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I wasn't talking about necessarily temporal operations like mutex ops; of course, they should be deterministically done - it is a beautiful implementation detail that it falls out of the principles of Rust, without explicit compiler support and/or "checked-delete" as is required in most other languages.

I meant lazy operations for avoiding unnecessarily making things like memory deallocation temporal. Unless you have a strict memory budget (and you might additionally need to have mitigation for memory fragmentation), freeing whenever GC deems it fit, or streams flushing whenever the OS/library deems it fit, can't be worse - but could potentially be better - for performance than being done only at points decided arbitrarily by the language and the program structure. It is simply easier to disable GC on critical paths.

But as you say, you are not (only) talking about performance. You are talking about determinism for predictability. I hope you are not implying predictability across various threads/processes that make up the system, only within 1 thread/process where that predictability leads to reliability.

Reliability across threads/processes needs strategy because failures are inevitable (yes, I have drunk the Erlang kool-aid too, among other ones). While I have no doubt that Rust's design principles would support developing such strategies, I do wonder as to what scale this would work up to ...

... as you say, I don't know the size of projects Rust has scaled to, I just know enough about Rust itself to balk at its complexity (and I am a C++ person!). Maybe we are just talking from different viewpoints. You, having done a variety of non-trivial production code in a plethora of languages, plump for Rust. But I honestly wonder about the size & longevity of your C/C++ semi-production code - semi, because it is C/C++ ;-) - I have worked on large C++ codebases for long-lived products, and I somehow can't see another complex language solving more problems net-net.
How sure are you of a framing which separates information security from economic conflict?
A scheme in Northern Ireland (colloquially known as "Cash for Ash") was set up where heating properties using renewable fuels (mainly biomass) was subsidised, only the subsidy was priced higher than the cost for fuel causing people to heat empty properties just to claim the subsidy. The whole thing cost almost half a billion pounds.

There have been huge allegations of fraud and it even brought down NI's power-sharing executive (~ the regional government) in 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Heat_Incentive_scand...
I have been thinking about this recently. Suburbs are spaced out and empty and cities are loud and uncomfortable. I cant think of any public space I can just hang out around other than the library but that is a quiet space. Most public spaces are owned by businesses and they are designed to get you in and out as fast as possible while spending money the whole time. I wish there were indoor public spaces with comfortable seating and tables where you could just spend time at, meet people and meet with friends.

Unfortunately such a space would cost a significant amount and only works if the government funds it entirely. I still think the benefit to society may be worth it.
Generally sensors that aren't in a protected environment tend to suffer wear and damage.

A similar thing that happened with Birgenair Flight 301. A wasp built a nest inside the one of the pitot tubes. Which was the one the pilot and autopilot was using. And also being used to generate warnings.

I think validating sensor readings is a hard problem. The validation itself becomes another point of failure and confusion.
#notallvariables
Megan Phelps-Roper grew up in the Westboro Baptist "Church", that cult that protests with offensive homophobic signs outside soldier funerals and such. She went on Twitter. She got yelled at on Twitter. She started thinking that maybe what she'd been taught was wrong. She grew in understanding of the impact she was having on the world and she left the 'church', taking her sister with her.

If Twitter had gotten people to stop yelling at each other earlier, there would be 2 more protestors outside soldier funerals chanting hateful and homophobic mantras. Keep that in mind while supporting an end to the yelling.
I lived near and went to Action Park in New Jersey a couple of times. I was too young to ride the water speedboats and motor go-karts though... bah! Those were the days.

The issue is one of scaling risk as the knowledge and responsibility of the child increases. It's not surprising we have sued things down to the lowest/safest common denominator.
It's built exactly for that. The tunnel is established in reverse over a websocket, so outgoing traffic from your PC is TCP:443 which looks like normal TLS traffic.

I've been using this for almost 6 months and haven't seen any throttling. Your Netflix, YouTube or any other streaming traffic will dwarf what bandwidth you consume, unless we're talking terabytes...
Everyone decried censorship, but always fails to provide an alternative to try and stop extremism online.

The same as always. Criticize it. Maintain our freedoms. Continue to live as free people. It's only when we sacrifice our freedoms for security that the terrorists win. Unfortunately, we have been doing exactly the wrong thing by dribs and drabs for going on 2/3rds of a century now.
I'm no astrophysicist, though Frank is. The two concepts I'm referring to as being "discarded" were Newton's idea that motion (ie: time and space) exist in a fixed frame of reference. I think it's fair to say Einstein tossed that out wholeheartedly. The other idea Frank mentions that Einstein threw away was the idea of an æther that filled the voids in the universe. According to Frank, Einstein didn't like this idea so he just worked without it.
Sounds like a great environment to invest in Real estate!
>Japanese people are the best engineers

While I am partial to Japanese cars, I think some people might argue that the Germans are at least as good at engineering.

Of course, it was us Americans who really excelled at rocketry and sent men to the Moon... oh wait, we had to import Nazi German scientists to do that.
My point is this: Most people don't know about UTC/TAI/UT1 or any other standard. They know what's common knowledge, and what's common knowledge is that one day is 24 hours precisely, one hour is sixty minutes precisely, and one minute is sixty seconds precisely. Therefore, when writing software to interface with most people, including businesses with contracts defined in terms of those time definitions, one day is 24 hours or else you end up with problems.
Well, I do apologize for my sloppy writing that made you think I was telling you to shut up. That wasn't my intent. I was just trying to say that your argument wasn't persuasive to me.

We'll just have to agree to disagree regarding human nature.
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That would be great! Let's get that tech for Turkey Point.
> In the Scott Forstall days, there was a distinct iOS team (Scott) and a distinct OSX team (Craig). now there isn't.

Frankly, maybe that's exactly the problem. He left in 2012, and that definitely feels like around when things started going downhill.

I don't know what stuff is like under the hood, but from a user perspective, iOS and macOS are two very different platforms that are good at very different things. I'm sure there is a lot of tech that can be shared between them, but some individual focus would likely be beneficial as well.
s/can't/doesn't/

It's a company with the time, resources, and customer awareness to do this. They can. They have chosen not to.
Ha thanks for that catch!
And those legal machinations were arranged by a lawyer who used to be a CIA recruiter. I'll add this video of Walt Disney's original plan for the land, in which Disney World is overshadowed by the (u/dys)topian city he called EPCOT (later mangled into the showroom we know today by his brother and investors who were scared of costs and didn't see reliable earning potential in running a city) with a timestamp to when the fun starts: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCHg9mUBag&t=06m21s

This is the stuff that inspired BioShock and similar settings (I believe I read an interview years ago where one of the designers mentioned it as an influence, but I wouldn't know where to find a link).
Yes, there are many platforms where "yelling at each other" is only the 3rd or 4th most common use case. Reddit, Quora, Instagram.

People are on Twitter for the inane arguing, same as the people in the comment sections of political sites.
OK I'll expand on this since it was downvoted. Legislation, however old, allowing corporations to build nuclear power plants is a big no for me.
Imagine Amazon or Apple building their own nuclear plants...
I once applied for a position at what I found out to be a spam marketing company. In order to send their spam they worked with a local hosting company that would take unused legacy ip addresses and put them in their router so the spam could be sent over them. They would just burn the ip's and move on to the next set. My job would be to update their firewall with the new ips, update their mailing software with the current set of ip's each day. They made their own mailing software it had an interface like a stoplight where red meant the mail wasn't going out, yellow a lot of it was getting blocked (so move to the next ip's) and green is things are good. I didn't end up taking the position. This was around 12 years ago.
Apparently, at least a decade ago, a lot of people prefer the sound of poorly-encoded MP3s: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-sizzling-sound-of-music... There's no accounting for taste.
That's the point. If a murderer tells you that she's worried about other murderers killing people, you should listen to her and not call her a hypocrite. She may be an expert on the subject, and in a very good position to tell you something useful. I was all for giving China benefit of doubt, and peaceful rise, and all of that. But the turn of abrupt face made me change my position. Now I am for containing China before it becomes the next USSR, absorbing countries and putting people in gulags.
The full name was always "Mac OS X" and the most-major version number is still 10, so...
Yes, of course. It doesn't give you a "spectrum" at all. Only a very rough guesstimate on how the colors are balanced. But good enough to see, whether there is a large blue peak (blue line much stronger than red and green) or not. Just using your camera and a rgb histogram.

But using a color palette is a great idea. With some calibration work, this could give a rough spectral curve with a single picture. I need to investigate this :). One would require to get a palette, where the colors are generated not by rgb pigment mixing but by absorbing/reflecting distinct wavelengths. Of course, the MacBeth color targets would fufil that condition, now how to get a wavelength calibration from this? Have to read up on things...
Try to lay the ground to switch to ARM?
I'd assume you'd just double dip your time and work on something personal while doing nothing at work...
Every design is meant to be used. The amount of space needed is relative to the problem.
I didn't elect these big companies to censor the public discourse

Well, there are things you can do about it, but I didn't want to get into that when describing the incentives that make it difficult or impossible for them to censor the public discourse unilaterally, but possible to do as a cartel. I think it's important for people to have a solid factual understanding of what's going on in order for their normative judgments, and the plans they make based on those judgments, to be well-founded.

The "logic" depends on the normative judgement that what would result from a free market would be bad

No, none of the cause-and-effect relationships I described depend on anything being bad. They function in exactly the same way regardless of whether that would be good or bad.
What it means is that the discrepancy between clocks and time of day is growing quadratically. It won't matter to us in our lifetimes. But eventually it will be a problem.

It will take on the order of a thousand years for the discrepancy to add up to an hour. In 5000 years, it will be around a day. The fact that it is currently growing about a minute per century is true, but not a good predictor of what will happen.

That said, I prefer if we just lose the astronomical basis for time keeping, and let our distant descendants figure out that they should use time zones, and not modify UTC. Hopefully by the time it becomes obvious that clocks are drifting too fast for time zones to change all of the time, we're a multi-planetary species and paying attention to what is happening on the Earth seems quaint.
I'm envisioning the average sunset clause being more like 20 years. The annual refresh would be "lets make sure this doesn't expire" done voluntarily for the things that are really important that are currently going to expire in 19 years but everyone wants to reset their timer every year just in case.

I also don't really think it's that big a deal to ask the government to once a year go "we all still think rape's pretty uncool? yep? great, all in favor of amending the Consolidated Sexual Offenses Act 2019's expiry to be 2038, up from 2037? Done! Moving on."

I imagine any politician that objected would get eviscerated in the public eye. Should be a one-hour-a-year process to knock out all the key stuff, particularly if everyone knows first sitting session of the year is the refresh-the-core-values session.
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And it is a short-running utility :-)
A falsehood that Alex Chan believes about UNIX:

No-one uses the Olson "right" TZ data files.

What is stated in M. Chan's article is only true when using the "posix" TZ data files. But that's not the only option.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/327403/5132

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/334029/5132

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/294715/5132
That claim assumes a free market with perfect information, which is more than even Adam Smith was willing to do.
Any private company with sufficiently large compounds has its own fire department(s). To pick a few random examples, Boeing, FedEx, Lockheed Martin, ExxonMobil, Electric Boat, Pratt & Whitney all have at least one.
I like nuclear power. But as you point out, human "error" is why I'm against it.

It was not even human error for Fukushima, they had ignored experts because the solution would hit the company's bottom line.

So the solution is having it government owned. But unfortunately, there's a clear history of governments selling assets.

Sorry, but until there's tiny reactors, the risk is huge because; human nature not science.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japa-nuclear-risks/specia...
Yes, billed at $120/hr for a recent college grad programmer, with per-diems and weekend travel allowances to go back home (fly cross-country). I should note that this was pre dot-com bust... late 1990s, so $120/hr was pretty good then.

But the client company had more cash-flow than they could burn, so they didn't care. Unsurprisingly, they hit serious financial difficulties within a few years.
If spun off into its own business, the Macintosh business would still be a fortune 500 company.

I get that Apple makes more revenue from other products, but the Mac is still extremely profitable. They ought to give it some attention on those grounds, if nothing else.
Not all mass shootings stem from extremism. Gang violence also falls under the same definition.

Also from the business insider:

"There is no broadly accepted definition of a mass shooting. The Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as a single incident in which four or more people, not including the shooter, are "shot and/or killed" at "the same general time and location."

Another source suggests that death rate from "Islamic terrorism" in the US is somewhere around 1 in 3,500,000. If you presume other types of extremism are similar, there is still a significant difference from the mass shooting rate.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-mass-shootings-in-a...

https://politicalscience.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller/since.html
I'm very skeptical about the platform and don't have the time to devote to reading the codebase or having conversations as I would like. The TL;DR is that the syscall interception technique seems expensive and I wonder if you will write all sorts of logic bugs in the sentry broker. It seems like you folks care about security, and have some good ideas, but if you really care about hostile multi-tenant containers, why not stick the container in a VM and call it a day?
Gang violence also falls under the same definition.
Also from the business insider:

"There is no broadly accepted definition of a mass shooting. The Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as a single incident in which four or more people, not including the shooter, are "shot and/or killed" at "the same general time and location."
Did you try it? It takes less than a minute. I found I was one under the number of shortcuts necessary for the bug to appear.
Yes. Excessive working hours and too little exercise are huge problems pretty nearly everywhere in the world. The problem of cruelty to one species is in no way diminished by observing the problem of cruelty to another species. Were you suggesting otherwise?
AWS is also overzealous about DMCA notices. If you go to other providers like Scaleway, they'll forward any abuse complaints but you don't have to do anything about them.
That's a separate issue. This isn't even really a matter of law, it should be a matter of simple parliamentary procedure that laws will not be considered unless their draft has been available unedited for three months, unless there is a unanimous vote to have them be considered early.
It really depends on whether said shooters fit a profile that is conducive to the agenda. Most of the time, they don't, and are otherwise problematic villains, because they tick the wrong census boxes or a cursory search of their social media history reveals that they have the wrong political and social opinions. And so after a day or two the story is memory-holed.
Not really. Look at articles posted on this site whenever a device made in China is "accidentally" sending user information back to some server in China; people keep asking why the government isn't doing anything to warn citizens or companies about bad actors in the hardware department. When the government does warn us not to use hardware from a specific vendor, people here say it's just a GOP plot to hurt China's economy under the guise of security.
> (We should also not forget or excuse Chinese IP theft which has enabled Huawei to produce competitive products in the first place...)

I certainly can, because it would be hypocritical to be against Microsoft using IP rights as a bludgeon on Linux, Qualcomm on Apple, Oracle on Google, and then be upset with Huawei on anything but stealing trade secrets.

Patents have not helped the common man for at least a hundred years as companies have paid for dubious patents to bludgeon smaller competitors with. Copyrights have strangled the arts since Steamboat Willie and have prevented the public from deciding what stories they want to share.

Trademarks and Trade Secrets, however, seem mostly fine, as knowing the real origin of a product is a greater good for the public than letting copycats grift them, and being clever doing something should be rewarded but once it can be replicated, the competition heats up and again helps the general public with better quality goods and services.
I've never understood the appeal of Twitter. Today I read Spacex and Musk talking about Starlink on twitter and I could not fathom who was talking to who, it seems like abunch of random statements with tons of animated gifs and stupid jokes. How does anyone navigate that mess?
People say such stupid things. And spend so much time writing it out and finding a gif and ... for what? It's just noise. What motivates them? When do they find the time? What are they hoping to achieve? That Elon Musk replies with a lol.
Couldn't Twitter just look at your last 40 posts and if no one has interacted with you then it just deletes your account. Sorry buddy, no one cares.
My (non-US) understanding of the outrage is that they feel that the person saying it is not actually going to actually keep the victims in their thoughts and prayers...
Fun stuff here is that PHP hipsters currently gravitate towards node like runtime models. It isn't really eating the platform right now, but I see it as a risk.
But is this really caused by grieving parents and not blood-sucking lawyers and idiotic bureaucrats?

I'm in Japan and there's a lot of dangerous playground equipment, hikes, stairwells, rooftop decks, onsens, alcohol that can be bought from vending machines, etc... And yet without all those 'experts'and authorities protecting society from these dangers, here it feels safety is many, many tiers better what we have in America.
That third principle is about facing (and implicitly, automating) your difficult-but-necessary processes. Outside of that narrow scope it's terrible advice. Being in a car crash and converting a country from one system of units to another are both difficult and painful and you should do either as seldom as possible.
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The powers that be. The shadowy cabal. The unseen hand which controls all aspects of society with absolute and arbitrary power.

Actually, this does seem to be the case with a somewhat reduced context of just media/social-media/tech in 2019. Journalist collusion is well documented. Big company manipulation of local journalists is documented. We have seen indications of CEOs of different companies cooperating to suppress politics unacceptable to them, even to the point of implementing censorship and demonetization within their platforms, and outside their own companies and spanning multiple platforms.

no one is capable of defending free speech without resorting to slippery slopes and absolutism

That's begging the question. Free Speech is inherently an (almost) absolutist position. There are other rights which take precedence, but to be valid, no one can be the arbiter of the philosophical or political positions taken -- only of incitement to specific illegal actions. Otherwise the arbiters on speech exist, and there is no Free Speech.

In reality there is no need to defend Free Speech. Society isn't on the verge of collapse here. Maintaining Free Speech won't lead to an escalation of extremism. Only increased suppression will do that. What's really happening, is that big companies and governments are engaging in a power grab which weakens Free Speech.
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