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> I believe that companies made computers difficult to use for whatever reasons, be they catering to “power users”, business or just plain inattention to the non-techie user.

I don't think that's quite accurate. "Power users" are simply the users who bothered to learn how computers work. Dumbing technology down to the level of people who couldn't be be so bothered is precisely what's lead to all of the centralization and abuse. It's also diminished the value of the technology itself, since simplifying user interfaces to a level that fails to express the inherent complexity of the system makes its full functionality inaccessible.

Trying to make things "easy" leads to making them less powerful, less adaptable to the needs of the user, and less accessible and responsive to users who do care to learn how they work. At the end of the day, there's simply no way to attain the full value of technology without significant risk exposure if you don't put at least a little time and effort into understanding it.
CFPB was started after the 2008 crash.

Folks in power are doing all they can to make sure they (and their wealthy donors) are the ones being protected, while regular folks like you (yes, you’re not as elite as you think) are being set up to be publicly fleeced.
This view presupposes that things "we can perform without thinking about them" are done correctly. We don't get there without thinking about them first. Doing things without thinking about them is, at the level of each individual, a luxury we earn by thinking about them really hard at first. At the scale of society, well, this is supposedly what school is for. But for the society to "not think about" things, individuals have to continue thinking about them.

A lot of people don't get that far for a lot of tasks, so "think more" is not incorrect advice for them.
I remember long time ago JBullet, a physics simulation library, had to maintain an error-prone pool of vectors and matrices because all the calculations involving the creation of temporary vectors and matrices put significant stress on the GC. Today, Minecraft allocates around 600 MB/s for a similar reason (Position3D objects & friends); however, on my PC, I don't notice any pauses.
Yes, it's optimized for latency:
https://tip.golang.org/doc/gc-guide#Latency

So, for example, network code gets better p99.

This, along with other sensible tradeoffs, is why Go ate a large slice of network software market.
I’m not sure why there isn’t more of an active association between so-called “Hispanics” in North America and the Aztecs and other pre-European cultural groups in the area. The current “Hispanics” are largely descended from the natives, I think?

I put “Hispanics” in quotes because it’s pretty weird to be labeled by the language of your conquerors who don’t even control anything in the area anymore.
It's been years since I used Wine, but I think it just runs each Windows process in its own Linux process. There's no Wine "kernel" that needs to manage virtual memory or isolate multiple processes.
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The default behavior is for notifications not to show content until the watch is unlocked. This can happen by accident, but notifications can also be turned off completely for messages and email, if this is a concern.
> will just not be able to follow their calendar as instructed as life doesn't work like that.

This won’t help people who never consult their calendar.

The benefit of this, and many AI tools, is that it takes the first steps for you. The marketing material about creating great schedules automatically is probably bound to disappoint.

However, it changes the game from creating a schedule from scratch to modifying a schedule until it works. Many people find it is easy to critique and tweak, but aren’t good at taking the first steps.

Those are the people who benefit from tools like this. People who don’t even check calendars at all would need something else.
I don't know what "safe" means to you. Firefox for Android has a decent extension ecosystem now as long as you're happy getting them from the official repository. The stable build won't let you install extensions from storage, which I find a little disrespectful.
Your point about Plex ignores the rich ecosystem of hardware and software that offers equivalent or better functionality to Plex.
Learn about building a cross-chain bridge
Oh absolutely, if you have the budget then do them all. I just meant “lower pri” than the other.

My assumption is in most orgs you’ll find it hard to take time to investigate any of them, so you have to place your bets.
The Diamond Effect of AI
I can't remember the last time I actually wrote a times sign.
There’s some ski mountain in New England where I’ve seen ladies underwear strewn up on trees as you ride by on the chairlift, fun touch
Good. Hand the Uber part of the mission to SpaceX

It will get done in half the time at half the price.
Actually I think that’s a good answer! I think it’s worth enjoying every moment that we have. And to be focused.

Is it my preferred answer? I guess not :)
Hmm, if the tool had some way of tracking whether work was suggested was done, it could be used in a purely private purely suggestive manner where. Like google maps, it could just update the schedule if you don't follow the original suggestion.
Not to undermine what they did in any way but one thing the Mexica had that favored a strong grid with central planning was that each new bit of the city was built on land that had to be created from scratch. If you're going to build a new "neighborhood" from the lake, might as well make it rectangular. To some extent, they didn't even have to dig their canals, just leave bits of the lake not filled in (though there is more to making canals than just digging a ditch).

Having said all that it certainly seems that ancient Meso-American city builders of all stripes were really into grid-tastic cities, at least for the monumental cores with the temples, ball courts etc.
I did often in my degree, not for multiplication but the cross product
this one's a triple whammy, putin now has:

1. no ability to sell electricity to baltics
2. no ability to disrupt baltic grid
3. managed to island russian enclave of koingsberg, giving control of its energy supply to the baltics (they could now cut off its gas)

so much winning
Clicking a result on mobile will open a modal that changes size since it has to reload the clicked image. While this happens, buttons may appear right where the click took place which registers a second click. So trying to look at a result would sometimes open a new browser tab right away since the "search using this image" or "more information" buttons would be right where my finger is

Other than that, the results are pretty nice!
> as long as you finish, procrastination will improve quality and impact, value and added value.

> nobody who is working on something procrastinates ad infinitum.

Having mentored a lot of people in the 18-25 age range, I can assure you that neither of these statements is even remotely true for a lot of people.
Bash scripts have a lot less of these issues than scripting built in a build orchestration system.

They are more portable, more universal, fewer dependencies.

Whenever you start to install something just put the commands into a bash’s script as you go and run it at each step.

Want to break it apart? Break apart the script how you like and repeat.

Being able to hand someone a scene for Linux or MacOS is a great way to help others begin too.
Frustratingly bad article about an interesting story. Has no one moved on the obvious step of checking the drives for deleted data to track down where they’ve come from?
These sort of avoid-branches optimizations were effective once upon a time as I profiled them on the XBox 360 and some ancient Intel iGPUs, but yeah - don't do this anymore.

Same story for bit extraction and other integer ops - we used to emulate them with float math because it was faster, but now every GPU has fast integer ops.
OP's article is about children, yours is about adults.

OP's article's conclusion states "Furthermore, our study highlights the importance of studying neurodevelopmental disorders closer to their onset, rather than in adulthood when a lifetime of compensatory mechanisms may have already taken place"

As I understand, autistic people often get negative reinforcement from authoritarian mindsets of society (follow the general norm and the power structures instead of thinking for yourself) and that can be kinda traumatizing for autistic people

So what we need is to value that every person's perspective is equally valid, and their ideas are plausible, and no one is inherently superior, whether NT or ASD etc...

> Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value
>
> -Baha'i Teaching
A Strategy of Small Wins and Small Bets (2022)
IIRC Go has "GC assist" which forces goroutines that allocate too frequently to assist in GC work (share CPU time, i.e. they're slowed down), and I've never seen anything like that described for Java/C#. Interesting approach.
Saving this for my next trip
Well, actually... the "main" function is handled specially in the standard. It is the only one where the return type is not void and you don't need to explicitly return from it - if you do it, it is treated as if you returned 0.
(You will most definitely get a compiler error if you try this with any other function.)

You might say this is very silly, and you'd be right. But as quirks of C++ go it is one of the most benign ones. As usual it is there for backwards compatibility.

And, for what it's worth, the uber-bean counter didn't miss a bean here...
I concur, fraud is much cheaper and more profitable
Citizens United didn't overturn any other precedent apart from Austin (Buckley v. Valeo still holds, for example), didn't alter any rules regarding corporate campaign donations (which are still entirely prohibited!), and everything went back to the way it was pre-2002, before any attempts to censor speech under the guise of regulating campaign donations were made.

Your facts are just straight-up wrong.
playing oboe is easy for _most_ Frenchs (inventors of the oboe if you didn't know that)
Worked for a company that made a machine used for automated. Built with USA government specifics and it could remove limbs. Over 1600 Newton force, equivalent to an adult panda. Model A.

It was risk assessed and needed a complete redesign for the EU market. Model B is so safe it cannot even take off a finger.

Now model A is no longer built and model B is sold in the USA and EU. It was not the goodness of the company that re-engineered safety into the product. It was EU laws and regulations that demand safety be built into the product.

The cost savings of manufacturing only model B is why A is no longer sold in the USA. Economic side effects of multinational trade is what gave USA a better and safer product.

Proper regulation works. It saves limbs and lives. USA is one of the countries with the lowest standards. USA companies and law makers care about money, not your safety or not consumer protection. And if they do they are the GREAT minority.

EU has better quality of food standards. USA allows for designing food to be addictive. Just look at the difference in sugar in bread standards. USA consumes sugar loafs.

Japan has their food packaging to resemble what is actually inside. USA will edit mold riddled images to look fresh and a dream of what is actually being sold versus the real thing. Learned that from a family member that delivered food product to a marketing company.

Norway requires advertising photos to be labeled if they are modified and unnatural. USA helps promote unrealistic body standards which amplifies emotional, mental, and physical harm. Something I have been trying to help a family member with for over a year. Anorexia and suicidal behavior of go hand in hand.

USA standards are more harmful than other 1st world countries. USA companies and lawmakers actively harm their citizens for profit.
The JVM is more than happy with short-lived objects, they are barely more expensive than a normal stack allocation (mostly by the header only).

The JVM has a so-called Thread-Local Allocation Buffer, which is basically a simple buffer with a pointer pointing to the next free slot. It can be simply bumped up on a new object's allocation and later on the still alive objects will be evacuated to another generation and the whole thing can be cleared. This is faster than any malloc implementation CPP/rust/whatever might use, besides they also doing arena allocations.

Haskell has a few tricks up its sleeve that can help with its kind of allocation patterns, but speaking specifically about Haskell, it's mostly the laziness that makes it quite different.
I am interested in hearing how people use this level of customisation in their workflow, whether it is through this particular tool or by configuring at the keyboard firmware level. This is a new paradigm for me.
Nope. It was just an honest mistake see response from parent.
> Or are they modern day oracles?

Neither, which is probably why the parent commenter considers it provocative.

"A bullshitter either doesn't know the truth, or doesn't care. They are just trying to be persuasive."

In any case, this kind of anthropomorphization is definitely bullshit.
Amazon and eBay are companies, which will do whatever is profitable and legal. The entity which should crack down on this is the government.

Amazon and eBay should crack down on it so the government doesn't.

History is full of examples of companies doing the right thing if only to prevent government regulation.
You could try to use the Win32 debug API in the same way like Linux UML by using ptrace. But it would probably still be much slower because of missing things like PTRACE_SYSCALL.

More performant would be a noMMU variant of UML for Windows, supporting only PIE executables, similar to nabla-linux [1]. This is also quite similar to how mssql for Linux works NT kernel+Win32 in a single usermode process (single address space) [2]. Interestingly, mssql also uses memory protection keys to recover a bit of fault tolerance but last time I checked Win32 does not have an API for MPKs.

[1] https://github.com/nabla-containers/nabla-linux

[2] https://threedots.ovh/slides/Drawbridge.pdf
But I am not giving Claude a csv and saying 'clean it up'. I am asking it to write me a python script to clean it up. That way I can validate the script myself.
The way you've phrased your comment seems like you're trying to make a rebuttal to something but I'm not sure how "it didn't fail for ONE reason it failed for MANY reasons" is rebutting anything. You're not sure how the idea of giving computers to African children with the expectation that they will be delighted to code their own computer games is similar to the idea of giving computers to Sentinalese children with the expectation that they will be delighted to code their own computer games?

The line of thinking is "they must want for their lack of addiction machines. I want to gift them and they will automagically understand them and enjoy them in the same way I do, despite having none of my upbringing or cultural background or surroundings". No outsider even understands the Sentinelese language[1]. I can't quickly find if they have a writing system at all, or schools, or a concept of formal or informal schooling. They're photographed on the beaches with bows and arrows[2]. They likely have no electricity. The idea that what they need next, what they would thank you for, is a copy of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is so ridiculous it shouldn't need pointing out. It's as ridiculous as saying what they need is a powdered wig so they can look fashionable when they next go to the Vienna opera houses, or that they need a timeshare in the Florida Keys for their summer holidays.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_language

[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=sentinelese&iax=images&ia=i...
I just don’t think streaming is really working for anybody. Artists are being given less and less creative control as time goes on as each streaming company attempts to optimize itself in a largely fixed market. It’s working the same way cable used to work. I think a disruption is in order, but last time disruption started with people moving to nascent torrent sites.

I guess the way I’d put it is that if you can only get some particular show through one company, that company gets to treat you shitty, cause where else are you gonna go. Torrenting, even just widespread knowledge of torrenting, gives the customer more leverage.
Clojure 1.12 Overview [video]
T-something. Those names are easily confused for me as an English speakers.
Kiwis. Avocado. Watermelon. Etc etc. the list is long.
From JVM to JavaScript: Implementing Math Functions in ClojureScript [video]
Definitely, counting the ones you have is great data for justifying their existence, and can help identify places you should perhaps put a check farther upstream.
This was how I used Linux+Windows for years growing up with Windows 2000. Thanks very much to the authors, you helped a young nerd learn a lot and get a lot done.
If you are not logged into a Twitter [1] account it usually only shows you the post, not any replies. Some people who are not logged in do get to see the whole thread but I haven't seen anyone figure out how it decides who gets that privilege.

Usually you can work around that by changing this host from x.com to xcancel.com.

[1] I continue to call it Twitter rather than X because Twitter is easier to search for. For example if you wanted to find all my comments here about or mentioning Twitter a comment search for "author:tzs twitter" would find them. There are very few, if any, times that the string "twitter" occurs in my corpus of HN comments where it isn't referring to the social media service formerly known as Twitter.

A search for "author:tzs x" on the other hand will overwhelming bring up comments that have nothing to do with that social media service.
You forgot the 3rd option… don’t consume their content. Pay, allow cookies, or surf elsewhere. GDPR doesn’t require them to give away content for free.

Edit - ok, being downvoted - how should content be monetized if both targeted ads and subscriptions are off the table? Are we saying GDPR requires a site to operate off generic, non-targeted ads?
MUCH improved!
FYI, The "Stop Relying on IF NOT EXISTS for Concurrent Index Creation in PostgreSQL" link points to localhost.

Also, consider using a tool like this: https://pub.dev/documentation/linkcheck/latest/
How is this legal? Surely they do not have permission from all those rightsholders to reproduce and distribute their IP like this.
I’m very impressed. It would be great to see similar maps reconstructions for other ancient cities like this!

For those who want to see the before and after of Manhattan, I highly recommend reading Mannahatta https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5955328-mannahatta
If copilot is so good why does MS/Github keep pushing it on people who haven't asked for it and don't want it?
They're now giving it away for free,
just to be able to put it everywhere.
The output is not black box. I always see myself as responsible for the output. The models give hints.
I didn't realize how different the European patent system was from the US:

"In Europe? If an innovator even talks about their invention publicly before filing, they risk losing all patent rights forever. And if they want to file a patent? It’s €2,000–€6,000 upfront, no flexibility, no grace period, no second chances.
[...]
The single most important factor is where the invention is physically created. There are no workarounds besides physically moving to a different jurisdiction to innovate. This hard geographic rule forces innovators to make difficult choices, often leading them to leave Europe."
This is one of the deeply dissatisfying parts of the Matrix spec. They didn't have any constraints forcing them to embed signatures within the json objects, but they elected to invent their own signing scheme and do it anyways, despite being a greenfield. It also includes support for a special "unsigned" portion for extra data that comes along (which is often used for the server to inject the age of an event).

I don't think the protocol still injects the signature into event structures, but this weird "unsigned" field is still there looking at the source json for a message I sent today, but it's possible it's removed after processing and Fluffychat is just removing it.
For sure, zero disagreement there! Just pointing out my personal observation that most people seem to not really do that.

In myself, overthinking is a quality I value very highly in some situations while also being one of the highest contributors to personal misery in other situations. In the net though, definitely a keeper.

As you say, it leads you down a path. Often at the beginning there is pain, such as being painfully self-conscious. At the end of the path is often self-development though.
Yeah I came here to say this. I just clicked on other pages...and they seem to just work fine.
Is that really error-prone for a physics simulation engine? That's pretty common to only refer to data by indices in other places - sure, there are languages that can deal with it a bit better (e.g. operator overloading, manual memory management and/or value types), but as far as I know this is even often done in Rust, which has the previous properties (it's done to avoid the borrow checker there).

Also, Minecraft was famously written famously inefficiently.
oops! (:p) fixed, thanks!
Frogger is surprisingly playable :)
I can't submit the form. I have "something went wrong" error
quack.exe performing noticeably worse in benchmarks on certain cards than quake.exe in the late 90's/early 2000's?