.
Sometimes I imagine myself going back in time, back to the middle 80's, or even early 90's, and showing to my past self the crazy devices we have right now. It's a funny exercise, I think I'd see a current 200 bucks cellphone as an alien device.
You realize one devs high salary raises the average (and therefore expected) salary for all devs, right?
The other weakness is you can game it with international trade.

Produce a good in a country without the carbon tax, repackage it in a country that doesn't keep good origin manifests, lie about doing that, then send it to your destination on a solar powered boat (or whatever has the lowest carbon footprint).

We see the same game being played with slavery and child labor. Pick a favorite brand, add "slavery" and you'll find decades of shocked outrage and "commitment to do better"

Mind you, I still support broad carbon taxes. But this is a predictable outcome.

https://www.discoursemagazine.com/economics/2022/01/05/the-c...
Bullets cause cylinders under pressure to explode.

It is feasible that microwave power beaming or similar could affect the wind or the airship directly.

Drones are very inexpensive. Ukraine's latest are probably sufficient to cause operational failure for airships.

It is appropriate to be concerned about flaming gas bags positioned over critical energy infrastructure.

We don't know how to fly a flaming gas bag out of the way when there is a Hydrogen fire.
The end of coal is not pre-mature.
A really great content
Borges: The Homeric Versions (pdf)

https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1932-borges-thehomericversions....
That's a self-made problem, aka business decision. Samsung could release only 2 phones per year if they wanted to.
It was the conservative party, CDU, who made the decision after Fukushima to shut down nuclear power.
Nuclear is like airplanes: they look the scariest, but are statistically the safest.
fun project! always love to see more unix cli in the browser.

It is super nice with the local first approach, and I wonder what it would take to be able to `mount https://example.org` from `test.com`, if both websites are running the "wasm web OS" your linked to.

Cheers!
Not sure US media is somehow significantly worse at this (assuming we’re talking about at least somewhat semi legitimate news outlets)
Ulez expands across London as older car owners face £12.50 charge
Really puts the spotlight on Germany’s Energiewende:

Even with an outlandish welfare state the German Economy kept steady throughout the last decade or two.

But what really breaks the German economy‘s back is energy costs.
You missed the "I want a get from A to B SUV, without Tesla" - which is squarely me. The type of shit in the article, right to repair, and general Elon bullshit has me very uninterested in Tesla.

> -a new EV buyer? Too expensive and "bland". Does all EV things "middle".

It is actually SUV-sized (unlike the likes of the Kona, which you may be comparing it to - it is only shaped like an SUV). It can be cheaper than the Model Y, depending on the sku - and those two are the only budget EV SUVs that I am aware of (the E-Tron and iX are significantly more expensive).

Bland? Who cares. There are people who only care about the utility that a vehicle has to offer.

It is servicing an area of the market that only has one other deeply incompetent (as-per the article) competitor.
So under the cold war Germany was the main battle ground. Both Russia and the US setup massive spying and influence operations there. In particular journalism and foreign correspodence were perfect for this.

After the Berlin wall fell, Russia dismantled its spook apparatus. The Americans kept theirs intact.

Now that the real business of journalism is smaller than ever. The spooks have an even higher weight than they used to.

So what is WSJ pushing?

In short the Washington line: Don't invest in Germany. They are too reliant on China and Russia. Ultimately they will have to do what we have done - implement protectionist subsidies like the IRA, expand military spending, and run massive fiscal deficits.
Apple is a weird company. They will provide software updates for their phones for longer than for their computers. Computers that have lost support still get some security updates (not all).

They won't go full Wish.com phone on you, but with the prices of modern smartphones (€556 for the cheapest model, doesn't even come with a charger) I think the question "can I use this for five years or for eight years" is fair to ask.
Instead you should do the opposite: aim to get the process completed even in the eye of failures. Because failures at all levels, including hardware are a fact of life in computing, more so in distributed computing and almost every problem is now a distributed problem.
Your girlfriend is less able to walk and thus uses a crutch to compensate, but it doesn't let her walk as well as a normal person. Replace "walk" with "code" and the sentence works for ChatGPT if the grandparent is correct.
All Kinds of Licenses
This might be true, but I’ve determined personally that they’re absolutely disgusting. I honestly might take action against them if they were known to be good for my health
Is cotton cultivation that bad in areas that were not artificially made suitable for the crop by the Soviet Union?
Gallery – Making Molecules
Which part seems overcomplicated? This seems like a pretty basic setup for a web service with a (demanding-ish) SLA.

> The core of the product is text which concurrently might be only accessed by a few clients since it's enterprise software?

Some Slack communities have a few thousand users. Text messages also need to be ordered correctly, so it's not as simple as emitting text.

> latency of around half a second average around the world when you don't need concurrent access

I presume you mean without regional latency, in which case cool? Redis reads are a lot faster than 500 ms so this number is pretty much all just business logic which depends on the application.
And the greens would have done it even sooner or could have stopped it now...
see my comment in this thread about https://github.com/internet4000/find (for a summary); (web-)apps can be encapsultated, from the URI you access them, and the code that is served by the loaded page. It could also run client side only, local first (web apps manifest, service workers, sqlite/postgres wasm etc.)
Even if you find a way to successfully forward liability and damages to Microsoft and OpenAI - which I doubt you will be able to as the damages are determined by your use of the IP - you do not gain the right to use the affected IP and will have a cease and desist for whatever is built upon it.

How legitimate the IP concern is and whether it holds up in court is one thing, but finger pointing will probably not be sufficient.
Nobody said they were a panacea. Don't try to derail a potentially useful conversation.
Complete anecdote: but the rice cooker/air fryer my gf (Vietnamese) uses is heavily coated in PFAS. We use those almost every day.

Not sure how this correlates with the average American use of non-stick pans.
I don't see a privacy policy, it seems to require a Google or Apple account and it is behind cloudflare so it is 99.99999% certain that three letter agencies are watching all use by people outside the USA.

My to-do list is personal information that could reveal a lot about me and could be used to direct personalised adverts at me. Why would I trust you with it?
> who think that somehow wind turbines and solar panels are made out of thin air and don't pollute.

Nobody thinks that.
Is there any reading APP supports pronunciation on IOS? It can pronounce the word or sentence I select.
FSCKing /Home
Same here. When I still bought on Amazon, paying a few bucks for free shipping was acceptable and when they increased prices slightly to accommodate for their streaming service I shrugged it of. Netflix and Prime covered about 60% of what I needed and for the remainder, like niche movies, there was either Mubi or piracy/torrents.

Now that Netflix is increasing its prices and kicking off account sharers while losing content to Paramount/Disney/Apple/whatever I've cancelled all subscriptions and I'm back to piracy/torrents.

I'm only paying for Crunchyroll now because hunting down Anime in good quality with working subtitles is too cumbersome. Unfortunately the app is terrible to use and unreliable as well but still slightly less so than the piracy sites.
And it is now being enforced by the green party at the worst time since Fukushima – a period of very expensive and scarce energy – for idealogical reasons.
>and strangely representative of the entrepreneurial experience in Germany overall

Not if you're in the German "company stamp business". :)
As I recall, Arizmendi spun out of Cheeseboard... So, yes, we also have examples where worker coops beget other worker coops.

http://www.arizmendi.coop/about-arizmendi-association.html

IMO, the reason you don't see more is that us financing is quite conservative and unwilling to risk "unusual" business models.

(Similarly, finding a mortgage for shared housing requires a lot of extra work, because the mortgage brokers only like nuclear families... Even when you show up with four incomes and no kids, it's still considered risky because unusual.)

Which is to say... The smallish number of worker coops in the US has nothing to do with the rarity of magical founder people... I'll say that the folks I've known in housing and worker coops have a much higher rates creativity, grit, and organizational chops than anyone I've met from a business school. And, indeed, many of them are now run their own businesses in a wide range of endeavours.
Well not sure I trust this website too much. Sure it tries for journalism "outside of the left/right echo chamber", but it's not too convincing looking at some of their headlines.
> BTW many universities weren't even set up by church. For example the one I graduated (UMCS in Poland).

Oh yes. The one you graduated from was setup by the Church, or founded by people whose educational lineage goes back to the Church. Communism doesn't change the fact that all educational institutions from the Middle Ages were setup by the Church.
Bullshit. Energy prices are falling right now. I've just switched contracts for my parents at the weekend. They pay 30 cent/kWh for 100% renewable energy now. Down from 44 cent/kWh.
I do so regularly on my desktop PC. There's something about reading on a 27" monitor that a tiny e-ink device can't replicate. Plus it's something I already have.

Plus, the ability to reference a book while doing something else is indispensable.
Probably some Google employees bonuses are tied to selling new phones so they conspire to phase out older models.

The big might be unintentional, but bug prioritization surely is not.
To be honest, most OS feature updates are completely useless. Case in point:

- Android 13 comes with a new media player that puts album artwork on full display and features a dancing playback bar.
- You're in control of which apps can send you notifications—helping you limit distractions. [Is that a new feature??]
- Send and receive messages even when your phone’s out of reach by streaming your messaging apps directly to your Chromebook.

https://www.android.com/android-13/

Is that some sort of joke? Just patch the security holes so I can safely use my banking app and that's it. I don't need a redesigned music player.

And then of course, there's the problem of new releases hogging resources and introducing buggy behaviour. At this point, I'd prefer a promise of "never new features and 8 years of security."
Tangentially related. I’ve been doing a bunch of work with ESP32-S3 boards which have a direct to USB connection. Every so often this seems to completely jam up and only a hard reboot (actually power cycling the machine) seems to unstick things. Does anyone know of a way to reset the Mac’s USB driver/system?
It has been over 4 years since I've commented on the V language proper. I still think Alex need to greatly improve his public relation skills, but otherwise the only thing matter is that the language is still alive after years. It took way longer than the original claim (which again is a PR issue) but it is now a language that has advertised features and may fill some niche. I'd like to applaud the perseverance.

I don't know about a long-term plan, but it seems that V will now need one if there isn't already one. Many languages start out fresh and either die out (metaphorically) or get crushed on their own features. Planning seems to be necessary to avoid either fates, and yet is not sufficient to guarantee survival. I personally witnessed this from D firsthand back when a stdlib divide was threatening its future, and believe every successful language author need to answer this question (for example, Rust would say the coevolution with Servo was massively beneficial). So Alex---or other core developers if any---, do you have any thoughts on this?
How did they measure Russian growth? Compared to last year where they had a huge drop? By official numbers?

I think they just like to use the numbers that fit their narrative.