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That's a really good question - I have a few floppies which probably have sentimental value which I keep forgetting to do something with.

Are there companies who do this work which don't cost an arm and a leg? Hobbyists to network with? It's the type of thing that deserves an attempt before another year rolls by, but if the disks are unreadable or have bad sectors, a first-effort image is good enough.

Sometimes I wish there was an online geek-tools tool-share site. A KryoFlux + drive capable of reading Apple floppies is something I'd use once.
> C only has 2 lifetimes: block scope for stack variables, forever (until explicitly free'd) for heap malloc'ed memory.

To the contrary, C has just as many lifetimes as Rust. They're just not explicit. "free() it when you don't need it any more" is a complex problem and C doesn't really help you solve it at all.

> Everything is passed by value (copy) and you can only pass simple objects (plus structures), for anything else you pass the value of the address of the object, end of story.

That's how Rust works as well.
If you're running 32-bit Windows, it will still run the oldschool 16-bit .com and .exe formats; and from there, an A000 framebuffer and graphical mode is only an int 10h away.

If you're running a 64-bit OS, then DOSBox will work nicely too.
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For those who want the OpenBSD devs to abandon their many, many years of experience with C and instead adopt Rust, I think it's a fair question to ask the Rust folks why they haven't just started from scratch and built their own unix-like operating system. This seems to be a more reasonable approach that trying to force an existing operating system to adopt their language.

Oh wait, that's right, none of them has even gotten around to writing a replacement for ls, grep, .....
Ah bait taken! :-)

As much as it pains people, irregardless is a real word [1] meaning regardless.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless
I tend to agree with the comments about height, but re: skyways - they're just kind of weird. They're not public spaces, so they can be exclusionary. And the vibe is just kind of weird. Downtown Atlanta below the skyways is already eerily quiet for a major city, but within them... I don't know, I have a constant feeling that I'm trespassing even though I'm not. Does anyone else get this feeling?
As an American it was hard to relate to the fear of being ruled by Germany by stealth which it came up in the TV series Victoria because her husband Prince Albert was German - it seems fairly deeply rooted xenophobia? or something if it still gets brought up.
I've done this unwittingly. It was terrible, I don't advise it.
One could argue the price that the USSR paid had a lot to do with their lack of military prowess. They won by using their citizens as cannon fodder.

A great example is the Battle of Kursk. A defining moment when Germany lose as offensive capabilities in the East. It was a decisive win for the USSR, but the casualty numbers are astounding.

German loses - ~54,000 deaths
USSR loses - ~180,000 deaths
Right, but the problem is that - in the OpenBSD world - it's a price that's paid much more than once. Sure, that binary might be run millions of times, or it might be run only tens or hundreds or thousands of times before an update comes around. And that's just for one platform; OpenBSD supports lots of platforms, both 32-bit and 64-bit, and all of them are expected to be fully usable for (among other things) developing OpenBSD (which includes, you know, actually compiling OpenBSD).

To rephrase that a bit: OpenBSD is designed to be a system where any user on any platform can contribute to OpenBSD using the tools included in OpenBSD's default install. Deviations from that will almost certainly receive a cold reception at best.
Uranium or lead, heavy nuclei that shield well against gamma radiation would do little for neutrons.

Neutrons needs something with light atom like hydrogen - water or maybe polyethylene and lots of it to slow down. So a small nuclear explosion which emits a neutron pulse might work pretty well. It would hellish if it somehow exploded over a population center, though. Didn't get hit by the ICBM (good). Everyone's bones melted (bad).
The regulations are more about regulating the ability to make money off of naive investors, in my view. You should be able to offer the ability to make risky investments to people, but there should be enforcement mechanisms to ensure you're not misleading people.
the discover-by-scroll fidelity is so high that I want to die.

still pretty
More Soviets were victims of Holocaust than Jews, yet modern popular imagination of Holocaust appears to be as an exclusively Jewish tragedy.
Not sure of the facts in this particular case but here are some general rules IMO:

Companies should have a policy of rejecting unsolicited resume’ from recruiters.

A recruiter shouldn’t lie about working with a company when they actually aren’t.

Why job seekers should care: If spammy recruiter “A” sends your unsolicited resume’ to a company, and spammy recruiter “B” or good recruiter “C” does the same, what does the company do? (A) Pay both recruiters or (B) throw out your resume’ to avoid the hassle?
Granted fiber isn't as backhoe proof.
Assume Mr. Engelhart's NYT OP-Ed is correct: there is really no significant difference between a neutral network and the Pai/FCC supported not-neutral network. Why bother abandoning the current, mostly neutral network? Why the big push to abandon network neutrality?
When I had a few old hard drives to dispose of I drilled several holes in each one, through the case and platters, then filled them with water and left them outside for a few days so that anything that might rust would do so.
Nope. Came to say this. Could easily be a PWA, I just don't like installing apps anymore. Shame, it looks like something I'd be interested in.
Sniper in Mahwah [1] details a lot of the structure of HFT trading infrastructure, especially how microwave towers are used. It's a rabbit hole though, he's got tons of stuff on the various ways HFT networks make things work, including their licensing and contracting.

[1] https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com
Why do you think that it's a reasonable expectation that an economy offers a 1000X multiplier on your money? Where is this value supposed to come from? By altering the means of exchanging capital a significant number of people get 1000X richer?

Those kinds of gains can only come at the expense of other "investors".
T-Mobile version uses the Intel chipset, this uses Qualcomm. Not only does that mean it has CDMA support, it also means it has a faster and better GSM/LTE stack as well, so no, it’s not meaningless.
It's hard to imagine supply getting any lower than it already is, but yes that is potential offset.
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That seems like a pretty nice place to live. (I'm serious)
I'm kind of imagining a future waterworld scenario where Earth's ice caps have melted completely and humanity looks back at electronic cat breeding as one of the gross excesses of our civilization that ultimately led to its destruction.

They're pretty cute though.
I can't read 100 enormous books in a year - not without making serious life changes. But I can read 20 or 30 really big, impactful books (examples from this year: Godel, Escher, Bach; A Secular Age; Anna Karenina; Chernow's life of Washington) and 70 other books that may not be as impressive, but provide significant value for a shorter investment of time. I'd put books like Cal Newport's "Deep Work" in this category. It's not an either/or proposition. You can read for quantity and quality.
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I mean, what I was going for is that none of those are rational. None of those benefit the employer; they just indulge the base human instincts of the person giving the job offer.

And once we've expanded our model to include base human instincts over rational economic behavior, sexism isn't an implausible explanation at all.
It's still a massive improvement over what was available there before.
> I think it's a fair question to ask the Rust folks why they haven't just started from scratch and built their own unix-like operating system.

Some did: https://www.redox-os.org

> Oh wait, that's right, none of them has even gotten around to writing a replacement for ls, grep,

They did that for some utils: https://github.com/redox-os/coreutils

> This seems to be a more reasonable approach that trying to force an existing operating system to adopt their language.

I don't think anyone is forcing to adopt anything here. The question was about integrating languages like Rust in OpenBSD.
Hey, the Romans never reached all the way to Cornwall and yet we still have... at least like, 1/2 of those.
Saying BGP is "web scale" is a bit misleading because it has to be very carefully aggregated for it to route the entire internet.

If you do something like advertise a /32 for each container you can very quickly fill up TCAMs on your network hardware (in particular cheap top of rack switches that are pervasive in data centers).

The entire v4 internet is something like 600k prefixes right now and the routers that can handle that many prefixes at line rate are irritatingly expensive. ToRs as of a couple of years ago when I last tested this would fall over at 1-10k prefixes.

So be careful when looking at BGP solutions because it's very easy to have a BGP topology that doesn't scale, despite it being the exchange protocol for the Internet.
We haven't even gotten to alpha, hppa, loongson, luna88k, macppc, octeon, sgi, or that backwards beauty of big-endianness, sparc64. But hey, it compiles on amd64! That should be good enough, right?
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> I am surprised how quickly Europe moved on from WW2

People have "forgotten" about WW2 because of the terrible threat of the Cold War that ensued leading to half of Europe being under USSR occupation/control.
It mixes in additional features to a given instance

my $old = 0;

my $val = $old but True;

say $old.Bool; # False
say $val.Bool; # True

say $val.Numeric; # 0

Which can be thought of as short for

my $old = 0;

my $val = class :: is Int {
method Bool (){ True }
}.new( $old )

say $old.Bool; # False
say $val.Bool; # True

say $val.Numeric; # 0

Note that under the hood it is a little more complicated so that it will work on any instance.

I think this was added as a generalization which replaces the following in Perl 5.

my $val = "0 but true";

say $val ? "True" : "False"; # True
say 0+$val; # 0
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Remember the neo gif... you don't need to be a fiat millionaire, a bitcoin one is more than enough
> For those who want the OpenBSD devs to abandon their many, many years of experience with C and instead adopt Rust

Who exactly? Can you actually point to anyone making this desire known in earnest?
Whatever you're quoting is talking about it being okay to restrict speech in a public forum. They went out of their way to say time/place/manner apply to public forum speech. Why do you think that implies non-public speech would have a lower bar?

Would it also be constitutional for the government to prohibit fellow employees from asking each other what their salary is?

That's just about the legal question.

For the more cosmic sort of question, asking questions is definitely part of free speech. Free speech includes the right to have a conversation.
tl;dr If your ultimate goal is performance you need to select/tune every part of the system to work well with every other part.

Monkeys slapping black boxes on black boxes on top of each other is not sufficient.
> Science for example would be much better if one could simply offer a hypothesis with no backing data, tests, or any research at all, just a wild thought enters your head

That's exactly how forming hypotheses work. You run into a couple of isolated, non-rigorously-acquired observations / anecdotes, you form a hypothesis, then you formulate a way to test the hypothesis and gather data. Until you've run the experiment, your hypothesis is just a hypothesis, not concluded fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Scientific_Method_as_...

> * I would question how such data could even be collected...*

Well, that's the problem, right? If it's genuinely hard to gather data that would rigorously demonstrate either A or not-A, on what basis do we believe either A or not-A? It's sound to say, "I have no belief." It's less sound to say "A is the default; the burden of proof is on those claiming not-A."
> It paid 20X or so more in lives than the US or UK to win WWII

The USSR's plan was to invade the whole of Europe anyway (Stalin was preparing for it well before Operation Barbarossa started - you can look it up, they had the largest tank division in the world back in the 30s, well above Germany, and with much more powerful tanks that were obviously not going to be used for peaceful purposes).

So presenting them as "allied forces" has always felt amusing to me. They showed their true colors anyway right after Germany's defeat.
Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwQ62OyCNz4

And this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2bhV81MfKQ
I am wondering if anyone has been in contact with a brokerage that is going to list the Cboe futures when then 'go live' on Sunday. I haven't spoken with one that hasn't said 'we'll wait and see'.
Well, my comment specifically said that I basically felt that any cop doing civil forfeitures except in extremely limited circumstances is a dirtbag. Apparently these happen (at least) several thousand times per year. I’d argue that anyone who participates in these forfeitures after the fact or must approve them as they come in (DA’s, police captains, etc.), along with anyone that trains, orders, or encourages these officers to do them (again, except in all but the most obvious cases), is also a dirtbag. So for thousands of these to happen each year, a not-insignificant percentage of the 900,000 number you quoted are actively involved or at least complicit in the state-sponsored armed robbery of US citizens. That is unacceptable.
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At a minimum order of 10pcs at $20 a pop, I wish I could afford to play with the GA144, or even imagine using it in a design. You can get a single MSP430 for under $2 from TI.

Sure, I can understand why GA went with 144 cores. Because of their insistence on software defined i/o, you need them. Smarter move would have been GA4+I2C allowing any number of them to be glued using their asynchronous i/o.

Whatever. Their fate is not my problem. Would have loved for them to be insanely successful.

Computing is so ing boring these days.
I don't mean changing business logic, refactors have to retain business logic still, and the risk is that the developer gets that wrong.

It sounds like you're not getting good communication from your developers or you're misunderstanding them when they say they need to refactor. Refactor is still the right word for it, but you need to find a way to communicate the extent of the refactor.
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Yes. I agree that these are different. I'm curious if you think the difference matters - would you be okay with (or more precisely, would you think it's constitutional to have) a law that says, sure, you can ask for salary, but if it comes out that your offer was influenced by the quoted salary number and you would have paid a higher salary if you heard a higher quoted number, you are liable for back pay plus damages?

I'd be fine with such a law (and I also think the current law gives slightly more freedom in practice).
AFter decades of success science is backing up what Montessori has been doing. I had 2 kids thru Montessory pre-school and gave them a big step up when entering first year - and no i did not do any other math learning with them outside of class. They both got assessed at being 2yrs ahead of standard on math. if you have kids i cannot recommend Montessori enough.
A lot of the bad parts of our current version of civilization are just un-optimized implementation details.

Isn't it our species' imperative to create as many happy and healthy humans as we can manage? Part of the problem is that we have instead optimized most of civilization for maximum dollar production.

When we can figure out how to build health and happiness (or rather: emotional well-being) into the goals of our society, we will finally get past this semi-intellectual hand-wringing about the mythical Noble Savage and his perfect life we cast aside.
Genocide is bad even if you allow women to contribute to some of the killing.
A nuclear family as a unit unto itself is most evident when people move to the city or cross country for [reason]. Then you rely on the tendrils offered by modern communication till you establish yourself and begin forming new local relationships. In some settings it may be difficult to do.

It can be difficult in the suburbs as elicited in Robert Adams's "New West"[1] and it can also be difficult in the dense cityscapes of Japan[2].

We can dream of the times people were born and died in the same house or village and lived in multigenerational houses out of need rather than will. Today economies are different and the way we organize depends on many things, economic ability, economic forces, culture, etc. Some for the better, others for the worse.

[1]http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8618/robert-adams-...

[2]https://longreads.com/2017/12/01/a-lonely-death-the-extreme-...
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Yes, that is indeed quite true. And, we tend not to talk about it too much these days, but they even had supporters in other countries too (including the US), who admired the changes brought by Hitler as he ascended to power. Of course, hindsight changes everything.
That argument is bunk.

Any competent organization in government protects state secrets with a multi-factor credential that’s protects against reuse, some sort of network isolation, and serious criminal penalties for violation of those rules.

Outside of the enterprise, people do this all of the time with limited powers of attorney and other mechanisms. When I had an assistant, I delegated to her the ability to pay my AMEX. If people are commonly sharing credentials, it’s a sign that IT or the business doesn’t have its shit together, just like most random Visa/MasterCard issuing banks don’t with respect to delegation of access.
>... tear down for one of their products, and then disassemble, and then reassemble them during that work week, returning the rental vehicle on Friday.

> ...the dealership would still warranty any damages...

Does disassembling a car not void the warranty?
Ballistic missiles are fast, but satellites are faster. In 2008 the US showed that an SM-3 missile can destroy a satellite [1]. this is the same type of missile that is deployed in the Aegis ABM defense system.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-161_Standard_Missile_3#A...
I remember trying to "prove" Fermat's last theorem while at school (I was around 16 at the time and obviously somewhat naive). The equation itself looked so simple that I was convinced a proof would be equally as concise. After a few failed attempts, I googled for solutions and stumbled up on Andrew Wiles' proof. I was dumbfounded at its complexity! There is still a part of me that hopes/believes that there exists some undiscovered crafty little mathematical trick that can distill this monster proof into something simple!
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That's probably where you and I differ, I don't see metaprogramming as a plus. More often then not it tends to lead to some long compile times(which is why boost never sees the light of day in any codebase I work in).

I'll also counter that having worked in a fairly math heavy 3D graphics space I've never needed them, although our requirements may be different.
This looks pretty awesome. Does anyone have good book/lecture/paper/course that deals with program synthesis and the algorithms behind them.
A big reason why people lie (or misremember or whatever) is because we live in a culture that distrusts "I don't know" or "I don't recall".

The irony of these lawyerly advice posts is that people who nod their heads in agreement are willing to admit that they're incapable of keeping their mouth shut without a lawyer, yet still internalize the cynical belief that people (politicians, defendants, etc) who respond "I don't recall" while giving testimony are hiding something.

If people knew how to be actually truthful, saying "I don't recall" or "as best I recall" or otherwise admitting your own fallibility by qualifying your answers to pointed questions would come naturally, without needing a lawyer by your side. Not qualifying your answers to pointed questions would be reserved for carefully considered strategic moments, i.e. when you're trying to sell something to somebody, leading a team through a critical juncture, or talking to your spouse.

Now, admitting to a crime while not realizing you've committed a crime is another matter entirely. But morally speaking, it's still the right thing to do, probably just not in the best interest of your family, let alone yourself. If we were all honest about that we'd spend more time rewarding politicians who refused to create more crimes and less time talking about how stupid people are for talking to the police.[1]

[1] See, e.g, http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-me-pc-gov-brown-vetoes-bi...

"Each of these bills creates a new crime -- usually by
finding a novel way to characterize and criminalize conduct
that is already proscribed," [Governor] Brown wrote. "This
multiplication and particularization of criminal behavior
creates increasing complexity without commensurate benefit."

...

Earlier this year, Brown vetoed bills that would have added
three new misdemeanors, including vandalism of a redwood
burl, to the book, also noting the voluminous number of
crime laws already that already exist.

We need more politicians like Governor Brown.
Duh, thanks. Not in SV myself, obviously.
> The most amazing change in relationships happened between France and Germany.

I think we tend to forget that wars are started by governments, not people. People usually have no hatred for people beyond their borders. Hatred is created through politics and brainwashing.
MSP430: Has IDE and toolchain that's familiar for people

GreenArrays: You can use our chips if you unlearn EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE.

That said, it's amazing hardware
Only if you set aside the pollution.
Floating point numbers do not form a field
In my case, NoScript (now updated to webextensions) was the cause. Allowing scripts from the site only lets me read it.

I'm using Firefox 57.
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Okay as it's coming up to Christmas....

19 Megs of Qt

18 Megs of Python

5 Meeggggssss of SSL

3 PyObjC

2 MB compiled rsyncs

and a ..bunch..of..other..crap.
But they could have used newer tech that would preform better, no?

https://www.ubnt.com/airfiber/airfiber-11fx/

300km @ 1gbit?

Admittedly, I've never actually deployed this particular UBNT product but I know their stuff is good (I've used their APs for years).
> The war has ended 40 years

Even if you have nothing to do with the war, it may be good for you to understand how horrible it actually was (especially for Vietnamese people). That kind of thing will leave scars for a very, very long time.
Yup. So is its little brother aeon.
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