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Canned cold coffee is pretty common in the UK, even small shops will have several brands. Never seen canned hot coffee though.
When Ada/SPARK have been around since 1983, then what was the reason for inventing Rust?

Rust was more inspired to be a memory safe, C++ like language, with a better syntax and type system. It’s far more targeted towards application programming than anything else, although it’s looking better and better for embedded as well. Although it can probably be used for safety critical applications in the future, it’ll need better tooling before that can happen.

Anyway, the primary issue with Ada/SPARK in the (F)OSS ecosystem is primarily due to the lack of available compilers IMO. On top of that it has a reputation as a somewhat “dead” language and, as silly as it is, many people can’t bring themselves to look past the pascal style syntax. That said, Ada/SPARK is not the only game in town. JML exists for Java, Frama-C and Astrée can basically offer equivalent functionality, and I’m sure others exist (ployspace code prover?). So you might as well ask “why Ada/SPARK?”.

Why does our industry get so enthused with shiny new things, repetitively?

Personally I believe that Rust appeals to many who have historically avoided native development because C and C++ are just such a bother to deal with. It’s hard to imagine Rust being where it is today without cargo. Now, with security only becoming more of a serious problem, Rust is becoming more compelling for some users.
It takes ~40 trees to capture one ton per year, with ~40B tons emitted each year, that means planting roughly 160B trees each year. Humans have changed the world in a manner which natural ecosystems cannot recover on their own. We need to cut emissions to 0 and plant trees, establish moors, and other forms of CO2 capture.
but also there's precious little relevance to what I said
>You and I would have grumbled and moved on. But not Toshikage.

In many of these sort of entrepreneurship stories, this is the key takeaway. It seems like one really has to disable their auto-grumbling setting and enable something else instead. Of course this is easier said than done.

Is this an innate ability? Something that can be trained?
Yes I would be too, so I don't do that. But I think even more than the annoyance of everything lost I'd be mad at OP on principle for meddling? There's no context, but even if it was IT help desk my browser is too slow or something, seems like something I should be asked about first, given a chance to backup (or them do it for me and restore, and if that's not an option then it's just not an acceptable solution).
I hate using my phone as a camera. I own a digital camera for that reason. I don't own a good photo print because they are either ridiculously expensive or crap and I haven't found the good-cheap (of the "pick two" triangle) yet. I'm the market for this. I'd much rather keep my photos offline.
Wow, I did not expect such a thorough response, thank you. Yeah, I like that idea, I bet it looks amazing with that piece of oak.
No. Just no.
Just because we have two options doesn't mean both are equally good.
And our resources are limited ! We cannot do everything, we have to choose.
Because there are people with the opposite desires. My wife loves having photo albums. In fact, I have to run to CVS today to pick up some physical photos.
And created tech that blew anything else out of the water
Google Meet ZoomIn
Created chrome extension for ZoomIn option on google meet screen sharing videos.
Having recently purchased an engagement ring, I am amazed by how inexpensive synthetic diamonds have become. Back in 2015 I paid for a natural stone. Prices then were nuts. You can get so much more weight, color, and clarity now. I really hope the extraction of natural diamonds becomes a historical shame soon.

I do not understand people who want a natural stone. My buddy is marrying a woman who insisted on a natural rock. It’s one of many things wrong with her, and fits the pattern I’ve seen with her to a T.
Or maybe the angry partner only listened to John because he is also a partner. There was probably nothing the author could have said to placate him, being a lowly tech in the unfortunate position of having to tell a partner something they didn’t want to hear. But hearing the same explanation from someone he considered a peer was apparently enough to satisfy him.

In other words, this shows the importance of titles.
Agreed, obviously doesn’t merit yelling at the tech, but they could have taped the manual to the monitor for those who wanted it.
The title isnt the best, it should say that windows no longer needs dedicated printer drivers

> With the release of Windows 10 21H2, Windows offers inbox support for Mopria compliant printer devices over network and USB interfaces via the Microsoft IPP Class Driver. This removes the need for print device manufacturers to provide their own installers, drivers, utilities, and so on. Device experience customization is now available via the Print Support Apps that are distributed and automatically installed via the Windows Store

At least we dont have to deal with stupid drivers anymore.
Lime - which absorbs carbon dioxide as it cures - is as old as construction. Hardly science fiction!
In South Africa, double glazed windows are usually imported too (the parts) but they are assembled here so that they can get your measurements exactly right.
Ursula Le Guin is an all time great in 'soft' sci-fi. She wrote with an anthropologists acuity in cultural analysis and used the sci-fi universe to speculatively explore societal 'what ifs' should a fundamental premise be changed in some ostensibly minor way. Left Hand of Darkness was one of the only books I read cover to cover, and the cover to cover again. She's a brilliant voice, and in today's fragmented, polarising world, more necessary than ever before. I hope more people read her work
that’s a funny name because zoom. Seriously good work
Black Mirror was not a manual for the future....
Just watch S02E01 from 2013(!), I know the llms are not quite there yet, but still.
Keep your users happy. Design products that avoid negative emotions
This is an interesting idea, but I feel like it is a big oversight not to have build in support for automatically getting certificates.

Instead the docs have you do something manual with certbot (a complete nono if you believe in automatic SSL and are using docker images that don't persist data, as Docker is meant to be used).

The only reason I have SSL on my domain in the first place is that my host offers a simple setup that runs automatically.
Russian General Admits Ukraine Just a 'Stepping Stone' to Invade Europe
Couldn't choose a worse platform. The user isn't even free the install what they want.
The guy wanted the manual, because he felt he needed to read the manual - but when it was explained to him that the junior IT guy would help him with whatever he needed, it calmed him down.

Its a generational thing. You may not feel it these days but there were indeed periods of computer evolution where it was, kind of important to read the manual. And, also, help the older generation get used to the new things.
I’ve vaccinated many hundreds of people. I followed the propaganda closely. The goal posts shifted quite a bit. At the first the promo flyers hinted that if you get vaccinated you won’t get Covid, you won’t spread it, you won’t get sick , you won’t go into the hospital, you won’t die. Over the next year from when they became publicly available the literal flyers and posters slowly changed from expressing the above, one by one the hints were removed until it was just “ You won’t go to the hospital and die” And now? The posters are gone.

These vaccines were never studied to reduce transmission (they don’t). I got my first case of Covid from a vaccinated coworker ( I’m still “unvaccinated” and will be for life). A year later Pfizer admits some of their deceit during European proceedings.

Furthermore, I will turn your phrase that it’s wrong to “do what I want” when it hurts others. Let’s forget about the grievous discrimination, slander, and hatred I suffered as I continued to serve on the frontlines (hero to zero!). People have legitimately been vaccine injured. Sometimes servely sometimes not, but a lot of those people were forced to do what you wanted (mandates, peer pressure, public hatred) and they got hurt. They got hurt with a forced experimental medical treatment that was presented as totally harmless, super duper studied and safe, extremely effective. Each pf those points are lies but a lot of people made a lot of money and power, so that’s good. Have you looked into how they calculated how the vaccines lowers your risk of death? Look at the actual numbers? 15 people died in the control arm, 14 in the vaccinated; ergo it’s highly safe and effective.

As to masks, highest quality evidence says that they are for show at worst or at best , nobody knows that they do anything so mandates are silly . Cochran systematic review https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD... also
I had an employer who stuck with NT4 into the late 00's primarily because it didn't support USB for this security scenario. Our PCs had the ports but they were effectively useless.
Same. I think it was the most impressive thing I did at school.
I guess someone somewhere still uses it... http://winpopup-lan-messenger.com/
I rely on open tabs. Firefox' search bar helpfully orders its results by priority: tab-search results first, browser history second, and search-engine results third. It makes a convenient workflow for re-discovering things I've already found before. I'm too lazy to close tabs, since new ones proliferate a lot faster than I can keep up. And if I dedicate time to clearing out old tabs, like a garbage-collection sweep, I waste far too much time because I get sidetracked by all the "read later" stuff I'd forgotten about.

When it goes up to several thousand open tabs, Firefox starts lagging, so I switch to a fresh browser profile.

Once, Hacker News IP-banned me because Firefox crashed, and the post-restart recovery tried to load several hundred HN tabs at the same time. Firefox no longer does this; restored tabs are loaded lazily, when they become foreground tabs.
I planted an oak tree, but that darn thing is really taking its time!
And PSGI is actually really rather good (for sync stuff, I dislike the way it handles async/websockets and would tend to use Mojolicious for that) and generally used to deploy OO MVC style apps.

The Perl ecosystem has come a long way from CGI scripts just like everybody else has.
I had the same bug recently, as I was switching between Python and JS and instinctively wrote "print(...)" in JS.

Took me a few seconds to find the issue after almost going crazy about why the freakin' print dialog was opening constantly.
It doesn’t really matter if more nuclear is the smartest way to attack this problem if voters won’t go for it.

Sadly, I think the situation won’t change until things get a lot worse than they are now. We’re too divided.
Then what would the concept of truth mean then, in such a situation
You are in a cult, but I am glad you are trying to maintain normal hygienic standards.
While I'm not saying this whitepaper is wrong, keep in mind that this is done by Carbon Engineering who receive funding from people and organizations like N. Murray Edwards[1], Chevron Corporation, Occidental Petroleum and BHP[2] which either have hands deep in the oil or mining market, among other things. There is financial incentive to provide results that are in-line with what your funders want, and it's nothing new that this kind of thing has been, and still is being done. It's just hard to prove often.

So as with all science, consult multiple whitepapers, including ones that don't have direct or borderline not indirect funding from those who have financial incentive to get a result that increases revenue or similar, to get a clearer idea of the probability that the topic isn't incorrect or what have you.

As an aside, whether it's right or wrong (since it's a heated topic), I feel these videos demonstrate at least the possibility of companies playing with these kinds of things. They're amusing to watch, if nothing else, in my opinion: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MondapIjAAM and https://youtube.com/watch?v=EIezuL_doYw

[1] https://www.cheminst.ca/magazine/article/out-of-thin-air/

[2] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-bcs-carbon-...
"I've got you covered like a jimmy hat" q2 3wave ctf lan party quotes from OKC lan party which we drove to from Texas.

If you don't know, the recent q2 remaster includes ctf and people are playing!
Some of these weeds help the soil. They grow in areas where other plants can't grow. But I understand that if you are trying to grow specific plants, for food or aesthetics, you will need to remove the plants that will kill them (vines or fast growing weeds that take the sun cover). I think dandelions help move calcium to the top soil, and loosen hard soil, is an example of a weed that helps.

I am adding more areas to my yard where I put a small garden fence and let whatever grow (minus trees), which will be mostly weeds I presume. This will help the local bees and insects and birds. I think there is a movement to do more of this, but don't recall the name of it.

After we destroy a piece of land, its gonna be weeds that will bring it back to life.
When I was 13 or so, a friend and I were walking through an alley when we saw a power cord hanging out of a dumpster. We looked in and found 3 or 4 boxes that looked very similar to this one, which we rescued and tried to use, without much success. They would power on and you could type on them, but they wouldn’t do much else. Despite having a phone jack I couldn’t get them to connect to even a modem running a terminal emulator.

This being in 1995, I didn’t really have much by way of resources to figure out what the heck they actually were. I eventually surmised that they were part of some French telephone network, but these had US keyboard layouts and ran on 110, so to this day I have no clue what they were actually useful for, why they were designed to run in the US, or who threw them in the trash or why. It might have been in the vicinity of the local French consulate, but then again it might not have, as today the consulate is several miles away, and I have no idea if it was always there or if it has moved in the intervening period.

Wish I knew what happened to those weird terminals; sadly, chances are they were thrown out during a move or something.
Ask HN: Am I too old to move to the Bay Area?
I’m thinking of moving to the Bay Area in a few years, probably around when I’m 38. It’s been a dream of mine since I was young but things happened and life got in the way.

But I’ve seen so many people online saying things like “I wouldn’t live there”, “it’s good when you’re young”, “the goal is to leave”. How true are these statements?

I have been working for companies out of the bay remotely since 2020, and really want to get back to an office. And I want to be where it all happens. I finally got the green light from my wife and if we sold our house here, we’d make enough for a down payment of about 300-400k. Probably wouldn’t buy immediately but wait until we know the area.

So, has anyone done it at my age? Am I too late?
In theory, can't an LLM be used to translate code from the original platform to the emulation environment, in such a way that there is no copyright infringement ?
The whole point of the PC ugprade was so that we could stop draping wire everywhere we wanted a terminal to go, and just use 10Base-T, i.e. "one cable to rule them all" (lol, kthxbai...)

So yes, he did get both, but it did require me to pull one last strand of RS232 a week before we had to do it all again for the 10Base-T, and my manager was not amused at how I'd multiplied the work for myself; and especially wasn't stunned by my smart-ass quip that, "if only he'd demo'ed the PC thing to Mr. Nasty Exec in the first place, things would've gone smoo .. oh, okay, I'll be on my way to pull that last strand, then .."

Yeah, wasn't really a great idea, it was only a week later that I saw that old Hazeltine, forlorn once again, sitting on the cart to be carried away.. oh how I wish I'd kept a few of those, myself ..
> Maybe what you describe happens with automated/integrated tools, but I doubt it.

The claim is not wrong, for flights. There are big systems (Amadeus, Sabre, mostly) who manage flight-reservations for big airlines. But it's a bit expensive, and airlines usually also offer their own reservation-systems now. There are also lowcost airlines and charter flights which are normally not available through them. But probably 90% of commercial flights in the western world happen through those reservation-systems.

And Hotels have a similar situation. You can theoretically book hotels, and even trips with train, ships, buses or cars through the centralized systems, but usually only the big companies are available through the reservation-systems. This has mostly historical reasons, but also because it's expensive, and is a bit complicated.

This is why alternatives like booking.com emerged, who are cheaper, and could adapt faster to the changing market. Amadeus & Sabre are annoyingly old and "heavy" in how they operate. Though, this all is changing slowly. The travel-industry is trying to move to new APIs for handling modern demands of travelers. And The old gangsters have started to branch out to web-stack, with JSON and restful APIs, offer free documentation on Github and youtube, and even have discord now.
I’ve never been in sales, but I’ll say two things. Every time I’ve taken a pay cut for some other offsetting benefit, the offset hasn’t been worth it to me, and I’ve ended up unhappy / changing jobs after I realized this. I feel concrete losses much more than I feel hypothetical gains.

If you’re at all like that, then you need to make sure your hypothetical benefits are overwhelmingly positive to offset the impact of the loss in salary.

The other thing I’ll note is that sales people are from a different planet than I am. I don’t think I’d never be able to make that transition. Again, if you’re anything like me in this regard, that will exacerbate the pay cut. Your psychology will be hammering you with a subconscious message: “You’ve increased your financial stress and your day to day stress for what? A chance to win the startup lottery? Isn’t there an easier way to make that money?”

My 2 cents. Probably totally off-base.
I don’t get what you are asking for.

There are really effective mitigations that one can apply as an individual — get vaccinated, and wear an N95 mask.

There’s no exclusion.
There was always that one guy who knew how to splice RJ45s and had the tools.
I have a heat pump in such a house, even worse actually since it is a semi-detached. I did not need to do any extra work, and it works fine. My savings are not great, but that is also mostly because I don't have a hot water tank so I still need gas for my hot water. We just replaced 3 radiators, one of which is actually still permanently shut and I am still doubtful about the need for the other twos.

For the walls, it can become quite expensive to insulate it. But at least for the wooden floor, you have a cheap option: lay a new laminate flooring with proper underlay. It will cost typically less than £1000, you'll avoid damaging your wooden flooring, and also improve the thermal confort by removing the air leaks and insulating more.
I remember reading in a psychology manual years ago about an experiment where they gave people a drug which would induce a physical feeling, and verified how this "made" those people feel the corresponding emotion.

Personally I wouldn't be surprised at all if there was a complex feedback loop at work, where both bodily sensations which come from outside of the central nervous system and mechanisms internal to the latter would give raise to emotions.
I was overly dismissive in my comment. It would have been more correct to write "analog only" photos.

If you wife wants photo albums then it is pretty easy to order them with the photos you want and get any number of companies to make them. I don't have a problem with that.

What I do have a problem with is not having a single backup of my childhood if my apartment burns, not having access to my photos on the go, not being able to share my experiences with my family and so on.

By going digital first, I avoid all these problems.
I’ve given up trying to push against f-strings/format in log messages; I even wrote a bowler/fissix fixer to automatically transform our codebase from them/.format/%-format into the delayed form.

But nobody ever used it, and nobody changed the way they wrote them.

Admittedly it is convenient and usually reads better; I just gave up, even for my own code; if any become performance issues we can pick it up on profiling.
I think Daemon-Tools is still around
This index seems to be skiping 11 - 20. Am I missing something (using mobile firefox)?
> One big foundation in law is that you are responsible for your own actions.

I think that's pretty much the GP's point...? You're responsible for your own actions, not the actions of the employer that put you in an impossible situation.

Start from the premise that most people in an employment situation should be considered as "acting under duress" (because if they get fired, they are at risk of homelessness, destitution, and ultimately starvation). Then consider an employer who demands more of the employee than they can safely give—what choices does the employee have? Violate the law in order to keep getting the money they need to survive, or choose not to violate the law and put themselves at very high risk of firing (and thus the above consequences).
Why do people want a diamond at all is a good question to ask (and research). Shame $5k to charity isn’t the convention.
It's been a while since I read it, but one of the central ideas is that we construct instances of emotions based on sensory data (from the internal systems that detect and predict our energy needs) in a similar way to how we construct instances of concepts from other sensory modes, e.g. seeing a particular cluster of visual features and concluding "that's a bee". When we feel anger, that's our brain's best guess as to the appropriate interpretation of a bunch of internal measurements -- raised blood pressure, high arousal, etc -- based on context. The same internal state in a different context could be interpreted as a different emotion, so there is no consistent or unique biological fingerprint behind a given emotion.

It's counter-intuitive, but it fits better with what we know about how the nervous system works than the commonly accepted fingerprint idea.

Emotions are the brain's attempt at constructing the concepts that best explain and account for our body's energy budget.
The pixel density is less, but that's offset with your face being further away from them. The only other real thing you need to do is fiddle with the settings to turn down stuff like auto-smoothing/auto-sharpening or whatever proprietary processing TVs designed for movies and shows are set to.
That's like when I see APIs that give you responses with a 200 code, but then in the message there's a backend error.