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Well said. I wrote an XSLT based application back in the early 2000s, and I always imagined the creators of XSLT as a bunch of slavering demented sadists. I hate XSLT with a passion and would take brainfuck over it any day.

Hearing the words Xalan, Xerces, FOP makes me break out in a cold sweat, 20 years later.

Yes, at my first job, we had a VAX 11/785 which ran an entire engineering department. About 30-40 terminals.

I tried this and the only options I got were CAD 101 for the family subscription with AI and CAD 109 for the Classic one without AI ! ?

Ah, that brings back memories. I was using Intel iRMX on a commercial system in the mid 80s, and wanted to write a multitasking program on my IBM XT.

So I wrote a pre-emptive multitasking iRMX clone in C and a bit of assembler. Ended up using it to develop a mildly successful POS system running on a single PC with several VT100 terminals attached.

We had shared S100 8080 systems in our EE lab at university. 7 terminals per CPU. Worked just fine for editing programs. But when everyone started a (Pascal) compile run at the same time, things got plenty slow.

That makes no sense whatsoever. We are not consuming rare earths; only moving them from one place to another.

Arguably, future generations would find it easier to mine them from former landfill sites, where they would be present in concentrated form, than from some distant mine in the middle of nowhere.

I flew on a Westjet flight a few days ago, where they charged a fee for gate checking.

> two people and four items of luggage plus a personal bag each

Well, there's you problem. I have traveled the world, including many trips of 6 weeks or more, with only a single. carry-on. Laundromats exist everywhere.

Snark aside, a bit of planning and organization w.r.t. packing pays off handsomely in terms of flexibility when traveling.

Spontaneous weekend trip to a remote island when carrying only a backpack - sure. Add two heavy suitcases, and it becomes an impossibility.

Yes, but instead of saying "this spec is shit and full of vulnerabilities. Let's work on improving it", they just refused to participate in the discussion. What a childish POV.

So, basically, they noticed some potential insecurities in the implementation proposed by Google. Instead of negotiating modifications to the spec like adults, they threw their toys out of the stroller and refused to participate.

What a bunch of idiots. They seem to have a completely misguided concept of what a browser is. They still have a 1990s mindset of the browser being a window into the Internet, instead of the universal UI that it has become today.

Care to elaborate?

I interact with physical devices frequently. Mozilla's adamant refusal to implement WebSerial and WebUsb in Firefox forces me to install Chrome on every platform i use. That is just an asinine hill to die on.

As an outsider is is difficult to watch Americans do nothing while their vaunted freedoms are stripped away one at a time.

Taiv is a Ycombinator backed company hailing from Winnipeg

I used Unison many years ago, and it worked perfectly for all my use cases. Not sure how it stacks up these days. CLI only IIRC.

That is somehow fitting, given that the 'maintainer' is also thoroughly broken.

As someone married to a Korean, I am not surprised in the least. Every single one I have met (males at least) drinks like a fish. It is impossible to describe to a westerner just how ingrained the drinking culture is over there.

You did not bother to read the article, did you?

So, deuterium needs to be obtained from sea water through distillation and electrolysis - both energy intensive operations. And tritium comes from nuclear reactors.

I have always wondered - assuming that the confinement problem is solved, how does the cost of the fuel compare to fission (or other generation methods?

I find that many younger people have a hard time 'getting' sarcasm and irony when it is not explicitly pointed out. I wonder if it may be due to the prevalence of '/s' in online discussions, or if something else changed.

Don't forget the cost of storage. In the days before streaming, WB used to store (digitized) movies on LTO tapes, which are dirt cheap. The programming software would load up a tape the day before broadcast and transfer the contents to disk.

A streaming service needs to have all offered content available on disk. I can absolutely see WB offloading the storage cost to Google.

How accurate can you get with Hall-effect sensors? Back in the day when I was in the field (30-40 years ago), we used to get 20 bits of resolution out of a course+fine rotary inductosyn pair.

Yes it starts slow, but keep at it. It starts to get interesting about halfway into the book, if I remember correctly.

Agree. I think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance encapsulates the art of troubleshooting the best. Especially the concept of "gumption traps",

"What you have to do, if you get caught in this gumption trap of value rigidity, is slow down...you're going to have to slow down anyway whether you want to or not...but slow down deliberately and go over ground that you've been over before to see if the things you thought were important were really important and to -- well -- just stare at the machine. There's nothing wrong with that. Just live with it for a while. Watch it the way you watch a line when fishing and before long, as sure as you live, you'll get a little nibble, a little fact asking in a timid, humble way if you're interested in it. That's the way the world keeps on happening. Be interested in it."

Words to live by

My experience with no-code or low-code products (like Glide, but I have not tried Glide yet), is that they are fine and dandy when you have a single table or sheet.

But as soon as you have to source data from multiple tables 9or sheets), they all fall down, or become exponentially more difficult to use. I do not know what it is about splitting your data (even if everything is indexed against a common id), that makes the complexity go up so much. If someone can make an easy-to-use app to deal with this situation, I would potentially throw a lot of money at it.

Disagree. A resume needs to be a professional-looking document, not necessarily a simple one. LaTeX is much better as the primary format, with plan text and html serving as backup.

I agree, but it can be useful to produce html and plain text versions of your resume and cover letter too. Per-job customization, and adding custom metadata for cover letters, is also useful.

What worked for me was I creating a simple python script that uses json files with custom data as input, and uses mako templates to create latex, html, and text output.

> 60 year old CFO

As a 59-year-old, I am extremely disappointed in your insinuation that people our age are unfamiliar with modern technology. We built the foundations for all the cool stuff you whippersnappers take for granted, including Excel.

Well, the soldering iron I use most often has modifiable firmware running on a RISC-V SOC. (https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-solde...) Who knew that melting lead could be that complicated. So I would totally believe an article about rooting a lighter.

I used to watch Anthony Vella's paramotor videos, until he crashed and sustained life-changing injuries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-jyc2OYXsI

It appears that the difference between life and death could be something as small as a barely perceptible difference in tension between two lines. That puts paramotoring in the same safety category as hang gliding and base jumping in my mind. I.e. it is far too dangerous an activity to be doing regularly.