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Yes, and in a way it still is.

The Inline::Perl5 (https://modules.perl6.org/dist/Inline::Perl5:cpan:NINE) module allows one to embed a Perl 5 interpreter in Perl 6 and transparently call Perl 5 functionality as if it were written in Perl 6: this basically makes 99.9% of CPAN available to programs written in Perl 6.

Many Perl 5 modules from CPAN have gotten a native Perl 6 equivalent as well: https://modules.perl6.org/t/CPAN5 .

Earlier this year I tried to launch an idea: https://www.perl.com/article/an-open-letter-to-the-perl-comm... . But that met with much hostility https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/7r1b33/an_open_letter... , so I'm not really actively pursuing that.
They are trying to place themselve as the company that produces hardware versus those software guys who are after your data to complement their income. The argument here is that the hardware guy always has a proper profit margin. Always look at the profit motive, Luke! (Also they have some stake in the data business by following on those apple IDs - i would not bet on the declared principles of their chairman; also Apple is on the stock exchange, therefore under constant pressure to come out with positive growth figures)
It's not. This nonsense is used to derail/bikeshed all sorts of communication.'

I've found that using "they" in the singular is ambiguous and confusing to non-native speakers especially, and I interact with many people in that category. Using "person" in more formal, and words like "folks" in more informal settings is more understandable.
Interesting. I wonder how prevalent this sort of thing is? I mean, even small populations of people will contain a ne'er do well, or a gambler or something. Does the prevalence of lottery winners that screw up match the general population's prevalence of individuals who screw up?

Without some indication like the above, it's hard to take the WaPo seriously on this.
Sounds like you are suggesting Apple should have simply stopped doing any business in China. Simple, right?
Google and Facebook aren't selling your data though.
The kinds of memory guarantees and controls a GC wants for good performance seem to be the kind of things you wouldn't want to give to some random third-party.
First, thank you so much for the work you've done with RSS / Atom. I implemented it (and my own static site compiler) myself from scratch on my own personal site and it took me very little time. The only little trick was figuring out absolute vs relative paths.

Second, I've been fighting for regulations for over three years and I'm getting somewhere, but I'm also starting to think that we need technical solutions to many of these problems. One of the things I see as a problem is that people always want more, but privacy and security often require less.

For example, old charsets only supported Latin characters. With the introduction of Cyrillic characters many assumptions started breaking.

Each time I try to think through how to make the web / internet simpler I realize that it either requires pushing the complexity onto people unprepared to deal with it—an English speaking daughter may want to copy and paste her Russian mother's Cyrillic name, say—or it fails to handle the use cases we need it to handle.

I know this seems kinda abstract, but do you ever think about that interplay? Are there any insights or anecdotes you find useful?
> Do you know of any areas where WASM would outdo the current Javascript implementation?

As soon as you can imagine something that would "better work in C" it's reasonable to expect that Wasm will have an edge vs. Javascript. Javascript does eventually get JIT-ed etc, but with wasm it's effectively "just the code" from the start -- conceptually, Wasm code doesn't have to contain any checks to "fall back" to some slower implementation, once it's processed.

Here's one of the "minimal" examples of calling the C function which is compiled to the WebAssembly: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/get-started-with-webassembly...

Note the resulting native assembly code in the picture on the right there. It's that minimal. I don't know how big the costs JavaScript to that are... But seeing how beautifully you've measured for your project, I'm quite sure you're more than suited to evaluate that too, and to measure the currently minimal costs. And as there is a lot of interest in these topics, if you demonstrate the obvious weakness there's a chance it could be fixed?

It seems that the string has to be copied every time a call from JavaScript to Wasm is made (there stringToUTF8):

https://blog.teamemo.com/behind-teamemo-using-a-c-library-fr...
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i.e. they don't have a choice?
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Wasn't it just party members who had telescreens? Most people (i.e the proles) posed no threat to the Inner Party and therefore weren't monitored that closely.
Yeah, Los Angeles has no speed limit at all, anywhere. It's basically "don't be a dick, or you'll get pulled over" as your cruising 70 mph next to a cop in a school zone.
For me the key is transparency of collection and use (which some will quickly point out is very GDPR-like).

I’m OK to anonymously share my car’s position and speed of in return I get live traffic data from others doing the same. I’m less cool about people collecting my data without me knowing (or burying it deep in unreadable T&Cs) and then selling that for uses that I’m not aware of or didn’t approve.

When you visit a free website or use a free service I get the “your the product” mantra, but for products I buy and put in my home... no.
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The people you describe are a ridiculously tiny minority..
It hardly reflects on their society as a whole.

What you bring up, I think, is just a common trope about Japan.

People have misleading ideas like this about countries they haven't experienced much of.

For example, I've met a few people who think every inch of the US is a lawless bullet storm.
I like to sneakily endorse people on LinkedIn with the 'Waterfall' skill tag.
One of the first effects of this is another attempt to remove RMS's pet favourite abortion joke from the glibc docs: https://lwn.net/Articles/753646/ -> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-10/msg00399.html

Will RMS comply with his own "guidelines"?
Gay marriage and drug abuse don't kill people. (At least other people, if we jump from weed to opioids). Car speeding does.
Come on, this is a myth. I work in math and it is not at all unusual to cite informal sources.

Also, someone should inform Greg Egan: http://www.gregegan.net/SCIENCE/Superpermutations/Superpermu...
Total non-issue:

“The following proof was found in the 4chan web site (URL at the end), without any attribution...”
Considering that the largest economic problem of the last 20 years (well all human history really, but it's been a keystone of economic strife recently) is the dramatic difference in the wealth growth between the wealthy and the wage increases of the remaining population, that whole "trickle down economics" myth has been sorta shorted out.

"Growth" can represent too many things and is thus a great slippery beast that can be used to obscure helping the wider population. We continue to see economic "growth" but wage increases has been stagnant for decades. Owners need fewer workers to amass revenue due to changes in the type economy as well as automation. You can grow a business without benefiting as many people as you used to. Look at how many people Bell Labs had working for it when it was in it's heyday vs how many people work for Google now.
You may be right. It's over 30 years since I read it. Seems to be a good idea to reread it, though.
Yes. Especially in academia, where it's often a bullshit power-play in a really bizarre bureaucracy, that wastes alot of time.

I know someone who was dragged into some HR process because she did not sufficiently respect the wishes of a subordinate who did not self-identify as a human being, identified as a "non-binary organism" instead, and selected "it" as the only acceptable pronoun. Fortunately, the process got bogged down for a couple of years between the various unions, human rights committees and administrative processes and the complaint went away when the individual moved on.
> The test hardware was a Dell E6410 with a Core i5 CPU running at 750MHz

Is there a reason to downclock your CPU when running benchmarks? Is is trying to reduce the effect of memory stalls?
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Yeah isn’t there a named phenomenon when an expert reads an article from a source, realizes it’s full of factual errors, dismisses the article only to continue reading the rest of the articles from the exact same source?
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Have you come across an open source project, specially a modern web app, that it seemed really well written and well maintained?
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Calling that "$1" is an impressive lack of financial clue.
>>What if they are doing it wrong and I notice?

You still do nothing.

In these days of 'personal spaces' and talks of 'discomfort' and 'creepy behaviour'. Nothing is worth meddling with anything unless explicitly asked. Even then I would keep huge distance, even in emails and chat.

This is also called 'Consent'.
There is no other way. The problem is atoms combine in integer ratio amounts to form molecules. To mix things for chemistry one needs to be able to mix things in proper proportions. So having a number that trades number of atoms to something plausibly measurable, like mass, is needed.

The reason it cannot be exact for all atoms is forced on us by nature: atoms come in isotopes, each weighing slightly differently, and most common elements come in a mix of isotopes.

So picking one isotope of one element (carbon-12) as the definition for a mole that is decently representative of how chemists will use the number is a perfectly fine and useful number.

Any chemist that needs to worry about the fuzz will understand this and act accordingly. For example, carbon 22 has a mass slightly larger than 22/12 that of carbon 12 (but has short half-life). Carbon 13, which is stable, has mass slightly over 13/12 that of carbon 12, and when using it, one adjusts accordingly. And these "slightly over" phrases are also known to many digits of precision.

But nailing down the number precisely is extremely useful.
Cherry-picking can generate support for any argument.
Some of us don't want to be bullied by nice guys.
The main problem is that custom privacy-focused Android versions have to be made compatible for every device and devices come and go all the time.

At some point, hardware progress will be so minimal and devices so easy to manufacture that small companies can offer their own high-end phones and can build for them some years without really being much behind the competition.

When that happens, custom ROMs can really lift off and I don't think we're so far away. One or two more generations of smaller chips and better batteries. We're already at the point where the only innovation is adding more cameras.
In absolutely no way comparable; a laughable comparison.
Can China become No 1 in electric cars?
Its not about education. Its about a mindset. Trying to understand the consequence of your action before you click. Reading what a box says before dismissing it.

Read your prompts before closing them isnt the same as "the users have a pervasive misunderstanding." Its usually panic. Its "im not a computer person so Im not even going to try reading this."

Have you ever had the conversation:

"This came up on my pc, what do I do"

"What does it say"

"Oh"
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...

Says about 44%, which is pretty close to "like 50%"
I was likely bitten on the ankle by one when I was 12 after walking around in ivy. It's hard to tell exactly what it was, but it swelled up like half a baseball, the doctor removed a chunk of skin/flesh an inch across (it mostly fell off) and I couldn't walk for a couple of weeks.

I hated spiders for years after that... they don't bug me much now, but windows and recluses will spread (if fed)
and can be dangeous. It's best to keep them out of your house and garage area. Seen lots of widows, but never a recluse in California.
I don't know why there hasn't been a lawsuit about this yet. Maybe there will be at the Federal level. Since some states allow anonymity and as such the powerball agreements do then it seems unreasonable for states to require public disclosure.
> If an attacker can fool the people into getting funds out of the cold wallet, then they are available for an attacker to steal.

Sure but then you still have 12-48h to discover that they are being fooled.

There's no foolproof method, there will always be people involved and anything you could make will only make it better because it give you more people/time to realize the mistake. They decided that 2 persons and 12-48h is enough and I agree with that.
I think "popular" is the wrong adjective to describe what these numbers really indicate.

For example I believe electron is being discussed more, because its more controversial than classic UI frameworks. That does not mean it is more popular.
As a user, I can choose to change the default at no cost.
Syncing data to your phone doesn't require sending that data to a third party.
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Okay, Apple caved to save their bread and butter; I'm not nominating Apple for corporate sainthood. However, they are not building a business model based on exploiting our data. They should get credit for that and be allowed to point out the problem with that kind of business.
I remember being in a Spotify hackathon with Johan many years ago. Fantastic problem solver. Happy to see his work here.

You wrote on my blog post on the hackathon at the time (2011) that I had "some promise for algorithmic problem solving". Really inspired me to dive into CS.
Why doesn't he put the the money where his mouth is? I haven't seen Apple making any attempts to create funding model for publishers, even though the success of their products depends on the wide availability of free content.
Inevitably, I’m going to have to ask for a reference.
How long before it suggests you to purchase viagra if it hears something in your bedroom
The problems with blogs and wikipedia is that they can be changed, or in the case of blogs disappear.

For wikipedia, you should reference the specific version of the article, which will never change.

For blogs, or wikipedia articles you feel might get deleted, you can reference a specific version from archive.org.
You're misunderstanding the problem. It's not a question of the number of permutations. It's a question of the total number of episodes that must be watched to have seen all possible permutations.
Lots of people tend to hate the usage of they; he's basically setting an area of compromise for the people who put forth the argument that they isn't proper grammar. (You wouldn't think this would be an issue, but free software nerds manage to outdo themselves.)
That's oversimplified and usually how it's taught at the undergrad level. Neurons and especially the networks they form are more analogous to analog electronics, but both analogies end up failing at some point.
To be fair, it's not always intended that way, but sooner or later someone discovers the additional monetizing potential.
That is absurd. It's working Internet Money that you can use.
Things missing:

* (weird) scroll animation effects, like paragraphs appearing out of nowhere etc.

* Disqus/other comment section loading (with screwing other elements position)
Arabic, among many other languages is on a low profile simply because no science is produced in these languages. English won the game because bits and bytes were invented in English.
Arabic is indeed a great and very rich language, perhaps more than English, unfortunately, nothing with importance is being produced in Arabic, especially in the last 1.4k years.
Then it's not a standup. Maybe you can find another way to achieve the same aim, or maybe Scrum isn't suited to remote workplaces (I don't have enough experience either way)

I haven't had too many problems with online scrums/standups. The basic rules are the same, every gives a quick breakdown on what they did, what they are doing and any issues they have. You just don't have people physically in the same location.

I will say the biggest help when dealing with the remote situation is having someone willing to take decent notes and send a quick email with a summary, which helps compensate for the lack of face-to-face.
See: Facebook's Free Basics, where they offer "free" "Internet" to developing countries, limited to Facebook properties and a handful of non-competing websites like Wikipedia.
> Its virtual chess

I was with you until here. I'm curious what you mean by this?
I don't think there is any one-size-fits-all answer, but one major contributor is rarely given credit -- nuclear weapons. Bear with me, I'm serious. When you look back at our history war is nearly always the cause for the greatest suffering. It causes starvation, 'involuntary migration', and so many other things. Whatever has been built up in an area, it does a wonderful job of tearing down. Look at Libya for one of the most stark contemporary examples. Libya was steadily developing and seeing increased prosperity as a model of what Africa could become. Now, it's been reduced to neglected, unstable, and impoverished rubble since we 'freed' them.

And this didn't used to just be a story of Mideastern nations. This was the story of the world. The one thing that changed this was nukes. Mutually assured destruction is why the Cold War is now called the Cold War, and not World War 3. And it's why direct unrestrained confrontation between developed nations has really become a thing of the past. Countries like China would never have been able to develop if not for the peace and stability that nuclear weapons have enabled. We can even look to nations like India. It's surreal to imagine that until 1947 that entire nation was just a property of the British Empire. Even the notion of a British Empire is surreal! But now that they have gained their independence and are a nuclear nation, they are also gradually increasing in prosperity as Indian decisions are being made to put Indians first. And as a nuclear power their decisions, independence, and developments are all effectively guaranteed, at least until we develop technology that can effectively render nukes harmless.

Like so many things in life, some of the greatest progress comes not from directed efforts, but from paradoxical places you would never even imagine to look in the pursuit of your goal.
Not necessarily. I could imagine Google adding a "paid crawling" service where you tell Google how much your content costs, explicitly allow them access via some authenticated method, and then they display the price next to your content in search results.

You're imagining that it can't work because it can't work in a generic way with all search engines, including future ones that don't exist yet. But that doesn't have to be the case. Most content providers only care about Google.
If you click through the links, he's in the google groups thread talking about it.
One should be able to live and thrive in a society without staying "relevant". If relevance is the measure for "we give you enough resources to live and enjoy life" then it is not the right society.
This article really hit home for me living in London. Having spent 7 years working in San Francisco and the valley, the degree to which "project management" and the use of buzzwords in the greater London tech scene are divorced from their original uses drives me absolutely bananas. And what's worse is that faux-agile has taken such a strong hold that I seem like the crazy person when I tell them that's not how software is developed in California.
Facebook is starting to advertise a dedicated video chat device to put into your home.

That is the last thing I would ever want, the revulsion I felt at the idea was visceral.
Well I did not do a lot of research for this post, but many installations that I have to deal with come from some image where perl is not been installed.
I totally agree although I now have people down voting everything I post. Bizarre
Jesus and the Mary Chain, the Mentor himself in the flesh.

When I was a senior in college studying Anthropology and subcultures (specifically hacker culture), several of my roommates who were engineers and CS majors told me I absolutely needed to read your essay.

To this day, it's still one of the most influential essays I read about the culture and understanding the ethos of an ethical hacker. After getting involved in the scene in the late 90's, I found out reading your essay was almost a rite of passage.

It's an amazing work that is timeless and still resonates to this day.
Both. Because neuroscience is hilariously complex and a big "fuck you" to neuroscientists.

Computation happens at many levels - among dendrites, among axons (some neurons have multiple axons as well!), axonal branches, within the neuron, and also among various networks that arise (behavioral and structural networks). It's all a bit much, if you ask me.
If you read the thread you could see how everyone agreed that the guidelines didn't apply to docs.
Do you follow the laws of foreign countries when you travel, even though you live somewhere else?
You absolutely can. Politics follows technology, not the other way around. At minimum, technology gives politicians new options.
interestingly, in California a large chunk of the revenues from moving violations go to the state.

http://www.allgov.com/usa/ca/news/where-is-the-money-going/w...
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Looks like it's based off https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/-/5-749519/?page=1
Stokke used to make the Balans, and it was part of their "Movement by Stokke" range, but they spun it off into a new company in 2006.

Another product that was moved over to the Balans brand was the Move chair by Per Øie [1], which is an actual saddle chair.

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So, now the criminals will just turn off their phones and everyone _else_ will become a suspect
That would be a nice world to live in you describe here...
No it's not a democracy and never has been, the system of government here is a democratic republic. Misunderstanding America seems to be a very hip thing to do these days. Most of us do exactly what you do in your respective country: try to look out for our family each day. We're neither aware nor responsible for 99% of the rest of what goes on around the globe. Most of us don't care, because we have our own problems to worry about.

The talking heads you see on TV telling you "America thinks XYZ", or "America won't stand for <foo>!", are just that...talking heads. They aren't us, we don't know them, they don't come over and share meals...they are just a few elite that can't shut their mouth in front of a camera. It's just as shitty here as it is where you are from, most likely.

Now we have lots of propaganda. You know, like the USSR and North Korean propaganda... mantras that say we are the bravest, most "free", most prestigious people on the planet. It's just propaganda though, no one that lives here believes that nonsense. If they do, they just got off the boat...give them a year and their tune will change.

disclaimer: I'm an unhappy veteran.
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The disingenuous thing about the anti-third-person-singular-they is that it's been used like that constantly for years, and (other than a few grammar nazis) no one really cared until people wanted to use it for non-binary genders.