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Can't read the artice but I do have some generic observations.

Most projects aren't going to work, so that can be one of the primary goals, mainly to find out whether or not that's the case, without too many compromises.

So most of the time to be realistic you have to try real hard for it not to work quite early on, or that could be something where you end up wasting too much time on a hopeless effort.

Some people never quit, and it can be difficult to know when to mothball something or give up altogether.

Mothballs can be your friend, especially when there are a greater number of promising projects than could ever be fully completed anyway.

Progress can surprise you though, but more often than not many things will take an unexpected downturn before you ever see a case of an unexpected upturn.
It’s so strange to me when people change a perfectly good title into something worse here, but it happens so often I honestly think the site should just change the functionality.
Sure, banning plastic bags means that there are less plastic bags. But that's a low bar to meet to call the result a success.

For example, did the ban reduce the total amount of plastic produced? Plausibly, no it did not.

From the report:
> Because of the loophole in California’s bag ban allowing the use of thicker plastic bags, the amount of plastic bags discarded per person (by weight) actually increased in the years after the implementation of the ban.

Did the ban on plastic make a meaningful reduction in co2 emissions? Did it make people happier? Did it make a meaningful improvement to the environment?
Happens on HN all the time too.
I'll just comment that that is the most clever website name I came across in a long time!
> Though intended to be reused many times, the report says 90% of the new reusable bags are used a mere two or three times. So they are piling up in landfills and homes. Think of your own behavior in misplacing bags around the house or forgetting to bring them when heading out for groceries.

I have a hard time believing it's 90%. Seriously?

They aren't that cheap and it's easy to keep track of them.
I feel like I’m missing something from your post. Are you being asked to approve several large financial transactions per hour in your job as a software engineer?

Regardless, approvals for multi-million transfers require a higher level of process and approval.
I’m old enough to remember when, even outdated at the time, one would see people carry (or push, or pull) a basket between shops or stalls engaging with others. To me that was a better human experience than currently experienced at a supermarket.
Facebook, not the zuck.
> Ironically Google is the good guy here, they’re doing great work for the web.

Still naive, eh ? I would be extremely wary of following in Google's footsteps : the use Chrome(ium) and their web apps as a trojan horse to wrestle control of general computing from the OS and native apps.

And it typically results in a worse user experience, because you lose performance by running in an emulator (and/or the extra, always somewhat leaky, layers of abstraction complicate the developer's job), and the browser's interface gets in the way.

So no, please do NOT write code for the web (except if your program is extremely basic and you don't think it will ever get more complex), write code for Linix (or other libre software/hardware, and excepting the likes of Android) - Librem 5 and PinePhone are particularly in need of your help, since they have quite the task ahead of them, going against Google, Apple, and Huawei.
> Some people have an over-reliance on GPS telling them where to turn and have lost the ability to navigate for themselves (or even just verify what the machine is telling them is at least safe).

Perhaps we ought to start attaching jail time to people who drive the wrong way due to reliance on incorrect GPS as a soft form of eugenics. Keep them in a position where they aren't in a position to find love and reproduce for a year.
Why does the government care about Bitcoin specifically? Why not focus on how much energy Facebook spends on analyzing user activity? Why not focus on how much energy analytics companies spend on tracking every click in the browser? Or video analysis YouTube does? Seems the big fish get away with using enormous amounts of energy because they lobby and pay lots of taxes.
thats great (i use swift format plugin myself) but really apple should provide these features not 3rd parties and ideally format while typing not just save
This was a great read and puts a lot into perspective. Never considered a chat being an incubator for a certain idea.
>>the report says 90% of the new reusable bags are used a mere two or three times. So they are piling up in landfills and homes.

>but the idea that they’re going to be buying these new bags ever other trip to the store because they’re piling up in a room at home for years is hard for me to believe.

What's likely happening is that they go out to buy something, forgot their bag, and is forced to buy a reusable bag. If enough people are forgetful, the "90% of the new reusable bags are used a mere two or three times" seems very plausible to me.
Zero mention of hunter Biden’s self proclaimed influence over “every single member” of the Deleware chancery court. Seems like a notable omission in the reporting here.
Just because I am curious, and have not seen any software capable of fooling me in this regard, yet, what would somebody use to do this? Is this an already existing product that can create video representations of people I know so well it would fool me?
Yeah, it sucks that the IRS is such a buzz-kill here, with 4-5% HYSA's, it would be nice to just let all the taxes sit there and pay one lump sum in April.
It wasn't that it was not supported. It is that Apple is openly antagonistic to and actively blocks anything that isn't theirs.

And you also left out key information. I don't have any issues with the same development on Windows or Linux. Apple is the outlier and isn't doing some reasonable thing.

Apple is by far the most troublesome platform to develop for. They literally make you do it their way, and you cannot recover any of that work for other platforms.
Here are links to the flash game this is based on:

Embeded: https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/missilegame3d

SWF file: https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/swf/roboman/missilegame3d(w...

I much prefer the flash version, when run in actual Adobe Flash (Flash Player Projector 29, OS X 10.9, Intel i7-4790K). Something about the controls feels much tighter versus the web remake.

When played in the Ruffle flash emulator, there's something wrong with the collision detection; I can't get past the first level. (The visuals are wrong too, there's much more aliasing.)
Why only focus on Zuckerberg? There're more important players in the game.

But I guess that's to be expected from Guardian.
The Trouble Facing Apple
They were how you interfaced with them though. Either directly or indirectly through paper tape.
> the idea that they’re going to be buying these new bags ever other trip to the store ... is hard for me to believe.

Have seen these "reusable bags" that the store gives you? They are basically the same as before, just a lot thicker and more plastic.

They are not nice woven bags or something. People then seem to keep using them as trash can liners.
Exactly this.

Heavy duty plastic bags might work great if you always keep them in your car.

But I live in NYC where you carry everything by hand -- and people certainly aren't always carrying empty bags with them, the way you might if you had a trunk.

There are two supermarkets I go to where they don't have paper bags, but will charge you $0.25 to $0.45 for a heavy duty plastic bag (two sizes).

I'd say that about a third of the time the person in front of me buys between 1 to 3 of them.

So at least at those locations, the overall usage of plastic has gone way, way up compared to the old thin plastic bags.
Even a simple 4TB HDD is better than nothing. Though beware, this can easily turn into a hobby/passion/obsession that becomes more expensive than years or decades of underlying subscription costs.

Before you know it, you start building your first dedicated NAS with a fancy file system that few people use (ZFS), configured with data striping and a distributed parity bit in RAIDZ (RAIDZ1), with UPS systems for high power availability. You'll become the go-to expert on hard drives among your friend group, and find yourself correctly answering questions like "What's the difference between CMR and SMR?". Backblaze's quarterly drive stats reports will start to become something you look forward to the release of, like a new episode coming out on your favorite TV show. You'll get acquainted with Kodi, Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, and more. You'll figure out the allure of mpv over VLC. You'll become the guy who reminds people that the cheapest hard drives are often the most expensive. You'll learn what private bittorrent trackers are, and pine after membership in the most exclusive ones. You will become intimately familiar with commercial VPNs, SSH, VPS offerings, and more.

Be cautious, friend - once you decide to start taking this hobby seriously, you will dicover this is no mere hobby, but a lifestyle.
This is a joke. I go to my store and now they give you beefier “reusable” plastic bags. There is many times more plastic in these bags than the old ones.
This is such a red herring. The entire country is wearing polyester and other plastic clothing that breaks down and sheds microplastics in EVERY single laundry cycle into the water. Millions of cars driving every single day wear down tires shedding microplastics into the air, soil, and ground. Millions of packages with styrofoam padding are breaking down into tiny spherical plastic balls as we speak. We're absolutely systemically fucked and plastic bags and straws are genius levels of distraction from these unsolvable modern conveniences.
Cheapest I can find hard drives is around $30 per TB.

Which means that the break even time for this product is at least 3 years. Assuming personnel and infrastructure costs are near zero.

I can't see how this is a genuine product.
It was much more than a month my friend. Shutdowns started in March 2020, traffic in my metro area didn't return to pre-pandemic levels until at least mid 2021.

People who had to still had to drive through the pandemic could have gotten used to driving faster on emptier roads, and therefore are more frustrated and aggressive with the traffic/slowdowns today.

Or maybe it's because the population of drivers has shifted, there's still a lot of people working from home (either full time or part of the week)

Or maybe lowering of social empathy we've seen since the pandemic has bleed over into drivers' attitudes (people are notably more rude/less considerate in public)
Nice! Thanks for sharing your wonderful journey in UX.
I reuse them once and throw them away, exactly the same way I did with the thinner bags.
Tribal markings? Literally the definition of disrespect?

With all politeness, maybe take a step back and consider what are you angry about.

Also art is art (including actual 'tribal markings'). Banksy has been making street art for 30 years, they can't be the only tent-pole for the medium. Freezing art by gatekeeping who makes it and what it is suppose to look like is tantamount to killing it.

Property rights are a part of our society and wanting them respected is important, but there is no reason to not see something cool for what it is.
Internet is almost entirely terrestrial. GPS (for civilian use) could be replaced with a land-based network of transmitters (like GSM network).
Sounds right to me. Postgres on AWS doesn't work because relational databases don't work on networked storage.
Once I went on vacation to a tropical island. I went to a grocery store on the island. I didn't bring a bag because I was a doofus who had not previously lived or traveled to a tropical island.

There were no plastic bags. There were no paper bags. There was no option to pay money to get a reusable grocery bag like we see in the US. If you were a doofus like me who didn't bring some kind of bag, you only had two options. One was to miraculously carry your stuff home without bags. The other was to use the cardboard boxes that used to contain produce, if there were any left over.

We carried our groceries back to the hotel in a cardboard box that previously contained fruit.

It was a minor hassle in the moment, but I also realized that's how it should be everywhere. There are probably already enough bags in the world for all the carrying that humans need to do. Of course bags wear out, so we need to keep producing some amount of bags, but not many. Most stores should simply not have any kind of bag whatsoever. If you don't bring something of your own, you should be mostly SoL.
Yeah I think I broadly agree with you. Not many applications need rust's performance. Go, Java, C#, nodejs, python, etc are all great languages.

But the software which does need or want "native performance" is incredibly important software. I'd use rust for things like databases, operating systems, web browsers, high performance web servers, network services (samba, ssh), and other "systems" software like that.

Most of the lines of code ever written are probably in application code. If you're making a company website, python or C# or whatever is totally fine. But a remarkable proportion of the lines of code your computer actually runs were written in C or C++. Your web server might be in python, but if you use nginx as a proxy - well, thats C++ (I think). Use postgres? C++. Running your software in linux? C. Testing with Chrome? C++. What is python itself written in? I dunno, but I bet its either C or C++. You get the picture.

Whether or not rust is a big deal is largely a matter of focus.
> Gargoyle is also apt.

For those who don't know, this is a Snow Crash reference. Quoting Wikipedia: "Stephenson also describes a subculture of people choosing to remain continuously connected to the Metaverse by wearing portable terminals, goggles and other equipment; they are nicknamed "gargoyles" [...]"
Yeah I’m curious about this possibility! What makes me skeptical is the temptation for distraction is so high in VR. I actually want the scene I stare at to be a bit boring because I’m not actually staring at it: I’m letting my eyes rest and effectively stop using brain resources while I think… does VR ever really let you “look away”? Maybe! I’m curious but it’s definitely not as simple of a problem as giving me a nice beach to look out on… I’d want to jump in and go snorkeling!
Depends on what you mean by "all the features". In general Avalonia UI is a .NET library, so you can use it from any .NET language.

If you have questions about specific features I can give a more detailed answer.

https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI
I'm in the process of replacing the remote+canopy module in my hands with Lutron controls. With those you can control from both the wall and the remote.
I'm a simpleton, and no critic of art. So I'll take looking at easy to digest Banksy over the spray paint equivalent of a gang war cross-breed with a teenager yelling "MUH DICK".
Song of Solomon is a favorite and I love seeing it mentioned here
Apple has done an incredible job of gaslighting developers into believe they care about them and are making generous investment into APIs and tooling, while simultaneously doing everything in their power to lock those devs into the platform and and force them to spend their limited time/resources learning the Apple-exclusive tech stack.

The intolerable part for me is that after you've spent years investing in learning their (non-portable outside of Apple) languages and APIs, they can reject anything you build for mobile for any reason, and you ultimately have zero recourse.

In other areas of software you could take the skills you've learned to your next job/project - but as Apple is moving more towards declarative frameworks where you aren't supposed to think about what's going on under the hood (I.e. SwitfUI), the amount of actual deep, transferable software engineering skills you gain from working with these frameworks approaches zero.

The investment just doesn't feel worth it to me, when there are so many other things I could be learning to advance my career.
What wages? The judgement-proof are often paid in cash.
Couldn't imagine buying a damned plastic bag every single time I went shopping for groceries. I've been using the same fabric bags for 15 years. It is such stupidity, being to lazy to pack a bag, that humanity wastes resources on.
He's in charge of everything Facebook does.
If you're:

> a professional figuring out how to set up or refactor the config structure within the non-Nix paradigm of the vast majority of organizations

Then I don't think nix-as-config-only is a good move. But if you're a professional figuring out how to set up or refactor the config structure of some organization, AND for some reason you've already decided that you're going to introduce a language that nobody in the organization uses, then would I say that nix is a good choice. This is because there are probably other people in that organization that would find nix useful if they were already over the syntax adjustment phase.

If a multitool's screwdriver is just as good as a normal screwdriver (granted they're usually not), why not prefer the multitool?

Generally I'd just suggest using whatever languages are already around, config-focused or otherwise. For instance we have a lot of python in our stack so I've found a library called mergedict that gets us close enough to the composability of nix modules without adding a new language.
I can imagine a better carbon sink: not extracting the carbon to begin with.
Only for certain timeframes.
Plus the added irony of having to put all your recyclables in a specific type of single use plastic bag for collection.
What is binary support?
With all the other things they've found use for it, I wonder if you could convince them to host your wedding.
It's like saying a lizard is closer to a table than to a snake, because it has legs.
I think if I really wanted to put together a DIY MBA, I'd try to gather some friends who would be open for semi-regular discussions, put some lightweight projects together, and some reading/watching that was also relatively short and lightweight. My goal would be to distill things down to something busy, working people with lives might actually be willing to do absent the spur of getting a diploma.
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When the Google JXL controversy first went down, I found that Google's commit rejecting JXL was authored by someone with AOMedia contributions, and that the manager who signed off and commented on it had some interview about the benefits of AV1.

The links are buried somewhere on Phoronix, I am looking... But what I am saying is Google's rejection of JXL seems to be as bad as it looks.
That’s why FTP has character and binary modes, which doesn’t make a difference for 8-bit machines.
Amusingly that book had very poor usability. I forget exactly what it was about it; possibly printing the text too close to the binding?

In practice I recall it being mostly a digest of his free content on useit.com
The upgrade path to ASP.NET Core itself is the most straightforward out of everything that existed during .NET Framework days, a lot of code requires little to no changes and the code that requires a lot usually was questionably written in the first place or relies on problematic APIs.
I think you underestimate the scale here, a "multi-million" dollar transaction is something that happens tens of thousands of times a day

> Regardless, approvals for multi-million transfers require a higher level of process and approval.

if you say so
Those look pretty serious.
Jobs and Gates shaped the current era. If not Zuck (or Musk, or whoever), it'll be someone. We rely too much on "big ideas" to return to a time free of those influences.
People aren't buying new reusable bags because they lost them. They're buying because they went to a store and forgot to bring a bag, and therefore forced to buy a "reusable" bag, even though they already have 10 at home.
>>> users from a nursing home, a panel of users with sub-90 IQ who were in a stressful environment and trying to complete other tasks at the same time, blind users, deaf users, et c.

Or we could just give the Product manager, designer, and JS engineer a 5 year old laptop with 8 gigs of ram at least 10 browser plug ins and every corporate security package...

We have gone from "go fast, break things" to moving at the speed of stupid. Slowing these three groups down might help.
Wouldn't it be simpler to just print out a picture of your eyes and stick it on the front?
Meanwhile, there was a market for high-end PC games. If you bought a better PC, you could show it off. That was important to the type of person who owned an Amiga (they always wanted to show you).
Hugs are just an illusion of order and will crumble away. Get over it!
> You could do something like an active optical cable

Wouldn't that add more latency due to the extra encoding/decoding step?
I always thought the plastic bags deal was not seeing the forest through the trees. Most food comes in heavy plastic. The food is consumed in a day or so, and the plastic lasts FOREVER. Forcing the companies to use paper or glass packaging, or having reusable returnable containers would have a bigger impact than banning those thin plastic bags.
Honestly it can be so bad I fantisize about putting a mirror in my rear windshield.
Yet again, another company just launches a product that slaps a UI on top of stable diffusion and tries to make it pass as some revolutionary product.
The problem at least where I live in Europe is that people stopped
buying grocery plastic bags, which is good.
But they were frequently re-used as garbage bags.

Now people instead buy plastic garbage bag rolls.

So even if the consumption of plastic shopping bags has decreased,
the consumption of plastic garbage bags has greatly increased.

Might well be easier to recycle the garbage bags.
One could hope.
> In a company of that size it should be actually impossible for a transaction like this to occur without clearly documented processes to ingest, review, authorise and pay transactions.

Oh, my sweet summer child. The larger the organization, the more dysfunctional it becomes.

See How this scammer used phishing emails to steal over $100 million from Google and Facebook

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/27/phishing-email-scam-stole-10...
> It would have to be extremely better too

You see these things happening today with things like the Apple VR headset and its custom real-time compute co-processor. VR requires a kind of low-latency operation that was par for the course w/ home computers, including the Amiga itself (partly because analog CRT displays were themselves very low latency compared to current garden-variety LCD's) but is seen as very high-end today.
I don't get it. I work for a biggish company. Every time a user wants to join my Miro team I have to use a maze of ancient purchase order systems like Sage with multiple levels of approvals from our finance team. It's almost outrageously draconian but... not a penny goes by unpinched.

This is astounding levels of incompetence.
> Fun fact! The hotspot for the arrow cursor was not (0,0) but was (1,1).

Perhaps it's because cursors have a one pixel wide black border around them to enhance contrast, but users associate the cursor's position with the first bit of white (or color) at the tip. (0,0) is colored black for a typical cursor.

Edit: ninja'ed further down.
I owed a decent chunk more one year due to investments I sold, and left the money in tbills since I knew I was withholding at least as much as the previous year.
The Symbolics 3600 series were also 36bit machines. Later the Symbolics Ivory microprocessor then was a 40bit cpu.