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While continuations and coroutines are often used interchangeably (continuations are usually one-shot delimited continuations), Loom's continuations are very different from Kotlin's coroutines, which are more similar to C#'s async/await (they are stackless), while the fibers built on top of Loom continuations are more like Erlang's processes or Go's goroutines.

The difference is very big from the programmer's perspective. Kotlin's coroutines are a syntactic concept; i.e. a piece of code is either a subroutine or a coroutine, and you can use one or the other in different syntactic contexts. Loom's continuations, however, are a purely dynamic construct, like a thread. You can run any piece of code inside a continuation. The implication is that no language change is required for continuations and the fibers that are based on them -- they are just a different implementation of threads -- and no API changes. In fact, even though this talk provides some background, developers don't need to learn about continuations at all to use them. All they need to know is that they can use a light-weight implementation of threads.
This article doesn’t jive whatsoever with my anecdotal experience as an urban dwelling elder millennial.

My personal anecdotal experience is that it was pretty much 50/50. Half stayed and half left as soon as they could afford it. But even among those that stayed in the city most eventually left 'down town' for more quite and residential parts of the city.

edit: Furthermore I'd say that of those that left half did so gladly and half did so reluctantly.
So your bigcorp does not require any chatlogs or did they phase out email entirely for chat? Or both?
We can disagree on this one, the amount of time a home takes for maintenance vs a 9-5 isn't a close call for me.
Sounds promising. Will have to check out some time.
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The Windows 3.1 version really was just a registry though - it recorded COM object registrations and nothing else. The idea of dumping a whole bunch of unrelated system and app configuration in there was a Windows 95 thing. As for why they did it, that probably seemed like a good idea at the time and there's no way to get rid of it now even if we wanted to.
ICQ is still around, it gained some fairly modern features and is supposedly fairly popular in Russia.
I wonder how f there's anything to eat on the ice. Otherwise, it's hard to fathom what drives these foxes to keep going deeper into the frozen desert without so much a a faint smell of game for weeks.
I'm from one of those smaller cities. It is not a liveable city without the suburbs for most families, soon it really won't be without generational wealth. A majority of the millennial families are moving to the suburbs (or forced their by increased prices). The downtown areas are heavily skewed towards tourists or the childless/single similar to my previous post. I'm bullish on them too but, then again, there's a financial interest in my having that stance.

EDIT: I'm curious what you think is a reasonable salary to live in the downtown/midtown areas of the smaller liveable cities.
Indeed, I went from a genuine "what can I personally do about this" when hearing about this on the radio this morning to "OK, I guess I don't need to get involved after all" when reading GP's comment. Just because outrage promotes clicks doesn't mean that it doesn't also encourage action.
really great article. love it, super clear and consise. This kind of mechanisms are super interesting to learn more about. I'm curious to the new AMD cpus which use neural network to predict branches, how that fits into the performance and what kind of accuracy it peaks at.
I assumed here that potential end users in India would know what a dry day is. Maybe I'll revisit this assumption if more feedback like this comes in. Thanks!
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The question is not why, but when. When?

Our server has long waiting http handlers, which occupy java threads while waiting, thus limiting the server throughput to the number of threads java can maintain, and I'm holding off a rewrite on async servlets for several years already to avoid complicating the code, because I hope cheap threads (fibers) will become available, but there is no timeline for Loom. When can we hope it will be released?
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> Even if there is regrowth, new growth isn't the same as old growth.

To be fair (and I'm not one to defend deforestation in the slightest) new growth does capture more CO2.

Of course the other points in your comment are more important, to me at least.
programming, program execution and pc architecture, even though very closely related, don't really have to be understood depending on your goals. it's super interesting though to learn these kind of things if you are programmer, it helps a lot especially in low level code to improve performance and have a better sense of what cpu / memory are doing as a result of your code.
I'd never heard of this, so looked into it:

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/02/open-sourcing-clus...

Fascinating.
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The article mentions generating a beam from a reactor core, in which case for a 'Fast Neutron' reaction they would have 2 or 3 MeV, and be travelling at on the order of about 10% of the speed of light. That's fast, but far below the level at which any time dilation effect would be significant.
Could I paste a bunch of URLs and it would create a queue?
"normal people don't care" is likely a bit of a meme at this point; most people don't care because they do not know the extent of surveillance. People don't know about Google or Criteo tracking their every move despite the later publishing youtube videos on their channel explaining how exactly they track every centimeter of a customers movements (not joking on that) in the real world so they can offer related online ads, in store and once the customer has left.

Facebook (the product not the company) is outright bleeding users since all the privacy scandals around it (granted, bleeding to Instagram and Whatsapp).

People ultimately do care but G, F and Friends make very sure that people don't KNOW.
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> I think physicists can say they proven something

Not even them. It only makes sense to talk about proof in formal domains such as math and logic.

Science proves nothing. It is impossible to prove that any given scientific theory will not be falsified in the future. In fact, physics was one of the main inspirations for the idea of "paradigm shift" by Thomas Kuhn in his famous work "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".

Talking about proof in science is damaging, and it conveys the wrong idea about what science actually is.
With a gravity well, to be sure. We can reflect and collimate beams, but I don’t think there’s much success capturing sizable volumes of free neutron particles in a chamber.

We know that we can collect neutrons into a degenerate gas. But it probably all tends to sink toward the center of the earth, like subatomic bouncy balls.

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

It’s still theoretical though. We haven’t bottled it for sale yet. It would probably have lots of interesting applications, not the least of which would include weaponization.
Seems this deforestation is to support cattle farming - so don't buy Brazilian beef?
2-3 years after you read it on Hackernews is a good rule of thumb.
This means the mirrored universe is looking for us too
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I did something like this a couple of months ago. I wrote a simple firefox extension which adds a button near the url bar which calls youtube-dl to download the current URL on a predefined folder. It needs an intermediate "helper" which is registered via the Windows registry (just make a key for it). All the helper does though is just call youtube-dl.

It sounds complicated but i had never written any firefox addon at all before trying it and it took me less than an hour to write the entire thing just by following the docs. The biggest change was switching from regular firefox to developer edition so i can disable signature checking for addons (the regular firefox doesn't allow that), but so far all that meant is that the red icon globe is now blue and i get more frequent updates.

None of that is available publicly though since it is very configuration-specific - and really all it does is to call 'youtube-dl' - but it is easy to replicate. Also learning to make some "personal" addons might be helpful in the future, similar to how you customize Emacs or Vim.
Thanks, I already have that; my suggestion was for the repository in the OP.
Very exciting. Definitely will give it a try then!
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90mm Magneto-Optical ("MO") was a lot closer to being that future - it was the same tech as MiniDisc, but openly licensed, and actually had really good traction in Japan (on par with Zip drives in the west). 600 MB on a disc the size of a floppy, with random-access read and write. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive
Pure gimmick. My Bose QC-20s have this feature and every time I've tried to use it, it's been useless.
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South of England. The town is also known as the worst place for cycle commutes outside London, which probably will single it out. We've probably got about 2k people across design, HR, head office and the factory floor, but of that I don't see more than maybe 50 people cycle, and of that only 20 or so regulars (mainly because it's just too dangerous). I bet you can imagine how fun that is with everyone trying to get out of work.

The local council (local government in the UK) have had a massive drive to get new cycle lanes in place - problem is, they're also completely inept so have put them in places where nobody cycles anyway. I've been told they are where they are purely to fulfil a quota so they don't look so statistically bad when compared to other municipalities, which honestly wouldn't surprise me. They painted road markings for nigh-on 10km of unused road, whereas all of the roads leading to the major industrial and office estates where people travel to daily have been completely neglected. It's beyond infuriating.
"Streetcar suburb" is correct. The Outer Sunset formed around the old "Carville" site, and the district's development was mostly complete by the '50s. But the blocks of row houses on a grid are such an old planning concept that it's almost unrecognizable when compared with late-20th century suburbs. The hills are a bit too steep and the streets a bit too busy for a young child to safely bike around or play in. On the other hand, skaters enjoy the slopes and curb cuts and often film there.
I did, AFAIR. USB MP3 players haven't happened yet AFAIR, and the alternative were DiskMans, which had all the problems of optical drives: shake it harder, it'll lose playback or damage the CD; any scratch or speck of dust on the CD was likely to make some tracks unplayable or even half of the CD unseekable, etc.

Optical media really sucked hard for regular use. In retrospect, I'm surprised people put up with CDs and DVDs for so long.
> Windows exe requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) and does not require Python that is already embedded into the binary.

Yeah, that makes sense. Things have changed since last time I went through that pain.
Almost all the illicit Chinese online gambling sites are based there, they are fraudulent so it's easy and big money, you probably have seen their ads on porn videos, in the form of intros and texts on the corners, mostly claim to be legitimate portals of Macao casinos.
Transactions are an optional part of the API to allow change over multiple API resources atomically.

Getting an entire snapshot of configuration data is quite compatible with this, since then the explicit use of transactions is not necessary and the dataplane can take care of it on its own.
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Good for you. I’ve tried working twice as much once for ten days, and I am never doing that again. Not even for a one-off with one hundred thousand dollars/Euros/whatever after-tax overtime pay.
Red Hat-based distributions include POSIX man pages out of the box.

$ whatis ftw
ftw (3) - file tree walk
ftw (3p) - traverse (walk) a file tree

Run `man 3p ftw` to read the POSIX version.

On Ubuntu systems, the following packages can be installed to provide the POSIX man pages:

manpages-posix
manpages-posix-dev
Because Hannibal did not have the six factors of burn-out: lack of control, insufficient reward, lack of community, absence fo fairness, conflict in values, work overload.

Arguably Hannibal:

- is in control (he's leading),

- he's probably rewarded through pillaging, (I feel that reward is absolutely key to continue pushing through)

- there is probably a sense of community while they are laying waste,

- as a leader he probably get "fair" shares of reward for himself (cf. the Iliad, opening list of treasures)

- the work he's doing is probably aligned with his own values (unlike Xenopho who was hired as mercenary in terrible conditions), as we can see he didn't want to stop campaigning

- work overload is probably there, as campaigning men have little sleep and work a lot (cf. Cesar)

Conclusion: Hannibal is less at risk of burn-out than men serving under Hannibal.
> I would not be entirely suprised if Youtube one day just requires actual browser DRM to work at all.

maybe not at all, but I definitely can see them offering the option to (some?) authors.
Judging by your language here and the fact you couldn't already drive, I'm guessing you're British, was this London? Because cycling has gotten a lot better in London in the last few years and I'm interested what your route is.
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You're assuming that continued high stress is enough to induce burnout. What causes burnout requires high stress but also a lack of reward and relaxation, and a mismatch in personal values.

Great leaders probably do not suffer from self-doubt and honestly believe in their own righteousness. I am often amazed by how the executives I meet genuinely seem to lack the ability to self-criticize and admit wrongdoing, even in personal settings. For great leaders, the worldly rewards and affirmation in the form of praise are never ending. This makes individuals highly resilient to external stress.
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You never change, at some point a competitor arises that chose different technology and it kills you.
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If you're going to go with Youtube's Like, you should be able to use the API (https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list, "my liked videos") and get the results you want there. The advantage of using Youtube's Like is that you can use any player from anywhere to do it.
> how and why it was on a tape

I think you're overthinking the whole thing, it's not really "on" a tape. It's the default operation of a tape, they didn't have to come up with the idea, it's a side effect of the medium. You need a motor to move the tape, no motor = no movement = the tape stays in its current position. To automatically rewind the tape you'd need some sort of mechanism under tension in it which would probably make it less reliable / more expensive.
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From a fellow fan (and musician) of both genres I'd say that this analysis is absolutely spot on.

The only real difference in a lot of cases is the choice of instrumentation.
Pretty much any mouse is more comfortable and ergonomic than the wrist pain inducing Magic Mouse.

But if you want more concrete models - Logitech's MX Master 2 is incredibly comfortable once you put your hand on it and it's significantly better than anything Apple ever did in mouse area. I can't understate how good it felt to switch away from the Apple's mouse to the Master. And it can even charge while in use and remain connected via both USB receiver and Bluetooth to three devices (which is very useful because you can just leave the USB receiver in the monitor hub and avoid the BT pairing process everytime someone else sits down on a workplace).

If you want a smaller, laptop portable, alternative, MX Anywhere 2 is again a rather comfortable mouse (although nowhere near the Master due to its smaller size) and can still charge while being used.

> I honestly don't understand the popular kind of critics that Apple receives. Those details and choices are what hooked me into their products. When I see somebody complains about no CD-ROM in laptop or that mouse charging thing or that monitor stand, it feels more like trolling.

I don't understand what kind of details are there in the Magic Mouse? It's not comfortable, it doesn't give very clear click feedback, the gestures are finnicky even on macOS... Which mouse are you comparing it to?
Ben Franklin Effect
Yup, I did exactly that in Scheme

http://billsix.github.io/bug#_make_generator
This book inspired the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Blink of an Eye"[1].

I haven't read the book but the Star Trek episode was awesome.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_of_an_Eye_(Star_Trek:_Vo...
This is only true in certain industries.

The examples you cite are Internet companies. Internet companies are peculiar because they exploit the economies of scale of the Internet to primarily offer services, not goods (read physical products).

If being last mover offered an advantage to players selling goods, then Windows Phone ought to have trounced Apple iPhone and Google Android since they were a late entrant in the smartphone movement when the paradigm shifted from physical keyboards to touchscreens.
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Hello

Yes, those are a lot, but that is on purpose.
I am working on a tool to manage multiple repositories.

All those repositories were created to have the experience and experiment on how to manage and sync them all during the development or release of a feature.

I learned a lot working with all those repositories and how to overcome the drawbacks.
Adabas brought back memories. And now when I see all the hype about NoSQL, I'm remember Shirley Bassey's fantastic song - 'History Repeating'
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On a related note, I've been looking for a good sensor that is hopefully plug & play and reliable for integration with home assistant. Is something like https://www.banggood.com/Geekcreit-Nova-PM-Sensor-SDS011-Hig... really the best way to go about it rather than an Awair? Would be keen on VOCs and CO2 as well.

edit: Looks like esphome with the following low-cost sensors is the way to go:
* MH-Z19 for co2 (or CCS811 CO_2 for VOCs as well)
* SDS011 for particle counts