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> Part of what causes this crap is that the costs aren’t visible.

A billion times this. And this is when the next version of the design system isn’t incompatible with the previous one.
It surely wasn't the norm for me, in 1995's Summer, I got my first Linux distribution via Slackware 2.0, everything was already compiled and when chosing to download tarballs I would rather pick already compiled ones.

Later on, to take advantage of my Pentium based computer, I would get Mandrake, with its i585 optimized packages.

Most of my Linux based software would be sourced via Linux magazines CD-ROMs, or Walnut Creek CD-ROM collections.
Extensive binary packages would have been nice back in the years when Gentoo was a meme OS; CPUs were a lot slower and not multicore. I don't have a use for them now.

Anyway, the best OS is the one you already know how to use.
Maintaining a Remote-First Culture Using AI: Tremendous Case Study
Employees are fully remote, and the company emphasizes mindful communications and interactions over spending hours in meetings where nothing gets done.
Thanks for this!
You perfectly summed up what I've been thinking for the last year.

I would like to add that especially with the Intel Arc GPUs added into the mix, it's a great time for good value GPUs.

In case of the Arc GPUs it often feels like many people want the prices to drop so low that Intel basically gives them away for free.
Currently it’s only 800MW at 525KV but eventually they’ll bump that to 1,400MW so 2,700A if my math is right?
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I’m sorry, this argument is not worth my time. Please go vent your anger elsewhere.
PC parts were generally quite expensive in the 90s. Most prices have fallen over time for all components when taking inflation into the equation (as well as absolute dollars, see storage/RAM), except GPUs.

> Intel’s popular 33 Mhz 486 CPU cost PC makers $1,056 in 1990 in quantities of 1,000.[0]

Let's not make this into a car comparison thread -- they're never valid comparisons.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-12-23-fi-4940-s...
This is the right attitude. If highly qualified applicants start avoiding companies that ghost, ghosting will stop.
> Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
That’s why I have to change the default search engine.

Most of what they’re nagging me about won’t even make them money. It’s marketing-changelog pages nobody reads. They could save some money by keeping text change logs where people who care can find them, and dropping those altogether.
For Hinkley Point C that is only generation. No delivery.

Add another 10 - 20 cents for delivery depending on if it's a city or rural.
And nvidia is killing it right now because they predicted the need _before_ the incentives were there.
Decrim has been an unmitigated disaster in Portland and Seattle. I once agreed with you, but seeing what's happened on the ground changed my position
I recommend Firefox with zero additional plugins, but configure it to automatically clear the cookies when quitting. You can now click 'accept' to every insisting site, knowing that they will be soon forgotten.
The "make all drugs legal" was meant as a way of saying that we should not punish people that have an addiction. I was not advocating giving highly addictive hard drugs out without prescription.
I have to disagree on that.

Most of the controls you have on the average GUI app are present in HTML. The big difference is that HTML describes active documents, not dialog boxes.
what other countries have you looked at? I'm starting out my career as a new grad in the US but don't see myself getting a citizenship here
FTA:

> The effect of getting ghosted for me, and likely others, is impactful. The narrative in my head played out like this: “was I really so bad that they wouldn’t even tell me no?” It was also a chilling effect for my projects that involved generative AI. I didn’t want to work on them. Every time I logged into my Github, I was reminded of the company because I still had a fork of the take home assignment. It took about a month for my project work to feel normal again, but I shelved some of my LLM projects and moved on.

How is this "half a breakdown"? They stopped working on their side projects for a month. That's a completely understandable result after having spend hours of your life interviewing and not even getting the courtesy of a "no". I'm happy with myself when I make any significant movement in my side projects within a month, so I can certainly imagine that a disappointing professional experience would zap my personal coding motivation for a few weeks. That's a not a breakdown--that's human nature. Most people aren't coding on the side at all.

> The whole idea that we can apply the norms of personal relationships to a business transaction like this with 100s of candidates, no pre-existing relationship beyond 1-2 calls at mostand at best a generic rejection is basically displaced disappointment turned to resentment and anger. To which I say, you can either rant about it online and hope they change, or you can learn to regulate your own emotions.

What? We can't extend common courtesy into business transactions? You sound... tough to work with. Yes, resiliency is important and great and we should all strive for it. That doesn't mean we should throw away longstanding norms of professional decency.

Also, calling this a "rant" is unfair. It was well-written and calmly worded. A lot of people are reading it. Some of them might go back to their job Monday and think "oh, I should ask if the recruiter ever followed up with the rejected candidates".
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That is true, but the Chrome/Chromium ecosystem is largely driven by Google. And Google makes use of this power position to push through web standards that benefit them, but not the users. Therefore I choose to use Firefox, to support a more open browser ecosystem.
What good does not recommending it achieve? Maintaining the status quo which as well discussed elsewhere in these threads is hardly generally desirable?

My move back to FF has been slow (as mentioned already too) but I've been recommending it to others, who don't have my self-inflicted blocker, for some time. Maybe some will stop listening if I keep mentioning it, but people online I'll never meet in person are hardly a great loss in my life. The sort of people who are going to take such issue in RealLife™ are likely those just paying me attention in exchange largely for free tech support (the matter isn't likely to come up in other contexts) and they can do one anyway too.
You should mind your own business and let people put whatever they want into their bodies
If you are using Safari on Apple’s platform, you are already contributing to the user base of the browser that isn’t headed for monopoly. IMO, you are probably contributing better than us Firefox users; Safari remains large.

I wonder if, like in Apps, Apple users are known to be more likely to pay for things…
Not sure about the others but uBlock Origin allows you to disable it for specific websites and remember the setting.
> > to what extent are there entities that manipulate the arc of the HN narrative(s) via down vote, purposeful distracting comments, and so on? How often does this happen? If not at all, how can that be?

If that happens and it's ideological then how is that not fair and square? It's just a bunch of people who are particularly ideological about something, it happens.

The worry becomes if they are paid to comment and upvote/downvote, that's a whole different matter, but it's hard to prove, but I also suspect it's very hard to conduct such campaign especially on an obscure site like HN.
Problem is it's not the best browser out there, Chromium is.
I wanted to switch to Firefox many times, and while for regular websites it's ok, the performance in more complex web apps simply sucks. And the developer tools are dogsh* compared to Chromium's.
As an aside Stevie Wonder is active in the NFB and at CSUN. I’ve never had the opportunity to meet him, but he greatly contributes to the blind community.
Unless they were Monster Incorporated, makers of expensive, gold-plated cables with a history of seeing anyone who uses “monster” in a product name regardless of commercial industry.
sorry that happened to you. most likely they had a candidate deep in the pipeline with an offer out, and they were hedging their bets in case they declined. this is surprisingly common, though its shitty behavior for the recruiter to ghost you
I don't know if it's the same "noise", but for a period of months I used an extension that replaced the New Tab page. When you do this with Firefox it pops up a notification the first new tab you open each session stating "your new tab has changed, keep settings?" I mean, I installed the extension to change the new tab page, so presumably I wouldn't need to be asked a second time.

The noisy part was this notification steals focus so you can't type into the search bar immediately, you have to hit escape or click out to gain focus again. And the popup kept appearing until I realized you had to specifically press "yes, keep changes" on the notification to get it to stop (usually I canceled out of it reflexively to do actually important things). If you just hit Escape or tried to use the URL bar it would come back next session and steal focus again.

It sounds like something minor but the idea of stealing focus to re-confirm a change you already confirmed is a mild source of headaches, and not necessary in my view. Not to mention, this process would repeat itself for every Firefox installation synced with, since the extension counts as a fresh install each time. In a world where switching browsers is trivial, I think minor annoyances like those are best removed.
I do feel that there’s a difference in kind between: “a website was built with Chrome in mind, and has problems rendering in Firefox”, and “a website was built specifically to degrade in Firefox”.

If no engineering time was spent on Firefox, and it’s broken in Firefox, that’s a Firefox problem.

If active engineering time was spent on _deliberately breaking_ Firefox, then yes, I don’t think that’s a Firefox problem. I think it’s a website problem at that point.
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> it fell under fair use

What means it's protected by copyrights. Fair use on the US is a murky thing that only large corporations have the legal power to bet on.

But the sibling saying it's about the organization of the files may be on point. I remember it being about the organization into packages, but I can easily be wrong here.
I love & support Firefox but feel nervous about going all in on it when Mozilla appears to be pivoting away from investing in it.
There are more appropriate and better data structures for an FTL especially with the assumption of some amount of auxiliary RAM (either host or on controller). Much of this literature is open access/free.

“All that garbage helps cycle the write/erase cycles across the drive more evenly”

Well no, you still want to minimize garbage production (and related GC overhead). Wear leveling doesn’t mean produce more garbage.
> Are You a Clown?

> Say hello to you new best friend.
Study of Mongolian Arc adds to mystery surrounding its purpose
HM hired someone they knew or recruiter was just sourcing candidates and didn't have visibility into the pipeline.
I bought one of these little things, mostly to be able to get an LTE connection when I'm traveling, and the rest of the features were a great value add.

It's been very helpful so far for the WiFi repeating and being able to override the DNS across the board, however, I've struggled to find a decent LTE stick for it. I bought a Huawei E3372-325 LTE stick, but unfortunately it doesn't work properly. Having searched for the issue, I'm not fully understanding what needs to be done.

I'd love some suggestion for a decent stick that works with OpenWRT. I've struggled to find a good resource for this where I can narrow down products that would work with it, and suit my needs.
> This alone means you either handle any window size and size ratio or your UI will break for some users.

You should spec your UI in device-independent units and let the GUI handle things like different pixel densities (or aspect ratios) and font sizes.
For gaming, you want to use Crossover or the FOSS Whisky app. Parallels only runs Arm Windows which then emulates x86. This is much much slower than using Wine to translate system calls and Apple's Game Porting Toolkit to handle the Vulkan or DirectX graphics. Crossover and Whisky take care of the internals of those for you. Give those a shot, I think you'll find it much better than a full VM. In my experience some games do run better this way than the MacOS versions, though that's usually because the Mac client wasn't compiled for Apple Silicon and so Rosetta is emulating. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure WOW is already Apple Silicon native, so you probably won't get better performance this way.

Crossover is paid but has better compatibility: https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover/ (or see https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility for compatible games)

Whisky is free, and will work just as well for games it supports, but has compatibility with fewer games (no official list, so you just have to download it and try yourself): https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky

For the mouse stuff, try a USB mouse if you're not already using one, combined with https://github.com/ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels to disable acceleration and fix the scroll wheel.

That works really well for me to get a Windows-like mouse curve.

TLDR skip the emulation and go for translation layers via Crossover, Whisky, and GPT. It'll be much faster. The mouse thing is separate and has nothing to do with the graphics layer.

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Personally though, I'd just pay $20 a month for Geforce Now. It is much much faster than even the highest end Mac. I don't think WOW is on there, but for supported games, it's a phenomenal experience... sold my 3080 desktop and replaced it with GFN on my Macbook. It's fantastic.

Supported games: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/games/
But why do you consider this good practice? It's (unnecessarily?) frustrating for senders and poses a legal risk for recipients (the sender has the logs to prove that they sent the invoice, while the recipient doesn't have any record).
>I guess that's technically not inflation, but 50% deflation isn't great either and causes other economic problems

Yes, there was a lot of deflation in the 1800s, and although it caused hardship, GDP per capita continued to grow at around 4% throughout the century, without huge dips like we saw in the Great Depression or the GFC.
Google pays Apple billions in their search deal, per year ($18 billion in 2021).

Apple may sell devices, but it's safe to say that at this point Google entirely funds Safari. Apple is unwilling to upset that cash cow without risking those tens of billions, even if we are talking about 5% of their revenue. ;-)
You didn't create in a vacuum out of nowhere.
You build upon shared language we all have rights to. An education system we paid for. Others created the music/art/writing/etc that you learned from and developed your own works.
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>their policies of what?

This was answered by the other poster

>People buying the bare minimum also means there's little investment going on, which needless to say is bad for economic growth.

Growth for who? There is little investment going on, that is the point, ventures that cant profit die, freeing their resources up for more productive ventures.

>Why would that be the case?

In this paragraph you moreso identify the market forces that eventually cause rates to come down. Eventually there is enough savings, and when companies come forward demonstrating their ability to create value, competition between savers pushes rates back down. This comes after the period of everyone stuffing their money under the mattresses.

You are confusing saving and lending, there is a creditor (buyer) for every lender, not every saver.

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Lets summarize. I hope you find the following to at least engage you and make you question your prior understanding of the issue at hand.

You are concerned that companies will own everything, but are not concerned with the 7% YOY (its not 2-3%) growth in the money supply, and how all interest on money that was printed into existence. The principle of that money will eventually be taken back out of circulation, leaving interest that remains to be paid. If you bought a house, but only paid back the principle, the bank is still going to repo your house, they own it afterall; there isnt enough money in the economy to repay the principle, meaning either mega-default across basically all industries, or we have to take on more debt to repay the interest on the last debt; since we are dealing with precentages and compounding interest, a greater and greater sum of resources go explicity to repaying debt.

If you wanted your repo-men world where everyone is enslaved to debt and private companies, thats all you need, just let it play itself out. If you really wanted to take it up a notch though, theres more we could do to confuse and repress the poor. Print lots of money, it doesnt matter how you justify it, forever wars, bank bailouts, socialized healthcare and welfare, it doesnt matter! When this money is printed, it will accelerate the process by rapidly growing the total amount of interest owed, and you will of course have your pockets open to receiving these streams of cash.

Why do you think politicians have been getting so rich off the stock market? Do you think its because these people are world class investors? All of them? They are invested in the same companies that they regulate, and by that I mean they protect those companys against competition, and provide stimulus when possible.

For the average person? The time-price of everything this money touches goes up, thats how many hours the median american has to work to aquire a good. Housing, healthcare, education, defense, everything that is paid for with money being printed into existence, is going up in price dramatically. Things like, tvs, computers, they become more accessible every year.
The list of bullshit Mozilla has tried to pull over the years weighs heavily, and although I have had plenty of complaints with Chrome's decisions also, Mozilla's strike me as much worse.

Not interested until they completely disavow those strategies in a convincing way.
In the former USSR, jobs in meat processing and sausage making plants were desirable because even though wages weren't very high the workers could steal a lot. This was so normalized that they didn't even think of it as stealing, it was just "carrying out".
If you like customization, I recommend the Firefox fork Floorp. It's the only fork where you can hide the native horizontal tab bar and use a vertical tab instead. And instead of using Tree Style Tab, try Sidebery.
We can watch players play previous games. We can see their progression as a player over time.

For tech, it's hard to know if someone is good in just a couple hours of interviewing.
"paying the water bill" is a pretty normal thing for a large portion of the world. certainly for most of america.

paying for water is not a dystopia. and taking a totally normal part of life and calling it "dystopian" with no further explanation is one of the laziest arguments ever.
“On Error Resume Next” is how C has always behaved.
I am on MacOS so I use RectanglePro. Simple but it works.

My main layout is 3 vertical panels, one with vscode, one with web browser and debugger and the last is utility (another vscode or browser or slack or discord etc.)
As someone who has worked in monoliths and microservices, monorepos and github galaxies, I think it would be better if we could converge on a monorepo managed by something like Bazel where you can just create a new build target that lists its dependencies, and can work directly with the dependency graph via its querying mechanism. Using repositories to encapsulate dependencies and build scripts I think is much too heavy of an abstraction and leads to poor discoverability. When I have to deal with that I usually wind up treating it like a monorepo anyways by creating automation to check out all repos and manage syncing them.
Thanks for the reminder, I will give it another go - the latest Chrome redesign looks bad to my eyes, and I’m on the fence about whether I enjoy Arc or not. I’m still forever grateful to FF for leading us out of the dark days of IE6
> in this case you can check the "Don't show me this message again" checkbox

I had literally just installed Firefox minutes ago (inspired by this thread). During the install it asked me if I wanted to make it the default browser, and I had said no. This is what we mean by nagging. Firefox needs to know when to shut up and get out of the way.

> you'll have had to endure the burden of responding to this nag just once in years of using Firefox.

Twice. For this one particular nag. Next time Mozilla releases some shitty VPN or AI program, it will nag me again. If I don't log in to a Mozilla account, it will nag me to. If I don't try Pocket, I will be nagged to try it.
What would be really cool is a Firefox plugin that allowed you to replace the entire browser tab with a Chromium renderer on a specific website if you so wish, and remember that setting. That way there would really be no need to install Chrome for a few one-off websites.

Considering both Firefox and Chromium are open-source it should be entirely possible.
In-house recruiters I have much better experiences with. Recruiters working for staffing/headhunting firms in my experience tend to:

1. Be focused on high volume, hence the ghosting. They save time by ghosting you and spend that time on candidates which are sure bets.

2. They ask to be friends on LinkedIn up front (probably even if they know they are going to ghost you). This is to take advantage of your network. They get something out of the interaction; you get nothing.

3. They sometimes line you up for interviews which you aren't a good fit for. What in the actual fuck.

I don't friend recruiters from anything but the tech companies hiring. At my career stage, I won't even talk to recruiters which aren't working directly for the company doing the hiring. I would happily go back to this if I was at the phase of "I need a job; any job for now".

The icky feelings I've gotten from recruiters over the years is akin to the icky feelings I've gotten from car salesmen and real estate agents.

As I am writing this now, I am reminded of some of the headhunting/staffing firms I've talked to over the years. I just removed all of those recruiters from my network.