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> I used to produce electronic music on my own, as a side gig; it felt very solitary and I am thankful to be now part of a band where I can interact with other musicians who became also good friends

I've gone both directions. Made electronic music by myself. Then started a couple of bands in my 20s. Those ended when I had kids and moved across the country. Then I got back into making electronic music by myself in my 40s.

I miss the cameraderie of being in a band dearly. But at the same time, the logistics are so much easier making electronic music on my own. I can just noodle on it whenever I get a spare minute. There's something lonely about the resulting music always being exactly what I could come up with, but there's also something rewarding about being able to really dig in to my own weird tastes and preferences without having to compromise with bandmates. I'm sure it would be very hard to find someone else who wanted to make electronic music close enough to what I'm into right now to be worth collaborating.
Windows 2000 was the successor to Windows NT 4.

On the consumer side, there was 95, then 98, then 98 SE (Second Edition), and then ME.
My internship project involved a tool to look up individual IP addresses as well as checking a range of address blocks. I ended up implementing the trie data structure, which performed well in terms of storage and run-time efficiency.

My initial approach was to store IP addresses into a hashmap but if the average query was to check address blocks like /24, then it'd turn out to be very poor data structure to search through.
Good find! @IWinfield (also in this HN thread) is in the video too. :)
Sigh... I'm with you here. Like yes it's pretty cool to be able to configure your pinmux and peripheral clocks and all that directly from the IDE and have it end up as source in your project. But no it's not cool to not have a supported way to do a command-line build.
> Have you considered that our founding documents/government was structured this way on purpose?

The senate was modeled on the house of lords and the expectation was that the country would be mostly ruled by the representatives in the lower house, with the senate handling special things like impeachment.

The senate disproportionately representing smaller states was a compromise necessary to get smaller states to ratify the constitution. Wyoming and Texas didn't exist. Senate rules that turn it into the place were legislation goes to die (like the filibuster) are rules created by the senate to give itself more power.
But throwing out pleasantries is a good way to avoid rush and misery?
Pagure: Git-Centered Forge
Even before CT, policies generally trusted the CA to not backdate. Of course a CA could try that, but if caught, all certificates, including previous ones, would be treated as invalid, so it worked.
Personally, I think we should respect the classics. Quite literary overwriting computer history (e.g, as far as search results are concerned) may not be the wisest thing to do.
At least it's not the "systemd-tmpfiles" command that deletes /home.
There used to be a company that tried to do this to directly generate electricity: eSolar (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/an-interview-with-esolars-bill-...)
No heat dissipation is a huge con.
Most of the compatibility issues over the past few years at least have been due to added privacy restrictions and reduced permissions scoping.
I'd like them to be clear about their own thinking. Something occurs in their mind once money is exchanged. If time is exchanged (i.e. advertising), on the other hand, no such pact is created. Why? Isn't money essentially a proxy for time?
Why stop at drinking water? If it's not codified in legislation, it will now be fair game for corporate America to exploit.

Up until now, companies had to cannibalize their customers when they could no longer find legal ways to grow. This will be enshittification like we've never seen. Instead of cannibalizing their customers, corporations will be able to cannibalize and exploit everything else that isn't explicitly nailed down in legislation.

In essence, this is likely the next Citizens United: another massive power grab for corporate America, the richest, at the expense of the people who populate the country.
Microsoft currently says:

> Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. [1]

So we've got a year and change. And they may push it back, like they pushed back EoL when people didn't upgrade from XP or 7.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...
Is that not considered negligence or abuse?
There are more options than "credit cards" and "cash".
I have a hunch that Jews came from Eastern Europe (I mean Israel before that). No, I don't think they are Khazars. But Ashkenaz was in Scythia, i.e. Eastern Europe.
I'm interested in the future naming schemes they are no doubt focus grouping now. Will we see Windows Series X? Windows '25? There's no way MS would do a Win13.
Considering agriculture and forestry combined produce about 5 billion tons of methane emissions a year, I don't think there's a shortage of availability.

It'll be a lot more work to capture and direct all that, but the biosphere spins off plenty of decomposition byproducts.
Eclipse always left me with the impression that it was more interested in architecting generically extensible platforms and protocols moreso than a nice, clean, user ready tool with all the kinks worked out. I was so scarred from Eclipse and OSGI and Equinox and xml manifest files and configurations and project import that never worked properly, that I never touched anything but vim for a whole decade, until first VSCode and then IntelliJ eventually won me back over by being /so/ incredibly polished that almost everything worked on the first try and with no configuration. Judging by the other comments here, I'm not alone in thinking that that impression hasn't gone away, and they aren't helping it now. From the article:

> Note that Eclipse Theia IDE is a separate component from the overall Theia project's related Eclipse Theia Platform, used to build IDEs and tools based on modern web technologies.

So you got the Theia project, the Eclipse Theia Platform, and the Eclipse Theia IDE, all fully separate things. "Ah" they will say, "what's so hard to understand? It's a project that works on an IDE development platform under the larger Eclipse umbrella, with which we built an IDE, but of course it has nothing to do with the original Eclipse IDE". None of which makes me want to use it or means anything to me.

When you go to https://theia-ide.org/ the big text says:

> An Open, Flexible and Extensible Platform to efficiently develop and deliver Cloud & Desktop IDEs and tools with modern web technologies.

Dear god, please put that stuff on theia-platform.org or something instead, and market the platform separately. I know you're proud of it, but stop telling me about it please, I'm not trying to develop IDEs, which is an extremely narrow niche. "It can host VS Code extensions" and "vendor-neutral" is pretty much the only notable things from my POV - which is a perfectly great selling point, mind you - and they bury those below the fold.

There's a reason you want this: the more people use Theia, the more people will choose to use it as an extension platform. Otherwise it's likelier to go the way of the original Eclipse IDE (whose homepage notably still doesn't say "blazing fast", "rock solid" and "works out of the box" but has room for a zillion other things like "preferences page for Generic Text Editor" and "jar viewer").

There's also a reason why almost every editor website starts with massive screenshots of the tool itself, because people want to be able to imagine what it would be like to use a new tool before taking the big step to actually try. This is marketing 101. I wish they'd just flat out copy a competitor's page, and bill themselves as "everything you get from VSCode, but actually extensible and actually open source. By the way, look at the cool IDEs other people built on top of this, if you want to do that too, check out theia platform".

It could be great, but I'm just seeing so much self sabotage, it makes me sad.
I very, very reluctantly switched from Eclipse to VS Code a couple years ago, because certain Eclipse plugins I relied on were no longer maintained. VS is pretty good, but I've never been comfortable with its place in the MS ecosystem, and I worry too about it turning to free-to-pay junk down the line. At least with Eclipse you really could just download and run years-old versions if you wanted to keep your particular plug-ins and favorite setup working.
Sure, and once we can observe something we can science it. But not until then.
It’s a bit insulting to pretend that we still have a functional legislative body capable of passing such a law.

And the court could simply invent more utter nonsense to toss it out again.
> Can we get that much methane from biomass?

I know that food waste generates a heck of a lot of methane in landfills, but I’d love if someone could add some rough napkin math on this!
I mean, it's true that the eliminated the engineer in test position. They didn't necessarily fire all the people in that position, because probably many of them switched to a new role.

But keeping the people and giving them a new role means the old role isn't being done, and I don't think it's done good things for product quality. The old way was expensive, and far from industry norms, but the product was more reliable.
> My guess is that if gerrymandering were completely outlawed, Democrats would easily maintain control of the House, with a healthy margin, more or less permanently.

The republicans would then find it necessary to change the constituencies to which they appeal. Anyhow, a few states are horribly gerrymandered by the democrats. The problem is that democrats did so horribly during the Obama years midterms that most states ended up in control of republicans for the 2010 and 2020 census.
That seems more like a fun sci-fi speculation
As well as Open by Andre Agasi. One of the greatest autobiographies.
Up to what scale?

This works well for a couple dozen repos per team in my experience. It’s also my preferred way to work.

It doesn’t scale so well to hundreds of repos per team without significant tooling. At some point anything cross-cutting (build tool updates, library updates, etc) becomes hard to track. Repos are left behind as folks change teams and teams are reorg’d.

I’ve never worked in a monorepo, but I can see the appeal for large, atomic changes especially.
Oh yeah. I absolutely agree. The answer from management (or even your direct dev manager) is “we should log more”. It absolutely doesn’t matter how much you’re logging because there is always gonna be a drill-down question you can’t answer. “log more” is almost always the answer. At my current work we’re at a place where every function call has boilerplate of

func someBullshitFunction() {
logger.info(“started”);
defer performance.Meausure(“someBullshitFunction”)
…
}
I agree it shouldn't be parroted as though it's the word of the lord, like any advice it will be more or less applicable on specific situations. I've been on both sides of the let's redesign a thing plenty of times.

The balance is somewhere in the middle, it's valuable advice for what can go wrong when you don't think through the implications of the decision making process, understand how and why the system works the way it does, and what risks exist for what can go wrong with a big redesign. But like anything, if the risks are understood, then those risks can be accepted, mitigated, or rejected if appropriate, or provide guidance on why the redesign investment isn't worth the associated risks.
> I'm pretty sure nobody cares about receiving a smile unless they're the socially awkward ones or are there for the wrong reasons (narcissists).

Are you autistic?

The vast majority of people appreciate a little eye contact and a smile which is literally the least you can do to acknowledge that they're human and not a piece of furniture.
I'm actually 100% fine with this business model, if it's cost acceptable. I use YouTube for an hour+ a day and YouTube music for hours, having access to both of those services ad-free is fine by me. Their service is 6-13usd/mo (depending on your location) and gives daily entertainment, while other streaming services want you to pay 10-30usd/mo for maybe 1-2hrs/week of content, for maybe the length of a single series season.

What annoys me is creators double-dipping and adding sponsor reads throughout their video, to the point I have to run an extension (SponsorBlock) to get passed those. Or them gating arbitrary application specific features (PIP being a big one) behind their premium service.
The edited headline we have now makes it sound like twentieth-century physicists had some sort of anti-gravity thing going on.
Windows 8.1 was a major release too, and generally considered a "good" one compared to Windows 8.
A morphogenetic field day, no doubt.
Big tech companies are willing to invest in those platforms and mold them to work like they want to work. Few other companies do so and Kubernetes becomes the way to get big tech like platform.

I do agree it could be better but it's Un opinioned nature also let's these companies shape it in a way that matches where they are. Also, probably biggest issues with it only come up if you are not in managed Kubernetes which many are.
Don't just read this decision. Read all of them.
While argument from authority does make sense in a social/political context which functionally defines correctness in terms of authority of appointed office, I'm sure it wouldn't be lost on any seasoned lawyer that it still constitutes a fallacy when it comes to the merits of the argument alone. Similarly no one would know better than a lawyer the distinction between the authority of an opinion and its merits -- or to get less meta and back closer to the specifics of the opinion and surrounding arguments, the fact that multiple arguments can be reasonable and multiple policies might well be not only a side effect but the expected and even perhaps desired outcome of public processes from court decisions (this one obviously different from the one it overturns) to elections.

And part of the point of institutions like courts is that the reasoning is subject to public review and discourse, both institutional and social.

I'm making a specific response to shortcomings apparent in the argument -- the opinion seems to treat the fact of differing interpretation of law or differing policy goals between different executive administrations to be some kind of bug or worse a surprise, when it seems entirely reasonable to expect it as a feature, one that certainly shouldn't be surprising to someone whose whole career (and indeed, features of this very decision) turns on the interpretive range often present within the law.

If you have specific commentary indicating how experts from a conlaw round table might engage this response, by all means, don't "just let slide", enlighten all of us in the course of doing the work that people genuinely combating Dunning-Kruger might do by elaborating on what, specifically, is overlooked in the response or missing from its counterargument.
Odds are you'll ignore the advice of a graybeard with multiple degrees. But I'll have a go just in case.

Being accepted to MIT is a great accomplishment. Don't blow it. The primary reason to go to university is to learn and graduate. Part of the learning experience is an ever increasing awareness of little you actually do know. After completing SICP, you'll realize how little your programming chops as a kid matters.

Education is an expensive investment. However, the credentials and the network you build will pay dividends for decades after you graduate. The odds of a part-time startup matching those returns are very slim. The few people who have created truly successful startups at university have dropped out. But the majority have ended up with a failed startup, a failure to graduate and a student debt for the wasted years.

By all means enjoy your sport. Build a network of like-minded folks. Undertake ambitious projects, but with the primary goal of learning. But most importantly of all, study seriously. Lapses during the early years tend to bite hard in the later years. In my case to the point of needing to repeat mandatory subjects.
That's interesting, we have gone through almost opposite journeys. I was in bands as a teen and in my early 20s, solo electronic in my late 20's and then again in my mid 30's, finally back to being in a band in my 40's.

I agree with your sentiment relative to being free from compromise, in my previous comment I should have added that there are shortcomings to being in a band and the struggle over creative direction is the biggest one IMHO. At least over the years I have gotten better at quickly working out whether or not a band is for me, and if it's not I can get out of it before making too many commitments. As opposed to my teens where I kept playing, for a long time, in bands I didn't like just because my mates where there.
Even numbered Trek Films/FreeBSD releases/Windows releases don't suck?

I don't think it quite works though, because NT4 and NT5 (2k) were both good, although NT4 was hard to use with many games and win2k was better but still had some issues. I didn't hate XP on release and people grew to like it. So that's kind of 3 hits in a row, but then vista bad, 7 good, 8.x bad, 10 good, 11 bad kind of fits the pattern.
Didn't 10 introduce dark patterns to make users create an online account, forced telemetry, forced updates that can lead to unexpected reboots? (though unexpected reboot only happened once to me many years ago, they seem to have fixed that)

Windows 8 had a controversial UI but was respectful of user choices.

I have a hard time imagining a new Windows version not getting worse on respecting user consent.
Google3 monorepo source isn't, by policy, supposed to leave the corp network workstations, and can't even be on your corporate provided laptop (except for some edge cases in mobile apps dev). Even during full COVID lockdown WFH we had to remote into our machines. (I worked on embedded stuff and had to compile on my office workstation, scp the binaries home, and flash my device, and repeat. Super slow cycle.)

So, anyways, source code being basically on-premise only and on machines that they can fully audit and control... Would you be stupid enough to "cp -r srccheckout /media/MYUSBSTICK" on such a box?

Also believe it or not they used to have a very open internal culture at Google because the bulk of employees genuinely liked the company and its stated mission and there was a bit of a social contract that seemed to be upheld. Stuff didn't generally leak out of the wide open all hands, even. Past tense.
So I'm living up north here where from Nov 15 to Jan 26 we get less than 9 hours of daylight per day and the sun is at a low angle above the horizon. We won't be generating anywhere near nameplate capacity even if the sky is clear due to the ubiquity. Add clouds and the short day... and it's really rough for a few months. Sometimes it's windy when it's dark and cold, and sometimes it just stays cloudy and calm for a while. To make it through the winter here you're going to need to either build out massive amounts of storage or dramatically over-provision the wind and solar and deal with curtailing it in the summer.
OpenLoco: Modern, open source version of the classic transport simulation game
This is disingenuous. The claim of Chevron supporters is that we need to defer to the agencies because they can make decisions based on technical expertise that the political branches don't have. But the example proves that is not what is happening. The fact that the rules changed every time the administration changed proves that these are, in fact, political decisions being made under the guise of technical expertise. What is really happening is legislation by the executive branch which is blatantly unconstitutional.
Yes I agree, I especially resonate with what you said about brainstorming, in almost every job I have been, I have found some people who ended up becoming my "brainstorming buddies", having such coworkers around is to me an incredibly important factor, so much so that it can influence my choices re: staying at a company vs going somewhere else.
VMs are going to suck if you use VMWare and they hike the price four fold.
This week in KDE: everything, I think
That's not a system update, though; you do actually need to actively run a pretty specific command to get the systemd-tmpfiles behavior. Closest thing I can recall was the old Steam for Linux bug that accidentally tried to rm rf /.
Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Tell me more about the dissonance you see. “Survival of the fittest” just means that in a challenging environment, those who can adapt will survive to go on and have children.

If you are saying that modern medicine keeps some people alive through to parenthood who would otherwise have perished: yes, that’s true. We have made our environment less challenging.
LLMs can be deterministic if you set the random seed and pin it to a certain version of the weights.

My bigger concern would be bugs in the machine code would be very, very difficult to track down.
Refuses to legislate in the way that you want them to. There is, in fact, plenty of legislation.
I don't see it as a typo. Bank is being used as a verbed form of "use banking services", and the text that follows provides an example of how using only a single banking service provider can screw you over.
The British meaning is much newer, and is a bastardization of an extremely commonly-used word in the sciences (derived from a Latin root and all). Cringing at its use evokes the feeling I get when someone snickers at the pronunciation of "Uranus" in an astronomy course.
> Long ago Congress passed laws delegating a lot of rulemaking authority to the executive branch […]

By "long ago" the delegation was first mentioned (AFAICT) in 1825:

> It will not be contended that Congress can delegate to the Courts, or to any other tribunals, powers which are strictly and exclusively legislative. [23 U.S. 1, 43] But Congress may certainly delegate to others, powers which the legislature may rightfully exercise itself.

* https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/23/1.html
I have long felt that DevOps was always a philosophy, not a methodology. It simply meant folding all that operations stuff into the SDLC. It was always about making Ops part of Dev, not the other way around, and especially not as a standalone discipline. The cloud made this a lot easier, as everything could be done programmatically, but the philosophy held true long before that.

It doesn't mean CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, or YAML. Those are all incidental.

The moment specialised "DevOps" teams started springing up it was all over. We just reinvented the sysadmin.
It's a good place with people who are trying to keep improving. Not hiring atm though. New business is slow.
Story time: in 2000 my first manager at Microsoft had not one, but three houses on Lake Washington, a small stable of fancy sports cars, and a rather substantial boat. In 2002 he had none of those things and was bankrupt. Moral of the story: diversify the living shit out of overheated stocks.
I recently left Google and knew it was going to be a step down from Google's build ecosystem, but I wasn't prepared for how far a step down it would be. It's the only thing I miss about the place, it' so awesome.
The theory behind Helion's approach to building fusion devices (2023) [video]
I remain unconvinced that most companies actually need systems 'at scale'. Just get a big relational database and know what parts of your workflow have concurrency issues. If you ever actually approach BIGCORP_NAME scale, you'll have more than enough money at that point to rebuild it into something else.
It is so funny that meta has to post it on X.