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Well, here's a fun fact for Windows 7: Microsoft at one point decided that they would allow people to roll forward and roll back updates at-will, and even move to an update at a point-in-time in its entirety if necessary.

Obviously, this is rather insane and takes up a gigantic amount of disk space, and wasn't something they ever implemented. They must have realised this, so they built a facility into their DISM.exe utility to remove all updates that were superseded by the service pack (the switch is /spsuperceded). DISM.exe was released in Windows 7 SP1.

Note that there has never been, and never will be, a Windows 7 SP2, because Microsoft decided to go with the rolling update schedule. What this means, however, is that /spsuperceded will never work as they have never actually gotten to a second service pack.

It appears to me that Microsoft must have forgotten the original plan for clearing out old and useless patch files from SxS, because they rather surreptitiously introduced a new option into the disk cleanup wizard to remove old Windows Updates (to get to it, you need to elevate to admin via UAC in the GUI). This removes the old updates.

I have literally had systems with around 6-8GB of old Windows Update files. The biggest issue is that you think they are deleted, but it appears that Microsoft actually removes the updates after you reboot. I've had one system that took an hour to reboot as it was removing so much junk. I had a friend who had an even worse system, and he had to leave it overnight...

Here's another fun fact (not sure if it's fixed in Windows 10...) but the WinSxS folder is where system files are kept. NTFS does a symbolic link to these folders back to the System32 folder. The problem is that the metadata is updated in one location only, and so if you check the WinSxS folder and the System32 folder, you'll see different file sizes for each folder.
> How is that different to apt, it also has to solve dependencies for packages.

Because it is way more complicated than apt: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/h...
I don’t trust anything Americans will write on this topic as many I’ve met (am American with a father who loved “self-help”) believe completely delusional things about energy/motivation and ruin their health while doing damage to everyone around them from it
I’d heard that too, but they are still here.
I buy green beans from a big supplier here and it’s interesting to chat to them. New Zealand imports good beans and very little low grade coffee comes into the country. Presumably the likes of Starbucks aren’t included in this statement as they import their own.
That sounds intuitively right (I go to a lot of galleries) -- but do you have a source for the number or are you just guessing?

(I'd love to see the source if you have one, it would probably contain other useful info.)
Pretty sure this is at expense of poor whites, who are under represented under such admission criteria. Since
"whites at the bottom 10% of family income distribution, do about as well as blacks at the top 10% of family income on SAT scores".

This video purports to break down the stats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtXjAaxpI2I
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That cite is already outdated! The EDU SOTA is now 16%: "Genomic prediction of cognitive traits in childhood and adolescence" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/09/17/418210 , Allegrini et al 2018. (It uses some tricks to boost the statistical power of Lee et al 2018 - GWASes in general waste a lot of predictive power by not using multiple traits, realistic priors etc. So it's easy to do better.)
Can't edit - but I was thinking of the larger size(s) - the original base price was $399...
That's part of why I'd only use gift cards with very restricted budgets on paid software repositories.
You're falling into the fallacy of relative privation. "Why are we so worried about __________ when __________?", implying that you can't be concerned about both.
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all of that + global warming and ecological devastation
The brain structures present in mammals and humans that process suffering are very similar. That is basic neuroscience.

So maybe it's ok to make animals suffer, but at least have consistent ethics and agree it's ok to make people suffer.
I clicked the link in horror hoping to hell someone had not ported electron to an SNES. Happily they did not... my faith in humanity is restored.
seems like a cynical rant but this is accurate. a “good enough” product is in fact only good enough because it is better than the competition on some axes and has a moat.

competition is everything. it’s no fun and not worth it to work for a startup that is withering on the vine.
$300-375 per year from the richest people in the country to the poorest is insane?

And that amount does not even hold the line against ever increasing concentration of wealth for the lucky (yes, luck not merit), and ever increasing disenfranchisement of those on the bottom. What it really does is hide the real problem and make sidewalks more pleasant for the rich folks for the cost of 7 or 8 dinners at a restaurant.
I think that this is a false argument. Just look at the poorer nations or even poorer populations. They tend to have plenty of children.
Kids are expensive, that is true, but I think that most people arguing that it is too expensive to have children actually mean that they are not willing to change their lifestyle or standard of living to have kids.
MMapping is used in most fault tolerant software as a simplified method of data persistence. Granted, not the only method in play, but it is a common data safety net.
I wrote an article on how to ray march distance fields in concert with rasterization in Unity. If anyone’s interested check it out:
http://flafla2.github.io/2016/10/01/raymarching.html

At SIGGRAPH this year, I also saw this raymarching toolkit that takes the idea to a production-ready setting:
https://kev.town/raymarching-toolkit/

A cool example of the power of raymarching is the ability to raymarch complex mathematical forms much more easily than with mesh-based methods, and with infinite resolution. Here’s a cool paper on raymarching quaternion julia sets:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/QuaternionJulia/
For one thing worth is not measurable and depends on circumstance. Brawn would get you further than your game-playing abilities in many historical and pre-historical settings. Also, yes most people object to the central idea of racism, that people of certain ancestry are not worth being kept alive.
they have computers. they can read google and other generic exploit websites just like you. what more do they need? cryptocurrency exchanges are probably not the most secure, they just scan, social engineer, and wait for exploits to be publicly announced for certain coins.
Really good on you for doing that! Would you consider hunting as a source of meat? I’ve been thinking that might be a more ethical way to get meat.

I’ve never seen a breakdown on whether hunting is cost effective though.
I don't mind the drives much but the constant stronger fan noise from CPU / GPU / motherboard can really tick me off.

For my NAS I would bet that I would have to put it in a storage room, yep. Especially having in mind I would want to expand it with further drives in the future.
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As a user of hundreds of programs with no direct cost for updates decades after purchase, I find this perfectly reasonable.

I didn’t say free as this cost is included in the price at purchase. Vendors can be explicit about their fees and updates and let me choose to buy or not buy.

There’s lots of markets with natural charge points for updates (windows and office for example). A vendor not calling out the price for updates and then renaming and stopping updates is sleazy definitely and maybe scammy.

There are lots of models for software with pros and cons. The only thing that really tweaks me is the bait and switch after my purchase. Or the exploitation of an implicit allowance to my detriment.

Theoretically Mac has been providing updates to purchases made in 2000[0]. Granted, they used to charge and I doubt you have hardware that will still run the updates.

Microsoft patched Server 2003 in 2017 [1].

Not to mention the reason why lots of OSS is still used because it allows “free updates for life.”

There’s no such thing as true free (tnstaafl), but there are lots of companies willing to be clear about update costs.

[0] https://robservatory.com/a-useless-analysis-of-os-x-release-...

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybu...
In my understanding when you use intrinsics and build for a processor without support for the intrinsics then GCC for example will replace it with equivalent code.
Or even the embedded version.
It cost them money to code in the annoy-o-tron ads :)
As far as I’m aware, that isn’t true. Skylake added support for 7 different SHA extensions:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4....
I think some combination of a web-of-trust and symmetric cryptography (or even OTPs for the really scary stuff, like code updates to self-driving cars) will work if we need them to.

Take Apple (my dev machine) or DigitalOcean (my server provider. They already have root. If my MBP came with a custom-to-me symmetric key to communicate with Apple I could get a signature from them of the symmetric key that DigitalOcean generated for me.

The real issue is that everyone is reactive so these types of things don't get fixed until there's a proof-of-concept attack that works. I remember people talking about how states would propagandize social media platforms in the early 2000s and nobody took them seriously; myself included. Though I never mocked them because I didn't see how they were wrong I just saw no evidence that it was happening so I figured someone else was already on it.

Nobody is magically on it. National security podcasts are stressing about quantum computers because they know it's probably going to break PKI.

The thing I still don't understand about quantum is that it seems to break entropy once you get enough qubits because it covers too many options at once. I keep meaning to experiment with it to understand it better, but I don't have enough time.
>The University of Pennsylvania’s Hans-Peter Kohler, who studies fertility and birthrates, said the data indicated that many shifts affecting fertility are occurring “in the transition to adulthood.” The biggest recent drops in birthrate have been among teenagers as well as people in their 20s. In 2016, the teen birthrate hit at an all-time low after peaking in 1991.

This... doesn't sound like bad news to me?

It seems like the #1 "issue" is that teenagers have stopped having kids. That's a good thing, is it not?

Young 20-year-olds not having kids could be easily explained with the higher amount of people going to college, and starting life later.

If the 25+ age group has stopped having kids, that'd be a bad thing for sure. I guess its important to keep the overall fertility rate in mind for future economic reasons, but a severe decrease in teenage pregnancy seems like a good thing overall... even if it may cause an economic issue in the future.
In fact a little worse, right now: we can predict about 20% of the variance in IQ from brain shape [1] but only 10% from genes [2].

[1] https://authors.library.caltech.edu/87270/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0147-3
> My own feeling is that object-oriented programming is a useful technique in some cases, but it isn't something that has to pervade every program you write.

That could apply to pretty much any programming paradigm.

I wouldn't use object oriented programming for small programs. Why bother with types when you can express things in a couple hundred lines of python with functions? Why write classes to munge some data that could be better expressed as a series of map/fold/etc. on lists of tuples?

However, for keeping large codebases approachable and maintainable, OOP is the best paradigm I have personally seen.
As another commenter said, "to have an art gallery," but also because you don't know which of the (imaginary five) might be your best collector in five years.

A big part of running an art gallery is being available for people who want to look at art. Some of those buy, some of them spread the word.

In the end a small number of people are going to keep your gallery alive, if it stays alive. But you have no way of predicting who they will be or whence they will wander into your space. That VP of Sales in town for a conference who only has Wednesday afternoon free and is starting a collection of $YOUR_SPECIALTY.
I would say that any persons functional literacy will be enhanced with access to a dictionary (digital or printed), unless they can the dictionary by heart. I wouldn't called that bound. I would just call it putting in your best effort.

I personally confer a dictionary whenever I write more than a paragraph of text. Most people don't do that, but they should.
I like this answer. People who often complain about Windows just don't bother learning how it works. I like Linux just as much, but both have pros and cons.
'Some auto executives say they can hold on to their roles as hardware providers while also tapping into the growth of more-profitable services'

Simple question for anyone in the auto industry who thinks this statement makes sense: for every car put on the road by Uber / Lyft (or any similar service you invest in), how many net new car sales will you see? (hint: their passengers may no longer need to have a car of their own)

I hope that this is just them putting their spin on the story and that when it's all said and done they realize their future depends on minimizing how much they have to shrink rather than maximizing how much they can grow.

Kodak believed that the move from film to digital represented an opportunity. It would have been for them, had they been realistic as to the size of the opportunity.
I was a big fan of OmniGraffle years ago and paid either $200 or $100 for it. Then I got hit with something like this and never bought another Omni product.

I do pay for lots of other software with cleaner models (Jetbrains is a good example).
5% is barely a functioning market. Normally you'd expect 8-10% vacancy rate in a well-supplied housing market.
Then why are children far more common in families with lower incomes?
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> What's your opinion on the idea of scientific ethics?

Neither harm to the subjects of the research nor the ones conducting it is occurring, so it's unclear how scientific ethics comes into play.

Are you genuinely attempting to suggests that there some truths about the universe which are so inimical to the human spirit that we dare not reveal them? If so, the quote which springs immediately to mind is PKD's "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
My cursory analysis suggests that there are hidden constructions invisible in the game but used for the verification (you can see a base64-encoded task file flying through the network). The actual verification happens in an Emscripten-powered C++ engine and it is pretty opaque to me---the only thing I can identify is a parser for the task file.

My best guess without the actual source code is as follows: The perfect algorithm would involve the equality between two functions returning constructible numbers [1], where each function would map from unspecified points (that you can move around with the hand tool) to the result points. As far as I concerned comparing two constructible numbers is possible but inefficient [2], and comparing two functions is probably much harder. However for the purpose of game, we can approximate the equality by randomly evaluating a difference between two functions to the reasonable accuracy and checking if it is close to zero. Theoretically exact real arithmetic would be preferable, but adaptive fixed-precision real arithmetic may be also possible as long as rounding errors are tracked.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructible_number

[2] https://mathoverflow.net/a/211556
not a C++ person here but is header-only library an advantage?
It's a well-informed opinion that is based on the fact that what we do know indicates[1] that, probably, P≠NP.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem#Reasons_to...
That started with Chrome OS
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>> Maybe I'm just stupid, or have worked on some limited subset of applications.

It seems to me that Graham answers this question in the preceeding paragraph:

>> I've done a lot of things (e.g. making hash tables full of closures) that would have required object-oriented techniques to do in wimpier languages, but I have never had to use CLOS.

He simply writes ad-hoc implementation of an object system, instead of using one provided with his favourite language. Seems like a bad case of NIH syndrome.
It's generally considered one, yes.
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Hmm. The involvement of Elemental is enough evidence for me. A then 200-person startup with maybe 10 hardware engineers and lots of government clients would be a great target. It makes me thing the hack was real. Why else would Bloomberg have even bothered to report about Elemental?
But you can solve TSP pretty well with a TSP solver. I’d be impressed if a neural network did that well. But maybe it’s possible.
And yet poor households have more kids than wealthy ones.
Healthcare gets an emotional reaction from people. And honestly it should. What’s A budget balance when someone you love has cancer and can’t afford treatment? Nobody cares at that point.

Most of the public conservatives (talk show, tv) that I follow seem really out of touch with this. They should talk to their base. I think they would realize how dire the situation is and how easily it can sway 2020.
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I agree. Everyone wants to live a certain kind of lifestyle, and kids aren’t worth the sacrifice for many.

Without fail, the people I see having kids are all people who grew up with an economic head start, and further distanced themselves with extremely high paying jobs (private equity, hedge fund, commercial real estate, VC, big tech).

I don’t know anyone with kids where the husband is not killing it financially, and they all still complain about having limited money.

This is true in the Bay Area, where I live now, and back in Texas (Dallas, Austin, San Antonio), where I’m from.
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More likely will be that once deep fakes are commonplace then no video will be trusted unless cryptographically signed by the participants.
My understanding is that Google tries to pay towards the top of their local market, to get the best talent without diminishing returns. This means a lot of money in the Bay Area, but much less in, say, London, because the market for software engineers is so much weaker there.

(I work at Google, in Boston, but don't know details about how comp is figured)
Fairness (tm) by Google.
historically they have been in archived in "C:\Windows.old" and later are removed when a new update is installed or if you use disk cleanup->system files. there used to be logic to clean this up proactively if disk space was too low, but my hands on knowledge here is >4yrs old.

this is different than the side-by-side (WinSxS) support that allows parallel versions of the same dll to live on the system. that used to grow at huge rates when you had lots of system updates + lots of apps.
> However there are small (5-50) companies that offer more reasonable working hours and quality of life than a startup while also enabling you to "leave your mark". The difference is that unlike startups these aren't necessarily "growth oriented" but that doesn't mean they won't have an impact -- just that they don't have to grow their impact exponentially to avoid dying.

I work for such a company. They've been profitable from day 0 (100% bootstrapped). The company really takes care of its people: great benefits, reasonable hours. I've really been able to leave a mark, having a degree of autonomy in technical decisions I'd get no where else.
Microsoft's approach to updates has always been a criminal waste of their users resources, particularly their time.
Ha! This makes me chuckle. I myself was a web developer during the decade of IE6 dominance, advocating for Mozilla all the while. Despite it being trendy and contrarian to praise "M$" nowadays, I feel like that ice is only now beginning to thaw. Not so much the coming of spring, but a slight decrease in the hoarfrost on the windowpane. Great shuddering booms as the lake ice cracks. That sort of thing. Yes, if Microsoft continues being non-horrible, I may eventually warm up to them :)

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Depends on your culture of course. Teens get pregnant so readily because they're designed that way. The US obsession with avoiding teen pregnancy causes problems of its own I'm sure.
If it's in high demand and supply is being artificially restricted, how would it not be "insatiable"?
It's hard to draw direct comparisons between Vancouver and San Francisco's housing markets. Canada, as well as each of the provinces, local municipalities, and cities, have representational democracy, not a quasi-direct democracy like California.

The spike in affordability in Vancouver wasn't caused directly due to a shortage in housing stock and an influx of residents. It was caused by rampant speculation from people essentially using Vancouver as a safety net to park wealth.

I can't overstate how detrimental this is to a city. What you end up with are entire neighbourhoods which are occupied at 50% or less, and yet with the value of the homes exceeding $2-$4 million. It causes stores in those local neighbourhoods to close because there aren't enough customers. It taxes the fire department because no one is there to call 911 when a fire starts. It guts schools because there aren't enough kids to fill classrooms.

And with all of this going on, former local residents and young people are pushed further and further out of the urban core due to affordability. Vancouverites make less than half of what an average tech salary pays in the SF Bay Area, and the jobs are much harder to come by.

That said, yes, Airbnb and other vacation rentals were exacerbating the problem, and causing Vancouver to turn further into a vacation/tourism destination instead of a real working city. San Francisco suffers from this to a certain extent, however, its real problem is that it has a massive influx of workers due to a booming tech economy, and not enough housing stock to accommodate all of those workers.
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> even if we can achieve 50% improvements in quantum error correction and stability year over year for over a decade

You seem to be ignoring the possibility of a technological breakthrough that will produce a major improvement in QEC in one fell swoop. Granted that is unlikely, but it's not impossible. And given what is at stake, I think it's a possibility that needs to be taken seriously despite the long odds.
I really hope the $ doesn't catch on again, I thought it was dumb in Microsoft but at least they actually had an s
He was probably thinking of Coal Harbour, a downtown neighbourhood which did have a census non-occupied by usual residents rate between 20-25%.
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