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I have a similar opinion but I think Java's model with maven and friends hits the sweet spot:

- Packages are always namespaced, so typosquating is harder - Registries like Sonatype require you to validate your domain - Versions are usually locked by default

My professional life has been tied to JVM languages, though, so I might be a bit biased.

I get that there are some issues with the model, especially when it comes to eviction, but it has been "good enough" for me.

Curious on what other people think about it.

Same.

I was surprised that both Fira Code and Fira Mono were options, that was a bit cheeky.

I work from home and value it but it never would occur to me to strike for that.

I believe that the value from WFH varies a lot from person to person.

If you were working from the office before and the company changed to a WFH policy, you might see it as a nice to have. You already made some life choices to accommodate going to the office. Maybe you even go to the office anyway.

But, if you were hired when the company already had WFH, you probably made some life choices based on that (buying a house far away from the city, having kids, not buying a car,...). In that case, mandatory RTO is a complete disaster (especially with the housing crisis) and you pretty much have no option other than resigning.

I assume NYT was doing WFH since ~2020, so a lot of employees probably took decisions based on WFH, therefore the strikes.

Unrelated to the word "daemon", but related to the article, I was a bit surprised by this assertion:

Eventually, though, the theory of quantum mechanics showed why it wouldn't work.

I was familiar with the information theory arguments (the same presented in Wikipedia[1]). Is that why they mean here by "quantum mechanics" or is there another counterargument to Maxwell's daemon?

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon#Criticism_an...

I recall Disk Knight (https://www.lucadamico.dev/papers/malware_analysis/DiskKnigh...) working on Windows XP

I don't remember the whole details, but I believe it installed an autorun.inf file on all USB drives so that inserting the drive on another PC would install it automatically.

This. I assume it's a similar argument as the one presented in https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

Edit: I just noticed that this article is also writen in the archival reason. I'll leave it here anyway for those that miss it.

Seems like they didn't pursue it in future consoles

I don't think this is entirely true.

Sure, there was nothing like the Net Yaroze, but the PS2 came with Yabasic[1] on the demo disk and had a Linux distro[2], and the PS3 also had a Unix support[3].

While some of this might have been for tax benefits, I still think it fits in the spirit of Net Yaroze.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabasic#PlayStation_2

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS

Why the heck not use AI when it's better?

I think that, in its current iteration, it is not that easy to know.

I haven't tried GPT 4 (which I've heard is much better), but my experiences with 3.5 have been extremely frustrating and underwhelming. I absolutely hate when it starts making stuff up and I have to fix it via the traditional way, it just wasted my time!

I guess this boils down to personal preference, but so far I just prefer a good old Google search.

I was quite happy with copilot auto complete, though. Mostly because of how low friction it was.

One of the issues I have with "languages that don't suck anymore" is that, even after the language gets all the cool new features, you'll still end up having to use some libraries targeting old versions.

So you end up having to choose between stable libraries in the old style or experimental modern libraries.

While some features can be retrofitted to work with old code (e.g. Java 8's SAMs were smart a way for old libraries to support the new lambdas), in a lot of situations you'll have to wait years for the stable libraries to support the new features.

Having said that, it's nice to see PHP catching up. I haven't used it in a long time, but I like to check the changelog once in a while.

I think you just need the Wohnungsgeberbestätigung from the landlord and fill the registration paperwork at the Bürgeramt (which, depending on your city, might be a bit hard to get an appointment), you might also need to take care of the TV bill stuff.

While not awful, comparing to Portugal, where I just need to register in a website an then wait to get a confirmation code by mail, it feels like going back to the stone age.

I tried using it for coding but it made up APIs constantly or had subtle errors.

This has been my experience so far as well. I also find it very tiring to have to review all the iterations of the code.

I do find GitHub Copilot quite valuable at work, especially when it recommends one liners (they are easy to review, so I just feel like I'm writing faster).

To be fair to ChatGPT, on one of my recent experiment it actually said something along the lines of "you need to integrate with the library/API yourself", and it only started spewing garbage after I insisted to write the code. I see a lot of people online complaining that GPT is getting lazy, but I would rather have it lazy than wrong.

It's interesting to see PornHub in there, but not the other Aylo (former MindGeek) properties (YouPorn, RedTube...).

I wonder if they could in theory bypass the DSA by just breaking PH into smaller services and hope for a split user base.

That's not a good idea though.

I wonder why you say that. At least an ad for a specific ad blocker sounds like a great idea.

- Ideally, you don't send ads to users of your product - Users of inferior products will see your ad, and it might be super effective (if you used MY adblocker, you wouldn't be seeing this ad) - Everything else is a user that doesn't have an ad blocker, and it's probably an easy sell to say "would you like to never see ads like this?"

This is the part that I don't get either. I can imagine hearing "this coffee shop got better since the new owners", but I know I have heard "this place used to be good until it changed owners". And since the new owners have paid X years of profit which they arguably want to recover in less than X years, it is more than likely that they'll start cutting costs as a result.

To be fair, I know at least one case of "this coffee shop got better since the new owners", but to be fair, it's because coffee shops are not really comparable to startups - namely because a very unsuccessful café can still hold huge real estate value.

Namely, in this case I'm talking about a café near a city center and a huge office building, but it was very dark, had old moldy sandwiches exposed and mixed low quality coffee with the brand coffee.

As you can imagine, after it was acquired by the new owners they just had to redecorate and sell normal products, and it quickly got packed every day.

Not sure if there's any possible equivalent for tech companies, though.

I was ondering about it as well, and it appears to be explained in detail here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c00B3uE5FV8

I think it's a similar technique to Sonic 3D's Intro FMV on the Genesis/Megadrive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTawyLNoRhU).

The original image is squashed vertically, so that you only compute half the pixels and then you stretch it back up. When you do this, you can't have the usual dither patters, so you end with something like this (unless you cheat shift every other line, like in Sonic 3D, but then you have dither patterns everywhere).

As a very casual Instagram user, I had a similar experience to the parent comment (not so much now).

From what I can tell, this is the way Instagram recommendations treat cold start users. It was only when I started liking stuff that they went away.

From what I can tell, this is the first version without a composite video output, correct?

It's a bit of a shame. What are the alternatives for someone who needs a computer connected to an old CRT TV? Are there other boards with composite video or does one need to get a HDMI->composite converter?

I'm not sure I would have been so generous to the author of the article this is in reply to. But I suppose that's a skill of a successful open source leader -- to turn interactions with critics into productive discussions rather than arguments, and perhaps even turn the critics into supporters.

FWIW, reduz (Godot author) and sprudd ("Godot is not the new Unity" author) previously discussed this on Reddit[1], and sprudd was actually sounded pretty nice (the first reply even includes a "and I hope that I wasn't too rude in the article. :)").

Overall, I think the original article was written in good faith, just with a click-baity title (and I imagine reduz thought the same thing). That might have helped to avoid a more angry reply.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/16lti15/godot_is_not...

I think it's only popular in the scala ecosystem, but I find HOCON to be a pretty nice superset.

FWIW, you can now install PWA apps with Firefox. The implementation is not as polished as chrome, though.

Also managing to have everyone on the same patch for $GAME could waste hours.

This one hits close to home.

IIRC, in some games it was not even that obvious that someone had a different version (e.g. maybe they just wouldn't be able to see the server in the list), which made everything take even more time.

That just reminded me that circa 2010 I created a Google Sheet with a list of all the games we used to play, which patches to download and from where. By that time it was getting quite hard to find some patches to older games.

The only time i explicitly use iMessage is when I want to send a photo as unaltered as possible - wapp recompresses them for size.

Are you sure about this? I usually send images/videos via WhatsApp because, AFAICT, they are sent unchanged (unlike Facebook messenger, for example), and know multiple people who do the same thing.

I never checked the file hashes, though.

JavaScript (and typescript) prefers them. Is it because of a convention or it really has advantages?

There are some slight differences: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I believe the reason arrow functions are prefered in his is because of the way `this` is handled: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I had completely forgot about sending MMS via mail! (Not Verizon, but my provider had a similar thing)

If I recall, some times the message would be delayed by quite a while, so it was not a reliable replacement for SMS, but still fun (and would allow me to send data from my PC to my phone).

Thanks for the memories

This. I was recently backing up some stuff from an old Mac OS 8 machine and it was amazing how snappy a lot of things feel. But if something is not on RAM you can clearly notice it.

Very uninformed guess: couldn't you just have a factory with information of a different factory, with information of a different factory, with...?

While the original factory is not self-replicating, if you reached a fix point you would get a self-replicating factory

While not open source, I recently learned that you can still download windows versions of escape velocity in: https://escape-velocity.games/

That was one hell of a trip down the memory lane.

I'll always be surprised on how badly teamspeak dropped the ball (although it seems that they finally have an open beta for teamspeak 5!).

Discord would probably win at the end anyway, especially because of the need for self-hosting (even though I don't think it was that bad... there were quite a few open servers),

But they had such a dominant position and, while Discord kept evolving, TeamSpeak just stayed the same... With the network effect that they had, I think with just some small improvements (mostly on the text chat support) they could stay relevant for a long time.

You can even tell that from the quality of Quake's levels which start with beautifully crafted and intricate levels, and as you approach the end, progress into "whatever, let's just ship it, this is gonna sell" kind of levels that were mostly just filler to pad the play time.

This rings really true to me. I only had played the shareware version of quake and only recently played the full game, and the second half really felt like padding.

Some gimmicks in particular were really overused later on (I specifically recall that at a certain point I could just tell "There's going to be an ogre hidden in this corner").

I'm not sure if there was also some other reasons - maybe they decided to use some of the best designs for the shareware, maybe ran out of space for more enemies or maybe there's just way more nostalgia for the first levels - but I'm happy to see that some people share a similar opinion.

Hijacking this comment in case you (or someone from HN) knows.

Is there any particular reason that AIFF uses an 80-bit extended float precision for the sample rate, instead of a 32-bit integer like WAVE?

I assume this was an oversight at the time, but I'm curious if there are actual applications where sub-Hz (or 2^32Hz) precision is needed.