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He hand-crafted animated text art for a game project [1], which I had the pleasure to implement [2].

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[1] Hanukkah of Data https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh/5784/

[2] I wrote about the process here: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/animate-text-art-javascript/
Oh God, I used to be obsessed with Lode Runner: The Legend Returns
Like I said, that comment was by no means exclusively negative and I don't recall where I read the more critical take, but it might have been one of the other (many!) posts about Carlin on r/askhistorians.
Disagree. A "humour" tag could be required and those who are too serious to enjoy a range of tastes of humour could then toggle to not show "humour' tagged comments. E.g. Humour can be a very powerful way to make a sharp point.
Only, I think, in the sense that it would be bad if it was very expensive.

It just isn’t an efficiency, in the <achieved quantity>/<total quantity> sense. The measurement of <tax revenue>/<money spend on tax collection> is meaningless in the same way that a comparison between the energy required to flip a light switch and the energy that is sent to that socket as a result is basically meaningless.

I mean, sure, if tending a light switch required an appreciable percentage of the amount of the energy the socket could provide, that would be bad, but it is a ridiculous scenario.
Affirm stock up 430% in 2023, beating all tech peers, on buy-now-pay-later boom
There are a lot of undesirable side effects with that solution.

You shouldn't have to be tech savvy enough to host a shopping experience that's competitive with Amazon in order to sell things online. You ought to be able to focus solely on your product and if it's a good one you ought to be able to compete with Amazon Basics on a level playing field--even if it's a field served by Amazon metal.

I think we need more separation between the part of Amazon that handles clicking "buy" and printing shipping labels, and the part that comes up with things for sale. So much separation, in fact, that the former considers the latter to be no more trustworthy than any other company or individual.

Seller reputation should be important, and the medium for determining if a seller is trustworthy should be free from conflicts of interest.

If the user facing part was adequately adversarial about the cardboard facing part it would result in a UI which had no reason to encourage the user to trust the contents of the cardboard, and instead simply presented facts that enable the user to apply their own scrutiny.
This is an article summarizing multiple experimental studies.

You wouldn't medicate for the rest of your life, just until adolescence, when eye growth slows down.

The promised result is far fewer high myopes, which means fewer retinal detachments and other risks of high myopia.
I feel like Firefox already wins on all the privacy dimensions, so what's left but small stuff?
Yes. But it proves nothing.
Tree style tabs enables vertical tabs, which are listed at the side of the window rather than the top.

It means you can still read tab titles when you have more than a dozen tabs open. Plus you can nest and rearrange your tabs to fit your work or study.

For some, like me, it's a game changer and I dislike using chrome now because it doesn't support vertical tabs.

Caveat: to disable top-of-window tabs you have to use a user chrome CSS file, so it's not just "install extension, enable checkbox" easy.
Copyright law doesn't mention opt outs or search engine snippet controls. It's not clear to me that robots.txt is the singular thing that makes Google legal.

In US copyright law facts cannot be copyrighted, so copyright on factual content like newspaper articles is limited. Simply replacing a few words wouldn't work, but I am certain that GPT-4 is capable of paraphrasing factual content at a level that would not be considered infringement if a human did it.
I've also heard of XKCD blindness that the tech community is more prone to.
As long there are countries boundaries there will be disadvantage. I don't think we are implementing that total amount of earth's resources be divided equally among total number of earth's inhabitants.
Meh, just keep a container around with py2 in it, maybe just containerize the whole app. The ultimate in vendored dependencies, short of a whole VM image.
It sounds like a good deal for them. Plus, they don’t have to leave their families and social networks behind.
> What does “merely-harmful” mean?

Drugs that really only harm the person who takes them if abused. Alternatively, drugs which are unproblematically sold over the counter the world over.

> Everything is available on the black market

Available versus commonly procured.

> that doesn’t mean regulations are BS, it means people are willing to risk breaking the law to avoid being tracked

It means they’re willing to break regulations to get it. We can’t impute motivation.

> how will people know when and how to avoid fatal doses

Same way they do for e.g. Tylenol.

> Why do you assume it might be either effective or safe if diluted?

I don’t. Dilution is a common (and obvious) pharmaceutical tool for increasing the distance between the therapeutic and harmful dose.
It's not as much mining as you'd think -- it's not comparable to nuclear, sure, but I was surprised to learn, for example, the enormous difference between a fully decarbonized future vs. carbon present in terms of mining / extraction volume.
Yeah it's basically a human simulator. All our bad traits are included too.
They do not for supplements. Supplements fall under the office of the Director, which is not funded by PDUFA / MDUFA. Supplements are basically the Wild West.
The idea precedes LLMs by a couple of decades and is thought to apply more broadly within ML/AI than being a specific meta for LLMs. http://prize.hutter1.net/ has been around for a while, there is a link in there to the earlier work (called AIXI?).
Too funny, was just talking about this with my parents. My mom has bathroom towels she bought in 1988 that are still used every day. They're a little faded, but they look great and feel great. I think they're from Ralph Lauren. Same with their bed sheets that show no signs of failure after decades of use. They've had the same comforter since I was 5 years old.

Meanwhile we've gone through Parachute, Brooklinen, some sheets and towels from Macy's, and nothing seems to last.

I don't know enough about the brands they sell, but thinking we might buy from here next: https://linensociety.com/
"so cannot have bugs caused by misusing the pointers"

std::string_view lets you have some of the bugs that are caused by misusing pointers.
Let's see then:

PV load factor for utility scale solar was 16%. China installed 230 GW, Europe 75 GW and the US 40 GW -> 55 GW incl. load factor and excluding the rest of the world

Wind:

Let's use 40% as a load factor, which seems reasonable. Globally, around 100 GW added -> net 40 GW

NPP grid connections in 2022 (if you have 2023 numbers, please share them): 8.3 GW, with a load factor of aeound 80% for 2022 -> 6.6 GW. At the same 2.2 GW,
around 1.8 GW of NPPs were shut down, resulting a net gain of 4.8 GW.

In total we have 90 GW of wind solar vs. not even 7 GW of nuclear. Excluding load factors we have 440 GW of wind and solar vs. 8.3 GW of nuclear globally. In the western world, those numbers fall even more towards wind and solar.

And looking at estimates until 2035, these numbers are looking even worse for nuclear.

So no, countries are not doing both, countries, especially in Asia, are very, very slowly adding new NPPs while overall net added nuclear capacity is negligible and barely replacing shut down reactors.

In other words, one year worth of new NPPs is added every two weeks using wind and solar.

Feel free to argue those numbers...
(If I understand you correctly, a workaround is to switch focus to the address bar first so the ctrl-f goes to the browser chrome and not the page.)
I totally get where you're coming from, but the problem with enforcement-by-whack-a-mole is that some crimes are very cheap and easy to carry out and very difficult to detect and prosecute. The asymmetry means criminals are incentivized to commit those crimes, and can even become fantastically wealthy by doing so. If there isn't an offsetting risk for them (or control), then they're going to do it. Some of those crimes can ruin victims' lives, and in some cases (like this) people can die. We simply can't afford to use no other enforcement strategies.

A good example of where we threw out the upfront controls was COVID relief money, and that was a disaster in terms of fraud. (Admittedly a purely government program, but the same principle applies.)
>Entry level jobs are almost non-existent, they're all going overseas and to indentured servants.

Which is now having impact on hiring higher level positions because we broke the pipeline of Jr. -> Mid Level -> Sr.
> This period of most people getting free email is really quite short historically. A decade.

I do agree from a long perspective free email has been somewhat short. But I'm not sure about scoping it to just a decade. It was easy to get a Gmail account in 2004, that's close to 20 years ago. And Gmail wasn't even the first free email host, loads of people used other free email services like Yahoo (1997), Hotmail (1996), Lycos (1997), and others. 1996-2024 is 28 years, close to three decades.
They are more like 50 though? Unless you break them up into groups (political parties oriented around being for/against a topic may be quite well aligned in their views, but it's almost a tautology - you can probably divide people up lots of ways to align groups of views, but it isn't necessarily indicative of psyops).
> I have enough abstract reasoning ability to understand […] that ice cream is not healthy

Ice cream might be healthy though: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cre...
In regards to dedicated bandwidth, Thunderbolt 3 is better for storage devices while Thunderbolt 4 is better suited for docks/hub devices.

https://www.owc.com/blog/whats-the-difference-between-thunde...
Most important is that Firefox is the only barrier that protects us from Google locking up internet behind a DRM.
> companies like yours were told "too bad, hire and train locally"

Companies would collapse and fail, unless the government gave a massive corporate stimulus package (probably 4-5x the size of PPE).

> none of the skills you need, but I could easily be trained

It would take at least 1-2 years. At that point, an Israeli or Indian startup has taken market share and won. Welcome to cybersecurity and networking.
Coding is rarely what makes me feel burnt out when developing software at work.
> just mount the remote filesystem locally using FUSE somehow

This is the step that never works consistently for me. There is always some amount of random extra latency that makes the this workflow painful. I work with some extremely large data files, so random access to these is the primary issue.

In general, the idea is that it is often better to do compute where the data already is. My experience is that you should also do the programming closer to where the data is as well. This tends to make an iterative development loop tighter.

But this is highly dependent upon what you’re doing.
I use VSCode every day and cant remember the last time it crashed or the UI glitched.
Welcome to HN, in as gentle a way possible I refute this statement

> Apple continues to support nearly-decade-old devices like the iPhone 6S, which and iOS 15.8 is still powering those devices, seemingly with official Apple support, with the latest update from October the 25th, which addressed some security vulnerabilities.

With: try to update your Apple Watch with a device running the latest iOS 16
Then I stand corrected (at least for the iOs ecosystem)
I don't think the lawsuit has any merit, but I'd still like to encourage Sam Altman et al, if they really care about the greater good, to go Keyser Söze and immediately release torrents of the weights and source code for GPT-4 under GPL.
Yes, we’re being paid but also underbid to get the contract, and using more chemical than strictly necessary will cut into the profit for the job. So we mixed the chemicals the same, but wouldn’t spray growth regulator in every apartment (more expensive) and we wouldn’t put roach bait down in every unit only ones with roach issues and ones surrounding that one.

You want to keep the bugs down but not totally eliminate them, otherwise why would they need you? My boss never said that explicitly but we’d just use the minimum chemical mixtures in our tanks unless we were treating some specific infestation.

It wasn’t a scam exactly but it was definitely a “the squeaky wheel gets the grease” sort of thing. One person would pay $80 and get an outdoor treatment only. Another person would get a 2 hour intense complex spraying and attic dusting, extremely thorough, with follow up visits for the exact same price. Like any sort of service job, really.
Not offended, but not understanding because of translation is fair.

My entire point was that it's unusual for someone, especially someone who is new to IDE's or programming in general, to pick something brand new. As educational institutions will take time to change from the popular thing and most companies will also need time to adjust.

Distilled: my point is that you should not compare IDE release dates to the stability of IDEs vs Editors. -- you must consider the entire ecosystem of each at the time.

Another perhaps good example to conclude this would be something like python backends. One could (unreasonably) argue that Python has been around since 1991; but backends typically were written in Perl or PHP for a very long time. It wasn't until 2008 or so that Python started making headroom for web backends (ruby around the same time) -- The possibility existed but the popularity wasn't there.

A similar argument could be made for Sublime text (which is uncommon these days) but was extremely common in 2010. Or Atom, which doesn't even exist any longer but took considerable market share from Sublime in its heyday.

It's not fair to say "x has been around for y time therefore it is not changing", the ecosystem does change and it has darlings and detractors.

The only exception to this ecosystem over tool argument I can think of is probably visual studio itself as that was a monoculture and stuck around because of that.
You keep ignoring that your criticism is nonsensical. There is nothing in Visarga's comment that indicates hubris. If there is, you would be able to plainly point it out instead of complaining that people are misinterpreting your complaint.
I have a little hobby project (iOS and macOS) that I don't regularly develop anymore, but I use it quite often as a user, and I like to keep it compiling and running on the latest OSes. It's aggravating (and should be totally unacceptable) that every time I upgrade Xcode, I have a few odds and ends that need to be fixed in order for the project to compile cleanly and work. My recent git history comments are all variations of "Get project working on latest Xcode".

I could almost understand if these underlying SDK and OS changes had to be made due to security threats, but that's almost never the case. It's just stupid things like deprecating this API and adding that warning by default and "oh, now you need to use this framework instead of that one". Platforms and frameworks need to stop deliberately being moving targets, especially operating systems that are now very stable and reliable.

I should be able to pull a 10 year old project out of the freezer and have it compile cleanly and run just as it ran 10 years ago. These OS vendors are trillion dollar companies. I don't want to hear excuses about boo hoo how much engineering effort backward compatibility is.
I'd love to have the opposite. A way to turn down the volume on my ears. Lots of noise really causes me mental fatigue.

I've seen some adjustable earplugs like the Loop Switch but they start at 15dB which is too high. There was the Knops which started at 0 which was great but they don't seem to be available anymore and their website is gone. They were also pretty prohibitively expensive for passive earplugs.

I'd also love active noise cancelling plugs that could eliminate background noise and make voices more intelligible. Like when you're trying to speak on a noisy street or in a nightclub. But I don't think the tech is there yet.

If anyone knows a comparable product to the Knops that are still available I'd be interested. I've been looking all over.

Just some links to show what I mean:

Knops: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/4/19/15360206/k...

Loop Switch: https://www.loopearplugs.com/products/switch
DesignKit
IMO this was a reasonable baseline... maybe ten years ago =/ These days companies are swarmed with so much expertise, especially after the FAANG layoffs, "I know some basic web dev" won't get you anywhere. You won't even get a rejection email, much less a tech screen.

It's a really saturated space and a lot of businesses are pretty cautious right now after the layoffs of these last couple years.
But treestyle tabs (and sidebery) require editing the chrome.css to remove the tabs at the top. It just feels janky.
A library can only stay static if the environment it's used in is also static. And many of the environments in which modern software is developed are anything but static, web frontends are one example where things change quite often.

A library that can stand entirely on its own might be fine if it's never updated. But e.g. a library that depends on a web frontend framework will cause trouble if it is not updated to adapt to changes in the ecosystem.
Apple plans software workaround for noninfringing watches amid US ITC ban appeal
Another premium EV for a premium price. I wonder if it manages to find a spot in the market. It seems that at the moment there is a lot of premium EV supply while demand is cooling down.
It's not the most compelling feature for me, but I spend 2 hours on the bus every day and love being able to send a bunch of tabs that pop up on my desktop when I get home.
The current meta for disabling right click seems to be invisible but tangible divs on top of the thing you don't want people to right-click.

... maybe they could add something like ctrl-shift-rightclick to get the context menu on the topmost visible element, and then we can get into more stupid arms races about opacity levels or something...
The US doesn’t understand the social burden of integrating an immigrant, and the resulting social conflict. Meanwhile, the prospective immigrant gets to stay in their homeland (most don’t really want to leave, money aside).

If tax dollars are the issue, just tax the company.
"Disruptive" Tech: A Tier List
Perhaps, I solidly understand how dependencies work and in this case my observation is defensible

Someone made the decision to use that and someone thought using stuff made by a person's who makes those kinds of decisions was a good idea and so on.

You can git blame dependencies all the way down and research the parties involved. I've done it, built tools for it even.

A stack of people who make bad decisions doesn't make good software.
I don’t use containers all that much (I just auto clear cookies and history when Firefox is relaunched) but I can’t overstate the workflow upgrade that was my switching to TST a few years ago. That combined with a plethora of mouse macros for moving between tabs, changing their position in the tree hierarchy, and other basic functionality really made the experience of using a web browser more enjoyable and interesting. Lots of customization to be had with userChrome.css + TST css theming. Thankfully there’s a lot of prebuilt configs shared on GitHub to help get you started.
It’s an easy way to absolve a nation of guilt if you negate any examples done during war. Our bombings in North Vietnam were entirely immoral and are not less so because we were at war. Though no actual declaration of war was made. The Gulf of Tonkin incident was made up to justify enlarging the war. Does McNamara’s Morons count in your mind as an example? Maybe not since that was done to our own people.

Nevertheless, you should read up on the history of our shenanigans in Latin America. One example: while Americans didn’t do the actual killing and torture of Catholic priests and nuns our proxies did. You should also read up on things we funded the Iraqis to do in their war against Iran. Paying someone to do your dirty deeds is just as bad as doing them yourself. We did shoot down an Iranian airliner and later promoted the captain of the ship. We weren’t at war with Cambodia but did terrible things to that country during the Vietnam war. Bay of Pigs.

Look at who we funded and ended up enabling to gain control of Afghanistan during Soviet Union’s involvement there.
The next act for generative AI
I had this problem for years. I would get the block lifted and it would return in short order. I surmise it’s because my mail server runs on a VPS and other users on my subnet are not well behaved (actually I know this for a fact).

I solved the problem by paying for a next hop SMTPS server as an upstream smarthost for non-local mails. That means my mails come from a subnet that fronts TONS of other servers/domains. That makes it a bigger headache for MS to block.

Sad but there you go. I do not use the external service for inbound. Inbound mails come direct to my server per the MX.
Walgreens Builds Up Its IT Department
I don't know about elsewhere, but I regularly set up small self-hosted web servers at my home (Midwest US) and have never heard a peep from my ISP about it. Some of the aforementioned servers get 25 - 50 unique visits on a high day, and my ISP couldn't care less. I'm not sure they would unless I was calling a lot of traffic, which is not really a huge concern for Small Webbers. We are few and relatively unnoticed by the larger Internet, which is just the way we like it.
https://archive.ph/rEohg
Especially if you do any web development or IT, containers is great for testing different cookies. You can easily be logged in under multiple different accounts in the same browser window, which can be super useful for debugging certain issues tied to user accounts on a site. It's honestly such a useful feature that I'm shocked there isn't an alternative available in chrome, but it does also thwart tracking so I can see why Google won't implement it.
Same for the UK, the tier-1 visa, which is how I got my first independent visa there. Unfortunately it also gives high points for income, which biases for privileged peoples and origin countries. But if you can get to the UK on a work permit with a high salary for a couple years, then you can apply it as points when you eventually apply.

EDIT: just checked and it’s obsolete. Not sure if there is a post-Brexit equivalent. https://www.gov.uk/tier-1-investor
Bought a house in 1990 that had all of the original appliances in it from 1974. The stove died around 2000 (26 years). The Fridge died around 2010 (36 years). The dishwasher died in 2012 (38 years).

We started renting that house out in 2010 and bought a different house that had appliances that were about 7 years old (based on what the previous owner had told us). We had to replace the dishwasher in 2012 (so it was 9 years old then) and since then we had to replace it again in 2022 (at 10 years). Had to replace the fridge in 2014 (11 years).
It's about allowing a custom right click action more than just disabling it. There are plenty of use cases for making a custom action happen on right click. Google Docs adds a custom menu on right click. Games often have a use case for right clicking.