We'd all be a lot less stressed if there was a clean separation between politics and technology platforms but that isn't the case. Arguments about the house settlement for college athletics and the politics around that are not a good topic of conversation on HN. How a major tech figure's platforms are running and what effects that may have is worth discussing. Just because someone did good things in the passed doesn't mean everything they do is good. It's irresponsible to not continue to judge people based on there current actions and give them a complete pass on any current actions based on passed behavior.
I'm disappointed, based on the headline I thought this was going to be a story about how military research somehow lead to the Warhead candy I enjoyed as a child.
I won't have to switch careers since I'm a software engineer instead of a developer that does nothing but implement specifications with no creativity or design work. I will have to keep up with the changing technology landscape though like I have been for my entire career.
As someone who's blind I've made this argument in the passed. I don't need 100% success as long as the failure mode won't injure me. Seven years ago I would have loved a car that would have driven me to and from work 95% of the time, and refused to take the other 5% if the weather forecast was bad enough that the self driving wouldn't work correctly. I'd also be fine with the car pulling over to the side of the road if it got confused and waiting for someone remote to take control and drive until it was out of the situation where autonomous driving wouldn't work. Given the fact that I now work remote and am married to someone who drives if you told me I could by a car with autonomous driving for $50000 now I don't think I'd do it. I'm interested to see just how good autonomous driving gets and if it drives down the prices of taxi services. At this point I'd rather see an autonomous taxi service offering lower rates then Uber instead of buying my own car with autonomous driving.
Is that because of DEI, or because Costco offers better deals and people are stocking up because of economic uncertainty? I know people who ahve stopped shopping at Target including me, but anecdotes don't prove anything.
I have stopped shopping there as well, but continue to shop at Amazon. Amazon is clear that they are a corporation who only cares about the bottom line. I can respect that vs Target who is pandering.
I got excided looking at this hoping there was a laptop with out a screen. I'm totally blind so the power draw of a screen is pointless. I currently use my ROG Alli with a Bluetooth keyboard to connect to my more powerful laptop which has a keyboard that's going bad. While this setup works well and the battery life is pretty good it would be much nicer if I didn't have to put a keyboard on my lap, and the Alli on a table. At least the Alli doesn't need to be somewhere where I can look at it.
What's your current situation? If you live in a place that's significantly less safe then the US do to poverty and crime then yes. If your happy and safe where you currently are how much does the money matter?
Do you have resources that provide info on companies using Linux on Z and the benefits of this verses commodity hardware? I used to work for a Mainframe ISV but the majority of our software ran on z/OS. I only saw customers using Linux on Z to begrudgingly run software that wouldn't efficiently run on z/OS, mainly Java applications when customers didn't want to deal with the complexity of specialty engines. I realize because our software focused on z/OS I had limited visibility into the full operations at our customers.
While this looks interesting I'd like technology to make graphing more accessible to blind students. I switched from computer science to telecommunications because the graphs got complicated enough in Calc II that I couldn't pass the class. Calc III would have only been worse. Maybe new resources exist but this was over a decade ago.
What are these alternatives, and where are they discussed? I agree he's more of an entertainer but I have not scene a more serious discussion of the possibly valid points he brings up.
While this may be true in the short to medium term how do you square this with the issues of an aging workforce and low fertility in China in the long term? While I don't believe Peter Zeihan's opinion that China will no longer exist as a country in the next 20 years I haven't been able to find any more reasonable takes on how aging societies will or won't adapt and what the consequences' of that will be.
I'm very happy with Squarespace. I'm a Backend developer primarily focused on Java, but since I'm the person who knows tech I was handed a WordPress site for a preschool. The original creator picked a budget hosting company that had no automatic upgrades and didn't force you to migrate off unsupported versions of PHP. The site was running on a several year old WordPress version and an unsupported version of PHP. I told my wife "I need to look at this at some point, were going to get hacked." Her response, "no one is going to hack a preschool site." Two weeks later the site was trying to send you to a malware site and the database was destroyed. While I was able to rebuild the WordPress site on nearlyfreespeech.net and run it for less then $5 a month we moved to Squarespace. It's well worth the $20 a month because my wife can now manage the site with out any help from me. More importantly the fact that she can manage it with out being in the technology field means it's going to be very easy to hand it off to someone else once our children are no longer in the preschool.
Did Nintendo mention anything about accessibility in the presentation? It's shameful if they still don't have a screen reader when both Xbox and PlayStation do.
Have solar panels become that popular in the last ten years, and are people retrofitting old boats? All my prior great lakes sailing experience was on boats that would use the diesel motor to recharge batteries.
I didn't watch the event this morning but am I correct there's still no screen reader on the switch? If this is the case Nintendo's lack of accessibility efforts is shameful.
Then start hiring people at decent pay and provide actual training. This is completely anecdotal but I feel like Mainframe doesn't pay great. I was lucky that i did a lot of work with Java on the mainframe so was able to switch to a non mainframe company and get a significant salary bump. I've also had virtually no interest from recruiters based on my Mainframe experience. I'm not sure if that's because I don't have it front and center on LinkedIn, or if there just isn't a lot of hiring in the Mainframe space? The lack of interest in my Mainframe experience was a thing in 2021 and 2022 as well so I don't think it's related to the current market.
As someone who used to work for a Mainframe software vendor I'm tired of COBOL being considered "legacy" and bad. I didn't do much COBOL programming, but IBM is still releasing new compilers and new versions of z/OS for the Mainframe. Just because a language is old doesn't mean it's useless and worth rewriting. Instead of having COBOL be the boogeyman explain what the issues are. Is the system stuck on old COBOL versions do to lack of funding for upgrades, incompetence when it comes to long term maintenance plans, technical issues that make it impossible to move forward with new COBOL versions and would require a rewrite, etc. Are we going to see stories like this in 20 years about some company thinking they should rewrite the Linux Kernel in some new language and throw away all the C code that's been running for decades?
What would be the best way to provide feedback? I'm not sure when I will get a chance to look at Continue, but suspect it may be after comments are closed on this thread.
What is the accessibility status of the Continue platform? I am a totally blind developer and have found Cursor to be an absolute mess when it comes to accessibility. There are enough tools available that I'd like to know about there accessibility ahead of time if possible instead of spending a bunch of time trying all of them out only to find they are not accessible.
As someone who is blind I don't understand the target market for this? You can get a basic Braille embosser for $1500. Assuming your using braille paper for both ways of producing braille the embosser will break even after 1000 pages. When I was in school the school district had a basic embosser that was used to print out worksheets and reading material that was not textbooks. I'd routinely go through over 20 pages a day some days, this system can only print out four unique pages a day with a single 3d printer. I could see this being useful for incredibly niche runs of text, for example someone who already has a 3d printer being able to create a braille birthday card for a blind friend or family member. I'd like to see the ability to pay for pre-assembled versions of https://github.com/braillerap/BrailleRap
I am a parent but don't currently have a need for this. Looking at your site I would currently not subscribe if I did have a need. It's unclear how much processing will be done on device and how much will be done in the cloud. It's also unclear what data retention policies you have. I don't want to read the privacy policy to figure this out. I'd expect an explanation on the overview of what data will be stored, how long, and how it will be managed since this will involve recordings of my child. I also think a third party audit of your code and privacy practices would be helpful, but I understand this isn't something you may want to do initially while the app is changing significantly in early development.
DO you have commercially available examples of this setup? While I agree there's no technical reason this wouldn't work when doing research for our generator all the hole house generators use a transfer switch so it's either running the entire house completely disconnected from the grid or turned off and running the house from the grid. Solar didn't make sense for us given the costs and our time horizon, but it's always been something I've been interested in. A solar system with a natural gas generator backup to charge the batteries would be nice, especially for shorter outages so we wouldn't need to hear the generator running.
From my limited experience with AI coding I wouldn't hire a "bive coder". I'd be less concerned about specific language experience though as long as the team already had a strong foundation in the language they were using and the new hire had experience with similar languages and domains. I have a strong background in Java, decent background in Go, and virtually no background in Python. I've been using AI to help me write Python and I feel my prior programming experience has allowed me to have a pretty good understanding of what the generated code does and where it's incorrect even with out being an expert in Python. If I were hiring and we made use of AI tools during development I'd have no concerns about hiring a DotNet developer for a Java position if there fundamentals were solid. I wouldn't want to hire a Java developer for imbedded systems work in C since even if the languages have syntactic similarities the domains are incredibly different.
In my case the answer to why not both was unattended reliability and piece of mind. If it's raining and we lose power we have about four hours before we start to get flooding do to a sump pump not running. Our backup generator will run a self test every week and automatically power the house with a ten second delay when the power goes out. While I suspect solar and a battery backup would keep the sump pump running for a long time it's nice to not need to choose what to run and monitor our power usage during an outage. It's also nice to not worry about power while were on vacation. With solar and a battery backup I'd be concerned about checking it while away from the house. I realize I"m somewhat of a unique situation though in just how quickly we get flooding when power goes out.
I use https://github.com/amsehili/genRSS to create the rss feeds. I host them by running a Docker container that serves the folder on my nas that contains the media and generated xml files.
I already massively reduced my time in the Youtube App by writing some scripts using yt-dlp to download my subscriptions, convert them to mp3 and host the podcast feeds inside my local network. I guess when this eventually breaks I'll probably have to go outside during my free time. It's still working for now so lets hope it continues until spring.
Why are you asking on HN? Have you already discussed this with a Doctor? If so what advice have they given you and why do you need to get extra advice from people who are not medical professionals? If you haven't talked to a Doctor why not?