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I had extensive problems with 1Password, to the point of contacting support.

I set up passkeys via the recommended way – looking at sites in Watchtower to see which had passkey support available. I followed the links, added one for Google, but it didn't disappear from that list and didn't show a passkey despite choosing to update the existing entry. Tried adding one for Microsoft, no option, despite the link from 1Password. Tried adding one for Amazon, the link was US-only, didn't work with my Amazon UK account. Tried adding one to GitHub, also didn't appear to save, no passkey in 1Password, still in the Watchtower category of needing a passkey. I decided to log out of GitHub to try to log back in, but my iPhone didn't have an option of using a 1Password key (despite 1Password being my passkey provider of choice). Tried many times, on luck. Emailed support. A few hours later re-opened 1Password and saw that there was now a passkey, and then login worked.

Seems I wonder if all the feature flags are taking a while to flip around the web – 1Password's own support, Microsoft's rollout, etc – as companies start to go live with it all.
Relatedly, it's worth watching the entire Bill Gurley talk at the recent All-In Summit.

Edit: Updating link to jump to the relevant section of the talk. https://youtu.be/F9cO3-MLHOM?t=397
I wouldn't be surprised if they were offering less - people who've been out of work for months are pretty desperate.
If it's infinite then why not give everyone 100 sq km mansion and fly to visit each other? It's not like we need to worry about sustainability or something right?

You just don't want to admit it. Dense areas are better in every way. Better for economy, more profitable, more efficient, sustainable. The only reason to be opposed is if you are afraid that real estate you own will start going down in price because everyone suddenly needs less land for everything.
> Why would the price be that high?

You said: "the price of toilet paper should have been increased by an order of magnitude at the store level. This would prevent hoarding". How high do you think the price per roll would have to be to ensure that no one (not even rich people or a small group of rich people working together) could afford to buy up a pallet of toilet paper to try to resell at a higher price? It'd have to be pretty damn expensive. Expensive enough to price out most people since a millionaire can afford to pay so much more than someone making below minimum wage

> Also, you’re incorrect about producers having the right incentives. They are incentivized by money, not a higher calling to wipe ass.

Read my comment again, I never said anything about a "higher calling". I explicitly said that their incentive was profit.
There's the odd game that uses registry for the purpose of save files for some reason, which is stupid when you have several PC's and want to sync progress for the odd session. There's one example with a very solid puzzle game (Lyne; https://store.steampowered.com/app/266010/LYNE/) that used registry but I see they now have Steam cloud on the profile page but back in the day I had to export registry keys to not have to replay the same puzzles, not fun.
Still there was no ultra nationalistic EU commission president (as this might comparable to the US president.)
This applies also to Spain, Ukraine and UK from your list.
I just have to admit, that I didnt thought about Belarus, Russia and Serbia.
Ok great it can tell children’s stories now tell me a adult horror story where people are getting tortured, stabbed, set on fire and murdered. I will be impressed when I can do all that. I tried to get it to tell me a Star Trek story fighting Clingons and tried to prompt it to write in some violence with no luck. This was a while ago so not sure if it is changed but the restraints are too much for me to fully enjoy. I don’t like kids stories.
Oh please. These workers are wealthy by any reasonable definition. I 100% agree that raising people into the middle class is great goal. But comparing some overzealous layoffs and ham-fisted re-hiring to violence against women and human trafficking is just dumb and gross.
This is the key. You can’t have a vacant building charging ridiculous rent because of “speculation” while there are 10 similar buildings nearby that charge half the price and have tenants. No sane investor would fund that
“The Apache Attic was created in November 2008 to provide process and solutions to make it clear when an Apache project has reached its end of life.” https://attic.apache.org/
Ask HN: What have you made except terminal toys or microservices?
Hi, is there any really novel project on which you have worked? what is that?

I am working on a Matrix simulation to host the world's first hosted Matrix, where you create your own universe, and populate it with a species that you have designed(only its characteristics), these species can be alike to humans. These agents will be trained to live with each other using deep RL, and then you can alter their lives however you like, maybe incarnate into their world. This project is still in development. Before working on this I have created a simulation environment in which you can create your own AI agents and compete globally. you can check it out on https://aiplaygrounds.in
> but keep hopping jobs all the time

Because if you do, they'll stop hiring you - that only goes one way.
Thank you and the other repliers who answered. It wasn't a hard guess, as you can see, but it was an important bit of information to be sure about to understand the story.
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Coming from a Linux background, what is the windows registry and why do things need to write to it? All I ever read about it seem to be horror stories.

Can't you store stuff alongside the install? Or in some user data location?
> Because that definitely worked with Microsoft, right?

Right. Gary Reback, the lawyer for Netscape back then, has said that Google's very existence depends on the Microsoft trial.

As for Americans' ignorance: irrelevant. They can't tell you what Watergate was, either.
You mean the epic steps?
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iOS devs don't want to use Kotlin multiplatform, I really doubt this will gain any traction.
Read up on supply and demand then welcome back to start making sense :)
They also made a chunk of money from selling dndbeyond which they bought for peanuts from Twitch.
I am not a financial advisor, but I think most financial advisors would not recommend you save all your money in cash, in no small part because of potential inflation.

I think the typical rule is to save N months of bills [1] in cash (or something cash-adjacent like a CD or T-Bill), and the rest in an index fund/ETF from something like Vanguard of Fidelity or something like that. This allows you to somewhat "outsource" the problems of inflation to corporations.

[1] the size of N probably depends on the person and cost of living and all that fun stuff, but I think it's usually 6.
Well, even so, while most drivers don't mind driving, there is a significant minority who are actually kind of freaked out by driving -- big overlap with people who have experienced a serious wreck. I've met a few people like that.

And besides the ones who are so anxious about driving that the rest of us know about it, there's probably a lot of people who have mild anxiety about driving but just suppress it, get through it, and/or minimize unnecessary driving, because you can't avoid driving where they live.

And, considering the risks, it's not an irrational fear. Perhaps it's us who don't mind driving and are acclimated to it who are the strange ones.

Heck, I do find myself feeling this way sometimes. I've been driving long enough to be pretty comfortable, but I do notice feeling a lot more comfortable on safer feeling roads, eg with slower speeds, frequented by less hurried drivers. I think everyone does, to some degree, otherwise complaining about the crazy drivers from the next state over wouldn't be such a universal pastime in America :)

We pretend the risk and the associated rational anxiety of driving doesn't exist because driving is so commonplace, but it's there and it's pretty big.
I may never get stabbed in my car, but I will get brake-checked, cut off, buzzed, rammed, and shot at [0]. Driving is stressful and I dread every getting on the highway.

[0]: https://everytownresearch.org/reports-of-road-rage-shootings...
I don’t think it’s a gross misinterpretation. General relativity does show that what one observer would consider the future can exists as the present of another observer, and vice versa.

As time is part of the 4 dimensional Minkowski space, saying that the future, past and present don’t coexist would be like saying left doesn’t exists when you’re going right.
This is yet another example on how, while Windows can have its problems, 90% of them are other developers treating the system as their personal dump truck/litterbox

(as per another comment)

> having the Pqs preferences based off of the instance ID of the pqs object, which, according to unity's own documentation, changes between runs of the game

This looks like someone copy-pasted something off of Stack Overflow (wouldn't be the first time)
I don't think my employer has ever laid anyone off. Some people have been fired for cause and some people have quit but no layoffs. Not all companies are giant corporate behemoths that run everything by metrics.
I think you're missing the point of an art, especially art where the audience participates. Art is meant to invoke societal concepts, like gender. It makes sense to bring gender into a context such as an art piece where the audience are active participants.
Seems like a pretty useless article. The first ding it doles out is for carrier lock-in.

The original iPhone did it too with AT&T. I wonder how "The iPhone is 16 years old; it is the opposite of everything we want" would fly..
Especially when the US public education system spends more per pupil than almost every other country on the planet[0], with appalling results. In fact, as spending increased 30% over the past decade, student achievements flatlined, then fell precipitously after Covid[1].

[0]: https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti...

[1]: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=38
I am aware of Germany as I live there. I am not sure what you are referring to.
I would call that something other than Newtonian physics, since that would constitute adding a term of some sort to some important equations, but I'm willing to agree this is just arguing about definitions and it doesn't really matter in the end since it still wouldn't be right. :)
It basically is though. I'm pointed out that despite being poorly treated, the people in question are among the wealthiest int he whole world. They are in no way comparable to victims of trafficking. The original comment just came across as hyperbolic, crass, and entitled.
What incentive do they have to do that when they can just keep the old outdated site up and collect ad revenue from Google pointing people their way.
That is one study from 2002. There's dozens of more recent studies on this subject. By neurotoxicity the question is does frequent use of MDMA make it more difficult for your brain to produce serotonin? Research and anecdotal evidence from recreational users point to this being the case.

When your brain becomes dependent on a drug that fries your brain temporarily with serotonin you will not feel as good without the drug if your brain and body becomes dependent on it to trigger normal serotonin production. Doesn't sound like a fun time to me.

https://dancesafe.org/drug-information/is-mdma-neurotoxic/#1
Where is there tricking or deceiving?

How is the financial performance unrelated to how a firm treats employees? People choose their employers in a fair number of situations.
It's a lose-lose for the studios. If they win on the IP side, all of the generative content of the future will exclude their IP. If they lose, then they don't get paid for it, or worse they have to pay for it.

Most people seem to have a difficult time grasping that if the model is trained in such a way that Disney's IP is excluded, the model doesn't know Disney even exists. Consider if every Disney website was excluded from Google and every Disney related trademark was blacklisted.

As of mid 2023 it is very clear personal assistants are going to replace traditional web search. In my use case, they've replaced it 100%: excluding searching a single website or product name. Will these generative assistants -- which must be capable of both processing and generating images -- know the rights holder's IP even exists? The idea that a useful LLM is going to be trained on 100% public domain, copyright free data is absurd.

IP owners are suggesting that future personal assistants would need to pay them for the knowledge of even the mere existence of their IP. That would be like if every website indexed by Google and every trademarked keyword required Google to pay the copyright owner per search. That isn't possible. To the contrary, the reverse occurs.

What if the future is in fact the opposite of what IP owners are now suggesting? Nike pays the generative AI company for Nike shoes to appear in the one-off movie generated for a single viewer based on their personal preferences?

The world is drowning in IP: text, video, music. The future will be a deluge.
What I remember reading about small doses of 2c-e (Maybe in this book, maybe somewhere else - My interests have shifted a ton over the years to other things) is that the insight enhancement is something that actually ends up happening in the aftermath of the primary effects of the drug. Day after and things start hitting differently kind of effect, that you have to go into with intention in a way.
> What government policy would allow for a 2k apartment building and not a $500 apartment building?

Basically all of them? All you need is minimum parking + a height limit. Since the ROI of the lot is a function of units *average price, and a height limit + parkinng requirements caps the # of units per lot, the average price has to be higher for it to make sense to an investor.

Also it’s worth noting that supply is just incredibly constrained vs demand in nearly every major American city. Anything to help the supply side decreases housing costs across the board, even if it’s luxury housing.
I understood it very differently at the time.

Microsoft felt that it had won the browser wars so thoroughly that they dismantled most of their IE team and took their eyes off the ball. Nobody else could make a competitive browser, and therefore nobody could add browser features that would undermine the importance of Windows for applications. They didn't realize that they already had added the key feature for the Outlook team.

The first real use of XMLHttpRequest was Gmail in 2004. Most people just thought of it as a cute trick. It wasn't until Google Maps and the coining of the term AJAX that people thought differently. Microsoft, of course, had already been hit with the 2004 EU decree, and kept its eyes off the ball. By the time Microsoft paid attention, everyone was using it, Firefox was competitive with IE, Safari wasn't too far behind, and Google was already working on Chrome. But by then it was too late. Microsoft didn't have the IE team, and had been shocked at the EU penalties.

Therefore I give the credit for Microsoft not crushing Google to the EU antitrust, and not the USA antitrust. Which really did have no teeth. As can be seen by their efforts to anticompetitively promote Windows Media Player.
The singularity is already here...
You can still do it manually, but you need a bootable disk to do so:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...
No, lol. They don't. Maybe Windows, because Microsoft doesn't seem to care much about privacy, but Apple doesn't mess around. And if there were backdoors in Linux, we'd definitely know about it, because people are actively looking for stuff like that.
Thank you for pointing out, I fixed the first link.
Don't forget C#/F#. Microsoft's been leaning hard into cross-platform with MAUI.
It's kinda like a system wide dconf
Alternate take: "the current licensee will sue us if we allow Starlink".
These neighborhoods also happen to be the ones that enforce "driving while black" rules.
There's a library for embedding inline svg icons. You call it with a string name in your html template and get back a string svg.

It was originally implemented as a single GenServer. When you app started up it'd read the filesystem and create a map of svg name => svg contents in a process. Then each lookup call would send a message to that process and get back the contents.

This has had the flaw of making template rendering single threaded. It's far worse than a file read per lookup
It's just /etc
> what is the windows registry and why do things need to write to it?

It's a centralized, high-performance small key value store that's the alternative to writing a million config files in random places.

It's arguably much better in my experience. E.g. one of the never-ending headaches I always have on Linux is updating config files when a package updates. There's no automatic file merge in general (hence .pacnew and such) so you gotta do it by hand (and not everything is available with the foo.d/ hack). The registry already operates at the value granularity so it bypasses this kind of issue.

And as a developer you don't have to worry about some things you might not think about, like the trade-off between corrupting your config files with in-place updates vs. having to create a new file and replace the old one after every config change.
empath-nivana's life was saved through illicit MDMA usage. They didn't shoot up a school or music concert,
didn't send out mysogynistic screeds to women online, didn't abuse or kill a sex worker, didn't commit suicide, or any other number of awful things going on in the world committed by emotionally blunted individuals. I wish the emotional revitalization that comes from MDMA, the healing, being able to step away from the trauma, the openness, the vulnerability - I wish that on everybody.

I wish people were well-adjusted and have fulfilling and happy lives. If it takes broadly available MDMA to get there, then so be it.
https://www.stavros.io/posts/clearing-up-some-passkeys-misco... (courtesy of u/stavros)
At about the same Sun, Oracle, IBM et al were cooling on the idea of developing comprehensive office software suites (~2008–2012), online suites like Google Workspace and Zoho were arriving in force, as were supporting do-business-online-not-on-the-desktop tools like Wrike.

If the OpenOffice kerfuffles weren't sapping enough energy out of the ecosystem, that users could suddenly use free, no-install-ever, not-equivalent-but-still-fine online tools did the rest.

Used to be an enthusiastic OpenOffice and LibreOffice user and developer—not of the core tools, but as part of bigger document processing and publishing workflows. Even presented at the OpenOffice Conference in 2007 (Moit de gust, Barcelona!) But after Google Docs, Sheets, etc. ... have not needed OpenOffice or LibreOffice nor used them in anger for over a decade.
One of the frustrating things about modernity as a westerner is that I don't feel the need for the standard of living that all of these incredible-but-dangerous advances in modern science and technology have granted us. I don't need faux-stone counters cut by Central Americans, I don't to eat as varied a diet as is available, I don't need to travel anywhere over 45 mph or internationally, I don't need A/C on 95% of summer days, I don't need all of the plastic packaging that stuff is delivered in (although I often need or want the stuff it delivers). I am completely ready to live in a slowed-down, less-commodified, lower-capital environment, so I save money and am quite comfortable, but what can I do about everyone else? I'm not going to move the needle in greater society with my own choices.

In the ideological camp with me are the "degrowthers", who seem to be more common in Europe than in the US, but they all seem to be pitching borderless, stateless surveillance communism that relies on the same ultra high-speed high-tech plastic-based international-shipping constructs we have now, except with "green" energy instead of regular energy.
The windows registry is a hierarchal data storage system. Yes, basically a filesystem.
It is some combination of /etc and /var. a hierarchical key-value data store shared by the whole system used for configuration management mostly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Registry#Rationale
Most games that _do_ use the registry use it as a data store that may or may not be accessed by external applications. It provides a very reliable pathing (at least at the time of the game's release) to access typed data.

For instance, most EA games from the early 2000's standardized the store of the CD key in ~HKLM:\SOFTWARE\<Game Name>\ergc. This would let one install the game to any drive and still have access to the CD key.

Games also use the registry as a way to point to where the game is installed. In the worst case scenario, it's used as a dumping ground for the game's preferences/settings and save states. With the shift to 64 bit and the introduction of WoW64 and most recently the shift to VirtualStores, I would rather nobody ever stores anything in the registry.

I'm currently working on a compatibility shim geared towards games that will redirect winapi filesystem and registry calls to a custom location. Hopefully it'll result in being able to make more portable installs of games that may require access to the registry.
Yeah, the library ecosystem for KMM is lacking. Also the build system used to be a headache. I haven't tried KMM recently but it was so unintuitive a year back
Most of the time, but not all the time. If you're an only child and your grandparents are dead, your parents are dead, and they too didn't have any brothers or sisters, or they were on bad terms with them, then you've probably got no social net whatsoever. And some people are orphans. People with large families don't often realise how difficult life can be for people with small families or no family.
While it is true that OpenOffice didn't get major updates for nearly a decade, it does what it's supposed to do, and is pretty stable. I still use it as it's faster than LibreOffice and I'm used to it.
And why spam Apache to deprecate OO? It's not like OO is doing any harm for Apache or its users, one can install LibreOffice instead if they want it.
This mirrors my feelings also, thank you for expressing it. It's so alien to me to see people trying to optimize way connection with their family and friends; to me that is what life _is_
I don't think you get it. The wealth of the people has nothing to do with this. A cheap prostitute and a well paid engineer deserve the same respect. Why are you bringing wealth or social status into it?
Lead engineer here, happy to answer any questions
I think of the roman empire every time I look in the mirror
Yeah, it's built on GPT-4. But have added easy to use options like tonality or intent of the subject line. For the uninitiated hopefully it is helpful. Idea is to create a better subject line without investing time to test and write prompts. If there are some other things on this tool that might have been helpful do let me know. Happy to improvise.
The charitable interpretation is that it applies to RMS and RMS only, and the author has some knowledge of an objectively measurable decline in his programming skills.

The more general interpretation is that the author of that page is egregiously ageist.