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PostgreSQL documentation has some handy tips on how to write better error messages:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/error-style-guide.html

I wonder if it would be possible to incorporate such rules into my code editor's linter.

I posted about it 3 weeks earlier here:- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35093327

> The source[0] has a more clear description about what is being currently exploited: In the end, the Internet vendor used the above-mentioned series of concealed hacking techniques to achieve:

    Concealed installation, increase installed capacity
    Counterfeit boost  DAU/MAU
    Users cannot uninstall
    Attacking Competitor Apps
    Steal user privacy data
    Evasion of privacy compliance regulations
    and other suspected illegal purposes.

[0] https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/P_EYQxOEupqdU0BJMRqWsw

The web client has some minor limitations. The ones regarding screen sharing forced me to install the native client.

A feature comparison table can be found over here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360027397692-Zoom-...

If you would like to generate a regular expression by giving an example input text and an example output match, you could use this closed form solution tool:- https://regex-generator.olafneumann.org/

There is an excellent HN comment that provides more reading material around regex generation:- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32037544

Somewhat related: Over the counter medicine is significantly cheaper to buy from Thailand, Indonesia and India [1].

Medicines in the US cost 50 times their cost in Thailand.

[1] https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/imgsize-23456,msid-72197131,...

Most dialects of Common Lisp have this feature.

I wonder what other Scheme dialects have this feature?

I found some more interesting discussion about Edwin & MIT-Scheme over here:-

https://www.reddit.com/r/scheme/comments/x9puwq/the_sad_stat...

Would GraphQL be a good starting point for such a language?

From wikipedia:

  Jacob *Z*iv (Hebrew: 27 November 1931 – 25 March 2023) 
  was an Israeli electrical engineer who, along with Abraham 
  *L*empel, developed the *LZ* family of lossless data compression 
  algorithms.

If you trust EFF, you can use their hosted version at https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

EFF has an excellent tool to check your browser's fingerprint uniqueness:-

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

I use a lot of browser extensions. Unfortunately, this makes my browser easily identifiable.

Overcast seems to be an iOS-only app.

For those on Android, and feeling like they are missing out, PocketCasts is a great alternative.

Speedy iteration often leads to better quality

They are public though

I was finding it difficult to stick to cycling.

Hearing my plight, an avid cyclist friend of mine suggested me to try a trick:-

  Get a 3 way folding cycle such as the Brompton. Now, play around with hybrid modes of transport.

My programmer's brain loves building abstractions neatly on top of each other. Folding my cycle and carrying it onto another form of transport brings a smile to my face every time.

The biggest tower of babel I have achieved so far is this:-

A barge carried my car accross a river. I was sitting in the car with my Brompton next to me.

I just read the JEdit.org homepage.

I am really intriuged by this comment over there and also your recommendation:

  jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it.

Would you please point me to a good resource to learn more about JEdit for someone with Emacs/Vim background.

  Garbage In, Garbage Out.

The motivations of the average freshman picking CS major has changed over time.

Countries with the largest millionaire emigration:

  1. Russia -15000
  2. China -10000
  3. India -8000

Countries with the largest millionaire immigration:

  1. UAE +4000
  2. Australia +3500
  3. Singapore +2800

source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/...

Putting this into context:-

Twitter currently has ~400M users, 50% of them DAUs [1]

[1] https://backlinko.com/twitter-users

  I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. ~ Nelson Mandela

I would love to know more about what you mean by 'archlinux shit the bed'. If you dont remember the exact error code, any text from the error screen, or even vague description is fine.

I believe that spending 15mins on the arch forums or IRC would probably result in somebody helping you out with the right pacman incantation. YMMV, my personal experience.

On a tangent, I would love to hear more about any Debian stable users out there and their experience with the conservative approach to updating. I am particularly fond of this Debian wiki article on DontBreakDebian: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

TIL planned obsolescence is illegal in France

Max Planck was told by his professor to not go into Physics because "almost everything is already discovered".

Planck said he didn't want to discover anything, just learn the fundamentals. He went on to originate quantum theory and win a Nobel Prize.

Is something similar happening in the software engineering community currently with the advent of ML/AI generative models.

Related thread where John Carmack advises us to learn full product skills:

Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35216894

> Time Span for Ink Cartridges (Winner: Ballpoint Pen)

I believe if you use an eyedropper fountain pen, one 20ml ink bottle will last you more than the 3kms that the Ballpoint Pen Refill promises.

After all, most cartridge fountain pens can be easily converted into eyedropper mode.

I am a microfluidics engineer, and just love holding a marvel of fluid mechanics engineering in my hand as I think/write.

  Educators, generals, dieticians, 
  psychologists, and parents program. Armies, 
  students, and some societies are programmed.

by Alan J Perlis, the first Turing Award recipient.

    Educators, generals, dieticians, 
    psychologists, and parents program. Armies, 
    students, and some societies are programmed.

by Alan J Perlis, the first Turing Award recipient.

Managers, CEOs, Department Heads...are already 'programming'. As the abstraction moves higher up, some people that have excessively narrow expertise will be made redundant.

Would you please show me a tool with a better UI/UX that can do all the things that emacs can do?

Orgmode Magit Dired EXWM . . . this rabbit hole is an endless pursuit of higher and higher efficiency.

BTW, the UI/UX is quite customizable with basic elisp fu, using say Helm, Ivy etc.

  Since Steve Purcell loves new technologies and update his setup
  frequently, it may be a little harder to follow him for beginners.
  
  That’s actually great. I’m lucky to stick to his setup because pulling
  from his git branch gets me updated with the latest cool things in
  community.
  
  When I say “on the shoulders of giants”, I’m stressing that you need
  set your standard higher. I’m NOT saying the master’s setup is “newbie
  friendly”. If it happens to be “friendly”, it’s just the coincidence.

I just perused through the tutorial. This is some horrible advice, IMHO.

Also, cargo culting everybody to use the Evil mode for Vim bindings in Emacs is also probably bad advice, unless you are teaching emacs to a vim user.

As a beginner, you are better off starting your emacs config from scratch.

Some of the opinions of the author have been stated as facts:-

  ...every master uses the package smex to remember keybindings

In my opinion, as of 2023, the best way to learn emacs the right way is through the textbook 'Mastering Emacs' by Mickey Petersen. Trust me, that book is well worth the price tag.

Mickey walks you chapter by chapter, while you build your own emacs configuration as you learn new things.

Once you have worked through that textbook, you will find it a piece of cake to study other people's configurations on github and learn more.

If you are looking for motivation to learn emacs, watch the short 2 minute demo videos on the Youtube Channel @EmacsRocks

Idea 1 seems doable in the current wave of AI and LLMs. So, Sam Altman is doing this itself?

No, you need not. Especially if you own a time machine. Its a matter of perspective, though.

Analogy:-

Because of a tool such as Grammarly, I no longer recommend my kids to bother when they lose marks due to minor grammatical mistakes on a handwritten test.

They better put that 80-20 to practice and learn to recognize aggressively reducing their efforts/tasks/work to 20 wherever possible.

Their English teacher disagrees with me.

Maybe, we do have a horse in this race.

This comment was edited in Grammarly, and it score a 67 out of 100 on readability.

Thank you!

Bye, going to Craigslist to buy them broken landfill phones before your suggestion becomes more popular and the price increases :)

Thank you. Let us assume that you were the owner of a hypothetical business named scrcpy.com

You would love for browsers to implement CSS colored urls or capital lettering to resolve both the issues you raised.