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Kind of like in real life. Software development leads you to nowhere.

That's enough Hacker News for today. You people are already acting Hacker News.

> March 1, 2023

What? Did a timetraveller write this?

Kind of like real life as well. I always lower my weapon or item whenever I approach a terminal or a touchscreen in an elevator.

What's Substack? Is that new Medium?

It was upvoted a lot.

It's kind of like the concept of a child prodigy: not every single one grows into something significant but performing well early gets you into spotlights.

Hey, at least it isn't a political board or something. That would be much worse.

Well, my home is powered with a miracle then.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/BN-800-running-o...

> BN-800 running on 60% MOX

> The reactor core itself was refuelled and is now using 60% mixed uranium-plutonium oxide fuel, supplied by TVEL and manufactured at its Zheleznogorsk site. The plutonium for this was produced from uranium during the operation of other nuclear power plants and recovered from the used fuel assemblies through reprocessing.

Truly Tumblr was created for disgusting smut.

4chan's technology board. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

The name is a bit unfortunate for a few Slavic languages. Not as bad as Pidora, but still.

What's stopping you from claiming you spent 700 hours on Leetcode?

(Not everything people say online is true.)

You can achieve that and even more if you do the right thing and stay with the x86-64.

>The top bar moved to the bottom.

There's an option to restore its rightful position at the top.

Are you trying to say Nvidia created a great framework for GPU compute so everyone is using it?

It's physically impossible to measure exactly 500.(0) mL [500.0000000000… mL with infinite number of zeroes] of any liquid with absolute accuracy. It's just the law of metrology. There always will be an error, you will always be able to create better tools to add extra decimal places to your measurement and find more error. The question is how much of error you can tolerate in any given situation.

The error has nothing to do with units of measurements chosen. You cannot measure exactly 1.(0) gallon [1.0000000000… gallon with infinite number of zeroes] of liquid with absolute accuracy either.

In engineering this would be resolved with something like 500 ± 10 mL.

In consumer goods there are either regulations or you get, say, 505 mL so you have nothing to complain about. And you would never be able to tell the difference.

By the way, ML is megaliter. Milliliter is mL.

What's a tree geek?

Reductio ad absurdum.

Wait, what?

I was not mocking it — I genuinely tried to google the term. Grenade launchers was all I could find.

I guess it's AGPL then.

What's APGL? Anti Personnel Grenade Launchers?

1969 and 1970. That was the time Bell Labs withdrew from MULTICS project and a couple of developers who found themselves without a job starter working internally on a little word processor suite called UNIX.

The premise is entirely unrealistic since the difference in orbit parameters. We aren't talking about some slight misconceptions; reality completely walks out of the window in Gravity:

* Most satellites and all crewed spaceships orbit Earth from west to east. Why would they hit each other?

* There is no way to travel between the Hubble and space stations like the way it happened in the movie. Especially not with that EMU with 25 m/s delta-v. That's like taking a cup of kerosene, pouring it into a Boeing 747, and traveling 9000 km. Hubble and the ISS have completely different orbits with different inclination.

* Overall, writers of Gravity have no understanding of orbital mechanics whatsoever.

* ISS orbit height is something like 400 km, for Hubble it's about 550 km. Most communication satellites are orbiting the Earth thousands of kilometers above the sea level. A circular geosynchronous orbit is 35 786 km above Earth's equator.

As for the ISS, the majority of debris created by recent India's incident are 300 km above the sea level. ISS is about 100 km higher.

According to this https://www.spaceacademy.net.au/watch/debris/orblife.htm objects with 300 km altitude will enter atmosphere in a month.

Personal names around the world https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

I wish it was that attractive to just switch from “expensive and evil proprietary software” as the author suggests.

1. The article claims that Microsoft Office 365 is $100 a year. In reality it's about $70, home license for up to 5 users is $80.

2. The article does not mention that every Office 365 user gets bunch of additional services. For example, a tebibyte of space in Microsoft OneDrive for each user, 60 Skype minutes per month, etc.

3. Each Office 365 user can install Office apps on 3 devices: his phone, tablet, and computer. Office apps are available on Android and iOS as part of the package. $70—$80 a year price tag includes not only Windows apps, they work perfectly fine on smartphones. Personally I make grocery lists in Excel, open them on my phone, fill my shopping cart with items, and track how much I'm going to pay or if I'm eligible for coupons.

4. I'm not aware of any decent OneNote alternatives. I researched it some time ago because I desired to self-host my notes. There are pretty much no comparable open source or free cross-platform apps which can work with notes in cloud or on a remote server from your mobile device. With OneNote all of my notes are available on my mobile devices. I strongly believe that OneNote is one of the best apps Microsoft came up with in recent years.

If you look around, you can see that 1 TiB of cloud storage alone costs $100 (Google Drive) or $120 (Dropbox). Office 365 offers not only that but also quite possibly the best office suite on the market for $70 for 1 or $80 for 5 people.

Note that so far I have not touched the question of quality of software at all — only the most basic functionality and packages. Microsoft Office is the most popular office software package for a reason. My exposure to open-source office packages is limited but here is at least one dealbreaking example. I tried recreating my spreadsheet for tracking caloric intake in LibreOffice Calc. It was extremely painful — among many other features Calc does not even support tables like Excel does.

I use another software package mentioned in the article — Kaspersky. I'm going to assume the author is talking about the package I'm using — Kaspersky Internet Security — since the price is stated to be $40.

Like with Office 365, KIS is not only an antivirus. It's also a firewall, parental control tool with a list of inappropriate websites, an adblocker, etc. It provides quite a lot of functionality, some of which, frankly speaking, should be in Windows itself. For example, KIS can autoupdate software.

Like with Office 365, article does not mention that $40 buys you a license for up to 3 devices. KIS is also available for Android and macOS.

But overall, an antivirus is not necessary in modern Windows system, so you may skip on these $40.

What are your system specs?

Thanks, I actually use Keepassdroid. However, can it open databases from KeePassXC? (Well, I guess I can check a bit later myself.)

I see it supports Linux, Windows, and macOS, but are there any Android and iOS apps to open and modifty KeePassXC databases?

The developer mentions he/she lives in Ukraine.