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> But distinguishing between smaller brown dwarfs and planets requires looking at how they form. Even though they can end up about as massive as 10 Jupiters, planets always arise around a star, from its surrounding disk of gas and dust.

> In contrast, stars, including brown dwarfs, form on their own within giant collapsing clouds of gas.

Is this really the standard terminology? It’s not how I remember it, and it doesn’t make much sense. There are tons of binary star systems, and while a some are three-body capture events, aren’t most formed from the same gas cloud? (I.e., not “on their own”.) Likewise, rogue planets (i.e., not bound to a star) can be formed in a stellar system and be ejected, but can’t they also form on their own, e.g., a dust cloud with less than enough total mass to form a star? Surely you wouldn’t call a sub-Jupiter-mass body a “brown dwarf” just because it formed in isolation?
Reminds me of a Zig proposal I saw recently to make the std.Thread.Pool API respect the Linux jobserver and macOS dispatcher automatically out of the box:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/20274
On the other hand Spotify has literal porn on it along with Joe Rogan.
China also seems to have a sort of exciting world view in my opinion, belt and road, massive renewables investment, EVs, Nuclear. The USA seems like it's going backwards.

I think it will be harder to China to succeed without America, but I don't think it's impossible. Plenty of countries who will trade with them.
I’m sorry but Krita is actually usable. I have managed to use Krita successful with many projects while with gimp every project ends in frustration and failure.
Rerere sort of helps, sometimes, but like so many things with git (the stash, wip commits, fixup commits, squash rebasing) it’s yet more hacky fixes over the design being not quite right.
It's not that hard is the basic answer. They have plenty of people with IT experience capable of managing the project to develop and in house implementation. Even outsourcing what they need to will be cheaper than going with what a company like Cubic offers, where the price is significantly marked up over the actual cost of developing.

It's a better use of tax payer money with the bonus that the city is not dependent on a third party for-profit entity.
Need? Probably not. But it can be nice. Just look at Tweetbot for Mac, or Ivory now that Twitter third party apps are no more
Of course the comments are full of incels arguing about women in card games...

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His podcast was exclusively on Spotify for a while, for a measurable amount of money (the article is from February when that portion of the deal ended): https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/joe-rogan-renews-spoti...
> One thing that hasn't changed is their amazing commitment to not breaking existing code.

Er, are you sure?

* https://x.com/zigo_101/status/1856173025839960333

* https://x.com/zigo_101/status/1854918262523621805

* https://x.com/zigo_101/status/1854213142177624169
With so many disgruntled "democrat" supporters moving from X to BS the question is what will keep BS from ending up like the same echo chamber Twitter was before it was forcibly opened up to the deplorables, garbage, irredeemables and other *-phobes and *-ists. Does the platform have a way to keep the window of allowed discourse open to all or will this simply end up recreating Twitter, warts and all?
If Blender is what good UI/UX looks like then I'm glad GNU is here to protect us.

Blender has the advantage that its commercial competitors are just as bad or worse. GIMP competes with everything from MS Paint to Photoshop so the standards are different.

It also helps that Photoshop's bizarre non-standard UI has been taught for decades now. Access to some tools and features is a little better than in the ooen source versions but it's still a remarkably terrible UI for a tool used so commonly.
It is not always a yes or no. “Executive high leadership” can approve of 60% customer friendly stuff and 40% bs. And if some engineer is pouring his heart and soul to make a x% good thing that would be a benefit then it might still be rejected or worse, if engineer is in bad terms with managers he has pretty much no chance.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42112432
China is better at one thing: projecting and tellingthat story. Their planning is so shortsighted, they only recently reverted the one child policy, even though a "running" out of young workers could be expected since the 90s.

Why does a totalitarian propagandaposter, that publicly does not get is shit together on demographics until its to late be trustworthy when it comes to green energy ?
Do the spotify links not just open the song in some kind of web app if you dont have spotify installed?

I always thought giving a straight link to the thing was better for all. If they had Spotify it would open there and without ads if they had the subscription and if they had neither it would still open the web app and let them listen to it with ads and stuff.
This works with Apple Music links too. From the site: "Paste a link from Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Deezer or SoundCloud to start."
> Unfortunately, the era of "fact-check" and truthiness has spawned a class of professional debunkers.

This is a reaction to the “alternative facts” and the waves of general bullshit.

> At one point there were those who engaged in debates over flat-earth for the sake of honing rhetorical skills.

It’s one thing to engage in debates with your mates; it’s another to be subjected to a constant barrage of misinformation. Also, a couple of my mates from the “just asking rhetorical questions” period went full conspiracy theorists after a decade or so. I am less and less inclined to think that they were playing the devil’s advocates even back then.

> Flat-earth is typically used as a pejorative at HN.

Well, yeah. It’s the dumbest, most falsifiable of the stupid conspiracy theories, mixed in with a solid dose of religious fundamentalist. It’s not just games, at least not for everyone. Far too many people take it seriously, so it is unreasonable to act like it’s all fun and games.

Conspiracy theory is a self-reinforcing loop and people primed for this sort of thing do jump onto the next one without much critical thinking.

> We haven't entirely lost the ability to have stimulating conversations about Silurians, Atlanteans or other improbable fantasy scenarios, but the trend is approaching.

Fantasy is fantasy. This is not it. If you want to write a book about whatever thing you can think of, then have at it. The problem is when a fairy tale about aliens becomes gospel. So, if you don’t want to be debunked, don’t present fantasies as established facts.
I was also running mint on a 2011 MacBook Pro. I bought it new in 2011 and used it until early 2023, then the GPU failed for the second time, which requires the logic board to be replaced. It’s a known hardware flaw which will impact all 2011 MBP models with a discrete GPU.
> We removed the majority of setenv calls. It was mostly used when spawning processes

Could someone elaborate this for a non-developer? Why would you use `setenv` (which I assume is functionally similar to `export key=value`, but correctly me if I'm wrong) (extensively) for spawning processes?
I don’t think that comparison is apt. I’m too young for CASE, but the problem with UML (and really all the big concepts from the XML era) has always been that it’s far too lofty in scope; generating full applications from diagrams is a pipe dream.

On the other hand, ”spicy autocomplete“ (loved that one) doesn’t promise salvation. It just finishes lines for you, one at a time. Often it just ”knows“ what you were about to type anyway. Sometimes it’s a bit off, you add a few characters, now it gets it. It’s not really magical, just… useful. These lines you don’t have to finish accumulate, and if you get into a healthy flow, it vastly speeds up the coding process.
There was always something intensely satisfying about walking into some retail store and seeing boxes on the shelf containing CDs with software I'd written.

(On the flip side, there was that one time we had to destroy 5,000 CDs because they had a Quicktime Autostart virus on them...)
Poodles were bread to be cold water hunting dogs. That’s why the traditional cut has large poofs around joints. Over time smaller breeds of poodle were bred for companionship. Neither of these purposes are some sort of frivolous waste.

A good reason to bring back extinct animals is furthering our understanding of biological life and animal genetics. There are other justifications such as carbon fixing, improving of the ecology in thawing tundra regions, etc but those are bonuses to the primary reason I listed. Science, basic science, is the foundation upon which all applied science is built. That is its own justification. Not every act must have a practical and monetizable outcome in the immediate present.
> perfect for creative work like music and visual art

This exactly. For a keyboard/synth musician, the iPad is amazing. I could list dozens of apps, but Sunrizer, Animoog, and Korg Gadget are fantastic and I've used them for years. Synth apps work well on the multitouch screen and are very responsive. Some apps like Animoog and Geoshred also provide an expressive multitouch playing surface.

For visual/digital artists, Procreate + Apple pencil is a fantastic combination and basically reason enough to buy an iPad.
Linux Desktop never needed GIMP like a regular Windows user never needed Photoshop. Photoshop is “start at work in the morning” software and GIMP is its “artist’s impression”.

What Linux Desktop needed was Jasc/Corel Paint Shop Pro and its modern reincarnation Paint.NET.

But it was never made, imo.

Most tools are either too heavy and similar to GIMP, or indistinguishable from mspaint, or simple photo filters for “editing” photos.
What you have mentioned are indeed the responsibilities of the "Head of Engineering" role.

Just when I learned how to build high quality, secure, and performant software I was pushed into the role of management. It took me some time to figure out where to draw the line between being an IC and being a manager. But when I realised that the success in the role dependent on the success of my team, I started investing my time in developing and growing the team to create a mindset of building high quality, secure, and performant software.

>> The whole company is doing so much more than I could do as an individual

This realisation is important that as a company grows, you will not be able to do all the things by yourself. You would need reliable, high agency people to take care of things exactly the way you would have. Train them. Build them into next generation leaders. Slowly start delegating more responsibility. Allow them to reach their best potential. These are soft skills and building soft skills takes decades, but they are worth investing time in. Focus on taking high quality decisions and help make sure they are getting delivered while meeting stakeholder expectations.

If you start enjoying the above aspects, you'll feel less burned out. You may not be in a position to build software, but you'll be in a position to build high performing teams and be an invaluable asset to the company.

If you still think IC work interests you more, you should ask your management to move back into the IC role and help them figure out the right person who can take up the people management, process improvement job.

I hope this helps! :)
Having used Photoshop professionally in the early 00's to late 00's, I don't recall it being slow. I do remember liking Open Office and Gnome a lot - so much so that I switched to Linux on my personal computer - but Gimp was not great.

I first used Blender around 2005/2006.
Because they have bake muffins, pizzas, cakes, pancakes, pasta and pies regularly.

Turns out when you have experience in the general area of baking bread, learning to bake bread isn't that hard.
And when you do order a single key from them be prepared for a barrage of passive-aggressive sales e-mail along the lines "I wanted to discuss your rollout plan".
Scary to think all that data will be up for grabs.
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I tried for a long time to not be bothered and chuckle at the naming mistake. However, it is a bit fatiguing to repeatedly explain to people that the project name isn’t intended to be offensive when they interpret the name in any of the common meanings.

In particular, I’m not going to introduce the Gimp to my ten-year-old son who is interested in art and gamedev, simply because I feel like the meanings/slang are a bit age-inappropriate to discuss and I don’t want him to inadvertently offend anyone.
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I see so many ads for tech features that have been around for absolutely forever. I refuse to believe anybody uses a web browser and does not know it can auto-fill info for you, considering you will get a prompt literally every time you enter any password or address about it. The photo-collage thing is ancient, and even ML image-recognition is not new. Likewise credit-card tap-to-pay has been ubiquitous for 10+ years? I feel like the proud ads for this kind of stuff is a weird offshoot of marketing budgets for very solidified product categories.
Not really. Spotify's "add your music" feature has always been an afterthought, it's clunky and inconvenient. It doesn't really store your files in Cloud, like Apple Music does; it just allows you to access local files per device.
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I used Soundiiz to go from Spotify to YouTube. I paid 5$, but was happy to pay.
Helsing is currently helping Ukraine. It's easy to say "military bad" when you're in the US, but for Daniel Ek it's about self-preservation. As a fellow Scandinavian, I fully support him investing in defense tech.
For how new framework is they are actually pretty big on college campuses especially among engineering students in my experience. They're still a fairly new company in the scheme of things and I'd say the strategy is definitely not hurting them.
I'm chiming on this because as a former GIMP user I don't feel like it "sucks" as a whole but rather that it "sucks" at pretty "basic" stuff, which makes it seem like the whole thing is rubbish.

And it sucks at basic things because its devs deliberately wanted it to be like that. Go ask them why you have to do the thing you mentioned or why it is easier to draw a circle in frigging MS Paint than with GIMP without them turning ultradefensive. Yes, it has happened to me - was heavily downvoted at r/linux some years ago (and at Lemmy like a couple weeks ago) only because I mentioned this.

GIMP has serious UX flaws its devs are not humble enough to recognize that for some reason and it hurt GIMP so much for so long. It "sucks" not because lack or resourcesz lack of time to work on it or lack of manpower,as they want to frame it - but lack of humbleness from its devs.

On the bright side it seems this can be the end of that stupid mentality as they are welcoming new devs and gathered a UI/UX team.
I agree, I understand the perceived cost of running free trials, but that's just what marketing costs. You can't expect to turn off free trials but retain the same growth. Of course at such a small scale other factors may dominate and they may not notice it holding them back, even if it is.
This argument just seems fishy to me. The only way Trump's argument makes sense is if Russia attacked NATO, and they came looking for a hand out, this hasn't happened.

America has benefited massively from NATO. Intelligence, weapons sales, security...

All that was going on is some countries in Europe weren't paying 2% of their GDP towards NATO, but, America has benefited enormously from paying only a small fraction more. America gets to be the controllers of the global reserve currency which basically gives unlimited ability to influence world affairs.

Trump only really started to carry on about this since the invasion of Ukraine as far as I can tell, even then, it's still cost America nothing because Ukraine isn't in NATO. Any money that went to Ukraine has nothing to do with NATO specifically. In my opinion, America gained a LOT of security from The Budapest Memorandum, people argue all the time that you owe Ukraine nothing but is that really true? They're ultra vulnerable after giving up their nukes. Now what?

Did you want Europe to be the global economic and military super power previously? I feel like I'm missing something ?
Interestingly, the gambling platforms restricted them after they got too successful.

This is from 2017, so I am wondering if the strategy would still work (and how much faster they would be blocked).
The justification is present in the FAQ: https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-like-the-name-...

This is very much the same notion that comes up whenever CockroachDB is mentioned. IIRC at one point they had a "white-label" project generator where you could come up with your own name and branding, and it would bake it into the checked out sources. It might make sense to create one for the photo editor as well.

Edit: Ninja Sex Death Cult is a pretty good band name though!
> It feels like an indictment of the pop-materialist world view, mass media control structures or just our current era of Internet.

Or maybe a triumph thereof? If people now care about what's true and dislike spreading interesting falsehoods, isn't that a good thing?
> If those two things don't converge, the company won't be around for long and then politics won't matter much, will they?

Have you ever worked at a big company? The level of dysfunction that can be sustained over years or decades at a place with decent market foothold is staggering.
Interesting that they chose Electron. Cross platform is certainly enticing, but at this point I'd say that browsers are relatively heavyweight pieces of software that require careful optimisation to do well, even assuming you outsource the engine.
> You mean as improbable and fantastical as the ancient Troy?
> Oh right it turned out to actually exist, after much ridicule of its idea!

There is a missing step in your logic. Present facts and they will be believed. Much of the ancient history of the human species is in flux, and specific fields of archaeology get upended regularly.

I will believe in Atlantis, or Thule, or whatever, when there are proofs. In the meantime it’s a fantasy dreamt by ancient Greeks, opportunistically repurposed to justify behaviours ranging from the mundane to war crimes.

> If anything, this kind of closed-mindedness is part of the problem.

Come on. The fact that knowledge evolves does not mean that everything we believe is false right now will be proved at some point. Some things are just false.
Funny, because for my simple but over-mspaint editing needs I still prefer GIMP over Krita (and I hate both, ofc). Krita screams “you are a graphics artist”, which nope I’m not. It’s the same mess to me, only starts even slower and thinks that (x, y) / (w x h) is an irrelevant detail.
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> Also, a pilot blaming procedure for a bad call is ass covering

Ultimately pilots are humans, being asked to make split second decisions. A certain percent of the time decisions are going to be bad. That is why we have procedures. In pretty much every other field we recognize that. Ignoring that fact is incompetence on the part of military command.

There are of course situations that cannot be covered by procedures, however this doesn't seem like one of them.
The main reason I think about stepping back in is not to help the owners, but to protect my own sanity by bringing order to the chaos.
i tried running a tor relay and all hell broke loose with websites simply refusing to provide service and the such. not good!
I understand that slang and curse words may not be as jarring or impactful to non-native speakers. I hear Finnish curse words regularly and they don’t bother so much.

My concern is that non-native speakers still use dictionaries and search engines, so easily learn about the meanings of words.

Additionally, I’ve tried to promote the GIMP in educational environments but the fact remains that teachers and parents are often averse to using the name.
Used to do this in my childhood with save files. Save the game in Alone in the Dark, shoot the shotgun, save, shoot again, save, then proceed to look for the differences.
> you could probably use the NDK if you need to mostly escape the JVM

Yes. The audio/synth app situation has improved significantly for Android (iirc Caustic started on Android and was later ported to iOS, and Korg Kaossilator has been ported to Android), but it's still behind iOS/iPadOS, particularly the breadth and quality of iPad music apps. But if Korg ever ports the rest of their (excellent) music apps, Android musicians will be in for a treat.

> ObjectiveC/Swift are also garbage collected

Both use Automatic Reference Counting:

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...
The users were happy, but you didn't get paid, or got fired for using company time out of assigned scope.
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How is this ironic?
Bazzite is the answer. It’s basically out of the box SteamOS, just somehow even better.
> Neither of these purposes are some sort of frivolous waste

It is a huge frivolous waste! Dogs produce CO2, they eat tons of meat, they pollute environment and kill wild life!

And there are negative side effects to other people. Lack of sleep from constant barking, dog attacks, not being able to walk or cycle outside, stepping into dog shit, parasites spread from dog excrements...

Saying there is "no waste", just means dog owners do not have to pay negative expenses associated with their animal upkeep. They outsource all bad stuff to society!