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41,788,900 | comment | itishappy | 2024-10-09T15:26:47 | null | Coal (and even wood!) powered cars actually existed long before Ford, but didn't take off because they were too heavy and unwieldly. The Model T was the result of a century of optimization.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Joseph_Cugnot" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Joseph_Cugnot</a> | null | null | 41,787,834 | 41,784,591 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,901 | comment | byyoung3 | 2024-10-09T15:26:48 | null | they might as well add semicolons while they are at it | null | null | 41,788,026 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,788,902 | comment | shadowgovt | 2024-10-09T15:26:48 | null | Definitely going to want to use Tree-sitter, not regex. That regex just broke my docstrings. | null | null | 41,788,510 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,903 | comment | jsnell | 2024-10-09T15:26:49 | null | Because the people writing the game did not have infinite time and budget, and spent their resources on making the game rather than the engine. That allowed them to a) finish the game at all, b) make a game of bigger scope and higher quality. Maybe (just maybe!) they could have finished a game when rolling their own. But it would not have been the Hollow Knight we know.<p>It's great that you're enthusiastic about writing your own engine. I'm kind of in the same boat: I'm opinionated on software engineering and architecture, and my opinions don't line up with any of the existing engines. So I roll my own. But it's not actually an efficient use of my time, and as a result I don't write as many games as I'd prefer to, and the projects often end up down-scoped from the original vision just to finish them. It's a suboptimal way to work, but it's the one I have to use since any time I try using an engine I give up in disgust and get nothing done.<p>What's not so great is that you're ignoring the very obvious upsides of using an engine, pretending it's only downsides, and pushing your personal preference on other people as the obviously correct way to do things. Your bafflement on why anyone would use an engine is showing a distinct lack of empathy. Not everyone thinks like you, or has your priorities. You want to write a toolset and demonstrate your mastery of that toolset; some others just want to make a game. And you have no business telling them that their goal is invalid and they should instead copy your priorities. | null | null | 41,782,745 | 41,779,519 | null | [
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41,788,904 | story | PaulHoule | 2024-10-09T15:26:49 | Mamba for Scalable and Efficient Personalized Recommendations | null | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17165 | 2 | null | 41,788,904 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,905 | comment | ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2024-10-09T15:26:52 | null | Motivation and focus are different. Your thing sounds like motivation.<p>For me, it was about narrowing down my scope of "hobbies". I have tried so many things and now (approaching 40 years old) I can be more certain about which categories of things are important to me and I am more honest about how many I can juggle: family, work, fitness, and maaaaybe something else a few hours per month.<p>As long as I'm still playing in one of those categories, I don't worry too much about any specific project.<p>E.g. For fitness, I may want to try to do 40 pull-ups per day for a month. If I only last a week before I stop doing that, I am mentally okay with that AS LONG AS I am still doing something else for my fitness. | null | null | 41,788,455 | 41,788,455 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,906 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T15:27:01 | null | null | null | null | 41,788,026 | 41,788,026 | null | null | true | null |
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41,788,908 | comment | croes | 2024-10-09T15:27:17 | null | That's like changing the spelling of Espresso to Expresso | null | null | 41,787,647 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,788,909 | comment | solarkraft | 2024-10-09T15:27:17 | null | Matt really wants to dig himself into a deeper and deeper hole, huh?<p>There’s still something entertaining to this for sure, but it also hurts so much. Wordpress used to be a respectable project, Automattic a respectable company and Matt a respectable person. Maybe it was too good to last.<p>The only way any of this (already serve) damage can somewhat be undone is Matt stepping back (as a sudden change of mind seems unlikely). Please don’t keep making it worse. | null | null | 41,791,369 | 41,791,369 | null | [
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41,788,910 | comment | dajoh | 2024-10-09T15:27:19 | null | What you're describing is called fixed point arithmetic, a super cool technique I wish more programmers knew about.<p>Proper finance related code should use it, but in my experience in that industry it doesn't seem very common unless you're running mainframes.<p>Funnily enough, I've seen a lot more fixed point arithmetic in software rasterizers than anywhere else. FreeType, GDI, WPF, WARP (D3D11 reference rasterizer) all use it heavily. | null | null | 41,787,855 | 41,784,591 | null | [
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41,788,911 | comment | rafram | 2024-10-09T15:27:27 | null | No natural language is actually 100% phonetic. Romanian is no exception. Romanian spelling and pronunciation are <i>close</i> to phonetic, but the same is true of German. | null | null | 41,788,103 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,788,912 | comment | jjk166 | 2024-10-09T15:27:27 | null | That one's a bit mean given that data does have a distinct plural, it just happens to be spelled the same because whoever came up with english didn't really grok the phonetic alphabet. | null | null | 41,788,311 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,788,913 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T15:27:28 | null | null | null | null | 41,709,301 | 41,709,301 | null | null | true | null |
41,788,914 | comment | WalterBright | 2024-10-09T15:27:29 | null | I didn't think of that. I just thought that he deserved credit. It never occurred to me this might bring trouble to his family. I'll take your advice.<p>It's also nice to know another of Hal's friends. | null | null | 41,785,888 | 41,783,503 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,915 | comment | caohongyuan | 2024-10-09T15:27:32 | null | Thank you for your reply. Your reminder opened my eyes. | null | null | 41,785,654 | 41,785,505 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,916 | comment | taf2 | 2024-10-09T15:27:34 | null | I play sc2 on Ubuntu nightly. Except for the battle.net being super slow to load the game play is insanely good. | null | null | 41,788,557 | 41,788,557 | null | [
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41,788,917 | comment | freedomben | 2024-10-09T15:27:40 | null | I'm not GP, but IMHO the alternative will be stagnation on web standards.<p>Normally I would think that a bad thing, but as the "progress" nowadays is becoming more and more user-hostile and developer-friendly (as both a user and a developer, I can see both side here), I would prefer stagnation to progress.<p>I don't want Web Integrity or manifest v3 or any of that crap. That's a blatant transfer of power from the user to the developer, and the latter is already substantially more powerful than the user. We need to go the <i>other</i> way. | null | null | 41,788,656 | 41,787,290 | null | [
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41,788,918 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T15:27:41 | null | null | null | null | 41,709,301 | 41,709,301 | null | null | true | null |
41,788,919 | comment | aguaviva | 2024-10-09T15:27:41 | null | So what kind of setup do you suggest for low-maintenance personal / small business use? | null | null | 41,785,444 | 41,783,867 | null | [
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41,788,920 | comment | snovymgodym | 2024-10-09T15:27:43 | null | Frankly, it's really crazy how much of the modern web is controlled by google.<p>The most common kind of consumer-facing computer is a mobile device, and the most common mobile OS worldwide is owned by Google.<p>The most common way that people interact with the web is either mobile apps or a web browser, and Google-owned Chrome/Chromium has basically eaten the world.<p>The most common way that people find new information on the web is a search engine. Once again, Google's namesake search engine is the unambiguous leader in terms of market share by a landslide.<p>Obviously there's more: YouTube, Google Maps and Waze, GSuite/Drive/Docs. But it's these first three verticals that smell the most monopolistic to me. | null | null | 41,787,290 | 41,787,290 | null | [
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41,788,921 | comment | subpixel | 2024-10-09T15:27:45 | null | I lived in Germany on two occasions and regularly consume German media. English words are all over the German vernacular, to the point that it's really, really annoying. | null | null | 41,787,647 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,788,922 | story | tosh | 2024-10-09T15:27:55 | Kamal v2.2.0 | null | https://github.com/basecamp/kamal/releases/tag/v2.2.0 | 2 | null | 41,788,922 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,923 | comment | gspencley | 2024-10-09T15:27:59 | null | My intro to programming was that I wanted to be a game developer in the 90s. Carmack and the others at Id were my literal heroes.<p>Back then, a lot of code optimizations was magic to me. I still just barely understand the famous inverse square root optimization in the Quake III Arena source code. But I wanted to be able to do what those guys were doing. I wanted to learn assembly and to be able to drop down to assembly and to know where and when that would help and why.<p>And I wasn't alone. This is because these optimizations are not obvious. There is a "mystique" to them. Which makes it cool. So virtually ALL young, aspiring game programmers wanted to learn how to do this crazy stuff.<p>What did the old timers tell us?<p>Stop. Don't. Learn how to write clean, readable, maintainable code FIRST and then learn how to profile your application in order to discover the major bottlenecks and then you can optimize appropriately in order of greatest impact descending.<p>If writing the easiest code to maintain and understand also meant writing the most performant code, then the concept of code optimization wouldn't even exist. The two are mutually exclusive, except in specific cases where it's not and then it's not even worth discussing because there is no conflict.<p>Carmack seems to acknowledge this in his email. He realizes that inlining functions needs to be done with careful judgment, and the rationale is both performance and bug mitigation. But that if inlining were adopted as a matter of course, a policy of "always inline first", the results would quickly be an unmaintainable, impossible to comprehend mess that would swing so far in the other direction that bugs become more prominent because you can't touch anything in isolation.<p>And that's the bane of software development: touch one thing and end up breaking a dozen other things that you didn't even think about because of interdependence.<p>So we've come up with design patterns and "best practices" that allow us to isolate our moving parts, but that has its own set of trade-offs which is what Carmack is discussing.<p>Being a 26 year veteran in the industry now (not making games btw), I think this is the type of topic that you need to be very experienced to be able to appreciate, let alone to be able to make the judgment calls to know when inlining is the better option and why. | null | null | 41,785,113 | 41,758,371 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,924 | comment | mckirk | 2024-10-09T15:28:00 | null | I literally could care less. If people cant handle this alternative way of communicating, thats there problem. | null | null | 41,788,159 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,788,925 | comment | Theo1910 | 2024-10-09T15:28:00 | null | Hey guys I've been following you for a while, what you do is amazing! So glad that your live now, the product looks great just as I imagined! | null | null | 41,788,603 | 41,788,603 | null | [
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41,788,926 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T15:28:17 | null | null | null | null | 41,709,299 | 41,709,299 | null | null | true | null |
41,788,927 | comment | morsch | 2024-10-09T15:28:19 | null | Also quite common in Germany. I choose to interpret them as scare quotes implying irony and smile to myself at Bob's "Big" Bookstore and the grocer selling "fresh" fish. | null | null | 41,788,414 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,928 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T15:28:24 | null | null | null | null | 41,709,299 | 41,709,299 | null | null | true | null |
41,788,929 | comment | caohongyuan | 2024-10-09T15:28:24 | null | Thank you for your reply. I Come ON! | null | null | 41,786,047 | 41,785,505 | null | [
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41,788,930 | comment | skeptrune | 2024-10-09T15:28:25 | null | Could not disagree more.<p>"Source Available" sounds like what it should.<p>It communicates that the code is public, so you can see it's high quality, actively worked on, and nothing nefarious. <i>However</i>, it's not meant to be a community project or used commercially for free.<p>"Fair Source" is abundantly less clear. It implies some sense of "fairness" which can mean drastically different things to people. | null | null | 41,788,461 | 41,788,461 | null | [
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41,788,931 | comment | Pxtl | 2024-10-09T15:28:26 | null | The upside is that it would only really impact their interaction with that specific site, not with anything else (unless there's opportunity for lateral moves because of SSO or the site hosts email and so they could hack password resets or something).<p>My dream scenario would be this happening to an in-company administrative user with the keys to the kingdom. Imagine an ad-ridden site like Fandom.com getting hacked in that way. | null | null | 41,773,819 | 41,770,921 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,932 | comment | rurp | 2024-10-09T15:28:27 | null | No kidding about pip. The dependency resolver change several years ago was a similar terrible move to the PEP being considered here. It broke so much legitimately working code for no good reason; just paternalism from the core devs. The change pushed my team to stop using pip at all for dependency management. | null | null | 41,788,586 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,788,933 | comment | Moomoomoo309 | 2024-10-09T15:28:28 | null | See, this is exactly what I was referring to. It's "obvious" that these things happen as a result of DEI, but you provide no evidence for it. Some anecdotes, sure, but I want to see how it plays out broadly - I'm sure there are cases where it's good and cases where it's bad if you just pick anecdotes from the data! I also think calling out censorship for this is lazy, to be honest. I really doubt a topic as contentious as DEI has no useful data to prove your point. | null | null | 41,787,471 | 41,745,798 | null | [
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41,788,934 | comment | oulipo | 2024-10-09T15:28:36 | null | Thanks so much!! Appreciated! | null | null | 41,788,925 | 41,788,603 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,935 | comment | DowagerDave | 2024-10-09T15:28:36 | null | considering the publication, pretty disappointing. I guess even IEEE has to chase the clickbait headlines :(<p>consider this amazing piece of advice:<p>Q: What advice would you give to inventors looking to integrate AI into their creative processes?<p>Blank: My advice for anyone in any part of their career is: Every six months, spend three days looking at the state of the art for the tools in and around your space. | null | null | 41,788,691 | 41,786,457 | null | [
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41,788,936 | comment | bee_rider | 2024-10-09T15:28:38 | null | I’ve always read those as scare-quotes, like the store is making fun of itself in some self-aware fashion for not being big. I know I am wrong but I would rather be wrong is a slightly funnier and less stupid world. | null | null | 41,788,414 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,937 | comment | tombert | 2024-10-09T15:28:38 | null | I recently sold my Macbook, bought a Thinkpad, and am running NixOS full time, and I have to say that desktop Linux has gotten pretty excellent since the last time I ran it full-time.<p>I'm not sure if it's thanks to Wayland, or just improvements to the kernel, or improvements to the desktop environment, or some combination of the three, but at this point I actually think that for the first time I might actually prefer Gnome over macOS.<p>I haven't bothered with Windows since Windows 8, but it does make me happy that Linux holds its own performance-wise, even still. It doesn't look like Linux is categorically better than Windows, but it looks like for the most part they're comparable. | null | null | 41,788,557 | 41,788,557 | null | [
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41,788,938 | comment | throwawaymaths | 2024-10-09T15:28:39 | null | Refreshingly good. Bakers "early" (not really early, but earlier than AlphaFold) work (having humans with no background solve folds) really laid the groundwork to proving that heuristic methods were likely to outperform physical forcefield and ab initio/DFT methods for structure prediction. And AI structure prediction if nothing else is heuristic protein folding. | null | null | 41,788,111 | 41,786,101 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,939 | comment | k__ | 2024-10-09T15:28:42 | null | When I read "Open source alternative to ..." I always assume self-hosting is easily possible.<p>However, lately most open source alternatives taking a very literal approach to open source which isn't always in the spirit of the term. | null | null | 41,788,461 | 41,788,461 | null | [
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41,788,940 | comment | almostgotcaught | 2024-10-09T15:28:43 | null | i always think to myself how embarassing this must be<p><a href="https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/7320">https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/7320</a> | null | null | 41,788,557 | 41,788,557 | null | [
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41,788,941 | comment | simonw | 2024-10-09T15:28:47 | null | You have to read quite far down this article (past some IMO unnecessary language about "zealots") to get to the key point: it's promoting the use of the term "fair source", as described here: <a href="https://fair.io/about/" rel="nofollow">https://fair.io/about/</a><p><pre><code> Fair Source is an alternative to closed
source, allowing you to safely share
access to your core products. Fair
Source Software (FSS):
1. is publicly available to read;
2. allows use, modification, and
redistribution with minimal
restrictions to protect the
producer’s business model; and
3. undergoes delayed Open Source
publication (DOSP).</code></pre> | null | null | 41,788,461 | 41,788,461 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,942 | comment | psunavy03 | 2024-10-09T15:28:47 | null | As someone who spent 20 years in uniform active and reserve . . . this is unadulterated tinfoil-hattery. | null | null | 41,788,706 | 41,787,290 | null | [
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41,788,943 | comment | AlexandrB | 2024-10-09T15:28:48 | null | Character count is a valid argument because a human is going to have to <i>read</i> the code at some point. Otherwise, Java style names like "countriesFromAsiaWhereAreTheMostPlanesAndBoats" would be just fine.<p>Edit: I don't get the hate for "i" or "j" as increment variables. When you're working with numerical data they closely match how you would express the same operation with mathematical notation and are idiomatic to the point that everyone with non-trivial experience in programming knows what they represent. There are better options in some cases (e.g. "for name in names:"), but there's nothing inherently wrong with i, j, k, etc. | null | null | 41,788,618 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,788,944 | comment | inglor_cz | 2024-10-09T15:28:54 | null | It is doubly so if your native language is also a gendered one, but with different genders for common objects. It makes a mess in your head.<p>CZ: ten nůž (masc.) - DE: das Messer (neutr.) - EN: knife<p>CZ: ten svět (masc.) - DE: die Welt (fem.) - EN: world<p>CZ: ta žába (fem.) - DE: der Frosch (masc.) - EN: frog<p>Also, personified Death and rivers seem to be masculine-coded in Germanic languages, and feminine-coded in Slavic ones. | null | null | 41,787,786 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,788,945 | comment | bawolff | 2024-10-09T15:29:09 | null | I still don't really understand your point. I don't think anyone disagrees that monopolies and other anticompetitive behaviour is a thing that exists. | null | null | 41,788,298 | 41,780,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,946 | comment | timmg | 2024-10-09T15:29:13 | null | There’s another side to this: if you accept the idea of “nature” — genes capable of carrying “talent” (in some sense) — it should be common for children of talented people to be talented.<p>Of course, talent doesn’t always mean prosperity. But in a society modeled on meritocracy, it often will. | null | null | 41,787,591 | 41,786,101 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,947 | story | elsewhen | 2024-10-09T15:29:15 | MediaTek's new flagship chipset is ready for AI agents and tri-fold phones | null | https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/8/24265408/mediatek-dimensity-9400-agentic-ai-specs-availability | 1 | null | 41,788,947 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,948 | comment | behnamoh | 2024-10-09T15:29:18 | null | Using "|" to merge dictionaries (which was possible in other ways before) instead of offering pipes as in bash and Elixir (a feature that's actually useful). | null | null | 41,788,859 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,788,949 | comment | pfdietz | 2024-10-09T15:29:22 | null | Is that for emphasis, or is that to cast doubt on the word? | null | null | 41,788,414 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,950 | comment | InkCanon | 2024-10-09T15:29:29 | null | I have the same views as you (although admittedly the Kissinger comparison didn't convey that, because we all know how that turned out). It's at best quite premature. At worst, should never have been given in hindsight. Will probably land somewhere in between.<p>Second point is spot on. I really, really hope they didn't just fall for what is frankly a bit of SV style press release meant to hype things. Similar work was done on crystal structures with some massive number reported. It's a vastly other thing than the implied meaning that they are now fully understood and able to be used in some way. | null | null | 41,787,947 | 41,786,101 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,951 | comment | JohnFen | 2024-10-09T15:29:37 | null | > The products and the marketing that surround them are pretty on the knose about being anti-social and anti-human<p>This is what terrifies me about "AI". It's not the technology itself, it's that the companies and most of the vocal proponents are very clearly sociopathic. | null | null | 41,784,135 | 41,782,874 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,952 | story | mfiguiere | 2024-10-09T15:29:40 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,788,952 | null | null | null | true |
41,788,953 | comment | colanderman | 2024-10-09T15:29:43 | null | The former are names of businesses, the latter is just referring to someone's personal item.<p>(This confused the heck out of me at first too.) | null | null | 41,788,893 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,788,954 | comment | kevinventullo | 2024-10-09T15:29:47 | null | The article is about transferring assets out of TresuryDirect, which is required if you want to sell them before maturity. | null | null | 41,787,063 | 41,786,670 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,955 | comment | Moomoomoo309 | 2024-10-09T15:29:47 | null | Sure. Along transit corridors in a city would be a prime example. A single family home right next to a train station in a major city is stupid. | null | null | 41,651,863 | 41,642,161 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,956 | comment | HelloMcFly | 2024-10-09T15:29:51 | null | Agreed - in my current org. it works really well! In my last org. and the one before it was truly a misery. | null | null | 41,787,821 | 41,786,670 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,957 | comment | WalterBright | 2024-10-09T15:29:51 | null | > The US has non-free labor in the form of penal labor supplying some $10 billion in goods and services.<p>The size of the US economy is $29 trillion. $10 billion does not define it. | null | null | 41,776,248 | 41,774,467 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,958 | comment | shadowgovt | 2024-10-09T15:29:53 | null | Having your linter catch `except:` is both simpler and cleaner than changing the language. | null | null | 41,788,485 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,788,959 | comment | foxyv | 2024-10-09T15:29:55 | null | We need some serious trust busting in the USA. It's been a problem for decades and has culminated in the slow destruction of the middle class. The longer we wait, the harder it will be to fix the issue. | null | null | 41,787,290 | 41,787,290 | null | [
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41,788,960 | story | throwaway_43793 | 2024-10-09T15:29:57 | Ask HN: Is there no escape from working 9-5? | I'm a software engineer with almost 20 years of experience. My whole career was self employment.<p>I tried some freelance. Tried to build a business. And I read all the books about "working 4 hours a week", and aspiring to that lifestyle. However, the more I read from/talk with other people, the more I start to think that there is no escape from slaving for the rest of your life. Hear me out.<p>9-5, is well, 9-5. You get a stable salary when times are good. Hopefully you save enough for when times are bad. Despite all the "unlimited vacation" and other corporate BS, you are still obligated to be at the office/attend the daily meetings, hence you don't really have freedom to, say, be with your kids/family/at the beach at 12PM, because that's when your team is having a retrospective. The answer? Freelancing.<p>Except, from what I read, freelancing is the same 9-5 but you now have multiple teams/unstable income/(potentially) higher income. Despite the fact that freelancing seems lucrative to a salaried SWE, it is a 9-5 in disguise (at least from what people say on the internet, I don't have much experience there myself). Usually, it's not even 9-5 but more like 8AM to 10PM. But at least you are at home (hopefully?), so you can tell your spouse/kid "hey, not now, this client needs me". The answer? A SaaS.<p>Except, building a profitable SaaS is extremely hard, and is far from "4 hours work week". You spend all your free time to bootstrap the product, while spending the 9-5 to make money to feed yourself. There is a strong correlation between the founders of billion dollar companies and their (rich) background, so unless you come from money, you will sacrifice a lot (entertainment, relationships, socialization) to maybe land in the 1% of SaaS products to actually make more than 100$ MRR. And even if you are able to pull it off, consistently, you will be working more than 8 hours a day. At least you are not trading your time for money as a direct transaction. The answer? FIRE.<p>Work your ass off, save as much money and invest it in S&P500 in order to be able to live off 4% withdrawal rate. Except, the 4% safe withdrawal rate is somewhat conflicting, and if you want to actually live in a western country, instead of posting picture of how great it is in Bali/Thailand, while none of these countries have the needed infrastructure in order to have a family, then 4% for a family means you need to save A LOT. Like millions of $$. Which is possible if you live like a rat, less possible if you don't want to waste your youth, delay relationship (or break existing ones).<p>So.. My question to you HN: is there no escape from 9-5 as a concept? Are all these books about working 2 hours a week while making millions, are just BS? | null | 3 | null | 41,788,960 | 13 | [
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41,788,961 | comment | lo_zamoyski | 2024-10-09T15:29:59 | null | Klimt does use gold very well. But I am surprised by your claim...<p>> I think Klimt is the only artist to successfully incorporate gold into his paintings without making them look obnoxious or ostentatious.<p>Byzantine iconography comes off as neither obnoxious nor ostentatious. The use of gold in Botticelli's works wonderfully. And so on. What exactly is an example of "obnoxious or ostentatious" use of gold in art? I can only think of ridiculous things like gold-plated toilets. Perhaps you were exposed to especially egregious works that are not familiar to the general public? | null | null | 41,787,899 | 41,761,409 | null | [
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41,788,962 | comment | IshKebab | 2024-10-09T15:29:59 | null | Now you have to make `f` nullable <i>and</i> you run the risk of not initialising it and getting a null pointer.<p>You can't do it in C, but in functional style languages you can do this:<p><pre><code> let f = {
let bar = ...;
let baz = ...;
let barbaz = ...;
barbaz
};
</code></pre>
Which is a lot nicer. But if you ask me it's just a function by another name except it still doesn't limit scope quite as precisely as a function. | null | null | 41,786,852 | 41,758,371 | null | [
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41,788,963 | comment | twic | 2024-10-09T15:30:07 | null | Skill issue, Warhammer painters are all over it:<p><a href="http://razzaminipainting.blogspot.com/2016/07/non-metallic-metals.html" rel="nofollow">http://razzaminipainting.blogspot.com/2016/07/non-metallic-m...</a> | null | null | 41,787,850 | 41,761,409 | null | [
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41,788,964 | story | rbanffy | 2024-10-09T15:30:09 | Automating Processes with Software Is Hard | null | https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/222-automating-processes-with-software | 1 | null | 41,788,964 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,965 | story | _Microft | 2024-10-09T15:30:09 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,788,965 | null | null | null | true |
41,788,966 | comment | subpixel | 2024-10-09T15:30:11 | null | Just wait until they get ahold of the quotation marks: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/suspiciousquotes/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/suspiciousquotes/</a> | null | null | 41,787,647 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,967 | comment | the_mitsuhiko | 2024-10-09T15:30:12 | null | > "Fair Source" is abundantly less clear. It implies some sense of "fairness" which can mean drastically different things to people.<p>Fair source has a very clear definition:<p><pre><code> Fair Source is an alternative to closed source, allowing you to safely
share access to your core products. Fair Source Software (FSS):
- is publicly available to read;
- allows use, modification, and redistribution with minimal
restrictions to protect the producer’s business model; and
- undergoes delayed Open Source publication (DOSP).
</code></pre>
The key here is delayed open source publication and limited restrictions up to that point. | null | null | 41,788,930 | 41,788,461 | null | [
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41,788,968 | comment | bongodongobob | 2024-10-09T15:30:14 | null | Well on my Lenovo P15 Gen 1, Windows 11 is substantially more responsive than Ubuntu. I had been running Ubuntu on it for a couple years and switched over to Windows to play some games. I was shocked. And games aside, I mean desktop, vs code, etc, non-GPU heavy things. | null | null | 41,788,557 | 41,788,557 | null | [
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41,788,969 | comment | northernman | 2024-10-09T15:30:19 | null | Perhaps in a few years we can have another PEP, to require "except BaseException" to be replaced with bare "except:". Then we can all change our code back again. | null | null | 41,788,360 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,970 | comment | Pet_Ant | 2024-10-09T15:30:20 | null | They are talking about individual components and what _can_ happen.<p>What you can in these cases is a whole other layer of engineering.<p>You want multiple redundancies. With concensus of independent units running. So have something like 15 guidance computers. 5 running (so that each has 2 back-ups) and their output goes to concensus to determine the actual action. Of course the concensus mechanism will need redundancy so maybe each concensus mechanism controls between 0-25% of the throttle...<p>It's all doable. It's just <i>hard</i>. | null | null | 41,783,550 | 41,765,098 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,971 | comment | kstrauser | 2024-10-09T15:30:23 | null | Eh, while I sympathize with what you’re saying, PEPs get written and rejected all the time. I’ve gotten the impression that some were written for the main goal of documenting the reasons why a common request is a bad idea.<p>Like, I don’t know if there’s a PEP to use braces, but it wouldn’t surprise me if someone had made one so that from then on there’d be an official doc you could point people at when they ask about it.<p>Not saying this is one of those, and I see Brett Cannon’s on this one. I am saying not to get too worked up over the existence of a draft PEP. | null | null | 41,788,360 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,788,972 | comment | naniwaduni | 2024-10-09T15:30:26 | null | It's some chutzpah to blabber about openwashing and then choose your self-description to simply embed the value judgment <i>directly</i>. | null | null | 41,788,461 | 41,788,461 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,973 | comment | JumpCrisscross | 2024-10-09T15:30:28 | null | English being an amalgamated language and thus uniquely flexible is part of its power. We have options in style choices many languages formally don’t permit, <i>e.g.</i> when to italicise or, if quoting, whether to “exclude punctuation”, or “include it.” (As well as comma use.)<p>As a fellow French speaker, I think these are strengths other languages could gain from. <i>Couriel</i> or email (or e-mail)? Speaker’s choice. Same for possession. (Particularly for a culture with a tradition of individual liberty like France.) | null | null | 41,788,256 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,788,974 | comment | account42 | 2024-10-09T15:30:29 | null | Exactly, simple "unicode-aware" case conversions are a trap. You are always going to need much more. | null | null | 41,783,337 | 41,774,871 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,975 | comment | Timon3 | 2024-10-09T15:30:35 | null | The opposite of "some societal good" isn't "less societal good than other alternatives", it's "no societal good". The original statement didn't contain any comparisons. Even the worst alternative can still have some societal good. | null | null | 41,788,466 | 41,784,387 | null | [
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41,788,976 | story | mystcb | 2024-10-09T15:30:36 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,788,976 | null | null | null | true |
41,788,977 | story | cempaka | 2024-10-09T15:30:40 | How NAFTA Broke American Politics | null | https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/podcasts/the-daily/american-politics-trade.html | 1 | null | 41,788,977 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,788,978 | comment | forinti | 2024-10-09T15:30:41 | null | You can bet old German ladies already point out people's mistakes. | null | null | 41,788,171 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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] | null | null |
41,788,979 | comment | SahAssar | 2024-10-09T15:30:41 | null | I'm not sure what requires a license as MS sells/sold a package to enable h265 even on devices that have hardware support, so some software fee seems to be required: <a href="https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nmzlz57r3t7?hl=en-us&gl=US" rel="nofollow">https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nmzlz57r3t7?hl=en-us&gl=U...</a> | null | null | 41,785,686 | 41,780,929 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,980 | comment | Netch | 2024-10-09T15:30:44 | null | > Makes you wonder why this isn't part of the C++ standard library itself.<p>Plainly no need if there is a separate easily attachable library (and with permissible license). What C++ had to do - provide character (char{8,16,32}_t) and string types - it has done. | null | null | 41,775,180 | 41,774,871 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,981 | comment | ptman | 2024-10-09T15:30:46 | null | Ikiwiki is nice. It's also a static wiki compiler and tries very hard to minimize the amount of rebuilding for each edit. | null | null | 41,757,008 | 41,749,680 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,982 | comment | orangetable99 | 2024-10-09T15:30:46 | null | yeah, inheritance enabled by default bit me in the ass more than once. With template engines you end up trying to debug some weird behavior and it takes some time for you to realize somewhere up in the tree on a different file there's an hx-* tag being inherited.<p>I should have disabled it early in the project, too late now.<p>I also still haven't figured out how to properly use the "save history to local storage" thing. Often there has been a server state change between the user navigating away and clicking the back button and I see no option other than disabling the thing altogether. | null | null | 41,782,080 | 41,781,457 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,983 | comment | dopylitty | 2024-10-09T15:30:53 | null | They really are hard to work with compared to languages where you declare which exceptions you'll throw,. I always get angry when pylint raises an error for catching over-broad exceptions[0]<p>Of course I'm catching broad exceptions because I have no idea what kind of exception is going to be thrown 12 dependencies deep and I don't want it to completely crash the program instead of letting me retry or do something else.<p>0:<a href="https://pylint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user_guide/messages/warning/broad-exception-caught.html" rel="nofollow">https://pylint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user_guide/messages/...</a> | null | null | 41,788,395 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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] | null | null |
41,788,984 | comment | hrjo | 2024-10-09T15:30:54 | null | [dead] | null | null | 41,787,925 | 41,776,861 | null | null | null | true |
41,788,985 | comment | taneq | 2024-10-09T15:30:55 | null | It's fair as in fair beer.<p>I have no idea what fair beer means. | null | null | 41,788,930 | 41,788,461 | null | [
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] | null | null |
41,788,986 | comment | OptionOfT | 2024-10-09T15:31:05 | null | Same in French. Le and la. (Masculine or feminine).<p>In Dutch: De and het, where de is for masculine and feminine, and het for ... I don't even know. And I'm a native Dutch speaker.<p>Edit: German also has cases: Nominative, accusative, dative and genitive, like Greek.<p>Latin had a 5th one. | null | null | 41,787,786 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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] | null | null |
41,788,987 | comment | dataviz1000 | 2024-10-09T15:31:14 | null | Perhaps, someone in the MIT ocean engineering program doing a semester at sea on the Corwith Cramer breaks bad. Back in the day they would lure crew by using ladies of the night to entice a victim into a Shanghai Tunnel [0] where they would be abducted. Our protagonist working on submersible project on the Corwith Cramer gets seduced by a yacht crew member while having a drink at the Leeside Pub or the Captain Kidd bar in Woods Hole. It wouldn't be the first time.<p>Personally, I had planned to spend a season working in a restaurant in Miami Beach and was evacuated from the inter-coastal because of hurricane Irma. The only bed I could find was in a crew house in Fort Lauderdale. All the windows were boarded with plywood and they had several kegs and dozens of bottles on the table as we waited out the storm with a party. Fortunately the storm tracked the West Coast. Someone asked what I did and I said I was a chef. They suggested I become a private yacht chef. Two weeks later I was cooking on a private sailing yacht in the Bahamas.<p>Probably more interesting if a storm blows the protagonist into a situation.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing</a> | null | null | 41,777,775 | 41,770,383 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,988 | comment | 1970-01-01 | 2024-10-09T15:31:18 | null | >HTTP server, an HTTP server whose precise function isn’t well understood<p>OK, you may be overthinking this one | null | null | 41,788,877 | 41,788,877 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,989 | comment | fny | 2024-10-09T15:31:24 | null | Not that I support the PEP but they could easily add an interpreter flag or environment variable to disable the behavior. | null | null | 41,788,545 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,990 | comment | happyopossum | 2024-10-09T15:31:32 | null | > theoretically, compressing gas is energyless. Ie. you get back exactly the same amount of energy when decompressing as you got when compressing<p>That's only true in a word with incomplete physics. Friction and drag exist, there's no sense pretending a process is imperfect because of them. | null | null | 41,785,937 | 41,764,095 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,991 | comment | datavirtue | 2024-10-09T15:31:37 | null | Someone has to peddle bullshit, the engineers won't. | null | null | 41,788,567 | 41,786,457 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,992 | comment | WalterBright | 2024-10-09T15:31:45 | null | It's a lot cheaper to pay off the slave owners than incur the deaths of 620,000 young men. | null | null | 41,786,064 | 41,774,467 | null | [
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41,788,993 | comment | jerkstate | 2024-10-09T15:31:46 | null | Yeah, I dusted off the old Vic-20 to teach my kids to code, it’s over 40 years old now and all I needed to do was replace a fuse to get it running again (my recollection was it had been last used before a lightning strike, and we had gotten an 8088 by then so we never tried to repair it in the 80s) - it’s notable that the memory on the 8088 has since gone bad and it’s not usable anymore. | null | null | 41,781,148 | 41,765,098 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,994 | comment | croes | 2024-10-09T15:31:50 | null | Peter’s Taverne is the name of the tavern, Eva's Brille is just eva's glasses not a the name of her store.<p>So Evas Blumenladen is called Eva's Blumenladen is correct. | null | null | 41,788,893 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,995 | comment | simonw | 2024-10-09T15:31:53 | null | Minor style point: this is clearly an opinion piece, and uses the term "I" a lot - "If you asked me a year ago how I felt about open washing..." - as such, it would be great to have an author name on this rather than leaving it anonymously credited to "Keygen LLC". | null | null | 41,788,461 | 41,788,461 | null | [
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41,788,996 | comment | account42 | 2024-10-09T15:31:56 | null | QString is how you ensure you cannot open/delete some files you WILL eventually encounter. | null | null | 41,775,287 | 41,774,871 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,997 | comment | tkuraku | 2024-10-09T15:32:02 | null | Same | null | null | 41,788,916 | 41,788,557 | null | null | null | null |
41,788,998 | comment | naniwaduni | 2024-10-09T15:32:04 | null | Words mean things, unfortunately. | null | null | 41,788,967 | 41,788,461 | null | [
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41,788,999 | comment | huhtenberg | 2024-10-09T15:32:07 | null | > <i>So why is "source-available" recommended?</i><p>Based on how and when it's usually used it's a derogatory term employed to intentionally denigrate the choice of license. | null | null | 41,788,461 | 41,788,461 | null | [
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