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> I started off learning Python and C++. At some point I got fed up with C++ and switched to C.

How many years and hours per day?

> Should I maybe disabled printing emojis to standard output in the REPL if terminal colors are disabled as well?

I generally avoid anything that's not ASCII if it's possible. Tying it to terminal colors or terminal output (e.g. "if [ -t 1 ] ...") is common too. Though I'm not a big fan of things changing based on the runtime environment as it makes debugging annoying.
Allowed me to find the song Longer by Dan Fogelberg, a song which otherwise would remain a mystery to me possibly forever without this tech (unless I bump into a friend who happens to know this song)
>> But more seriously: ...

As often happens on HN, a comment worth more than the article. A concise and deep set of rules!
A surprising number of people, including many people on this very website, seem to believe that these things aren’t just stochastic parrots, that they’re in some way comprehending or reasoning about the world. If you’re inclined that way (I’m not myself, but it does seem to be a thing), then this sort of research makes some sense.
Snus is one of life's greatest pleasures.
Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve, Baldur's Gate III, Zoom, Chrome, the foundations of modern life, things beyond my comprehension.
I almost feel like I should have a backup of my BB liked or saved videos
But gitbook and mdbook use markdown, which ChatGPT supports, too.
After that, i'd say ITS and their networked machine list sharing code and cool hacks, being the proto free-software movement.
What kind of things is ChatGPT refusing to do for you?
I have a paid subscription and have used ChatGPT often for translations. Now that I can upload a document I asked ChatGPT if it could translate the document. It told me that it was not a translation service. I told it LLM are really good at translation and it admitted it was good at translation but what I was asking was a lot of work. I asked it if it got tired when doing things like translation . Etc. it was interesting that it felt like it had instructions to not translate documents but not to say that.
I started smoking in high school and got turned onto dip by someone I ran cross country with that was on the wrestling team (very common for them to use for weight loss). The dip was really intense and I got a huge buzz from it, but after taking some magic mushrooms around my age 16 I tried to quit it all at once and really thought I was going insane. It was an incredibly potent nootropic though and was easy to hide for taking tests. I felt incredible taking the ACT. I switched back to smoking most of the time because most people think dip is disgusting, but eventually I tired of going outside in the cold and having to the fund the addiction, so I quit. It really wasn’t all that hard in the grand scheme of things, but took a couple of tries. It’s not something you want to undertake without planning or research and you are going to gain some weight and be out of it for a couple weeks. Years later I’d miss it and get back into the occasional cig or e-cigs or nicotine lozenges. Any time I did though they eventually just make me kind of lazy to where I just want to lay around and I realized I was better off going for walks or exercising. I don’t think it’s so bad to quit but it can mess up your stomach and you might lose a night of sleep so it’s not the funnest thing in the world. The last time I did this it was at night, I had an interview the next morning, and my stomach hurt from constipation so I gave up and put in a lozenge for a minute which unstopped me, but then couldn’t sleep due to the stimulation, had a horrible interview the next day and then went through with quitting.

If you can find the right dose/form then it really does have a boost to your brain, but my experience with this sort of thing is sort of like putting NOS in your fuel, it doesn’t matter if you can accelerate fast most of the time, because most of life is about driving safely and consistently at a steady speed and sometimes you can get ahead by speeding up and going through a yellow light to avoid a red, which the NOS can help with but usually burning NOS all the time is just an unnecessary expense. And you don’t want to have something like nicotine withdrawals slowing you down when you’re hitting a yellow like my interview which was a disaster. Having quit amphetamines, coffee, and nicotine multiple times, it’s not that bad, but it’s still a hassle and there’s never a good time and you’re better off eliminating as many hassles as you can from your life imo.

I definitely think the more addictive than heroin line is likely not accurate for nicotine itself but I’ve never been addicted to heroin so idk. I actually still think about starting it up again sometimes even though it’s been 15 years since I quit, maybe 3 since my last lozenge, but overall this experiment for me is concluded and nicotine is something I’m better off living without.
We (Rizin and Cutter) usually participate in GSoC, so if we are accepted next year as an organization, you could apply. See our previous programs[1][2][3].

[1] http://rizin.re/gsoc/2023/

[2] https://rizin.re/posts/gsoc-2023-announcement/

[3] https://rizin.re/posts/gsoc-2023-dwarf/
It's very far from true for many of languages.

Tried to gradually upgrade projects written Ruby and Python, that were not touched in 10 years. The dependencies were based on C extensions that depended on libs not existing anymore. It was even impossible to get the original version compiled, because in was dependent on a Linux distro version that doesn't exist anymore, even as docker images.

That was the hard lesson: depending on dynamically loaded libs means you need to constantly maintain the project and even if it has no visible bugs, or doesn't depend on the code having security vulnerabilities, you need to adapt it to evolve together with the libs, and that is needed even if you actually use only what's "old" in the libs. But we're not saving every megabyte of a disk space anymore like in 90s. Switching to static compilation does wonders for maintainability.
Pedantry-proof is a bit higher bar than non-shoddy
The thing about writing public apologies is that there's no way to differentiate them from crocodile tears. You can't tell whether the person posting it genuinely means those things or is saying them because they know other people will read them.

Obviously, anyone who causes damage to another human being, if they aren't a sociopath, feels remorse.

Of the entire post, perhaps 3 sentences talk about the specifics of crimes committed. Every day that one wakes up inside of a prison/jail, is a reminder of exactly what choices you made to get there.

Can you blame him then, for wanting to write a post that isn't focused on the wrongs he did, and rather his hope for his future?
I definitely would not hate that, though I can't really see such a law being passed, at least given the status quo.
I don't think it really matters if you feel bad for him or not, and focusing on that aspect does more harm than good. I think, given a choice between living in a fucked-up halfway house with your only prospect for the future being a shitty minimum-wage job, or falling back into your old crimes where you can make pretty solid bank doing illegal things (yes, with high risk)... most people would probably pick the latter.

I absolutely agree that "non-violent drug offenses" is a cop-out when describing high-volume drug dealing. Maybe he wasn't directly violent, but dealers like him directly contribute to dragging many more people into addiction, violence, and even death. I don't think people should be jailed (or even punished) for simple possession, but dealing -- especially on a large scale -- well, that's a different matter.

But ultimately what I really care about is outcomes. The bottom line is that it doesn't matter what we want someone to choose when they get out of prison. If we don't provide a compelling path for an ex-con to go straight, that's just us shooting ourselves in our feet. If that means spending more time and money housing someone in actually good conditions, and providing them direct access to higher education and better job opportunities, so be it. Ultimately that ends up being a lot cheaper for taxpayers than what we're doing now. And we get a much healthier society in the bargain.

Acting punitive toward convicts and ex-cons doesn't help anyone. It doesn't help the person involved, and it especially doesn't help ourselves.
Iceland raises aviation alert to Orange
Toronto Reference Library closed after bomb threat
Australia had a nationwide internet meltdown a few days ago. Something's brewing?
More tiling managers is always great!

The advantages of tiling window managers are so tied to muscle memory, I’m not sure many people will want to switch from, say, sway or i3 or whatever. But at least new people will be able to give it a try.

I’m not sure how much work is involved in replacing the window manager inside a desktop environment. It would be nice to just drop sway into kde. Dunno if that is possible though.
As someone living and working as a senior software developer in Germany and on top of that currently involved in a client's hiring process, I say these numbers are completely realistic. Experienced developers are asking 90k at least, I've seen juniors with 2-3 years of experience state their current salary at 75k. For a senior software developer to earn 60k, you'd have to either be living in an extremely rural area or be blindly loyal to an employer. Talking about managers, I don't think anyone above team leader would accept a 100k offer right now.
https://ntfy.sh/
You've been presented with some minimalist Scandinavian design furniture and your argument is a true minimalist would never have furniture...
Nicotine poisoning is one of the worst feelings imaginable. The headache is stuff of legends and, interestingly, the same headache I had with Covid and for weeks after. I get a bit sick even thinking about it.
No it wouldn’t unless you can consistently reproduce any found results among differing populations and I have serious doubts such a paper, with said follow ups, exists.
If I didn't have a cellphone for voice, I'd still have a landline (which would actually be better, just not worth the added cost) in which case, other than when traveling which I do less of these days, I'd basically never use my cell phone for a voice call. I do video calls from my computer and never use Discord. Short exchanges of information/reminders are almost always texts.

So I'm pretty much at the point where voice conversations on my cell are not an essential use especially if I'm not on an extended trip.
The effect is not as pronounced and almost indistinguishable in xenon radon and krypton. It's just neonand argon that look horrible in gimme.
This article was about 4500 words too long. Meant to satisfy the author’s ego rather than convey information to the reader.

I’ll save you some time: “Timeshare sales pitches are high pressure and hard to say no to. Avoid them.”
I read this as “your very specific hypothesis of team structure leading to abandonware is factually incorrect” implying it’s some other team building it and therefore we have no idea how much resource is invested in this.

As a counterpoint, the DMA is requiring “Gatekeepers” like Google to enable interoperability for their messaging systems, so this protocol (or some other alternative implementation) is likely required to avert billions of dollars of fines.
Software patents are only valid in jurisdictions that believe in them. Fortunately the EU still doesn't, and that's why VLC is at all possible.
I can get that. FWIW I have been maintaining a 86Box image of Windows 95 with Windows Entertainment Pack (including Jezzball and Skifree), the Arcade set (Asteroid, Centipede, Missile Command, Tempest, and the tank one), Pinball, and some other stuff. Those are a bit dated at this point. I haven't played Descent II in years.
Germany approves global minimum corporate tax
> often it doesn't even show more information than GNOME despite looking so much worse

Yeah, even as a GTK developer I'm gonna throw a yellow flag here. I've got both Qt and GTK apps that I really love and daily-drive, but none of my GTK3, GTK4 or Libadwaita apps even remotely approach the information density of a Qt app. There's nothing wrong with that; simplicity is nice for a lot of software. But programs like Cutter, Okteta or even music apps like Eliza cannot be built with the GNOME HIG. I'd even argue that certain GNOME apps like Meld, GIMP and Glade/Cambalache suffer from relying on the GNOME HIG too much.
Addiction isn't a question of will. You're not weak for not being able to walk away, and you wouldn't be strong if you were able to.
YouTube recently deleted a video of mine for violating their ToS (my video just showcased a YouTube DL UI I built). I'm super sad because somehow I did not have a backup as I expected it to last forever in YouTube. I miss the video and it seems it's not archived anywhere
> If you clone dinosaurs, they will find their way out and kill people. Maybe not your park, but your competitors are eventually gonna slip up.

That's not at all a given, not until such cloned dinosaurs become ubiquitous.

What is the rate of lions and tigers escaping zoos and killing people? Zoos aren't a new thing. I wouldn't be too worried about experimental lions escaping a high-tech, super high-profile zoo.

> Hippos are now practically indigenous to Colombia thanks to Pablo Escobar. And yep, they hurt and kill people all the time. Good luck unringing that bell.

We're a bit more advanced and organized worldwide than in times of Pablo Escobar. Extincting large animals isn't a very difficult feat, especially if people were to react quickly. We usually have the opposite problem - keeping larger animals from being entrepreneured into extinction.

I mean, how much do you think a nu-dinosaur bone would fetch on the market? Also, imagine the damage control budget flowing in if one of the victims of escaping dinosaurs happens to be a US citizen. "We Have To Do Something" is a force to be reckoned with. Civil liberties get trampled, and whole countries get blown up, once the public fear ripens enough to go past Thoughts and Prayers stage.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A

PDF/A is made especially for archival and long term preservation
I said "prisons...are for-profit enterprises", not "prisons are privately owned". Government-owned prisons still rely on, and provide revenue to, companies specifically designed to profit from the prison population.
This is an extremely weird article that makes the argument that Tesla lowering prices is “dicking over customers” [sic].

Tesla, described as “ostensibly Texas-based” [sic] deserves a lot of criticism but for lowering prices on their cars..? This definitely smacks of Elon derangement syndrome.
Wow, this sounds great. Please hit me up at any time if you have questions about the code. I left behind comments most places, but I don't know if all of them are helpful.
All true, but we also don’t rehabilitate. Prisoners should come out better then they went in not worse.
As a fan of Go the only really thing I’m missing is a better way to work with data. Something like LINQ probably wont ever be possible with Go but built in support for map/filter/reduce with some handy built in aggregations would make a lot of things simpler to accomplish.

I’m not asking for the full Java streams equivalent, it would just be nice to be able to filter a slice or perform basic transformations without having to resort to for loops.
> The world’s most successful electric automaker has been completely dicking over its customers for the last year by dramatically dropping prices across the board.

Those monsters. I, for one, hope they pay for their crimes.
Yeah but we aren’t talking racism here we are talking nationalism. It’s not the same to hire lots of hispanics or to say “wow this team is primarily asian”. Here i’m saying particular hiring managers only want people who were born in their country of origin.
What global setting?

Nothing happens, embedded fonts feature isn't exclusive to PDFs
Have you considered writing to some of these organizations and asking them if you can volunteer your time?
It’s just another bit of the scam. You aren’t under any obligation to accept a bequest of this nature.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/inheriting-timesh...
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It comes down to cultural norms, really. Where I am, a plain brusque "Do this" is rude. You act that way to people you really dislike.

So the social interaction is you come up to me and are deliberately hostile and then order me to do something. That's what you do to an employee you dislike and wish would quit.

Obviously I'm capable of understanding different people communicate differently, and I can deal, but that's always the initial reaction I'm going to have.

In my experience, the disconnect in this thread comes from three things:

1. Different cultures. What's rude in California might not be in Finland.

2. Autistic people vs neurotypical. Autistic people don't see the underlying message of (I hate you, please quit) underlying the surface "Do this" conversation.

And they (understandingly!) feel excluded and gaslit and frustrated. The solution there is for everyone to understand and work around the disconnect.

3. Antisocial HN nerds. There's always a few here who clearly don't care about other people and view them as things to be used and discarded. Other people aren't worth any effort.
I’ve uninstalled the app so I can’t check, but I do remember trying it with that off and on.
I want to see an example where high bit precision is needed. Could audio be it? Touch?
Summary: Tesla has decreased its prices over the last year, affecting the resale value of existing vehicles. Author makes this out to be entirely bad.
It’s possible. The red flags for me were (1) the small sample size and (2) the fact that they tried forward, sideways, and backwards walking. That makes it seem more like a fishing expedition. If it were pre-registered that would mitigate the second issue, of course.
It is an interesting critique of automobile pricing when you have to paint the prices of new vehicles dropping dramatically and becoming much, much more affordable for more people to be a very bad thing.
This is such a small fraction of queries on my projects that I don't really pay much attention to it to be honest.
Can you dispute my actual substance instead of an appeal to authority?
> Are the new M3 Macs great computers? Sure.

I don't want to be overly negative on what is intended by this concluding line, but it's part of the problem.

It should re-state the point that has been driven home - the entry level MacBook Pro is a bad product for its audience. Just leave it at that - it doesn't say the whole line suffers the same fate, but it's OK to say it's a bad offering without making excuses for them.

It does mention the issue again after, but don't say they're unilaterally great on the whole if they're not - it gives them justification to dismiss the issue if they are still "great".

The entry level MacBook Pro is not a device you could recommend to the majority of professionals. We all know it. You should either get the Air, or a MacBook Pro with 16GB+.
You can vendor compiled dynamically loaded libraries, too, installing them with your program if not available.

If you actually need them to be the same version used by something else on the system, that's still a peoblem, but static compilation doesn't solve that, anyway.
> Legislating another person's emotions is entirely intrusive, invasive, and overbearing, and frankly, psychotic.

...well, that explains its popularity in the corporate world then. rimshot
I can’t stand Elon or Tesla but this isn’t new. All new cars depreciate heavily.
He's not asking for sympathy. The entire article is about how he ended up where he is now, how the prison he's at now has saved him from a life of crime by giving him a meaningful chance at a career, that this is an anomaly, and that it shouldn't be.
Only if you wanna keep the house it’s attached to. If it’s underwater and there’s not much else to the estate, you can reject the house and it’s debt. They can only collect the difference from the estate’s assets.

(Never co-sign for someone!)
They abandoned that K naming scheme years ago. They do not do that kind of stuff anymore. What you see is only stuff, leftovers.
I'd take the other side of the bet on the #1 hard, and within the relatively near future, depending on how we define passenger. Militaries will 110% be using Starship for this almost immediately after its proven to be tolerably safe and reliable. Getting mass cargo, troops, and transit across the globe in the blink of an eye, with tremendous landing flexibility? If Starship somehow doesn't prove completely unworkable, I would not be surprised to see this happening in < 2 years. That's making the perhaps large assumption that their technology for landing, developed with the Falcon series of rockets, will translate to starting to nail Starship landings fairly quickly, relative to how long it took with the Falcon.

#2 becomes a much more interesting debate if you remove the self sustaining aspect of it, and consider just an Earth dependent colony. Full self sustainability will probably only happen decades after the creation of a persistent colony. There's just too much industry to recreate in an entirely new environment for it to be a remotely quick process.
/s truly, the world's greatest monster.
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Our company's app is written in .NET 7 (soon to upgrade to .NET 8) and deployed via Linux containers into Kubernetes.

It is a delightful ecosystem to work with. Productivity is huge, great tooling and IDE support even in non-MS ways. I joined this company 3 months ago and what I've been able to get done on this platform is honestly exciting. And I haven't had to sacrifice modern development principles.
The reason this is “bad” in a way that it isn’t for other cars is that Musk has consistently described Teslas as “appreciating assets”
> 1. Have bad design ideas. 2. Defend those bad design ideas. 3. Insist users and the people who want better design are wrong.

Not sure if you're right or not about Linux, but what you've laid out there has been Apple's approach for the past 20+ years and it's been working out pretty OK for them!
It is without a doubt. It's baffling to me that people smoke when things like snus exist. Far, far safer than smoking, much cleaner, and it doesn't impact those around you.

Nicotine is a great drug that the world largely insists of using an awful delivery method for.
None of that is relevant. Caffeine has a blatant cognitive effect.
I think you could frame the complaint along the lines of Tesla making historically large profit margins on their vehicles. This is a good thing for the business and if the customer thinks they're getting value from the product then it's fine for them, too. But once there's competition and that margin starts to look more like a lever that Tesla Motors can use to change its market position, customers might see the other shoe drop.
>and not that many really rich people are that levered

Rich people are levered by proxy through equities.
Yes, my introduction to the world of commercial software development was an internship at a company that built products for prisons.

To be clear, I said "prisons...are for-profit enterprises", not "all prisons are privately owned". Even state-owned prisons are cash cows for the prison industry. I'm not interested in what narrative you identify with, I'm stating a fact.
When's the last time you were in Japan? I can't remember the last time I carried cash in JP unless I knew, ahead of time, that I was going to a ramen joint that used a vending machine. Between Suica on your phone and a credit card, you rarely ever need cash in big cities.

Smaller towns are a bit of a different story though.
Go requires everything to have a zero value. That's in direct conflict with how Result works; there's no suitable zero value for a Result.