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Plus the controversy about data gathering and support for ads in native applications, with data for ads provided from the OS.
Dell _laptops_ running Windows even. When I read the headline I freaked out a bit because I have Dell server...
I assume because it is composed of a high level of fructose mixed with water :-) I'm not saying that "natural" food has a low GI; quite the contrary. I'm saying that if you take some food with a low GI and take away all the stuff that makes it low GI you are essentially left with sugar. If you add all that stuff back in, then you get the same GI again. Your gut doesn't care that it's a slurry, essentially.
Totally misread it, in all honesty.
If we were talking about the out-of-tree VirtualBox drivers I would agree with you. But we're not -- WireGuard has proven itself to be incredibly solid for the past 3 years and supports all kernels since 3.10 (with each commit getting tested against all of those kernels).

To be honest, that is far more stringent requirements than most subsystems in the Linux tree. Being in-tree is better for a variety of reasons, but just because something is in-tree doesn't make it significantly more stable or safe (I can think of several counter-examples where Linus hasn't motivated maintainers to fix mistakes and breaking changes).
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They used to have malware/rootkits class programs preinstalled not long ago. Unless you mean thinkpads.
Are you saying that the 59 can't be electric because then it would have to wait empty at its two destinations for twenty minutes instead of ten before starting its next route, and that's impossible?
Just because a browser is unsupported doesn't mean it won't work; it means they're not going out of their way to fix it if a problem does occur.
3D/VR you say? https://arcan-fe.com/2018/03/29/safespaces-an-open-source-vr...
Ligatures in programming fonts usually don't want to solve the problem of character collisions. Instead they transform rather weird symbol sequences used in programing to something closer to symbols used in maths or how you would write it by hand, e.g. != becomes ≠, =< becomes ≤, or === becomes ≡. More examples are in the repo readme: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
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Again I’m out atm and can’t reply on full, but I think if you read my post in more detail it already has the response to much of what you’re describing.

I agree it’s not the bottleneck to programming languages overall, but it is the bottleneck to the HCI/UX component of language design.

Edit: the git merge problem can be resolved by having a canonical text representation or doing a structure diff instead.

As for the rest of your response, you’re basically saying you didn’t take the time to get a basic understanding of my proposal, and you think other problems are more important than the specific one I’m addressing. I’m not sure how that could lead to a fruitful discussion.

I will take a look at the post about benefits of text though, so thanks for that. (Apologies if my frustration is coming out here, it’s just that I have had many responses—most much worse than yours—basically saying, “I didn’t read what you wrote but you should consider X instead.”)
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I was wondering if anyone would mention these -- they're the best! We sought out the hawker centres, which have a huge variety of amazing foods. The same format was easy to find in Penang as well. You can eat delicious local food with the locals at great prices, and there is more than enough volume and competition to force low quality players out.
Steam microtransactions are built into even meta nonsense like cards you get for playing games. It seems like the obvious worse platform for shady lootboxes and gambling with cs:go as well.
True, I think this is to prevent big players who can afford it from bankrupting the competition. I guess it turns out boring either way.

Although there is a silver lining: with identical cars it's down to pilot skill. I still don't see F1 or FE too exciting right now.
Making a good store that people want to visit?

Edit:
I was being serious.

"what viable alternative strategy should Epic be using to get users to their store?"

What's preferable for the consumer? buying a monopoly, or competing on quality, price, customer service, etc, etc, etc.
I look forward to reading your write-up. And I really do hope that Purism gives money back to you folks and the other original projects (unfortunately there are many more counterexamples than examples of this happening in the past). Wasn't there already some agreement with them in order for them to have decided to use Matrix on the Librem 5 -- or is there no such revenue-sharing arrangement? (Or was the arrangement "host your own homeserver"?)
Thanks for that, I believed this. I've got to stop trusting TED talks.
> Between YouTube, Google Docs, and several other Google properties posting IE6 banners, Google had given permission to every other site on the web to add their own.

YouTube started a domino effect with this. I remember I was working at a web agency at the time. And when I saw YouTube's banner regarding IE6 it was my "this is it" moment. I rushed my boss trying to convince him we should stop making our client websites IE6 compatible. He considered it and started incorporating YouTube IE6 stance in every client proposal from that moment.
Ligatures work well enough when selected properly for the target language, since the often substitute for what the language designer was using ASCII art to approximate.

Still, Perl 6 I think has the better solution: use Unicode well with ASCII fallbacks. Combine it with editor language modes that are aware of the equivalents and do Unicode substitution when the ASCII combo is used, and you get a situation all-around better than ligatures.
But you are talking about different games. TR made L4D and Valve bought them. but Valve made L4D2.

And they released L4D2 a year after L4D sparking a lot of community uproar, starting things like the L4D2Boycot groups.

Man, just talking about the game makes me want to play it again. That was such an addiction for me xD
Definitely a nice niche business - they won't do a price war, they would have to lower their margins significantly, and no big company ever did that except whith bankrupcy on a horizon.
It's just like Murder on the Orient Express!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_on_the_Orient_Express_(...

>The next morning, Poirot discovers Ratchett was murdered during the night, having been stabbed a dozen times. [...]

>With the train back on track, Poirot concludes that justice is impossible in this case, as Cassetti deserved death; for the first time, Poirot will have to live with a lie and imbalance.
It's true that if I heard it at that time, I wouldn't have remembered it.
Thanks Hackbraten. I'm actually also a coder, so yeah, it was meant as inclusionary. However, like the rest of the article, it's written in a provocative style, and pokes hard through thin skin.

Coders get little comprehension and understanding from self-styled "sane" people, which gets incredibly frustrating over time, and can make us feel bitter. But the only cure for this is a healthy dose of perspective and a sense of humor. There are different ways of thinking, and understanding others' perspective can help us realize how crazy we look to them, and how funny that is.
> Microsoft products ignore the default browser bit and open links in Edge

Try something like EdgeDeflector (https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector) for redirecting those links to your default browser.
The history section on Wikipedia is good; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax_in_the_Repub...

It seems to have got started in the early 80s, when Ireland was still a very poor country. The major changes were in 1995.

Tax policy is still mostly a reserved matter in the EU and there is a taboo on trying to dictate rates, but this is changing - in part due to the obvious huge tax avoidance problem.
> PayPal offers 5% + $0.05

How? All I see is $0.30 + 3-5 % (which means 10 % from every $5 transaction - I'd love to lower this!)
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees
but that's how programming ligatures work? Or, what is it that you're getting at?

Fonts with ligatures, such as Fira Code or Hasklig, work by replacing characters with a ligature. The actual source code is still "->" or "===" or "|>" or whatever it may be.

No one is "pushing it on the rest of the world"?
If I wanted the best camera in a phone on the market, my choices were the Note 9 (before the Pixel 3, I think) or one of the iPhones. I have enough invested in the Google/Android ecosystem that moving would be painful, plus I'm not a fan of Apple.
I always code in a proportional font, but even there the typical operator character sequences like == don't collide or run together.

OTOH, perhaps because I use a proportional font, I would be curious to try one with operator ligatures. The interesting thing is that a ligature for !== wouldn't have to be three characters in width to preserve alignment, it could actually be the normal ≢ glyph.

This suggests an experiment: I'm already using a modified version of Trebuchet MS (my favorite coding font, but the tilde sucks so I swapped one in from a different font), so I could probably add some ligatures like the one above using existing glyphs instead of having to draw them by hand. I will have to try it sometime!
> - DNS Hijack the victim.

This is the trivial one. You can just set up a free Wi-Fi access point next to a restaurant that people from company-you-want-to-hack like to visit.
One way or another highways have portions where there has to be a solid, flat, vertical surface on the edges of barriers, exit ramps, etc. It's similar in many ways to the hairy ball theorem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem

You can't just round over the edge of the barrier, because that still leaves a portion where a car could collide perpendicular to it. You can't just slope it down to the ground, unless you want an impromptu Dukes of Hazzard reenactment. You can't have just an unguarded edge because that would just be a death sentence if you hit it at any appreciable speed. The solution is to place those crash attenuators so that it slows the vehicle down over a small distance rather than just over the length of the crush portion of the car.

https://megarentalsinc.com/sites/default/files/feature-image...
Here's an example: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/751
So happens that many (more than 2-3) of the millionare engineers I mentioned never went to college.

Why is it the parents’ responsibility to put their kids through college? If your parents paid for your college, you do not have the right to refer to yourself as self made, millionaire or otherwise.

My parents lived in Canada, the one that is no longer here died from cancer after waiting 5 months for an operating room to open up. They were only stage 2 when they received the diagnosis. I would have broken the bank to get them care in the states if I was working then.

Funny how things are so free to the point that they become worthless when you actually need them.
You could argue that there's a bit of a network effect involved. i.e. it doesn't get much love on HN, Reddit, etc. (just look at the comments on any Flutter thread).
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> I want a language that is designed alongside an editor/IDE.

Check out Luna

https://www.luna-lang.org/
Is it possible that these prions were also acquired by human through meat consumption? As in the case with PrP prion from Mad Cow Disease which spread through meat eating as well. Another very similar case is by eating fruit bats containing toxic BMAA, which has a very similar structure to L-Serine amino acid causing it to be picked up instead during the protein synthesis process and resulting in a misfolded version. Studies are being done as BMAA could be a likely cause for many neurological disorders such as Parkinson's.

Has there ever been any researches in determining the rates of Alzheimer disease in meat eaters vs. vegetarians?
Just be careful not to let video drivers auto-update if you're fending off shovelware. Last time I said "check for updated drivers" on my nVidia graphics card I was force-fed the Geforce Experience utility.

Also (having spent the day reinstalling a new Dell 2-in-1 with a clean Windows install) a few of the devices were quite happy (if generic) in Device Manager but didn't work quite right until I manually installed the drivers off the Dell website. (The ones that spring to mind were the wifi, audio drivers and the webcam, but there might have been others.)
In my experience, it's the lack of logical rules that many other languages follow that bothers people.

Here are a few examples.

Pronunciation - you make a fair point. In particular.

Elision - other languages drop more unstressed sounds, allowing phrases to roll off the tongue more easily and smoothly. From Latin on, most romance languages have a healthy amount of elision. In Spanish, this chaining of words is referred to as enlace or encadenamiento.

SVO - English relies on Subject-Verb-Object order to express what is being done by whom and to what. Compared to languages that use cases to do this, it can feel a bit tedious and disjointed. In general, case-based languages like Latin, do a good job of showing off what is happening given just a few words.

Word order - beyond SVO, english relies on strange, rarely-codified rules of word order, making it hard for even native speakers to sound conversationally proficient. For example, the adjective rule is maddening: https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adjecti...

Unpredictable declensions and conjugations - "I go, I did go, I went, I have gone" is way crazier than languages that are more rules-based regarding how words are constructed.

Borrows - I love how many words and phrases English has taken from other languages, but it loses internal cohesiveness due to its variety of external influences.
To be fair, Waterluvian was talking about including pictures and tables and such in comments, while still writing actual code. It's probably still a horrible idea, but for much more subtle (and less certain) reasons than "waaah, I don't want to have to do programming in order to make a program".
That's what the government is for.

They should feel free to purchase and house whoever they want with their tax dollars.
> People of the US are scared of taxes

A mind reader, are we?

> for some reason

If only someone could find out what it is! /sarcasm

Here are some pretty standard reasons why many Americans oppose ever expanding taxation and redistribution schemes:

- government redistribution schemes often create perverse incentives, even arguably perpetuating the very problems they were intended to solve

- government redistribution schemes are often inefficient and have significant administrative costs

- when a private charity is behaving badly, you can simply choose to send your money to a more effective charity. Cutting back failed redistribution schemes is all but unheard of.

- Lastly, we do technically have laws that restrict our government's ability to levy taxes. This is based on the very reasonable moral position that citizens should not be serfs, and that the government does not have an unlimited claim on the people's productive output (no matter how well intentioned the government is).

You may think those reasons are insufficient, but they are reasons nonetheless and it is not merely an outgrowth of fear.
I've been using Fira Code pretty much since its inception, currently trying out Hasklig.

I never want a programming font without ligatures ever again.

This article, to me, seems like a case where the authors' ire is proportional to a) their understanding of the subject b) how relevant the topic is.

Because really, a) ligatures won't cause catastrophic failures by rendering code illegible and b) it really, really doesn't matter all that much. Non-destructive personal preference.
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What happens when you find you need 2 years of runway?

Or 5, or 10, or 20?

And, mind, you may not know the duration going in.
wait a minute ... Are you in Guam right now?
> try playing a roguelike in a console using the Fira Code font with ligatures turned on

But... why? It's obviously not intended for that purpose. You would get awkward results trying to program with a regular serif, too, but that's not a fault of the entire category of serifs.
> A third possibility would be to pass the SQRT function as an argument to QUAD (don't laugh!)

:)

I was excited to see the heading "3.3.1 Free (Global) Variables", considering the amount of work people do to avoid those (interpeters and runEnv and so on), but it seems they end up using top-level bindings and assignments …
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> People should not have to live or die depending repeated random acts of kindness from strangers.

That is true, but the flip side is that people should not have to live or die depending on compelled acts of strangers either.

No ideological purity survives the myriad of real world circumstances; but the normal case should be that people don't need charity because when life hits them hard there are avenues where they can live a dignified life through their own hard work.
In the States maybe. Not in most developed countries.
Yes. IE9 was an improvement over IE8, which was a big improvement over IE7, which was a huge improvement over IE6. I don't have experience before that, but my understanding of history is that things were even worse before IE6.
Yep, replaced both the NVMe and the Broadcom wifi in my 9350. I'm not buying this year's model as the Killer wifi is soldered down. Killer indeed.
Ah, gotcha. Based on the examples given (e.g., Th), I got the sense he was talking about letters.
If you can afford it before you start your career, and if it's a good comp sci program, and if you take it seriously, then it's very much worth $40K. Or in my case well north of $100k.

The general pattern I see that distinguishes the self-taught or "picked it up along the way" programmers from the formally trained programmers is the theoretical base. I taught myself programming in high school and probably could have gotten a job by teaching myself the LAMP stack and skipping college. Which I did, except I still went to college.

My degree covered:

1. Linear algebra, multivariate calculus, some more heavy duty stuff for fun, discrete math, graph theory, algorithmic analysis and techniques for performance modelling

2. Computer architecture - building my own CPU, instruction pipelining, caches, branch prediction, interrupts, etc...

3. OS fundamentals (processes, threads, memory virtualization, paging, I/O, memory mapping, file system fundamentals, etc.)

4. Functional programming patterns

5. Network stack - BGP, TCP, SSL, HTTP, DNS, etc. Had to implement several of those protocols as homework.

6. Machine learning basics

7. Patterns for distributed applications (async I/O, modeling server load, techniques for decentralized decision-making, re-entrant operations...)

8. Relational algebra and database algorithms

9. Cryptography basics

I would never have picked all of that up after four years on the job because it's just really hard to fully immerse yourself in theory heavy subjects when you have a day job. The day job heavily incentivizes you to get better at what you already do. The degree lets you spread out.

I think the best way to describe how I feel about it is this: if you think in terms of iterating on various skills, the four year degree is probably the best way to make sure you never have to do the first round of reps again.
Somehow I found this the other day when searching for a new laptop. 2 models, identical, one with Windows 10 pre-installed and one FreeDOS (of all OSes!). 100€ cheaper. Perhaps not to everyone, but that's a worthwhile difference to me as a non-Windows user.
> Computers have all but destroyed typography, and it's a good thing some of it is coming back

Absolutely agree. Medium.com (as an example) has a bunch of flaws, but some of my favorite articles are their posts about bringing classical typography back to the modern web.
Oregon just did this statewide, at inflation + 7%. I have no idea what the effect will actually be.
Inflammation is often an immune system response to a foreign agent, and I read somewhere that prions could also be triggered and formed for the same reason so there might actually be a link. I imagine chronic inflammation over a long period of time could do a lot of damage.
I remember. :) Getting browser developers to comply with basic standards was a bigger problem around then. (Initially, everyone out of the gate, including MCom/Netscape, was rushing to throw in new features without standards, either to make the Web more appealing to people, or because the nonstandard bits were a shorter path from their current platforms or implementations, or as a competitive play to be the preferred browser. A bit after, one of the developers had incentive to sabotage the Web, which arguably is part of the reason why many organizations got stuck on particular old browser versions.) After monumental amounts of work, everyone started accepting standards, we then had waves of other related problems, and might be entering a new wave now (unclear).