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> Archive bit is somewhat symbolic. It should be set if the file was not archived by the backup utility. Never in my life I have seen the use of this bit.

I have - back in the days of DOS' BACKUP.COM and RESTORE.COM utilities.

I believe the way it worked was that when you created or edited a file, DOS set this bit, and when BACKUP.COM archived it, that cleared the bit again (or was it the other way round?) That allowed you to do a very early form of incremental/differential backup, and had a whole section explaining it in the DOS 3.somethingorother manual I first learnt very basic system administration from.

Back in those days our school PC came like many others with two floppy drives called A: and B: - which is why hard disk names traditionally start at C: - and you backed stuff up with a complicated schedule of put system disk in A:, boot, put data disk in B:, load program then it tells you to swap disks so you take out the system disk and put the backup disk in A: and when you're done you put the system disk back in again.

You could set and clear the archive bit manually with ATTRIB +/-A FILENAME.
I was once in charge of the electronics department for a retail store, except for whatever music my bosses wanted to have playing over the speakers. It was one CD with a mix of pop and hip hop. They never would change it, so I decided to commandeer the stereo as I just couldn't handle the repetition anymore. I played new music we got in, both alternative and what was popular. The customers seemed fine with it, and I was happy.

They did not like this. For whatever reason, which they refused to explain to me, they insisted I played their stupid mix that had been playing for months. As I was given no good reason, and was paid minimum wage, I just kept doing my thing and playing newer and better music.

One day I showed up and they had duct-taped the lid of the CD tray to the stereo so no one could open it with a note in all caps saying "DO NOT CHANGE THE CD IN THIS STEREO". I promptly went to the hardware aisle, got a box cutter, and sliced that son'bitch open, this time chucking their CD in the garbage, and continued on being DJ.

They gave up after that. lol And surprisingly they didn't fire me, even though they could have easily replaced me with some younger kid who would have done whatever they wanted.

But I quit soon after since the holidays had come and I knew I was going to have to play "Jingle Bells Rock" a thousand times, and I knew I couldn't really get out of that.

When my boss asked me why I was quitting, I said "I found a better job."
If you wanted to end conspiracy theories you'd have to end critical thinking.
I owned a Domino's and put up a LCD in the customer waiting area. I bought a BluRay player and a copy of Finding Nemo.

It took two shifts for me to fill a disc with <cough> backups <cough> of dozens of Disney/Pixar/etc movies. Once I broke 50 hours of video, I stopped being able to recite it at will.
"I've got the same combination on my luggage!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JNGI1dI-e8
As with many things, it's profit-driven. As a related example, bars intentionally turn the music up loud enough that conversations are difficult because this causes patrons to buy more drinks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19247308

^ I'd like to contribute this idea: "Creating the world's largest battery deep below the sea."

I'm working on other ideas as well and would love to contribute in a more formal decentralized way.

I'll follow this thread and reach out to folks as well!
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I haven’t been to malls in a while, so maybe it’s done stateside too, but some overseas malls go the extra effort and make sure they pump it up to 11 (as if at a bar after hours) It's as if they’re trying to drive traffic out of their stores instead of trying to keep them in.
Same here. Actually that and perfume!
> it's just POWER1 that's dead

Is it certain that the chip is not still getting some power and running something?
This is a normal part of working retail.
I'll forever have Smooth by Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas etched into my memory from my time working at Blockbuster Video in the early 2000s
Also maybe save hashes of "known terrible" images so they don't get moderated by a human at all. It's done with child abuse imagery, it could easily be expanded to gore, blatant hate memes, etc.
I expect that it's not so much a higher opinion of his personal judgement as a higher opinion of his values and priorities. Obviously he feels their foundation is spending money on the most important things it can be; however I expect he also feels that the government will, on average, spend it on more important things than it would be used for by most people with similar levels of wealth.
Please don't be disingenuous, it doesn't advance discussion.
I have a laptop which is 6 years old (not a thinkpad) which I was on the verge of tossing because I needed a new keyboard for it. Except for the broken keyboard, it's still a great machine, but the unavailability of parts was a problem.

Luckily I was able to find one and had it shipped from China. 10 minutes later it's as good as new. I found others on ebay, but they weren't actually available any more.

I had a similar experience recently for a cellphone, but instead of hardware it was software. I can't get security updates for it anymore. Except for that, it's still a great phone.
Buffett has been beating the "higher taxes for rich people" drum at least since the 2008 recession, maybe longer. He won't actually open his wallet to push for these policies mind you. That would be a bridge too far.
Environmental problems will only be solved if
1) people can earn money by solving it
2) people hit a breaking point, and actually drop what they're doing to help

...and #2 doesn't seem very likely for a while. So the only practical thing to do right now is spread awareness and to support companies implementing #1. I made a comment here about permaculture which I recommend you see [1]. And I also have an example company implementing #1 [2]. And here's an example of #1 actually happening [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18215706
[2] https://youtu.be/mETzoNau5A8
[3] https://youtu.be/_3KkN8hvUCI
Microsoft doesn't want you to have stable and mature support. They want you using the latest everything and paying for it each month. Microsoft pushed hard to force users to upgrade to Windows 10.[1] Even today, many enterprise users refuse to convert. They don't want Microsoft's new rent, rather than own, software. They don't want Microsoft looking into their machines. They don't want to store corporate data in Microsoft's cloud. But they will convert, like good sheep.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2016/01/22/resistan...
Might be O/T, but I found it really interesting how they mention "5,352 Martian solar days". Do we humans have plans in the pipeline for a universal time standard we can use wherever we are? Something that is a little more useful than "seconds since UNIX epoch" but something a little less terrestrial than UTC? Or is time going to be based wherever we land or travel (e.g. divide up Mars into time zones upon colonization)? If we don't have a formal ISO solution, it might be a good idea to start pinning one down; might be relevant by the time the standard is finalized.
Somebody took your idea quite literally: https://www.coi-dev.org/

(HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19216077 )
As someone who used Percona in production, its fantastic for a small/medium workload, (depending on your definition of those) but it has pretty hard limits on scaling without an intermediate layer, which then mostly defeats its purpose - dead simple clustering.

I agree completely that 100k directs is bad, but they're writing from a perspective where the alternative would likely mean switching to a different product.
The linked AP article does not indicate that a failure of the CPU is the issue here (it does not indicate much beyond this vague sentence: "its internal clock possibly so scrambled that it no longer knew when to sleep or wake up to receive commands"). What do you mean with "alive", that it still has power?
Not only in the UK. Carolers are a thing in other places of Europe, for instance Greece.
> > we live in a culture of intolerance

> This is quite the theory - do you have more backing other than the single instance you've just quoted?

Not the OP, but I recently saw this comment:

> I never used the word tolerant but on that note, I don't think morally wrong views should be tolerated.

The author was one komali2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19230409
Difference is, the buyer haggles after receiving the non-returnable service, so they cannot shop around, or use the threat of shopping around as a bargaining tactic. The buyer is entirely captive, while seller may freely decide how low to go (if at all), depending on factors opaque to the buyer.
This used to be "common sense" because this used to be taught in science/health class in high school. The fact that this is a New York Times article, which targets largely college educated population says something about how far down our educational system has gone.
You are misreading my words.
U.S here. I know carolers who get together and go through hospitals and retirement communities. Definitely a nice way for children and teenagers (who come with) to learn about giving back to a community.
Yes, which is why you include "several proofs of this could include..."
I worked at a movie theater and we were supposed to get a new CD every month from corporate to play in theaters before the movie started, but in the year or so I worked there it never changed. I don't remember all of them, but the ones I do remember are a cover of Convoy by Mannheim Steamroller, which is a godawful treacly piece of shit to begin with, and a cover of Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon by Urge Overkill, which I utterly loathe to this day.

This makes me think of Groundhog Day, and how brilliantly the film used the repetition of I've Got You Babe to show how the protagonist was going crazy.
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It's pretty interesting because in many cases the software evolved faster than anyone could keep up with, and there are large portions of backwards compatibility that I suspect were mostly accomplished through trial and error, especially when it comes to their layout algorithms.

When they opened up the Office file formats, they wrote an XML spec that corresponds to the fields in the various binary formats. And there are sections of it where the specification is simply, "this should be formatted the way MS Word 5.1 does it."
For reference, 10 years ago, graphics cards were on a 65nm platform while today, we use 14nm graphics cards.

The physical limitations may be reached, but we'll just throw more cores unto the PCB to compensate.
I worked at Chick-fil-A in high school and experienced this but with Christian contemporary music. If I never hear "Jesus Take the Wheel" by Carrie Underwood again it will be too soon. I feel the same way about steel drums after a summer working at Bahama Breeze, a Caribbean themed Olive Garden.
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Think you missed my entire point of including solutions for the beginner, i.e., someone that lacks math maturity and the reasoning of how easily such a person could fool themselves into thinking their thought process is valid.
Agreed, I’d like it to be called “star date” like Star Trek but with fewer numbers involved.
Have they removed that repo yet that sends base64 IMEI, SIMID,... to zzhc.vnet.cn?
Even after the edit it's content- and sense-free, sorry.
Ask HN: I often confuse words with another when I'm speaking, am I the only one?
Hi,

When I'm speaking (orally) I often misuse a word with another, saying "car" when I want to say "bike" for instance, because they have wheels. (That's the connection my brain make).

I think that when I'm speaking, I want to say words faster than my brain can build a sentence. By being able to follow, it simplifies the connections from my thoughts to my words (hence saying car instead of bike because the link is wheels and it doesn't have the time to think more in depth to ensure that's what I'm thinking about).

I'm suspecting that working on a computer for so many years might be the issue, where I spend most of my time speaking via a keyboard. That's why I'm talking about it here, on HN.

So I'm asking for your help, to know if I'm the only one, if this is something known, if this something that can be fixed, and how.

Thank you for your help.
The man in the video goes by the name Filthy Frank. Here is at least one other video of him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnlyr46WbRA
I wouldn't be surprised if the real goal was to make customers spend less time sitting around.

In the last year or two, I've noticed Panera has been playing godawful music that makes it nearly impossible to sit down, relax, and work on something.

It works of course, but now I just don't go at all.
It assuredly won't do very well, since it uses process-per-connection.

That said, it sounds like off-roading in a Corvette. You're gonna want to use PgBouncer or PgPool or something else altogether.
It's certainly fair to think that there's some backlog of people who would move in if prices reach some price threshold, which could be considered resistance against the price falling lower than that threshold.

But in the case that you dont build units, you're still going to get some of that urbanization by those who can afford it (or are willing to struggle to survive in the city), and this will drive up prices even further.
This is very thoughtful and gets at the heart of the matter.

It's a little discouraging (considering how influential it is in the evolution of tech) how quickly HN reaches for "rah rah decentralization" as a panacea for anything social media.
We can hem and haw about piracy for personal use. But piracy and public playback of pirated media at a business you owned seems like a totally different beast to me.
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McSweeney's already covered this subject well: "I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-en....

Berlin will do anything to reduce housing costs except build more housing.
Brutal. Those were far more difficult than expected, I generally veered off path around half-way on most of them.

Very interesting experiment, my pride notwithstanding (sp?).
We live in a society where fake news, anti-vaxxers and flat earthers run amock and are convincing more and more people that it's an "us vs them" and there is a giant evil government conspiracy behind everything.

It's extremely cheap for say, Russia to throw a few bucks at some random bloggers, YouTubers, content creators and fringe groups causing enough distraction and chaos in society that all the good things we create end up being poisoned and society crumbles. (direct or indirect, it doesn't matter - advertising/sponsors/fake news/guest blog posts yaddy yaddy yadda)

Videos like this have two courses of action - they cause turmoil - people see this as bad behavior that should be stopped and is immoral and corrupt but then they have a trigger response.

The response to this content, conspiracy, turmoil justifies their means. When government/regulators/youtube step in and ban it then that is "big ol guvment and conspiracy and big brother violating their rights"

Which begs the question of why in ANY democracy its citizens would be fighting to poison its democracy unless there is an external force funding, supporting and training these actors. Or is there just a growing psychosis we're ignoring of people with mental problems we're ignoring?
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What's your threat model here? Who's the actor you're protecting yourself from?

A government/state acting under they own laws is still acting under a law so they would never have physical access to something like an HSM located in a DC on another continent. Or even your laptop that's sitting in another country.

A government/state acting around the law makes any discussion about laws superfluous. They will go around them anyway, as per the premise.
I think people understand the nihilistic viewpoint but it makes no sense to sacrifice your health while you still have it.
I just need a quick and dirty redirect. I suppose your webmail client supports that, right?
I don't really see the problem with standardizing on 'seconds since the epoch' for any interplanetary communication and having clients convert to something more meaningful to humans. Any other "universal" time format will be just as meaningless when days and seasons are all different lengths.
The Linux Desktop has problems, yes, but that's Ok.

We just have to accept that Linux will never be a mainstream desktop environment.

A desktop environment needs a well polished experience. And this experience can only be created by centralized organizations with extensive resources, like developers, QA, designers, ergonomist, user's behavior studies and a common and consistent vision of what the experience should look.

In the Linux DE world, a project can consider itself lucky if it has enough developers.

Yet, these developpers are doing a wonderful job, specially given the lack of resources, with applications that are more than usable and can solve 90% of use cases.

Yes, Linux DEs are sometimes a little clunky, and the overall experience might encounter issues not solvable by the average user. But that's Ok, having a well polished experience would require an order of magnitude more resources, and an organization far more vertical than the existing array of communities.

Diverting so much resources for the DE goal would be a mistake. Even if by some miracle we manage to solve all the issues mentioned, we would be "X but different/better", and this business model doesn't generally do so well, it will not displace Windows/Mac OS.

Linux and the OSS ecosytem should remain what it is today: a powerful and rich toolbox to build things from giant web services or phones to Vacuum cleaners, cars or milking machines, and this toolbox should keep improving.

It doesn't mean we should not look around and see what is happening around us in the DE world, but it should not be the absolute priority. Building a Linux desktop should not jeopardize the use cases that made Linux a success.

Linux is a clunky Desktop Environment, yes, but this clunky environment has enabled me to build software reaching thousands of people.

Thank you to all the devs who have built this (mostly) working experience.
My simplified main takeaway from this post is: chronic stress seems to be at least as bad as chronic alcoholism [1] and therefore we really really need to be masters at the art of relaxation.

The two forms of evidence that stood out to me: (1) the effect of an overactive amygdala and (2) the negative effect of stress on the neocortex.

[1] Alcoholism isn’t mentioned in the post, that’s my own interpretation of the potential damage it can go. I’m going to do an online search for it to see whether that comparison has any merit.
How about "eau", like French for water?
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Perhaps so. Would you care to explain? Your statement here doesn't give me much to go on.
There’s a guy that has built a patching tool to “Hackintosh” an older, unsupported Mac with the newest OS:

http://dosdude1.com/mojave/
> Do we humans have plans in the pipeline for a universal time standard we can use wherever we are?

This fundamentally cannot exist. Any "universal" system would drift for observers on different planets. Having different times in New York and New Delhi isn't the worst right now; doing a calendar look-up for the time on Mars isn't as neat. But given we won't have real-time communication, it isn't as big of a problem either.
The selection of photos (or effects) really seem designed to portray Brighton as some kind of grim slum where the sun never shines. Brighton has high levels of sunshine and a beach. It is also close to the South Downs National Park (with some very nice villages), and close to some stunning cliffs. It's not as grim as the dark moody pictures would make you believe.
It shows the population of the country. I agree it should be labelled.
No I did not, nowhere on my sentence is the direct mention of your person.

On my previous comment I explicitly mention it was targeted to developers that bash Java, without having any clue what they are bashing about, cargo cult if you wish.

So either you feel offended, because you are indeed attacking Java without having any clue about the Java eco-system, or are deciding to play victim here, when I never mentioned you directly.

This is a public forum, so I leave to everyone else and HN moderators to judge my comments, and won't reply to anything else on this thread.
I had the same experience when I had such a good connection a couple years ago.
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>why wouldn't he think the same about just his portion?

well Bill Gates personally does which is why he is giving almost all of his wealth away. (The giving pledge exists for this reason, and I would assume that most billionaires who agree to higher taxation also are significant personal givers).

This criticism fails on two fronts. People who are in favour of increased tax redistribution generally also support voluntary giving. (Most of the effective altruist people I think would fall into this group), and even if they didn't it would be nothing more than a cheap personal attack, because one can hold positions in favour of tax redistribution and against charity at the same time.
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Maybe FreeBASIC would be useful, (although it's a compiler rather than an interpreter, and a more modern dialect than 70s BASIC, mostly compatible with QBASIC/QuickBASIC). https://www.freebasic.net/

It handles 64-bit doubles: https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=KeyPgDouble
I thought we were optimising for cost now?
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How would such a standard handle time dilation?
Healthcare is available, yes, and so are gold-plated Lamborghinis -- these both apply to a certain class (not the same class, mind you, but there is an economic floor here).

Minimum wage is about $1300/mo, good luck paying rent and health insurance with that and not starving. Good luck paying rent and food and power on double that income and still being able to afford even remotely decent health insurance.

As for incarceration...

When everything is a crime, everyone is a criminal. Famous lawyers are writing books about that. https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...

If you don't think just about everything is a crime, then you're uninformed. You probably committed a felony when you violated a website TOS today.

I have no problem with taxation as a concept.

Everyone says "if you don't like it leave", but that's a bluff -- until 2010, it was free to renounce your citizenship, and in 2010 it became $450. Four years later, it became $2350. If more people leave, it'll go up again. We say it, but we're afraid of people actually doing it.

I won't renounce my citizenship, but I do think it's silly for us to pretend we want people to do it when we provably don't.
People respond in varying manners to traumatic stress. Post traumatic growth is simply the other extreme.

For example, some people take traumatic stress at really poorly (PTSD). Some people develop a world outlook to the tune of "well no matter what happens life is looking up from here" (post traumatic growth).

The counselor is looking at the glass half full. You kind of need to be a glass half full person to persist in that line of work.
recently I was wondering about time keeping on Mars, did they create a local clock network like we have with UTC here?