To make this event type completely reproducible and measurable to the millisecond there could be a new cube product which uses LEDs to show the colors of a randomly scrambled cube and start the clock at the same moment too, while the solver is holding it. Clock stops the moment the cube is solved.
Do you really think that the couple hours it saves by having these maps to hand instead of a terrorist going to the station and making their own map of the public space is going to mean the difference between an attack and no attack? Get real. Let’s just get rid of all maps then hmm? Security risk.
When I was a kid my parents had a big physical encyclopaedia set. I used to lose myself in those things just as much as I scroll through stuff now. Just because in both instances, it’s “interesting”.
But my brain doesn’t necessarily discern between “good” interesting and “bad” interesting without me trying to work it out and guiding it.
Of course there's a lot of HN bitterness here. But I like Fig. I've been running my own heavily customised .zshrc for about a decade with loads of bells and whistles in terms of autocomplete and customised prompts and what not and it has been great and I've kept it current with cool new toys.
But I've dumped most of it in the last month for Fig. I like seeing command specific options, relevant to the current context, and in a long list which I can scan and scroll quickly.
I go to documentation MUCH less now and I'm faster with it. And that's most of what I care about.
If the business model for this was:
1) fully open source
2) ~$2.99 per user per month
3) more for team features
4) paid plugins and themes
5) opt-in and inspectable telemetry
They’d probably get their million paying users in the first year.
For this crucial part of this target market’s (engineers) toolkit, it HAS to A) be open source and B) have the option for zero telemetry.
Inb4: “if it was open source why would people pay for it?!?”
Because at the right price people are happy to pay and support something they love and get low-effort trustworthy updates built in.
UHK. Warning though, once you start you can’t go back. It presents to the machine as a mouse on holding the mouse key. I take my hands off the keyboard to use the mouse 80% less now. No it’s not the same as janky Mac OS mouse keys.
Was just looking for a more human readable representation of my Postgres UUID v4 primary keys today - Douglas Crockford alphabet is perfect for that. Thanks!
Seems Jeff has launched a malicious attack on proof-of-stake, been unsuccessful, and has lost his stake. In this case his reputation.
You can't hand-wave over "complexity" and then call it "opaque" and self referential using a bunch of vague and imprecise analogies. The "step 2 complexity" is where the system justifies itself. It's where it's proven sound. Just because you're too lazy to get into the weeds and technicals of it does not make the system flawed. A casual read of the overview of Ethereum 2's proof-of-stake mechanism[1] would have helped Jeff save his reputation staked on his blog post.