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AIUI, Rust can do it "the Swift way" (a misnomer, since it was first) for any given object simply by adding a RefCell<…> or Mutex<…> type constructor, as appropriate. These types are commonly used in combination with reference-counting smart pointers, Rc<…> or Arc<…>. (The smart pointers focus on making the "multiple ownership" aspect work, but this entails that these types have to return shared references, which are ordinarily read-only. The RefCell or Mutex type constructors then focus on enabling "runtime-checked exclusive access" on top of the native, shared reference types).
Chrome OS is not Linux, or I should say GNU/Linux (although this name lost its meaning too). Just like Android is not Linux either.
Emulation replicates the hardware of the machine being emulated in as many details as are necessary to run the program, while with virtualization, the guest OS runs directly on the host hardware, with hardware and software barricades that allow it to run simultaneously with the host OS (VT-d and VT-x are the host CPU features required).

Virtualization doesn’t work when the guest OS was built to be run on a different architecture, which is often the case for retro computing projects.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6044978/full-emulation-v...
Yea, there's more to the context of why he said that, thanks for sharing!
I think this explanation still makes it harder than it needs to be. Just imagine what a "floating point" number would mean in decimal: you get (say) 5 adjacent digits to play with, and you get to choose where you put the decimal place, within a limited range.

So you can represent 12345000 or 12.345 or 0.00012345.

But 12345600 rounds to 12346000, 12.3456 rounds to 12.346, and 0.000123456 rounds to 0.00012346.
do you really think they have some sort of well-staffed cyber-division that would 1. understand this and 2. know what to do with it?

1. Yes. 2. Also yes.

The Nevada Gaming Commission, all of the big casino companies in its state, and the companies that make the gambling machines, are quite remarkable, technologically speaking.

Sometimes I think the terrible web sites they have for hotel reservations are just a smokescreen.
My experience with secondary literature about MaM is negative. I went to the University Library and checked out a massive commentary on it and a book about its interpretation.

The latter argued that, contrary to a common notion, Woland is emphatically not the Devil. I did not get far in trying to understand it, but this and the similarly non-understandable commentary really took away some fun out of reading the book, because I constantly felt I was too stupid to get it.

Reading commentary is good, but maybe on a way lower level than literature professors trying to make a name.
The birth rate is dropping to at/below replacement across most of the world. Take Iran, for example. It has a lower birth rate than Europe. Not what you'd expect, but it happens to every nation that develops a modern economy. At a certain point, it makes more sense for young parents to concentrate their resources on one or two children, rather than hedge their bets against disease and famine and war by having many children - and more importantly, having a child at all is sufficiently expensive and difficult that many adults just opt out of it.
She is being replaced by an ops person - 'retail and people'.

But she was the CMO, so who on earth is going to be the head of marketing?

It's not Cook.

Someone has to have the credible authority to 'bring it altogether' - marketing requires the same kind of coherent vision as product, and often it's a lot harder because it's less tangible.

Or maybe they've operationalized it very well and have people to do ABC, which would be amazing.
I don’t think people are making a value judgement that parents shouldn’t have the ability to spend more time with their children, just that for the USA (and for that matter most western countries to boot), this is still a very generous offer that isn’t mandated by any law.

In Canada the time off is legislated making it a requirement for all business, and is what, 35 weeks to be shared between both parents, and consumed in the first 52 weeks?
Just because you can comment?
Disclosing security vulnerabilities that aren't part of a bug bounty program takes a large amount of either courage or ignorance. Until there are protections in place for a given jurisdiction, far safer to leak it anonymously or just stay quiet. I was surprised that GDPR didn't contain any sort of protections for security researchers. The fines collected are hefty enough they could easily run a very successful bug bounty program.
It's quite easy to get an account if you want one. Just ask.
Snap shares up 20% after hours after earnings report
Second this. Don’t be turned off by the simple sounding title: there’s some good stuff in this book!
Nice project!
Just wanted to mention: Logflare is free, but CloudFlare workers are not.
Thanks for sharing!
This book helped me too. I used to hoard all kinds of stuff and find clever ways to store it because it might be useful some day, if I could ever find it at the right time. Eventually I started intentionally buying duplicates of things I needed so there would always be one on hand. I'd especially be reluctant to get rid of stuff that didn't take up a lot of space. I didn't realize how much it added up. Sometimes getting rid of even very small things can make storage much smaller and more manageable. I know where everything is now, and it saves a lot of time! I moved to a tiny apartment and got rid of most of my things and now I'm just nice and cozy with the stuff I actually want.
Canada does it because there aren't very many high-performing companies in Canada. I'm saying this as an expat. Most of the top performing Canadians move down to the States.

The companies that exist in Canada are companies like banks, Rogers, Bell, etc, where you won't find too many high performers. I have a friend who has taken 2 1-year leaves, and it didn't impact her job because her job as an account manager isn't particularly hard to take over.

A high-performing company like the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation can't perform at the level that they want if their employees are taking 1 year leaves, and that's just a fact of life. It's the same as Netflix. They have a 1 year policy, but I doubt any engineer will take the full year, but kudos to them if they do.
They make 4k hdr Rokus
> UDP ... we can assume everybody supports it, even Linux v2.5

If you can actually remember the days of Linux 2.5 (development branch which became 2.6) this is a hilarious analogy. I guess that's what the kids are calling ancient these days, eh? Linux 2.5, when dinosaurs roamed the earth! It even did UDP, can you believe it?!
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I suspect many of them may have known it was a scam but expected it to last long enough to IPO cashout. No proof but it is a possibility. That or they had their arrogance exploited.
Many devices, especially older ones, only support h264 in hardware, which makes a huge impact on battery life. h265 would need software decoding and this a huge drop in battery life for those devices.
not your time to declare wasted
Maternity/Paternity leave is the norm all over Europe and it works. The USA is not a special case, it would take a law to require it though because businesses are never going to add things like maternity leave with it being mandated by the government.

Your admission of sexism leads me to believe that your family consists of male children. If you had a daughter perhaps you would realise that "not giving a job to a young woman because she may decide to get pregnant" is pretty much the worst reason to refuse someone employment, regardless of the law, you are happy to discriminate against a person just because of their genitalia. That's a sad state of affairs for you, your company and your family.
But they should be taken into consideration.
All the books below have shaped my thought process to a significant degree. I started reading late but I'm fortunate enough to have stumbled upon these gems.

"Debt: The First 5000 Years": This is truly a magnum opus. Until I read this I had taken money, economy, market etc., for granted. And I had held onto the widely accepted, but naive, view that economic systems somehow grew out of barter systems. The range of topics discussed, and the way author shows how seemingly independent concepts are intertwined, is truly astonishing. I'm on my 2nd read.

"Thinking, Fast and Slow": This book made me truly appreciate the value of psychology. I didn't even know the existence of a vast domain called behavioral science until I read this book. Now I'm deliberately conscious about the decisions I take and retrace my thought process multiple times just to make sure that I haven't fallen pray to some of the cognitive biases.

"The Tell-Tale Brain": While I did know that human brain is a unique organ this book opened my eyes to its layered complexities. For instance, how "seeing" is not a single step but a multi step process. From image formation, to identifying the object, to evoking emotional response.

"QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter": The book with the highest signal to noise ratio. I finally understood what science is about, a way to model nature and to keep refining it to fit the observation. There are no true/false theories/models only those that explain nature's behavior better or worse. Nature is agnostic to all our theories and models. She's just the way she is. For details read about double slit experiment.

"How the World Works": This one along with "Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order" has greatly shaped my mental model about the workings of contemporary world. I now understand why does military gets all the funding, why do powerful governments tend to keep its subject under perpetual fear, why is it that the cost of education has been sky-rocketing.

"The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament": A glimpse into the working of Indian justice system.

"Broken Republic": This is by far the most accurate description about current affairs in India. How India is being hollowed out and how its most vulnerable section is the one fighting against it.

"Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life": I'm currently reading it (20% through) and it has already made a big impact. The meaning of information is deep and subtle and pervades not just human being but the life itself.

"The Order of Time": The book that well and truly shook the foundation that I had taken for granted for my entire life. That space and time aren't something absolute and are personal has had a profound impact on me.

"The Upanisads": A truly remarkable work of human mind. Just to think about some of the concepts uplifts my mood.
I read the title wrong, that they were raising 3B. Still, raising $150m is large.

Reddit has changed so much over the years but I still like Reddit enough to do an auto-donation every month. I think I support Reddit more out of sentimental reasons because I don’t spend too much time anymore on their site but I enjoy it much more than, for example, Facebook that I only spend a few minutes a month on.
An old statistics professor recommended I read The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb. The book's voice has some ego and it's unnecessarily verbose at times, but it changed the way I think about modeling, forecasting, and day-to-day assumptions.
Facebook has over 2B monthly active users, approximately a third of the human race alive today, they have not "died".
Everything is indeed a penis.
Huh, strange, they're showing up now. You might be right about the CDN glitch.
Huh, I vaguely remember them getting bought, but didn't know about the subsidiary and spinout parts.

I guess they're all playing hot potato until it goes bust.
Naw the easiest person to convict is some random stupid kid who you can pressure into admitting to any crime you want.
So this is technically to language, but as someone who writes on top of codes it gave me so much to think about I feel it still counts. Writing Better Lyrics by Pat Pattison. The way he explores using senses, how to build metaphors, how to construct things gave me new ways to look at a lot of different things. I reread the book pretty regularly and glean something new every time.
It's only recently been possible to actually use x265 for transparent encodes, previous versions of x265 removed film grain/digital noice to such a degree that the quality was worse than x264 at equivalent bitrates. Combine that with the massively increased costs in both encoding/decoding time (and worse x265 encoding tools/knowledge), x265 simply wasn't worthwhile except for crappy re-encodes at super low bitrates for people with crappy internet.

Recently you've begun to see a lot of x265 releases though, usually with HDR, the only significant feature x264 can't provide.

For sub-4K SDR content there's really no incentive for pirates to switch to x265, it's just a nuisance. With torrenting people don't pay for the extra bitrate x264 requires, unlike hosting services like Netflix, the ~20% bitrate savings of x265 are not important at all, especially compared to the other "costs" of compatibility issues and 10X longer encode times.
Depends on whether Apple PR organized that profile of her or whether she did herself. If she was planning on leaving she'd want to go out with her accomplishments highlighted.
Pardon my ignorance, but is a technology like this anything more than research? Ie, lets pretend there is a market for this (ie, that people actually cared about security), could this be used?

I ask because the 2M (concurrent?) users would be a very small limit in a hypothetical whatsapp/telegram/etc replacement.

So my question is not a critique, but an honest question. I imagine either this is purely research, or that 2M limitation is intended to be setup for communities, where you'll have many 2M instances running. Though, many 2M instances running seems prone to isolating one group of individuals.

Thoughts?
Guaranteeing a job opening (and presumably the same position, or at least the same salary) for a year is a huge ask.

I suppose there are two problems. One is paying partial or full salary during the leave, and the other is getting a job when you’re ready to return.

The first problem is easy to solve just like unemployment, except that in this case it’s paid based on voluntary leave. Since companies don’t make the decision, companies wouldn’t be penalized for having employees take the leave like they can be with unemployment though.

The second issue of finding a place to work when you’re ready to return is tricky. It’s absolutely unfair in certain situations for the company and particularly the specific team for someone to take a year leave and have to hold their spot. But I also understand you want to minimize friction of returning to work.

In many cases the person taking leave isn’t doing anything particularly specialized and it’s a complete non-issue. I don’t know how you might try to codify how specialized a position is other than a salary cap. For example, if you’re paid less than $X and the company has over 50 employees, your position is guaranteed. Over $X or 50 and under employees and you have a job search at the end of the paid leave.
I can only speak from personal observations as a Canadian; note that I am using female workers/maternity examples and pronouns to try to answer the specific question posed, especially since historically my observed experience has been predominantly with maternity leaves, but also note that in Canada men can increasingly take paternity leave instead/in addition, which I 101% support and further believe will further make this less of a concern/issue.

My wife is a store manager for a major international hardware store chain, and much of her senior leadership team up and down (assistant store managers working for her, as well as her district manager she reports to) are female as well, so in their neck of the woods at least there's no passive selection. Due to nature of pregnancy, maternity leave is something that lends itself to some heads-up, so as far as I have observed the company handles it through careful, productive and communicative planning. This may include contracted positions, but also internal temporary/trial opportunities - role only being available for a period of time is not necessarily a bad thing, if you know and plan for it. Additionally, while people will fall onto a curve and experience counts (so we're not all fully replaceable blocks or cogs), nevertheless you can build an organization that has documented procedures, overlap, and shared collaborative knowledge.

I absolutely have seen people who are "irreplaceable" (and have occasionally occupied such a position), but it's all too frequently just a gap, that is addressable if you're forced to address it and need to do so ahead of time.

Similarly in my line of work, both the functional and technical experts as well as middle managers or senior leadership, happen to have a majority of female team members, and while as IT/BT projectized organization we are less proceduralized than my wife's organization, again - you see it coming, and you prepare for it.

Bottom line - I really think the combination of seeing it coming and having to deal with it, makes it far less of an issue than it might seem from the other side :-/
There's a rather modern and new German translation which has been turned into an audio play by Bayerischer Rundfunk. I adore that! They have cast an Austrian as Fagott, with a wonderful Viennese dialect.

No idea whether Fagott has some linguistic extravagance in the original, but it works really well on this Master of Ceremonies.
> six would've been a vacation

I assume you were at home together with your wife? Or are you calling staying at home alone with a 6 months to 1 year old toddler a vacation?
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This seems kind of ridiculous. All (classical) computers are functionally equivalent, according to Turing, so we're not going to stop making "general purpose computers." Ever.

While there's definitely a benefit in ASICs for some applications like crypto mining, the flexibility to run anything is a huge advantage of modern chipsets. It's led to the Internet of Things, to Raspberry Pi, to emulators for old devices, and countless other useful applications of general purpose architectures.
> (no killer IPv6 apps yet).

If it helps, Apple now requires apps support IPv6-only networking.

https://developer.apple.com/support/ipv6/
Or family member provides daycare, or Mom quits her job (not to be gender biased, but it breaks that way because of breastfeeding). Private daycare for very young children can be tough and expensive, and nannies/au pairs can be more than the take home of a single parent in a household with two working parents.
Do you think Canada is more collectivist than individualist?
>Does it really take that many people to maintain an already-working web site?

Probably. Unless you want to get shut down/sued for all the child pornography, narcotics trading, violent threats, doxing, etc, etc which people will use your site for. Not to mention all the other attempts to directly exploit, hack or manipulate your site. And larger scale tends to attract more bad actors.
>>If I am looking for 3rd programmer in my 2 person small company I will not risk hiring a young woman as getting a new employee to the stage where they contribute value is a huge cost.

Umm, all other moral and ethical considerations aside, this approach fails spectacularly when the young man takes paternity leave instead :-D
> which is why there is a rift between modern "progressive" sects of a religion and fundamentalist sects.

Fundamentalism (with a capital-F), which is the inspiring example from which the more general concept of “fundemantalism” is derived, is actually one of the younger branches of Christianity. It's even one of the younger branches of Protestant Christianity.

This is actually true fairly generally; fundamentalist sects tend to be products of reactions against modernism being perceived to influence the core religion rather than being the oldest branches of religion.
>I will not risk hiring a young woman

Not everyone wants or will have children.
Siddharta - Herman Hesse

Sometimes when I feel a bit sad I remind myself to read a few chapters. It reminds me what I find important in life. What I can ask from myself and from other. It gives me joy in a good way.
I agree, I wish Signal could work in my terminal somehow in a way that's more secure than their "Desktop" application. They were storing the decryption keys in plain text in a SQLite database iirc. I understand why they have to store it, but it's just bad if it's plaintext.
There‘s this nice saying: „People who want to, find ways. People who don‘t want to, find reasons.

People here in Germany are on parental leave all the time. I was on parental leave two months as CTO. My cofounder was away almost a year as CRO. You just do what’s obvious: share responsibility, temporarily hire people and/or restructure and make it work. Is it annoying? Sure. Would I want it any other way? Hell, no.

I think it makes all the difference if kids are seen as a common investment into the future economy or as a personal luxury.
Yes, but is a birth rate above replacement a good thing or a bad thing?

If it's determined to be a socially good thing, then society should pay for it, rather than try to badger women out of the workplace to reduce their options and make them parents.
If you're fine with using temps/contractors then you are also fine with them not showing up one morning as well. Most temps are looking for full-time employment. And most contractors are after bigger contracts.
Do you make the same tough decision and avoid hiring members of the US National Guard, or the Army/Navy/Air Force Reserve, as well, simply because they may be called away for a year or so to serve their country and similarly expect their job to be there when they return?

(This is not a facetious question. I think that these are comparable and at least equably honorable. Parental leave is a form of serving your country by investing in the foundations of the future of your country.)
Yeah. Growing up, we had a "TV room" upstairs--sort of an upstairs family room. Guests, meals, most family activities, etc. were always downstairs.

I guess I've kept a similar pattern. My TV is in a little dedicated TV room. I have another wall-mounted TV but it's mostly just a big digital picture frame. [ADDED: I watch TV/movies but I don't really like to mix it in with other activities for the most part.]
That seems like the kind of thing that happens more by accident than deliberate attempt.

In any case the equivalent would be an Airstream trailer.

Edit: I see someone below also mentioned Airstream.
If Apple wanted to staff their stores with early 2000s Apple Store Geniuses, they'd have like 100 stores worldwide.

Apple has way more customers, way more stores, and way more products for that to be realistic.
Trade among nations with comparable or higher labor and environmental standards is free. No need for a notion of fair.
That's an interesting blog post. Are you the author?
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Good catch! Fixed!
The problem with just accepting how the world really is, is that it pushes many people into a state of stagnation, never really pushing the status quo. If you refuse to accept the society you live in today, then you have more incentive to change it tomorrow.
Can you actually point out to instances of having to work more in practice due to people taking parental leave?

Other countries tend to have much stronger labor protections so the end result, surprisingly, is often that you're not really doing more work especially if the company is prepared. I just went through an example myself where my relatively small team had a senior developer take parental leave for a few months and the expectation wasn't for us to pick up the slack.