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> An alternative for saving time with recompilation was to update my script so that only new markdown files or changed ones are marked for recompilation. That would involve too much wizardry if I wanted to make the script nice and robust.

Am I crazy that this doesn't seem like too much wizardry to me? I mean, I have a source directory and a destination directory which gives me a set of unambiguous file to file mappings. At which point I'm looking at comparing some kind of file timestamps. Add in checking if the destination file exists at all and it looks like 2 or 3 system calls and a couple of comparisons.

However, I agree with almost everything else in the article, even just blowing things away and rebuilding every time if it is fast enough. I was musing today that with LLMs we might see a resurgence of personal libraries. Why would I take in a dependency (227 transitive dependencies for that one project dependency!) when I could implement the 20% of functionality from that bloated library that I need? In some circumstances it might be easier to describe the functionality I need to an LLM, review the code and then I have my own vendored implementation.

But if this was me, I would probably choose Go over C. The speed would be good enough, GC for memory safety and convenience, unlikely to be going away in the next 50 years, simple path from static to dynamic generation with standard lib webserver, etc.
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Thanks for the source. Google might have given you the later update because you’d already searched for it, but that was not true for me.
It's unclear to me what the official requirements are. For example this is from the TSA's site:

"Devices containing lithium metal or lithium ion batteries should be carried in carry-on baggage. Most other consumer electronic devices containing batteries are allowed in carry-on and checked baggage."

Taken literally, this is of course widely ignored. There are also various requirements around spare batteries that do include capacity limits.
I’m not cynical. There are many many good people in the world. Historically they are not in power kind of by definition because

power != strength

IE the disenfranchised can be strong but cannot be powerful.

And folk wisdom does not apply to significant wealth. Significant wealth doesn’t operate paycheck to paycheck. Charles Windsor is not going to liquidate his real-estate because rents went down because the Windsors are not leveraged.

Extrapolation from personal American home ownership experience (or SMB experience) to big girl real-estate is a category error. Events in the Crimea and currently in Ukraine are the cheapest way to acquire that real estate…in terms of money.

Land reform doesn’t happen by thinking.
> I still don't understand why/how it's legal

Who’s richer?

This is the same at every level of society. Those millionaires buying a comfy retirement have never been worried about the bottom rungs of society and the lack of legal support, healthcare, the difficulties with police etc

Turns out that the forces that drain the working population are now after the comfortable ones. Won’t take long for exponential growth to eat through the 50-90%ile, and in 10-15 years it will be the 90-99% that are bled dry, and 5 years after that the 1% start cannibalising themselves.

It’s inevitable.
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I had a professor for my systems programming class give a qualifier exam day 1, worth 1% of the final but you get an F if you fail. It was just fizzbuzz, a student failed then complained to the dean, so they werent allowed to do it.
opkssh (https://github.com/openpubkey/opkssh) it lets you configure OpenSSH so you can ssh using your OpenID Connect identity without adding a trusted party other than the IDP. I'm trying to figure out how to TOFU a MFA HW token (yubikey) on first login so we don't even have to trust the IDP. The trick part is to design so if you lose your HW Token you aren't locked out without reintroducing trust. Maybe use a backup code or backup yubikey or the DKIM trick to allow timelocked resets of the HW Token via an email.
In Wealthy Baywood [San Mateo], Battle over 'Historic' Homes Hits Boiling Point
Yes, I made this comment because sometimes I see some devs calling Unity an ECS (although it has an ECS option, but that's not the default mode most unity games uses).

Just to say that ECS is not the only composition option: Entity with composed behaviors is also an option (and the most traditional one I believe), and it does not have the infamous complexity of "pure" ECS in my opinion.
Reimagining personalized food, prepared on demand and directly from fresh ingredients, as an always available urban utility. A vertically integrated ready to eat food retail and logistics network with order of magnitude improvements to value proposition, unit economics,
scalability and risk profile. Consolidating nearly a decade of R&D for US go to market, our systems are way ahead of the competition by footprint (2m²/20ft²), cost per location (~$25K), degree of automation (complete) and drone integration (integrated multi-drone airport with autonomous handover, recharge, precision recapture). Think last mile delivery aggregator with zero people in prep/packaging/pickup/(post FAA BVLOS normalization ~2Q 2026 in some areas)delivery, meaningful personalization, fresher food, and 24×7 operations. Rough complexity ~10K parts BOM. Internal manufacturing. We aim to grow at ~2× historic QSR rates right out of the gate, then accelerate. Simultaneously, spinning off a few industrial ventures filling gaps in what's available on the market we've had to build for ourselves. Prior unicorn. Currently raising for US GTM, email in profile.
I would argue the opposite.

Grow up with a safety net and you don't take it seriously.

Group poor and/or with people depending on you, you understand the task at hand.

I goofed off a lot in college until I was tired of partying and realized I was going nowhere; about end of Sophomore year. All the older folks who paid their own way sure took it seriously. For reference, I'm also GenX.

I'm sure motivations range from what I suggested to what you suggested.
The article is right: the low-tier tech jobs will likely not exist in a few years. These jobs mostly involve gluing APIs together.

However, I think the assumed usefulness of humans can be slashed even further. Right now, LLMs interface with languages and systems that were abstracted to a human level of understanding. There's an empty spot for new languages and frameworks with thousands of primitive "patterns", all represented by unique symbols, that could be put together much quicker by a LLM than by a human.

LLMs have monstrously high associative horizons -- this means the way they segment info requires many more "boxes" / classifications / names, while humans top out at some arbitrary low value but are able to generate more / new categories on-demand.

Instead of faffing about with a thousand examples to get some certain indentation right, it could be something akin to a spoken language but way more logical (or perhaps like a language with incredibly long compound words).

Removing all computer programmers would require a bottom-up unity of the hardware stack with software, and that's an almost impossible ask by today's standards. Would need to start over and get rid of old systems in many areas.
A pyramid scheme.
Title modified by me from "In Wealthy Bay Area Enclave, a Battle Over ‘Historic’ Homes Hits Boiling Point"
> I don't know the nature of what's going on in El Salvador

That’s the whole point of these off shore prisons. No one knows what goes on there so the media and courts can’t stop you doing whatever you want.
Some MSRs can consume spent nuclear fuel, that's a 7th grade solution at least
If consciousness can be recreated by a computer, then a billion people holding flags up and down could recreate a computer, and consciousness could exist within the flags people are holding. But I do not believe in this form of consciousness and I don’t see a computer simulation as the same.
"Weather is a chaotic system. If you want to predict further in the future, you’ll eventually need more FLOPs and better knowledge of starting conditions." - I doubt that with more FLOPs you will be better able to compute chaos.
It really feels the same as weed/nicotine/alcohol/sex/other vices. If history has taught us anything, outright banning them only makes them into forbidden fruit. We need to explain (and frequently reinforce) these negative effects of modern phone use so kids can grow up understanding them. Right now, it seems like a lot of people really only start to understand the impacts of this kind of phone use long after they're addicted. Hopefully informing them before that happens would help.

Of course, this kind of thing is easy to do wrong. Programs like D.A.R.E. and THRIVE tried going the way of fear tactics which seems to really not work well. We need to have an open and honest discussion about "yes, this is fun. But it DOES have a bad side" instead.

The last sticking point there is that it assumes people will be rational and come to the conclusion of using with moderation. Hopefully people can be rational... Otherwise I think there's no hope for us in solving the brainrot epidemic.
Yes, but when you consider the combined system of the earth and everything that affects its orbit, angular momentum is conserved.
DHH has said previously that they already have a very good deal when compared with list price. But AWS still couldn't come close to on prem costs.
Wait till everyone is in the streets and the power is out, the helis are up and the MRAPS roll in.

Nothing more exhillarating than the smell of napalm in the morning.

I say this somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but also not. I live in the residential neighborhood where the George Floyd uprising took place. We had the national guard in our local park. We had military helicopters buzzing our home for 3-4 weeks straight. Curfew. Fires.

Through it all I was struck by an exhilarating sense of community and it is life affirming, if frightening.
Same. My professors did this because they wanted you to not be spending your time and energy writing notes during class but instead following the lesson and asking questions.
That's really cool. Are you using OpenSSHes yubikey support or building your own?
You can become a police officer in California without being a citizen(*). So who knows? I doubt there's any official rule against this position regarding citizenship. Or dual citizenship.

(*) Albeit with full legal work authorization.
The most likely explanation for this phenomenon is that there isn't a change in the population average for variable X, but that the decrease in college students' average X is due to an increase in population college going rates.

Looking at the statistics[1], the US went from a 23.2% college completion rate in 1990 to 39.2% completion rate in 2022, or a 67% increase in college degree completions. If you assume that X in the population is constant over time, mechanically you will need to enroll and graduate students from lower percentiles of X in order to increase the overall college completion rate in the whole population.

This process might be particularly acute at "lower tier" institutions that cannot compete with "top tier" institutions for top students.

[1]: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_104.20.a...
I am able to know if someone is good or bad at an interview from how they talk and their logic more than their coding skills.
The house looks fucking awful. I mean my place basically is an IKEA show room and it looks more like a home.
It doesn't really matter if the perception is that the state is arresting arbitrary people for arbitrary things.
The compilers require a bunch of arcane flags to actually do something useful, so you pretty much need some kind of build system or at least a shell script.
Discussion (44 points, 4 hours ago, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43525860

https://archive.is/Kffv1
>Is this era, where parents create an entire world for their children, unprecedented in history?

I’m not sure exactly what you mean here, but people born in rural areas in the early 1900s were extremely sheltered from an intellectual perspective.

With travel being so much more difficult and no TV, things as simple as seeing a picture of New York were mind-blowing.
If it turns out that he was somehow repatriated to his home country under compulsion that would not be terribly surprising. Nor would it be surprising if he was a "spy" or even a double agent. The FBI raiding his home suggests that he was somehow implicated either as a foreign agent or as a compromised intelligence asset, and one side or the other wanted him back.
Can you provide more info? Use-cases, how would it work, where will you publish it?
The power must be way less especially without spinning drives.
- A typescript SDK for creating local-first applications to browse the Fediverse (https://codeberg.org/mushroomlabs/activitypub-client). I want to be able to use this SDK to work on a fork of Elk (Mastodon client) and Voyager (Lemmy Client) and swap the API-based libraries they use.

- Adding support to WhatsApp/Discord/Signal bridges to Communick's Matrix server. For some reason, last week I got a handful of handful of customers saying that they would be willing to pay more than the $29/year of the standard plan if they could get those bridges on Communick's Matrix server
https://sgp.fas.org/news/2010/04/doj041510.html

Federal criminal court in Maryland
You don't need to actually generate HTML for that though. VSCode will show a markdown preview, and there are tons of other markdown editors that can do that too.
well this is simply adorable, down to the neocities hosted website

this already is my stack, tho I need to get over to the immutable variety. i'm on fedora 41 i3-spin, using chicago95. been using it for years, with the plymouth bit that gives you a proper win95 startup background during boot

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Plymouth
What about the people in the DR are/were fundamentally different from the people in Haiti? and why did these people change so dramatically around 1960?
how do you get real time acsess to reddit posts?
*KDE3
Can't believe no-one else has made a comment about how great the form id "230" (tooth-hurty) is, yet. Bravo.
> The West supported an brutal military dictatorship in South Korea for decades. South Korean democracy is the result of internal struggle by the South Korean people.

I mean, the US was a huge supporter of Suharto in Indonesia as the "less bad" option to the thread of communism, and Mubarak in Egypt as an alternative to the worse option of a Islamic Brotherhood run state, or possibly something even more deeply Soviet aligned. I don't think there is any "lesser evil" warlord to pick in Haiti right now and prop up above any of the others.
I can only urge you to provide one or more good primary sources if you are making such a claim. It should be a given...
> How many are actually multi-region?

The fact half the internet seems to fall over whenever us-east-1 has a hiccup is quite telling.
I'm building Matrixbird - an experimental email powered by matrix.

https://matrixbird.com
Your server is irrelevant. If it's being visited by humans, it just needs to get your information to them in a speedy-enough fashion. It's the content you're serving that matters, not what's serving it. (5MB React bundles? You're bad at the web and you should feel bad. Pure HTML and CSS using brotli compression? You're a superhero)
>Disappearing people is not something the US government is allowed to do.

They are allowed to disappear people simply by virtue of the fact that no one is going to stop them
I'm totally in favor of holding the current administration accountable for what they are doing and clamping down on all the authoritarian actions as much as possible. But I'm not in favor of compromising principles to do it.

There are plenty of things that they're doing that are documented that are evil. There's no need to waste energy and credibility speculating about things that aren't yet understood or documented, unless you personally have the means to investigate Wang's disappearance and shed light on what happened.
That would make so much more sense. So then the comments about only slowing down Earth's rotation by a few ms/century. It would deplete Earth's magnetic field, and likely on a much faster timescale.

This would not be good...
I believe our consciousness is separate from our physical body. This metaphysical line of thinking is embodied by “idealism” which is opposed to “physicalism” or materialism. I am also not a determinist and I don’t believe you can replay the universe from first principles and get the exact same timeline.

I’m also religious and I believe in God (and the Holy Trinity) in the core of my being.
predates known FBI actions

does not necessary predate FBI involvement,

a university "silently" scrubbing someone is most times due to there being something which could cause heavy reputational damage to tangentially related to that person (or secret orders/pressure from courts or other agencies)

for example someone gets caught doing something bad by the university but not yet outright criminal, the university puts the on leave and investigates further maybe informs police or FBI too, which then start investigation but not yet without any public actions. The person knows when put on leave that they likely will find more things and disappears themself (issue with that story is the woman at on of the houses and her being let go by the FBI and coming back with a lawyer and her being not identified as his wife, which just doesn't fit in at all)
"Naivete", now, as opposed to trusting government agencies any other time in recent history?

I swear, people are acting like CIA black sites and NSA backdoors just started existing after years of apathy just because orange man got back into power and let the guy who made a crappy truck cut government jobs.

Can't wait for political winds to change in the next election and watch as all the ones crying about "government overreach" and "it's only natural all other countries should cut ties with us" to switch their tune once 'their guy' is in office, but all other branches of the machine operating just as before.

Truly no more a propagandized people; "Hackers" shilling for large unchecked governments, who'd-a-thought.
The US is on their second republic because the articles of confederation failed, and is looking down the barrel of a second dissolution as we speak. France is on their fifth republic, because the previous four republics failed. If France’s latest success is due to their people, wouldn’t that contradict their previous failures?

Sure, the people have an outsized influence on the success of a nation, but the institutions also shape the people and empower some people over others. Can you imagine how much differently the US would look if it wasn’t founded on slavery and oppression? If women didnt have to wait 150 years to vote? If we didn’t institutionalize a gerrymanderable legislative system?

The institutions matter AND people matter, but bad institutions empower terrible people.
Sure. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/rcmp-chinese-police-st...
KNOWRA - A tool to learn about a topic quickly https://knowra.ai Looks at multiple sources and links expand in place.
Yeah I use Pandoc markdown to HTML for my site and it's easily fast enough. Especially if you use a Makefile.

I think this was just a fun challenge rather than to get any kind of useful advantage.
> On the other hand, if you make something amazing, you'll often be helping people or the world even if you didn't mean to. Newton was driven by curiosity and ambition, not by any practical effect his work might have, and yet the practical effect of his work has been enormous. And this seems the rule rather than the exception. So if you think you can make something amazing, you should probably just go ahead and do it.

I dislike the way this is framed and I think the rule/exception are inverted. Certainly, building the jet engine or microprocessor is a big uplift on all boats, but the chances you pull one of these out of the hat are pretty low.

I spent a good chunk of my career attempting to build things that I thought were amazing. It took a lot of drama and disappointment to discover that helping other people means meeting them where they are at right now, not where I want them to be.
I’ve been mostly been getting all my shit out of various clouds and trying to get more things offline where I can control the tenancy, risk and cost.
Have been building drawDB[1] for a while now. It's a database schema visualizer. Currently working on adding support for oracle databases. Wrote a parser[2] to allow importing from oracle sql. Have been struggling with motivation though, the pieces are pretty much there but I've been procrastinating on putting it all together. This has been my main side project for almost 2 years now.. I miss the feeling of novelty.. but can't come up with something worth building..idk

[1] https://github.com/drawdb-io/drawdb

[2] https://github.com/1ilit/oracle-sql-parser
I'm just confused how parties that advocate for small government(in the US and Canada) seem to simultaneously target the rights of minorities.

How can the issue people are concerned with be government overreach if they don't care about the government overreaching into others backyards?
I’m not sure exactly what you mean here, but people born in rural areas in the early 1900s were extremely sheltered from an intellectual perspective.

Right but that was not deliberate. People lived in rural areas and that’s where their kids grew up. They weren’t trying to engineer a rural lifestyle for their kids in order to produce some particular desired outcome.
Give today's XFCE4 a try, on debian stable or testing. It's a remarkably no bullshit GUI for use with xorg. You can of course still install all the gnome and kde libraries and run all the gnome and kde applications, though things will look a little bit mismatched.
> Presidential system might work in France

France has a semipresidential system, not a presidential system - it has both a President directly elected by the voters, and a Prime Minister accountable to the legislature, with the two having a (somewhat complicated and uneasy) division of powers - essentially, the President controls foreign relations and the military, the Prime Minister controls most domestic policies. It works reasonably well when both President and Prime Minister are from the same party, it works with more acrimony when they are from opposed parties (cohabitation), the recent political upheavals in France have led more and more to question if it is still the right system, or whether France should return to the parliamentary system of its Third and Fourth republics - but, even at its worst, I think it still works better than the presidential system used by the US and much of Latin America. The presidential system concentrates too much power in a single individual, who is difficult to hold accountable, leading to the problem of strongmen (caudillos) which have been a plague upon Latin American history-and maybe now with Trump the US is starting to move in the same direction
It should be obvious to anyone that what this guy was doing and/or knows is something that governments are extremely interested in.