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i think remembering LAN parties is my sign of me becoming a greybeard. i would say missing from this list is that feeling of just tribal yelling in close proximity with your team and screensniping by turning around. i'm sorry for all the gamer kids that grew up without that in their lives.
At least $4M was cancelled (due to false income statement on the application). I suspect more was cancelled.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2012/06/15/judge-cancels-4m-life...
Conversely, I find anything above 1920x1080 very displeasing precisely because it removes my ability to practically use bitmapped fonts. Subpixel antialiasing is very distracting and Retina (IMHO) is a solution in search of a problem when it comes to making user interfaces that are actually aesthetic and easy on the eyes. I'm autistic and have diagnosed vision problems tho, so that probably feeds into it for better or worse.
Remind me again - when is the last time progressives shut down the federal government? Conservatives threaten to do so every year and have succeeded many times in the last 15 years.
> I firmly believe that the level of meat consumption today is unnaturally high, simply because people of the old did not have refrigeration, to say nothing of how the animals are raised today. I eat meat here and there, and I enjoy it, but try to limit consumption to a few times per month.

It depends on how you define "natural." In our hunter-gatherer days, it was very common to eat meat, and lots of it, since we did not have much caloric intake through plants alone. We see this today in certain tribal groups that still have that way of life.

That is to say, appealing to nature is not a good argument and is in fact considered a logical fallacy [0], because not all that is natural is good and not all that is unnatural is bad.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
While some do, in order to increase their credibility, there's also a lot of survivorship bias/selection bias. There are a lot of projects (or comments) by teens that don't disclaim their age.

I know I don't mention my age because I want people to judge my work objectively. (not to imply that I'm a teenager...)
I've heard Canada described as three mining companies standing on each other wearing an overcoat.
It's 2023 and AMD couldn't run a Halo Infinite tournament at Quakecon properly. And one of the teams was out getting pizza anyway because they were off by an hour. My friend won a 7800X3D though.

Cases must be windowed, very small or very large to be "credible" these days!

Alcohol120 and a hard drive full of ISOs was the only way to get a large group of people playing the same game. Such as UT2004.

Having Internet almost makes the LAN worse because unless you really plan it with your buddies, it has felt like a lot of people just do their own thing. So go into a LAN with friends having agreed on at least two games everyone is interested in.

My first LAN was in a church gym playing Battlefield Vietnam on 128MB RAM and a Celeron 1.1ghz (the family computer before I got into building). I drank 7 bottles of Bawls. I weighed 140lbs at the time.
It wasn't better at being ram then dram and it wasn't better at being persistent store then flash.

The amount of application where it was actually better was very few. And unlike flash and dram it had no huge commodity market to drive down the price.

This podcast has a lot of interesting discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf6a_32vvbU
I don't understand why people are misreading this article so badly.
In the annals of diplomacy, it would not be strange for Russia to have interpreted the near invitation and late-stage downgrade to a "will join" statement as something far from acquiescence. I think it was taken as quite provocative, just less so than an invitation. By analogy, I think a statement from the USSR that "Cuba will join our nuclear military defense pact" would not have been taken as acquiescence during the Cuban missile crisis.
Apologies, it’s not really my intention to make partisan stabs.. as far as I can tell, and both my parents are conservative evangelicals, this desire for safety and familiarity is the driving force behind conservatism. The idea being that there’s an order to the world, and it’s divine, and everyone has a place and a role, and so on. Start from understanding how it feels to have absolute certainty in a simple, familiar world and you can explain 99% of conservative behavior. It’s not an attack, it’s just my personal observation of how religious conservatives think.
> The fact that people are defending the spread of false information that contributed to people literally dying in favor of a hypothetical tyranny problem just leaves me feeling completely lost.

Except a lot of that "false information" turned out to be true. You don't get to decide what constitutes "misinformation".

> It caused them to spread diseases to other people and kill them.

This is absolutely not true at all.
I thought of the similar thing before, including all of the details they mention, and I agree. (Of course you still might not konw what it is unless a simulation can be made, but it can exist (mathematically) whether or not a simulation is made.)

Furthermore, I think that anything existence (including mathematics, physics, etc) are by relation to everything else that is existence; there is no such thing as an "existence" that is truly independently from everything else, including mathematics (and, the various possible mathematical structures, and physical universes), etc. (If it is truly independent, how can numbers be prime and composite, and how can objects collide with each other, and how can planets moving around the Sun by gravity, and how can people have ideas about the gods, etc?)

(However, there is then the consideration if such a simulation is being made which is then being interacted with by outside (e.g. as in Star Trek); in that case, it is I/O, so you can make "Mathematical Universe Hypothesis with I/O". This could be called as a kind of nondeterminism, I suppose; although, a constraint may be produced by their combination.)
50 of the town's 700 residents.
ROX is one of those things which is great except for the ecosystem it tied itself to. I would love to see a Wayland rewrite one day, or something using the same concepts. Or really anything that isn't r/unixporn tile rice #9001
>In the US, there's no real way to force a city to build if they want to

Builder's remedy, now being exercised in California. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder%27s_remedy>
I just had COVID for the first time. It's been two weeks and I still feel like total garbage. I'm thoroughly done being nice and pretending to be open minded about conspiracy thought at this point. If people want to "just ask questions" they need to be prepared for answers, which exist and are easy to find. The whole time I've been sick I've had to smile and nod at people trying to justify their dumb decisions two years ago. "Your body has an immune system..." and "are they just calling all respiratory infections COVID now?" is the kind of nonsense I don't want to hear when I can barely get out of bed.

It's trivially easy to find evidence in data that cases are trending up. Positivity rate is up and hospitalizations are up where I live (LA county). http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/data/#gra... http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/data/#gra...

This booster has been in development and testing for months. Any correlation between uptick in cases and booster availability is obviously just good planning. It's almost COVID/flu season and vaccine makers try to have a booster/shot ready in time for the predominant variant.

Everybody (at least pretty much everybody) should get a booster when it's available. COVID is awful and you don't want to get it. Feel free to "make your own choices" and "read the evidence". But if you want to go that route, be prepared to accept the answer that getting a vaccine is statistically the right choice for 99%+ of people.
https://youtu.be/3acm7j9k_1w — Twin Peaks cast did a Georgia coffee commercial
> but one of the benefits of going vegan is healthier eating

Veganism is about not using animal products. It says nothing about the health of the diet. That some people incidentally eat healthier through becoming vegan says nothing about veganism as a whole.

> But compared to a fresh unfrozen well-grilled burger there's absolutely no comparison. You are simply not making a serious argument to say impossible's taste better than that, to the point that I think you could be trolling.

I agree, which is why I mention that lab grown meat (that tastes identical to naturally raised meat because, well, it's all the same cells in the end) is the answer over trying to get everyone to change their behavior.
> This is not an abstract thought

That's exactly what it is. You're pretending you can predict the future with confidence about specific business decisions a company will make regarding its data and assets. You must be a billionaire with your ability to play the stock market by predicting the future.
FWIW Arc implements From<T> so you can do `let foo = blah().into()` and if `foo` is passed to something expecting Arc it'll be an Arc. This probably works for Arc<Mutex<T>> as well so you'd be able to do `.into().into()` but I'm not sure.
The”US Volcano” == McDermitt caldera on the Oregon/Nevada border.
This disadvantges sites which are not about a topic with a good CPM even more than they already are. People also don't spend 100% of their time on websites who topic is what they are interested in.
Tool use. When the tools are purchased from Harbor Freight.
> Having a PC with a window in the side of the case does in fact give you credibility.

That, plus of course the obligatory blue/green cold-cathode tubes :-)
and i made https://github.com/smol-ai/GodMode that also includes the closed source LLMs
I disagree. Rich white people have "a long life ahead of them" which it would be a shame to ruin for "20 minutes of action", so they would be let off without charges or without jail time, while the poor would be sentenced to the maximum penalty allowed by the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner
I'll double check when I'm home a little later. You may be right, but I could swear it's a Zojirushi. I bought it in Tokyo on a trip to Japan almost a decade ago.
> people dying, or in many cases losing months of their lives to extreme fatigue, other health problems, the overloading of medical infrastructure causing many other problems, etc

Except none of these "experts" had any clue if their costly measures would work at all. And to this day you can't look at a chart and see a major difference between anywhere. Virus is gonna virus. You cannot control it.

Simply put, you were lied to. Break out of your echo chamber and listen to people calling you out. They are right, you are not.

There is more to life than a myopic focus on exactly one form of illness.
Fair enough and to each their own. I've been using computers since bitmapped fonts on 320x200 screens were the norm, and I've always been excited to upgrade resolution.
> To what does it owe its lightning fast-ness,

this exactly. stop handwaving vague marketing terms, and spell out the technical reasons. this isn't good enough for a show HN imo

edit: just read that OP is 15 yo. ok, i get it. well, treat this is advice to improve your technical documentation, it'll do wonders for your career :)
The phone number is the last step, at least it was for me. I had luck with virtual phone numbers, not the freely available ones, but paid apps like e.g. Vyke.
No, this isn’t always the problem.

People are not fungible resources. You can’t simply turn a programmer from Google into a Lithium miner by paying more.
Because they don't care, can't be bothered to wait for one, and any ones with personnel are probably not going to admit them because they will make a big mess.
Classic php ecommmerce customer: miserable cheapskate that thinks saving 80 dollars a year is great, had my fair share of these
Infinite universe doesn’t necessarily imply what you’re suggesting. Removing all even numbers from a set gives you another infinite set - but it is still an infinite set that will never contain a multiple of 2 in it.

Similarly, our universe may be infinite but isn’t at all guaranteed to produce multiple Earths with identical evolutionary history such that another or even many “versions” of you exist somewhere/when.
A Runtime generally refers to "things added to the program to make it work". That can mean libc, it can mean a GC, etc.

> I don't understand the arguments on either side. In terms of what code looks like I far prefer being able to just declare green threads like golang does.

Under the hood `async` is sugar over a function such that the function returns a `Future<T>` instead of a `T`. What is done with that future is up to the caller.

In most cases this is handed off to a runtime (your choice of runtime, generally speaking) that will figure out how to execute it. You could also manually poll the future until it's complete, which does happen sometimes if you're manually implementing the Future trait.

If you have no async code you can simply avoid having an async runtime altogether, reducing the required runtime for an arbitrary program.

> I far prefer being able to just declare green threads like golang does

This relies on an implicit runtime. That's fine - lots of Rust libraries that work the way you're suggesting will just assume a runtime exists.

That lets you write:

spawn(async {println!("hello from async");});

And, just like a goroutine, it will be scheduled for execution by the implicit runtime (or it will panic if that runtime is not there).

Note that this implicit runtime has to be there or you'll panic. This means that the reasonable behavior would be to always provide such a runtime, which would mean that even "sync" programs would need it. Or otherwise you'd need to somehow determine that no "async" code is ever actually called and statically remove it. That is a major reason why you wouldn't want this model in a language that tries to minimize its runtime.

> but I've been programming for 17+ years and the fact that I still don't implies to me that I never will.

I think it's just a matter of exposure. Try writing in more languages like C, C++, Rust, etc, and dig into these features.
I have a Roland/Boss GT-100 guitar processor (a big pedal board), which features 8 programmable/assignable open-ended rotary knobs (open ended as they can just be kept rotating without hitting some kind of stop). It would be great to be able to _feel_ hitting certain settings when brushing them with my foot, without having to look at all.

As a musician, I think the introduction of haptics to electric/electronic instruments allows you to move in unexplored aural directions, which is sometimes very musical.
> Worse was to follow. Two months after her trip into space, Félicette was put down so that scientists could study her body to determine if she had suffered any anatomical or physiological damage. They later concluded that they had learned nothing of any use from the autopsy.

Given their starting point at least they learned that she wasn't full of embolisms, space-tumors, or some other illness that they didn't have the experience to imagine. A negative result was a real advance.
Excellent (and mediocre) canned coffee is a Japanese institution
Could have sworn there's a song about picking bananas, tallymen, a
the sun coming up and wanting to go home.
While I get the sentiment, as someone who knows CSS and HTML5 well, I can't help but feel there are reasons why this can't work.

Aside my web involvement I did a lot of print design as well. For print wysiwyg is perfectly fine.

But how would you wysiwyg for a medium that is inherently multifaced? I mean your window could be small, or huge, portrait or landscape, it could have colors or not, heck it could even be print.

So you won't get what you see unless you replicate the exact conditions under which it was seen when tou made it. Do you want that thing that you scale to stay at fixed size, should it stay at fixed distances to the viewport borders? If yes which ones? What happens if users set their font sizes differently and your perfectly scaled text box overflows? Either that wysiwyg editor has very opinionated choices that won't work for half of the people, or it will have auch a complexity in its options you will be better off with learning css in the first place.

Web is not print, nobody will get what you see.

That being said, if you are really just about content, I would just use the most basic default browser css (so basically none) and html and call it a day. That won't look shiny, but if people want shiny they can do their own styling. Some of my favourite blogs do this.

Other than that I wouldn't discount the fact that a backend can be a crucial part of the content as well as it allows you to do valuable things that are geared towards the consumption of said content, e.g. taxonomy (tags, categories, authors, consistent dates), but also more specialized things like linking between relevant topics, etc.

Of course you could also do that by hand, but then you wouldn't be focusing on the content, wouldn't you?

In the end it is your content and you want to present it in a certain way. If you want precise control over the how, you have to deal with these things — if it ia just about the content, use whatever CMS you like and never look back.
In California, at least, they seems to be recommending it. (I'm currently in the market to replace my Central Air system and talking to vendors.)
>A LAN isn’t legitimate unless at least one person has to reinstall Windows along the way.

Never a truer phrase spoken.
I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler to just sponsor forests instead. Plants have already mastered solar powered carbon capture and sequestration, of course. There's a lot of other positive externalities to increasing green cover in populated areas that this system unfortunately cannot replicate.
I disagree. Its a totally different situation. With Unix you had lots of companies pushing Unix but not actually that much software.

We are in totally different world. For almost all compute task there are large amount of existing products, both open and closed. And all of them already target specific profiles.

If you develop something that is not in a standard profile you have a huge amount of work ahead of you to maintain a gigantic amount of software in forked state. Any many of those projects will simply not accept any proposals to up stream. And with the commercial software its worse because unless you achieve huge market dominance, those companies simply wont make a release for you.

RISC-V is in the process of standardizing pretty much everything that is commonly used. And any company pushing an alternative to those standards is pretty much dead in the water. The waste majority of software in the world is already fine with what's standard now. And over the next 1-2 years lots of stuff that some software needs will be standard.

Beyond that we are getting into highly specialized extensions. In those there will be competition and balkanization. But this simply wont effect the waste majority of users. Those things will be mostly about proprietary AI acceleration functions, special data types and so on. This has already happened but its simply not relevant to the waste majority of software in the world.

But all those companies understand that if their thing isn't gone be standard, they will have issues in the long run. So in reality what we are seeing is that all these companies are involved in the standards discussion and try to find one standard. They don't want to fight each other when Nvidia, Intel, AMD are much better targets.
> TLJ is super-ultra (about 99%) artsy fartsy, just the Euroartrash type which most non-critics aren't familiar with

Hard disagree. First, I'm familiar with many kinds of European cinema, and second, by no means is anything Star Wars artsy-fartsy, or "Euroartrash" or whatever silly made up category.

It can be bad cinema, but that's unrelated. Star Wars is, and will always be, about entertainment first; not a single Star Wars movie or TV show escapes this fact. Not a lot artsy about it.

Subverting (some) expectations has nothing to do with being artsy. And it's not like the new trilogy was particularly gutsy either; it just wasn't very good.

We agree on one essential thing though: my main criticism of Star Wars is that it's mostly played out, with very little left to say (with some honorable exceptions). Time to give this corpse of a movie universe a rest, instead of keep milking the cash cow.
When I read that something is being shipped to China for processing, it makes me mentally add "Where there are no environmental laws, and processing in a very polluting way is OK".

If you process many things in the West, you can't leave toxic chemicals in pools any more, to leak into ground water and cause cancer and other problems for people. So processing costs are going to be way more expensive than in a place where it's still OK to process+pollute and therefore kill and maim your citizens to make money.

The West cannot compete with that.
> I just had COVID for the first time. It's been two weeks and I still feel like total garbage.

I'm confused how you open your comment with this statement, as if to express regret that you didn't get the vaccine and that's why you suffered from the symptoms of Covid. But from the rest of your comment, you don't sound like someone who's avoided Covid vaccines. In fact you go onto promote them.

So I feel it's worth asking: are you vaccinated against Covid? How many times have you been boosted? And if the answer to those questions is "yes" and "more than zero," then what is your basis for scolding others into "getting a vaccine?" I mean, did it work for you, or did you still get Covid and suffer from its symptoms?

For full disclosure, wary as I am of karmic retribution (from the universe, not HN users) for admitting it: I've not been vaccinated, I've not been boosted, and as far as I know I've not had Covid. I did have a sore throat and runny nose on a trip to NYC a few weeks ago, but if that was Covid, I hardly see the urgency to get vaccinated against it, and in fact I'm glad that I suffered from such a minor infirmity since it would mean I'm now immune to potentially deadlier variants, and likely to a degree more than anyone who's been vaccinated against earlier variants (research has consistently shown natural immunity from infection to be longer-lasting and more efficacious against a wider range of unknown variants than any vaccine).
It's good as long as you don't forget to pay the yearly fee. Sure, they send reminders, but if you don't log in to your account often then it's easy to miss them. I lost a couple of domains this way...
Double masking with surgical has been shown to get to 80% filtration efficacy because of better sealing. That said, there are brands of N95 mask that are more comfortable and easier to be heard through than a two-mask layer.
> the rare fountain thing a saliva gland makes eg when yawning

When I was growing up everyone called that a "gleek". Though usually it only came up when people did it intentionally.
> The wording has some ambiguity, but it does sound like TFA hasn't heard of Xerox or Perq - perhaps attributing some misplaced invention, rather than popularisation, to Apple.

The way I read it, they were attributing the intercombination of these elements under the desktop metaphor to Apple. Smalltalk existed, the Star existed, PERQ existed, the Lisp Machine GUIs existed and JERQ/Blit existed, but all of these were so substantially different from each other let alone what Apple did that they functionally exerted little influence on the way GUIs developed after the Macintosh launched save for a few odd branches here and there (Oberon anyone?)
It's a culinary practice of their culture, what's the problem with that? Stay informed:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/09/china.animal...