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I agree with all your points.

I've written a lot of multithreaded C++, I did quite a lot back starting about 1994 for around 10+ years, a lot of middle-tier application code on Windows NT in particular (back in the day when it was all 3-tier architectures - now we'd call them services) - it's totally fine if you know what you are doing.

Work is usually organised in mutex-protected queues, worker threads consume from these queues, results placed a protected data structure, and receivers poll and sleep, waiting for the result.

Other tricks to remember are to establish a hierarchy of mutexes - if you have to take several locks, they must be done in order, and unlocked in reverse order, this should guarantee an absence of deadlocks. A second trick - a way to guarantee locks are released and bugs of non-release of mutexes do not occur, as well as the correct order of releases, is to strictly follow an RAII pattern, where destructors of stack-based lock objects, unlock your mutexes as you exit stack frames.

Of course, in later periods, you started to see formal recognition of these design patterns, in Java and C# libraries which had WorkerPools, Java and it's lock() primitive, but these design patterns were prevalent in my code at the time, because it was the only obvious and simple way to use multi-threading in a conceptually simple manner. KISS...

Nothing particularly hellish about any of it - but I remember it was not a development task for all developers, and without common libraries in the period (this is pre-STL), you had to work a lot of it out for oneself.

I do remember in the period you would get grandiose commentary from some public developers who would proclaim such things as, "it is impossible to have confidence in/write a bug-free threaded program."

I always felt that said more about the developer than multithreading though.
It is not defeatist to suggest energies would be better spent elsewhere. Defeatism would be if I said we could never convince people of the need for privacy.
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>I'm not sure why you think they don't?

If they are they either aren't offering user/programmer access to that database, they aren't doing semantic/type binds, or aren't advertising those features well.

>I was happy to ditch the IDE he inflicted on us and go back to text editors. Structured code editing is a tricky UI problem

It's reconcilable with normal text editing, just update the structure once its valid. I agree that things like block/visual programming can be absurd.
That could be due to the reporting and diagnosis of those illnesses or lack thereof in earlier times.

I don't disagree that capitalism optimizes for the wrong metrics. I simply don't have the knowledge one way or another to say it would or wouldn't be possible to have such progress without capitalism but I wonder if we haven't hit some kind of peak comfort in technology, and we should really start shifting focus to reaching a peak humanity instead. Everyone has a smartphone yet it hasn't made them happy for example.

I think we simply missed some refinements and balances on our march to success.
Common point of all of these countries: they're bloodthirsty dictature enslaving / mass-murdering their population.
I mostly agree and use bluetooth headphones a lot. They are better for the gym, and better for connecting to my laptop/desktop so I can get up and walk away from it.

That said and though the audio quality is improving, they are still a pain to use between multiple devices, remember to keep charged, often uncomfortable to wear in bed/lying-down (usually have some battery bulk going on).

So I'm still glad my phone has a headphone jack for backup and times I just don't feel like faffing with the far from perfect bluetooth, like right now I just got out of bed, plugged my wired headphones into my phone and started listening to a podcast.

(Also, I understand that some of my issues will be solved when 'AirPod'-level headphones become more affordable).
Why does not printing money mean the poor will stop buying things? I imagine if their day to day expenses decrease relative to their nominal sticky wages, they'll buy more things, or at least save so they can buy in the future.

> Money needs to be cheap to make capital investment work.

You are welcome to believe a theory that the only way to help the poor is by encouraging "capital investment" but that sounds suspiciously like a transfer of wealth to the wealthy in the name of helping the poor. Given that your rhetoric is exactly what neoliberal economics has prescribed (and has been followed, to a first order approximation) we should not be surprised that the rich have gotten richer despite social programs and progressive taxation.

> The problem is banks lending for purposes other than capital development of the real economy.

Who gets to decide what is 'the real economy' or not? Do I get to decide that Justin Bieber lascivious lifestyle and profligate spending are not 'the real economy' because I find his music insipid? What about video game testers? can I say they aren't 'really working' because I think zynga is a drain on society and 'productivity'?

I would suggest rather if banks are doing things that are not what you expected them to do as a result of the incentive structures your favored policies were intended to encourage, that you examine the premises of the incentive structures and look within for predictive failures and structural misdesign instead of blaming the symptom.
Sorry, the missile launched over Japan is not deterrence.

Along with the many explicit statements that he intends to use his weapons.
Why would this be a bad thing?
You say a normal president would help, but a "normal president" was behind the shit in Libya that you said cemented NK's determination. No matter what kind of president America has, our reckless foreign intervention through the past few decades is to blame.
I'd guess that's because it's designed for a fixed number of letters to a plate.

Monoscpace doesn't have spacing issues and possibly make the plates easier to recognize.
Does anyone remember in 1999, the Bosnian war. Where the US bombed the Chinese embassy?

Who is to say, that if HK nuked Guam. That the US launches missiles and a few of those hit China (by mistake). I mean, in this instance a first strike in key locations. Would mean that China couldn't retaliate as quick.

Thoughts?
Every 10 years or so North Korea starts to run out of money from the last deal (1994, 2003). A big money maker has been concessions for not pursuing nukes [1]. The money must almost be dried up from the last one, thus the posturing.

In the end this stems from a lack of coherent plans after invading Korea back in the day. We are lucky Vietnam didn't end up the way Korea did or we'd have the same situation still today. The middle east may also turn into something like this.

The US has to learn to win wars by economically winning over people and giving them more opportunity and freedoms, like Marshall plans back after WWII, ones in which we were also paid for but benefitted all.

We are greatly failing at rebuilding after invasions and this is another example of how that has blowback.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreed_Framework
If China wanted that buffer zone to remain intact, that interest would be best served by a well behaving North Korea, wouldn't it? I don't think the buffer zone accounts for China's behaviour.
Both children to look after and ageing parents.
He doesn't want to be dragged through the streets like Gaddafi.

My hope is the military decides enough is enough, and a Coup d'etat rolls along the boob tube screen one morning.

I like North Koreans. I don't think they need to ruin that beautiful, unspoiled country with Capatalism. I just want this dude to go, along with his cronies--including all the ones hiding in China/Russia.
I'm also getting these emails. Deleted (not deact) my account 8 months ago and recently started getting notifications that someone is trying to sign up. If this comes from facebook just makes me not want to touch anything related to the brand anymore
European Union is joining UN to help refugees using Ethereum
North Korea is tolerated by China, not really supported anymore.
It's the other way around. Sanctions are the reason why Russia is supporting NK.
How about you try not to enslave your population in the last communist totalitarian dictatorship in the world ? What course of action make you think treating your population like shit is wise ? It consumed the Stalinist USSR, what do you expect will happen when you keep pissing off the whole world ?
@Oracle, please do the right thing and open-source Solaris. At least that's a proper way to die!
it's funny you say 'you cannot blame the Chinese for supporting NK in the past', yet you say 'US as a history of using them and invading foreign countries.' Judge both by the present. US is still the most powerful democratic country that supports innovation, freedom, etc. China is supporting a NK dicatorship which terrorizes its own people, closing off and becoming belligerent, electing a dicatatorship, and threatening other countries.
"It constitutes yet another breach of the universally accepted norm against nuclear testing"

The norm is toothless though. If a country wants nukes, they just have to suffer through the economic sanctions by a few countries.

NK government has every incentive to continue with the research and development. They don't give a damn about their starving population, and they get the ultimate terror card that they can milk for decades.

We really need to develop anti-ICBM tech to save the humanity.
> I’m not sure what the lesson is here.

Aha, I laughed out loud. I love this guy.
Well, I am sure that it is entirely fiction.

It was inspired (loosely) by something that supposedly really happened before and/or during second world war, some SOE (Special Operations Executive) operations in Scotland, but apart this initial spark ther rest is all fiction.

http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/Inverlair...
Poverty is the natural state of mankind. How many more millions would exist in dire misery were it not for the development of wealth creation in the West.

You might want to look at Robert Conquest's The Great Terror - "Exact numbers may never be known with complete certainty, but the total of deaths caused by the whole range of Soviet regime's terrors can hardly be lower than some fifteen million."
> the US has enough weapons to destroy the planet several times over

I think that's very difficult to prove, because it's not true (https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ vs USSR Tsar Bomba 100Mt vs US B53 1.2Mt). You might want to constrain that hyperbole down to "destroy many nations (politically)" since the largest nukes in a few major areas will cripple the economy and populations to the point the countries will be destabilized. The physical countries and human populations, more or less, will continue to exist alongside life in general.

Destroying the planet is not yet within our grasp, unless someone has a man-made black hole handy.
What American exceptionalism? There are seven countries besides the US and NK with nuclear weapons, including China itself.
FWIW, the term used by here Licklider and Clark does not mean "connected to a network".

"On-line" in the 1960s meant "interactive", that is, sitting at a terminal (in this case as graphical terminal) directly interacting with the computer.

The opposite, "off-line", meant batch computing, where you typed things up on cards, dropped them off with an operator, and waited a few hours until they were loaded and run.

This is the reason for terms like Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and online algorithm.

("On-line" was also used for computers connected directly to sensors as part of a computer control system.)
> We (US) and the world support China by allowing manufacturing to be migrated to China

A side note... it looks that way because we view the world through capitalism-colored glasses. More objectively, or from "outside", it looks very different. Say aliens visited our planet. They would say "What are you talking about? China produces all your stuff, and you are just giving them pieces of green paper in exchange. Not even that, you are now just flipping bits on a computer! They are not dominating, you (the west) are!"

If the west looses dominance, we do because we are following our own rules - a game that China is currently better at then we are. We are like a silly troll in a fairy tale that poses a riddle, and when the hero correctly solves the riddle we somehow can't eat him anymore (although we physically could easily).
Aside for the browser storage, they also log every search request made from your browser. Since the only way to type a URL is to put it into the search bar, that means they get a log of every page you visit, how often you go there, how long yu spend there, etc. without triggering any other licenses or boxes.

The same profiling is done from Safari and other Chromium / Blink browsers that have the "awesome address bar"

I have read that when you visit a page with Analytics (which is like everywhere) Chrome has special handling so as to give them a more complete dataset without it being the browser that is officially collecting it.
Is a maglev really a monorail? I've taken it to pudong airport before. It isn't very practical, because of the transfer a taxi is still faster.
So far, between 1971 and now, any country attempting to get past the petro dollar has been stopped by revolution, war, etc.

What pressure or leverage can the USA put on China? My view is: more pressure is wanted , than is available...
I "deleted" my account on Facebook about 7 years ago. This January they randomly reactivated it just like that. It's public and visible. I haven't logged in there, because that would just show them I want it back.
I'm pretty sure this is in breach with their own terms. And maybe even illegal in the EU. I haven't had the time to take any action not am I sure what should I even do. Maybe report this to some EU watchdog?
I didn't say a normal president would 'help', nor did I defend the US's MIC. I said nuclear deterrence as a rational response on the part of the DPRK depends on the assumption of a normal functioning President. Given the incumbent, the DPRK may have made a miscalculation that will end in ashes.
Imagine if Solaris could be used as a kernel for a mobile OS...
> Space taken by car-parking is typically in dedicated parking lots: out of the way and doesn't impede public rights-of-way

In some developed cities, but in most of China cars are usually parked on the sidewalks. When they're angle-parked along the full width of the sidewalk, pedestrians need to drop onto the roadside to continue walking.
महाभारत जब युद्ध के बाद द्रोपदी और युधिष्ठिर क्यों मिले।
How a city in Spain got rid of its cars
Mao was never legitimate. Even today's communist Chinese regime recognize the cultural revolution was a bloodbath (ie. 30 to 50 millions DEATH).

Generally speaking NK will never be treated legitimately if they keep behaving like the worst left-wing dictator the world has known in the last centuries. Kim's assassination of his brother in Kuala Lumpur or the regular purges are abject. You can criticize Trump [ed. without being deported to concentration camps!], but Kim is worse by a thousand order of magnitude.
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For those looking for the Teitelbaum paper mentioned above [0]

[0] The Cornell Program Synthesizer: A Syntax Directed Programming Environment https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/21750999.pdf?repositoryId=14...
Coreutils-8.28 released
One could also use white tape as well...
What if we just invited the Kim family over? Brought them to some state dinners, and conferences, or some such?

They're not great people, the stick doesn't seem to be working.

What's the worst that'll happen?
China and Russia are also big producers of gold. But if gold truly comes back, it will give a huge boost to Africa, which has most of the reserves.
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I don't think the US would launch anything without China's tacit approval of non-retaliation.
Is 30,000 people a lot of troops? I think you seem to be forgetting how large China’s amy is. North Korea has a million man army too.

At any rate, what are your ideas for solving the problem? We could withdraw the troops from Korea and Japan, since you think that is part of the problem?
There's a ¥300 deposit to get started with Mobike. You can get kicked from the service and lose your deposit for egregious behaviour. I recently forgot to lock a bike after use and lost 15 points from my account. You start off with a hundred points and get one per ride. If you go below 85 you pay much, much higher hourly rates than normal. All of these issues are soluble.
I am many happy that dear leader have capability to protect glorious motherland of North Korea from evil America.
OP here - thanks for that! This blog post represents my slow realisation that PID 1 is even more special than I thought, and the fairly common pattern of running applications without an init system is quite broken.
> We really need to develop anti-ICBM tech to save the humanity

If I'm not mistaken, to some extend, both the Russian and the US already have this tech operational.

Though, this would not protect with the obvious "first blood" intent of NK, in which case, Kim better pray for cover (rightfully so).
There's a wealth of knowledge getting lost here in the process. I wonder if some enterprises are willing to hire these devs to ensure continuity of systems running on Solaris ?

Either way, I've always had a soft spot for Solaris, and think they're on of the best examples of enterprises being able to produce quality software. It's incredibly sad to see this happen to the Sun legacy, and it makes me wonder why Oracle acquired Sun in the first place.
> Judge both by the present

That's a bit short-sighted. The government changes pretty often. So does public opinion. One day it is a democratic country, another it could migrate towards dictatorship. There's a reason a lot of laws are created to protect you from gov abuse, even though we would assume the gov is not out to get you. Same idea should extend to international politics.
>highest ever recorded rate of anxiety, depression and suicide

What a problem to have!! You could instead be worried about plague, influenza, capricious wars, kidnapping, enslavement, childbirth, or the chirurgeon's leeches.
Dao De Jing - Lao Tzu

A Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze + Felix Guattari
Yeah but small companies hired the 17 year old neighbor kid to write them some access/visual basic tool or a simple website ever since... And the world's still standing ;). Much of the crap I wrote 20 years back when I was in the position of the neighbor kid is even still up and running...
If the North Korean government collapsed, I would assume that huge numbers of refugees would stream over into China, which is certainly not something they want to deal with.
> For example, MPS stores the source as XML, not text

If only there were a way to write your code using a uniform tree syntax in the first place...
I wouldn't put it simply down to just being a buffer zone, but I do think it is important for them.

China and North Korea has a shared history of politics and agendas for a long time. In the game of modern geo politics, having a well behaved NK may actually have the effect which they are looking for. A disruptive NK means that SK and the US are kept busy.

But also do not forget that China also has to protect China from NK. US plans may just destabilise the area, and I am quite sure some US Intelligence officials know this and are taking advantage of the situation.
Have you considered Mike Moyer's method, described in the Slicing Pie? http://slicingpie.com/ It is pretty fair and adjusts over the time based on the delivered values.
absolutely illegal in the EU, learn more about their countless violations on http://europe-v-facebook.org/
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The Ukraine fed europe until its agriculture was collectivized. Famine resulted. Collectivization of agriculture has been tried again and again, and famine always results.

You might want to read up on Lenin's New Economic Policy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy
"We really need to develop anti-ICBM tech to save the humanity."

Maybe, but this is a very strange assessment of the NK situation.

The obvious explanation is that the, in my opinion disgusting, NK regime is a rational actor that try to perpetuate itself in time. The only way to ensure that it's to avoid external interference. The only way to avoid external interference (Iraq style) is to have nuclear weapons.

From this follow that they are not more eager to start a war that other nations. Probably less.
I honestly don't get it. My OnePlus One still holds strong to this day, easily get through day on one charge with watching Videos and so on.
New Roms keep everything updated and smooth.
My Android phone has never been faster.
Even the battery is replaceable, once that day comes.
Back in the mid-80s, I frequented BIX (the BYTE Information eXchange). There was a discussion group for the C programming language, and someone mentioned this new C++ language. I naively asked, "C++? That's a preprocessor, isn't it?" I was thinking of the original Cfront, of course, which translated C++ to C.

Bjarne Stroustrup jumped in and gently chewed me out: "The Cfront compiler is not a preprocessor! It is a full-fledged compiler just like any other. Sure, it uses C as the compilation target right now, but it won't always be that way. It could generate native code, but compiling to C let us get up and running more quickly and on more hardware architectures than we could if we targeted machine code right away."

(Those weren't his exact words, but definitely the gist of it. Some things like this stick in your mind.)

If "compiler" was good enough for Bjarne, it's definitely good enough for me.

Now jumping ahead to the present, consider Kotlin. Its compiler can target JVM bytecode and JavaScript, and they're working on native support using LLVM for the final code generation pass.

Is Kotlin a transpiler when it targets JavaScript, and only a true compiler when it targets the JVM or native code?

It just seems like a silly distinction. Why bother having a separate name? A compiler is a compiler.
I doubt they would come. If they came we might not let them go.
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They address this in the article, pointing out that white tape would look different under headlights from the reflective background paint.
The most important thing for now is to start to work out and track where devices are so as to be able to be sure to get them when the time to sort this out arrives (2028?)
How about docked bike sharing? Barcelona has been having one for some time, it doesn't have many of the problems here, even though our suzhi is not very high. It does have the problem that you have to start and finish in a dock, but that seems minor.
>I thought it was supposed to be that way only to get better as you mature, get to know yourself, and obtain some life experience and perspective as you get into your 30s (currently in late 20s).

Relax, you are not an aggregate curve.

My life experience so far has been exactly as you imagined (currently mid thirties).