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„Legacy“ headphones? They are just... headphones. I’m sure that long after Bluetooth has become an obsolete and widely unsupported protocol, and long after all the Bluetooth headphones like AirPods and others have died from failing glued-in batteries, good old normal headphones will still work fine, with any device which can output analog audio at suitable power. (Heck, given their incredible resilience, my old AKGs might still work then too.)
There’s a fantastic show on Netflix called “One Strange Rock” that talks about how earth sustains life, interconnected systems, and astronauts’ views on being earthlings.
It's hard to win harder than this. People finding a way to see this as a betrayal or trick—it's what total victory looks like.
Just grab the awk book, the awk programming language.
https://ia802309.us.archive.org/25/items/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoI...

Yesterday, I wrote production level code using awk. It was either write the code in go which I figured would take all day. But I had really about an hour or so. 40 lines of shell script mixture of about 20 lines of awk and bash/sed/grep/tail/xargs/cut/cat/curl got the job done.

AWK is very freaking powerful if you learn to parse data with it.
Despite the wording I don't think that is the original definition? The idea is to make Linux viable as a desktop operating system, and whatever comes with that. Not running Linux as an application on another desktop. Which is almost the opposite as in leveraging capabilities outside of Linux.

Maybe more importantly redefining the goal isn't helping Linux much. I remember everyone raving about Android, but now look at the lack of vanilla graphics drivers for embedded platforms.

That said, I have nothing against WSL.
I'm nervous about WSL 2. I use WSL at home quite a bit and I'm on the Fast Insider ring. My PC hasnt been able to boot Win10 for over a year with virtualization support enabled in my BIOS. No errors or anything, just hangs at boot. Ive left feedback in the hub, but crickets. Don't know what the problem is. It used to work, but at some point an update broke it. Not bleeding edge hardware, either. About a 4 to 5 year old PC. Intel i7 CPU, think it's an X79 chipset (not at the computer, so cant verify). Its just weird...
Do I understand this right? Light has angular momentum (long known). That angular momentum can change (new), which requires torque. But it's a beam of light putting torque on itself. Or, it's photons in a beam of light putting torque on other photons in a beam of light.

Worse, it seems to be (if I understood the article correctly) that different parts (front and back) of the beam of light are torquing each other. How can they do that while still moving at the speed of light?
>it's just a place to hold you in a desk and fill out worksheets.

The US education system is incredibly diverse--as is the US as a whole. That may the case in some schools, but it's certainly not the case everywhere. My southern high school was suburbun/almost rural and had enough kids on free lunch to qualify as a low income, but my German classes were extremely intensive. The French and Spanish classes were no joke either.

And in much of the country almost everyone will interact with native Spanish speakers fairly often.
Wouldn't want to be unfair to anyone. Perhaps Esperanto could be the official language
All the revelations regarding Boeing are pretty damning. Though it seems they are too big to fail with defence contracts, huge market share and thousands of planes already in service, that will need continued maintenance. It is a worldwide duopoly, just Boeing and Airbus.

So where too from here? I can't see the USA ever jailing executives - but potentially they could ramp up the fines?

In my opinion we need Europe and other countries to begin heavily fining companies skirting their responsibilities, because what we are doing at the moment is obviously not working.
I suspect they were told that runaway trim wouldn’t be a serious problem, and they believed it since they wouldn’t have the expertise to analyze the whole thing from first principles.
Perhaps it's because they implemented the "Sunrise equation" naively, which becomes indeterminate for high latitudes when the Sun is close to the maximum?

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

cos(\Omega) = - tan(\phi) x tan(\delta)

Where \Omega = hour angle (sunrise, sunset offset from noon), \phi = latitude, \delta = sun declination.

Clearly if the right hand side gets big enough (>1), this doesn't work.
A Few Thoughts on Deepfakes
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It's a theory and nothing more but I hope very much Windows 11 will be named W-11 and be just a really accessible Linux that looks and acts like Windows but will have the Linux kernel underneath the fluff. Maybe CMD.EXE could even be re-worked into a shell for compatibility with BATs, and Microsoft could work with Wine to make a perfect version that could work with any Windows binary. Far-fetched and barely plausible but a boy can dream.
My point is that being forced to do labor should fall under the whole 'deprived of liberty' part of being imprisoned. It should be common knowledge and unsurprising that prisoners are not free. That's sorta the definition...
What precludes you from using ESXi and virtualization on AMD's platform? The virtualization extensions to x86 are common to both AMD and Intel. Even direct IO and IOMMU. Is there something missing?
Most CLI/TUI programs have integrated help.

Anyway, I have to remember most of CSS, HTML, JS builtins, all kinds of syntax, posix API, std. C library, so bunch of shortcuts or commands in some weird ass MUA like mutt (I probably use 10-15 commands/shortcuts regularly), really doesn't add much.

The problem is that GUI/web programs are typically not easily extensible or composable. Though thanks to popularity SPAs, at least some web programs can be integrated with via internal REST APIs.

CLI tools don't usually have this problem.

Even if GUI tools have some scripting, it usually is ad-hoc and may not integrate that well with the rest of the system.

On the CLI side, you have a scripting system (shell) in which you're able to run and combinine all your tools.
Interesting, can you provide more detail?
Odd poses but without any sort of smouldering look on their face, it's more plain/openness on their face. Really doesn't feel sexual at all. Not even the open legged poses.
That's not relevant. Apple isn't going to be manufacturing its own chips, it doesn't do that currently. What the person was talking about was the same thing it does for the iPhone chips, which is design them and then get TSMC to fabricate them.
Given that drivers are Linux's biggest problem, isn't there benefit to leveraging Windows drivers and then running Linux on top of that virtualized hardware?

I don't see why you couldn't run x11 in the window manager with the new Linux kernel in Windows.
They already did it the moment they started migrating to OS X to develop UNIX based software.

Microsoft just realized that those devs actually don't care about Linux as such, they just want POSIX like features, otherwise they would be helping OEMs that still try to sell Linux based systems.
Seems interesting. Any future plans or just a fun side project?
In what way? Please elaborate.
The text editors all have that, afaik.
>I'm wondering if all the resources that went to Wayland for the past TEN years were directed to slowly evolve X11 to the same direction we would be in a worse or better situation. It seems to me very similar to the Python2/Python3 debacle.

Are you arguing that a decade of constant breaking changes to a huge number, if not the majority, of desktop linux programs, and the accompanying maintenance challenges (as versions of window managers, Gtk and the like would all be tightly coupled to specific Xorg versions) would have been a better approach than a rewrite + compatibility shim (XWayland) that allows for a fair amount of backwards compatibility?

Needless to say, I disagree.
Ok I'm upvoting both of you, I don't care what HN says.
OOP is a part of it, but what I'm trying to get across is that knowing the type of a variable doesn't make the code substantially easier to comprehend. In small examples it might, but as code scales up abstractions are much more confusing than lack of type annotations. Specifically, complex types can hide important type information far better than type inference.
Thanks, I didn't realize you could read a paper on Science without paying.
It’s nowhere near that straightforward: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-guides/og-aws/master/...
Big discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20300008
This is the right response. Let's remember it on any occasion, for any group an individual may belong to.
one skill I've learned working on/deprecating and replacing legacy code is what I'd call Code Archaeology: the practice of identifying what a legacy system does given some edge case; why it does it; whether that's the right thing to do, given that the ecosystem has changed significantly; and whether that section can be safely turned off.

I haven't seen the results of putting that on a resume yet though.
Or they can jail executives.
> And Unix is historically proprietary and closed-source

"Unix" the brand name, maybe, but "Unix" the source code less so. BSD was based on Unix. The story of why Linux became popular instead of BSD is that BSD was mired in a copyright fight with AT&T over that relationship at the time.

Per http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch02s01.html who was active at the time (and before he became today's wingnut)

"It would take another two years and the great Internet explosion of 1993–1994 before the true importance of Linux and the open-source BSD distributions became evident to the rest of the Unix world. Unfortunately for the BSDers, an AT&T lawsuit against BSDI (the startup company that had backed the Jolitz port) consumed much of that time and motivated some key Berkeley developers to switch to Linux.

> Code copying and theft of trade secrets was alleged. The actual infringing code was not identified for nearly two years. The lawsuit could have dragged on for much longer but for the fact that Novell bought USL from AT&T and sought a settlement. In the end, three files were removed from the 18,000 that made up the distribution, and a number of minor changes were made to other files. In addition, the University agreed to add USL copyrights to about 70 files, with the stipulation that those files continued to be freely redistributed. -- Marshall Kirk McKusick

The settlement set an important precedent by freeing an entire working Unix from proprietary control, but its effects on BSD itself were dire. Matters were not helped when, in 1992–1994, the Computer Science Research Group at Berkeley shut down; afterwards, factional warfare within the BSD community split it into three competing development efforts. As a result, the BSD lineage lagged behind Linux at a crucial time and lost to it the lead position in the Unix community."
> it uses Hyper-V

does this mean there will be issues using VirtualBox if WSL 2 is enabled?
I’ve spent five years writing a JavaScript framework
Changing the battery in a phone isn't a job that needs to be done by professionals. Normal people do it with their other battery-powered devices all the time. The only reason to make it any other way is so you can make more money off of people who've already paid for your product, or to upsell people on getting a new phone for only a small increase over the price you would charge them to change the battery. There's no other motive here besides greed.
So, you're suggesting that we should let those who perpetuate cultures like falsifying records to continue to exist in industry without punishment when they are directly responsible for the harm that happens?

That sounds patently ridiculous.

The culture comes from the top. It's super easy for them to allow people lower down to take the fall for something they pressured subordinates to do.

Shoot, just look at Wells Fargo last year.

The higher ups said that those lower needed to boost account signups, so, suddenly people found themselves signed up with accounts they had never signed up for.

But we blame those lower for following an order, even if it's an implied order, because they were the ones who did the deed. It was so hard to link Al Capone to murder they had to get him for tax evasion.

He called the shots, but others took the shots.

So, when you say that it's ridiculous to target those execs who are setting the standards which are causing these problems, these deaths, you got some screw loose up there friend, because those execs are getting paid hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of dollars, while those doing what they are told so that they can keep their job are just trying to eat and pay rent.
All special relativity says is that if an object is moving at the speed of light, its motion will appear to be the same in every reference frame. That is all. It says nothing on what can happen to photons when they are interacted with other photons or or with other media. Photons have several internal properties and all of these can be manipulated, either in the lab or naturally. The polarization of photons can be changed by Faraday rotation for example. In cosmology, you might be aware of Hubble's law, which involves the changing of the frequency of light.

I haven't read this paper or intend to, but here is a key quote

> We demonstrate that the self-torque arises as a necessary consequence of angular momentum conservation during the extremely non-linear, non-perturbative optical process of high-order harmonic generation (HHG). In HHG, the interaction of an intense field with an atom or molecule leads to the ionization of an electronic wavepacket, which acquires energy from the laser field before being driven back to its parent ion, and emitting a high-frequency photon upon recollision.

What they are saying essentially is that by interacting the light with matter they are able to generate the said torque.
someone needs to throw the mythical man month at these managers.
How+to+Instantly+Improve+Your+Java+Logging+With+7+Logback+Tweaks
I like life, but we are meaningless motes in the universe. We'll all be dead one day and no one will remember us.

It's ok though, it doesn't matter.
Execs comp packages won't hurt that much, they can just downsize and then go on a hiring glut when things look better.
This concept of 'too big to fail' is eventually going to come a cropper when something deemed as such, fails anyway and wipes out entire industrial sectors from the dependent country.
Yes kind of, but I do find a lot of people especially smart people do have confidence issues. So that’s actually what A good coach does, give you confidence, I had that and want to pass it forward. See I think focus too much on the work itself at the expense of the other persons feelings is not ideal either, so much of the stuff we do have emotional underpinnings so adressing it would be nice, I.e. low confidence.
But maybe I’m overthinking it.
The donor is nowhere close to the impact that Genghis Kahn had on the Y chromosome. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1180246/ - and that was in the 11th century with a total word population of about 400M.

A few dozen children from one father today, in a world with a population of 7.5B should not be any concern.
It is difficult to continue to hope for that while watching people cheer on additional layers of complexity like the garbage fire that is the modern web.
Looking forward to it! I participated last year and wish I was in a group where the others were more invested. As the moderator, it was just my startup (MedAngle) and another one where the founders participated actively.

For those who say that SUS isn't helpful, I disagree and say that it is what you put into it. If you actively study the videos, and make an effort, it's a valuable experience. We've used some of the lessons from SUS, and are seeing great results.
Appreciate the correction. I think this is one of those things that I've heard multiple times and for some reason failed to retain; its worth noting that many dictionaries[1] recognize ignorami as a plural form, independent of the original Latin grammar. I'm usually a bit more of a prescriptivist than is probably rational, but I don't find myself too worked up about this error since the normalization of the error causes no loss of descriptive power (unlike, say, the transition from literally to figuratively).

Anyway, thanks again!

[1] eg Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ignoramus
That's fine though. Having a second home for humanity is more important than maximally preserving the ability to detect past life (note that we wouldn't be eliminating that ability, just hindering it somewhat).

Also, we think we'd be able to tell pretty easily whether any life detected is from Earth (i.e. we brought it along with us). Life that isn't descended from the same tree of life as us is likely to be radically different.
I’m fine with that tradeoff. For people who need network rendering, they can pay a performance penalty when they use it. For the 99% of people who 99% of the time don’t use this feature, we aren’t paying the performance (and architectural complexity) cost of this.

Electron is panned by many these days for requiring an expensive network system for a local process. Why doesn’t X11 get the same scorn? Have we forgotten the days when a Mac could run a GUI in 128K while a Unix system struggled to run x11 (with no clients) in 4MB? X is heavy.
Windows is a massive business for Microsoft still.
Be concrete about what you're claiming. You've granted that big American brands have access to the Chinese market (and I'd add that their sales there are very significant and have been increasing rapidly as Chinese consumer spending has grown). Now you're claiming that somehow, "normal" American companies are being blocked from the Chinese market. What are these "normal" American companies? How, precisely, is China blocking them from doing business?
Well, at this time, we're venusforming Terra though.
This year we're opening Startup School to all active startups -- all you have to do is sign up, and you're in.
It used to have a POSIX subsystem, but was removed in Windows 8.1: https://blog.ret2.io/2017/09/20/subsystem-posix/
Just run Linux and then run a Windows VM in QEMU, seems like you can do this now.
> It's funny how people can have opposite opinions on what constitutes an essential item. For me, the password manager is at the core of everything I do... And it's the first one I'm willing to pony up money for... Even more than the cost of maintaining my personal domains.

I wonder if drilling into the whys of these choices would be useful. Like maybe password management is so crucial and with specific requirements that it makes no sense to pay someone else to take control of it.

I'm personally very willing to pay for smarter people than me to handle problems I have but maybe it's not always the case that they're smarter than me or maybe there is a really ergonomic solution I can retrofit to my needs.
Do you have docs that explain the spec so new implementations can be written without dissecting the code?
Why would MSFT throw away decades of development that have gone into the NT kernel? NT is an advanced and, to my eye, very elegant kernel. Win32 is much less so, but NT isn't Win32.
Sounds like Absolution Gap and/or a less annoying version of the Mortal Engines movie (please tell me the book was better than this).
do you know if there's hardware pass through for gpu? ie can you do cuda stuff in wsl2?
I saw the same chart, but I thought it’s only showing down to 1 keV photons? Whereas blue light is about 2.6 eV?
"I pulled a sneaky on ya"
Following the same analogy, I think Excel would be a rice cooker. You can do lots of things with it, like cooking rice, steaming vegetables, making soups, etc. You're right that it's not a unitasker, but in contrast to CLI utilities, it's not meant to be composable. With CLI, each tool specializes in doing one thing well and composing with other tools to do more complicated things. Using CLI equates to making your rice, soups and steamed vegetables with a stove, pots, lids, and steam baskets. The benefit being that you can use each of those things for more than just making your rice, soups and steamed vegetables, specially when composed with other tools, things that the rice cooker isn't prepared to do.

If you ever wish to fry some food, you can't with the rice cooker, but you can with the stove. You can compose it with a pot or a pan depending on your need.
>both Windows AND Linux are running in the same type of VM

Is there a way to suspend windows?
From what you say, there is nothing technical preventing this.
I've been burned by half a dozen note-taking apps/services. They all lost my data or went out of business. (Not Evernote; never tried it because of all the stories about data loss.)

Now I have a subscription to Dropbox and everything goes there. I edit notes with Emacs on my laptop and the builtin text editor in Dropbox on my phone. It's not great, but Dropbox has never lost my data and I don't have time to try yet another program that almost certainly won't sweat the details of how sync should work.
Unless virtual box utilizes hyper v, you'll have to reboot to switch between
Maybe (and likely) there already exist intelligent alien life forms capable of living in the radiation and vacuum of outer space and migrates from planet to planet, even feed on radiation like Gozila does.
I think you're right, this is the best argument against.

Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy[0] deals with this a great deal, the early scientists pretty quickly devolve into two camps, terraformers and preservationists. There's a lot of other things going on as well, but this is one subplot.

At one point in the book, a terraformer made the argument if we discovered life on Mars we'd never know how or when it got there anyway. The monkeys in South America are an interesting parallel - total mystery. Best hunch is that some survivable population "rafted" across the Atlantic at some point - under conditions somehow rare enough to have happened exactly once in 40 million years.

KSR doesn't explicitly take a side, but seems to think that terraforming will be inevitable, so we might as well get on with it.

On the other hand, Mars may not be terraformable.[1] The challenges there are so extensive as to possibly be insurmountable. Consider that we are so accustomed to certain environmental conditions that changes so subtle as working extended hours in a popcorn factory can give us cancer.[2] Mars just has toxic soil, a low enough gravity as to probably prevent a sustainable atmosphere, and is constantly bombarded with radiation.

But who knows, futurism is hard because humanity is pretty ingenious.

Isaac Arthur has an extended video on terraforming that's worth watching if you want to dive deeply into this topic.[3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars#Challenge...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronchiolitis_obliterans#Diace...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikoNQNj9ZnU
The same problem exists in VMware, or really any cloud provider...
You're right that it's a low sample size, and the authors themselves do warn that diagnostic rates of ASD in children may be inflated:

> With the increasing reported frequency of ASD in the pedi-atric population one cannot rule out a possible coincidence of the diagnosis of ASD in patients with propionic acidemia.

Regarding the calculation, Wikipedia says 1 in 35000 for PA the US, rather than 3500, and the researchers use an incidence rate of .5% for autism rather than 1%. So the number of people is 1000, not 20000. The researchers say they're calculating off a 5/8 ASD/PA incidence rate, so the calculation is something like (1000/7 billion)^5*(some negligible amount)^3.