Similar is the save icon, though for a different reason. It conveys its function well, but one first needs to know what a floppy disk even is!

Nah, people especially younger ones associate the floppy disk with the save button

A lot of apps people use these days are cloud-first and automatically save all the time, so there's not even a save button to have a floppy icon for! The icon to say that it's synced looks like a cloud, and if you're using a web browser it'll probably have a Download button with a download icon. No floppy disks in sight.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's computer users out there that wouldn't recognise the "save icon".

RIP in peace

I disagree. Not all it's "autosave on cloud", and some apps keeps having an explicit save something button or option.

I recently had a discussion about replacing the "save icon" (IE. the old floppy disk icon) for an icon with an arrow pointing down, for a button that saves (don't download!) a custom query of the user in the system. Perhaps it could be replaced with another icon, but not by someone that everyone would think is "Download".

they think it's a soda vending machine

My daughter understood what the Chrome icon was for before she could even spell ‘Chrome’.

I’ve found myself writing code intending to write prompts for writing better code.

Soon enough Im sure we’ll start to see programming languages that are geared towards interacting with llms

Finally a use for Lojban!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

Author of the mentioned DuckDB-DOOM here!

This is awesome - multiplayer is a great addition. Really like the cone in the mini-map too

This is pretty neat. I was expecting a WAD file to get loaded, but this was still pretty neat, even better than Windows XP in JS.

Love that you liked it! Your project was the inspiration and showed me the insanity was actually feasible :D

The post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43761998

A “fully dressed” poboy in New Orleans is one with all the fixing’s

Huh, that makes sense given "all dressed" came from French and New Orleans' French history.

I'm not sure why we both ended up with "dressed" given the French is literally "all garnishes / toppings" or "wholly garnished / topped". I'm sure some linguist could probably do a dissertation on this or something. And hopefully also cover how Saskatchewan ended up with using "all dressed" because I'm really curious about that outlier.

> I'm not sure why we both ended up with "dressed" given the French is literally "all garnishes / toppings" or "wholly garnished / topped".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dress

> 4. (also figuratively) To adorn or ornament (something). [from 15th c.]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/garnish

> 1. To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.

(Bonus: "garnish" is etymologically related to "warn". There are many such other pairs in English, e.g. "guarantee" / "warranty" and "guard" / "ward". (As I understand it: the Gauls could pronounce the "g", but the Franks couldn't.)

Ha! I made this. I’m not a robot either :)

Author here, wild to see this at the top of HN!

You can play it here: https://patricktrainer.github.io/duckdb-doom/

Pressing “L” enables (very) verbose logging in the dev console and prints much of the sql being executed.

Rather than juggling your parent’s __init__ on another thread, it’s usually clearer to:

1. Keep all of your object–initialization in the main thread (i.e. call super().__init__() synchronously).

2. Defer any ZMQ socket creation that you actually use in the background thread into the thread itself.

yeah, this just feels like one of those things that's begging for a lazy (on first use) initialization. if you can't share or transfer the socket between threads in the first place, then your code will definitionally not be planning to use the object in the main thread.

This compounds with each _team_ modeling the work in jira/excel too!

Through the arm, I believe, is still the way it’s performed today!

Maybe leading with a stick instead of a carrot isn’t the right approach?

It's hard to carrot already-wealthy prisoners.

For average folks, sure.

I don’t know, I feel like there is much more room for positive incentives than negative. Prisons put people on a pretty level playing field.

Like, the well behaved could be served pork chops and peas instead of slop and mush.

Have you ever experienced prison yourself or through someone close? Prisons don't put people on a level playing field at all. It is significantly more comfortable to be rich in prison than poor in prison.