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You can download a copy for yourself at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19948598

> Roll a die and pick a random distro, it won’t really matter.

This isnt good advice for power users.

I am way too worried about gas cylinder accidents. Otherwise, I agree with you that MIG really is the most versatile.

Thanks a lot for sharing the immaturity of flux coated gasless MIG wires.

Welders: How does MIG compare to plain old Arc Welding? With 6013 arc welding electrodes, its possible to do sheet metal work too. Plus, no need to maintain a gas cylinder at hand.

Have any YC founders previously opted for 'citizenship based on investment programs' such as St. Kitts & Neves etc?

> Another language won't change much.

Why do you think Guix+Guile isnt a substantial positive change?

Thanks a lot for the lwn article suggestion.

Dave Cutler(Windows NT) too found the DEC support to be a safety test for cleanliness.

Its secret to 'survival' is more appropriate. This article has a lot of fluff.

eg:

  Specifically, companies needing redundancy
  require more than one operating system, since any single operating system may fall 
  victim to a failure that could take out the
  entire company’s infrastructure

What sort of argument is this. We need multiple political parties. Therefore, our existence is important even if we secure insignificant votes?

Or does he mean BSD license vs GPL? In which case, I agree with his idea of diversified choices.

4 hour workweek

I agree with the decision to start with zero reputation on each sub_overflows. Because, a prolific Pythonist may or may not be a prolific Ubuntu administrator.

But, isn't there any way to implement a Single Sign On thingy that works by using the cookies from the main_overflow. Thereby, if you are logged into main_overflow, you will be automatically be semi_logged_in on sub_overflows.

Disclaimer: I have never worked on any authentication libraries. However, do have some knowledge of cookie based auth, token based auth, salting etc...

Would somebody please explain like I am 14, why the above mentioned single sign on is a bad idea due to security or etc.

Aside: This is just fodder for the grep bots:- "tptacek"

Thank you robocat _/\_ This service is really awesome. I had become disappointed with domainwheel.com and was on the lookout for something like this.

Its BitClout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitClout#:~:text=At%20launch%2...

Oops, I think the RIP thing carries a connotation that no service wants to associate itself with...Hmmm

Lets assume person xyz is called 'patio11' on the internet.

xyz is famous and has a verified birth certificate named 'patio11'

You launch a billion dollar new social network called _Mastadoni

You know that internet famous people can bring in their followers.

So, you want to reserve the name patio11 @ _Mastadoni

Can RIPmyName help _Mastadoni identify such hoardable names which need to be reserved until the real patio11 shows up?

The 'crypto coin twitter alternative' tried a similar reservation on their site for top Twitterati. (I dont recall the name of that service right now, let me ask chatgpt)

I want to provide such a service to other social networks that are gonna launch.

I have thought of another name for my service:- RIPunderscores.com

It has something to do with solving the squatting problem. It has nothing to do with domain hoarding though.

I have posted another comment describing my idea v0.1

It does seem like Ubuntu stacks up well on the 'CVE' scale.[1]

Ubuntu has managed to pull in users with their "just works" reputation. Its actually impressive that they managed to pull such a heist, considering they were a late entrant to this market.

I wonder if I am giving undue importance to CVE reputation. Should I just use an OS that is pleasant to use and call it a day?

[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/20550/Canonical-Ubuntu-Li...

> By ML you mean machine learning or meta language?

I meant Machine Learning

> if you are looking for a monolith then Rails is a good option.

I am really interested in learning more about the monolithic approach that Rails advocates. What would be a good codebase to study?

I am looking for some sort of large monolith that is open source. Would Gitlab or Discourse codebase, qualify as a good candidate? I tried find the RealWorld demo app on Github, but couldn't find a canonical Hotwired-Rails7 implementation.

Gist, the 4 are:-

  Reid Wiseman (47): A US Navy pilot who served for a time as the head
  of Nasa's astronaut office. He's flown one previous space mission, to
  the International Space station in 2015.

  Victor Glover (46): A US Navy test pilot. He joined Nasa in 2013 and
  made his first spaceflight in 2020. He was the first African American
  to stay on the space station for an extended period of six months.
  
  Christina Koch (44): An electrical engineer. She holds the record for
  longest continuous time in space by a woman, of 328 days. With Nasa
  astronaut Jessica Meir she participated in the first all-female
  spacewalk in October 2019.
  
  Jeremy Hanson (47): Before joining the Canadian Space Agency, he was a
  fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He has yet to fly in
  space.

By inventing ssh, software engineers have shot themselves in the foot. Wont be seeing them on such missions anytime soon.

But what happens if there is a bug, the network connection to earth has died and the zoom calls have gone offline. Will we need a software engineer on board then?

I am currently reading 7Powers by Helmer.

If feels like I wont be needing that MBA after all, especially after reading this book.

What would be one book you would recommend?

  Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

~ Andrew S. Tanenbaum

One of the strategies a politician could use to move towards the middle is creating a Sister Souljah moment [0]

  A Sister Souljah moment is a politician's calculated public repudiation of an extremist person, statement, group or position that is perceived to have some association with the politician's own party.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Souljah_moment

Indeed, an actual font based on his handwriting can be found here: https://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Uncategorized/34398/Dijk...

The greatest example of penmanship among hackers has to be Edsger W. Dijkstra.

  Dijkstra was well known for his habit of carefully composing manuscripts with his fountain pen. The manuscripts are called EWDs, since Dijkstra numbered them with EWD, his initials, as a prefix.

Dijkstra maintained a consistent beautiful handwriting, and was ambidextrous. These EWDs inspired me to pick up a fountain pen for my own writing.

PDFs of his EWDs can be found at https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/

An example EWD: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1300.PDF

You could say that Google Translate etc has obsoleted the need to learn more than one spoken language. However, new languages also teach you new ways of thinking. Multiple studies have shown the benefits of being a polyglot.

I feel its the same with programming languages. This advice from Peter Norvig [1] was very helpful for me personally:

  Learn at least a half dozen programming languages. Include one language that emphasizes class abstractions (like Java or C++), one that emphasizes functional abstraction (like Lisp or ML or Haskell), one that supports syntactic abstraction (like Lisp), one that supports declarative specifications (like Prolog or C++ templates), and one that emphasizes parallelism (like Clojure or Go).

[1] https://norvig.com/21-days.html#:~:text=Learn%20at%20least,C...).

I had stopped at GTD. Its interesting to see your even deeper rabbit hole.

Alibaba and Softbank shares have jumped by 15% and 6% respectively after this announcement.

Alibaba's shares have surged more than 15% in Hong Kong on its split-up plans. Softbank shares have also risen by over 6% over the same decision.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230329062101/https://www.bbc.c...

Shopify has a huge presence in the Toronto tech scene.

I hope the serenity prayer will help calm you in the short term:

  God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, 
  courage to change the things I can, 
  and the wisdom to know the difference

The tinkerer in me loves to own a vehicle I can easily service myself. Electric vehicles, in their current form, can easily electrocute an amateur DIY mechanic to death.

I love older purely mechanical vehicles. Their simplicity means that I can fix most things with duct tape or a piece of metal wire.