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> At least for the first point: C has been used extensively with non-uniform storage

And the results are awful. You are confused between doing something and doing it well. The fact that plenty of people cook frozen pizza at home doesn't make frozen pizza a good pizza.

> And it definitely hasn't stopped designers from innovating

And this is where you are absolutely wrong. We have hardware designs twisted beyond belief only so that they would be usable with C concepts of computer, while obviously simpler and more robust solutions are discarded as non-viable. Just look at the examples I gave. CUDA developers had to write their own compiler to be able to work around the lack of necessary tools in C. We also got OpenMP and MPI because C sucks so much that the language needs to be extended to deal with parallelism.

And it wasn't some sort of a hindsight where at the time of writing things like different memory providers were inconceivable. Ada came out with the concept of non-uniform memory access baked in. Similarly, Ada came out with the concept for concurrency baked-in. It was obvious then already that these are the essential bits of system programming.

C was written by people who were lazy, uninterested to learn from peers and overly self-confident. And now we've got this huge pile of trash of legacy code that's very hard to replace and people like you who are so used to this trash, that they will resist its removal.
Do you seriously think those features are worth 20 dollars a month?

Again, clearly advocating for the platform and missing the entire message.

A musician can easily self host a site that does exactly what bandcamp represents for them. Also, most serious artists are already distributed to platforms that do exactly what Bandcamp does and more.

There is very little value in bancamp, unless you are perhaps trying to sell songs with lots of uncleared samples in them.
Background, I work in diligence for software aquisitions.

There are a lot of assumptions on this thread. I don't know the answers in this case (not sure if anyone does?) but I think it is naive to assume that Bandcamp was wise to be employing all these people. While acquisitions tanking a company with stupid decisions are super common, it's also super common for companies who are trying to look like they are growing (for future funding or acquisitions) to have way too much staff (and thus, high a burn rate) instead of running a sensible, profitable business. It is not necessarily a good thing that they have tons of employees - sometimes it's entirely motivated by putting lipstick on a pig in order to look like a runaway growth success thing.

Songtradr is in the music infrastructure business. I think it's quite possible they are cleaning house to make Bandcamp a more viable business that is actually focused on their core business. Doesn't seem impossible to me that Bandcamp was way off base trying to make too much written content when really, it's about selling music.

But I'm spitballing here, anyone know more about whether Bandcamp was bloated?
It's hard to give advice without more info about your life situation.

Overall, I'd suggest talking with a psychiatrist and psychologist. Get screened for depression and other possible mental issues that may cause this.

If everything else in life is amazing, maybe you're starting to burnout. Can you take a few weeks off?
And you have not seen Italy!
Opposite - more children, higher payments. If nothing else, when they turn 18, they would get UBI too and you can afford more per month together.
Off topic the article but I _love_ her new album

Also funny since I originally heard NDAD through a Spotify recommendation before eventually buying her discography on Bandcamp
As much as I love this idea, I fear finding a video that ends up being so fascinating it keeps me awake. All I would have to show for trying to take a nap is a new hyperfocus and being even more tired.
Find something, anything, to get excited by. Hopefully tech related, but maybe not.

Has worked for me multiple times.
> The reaction proved the label right.

So wait, if someone calls you a Nazi and you refuse to engage with them, does that also prove their claim right?

I'm pretty sure NPR leaving didn't prove anything, other than the fact that NPR made the rather sane decision to skip pre-boarding on the Titanic.
When something happened, Twitter used to be the first place that eyewitness accounts of that thing would emerge - often within seconds of the event.
Twitter owes most of its success to the Verified Checkmark, and the sorts of people who crave any kind of Officially Verified status that they can lord over the plebs who don't have such access—it was crack cocaine for self-important, narcissistic journalists and media personalities. once anyone could purchase a Verified Checkmark, once the doors to the Secret Cool Kid Clubhouse were thrown wide open, about half of the appeal of the platform (for them) disappeared overnight.
It’s difficult to see unions as anything but a failed model. What they advocate for, workers’ rights, is noble. But the divisiveness they employ makes them a political distraction. We need workers’ rights in law for everyone. Not just those who are in a union.
To encourage people to work, UBI would just be enough to live on.

So you wouldn't have enough money to raise children.

If children also get UBI, then you would have enough money to raise children, but the family as a whole would be poor.

Children might not like growing up in a poor family because their parents refuse to work.
I really liked the trunk (4) virtual network device, and lots of small stuff, and the barebones experience had its own appeal.

Now that softdeps is disabled and the vfs getting an overhaul I might try it again... in a few years.
I've seen enough bad/tone deaf takes/perspectives from him over the years to know that, unless he's had some kind of wild change of heart, this isn't going to be any different and likely won't hit home for me. I don't hate Andreesen, but I do hate bad ideas, and he's full of 'em.

Judging from the bulk of the comments in here, it doesn't look like I'm wrong.
You really mean the usual C reasoning of "if this program has an error, what difference does it makes if it returns the wrong value or formats the main disk" (With an implicit "I see none" added on the end)?

Because a caught static error, a runtime error, a wrong value, and C's UB are completely different beasts.
As a neuroscientist who struggles with my brain wellness and health, I’ve developed a checklist for my own self-assessments:

1. How is my sleep?

2. Am I limiting caffeine intake?

3. Anything else affecting my sleep? Room temperature? Lights? White noise? Eating too late? Alcohol?

Sleep is how the brain repairs damage caused by daily life. Not enough or poor quality means you will drag, not just over days, but weeks and months is exactly a downward spiral.

4. Checked my Vitamin D levels recently and supplementing with D3/K?

Circadian rhythms and cognition are poorly studied, but there’s good evidence on Vitamin D and mood and seasonal affective disorder.

5. Managing stress?

Too much stress affects key brain functions like learning, memory, and attention. Too little sleep leads to more stress.

6. Exercising enough?

Am I getting outside daily, going for walks or runs, etc.

7. Nutrition

Am I making good food choices that give me sustained energy or am I eating mindlessly?

The pandemic was the last piece on nutrition for me. I saw how one bad meal (e.g. burger and fries) affected me for 2 days.
7digital was also bought by songtradr this year.

Presumably Songtradr is making a big play on owning online music stores.
It can still happen. I've been actively using SO for 14 years and had my first question marked as a duplicate last week. The question was already 9 years old and had been thoroughly answered. Last week somebody decided to "optimize" it, which sent it to the review queue and finally led its closing.
> I just think there have been more layoffs than can be explained by a couple percent increase alone.

Sure, of course. There was also massive over-hiring during the pandemic in anticipation of some sort of "new normal" that didn't pan out.

My comment was more in response to the idea of "why should interest rates affect company hiring for companies that have a ton of cash on hand and are profitable?"
Connecting User Experience, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation and Innovation with Scale-Scope Lens
I forgot how much I love Jelle's Marble Runs.
I don't, hence I don't pay for it.

But if you signed up for Bandcamp Pro for $20/month, then clearly you either were happy with what you were getting, or you misunderstood what you were about to get. But personally I think that pricing page is pretty clear about what you get.
Not sure who's getting laid off, but for me in the past the Bandcamp Weekly show was the one that gave me opportunities to explore new genres and artists. I think their shows have a positive impact towards the platforms, buyers, and artists.
I'm an idiot when it comes to understanding CPUs, but as an end user of them, my feeling is that the M1 Pro MBP I bought on release is so absurdly good that I can't imagine needing to buy a new laptop for decade. It's runs silent and cool and simply never struggles with anything. Since Hetzner started offering ARM VMs on their cloud service, I've set up several servers on it which have been trouble-free, run cool, and offer way over twice the value of AMD64. I've no doubt you know what you're talking about with regards to problems that need fixing, but to a CPU idiot like me, they just seem like magic and I would absolutely hate to ever go back to using chips that cause 3rd degree burns of you use a laptop on your lap.
They also benefit from making their software open source because it drives people to adot it.
I agree with you on not wanting to fuck the users over either. Personally I don't want to do that.

But the reality is, I have other things I need in life too, and those things require money. My dad is working into his 70s, what if I could fund his retirement? What if I could pay for my brothers uni? Or for my grandma's nurse?

When our basic necessities are not secure, we can't always make the ethical choice. Until then, people will keep selling out.
You forgot to take into account that people willing to move to rural locations are also more likely to change parties after they move.

i.e. you neglected second order effects.
You don't get the appeal of celebrities writing the story for you, than chasing them for one? ;)
In general, no, if the employee is simply working on the code as part of the company, that does not count as distributing the code to the employee (unless the company explicitly did so).

See the GNU FAQ on this - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#InternalDistrib... - and slightly more elaboration at https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/10459/
Are you worried about "catastrophic population decline" or "upset children"?

Scientific consensus (I have no citation) is that human population will start to decline in a generation or two, though I don't think anyone has factored in UBI.

Do you think poverty is caused by parents who don't want to work?
Food stamps have specific criteria to qualify for them. College students don't qualify. Previous drug convictions don't qualify. Being under 65 and not having kids at home only allows 3 months of food stamps within a 3-year period.
People moan about these sorts of costs to the consumer but its such small fish. Oh the gas tax in California makes it tough for people I'm sure, having to pay another whole $7 to fill up the tank. Meanwhile 1 bedroom rent might be around $2k depending on where you live in the state. Carbon tax could literally double the cost of food, sending a single person from maybe a $75 grocery run a week to a $150 run, and it still wouldn't amount to much more than maybe two concert tickets a month, still only a fraction of rent. Goes to show how inflated rent is relative to just about every other aspect of life in this state.
> [She] proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her groundbreaking conclusion was initially rejected because it contradicted the scientific wisdom of the time, which held that there were no significant elemental differences between the Sun and Earth.

I'm reminded of a college lecture one day in a class I took called Physics of Stars. The professor walked up to the whiteboard and wrote:

Elemental composition of the universe:

Hydrogen and helium 99%
Oxygen ~1%
Everything else <<1%

That was well over a decade ago, and it blows my mind as much today as it did then.
A lot of the advice here has been good.

But here's another one. Lower the stakes. Take some easier tasks. Try and reduce the stress of the job.
It's funny, because I could, with zero incredulity, say that information disclosure allows consumers to accurately price externalities and market-based solutions are the most efficient ways to arrive at realistic price equilibria.
Thanks. Not a lot of sleep this weekend.
It seems very similar to the case of the lawyers who used an LLM as a case law search engine. The LLM spit out bogus cases, then when the judge asked them to produce the cases as the references let nowhere they asked the LLM to produce cases which it "did".
We have products that get run on servers only. Pretty much every single client asks about the tech stack.
The AGPL also requires distribution of the modified work if used over a network, even if copies are not distributed. This is the entire reason AGPL was created, because GPL did not do this.

> Free software is about computer USER freedom, not DEVELOPER freedom.

What are non-developers going to do with source code? Back when FOSS was first conceptualized, all users were developers.

Regardless of anyone's opinions on the issue, the fact of the matter is that AGPL quite specifically don't let people do "anything" with it. The software comes with obligations. That is the entire point of copyleft. Sure, you might think the obligations are good -- that doesn't mean they don't exist.
> Collective bargaining is pretty much the only tool workers have

No, it isn’t. There is the individual threat of quitting. And there are the courts.
Yes, FB were trying something similar to this with Aquila. We actually used to work with a few people on that project, it sounds like the all composite flying-wing design was a bit of a challenge for them. I also understand they weren’t providing internet direct-to-device, just as backhaul for cell towers, which proved to be a difficult business case. In the end they partnered with Airbus on some projects, but I don’t know what came of that.
Presumably UBI would come from taxes. So it's wealth redistribution. It would reduce the difference between richest and poorest.
At the time C rose to prominence there was already understanding that memory access isn't going to be uniform, and less and less so as hardware evolves and becomes more complex. Ada came out with this idea from the get go.

Von Neumann created a model of computation. It's a convenient mathematical device to deal with some problems. He never promised that this is going to be a device to deal with all problems, nor did he promise that this is going to be the most useful or the most universal one etc.
> feel accomplished

Believe it or not you can buy that. Though I'm sure there's some corporate backed, non-replicable, behavioral science study that says otherwise.
Both AGPL and copyright assignments are absolute showstoppers for a significant portion of potential contributors, on their own.

Combining both even more so.

Especially copyright assignment, for anyone employed as a programmer. Aka a professional.
I’m okay with companies that don’t want to comply with this law not doing any business in California. Other companies will pick up their sales.
That don't want it? I don't think that qualifier was required.
To add more useful info:

1. The DNS resolves.

2. Firebase returns this error:

Invalid Dynamic Link

Requested URL must be a parsable and complete DynamicLink.

If you are the developer of this app, ensure that your Dynamic
Links domain is correctly configured and that the path component
of this URL is valid.
I never implied that low-margin businesses can't grow faster and give much better returns on capital than Treasuries.
Tell HN: LinkedIn now limiting "personalized" intros
When you connect to someone on LinkedIn, they suggest adding context with a personalized introduction. This can help jog someone's memory about where you met.

I went to send a connection request today and was told that I have 11 of these personalized introductions remaining for the month.

I was also helpfully told that if I pay LinkedIn for some subscription, I can have the functionality I had until last month — the ability to send as many personalized connection requests as I want.

Between this and the layoffs, I guess times are tight at LinkedIn. I assume this new feature gate won't be the last.
> in a different era.

It may seem like the early 2000s were a different era, but it's better to think of it as an earlier stage in this era. These companies built on OSS with varying degrees of giving back, so it seemed like they were all about the sharing economy. A decade later they'd built out their business (RIP Sun, though) and had solid positions in the market, not easily displaced. A decade later and the clawbacks begin. RedHat and HashCorp are just two examples of companies closing the doors, changing the terms of the deal, and harvesting the revenue they forwent in the early years. AKA the rug-pull
Poor fella was embarrassed and looking to throw anything back at them
Been in a similar environment as an intern. Can concur was worst professional experience of my life. Very glad I experienced this early on to avoid whenever possible for the rest of my days.

Staff couldn't even be disciplined without going through the union rep and everything was based on seniority... with no other reason.

That business no longer exists... its competitors that were non-unionized are still thriving.
The OSI and DFSG are both fine with the AGPL too, so it's hard to take that claim seriously, especially as a bare assertion with zero evidence.
I worked a temp job assembling Toshiba CD-ROM drives in America. We attached a face bevel to the drive, ran a quick electrical test, then packed them up into boxes that said "Assembled in America".
Miata in my 30’s checking in. About to head off on a 3 month road trip + camping to get over this
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Bandcamp let me pay a musician for a song, regardless of how unknown or unpopular a band was. You’re three dudes in your mid-thirties playing open mic night and passing a hat around, and definitely cannot afford to get on Spotify or Youtube Music, but you can get on bandcamp and a few people can pay $5 for a song they liked when they were tipsy.
When I was younger, I told the white, curlyhaird old man who managed the helpdesk that I had some crazy amount of leave banked. He said "You're stupid, and leaving money on the table. They're paying you and you're not taking that money"

25 years later I use every bit of my PTO...every year. I'm in a much better mental state.

If your office says they can't run without you, tell them you can go away for a week at a time occasionally, or you could get hit by a car and be gone forever...shouldn't their process have a little resilience?
Why should they care to make a competing browser at all?

The answer is simple. The google anti-trust case clearly indicates this is _highly_ profitable. As the browser (chrome) is one of the leading ways of increasing Search Query Volume (SQV). SQV increases ad impressions thus increases ad revenue, thus maximizes shareholder value.

Bing has a similar ad platform and with Edge Microsoft will have many ways to send users to do queries in Bing.

Why leave a big piece of juicy pie like this on the table for google to sweep up?
But there's no way to have an actual "developer" role that isn't using non-ultimate seat right?

I get why in some sense, because once you use ultimate you switch to using a EE install instead of the CE. But I think even having the choice between ultimate and normal paid tiers would be great, even if it means no free users on the instance.
I'm a dev (SDET) who is considering taking a job at a grocery store or warehouse just to have some cash flow.

Yes, it really is that bad. A couple of years ago my LinkedIn inbox was flooded with recruiters. Now it's a ghost town.

I'm considering pivoting into full-stack dev, but it's slow going. And even if that works, I'd be a junior developer. The situation is grim to say the least.
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“Perceived affordance” is the term I believe.
I'm terribly sorry but you seem to be continuing to miss the point -- there are no different definitions here. Nobody is hijacking anything.

The SEC definition is obviously correct insofar as each individual wash trade is executed at the same price -- it is sold at price X and bought at price X.

But then multiple wash trades can create a sequence of seemingly rising prices. Even though each individual pair has a matching price. Nothing in the SEC definition from that case contradicts this. Nothing in the SEC definition requires that the offer (first) half of a wash trade be a legitimate market price -- it can be made at a price artificially higher than the market, which is sometimes the whole point.

It's easy to read up further on this, there's lots of material available online which explains this -- how each half of a wash trade uses the same price, but a sequence of them are used to raise the apparent market price.

Again, this is 100% in line with the SEC definition.
You're not alone in this!

Could it be that you're not able to relate to how whatever you're doing actually matters? If so, I'd say speaking to a few would-be users might help.
I don't doubt that you are against the autocratic rule. The point is that you won't have a choice. There will be another gentleman (they always appear), who will decide that he should be in charge and will take power, by force. You will complain, he will put you in jail or worse. At that point, you will remember that you had to dismantle democratic checks & balances (how else will you convince people to part with their property!), but it will be too late for you and everybody else.
Video games are probably closest to books; in fact, much of software is probably "bookish" in general - lots of it written for particular purposes, sells well enough to have been done, disappears into the long-tail.

A few major breakout successes become historical and bought long after the fact, but the majority do not.
I've seen somewhere that "motivation" is meaningless, instead it's all about (self) discipline.

For example if you don't like running or cycling, but you have to do it daily, then you'll end up liking it (be "motivated")