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Re:Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth on Monday August 04, 2025 @06:55AM (#44784138)
Why the poor and working class? Increasing benefits on local products maybe will, maybe not, move to salaries. But first necessity goods are not very elastic making that products more expensive.
Re:I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @07:11AM (#42621603)
I`m pretty sure that most of us will be alive after that final act ;)
So true and valid of almost all software development:

> In retrospect, if we knew at the time how much we didn’t know, we may not have even started the project!

Re:Do not buy a Hisense TV (or at least keep them offline) on Saturday April 20, 2024 @07:52AM (#40096650)
Size against everything else?. image quality will be better in a TV with similar price. Also convenience.
I've probably been reading too much lately about FOSS developers not being able to find help maintaining packages. But yeah, it's not a helpful comment.
Why a new lib instead of using or contributing to an existing one as spdlog?

https://github.com/gabime/spdlog

Re:Dioxus 0.5: Web, Desktop, Mobile Apps in Rust on Thursday March 28, 2024 @11:15AM (#39852618)
"Here at Dioxus Labs, we have an unofficial rule: only one rewrite per year."

If you have to rewrite your code once a year, maybe it helps to plan ahead before coding.

But, if you can rewrite your code once a year, you might not have too much code to worry about.

Re:What is the Demoscene? An obscure but influential art form on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @01:43PM (#37932099)
Eric Prydz show Holo is, to me, like an Amiga demo but using gigantic holographic projectors. Updated graphics and sound but same vibes.
Re:Ode to the M1 on Sunday August 13, 2023 @04:54AM (#37107974)
$4k / ($your-total-cost * 3). Assuming 3 years of ownership. Tools are not only a laptop but the idea, I believe, is valid.
Re:Show HN: An index of all monthly dividend stocks on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:23AM (#36652680)
Money in the pocket. If you trust the company you assume that the stock will recover the value eventually.
Take decisions :). Customization as a way to make an app better for my personal needs versus me (as a designer) not knowing how the app should be used and shifting the responsibility to the end user.
Downvoted because you do not have the HN subscription to write swear words?
Re:The X500 Plus computer case (2013) on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @11:41AM (#33789782)
I had an Amiga 500, I love the computer very much. The problem with these projects is that you end up with a keyboard at an angle that is not ergonomic at all.
Re:A Poor Man's API on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @05:35AM (#33785871)
Like, for example an OS, hardware even electricity! But if you give things for granted, why not docker or APISIX?
Re:Archery World Record: Most arrows through a keyhole on Saturday October 22, 2022 @10:36AM (#33298648)
“From 1991 through 1994, Sergey Bubka topped his own mark nine times, each time besting his previous mark by only 0.01 meters.”

https://nowiknow.com/the-man-who-inched-away-at-history/

Using what metric? Taking into account externalities? Taking into account the price of the car, maintenance and insurance?
Re:Why High Speed Rail Hasn’t Caught On on Sunday October 16, 2022 @02:56AM (#33221652)
In many HN publications the label "In USA" is applicable, the equivalent of "In mice" for many medical studies :)
Re:A way to torture an interviewer (C++, FizzBuzz) on Monday June 13, 2022 @07:44AM (#31724065)
We no longer ask candidates to write code. Instead we give them code to review and plenty of time. After that we do a meeting to discuss the changes. Works quite well for us.
ExternalProject_Add -> vcpkg or Conan. I have more experience with vcpkg and the steps are:

1) declare your dependencies in a vcpkg.json file (similar to npm's package.json). Example:

{ ... "dependencies": [ "openssl" ] }

2) Add it to your CMakeLists.txt file. Example:

    find_package(OpenSSL REQUIRED)
    target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE OpenSSL::SSL OpenSSL::Crypto)
With the exception of CMake evolution (now days a defacto standard), package managers (as Conan or vcpkg) or the support for new C++ standards in major compilers (clang, gcc, Visual) ;)
And you can use multipass in the M1 to generate, for example, ARM64 docker images that you can run in a Graviton CPU. Win Win :)
Unless you have an external display, keyboard, and mouse. I have my laptop always connected to a screen (34'') unless I need mobility (a meeting room, a plane). A desktop cannot be turned into a mobile solution ;)
We used to buy Precision 5500 series laptops (latest model: 5560), but they have issues with thermal management. Over time, the battery expands due to temperature to the point of moving the trackpad up. Now we are giving Dell a new chance using the 7500 series (now 7760).

The 5560 is between 7.7mm (0.30") (front) and 11.64mm (0.56") (rear) thick. The thickness of the 7560 is between 25 mm (0.98") and 27.36 mm (1.08"). The increased thickness should solve (or help solve) the overheating.

Re:Transforming cities with superblocks on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:13AM (#30598669)
Re:Transforming cities with superblocks on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:56AM (#30597966)
Smaller note: Barcelona can be decomposed in three Catalan words (a happy accident): Bar, Cel, Ona, meaning Bar (yeah, this one is easy), Sky and Wave. Being a mediterranean city, fits quite well :)
Windows is crap, Linux is crap, macOS is crap... the crap frat in action. Maybe I'm too pragmatic, maybe OSs are difficult and engineers working on them deserve some credit. Maybe...
Re:James Joyce’s Ulysses reviewed (1922) on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:42AM (#30231254)
Ulysses is like a very funny joke that you don't understand. Well, a lot of jokes actually.
Re:Aranese: Spain's little-known language on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:23PM (#30016864)
Optimizing other’s culture
Re:What happens to developers who never go into management? on Saturday December 11, 2021 @07:14AM (#29520353)
And irrelevant to the conversation unless managers are better protected for cognitive loss (I doubt it) or managers requires less cognitive load (I doubt that too, but you can make a joke about that :)
Re:What happens to developers who never go into management? on Saturday December 11, 2021 @06:16AM (#29520064)
What happens to [pilots,doctors,actors...] who never go into management?

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