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> I expected this to be about system virtualization, not language VMs. Interesting though, but not my area of expertise.

The blatant reuse of abbreviations and terms is one of my pet peeves.

For example, VM can mean Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine, or Virtual Memory. Yep, three completely distinct things, two of which are helpfully referred to under the same expanded name as well. Do you know all three? mroche has helpfully disambiguated between Virtual Machine and Virtual Machine already, but in case you need help:

Virtual Machine means a computer split up into many different fake systems, each running a guest OS. Xen is an example of a Virtual Machine hypervisor.

Virtual Machine means a completely fake CPU packaged with libraries and used to run a high-level language, to facilitate things like garbage collection and language-level security. Java runs on a Virtual Machine, quite imaginatively called the Java Virtual Machine. Now, what would we call a Java execution environment which could run as a Xen guest? (Don't strain yourself... )

Virtual Memory means lying to applications about how memory works, to present a completely flat address space without such annoyances as caching or other programs or the operating system disturbing application programmers, who are quite disturbed enough.

Now, let's take all of those concepts, refer to all three of them with the same abbreviation and two of them with the same name entirely. I suppose I should feel lucky to live in this time: Soon, we'll be calling them all Bruce, to cut down on confusion.
I don't think your example is doing the work you think it is doing. Functionally it is doing something similar to what I am accounting for with the CCP, from the other end: "it's just my opinion man" is a hedge that attempts to reduce culpability for your statements and "feel free to disagree civilly" opens up an entire channel for you do disregard criticsm and many real forms of communication, if there is no clear standard on what civility means. Surely there can be one, but are you unbiased enough that you can follow it?

It is not about civility or incivility. It is about facilitating real and valid criticsm. Supporting a state with explicit censorship policies and a track record of suppressing riots with violence as well as an active monopoly on communication and payment channels, which results in a lot of leverage on individual behavior, is antithetical to this purpose.

Where the whatsboutism ends with the United States is that the United States has (thusfar) kept most criticsm-worthy acts on the record and still has no clear monopoly on the flow of information. It allows the existence of institutions that actively work against the policies of the government. That puts it on a relatively higher moral standing compared to the CCP as long as you care about such things as having a plurality of opinions. Where tolerance stops is where you support ending the game.
> The mobile device generation will most likely bring about these remote working changes more widely.

That is a bold prediction. My money is on the precise opposite. The more talented and successful the employee is, in the main, the closer they are going to be to the heart of a geographically located industrial hub.

Reduced communication costs will make it easier to identify the hubs and increase the competition to move there until the cost of moving is similar to the benefit of being in the hub.

If mobile devices and better communication suddenly causes an on-average decentralisation of wealth generation that would be (1) welcome and (2) shockingly unusual.

> This would allow for infrastructure to also be better more widely dispersed.

Probably going to burn a lot more resources spreading the infrastructure out than is saved by letting everything centralised. There'd be wins cutting down on the daily commute, but would also be costs to decentralising. Similar benefits might be more easily found by designing dense cities to be easy to navigate by bike and foot; which would also let workers keep the advantages of centralisation. Lots of room for improvement there, no doubt.
For a moment I thought the witch is dead, turns out O'Leary wasn't one of the victims.
Not really, it's open source. You could just start putting resources into it yourself. If you back up to a local copy, it's not like that source code is just going to disappear.
He says he has used the card for a month and doesn’t go into any detail beyond the onboarding process.

I’ve also had mine since early August and can say that it works very well. I am fortunate to live in NYC where most places support Apple Pay, so I hardly use the physical card. The experience is seamless and the UI, of course, is very well done. It is particularly nice to have card’s UI right in the Wallet app, though I think Apple might extend the Wallet API to enable other credit cards to provide more detailed information there. It would make sense. Shout-out to whoever designed the bill payment flow; it is clear and promotes better financial health.

Another shout-out to whoever designed the transaction detail view. They’ve partnered with Yelp to provide information about merchants, and has been mentioned many times, seeing the location where the charge was made is a subtle yet helpful detail.

Ultimately, it isn’t the next top tier luxury card. It is clear that wasn’t Apple’s goal. However, I’ve been very happy to see other companies onboarding to their 3% cash back incentive (Walgreens and T-Mobile most recently). I think the benefits will continue to pile up.

They really upped the game with this one. I think the biggest detail in the OP is that they had access to millions of potential customers on (or before) launch day. Their ability to access their customers so directly will set this (and other forays by Apple) apart from the competition.
That's not really how it works. If Earth's gravity were 1.3% stronger, you'd need about 0.6% (√1.013) more delta-v to escape Earth, or about an extra 70m/s. That's not hard to achieve. Increasing the total mass to dry mass ratio by about 0.6% would do it (and the Saturn 5 was about 85% fuel) since ln(x*1.006) = ln(x) + ln(1.006) ≈ ln(x) + 0.006.

Someone else posted somewhere that if the Earth was about 3x heavier, we wouldn't be able to use chemical rockets to escape.
The app permitted a teacher to do this, and the existence of the app and its delivery of this outcome jibe with the existing headline.
It is easy to make one file executables that handle command line arguments, offer a web or local UI, etc. And apps start instantly.
Yep. I am an unapologetic Unix diehard, but the core NT system is nice. Flexible, portable, supports multiple personalities (even if they barely use it like that; WSL1 being an example of leveraging it), parts are borderline microkernel-ish, by all accounts very nicely designed. Then... There are the user-facing parts of the system. The GUI, the licensing, the telemetry/spyware, ads, forced updates, WHY IS XBOX ON THE SERVER BUILDS, just... All of it. So, I live on Linux and the odd BSD... well, really just "Not Microsoft". Because a beautiful kernel under that userspace is still a loss.
Latest excel has gold level support: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

I know there are plenty of things that don't work with wine, but realistically, how many of them does each person need to work, and how many are "defaults"? For example if you spend 90% of your time in illustrator, do you need excel specifically, or "an app with text in cells"? And if you're crunching market data in excel all day, do you need Adobe, or just something to draw an arrow on a screenshot?
I would argue "top-25 school" isn't a necessary qualifier here. What you're talking about is students with intrinsic motivation to study a certain topic, and that exists regardless of the caliber of the school. dvs, at even the "worst" state school, the math majors probably want to be in their classes; if they didn't they would have picked a major perceived to be easier.
SAT solvers are starting to be used as tooling for functional languages - Liquid Haskell uses one for refinement types[1], and Djinn uses one for suggesting functions given a type[2]. Similarly to Djinn, Edwin Brady gave a presentation on using an SMT solver to do live code suggestions/implementation inference in the successor to Idris[3].

[1] https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhaskell-blog/

[2] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1178

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOtKD7ml0NU
If there were a credible case of criminal misconduct against him, you can be sure you'd hear the witch hunters cry it from the fucking rooftops.

In the hours I've spent reading this story, all I've seen is hearsay about women feeling uncomfortable about him having a mattress in his office; criminally stupid misreadings of his writings regarding Minsky; and of course various accounts him being a terribly unpleasant person, which we already knew.

It's obvious what ways the winds are blowing. There's no place for misfits like RMS in today's world. (But I guess there never really was.) That doesn't mean I have to like it.
It occurs to me that DevOps is Plato's Cave. So many people think they know what DevOps is, yet all they really know is what they've always been familiar with, and they can only interpret it based on that. It's kind of depressing.
Stein Effect (Statistics / Estimator Theory)
Happened to me all the time when I used SP4. However, biometrics can be disabled through settings or group policy!
And what happens if the account get suspended (which Microsoft is known to occasionally randomly do)? You can’t login into your own physical machine?
Forcing someone to sell because you find their life choices economically inefficient is gross morally.

Further, it creates a legal and financial risk in the entire system where property becomes subject to the whims of whatever governing authority therefore discouraging investment and real ownership.

The Kelo decision was despicable, let's not encourage it.
Dark Mode Is for Suckers
I've heard it put similarly bluntly - you hope the chemo kills the cancer before it kills you. I know a few people who are actively undergoing chemotherapy, and my grandfather died of pancreatic cancer (metastasised to liver IIRC), and it's quite clear the heavy tole it takes on them.
https://dhall-lang.org/ No tarpit here (no Turing Completeness or recursion), and as DRY as you want.
It's sad really. Every time I hear someone saying devops this, devops that I ask them to explain to me what devops means. You see... everyone has their own idiosyncratic definition and everyone that does not agree with them is an idiot.

to understand what devops should have been we have to step back and think about ownership. When you own they thing you build from you know building it, to deploying it, maintaininging and sunsetting it that's when you can tell me you are doing devops. It's not about a super developer or a super sysadmin - it's about full ownership. In the process you'll do software development, you'll learn about the environment and the hardware the software runs on and most importantly you will learn to never ever ever again overengineer something.

to answer parent: sysadmins have to learn how to write code. if you want to stay relevant and still have a job in 5 years you have no choice. AWS & other big clouds are already eating your lunch. the best transition is to actually learn how to deploy infrastructure in the cloud - and if you're starting fresh, why not actually learn how to code? good developers know their CI/CD pipeline in depth. They care about infrastructure and details. Apart from junior developers, you really don't have the option to live in your box and not care.
Capped in what way? My escrow goes up every year as City Council consistently increases rates to the legal maximum.
no mentioning of false positives
I wish it were that easy. Nowadays we build systems-on-chip. Hard to cut specific parts out of the picture. But perhaps the antenna is still off-chip. https://www.androidauthority.com/how-it-works-systems-on-a-c...

> [...] you should have a general picture of what goes inside it: CPU, Memory, GPU, Northbridge, Southbrige, Cellular radios, Other radios [...]

> [...] Such is the case with the Snapdragon S4 from Qualcomm, which has an embedded LTE modem on board responsible for 4G LTE connectivity [...]
> if/when it's simply not a choice with any major vendor?

I am reasonably confident that RedHat will continue to cover this ~forever, if it comes to that.
Quite frankly I couldn't see the benefit. We already have solid state led lasers operating at THz speed. What is the actual improvement in this? Nick Holynak already demonstrated laser transistors more than a decade ago ...
Only delusional ideologists even entertain the notion that the primary reason Linux hasn't caught on widely as a desktop OS is lack of preinstallation or marketing (or pick your corporate crime du jour).

Desktop Linux has many uses (it's my main OS right now). But the reason it hasn't caught on widely is perfectly obviously that as technology for the regular consumer, it's bloody awful. Many Linux enthusiasts admit this perfectly readily, but for obscure reasons some insist on clutching Linux to their chests as an identity totem. This is probably less harmful than nationalism, so I guess I shouldn't object too much.
I don’t really believe this. I know some people who I value less specifically because they are overly confident relative to their abilities. I expect them to play social bluffs to play up what they know how to do (or pretend to know things they don’t), manipulate people if they can awe them and try to intercept credit for their work without giving much of their own effort, etc. They basically just cause a huge amount of trouble and damage the productivity of those around them. Meanwhile I know people of roughly comparable ability who I have a pretty good opinion of.

If someone keeps confidently asserting that 1+1=3 and then tries to act like he’s my superior, my conclusion is generally that he’s just a moron or is deluding himself.

I had a typo above and wrote 1+1=2 but I’ve had the same situation: someone who is of normal competence keeps repeating things pretty much everyone in the room knows over and over and thinks he’s leading you forward.
Scalability Tuning on a Tess.io Cluster eBay
Sometimes our mental grammars don’t know what to do with unusual cases (2016)
I guess the idea is that if you can make it to orbit (even if you waste all of your fuel), then you could in principle refuel in-orbit (by getting another unmanned rocket with just fuel into orbit) and thus escape the orbit.

But yes, you still require more energy (exactly sqrt(2) times as much) to "escape" Earth's gravity entirely than to orbit it with a circular orbit.
Oh I'm aware. I'm over 2 years since my diagnosis.
? I don't think Autodesk is owned by MS?
Im sorry, but I really don't understand your perspective. Does Porsche screw their customers when they charge $500 for an oil change? Is Coach "screwing" it's customer by charging that much for a purse? High five audio devices often don't have cabling that consumer devices do - is that screwing the consumer?

I can appreciate that you don't want to pay that much, but how is it "screwing"?
Life 101: Life is not fair. Do you really think that someone that was born in a "1st world country", has access to clean water, food, education is on an equal position with someone that has to walk 10 miles every day to drink clean water? Should people in a privileged position accept their privilege? If the 10miles guy decides to "fuck fairness" and actually does something you consider unethical do you get to decide that what he did is wrong? now, we're on a slippery slope to getting on our high horses.
You have to have high thrust to get out of the dragging atmosphere.
Wine works remarkably well these days. You can even run the latest Microsoft Office version.
Still does for me.
Utter chaos, infighting, and possibly collapse. The GNOME/GTK and KDE/QT camps have very different philosophies, frameworks, preferred languages, and completely incompatible libraries.
I am a solutions architect at Red Hat but I came from being an application architect. I recently gave a talk on cqrs and event sourcing at a midwest user group. I am routinely surprised how few "DevOps" engineers care to grasp application architecture yet want to start dabbling in things like Kubernetes. Automation using Ansible, yes, no problems there. Creating microservice architectures using containers and kubernetes tooling is yet a ways out for many. New tooling is absolutely necessary to implement the things we have all been talking about for at least 10 years. Developers can no longer just care about writing code. They have to think about how to manage breaking up their monolith, not just for performance; that's not typically the driving force behind adopting microservice architectures. It's about improving lead time and reducing the batch size of releases. You can't have microservice architectures without both sides(dev and ops) understanding what each actually do. I have first hand knowledge how difficult it still is to break those silos down. Developers, if you still think writing code is the hard part; well, I've got news for you. Ok, writing good code is still hard but there's a lot more to think about to get the most out of that code when it goes to production. As a starting point to answer "why do any of this?" I recommend the book "Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations".
Yeah, for actual crimes.
Seriously? That's your takeaway here?
They are worthy of disdain because they never took a CS class?
Just to clarify, since people seem confused on this point, hedge funds add value to society thusly:

1. Companies need to raise capital.

2. Those companies want to raise capital at a rate closest to the true value of shares in their enterprise.

3. In order to do that, the people who buy those shares need to know that they can resell them later, at a similarly efficient price. This is called a "liquidity premium". If your shares cannot be quickly resold at an efficient price, you are incurring a negative liquidity premium.

4. Because of the foregoing, it is extremely valuable to society for markets to price things efficiently. This is a service that needs to be performed by someone. That someone is, for the most part hedge funds.

The ideal scenario (which we are tending towards) is that there are a very small number of extremely sophisticated players that keep markets efficient for everyone else. The more money David Shaw makes, the less money there is for other people to make. Which means we need to employ fewer and fewer people in the business of asset price discovery.

Price discovery is an important and necessary function, and the fact that there are these few people making tons of money from it is actually kind of a great thing for the world. All those billions David Shaw made represent many millions not going to other people in finance. Which means those minds are freed up to work on other productive things.
Despite Their Old Age, “Super-Agers” Have Young Memories (2016)
While the parent comment is heated and not factually incorrect, the reason for the down-votes has to do with the willful ignorance of the west towards some of the worst atrocities committed by places from where it derives its value systems from.

The Nazis were the bad guys and they are gone. The Soviets and USSR were the baddies after, and they are gone.

The west and esp. US+UK pride themselves in never having been that evil. In the mean time, the EIC committed atrocities on a scale rivaling those exact boogeymen of the West.

Accepting the crimes of the EIC, would have them facing some of the worst Hypocrisy of their society, and that isn't the most fun thing.
I feel uneasy visiting friends with Alexa and all that.
> I'm not convinced that their offline security is good, either.

If they have physical access to the device there isn't much you can do anyway.
A great podcast on the same : https://www.behindthebastards.com/podcasts/part-one-the-most...
Where is the best place to upload historical found photos like this? I occasionally buy and scan old slides from estate sales and would like to use a site that makes them accessible and searchable. Is there anything better than Flickr?
100% agreed. It won't end well, and politicians being politicians (and voters being voters), we're going to continue this mad show as long as possible, ensuing we get the worst possible outcome here.

The weird bit is that San Francisco prices make more sense than where I grew up (suburban New Zealand). Sure a house in SF might cost $1.2m but two people working in tech can expect to make $250-300k all in by their early thirties. That's only $200k more than a house in New Zealand, but you're working with an income that's easily 2x the size.
The real take away is that structured exercises and projects are both a great way to develop and display your abilities and being able to demonstrate these is more important than holding a credential within the tech industry.

The barrier to entry for most people to tech jobs isn't whether or not they can get interviews, it's whether or not they can pass the technical assessment that's become a standard part of the process. In other industries, GPA, school rank, highest degree earned are hard pre-reqs to inteviews, even for entry-level jobs. That isn't necessarily the case in tech.

I work in a field that falls under the "data science" umbrella and I take issue with a lot of online courses compared to traditional education because almost all of them overpromise and underdeliver and take advantage of naive students that don't know any better. I can't tell you how many applicants I've interviewed that list dozens of online certifications for this and that skill, but can't demonstrate any knowledge of it when asked or assessed.

Just my $0.02, but online tech courses and degrees are akin to the MBAs of a decade ago: exploitive, expensive, and often entirely unnecessary. I would still hold that a technical computer science degree from a 4-year university is worth it, however, for the benefit of being in a collaborative learning environment with peers (Note: That doesn't mean you have to go to Berkeley - I went to a top 50 state school and got the same education and job opportunities as all of my friends that went to top 10 schools, but I graduated with a positive net worth.)

(Disclaimer: I know there are always exceptions to everything. I have generally heard very good things about GT's courses - Udacity's I'm more skeptical of.)
Does him changing his mind change anything for you or is that a sin he can't erase?

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

> Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

> Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why.