Vim definitely was designed and remains an editor first and foremost. The IDE=like functionalities were clearly cobbled together later and it shows, on that we agree.
What always surprises me however is why having realised the limit of this model, decide to go back to VSCode, another editor with cobbled together IDE=like functionalities? IDEs are nice. Last time I checked VSCode debugging was still subpar and required fiddling with configurations.
> But, achieving all of the other attributes of simple HTTP triggered functions in a DIY context is very challenging without also spinning up a billion dollar corporation and hiring 1k more people.
I literally rolled my eyes reading that. How do you think we did before cloud computing?
I am currently in charge of multiple teams scaling and deploying innovative applications for a large industrial company. We are using Azure for everything. Our cloud costs are insane for our number of users. I used to manage applications with ten times more user for one hundredth of the cost and less complexity. It’s billed to another part of the company which is responsible for this dubious choice (I really hope someone is getting nice business trips paid by MS so it’s not a complete waste) so I don’t care but how people can blindly put faith in the cloud is beside me.
…And you’re only one mistake away from the spam/abuse detection bot from locking you out of your account and shutting off your business for 12-72 hours.
> It matters because every dollar put into nuclear is dollar away from something else.
That’s not how things work. It’s tempting to view money in such simple term but also very wrong. In effect, the state has a lot of leeway in how it decides to invest and a lot of conservative positions are taken to preserve the overall status quo when it comes to who has power and who hasn’t.
This is exactly how capital works. You don't buy the machine that takes 10X as long to deliver, costs more, has unending waste storage liabilities, and is uninsurable.
National scale investment like the power grid are not subject to the same kind of rules that classical investment because the state can and do print money. For all the bad things I have to say about the Inflation Reduction Act for exemple, it will result in significant investment in renewable with money which for all intent and purpose appeared out of thin air (with all the impact this will have on the overall equilibrium of the economy).
You could have at the same time have a comprehensive investment plan for nuclear and renewable without one significantly impacting the funding of the other. The US would be labour and knowledge limited long before it is capital starved.
The money represents real resources. Printing more of it doesn't make more resources, it just moves some power over the allocation of those resources to the government printing it.
I’m not sure a somewhat popular author of pop sci-fi novels of dubious quality in the 60s should be held as a guideline for rules regarding safe usage of AI.
Mhils answered happy to setup a support contract if you need timely release while pointing to his email. Nothing in his answer is out of line. I think you need to seriously reset your expectations if you think that answer from someone providing free labour is in any way wrong.
What rubs me the wrong way about the mhils Github response is that it fails to answer the question that the commenter asked: Is there or is there not a target date for the next release (and if so, what is it)? It's fine to charge money to move the date up, but it seems like if you are going to make that offer, you should try to tell the person how much time they would actually be buying.
> What rubs me the wrong way about the mhils Github response is that it fails to answer the question that the commenter asked: Is there or is there not a target date for the next release (and if so, what is it)?
Why exactly do you expect him to answer that? It’s not like he is working for the guy. He can do whatever he wants.
Reading this discussion I’m starting to understand why so many open source maintainers end up calling it quit.
Yeah, back to what my grandma would say “if you don’t have anything nice to say…”.
Either…
This is something I, as someone spending some time on a passion or hobby project, don’t want to deal with and I’ll just ignore it.
Or
It’s a business transaction and I’ll at least try and explain what services I can provide, not just “lol pay me”. “We don’t have a release schedule. Except in the case of actual critical vulnerabilities making our users vulnerable, releases are tagged when we have enough functional changes to warrant them. If you would like to get in touch to discuss a support contract and us tagging a release just for you and your customers you can contact me at X.”
Refusing to engage on the question or how you can work together and just saying “lol pay me” definitely comes across as “fuck off” to me. And if that was the intent… better to not say anything at all.
He explained it already: the requested change is purely for regulatory purposes and has no functional value. He would release once enough functional changes accumulate.
I admire your ability to find joy in these things.
At the beginning of my career, I once spent a week in a secure facility trying to understand an annoying network bug using tcpdump because we weren’t allowed to install wireshark. The whole thing turned out to be a combination of the worst bug I have ever seen in a standard library in our decade old version of GNAT (Ada lib - admittedly it had been corrected seven years before) and an ARP misconfiguration.
The whole week was awful and largely responsible for me moving on to greener pastures. It takes a special kind of character to enjoy these things.
> Without hesitation, computer science is certainly not a mathematics major.
Properly taught it definitely is.
The issue here is that an average undergraduate mathematics major in the USA learns a ridiculously low amount of mathematics so I guess a CS one does even less. I did more maths during my two years of prépa in France that the American who majored in mathematics I met during my postgraduate study.
BSc CS is an accredited degree in the US. It is very math heavy. Most of my peer graduated with minors in mathematics. Majority of us did discrete mathematics for most of our degree and numerical analysis in electives. Abstract algebra if you took advanced crypto courses. I don't know a whole lot about diffyQ but I can swing it if I read a book.
That’s why I said average but, anyway, I did my postgraduate in Oxford where most of the American didn’t come from middle of nowhere universities and they were all frankly disappointing in mathematics. My two cents.
Emoji are zero cost resources for websites on most devices and have the benefit of matching the users expectations of iconography across the system, not to mention being accessible by default.
It’s really a win win of size reduction, consistency and accessibility.
The only competitive systems are something like font-awesome icons or SFSymbols. The latter isn’t available to sites afaik though.
There's no consistency, because different operating systems and web browsers display emoji differently, and emoji availability depends crucially on the OS or browser version.
The consistency is that if you use a (mushroom) emoji as an icon for your stuff, users on Windows will immediately know what it is because they are aware of how the emojis on their OS work. Same with Android, iOS, etc. Not that all emojis are the same across all devices.
This is less consistent than images, which are generally rendered the same on all devices. Worse, though, is the broken black boxes that appear when someone uses a newer emoji that your browser or operating system version doesn't yet support, which happens all of the time.
> Not sure why you're being so argumentative about a misunderstanding of definitions?
There's no misunderstanding of definitions. The argument is about whether emojis are "really a win win". I don't think they are, for reasons I've explained. Specifically, with regard to needing icons for "berries and maybe more vegetables", you can already do this with small jpgs that would not take much bandwidth, and in general there's more consistency in jpg support across different software then there is in emoji support.
Waiting for the Unicode committee to add emoji for every possible object in the world seems like madness to me.
I’m not sure why you’re struggling with this concept.
It is consistent for the user on whatever system they are on. If they switch between apps, they see the same emoji that they’re familiar with.
The web developer doesn’t have to care what the icon looks like. They just say: use this emoji that semantically means “flower”. They know it may look different to other users but it will look like what that individual user is familiar with.
> I’m not sure why you’re struggling with this concept.
I'm not struggling with any concept.
It's a simple fact that as emojis continually get added to Unicode, not all browsers and operating systems support all emoji, and so one person sees a broken black box where another person sees the emoji. That's gross inconsistency.
> So let’s not use html either because someone can clutch pearls all day that some ancient browser on some EOL system might not support a specific new html tag.
Ancient? The submitted article is "New emojis in 2023-2024" about "the draft emoji candidates up for approval by Unicode this September". Thus, no software even supports the new emoji yet, and ironically they have to use png images to show what the emoji will look like.
I'm done talking with you. This is getting too ridiculous. Moreover, your "pearl clutching" remarks are stepping over the line and violating the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Emojis are great as quick icons that take zero work to source, add in, align with text in the layout and size consistently.
Absolutely nothing wrong with that, especially since people on hn love to complain about inclusion of unnecessary assets in websites that could be more lightweight.
Hh sure I even like to create some. But for this purpose I do not bother. I need something small that I can just use for personal purpose. It works well with outdoor internet - where it is used. Adds bit of accent on minimal site to ease the navigation.
I do not really care if they add more veggies etc. I mentioned it as user-case in context of adding random Emojis.
> it seems to me improbable that they will make in September (after the hypothetical approval of the "ecodesign" draft) an amendment to something approved only a few months before.
Par for the course with the EU especially when it comes to laws dealing with the environments. See for exemple the regulations linked to the green taxonomy where half of the material is still missing despite the law coming into force and where information about how the law should actually be applied are published months late. The EU is kind of a joke sometimes.
The Hartz reforms are fairly famous, yes. It’s mostly social dumping. Forced contraction of actual wages through reform of the benefits plans.
It’s important to note that they are overall poor reforms and should have been nullified by the German money value shifting due to the knock off effect on the saving rate. This didn’t happen because they were put in place at the same time as the Euro and the overall imbalance in the union allowed Germany to keep an undervalued currency. In effect, Germany robbed all the poorer members of the union to prop up its own economy something it has kept doing since.
> In effect, Germany robbed all the poorer members of the union to prop up its own economy something it has kept doing since.
Those who like to bully the poorer members of the Union on the grounds that they're being bankrolled by the the wealthier states would be wise to take note of this, and take a more intelligent and informed view of EU "subsidies". The idea that the wealthier member states are showering these countries with funds out of the disinterested goodness of their hearts is not only ignorant of how these cash flows actually work in the grander scheme of the movement of money, but also preposterously naive.
The power balance is shifting in Europe against this crypto-germanocentrism, however.
This sentiment is so common in Germany. Everyone blames the European "south" for Germany's problems as if Germany was some sort of hero doing all the work.
The Greek economic crisis is a classic example. German banks mess up when they lend too much money to Greece, Germany does a bailout for "Greece", the money actually goes back to German banks. Then people have this perception as if they somehow paid for all the social services bought with the borrowed money. No, Greece is still in debt. You might complain about forgone interest but that is on the lender, who is not doing his job properly.
Let's not absolve Greece of fault. They massively lied on their data to join the euro with a financial situation that was obviously not going to work in the long run. No way would Greece have gotten as much money in the 00s had they published their real data.
That said, the German opinion on Greece was(is?) pretty fucked yeah. Especially if you look at how often we ignore the situation for the average Greek in these discussions. A shitload of medically necessary operations were cancelled in the downsizing of the Greek state, even the democratic nature of the state itself was seized by the troika.
And Greece never really got a bail out, all they were ever offered were just bigger and bigger loans. (with austerity measures attached that pushed down demand, when lowered revenues, that made it harder to pay the loans)
It's important to note the other side of the medal: Today's inflation is to a large degree caused by the expansionist money policy that was necessary to prevent a Greece financial collapse (which would have undermined the Euro as a whole). Greece financial problems were, at least to a significant degree, caused by debt-financed social expenses that are unheard of in Germany. So the conclusion that German workers are financing Greek's early retirements is not completely bullocks.
It's very important to understand that Greek's government also played the "Germany is at fault" or "Germany has to pay" card very effectively, when Germany's government played the "Lazy Greeks" card to justify their own fiscal policy.
Why should the reforms be nullified by a change in saving rates?
Hartz IV reforms pushed unemployed people back to work by reducing long term unemployment benefits to 400 EUR + rent. This certainly reduced purchasing power first (by reducing available money) but also quickly freed up social spending as employment rates soared.
That’s a classical and expected corollary to social dumping reforms intended to boost competitiveness. There is less money invested inside your own economy (that’s what the saving rate is) as you have intentionally made people poorer which leads to an influx of foreign capital propping up your currency and nullifying the advantage you were expecting on the international market.
As mentioned before Germany whose economy is extremely unbalanced and wouldn’t be viable if it used its own currency was shielded at the cost of killing the competitiveness of the poorest union members.
What always surprises me however is why having realised the limit of this model, decide to go back to VSCode, another editor with cobbled together IDE=like functionalities? IDEs are nice. Last time I checked VSCode debugging was still subpar and required fiddling with configurations.