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Why Buy a Home Computer? Looking at an early Atari computer product catalog
The article says it's covered by AppleCare+, but the author can't deal with the multi-week downtime that sending the machine in would cause.
I don’t think the sentiment is misinformed.

I understand your position and I’ve had pleasant experiences on discord in the past with people being very willing to help. However, the help I received for my problem is basically impossible to discovered for anybody else (in fact, I have a hard time finding this thread myself).

Discord is really great for realtime interactions, wether that be chatting or talking. But it absolutely sucks at retrieving information generated in the past. It’s not search engine indexable and the discord search itself usually isn’t of any help either.

On conventional forums on the other hand, I have learned so much from reading threads from the past. Recently I’ve been diving a bit deeper into construction and I’ve found a forum in my native language. There are so many treasures there: experts from the field sharing experiences and advising on issues, people linking relevant threads, people asking questions and whole threads evolving from that. Sure, there is quite a bit of „toxic“ forum interaction as well, but there are so many gems that would absolutely be undiscoverable if the same interactions would happen on discord
Many models support function calling/RAG already, these are very similar features from a structural POV. But of course it's harder to train a model for such tasks, compared to just fitting some existing training set.
I personally never found the Apple ecosystem very appealing because it's prohibitively expensive and they seem to want everything done "their" way whether that's software or repairs.
The oceans are boiling wont someone please stop them
as infinite as the mindmaze included in encarta
Try not paying your property taxes and see what happens, do you still own your home then?
"Feature Your Cybersecurity Product" - looks more like a marketing site.
We allow it to be legal because:

1. Most homes aren’t in an HOA, so you have plenty of options if you don’t like it.

2. It prevents all sorts of tragedies of the commons.

3. HOAs would have no power at all if you could opt out. It has to be part of the contract. They can be dissolved entirely, but that’s the only mechanism for getting out.

4. We believe in individual freedom, which includes the ability to chose to trade freedom for certain benefits. I trade my freedom to leave a rusty old boat in my driveway for the benefit of not having my neighbors do that. Most of us don’t have or want the sorts of things that bring down property values and don’t want to suddenly find ourselves living next to people who do.

This is perhaps a symptom of a larger problem: homes are very expensive. If homes were cheap and moving were easy, perhaps HOAs would never have been invented. But for most Americans who own one a home is a substantial portion of their net worth. We want to protect it.

People who complain about HOAs existing are the same as the people who complain about EVs. If you don’t want one, don’t buy it.
What do you mean by "have?" I can read "have" too many ways and I don't know what you mean. Ownership? Control? Possession? I "have" a physical body, I "have" children, I "have" this computer I'm typing this on. I can feel a "no true Scotsman" argument coming, where people give examples and you respond by telling us why that doesn't prove we "have" anything.

Everything is temporary, desire is the cause of all suffering. The Buddha asked this question a long time ago.
With that argument retention would already be great with 5 day workweek since it is so much better than 6, but you don't see that, retention is really horrible today.
Mastodon is decentralized / federated, so the page load time depends on the instance you're visiting.
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> there is no equivalent.

Guilded has entered the chat
What a self-indulgent writeup. The article came nowhere near answering the central question: what are the devs doing other than constantly changing the name of the project and how is this thing better than gimp.
IMO you can only really trust it on subjects with tight "REPL loops" (for want of a better term). Subjects where you can test its output against reality immediately.

If you're discussing, say, philosophy with it, it has the potential to lead you deep into the weeds.
Sounds like you’re projecting a bit. Lots of reasons one might be up at 6, other than hype or a “meme”. For me, it’s the only time I have to work out (with a job and smaller kids).
Point is, if you are using it as a tool to reach out to your community it's mostly okay, but if you are doing support or documentation up there you should really really think twice.

In this instance: Amiga 600 Discord where we post pics of our cool Amigas good, Amiga maintenance and schematics hidden in God knows which channel on God knows which Amiga Discord server bad.

Best of both worlds: if someone asks question on a Discord and you know the answer, write a blog post (or whatever, as long as it is on the open Web) and link it back! You are guaranteed to have at least 1 readerr which is wildly above the average blog post lol
Why do you think Photoshop is low quality? In my mind Photoshop is very high quality. It just costs money and isn't open source.
Fair point. I guess a better explanation would be "don't use messaging apps for publicly accessible content, regardless of if the system is open source, federated or e2ee". The same general issue would apply if these communities used Matrix or Signal or Telegram or WhatsApp or whatever else.
> Krita is a great replacement for photoshop.

No it is not.

Krita was meant to be an OSS alternative to Corel (ex Fractal Design, ex Meta Creations) Painter [1].

And that's what it became, eventually. And quite a bit more.

I've been using Photoshop and Krita since the first version of both of these DCC apps came out (and Painter too, btw).
Professionally. I.e. for most of my adult life.

Krita is a great paint app. It's not a Photoshop alternative.

Photoshop is a great image manipulation app. It's not a Krita alternative.

Krita absolutely is a Painter alternative.

Painter is no longer a Krita alternative, if you need certain features (that's a topic for an entire blog post).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Painter
Honestly the major open source native Widgets frameworks suck (for C/C++)

MFC is slightly better, and MFC sucks (at least on MSVC 6.0 era)

WxWidgets was one of the best/easiest OSS ones.

The best library hands down was the one used by Borland C++ Builder (Windows only), VCL.

QT felt like going around in circles and a bit like those "useless superpower" charts, GTK like nobody had invented C++ yet.
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I’ve used Photoshop for 25 years, a decade of that as a professional designer.

I disagree. Krita is a worthy Photoshop alternative. It has things in areas software explicitly marketed as a Photoshop alternative does not have. Plus it feels intuitive, like Photoshop.

I sort of feel like this shield is unnecessary and in some ways harms Krita, a great tool.
Hey until recently I was still rocking my 10 year old Ivy Bridge machine because it was still good enough.
I'm criticizing Apple, not defending them. I think what Apple is doing is wrong.

I'm saying Apple's laptop design optimization wasn't the problem, the problem is that Apple refuses to sell replacement batteries. I think refusing to sell replacement batteries is worse than optimizing a laptop for thinness instead of reparability.
Up to Lucid, he says... has he paid attention to the Chinese cars ?https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west...
I don't like Oracle very much but I have to say I appreciate the rate at which Java has improved
I agree with adding very little JavaScript, say 1kB
https://instant.page/ to make it snappier.
Last place I built a complex REST app, I solved this by auto-generating a set of standard endpoints from the database schema, and then adding a UI where a small set of trusted users could write queries that'd be stored in a table that were then made available.

It provided an escape hatch that allowed rapid prototyping, and came with a default UI, and then we cleaned up the ones that were worth it.
... or they optimize for different things.

I'd get a Framework if I didn't have Apple Silicon as an option, but I like having a supercomputer in my backpack that can run for 6-8 hours on a charge with two VMs, 10 web browser tabs, a smart code editor, and several chonky Electron chat applications open. It also has 64GiB of unified CPU/GPU memory, making it able to run non-trivial local LLMs.

I have never seen an Intel or AMD laptop that delivers both those things. There are underpowered light ones that last a long time, or portable workstations that will cook an imprint of the bottom of the case into your legs. AFAIK there is nothing in that domain that can run large LLMs due to either underpowered iGPUs or separate GPUs that would never have that much RAM on a laptop. A laptop CPU that can run, say, llama3 at a decent speed without GPU would be a portable space heater.

I could replace the battery if I wanted but it's been two years and it still holds a charge fine.

The thing that would make me ditch Apple is if they locked down the OS any more than it already is. Right now macOS treads a fine line between being restricted enough to be secure and safe for the less-technical user while remaining a "real computer." If they took away even the possibility of sudo root or worse tried to lock people into the App Store I'd be gone within a week or two.

Also why I am not an iPad customer. It's basically a giant phone and as near as I can tell putting M processors in them is simply a waste. If I'm buying something that big and that expensive it should be a real computer. Part of the definition of real computer is that I can run any arbitrary code I want on it. If I can't do that it's a "console," which is how I classify most phones as well.

Edit: making iDevices able to run VMs would get you almost there. You'd be able to run any code in theory but it'd be too disjoint from the main experience so still probably a nope for me.
Meme? Exercising first thing in the morning reduces to zero the probability of skipping, you do it, you're done, nothing can go wrong in your day that gives you an excuse to skip. The personal trainer is the motivation pill you need to establish a routine, and forced weekly reset point when you inevitably fall off track now and then. From this anchor we can slowly grow into a healthy routine of exercising 4x per week that we need to stay mobile and healthy as we age. If you want to live a long healthy life, eliminating the possibility of not exercising over long time horizons is literally the #1 most important thing you must do.
I want to like this but I found the UI too confusing and didn't get anything out of the current experience.

I liked the BBS/ssh server intro and styling but you lost me at the jumpy, nested circular tree chart thingy. Maybe a boring rectangular treemap would work better? Even better if it was rendered in the terminal over ssh...
"Worldwide trees" is just marketing. I just checked and it has no trees where i live.

It does have the buildings although if i look out the window their shadows are a tiny bit too short for my location.
Yeah yeah. They'll see usage dropping thanks to their spyware, sorry strike that, telemetry. Then there will be a point where "too few people use this why so we keep it around" and it will get removed.
In this case the new battery would be sent to the repair shop.
Instead Apple wants the laptop (with the old battery) being sent.
Only things I have seen are items sold by third parties such as used books and Amazon offering to ship same day/overnight for an extra $2.99 (unless you spend over $35). I have had issues in the past though where you get "Prime Free Two-Day Shipping!" but fail to tell you it takes several days for them to actually process before shipping the item.
I think it is Michelle Obama.
That's what the "market" thinks. You are welcome to "arbitrage" it with some $!

Biden has a non zero probability of dying before the election (of natural causes). Plus DNC nomination is a super pac driven process. Math might just compute.
I have no idea about Canada, but in the US, there are lots of single-family home neighborhoods that have, "Home Owner's Associations".
matrix.org allows 100 mb attachment. It is federated, which means you can move your data to your server if you like later. There are many clients and server implementations now and it is e2ee.
Features. Is there any other tool that offers persistant text, voice, and video chats plus screen sharing?

I've gone looking and there is simply no alternative with core feature parity.
It might make one or more of them change their behavior.
Measure the initial load time, subsequent loads are indeed faster

And to test many replies you actually have to see them since they're not loaded on page load, only when you get to the bottom of that page, so just opening the top doesn't test anything re. lots of replies
I'm at 84% on this M1 MBP that I've been using for 2 years, I'm not too far off from his numbers.
I would think a sea-side city, of all the cities would need such a legislation due to the abundance of boats in their neighborhoods.
I couldn't afford my great grandparents house on either side of the family, I'm in tech and don't have kids (they had 5 and 2). I can't even qualify for a mortgage for an equivalent house today in the same city
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I am a UK resident and had no idea of what an HOA is or how it is run.

Your analogy instantly brought me up to speed, and spells out just how bad it would be.

Thanks very much!
Michelle Obama, yes.
You mean like teaching how to get Google to solve my math problems for me, instead of teaching me the logic behind the problems - what use do I have for theoretical calculus?

The only time in my life I've been unable to complete something mathematically, I was trying to compute accumulation of ROI for a shared money pool for crypto trading - I'm not even saying that correctly.

I couldn't enter the formula for the math I needed I to Google as I did not kno how to, have not owned a TI- anything calculator since highschool and completely forgot even the name for the genre of math that I was doing.

I kno that Google could do exactly what I needed tho and that was frustrating having to look literally every step of it all up

I think AI could have eliminated all of this.
> who is using ChatGPT and who is thinking for themselves.

You can do both. My son's using the chatbots as idea/synonym/high-level structure generators and general tidier-uppers. I'd be surprised if he's taking more than 10% of their suggestions verbatim, but it's great for rubber ducking.
Garbage collection seems like a significant no-go for many safety critical systems. Other oddities like 31 and 63 bit numbers probably aren't a big deal but are still weird. "Mature" seems like a stretch when OCaml only got proper multi threading 1.5 years ago.
"I can't be without my MacBook Pro for the indefinite period of time ensuing from mail-in repair".

It cannot be both suboptimal and cannot be without. No need to be defensive either. I was simply sharing that I have found it easier to have a desktop backup on hand but I also don't have any incantations to do to get my working environment setup.

Also worth nothing that every time I have shipped in a Macbook for repair I was giving a timeline and it always came back before the deadline. Shame they don't give out the number of days anymore.
Trust: Long time to build, short time to destroy
It's not necessarily a case of "LIDAR is necessary": it's more a case of how much more difficult it is to extract the necessary information with the necessary reliability from cameras alone (one important aspect I think is that LIDAR + HDmaps is very reliable at telling you 'something is there', even if it's not able to distinguish details. From the point of view of the car operating safely, that's a big deal). As it stands Tesla is behind waymo and making things harder for themselves (fundamentally because they've been trying to make it a consumer product, which constrains costs much more than aiming for robotaxis). It might mean they eventually get a much more cost competitive product, but that won't matter if they're beaten to market by 5-10 years (at the moment you can argue tesla is ahead in the areas their driver assist can operate and number of vehicles, but I think it's going to be much easier for waymo to scale up and to different areas than it is for tesla to progress their tech).
It says there the policy for shrinking down that screenshot is due to it being Microsoft copyrighted content. Probably for other copyrighted content as well. But Krita and other FOSS don't enforce this rule.
Which is often the case. You tend to hear about the outliers. If a bunch of houses share a common road for example, the maintenance/plowing/etc. of that road has to be divvied up in some way--and it's a reasonable bet that, especially if it's on the longer side, there will be people who object to whatever formula is used. People will also routinely disagree about the degree of maintenance and upkeep that's necessary for any shared facility.
I've listened quite a lot to her Rodgers and Hart songbook, and the idea she doesn't understand what she's singing never once entered my mind.
TBF, you don't need case sensitive FS for that, just case retaining is enough. And then have the option on how to sort it.
I think it’s a server side cache thing. I was loading a specific old topic on that instance and it took very long to load, but once loaded in the first time refreshes were decently fast (even in private windows). I’ve observed the same behaviour on the Figma forums, which are also discourse.
Insert some heavily obfuscated javascript code that checks the domain at runtime and, if it's the wrong one, redirects to distasteful images. If the site is in China, redirecting to prohibited content is another fun thing to do.
There’s definitely a pattern here that I think gets promulgated by hyperscalers and major vendors. Even if not intentionally, but as a byproduct of engineering blogs and marketing meets well intentioned developers.

A good friend of mine is a solid developer generally, but he only works in AWS and while he leads a technical team, he doesn’t seem to have any idea what things actually cost in AWS.

He also seems somewhat susceptible to the hype trains that get started by AWS and customers of a much larger scale than his employer. He builds in the name of scalability but in ways that don’t necessarily address future organizational needs. I’ve seen this impact his work in ways that it isn’t my place to directly address, but that I know will come back to haunt his employer.

By way of example, he has built the service his current employer provides around the idea that each customer gets a different tenant that isn’t connected to any other tenant, and there is no ability even from their control plane to transfer data between tenants. His thinking was based on the idea from a prior employer where enterprise customers got their services managed in a customer specific AWS account managed by the company: total isolation. That made a lot of sense at his last two employers, but for the industry in which his current employer operates it is an anti-pattern. To draw an analogy, it would be like building an EMR that doesn’t have the ability to output patient records in a manner that another EMR could ingest. In his industry this sort of portability of end user data for his employer’s customers is both customary and expected.

This means his company has to build some kind of abstracting service that can enumerate and communicate across all customer tenants to shuffle data around or export it. It isn’t a capability anticipated in the architecture, but it’s a basic need.

Down-thread there is a reference to Conway’s Law. You can argue this kind of thing is a manifestation of that concept. My friend has never worked in this specific industry before, and so he just doesn’t understand their needs. He talks about it in purely AWS Well Architected terms and designs based solely on that for everything. That may be his job to an extent, but I think the broader problem is that no one in his company clearly communicated to him predictable end user expectations that impact architectural design.
Show HN: A Notes App for Developers
I’m an iOS dev who manages a few side projects. I usually use the stock notes app to keep up with my projects, but since I use the notes app for everything, it’s pretty hard for me to keep my app stuff organized. I usually end up forgetting I even created a note. On top of that, I had a pretty complicated feature I want to build for one of my apps and sometimes (well a lot of the time) I have moments of code inspiration away from my laptop. The notes app sucks here because you can’t really stub a code idea cleanly. I decided to build an app to help me stub out my code thoughts and ended up with CodeStub. Project sort of evolved as I used it. It’s NOT a text editor. I’ve filled the app with enhancements that I always wanted for a dev-centric notes app. Some things as simple as access to the backtick symbol without changing the keyboard can go a long way when you’re trying to get your thoughts out. Right now the code-stubbing aspect is geared towards iOS devs, but I’m working on multi-language support. The notes aspect alone I think is a solid productivity tool for any code language.

Beta is still open, and I’d love y’alls feedback!
> it already has chokehold on its users and there is no equivalent.

There are plenty of equivalents - Slack, Microsoft Teams etc offer the same IRC + persistent messages + searchable + persistent user accounts & admin + multi-device + image sharing + file sharing + spam protection product.

They're just even worse, by most of the metrics that make people hate discord.
I dislike it. Clumsy and noisy. Just bad.
Since we're making silly comparisons, charitable organizations also give things away for "free", making the recipients somewhat dependent on them. There's plenty to criticize OpenAI about, but why associate them with drug pushers?
that's the one without per-post reactions and a weird markup language builtin?
Zulip is a good middle ground here. Open source, browsable without logging in (if configured to be), and much better UX than IRC (or god forbid Matrix which has to be about the worst chat software I've used).
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Still moderately surprised there isn't an option built into discord to make certain channels public for reading/indexing.

I have seen one site that seems to enable it by adding their bot to your "server", but it's only on a handful of programming-focused ones.
I've lived in trailer parks, downtown apartments, mid-town housing projects, suburban neighborhoods, hyper rural farming communities, and my car on a few occasions. I don't fuck with my neighbors and won't tolerate being fucked with, regardless of setting.
I'm blind and I don't like Discord. They implement accessibility well, but they, Slack, Teams and the like have decided that I need to know the sender and time stamp of every message in the chat. Read to me for every message.

Jumping between screen sections is annoying because lists and headings are too nineties and the hell with them.

Captchas? Should I mention that for some reason they disliked one of my logins and put an inaccessible captcha? Maybe your unhappy blind users are still locked out and can't tell you for their issues. Good that I was registered with a gmail account and circumvented them by adding a dot in the email field.

Those are personal experiences and I don't know your previous solution, but for me Discord manages to be annoying in a very specific and unnecessary way.