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Here's my gift link for the full article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/arts/dungeons-and-dragons...

I don't think they really blamed node and js? They seemed pretty aware that it was the overall arch of the thing that made it non-viable.

> Each of the seven sections on the image represents a browser tab that Puppeteer needs to keep open in order to fetch screenshots. Remember that the Node.js server was running on a Raspberry Pi, it didn’t have an excess of memory to operate in and Chrome is not known for its svelte-ness.

So then figuring they had to effectively redo it from scratch with a new solution, they then switched over to a language and stack they enjoyed, which seems completely reasonable.

> I picked Node.js for the first server because I was using Puppeteer. I don’t particularly like Javascript, so given the ability to start from scratch I happily pivoted to Rust.

edit: Just beaten and directly from the author it seems. :)

Yeah, small, invite-only "walled garden" style communities are definitely the future of the web.

There has always been those of course, but I think they will just end up becoming the default, rather then the fringes. And the thing with these smaller communities is that they are far less tolerant to their hosting platforms pulling dumb shit (like stating they will train AI's on the comunities content).

I agree with the OP, you have impeccable taste. I fairly recently watched a documentary on Dieter Rams and have been somewhat obsessed since, looking forward to going through your back catalogue of posts.

Whenever I get the urge to go full on homelab like this, I remind myself that my poor wife will have to deal with the whole thing if I pass away. I’ve sort of settled on just having a single small home Linux server that backs up otherwise accessible cloud stuff that my wife can manage. I can still appreciate your setup though…

The points on all the tiles are messed up and there are tiles with random squiggles where there should be letters...

I think the end result for email is going to be the same as with mobile numbers. Just block everything by default unless they are in your contacts.

Enormous amounts of email will be generated but no one will ever see it.

Learn about SpaceOS => Just goes to a page with no information on it...

Is it a ChromiumOS fork or something? Seems to only mention web applications and the only visible screens are a browser window.

I love these radial menus in games, specifically the non-hierarchical type best represented in the article via the “Grand Theft Auto V (2013)” example.

They are extremely common these days and I think for good reason, if you utilize multiple modifier keys for different wheels then you can provide a ton of options with two key combos (modifier + action) or one key + directional and they are removed from the UI when you don't need them.

I vastly prefer them over icons with hotkeys or other solutions.

It's not even a good search engine. I was constantly asking for sources, so I figured I would just add it to the "Customize ChatGPT" to always include the source when possible.

Giving instructions to a model seems to be a monkey's paw simulator. Yeah ok, it always gives me a little section down the bottom with sources now, but they are either unclickable "links" (they are stylized as links but aren't a hyperlink), a fabricated URL (the page doesn't exist and never did according to Internet Archive) or just completely nonsensical and have no relation to the material.

I've experienced all of these today using ChatGPT 4o.

> Most desktop environments will allow windows to supply their own decorations if they wish but will provide a default implementation on the server side as an alternative. GNOME, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that all clients must provide their own decorations, and if a client does not, they will simply be missing

I'm sure there was/is a good reason why this design decision was made, but it certainly seems a bit odd. Imagine if every game had to write decorations for every platform and desktop environment...

What you're describing as a "super-genuis" is just someone that thinks they know it all after reading some introductionary material. They don't know what they don't know so they think they're "done".

> But then, rockets started failing. Only two of the seven launches of the company's "Rocket 3" vehicle were successful.

I would personally rather not have some no frills, go fast and break things startup destroy space tourism before it has even started.

I write fund management software and the worst possible requirement you can ever read is "on business days".

When you consume data and trade in global markets, figuring this out is non-trivial and usually process specific.

I'm more of a manga reader then a western comic one, but why would there be sentiment against this? In what way is the reading order of panels up to interpretation?

> SDC now supports many very advanced features (static ifs, string mixins, CTFE) of D, but not many basic ones. This is a development choice to allow the architecturing of the compiler around the hardest features of the language. As a consequence, SDC has a solid base to build upon.

This is pretty neat.

"Do the hard part first", isn't exactly a new or unique design idea, but it's certainly rare enough to be highlighted.

That's the system we live in. Feels pretty natural that people will optimise for the effort/$ ratio if they have the power to do so. Sitting in my home AC'd office, making a computer do things and getting paid more then basically every "essential service" is probably the sweetest deal outside of being born into a wealthy family.

I personally love to code, I literally do it in my free time to solve my own little problems and/or just to learn, but I don't resent people who are only doing it for the money or because it's easier than most alternatives.

"VCware" is a nice succinct term to use, I hope it catches on in the wider tech/power user scene and the first comment about any launch is whether it's "vcware". Of course it will be a bit awkward here on HN due to somewhat obvious reasons but hopefully elsewhere the term becomes used.

I think one thing that royally pisses me off even more then an initial VC backed launch is a seemingly stable, premium product going from "user-supported" to accepting VC funds (eg: Bitwarden). Just the absolute worst. Now I know I have to deal with this migration away for the whole family at some point in my (probably near) future.

Share what you’ve seen then?

The industry has a long history of people making promises they never deliver on. Every wave of tech has them, “AI” has pulled them all out of their holes once again…

The surrounding text explains that several CAs didn’t like having to spend resources doing revocations and intentionally made the disclosure process more onerous.

Responsible disclosure is a courtesy that should not be extended to bad faith actors.

One is that the previous note said for non-profit use which could be interpreted as part of the license terms I suppose? While now it’s specifically under the GPL you can sell the source and any modifications.

But as you say the assets are still not covered and there are already more modern engines to play doom under other licenses anyway so…

It’s a pretty easy guess at this point since there isn’t much else of value published on that domain.

Isn't putting this onto the consumer a little bit of a cop out?

This enormous global system of powerful corporations and nation states crafted this system because it was in their best interest. Feels sort of tone deaf to say "well, you got what you deserved, you created this sytem by buying this specific computer and cheaper food!"

Night/farmer's markets are quite popular here in NZ but we haven't toppled global inquality by visiting them yet and I doubt continuing to do so is going to make a difference.

I'm sure you're aware, but thought I'd drop this for our American friends. Australia and New Zealand (where I'm from) share Tall poppy syndrome[1] and going by that Wikipedia page, there are various over countries that have a similar concept.

Being overly self-congratulatory comes across as this sort of grotesque and unattractive quality. It is even true in the corporate environments I've worked at where you would normally otherwise expect it. Kiwis don't like it and I've seen many foreigners, especially the few Americans that have come over into management roles completely flounder and have almost everyone hate them because of it.

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

Yeah understood, the tool itself is cool. I think it will be something I keep bookmarked and check out when I’m working with a feature or sql syntax I’m not familiar with to see how it differs (or not) across dbs. Thanks for making it.

Cool idea, I've always wondered what it would look like to build a relatively large DB heavy stack where you use only standard SQL. I like the concept of being able to switch out DBs if you want to run it in different contexts (maybe SQL lite for local dev etc) and all your migrations etc would just work out of the box.

But I mean, that would probably be sort of a nightmare to make happen in practise. You'd need everyone that touches the code base to understand and accept that constraint, you'd probably be leaving a bunch of performance on the table without using DB specific features and it would drastically increase the test surface I suppose.

It's just a thought, I've never come across a situation where this would be worth doing over just sticking to a single provider but I'm interested to know if there are.

Also heads up, I tried to use the codapi C# playground and just get a "code execution timeout" every time. :)

I understand this isn't exactly what you meant, but The Pokemon Mystery Dungeon[1] series is one interpretation of that idea. Basically a Pokemon roguelike.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Mystery_Dungeon

Agreed, I either wait until a show is complete and get a recommendation from a friend to binge the whole thing or just check one of the Disney+ "safe bet" brands.

At least you know somebody has put a marginal amount of thought and effort into how the latest Star Wars or Marvel shows fits into things. It might tell a little story from start to finish or slot into the larger narrative, doesn't really matter, it will usually be "complete" in the sense that it told the story it wanted to tell.

Which I mean, I'm aware it's not breaking any barriers and I would definitely prefer to watch another "Dark" instead but I actually find it exhausting to get invested in a show and have it just be dropped without a satisfying ending.

> could be solved if every guy had a genuine platonic friend who is a girl. No data point other than every guy that I know who has close friend girls, never had problems with masculinity or something. And the opposite is true as well.

Feels more probable that it's the other way around. Those that don't have problems with their (toxic) masculinity can likely maintain platonic relationships with any gender.

I guess the difference is in the severity of the persons mental health issues.

If you're otherwise healthy, but never learned or have been discouraged from doing "the basics" like talk about how you are feeling with your loved ones then you really just need someone to teach you how or perhaps just give you permission to do so. Maybe this is easier if you dress it up in a specific kind of setting, depends on the individual.

If you have some potentially diagnosable serious mental health issue, then of course you should see an actual trained clinical psycologist.

Sometimes you may not know which one you are, perhaps you go to the former and figure you actually needed the latter. Maybe you're happy with what you've done, or maybe not? At the end of the day you just have to try figure it out.

> AWS support is so nice, you can't believe it.

It's actually sort of ridiculous. AWS has the best support I have ever interacted with. I mean, our org certainly pays enough for it but it's so completely unusual in tech, or really any sector to get great support even when you're paying for it.