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> A quirk in the messaging system rears its head when you try to write a Windows-hosted debugger (also called a "GUI debugger"). A GUI debugger is a debugger for Windows programs that itself uses the Windows display mechanisms. What's the problem with that? Well, imagine the following scenario: A GUI debugger places a breakpoint inside of a Window procedure. Eventually, the debuggee program hits the breakpoint, and stops--and cannot call GetMessage() to yield control to other tasks! That means no other tasks--including the GUI debugger--can get their messages. The debugger can't even respond the mouse clicks that tell the debuggee to run again.

That’s unfortunate
You're right, but rarely does management encourage a "we're just here for the money" kind of employee attitude. More like "we're all a team, let's do great things together"...until we sell the team and bolt. Should adults know better? Yes. But, it's still essentially lying, trying to get people to feel loyalty to an organization (so that they will worker long hours, etc.) while not feeling any loyalty to it yourself.

But, by now, the pattern is long since clear, yes. But it's so out of whack with how the rest of human interactions work, that it is perpetually surprising to most people. It's more or less institutionalized psychopathy.
I will maybe do it in 6 months or one year. I don't want to spam HN.
>“Hidden windows”—i.e. plain actor-processes without the extra GUI bits—were the design pattern for doing background stuff back then.

Isn't it still the same? cmd can't be hidden and this is the advice I found looking to do something around 5 years ago. Unless you want services but those have certain limitations. No idea why they found it appropriate to prevent services from interacting with the desktop post-XP.
Pointing out that Newton sill isn't wrong doesn't mean he was ever right in the first place. It's simply not about right and wrong.

He spun a good tale about the universe. Later somebody else spun a good tale that was better in at least one way. That's all.
I wonder if reading rates have simply been declining in recent years because of phones, computers, TV, etc.
Some other links:

Their "product features" page: https://www.cellebrite.com/en/ufed-premium/

Their twitter announcement: https://twitter.com/Cellebrite_UFED/status/11395694992066437...
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Is anyone using Athena on AWS for tasks like this? It goes without saying that the documentation is hit or miss, but SQL-ish queries of flat files on S3 (even gzipped) can be a nice way to get the same result without managing Spark instances.
Generally accepted by whom?

We can't currently efficiently and scalably remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Charging based on marginal climate change or marginal removal cost is dumb. It's like MegaCorp charging marginal cost for a widget. Sure, it covers operational costs, but the company has no way to pay back debts for capex and other sunk costs so they go bankrupt.

Unless you consider whole-system costs for complete carbon neutrality, including at a minimum all hydrocarbon-utilizing modern industries (energy, transport, manufacturing), you're mispricing CO2 emissions.
Private side conversations are, though. Maybe you know someone you need to discuss something important with, but you can only remember how to find them on the Rust Discord (or wherever).

Network effects are a real thing. A world in which only privacy nuts use IRC[1] is one in which no one has effective access to those tools.

[1] Which, OK, for technical reasons is a really bad example for the issue of privacy specifically. But the point is general.
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It possibly takes more effort than it should do to do many of these things, in a way the very difficulty of building these things serves to re-enforce the requirement to have large teams.

In a way the fractured nature of the web serves the big organizations with the resources to build things that are 'clean' experiences across every platform.

While I doubt it was by design it certainly benefits them now.
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Every Minecraft guide is trapped in a YouTube video made by someone who sounds like a teenager or younger, so the answer is probably yes.
It is not a matter of modernity, but a matter of use-case. You don't need arbitrary-length integers for a coffee machine or a fridge. You don't even need FP to handle e.g. temperatures; fixed-point is often more than enough. So if you are making some sort of "portable assembler" for IOT devices, you can safely stick with simple integers.
That's a good thought but I don't think that's the case unfortunately. My e-mail address is not associated with any Twitter account at this time.

Twitter states they cannot find an account with my e-mail address if I try a password reset. As far as I can tell, my previous account has vanished as I mentioned in my OP.
If you squint your eyes, the balls look red, blue, and green, but that's to be expected if there are colored bars over them. And if you don't squint your eyes, the "balls" look about the same color... So what's the illusion?
That’s interesting! I’ve often remarked that it’s a giant competitive advantage for huge companies like Comcast to be able to net however many millions of dollars from billing “mistakes” that never get contested. On the one hand, I’m willing to concede they are mostly probably honestly mistakes and they only make up some tiny percentage of all their transactions, on the other hand, it probably adds up to a decent sized company’s total revenue every year that they basically get just because they’re so giant they can screw up a ton of transactions and plausibly claim it’s not fraud.
I have had younger coworkers tell me that they got started programming using Minecraft.
Did you wrote the site? What tech stack are you using?

WTF is "Our patented True Shuffle™ guarantees random cards."?
Arena shooters in general kind of died out, I don't think it is specific to UT.
Community is still around in fact the whole UT (from 99 to 4) fanbase hangs around a couple of Discords. Mind you, we're talking about 200 people globally probably so, it's tiny but big enough to play.
If the spec was going to define it to be positive, the function would not return 'long', it would be unsigned long, right?
IV will always be king for drug administration, but I'm not too surprised that it's oral absorption is poor considering amino acid absorption is fairly specialized within the GI tract.
Being forced to use electron-based apps hardly feels like an enriching experience (Microsoft removing the legacy QT based app for one without push-to-talk, Discord, Slack etc.)...

My final comment would be success of proliferation isn't always a result of quality. I am not saying it doesn't provide value - it is just a very poor programming language which, being popular, means people who learn professionally my get stuck in a minefield of dogma instead of focusing on sound principals.

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2...
If there were an effective browser monopoly (as this article argues for) we'd need a lot of regulation to protect us from the browser's owner's unilateral choices. But... one browser, heavily regulated, with no competition, no alternatives--is that not a nightmare scenario?
How does this work out with the map continuously shrinking?
I agree - a lot of it...it was the look of the game, the fact it ran smoothly and the building that made a lot of people try it out: I can feel some teenagers going like: "Hey look it's like minecraft but with guns"

but let's not forget the emotes/dances. Those went viral!
"Encouraging law-breaking" and "inciting imminent lawless action and likely to incite it" are different standards. The former sweeps up a large swath of stuff, everything from "Smash capitalism!" on down. The latter is much more constrained, and requires both immediacy and a likelihood of results.
It also causes more people to drive, which will cause more people to die. When’s the last time a person was killed on an airplane in the UK - Lockerbie?
no, Copernicus was never excommunicated, although "On the Revolutions of Heavenly bodies" went through various stages of requiring errata pointing out it was only a hypothesis and even a ban
Unless you work at Netflix. They make their relationship with you very clear.

https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
Simulations with numbers are also models. You can make them indefinitely more complex and still have a model that is only an approximation of reality.
The future resembles the past.

Dan Bouk, of Colgate University, is a historian of bureaucracy, including insurance, which has a long history of discrimination:

His work investigates the ways that corporations, states, and the experts they employ have used, abused, made, and re-made the categories that structure our daily experiences of being human. His first book, How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual (Chicago, 2015), explored the spread into ordinary Americans' lives of the United States life insurance industry's methods for quantifying people, for discriminating by race, for justifying inequality, and for thinking statistically.

http://www.colgate.edu/facultysearch/facultydirectory/dbouk
#4, 5, 6 are very dubious.

Elephants have huge brains yet they don’t rule the world.
Wirecutter has a section:

https://thewirecutter.com/home-garden/gardening/
Keep in mind this is describing windows 3.x. Win95 and NT had preemptive multitasking and did not rely on calling GetMessage to yield.
> Here, character Cuddle Team Leader, left, and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney.

I'm glad they clarified that, I wasn't sure which was which for a moment.
How much, in terms of percent variation, could this be? 1%? 2%? When is it going to become significant?
>A single browser codebase hurts the maintainability of the Web platform. To the extent Chromium has a monopoly, Chromium bugs are the standard and sites will depend on them. Yes, this is already true to some extent, but it could get much worse. So fixing bugs would get harder.

Your last line doesn't follow from the rest of the paragraph. One platform is easier to fix than 4. And it makes it much easier to develop for. Either your site works on Chromium or it doesn't work. You don't get into a situation where it works for 80% of your users.

>Say you want to rewrite the Chromium style system for parallelism with Rust, like Mozilla did with Firefox, and Google says no?

I'd be concerned about that if Chromium hasn't been eating everyone's lunch for nearly a decade now. In terms of rendering/js engine they're clearly ahead of everyone else. For all of Mozillas efforts they still haven't matched chromium let alone surpass it.
Other things aren't equal.

Brain size correlates strongly with body size.

Also: Phrenology is bunkum.
I read quickly and have the same retention rate (or better) than most people I've interacted with.

I don't do any of the tricky stuff that 'speed readers' do.

The only thing I'm aware is different is I don't hear the words in my head when I read as I'm often 'reading' a chunk of 3-4 words at once.

I thought this was completely normal til I spoke to an ex about it when she commented I demolished books.
I hate IOS. I don't understand why people try to turn a consumer device into a serious developer workstation.
The article itself is from (2016), there is an update in 2018 at the top. So .. the headline here is editorialized?
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Obviously, I can't speak for "anyone", but all the groups I work with do not. There are a myriad of reasons for this, and reasonable people could effectively argue to the merits of those reasons.

It's also important to remember that some of the reasons AWS, Google, and other cloud services are often NOT used are legal in nature. For example, some EU laws prohibit any personally identifiable (genetic) data from studies being put in the cloud. So, even if summary statistics - or data with PII data removed - can be put in the cloud, work has to be done on that data to remove it.
Wait, that got backported to LTS kernels?! No wonder my performance testing shows no difference!!!

Though I could have sworn the controversy was about __kernel_fpu becoming kernel_fpu - is there another set of git commits I need to find and rollback/reverse engineer on my 4.19 branch?

If a patch for zfs shows up in some random github repo that correctly teaches it to use the gpl-only symbols? I hope it makes it into your hands.
The original article is available at: https://psyarxiv.com/xynwg/ (note that it's a preprint, and hasn't yet been subjected to peer review)

Abstract:

> Based on the analysis of 190 studies (17,887 participants), we estimate that the average silent reading rate for adults in English is 238 word per minute (wpm) for non-fiction and 260 wpm for fiction. The difference can be predicted by the length of the words, with longer words in non-fiction than in fiction. The estimates are lower than the numbers often cited in scientific and popular writings. The reasons for the overestimates are reviewed. Reading rates are lower for children, old adults, and readers with English as second language. The reading rates are in line with maximum listening speed and do not require the assumption of reading-specific language processing. The average oral reading rate (based on 77 studies and 5,965 participants) is 183 wpm. Within each group/task there are reliable individual differences, which are not yet fully understood. For silent reading of English fiction most adults fall in the range of 175 to 300 wpm; for fiction the range is 200 to 320 wpm. Reading rates in other languages can be predicted reasonably well be taking into account the number of words these languages require to convey the same message as in English.
I never took a speed reading class, but I do know how to recognize when a author -- of any book -- starts blathering on or tries to motivate. I can read whole pages in an instant in those circumstances.
this isn't entirely true. At the time of Galileo, Tycho was presenting his model (and was a militant enemy of Galileo). Tycho's model was either used or not depending on more local scientific stances, but it wasn't entirely popular.
> No idea why they found it appropriate to prevent services from interacting with the desktop post-XP.

It’s an architecture thing. Background services are supposed to be light things that just do the stuff the user can’t do at their own privilege level; they aren’t supposed to do stuff at the user’s privilege level, like showing windows, because mixing in that secondary concern increases their attack surface. Instead, if you have some background system that has some user-level concerns (like a GUI) and some system-level concerns, you’re supposed to build it as two programs: a tray utility or configuration program, which acts as an IPC client; and a background service, which acts as an IPC server.

You’re correct in that, even today, if you want a background service to be able to just arbitrarily pop up a message to you, you’re going to be writing a tray utility as a Win32 process that starts with a rootmost hidden window, to catch the IPC message the background service sends.
Job boards: making fast applications is not a good thing
You could even say that actually, the balls aren’t brown. They are made up of pure red, green and blue subpixels on your screen.

It’s really not a particularly interesting illusion.
Yes this is horrible but... wont this inevitably self correct?

The further they go down this road, the more their acceptance criteria will converge on insuring people that never need a payout. Once people clock onto that fact, the insurance becomes worthless - At which point other insurance companies will be able to come in and compete on a non-discriminatory basis and operate on the principle of a tax that spreads cost rather than a gamble that attempts to never actually deliver value to the customer.

... or you could just skip straight to an actual tax based health system and cut out the profiteering middle man. Yes I like the NHS.
Not convinced polls only catch the ignorant. :)

Cost is trivial compared to the cost of inaction. The consequences of no action on climate change will have enormous financial cost times ten, times twenty. Do we really want to find out?

You might want to look at Labour, SNP and Lib Dem climate policy. Whether they get to form a government or informal coalition is, of course, another matter as environment is not - yet - the sole issue that wins elections. Even the Conservative party is moving in the right direction, albeit glacially slowly with some creative accounting.

The only choice left is matter of degree.
There is a Basic-language IDE called Xojo that has a pretty dedicated user base. https://www.xojo.com/

I used to use it extensively (back when it was called REALbasic) and still occasionally dabble (i.e., tweaking apps I made awhile ago), but it's gotten much too expensive for hobbyist or "scratching my own itch" kinds of projects, which is a shame because I still love the language.
>No. When Web devs test in multiple browsers and find that something doesn't work in one of them,

I question how many developers do that. Especially for smaller sites if it works in Chrome it's generally good enough.
Does this mean that people from Awakenings could have prolonged their state of being functional through intravenous delivery of l dopa?
After reading first couple of paragraph of this paper, Wireguard (https://www.wireguard.com) comes to mind.
Then, they mentioned a research OS called Ethos (which seems to be defunct now).
Did they figure out a more mainstream implementation?
Plastics recycling with microbes and worms is further away than we think (2018)
I don't know anything about the relationship back then. But moving faster and more flexibility was even among the reasons Google gave back then iirc. Anyways, what I tried to say was that it didn't work, and you gave a good example why the split was necessary. To me that just confirms that a "chromium consortium" wouldn't work.
It’s reasonable to charge fat people more. It’s something you can measure objectively. It’s also something under your control.

The lie detector is just bunk though. If something is really a factor then measure it or test for it objectively.
Correct. How do you connect with scientists when not working in an university like you do? Getting an email from a nobody offering help for free does sound like a scam.

One answer would be "Enroll into an university". Others?
Off topic question for gamers (I know zero about gaming literally). Is the natural rise and fall of a game an artifact of the result of experience players getting so good that anyone starting can't make their mark easily against them? Whereby if they go to a new game they get a fresh and less competitive chance of success? (Am I stating this correctly even?)
The Eurovision contest produced a few winners (and famous also rans), such as Concita Wurst (sp?) and Dana International (sp?); but indeed I can’t think of many examples outside ShowBiz (Wendy Carlos is a musician; Sophie Wilson and Audrey Tang in tech; can’t recall any others)
It's quite a bit different in that AIs don't make such chains of reasoning. They just "notice" correlations between inputs and training data with no regard to mechanism. We might construct a chain of causation between a microexpression -> social status -> stress -> blood pressure -> life expectancy, but the AI doesn't and doesn't care. It's about as likely to judge by the lighting of the photo as the presumed character of the subject.

Such AI judgement may be as or more racist than human judgement, given that they could make correlations based on immutable characteristics. In a sense they're only as biased as the training data, but that may also be true of many human racists.
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yup, just add the script tag and you're good to go! It's frequently used along with https://github.com/developit/htm for a jsx-less template syntax. No build tools required :)
You're suggesting that this wouldn't work if it were printed or a painting?
It does not. I think logic itself is limited. Mathematicians have something where like there's stuff in number theory that's "beyond" any logic system invented (so far), something like Math > Logic, even if intuitively you'd think that math it's based on logic it ends up being the other way around you can end up having algebras deeper than any logic system you'd try to base them on (ask some mathematicians for a better explanations, mine would be wrong) if I understood it well...

I think there's something similar at play in physics and in the real world.

Can only explain with a (likely flawed) computing metaphor: "the value is a pointer that you cannot dereference but opaque sub-systems of your mind can still compute stuff with it (eg. it's not truly unknown)".

If I'd try, I'd say that: there's stuff you can indirectly compute with but can't express logically or communicate in a logical language.
Java doesn't have unsigned integer types (except byte IIRC), so signed long is your only option. OTOH the bitwise ops are specced to operate as if they operated on twos complement represented signed integers, so you can at least do that kind of stuff if you need to, on the full 64 bits.
“The map is not the territory”

This is a similar sentiment, but perhaps more useful initially in conversation with people who may get hung up on what “model” means. It can also lead to a fruitful analogy as people easily grasp why different kinds of maps are important.
When MS still held the monopoly position and mobile phones weren't mainstream. Google had a mission of "don't be evil" or something similar, they quietly got rid of that and started being evil.
Isn't it the same for hardware too ? Most of the "innovations" in PCs were explored decades before in mainframes/supercomputers.
Yep, to be clear, I was talking specifically about browser market share.

Firefox is my daily driver, and it's great.
if you label it as such, ML algorithms will learn it as such, no ?
Those are much, much simpler systems. Your average human microbiome has 30+ trillion cells in it, too say nothing of the intestinal cells. That's not getting into the underlying complexity of the cells themselves.
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For the record, while I am a straight white American male, I'm a political nihilist in the epistemological sense that I don't think there is any mind-independent truth to be found in politics. I'm a moral realist, though.

To your point about heterosexual religious white people projecting an identity of oppression: is that the average member of the alt-right?

Also, from the comments in this thread, it seems that being the 'counterculture' is somehow noble, positive, 'on the right side of history', etc. I don't see why anyone should assume that.

Lastly, in relatively free societies like the U.S. currently is (and has been for the past couple decades), whatever the counterculture is, it clearly isn't oppressed. I said Atheism was edgy in the 90's, and suggested it was part of the 90's counterculture. Atheists were clearly not oppressed in the 90's, just like the alt-right is quite clearly not oppressed.
Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat. It really is a great company.
It worked on my phone. Shut it down immediately, put in rice. You can clearly see the rice getting moistened slowly.
Let's be more honest - their success was largely due to the PUBG developers refusing to fix a broken game and tackle cheating.
Even then the paint / toner would be a mix of a small number of base pigments in most cases.
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