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It's not snark, or feeling threatened. It's just that lots of people (me included) fail to see the point of running Windows at all (unless you are developing for Windows, in which case it's foolish not to). If you want a Linux experience, use Linux. If you want polished applications and a Unix experience, get a Mac. Windows has somewhat polished apps (with very lax UI consistency rules), a convoluted overall experience (ever tried to debug a wireless connection?) and a Unix-like environment (and it had one from the start) both with Cygwin and WSL.

IMHO, WSL is Microsoft's attempt to compete with Mac, not Linux, by adding a Unix-like environment to Windows. I already did that with Cygwin, more than a decade ago.
That's not really a great reason - there were lots of alarm clocks and docks with the 30-pin connector (and still are if you go to a Hotel!). That said, I'm not sure why Apple went with Lightning for their mobile devices instead of USB-C - maybe timing?
Well you can see that as an act of competition between Brussels and the tax havens if you want to frame every human progress in terms of competition between actors.
Wasn't there a significant divergence in fortunes as economies transformed from resource based to value added economies?

Around the turn of the XX century, many struggling economies today were on par with middling countries in Europe.

Think Czech, Finland, Hungary, Polen, Japan. Brazil, Mexico, etc., were competitive with them back then, but now, the latter are seen as basket cases of mismanagement. And empire and colonialism didn't give even Japan aby advantage till the 30s, arguably one could say that sapped their vigor. On the other hand LatAm had become independent from Iberian powers while inheriting a system of government (not the best but arguably better than monarchies), yet with the exceptions of Chile and Uruguay, the rest have underperformed.
Also, corruption. This is anectotal, but in the countries I've visisted, which include a hand full of ex Soviet republics, the median quality of life seemed to be negatively correlated with the amount of corruption.
I think my best tip is both to read (for amusement, education, and inspiration) and to write (as in - just do it, and if you're stuck silence your inner critic and just DO IT).

I'm just some engineer. But I'm a really imaginative and passionate person and I have a lot of ideas I care about. And so I write about those. I was inspired by reading The Martian, which was an amazing book written by a Software Engineer. It was after reading The Martian that I began writing.

Have you tried writing? What has been your blocker?
Except that the oceans have become our landfills.
To put it a bit colorful: Because in the Game of Nations many people want to be King. To have many Kings you need many Kingdoms. Also Unity makes you strong and usually your enemies will do whatever they can to divide and conquer.
I'm saying this as someone who's considering buying iPhone 8, but I still think the iPhones are ridiculously expensive (especially here, in EU). You own a mattress for years, but your phone is deprecated in a year or two.

My current and previous phones have been budget phones. It's so nice not having to worry about your phone. I can drop it, I can throw (I accidentally catapulted it a couple of meters once), I can drown it (it's waterproof, but even if it wasn't, no big deal). I don't even have a case or screen protector. You don't have to worry about losing it, or theft, as you're not constantly carrying around a thousand dollars in your pocket. Conversely, with iPhone (or any other flagship), you have to cradle it, protect it. I think the allure of cheap phones is the lack of weight on your shoulders. I'm only considering switching because no new android phone looks appealing to me anymore, and I have had enough with Google.

In my opinion, the only reasonable way of owning an iPhone is buying a new one every year, while selling the last years model around the time new one's announced. They don't lose much value, and you're staying on top of new tech. It's a hustle, but I know people who are successfully doing this.
That's absolutely fine. Then you also have to mention that there's an identity element. Once you've used the words "associatively" and "identity" it's no longer scary to use the word "monoid" so you may as well use it.
None of the reasons they give -- difficulty of user acquisition, conflict between security and convenience, curation, or economies of scale -- are fundamental obstacles to making a decentralized social network. Mastodon has found some success despite facing the same problems.
"they have a legal option not todo do business in europe"

Do you see any way to do that other than to prevent eu businesses buying ads from google?

Because i think that might have a few severe unintented consequences for businesses in the eu, and have exactly zero impact on google.
One important factor could be differences in intelligence.
https://infogalactic.com/info/IQ_and_Global_Inequality
Very nice. I see the "entrance" but where is the "exit" to the maze? Doesn't it need one?
Oracle continues to release Java EE, now under the Eclipse Foundation
Well in the meantime these offices do exist, and they also employ people in quite a few EU countries[1].

So that's the reality they have to live with.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations/
Same here after the update. Just do a restart and you should see the new icon in the taskbar.
I can't recall properly where I read it, but some time ago there was an idea to have stop signals also in front of the car, so the pedestrians would know if the driver/car is stopping.

There are also pedestrians who can take into account if the car is turning (obviously by watching the turning lights).

A self-driving car should have some reactions to people around it, so people could also respond properly to its actions, or know its intentions. There was a comment about an empty electric car near the intersection, staying still, and people around it can't tell if the car is parked, waiting, etc.
What farmers? there wont be any farmers left, just mega corporations.
MMA units are new with Volta but even that isn't covered by the article.
SNAP is a traded equity listed on a regulated exchange that by its very nature has significant liquidity.
Very different in practice
Not exactly sure what desktop environment/theme or applicaition combination you were trying but I disagree.

Aesthetics is very subjective topic. But we can all agree that since Windows' Vista the focus hasn't been on eyecandy but rather functionality. Expensive visual effects are now removed and the UX is very plain, with not a lot of room for customization.

I personally use this theme:

https://snwh.org/paper

https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1013706/

Contains a GTK 3 theme, icons and cursors. Looks way better than Windows.
> 19 lines...pretty much anyone can understand

> 9 lines of...functional

First of all, those numbers are more like 1000 vs 200, but lines of code isn't a useful metric here.

The thing functional programming does for us is not hide the functionality of our code, it is to make it more consistent.

Category theory shows us ways that our code can be more consistently organized, so that we don't need to reason about the entire codebase when writing the code that guess it together.

This means we can create modules that are so compatible, all it takes to compose them is a simple map or fold.

While it may take more effort to understand the functional language itself, you may find that effort is comparatively less than learning what someone's imperative code does.

I always know right away what map and foldl will do, but I can never know what a loop does without reading through that loop.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but WSL looks more like an attempt at stopping developers from moving to Macs in order to get a polished app environment with a Unix-like OS underneath and to keep them in the Windows ecosystem.
> If you think about it, consciousness is not physical. My thoughts have no mass.

Could you (or anyone else who knows the meaning of "physicalism") come up with a clear definition of what "physical" means for you? Each time I read something suggesting that consciousness might not be physical I completely lost track of the meaning, a bit like when I read that some experience (or chemical!) is not "natural".

Certainly, it has nothing to do with mass or energy (or you would merely postulate the existence of some new particle with this and that properties). It certainly does not mean, either, that it is not composed of matter (like for instance sound or temperature), or you would have said "immaterial".

Maybe that's because of those years spent studying physics, but I just can't get what could exist but still not be physical (or natural) as for me those are equivalent.
> ~41 million dollars

Please don't use this term, use the actual stolen property, 153k Ether, whose value will fluctuate daily (it gained and lost €100 in value in the past month, which would make your estimate inaccurate with about €15 million).
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> unless you plan to do gaming, stay away from Nvidia

Or any sort of GPU compute / machine learning. That is actually my primary reason for buying laptop with a dedicated Nvidia GPU - it sucks performance wise, that's to be expected, but at least I can play with both OpenCL and CUDA.
In an automatic car, it's just about fuel efficiency and wear/tear. In a manual, it's that plus it's extremely annoying to stop and go at each semaphore.
I love the ones that tell you how many clicks you've saved - some go up to almost a hundred.
>Imagine a Linux setup where you can launch PowerPoint without a VM
...she gushes. Er Wine? or I think she may have heard of it DOCKER? Gaah. vomit.

What problem does this solve? None! You still have Windows.

fdisk that backdoored Windows garbage.
There must be a definition of rich and poor. It should not be devised by looking at the wealth. It should be devised by looking at the living standards, education system, environment, law and order, equality, zero racism. And where people can live an anxiety/depression free life. Where there is welfare, care, love grows everyday for each other.
As CS was originally born largely from people with math backgrounds, formal proofs were all the rage for software early on. As time passed and software became more complex, that requirement effectively dropped off to some academia and defense/high-risk (aka nuclear controls) projects.

Now amazon is trying to formally verify a lot of AWS with TLA+ and other techniques. Here Mozilla is trying to verify it’s crypto.

Given the increasing rise of cyber security problems and their consequences, will formal verifications once again become more standard in software engineering? At minimum, we’ll need to see more user-friendly variants of TLA+ and other techniques for average developers to be able to use. Probably it should be taught in normal CS education. Even better would be for some kind of AI to help take existing code or specs and put it into something that can be formally proved.
Brazil became a basket case of mismanagement only since a few years ago, that isn't something they are doomed to forever. They are already well on the way to fix that.
And as a nice add-on, they get to brag about being privacy friendly since nothing leaves the device.
How did I go through life without knowing that?
Path dependence, and trying to copy effects rather than causes.
What language are these coffee examples written in?

The article doesn't give me a reference for what syntax I'm trying to parse, and while most of it is easy to guess, it would be helpful to have an explicit reference.
What's known as the "windows subsystem for linux" is actually what I'd call a "linux subsystem for windows". I'm not the only one confused by this (So were you).

What we get from microsoft now is a small linux environment inside a windows install.
What he wanted was a small windows environment on a linux machine.
Why are there bigger numbers and smaller numbers?
It depends on the reasonableness of the search. Physically inspecting bags to prevent agricultural products and weapons is both more effective at protecting the country, and less invasive into the personal lives of the travelers. Searching your phone is not just what you are carrying with you, but your entire connected life. Because the CBP is doing so few of these searches already there is little reason that they cannot get a warrant in cases where there is a real reason further search is needed.
It really depends; cryptocurrency is so much in flux right now that governments don't know what to do with it yet, and those are the ones that determine whether something is a crime or not.

If they declare that stealing cryptocurrency is a crime, then they also need to start controlling it. Enforce auditing on smart contracts, crypto codebases, and exchanges. Which goes directly against what the whole crypto-anarchists are aiming for.

But, that's what they wanted. You win freedom, you lose security (and a lot of money).
Actually not at all different in practice. It's different in THEORY but actually almost identical in practice. In theory, SNAP stock is legally classified as a security and recognized by the United States government as providing some kind of weird, abstract ownership of the Snap Inc organization (although all classical markers of ownership are not present in the stock). In practice, my post was pointing out it's basically as bad or even worse than a token.
Cost goals met, the DoE is moving on to address grid reliability in solar
The title says EUR 5.4B, the text of the article states "between 51 and 54 billion euros". How is this accurate reporting on Reuters' part?
I played EVE for the better part of about 10 years. Been to Fanfest, met Mittens (and Vile Rat, RIP :() and all that.

I owe my closest friendships and even my career to EVE. I'll expand on this in a bit.

While I did spend a few years floundering around in the game like most players do, I was lucky enough to get close to the major political action early on when the first alliance I was a part of, ISS, collapsed. The ties and relationships that I built here got me in-system to watch the first (BoB) Titan kill with my own eyes.

A few years later when wormhole space opened up, I jumped on that immediately and got involved with a corporation dedicated to taking advantage of the new resources and PvP opportunities. Within a few months I was an officer in the corporation and we had brought in some local blues doing manufacturing in a merger. I had a pretty good relationship with these guys; a group of three students from Denmark.

It became clear to me right away that my corp's CEO plan here was to screw these guys over and steal all of their assets, as well as the rest of the assets of the corp and do a runner. Without cluing him in, I managed to help everyone in my corporation secure their assets and he got away with nothing but the corp's wallet, which I made an effort to drain (spread out to members) and left only about 8bil ISK.

Immediately after, these students and I joined one of the most well known RP/lowsec PvP corps in the history of EVE and started our own manufacturing corporation on the side which turned into somewhat of a mini-empire. The students were programmers and I now had a practical use for a life-long hobby(but not really the inclination or skills to do professionally at the time).

One of them is probably my closest friend today. We routinely discuss the idea of one of us relocating and starting a real business together.

Other friends that I made in this corporation I still talk to on a daily basis...even after a few years away from EVE. Eventually our CEO had to shutter the corporation, as he took a job with CCP; most of us were getting older and finding it hard to find time for the game anyway and quit, myself included.

My account still has a few hundred billion ISK sitting in its wallet. I resist the urge to pop in and get deep into the game again, but it's frequently there. I've had some breathtakingly beautiful moments and experiences with people in my life because of this crazy game.

I'd done just about everything you could do in the game while I was playing it and had about 4 accounts at any given time. A lot of quitting players complain about not being able to find the real action in the game...while it's hard, everyone who can read the forums can find out who the important, active corporations are in game. Seek them out, be available and make friends and then make enemies.
If you're selling something in the EU, you gotta stick to EU laws. It's not about where is the company from, it's about where it's making business. Simple as that.
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If you were talking about state taxes only, yes. There's no equivalent of federal taxes in EU.
"a polished app environment"

If you're meaning XCode then no.

XCode is never going to draw in developers... or at least no developer I've ever talked to liked XCode.

I changed from iOS to Android development because I couldn't stand XCode anymore. Constant crashing, walled garden bullshit where I couldn't even get plugins running every time they updated, inexplicable code changes to my apps which were un-diagnosable from within xcode because they obfuscate away all layout files... It was nightmarish. I spent more time swearing at my computer than I did coding.
I find no need to pirate software using linux, everything I need is available for free. Pirated software that goes un-updated is a huge security issue anyway.
Second this. WhatsApp uses the least data and can work well in network connection transition. Most importantly, it is binded to your phone number and can call people regardless of country (unlike Skype) .

If I remember correctly since 2016, WhatsApp is completly free from any fee charge? How is facebook planning to use that? Finally integrate with facebook?
I feel for his cell block having to breathe the same air as this deplorable piece of shit.
You're right. The law has very little bearing on what law enforcement officers can and can't do.

Any number of courts can rule that a particular LEO activity is unlawful, but it seems to have very little effect on their actions henceforth. In my experience, so long as the officers believe they were acting lawfully there are typically no repercussions. Occasionally one might get put on leave with full pay while an investigation is carried out. What kind of disincentive is that supposed to be?

I definitely believe there needs to be a third party to police operations. Some sort of service tasked with keeping police behaviour in check, present to support the rights of the citizenry. Law enforcement officers shouldn't be allowed out alone.
I think the technical issue is related to the circles and their sizes.

Feels like the best solution would be to remove the percentages, with more of a vague "more female" or "more male"
https://github.com/henrikpersson/rsub
> In a dream, none of the phenomena I experience (colored blobs moving about) correspond to any facts about an external reality. That's one kind of illusion, and a meaningful one.

> When you're having a dream, it is all an illusion (of the first kind)

How would you characterize a dream in which friends or family members are present? Are these not "facts about an external reality"? Presumably, you aren't dreaming about my family members, as you have never met them.

Yet here I am, dreaming about them for some reason. I would argue this is due to the "external reality" where my family members exist and I have interacted with them.
Ahh, productivity. You'll be highly productive deforesting your lands, I'll be highly productive in selling pop-culture to the entire world. I get wood and you get obese. Deal?
No, both the headline and the text refer to tax revenue.
Which is what the point of the article is about. What if the EU was more harmonized, especially at a fiscal level?
I gather you're of the belief that the economy is like a pie of fixed proportions to be divided rather than an ever changing pie which can grow bigger every year with productivity ?

I once read a wonderful thought experiment on the Mises page about a Dorothy sized storm. Imagine a tornado swept by and grabbed a large number of hard working and smart people randomly and placed them in a random town.

While people are temporarily shuffled, the brain surgeon(or some highly skilled technical person) is forced to pick up another trade like carpentry or any other less technical job in the meantime to provide and be productive in this new economy/town. The storm swept up and carried him elsewhere and so is temporarily stopping his highly skilled activity to become productive in some other one.

The same is to be said of the economy at large. People are shuffled due to many events and will never be at "full" productivity due to unforeseaable events, for example, a bad weather event.
Jobs come and go. Same goes for industries. Even more so for trends.
One metric come across in these discussions is 'GNH' - Gross National Happiness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness
If you look at purely their respective transaction logs, then probably not. However, you need an exchange to do the transfer. You could do this offline, sit with a guy who is willing to transfer the funds outside of one of the known exchanges - I don't know if there's anyone offering this yet, I can imagine in certain circles this does happen, but it requires a lot of trust.

A lot of the online exchanges are government-regulated nowadays though, and require photo ID for you to be able to do things. Mind you, it should be fairly trivial to forge or use stolen IDs. I think Coinbase asks for a second ID at one point, probably for larger transactions. But either way, those will have a transaction log, so they can see the path from wallet > fiat > bank account, and from there the banks, also regulated, can point to you (and they do / should check your ID with a bit more scrutiny).

TL;DR it's only untraceable if you can do the exchanges between cryptocurrencies and to fiat in real life with shady characters.
Unlikely.

Modern X64 cores are super smart. Not just on _easy_ things, like predicting branches, and how data flows though instructions. But with caching, memory access, inter-core communication, cache snooping, and cache synchronization/invalidation.

The real issue for modern system is RAM access. Everything you CPU does between hitting RAM may as well be instant how expensive a RAM hit is.

X64 has a large cache hierarchy to make this rarer. A11/A10X/A10 less so.
I've been putting it even stronger for a while now. WSL is an attempt to get the horde of MacBook-wielding web devs to slowly migrate away from OSX. Once people notice they can get a grab-and-go Linux laptop at any BestBuy, and it's much cheaper than an equivalent MacBook, and it runs all games and other Windows apps natively... They'll start doing a lot more development on Windows boxes. Then, they might notice that Visual Studio is actually really damn nice. At that point, making their code Linux-Windows cross-platform becomes much easier and more interesting.
I had the same problem with Windows 7. online search lead me to an official support page that described how to boot Windows in some kind of minimal mode. Following those steps did the trick for me.

Still, this problem shouldn't occur at all.
> "we asked ourselves how do we answer the question about how we will become a profitable business [...] We didn’t have an answer we really believed."

So we decided to raise money from unsophisticated investors in an unregulated market, where nobody asks such inconvenient questions!

Seriously, can you be any more devastatingly transparent? I predict that the SEC will not look kindly on this.
Can you, for example, do os.rename to replace an already existing file with another one? That works on Linux, but chokes up on Windows as far as I remember. I wonder how does WSL handle that.