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Religion is just the easy way out for archeologists when they can't explain it properly.
If I made boots, and the military asked to buy for their soldiers, I would say no.
I understand the basic need for a military, and I understand their need for boots. I accept that someone else will supply them with boots instead. But supplying military is not what I want to spend my time and energy on.
Oh - it's a private VPN? Sorry, that wasn't clear in the article
Disc rot is, sadly, a thing, but in general commercially produced CDs are pretty reliable.
Because it’s not “devised to make JavaScript faster”. WASM is first and foremost designed as a compilation target for languages that work with a simple linear memory and don’t use a garbage collector, like C/C++/Rust (extensions to interact directly with the JavaScript GC are in progress, but quite a ways off). The progress it enables is the ability to run performance sensitive code written in these languages in a software-sandboxed environment at anywhere near native speed, as opposed to multiple times slower.

Also neither the JVM nor the CLR even seriously attempt to offer the security when executing untrusted code that WASM does. WASM has been deployed for over a year in all the major browsers, making vulnerabilities in its implementations very valuable. Yet we haven’t seen some huge explosion of CVEs due to its addition, unlike the early history of the JVM and CLR’s attempts to implement robust software sandboxes (before they both threw up their hands and stopped trying to market their sandboxing features as suitable for running untrusted code).
You might appreciate
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-g...
where he compares GPT-2 to a "prediction engine" as per Andy Clark's "Surfing Uncertainty".
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un...

The latter suggests that the brain is a prediction engine; and things we do are just the brain minimising prediction-error for systems at various levels.

(SSC is concerned about the dangers of AGI, and sees GPT-2 as imitating what people do).
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AFAIK it was an open question, if they were going the diskette way, or go with open discs. The polycarbonate plastic was deemed so tough, and of course it was cheaper to just produce the discs without a caddy, so they went with naked discs. IIRC.
Portability (also walkmen and boomboxes, not just car stereos), recording (copies, mixtapes, radio recordings), durability & price.

You could loan someone a tape without worrying about scratches. You could make your own mixtape, which became a romantic trope and let people take creative part.

Cassettes were usually cheaper than vinyl or CDs. Also, you could record your own tapes. I have tapes of me talking as a toddler. You could record a lecture or interview. There's a reason people still say "album" and "demo tape." Tapes could be produced in 1s and 10s. Vinyl presses had big minimum runs. So.. underground music happened on cassette tapes.

I would flip it. Vinyl's only advantage was sound quality (assuming the needle was sharp and the record unscratched). Cassetes had every other advantage.

There's a reason they were so popular well into the cd age.
I'm almost 40, but I guess it's because I'm Greek, so I'd never heard of her.
If it isn't, then maybe agile is a bad idea and we should expect to see agile projects fail more often/expensively than non-agile projects. But that's not what we see (at least not what I've seen).
Really good article on that topic: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/02/the-obsessive-...
>I’ve noticed that I cannot tell, from casual conversation, whether someone is intelligent in the IQ sense.

For me a giveaway is both how quickly and how well they take in what I'm saying; that is, how much processing gets done? E.g one of my really intelligent friends would have already connected what I'm saying with what they know about me, and would have already guessed at what I'll say next. This isn't just the domain of intelligent people, but for me, how quickly it happens is telltale sign.
Intelligence can be blinding as much as it is enlightening, though, and I prize kindness and compassion far more than intelligence, which our culture puts on a pedestal.
Don't forget the Walkman, you could put a device in your pocket and listen to music using headphones while out walking or even running.
All practical analog audio signals are band limited and have a nominal noise floor. Given those characteristics, the conversion from analog to digital can be considered mathematically lossless.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist–Shannon_sampling_the...

Then you consider the fact that our own ears are band limited and dynamic range limited and you realise pretty quickly that CD audio at 16 bits 44100 Hz is, for all practical purposes, an objectively lossless audio format.
What a gem of a comment.

What is complicated about the setup? What makes you think he can't cast media or browse Amazon on his laptop while sitting on the couch?
> I think this is also the unsettling core question of Blade Runner: are we also artificial?

> I wonder what theologians might say about this question.

I'm not a theologian, but I was very catholic for first 22 years of my life, and for me the Blade Runner was more about the relation with god than about the question "are we artificial".

Basically it was a prometheic/messianic story - Man searches for God to get answers and fight for salvation.

And the answer he got was "whatever, I don't care, your life has no meaning and you cannot be saved". And then the Man forgives the God and dies - reversing the Jesus story.

It resonated strongly with me, world is much more consistent with incompetent God that doesn't care, than with a loving, caring and omnipotent God.

As for "are we artificial" - what does it even mean? My former religion accepted evolution, so the question was "was it God that caused evolution, on is there no God and it was just an accident".
It's not even MatrixFlow, but more ArrayFlow.
WASM is a parallel technology with no intention of impacting JavaScript, according to its spec. Therefore WASM will never replace JavaScript. JavaScript can be replaced, but it won't be WASM that does so.

https://webassembly.org/docs/faq/#is-webassembly-trying-to-r...

https://webassembly.org/docs/js/
> The rest of the article doesn't give enough context to the mistranslations for me to be outraged.

Not sure about what context you might like, but from a French viewer and reader, it is really weird at times. Language register unpredictably switches between 19th-century formal language and modern urban youth slang, and it's just shock full of grammatical and spelling errors. Many other lines simply have a different meaning from the original, sometimes making no sense at all.

It happens often enough with Netflix. I think they just hire the cheapest translators they can find, and those aren't actually fluent in either of the two languages they have to work with.
There is a built in keymap called British-PC that seems to remap the same keys is there any reason why this does not achieve the same purpose ?
Vinyl warmth is created by the RIAA curve that removes most of the bass and tries to recreate it in the preamp. This adds some nice creamy distortion to the low end.

Vinyl also has a much lower dynamic range than CD.

I've actually come to hate vinyl as a format. I love the artwork, but I hate the impracticality, the cultishness, and most of all I hate the distorted low-fi sonics.

Nothing matches a high resolution digital source file played on good equipment.
> I've been using Linux as a primary OS since the 90's but I still need to interact with Windows for work.

My current job force me to use a Windows computer. You know, it's the company policy. Well it's the last time I take a job witch doesn't let me control my computer and use GNU/Linux.
It feel like I m using the wrong tool for my job. Like use a stone to put nail instead of a hammer.
A tangential thought:

Most films I watch are entertaining. I have a good time and then it's over and maybe I'll think about the movie again when there's an Internet meme from it.

But there's films (and some games), Ballad included, where regardless of how much I (dis)liked them critically, they kind of stick with me. They randomly creep into my brain for days, weeks, months later. I've come to crave this kind of experience.

I wonder what this is. If it has a name. If others experience the same thing with the same films or if it's very audience-specific.
> The problem is that to fight against Varroa effectively, all the beekeepers in the area have to fight Varroa.

Not to mention wild bee colonies also have to be treated or eradicated.
Just to clarify for anyone unfamiliar with the US space program in the 50s-70s, or those just briefly confused by the discussion about planet sizes using planet names for things that aren't planets...

Mercury was a small space capsule containing 1 person designed to last a few hours in space. The Saturn V rocket was until recently the most powerful rocket ever launched, and took 3 crew, a crew module, a lander module, and payloads, to the moon.
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No. Java is a language. WASM is a byte code compile target. A better comparison would be the JVM, such as a language like Scala that is definitely not Java still compiles to the JVM and can run anywhere there is a JVM.

> I wonder how one would solve linking to native libraries

Either use WASM outside the browser (I don't even know if that's a thing) or create some sort of import mechanism using JavaScript.
Meaningless excuse. Like when a child is being told to stop doing something, and it replies but everyone else is doing it.
But now you can choose your own programming language. The JVM is very Java centric, for obvious reasons.
> Of course, the biggest pop star in the world selling a few hundred cassettes may not constitute a 'come back' either.

I saw that figure of 540 cassettes in one week, and it reminded me of the article "How Many Copies Of An Album Do You Need To Sell To Hit #1 On The Australian ARIA Chart" [1]. TLDR: Ed Sheeran got to #1 with just 3777 album sales across digital & CD.

[1] https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/how-many-copies-...
Hey! Original author here, excited to see open source documentation brought up in Hacker News.

I feel like documentation in general is a topic we developers don't talk about enough and it's often cast aside as a "we'll do it if there's time" and I think we all know there's never gonna be "time".

If you wanna set up similar things with your colleagues or local community, feel free to hit me up (email in bio) or ask here and I'm more than happy to share ideas and how we made it happen.
OP said all that:

> Portability (also walkmen and boomboxes, not just car stereos), recording (copies, mixtapes, radio recordings), durability & price.

And the question remains:

> what's the point in bringing them back?
The Digital Regime of Truth: From the Algorithmic
Governmentality to a New Rule of Law -
https://www.iainmaitland.com/pdf/Rouvroy-Stiegler.pdf
The article here boils down to arguing that the answers to these three questions aren’t representative of productivity:

1. Meets formal performance requirements of the job

2. Fulfills responsibilities specified in job description

3. Performs tasks that are expected of him or her

As an employee, those should cover everything I’m evaluated on; any company that claims this isn’t enough is either horribly mismanaged or trying to exploit its workers by requiring them to do things they didn’t sign up for.
> Based on a totally unscientific survey (those programming languages that occupy at least 3 feet of shelf space in the McGraw-Hill Bookstore in Manhattan)

Use a bad metric, get bad results.

Who else remembers this era of giant, unhelpful, rapidly-obsoleted books in the computer section of bookstores? Who remembers bookstores? OK, OK, I've been into Waterstones recently, but it never occurred to me to look at computing related books. What use would they be?

1996 was the beginning of the O'Reilly heyday. If you got a book with a white cover with a coloured bar and animal woodcut on it, there was a good chance of it being helpful. Otherwise it was a lottery - there was a cottage industry of people turning out bad books about software filled with screenshots that mostly replicated the online help.
Guys from NEAR Protocol using AssemblyScript and Wasmer together in production
Thanks for the feedback! Will definitely add more features to this package. Wrapping up several prompts together is a great idea too, thanks for the insight.
Cassette tapes also lost that advantage around 2000, when CD-Rs became cheap — cheaper than tapes ever were.

Some friends in unknown bands produced ~100 CD-Rs of their music and left them lying around bars and nightclubs. That cost £20 and a lot of time spent swapping CDs at the computer.
I still maintain a legacy Delphi 7 application and I completely agree with you about the help files. It's so complete that 9 out of 10 times I don't need to search the Internet for the information I need. Every time I press F1 on another application and my browser open a poorly written documentation I miss those Delphi help files.
Think of it like buying a plastic Nicki Minaj figurine that happens to be playable.
What's missing in this analogy though is that computers need to run an Operating system.

When building your own system (and running Windows), you can be pretty sure that windows will work without issues.

With linux though, it's more of a gamble, which is why a vendor that tests/pre-configures/supports linux can be appealing
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Have you talked with people using your tools and asked them? Unfortunately people will rarely send unsolicited good feedback to tools they enjoy so it's important to chat with your users.
Well... as of a few weeks ago when the teenagers started handing out lectures about dealing with climate change.
You don't have to concentrate when flying. What's the legal limit in the US for truck drivers without a break? In the EU its 4.5 hours https://www.gov.uk/drivers-hours/eu-rules
To be fair, the apostrophe indicates missing letters, so they've just missed another letter, and the meaning is clear.
Ah.. well the point is obviously not that they're objectively better. They're a collectible souvenir.
https://www.newrafael.com/websites/ Rafael Rozendaal's work is probably my fave example of Internet Art.
That might work if you want to live in a tent in the forest, but if you want to live in a city with buildings and infrastructure, then you want investors in invest in land.
Everyone here scoring serious brownie points with their advanced setups. And here I am, having used Linux for my personal setup for 15 years, using pre-installed Ubuntu on a practically default GNOME desktop. It's wonderful that I can do that and be satisfied with that, without significantly hampering the possibility of advanced setups like the ones here.

Despite all the systemd's, PulseAudio's and whatnot's, the customisability is still far greater than it is on OS X and Windows, and we can sometimes fail to appreciate that.
"Algorithmic justice" reminded me of a study where researchers predicted the risk of a crime better than judges:[1]

> Millions of times each year, judges must decide where defendants will await trial—at home or in jail. By law, this decision hinges on the judge’s prediction of what the defendant would do if released. This is a promising machine learning application because it is a concrete prediction task for which there is a large volume of data available. Yet comparing the algorithm to the judge proves complicated. First, the data are themselves generated by prior judge decisions. We only observe crime outcomes for released defendants, not for those judges detained. This makes it hard to evaluate counterfactual decision rules based on algorithmic predictions. Second, judges may have a broader set of preferences than the single variable that the algorithm focuses on; for instance, judges may care about racial inequities or about specific crimes (such as violent crimes) rather than just overall crime risk. We deal with these problems using different econometric strategies, such as quasi-random assignment of cases to judges. Even accounting for these concerns, our results suggest potentially large welfare gains: a policy simulation shows crime can be reduced by up to 24.8% with no change in jailing rates, or jail populations can be reduced by 42.0% with no increase in crime rates.

[1] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/w23180.pdf
>WASM is a truly open standard

I guess in practice this means "open" like HTTP and HTML, for which Google decides what does/doesn't go into the standard.
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One of the proposals for Mars in fiction was to use Earth 24 hours and then stop the clock for those additional 30 or 40 minutes Mars day has. Anyway, I suspect that humans will tend to use the most common standard, meaning some legacy standard and in case of time it is likely would be UNIX time. 110 volts AC too probably :)
And yet it closed only in December. My point is not about victims recording acts of violence, but about church not being able to defer ad infinitum and making illusionary ammends.
It's unclear whether you're asking why they have both SPARC and PPC chips, or what the SPARCs are used for.

For the former, different contractors for the features, with some contractors preferring RHPPC and other RHSPARC?

For the latter, one SPARCs controlled the thrusters and descent stage, the other controls the movement (it's the main chip of the motor controller).
>Is there some technical reason why it can't be removed?

One reason is that alternative octane boosters can cause icing in carburetors and fuel injection systems, resulting in engines cutting out at low temperatures. Improvements in combustion chamber design have helped reduce the reliance on high octane fuel, so I expect the situation will gradually improve.
Back then, yes, there's a reason they were so popular. But nowadays? What do they bring?
Just remember how to spell bureaucrat and you'll be A-ok.

I still trip out on tongue and related brethren.
Anecdotally after migrating from RDS MySQL to serverless Aurora there was a noticeable slowdown of our dashboard and reporting tools. Our typical workloads (ecommerce transactions) are slightly slower on average, but the peaks seem down.
This is pretty cool to see. I frequently about how much most businesses could do if they just has a database to back there core business operations.
What makes you the gatekeeper of what constitutes a desktop setup?
Oh god the amount of scripts I have that do something like:

while True:
for i, item in enumerate(list):
print(i, item, sep=" - ")

choice = input()

if valid(choice):
break

This would make those so much easier to write and give a much nicer UI at the same time.
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Hope is definitely there. As long as we are alive, there is hope. Please hang in there. As many people here, I as well can relate to many aspects of what you are currently going though. I'm sending you some positive energy and can share one practical advice - consider attending your local tech meetups (find them here: https://www.meetup.com). There is a very good chance that conversations with people there will open you to various and unexpected (in a good way) career opportunities. But first (or in parallel with meetups) try to reach out to people here who offered you some networking help (myself included). Best wishes!
It's a pity that I read the title first, because when I read the recursive descriptions I immediately thought about a Makefile that emitted directions, cumulative timing, and optional ingredient debit entries for an ordering system.

But SQL is OK.
Doesn't apply to bureau, but I'm 100% there with you for the word beautiful. I simply can't hear the word in my heard without hearing Jim Carrey spell it out.

Same thing with P-A-R-T-Y? 'Cause we gotta!
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I have nostalgia for my early adopter friend's setup. He had his mp3 player (a jazpiper?) connected to a fake cassette for playing in his car.
This might sound small but it was a big deal to me: it starts exactly where you left it.
So, with this you can make `main process` in electron, obsolete?
The problem here is that the comparison is between median wages and total productivity, without demonstrating that the median worker is in any way responsible for the increased productivity.

If the median worker isn't responsible for the increased productivity, are they entitled to a share of the work of other people?

I'm not necessarily saying they aren't, just that such an argument should be made explicitly.
IME, it’s possible to figure out with a little meditation. It’s often that a scene communicates or typifies a word or concept exceptionally well. They often remind me to periodically question my “fixations” and whether they are healthy, productive, and compassionate - generally a moral gut check.
It's interesting to see how the predictions have diverged. Internet penetration into "gallery art" basically hasn't happened at all. Cynical people would say this is because it's unrelated to artistic value and mostly a complex sort of money transfer that absolutely requires unique physical objects.

Small-scale sponsored art through Patreon is huge though, with a large NSFW component. Kickstarter enables people to do print runs.

There isn't really a big "internet famous" artist though, is there? Would Banksy count?
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I have to disagree: a well-mastered recording on vinyl is superior to a high-resolution, digital recording when the music has been auto-tuned, mastered, remastered, and compressed to death. (I'm talking about dynamic-range compression here.)
Off topic, but I really enjoyed his post about commuting to work by bike[1]. I was in Krakow, Poland, and getting around by bike was a joy.
Unfortunately, here in Ukraine drivers are very aggressive and the infrastructure for biking is just not in place.

1: https://hookrace.net/blog/cycling-to-work/
Or p-code. This is my knee-jerk reaction too, can't wait till someone implements a portable browser in wasm like it's 1997. If someone actually builds a working and useful portable OS and UI layer around wasm, I might stop joking about it.
Sorry for your loss. I know that currently, more than 50% of patients after treatment live five years or more - this is the period that an oncologist registers a woman after surgery and, if there are no recurrences or complications, is removed from the register as recovered. When my friend got sick, I climbed the whole site https://samples.edusson.com/breast-cancer/ and read all the essays about breast cancer, prevention, and diagnosis. Now comes the 4th year of her struggle, but I hope that this research will not concern her case in any way.
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Wow - you're getting rejection letters/emails? You're doing much better than I've been faring. Have reached out to around 25-30 places in the last 2 months - 2 have actually responded with "you're not a fit".

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