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That Keynes bloke didn't figure into his calculations that one of the main reasons we will never achieve a 15 hour working week is because of human greed.

Along with large population of people who do not have enough income to live decently, and are therefore subject to "the grind", there are also many many examples where the person is making/has made lots, but still works for more. This is human greed. I think the average greedy person would rather make 2-3 times as much in a week, rather than buying their time back.

It starts at human need for low income, and then ends up as human greed, as income gets higher.

Although it would be nice, I'm not sure there will ever be a world where we all kick back and relax to enjoy the benefits of past generations. Some would call that forward progress. As you say, it seems the other way around and we are making things worse. Perhaps our individualistic quest for an easy life is contributing to that.

I think the common sense approach would dictate that a persons motive would need to have been shown to be nefarious for criminal proceedings to have any chance. Ie. Intent. Without intent, I struggle to see any court move with this, but I'm no lawyer - just an engineer!

Awesome and congrats! - Can I ask - How do you (intend to) deal with tax from sales generated overseas? Would you outsource this, or manage it yourself? I intend to release also, but I'm not quite at the release stage. My mind is full of these non-software related questions...thanks in advance.

Yep, for the moment its Windows only, however, the vast majority of the core code is platform agnostic, so after the initial Windows release, we shall be targeting Mac and Linux.

Performance is great on single thread/single CPU, but performance is even better when doing multi-threaded for most scenarios.

In terms of development, we prefer developing on lesser hardware so that we can be sure that Pixolage will run super smooth for most setups (although long compile waits can be frustrating).

For scalability, nothing beats multi-process. (Due to the way the OS manages communications between GPU driver<->process using the GPU).

Completely agree - Picasa is/was a great application!

We are working on a multi-process GPU accelerated image viewer with the ability to seamlessly browse and organise through hundreds of thousands of photos. Although it is multi process, all applications are embedded in a container application. The processes communicate using 127.0.0.1. All done locally.

It was specifically designed to handles hundreds of thousands of images and is in the final stages of release.

We have a little bit more information and screenshots on the website: https://www.pixolage.com and would be grateful for any community feedback (or beta testers!).

Disclaimer: I work at Pixolage

This seems like a bit of a silly question seeing that nobody can actually know the answer and therefore you will only get opinions.

Whenever I see India running a space program I always think that its money would be better spent raising the level of society there.

Get a better computer? - to run a text editor? That's funny :)

My machine is a 16GB i7-4930K. It's no slouch, unlike the startup time for VS code.

I can't be waiting 2 seconds for my text editor to load, when i have one that loads instantly.

The whole point of notepad.exe and notepad++ is that its super fast.

I'm not familiar with the intricacies here, so maybe someone can help me out, but if it is the case that using the app in certain geo-locations is illegal, then why have Apple allowed its download and use. Surely, Apple has the responsibility here?

Surely after their AI neural net thingamybob has absorbed your face, FB doesn't care about deleting your face, as their model has already benefited from it?

The article says "Apps that exploited PushKit could drain iPhone batteries, Apple said." and "The basis for doing this is battery savings"

I'm not an expert here, but if the problem is battery life (?), then surely the apps that abuse this will be outed by the users who will, by definition, see the battery getting drained faster.

Apple, how about a battery-energy per app usage display so the users can detect apps that call home/abuse battery usage, and then they can remove them? Is this something that already exists? I would suspect not, as then apple's own apps may get outed! The user could set an energy usage threshold and be told/warned that an app is misbehaving.

I've never used Notepad2. How is it better than notepad++?

I've seen this a lot. Where it is broken down so much that it involves mental gymnastics to follow whats going on. It also results in Spaghetti-code with fragmented functionality.

In my experience, projects using Java are the worst offenders here.

notepad++ is far faster to load. A notepad replacement should load instantly. VS code does not.

That does not excuse it in my book.

I take your point about being "exposed" to the product, however it must be the case that ads want you to click them, otherwise clicking them would not do anything. Which is not the case.

A company spamming my eyeballs with visual ads to "raise awareness" does not get my money. I take particular offence to that, as it is my screen. Not a Billboard for example.

My point is proven in the HN website, where it enjoys a large readership, largely influenced by the sites clean, ad-free design.

Slashdot used to be like that until they started displaying ads, and that is what brought me to HN. Thank you HN for not doing this.

Care to elaborate a little?

Presumably ads are so valuable because people click through them and go on to purchase.

I realise I am in a minority, but I have never clicked on a digital ad and went through to buy something, and I never will.

The minute I see ads on a webpage, I automatically associate that site with trash. (Please take note HN :))

It is as if humanity cannot be trusted with technology. This creates a certain "ceiling" for us in terms of development as a species. Such a shame.

My dream is for a computer OS that has all the good new stuff (CPU/GPU acceleration mainly, OS level HW support) and none of the bad new stuff (bloated UI/my every mouse click being transmitted to the cloud, web app infestation).

I don't care how it's built, as long as we have above.

Bring back the Windows XP GUI (with GPU accelerated window theming and a few select other things) and I will be a happy bunny.

Then again, the more complicated something is 1) the easier it is to break 2) the more vulnerable it is, no matter what the designers think. It gets to a point where full testing cannot be done.

Can anyone in the know explain why, if ground clearance due to the new engines is the issue, why Boeing cannot just add a few inches to the wheel stems?

This would raise the whole aircraft off the ground. Surely that wouldn't effect aerodynamics too much as the wheels are up most of the time.

It is.

But don't worry, when it is found out that it is a mess, we have a plan.

We can add a software patch to correct the bad software output. Not fix the bad software. But add some more to correct the output.

Genius!

I don't think that is the case. Given the types of failure we are talking about, this would be documented as part of the design process.

All it takes is someone from the FAA to read it and think about it and act on it. That is the role of the FAA.

Now, if it wasn't on the design, then you may say Boeing is mainly to blame. If it was documented, but not rejected, then the FAA is mainly at fault.

Ultimately though, the FAA has the responsibility.

It's just a theme. Why the drama?

It amazes me how Pilots are required mainly for the purposes of being able to act as a last resort against a computer which has gone haywire, and the public feel better thinking that the pilot can "take control" and then at the same time aircraft manufacturers are removing the ability for the said Pilots to override the computer. That's progress!

That's a great comment!

I thought the extra sensor was an optional upgrade?...

Come on, at least give us a "skip section" button? :)