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unrelated: the depth of the YouTube channel library is simply staggering. it amazes me to uncover channels that i absolutely would have subscribed to on day-0 if i had known them.

at the same time, youtube is really bad at exposing you to new channels that you would enjoy. they bombard you with similar videos ("here's 15 more toilet seat review videos for you!") but they're not able to extrapolate channel tastes for some reason. it's left largely up to the user to dig around for collaterally-themed channels.

i wonder why this is not a law already? at first i assumed lobbying, but i can't imagine the journal racket to be that lucrative to influence the required number of legislators to block the law, unlike oil or insurance. this seems like such a no-brainer issue, but i would love to hear the spin.

If textual communication is about the lowest common denominator of capabilities, no one would be commenting in hacker news comments :)

Amazon's one click, customer service, shipping infrastructure, and return policy simply embarrass all their competition. Decades of investing in these things is paying off. No wonder it's physically painful to visit a new site: forms, typing, janky shipping, janky returns...

These things seem so easy once you see them all working, but companies don't have the resources or the interest in catching up.

no rewrites (the AST->XML bridging is one way), we use it for checking for forbidden patterns that we don't want developers using.

for work, i wrote a tool that takes an astroid AST tree and translates it into XML (in memory), which are very close in spirit since they're both tree-like structures. this lets one write linter tools using familiar XPath queries and assert on the results. it's good for some kinds of pattern/anti-pattern enforcement.

https://pylint.pycqa.org/projects/astroid/en/latest/index.ht...

I'm sorry for your loss, I wish you strength.

The real question is, what kind of draconian laws will they start hatching to make abortion tourism (flying to a state where it's legal, then coming back) illegal. How do you legislate that? Are people still free to go to another state if they want? Are they getting arrested as soon as they come back?

The next case they'll hear is about Mississippi v Some Nonprofit That Pays For Abortion Flights.

I'm getting strong Neuromancer vibes from this. It's so interesting that we're now officially cyberpunk in some corners of our world.

I would bet there's a large number of people who know Harold more than the others :)

I never reflected on that until you mentioned it. It seems even when someone does attempt a joke here, I always wonder why the comment hasn't been down voted away. It's just not that venue, I guess.

Which is a shame, because smart folks are often some of the funniest.

I remember this! It was a black cart, and it stood out like a sore thumb.

Really just an epic, prolific streamer. Super technical, super deep dives, and on top of all that, an excellent educator.

Here is a series he did on developing a Forth-like language from scratch, up until it's self compiling (and a few more videos after that):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QP2fDBIxjM&list=PLpM-Dvs8t0...

Here is a series on doing advent of code in HolyC in templeOS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMqd-6wNJQ4&list=PLpM-Dvs8t0...

Just look at the breadth of videos, from openGL to Excel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TsodingDaily/playlists

I do wish he would do revisit more haskell :)

This is the point of soft power. Enough pain, and people revolt against the dipshits that earned them the pain.

I watched TNG in high school. I never realized how much of my worldview it helped form, until I reflected on it later on. Because of that, humanity has really disappointed me. I thought we were on track, but it's just so stark of a reality check.

Despite all our progress, our greed and petty squabbling make me feel like the future that star trek pointed us towards is slipping further into the future. I'm sure now that even in a post scarcity world, humans would still find ways to fight, burn, waste, and regress. Sorry, Gene.

Monday yes but Tuesday maybe not. The mask mandate is supposedly being lifted on the 15th in California.

Err, aren't the pulled episodes about his use of the N word, not about challenged science?

There's nothing weird about both of those being true.

What if Spotify solved this the same way YouTube and Facebook do: an unskippable message (before and after the podcast) stating where to get actual information about COVID.

I can't fathom how they have a servo, a linear actuator, or anything else, that can apply pressure to the mirror and keep it there, for years, in the most extreme environments.

Every component of this thing is mind bending.

Using your money to silence journalists you don't like makes you a disgrace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollea_v._Gawker

In this specific example, given the context (that a virus would have a simple time going 400 meters from lab to market via some host), isn't the difference between 400m and 26km valid to point out?

Oh my god, thanks for dislodging this long forgotten memory! I never would have remembered that I played with this program ages ago, you really made me reminisce :)

You might enjoy this video which goes into that question:

https://youtu.be/iphcyNWFD10

Apple is rarely first with new technologies.

Great analysis. If anything, the thing that has taken away from that final episode is that people have been pestering Chase about it without stop. So much so, that in later interviews he has implied more detail about what happened, diminishing some of the impact and the mystery. Perhaps just through shear fatigue at having to explain his art.

Still, though, this piece reinforces what a master stroke that episode was, to the point that we're still talking about it.

It's not intended to run .sh scripts though. This is line saying python breaks .pl scripts.

Ah I wish I had a friend like you. I wanted badly to get into the game, and I tried to get people into it without success. My spouse tried once but it was most definitely not her thing.

I went to a little tcg bootstrapping event at my local game store (way before covid), and that was fun, but everyone else there was such a pro that I felt really intimidated and out of place.

Anyway now I have a little pile of cards in a drawer :(

I remember game credit scroll screens, at the end of video games, back in the 8 and 16 bit era. I remember thinking"who were these gods, and how did they do this??"

Now, I know how they did it, but I'm no less in awe of them, because they did these things with development tools that were barely anything. Remarkable generation of developers, laying creative and technical ground work for an entire planet of gamers.

Those were two completely separate examples about separate questions, you're combining them so you can be outraged.