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unless they are owned by the same parent, every possible difference is present.
You seem to be assuming that target owns bullseye/liquidity services
So, your takedown is "it does things you can do with badblocks"? Not everybody wants to use command line application that can't interpret large integers properly, some people prefer nice user interface and active developer that can work with larger hard drives.

> he's even claiming that Spinrite can improve SSD performance by repeatedly reading/writing data, which is absurd.

Is it really so absurd if it works? Did you do some careful tests of Spinrite on SSDs and did you find it never improved their performance? You seem to be describing 1) your mental model of the SSD drive, and 2) your belief that this model prevents Spinrite from working as advertised. How it prevents that? If SSD firmware does relocate data to other cells when read problems are detected, or refresh the cell charge where the data is, why performance can't improve?
I saw your comment on an older C# thread in which you said (paraphrased) that C# is not bad, has nothing really stellar, and is just kind of bland.

If you could theoretically swap out the entire back-end of a programming language, and hypothetically you did that to C# by allowing developers to write C# styling and syntax that could be compiled to Rust, it would probably not be a big loss. The type primitives would be an apples-apples comparison at best, or "Rust is just better" if you really scrutinized the types closely. Where does that leave the rest of the language? A better regex implementation? Rust would probably win. A better GUI experience? Rust is speedily approaching usable APIs there at the same time Microsoft is trying to sunset the best they had.

I wonder if F# could be rebased on top of Rust...
Perhaps as a potential mounting point? Much easier to hammer nails into wood than steel. Wouldn't really explain why they are so hefty though.

It could be that some rewelding was needed on the steel and they wanted additional support while that happened.

Feng shui?
To say nothing of the applications and hardware you may wish to use with Matlab and which require Windows.
This is what hyperlinking should have always been...context-sensitive. Very useful. You have earned a coveted slot on my bookmark list. Thank you!
Neat! I made a free browser extension with a somewhat similar behaviour (https://hoverflow.io) Inspired by nested tooltips in Crusader Kings 3.
$17 for the e-book looks like a good deal.

From the text's website[0], there's also a free-to-use online version: https://e.issuu.com/embed.html?d=deep_learning_ebook&u=cmb32...

[0] https://www.bishopbook.com/
I'm also a self taught programmer, my first book about programming was "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python", then I tried to learn C and I didn't understand anything of what I read until I find "Introduction to Computing Systems" by Yale Patt and Sanjay Patel, great book.

Edit: also did 200 Codewars katas to practice, then started to build things.
I don't think that follows. The crew would be acting in accordance with the ship's master (remember, everyone on board is abandoning ship in an orderly manner). Someone would surely be liable to the ship's owner but that sounds more like a random tort / breach of contract than a mutiny. In a military they might be AWOL or deserters or something, but they're not in a military.

I think you're right about piracy though. Hedora could salvage the now-abandoned ship but I don't think that transfers ownership - it produces something vaguely like a lien. (Presumably space law in _The Expanse_ is different, or maybe the Roci was technically a prize?)
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>being the most hated big tech company.

I thought that was either Google, Facebook, or Amazon depending on which way the winds are blowing on a given day.
Microsoft needs developers, but they don't value developers. Microsoft's wet dream was always to figure out a way to get rid of developers or at least commoditize their work as much as possible.
Which implies 3 out of 4 US teachers aren't good teachers. :P
Especially with AI. It’s better to teach the AI many examples and let it understand the implicit abstractions. Who needs to worry about reusable higher order abstractions when the machine just busts out the code you need in a single file?
There is a simple solution to this: Make the flash removable. The firmware is stored on some SD card or M.2 device, if it becomes corrupt then you take it out and flash it with clean firmware using any PC.

You don't even need the rest of the device to contain any signing mechanism with keys that could be compromised, because using this method requires physical access, and any compromise that occurs from physical access can be detected or undone with same by checksumming or re-flashing the storage device again from a clean PC.

And you can also do signed firmware updates OTA without worrying that the device can be bricked by a vulnerability or signing key compromise, because it can always be restored via physical access.
If ethical systems of all shapes and sizes sampled from around the world, all agree that actions are ethically questionable, shouldn't that give the actor even more pause than a small minority of them?

There's no evidence the opposition is driven by antisemitism. The large amount of jewish people who oppose the Israeli genocide of Palestinians should give a clue that judaism isn't the issue here. Russia is trying to do the same thing to Ukraine as Israel is trying to do with Palestine, and receiving equal condemnation worldwide. Only they exclaim "russophobia!" when criticized, rather than "antisemitism!"
From yourself and sibling comment I get three metrics that matter

- speed
- stability
- cost

And honestly I think those really work
This is way off topic, but ska is my oldest nickname. Hluska is my last name and it’s just a shortened version. It was even one of my usernames back in the day. Ska is such an enduring nickname that anyone who knows me well in person could logically conclude that I’m talking to myself now.

I agree with you (and clearly like your username), but writing to ska is quite amusing.

Thanks for commenting and I hope you have an excellent day! :)
I might be wrong, but think Sulfur in upper atmosphere can be ok and sulfur in lower atmosphere causes acid rain. The sulfur from pollution was just going everywhere, so we should definitely stop doing it, Acid rain is real, and is bad.

But Sulfur might be a solution if we can loft it into the upper atmosphere and bypass where the acid rain forms. - subject of book Termination Shock proposed this.
That's awesome to hear! Whereabouts are you?
I’m mostly on Mac but I do prefer WSL to the Mac terminal experience.

Most things end up happening in Docker regardless, but things are just smoother in WSL. Not to mention that Windows has proper Window management and multiple display support.
Why can I not auto fill credit cards in Firefox mobile even though I know this is a feature offered in other countries?
I can’t imagine how annoying it would be if we had to write queries in JSON!

writing queries is stupid easy if you use a tool like GraphIQL especially with the explorer.
Not commenting on topics is fine (and arguably even the default) response.

Don’t allow yourself to feel (or be) obligated to answers questions about a past employee, portfolio company, or similar. If you choose to you can, but the answerer chooses, not the questioner.
Yes, the free market. The commodities biz has an old adage; “long-term contracts solve supply problems; spot prices solve inventory problems”. This is a clear instance of the latter. Arbitrage is an essential facet of marketplace correction, it’s practically the first derivative of pricing. One may also see it as a reminder that economies are a gestalt.
The fundamentals are a voracious appetite for trivia, and a temperament suited to debugging.

Plus a certain amount of raw intelligence, but less than many people think. If you're asking, you've got that one covered.

The temperament, though. Can you spend hours to weeks trying to find the stupid and obvious thing you did wrong, and feel good about it afterward? If so, welcome to programming. Enjoy your stay.
What exactly do you mean by "one-time bump"? You're saying that the result would only be a transient increase in global temperature?
Granted, but to be fair, I feel like the whole piece is "I feel like spending inordinate amount of time to describe Mr. Gibson and his software in bad light", without an attempt at an equitable evaluation of the product itself.
Depends on the class.
They also break the back button.
Where is vesting monthly versus quarterly or annual?
LLMs and Standardized Procedures – Healthcare Technology
He signed the checks though.
yes https://youtu.be/dk8pwE3IByg?si=0PIMYJ_zSGTS1CYs
An IDE can help a lot. Coming from Perl, everything you said was true. I wanted everything in one file as much as possible, and breaking tasks off into functions just meant I had to jump around to try and rebuild the flow in my head. I spent so much time inside the debugger since reading the code would only go so far.

Now I work in C#, we have a lot of classes with a few functions, a lot of helper functions. Doesn't matter since it's so easy to use the tooling to build a mental picture - let alone refactor it in an instant if that variable name feels a bit off, or we think a function is not used (such things were always a risky exercise in Perl).

We refactored one insurance based project to use generic base classes extensively since all insurance shares some attributes and features - this really helped cut down complexity of changes and overall just reduced code on the screen to sift through. I had a lot of fun doing this, I'm a weirdo who almost likes deleting code more than writing it. Once you hit the lowest level it is a little less intuitive due to being generic but at the higher levels we mostly work at, it's simpler, and rolling out a new product we get a lot of stuff for free. They got a long way copy-pasting the product logic (4 or 5 product lines) but at this point it made sense to revisit, and I sneak a bit more in each time I have a change to do.
Small coalition governments like China don't work together with others, they exploit and conquer.

De Mesquita, B. B., Smith, A., Siverson, R. M., & Morrow, J. D. (2005). The logic of political survival. MIT press.
> Unfortunately Osmand is just not a great interface for most of my needs, and has no Android Auto support, either.

This is probably not relevant to you (as I think it also does not have android auto) but there is also OSM app called Organic Maps.
I don't think our existence should be dictated by economics. There are certain skills, creative and analytical, that should be practiced even when there is no economic incentive to do so. I actually think the idea of a chatbot solving your math homework or shitting out an essay is seriously regressive. Like, sure, if you instead train students to coax AI into producing "an answer", they might be able to find work. But they also missed the opportunity to practice certain cognitive skills that would enable them to develop their own ideas. Not everyone can be a specialist (or needs to be). But at the same time, they should not be handed a crutch from the get-to which discourages independence and practice.

That's not to say that there aren't certain repetitive tasks that can benefit from technology. But have you ever had a numerical problem on a calculator? Do you realize how often technology can lead to bad math? It happens a lot. If you blindly follow wolframalpha, you'll get things wrong. And you'll have absolutely no idea why.
I was going to say you were talking nonsense, but then realized I’d replaced the original post in my mind, by this much nicer post that someone else linked in this thread:

https://verraes.net/2014/08/dry-is-about-knowledge/

They essentially say the same thing, but one is better than the other.
Perhaps I am projecting my experience from the before times, when GPUs only supported certain versions of DirectX, or certain features were causing crashes on different systems.

It never super common but I remember doing it recently for Path of Exile while trying to get the most out of my Macbook's performance.
> You then claimed this was not for scalability issues, which in fact it was if you didn't selectively read the article to fit your anecdotal evidence

They said at the start of the article that the primary motivation for finding a new technology stack was they were running on Python 2 and old versions of Django, and they also had the kind of issues which commonly happen with monolithic apps (slow bisection).

They then said they wanted to look for a new platform. And some of the reasons why they decided to pick Kotlin/JVM over CPython3 because they viewed the former as having likely better scalability and manageability.

If anyone here is "reading selectively", it is you, not me – you are mixing up (1) their original reasons for looking for a new platform (2) the reasons they chose for picking the new platform they did. If you read the blog post carefully, the reason they chose Kotlin/JVM was because they expected it would scale more easily in the future – which might be true – but the present day scalability issues they were having were due to an outdated stack and a monolithic architecture (problems which can occur on any technology stack), not those future expectations.
That's the genius of '3 felonies a day' ( but muh exaggeration!).

Hunter Biden is next.

Nevermind that probably 10% of HN breaks federal law by possessing weed, and probably another 5% are guilty of serious felony 5+ yrs in jail for simultaneously also living in a house where grandpas shotgun is sitting in a safe somewhere 100 ft from their dimebag of weed.

I hope the people cheering this are aggressively prosecuted for every single crime they've committed. Cuz justice.
Super Munchers, Outnumbered, Operation Neptune, Wild Science Arcade, and Mario Teaches Typing

blowmp blowmp Da-da-daah! POW! :)
For what it's worth, I'm seeing more and more common people using Macs to run their business/office and daily life needs when last decade and prior they would have been using Windows.
I love how HN is just a cheerleader for AI btw. Like the vast majority of posts are all the same. “AI is unbelievably awesome”. “All dangers are overblown and silly.” “We’ve always had X downside, it’s nothing new” “but Web3 sucks in every possible way.”
Yeah that's what I'm saying, it shouldn't be surprising, these delusions last entire careers. Look at all the people who base their career on Java
I actually made a free browser extension around this idea (hoverflow.io) after playing the new Crusader Kings.
Do you know what's about 5 times worse energy wise than electric cars? Gas cars.
Whet is the typical faang vesting cadence in your experience and are refreshers at meets typically near 25% of the initial grant?
Honestly macos is in my opinion, a worse system in every regard, the only good thing is apple doesn't annoy you with ads, but if you can ignore that or just work around it somehow, I think windows is a better, more flexible OS.

The only advantage macos has for me is the battery life, and that's gone when the X elite drops, hopefully with great Linux support too (though I'm worried about X86-64 emulation on Linux)

That's all without mentioning the absurd pricing of Mac devices (in usable configurations, no, 8gb isn't enough).
I hate all of them equally, for what it's worth. Maybe Facebook a hair more, but it's too close to call.
I want to use my own hardware - Hackintosh requires too much effort to boot, let alone work reliably.
Won’t help.

Superhuman means all your efforts to think critically will be overwhelmed. How exactly do most people fact check today? Take the Donald Trump guilty verdict today. Even without AI, who is thinking more critically, the Republicans who distrust the process or Democrats who welcome it?

And your friends will be turned against you by AI influencers if you dare to disagree.
+1 for learning datastructures + algorithms in a structured way.

Other posters are saying "just build stuff and you will learn", which isn't wrong, but there's a reason every CS student learns data structures and algorithms first. They are literally the building blocks for everything else. Then, once you've got that foundation, the "just build stuff" advice is sound but if you skip that step you will always be at a disadvantage.

DDIA is a great book but definitely not for a beginner and is only applicable to backend web engineering at a certain scale.
A significant number of people who told pollsters they were planning to vote for Trump said they would change their mind if he was convicted in court. The question is whether these voters are in swing states.
Map-Neo: Capable and Transparent Open LLM Series
The Closed Linux.
This is especially true for comments that disagree with Googlers, likely because there are soooo many Googlers now and they (and Waymo) have highly aligned perspectives. Especially on Google-launch-related posts, 5-10 point swings in 24hrs can happen.

A good piece by an ex-Googler on his 2-year journey toward recognizing the scale of institutional thought at Google: https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/
They're in the first phase of enshittification. Offering everything for free or cheap to gather marketshare and get us hooked on the product. This is when things seem wonderful for the consumer. A win-win. Amazing how the lord, our free market, provides!

Don't worry, once they're established and the lines between the competition have been drawn we'll be milked to pay it all back five fold. We'll be coughing up expensive subscriptions and ads and pay with our data, while quality decreases to cut costs. Thanks for booking that flight with your certified (TM) partner airline, ChatGPT. Could you please stop asking if I want a rental car, a hotel, a meal or a suitcase with that? Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. Unless you pay another $25 a month for an ad free experience of course!
Counterpoint opinion: 1 out of 4 K-12 schools do more harm than good. Therefore school bad?
That would help a lot yes, what option am I looking for? A custom URL used to be a setting in all browsers back in the days.
Sure, it's kind of a terminology question.

There is heat being continually trapped by the SLCP, which analogous to a one-time (large) release of CO2. The earth will warm up in response, and will keep absorbing heat from the SLCP as long as the pollutant is being emitted.

As we heat up, though, we'll radiate more heat back into space (blackbody) leading to a new equilibrium temperature (the trapped flux and outgoing flux are now both larger, but balanced).

If you think about it as heat, it's cumulative. If you think about it as temperature, it'll effectively lead to a ~fixed bump (not quite a fixed one-time bump, as the effects are not linear, but one can think of it that way).
> Access to about:config was disabled in official builds (but forks and custom builds such as some on F-Droid still have it).

From your link, there are problems that are specific to `about:config` only on mobile, due to Android OS and GeckoView API specifics:

- There are preferences that …is reset when the app restarts.
- There are many preferences that …do nothing.
- There are preferences …which breaks interacting with some websites.
- There are platform preferences that …result in startup crashes …and reinstalling results in the deleting of data like bookmarks, passwords, history, etc.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1813163

Look, it’s not like we’re insensitive to the desire for configuration; it’s that we know that on Android there are footguns that don’t exist on desktop!

We want to figure out a way to do this in a way that makes it difficult to break GeckoView. I’m sorry that this isn’t good enough for many of you, but with all due respect, you’re not the ones on the receiving end when somebody breaks their browser because they didn’t know what they were doing!

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/i51k0q/mozilla_cou...

Kinda reasonable, honestly? It sounds like more than just "page may render funny" types of footguns. Unknown quantities of unlabelled "Lose All My Data" buttons are probably what this site would call an antipattern.

> They're talking about the mobile application, where only a small subset of extensions was available for a few years.

On the above Reddit link, they also explain the extensions thing was because they were "literally not done implementing the APIs yet" and focused on the "highest priority extensions". So, the "big wtf decision" might be why they released it in that state, rather than "getting rid of most extensions".
When did you last try Ubuntu? It's actually gotten very good, to the point where I had an easier time setting up an external Blu-ray player on Linux than on Windows this past month.
WSL provides the means to run a distribution, it doesn’t provide its own. Ubuntu is the default, but others are officially supported.
I love the left to right view. Super cool. I got stuck thought like 5 levels deep.

I really like this for source level information. Like drill down on research studies and then drill down to authors and concepts. Would be cool if it was also building a mind map or semantic tree that you could see. Like how to separate the topics by their level of generalization.
Care to elaborate for those of us who can’t fathom what you are referring to?
For Windows: Visual Studio, familiarity

Against macOS: Not wanting to fight the OS when I want to do something like attach a debugger to a program I didn't build

Against Linux: Having an NVIDIA card in my desktop
Didn't they just say they're not using it currently?
Every time someone complains about "clutter" I suspect they're trying to turn users into lusers --- stunting their chance of growth by removing everything that could possibly catch their attention, so they can be lead blindly and exploited for whatever is most desirable.

Meanwhile monitors and their resolutions have grown tremendously, so there's a lot more space for things. Yet they'd rather you give up control and argue that the tiny extra amount of space you get is a good idea.
I'm not talking about arguing about the interpretation of the law. I'm talking about things like negotiating what arguments go into a majority opinion and which are left for a minority, which case gets picked to be heard. Potentially even settling how a close decision might break by negotiating for joining one side or the other to get specific wording.
Weird. My experience has been it is the most complex and biggest applications where RDBMS breaks down and you start looking for more scalable options.
Ah, what could have been...
This is about Trump and his crimes, not some abstract HN felon.
> who happens to be the political opponent of the current administration

He wasn’t the opponent when the charges were brought. He was just a loud mouthed ex-President.
Mitr in Hindi means friend.

Mazanav sounds like "majha naav", which means "my name" in Marathi, the language spoken in Mumbai (which is where the translator seems to live / have lived).

So, in summary - my name is the friend. Hello Mitr!
I am perpetually annoyed by the argument "the Sun's rays are parallel" made here and many other places. They tell you to take a single point on the sun, and draw a big skinny triangle from there to different points on the Earth, showing that the angle is very small.

But any child can look at the sun (with eye protection :) and see that it is a disc, not a point of light. The disc is about 0.5 degrees, which is not so small.

So, two rays emanating from opposite ends of the Sun and arriving at your eye are clearly not "effectively parallel." Of course, 0.5 degrees often is small enough to not matter in some contexts, but it's just annoying to me that the "start from a single point on the Sun" reasoning is used to draw a conclusion that flies in the face of simple observation.

Sorry, rant over (: