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filereaper··on Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?
Its better than the OP seeks help from someone trained in this domain rather than getting an anecdotal therapy session from these comments.

Getting professional help shouldn't be stigmatized as a cop out.

filereaper··on “You meant to install ripgrep”
Can't tell you how often I've run: `pip install aws`

This installs a library by some authors not affiliated with AWS.

Instead of: `pip install awscli`

Which is what you expect.

filereaper··on The new GPU world order is beginning to take shape
Intel's new ARC series seems to be a good buy for AV1 encode/decode and other non-gaming applications given its current price-point especially for low tiers. Software compatibility isn't there yet but its catching up.

Intel has always had good drivers for Linux (compared to Nvidia) which are scheduled to land in the upcoming 6.x kernels, I'm wondering if they're planning to attack the CUDA AI/ML moat that Nvidia has built up. AMD hasn't done much to shake CUDA with ROCm but I'm sure Pat Gelsinger has plans to capture all that margin that Nvidia is reaping currently in the datacenter space, those Nvidia DGX A100's are so insanely pricey!

filereaper··on Google Cloud announces Dual Run to ease mainframe migration to cloud
Given how protective Big Blue is of its mainframes. Has the Black Gate of Armonk swung open and the Nazgul on their way to Mountain View? /s
filereaper··on BlueJ – A Lightweight Java IDE
We used DrJava when first learning Java. http://www.drjava.org/

It has a nice REPL built in and installation is just running a single jar file.

It doesn't have any fancy autocomplete or any other features like that, just syntax highlighting.

filereaper··on Campus College of Letters and Science plans to limit high-demand majors
How times have changed, in 2006 when I enrolled into Undergrad CS everyone was saying all coding jobs would be offshored to Bangalore. All the cool kids went to Finance or Quant.
filereaper··on 1Password delisting forum posts critical of their new Electron based 1Password 8
I'm trying to find an alternative to LastPass given their announcement today and was thinking of moving to 1Password.

Many responses here are recommending against 1Password.

What's a good alternative, specifically for families, as I've moved members of my family to LP?

I'll specifically need some recovery mechanism for them in the event they lose access, as they're still getting used to this workflow. Its not ideal but what's needed realistically.

filereaper··on Japan, U.S. to launch R&D for 2-nm chip mass production
People forget how in the 80s Intel pivoted from making memory to microprocessors specifically because the Japanese were eating their lunch.

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/28/business/japan-s-big-lead...

filereaper··on FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
Its weird to have companies say they're moving from Mainframes to the Cloud.

The Mainframe is a sort of cloud, each one has usually double the spare capacity and you call IBM to unlock it.

The cost of running a Mainframe is measured in terms of MIPS based on amount of compute used and there's compute reserved for offloading things like JITs (zAAPS). Essentially a version of cloud compute costs.

I can understand if you're locked into COBOL with EBCDIC and can't find talent, but Z runs freaking Ubuntu now! I know IBM works furiously on modern ecosystem support.

Not shill for IBM, but what exactly is it that they're expecting to be so different from their cloud migrations? Or is everyone here caught up in the "Mainframe old" falsehood.

filereaper··on Lorien – Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app
I've been using this with my Wacom Tablet on Linux.

Really liking it so far, the keyboard bindings for common commands and simplicity and ease of use of the program keeps me coming back to it.

Looking forward to newer releases!

filereaper··on Is social audio already dead?
I've been enjoying Callin: https://www.callin.com/

Its not as crowded as Clubhouse and all the low signal to noise hustlers aren't there (yet).

There's a few podcasts that are getting traction.

Pull Request: Had the Paypal Mafia over and Emil Micheal talked about Super Pumped tv series.

The hosts may have differing opinions and political views though, so might not be for everybody.

filereaper··on Take Part in the New UI Preview for Your JetBrains IDE
I hope the existing UI will carry on, its been built-up over the years with lots of features and seems stable.

I've put in the time to learn and have muscle memory of the UI, I don't want to see that investment wasted.

Finally, Jetbrains, Eclipse etc... were intended for professional and serious uses, I detest having these new Fisher-Price interfaces where everything is dumbed down.

I'll be quite vocal about this in feedback to Jetbrains as a paid subscriber.

filereaper··on Time to Upgrade Your Monitor (2020)
Anyone know any good tools for uniformly setting aliasing, hinting etc... for fonts on Linux?

Text looks distinctly different between KDE and i3 and aren't as out-of-the-box ready.

Are there tools used by everyone here that aren't as well known to smooth out these issues?

filereaper··on No wonder Netflix is bleeding subscribers – it’s become the new cable
Netflix has gone from costing $9.99 CAD to $20.99 CAD over all these years, with loss of content like Friends etc... For which I'd have to go to another service.

As a subscriber, I'm essentially footing the bill for Netflix's "spray and watch" technique which is getting hard to support when the content doesn't appeal to me. So maybe focus is key and perhaps don't cancel so many shows I was into before (Marco Polo, Daredevil, etc...)

I'm keeping Netflix around but if they start preventing my family from using a single account which we've had for a decade now, that's the last straw and I'm cancelling the service.

filereaper··on Today Google is turning on tracking for many users that previously turned it off
Does anyone know what's happening at Google? Have they grown to the point that the huge profits from web search aren't enough to sustain them or something?

I'm seeing Google ratchet up its monetization across all aspects:

- YouTube plays mandatory multiple ads

- Frontpage search is full of ads

- Gmail used to have some Infinity plus storage plan but now after 15gb is used you can't receive email. And they're using Photos towards this quota.

Nothing against paying for services but there's a noticeable and very aggressive drive towards lockin and monetization of its users.

Far more than before, so what happened to Google that's causing this?

filereaper··on Polar Express – How Airlines are plotting a new-route to Asia
I wonder how many direct routes just aren't possible anymore as they can't fly over Russian airspace and can't fit within ETOPS safety margins.

We had our direct flight from EWR-BOM cancelled due to the current issues.

filereaper··on Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021
Oh yes, I've seen videos about Japan's approachable housing. [1]. I'm sure Korea and other Asian nations have similar approaches.

I mainly wanted to highlight a market driven approach that works with the other industries in the US as opposed to a government directed one. Albeit the government provides stimulus of some type to kick start it, like how NASA drove the privatization of Space and now we have lots of launch vehicles via different companies.

[1] https://youtu.be/iGbC5j4pG9w

filereaper··on Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021
I wanted to highlight the alternative approach take by China. I don't agree with what their government, does but its useful to see what they're doing.

China has essentially realized they're in a demographic crisis so they've enacted the following policies:

- Stopped their speculative debt fueled housing bubble, this I hope makes it affordable for their citizens to own homes, without prices skyrocketing.

- Stopped for profit educational institutions, this is so that education and specifically tutoring aren't exclusively for the rich.

I think they're enacting policies for childcare as well.

Given in the US investors are buying up property, and costs of both education and childcare are skyrocketing. I don't see how the US won't avoid a demographics crisis as well.

The US can't mandate its industry to follow a similar approach, but can't the government provide stimulus or some other Manhattan Project type drive to encourage entrepreneurship and companies to start and resolve these underlying issues?

filereaper··on Rustenstein 3D: Game programming like it's 1992
I'm guessing the infamous inverse square root algorithm was used originally for ray-casting described in the article?

Fast Inverse Square Root: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24959157

Excellent article btw.

filereaper··on Apple and other EV hopefuls chip away at auto industry pyramid
>"Software will play the lead role in automaking going forward," Tier IV founder Shinpei Kato said. "Eventually we'll reach a point where cars can be made without automakers."

I'm not sure I want such a world where vehicles take on the current software mentality.

Specifically the current one where software is licensed and not owned. I want ownership of my car, not a license to use it.

This lack of ownership from the software world into other domains is not something I wish for and won't support with my wallet.

I hope there are competitors left who will not abandon the current ownership model in the future.

filereaper··on How to automatically close those annoying “Launch Meeting” tabs from Zoom
Thanks, this needs to go into the Archwiki or somewhere where lots of users land!

I keep running into this annoyance on every Zoom meeting.

filereaper··on How to automatically close those annoying “Launch Meeting” tabs from Zoom
The annoying meeting tabs are intentional, Zoom is going to display ads there for the free tier.

So Zoom won't have any intentions to add a preference to remove them.

This might be a lesson for us all, if there's an obviously annoying UI/UX aspect, its intentionally being kept for monetization reasons.

filereaper··on In 2019 40% of San Francisco traffic fatalities are from left turns
To any Product Manager or developer working on Android Auto, CarPlay or Waze.

Please add a "Avoid left turns, unless they're protected" option!

It'll save lives and reduce overall stress for drivers!

filereaper··on JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains
The new JetBrains products seem targetted at VSCode and specifically its remote code offerings.

I've liked JetBrains and I'm paying their license but the current $249.00 yearly fee is still too high and I fall back to VSCode frequently.

The $249.00 fee covers all of their IDEs but I don't need the .NET IDE's if I'm working on JVM languages or CLion or GoLand for instance. I was hoping for something like "Pick 2-3" IDEs for a certain fee, like say $129 for Scala, DataGrip & PyCharm, oriented towards common clusters of vertical stacks devs normally use.

I understand that $249 may not be a large amount for many folks here, but JetBrains isn't the only development tool I'm buying and supporting with a yearly license.

filereaper··on JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains
Yes, I'm on the EAP builds and was confused by this exact set of overlapping products.

It would be nice if JetBrains added a feature matrix or disambiguated when and where each product is suitable for.

Also obligatory: https://xkcd.com/927/

filereaper··on Ask HN: Best Books on the JVM?
I strongly recommend following and listening to videos by Cliff Click who wrote HotSpot and worked on Azul and other VMs.

Cliff also has Coffee Compiler Club sessions on Fridays.

- https://mobile.twitter.com/cliff_click

- https://youtu.be/Hqw57GJSrac

filereaper··on IBM unveils 127-qubit quantum processor
>'Eagle' is IBM's first quantum processor developed and deployed to contain more than 100 operational and connected qubits. It follows IBM's 65-qubit 'Hummingbird' processor unveiled in 2020 and the 27-qubit 'Falcon' processor unveiled in 2019.

I guess I missed last years announcement of the 65 qubit one.

So okay we have a 127 qubit machine, what did they do with it afterwards?

The Q3 financials were released so this article can't have been released to pump up the stock price.

filereaper··on The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk (2020)
Lots of folks went from OTI to Eclipse, J9 and other projects after the acquisition of IBM.

Java was the succesor of Smalltalk as deemed by Big Blue.

filereaper··on Ask HN: Advice for moving on from a failed startup?
Join a more established or successful startup in the same space.

Understand what separates the successful startup from the failed one you're in, was it the product, sales pipeline, marketing, org structure?

Essentially perform a diff between the two companies and root cause what you'd improve on and other structural things you'd change the next time around.

I'm sure you've acquired experience in the vertical that your startup was in, recoup of the time and energy investments made there.

Lastly all the best, this happens to many early employees and founders.

filereaper··on System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop
I actually do want input into features rtc...

Happy to pay for it and will provide bug reports etc..

I don't work on Linux desktops as a day job and won't have the bandwidth to contribute code but I'd like features, hardware support etc...

Happy to pay a higher subscription fee for it.

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