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I can't live without ripgrep, it's so much faster than grep it's not even funny, especially if working with very large code bases with 100,000+ files
I didn't know that "revenge bedtime procrastination" was a term but it definitely describes me.

I have to set an alarm for bedtime, but I still struggle with being disciplined about it.
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Am I missing something? I don't know where this informations came from, but you can check out GeekBench v6 single-core benchmarks here.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/singlecore
what is g->d?
This is probably correlated with so many other cofounding factors, like employment/stress/substance abuse
Maybe they are even __trying__ to get sued to set a legal precedent against Copilot.
ctags + cscope can take you far
Yes the sheer number of AI slop companies is so uninspiring. Where is the creativity? There are still plenty of great technology companies to be built that are not ChatGPT wrappers.
Does that mean it's gonna top...
This is sad to hear.
Getting into homelab, I rolled my own -- but quickly found myself setting up lxc's with tteck. Incredible resource.
Yes, that is how at-will employment works — or contracted employment where the employer calls the shots.

The employees knew this going in whether they admit it to themselves or not.

It still doesn’t make the change wrong.
Shazam's auto-added music to Apple Music for ages. Maybe Spotify too but it's been years since I used that.
You were actually fired for disagreeing with leadership on if something is a good idea of not. Prior to growth mindset you'd have been fired for "not being a team player".

This is an EQ thing. If you see something stupid happening that leadership is excited about, you don't stand in opposition to it, instead, if appropriate you prepare a contingency, or at least get docs covering your ass, and then you try to remove yourself from the situation.
What are the false positive / false negative rates?
I mean it has to by definition.

If you hire someone to do a basic job like say sweeping your drive or cleaning or whatever and the cleaner used to cost 15/h and now costs 17/h that's directly linked, 100% of the minimum wage increase goes straight into price increases.

You can argue about what percentage feeds through to various products - not everything is fully linked to local labour costs - but I don't see how anyone can pretend otherwise, it's about as close to mathematically defined as you can get.
Sorry, I really don't care about being "neoimperialist." I'm sure that's a bad word to you but I'm all about protecting US interests abroad and asserting global dominance and power. You'll find that at least half the country agrees with me.

Indonesia wields zero power over the US, it's patently absurd that you think the US depends on them. The US could, however, easily economically cripple Indonesia.
my primary use for it is to open files quickly and as a dumping ground scratch pad since you can just close windows and it won't bitch about "do you want to save this file?" no, sir, i do not, just reboot windows please, and when I come back to notepad, I want my scratch buffers back.
With barely any economic or social power and bringing virtually nothing to the table. It would be trivial to assert dominance over them.
It's fun :)
Fantastic piece of software. Congrats to the Pixelmator team
Off-topic but when was the Ivy League a proxy for extraordinary? Yale selected for height until at least 1965, Harvard was super dedicated to excluding Jews in the 30s and its athletes had SAT scores that were 100 points lower on average as of 2005, etc.[0]

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/10/getting-in-ivy...
I bought the first version but skipped out on the last one. I think they'll go the way of Final Cut Pro with this.
Apple Acquires Photo Editing App Maker Pixelmator
> He billed my insurance just under $300

Who pays the insurance that pays the scammer? There is no magic money, ultimately you're the one who paid 300$ for a 5 minutes exam.
Honestly I can only imagine it's because the team enjoys the challenge. Once they get bored/fed up, goodbye Linux on Macs.

If you think you want to run Linux, don't buy hardware from a company that views it as a threat to their business model, simple as that.
Apple is ahead. The fab stuff is an explanation of why they are ahead, not an excuse for being behind.
I've run into similar recently with delivering to our own company's email boxes from our own server -
company uses office365 / msoft business(?)

after jumping into dkim spf and all that, I can get delivered from our server to gmail.. but not to the company outlook boxes.. tried to get [third party corporate IT] to whitelist the ip or domain - they cant find receive attempts in logs..

back and forth, showing screenshots with timestamps, paying stupid money per hour to [NotNaming].. get told that well their msoft thing depends on AWS as a middle man and it is hardcore about spam stuff and if that's the problem it will take a ton of 3 team digging?

Giving up - now trying to find a way to have the server send an email to gmail and then forwarding to company's office365 - maybe, I dunno yet.
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>the Macintosh IIx. It blew everything out of the water.

naa... Amiga had the A2500 around the same time, the Mac IIx wasn't better with regards to specs in most ways. And at about $4500 more expensive (Amiga 2500 was around $3300, Mac IIx was $7769), it was vastly overpriced as is typical for Apple products.
If the Hanoi pieces alternate in color, there is another very easy algorithm: always avoid putting two pieces of the same color directly on top of each other. I noticed this by accident while watching someone else solve a Hanoi puzzle with alternating colored pieces. (The person I was watching didn't know this trick either. I suspect the manufacturers of the alternatingly colored puzzle also didn't know about it. So where did the knowledge come from?)
This is not really an actually, it's widely and well known. It's also specifically why I said machine learning, not artificial intelligence, the two are not the same thing.
The article seems to contradict this:

> Scientists looking to simplify matters with a checklist of biological markers of adhd have come up empty-handed. Two people with adhd may exhibit similar symptoms caused by entirely different underlying psychological and neurological processes. Imaging studies that have examined the structure and workings of the brain have failed to agree on what, if anything, characterises the adhd brain.
Does anyone else consistently get 6 to 7 hours of sleep no matter what? It doesn't feel optimal and I feel great on the rare days I get 8 hours, but I can function just fine on less. Also cannot easily fall back asleep if woken up which is really frustrating.
It's geared towards people who want to become wealthy, and are willing to take the risk that it needs to get there.

500k is enough to get you by for a few years at least, even in the bay area. You might not be able to afford champagne at the club every weekend, though.
Why not? Hostels work like that, and they are just fine. Lots of women staying in hostels. Usually they have woman only rooms and mixed rooms.
Qualcomm and Nvidia.
I don't understand. Once CIA has access to your machine, they can replace any DLL and have it be loaded by any software. You'll have to stop using all software with dynamic dependencies, why single out Notepad++?
Of course, if somebody was studied in archeology and the Greek language, and had read and was friends with a variety of Greek and many other ESL scholars working in the field, perhaps their comments would hold more weight than total speculation. Despite all the contextual clues, since the words are there as they were written, I cannot state for a fact he did not intend for them to come across exactly they way they do to the ever-so-elusive "reasonable native English speaker".
Nostalgia flashback. Anyone else implemented a renderer based on fatmap2.txt[1]?

I came up with my own approach using bresenham and storing spans, but it was slow and sucked.

Then my buddy found fatmap2.txt on a BBS and gave it to me, as I didn't have a modem at the time. It was a revelation.

Programming in Turbo Pascal I was hampered by it being 16bit, but discovered I could prepend the assembly opcodes with 66h to turn them into 32bit instructions.

Later I tried converting the code to C, being only 300 lines and at that point well understood I figured it was a good task to get started with C. I was self-taught at programming but had read enough C to feel confident enough to try.

Converted it all line by line to C before compiling... and got literally over 3000 errors and warnings, and none of them made any sense.

Discouraged I left it, but a week later I was determined to get it working. After a few hours staring and bashing my head against the wall, I saw that the constant for the texture width which I had converted to a #define in C, had a semi-colon at the end...

So I removed it, and voila it complied flawlessly...

Only later did I realize my C compiler, djgpp, was actually a C++ compiler and that's probably why I got so many seemingly weird errors.

Anyway, good times...

[1]: https://github.com/rcoscali/ftke/blob/master/ogles/doc/fatma...
for me it only happens if I run in multiple instance mode where you can have multiple notepad++s open
d) left the Old Country long ago

This means that while to some degree I remain interested in, I am no longer committed to[0], the vagaries of a regime which, with its paucity of parties, shambles through a political Cupid Shuffle[1] every 4-8 years.

[0] compare the pig and the chicken at breakfast

[1] "...to the right, to the right / To the left, to the left,..."
24hrs of web/office is a work day of something more intense, or a few hours of something crazy.
you still shouldn't have it on your lap though. it's bad for your posture.
I mean I guess but what's your plan when your script is just a bunch of subprocess.run calls? I promise you it won't be any less brittle.
I was around for that.

The thing then was it was just Apple catching up with windows computers which had had a considerable performance lead for a while. It didn't really seem magical to just see it finally matched. (Yes Intel Mac's got better then Windows computers but that was later. At launch it was just matching)

It's very different this time because you can't match the performance/battery trade off in anyway.
> Is there any way this can go bad?

Development can stagnate. This isn't a huge trend with apple but it's the obvious answer.
> Results were adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, and sociodemographic, lifestyle, and health factors.
Are we living in the same world? Nvidia only recently started caring about Linux (due to profit obviously, it turns out servers don't run anything else nowadays).

May I remind you of the famous `--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia` flag in Linux compositor? Meanwhile, apple literally went out of their way to make secure boot for third-party OSs possible.
Strange it does prompt me to save and I also don't do any extra configuration for the Win11 Notepad. It is a fairly annoying app, and definitely worse than previous versions. But will look into what config options there are, but being a modern software I expect it's probably got limited options.
> That is a bad look no matter what you think of Tim's actions.

The thing that leaves a very bad taste in my mouth is the public announcements of the suspension. It's like a company announcing they fired someone, or that they put them on a PEP. Maybe they were 100% justified in the firing, but you know, live and learn, new chances, etc.

Making a big deal out of it on the internet ("the internet never forgets") is not treating the person with kindness or dignity, and is not respecting their privacy. And yes, people deserve those things even if they did something wrong.

Previous comment touching on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41236939
You might take a look at [SciTE](https://scintilla.org/SciTE.html), a light weight wrapper around Scintilla, with lua scripting support. It’s been my non-IDE editor for years on Windows and Linux…
It feels a bit strange though that they made FCP for iPhone/iPad a subscription, and completely separate one from the Mac App.

Like, Apple probably doesn’t even need to make money from any of FCP? IMO should be used for driving people to buy more hardware. It’s a little bit offensive for them to charge $5/month on top of a $300 Mac app.

On my Mac I have Davinci, and was considering perhaps trying FCP, but not at those prices / subscriptions.
For those who don't know the reference: https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/
> I think I'm one of the last people using WSL1.

I think you're the second-to-last one :-)
> The talent and ideas that were Pixelmator will be substantially diffused as it's absorbed by Apple...

The "ideas" in pixelmator are mostly updating traditional image-mutation patterns to match the native environment language. Let's not pretend that this was some kind of revolutionary application for image development.

Is it implemented well? Absolutely. But this is hardly an example of developing new software practices or processes.
For me it was more of an “oh sh*t, that person had a family.” And I feel like it’s easy for that to get lost when reading about people generally. Especially famous and wealthy people.
...until the battery runs out hours earlier.
Not unique to capitalism, cf. 20th Century fascist states, communist states, totalitarian states in general have all upsold nonsense for short-term benefits. Capitalism tends to have fewer direct murderous/genocidal side effects and the emperor is told he is naked more quickly, directly and effectively.
Not sure "innocent" is the word I would use.
Personally I'm mostly in web dev but I work with design shops, agencies, etc. I also do audio production, photography, and some video. But you're right that I'm in contact with small creative shops (less than 50 people).

> What I typically hear is advertising is Premiere, Hollywood is Avid

Yes, for editing, but AFAIK Resolve is quickly becoming the king for grading.

> it seems like it's not sophisticated enough to compete with Nuke, and not a great fit for the motion graphics/2D stuff that AE excels at

It's true but OTOH many projects don't need all that sophistication and you can't beat the convenience of doing it all inside a single project/app (editing, grading, vfx, motion, sound).
Discussion (757 points, 8 hours ago, 414 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42018013
Discord/Messenger Alternative Wishlist?
I have been interested in starting a hobby project that could one day maybe become something more.

I've been considering a Discord alternative as 1 possibility of a project and to do a few things differently.

MS Teams and Slack still seem more business oriented still. I have heard of Revolt but it feels like it's going just direct Discord Alternative, and not trying to change it up too much, at least not yet.

What features would you consider a worthwhile differentiator instead of doing 'more of the same' that discord wouldn't likely ever do?

Obviously, aside from all the standard-esque things from text to voice, etc..

The few features that could make a discord alt more compelling of a platform.

1. More public facing community features (Don't be a blackhole of information).
e.g. Allow public facing announcements/channels to be viewable without an account on the web. Some game companies use Discord to share announcements/patch notes but having to 'have an account, join a server, to view patch notes'. This blackhole of information just feels challenging for no good reason.

2. Allow a few more 'advanced users' type scenarios, even if it results in inconsistent or degraded user experiences. e.g. Allow P2P video screen sharing without needing to go thru middle re-broadcast. I know this doesn't scale with multiple consumers but with 1-2 proper users it be allowable. Saves a lot of upfront server $.

3. Support Channel/Chat aggregation (mostly cosmetic). Have a single view for quickly going between channels/private messages. Without having to go to each individual server first.

# Differentation

What features would you consider a worthwhile differentiator instead of doing 'more of the same' that discord is ever likely to do?

Also, any recommendations on technologies or frameworks to help me jumpstart? I have my professional strengths, but would rather stay open minded to all suggestions.
The symbolism here is pretty nice.
Even though, there are no lack of issues that are simply not cared about. E.g. thermal throttling for ThinkPads is a very annoying problem the best solution to is simply a python script that just periodically overwrites a memory location.
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The country where I want to be

Rolling mats down the mountain

When there's no snow to ski

Whether shortshrifted winters

Or spring summer or fall

Finland , Finland , Finland

Finland has it all
Rivian's Chief Software Officer Says In-Car Buttons Are 'An Anomaly'
Discussion (757 points, 414 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42018013
I look forward to a helm-free future.
I don't think so. I had a Crystal Well laptop from MSI.

They also made them for desktop in I5, I7 and Xeon form.
> Pixelmator as a product is literally what Apple would have built anyway if they made an attempt.

Even accepting this premise there's little reason to think Apple would have cared about this particular market before they bought Pixelmator. Why would you think Apple would target a given market segment?
You're just stating the problem the parent content was upset about. It's all well and good to state the facts and say "face reality" but in this case we all apparently know that it's a fragile state of affairs.
It is not a DTC, despite the DB world using ATM's wrongly as an example for decades, follow their model for actually moving money and you would be sent to jail.

"Accountants don't use erasers"

The ledger is the source of truth in accounting, if you use event streams as the source of truth you can gain the same advantages and disadvantages.

An event being past tense ONLY is a very critical part.

There are lots of way to address this all with their own tradeoffs and it is a case of the least worst option for a particuar context.

but over-reliance on ACID DBMSs and the false claim that ATMs use DTC really does hamper the ability to teach these concepts.
https://archive.is/QyTwy

The capabilities are space based. "Significantly increasing the risk of warfare in orbit."
I love SciTE but it feels like a technical demo compared to Npp.
Ah, fuck.
> The main worry is that it will be an acquihire into the Photos app

There doesn't appear to be much overlap in terms of functionality.

Hell, if this is true I'd actively celebrate it.
Why use an alias in a script?
Or in general? Functions work everywhere.
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Photomator has everything I need in a Lightroom replacement. I hope Apple takes and uses it all.
How is that apple's fault, nor any form of "deliberate attack"? Like, come on, neither of the parties are malicious, especially not for the sake of it.
People are using Thunderbolt clustering for AI inference. Historically Thunderbolt networking has been much slower than you'd expect so people didn't bother trying HPC.
Please don't do this stuff here.
Machine learning's potential to reveal personality traits through eye tracking
> This would be very short sighted as Pixelmator adds way more value to the Mac platform than a better Photos app.

This is comparing apples to oranges. A better photos app isn't even remotely comparable to shipping a raster image editor. One is concerned with overall rendering of the products of a camera, the other is concerned with precise editing of a raster image.
I wonder if they have enough clout to change DJIA -> DJAI ?
Negative comments are so weird, it's like people forgot what GPT 2 was like. I know this isn't completely new, but it's a world simulation inside a goddamn LLM. Not perfect, not coherent over longer time periods, but still insane. I swear if tomorrow magic turned out to be real and wizards start controlling the literal fabric of the universe people will be like "meh" before the week ends :D
I havent worked at MSFT (atleast not directly). But reading this article actually brought back a lot of cultural memories of Google (especially around perf season). The rubrics, the passive aggressiveness, the mindset mentality. Not very surprising given leadership and management keep circulating among these set of companies.