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> My recollection of some things that made older GUIs less usable, especially for non-techy people

It's of course entirely possible that usability has increased in some areas and decreased in others. That's more or less my assessment of the situation summarized in a single sentence.

Also, there's a difference between "usability" and "easy to get started with". They're not the same thing at all! "Having to read the manual" can make an application MORE usable if it allows for more advanced UI paradigms, and for applications where the users will spend a lot of time this can be a good trade-off (of course, for many other types of applications it's a bad trade-off).

It's hard to directly compare things to 20 years ago; "real-time collaborative editing of a document (with automatic saving and unlimited undo) over a video call" wasn't done because we lacked the internet speeds and computing power to make that viable, not because UI paradigms improved.
Take a step back and think about what you just said...

"Washing them, removes the protective coating, requiring refrigeration"

Right, so why do they require refrigeration, if they are sanitized?

Further, if they're not sanitized, you can leave them out? What exactly is that protective coating and how does it somehow make the eggs less safe to sanitize them?

https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/stories/articles/how-we-store-ou...

US eggs are fine to leave out, they just lose some moisture. That's also true of the ones which are unwashed btw, but washed eggs degrade faster. Both unwashed and washed are better refrigerated.
I bet, India is on the top3. Pharmacy culture in India is liberal. U can walk into any pharmacy without prescription and buy most meds including Antibiotics. It's a different story online, but even then there are ways to get around.
Life-among-the-ruins of old technology. Accretion, aggregation, accrual. The lifecycle of systems. The author has their own pretty direct answer for you:

> if only because I thought it'd be interesting to watch such a legacy, time-worn piece of automation come back to life.

> ...and it was [ed: coming back to life]! I got to see the terminal boot from a quite sophisticated script and the sound of everything settling into place was enchanting, pitifully.

Being perceptive & interested in the world is what hackers do & are.
I’m not sure exactly what you mean by data requirements, but we’re using Lang chain and still calling to GPT on the backend.

We’re building agents that are a little bit less autonomous than what is popular right now, mostly using them as chat bots that can interface with a workspace or chained into a type of workflow. Basically everything in our workspace will be accessible to the agents.
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Interesting, do you feel like your / your founder’s qualities and relationship had any impact on the success of failure of your startup? Would love to hear how things went.
Changed above from https://www.wsj.com/tech/i-visited-over-120-ev-chargers-thre.... Thanks!
The Fermi paradox isn’t what I would point to. It makes a lot of assumptions.

The rare earth hypothesis is much more rooted in first principles. The earth has a very rare combination of factors all of which are crucial to life as we know it, and likely anything we could recognize as life due to the factors life requires for maintaining its complexity and ability to self replicate and perpetuate. These are not limited to the specific nature of carbon, water, and oxygen in the Goldilocks zones, the necessity of a magnetosphere, in a very specific galactic structure in a specific part of such a galactic structure, making the specific envelope of Sol and earth with its unique tectonic geology, etc, all of which are literally necessary to evolve life. Other forms of life are theorized (silicon based, etc) but they have almost impossible requirements to assemble into structures complex enough with enough flow of energy without so much energy they fall apart. Every theorized xenobiology other than the one we have is likely impossible for pretty fundamental reasons. This doesn’t mean we have exhausted all possibilities or that nature won’t surprise us in crazy ways beyond our imagination, it just means life is almost certainly MUCH MUCH more rare than drakes equation lets on.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis

Again, I’m not saying life doesn’t exist outside earth. I’m saying we don’t know and despite really hard efforts to approach extraterrestrial life from every possible angle has been fruitless so far, even to the point we have no theories of life’s origins, how to detect life, and no open avenues that have any hope of such a discovery. At the moment it’s feeling less likely we will discover life outside the earth before we can reverse time (as we have done in simple time crystals). That should be daunting to our blind faith.

To my mind this should weigh on us as a burden. As long as we believe life exists elsewhere the loss of life on earth is sad, but ultimately inconsequential. If we are the seed of life in the practically observable universe, then we are the shepherd of the most amazing thing in all of creation. We have a responsibility to tend it, and IMO, spread it as far and wide as we can such that the universe does team with life and for the rest of all time life never feels alone.
They don't just "not like the US".

The US is actively terrorizing their homelands.
>It will be basically impossible to have a normal linear view of time when it's violated constantly, even though your body itself will yet still almost certainly be insistent on linear time - and steadily marching towards its expiration date.

Why do you think humans will stage undergo the aging process at that time? With that level of technology, the idea that humans won't have cured the disease we call "aging" seems absurd.

>Even evolution itself will be weird. Humans over millions of years will probably scarcely resemble ourselves today, yet you'll regularly have 'old' species humans regularly reintegrating with 'new' ones?

Humans haven't been evolving due to natural selection for thousands of years. Any changes in humans in the future will be due to genetic engineering.
The Roblox community seems to be somewhat obsessed with obfuscation and of course deobfuscation. Literal script kids passing around blackbox software to hack each other and trying to hide their precious scripts. Unfortunately, that means the Lua communities constantly get bombarded by [de]obfuscation requests. It's almost always some kind of hacking/mischief.
Interesting read, it culminates in making a sparkly twinkly map to graphically convey radon location and strength which seems a bit 1980s to my mind.

For the work in Nuclear Sessions I’ve used a 2017 dataset of radon potential, published by the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council.

This dataset was selected purely on the basis of availability: it was the easiest (and first) geographic dataset regarding radiation to be found.

They could have gone for the full Australian 256 channel raw (or post processed full spectrum or "artifical colour" U-K-Th 3-channel) dataset covering the bulk of the continent.

https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/disciplines/geophysi...

The usual practice is to accumulate one second sample windows of the gamma spectrum while travelling at 70 m/s, normalise the data to remove various wobble factors, and extract three significant channels to form an RGB image - you can always add fiddle layers to indicate radon or out of band features (such as uncommon trace elements from atomic tests).

That said when reading the title I though this might be about the new trend in radiometric sampling - using a scintallation source surround by layered spinning masks - when you get a gamma spark you can better guess to some degree the direction of the source, when many gamma interactions accumulate you can build up a pretty decent 3-D image of gamma sources surrounding your instrument.

One of these was recently trialed in the HN infamous Western Australia Mining Company loses Radiactive Source! stories from earlier this year.
> The Florida fuel shortage was caused by flooding which is becoming more common

Is it? I am in Florida now for almost 45 years and flooding like that is neither common, nor happening with more frequency.
That's a very large set of things. Calculating 1000000 digits of the decimal expansion of pi within an hour would be just one example.
Wonder whether 1.) technical proficiency and 2.) age of introduction to computer would make a difference

Because totally anecdotally, I mean it could have been subconscious, but I never remember treating a computer that way. It’s always been… I dunno, a machine.
I'd bet my mortal soul that you cannot "Manhattan project" humanity back into perfect harmony with nature in 100 years. The first Manhattan project made sure of that. Every time, greed and fear will outpace benevolent innovative contributions. Resource competition, hoarding and paperclip maximizing is our only mode of civilized existence.

I hate to be the one to say it, but us starry-eyed Silicon Valley nerds aren't going to put the genie back into the bottle.
It's surprising to see this, but I have to say that I agree with the bipartisan position being taken.

Yes, you're free to do it. But it's concerning that you feel you have to.

There are chinks in the armor - maybe it wasn't such a good idea to have a computer company become a media company. Turns out monopolies are bad for geopolitics as well.
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We've hosted a plethora of open-source LLMs and you can generate images with SDXL seamlessly.
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There's a lot of reasons I think this is going to be a badass system, but I note that the upcoming Minisforum V3 tablet has DisplayPort-IN, and I think this should just be a semi-standard capability everywhere.

With USB4 especially, it's like: these computers have crazy huge bidirectional throughput. Why why why would we not have one of the most obvious easy to do pipes, a way to let video data in?
> You can do everything with one vendor, and some customers really love that. Ours certainly do.

HN probably leans towards people who build things with the cloud, whereas it sounds like your customers are people who want to pay people to run things in the cloud for them.
Interesting thanks, I'll try that next trip.
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We can't even define what that experience means. From all the information we have the experience is most likely just a physical manifestation of what the parent poster describes.
What do you mean by "real thing"? The comment to which you responded makes clear I know about the issues in detail, so I'm clearly aware of it.

If you mean that yours and/or layer8's perspectives are a 'real thing', you don't have a privileged claim on reality, of course (and neither do I).
Calling the 'hamburger' a 'junk drawer' is just so apt!

Often one clicks it out of hope rather than expectation.
Completely agree, this is why I am banning my son from all reading and listening to music until he becomes an adult.

He may want to be an author or musician someday and it is clearly in society's best interest to ensure his mind remains uncorrupted by words and ideas belonging to others.
Then you need only change your page titles and h1 headings to better match relevant queries. The other problem could be that there isn't any search volume for that niche.
This is the future I was promised.
While certainly not as ubiquitous as Protobuf, Cap'n Proto[1] is an extremely excellent alternative worth checking out. The quality of the generated C++ code is enough reason for me to prefer it.

[1] https://capnproto.org/
It’s not science.

After two decades, zero predictions of any phenomena in nature. Please correct me if I’m mistaken.

Performing a calculation that produces patterns that sort of resemble some natural forms is not a prediction of anything.
Or to quote Einstein, "A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels."
Sigh. *pico, not zero. Fingers and brain are not coordinated today.
internet outrage! 404media is there!

It's pretty weird to delete the page, but since no one knows the reason (what if it was some tech issue like the cache hits were thru the roof or like others have pointed out, they didn't was the post necro bumped to their trending list? Stupid to do it while everyone was watching but whatever)

Anyways, everything is archived, https://web.archive.org/web/20150115193859/http://www.thegua...

so what. ever. Lots of ways for people to find out stories and reports from 9/11 times. These tiktok kids are always always acting like something is new they just discovered. They live in an ephemeral world of now without history so finding stuff out always shocks.
The very next line, which you elided:

>Unfortunately, though this did clear the error, it landed on (and got stuck) the exact same error when I tried my card lol

He didn't actually fix anything. It's still broken.
Is that with or without fat kids?
>the more important consensus building becomes

Why? Isn't the more important thing making the correct decision, and choosing the correct direction, and executing it correctly? You don't need large teams for that.

I have often found companies go through a cycle. There's a building the "people pyramid" cycle, then there is a distillation that happens when companies actually need to execute in a competitive environment.
is the prompt any more sophisticated than? "do a ux audit on this page with the format "problem" and "solution" with tags messaging, cro, usability, marketing, etc"

or rather, significantly more?

this seems super, super simple.
I assure you that stuff is all considered into actuarial determination of how much the person is paying to get the SUV insured.
The brain is actually receiving signals from the eye, as far as they can tell, but he cannot see [1].

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=I7aprt7l42s&t=213
He also literally fucking said that he hates America for its freedoms.
They however failed to create an article where I can see them on my iPhone.
I have a friend who uses generative AI to classify and count wild flower species in alpine meadows using drones that autonomously patrol the same areas in many locations every day indefinitely to evaluate how climate change is impacting biodiversity in those ecosystems.

That’s just awesome.
> first came FCoE that allowed using regular network [stuff]

From rough memory, didn't FCoE start out that way only in theory?

With the reality that people needed to buy FCoE rated equipment, which was priced at "enterprise pricing" levels.

Pretty sure that was FCoE, and I'm not mis-remembering that from something else... :)
This must have been what it was like when the settlers were trying to communicate with native Americans at first
> The advice that I really want to hammer into people's heads is, prefer “sad ifs.”

I think this is the first time I've heard that name for this idea. You'll find more under the term "guard clauses" - it even has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_(computer_science)
They also roam less.

It's not really that confusing that they would want to brand a lower quality service differently.
Sure there's nothing wrong with honing those skills! I have friends who crochet, an art as old as time, but I just buy clothes. I'm terrible at crocheting (and jealous at my better friends!) I'm quite good at starting fires with flint and the fire triangle but almost everyone I know just fills a lighter with lighter fluid and presses a button. Do I think there's an art to starting a fire? Of course. Do I think humanity has lost something by abstracting starting a fire behind the push of a button? Not really. I'm just glad that I can choose to start a fire now rather than be forced to start one.
There is a shocking amount of hindsight bias with the US war in the middle east which seems to entirely forget 9/11. Including those who remember 9/11.
Links to friend sites - does this have a name?

As a way of discovering content, I love the idea.
> retake Taiwan

Take Taiwan. You can’t “retake” something you never had.
> But, with electric, you are not only looking for a working charger, but one that isn't in use.

Or like, a 120v plug anywhere at someone who has electricity? That's a lot more ubiquitous than a gas station.
Gasoline would suck just as bad without an extensive distribution network.

This isn’t a technology problem. It’s a horse before the feed lot problem.
Where in the codebase are you performing the distillation process?
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The key to the idea above is that you don't have any "else" clause. It's an early return, raise an exception, or modify the data so it's no longer bad.
Defining schema to communicate an API or standard
> due to irrational fear of GMOs

Would not be surprised to find this fear was astroturfed. It makes literally no sense.
How would China do that exactly? None of their bombers have sufficient range.
And you have to conform in some aspects to be nonconformist. If you don't conform in every aspect of your life that's like getting all the answers wrong on a true/false test. Your behavior is just as rigidly defined by society's expectations of you.
F150 is the best selling vehicle in the USA, you have to learn to walk before you run. It's a foot in the door. I think a lot of people of very high green bent don't realize you can't force people in a democracy to do things they don't want. If you go too fast then they will rebel and you get someone like Trump elected who will set it back 20 years.
> We have no idea how rare the universe is because we can't compare it to anything.

Good luck floating that past your typical theoretical astrophysicist, there are several quite different approaches to taking a stab at that one - all fall into can't be resolved either way basket though, I see your point.

fnordpiglet mentions the rare earth notion, I first came across that in the mid 70's reading an Asimov non fiction essay collection The Tragedy of the Moon which raised the importance(??) of having a moon to create tides to create intertidal zones to nudge life from water to land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_the_Moon

There's a long chain of chance that lies behind ourselves arriving where we are ... the argument can still be made (as it was by Douglas Adams) that "The universe is big. Really Big."

The latest JWT images convey just a smidgeon of how big with high res images of tiny arc areas of the night sky packed with tiny lights that are each galaxies the size of the milky way and more.

That's a lot of rolls of the dice out there.
Having the devices exposed "raw" means there's no redundancy on the device though. :(
We’re going to Mars. First crewed mission next year, millions of colonists within a decade.
I can't wait to learn what you think this thread is about.
Can you tell me more about the usefulness of 'let'? I'm an intermediate(?) programmer but I've worked mostly in Python, C and C++. I did one JS project and everything I saw about 'let' seemed redundant.
The horse used the elevator? I didn't know he knew how to do that.
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While helping rescue a dog in Peru our flight got delayed, so I took him to play fetch in a field by the airport.

Apparently the cargo handlers had the same idea; they let a pair of alpacas out and my dog beelined straight for them and started herding them to and partially through the terminal.

I thought I was going to be sued or shot - the handlers were good blokes and falling over themselves laughing by the time I managed to coax the whole entourage back to them.

This was a long time ago when airports were a very different kind of place.
nothing you say is going to change that the courts have ruled on this already.

I don't care if you feel reality is obnoxious, take your toys and go home. or stay. quite literally, nothing you do or say changes that the courts have ruled on this already.
The fear has never been the GMOs themselves, it what GMOs enable. Roundup works so well because they also sell seeds resistant to it. The engineering doesn’t necessarily make a better food but it always makes a better product.
I think it's true that "it's not about you" - but management is also not some kind of noble sacrifice either. The article is saying that being authentic with your team about your own strengths and weaknesses and focusing on their needs will lead to better outcomes. Pretending you're equals when there's a clear power dynamic at play isn't being authentic.
There's no way to combine the NVMe drives into a larger sized unit for redundancy / failover though, so not sure what kind of future uptake this could have.
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I'm not sure how one would define "adaptation" (presumably meaning "adoption", ie: how widely used something is) in a way that could have debian have a higher adoption than rust: rust ships in programs within many linux distributions and other operating systems (mac os and windows). rust is used in widely used programs/kernels (Firefox, Chrome, Linux itself, Windows) that span further than debian itself.

All this is to say: a large amount of debian users likely are using rust, and an even larger amount of non-debian users is likely to be using rust.
> 387 kWh

What does it take to charge that battery overnight?
Way back in 2008 or so, shortly after the "ribbon" arrived in the MS Word interface, I was teaching a CS class that had a unit on UI, so we spent a bunch of time deconstructing it and comparing it to the menu-based interfaces we were all (then) still used to. I was careful to point out that unfamiliarity with the new interface wasn't necessarily the same as it being bad, especially if with a little additional training and practice we could become more efficient and/or it aided in discoverability for newer users. Although I didn't use the same words as the OP I was unironically suggesting that MS must have done a bunch of research to show that these interfaces would be an improvement in usability.

Joke's on me! Fifteen years later and I still can't fucking find anything I want to do in the ribbon. I use various MS products at least a couple times a week (though day-to-day is more Libreoffice when it can't just be vim) and despite regular use I still find that I routinely have to google "how do I X in Microsoft Word/Excel/etc" for values of X that are very standard tasks that I am deeply confident I would be able to find on my own in a menu. And once I do find out how to do something, even if it's something I'm going to be doing a bunch, there's no indication of a shortcut or keyboard equivalent that I could train myself on, to become an actual power user of the interface. It's all completely maddening.
They said "isn't", not "is". Double negative. You two agree.
Every single thing in this universe dies, even stars. Every single thing we're made of dies, and breaks down. I see no reason to think aging and death will ever stop, for anything. And to reject natural selection, especially at a time like now, is something I find even more odd. Natural selection basically comes down to the truism that traits which are productive for fertility tend to become more dominant in the following generations.

Natural selection doesn't require you to be out in the wild fighting against the elements, it's no different than what's happening socially at an extreme level today. Certain groups have certain characteristics driving them to have large families. Others lack those characteristics. Whatever these characteristics may be, they're going to be far more dominant in the generations that follow ours. It's evolution.