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First off, DOS has very direct hardware access. This means it works very well in more embedded environements. It also means it's just flat-out fun to hack on for some sorts of people, for much the same reasons that, say, ITS was fun to hack on (although no ITS user would ever admit to liking DOS, obviously)

Secondly, FreeDOS is useful for bringing a semi-modern operating system to your 486 or whatever, without it being unbearably slow: breathe some life into the thing.

Finally, legacy software. DOS has a massive library of some of the finest software ever conceived: games in particular. Doom, Quake, Duke3D, Wolf3D, King's Quest, Monkey Island, Myst, Lemmings, Dune II, Descent, various Infocom games, and far more that was less widely ported than the above and hard to play nowadays.
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I'd love to buy one. My house stopped receiving them for a year now. Maybe I have a noise source or something.
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But why not Linux in that situation?

(Not to talk the project down, it's great. But I don't think anyone wants to depend on it for system recovery)
Jerf, I understand your point. I compare it on functionality, for example compare the load times of for example Windows for Workgroups 3.11 with Word for Windows 6.0 on an old Pentium 1 or 486 with say 8 MB of RAM with Windows10 and the earliest Word version you can get running (or use Wine on Windows). You could say, test them both on SSD drives or HDD drives and allow them 4GB. For a more fair comparison you could use Windows98SE with Office97 and Office97 on Windows10. I think the previous OS's are significantly faster.
Once I triplebooted my Mac to Ubuntu, OSX 10.6 en WindowsXP on SSD. WindowsXP was a factor faster to "use", write some office documents, browse the internet etc.

But in a sense you are right, Windows 10 is running very fast on the latest intel proc and SSD here. Still once in a while I get annoying slow downs and it does seem a little bit slower then what I could remember from the speed Win 3.11 was running on HDD on the Pentium I. But the programs were less featured then as well. LibreOffice Writer 5 starts in 7s on SSD here.. I thought Office97 Word was a bit faster on 98 or XP back then... but these are memories from almost 20 years ago, maybe I do see the past as to rose-colored. To test this I have to define what I exactly was comparing to what - general speed of usability or the exact same programs under different OS's with the exact same hardware. On both accounts it might very well be much faster with previous 16/32bit and less featured software.
However, he and many git users enamored of his style are perfectly willing to be condescending to anyone who points out the problems. Which itself is a problem.
There is also a historical significance this and things like DOSbox may prove useful in the future given ever lengthening copyrights.
If you consider the Ipad came out in 2011, which was 5 years ago (for a few more days), I would say 5 years. Touchscreen devices make up about half of the global electronics industry, so by extension half of Shenzhen was built to accommodate that.

With a focused agenda, the US could rebuild a supply chain in 5 years if it wanted to. I think it is unlikely to want to however.
Having lost my child six years ago, I am stricken by the similarities in the ways of grieving, the feelings expressed, the unbearable absence, the disappearing friends...
If the past matches, maybe the future will too, and you can hope for the return of laughing, even day-long happiness and peace of mind. One year ago, that wouldn't have been possible.

Many things will still bring you down, a tactless word by an unknowing personn, a movie where suffering is used as a plot twist to make it more real by some damned scenarist who doesn't know what he/she is speaking about, the rage when friends/familly keep forgeting your suffering...

What helped me and may help you:
- knowing there can be light at the end of tunnel. Grieving can be kept in check, even if you cannot right now.

- sleeping is vital, everything is uglier when exhausted.

- not expecting non-grieving people to sympathize with you for a long time, even for short period, even in your family. There're very rare exceptions, but try to avoid fighting for sustained awareness, that's a lost bitter battle. Aim for "one shot compassion".

- linking with people who are grieving for the same reasons as you, through forums, non profit, etc. They will understand you and for once you won't need to retreint yourself. Having a free speech place is instrumental !

I am sorry for your loss. I truly am
I can only speak for myself, but I never expected these chips to compete with intels top offering in any setting or use case. Certainly not for gaming.

I own an AMD cpu because it was affordable, not because it was great, but good enough. If this is "good enough" the chips will do fine IMO.

All I'll say about competitive AMD is don't hold your breath.
Space mining and manufacturing could be a great focus for a "moon mission" scale project.
16 GB is more than you really need this days.
He doesn't has his nostalgia goggles on. There is new software that can be outpaced by very similar software atop a 486 running DOS.
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$1,000,000-$5,000,000

Carlos Slim - Chairman & CEO of Telmex, largest New York Times shareholder

James Murdoch - Chief Operating Officer of 21st Century Fox

Newsmax Media - Florida-based conservative media network

Thomson Reuters - Owner of the Reuters news service

$500,000-$1,000,000

Google

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>>My personal impression with Google is that they are not interested in hiring male coders anymore...

I can't think of many scenarios that would give you that impression. Did google personally reject you for being a man?
Is hg easier to use? Or any other DVCS not created by such a bad UX practitioner?
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Because Facebook would be completely fucked if they were caught doing it. Even if by some miracle the US government didn't do something about it at the very least the EU would. That's not even getting into the mass user exodus it would trigger. Something I'm sure marketing teams for other existing services would gladly take advantage of. Facebook is in an amazing position in terms of market share and leverage but they're not invincible.

I would wager that if they were caught doing this Facebook would have a new CEO and possibly a mostly new executive team in a matter of weeks or even days. I think it would trigger the introduction of some kind of third party auditing program to ensure it would never happen again. There would be ads running everywhere trying to make amends with the user base.

Even if I knew nothing about technology I would assume it was something I didn't understand before I assumed it was the company doing something so utterly stupid.
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Hi Shakna, if you'd boot FreeDOS and Windows 3.1 directly, perhaps it would even be 4 seconds as you skip Linux booting and the DosBox latency.
While that's factually true fail to see the causality. It's like: "These are completely different stories, she was born in Canada and he is an excellent tennis player".
I was a major user of hg from 2007-2012, before I succumbed to network effects. The UX of hg was more intuitive for users coming from SVN and CVS.
From the translations/discussion this sounds like it's a 3.15/3.3 GHz 8C/16t engineering sample (ES7?). Current 8C clocks are up to 3.4/3.8 and the 4c/8t (the 6700k competitor) is expected to have a 3.8 or 4.0 GHz base. IPC-wise, the Zen chips appear competitive and in line with AMDs claims so personally I don't see this as a bad sign at all.
What about WINE?
Humans have the drive to go about because of a body that has various demands. And with every doing, humans accumulate Ego which again helps their drive to learn, explore, do stuff or define their behaviour. Humans are self-learning systems. The rewards and penalty are also self-created.

Unless general AI systems start to model the above which creates self-learning, they will be just specific systems with a tiny aspect of human world ingrained.
I suspect for a lot of people the carrots aren't really that relevant compared to the cost of migrating. Async is one of the bigger ones and for us folks doing Django it's not on the menu.

There are certainly quality of life improvements but nothing too ground breaking apart from async.
The "why this exists" part of the home page is pure hacker. Kudos!
"it's complicated": yes,it is. it's a product designed and built for people who deal with complex systems and information models on a daily basis; they're the equivalent of a professional pilot... not your feeble, senile grandmother. You wouldn't buy your feeble senile grandmother a 787, chuck her in with no training and simple expect her to fly to Bali, would you?

"I don't like it and here's a heap of examples which lead me to arrive at my preordained conclusion that it's completely broken": cool, you've found issues. If you can, fix them and share. If you can't or won't... well, there are other tools for doing version control and perhaps another might suit you better. If you have to work with people that use git, I'm sure there's some way you can generate patch sets and still get stuff done.
The problem is that it's the 2nd time that AMD is supposed to offer something "competitive" the early Bulldozer benchmarks were promising but then the actual results were garbage.

This is going to be a 500-600$+ part, it loses to an Intel's 230$ parts in gaming and doesn't really beat their current top offering that while does cost around 1000$ when you factor the final price of such system and the fact that you'll lose PCIE lanes, storage performance native USB 3.1 and better networking and Thunderbolt when it comes to systems that cost 5000-6000$ or more it wouldn't really matter.

There is very little reason to buy AMD cpu's atm they don't really offer good and affordable platforms if you bought one recently you made a mistake because you bought a platform without native USB 3.1 with previous gen PCIE and with very poor storage performance, sure it might not matter to you but if you only browse the internet then a Core i7 system or a NUC would work just as well.

AMD needs a competitive part and more than one and not only in price; price is irrelevant NVIDIA and Intel smoke AMD sales on both fronts when the performance lead is large enough regardless of the price time and time again.

AMD needs to win benchmarks and to offer better prices to gain a substantial market share.
A lot of these complaints seem based on the fact that Git has features SVN doesn't and those features add complexity. Git really isn't that hard to learn. The trick is to take your time. If you try contributing to projects with complicated repos before you have a grasp on all the complexities, then yeah you're gonna have a bad time.

I could write a similar article about how FTP is so much easier to use than SVN and it would be equally silly.

That is not to say that Git isn't inconsistent and the docs are terrible, but there are good tutorials out there. If I were more helpful I'd have a link to one here but I'm on my phone.
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Ask HN: Should I learn Bootstrap 3 or 4 at this moment?
I noticed Bootstrap 4 has not been released yet. Is it close to being released or should I still learn and use Bootstrap 3 at this moment?
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A script for finding vulnerable versions of PHPMailer on a server:

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Finds also really old versions like 2.0.4.
I'm not anywhere near an expert with git, but I'm proficient enough to use it effectively with my normal workflow. I like git, but admittedly the bar was set really low by subversion.

This article raises some valid points, though. One that resonates most with me is that git exposes its entire model. I really wish there was a git-lite that just had the few basic commands that junior developers can grok and not fuck up so I wouldn't have to waste my time explaining the same stuff for the umpteenth time.
I've been using git for 7 years now. Never used anything else for version control (besides visual source safe which I try to forget).

Never felt the need or desire to try anything else.
What I take from the names article is to make sure you understand your requirements. A blogging platform will have different requirements than, say, electronic medical records.
hg's command-line interface is far better organized, yes, at least in the sense that it appears to have been organized rather than organically slapped together and papered over with "well it'd make sense if only you understood more about it".

Blaming users for not understanding a bad interface is one of the classic mistakes.
I would argue the most relevant example here would be Visual Fred (aka, Visual Basic .NET), the saga of Microsoft throwing people who had relied on Visual Basic 6 under the bus; for more on this topic as it relates to Python 3 and Ruby 1.9, I wrote a comment a month ago that contrasts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13062777
That is hard to believe. Their case studies have organizations using thousands or tens of thousands of servers for scientific computing, etc.
Sorry, but i'm not paying extra for the privilege of running unobfuscated and "decrypted" PHP code...

Even the "free" version of phpGrid appears to be nothing but base64 encoded strings being pushed through eval like something a script-kiddie would write.

They pay brisk money for this software?
It's hard to figure out if this event is unlikely or likely to happen.

But I won't be surprised to wake up tomorrow to learn that there's a humanitarian crisis in Iraq.
It's a macro expander. Good luck debugging that.
My issue with learning electronics is that there's a steep gap between "plug this into that" and "plug this into that because x". I want to learn how to reason about the latter. Most resources I've seen like this don't give you that, they just have a bunch of prefab projects and lead you through them with the former strategy. Fortunately I've been able to learn some of the latter on my own but it would be great to see a good resource for the former.

I know how to program. I don't want to program a microcontroller to do all of the work. I don't want to build a "WiFi robot", I want to build a simple circuit with a few LEDs and understand completely how it works and why it was designed that way. I want to know how to choose the right batteries and resistors, or what components I need for arbitrary projects.
Probably lack of sufficient dump load.
They have Android too, just not linked from their webpage:
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A lot of new PCs in my (highly piratey) country come with FreeDOS pre-installed. You won't see them in retail stores, but they're offered for a significant discount online, even from major brands like Asus and Lenovo.

I have taken advantage of these offers several times to avoid buying a Windows license for a computer I intended to run Linux on, or to install a different version and/or language of Windows than the one the manufacturer offered by default. Sometimes I even buy Windows separately at additional cost, just to avoid the bloatware and spyware.

I have several theories about why manufacturers choose to do this instead of just leaving the disk unformatted or using a proper user-friendly Linux distro. By having another O/S pre-installed, they can claim that they are giving consumers a choice rather than outright encouraging piracy. But since most people who buy these PCs put pirated Windows on it anyway, they don't want to pre-install anything that they might need to support seriously. This means using a minimal O/S that "just works" but one that nobody is actually going to use as a daily driver. FreeDOS fits that bill, whether the developers like it or not. I'm grateful that it exists.
Interested to see whether this actually makes an impact. A Tesla is a relatively expensive automobile in the US. It seems like Tesla owners can likely afford $30 for a couple hours of parking depending on the circumstances. For instance, parking for events in Tennessee can range from $5 - $20 based on the size of the event. Assuming a 21.89% difference in dollar value, its effectiveness may be surprising.

http://taxfoundation.org/blog/real-value-100-each-state-2016

Edit: spelling
See? that's fascinating.

My unix box handles the day-to-day, but the future is coming, and I can't wait.
Blinding during interviews is obviously quite limiting – I probably wouldn't want to hire someone without having actually talked to them.

But if I had to guess, I'd say these large companies are actually quite fair in their hiring processes. Discrimination at that step in the process seems to be more common at smaller or older companies. The worst, most blatant actual case I have seen was the IT dept at a medium-sized bank.

At FB and Google I'd guess "career advancement" is more susceptible to biases. As company tries to create "shallow hierarchies", the risk of competition devolving into the law of the jungle increases (but, as I said, only guessing. Have no experience with them).
There was MS-DOS, and also Digital Research, later Novell, then Caldera, etc DOS which tended to have features that wouldn't be around until a version or two of MS DOS later. There were also nasty power plays involving the two -- early betas of Windows 3.1 would refuse to run on DR-DOS.
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The pictures on the graph show the AMD part to be a 3.33 / 3.4 boost clock one.
If they can't push it to beat a 6700K in gaming it won't matter, especially at it's price point, you'll be giving up way too much on the platform itself.
ATM it's slower than a 220-230$ Core i5 in games and those get better PCIE performance and native NVME and USB 3.1 support and Thunderbolt which does matter to people.

As far as professional applications goes, can't beat a 6900K has only 24 PCIE lanes which means no multi-GPU support if you want to use PCIE based storage and even with a 16/8 GPU setup you are still going to get throttled heavily because USB 3.1, network, sound and every other peripheral is running over PCIE these days (if you have even a single NVME SSD you'll have to lock it to 8/8 or 8/4 which means you can actually bottleneck the GPU somewhat on the X4).

Overall no sorry doesn't look good, especially considering that in benchmarks that AMD showed with the 8c/16t part they were beating a 6900K at 3.4ghz it doesn't seem to be the case with this evidence.

As far as the IPC part it wasn't really in question at this time, the clocks were and still are, AMD is going to be at very big disadvantage as far as the platform goes ("chipset" if you like) because Intel does PCIE, storage and LAN considerably better than AMD and also has native USB 3.0/3.1 support.
AMD needs to be able to provide better clocks than Intel to be really valuable in this, and at least as many PCIE lanes as Intel does; 24 is simply not enough.
twitter should just tape delay his tweets and invest or short just before...
All fair points. So what can we actually do about it?
The crucial criticism:

The fundamental promise of any version control system is this: “Once you put your precious source code in here, it’s safe. You can make any changes you like, and you can always get it back”. Git breaks this promise. Several ways a committer can irrevocably destroy the contents of a repository:

git add . / … / git push -f origin master
git push origin +master
git rebase -i <some commit that has already been
pushed and worked from> / git push

That should not be possible.

Mandatory XKCD: [1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/1597/
I doubt that the downvotes come from people disagreeing with you. Rather, I suspect that the "certain change" references are simply off-putting.

Trump. The guy's name is Trump. Alluding to it, vaguely-yet-obviously, makes it seem like you're trying too hard to sound clever.
because manufacturers still provide dos .exe's for flash updates.
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I remember changing the channel on a color HeathKit TV at my grandparents by shaking house keys because the ultrasonic remote sensor circuit interpreted it as channel down. (It had a diagnostic and circuit diagram on a fold-down panel IIRC.)

Also my father and grandfather both made multiple technology generations of oscilloscopes from kits. And, my father opened an electrical automotive shop in Santa Clara, thanks in part to learning from HeathKit and other study-at-home electronics courses.
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What about the zero length? Wouldn't that reveal the encrypted IV since he's just xoring sizeof(uint32_t) against the IV and not including any MAC?
I mean, there is ElephantSQL [1] and Aiven [2], but I'd rather have something from Google themselves since I consider relational database a core part of the architecture and infrastructure.

[1] - https://www.elephantsql.com/

[2] - https://aiven.io/
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My mother lives out in the boonies of rural Oklahoma, and until about five years ago, had to make-do with 28.8 (on a good day) dialup.

She now has up-to-3Mbps/1Mbps via a WiMax antenna on the roof, pointed at another antenna on the water tower of the nearest "town" a few miles away. For this, she pays $65/month.

It's expensive, but it's her only option. If she lived just a few miles in another direction, she could get these awesome DSL prices (from her ISP's website):

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The caption of a picture says the reservoir holds 11 billion cubic FEET, but the article earlier says METERS.

That's a magnitude of difference.
This reads more like a vaguely passive aggressive ad hominem attack against McLuhan being a conservative Christian primarily motivated by dreams of stardom rather than an analytical critique of his ideas and writings, which is finally made plain after a long rambling in the last sentence.

>McLuhan’s probes, taken as truth-indifferent provocations, really are good to think with. It’s just that the man — rewarded for closeting his gloom — is more instructive than his books.
The way that the author uses GPS to get time (NMEA messages) works well for the purposes of the article, eg syncing a wristwatch to ~1 second accuracy. As another poster pointed out though, these messages are only accurate to about a half-step one, and it is actually worse than just using an internet NTP signal.

If you want to build a GPS based NTP server, you need a GPS board that outputs a PPS signal. When I built mine I used an adafruit board hooked up to a raspberry Pi's GPIO pins.

It's something of a bear to get everything to play together properly and get the extremely precise PPS signal to the NTP server, I recall it required a custom kernel module and a lot of tinkering with tick rates.