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In SWT, even though Java is garbage-collected, resources must be explicitly disposed[1]. Often they are bound to the lifetime of a parent object and disposed when that parent is disposed.

This seems to work OK in SWT, so what's the problem in GTK/Rust? Are there some particular categories of objects that don't fit into that hierarchical model and need to be handled with a GC?

(Those objects would presumably be regular Java objects in an SWT app and handled by Java's GC.)

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/articles/swt-design-2/swt-design-2.h...
"I found it extraordinary difficult to build your own encrypted cloud."

I am happy to report that this has been (recently) solved:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

"(the) holy grail of backups"
If we're going to have these large regulated monopolies, then the regulator had better be competent. Either set the rules to allow market forces to work or suspend market forces and regulate the monopoly/oligopoly. In the AT&T days, you couldn't own any telco equipment (not even a phone) - you had to rent it. The inventor of the answering machine was not AT&T, so you could buy one but not legally hook it up. Long distance was next town over and cost north of $2 / minute. On the flip side, we had Bell Labs and lots of redundancy and everyone had the same service.
> So if a double flameout occurs, killing all power, and killing the Flight Control Computer due to unreliable voltage being supplied from the Ram Air Turbine, the pilots are stuck flying a glider that'll try to pitch into a stall on them if they aren't careful.

Maybe you shouldn't post such strong statements about a technology you know very little about.

First: The 737 does not actually have a RAT.

Second: On types that have a RAT (e.g. the A320) it isn't electrical, it provides hydraulic power to operate the flight controls.

If you need emergency electrical power from a RAT equipped aircraft it will be from an haudraulically driven AC generator through a constant speed drive. It will not have voltage fluctuations, only risk is frequency being off and aircraft systems are designed to deal with that.
Any satellite can physically navigate in space, the question is how much for how long. Everything is in orbit, navigation is a question of adjusting orbits, which is a question of fuel.

I don't know about 'stop and go' though, that's usually called 'takeoff and landing'.
First, most uops can't throw exceptions, so fusing a shift and an add instruction together doesn't require any complex tracking here.

If a uop throws an exception (let's say a fused add+ld), each uop can have a tag that helps you backtrace to its PC (instruction address) of let's say the start of the sequence, so you know what to inform the Privileged Architecture as to what "instruction" excepted. For many reasons, you need to store a list of PCs of the inflight instructions somewhere (although it is heavily compressed), so having a small ID tag to help reconstruct a given uop's PC isn't too onerous.

Ideally, multiple instructions may map to a single uop, but either none (or up to one) can throw an exception. The hard one here is something like load-pair uops; since each load can throw an exception. Some machines, if a fault is encountered, will refetch the pair and re-execute as independent/unfused loads. Other designs will just pay the pain of tracking which of the pair excepted and do some simple arithmetic off of that.
This is also the fundamental reason why Donald Trump is using the Justice Department to prevent any disclosure of his tax returns.
You don't have long to wait. Zen 2 goes retail tomorrow, so the embargo on benchmarks ends and a bunch of reporting from the usual suspects will appear.
When you make the decision to live in a rural area, you know that you're giving up a lot of the conveniences that you take for granted when living in a city

Are you under the impression that when the stork is delivering babies, it asks them where they want to live?

There is a subset of people who choose to live in rural areas. But they are not a majority. And the remainder shouldn't be condescended to as if they made a bad life decision and are being punished for not wanting to live in a city.

Nobody deserves 5G

I'm not arguing that they do. But there are an awful lot of people in this thread who are OK if 3G and 4G never finish rolling out in rural areas as long as they, themselves, get gigabit 5G connections.
Decade-old flaw in PGP is finally being exploited
There are many small plane pilots who at some point get that genius idea
Is GCP carbon neutral? If amazon is hiding emissions data, I wonder if we should look at other providers.

Which are the greenest clouds in general?
Exhausting is correct, I'd forgotten about that. A lot of games give you the "just one more" feeling, like you could have won, or could keep winning, if you just fired up another game right now and tried something just a little differently.

At the end of every game of Artifact, I felt like I needed to take a break and get some water. Talk about stream poison, if you have to psyche yourself up to get into every new game.
Regarding your parent comment, see [0].

All the criticism of Wikipedia that you raise is valid, but there are some things implied in your posts that are dubious:

* That there exists an encyclopedia better than Wikipedia (or some other Wikimedia project).

* That Wikipedia can just be ignored.

Considering the placement Wikipedias currently have, it is hard to imagine a better or more influential project being created, so we might as well try improving what already exists.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_tunnel
After years of back pain and trying tons of different chairs, I've found that swimming and yoga make more of a difference than chair choice.
It really isn't, per what 'pdpi wrote. What we should do is being maximally trusting (to reap the efficiency benefits), and punish hard anyone trying to take advantage of it, way out of proportion compared to the magnitude of the violation, in order to discourage people from abusing the trust of others.

The goal really is to let everyone be safe in trusting others to the point of naivete, because trust is that huge of an efficiency hack.

(I mean, think of the ridiculous amounts of energy Bitcoin wastes with its proof-of-work scheme, precisely because it tries to replace trust with computation. This energy is what trust saves you.)
Air France représente !
A friend's cat hated being pilled, and even the attempt would trigger a gag reflex. Eventually, just rattling a pill bottle -- any pill bottle, would trigger the response.
They probably won't like any of them - the humans always seem to win.

Uploading a computer virus onto an alien mothership with a Macbook? That's just insulting.
I would have serious reservations about using a self-driving car. And a self-driving car without a steering wheel that would let me take over? No. Absolutely not.

I drove a rental car with lane-keeping for the first time the other day, and even that had some failure modes that made me queasy.
Interesting to hear! Do you mind sharing your rough location?
I have owned / used extensively pretty much what I would say are all the chairs you would want to sit in if you want to maintain back and neck / mitigate back pain:

1. Steelcase leap: my first not-crap chair, bought from an office closing used for like $300, great chair.

2. Steelcase Gesture: decided I wanted to “upgrade” after bringing steelcase to office. Went with a sale online and actually didn’t like it much and returned it, but some people love it. This was also way worth it — the store I used had free returns, paid nothing to try the chair for a month.

3. Herman Miller Embody — went to this after the gesture and use this as at-home work chair. It’s awesome. I don’t know if I like it more than leap. Leap makes you sit up right, like it holds you in the position you want to sit in in order to not screw up your back. Embody is super supportive leaning back but feel like it’s less so sitting upright, but I also game in it, so as an all around at home chair i think it works.

4. Herman Miller Aeron — currently using at work, was super psyched I didn’t have to be the guy with their special chair at the new job. It’s — also a great chair! I think it’s similar to the leap, moreso than researching to death might make it seem. You sit upright in it, if you try to slouch the chair makes you feel it, so you sit back up right and then it supports you correctly again.

If you want to get in on cheaper end, I’d check out craigslist / fb marketplace because you can get a barely-used leap or aeron for 250-350 and the chair is going to be great for a decade. Unless you’re a savant these chairs are very equitable with maybe slight preference differences. If you want more stability with warranty / want to buy new / hit a bonus and want to have fun with some of it, online shops you can do risk-free, try one for a month and exchange for a different one if you don’t love it.
What are you talking about? The crash rate of the MAX is about 13 times higher than that of other 737 models combined.
They are technically available to the poor but in practice many people can't afford to tie up their money for long periods.

If they're forced to take their money out of the fund due to their circumstances, then they could actually lose a lot of it (an economic downturn makes both situations more likely to occur at the same time). Whereas someone who is well off only loses money on paper and can afford to hold on to their investment until the economy improves.

In short, index funds are a bad investment unless you're well off enough that you won't need the money invested. At least not for a long time.
It's in the first minute of the video
Probably. For example, transcranial magnetic stimulation is already being used to help treat depression, and there's likely a lot more that can be done among these lines.
>I feel like that CAAC had the least to lose and the most to gain by grounding the 737 MAX.

China has 96 737MAX8 then, more than any other country. They have both the most to lose and gain.

>Them being proactive is really only because of politics.

Do you think perhaps them being proactive could have a small little tiny bit chance of caring about safety, or only because of politics?
Why would anyone want to deal with cable or dsl when everything
already runs over IP anyways and they already have a phone plan?

It’s not anything to “deal with”, it’s pretty much “set it and forget it”. But if 5G or whatever is more competitive in terms of price and performance, I’d have no problem switching. I welcome more ISP competition. But $80/month gets me 1TB of transfer at ~150Mbps on Comcast, and I doubt I’ll get a better deal over 5G.
I will second this. I used a cheap (<$200) Staples office chair when I started working from home. My reward for cheaping out on this was painful back problems. I eventually gave in and bought a Steelcase Leap, and the back problems quickly went away. So my advice is, there are lots of places where it makes sense to pinch pennies, but this ain't one of them.

Plus, Steelcase customer support is excellent. A couple of years after I bought my Leap, the gas cylinder that controls the height of the chair broke and started dragging on the floor whenever I moved the chair. I contacted Steelcase to see if there was some way to fix it, or to get a replacement cylinder. Steelcase's response was to send me a completely new Leap, without me having to do anything other than show my proof of purchase to demonstrate the chair was still in warranty. That is some seriously above-and-beyond customer support.
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I will say that I agree that the prolonged, near-zero interest rates is an issue. It's one less tool we'll have at our disposal once the going gets tough. We shouldn't slow the raising of interest rates, or reducing the balance sheet for that matter, while we're in a bull market.

That said, they didn't really point to anything that compelling to make me worry about 2020. At least, they didn't any more than I was worried in 2019, 2018, or 2017. They say the initial benefits of the tax cut will wear off, but doesn't the structure itself not change until at least 10 years? Are they saying that the tax cuts are a bandaid for an underlying issue? If so, what's the underlying issue?
Indeed. That is why I like the Nikon product placement a lot better because it just highlights what kind of a problem they create with the decision to have only one card slot.
Is the US unique in its _need_ for imported labor? Is economic crisis the only alternative to mass immigration, as Roubini claims? It seems like another option is for jobs currently filled with imported labor to start paying more to attract more domestic applicants. What do other countries do to fill these important jobs that we fill with imported labor? It seems impossible for everyone to rely on mass immigration, unless we held a big round robin population swap.
But still, why VMs? A container seems even better suited for this purpose, since the only thing really required for this use-case is a certain configuration of system software as well as a separation from the rest of the system.

Lxc/lxd can do it, Docker can do it, et cetera, the actual technology does not matter.

As a plus, builds will be faster vs. a VM.
But what alternative to Wikipedia do you propose?

Also see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20371610
Probably looks a lot simpler in A-normal form, with intermediates factored out.
A missing part of these answers is the massive downsides to hunting. The more lions hunt the larger territory they need to maintain to not run out of food. Hunting also had real risk of injuries so it’s best avoided as much as possible.
These are fantastic links, thanks! I've watched many of Onur Mutlu's CMU lectures he's a wonderful teacher. Cheers.
“Everyone is always in debt”

Assume this is true & that death erases all debt (the latter is true most places I think).

Is that a bad thing per se? I can see it being obviously bad if we’re saying debt as in debtors prison. As if being in debt enslaved you and traps you - this was how things used to work in some places for sure.

But assuming it’s debt that cannot enslave (big assumption, sure: see US student debt..)

Isn’t debt the creditor extending leverage and (in the right circumstances, see above) sharing some of that leverage with the debtor?

In the OP’s case - would it be very hard to envisage a scenario where this bloke could have a more efficient boat and computer? Where’s that would give him leverage that in turn would create more value for himself and whatever he chose than the debt he owed?

I think sometimes people take instruments that sometimes encourage or enable very bad things and then blame the tool. I can think of knives, guns, cash, etc.

Debt is probably the same thing? Bad if wielded by powerful forces that essentially allow enslavement, but powerfully good if not?

Just a thought experiment for sure.
Doesn't work in Safari.
especially when proving authorship of bitcoin would be a simple matter for the actual Satoshi - just sign a message with the same key as the recipient of the genesis block. He attempted to do this and failed in a stunningly obvious way.
Hopefully video game makers will now finally stop putting that stupid chromatic aberration effect in their games.
This statement is generally correct, with the exception of the 737 MAX.
"Hashed" in this case simply means they did some extra work to deal with the perceptron's XOR problem, since a straight mapping of PC and branch history would led to an inability to distinguish XOR patterns.
And that is different from your ISP how? The distribution is less international?
I mean, I've written at most a couple dozen in my 7 years as a professional programmer (usually tight loops for perf), so sheer unfamiliarity is a big factor.

But yeah, syntax (what order the arguments go in) and off-by-one issues are the majority, I think. Plus figuring out what my initial accumulator needs to be.

Idk, map/filter and friends are just a much more direct mapping of how I think of programming.
What's the value of saving the environment? It doesn't make sense to look at just the balance sheet in matters like these.

PS your website is down
US agriculture department suspends data collection on honeybees
This is the perfect tool to physically temper with telecom satellites.
I don't know any Semiotics! But, in an effort to drive the conversation, I can be more precise with what I'm trying to say.

I'm working with this informal idea that there is always a relationship between the audience and the speaker. That relationship define a shared knowledge space.

If I am speaking to a group of my friends and need to refer to my brother the set of identifiers that uniquely conveys his identify to my friends might be {brother, Joe, Joe Blow, brother-man, etc}. Any of those identifiers coming from to me specify exactly one person, my brother. The degeneracy is that they equally identify him to the audience.

If you were not that close to me, and I say "brother", you might wonder if I have more than one brother. If you did not know me at all I might say Dr. Joe Blow to identify him and why he might be relavent in some area of expertise. As the relationship between speaker and and audience grows more distant the set size decreases. Inversely, the context-free uniqueness of the identification provided by the remaining identifiers has to be greater, with proper names maintaining greater uniqueness (sorry to the John Smiths of the world!) than nicknames and so forth.

To return to my point, the scientist in question called it Nutella because he does not have a deep relationship with his audience and that is the most unique way of identifying it. I don't believe he was doing anything atypical or nefarious. If he knew the audience well, he could have just said "breakfast", and they would know exactly what he meant because he has the same thing for breakfast most mornings.

The problem is that brands, unlike most proper names(obviously famous people are an exception), have a greater ethos associated with them. If my brother was named Joe Blow or Jim Deal, my unique referencing of him doesn't do much to color the statement around it. This is contrast to how much extra you get when you call a car a Ferrari vs a grand tourer. My point is that advertisers recognize this linguistic norm and exploit it, this is what brand identity is. As such, just the natural mention of a good becomes advertising.
> First, are all markets just markets?

I am not sure what you mean by this.

> Second, what if the market rate is artificially depressed - what if it is systemically artificially depressed?

Regarding artificial depression. Well this is where we get into some somewhat controversial territory.

Some will argue that immigration artificially depresses wages as you can artificially increase the supply of labour and thus drive down the prices. Those that are conspiratorially minded would claim that large companies would make efforts to lobby Political parties to have a more open doors policy on immigration.

Now there is some evidence of the market rate being depressed due to immigration e.g. construction wages have increased in the UK after the "Leave Vote".

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/24/constructio...

But I remember reading about a Bank of England report which is somewhat recent and this is the published paper:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2015/the-impac...

However the stats themselves go over my head. I have google'd around for a simplified explanation (because I don't trust any of the newspapers to be honest as they will each push their own agenda). It appears that the effect on a native workers on minimum wage would have only lost less than a penny per hour due to immigration. A penny per hour is a rounding error for most people.

However that seems to be at Odds at what we have seen recently with construction.

So I don't know what to think tbh and I won't claim to be any definitive authority on the matter.

> Do market expectations align with an appropriate distribution of wealth to labour under conditions where the first is false or the second is true?

Sorry it isn't clear what you are asking me to compare.
"What if somebody honestly posts compelling, non-obvious misinformation? How confident are you that would be corrected?"

My hopeful attitude is that none of us are so fragile and gratuitously impressionable that this would be dangerous.

My further hope is that anyone that might be so impacted would incorporate the digestion and (eventual) repudiation of this information as part of their intellectual maturation process.

My final hope is that we all learn how dangerous and stifling it is to hand over defining and legitemising "truth" to others. You need to learn and grow as an intellectual being and that doesn't come in a hothouse protected from all perturbations.
The hon is pretty good, but the way the back tilts isn't super comfortable to me, and also the arm rests are a very hard plastic. I put padding on the top of the arms, but then the height of the padding combined with the fact that you can't lower the arm rests quite enough means that they sit a bit too high for me.

Nitpicking, and for the price it's not bad
Your alternative is sort of close. What happens is that every x86 instruction is assigned a ROB entry. Every uop that has results (stores are handled separately) is assigned a clean register out of the physical register file, and the address of this register (or multiple registers in case of multi-uop instructions) is stored in the corresponding ROB entry. The ROB acts like an in-order circular list -- the retire phase drains it in order from the oldest first, retiring the oldest instruction if and only if all the corresponding PRF registers have been written to. This is the point where any and all side-effects are made visible.
Drawing and Archiving Items in Tool Shed
I feel like thats just trading one ISP for another. At least with a VPN service they can do things like not keep logs and make torrenting email nastygrams go to /dev/null, because they honestly cannot forward it to the right person.
>> I've always wondered what it would be like to live on a sailboat..

Misery. It is not fun. There are forces out on the ocean that are truly terrifying. And there are people out there who want to hurt you. If you are going to be alone in a slow boat, you better look so poor as to not be worth their time. I'm a little surprised he displays those shiny solar panels so openly.
You hear this argument all the time so I’m not sure whence the downvotes. Whatever the exact phrasing, the gist of the argument is that car users are assumed to have more purchasing power and should thus be given priority.
You should look at "Wikilawyering" as mostly a scare tactic.

I acknowledge that making ones edits pass by other interested editors (especially those with more time or numbers than you have) is exhausting. But it is worth it, considering Wikipedia gets first place in Google's search results.
Looks like you are really intended on strawanning me.

The point isn't about wealth distribution or whether I like that people vote for Le Pen.
Using a 200k rpm microturbine instead of pistons, which I imagine takes a fair bit of engineering to make it last long enough.

Interesting use of Symobic regression:

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

It seems there's a library in python, Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python:

https://github.com/DEAP/deap
Absolutely. This is also a huge problem in trade. Trump, for example sees trade in zero-sum terms, where if China and Europe are doing well, that's proof that America is losing.