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> why do you need 64 GB of RAM

I see this question often, and I totally don't get it. I do use 64GB for work, and in light of this news that no new Mac Pro will arrive any time soon, I'm considering bumping that to 128GB[1]. But I don't do high-frequency corporate hegemony work, or video editing, or any of that — I'm just a programmer.

Moreover, you could delete IDEA and Xcode and my 5 browsers and 7 text editors and my 30 terminal windows and git client and all the other work-related stuff open right now, and I'd still easily use 64GB just fucking around.

I wonder: how is it that people don't use 64GB of RAM? Do they reboot their machines every week? Do they fastidiously quit applications even though they'll probably use the app again within a few days? Are they just all like, "modern memory-swapping technology is so awesome compared to 1990s System 7 'Virtual Memory' that I love to watch it work, even though things run an order of magnitude slower in many critical sections"?

I really don't get it. Terabytes of RAM? Yeah, that might be hard to make use of today. But 64GB is definitely not too much, not for me and probably not for you, or even for your mom.

I don't have 64GB in my laptop, but only because I can't and have to settle for 16GB (unless I switch to a different OS, which is on balance a worse tradeoff currently, and yeah yeah I'm rooting for Linux but come on, one can only maintain hope for a couple decades and that mark is fast approaching...)

Cheap RAM is one of the things that keeps hope alive in this increasingly degenerate era.

[1]: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/13...
Not sure if it's just my experience, but I've found Hammerspoon to be extremely demanding on my older 2012 MacBook Air. I find single purpose apps somehow work better.

But I do love the amazing level of configuration and scripting that Hammerspoon allows you to do.
I've put a link down below, and you can find many more if you google "brain development 25". Basically, in adolescence people go through a phase of synaptic pruning, where the brain rewires and gets rid of a lot of unnecessary connections. During this time, certain parts of the brain involved in long-term planning, repercussion prediction, impulse control, social status, and a lot more don't function nearly as well as normal. This process continues up until about age 25 and ends with the prefrontal cortex, which handles some of the more complex computations like planning and long-term goal attainment. Many consider this the reason why people in their late teens and early twenties are goobers who are more worried about social status and having fun than meeting long-term goals.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1411647...
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Incorrect, you've mistakenly conflated "in practice the rights are the rights of the original developer" with what the GPL aims to ensure, which is "in practice the rights are the rights of any developer". A user (which could be a user or an entire organization) need not possess any development skills themselves in order to hire somebody else with developer skills. I don't have a moral problem with proprietary software and think it has strengths, but the part of the core value of open source (or even simple available source, given the appropriate contractual terms[1]) could be defined as "potential for interchangeability" with respects to devs. If the original devs go in a direction that isn't desirable or for that matter got hit by a bus, there is at least the option for an individual, organization, or community sufficiently dependent or seeing sufficient value to take up the torch. Whether they have the skills directly to do it themselves is as irrelevant as whether they have the skills to maintain hardware or do building engineering or construction or whatever themselves. The ability to have a flexible and redundant market around maintaining foundational infrastructure and tooling isn't without value.

1. I personally think available source, even if only escrowed, should be flat out requirement for copyright period but that's a different discussion.
I think it's one of the false lessons a generation learned from playing sim city. You always wanted to avoid roads in sim city.
The part where it can instead drop to $300, and you lose 70%, as happened after Gox :)
You can check this source: https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-c...
Not editable? Local laws are obviously misguided, because everything is editable.
If any other company did this they would be accused of the unethical "vaporware" tactic, famously associated with IBM, Microsoft, Apogee Software, etc.

The main point is to keep macers on the hook instead of going to Dell or some other vendor, because then people would learn that Windows 10 is not that bad and probably would not go back.
An example: Sir Ong-Siang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Ong_Siang
I get the feeling that a lot of GPL-ers really want to tell somebody big to back off. I'm partial to permissive licenses because I don't want to spend any time on enforcement. I honestly think some GPL supporters hope for the day that they get to send a nasty email to a company telling them that they have to comply with some term of the license.
Thanks, will be happy to try when I get some free time.
I think it makes a lot of sense to have a simple model that predicts ability to repay and to not give out loans to people who won't be able to pay them back. But that would have to happen at a federal level, and imagine being the politician who pushes that through. Until that happens the universities won't care, so it would have to be a societal shift.
Excellent point. WSL is certainly a step in the right direction.
"gnome-shell memory" returns pages of forum posts and bugzilla tickets of people sharing the same issue; and most are left unsolved. But that doesn't excuse me from contributing my specs and trying to help the community. Thanks for the suggestion.
We paid off huge student loans first, instead of getting into housing. Housing doubled. We're priced out of our local city.

Also .. I highly suggest that if you want to buy a place, do it before the baby arrives. After the baby, you are so fully absorbed in adjusting to your new life, that taking time out to go house hunting is a herculean task. Every house we bid and lost after the baby represented a much higher cost and led us to bid more than we thought the house were (to the tune of 50K in my opinion - we still lost the bloody bidding wars).
The Daystar Genesis MP generated a lot of "holy cow" moments.

Plus, we are in a different world these days. Intel hardware, due to Intel's keeping the bus proprietary and getting rid of the chipset makers, is a lot more generic than back in the day. NeXT and a lot of open source projects today have a list of hardware you can use. The list for today is a lot shorter. I think a lot of companies would thrive on making good macOS machines.

I really think Apple should just stop making any PC other than the MacBook and iMac lines. That's where their heart is anyway. License the OS for $250 a pop and sell for the same. If they are that concerned about what happened before, limit the sold macOS to Xeon cpus only. That will get rid of all the portables that might reduce their MacBook sales.
And as a corollary, the humanities that escape the downsizing can purge themselves of the downward drag of people who aren't cut out for college work, and raise their standards again.
That's not quite right. Non-copyleft licenses say "I will not sue you"; a sort of first-level copyleft license says "I will not sue you unless you potentially threaten to sue other people"... but the GPL is fully recursive: "I will not sue you unless you threaten to sue others in the ways that I don't like or do not threaten to sue others in the ways that I do like (namely, this sentence)."

As a concrete example of how this imposes real restrictions, the proprietary macOS got ZFS and DTrace starting, oh, ten years ago or so; Ubuntu got ZFS last year and there are still people who are pissed about it, wanting Ubuntu users to be forced to jump through the Purity Hoops that they already have to use for their proprietary drivers. Ubuntu's decision to ship ZFS cannot possibly be read as an attempt "to deny others the freedoms that Ubuntu enjoys." There is no freedom which Ubuntu enjoys which it is trying to deny others by shipping ZFS.

You still need to jump through the Purity Hoops to run DTrace: the "official channels" way is to not run DTrace (they recommend that you install systemtap and use a GPL application named `dtrace` which makes systemtap take DTrace-like input and produce DTrace-like output), and if you actually want to run DTrace you have to grab the `dtrace4linux` project off of GitHub and modify only your own system with it and then every time you load the thing your syslog will remind you that "module license 'CDDL' taints kernel, disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint," so I don't know what lock debugging is but I hope you don't need it.
The debate is not whether it is occurring at all or contributed to by mankind, but which of our activities have what effect, and what to do about it.

When folks like the above say "there is no debate", it should be quantified with that.
Even if you understand that the system is broken you still have to play along. Suppose you are a regular student who wants a regular job in an office doing marketing or whatever. A huge % of candidates have degrees. So employees start demanding a degree. If your cv has no degree it goes in the bin.

So you pay the piper. The supply of gov credit sets the price of courses. Hand over your labour.
==== When is your PRODUCTIVE HOUR ? ====

Started as a StartupWeekend Project ( still young )

http://www.dailyhigh.co
How do you tell spam from ham? How to tell a forgery from a real painting?

The answer is: classification is now for some problem domains a tractable problem where before it required human intervention. Telling fake news from real news requires a body of data (doable), a classification algorithm (mostly a solved problem) and the will, time and other resources to actually do it.

To me it sounds very much as something worth doing and possible, that Google with their vast resources appears to drop the ball here (see Google News, which gives equal billing to ham and spam alike) leaves room for an outsider to go and tackle that problem in a decisive way.

I can see all kinds of possibilities and this to me seems like a very worthwhile task.
No, the GPL focusses on the rights of the user downstream of the developer, regardless of whether or not they are versed enough to be a developer, or just a tinkerer, or a kid just starting to learn about computers, or someone that can figure out enough to make that one tweak to something that's annoyed them or a user that pays a developer or...

The point is the person who makes a few tweaks and distributes has to pass on that privilege.
You have a problem with zip codes that start with 0 eg 07001.
Taint is pejorative. Why must you choose negative terms to describe copyleft? Words matter, and words like "taint" and "viral" have been chosen for the purpose of harming copyleft's reputation.
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> EV, for example, is susceptible to distortion between leasing and buying capital assets.

Yes, this is an excellent point. The next-level thing to do when modeling companies that make extensive use of operating leases for capital assets is to capitalize those operating leases, for exactly this reason.
I think your misunderstanding just comes from the use of the word "room". To make things simpler to understand: room does not always mean bedroom. There are many rooms in a house: living room, bath room, bed room. Roommate simply means someone you share some of those rooms with (usually bathroom, living room, kitchen...) but obviously not the bedroom.

So, in the case of "6 of us in a 3 bedroom apartment", then yes, they shared rooms, but it's not always the case (I would've expected 3 people in a 3 bedroom apartment). Perhaps parent meant 3 couples (6 people)?
Linearity of the scope amplifiers was a big issue. Back when this was a thing there was a big difference in image quality between a Tektronix or HP oscope vs some no name scope. For probably 40 years people have been hooking up 8 bit microprocessors and DACs to a scope and trying to display a clock or something and getting a perfectly round clock dial with a cheap scope is not easy.
$60,000 usd a year list price.
This 'Hoax Slayer' has busted 1,300 fake forwards on WhatsApp
Entirely false.

First, if the user is someone who can modify the code, then the rights aren't just those of the original developer.

Second, if the user is someone who can't, it provides them with the ability to hire someone who is, or to learn themselves. This is especially important when the original developer cannot or chooses to not support the software (at all or on a specific platform.)

Take the coming y2038. For many things, the changes aren't immense, but the original developer could die in 2027 and never make them.

Access to the source is crucial, even if the user doesn't think they'll need it or be able to use it themselves.
You still need to update them in tandem with OS updates, but your point is well taken.
>The takeaway here is, in part: don't do something just because you're told to.

Perhaps children shouldn't go to school at all then, seeing as how the mantra of the classroom is sit down, shut up, and do what you're told or else you are likely to be labeled with a mental disorder and drugged with amphetamines.
Self service virtual visit from photos.

http://www.free-visit.net/index.php/fr/23-modules-positions-...
Is it really surprising that the brokenness of the online world resembles its real world counterpart?
Synereo the New Facebook of Blockchain? – Podcast
TLDR: someone goes through a bunch of jobs, things didn't work out at current job, gets fired, decides on not working in tech anymore, and blames the world. Also a lot of talk about trigger warnings, depressions, gender related talk and considering becoming a dominatrix.

Trigger Warning: Don't read the article if you cannot stand boring content and copious amounts of self-loathing.
Gillette, Bleeding Market Share, Cuts Prices of Razors
I binge-listened to the podcast over two listening sessions, so I imagine that is a modest endorsement for how interesting and engaging the podcast is. That said, while I disagree with the article's title, some of its sentiments regarding the last three episodes resonated with me.

The most cogent among them is that I did feel a sense of invasiveness when the podcast took the hard turn to dive deep into John's personal life. Unlike the author's criticisms, I think this arises from the combination of unexpected and unsatisfied expectations; unexpected expectations due to the sharp turn away from a linear plot and its primary subject; unsatisfied expectations because the story, probably inherently and by no fault of the producers, left many questions unanswered regarding the original plot. Perhaps this feeling of invasiveness is intended so the listener feels more invested in or connected to the intimate details of John's personal life that shaped his character and his flaws, but that feeling is nonetheless instilled in the listener.

I deeply enjoyed listening to the series in full and think that others should listen, but I can't say I don't have many lingering questions. I can understand how the mix of unanswered questions regarding the initial story and the possibility of perceived guilt for intruding into the man's personal life could leave a sour taste in the mouths [of] some, perhaps sour enough to title a [critique] scorning the podcast's creation.

Edit: [grammar]
>I guess it depends on if you think code, like corporations, should have personhood.

I don't get this analogy.
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Though not a proof of the existence of God as worked on by Godel, but Al Platinga is known for his work for the logical discussion of the rationality or religious belief
Somewhat related excerpt: https://www.princeton.edu/~hhalvors/restricted/plantinga-Rea...
This seems cool! If you'd like some design/growth help, I may be the right guy for that. My email is in my profile.
Was he actively shooting at the time?

Looking around I see mixed reports. He was talking to them and fired on the robot when he saw it approaching, but I don't see any clear reports that there was ongoing gunfire.
The fact that finder doesn't let you retrieve or enter your current FS path just like a URL in a browser is criminal.
Would love to see a future write-up on this. I've seen some similar things. So far too involved to replace having to go out and close up the chickens myself each night. For those that don't know ... chickens are very low maintenance, and they do put themselves to bed each night before dark (very instinctual). But they do need to have something between them and the other creatures of the night, which usually means trudging out and closing their door after they have decided to go to bed. And then letting them out again in the morning.
As a hardware side project I've been designing and building an open source split-flap display - the kind of electro-mechanical displays you used to see in train stations and airports that loudly flip through letters and numbers as they update.

https://scottbez1.github.io/splitflap/

Have a few working prototypes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bslkflVv-Hw), but I'm currently redesigning the electronics/PCB to make it easier for hobbyists to build (i.e. avoiding tight pitch surface mount components - https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap/issues/12), and I'd still like to figure out how to make them cheaper to build in small quantities.
Working on a spend management tool geared toward understanding and managing spend on SAAS services.
> It's really annoying to have to explain to a true believer (of GPL) that it potentially taints codebases it mixes with.

The GPL doesn't "taint" anything. You're complaining about how Free Software supporters argue but you don't seem to understand what those arguments are. You would have the same problem if you mixed proprietary software into you codebase, because copyright "taints" derivative works.

> Can't remember the last time I heard ... complaining about freeloaders.

Why do you feel entitled to free (as in beer) code?

> No entity wants to risk their hard work to become a derivative of a smaller project they pull in.

Yes, including GPL licensed projects. If you don't like the price of distribution license, you can always ask about licensing the code under other terms.

> Which could cause them to look elsewhere

Yes, that's the goal. Using community code is very inexpensive when you accept the GPL's terms, but the low price requires a payment where you are required pay back to the community in a similar way to what you took from the community. This is a protection against freeloading. If you don't want to participate, that's fine, but you get to pay the financial, legal, and social costs of using a proprietary solution.

> Nintendo

> the potential reciprocity from a big player

Good luck getting much out of Nintendo. They are famous for their iron first attitude regarding copyright. A current example is their abuse[1] of YouTube's contentID system. While there have been occasional exceptions, it is incredibly naive to expect voluntary altruism - which almost always has some costs and little profit potential - from profit-focused corporations.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlzEr10NY3M
Link for others: https://handsontable.com/examples.html

It's too expensive IMO. But if you are not using it commercially, it's on Github.
Sorry Windows, Android is now the most popular end-user operating system
Yes, that's it exactly. It's interesting for me to recognize the little "tells" that point out the contradictions we habitually ignore, that must be ignored to continue living as we live. This sort of routine police report falsehood is one of those. Of course there was no bicycle involved, they were fishing for goodness' sake. There was no bicycle at the scene, mangled in the way the boy's body was mangled. However, the cop on the scene had decided that the driver (and perhaps more importantly his employer and that employer's insurance company) should not be held responsible for driving too fast. (Can you stop when you notice children in the road? No? Then you're driving too fast!) The most effective way to ensure that irresponsibility was to place the boy beyond the pale of potential victimhood, on a bicycle.

It would be interesting for a sociologist to do a study of police reports on deaths of cyclists in traffic. Whenever the report didn't include a picture of a mangled bicycle, the sociologist could interview witnesses to see if they would mention a bicycle without being prompted to do so. We might find that mischaracterizing pedestrians as cyclists is a very common thing.
We'll s/gag/experiment/ above.
That behaviour was desribed by the old masters as 'ex falso quodlibet': from falsity whatever (when else am i having the chance to be this pedantic). In the uni I was taught that hippie-era AI dealt with that with things called non-monotonic reasoning, abduction, truth maintenance systems.
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where do you find these "remote first" companies? sites like weworkremotely.com? (am just starting out)
I don't use any extensions. On idle, with only a terminal open it jumps from 3% to 26% CPU. I'm under the impression that it has to do with my hardware since I've tried various CentOS and Fedora versions and the issue persists.

> 31.2 26.1 gnome-sh+
I wish there were more articles like this for sites that are considered gray areas like gambling or porn.
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Would you mind exchanging emails? I would love to ask you more specifics about your experience as I am thinking of doing the same. Email in my profile.
I think I answered the asked question. By using the GPL the developer is choosing to have the rest of their application abide by the GPL, just like the LGPL or MIT/BSD licenses. The later examples require fewer changes, however, but in principle you're still abiding by the license.
The classic case of "You can totally substitute being part of the capitalist class with education signaling!"

Turns out you can not, at least not in America.
We should all start using proxy servers
i am always surprised, that gambling sites and similar business with questionable morality

dont face hard time recruiting top engineers , i always though this would be a major concern
Maybe I misunderstand, but don't you want to invalidate the cache when a new version comes along? Isn't the risk of version skew worse?
More dead black people by cop guns, that's for damn sure.
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This is a very misleading article in many ways, but I'll just point out one: they show a Google Traffic map showing traffic normal "late in the morning." But to measure how much time people are spending in traffic you can't just take one snapshot. Traffic might be the same at 11 AM while rush hour congestion now extends for several extra hours before and after what it did before. Based on anecdotal evidence in other comments here I would bet that is what is actually happening.