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Borland gave up on Turbo Modula-2 and decided to extend Turbo Pascal, with Modula-2 features.

In the MS-DOS golden days, Turbo Pascal was the best Pascal dialect, to the point it was more relevant if a Pascal compiler was compatible with Turbo Pascal dialect than with the ISO Pascal.

Also the reason why although ISO Extended Pascal was created as a means to solve the initial complains regarding ISO Pascal, almost no one cared about its existence.

Modula-2 had more commercial success on other systems.
Visual Studio without git .. is barely usable. The whole team system integration is a UI disaster, busy, slow and takes gazillion clicks to get anywhere.

I like VS as an IDE. The TFS integration is a nightmare in my opinion.
VoIP phones sometimes just don't work with some destination numbers (OWA/jumbled audio/insta-disconnect/no-connection). Workaround: call with mobile phone.

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I think access to water resources has always been part, if not the bulk, of modern China's Tibet play. And now they're starting to tap into those resources. I wonder what the effects will be once they start pumping / rain-making at an even more massive scale.

More on water resources in Tibet:
http://www.tibetnature.net/en/introduction-water-resources/
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Yahoo messenger! was huge in Vietnam.
Nearly everyone is getting off tfs, and using GIT. So its a non issue.
Advertising doesn't require stalking people 24/7 though many seem to have convinced themselves this creepy behavior is a normal state of affairs.

First it was just contextual information like text and location. Now its morphed into something incredibly sinister and toxic.

Hundreds of thousands of people are devoted to building detailed historical profiles and models to give advertisers the ability to micro target people based on sexual preferences, moods, race, religion, political inclinations and other intimate personal information that should not be available COLLATED to anyone. All accompanied by apologism, hand waving, muddying the waters, deception and denial.

It's ironic our societies depend on those who are hungry and deprived to be ethical and not succumb to theft and loot while those who have can behave without ethical constraints and discuss it in a detached intellectual manner.
Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence though. Until now nobody brought any evidence for the claim, so we should disregard it as fiction until we have that evidence.
This is an interesting juxtaposition, but I’m not (really) sure it’s true. Is a rocket, even one with an advanced control system such as those designed by SpaceX, really ‘simpler’ than an electric vehicle? We certainly think in those terms, because rockets are exotic to our experience whereas cars are experientially mundane for most of us, but I don’t think the facts of the matter are that clear cut.
> I'd like to see more progress made in real desktop interfaces.

Come to the macOS/Windows developer culture.
Maybe a dumb question: If 64GB chips are $6, why aren't we seeing terabyte-sized tablets and netbooks for $100 more than the baseline version? I would imagine the idle power draw is negligible and the extra size and weight well worth it.

Producers take the exact opposite approach, and use storage size as a price discriminator: a 64GB version might cost $300, while the 128GB is "only" $499, pure profit margin an order of magnitude higher than the cost of the actual storage.
what's the reason for using different compiler for dev and release?
If you don't like the UI there is Pleroma ( https://pleroma.social/ ) which is compatible with the Fediverse so you can interact with Mastodon instances.
I guess the options aere: (1) dark matters is a property of physics. IE, it is the effects of physics that we don't understand yet, but has consequences to matter and the properties/rules of matter that we do understand. (2) Dark matter is stuff, actual matter that we just can't "see".

Matter in other dimensions is I guess a combination of the two. Actual normal matter, "hidden" by properties of physics that we don't quite understand.
I, actually have no idea what this really means. Does anyone have a good explanation?

Systems Thinking redirects to Systems Theory on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory

Is that what we're talking about?
VPNs do exactly that when they are not broken. Ubuntu is broken and dangerously so.
If you feel like django is too big you'll probably like flask. It has the same functionality, except everything but responding to http requests is separated into 3rd party packages. Makes for a really lightweight framework if you don't need much.
"Assume P=NP"
We are falling in so many reference places that I can`t find where my head and where my but is.
The cost per watt of solar comes from the expenses associated with making solar panels, averaged over their lifetime.

The cost per watt of fusion will come from the expenses associated with making fusion plants, averaged over their lifetime; additionally you need something to fuel the fusion reaction.

I doubt that fusion is going to be cheaper than solar anytime soon, given that solar has the advantage of an established manufacturing process, while fusion is still in the research phase.
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Not saying your brother's theory is right, but just because something isn't a real treat doesn't mean it can't be perceived as a threat (and consequently be lobbied against)
(Adjusted for inflation etc and remove the arbitrary cutoff for Proton.)
The link is dead, long live the link!
The realities of how hard it is for an elderly person to get their license renewed aren't directly relevant here. What matters is the perception of the voters. If they perceive this to be a problem, then someone with money can pay for an ad to play upon those fears and use them to persuade someone to vote against a candidate.
Yeah, an acquaintance runs a farm that also has fields of hemp, and it's no miracle - it's used in quite a few industries in preference to other materials, but it's not that dominant. As far as I recall, their harvest was shipped for making cigarette paper and hemp textiles; both of which are interesting but ultimately just niche use cases.
I have mostly stopped using cd at all, working with absolute paths + tab almost exclusively. The benefit is that your ctrl + r archive of commands become immediately useful, independent of the current location. It's probably not that useful when you spend the whole day on the command line, but as an occasional visitor I find it quite convenient. I imagine it could make a real difference in a low latency console/high latency filesystem setting, if there is at least some repetition.
Because kids are horrible and there is no way to fix this. Anything short of Orwellian surveillance and super fast responsiveness that is - or segregation which is wrong for other reasons.
Or reducing class sizes to less than 5 kids each and keeping an edge directly on them even during breaks.
Unworkable for theoretically economic reasons.

Teachers are not really equipped to deal with it either.
"OpenType features" can let you define variations within a font. There's a standard one for slashed vs. non-slashed zeroes (not sure about dotted):

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/fe...
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My old man worked for DuPont for years and his theory was that they lobbied against hemp because of the competition to the then newly devolved nylon.
Since when did Musk get a PhD in anything? He has a BS in physics
Just because doing it in C is worse doesn't mean the way its done in C++ isn't bad.
> You really, really should not have said that. It will probably come back to bite you. Even if it doesn't, why even take the risk in making a statement like that in today's climate?

Hey now. Let's not shame people for speaking truth to power. This is a great forum for it.
The percentages are confounded by the environment both social and physical fostered by parents. And we don't have enough separated twin studies...
Richard Feynman had, as ever, interesting things to say about how ants navigate and communicate[1]. He spent a long time looking at ants, following them, moving them around on bits of paper and eventually (I elide some details here) ended up with the Nobel prize in physics.

[1] https://www.e-reading.club/chapter.php/71262/23/Feynman_-_Su...
[git-worktree](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree) allows you to have "copies" of the repo cheaply. This can be useful when switching branches would have a high overhead, for example you need to reconfigure your local environment (database, dependencies, etc.).
I have visited a few factories in Japan and have seen manufacturing of components like heavy duty pumps and gas turbine blades.

You are absolutely right. The work ethic of Japanese workers is awesome.

I am an engineer and I am damn sure that the Japanese use humans to perfect a process and then replace them with a robot, with the same human manning the robot. Japanese workers and management always work together to perfect a process to such an extent that it becomes very easy to replicate it with a machine.

Its very inspiring to see the Japanese work.
that's the ironic outcome of their misguided attempt to just throw automation at every step in the process. They have ended up with the least automated car factory in the world.
Thanks for this explanation! I understand much more clearly now. And I must admit I'm a bit disappointed :-(
Fundamentally demand supply mismatch.

These exams succeed in professions where more people are looking to enter the profession than there are jobs that will afford a comfortable lifestyle.. so the existing professionals lobby the government to setup a guild like body to "certify" and thereby limit supply of "certified professionals". The point of the exam is to limit supply and competition, it is not to ensure lawyers, accountants etc "know enough" - look at how many clients are done in by poor professional advice.

There are far far more programming jobs than people available who can program today. So this won't happen.
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The "open always wins" wasn't talking about access to other people's private data. It was talking about letting apps run and giving them the capability to act on your data. Big difference.

Nobody is complaining about being able to install a Facebook app that harvests your data. The issue is it could also harvest your friends' data by default.

Although honestly I think this is all manufactured outrage. The fact that this could happen was totally public in 2012 and the public weren't outraged about it then.
Very very little by way of information here. I suppose that given it's a memorandum of understanding (MOU) they're basically saying, "we'd like this to happen please".

I think the scale of the project implies that this is going to be the power source for Neom† ( http://www.discoverneom.com/ ), the new sci-fi city the Suadis are planning to build in the north-west of their country bordering Jordan and with Egypt across the water. See here‡ for an in-depth critique of that project. (Side note: is it just me or has Bloomberg's journalism gotten insanely impressive of late?)

From the official blurb, “As the sun rises over NEOM, it will glint against vast fields of solar panels paired with wind turbines and light up enormous stretches of energy grids storing power for generations.” I guess we could call this MOU, “Neom-Solar”, part of the energy solution for powering Neom and beyond.

One has to remember that the Saudi's sovereign wealth fund has something like $2T, that's T for trillion, so a joint $200B joint punt is well within their reach. And especially if they intend to diversify away from fossil fuels for power-gen and desalination.

I guess we should applaud them because if the effects of climate change are potentially as bad as scientists claim they are the world needs a number of mega-projects like this to push the carbon needle firmly in the other direction.

Note as well that since that Bloomberg article was written in October 2017 a number of the restrictions mentioned in the article as compared to Dubai have been lifted–notably women can drive from the summer onwards and do not have to wear an abaya in public so long as their dress is "decent and respectful"§. Perhaps more reforms are coming down the pipe? It's often been rumoured that the Saudi royalty and other wealthy individuals lead much more liberal lifestyles abroad (and even at home some say) than the laws of their own country would lead one to believe.

I believe it is true that historically the Saudi royalty built their strength by allying themselves with the fundamentalist Wahabi clerical sect. Perhaps the Kingdom realises that they may have to partly sabotage that relationship in order to make their country more attractive to outside investment and in order to compete with their more liberal next door neighbours. And perhaps it is the subjects themselves in the kingdom who are agitating for some reforms. Anyway, it'd be nice in the future not to have to listen to jibes about how draconian the kingdom is on the religious front whenever some article about their progress in other areas is published.

† discussion five months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15543404

‡ https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-neom-saudi-mega-city...

§ http://m.gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/abaya-what-wome...
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> Am I really alone in thinking FB was cancer from the get go?

Not at all! Most surprisingly my parents are the ones who looked at this and instantly followed their guts once they felt that something was off and removed their fb accounts years ago.

Still, the majority won't fully understand any of this until all their private photo's start circulating on the web.
Math is a clean room where you don't need to worry about the concrete representation. Often the details of the representation and how they connect are more to do with human psychology (keeping things understandable) than with algorithmic heuristics.
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Great! Apologies if my older post was a bit curt. I'm glad you're building this.

btw, have you seen the 2FA List? https://twofactorauth.org/
> we developers are stuck

No, only a subset is "stuck" not using the most fancy and shiniest. Janestreet seems to be interested in this particular subset.

Maybe they found a correlation between robustness and efficiency, and not fooling around with tooling for the sake of optics too much. After all, finding correlations is what they do.

If you want to argue "behind times," argue inefficiency, but I think you will come up short on arguments. Not only do they get to have an efficient workflow, they also get to weed out developers whose opinions would make for a poor fit naturally.
There is no feature in the Modula language which makes it compilation fundamentally slower than the compilation of Pascal. Actually, Turbo Pascal later retrofitted the main Modula feature - seperate compilation of modules - onto the Pascal language in the form of units.
The observed differences in the compile times should come from implementation differences of the compilers - the fact that the Modula compiler took longer to run but produced the faster executable hints towards the Modula compiler spending its time on code optimization.
Which immediately resulted in a bug-report noting that their mailgun API key was committed into code:

https://gitlab.com/latency.at/latencyAt/issues/36

:)
Note: Having O(Petaflops) compressed in 1U gives us an exascale supercomputer when putting O(1000) nodes next to each other -- a typical size of a well-equipped university supercomputer center, not even a national one.

So neglecting the price tags, exascale computers are now within reach.

If this does not make you nevous, read the first sentences of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exascale_computing:

> Exascale computing would be considered as a significant achievement in computer engineering, for it is believed to be the order of processing power of the human brain at neural level (functional might be lower). It is, for instance, the target power of the Human Brain Project.
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The article headline was changed from "could cripple some jet production" and now it says "but says no impact on jet production"

The article was suggestive that ransomware would cripple Boeing, which wouldn't happen if they had offline backups.
"Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling" Course.

https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/76-introduction-t...

It is an introduction to NetLogo (a free simulation software and a Programming Language), but in hindsight I think the couse and the book teach some useful concepts.
You aggressively refuting a point the OP didn't make.
One thing this article fails to consider, is with more automation, there are fewer human limitations. For example, if a human is able to perhaps join a weld per minute, it's possible a machine could go 10x that speed.
Who do I trust? A person I can identify by name and track a person down who has written an article. Or an anonymous account on HN named 'throwaway*'. Yea...you see?
And if you're interested in how the machine's graphics works, don't miss David Crane on the Internal Magic of the 2600 - an amazing talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr-t9plOkHY
You can create energy storage with excess energy. With energy of a large enough scale even electrolysis, as opposed to steam methane reforming, could be used to produce renewable clean energy in the form of hydrogen that could be used to create more stable power output.

Saudi Arabia and all nations that rely on oil exports certainly have to be seeing the future a bit differently than the rest of the world, and so you have to take this into account when considering their plans. It's probably not particularly controversial to say that oil won't be nearly as valuable in 50 years. But when your GDP is being sustained by oil, that means you're living on borrowed time - and when it comes to completely reshaping your national economy and international role, 50 years suddenly is not such a long time.
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Can you develop a file format plus API that is ACID compliant in C?
Putting a mirror in IPFS is a good idea, you can update repo directory anytime.
Really, I have been using Django for a while now. Its rarely the Django code that is the bottleneck, usually it needs some DB tuning.

(If you don't know the ORM well, its easy to let it generate a LOT of queries, have you added django-debug-toolbar to your project to see what it is generating?)
Thanks, didn't know that. I just copied the mcd function from .bashrc to .zshrc when i switched ~5 years ago…
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Step 1: get out of the habit of thinking “systems” means “computers”. People and processes (not Unix processes!) are the major components of systems in this context.
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> which large country cares about larger environmental impact?

Germany and Japan come to mind.
Uhhh what? jq is basically an updated sed. One input stream, one output stream, no awareness of anything else
Here's [1] a good rundown of the conspiracy. To wit, it's a conspiracy of two: DuPont wanting to outlaw hemp which could have provided an alternative to Nylon, and Hearst which was heavily invested in wood-pulping machinery for paper production, again for which hemp was a good alternative.

1. https://www.alternet.org/story/77339/debunking_the_hemp_cons...
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It's hard to see how moisture can stay in the air for months at a time, but I am not a climate scientist, so who knows.
And don’t forget in 1969 when they landed on the moon, they had to code all the timestamps in negative.
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What?

A spammer could easly bypass that with capital/hardware.
I don't think MySpace vs Facebook is really a real comparison. Facebook has reached a level of ubiquity that MySpace could never have dreamed of.

That little white F in a blue square is a global symbol and it won't be undone in a few bouts of bad PR.

I think we, the tech literate, forget just how other people interact with tech. I need only to look at my parents interacting with Facebook to see how they're still so addicted to it (my aunt still is addicted to candy crush ffs).

Don't forget all the social lock in Facebook has on you: a decade's worth of photos and all the friends you picked up along the way.

Sure, people are unplugging, but I personally think they've got critical mass.
> but their internal tools use 80*25 text-mode UIs

A long time ago, I worked for a company wanting to sell advertising devices with an accompanying booking UI to Titan - we had a shiny web booking system; they had their crufty old 80x25 text mode system.

Turns out that 80x25 text mode system was orders of magnitude faster for the day to day workflow of booking ads on devices, etc.
Not an engineer but, if your infrastructure is that old first of all I'd focus on maintenance, rather than having dick measuring contests with countries that have questionable attitudes towards pollution, safety and nature.
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Such irony. The losers of WWII now care about the fate of the planet more than the "winners". I say "winners" because no one really wins a war. We all lose.
Yes you have to... but if there is no real reason for you to be expelled and you don't declare your participation they won't have a problem with it.
The Lytro Illum camera pioneered light-field photography.

"Instead of capturing it on a single plane, freezing an image in time and space, a light-field camera also captures the direction in which light was moving. Its processor then essentially renders a 3D scene, complete with the knowledge of distance between objects. A light-field photo represents not only everything in the scene, but a spatial understanding of the things in it." [1]

It's amazing from a technical perspective, but the image resolution was low (only 4 MP), and the price was high ($1600). [2]

I'd hoped that the technology would help the camera market find a new selling point to compete with phones, but apparently that hasn't happened. It's a pity that Lytro is disbanding instead of selling off to Canon or Nikon.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2014/7/30/5949913/lytro-illum-revie...

[2] https://petapixel.com/2017/01/12/look-lytro-illum-camera-fut...
I found Martin Kleppmans book - Designing Data-Intensive Applications (http://martin.kleppmann.com/) to be a great primer.
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