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I definitely read that as D-Bus hell

Apparently _you’ve_ never heard of wizards!

I have this in my “East Germany” collection along with Good Bye Lenin! and Deutschland 83. Could probably use a few more entries.

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I’d imagine a lot more empirical evidence has been generated one way or the other in the intervening two years

The ringing in my ears has always sounded like the high-voltage flyback inside old CRT tvs/monitors. Maybe I spent too long around them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyback_converter

But a good way to save pedestrians on the sidewalk

IANAD but I’d imagine with all the knee/hip/everything replacements, metal plates in heads, pins in wrists, pacemaker implants etc that it’s a manageable issue.

Ben Horowitz co-founded Andreesen Horowitz so you know, take whatever he says about his partner with a grain of salt

I would point out for centuries, I’m thinking at least through the Industrial Revolution, 10-16 hours was the norm and many families were still raised. And it was horrible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day

From reading upthread it sounds like performance impact is heavily dependent on the skill of the game development team, ie: if they pick the wrong things to hook during the in-game runtime checks performance can suffer greatly

We need less/more/same regulation, whichever one satisfies my desires at any given moment!

For people who like exploring, know the leaning tower of Pisa is absolutely _not_ a once-in-a-lifetime experience. There are over 100 leaning towers around the world!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leaning_towers

> The "anonymity and privacy inherent in the cryptocurrency system are what draw individuals, particularly those with illicit intentions, towards its use,"

1) people vastly overestimate how much “anonymity and privacy” cryptocurrency gives them (spoiler: far less than using paper money)

2) I’ve never liked this line of reasoning because it’s the same argument for why encryption should have government backdoors.

We already tried a temperance movement in America, it was…wildly unpopular and unenforceable to say the least.

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, but from looking at the last two federal election cycles the split doesn’t appear anywhere near 50/50

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_president...

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_Senate_el...

Aspirin has side effects.

Android Debug Bridge, for future readers

For all the panics about shoplifting or stores claiming they’re closing because of retail loss (spoiler: that’s not the truth) it’s a drop in the bucket compared to wage theft

https://www.tcworkerscenter.org/2018/09/wage-theft-vs-other-...

Looks like Millison is with Oregon State University

https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/osu-permaculture-design

“there’s nothing that can’t be solved by another layer of abstraction”

I reread it 3 times and still left a typo in there, guess it’s good I didn’t become an editor :facepalm:

At a Winco there was a box fan full of tools and parts parked at the end of the parking lot with a hundred or so carts in front of it. It was a repairman going through every cart, took several days as he made his way through all the carts at the store. Had never seen that before.

Reminds me of summers spent working for the school district, replacing the glides on the feet of the metal tubed classroom chairs so the broken ones wouldn’t wobble or tear up the linoleum tiles. https://www.allglides.com/metalbase.html

All part of the hidden world of keeping shit working I guess

There’s a general contrarian-for-contrarians-sake streak among us here, and prevailing sentiment outside HN was that the changes were terrible

As a random datapoint I learned recently the Solana blockchain consensus software, written in Rust and notorious for absolutely dismal performance, is being completely rewritten…in C.

I’m curious if they’ve thought that through as it introduces an entire class of bugs Rust inherently protected them from previously.

> Firedancer is written in C, in contrast to the Rust codebase of the original Solana validator

https://firedancer-io.github.io/firedancer/guide/firedancer....

I see Ars Technica taking a lot of flak in the comments but lawdy, they’re still pretty great and one of the news sources I actually pay for (full-text rss feeds are a nice bonus).

Just to pick a few of their writers who still kill it: Lee Hutchinson for anything sysadmin related, Eric Berger does the best space/rocket coverage on the entire internet, Jonathan Gitlin does a ton of in-depth automotive coverage and his passion for it bleeds through in every article, Andrew Cunningham’s insane macOS reviews that he took over from John Siracusa. I could go on but would basically be copy-pasting from their staff directory…

https://arstechnica.com/staff-directory/

If Condé Nast eventually kills the site so be it, but its been 16y since their acquisition and still a daily read for me.

Ah the No True Scotsman argument

> If people’s time was truly valuable then no one should be ______ anyway.

Should probably paste the second paragraph here for everyone who doesn’t wanna read TFA. Most people’s understanding of the Luddites seems about on par with their knowledge of the “idiot McDonalds coffee lady”

> The Luddites, Brian shows, weren’t anti-technology. In fact, they embraced new machines that helped them do their jobs better. They were against machines that destroyed workers’ livelihoods and rendered their skills useless. The Luddites rejected technology when it was used to enrich capitalists at the expense of laborers. Their dispute is best understood not as being over “technology” but about who gets the benefit of new technologies and who decides what kinds of technologies will be implemented

Well it sold at Christie’s, not OpenSea or something

He’s probably happy resting on his laurels and cashing the checks.

In no small part because psychiatric hospitals were wildly, wildly abused. Basically you could lock people up indefinitely with no conviction of anything because someone said they’re a danger to themselves/society/whatever. Basically used like an on-shore Guantanamo.