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As an open source maintainer, I see requests like this quite frequently, and almost wholly are poorly thought through requests. Library specific code has a lot of negative ramifications, and almost never is worth it.

Requesting the specific desired feature/fix is almost always preferable.
They have a good explanation of how Matrix compares to XMPP in their FAQ: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#what-is-the-differen...
There's a book with an apocryphal story about how a coin maker was a accused of cheating because his gold coins had excessive standard error, before the discovery of standard deviation.
Just a note. Slackware is going to do its next release (14.2) some time soon.

It's nice, no drama, things are where you expect them to be.
I'm very sure he doesn't care one way or the other. He speaks with confidence then reframes conversations as necessary. This passes for leadership in modern society. Have you ever tried to listen to a US senator or a UK Lord or a Japanese Diet member argue?
I like little clever ideas like these:

"The fbuf wait parameter instructs bhyve to only boot upon the initiation of a VNC connection, simplifying the installation of operating systems that require immediate keyboard input. This can be removed for post-installation use."
The "ongoing official support of Python 2.7" is what resulted in the creation of Python 3. Python 3 contains the enhancements that are meant to fix the (very real) problems that exist in Python 2.

I really don't know where else you think those resources could have been used that wouldn't have resulted in Python 3. Unless you consider "doing nothing meaningful" to be a form of support.
Yes. Things get more complicated with a modern OS on good hardware, but otherwise it works fine. The "int 0x80" does a Linux system call. This is how things get hacked into.

This kind of thing works on most non-Linux embedded devices. The OS on these is commonly VxWorks or ThreadX.

It works on Linux if you use a 486, Pentium, or 32-bit PowerPC. (and weirder stuff) It works on Linux if you use a kernel that is 10 years old. It works on Linux if you add a *.s file to your build. (an assembly file; empty is fine)

It works on Windows if the program wasn't built with some compiler option I forget. The security is opt-in, so most developers don't bother.
A bread loaf is discrete . Use the same fractional unit rounding technique from Superman II / Office Space.
In my opinion, having challenge without a deadline that a walkthrough or hints are available waste interest in the topic; aka get an email, build interest, etc.
As an example of startlingly good UX in Japanese RPGs, I point to the modern persona games, which somehow manage the thankless feat of providing copious amounts of information, but always in a very useful way, as well as helping clear away the mundanities of the game (remembering enemy weakspots and such)
Not really understanding what it is, reluctant to sign up without knowing first.
I've experienced quite a bit of nausea from goggle only VR products like GearVR. Even the menu was enough to get me sick -- moving my head forward without the menu changing distance with me seemed to make my body think I should feel movement but didn't, or something like that. The nausea in these situations was quite bad and lasted for 30-60 minutes or more after taking off the goggles.

But I have to say that the experience was quite a bit different with the room scale VR like the HTC Vive. The only time I experienced any nausea in there was in Hover Junkers. The game has you riding a vehicle with frequent changes in direction at high speeds. This again seemed to be related to the perception of motion without corresponding sensations.

But the teleportation used in games like Budget Cuts didn't affect me at all. (There were some disturbing bouts of claustrophobia when I teleported too close to a wall, but that didn't induce any nausea.)

At the time that I tried the Vive, I spent about 20 hours total playing with it, spread across probably 4 sessions. I think my longest duration without a break was 6 hours. It was exhausting but not nauseating. The others with me had similar experiences. In fact, one of them normally gets so nauseated by things like this that they have prescription medication for nausea for use while riding in the car -- and they didn't experience any nausea at all.
Part of me wonders if children are exposed to this technology from a young age, will they experience this type of sickness at all? Like how our parents couldn't figure out a nintendo or can barely open an email, maybe our children will be like "duh dad, you puke after 10 min in VR while I can live here all day!"

I think children that grow up on the sea adapt to sea sickness, maybe similar here.
I defeated a long-broken fridge and became a household hero through 3D printing
Don’t Fear Criticism, Follow It
"Not Indian, Israeli."

Cool. Always like to see you all in security or legal discussions as you have interesting perspectives. :)

"Patent differences i'm talking about: The justified way India doesn't follow the western law on pharma patents."

I didn't realize they did that. I love that as I want serious changes to pharma patents here. It's basically legalized murder and unacceptable given what U.S. top causes of death are. So, I guess they did resist in some key ways. :)

"Up until relatively recently,India did have a closed economy, but did a lot to open their economy to foreign trade and investment"

Even the U.S. was isolationist for a while. It usually fails as both capitalists and consumers want the benefits of international trade. That opens them up to concessions. From there, we look at how they fair in ratio of benefit to their country vs to foreign countries. Germany, South Korea, Japan, and China seem to be examples of winners that ensure trade is very positive for them vs major countries. India seems to be one of the losers but has potential that's untapped.

"Just look at how much of the important contributions to silicon valley came from Indian people, both brain-drained and outsourced."

I actually don't know how many did outside smart people being hired at Google, etc to build key techs. Most of the groundbreaking stuff was American with VC or defense funding. Lots of improvements and experimental stuff (eg small players) involved foreigners. Big companies like IBM have their R&D in Israel, China, whatever brain-draining the crap out of them. So, it seems like a mix to me.

I guess what I'm getting at is that American innovators often got things started, becomes stagnant a bit, and then they start boosting it with foreign innovators. Other times, it's foreign innovators straight up making a contribution either here or over there. That gets monetized somehow by big players either through feature parity or acquisition.
Just an observation: 30 seconds should be enough to brute force all ports. It's possible to split the range of the ports by using multiple hosts to perform the scan in case 30 seconds don't be enough.
That would require reading every post, which is impossible.
Not at all. Spatial tracking is great but it's still arbitrarily limited. You're not walking through an environment; you might as well be in a closet simulator.
I also felt VR will be ended up like what 3D-TV did, that something sounds great initially but can't be adopted for many people, you got dizzy and sick after a while and that is enough to stop using it.
Hey, this is a legit company (https://www.wyzecart.com) that provides guaranteed cashback to its users - it has quite a few hundred users too. It also gives you a coupon that actually works. And the extension is just like any other extension - it asks for permission to be able to find the best coupon/give cash-back.
"not fit for human consumption" is not a synonym for "unfancy". It describes the processes involved to arrive at the final food. Filet mignon can be unfit for human consumption, while pigs' feet can be processed correctly and be fit for consumption.
I've yet to blow chunks on a vr headset, however in 2015 I came close via a homemade headset for a nexus 7 with the cardboard app 'Drive City Rollercoster'
Dispite nearly falling down the stairs with a nexus 7 strapped to my head, (I broke my fall with my left arm)
I'm sure this tech will take off this year.
It seems obvious - if users leave stuff running in the background they should stay running, unless the admin has prevented it or kills it. Seems pretty standard? I don't follow why this is different for systemd.

I'm not wildly happy about adding more OS-specific code to tmux for something it already does perfectly well everywhere (including Linux right now).

If it has to be done differently then - glibc has the daemon() function, and tmux uses it on Linux. Shouldn't this code be part of glibc instead of tmux?

There doesn't seem to be any discussion following these additional questions from the tmux side. So what you're really saying is that systemd has been aware of the architectural issues with their design for five years, yet have not bothered to fix their end?
Can you give example of such static site workchain?
There seems to be something strange with that transaction. I don't know there, but where I live, that kind of transaction would clearly be invalidated if taken to court.

At least here, for a transaction to be valid, both parties must be in the same kind of conditions, regarding to the knowledge of the thing (if one does not know what the object is, they should explain the other, not just take advantage of the situation). This was clearly not the case.

"It may also be sued annulment or amendment of legal acts when one party exploiting the need, lightness or inexperience of the other, obtained through them an obviously disproportionate and unjustified financial advantage."

Spending just a few seconds in google, it seems that it is the same in other countries:
"When anyone, exploiting the sum ignorance, notorious inexperience or extreme misery of another, obtains an excessive profit that is clearly disproportionate to what he in turn agrees, the injured party is entitled to seek rescission of the contract, and if it impossible equitable reduction obligation."

But of course, it all depends of the law of the place. If that that's OK in Essex, well... too bad for the one selling this object. And good for the museum taking advantage of that opportunity (even if it may sound a little bit unfair). At least this machine will be in good hands.

In any case, it'd be nice if they stop bragging about that.

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Edit: And according to wikipedia[1]:

In English Law, "unilateral mistake is where only one party to a contract is mistaken as to the terms or subject-matter. The courts will uphold such a contract unless it was determined that the non-mistaken party was aware of the mistake and tried to take advantage of the mistake"

IANAL, but in this case, I think there was obviously one party that didn't know what the object was, and another that did know and was taking advantage of the situation ("It was advertised as a telegram machine ", "keep the change" and all that).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_in_English_law
> Traditional raised bed gardens don't hold water well

You should probably dig (loose a little the soil) the base of the raised bed garden before build it, or maybe to choose better your species list to fit your climate.
ESO Signs Contract for E-ELT Dome and Telescope Structure
And what should the Go team do if the only reasonable way to add generics is to break backward compatibility? Just rip the bandage off? Stagnate? Abandon the language and start a new one?
No greater indication of tribalism than someone salivating over "Western frontier style justice."
Because as the old name indicated, xdg-app is/was a Freedesktop project (though much of the docs are at Gnome, making one ponder porous project boundaries). And Freedesktop is all about defining that one canonical (heh) distro (making "free" something of a misnomer at best).

Observe flatpak becoming part of Fedora shortly, and then Poettering style "nudging" implemented to get Debian and the rest to adopt it.
Appreciate the clarification and very interesting example with Somalia situation. I hadn't heard of that one despite avoiding corporate media where possible. That was kind of your point, though. ;)

So, I guess you're analogy means that the Russians in power (eg government) force the journalists to shut-up whereas in America the corporations and journalists do it themselves on sensitive topics for selfish gain? I'd agree with that if it's what your metaphor meant.
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1-to-1 motion certainly seems to eliminate motion sickness. I can't remember a single instance of getting nauseous with a room-scale Vive experience and I've been in that headset for numerous hours.

I've tried a couple seated flight-sims. You simply can't see distant objects as well as you'd expect due to the low resolution of the panels, which is far more important in flight sims than with most other things. I can't say I got sick, but it didn't feel real to me, and I can see how others might get sick.

4K and, later, 8K VR should solve a lot of that.
Every media report has left out the most important detail, which a commenter here explains: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/someone_put_eyeglasses_on... ("It is pretty clear that there was some sort of label on the wall above the glasses".)

That changes everything, since labels like that exist to point out works of art. You can see the label on the wall in some of the posts on that page.
As a developer using OS/2 in its heydey and the early part of its decline I would say your assessment was spot on. Before NT the pre-emptive multi-tasking and ability to run Windows executables as well as OS/2 ones was a significant merit. Once NT came along it so clearly didn't have a future.

By the by "IBM VisualAge for C++ for OS/2" has to be a contender for world's least snappy product name.
Dude, that's kind of funny. It's like you even answered your own question already in the question itself. And didn't even notice it.
Judging by my own experience it's not so much the age part but the foreign language part the comes into play. ;)
When did you deal with Matrices before taking linear algebra?
In any case, government-assisted income might not be in the interests of larger corporations, because they're essentially the ones paying for it. But I don't know. Perhaps at some point all this consolidation will begin to reverse. If the tools to manufacture goods became accessible to cities, and then smaller communities, and eventually individuals (I.e. fabrication at home), coupled with the service industry largely being replaced by robotics, then this could solve many of these issues.

In fact, it would seem that things like home fabrication become more capable as robotics become more advanced and inexpensive. So maybe workforce consolidation will directly lead to this.

Or, more likely, this is just wishful thinking.
Do you have any tips for how a company should approach building its own CTF?
What he neglects to mention is both studies raise concerns about simulations of helicopters. From the abstract of the first study:

"The simulators which exhibited the highest incidences of sickness were helicopter simulators with cathode ray tube (CRT) infinity optics and six-degrees-of-freedom moving base systems. Of those studied, fixed-wing, fixed-base, dome displays had relatively low incidence of simulator sickness."

If you read the second study, the VR environments tested we're exclusively those of piloting helicopters.

Since helicopters have a lot of lateral and rotational acceleration, its plausible that this is why the simulation sickness is so great.
Haha your comment is priceless against its sibling. You're totally spot on.
Brainfuck. That particular computer... Was an 8 instruction machine with a... very short data tape. It could increment / decrement numbers on the tape, move back and forth on the tape, use loop constructs to select instructions, and print / read numbers from a panel. Was far too diminutive to run anything of interest, but it did technically have all 8 instructions.
Killing user processes which aren't meant to stay alive after the user logs out is sensible

Only if you can succesfully determine which ones the user wants to keep running. Otherwise it's just breaking stuff, as this story shows.

if this functionality had been added 21 years ago as well, a lot of mess and confusion would have been avoided

Not really. You will always have sub-standard software that doesn't adhere to the system's declared semantics, and just goes by "what works" (ask the WineHQ guys). Any API that has been around for 21 years will have corner cases where software just breaks. That does not mean you're then free to break the old API yourself.
That's a great idea. I'll add VMware, Virtualbox, Xen, and KVM. Maybe HyperV. That baseline will cover about anyone that might try it in Windows and Linux camps where real experimentation will happen.
I think we have lost touch with the reason we invented technology in the first place: which was to increase human productivity, not to remove the human from the equation altogether.
Do you also have a problem with the EFF, ACLU, and NAACP?

Or is it the secrecy that's more concerning?
Along with multi-user editing and approval workflow?
For a short period, most of those old proprietary clients started supporting XMPP. That was the golden age of instant messaging. I couldn't help but notice that somewhere around that time is also when Apple released iMessage and FaceTime. Suddenly, everybody ran back to walled gardens and we de-evolved to a point where people are suddenly okay paying for a service that they can only sort of integrate with. Thats how low the bar has gotten now.

Personally, if I were a place like Google where the content is more important than the product. I would be having very pointed discussions with the people in charge of things like Hangouts and Allo. There seems to be a lack of vision compared to what is easily doable in this space. Knowing enough of the XMPP spec to see what was never done, I have to agree that the author is right. Google never understood what they had with GChat.

To put it another way. Imagine if everybody ran around trying to make their own SMTP or HTTP protocols? Thats what everybody is trying to do with chat right now.
Wouldn't an IllumOS distro be compatible?
Not just Linux specific, systemd specific.
I am fine with singe user. But if there is something that takes less effort than a wordpress - I could use it quite well.
For self-referential datastructures (your first point above), using an Rc or Arc shouldn't have any overhead. I agree that it would be nice to be able to express this, but it's not really that big of a problem.

For partial borrows, there has been some work on it (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1215), but I agree that this is something that's missing. That said, I very rarely run into this, and there's usually some fairly obvious restructuring I can do to make it work out.
Cashing in on those OS/2 updates.
I wish I knew that back in 2014. I still did not feel that I had the credential after completing the CTF within a month (it did not help that a few completed it within a week-end!). It did plant a seed that maybe, I could and should apply for a (software) security job. I eventually did recently and the outcome was positive.
I am Dutch, my father studied under Dijkstra (TUE) and I studied under some of Dijkstra's prodigies. The humor Dijkstra uses is very Dutch to me and to me it's hilarious. His hard stabs were considered good practice in a lot of professional Dutch high end careers in the 70s/80s/90s but I believe it became less common. We have less issues telling like it is even if it hurts people in general, but when I still worked in NL this was definitely dying out.

That said; I admire Dijkstra for having such strong opinions and striving to create solid software no matter what. He was used to write software for machines that didn't exist yet[1] and I for one wish I had the time/budget to write software proofs. Especially with the modern tools (not the ones I learnt using from Dijkstra's works, but that was a good theoretical foundation which gave me understanding) we have now it's very possible but only for very expensive systems with very generous deadlines. I could say we will not deliver without that but I would be living under a bridge...

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/E...
Cellphones have no moving parts and do not exert large forces on things. High quality high power motors are expensive and will always be expensive compared to the consumer electronics we are used to.

Roomba etc can be cheap because the forces are small and required accuracy is low. An arm that can e.g. load a dishwasher or plug itself into an electrical socket is another beast. Consider that to lift 1kg payload the arm also has to lift itself, and arms typically weigh several kilograms.

Mass producing robots will help costs, but they will still be expensive like a car, not like a TV.
Is the interview to be found on that page? I'm afraid I don't see it.
A simple Vulkan Compute example
I don't know what your friend said, but the "errors are #3 killer" is a twisted fact. It comes from assigning "error" at the cause of death of every injury or illness that might have been non-fatal if every perfect test, advance in practice, technology, and mode of care were applied. It isn't a measure of how many otherwise healthy people were killed by errors that introduced new complications.

One of highlighted examples from an abstract of a major study was an "error" where a doctor didn't tell a kid with diagnosed heart disease that strenuous exercise would be dangerous, and the kid died after collapsing during a run.
I'm an ex-Matasanoite and completely agree with 'tptacek. If you can complete Microcorruption, you certainly don't know all you need to know, but you absolutely have the skills you need to learn anything you don't already know.
Futurama reference ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmCqn-DNSA0 though apparently popular enough that some people have made all-rush playlists ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsKBIBJj-4M&list=PL8BF75E7F0... )

On-topic - definitely a cool project and one that I haven't heard about actually, added to my queue of weekly source-code readings.

I'd also consider DirectFB similar, and another project that I just have in my vaguest of memories (think they used a project-name like Cairo that got google-CVed out of existence from the more recent one) from the 2001-02ish era. They tried to attack X back then, but fell victims to the driver situation (but they had arbitrarily rotated windows!).

One of my stronger personal influences is BeOS though - Compare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVydyC8ZGQ to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O40cPUqLbU&feature=youtu.be... :)
Cars cost more than $400 to build. The used market does not pay for the existence of things.
HCU will rise again!
They went hard on the justice atleast:

"Two people were executed, one given a suspended death penalty, three people receiving life imprisonment, two receiving 15-year jail terms,and seven local government officials, as well as the Director of the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), being fired or forced to resign"
Great post. I don't normally read Hackaday because I can't stand white-on-black text (there's a reason nobody else does that anymore) but your post and your earlier one from March 7 were well worth it.
No kidding. Especially annoying when using Google Maps and driving a stick shift.
'Alarming' Problems You Should Be Preventing on Your App
Kay is the reductio but forgot the absurdum. The natural numbers are the most recent invention in computer science. The rest is just implementation details.
In hindsight, I actually do recognize you from your pictures. Almost entirely through passing, but I'm certain we've at least been in the same elevator together. :p