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I love how the download for Java still links to JDK7 :)
My take is that, for productive work, language is much less important than everything around it. I need at the very least some kind of package management and dependency resolution system. Sometimes I want to read a CSV file, turn some of the content into JSON and serve it over HTTP. In an environment with sensible libraries, that's just a case of glueing stuff together. The problem is not little languages, it's little ecosystems.
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> Generative AI is not learning.

Walks like a duck and quacks like a duck; I think it's a duck
The point is that it's a racist and ignorant metaphor, and why would you want to cling to something ignorant and racist just because it occasionally makes for a good metaphor? There are other ways to make the same point (e.g. snake oil science, alchemical engineering, etc).

Not to mention that since "cargo cult engineering" badly misstates what cargo cults were, it's not even a good metaphor! You need to have two different definitions of "cargo cult": the real life one, and Feynman's childish fairy tale. Just say something else!

I will add that the frog thing is also a terrible metaphor! Since frogs don't actually behave this way, saying "these people are like frogs in a boiling pot" is tantamount to saying "these people are intelligent enough to leave when the situation gets bad." Again you have to use two different mental models: actual frogs, and a childish fairy tale. And note what happens if someone hasn't heard the boiling frogs thing: they are told the lie as if it were true. Just like with cargo cults - everyone hears Feynman first, and only later do a small segment learn that Feynman was wrong. These "metaphors" spread ignorance, and it's completely avoidable. We are grown adults and we can simply phrase our points in different ways. We don't have to rely on idiotic stories and lying to each other.
is that really an issue in practice?

I'm sure you can coax openai to send a http request, at which point you can just queue up automated reports.
tl;dr - Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri > Disable top toggle labeled "Apple Intelligence"

I would be surprised if most iPhone users couldn't figure this out themselves so my personal hunch is this article is mostly clickbait for anti-AI folks who already have these features disabled. In particular, because the only way to disable it is to have opted in to it in the first place and that flow is very similar to the disable flow.
I agree, if it wasn't so unbearably and unashamedly explicit in its support of one particular ideology I'd have probably really enjoyed it.
I use it for events.

I have to facebook friends that I don't interact with very much outside some electronic music events. This helps me find events that might interest me.

Some venues don't even put the dates on their website.
The Python community has the attitude that everyone needs to be welcomed; I mostly agree, and I don't see the point in fussing about what people want to call themselves. Everyone starts somewhere, and people try really hard to help (one random example from 2022: https://discuss.python.org/t/python-appears-in-cmd/15858)

But overall, computer literacy is really on the decline these days. Nowadays before you can teach programming in any traditional sense, you may have to teach the concept of a file system, then a command line...
> Timer Coalescing attempts to enforce some order on all this chaos. While on battery power, Mavericks will routinely scan all upcoming timers that apps have set and then apply a gentle nudge to line up any timers that will fire close to each other in time. This "coalescing" behavior means that the disk and CPU can awaken, perform timer-related tasks for multiple apps at once, and then return to sleep or idle for a longer period of time before the next round of timers fire.[0]

> Specify a tolerance for the accuracy of when your timers fire. The system will use this flexibility to shift the execution of timers by small amounts of time—within their tolerances—so that multiple timers can be executed at the same time. Using this approach dramatically increases the amount of time that the processor spends idling…[1]

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> I believe consumers, as a right, should be able to install software of their choosing to any computing device that is owned outright.

That's easy to say, but hard to legislate, and impossible to enforce.

There is so much firmware around, small binary blobs burned into micro controllers that can't even be updated. Or that isn't intended to be updated.

There are probably even dimmable LED bulbs without IoT features that still have a microcontroller.

Because a tiny microcontroller is the cheapest way to add logic to anything.

I'm not sure it isn't a good idea. Just not sure we grasp the ramifications.
> A movie will be able to deliver its stories a lot better than a game.

I don't agree. Something like SOMA would just be a generic sci-fi B-movie but it's an awesome game, even though there's no real choice and is in essence just a walking simulator.
Yes and I think that Clojure handles nil pretty well, and it's a functional programming language like SQL. It's also interesting to see that Typescript has added an unknown type. So something that's a value in SQL (null being unknown) is a type in TS.
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if you'll allow some negativity, I wouldn't expect a talk at a "Scrum Gathering" to care much about the Agile Manifesto
when the disgusted leave, what is left are the disgusting.

flag racists to the death and do not leave them space to destroy the environment.
Analysis is the key. You write a program to multiply matrices. That is software engineering. You analyze the program to figure out how much slower it becomes as the matrices becomes larger, how many times it must access ddr, how well-utilized the caches are, etc. That is computer science.
> mandatorily statically typed languages.... C#, Python, and a mix of JS and TS

JS and TS are not good examples of typed languages.

I dunno about c#
Yeah it feels like a way to troll HN at this point. Add a scroll script and get angry upvotes.
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I wonder if actually the fact that "cargo culting" is used almost exclusively to refer to the follies of highly intelligent people in the West has made it less offensive over time. Gives it more of a flavor of "look at how stupid those (historical) cargo cults are, they're almost as ridiculous as we are."

Nevertheless, great read!
Excellent, I was looking for new channels to join and idle on.

In all seriousness, I hope this helps index some more active servers and some communities to grow. IRC was a big part of my life back at the turn of the century, but I spent some time last year sniffing around for my old haunts. They were either graveyards or did not exist anymore, sadly.
Why do I need a special file in order to not do something?
I, for one, am a proponent of Mazovian socio-economics.
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> "you are wrong, you should feel bad, you're not allowed to use the thing you were wrong about anymore".

I didn't remember reading that in the article. Just as a second-check, I've re-read and none of what you say appears in the text. You're building a strawman.

> you're not allowed to

Specifically about this part, we're talking about someone writing on his blog about something he took the time to dig into and sharing his opinion. There isn't much the author can do to be less prescriptive, besides shutting up.

This trope of interpreting every counter-cultural opinion, in every form, as "the powers that be want to gag us" is a way of saying that you won't hear even the smallest dissent.
I feel like the oldest cycle in tech is the "easy and good enough" defeating the "more elegant / powerful, but more tricky".

Re VS Code, I wouldn't say it's in a weird limbo - on the contrary, I think that a "smart-ish, extensible editor" is exactly what lots of people actually want. IDEs are too heavy for many folk, vim/emacs too hard, Notepad too dumb. Things like VS Code hit a sweet spot, hence their popularity.
Are these really friends though? Or just some people you met and appreciated in the past?
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Climate Change may aggravate it a bit, but it's not the underlying cause. The root cause is that Southern California is just severely fire prone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Canyon_Fire

The Santiago Canyon Fire in 1889 burned 10x what's currently burning in Pacific Palisades. Whether the fires are a coin-flip or a two-thirds probability, they're just going to happen.
> succeeds with it

I'd worry about things which:

1. "Succeed" in the short-term, but sets the company up for long-term failure.

2. Outperforms the competition with a pattern of activity which is actually illegal.
As a counterpoint, why do we spend huge volumes of energy trying to change minor linguistic term that is only tenuously related to a historical issue, rather than deal with the countless real social issues that exist today?

The reason: because it was easier, it allowed corporations (especially Microsoft) to give the appearance of making social change, and because it distracted us from dealing with the real issues. In other words, laziness.

And you know what, if you're firmly on the progressive left, as I am, that's no big deal. It's annoying, maybe it alienates me from taking part in social action. But it won't, for example, change who I vote for.

However, we (the West) live in a period of history balanced on a narrow edge between social progression and social regression, with all manner of bad actors waiting on the wings to take advantage of our slipups. And this was a slipup, no matter how well meaning the people who pushed it through were. This, and many, many other small annoyances, were in all likelihood what it took to push a significant number of people to change their vote in the recent election. It's not the only reason, perhaps not even the main one. But any change is significant when you're balanced on an edge.
There's a simple solution: just don't eat at the food places that dominate every region, because their addictive food and capital allowed them to crush any local competition

simple as that, just avoid them
While we're at it, I laugh at the use of y'all, when I went my entire childhood trying to hide the southern accent and southern phrases (that includes y'all, btw) I inherited from my parents, because people associated it with slow and dim-witted.

This is still, by the way, how it's seen by many "educated" and "well meaning" people who would talk about appropriation if it came in other context.

So, I guess my question is, when will you stop using y'all, as it makes me feel uncomfortable?
> Turns out that a lot of people I knew posted huge life updates that I completely missed out on.

I had the same thing happen, but both they and I were Facebook users, it's just the algorithm decided I don't need to see posts from my friends and it's better that I see adverts (I can live with that, I don't pay to use the platform after all) and hundreds of random pages/groups that I have zero interest in following.

This 2nd "feature" is slowly driving me towards the point where the FOMO of no longer passively interacting with my friends may longer keep me on there.
For the confused: https://www.xkcd.com/1172/
According to the Gizmodo title:

>No Idea What Peter Thiel Is Trying to Say and It’s Making Me Really Uncomfortable

Looks like Thiel is uncomfortable about a number of things himself :\
It's not a lisp, but Unison (https://www.unison-lang.org/) integrates editor, version control, runtime with content addressed functions

It's pretty cool, and also an obviously terrible idea as you leave behind all standard tooling
Old at 30? Jesus - you need to lighten up!
Speedup compared to what? You can’t compare it to doing it in software on the same machine. So, you need to pick a reference CPU.

Finding a somewhat comparable CPU would be challenging. It would need to run at around 48 MHz and have 16 bit integer addition. I think the fastest Z80 clone would be a candidate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_eZ80), but that’s a pipelined CPU. You may find that unfair.

If you don’t pick something comparable but just something cheap, given the 48MHz clock of this hardware and the limited amount of parallelism, it wouldn’t surprise me if the typical modern smartphone could do it faster, even without the use of a GPU.
> most of the produce from the NL is bland

Credible Citation needed.

> full of chemicals

So what? You're also full of chemicals.

> something that would have been considered unsuitable for human consumption earlier

Actually our standards for consumption have gone up a lot. People used to eat all sorts of stuff when danger of starving was higher and population was poorer.
Nope

Software engineers benefit from good tools as well, and having to spend months to get to know a vcs well enough doesn't benefit anyone

Would would be the one good git workflow, in your opinion?
Ah yes, we are still missing RASP support on ruby, but this should come out in the next 3-6 months. Everything else should be supported though (In App WAF, playbook, user monitoring etc)
AI written content should really be banned. I don't want to read content from a bot I want to read content from a human.
The Jaz Drive seemed pretty good, just twice as expensive as needed.

I knew a couple people who had one and it was really handy, nothing comparable (except switching actual hard disks) existed, for a brief moment in time - must have been around 1998-99, no ubiquitous USB sticks, no CDRW yet (only CDR, at 5 bucks a piece).

Us plebs had to make do with 100MB parallel port zip drives.
No. The insurance companies won't cover these houses. They called it an "insurance crisis" and then made a state insurance system which will likely go bankrupt and have to be bailed out because of this fire:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_FAIR_Plan
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This was intended to be a wry comment referencing a communist idea that has always tickled my brain. Somehow I had it in my head that Marx said this (probably because of another joke-- "why did Karl Marx only drink herbal tea? Because proper tea is theft").

Checking my facts now, I see it was actually Proudhon, not Marx (although Marx did discuss the idea here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/letters/65_..., but seems to say it has a self-reference problem, and seems to delight in insulting Proudhon).

I think the "from the state" part is an accidental addition either of my own or from whoever explained the "proper tea" joke to me the first time. I just thought it always referenced the extreme philosophy that all property should be communal and therefore private property was theft from everyone, or equivalently from "the state".
You can use the walls as your canvas.
Oh, in that case I agree then: linear story-focused games feel like the developers misunderstood the concept of 'game'.
I usually don't comment on stuff like this, but _wow_. This is one of the worst scrolling I've seen on a website in modern days
Did you look at the other comments, where someone asks the same question, and I give an answer?
Well, Rousseau himself would say property is theft in not exactly those words

From his discourse on inequality

> The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying "this is mine" and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders; how much misery and horror the human race would have been spared if someone had pulled up the stakes and filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "beware of listening to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to everyone and that the earth itself belongs to no one!"
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No, it's very, very easy to access high (>10K) rates of business-initiated conversations... once you submit your business verification with meta, of course.
And a legitimate Whatsapp business account.

Again, I'm probably just too stupid and I'm missing the legitimate reasons for an extension like this other than "Spam thousands of whatsapp users from your throwaway accounts".

I'm sure you can illustrate them better than I can.
As someone from Australia, I love eucalyptus trees, they're quintessentially Australian. So do most other Australians, so those here coming to their defence is not a bit surprising.

I do not know to what extent the eucalyptus trees played in the Los Angeles fire and I'd suggest that at present no one does—and they won't until a proper scientific/forensic analysis has been undertaken—and with due respect to the learned people you've quoted, neither do they.

The fact remains that in California our beloved eucalyptus trees are a both an invasive species and a dangerous, fire-prone hazard, and prudent thinking ought side on getting rid of them.
I struggle to take such an article seriously when it cites Brainfuck as an example. A common use of Brainfuck isn't to write programs, but rather to prove that it is possible to write programs. This isn't exactly comparable with small Lisps or Forth.
It was, someone already pointed you to ircV3 which attempted to bring a lot of modern features to irc. But besides the specification process being slow you also had to content with all the different clients and networks. Most of which at that point in time already had stagnated in development.
I didn't imply that the article said those exact words, I was restating the article's subtext. I should have used italics rather than quotes though, my bad.

> You're building a strawman.

Given the large number of people in this thread who got the same impression from the article as me, I don't think so. I think this is the actual subtext of the article, stated simply.

> There isn't much the author can do to be less prescriptive, besides shutting up.

Actually there's a huge amount they could do to be less prescriptive, such as using phrases like here's what I'm gonna do but you can make up your own mind.
> I think it's pretty clear that they're going to have California tax payers bailout the system so that people living in the best real estate all of CA rebuild their homes in a place where people probably shouldn't be building in the first place

Fascinating (and thanks for sharing all that info), but I still don't see how this money would be coming from Montana residents.
In general I feel like social medias tends to downrank links, and I think that's a very bad thing to internet
Maybe Germany is an outlier, but ISDN for telephony (less for internet) was still huge until.. I dunno, 2010? 2015? That's nearly 15 years of being the default solution for smaller companies. (and also bigger ones, and also private households)
Sweet.

I use xterm.js a lot and have a "shell backbone" that I use to make shell based access to APIs, S3 and other things "cloud." This is essentially how I implement globbing as well. The convenience is that you can run glob by itself to get an idea of exactly what kind of automated nightmare you are about to kick off.

Anyways.. mine currently has V3 behavior. My shell command exec routine could actually benefit from that hack. What's old is new again?
Apple has repeatedly displayed a strong bias towards Bay Area progressive politics

It's Apple. Two hippies started the company. They wore jeans to work, and positioned themselves in opposition to stodgy, corporate IBM (and later Microsoft). They marketed their products to students and creatives.

Apple today is so huge that much of that progressive bent is gone, but an Apple that vociferously spurned the left would be different a company.
"Dark Sky" funded by the Pentagon. Sounds chipper.
My worry with the current generation of LLMs branded as "AI" that at some point in the future long time after LLMs become fully obsolete, a new kind of AI tech will come along and it will be difficult to brand it because "AI" was already used before (see LLMs) and has negative snake-oil connotations.

It's like humans calling the period they live in "contemporary". It make as little sense for stone age people to do it, as it did for medieval people and as it does for us. We need to start thinking more about the future and not the 10-years from now future but the 300 years from now future.
Do you have an example of the government bailing out an insurance company that couldn’t pay claims?

Or an insurance company that went bankrupt?

Insurance companies are already highly regulated (especially in CA). There are regulations around how much money has to be held in reserves to pay claims. There are regulations around what investments can hold reserves in.

Hell in CA, there are regulations around how premiums can actually increase and a mechanism for returning “excess premiums” back to policy holders.

In fact those regulations are one of the reasons insurers are leaving CA. They can’t increase premiums sufficiently to cover risk.

You can read all about them: https://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/130-laws-regs-hear...
And that is still a thing where I live here in Italy.
A little bit RDF-y too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework
Yeah but, cynically, in todays age people put questions in a search or LLM instead of reading docs/manuals let alone reading what’s in their screen… so this article will be useful for them till they can out-SEO’d by Link farms.

Let alone reading what’s on their screen when they enable features, promptly forgetting they enabled it, thus asking how to disable them…

Ok enough. Have a good day :)
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