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Personally, if I found myself toward the end of my life retired and hopelessly frail, confined to a bed all day, with no children or even a friend worth seeing, I’ve decided I’ll just live out the rest of my days hacking into systems, creating botnets, ransoming data, just seeing what’s out there and trying to build some sort of malware network that can live on for a while after I’m gone. For what? Who knows. I’m just cashing in on a lifetime of skills and knowledge that I never got to use to it’s full extent, simply because I wanted to live an honest life. It’s better than laying there watching a TV all day falling asleep with a dry gaping mouth.

And if I slip up and get tracked, and I hear the law breaking down the door to get in, I’ll just swallow a pack of pills and be done with it, by the time they get to me, they’ll just find a deflating old corpse sunken into a bed, while thousands of compromised machines stand by to execute their final orders once the dead man’s switch goes off.

This is how I fade.
About the first question, UltraSPARC has been open source for a while. You can even download the Verilog code. We haven't seen any UltraSPARC-based processors, so I don't see why they would use this.
>First is the ability to actually do useful work at home or other non-office location. This is not hard (I suspect some people working remotely do goof off, but I suspect those people are not super useful sitting in the office either)

You'd be wrong to suspect that. I am very productive at work but I just end up getting distracted at home. It is hard. It's a mentality thing. Additionally, when I'm at the office, I can talk to another person and just ask a question in 5 seconds that would take possibly hours to get a reply otherwise.
I can't reply to the dead comment you replied to, so leaving this here -- Phoronix is a useful part of the community but they're way overboard on ads. Most of the time when I browse without adblock, it's not a problem until I come across Phoronix, which is totally unusable without adblock and always inspires an immediate install. I understand that Michael needs to make a living, but Phoronix is way overboard. It's definitely understandable to redirect the link to the official changelog.
> AFAIK placement new does launder. But both new and launder have no effect on their argument (well, placement new of course constructs an object there), they only 'bless' pointer returned from it.

I may be misunderstanding, but this seems to directly contradict what the linked paper says:

> Note that std::launder() does not “white wash” the pointer for any further usage.

> The obvious question is, why don’t we simply fix the current memory model so that using data where placement new was called for implicitly always does launder?
I have to say, the US is not really the place I'd want to be during a natural disaster. Japan seems to handle these things so much better, for example.
Not a prepper either, but recently our water turned brown and I realized how water-dependent we are.

Went out and bought two “life straws.” We have enough food to last a month without infrastructure just by virtue of large pantries, but when the water goes out, it’s gone.

My wife laughed at me, but from my perspective, if infrastructure is down for more than a month, I’m probably toast anyway. ;)
My boss claims he is responsible for this blackout due to an errant tibco message. I can never tell if he is kidding or not, but he has a lot of experience in the power industry so I have no reason to doubt this.
Here's the thing about payscale: Mathmatically speaking, you're probably not exceptional. That's just how statistics work. Most people are going to be somewhere in the middle of the bell curve. Yes, there is a minority on either end who are being held back or lifted up by this, but that's just not how these things work. I think that devs are frequently on the higher side of intelligence relative to the population at large and therefor think they're exceptional. Pay scales smooth things out across the company but you could look at it as a greater good as it guarantees a greater benefit to those starting out who are making the least. Even if greed is your sole motivation, the assumption that a meritocracy will exist and you will be rewarded for your hard and above average work isn't always the case.

The general idea is that there is always an inherent imbalance between an individual employee and their employer after an organization reaches a certain size (I don't think unions really need to exist in <10 employee situations). As organizations get larger, the loss of a single employee gets less and less painful to the company while staying the same for the employee. To counter the imbalance collective bargaining serves as a maximize the pain on employers for performing actions against their labor.

Let's just clear something else up: "Guild" and "Union" do have specific structural nuances, but are also both used to generally describe "labor collectives/organized labor".

You say you want a trade guild but think a union is potentially problematic. I say they're basically the same thing. This is a semantics discussion about how best to organize and structure your labor collective.
Narrative similarity only works in hindsight. i.e., if A succeeded, and A looks similar to B, which was hugely successful. Then A is claimed to be always having the success factor because it is similar to B.

To predict the success by drawing similarity is always fool's game.
In the video she said that the website sends data about you to Facebook. This is incorrect. Facebook is the one doing the collecting or the purchasing of your data from 3rd party collectors.

I try to post this on every Facebook related post: Leave Facebook. You'll thank yourself a year from now.
Your "friend" analogy is basically the perspective of someone who wouldn't put their money in a bank. If you wouldn't trust a friend to hold thousands of dollars for you, why would you trust a bank?

It's questionable whether Google deserves similar trust as a bank since they aren't regulated in a similar way. But it isn't unusual for people to trust companies over friends for some things, such as their life savings.

The other thing to remember is that trust can be partial. For example, I wouldn't trust a bank not to be looking for legal ways to charge me fees and I wouldn't trust their investment advice, but I'd trust them to keep their ATM's working and not to lose my money.
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Plumbing doesn't work when the power is out if you're on a well with an electric pump.

Which is why my well-water friends have generators.
I think it's one of those situations where he has the ability to wax poetic from his ivory tower simply because he doesn't have to exist in the real world in terms of technology.

If he had to exist in the real world, he would find it a lot harder to stick to those principles.
And then we pollute the air?
Sorry, what I mean to say is that it is my belief that-- in the tech/engineering community, there are employees on the autism spectrum at a far higher rate than the overall employed population.

In turn, this leads to better understanding of how to work with and manage people on the spectrum in the tech community than the population at large.
Or just put water into the tank.
POWER already has a place next to arm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QorIQ.
Because it isn't spend a dollar on opex and spend a dollar capex; it's spend $30 on opex to rent a server for a month or spend $1000 on capex to buy a server, plus $15 a month in opex. You can start and scale a business with a lot less capital if you convert to an opex model.
>Why, the officers demanded to know, had he chosen these five words within his crossword solutions?

>“Why not?” was Dawe’s indignant reply. Was there a law against choosing whatever words he liked?

That's one of those cases I kinda fear being in.

How do you prove you're not giving away secrets in some secret way when the clue is some random events in life that have little behind them other than happenstance.
I've never, in my life, seen or heard an individual with Aspergers getting a free pass on sexual assault.

James Damore was fired from Google for his offensive language.
The 14th Street busway fight could determine NYC’s transit future
I don't get why countries always under-invest in tax collection... as long as it's ROI positive, shouldn't budgets be getting increased?
The act of reducing the manpower of the IRS needed to enforce the laws may have a greater effect than all the tax cuts combined. If a business is fairly certain an audit isn't coming, their effective tax rate is whatever they want it to be.
Sort of. From what I've read, they "open sourced" their ISA in only a very weak sense of what it means to be "open source". Apparently there are a ton of restrictions on what you can do with their ISA even now.
as a non-FB user, do these browser settings keep FB from tracking me?

block all 3rd party cookies, block all trackers, clear cookies on exit, uBlock Origin extension,

and blocking FB related sites in /etc/hosts file
Was Simone de Beauvoir as feminist as we thought?
Yeah, that's where I started, but if you are foraging for batteries, you probably aren't aiming so low.

I guess reasoning along those lines, you're looking for literal generators that can be adapted to whatever fuel you have available.
I'd like git internals (merkle-tree etc.) with Mercurial's CLI UI, I think.
That is malice.
I've come to believe the interactions mostly feel genuine to others (and the intent, need, and desire for positive communication and interaction truly is genuine), and sure there are slip ups but that's typical for most people... I worry much less about that performance as I age. What I struggle with now is the implications to others who I have more intimate relationships with. Having such a cerebral social presence and experience, even if you are very kind in intention and action, causes people close to you to feel as though perhaps it isn't genuine or done with any feeling. It makes you seem less emotionally invested, less attached, etc. At least that's been my experience.

I haven't found a way to break through that and have lost relationships over it. But you probably are smart enough to socialize just fine – I think the harder thing to crack is how far that can extend into your closer relationships.
Does this use UDDF, the open standardized log data exchange?
Continuity is a property of functions on topological spaces, not a property of sets of numbers. The property you are describing seems more like the Archimedean property or density of a set.
The firmware not being updateable is a desired property of most security keys, actually. At least Yubico considers the risk of compromises through firmware updates as too high: https://support.yubico.com/support/solutions/articles/150000...

Obviously they are biased – they are in the business of selling hardware, not software, but their reasoning still makes sense to me.

It's arguable whether "destructive updates" that invalidate all existing registrations should be allowed, but that could have its own problems in terms of availability if not clearly communicated.

On a related note, I wonder if there is actually a more secure way of preventing illegitimate firmware updates in JavaCard/GlobalPlatform than randomizing the card manager keys, which is what Yubico does for the NEO: https://www.yubico.com/2016/05/secure-hardware-vs-open-sourc...
Just one of the many sectors where budget cuts are going turn into huge losses down the line. The consequences of cutting healthcare and education are (going) to be much worse.
The GNU completely ignores the value that you get from Google. For instance this point:

> Google Chrome contains a key logger that sends Google every URL typed in, one key at a time

They are describing the auto complete feature...

I get that people should be making informed choices about what data they share, but for the FSF to so intentionally mis-describe what is going on does not help inform anyone.
Saw some comments on how countries should collaborate instead of building 4 different GNSS, well China definitely tried:

> The Chinese feel that they were badly used and partly humiliated by Europe. They were brought into the Galileo consortium as partners, and they paid the EU for the privilege, only to see themselves shut out of Galileo’s controlling bodies...China would have had less influence over Galileo than Japan and India have over GPS, and those two nations have not paid the US a single dime for their cooperation in the signal augmentation systems they are now building [0].

[0]: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1307/1
Adding on to this;

Linked-in recruiters. Say what you will about the constant cold emailing, if you set sane guidelines for them (only interested in 99-100% remote positions with comp above $x, using y or z technologies) there is an entire industry of people who will go and do a lot of the work for you. Just make a copy/pasta of your desires and reply to their copy/pasta with it; ask for job descriptions up front along with comp ranges, once they show something you like you can move forward with actually getting on the phone with them.

This shouldn't be your only lead generation tool during a job search, but it is a ruthlessly effective force multiplier.
You will have no legal viable product if you don't ban extreme hate speech or child pornography on your platform. Is a GNU "approved" platform okay with supporting those ? It's very easy to right these tenets and criticize every company. It's hard to build products used by billions and stipulating to laws in different countries.
There is a ready supply of bicycles with dynamos around here. If you lift the back wheel off the ground and pedal hard you can get at least some energy. The old ones are very basic too. With more time and need one can probably rig a small stream to do it instead.
This is a very downplayed interpretation. During your whole life you will only use 2-3 of your sperm/egg cells "productively". The rest are literally thrown away, just like your shedding skin cells. Would you be OK with someone taking and using them for decades without you having a say?

There are 2 aspects here. One is about ethics and privacy, someone took and continues to use these cells with no restrictions, like saying it's OK to have a slave because it was legal when you bought it. What other things are perfectly normal to take because you have more?

The second is financial, you're expected to pay through your nose for using a 5s song snippet but use a piece of someone's body should only benefit the the ones who took it. Blood donors get paid and that's nowhere near as unique as this.

I've seen people rationalize the Tuskegee syphilis experiment (people get syphilis every day anyway). Were you in her place you'd expect more of everything. More rights, more respect, more privacy, more money, etc. And I don't see anyone trying to fix past mistakes.
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There's a faction of US politicians that are philosophically against (most) government and taxes. It's not about ROI, it's about their goals.
The main effect of government intervention in this case is to ensure dangerous shortages of basic goods in an emergency. That seems like an odd policy to cheer for.
> "Order high-quality materials which are hard to get. If you don't get them argue about it. Warn that inferior materials will mean inferior work."

Memories work in funny ways. The first thing that jumped to my mind was the Asterix book where the Romans capture the druid (Getafix, in the English versions) and want him to make the magic potion. He insists that he must have fresh strawberries to make it, which are out of season. He doesn't really need them, it turns out, but it delays the whole project as the Romans dispatch someone to points far to the south to try and fetch some and bring them back while they're still fresh.
I first heard about this on the Omnibus Project podcast (Ken Jennings & John Roderick).

Here's the link if anyone would like to listen to some light-hearted discussion on the topic: https://www.omnibusproject.com/podcasts/the-d-day-crosswords...
I would read this novel.
I'd beg to differ, especially if your console or PC is networked wirelessly. 802.11n can only do 600mbps in the best conditions. Residential gig pipes are not uncommon anymore.

I've seen some ridiculous download speeds from Steam, but never enough to saturate my gig pipe even during a full game installation. I just can't see Steam providing that kind of bandwidth to it's users when the filesizes can get upwards of 50gigs. They would DDOS themselves.
Get it in writing.
It is after all a full template. Looking over the deps, including reactstrap is a bit extra baggage, but overall it's everything that you'd ultimately need to make an application in the ecosystem to do what it's offering, seems robust.
I wouldn't be surprised if they have, given that PowerPC desktops haven't been mainstream for more than a decade now, and in the meantime IBM's servers have been marching on.
Young people still tend to be significantly less overweight. https://www.stateofobesity.org/obesity-by-age/

However, you do see more overweight people on modern films than in the 50’s. What’s really odd some characters where supposed to be noticeably overweight, but they don’t seem that way to modern eyes.
> IRS is auditing fewer tax returns from corporations because it has fewer people and resources available to identify potential errors and follow up on questionable tax returns

On one hand I do want businesses to pay their fair share. On the other hand I don't want to encourage massive tax agencies which must justify their numbers by auditing and harassing as many people as possible. Often small businesses that don't have to resources to defend themselves like large corporations. Very similar to police departments who justify their existence by writing tickets and have quotas set up to encourage cops to harass people. Does not seem much more than a shakedown.
So many of us in the community of HN can have that same feeling.

Its the engineering way of saying in rage:

"DO YOU KNOW ~~WHO I AM~~ (What I have CREATED)??"
To me at least it was when I took a real analysis course. Very difficult material but once it all 'clicked' I felt like it gave a lot of insight into the fundamentals of math and as a bonus finally offered a rigorous non-hand-wavey explanation of the fundamental theorem of calculus.
Governments aren't 'rational actors' trying to maximize revenue. In US, 'starve the beast' [1] comes highly into play

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
I'll be honest. I could be that guy giving seemingly contradictory advice. The first one is a general rule. To be applied in most cases. The second one is an advice in a specific situation. The situation might dictate going against the general rule. In that case I can even relate to him asking you to contact him in any case you might want to not apply the general rule. It makes sense for him to keep tabs on the exceptions. If the number of exceptions grows large even (this) might change.

If I read you correctly, I can relate to your side as well. Don't stipulate general rules if their not general. But that would mainly mean the prescription of what to do when (this) becomes not a simple rule, but a handbook. I fear the workplace with handbooks for (this) and (that).

It's a matter of leadership style and personality as well. I like clear rules. I over-generalise for speed. I like team members who give me hell for anything they don't agree with, up and until the moment we decide what to do. After that I want buy-in. Quite some people don't work that way and it's up to me to notice that and relate differently.

My final tip for keeping sane in an office environment is to never attribute to malice etc. Most environments aren't toxic so don't expect toxicity when you've not yet encountered it. If most people would act that way, the world would be a better place. Act strategically only after someone has proven to act with bad intent AND you've taken the time to try and talk the situation over and have not resolved it.
When the executive branch doesn't agree with the law, one tool they have as a separate branch of government is to not enforce the law. In U.S. political history, President Andrew Jackson reportedly responded: "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" referring to the Supreme Court ruling in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia.
An hour commute is short in the Bay Area... A 35 minute drive will literally take two hours if you have to arrive at 10.
> Will Huawei be able to use this processor design (now that it is open sourced) to build it's own chips, bypassing ARM restriction & US IP ?

Which operating system would the use? Is that supported with the power instruction set?
> C is the exact thing I'm talking about. It's infantile to a degree. Refusal isn't actually contemplated or considered. It's presenting a false choice to Bob. It's supposed to make Bob feel obligated to say yes because the request is so "nice".

That's not what I mean by C.

If I use the form in C, it's usually because I feel that I am providing the opportunity for interesting or growth work to Bob.

"Well, that's not really the area I'd like to work in" is a fine answer and we'd discuss a little more, and then I'd go hand the fun stuff to someone who wants it.

"No" would, well, rub me the wrong way a little bit. Here I'm offering something that I thought you'd prefer to other things, and you just tell me "no"? Come on, you owe me a little bit more consideration in return for me having considered you.
If nothing else, remote work means much less sleep deprivation for a lot of people, because they can wake up a bit later.

If you have kids to take to school it might not change that much, but if you can take them close to the start of classes it might mean an extra 30 minutes to one hour of sleep a day.

No wonder people work and feel so much better, even if its due to that simple factor alone.

But of course, there are other things that come to play like the ability to concentrate, limited interruptions, being able to eat proper food, etc.
Before software there was only physical things and interpersonal dynamics. It's not just life experience, it's that people focused on working with things. I'm in the transitional group, and it feels like the number of 'handy' software developers declines every year. I think there may only be one utility knife and one flashlight on my whole floor (except the maintenance team) and those are both in my pockets.

If we have beer someone might pull out an actual bottle opener (I worry about that guy).
Sorry I have mixed two systems into one. So it is 0+ (or I+)
There's no reason your "thing" can't be volunteering or working for a cause that you find important pro bono.

Most people would define "retirement" as "no longer working for money, while using savings or other existing means of income to pay for living expenses"
Yes, in fact if you run FreeBSD on POWER9 currently, it's compiled with ancient gcc 4.x.whatever (the last GPLv2 version) :D (The switch to clang and ELFv2 ABI is going to happen in the coming months)
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" means: make it work correctly first, and then - if anybody cares - make it fast.
Readability/maintainability, then only as needed trade it off for speed, because not all code needs to be highly performant.
The compiler is used fairly commonly in HPC, but every time i tried to use it, it was not a fun experience.
> You sort of can't get arbitrarily close.

Is there an obvious concrete example? I've never spent proper time studying Real Analysis, and I confess I have the same intuition as OP: That you could use rationals to approximate irrationals to arbitrary precision.
POWER and Power (formerly PowerPC) are similar but quite different. PPC has been in embedded (but generally not mobile) for quite a long time, but even then, the cores are still hot, power hungry, and poorly suited for mobile.