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3. Me, and only me.


Xircon was a windows IRC client that used TCL for scripting.


Does it start replacing the oldest photos?


Currently it replaces the oldest photos, yes. (There might be use cases where you only want to keep the first 20k photos though -- if anyone wants that, get in touch and I can add a setting.)


I figured that was the case. That makes the most sense for your original use-case. I ordered one last night, are you seeing a large uptick of orders from this post?


Definitely, the HN crowd has been kind.


Most recent mailbag, EEVblog1619: https://youtu.be/ABqDGjcwMsg?t=1118


Volumetric energy density. Either you'd fill up more often or dedicate more vehicle space to energy storage.

Diesel: 10,722.2 W hours / Liter

Gasoline: 9,500.0 W hours / Liter

CNG (3600 psi): 2,500.0 W hours / Liter

NG: 10 W hours / Liter

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density


Seems they spent $438,346,000 on research and development.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024...


Meanwhile every actually interesting thing Reddit the company has done in my memory seems to link back to Josh Wardle, who came up with the "The Button" event and also the "Place" event, then left and created Wordle, then sold it to the New York Times for millions. They should just redirect 5% of their R&D funds to getting that guy back and letting him do whatever he wants.

Or maybe keep trying to get in on the NFT craze and working to carefully ensure third party apps can't work with Reddit. That's also a choice.


Dang, didn't know he did all that pre-Wordle. I'd ask why game studios aren't eating him up, but he's probably set for life by now. Wonder what's on the horizons for him.


Apparently he joined "MSCHF." They describe themselves as "AN ART COLLECTIVE THAT ENGAGES ART, FASHION, TECH, AND CAPITALISM." Their products run from tech startup failure collectibles (get your mini Juicero and a mini Theranos Minilab today!), to oil paintings of ML feet, to a celebrity's iPhone full of the phone numbers of other celebrities (locked, password not included).

Sounds like an interesting place to work.


Oh no, $438 million dollars spent on research & development... for an internet forum. That is so tragic.


And after all that R&D, the only thing keeping many long-time users around is that old.reddit.com still lets you opt-out of the last 6+ years worth of R&D they have done on the interface.


Speaking to some mods, old. doesn’t cut it for moderation, so there’s that other side to consider.

And I guess that matters more as 3rd party tools have been locked out.


Let’s start the rumour mill on what HN spends on R&D.

How many people is dang really?


0, Dang is a just a brain in a jar.


*beep boop* Must moderate today


Aren't developer salaries, servers, etc., included in that? That's what I seem to recall from recent tax changes that were discussed here a few weeks ago.


Developer salaries are probably under Research & Development, further, given their employee count and likely mix of tech (it/dev/infra) to biz, that's the only line item likely large enough to house their engineering team.


> Cost of Revenue

> Cost of revenue consists primarily of payments to third parties for the cost of hosting and supporting our mobile applications and website. In addition, cost of revenue includes expenses directly associated with the delivery of our advertising and other services, including advertising measurement services and credit card and other transaction processing fees. Cost of revenue also consists of personnel-related costs, including salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation.

That was only $111,011,000.

Edit:

This is incorrect, R&D does include R&D salaries.


Given their employee count, that would imply a fully loaded headcount cost of around $50k. No, I don't think so?


You are correct, I should have kept reading. R&D also has salaries included


I wonder how many of that is just handouts to friends' businesses under the name of "R&D". In Ireland we always joked about the business "overhead" mainly being spent on admiring the sun overhead from a tropical beach :)


Researching on how to make the UI even worse is no easy task.


Sounds like Twitter pre-Elon where 80% are woke commissars and 20% actually make the site go. That's a big pattern these days where a small group of people make everything work and generate enormous wealth then you have this huge overhang of people who find some sort of way to hang on to them by inventing and enforcing ideological purity contests.

Yuval Harari wonders what we'll do with people made useless by AI. They will be activists directed by AI generated propaganda campaigns to force all the people the AI doesn't control to comply.

Yup, that's the future with AI. You have a few AI researchers that program the robots and everyone else is crusading for justice and working in compliance. There jobs consist of inventing new things to be offended about and enforcing new rules to prevent their feelings from being hurt though everything they believe comes from AI generated propaganda campaigns.

Same thing happens at colleges were you got like $20 million spent on salaries for senior DEI person in charge of putting tampons in men's bathrooms and such whose job mainly consists of going to meetings and finding things to be offended about[1].

[1]https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/virginia-taxpayers-a...


I highly doubt those 80% were working on ideological stuff. It's common in big tech companies to have too many cooks in the kitchen, and because the design process and tech stack tends to mimic an org chart, stuff gets semi-permanently more complicated as a result. There are also some teams doing projects/research that wouldn't normally make a lot of sense, but the interest rates were so low at times that companies had to stretch to do more random things.

Sometimes after a change of ownership, they cut whatever they consider fat. This is Broadcom's strategy for example, acquire and cut.


Well, looking at the value of Twitter pre- and post acquisition, those 80% did do things that provided some positive value for the company.


You're forgetting the one thing that sets Reddit apart. They get crazy people to perform moderation tasks for free. It turns out that a lot of people don't ask for a paycheck as long as you let them push their ideology on an entire subreddit.


> Sounds like Twitter pre-Elon where 80% are woke commissars and 20% actually make the site go.

You seriously think 80% of Twitter was “woke commissars”?


It's a fun speculative fiction premise but assumes that everyone else's feelings and grievances are the result of AI manipulation while your own feelings and grievances are authentic[1].

[1]https://xkcd.com/610/


The way to counteract AI influence is to view the world as Bayesian and incorporate many different opposing views. I read both Russian and Western views of the Ukraine war on Telegram channels for example that regularly contradict each other. When I start reading something and I experience cringe, I view that as a positive signal that I'm getting information from a different perspective that I should evaluate and update my priors.


as opposed to the Elon-era where 95% is the Dear Leader Commissar and 5% actually make the site go


And the rest apparently goes to the CEO.


All they came up with is bog standard enshittification stuff. I could have consulted that to them for well under a hundredth of what they paid.


There is always the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.


Python 2 -> 3?


What are you trying to say? Python has had much bigger changes than Scala over the same time period - indeed I'd say that the changes of some Python "minor" updates are comparable to Scala's "major" update.


Does windows not provide a generic "class compliant" audio driver? I'm amazed it works so well everywhere else if Microsoft doesn't support it.


I went down this path. Yes, Windows includes an inbox USB audio class driver, but it lacks support for implicit feedback. The MOTU interface does not have a feedback endpoint, and relies on implicit feedback, so the inbox driver doesn't work. I think the inbox driver does work for Focusrite's interfaces - I guess they include the feedback endpoint, and both Linux and macOS support implicit feedback so MOTU's devices work there. Apple actually recommend implicit feedback only [0].

[0] - https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2274...


Thanks for the information! My Motu (M2) does live on a linux machine and it's been relatively painless, worked on MacOs as well, but required a driver download on Windows. I never dug into why. Audio interfaces tend to be finicky things on their own, I also have an Arturia Audio Fuse Studio that needs to be "rebooted" from time to time, no matter what OS its connected to.


MOTU 828mk3 supports firewire, if you want to try that approach.


Pretty good, I use Shure IEMs to block wind noise on motorcycle rides and having access to podcasts/audiobooks are a nice bonus when slogging down freeways. I can still hear car engines and sirens, but it removes the wind buffeting in my helmet that really drains you (and damages your hearing) on a long ride.


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