NikolaNovak

Absolutely, As I said, it comes down to personal usage, needs, preferences. I personally never lost a cable (I did need to replace the earpads, but that happened on both Bluetooth and wired:). I do tend to use connected wireless earbuds when I go jogging etc.

Not the op but for me - Different headphones for different purposes.

For convenience and casual on the go listening, or to not annoy anybody, I'll use earbuds or light headphones.

If I really want to enjoy music I'll take the big ol' cans (circimaural open-back), lie back, and enjoy the music fully. Etc.

(And I'm extremely not an audiophile! But big roomy headphones are super comfy and sound super nice to me :).

If I'm on zoom calls all day I want something lightweight but with a boom microphone (massive Grrrr! To everybody joining meetings with airpods).

etc. I'm an extreme example but I have a few different boom-mic headsets in my home office for work, gaming headphones, running around headphones, and listening to music headphones. All of that at a teeny fraction of price people used to spend on basic entry level home hifi setup.

- they last forever. I still have sennheiser hd380 pro cans from 25 years ago that sound great.

- cannot overstate lack of lag and simplicity. You plug in and it works, perfectly, every time, forever.

- easily switch devices. I use my headphone on my phone, tablet, laptop, Synthesizer, Groovebox etc without a blink. And my phone never stops playing music and connects to our car my wife just started the way bluetooth ones do :-)

- to me, it's like email. Icq, aim, msn messenger come and go, yet email is old and boring but survives.

There's absolutely a time and place for wireless headphones and I probably use them more at this point. But killing 3.5mm from phones has been a Massive annoyance.

What are you talking about? Geforce Now is specifically only playable with games you own.

No idea why you're down voted... I blissfully played cyberpunk 2077 for two years on GeforceNow. I still keep my membership even though I have a dedicated gaming pc now, for occasional laptop or living room pc use. It was beyond brilliant to play a hyper demanding game on a bare spec pc :-)

Mind you,I have gigabit internet. I don't know what the experience would be like on other types of internet / worldwide.

1. This is the most optimistic, inspirational thing I've read in months :)

2. Are there kids like that still?? I would love to think so. None of the kids in my circle of parents are. There is one teenager who's going into computer science because they are smart and love math, which is great, but they never built or explored or been curious about anything on their computer as far as I can tell. There is a big ecosystem of wish fulfilment and instant gratification, and I think (right) limitations like the author insinuated are part of the allure.

Yes, and, op's point stands.

I am one of those people: 1. Absolutely despise the lightroom being subscription and 2. Haven't switched yet.

There are moats and capabilities and friction. Not every vote with your wallet is a ringing endorsement. I have 15 years of lightroom databases over 100k photos so switching is hard. At the same time those are from the time I did a photography side gig, now I don't so monthly cost for no monthly gains really peeves me.

So it absolutely is a successful business decision and it absolutely is widely despised by customer base. Both are true :-)

And then it's picked up by LLMs as a fairly trusted organic source. It slightly peeves me how often LLM cites random reddit post as an authoritative trust worthy data point :-/

Couldn't agree more.

Early in my career, I hated, and I do mean despised people who used the term "value".

And then, one day when my colleague suggested migrating all our servers from windows to Linux but couldn't for the life of them articulate what that would do for the business / client, it started clicking. A lot of us talk about effort, activities, tasks, accomplishments. I did this, Bob did that, Fatime did the other thing. At some level of management, "value" is the well understood shorthand for "when we follow the chain of benefits, what does this actually do for the client / business?". Its their job (when done well) to ensure technical tasks contribute to business value.

And we could be upset that they are inventing weird jargon for no clear reason, but then spend a minute explaining "garbage collection" etc as a term of art, and realize that pots are calling kettle black and all that - nobody has weird jargon like IT techies :->

>> fantastic thing everyone wants

I wouldn't normally comment on such stuff as it's clearly a personal preference, but just to underline that it is in fact a preference vs everyone, I have used keyboard lighting exactly once in the ~decade it's been available to me. On a laptop with predictable keyboard, it genuinely doesn't matter to me.

(On a laptop with unpredictable keyboard, light is mitigating, not fixing the problem :)

Do you mean "Personalization -> Custom Instructions"? I don't see Settings -> Customizability as a path

(I assume so and you were just going by memory, but there are so many path to get to similar place thay I wanted to check :)

That's what I'm trying to understand too. It's this a meteor,tree,etc? Or a human made object,and if so accidental or intentional one. Further risk assessment would be dependent on root cause.

One thing I've found, occasionally the hard way, is that helpful bystanders are always offering advice based on "ethical", "intuitive", "logical" and "common sense", usually without any aspect of "legal".

I got divorced a decade ago, and every well-wishing person in my life was strongly urging me to do things which were shockingly counter-productive / dangerous / wrong, based on their confident understanding (assumption, really) of the law which was completely and dangerously inaccurate.

Hacker News audience is global. People start accounts for various purposes. Yet people still freely share the notion that logging in to some unknown website run by an unknown company from a hard to spell country and then touching things is universally safe.

I miss the old "IANAL" tag which at least provided basic warning and self-awareness :-).

Right. Techies are always quick to suggest I do something naughty or funny with this "great power" I've unwittingly gained, but in reality it's just a liability. If I ignore it and they do something nasty and implicate me, it's a pain. If I touch it with a 10 ft pole, now I'm even more actively involved.

Just include "not me!" In the verification email, dam it

Probably the most reasonable, specific, and hardest to implement advice on this thread the the time of reading.

Suggestions 1 and 3 are hard though!

My understanding from the article is that because the registrar for this domain is using Google safe browsing for their domain suspension, something that a) shouldn't be the case and b) isn't the case for other, perhaps more mainstream TLDs

Oh man. The infinite loops of impossible verification by large companies that should know better are massive pain peeve of mine.

This goes right to the top for me, along the ubiquitous "please verify your account" emails with NO OPTION to click "that's NOT me, somebody misused my email". Either people who do this for a living have no clue how to do their job, or, depressingly more likely, their goals are just completely misaligned to mine as a consumer and it's all about "removing friction" (for them).

I'm not disagreeing with you, but I have not frequently heard the phrase "fair market" (as opposed to a far more limited and specific term "fair market value", where "fair" I believe applies to "value" and not "market") and would be interested in hearing more of its definition and criteria.

Trivially, I would assume proponents of "free market" and "fair market" are a tiny if not zero Venn diagram, and that terms are at least somewhat opposing, but will withhold my judgement :-).

But... They're not wrong. That IS the market. Unrestricted, gloriously free market with its historically predictable outcomes - yay!

That's not where the interesting discussion is. The interesting discussion is with the notion that free unregulated markets are universally good and will naturally lead to positive outcomes because... I don't know, I'm personally not religious, but somebody here will help me :-).

>"Autopilots do a lot more than that because flying an aircraft safely is a lot more complicated than turning a steering wheel left and right and accelerating or breaking."

Can you elaborate? My very limited knowledge but of very real airplane autopilots in little Cessna and Pipers is that they are in fact far easier than cars - they are a simple control feedback loop that maintains altitude and heading, that's it. You can crash into ground, mountain, or other traffic quite cheerfully. I would not be surprised to find adaptive cruise in cars is far more complex of a system than basic aircraft "autopilot".

Unless I'm mixing up stuff, this was addressed explicitly by an Antrophoc Dev on HN (I am not a developer, don't use the product, have zero equine animals in the game :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46981968

Note, both versions were available in print, do you know which one you read? :-)

And yes, according to author it's a pretty significant rewrite for v2: https://qntm.org/antifaq#sec0

Not only I cannot turn off shorts, recently the iOS YouTube app auto plays random short the millisecond I start the app. That is against my user desires in three different ways - and there's no way I can find to stop it.

Grrr.

Oooh... The deus ex machina has changed?? That'll be interesting to see - thx!

I've enjoyed Peter Watts in kind of similar way I enjoy qntm. It's nerdy, explores interesting ideas, and written by a professional in a field who draws on their education, skills and interests. Premier work is probably Blindsight but the Sunflower cycle stories are likely easier to start. Like qntm, a lot of his works are online for free:

https://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm

How have people enjoyed the rewrite?

I read the original antimemetic division book a few times, and gifted the book to few friends too (love his other works too:). I pre ordered the update, but only got a third through. I'm not quite nerdy enough to do a page or sentence comparison, but it felt less "tight" - not sure if the exposition is more prosaic or there's less mystery or just more description that wasn't strictly needed (for me). Or, maybe I just reread the original too recently! Anybody else read both versions? :-).

It's interesting because where I'm from, there was "erotica" and there was "porn". This image would at best be erotica. It would not be considered porn.

Like in US supreme Court "I know it when I see it", definition isn't straight forward but it has elements of "is it depiction of a sexual act or simply nudity ", as well as any artistic quality. Generally, erotica has high production values and porn less so.

Anyhoo! What a weird place for discussion to end up :-). The story is excellent and very hacker news appropriate, but his entire opus is pretty good. There's a bit of deus ex machine in some of qntm's work, but generally they have the right mix of surreal and puzzling and cryptic and interesting to engage a computer geek's mind :-).

I do miss Google+. For my brain / use case, it was by far the best social network out there, and the Circle friends and interest management system is still unparalleled :)

Is SoR as you described it a Venn diagram of enterprise resource applications such as sap, peoplesoft, etc - or a different beast entirely?

ERP world is legacy beyond belief and the technology is neither amazing nor fast as you mention. The trick here is the profound awareness of business processes. I'm a techie in ERP world and deeply aware the business transformation team are the important ones (on implementation... Sales, otherwise,of course :/). The business rules for what we as techies think is simple (payroll, taxes, accounting - how complicated can it be??) are mind blowingly complex yet often poorly documented. I honestly don't know yet if today's LLM can grok them both deeply and safely / consistently enough

If I understand it correctly, no; PeopleSoft is Legacy in some ways but it is actively developed and improved/maintained. The Peoplesoft Integration Broker is "modern-ish" from that perspective, and a proper middleware messaging system:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E92519_02/pt856pbr3/eng/pt/tibr/c...

It'll do XML messages in somewhat proprietary format with other PeopleSoft applications, and "near-real-time" queues via web services with other applications in a fairly standardized way (WSDL etc). I think of PeopleSoft Integration Broker as a "mini, proprietary ESB", as inaccurate as it may be in details :).