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We do need long vacations to recover from modern day digitopia. Living in the US though doesn’t confer much such a priviledge. With an average of 2 weeks of vacation per year I don’t think it’s enough to have enough escape time to fully recover from it
We might cast any "non terminal ideas" as in the realm of "meta". The trick to getting an abstract idea to catch on is to have a catchy name!
It's quite dividing, Bitcoin. Since I heard about it in 2012, I thought the same as you until I shorted it one morning in 2021 and started to learn more about it. By the end of the day I'd changed the short to a long position and now I see it was one of the most important inventions/discoveries in the history of mankind. In fact it's difficult for me to see a positive future for mankind without it.

I guess the reason you see it as a waste is because you don't understand what's wrong with the current fiat currency and the terrible, profound effects it has on the world. I recommend reading "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by E Griffin. It will teach you more about the world than you could ever imagine.

If money isn't proof of work, what is it?
>it should be actually impossible

Couple years ago I thought that too...

All the checks you describe - multiple approvers, standing data, callbacks etc - the guys going after big payments like this know these checks are in place, how they work and have a game plan for it.
I wonder if something like that should be built on top of GitLab now that you have migrated to it. GitLab CI supports multiple runners for a single job, so the workflow might be that you merge a merge request which modifies PKGBUILD/.SRCINFO, the CI picks it up and based on labels/tags dispatches it to different runners running possibly on a completely different architecture for building. The runners then send the artifacts back and the job publishes them. The nice thing about this is that most of the parts are already there handled by GitLab itself, you just have to draw the rest of the owl.
GP's not saying it negatively/judgementally I don't think, it's sort of a term of art in business finance: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cartel.asp

(I say sort of because you could say it's the same word same definition just perhaps used more literally. But it certainly has a connotation to most of us that I think is how you're reading it above.)
You always want a human in the loop. FDS sometimes drives into trucks or disengages randomly. Automated defence systems shoot at stuff they consider to be a threat, and that can be anything from non-combatants to friendlies. Or just the enemy, but the particular attack might be a diversion, hence a human might hold the defence back. Also just for stealth, radar is a giant beacon leading right to back to you. As is a rapid fire 20 mm cannon.

Unless we have General AI, in which case, well, you'd still want a human in the loop, just at different level.
Firefox has always been even better because you can easily scale only the fonts.
That's for downloading their stock images, the background remover is free.

https://depositphotos.com/bgremover.html
It's not "no network", it's "minimal network". i.e. bad wifi or garbage 3G. Or you're data roaming, in which case you'd get charged out the nose if the app decided to redownload stuff.
Final Fight was aimed at 512K Amiga with disk drive read access. Also SNES version of Final Fight didn't have 2 player, had a smaller screen resolution and ROM access and had the original developers (CAPCOM) do the game, a big difference from a single programmer who had to do both the Atari ST and Amiga version.

Yes the Amiga releases could have been better
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My thoughts exactly. Does the convenience store clerk have to love her job? The garbage person? The bus boy, dishwasher, or line cook? The assembly line worker?

There are aspects of all of our jobs that we all love and hate to varying degrees, but there is nothing weird or wrong about taking a job just because you need the money.
Non violence is made effective by the credible threat of a violent alternative
Do you have a spec sheet for your MPPT chip that you can share? The white paper and video presentation that you linked appear to be completely unrelated.
> Honestly I could imagine a mechanic writing the opposite sentiment

Coming from working class social/work/familial environments, I know this archetype well: John Ratzenberger's "Cliff Clavin" from Cheers. It's a dated reference, but it fits really well. The stereotype involves carrying large rings of keys on their belts, showing that they're entrusted with many valuable things, and frequently interjecting others conversations with things like "let me show you out to use that thing [blue smoke]" and "no no no you got it all wrong. What you gotta do is..."

In fact, I knew a particularly untalented auto mechanic who insisted that his capability was equivalent to a mechanical engineer when sadly, it wasn't even equivalent to most mechanics. None of us perfectly gauges our capabilities relative others, but some are so very much worse at it.
"The vast majority of real, ordinary users don't really care."

Because they do not understand it and nerds usually suck at communicating with normal people. The result is known: little to no funding and support from the normal world.

In those cases, where it was possible to establish a relationship with the users - the projects worked out and do have funding. Like blender did.
It sounds to me like you were driven more by other emotions — perhaps feelings of care, concern or worry. That doesn't prove that anger is useless, simply that in that situation, it wasn't the primary emotion you were experiencing or that drove your behaviour.

But let's suppose that the same situation unfolded, except you were Black, and the treatment you received by the legal system was rude and dismissive in ways that you were familiar with, having experienced racism many times before. In that situation you might experience much more anger, and you might rely on that anger to give you the courage and energy to deal with the injustice you were experiencing.
There’s things that are left out that are important

Many indigenous wanted their kids to go to these schools

There was abuse in the school system everywhere and it seems like catholic schooling has been sexually abusive everywhere

Rural canada was extremely poor

Viruses like influenza ravaged everyone

The media reporting on the matter makes it seem like everything bad of the past was exclusively done to indigenous when it was a combination of life sucking for everyone and then it being a bit worse to the indigenous on top of that. But painting it as this extreme injustice to indigenous is misleading IMO. To say nothing of the extreme grifting and people looking for payouts from the government that only make the lives of the indigenous worse.
You would think that executives would clone their own voices for the earnings call script readings like a lot of video essay YouTubers do now. But no, they still use terrible conference call systems for earnings calls rather than decent microphones that would be used in a podcast. That could actually be a silver lining here when it comes to creating quality training data.
they're not letting it rot

they're pouring gasoline on it and setting it on fire

after 30 years Windows is now broadly stable, and they load it up with spyware and adverts that would make bonzibuddy look mild by comparison
ah, so observe the reward and then take a gradient step
A Mooney was lost in the Rogers Pass along the Trans Canada Highway. A couple years later EMS in a helicopter spotted it some 50 yards off the highway. The local conifer trees are huge.
Formatting isn't the issue. Just more time consuming to try and read the code when it's all got garbage variable and function names. Not that you can't do it, just slightly more effort. Also the bigger issue I mentioned in my comment relates to the problem of extensions updating without any notice.
Probably not. They were designed to take out multi-ton supersonic cruise missiles so they need a larger warhead than would be required against drone swarms. Of course, since they're so large and capable they certainly could take down _a_ drone, and then it becomes a question of how large the incoming swarm is.

Now, if the incoming swarm is large enough, then either each drone carries a tiny amount of explosives, or each drone is large and expensive. The US Navy has been building ships to protect against mass swarms of incoming cruise missiles since about the 60s or so, so if the incoming drones are large enough then you could also use larger missiles against them and rely on the RAM only for whatever leaks through.
I wonder if these two things from the HN post below this one:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00288-1

I would love to see a cross section of these two ideas....

I have been surprised that in the past few weeks, I have seen several posts on HN where, while separate, unrelated posts here - there have been related characteristics and if you look at them for a sec, you can see how having AIs GPT both studies/papers - immediate connections worth looking at further are revealed.

If even for the sake of just a more informed tapestry of knowledge in a particular area...

Its really enjoyable reading and TIL'ing.
Both uses of "users" are valid. Your latter definition probably could use refinement.

I believe what you mean is "people who want to benefit from the technology without understanding or changing it". This is only a subset of users. I think people overindex on these users because they are both vast and a popular monetization target.
I know. I'm saying they already knew those kinds of decisions would be made long before they even got the job. Which is why I said it is irrelevant who makes the decision.

The devs are just as guilty as the assholes who made those decisions, because Microsoft has been making those kinds of decisions for decades.

These devs can't even hide behind the "just following orders" excuse, because as I've already said multiple times, they knew long before they got the job, that that is the kind of stuff they would be working on.
It's super fast if you use Native AOT. My entire application starts up in 0.3 seconds, that includes Avalonia and all my code too. It does use more memory than I'd like though, about 200 MB.
>It's very obviously 100% useless and not going to teach anyone anything.

I've seen some decent ones. e.g. One that was presented from adversaries PoV which I thought was innovative & got people thinking about it in novel ways (at least did for me).
I make Craftomation101 free web game about programming self-replicating machines
I wonder if these two things from the HN post above this one:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eDicGjD9yte6FLSie/interpreti...

I would love to see a cross section of these two ideas....

I have been surprised that in the past few weeks, I have seen several posts on HN where, while separate, unrelated posts here - there have been related characteristics and if you look at them for a sec, you can see how having AIs GPT both studies/papers - immediate connections worth looking at further are revealed.

If even for the sake of just a more informed tapestry of knowledge in a particular area...

Its really enjoyable reading and TIL'ing.
Sending Large Amounts of Email Safely (2018)
I don’t drive either, so I should be inclined to agree with you. But when I’m drowning due to the effects of climate change, it won’t do me any good to turn to the person drowning next to me and tell them it’s their fault.

Yes, we should pass better laws. Yes, we don’t have them now. But when (if) we do, I’d rather have a fighting chance than it being too late because the water is already up to my neck.
I'm guessing he's talking about project-specific knowledge.
At least its impact on general societal health and culture has not been negligible... to put it nicely.
My DME used to be Lincare was equally terrible. They were awful. They never had replacement consumables in stock, and I had to deal with months worth of delays to get things I needed. That’s why I went to CPAP.com (like OP) for a time. It was annoying having to coordinate with my insurance company to get reimbursements since they didn’t direct bill, but at least I would always have my equipment on time. (As a bonus, it was cheaper than Lincare to boot.)
Javascript has much smaller surface area to the system than a docker app. And we still find rowhammer type attacks.
In reality people use unsafe to optimize and then introduce bugs. You could also use a safe abstractions to avoid bounds violations in C.
Imagine walking or driving when your AR gets hijacked, you could be at risk of walking into traffic or crashing the vehicle.
From what I had gathered, today's VC incubators and academic-affiliated incubators work on the inventor -> entrepreneur model (or at least entrepreneur -> inventor model).
I agree that Xcode usability is absolutely horrible. It's also unbelievably slow and it's crashing so much it would never survive an App Store review.

But what really turned me away from making native apps for Apple platforms is the combination of bugs and lack of documentation.

SwiftUI was just not fit for purpose when I last used it a year ago. But even more mature libraries are often barely documented. It's hard to know what's obsolete.

The advantages of native apps for my work are small to begin with (from a user point for view). It's mostly about more reliable local storage.

If productivity is so much lower than making web apps it's impossible to justify the cost and the extra risk putting myself at the mercy of some oligopolist overlord.
I never bought trash bags before these bans went into effect. Now it’s one of our subscribe and saves.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the net effect was that we are using more plastic now than before, even though we use reusable bags most of the time when we go shopping.
It's really not hard I doubt it's a big friction
Objective-C is the only programming language that was genuinely unreadable on first glance to me so I would definitely agree that it's difficult to work with.
Why would you buy a proprietary computer if you don't like its matching proprietary OS? Just doesn't make sense.
Are normal people really any good at figuring out what other people are thinking? Or is it just that, being more similar to other people, the heuristic "he's thinking pretty much the same thing as what I'd be thinking" works pretty well?
Temple Grandin call herself the woman who thinks like a cow. I very much doubt she does think like a cow, but she seems to better at empathizing with cows that neurotypical people are. Does she really have defective empathy?
Wouldn't only a CFO have the ability to move 25MM
https://youtu.be/UAeJHAFjwPM

There are three
types of night vision, and the consumer grade active illumination stuff using infrared light is covered by EAR (Department of Commerce’s Export Administration Regulations) instead of ITAR (which is still significant, but less strict). Which doesn't detract from your point, which is that night vision is hamstrung by regulations. With all the advances in technology, the consumer grade stuff should really be more accessible because it would save lives if drivers could see better in the dark.
How do you feel about the new surgical options like Inspire Sleep as an alternative for people who can’t tolerate CPAP?
I think you mistyped the URL - this is Hacker News, not Slashdot. Let's keep the discussion intelligent and not bother with the mud slinging or other insults.

An interesting observation is that users of Apple products rarely go out of their way to insult others based on their choice of hardware / OS, while users of Android (and Windows & Linux to a lesser extent) seem to get quite needlessly enraged at the Apple users. No one is forcing Apple products on you guys, chill out.

As someone who uses iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, Mac, and FreeBSD on a daily basis, I believe all of them have their pros and cons.

On topic:
Apple used to quite strongly prefer (and tell) developers to use web apps when appropriate instead of a native app. As someone that has helped many companies develop apps - the biggest complaint about not having a native app is that they won't be listed in the App Stores without one.

Many of the apps I've helped develop could be web apps, but, companies really want to see their app in the App Stores.
Yes, sure, we can look at things on a case-by-case basis. It’s pretty easy to look at something like bitcoin and see that inefficiency is the purpose rather than the byproduct, and then make regulations about that.
The right to bear arms doesn't stipulate the right to buy any possible configuration of arms. The equal comparison is the right to use medical equipment as seen fit, not the right to purchase.
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> nerds suck at communicating

Well, it might start by not tarring other people as "normal" or "ordinary" and separating off "the normal world".

Consider that everybody has a unique life and story, and that each of us are normal (in a statistical sense) in some metrics, and an outlier in others.

The whole "nerd vs normie" thing is just toxic from the word go.
> I fail to see how a polymer made entirely of fluorinated alkyl substances is not a polyfluorinated alkyl substance.

It is a "polyfluorinated alkyl". The term is so broad as to be meaningless, and PFOA is wildly different, chemically and physically, than PTFE. One is a water-soluble acid. The other is an insoluble substance that is one of the most chemically inert things known to science.

It's like labeling something as "fluoride-containing" and panicking because your city water supply has it (which some people do, but I digress).
If you want to dumb down all arguments the reason why it's so unaffordable is that tickets are more expensive. But you're still allowed to look for why, which the article did, and one of the explanation is this one.
IFF in any capacity on Phalanx seems like a poor match.

At ranges that close... you really want a "deconstruct anything in the air" device, not a "consider what you're about to hit" device.

Which I'd imagine has been designer pushback on complicating it and going that route.

Safety through deciding what mode to set it in; not through leaving it alone and forgetting about it.
Here's a handy Venn diagram which shows where Rye currently sits in the ecosystem: https://alpopkes.com/posts/python/figures/venn_diagram.png

Poetry and Rye mostly do the same things, but Rye additionally does Python version management. I was personally recently reminded* that not only should one use dedicated environments for their projects, but also lock their specific Python versions.

I've used Rye so far for Python/package/env management, and it does the job just fine.

* (I upgraded from Fedora 38 to Fedora 39, which also bumped the system Python version from 3.11 to 3.12. And all of my virtual environments said boom.) :')
Came here to say this, glad you beat me to it. Maybe more buttoned-down sub-fields of psych should secede so they don’t have to be associated with the social and evo folks.
If only there was a way to prevent this
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Their "proof" that there are only 12 solutions to 8 Mutually Non-Attacking Queens on Chessboard is just "That there are only these 12 can be proved by brute force." :/
That's not a fact. That's your an opinion.

In my opinion, macOS has an horrific UX especially for power users. It's so bad that there is a cottage industry of third party developers creating apps to refine the bad out of the box experience with macOS. Most macOS users buy several of these apps and it's just an accepted part of the culture around Macs.

Windows isn't great and has other issues but I think it has a better UX overall.
Sanitizers / checkers are much useful if the behavior is defined, because you can then not be sure it is not intentionally used in the way allowed by the definition. So you can not check at run-time in production and stop the program but you can with UB and during testing you would need to analyze each case individually.
Tangential: What tooling do you use to develop Extensions. I used React and couldn't find something any testing libraries which works on background and content scripts.
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Sagan likened football in particular to hunting, in the prehistoric sense.
Minor League baseball is especially fun. You sit closer to the game. Depending on the team and location, snacks are reasonable. Players may not be MLB level, but they're certainly no slouches. And tickets can go as low as $6.
Where we live they don’t give free bags at CVS or other stores. I think restaurants may have an exception for take out, but those bags often get sauce spilled all over the inside, making them unsuitable for saving or reuse (except immediately, as a trash bag).

> Where I live (Silicon Valley), paper and plastic bags were both subject to the same treatment. In Menlo Park you can buy bags when you shop for $.25 each. The plastic bags at Safeway are much thicker (i.e., use more plastic, and are hypothetically reusable more times) than before. The paper bags are the same as before, but now you pay for them (the revenue goes to the store).
Endless EU Cookie modals that you have to always click through because you clear cookies.
From the article itself:

> At first, these stories seemed to me a bit too scary for little children. And my knee-jerk reaction was to dismiss them. But my opinion flipped 180 degrees after I watched my own daughter's response to similar tales — and after I learned more about humanity's intricate relationship with storytelling.

> Oral storytelling is what's known as a human universal. For tens of thousands of years, it has been a key way that parents teach children about values and how to behave.

Also, the Inuit parents don't want their little children going near the water. That the ocean is dangerous and to be avoided is the truth. The story about the sea monster is a way of communicating this truth in terms that the little children can understand.

(Calling this “lying” is like calling it lying to teach classical mechanics: to a first approximation Newton's laws of motion are true; they can be refined later. Similarly, though we can later refine the sea monster to say that it takes the form of waves and currents and depths and drowning and all that, IMO to a first approximation there is a sea monster, and in primal moments it can be useful to remember that.)
Your product is the medium. To communicate differently would mean building another product, which would alienate your original (nerdy) users.
Having worked with Chinese people, let me tell you this is 100% accurate. It may (and probably will) happen in western countries as well, but the culture makes China, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan extremely vulnerable to this. No one I worked with was willing to refute, question or even raise any doubts if someone they perceive not at their level or, even better, below, was in the call.
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