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Updates will get a lot better with Microsoft's new 'Santorini' OS (based on Windows Core OS).

https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-core-os

One of the big things Microsoft has been working towards with Windows Core OS is an improved Windows Update system that installs updates in the background and requires less than a minute to restart once those updates are ready to do so.

How it works is very similar to how Android and Chrome OS do updates today. On those platforms, the OS runs in two separate mirrored partitions, and when an update is ready to install, the update is downloaded and installed to the offline partition that you're currently not using. When that's done, the OS will ask you to restart, and while it may look like you're just rebooting, what's actually happening is you're booting into the partition that just spent 25 minutes installing an update in the background.

Windows Core OS keeps system updates to under a minute.

It boots right up, as if there was never an update waiting to be installed, and that's because all the installing has already been done while you were busy using the other online partition. Now, you've booted into the partition where the update is installed, and the partition you were just in becomes the offline partition for newer updates to be installed to down the line.

This should solve one of the big issues Windows has when it comes to updates. Updates can usually take anywhere between 5 to 30 minutes to install, and even longer on older devices. Windows Core OS solves this problem by making it so the user isn't unable to use their PC for no longer than a minute. It simply restarts like normal, and you're back up and running again.
Maybe it's the feeling that we feel a plateau coming?
In the near term, we will remove the damage caused by fossil fuel use. Our fuel will burn much cleaner, so that's also helpful. In the medium to long term, cars will switch to electric, but now we'll have enough time to do that. As that happens, Prometheus will roll out new products made from CO2, like carbon negative building materials, etc. It's important to look not only at the end goal, but also the path!
You could stop extracting oil from underground and just keep the existing quantities of CO2 that currently exist. This would allow a "green" application of all the existing engines (think ships) and many situations where going full electric may be impractical.
One of the more interesting thoughts from this article comes near the end, with the notion that while Trump's critics have noted that he speaks like a fourth grader, that also means today's fourth graders can understand him, and that they will be (potentially) voting in 2028...
Awesome! Then we will work on that. Yes, Hadoop is kind of weird. Like most companies use it through the abstraction of hive or presto. So..it's just SQL again.
What do you think are good ways to get users for the website? Would you market it in a different way?
After "Completing". lame
No, Perl was designed to be familiar with Unix shell script (with its various variants), sed, and AWK programmers.
> a regulated track

You mean like roads and highways?
That's gold, considering where solar cells efficiency are now (mature industry!!)!!
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> If your children are all living but you rarely speak to them and are cripplingly lonely, is that a better outcome than having 7 children, four of whom died, and you live in an intact healthy family unit?

Yes, unless you have an extremely convincing argument that being lonely is worse than being dead.
Holding money in escrow might have been an effective way to enforce this deal.
And the best way to store hydrogen is to attach it to carbon atoms.
That is like saying "Hey I know you really love playing Tennis. That you enjoy the game, and how you feel when you play, and after the match. But we are going to outlaw Tennis, why don't you just go play Basketball instead? Mmmkay?"
> ".NET" promised backwards compatibility.

Except for 2.x-3.x, .NET Framework didn't provide backward compatibility across major versions, so a break at the 4.x-5.0 transition would be in line with .NET Framework history even if .NET 5 was viewed as .NET Framework 5. Which seems to be why the version of what is basically .NET Core after .NET Core 3.x is .NET 5, so it fits expectations whether viewed as a .NET Core version or a .NET Framework version number.

Enterprise will no doubt keep legacy .NET Framework 4.8 around for legacy apps—the same way they do Framework 1.1 and 3.5.

> It's like merging Java and JavaScript "for clarity".

Not really. .NET Core can be viewed as just a production-ready but not feature complete early release of the next major version of .NET Framework, which involved major reengineering, and which will be released as .NET 5 when it is feature complete.
>But try taking a horse from Quincy, MA to Washing D.C. Like John Adams did many times.

I'd believe the impediment to that will be not the regulation, but lack of horse-support infrastructure along the way (inns with stables and feeding stations, blacksmiths who could reshoe your horse if needed, etc).

I highly doubt that the number horse-accessible roads has declined since John Adams times. We really have built a lot more roads since then, even allocating a small percentage to horses would be way more than was available back than.

TL;DR: John Adams didn't take the interstate either.
Remoting/app domains/Code access security were ripped out of the .NET Core codebase, and there is really not much of a chance of them returning. The CoreFX codebase has systematically removed all the code needed for things to safely work with those features, and re-implementing them would be unfeasible.

As for webforms. Well, the whole hosting model for IIS worker processes was based on appdomains. Further, w3wp.exe has special code for loading and integrating with the Framework, enabling managed modules. This is the whole System.Web.dll concept. Microsoft really does not seem to want to put in much effort to fix that.

Since Microsoft always recomended hosting WCF services in IIS, which therefore relied on the whole System.Web.dll mess which I think is a large part of the reason thy don't want to port that.

That said, other than replacing XML configuration, self-hosted WCF services should be pretty easy for them to port.
>it's government encroaching on the rights of companies and just as big of a danger to free speech itself.

Saying "Legal, but wrong" doesn't mean he wants the government to make it illegal. Your post is arguing in circles unless you can quote the part where he advocates for changing the law.

Have you considered the possibility he may be calling on a company to choose to live up to a moral principle, while also supporting their legal right not to?

>forcing companies to serve customers that they don't want to is not the way to win this battle.

Again, where does he call for this?
Here's what I don't understand - You're taking CO2 out of the atmosphere using renewable energy sources. Thermodynamically, this will take at least as much energy as it took to burn them. You did not mention how energy efficient your energy storage method is right now (50-60% at maturity sounds really optimistic, when plants are only a few %), but, in the short term, while we're still mostly using carbon-based fuels, you're basically diverting renewable energy capacity from consumers. Instead of getting 1kWh of usable energy from a solar panel, they're getting at best 0.5kWh, albeit in a much denser form that's easier to move around for some transportation uses, such as aviation. But, in the short term, you have a net-negative impact.

In the long term, if things keep going where they are going and we end up having to remove carbon from the atmosphere to reverse some effects of global warming, why would we want to convert it into gasoline instead of e.g. just capturing it and storing?

Or is this just a way to generate jet fuel for planes of the future when we'll electrify all of transportation except for flying?
> Ugh, what a stupid comment. Yeah sure, let me not only have 1 carriage, but now a motorcar and a trailer to legally transport the horses and carriage. Then go on a boring as hell, flat, circle. This is not at all the same as say galloping around a mountainous region, or along the coast. You can go fuck yourself with your regulated "track".
> [musical] instruments are made for people who can play them!

And yet, for the most part, trumpets have the same valve configurations, pianos are in the same key, and violins have the same string arrangement.

Unlike different musical instruments, all programming languages make the same sound (more or less). The goal of using a programming language is not to use that programming language, but to program a computer.

> you should not take into consideration "ease of use" or "familiarity" arguments.

Especially if you really don't want it to be wildly successful.
So how does that VM work behind the scenes? Somehow, things still need to be written to a disk and go through the filesystem minifilters don't they?
Tallying is only a problem if polling stations are overcrowded.

The simpler solution is to hire more counters. I can't imagine that'd be more expensive than developing custom hardware & software.
If you're developing an application with a Windows desktop GUI, you're still doing it on full framework (WPF, WinForms, UWP). They're folding that into .NET 5, and I haven't seen anything indicating that they see that as "doing it wrong". This is only one case of developing for full framework, but it's a big one. I imagine any other cases where the developer community really needs full framework capabilities that still aren't ported to CoreCLR, they'll fold that in just the same as with the UI frameworks, as a Windows-specific capability. Maybe they end up sunsetting more than I think, but for now this seems more like consolidating Core and Framework than ending Framework.
Serbia.

Perhaps you can win on court. But what about time and energy you will lose. Nobody wants that. They got sued, thats what I am talking about.
If the alcohol upgrade to gasoline makes sense technically and economically for you, why is it not commonly done with (presumably much cheaper and extant in great volume) industrial alcohol today?
I unboxed a knife and turned that into 2 knives and a pair of gloves. I am solidly in GN, but I do wonder if I had that better knife if I would be Global.

But, I completely agree. And whats worse is that Valve has done little to combat the darkest side of this industry, such as the 'futures' and stuff like that. Every CSGO video has an ad for some gambling site, and major events are sponsored by these companies.

The only part I like about the skins in CSGO is that you can actually 'own' the skin to a degree and make real money on it. But because of that, CSGO might also have one of the most predatory skin communities in all of gaming.
Are medical journals no-spin zones? Not as often as we might want
We are designing our systems to run intermittently, to match the intermittent availability of renewable power. The capital cost of our systems is expected to be low enough for us to run profitably even if we are only operating 50% of the time. We expect we will get very low electricity prices because of this, and even negative pricing some times. We are not positioning ourselves as grid storage, but having our systems on the grid will balance demand for renewables, allowing more to be deployed, which is a similar service. If we can get paid for demand response, we won't turn it down!
I drive a Ford sedan from 2011.
How many people are killed every year by inattentive or incompetent tennis players who think they're hot stuff?
There is no water left either—you forgot that oxygen is also produced.
A tax is hardly comparable to heavily restricting sales and making it completely illegal to buy or consume for under-18s.

("Sin tax" is the popular dysphemism, BTW.)
Isn't auto one-off to save a few grams of average CO2 emissions on paper to save the customer some tax money in countries where CO2 emissions are the base for taxation?
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I go on vacation a few times a year. Renting a car just for that is more expensive than extra cost of fuel. Not to mention most rental cars won't let me use my truck as a truck (putting rock in the back damages the bed, and a trailer is right out - both things I do only a couple times a year but I still own a truck for just those few times).

IF this is as good as they claim I don't see electric cars as worth it as a first car. They are slightly cheaper for an in-town only commuter car, but the downsides of electric cars (expensive battery replacement, limited range without long recharge times) are something that fans hate to acknowledge. Note that I said first car, once you have decided to have a second car electric is probably better.
> nearly all consumer cars sold in the past 3 decades only require about 1 service trip a year, and that includes changing oil.

Simply not true, and the linked article doesn't support that statement either.

Try looking at a maintenance schedule for a Corolla or a Camry here: https://www.toyota.ca/toyota/en/my-toyota/maintenance-schedu....
It is not energy neutral, but it is carbon neutral (if the electricity input is from a zero-carbon source).

It sounds like you're suggesting that burning the fuel releases more carbon than was used to produce it, which isn't possible.
It's becoming more popular. Kotlin, Swift and now C# 8.0 have pattern matching (well, close enough at least). I sure hope other languages take note, because you are right about it essentially being a solved problem.
> There are plenty of cases to be made for the prohibition of alcohol and cigarettes altogether,

Prohibition of alcohol wasn't a problem because mitigating social issues caused by its abuse is a bad idea. Prohibition was a problem because it was a bad tool for the job; it didn't solve the issues it was meant to, and caused many more of its own.

Drugs, pornography, prostitution and violent video games aren't the problem (except for people who don't think much). Drug abuse-related crime and health issues are the problem. Sexual abuse and crimes are the problem. Human trafficking and forcing people into sex work are the problem. Violence is the problem. I agree that bans are a wrong idea, but I also disagree about the role of the government. It's absolutely a responsibility of governments to deal with these issues - because really, no one else can.

> Government is force, no matter what, and even democracy is tyranny of a thin majority.

If democracy is a tyranny, then so is the "free" market. A tyranny of those who have more, who rule over those who have less. The tyranny of the economy that forces most people to make bad choice after bad choice, because the alternative is starvation. Truth is, there is no absolute freedom to find anywhere. Not in a world with so many people, not when the "minimum viable reproductive unit" of human species is a village. It's a game of finding the balance that ensures most freedom and most happiness.
My take on random read speed? Check out this paper from Lenovo testing the performance of Optane DC Persistent Memory on their servers: https://lenovopress.com/lp1083.pdf.

There's another good paper from a team at UCSD testing all sorts of usages and file systems with NVRAM here too: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.05714.pdf.

Sirix sounds like a good fit to take advantage of App Direct access on Optane DCPM, but you're way more of an expert than me. Perhaps make a request for alpha access at GCP to test Sirix with the new tech? https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeX1tN6Qt-aQUK2iVVi...
>That is like saying "Hey I know you really love playing Tennis. That you enjoy the game, and how you feel when you play, and after the match. But we are going to outlaw Tennis, why don't you just go play Basketball instead? Mmmkay?"

Yeah sports aren't transportation infrastructure, and most forms of transportation infrastructure are perfectly useful to let people "clear their heads." This goes for walking as well as it does sitting on a bus or train. Just because the way the world is now put you in a habit of doing a thing doesn't mean the world needs to stand still so you can never have to change.

This is like saying "Riding horses is one of the few ways I can clear my head." Sure, if you really love it go to a paddock. But that's not what we're building our cities around anymore because "clearing your head" isn't really what we design people's commutes around.
Employee status won't do anything as long as Uber's margins are so low. Maybe if they had a monopoly and were just raking in cash, they could pay the higher costs out of that pile of money. But that's not what's happening. They're losing money hand over fist. There is no margin to absorb increased labor costs.

So, they would have to pay a much lower wage to full employees. Benefits? Forget about it. Or they could charge a lot more, I guess. That would reduce demand for their services, meaning they wouldn't need as many employees. They lay off a bunch of people, and we wind up in exactly the same state as AnthonyMouse proposed -- fewer people driving.
Does that mean one can mount ext drives now?
So if this is basically eliminating the traditional "distillation" phase by using the membrane, do you envision a day when I can dip your membrane in my beer and then poor off some moon shine?
I mean the battery technology for EV companies is their special sauce. If they are all the same that takes away their differentiator. I agree it would be better for customers but it's understandable why that isn't something they want to do.
This happens all the time. Julian Alaphilippe basically did that in one of the classics and at Amstel Gold, the rider he tricked the last time around (J. Fuglsang) didn't give in and neither won (although Fuglsang got 3rd). Cycling is filled with ways to get others to work more than others.
Holy cow. This is like using inmates to process rape kits.
Electronic elections suffer the same corruption issues but are more scalable.
What would be the arguments for/against using this instead of, say, Qt?
> We're smart people. Why are we simply giving up and throwing in the towel when it comes to reboots?

Because if I leave something running over night, and Windows reboots without asking me because it thinks it can resume the task, and Windows is wrong, then I have to wait until the next evening.

I would have no problem with any of this stuff if Microsoft gave the user control. They don't, and the steps they've taken so far don't go nearly far enough.
IMO it's awkward for the following reasons:

(1) It looks like a field access, and field accesses are "cheap", method invocations aren't. This breaks the 'conceptual weight' model when you look at a line of code. Field accesses are simple and understood. It becomes impossible to gauge the 'cost' of a line by looking at it unless you're intimately familiar with the workings of 'await' and there's no visual cue.

(2) If we create new such postfix operators in the future we'll have to break yet more source code by reserving yet more field names in all structs in all existing code. This whole postfix thing is proving itself nice to work with so I'd prefer a path of less destruction if we do lean more into it.

(3) It's a one-off that's different from everything else in the language that's being shoehorned into existing syntax.

IMO, it's either break existing syntax by introducing something new or break semantics of existing syntax. I'll always lean towards the former over the latter. I like it being postfix, it's very much in the '?' family of ergonomics which has shown itself quite nice to work with. I'd prefer postfix "@await" or "!await".
>My assessment is that life has been pretty good for the average human regardless of the time period.

Here is where we fundamentally disagree. My assessment looking at history is that life for the average human, especially, the average female human, was horrible. I would guess our current 10th percentile is better off than the 50% percentile in the past.

The average human was a farmer. They had to do hours of back-breaking labor. They were many times just a bad harvest away from starving. They were routinely preyed on by the more powerful. A significant portion had personally lost a child/spouse/parent due to childbirth. They were illiterate. Child marriages and involuntary marriages were the general rule. The distinction between you and elite was directly coded into law.
The taxi companies did it by constraining supply, i.e. by not hiring as many people. So that solution is to give some people more by making the others unemployed. (And as
dnautics points out, the people getting more weren't necessarily the drivers.) If that's all they want then all they need to do is round up some volunteers and have them quit.

Obviously the problem then is that they wouldn't get many volunteers, but forcing people out of their jobs involuntarily is not really what anybody wants -- especially when it's them.
Ofc, wrt software, in the sense that new hardware still runs old software.

But not in the sense that one can just upgrade/replace a cpu, or just add some ram etc.
yeah its just the kind of thing to wipe out a lifetime of saving
Cool, looking forward to the "Show HN" for your proposal!
Or not weed at all and change how we think gardens should be planted in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming

https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/permaculture-gardeni...

The robot seems practical enough though. At least it has solar panels built in!
How small can you scale it? Net energy metering for small-scale solar is not particularly widespread, and the terms are getting progressively less favorable over time. If you can make an inexpensive unit to turn a few kW of excess production for a few hours a day into fuel at 50% efficiency, you might be able to sell it in some markets. Think of it as a 25% round-trip efficiency battery with immense capacity that can supply winter heat or vehicle power.

edit: for some applications like this, alcohol might be a better end point than gasoline.
Gov.UK is not really representative. Its outlier.

I was at their Velocity conf presentation and immediately took them as show case on how gov stuff should be done.
Prometheus is the most popular time-series metrics database and query engine for monitoring. It's really great, highly recommend!
But that's just being narrowly pedantic.

You're asking if we can; I'm asking if we should.

To be really ugly about it, suicide is a 100% effective way to prevent cancer. Doesn't mean it's a solution, because cancer isn't the real problem - early death is the problem. Likewise, the problem of opioids isn't addiction... it's harm to society. And it's completely obvious that the very existence of prohibition causes harm - a black market that handles business by violence and corruption, a police state that keeps further encroaching our rights in the name of "war on drugs", and innocent victims caught in the crossfire. Worse, user-level prohibition keeps otherwise peaceable citizens from seeking treatment for addiction, pinning them in the arms of both the addiction and the criminal enterprise that provides their fix.

Being "narrow in scope" is not only ignoring the external costs, it's ignoring the actual problem at hand.
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There is no chance VS 2017 will support it, since it already doesn't support .Net Core 3.0.