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I think you’re talking about subsistence farming, which plenty of places in Europe do practice. But it is hard work.

I remember downloading music from the hacking e-show “The Scene” way back when - must have been late 2000s? Some great music in there like Newborn Butterflies if I remember the name right. It was nice background music in the show and I’d put it on from time to time.

I used the more recent Petzold examples to successfully bind DirectWrite to Direct3D, but yeah it’s been a crapshoot otherwise. Still have the Windows Programming (5e?) bible around here somewhere. Took awhile to grind through it. I dread modern-day windows programming it seems like every OS release some new API is going to overtake the others. I moved on.

It is possible but you have to cultivate it. There is no mechanism here that automates it, so it’s up to each author’s sentiment to shape the outcome as they see fit.

Submit threads that are apolitical and guide conversations to be positive.

Any takes on how Codex compares to Claude? I mostly use it to run ahead, document, investigate and prep the actual implementation for Claude.

Gemini burned me too many times but maybe the situation has improved since.

Every time an Ed Zitron article is posted on HN, it is met with a torrent of vitriol and personal attacks. The articles are okay if not overly wordy but I don’t see how the subject matter elicits that strong of a response.

At any rate, this observation is not unique to Ed, lots of people have made the same conclusion that the math doesn’t add up from a business profitability perspective.

To me, the action is the juice.

Will definitely give this another go.

It’s one thing if it was just me, I can get by with duct tape and glue and building shrines to Stallman, but I have to think about the not-so technical folks I hand things off to.

This is partly why I am exploring Scribus, as even if it’s not worked on actively it’s much less likely to just abruptly stop one day, and highly likely its successor software will have a tool to convert things over.

Pages takes me back as I really enjoyed all the Apple-first products (remember Sofa and Cultured Code?) but nowadays I can’t justify getting into macOS.

Thus far I have had pleasant experience with LibreOffice. Shockingly pleasant and easy to use and fast. I moved most of my MS Office printable media to it. I had to chase down different font weights to capture as close to the thickness that Word/Excel + print drivers would output, but the Libre output is to my eyes a lot better in almost every case, so that’s a win I’ll take.

Decades ago I was using OpenOffice but it had a long way to go back then, so I stuck with MS Office all these years.

I’m sure I’ll come across something that doesn’t quite work right but it’s unlikely I’ll encounter an Excel application built on macros in the wild anymore. (famous last words)

n.b. I have no idea what the hell is up with Microsoft over the last year. I feel like HN could use a thread where people just share horror stories. I’ve heard about the CoPilot nonsense, the cramming of AI into everything, but I stuck to Windows 10 to avoid as much of it as possible, although now it’s EOL. That they’re just shitting on everything solid they’ve done over the years does not make any sense to me.

I thought about doing this, combining it with Win 10 Enterprise IOT, but in the end it’s delaying the inevitable. I’m migrating away from Microsoft Office and Windows in general because Linux is an easy sell when most activity is done through a browser anyway.

I think Scribus is a suitable replacement for Publisher? I don’t think it’s any worse but I don’t think it’s at the level where it can compete against InDesign and Quark. However the major upside is that it is open source and runs on Linux just fine.

Since the OpenClaw creator is posting on HN I’d like to hear some commentary from him directly.

Do you have any evidence to back that up?

> What use is Perplexity without an eternal subsidy? The value of having Aravind Srivinas sitting around your office all day? I’d rather start my car in the garage.

Lmao

Is 9front impacted?

It’s a fair criticism but I don’t have an axe to grind here. I do enjoy the docus and many of the other documentarians could learn a lot from the lack of drama/theatrics in Attenborough’s work.

What I am getting to is that by taking a side on these matters we implicitly think one is wrong, one is right, and by shunning/ignoring that magically the wrongs can be righted. I bring in nature to question this line of thinking: the moment they “fix” nature, they’ll fix racism and other things they seem to think are wrongs to be righted. Because if they knew how deep this rabbit hole goes, and once they see what kind of planet they have to contend with, it may make them realize how their $current_issue is a tempest in a teapot.

In other words: you can take a side all you want, and then what.

Epstein should have been a wake up call that rules and laws made by man are fictitious.

No, it is unfortunately very romanticized and carefully narrated. It gives a very skewed impression of reality. It is closer to a staged scene and less of a documentary, which is why some of those cinematographers wait for so long. Actual nature, and its cruelty, is so banal as to be boring that without the storytelling, you wouldn’t want to see it.

I suggest you see some raw video footage, without music, additional sounds, careful DOF camera work and color correction, of one animal killing another. Watch the whole thing if you can sit through it - it takes quite awhile for an animal to die while it’s screaming in pain unable to move.

“Most people across generations favour the idea of impartial news, but young people more often (32% compared with 19% of those 55+) think it ‘makes no sense for news outlets to be neutral on certain issues’, such as climate change or racism.”

Unfortunately it’s documentarians such as David Attenborough that carefully curate a picture of nature as some playful, curious thing. It would behoove schools that prepare students for post-secondary education to put on actual video recordings of how animals go at it and how the strong kill the weak (and their offspring) in the most savage and cruel of ways with complete disregard. And then ask them if they would rather not know this is how the world really is. Because that’s what taking a side means here, is being wilfully ignorant.

I guess even HN needs two minutes of hate. Andreessen is an easy target.