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The early-to-middle period of the Silicon Valley semiconductor industry was definitely much more interesting than today's world of oligopolies, company consolidation, and fabless development. It's quite disappointing to see the big names in the industry have all vanished.

A bunch of examples I'm aware of are...

* Motorola => Freescale & ON Semiconductor

* Fairchild Semiconductor => ON Semiconductor

* Signetics => Philips Semiconductors => NXP

* Freescale => NXP

* National Semiconductor => Texas Instruments

* Linear Technology => Analog Devices

* Atheros => Qualcomm

* Atmel => Microchip

Microchip buying Atmel is almost the equivalent of Intel buying AMD in the embedded microcontroller industry. It shouldn't have happened. Where were the regulators? Did they approve the acquisition because they believe the market would still have competition from ARM-based microcontroller makers like ST? I don't know what was the reasoning.

Fortunately, Qualcomm didn't end up buying NXP (there was a proposal) and Broadcom didn't end up buying Qualcomm.
Not Brendan, but I don't think anyone doubts that Brave would break from the Chromium homogeneity if it were practical to do so.

Production-quality browser engines are not basement projects. Even Google waited until they were the big kid on the block to undertake the project. Per Wired at [0]:

> "The browser matters," CEO Eric Schmidt says. He should know, because he was CTO of Sun Microsystems during the great browser wars of the 1990s. Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin know it, too. "When I joined Google in 2001, Larry and Sergey immediately said, 'We should build our own browser,'" Schmidt says. "And I said no."

> It wasn't the right time, Schmidt told them. "I did not believe that the company was strong enough to withstand a browser war," he says.

Piggy-backing on Google's engine for the time being is effectively turning the Goliath's momentum against itself. If Brave gets a sustainable revenue model and good-enough market penetration, I'd have every expectation that they'd feel liberated to take more direct control over the platform.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2008/09/mf-chrome/
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Saw it once, I think it might be someone's storage.
Use reddit to save hashed data. Or DNS!
If the owners of fosil fuel power plants were made to pay for all the damages they're directly and indirectly causing, I'm pretty sure they'd suddenly like nuclear power a whole lot more.
It's not possible to generate a computer system that will remain secure for the rest of time. All encryption can be decrypted.

Every phone ever sold can have its internal data read, it's not a case of if but when. This also applies to every HDD, SDD and any encryption software you may be using, it will be cracked eventually.
A lot of talk about what to do yourself, I'd say do nothing yourself.

Find an expert who has masses of experience who can consult on it.

This isn't a good time to be learning and testing those lessons.
> They're amazing feats of engineering and operations [...] but they're not so easy to visit for most people.

Why is that knowledge important for a risk analysis?

Also, renewable power plants of all types (wind, solar, water, etc.) are also amazing feats of engineering. So I don't see this impacting the argument in any particular direction.
> we all die in a giant fireball.

Hyperbole like that will only lead to the rest of your arguments getting ignored. Even Venus, with its runaway greenhouse effect, is not a "giant fireball" (we even have pictures of its surface).
This is not a court of law, the public opinion is formed from the info available to us and we form our opinions based on our understanding. This is O.K. because we do not put people in prison.

For example, it was O.K. to think that Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos a fraud and express this opinion well before the court decided that.

Therefore I think this is not a glorious story of an innocent CEO persecuted by the baddies, I laid out my reasons for that. You are free to think otherwise but if you want to participate in the discussion you are expected to build up your position and defend it. "Let's wait for the court decision" is not a good argument, especially when a subject is a person who runs from a court decision.
Actually, this issue is worst with video games then say lego or toy cars or dolls. The off-tablet activities seems to be easier to stop for kids and definitely less addictive. Kids are also calmer after stopping them (less likely to take frustration on siblings, less irritable).The selfish advantage of video games is that kids stick to them longer then with other activities, so the parent has more of uninterupted time.

tl;dr: kids behavior changes depending on which activity they do or did last hour

I mean, seriously, it is the similar with adults. Gamer after long session is more irritable, still frustrated from looses and not exactly pleasant to be around.
> including large areas of rainforest in Queensland which has not previously been dry enough to support a bushfire?

He talked about rainforest, not Eucalyptus forest.
Thank you for the feedback. Yes, the arrow token is definitely a polarising one. I personally like it because it's more visually distinctive but even I find myself using the pipe character accidentally on occasions due to muscle memory. So I completely understand why many others wouldn't want to use it too. This is why I made the arrow token is completely optional. You can use the traditional pipe character if you prefer. eg the following two generate the exact same ASTs:

open example.json -> foreach { -> regexp s/foo/bar/ }
open example.json | foreach { | regexp s/foo/bar/ }

You could even use both tokens in the same pipeline if you wanted:

command -> command | command -> command | command

...though I'd urge against doing that - it's better to pick one token and use that throughout your pipeline.

re jq: that certainly covers some use cases but it doesn't cover them all.

For example murex has a hint text - which is a line below the interactive command prompt - and it works a little like the tool tip text in GUIs. It's context sensitive and will give you hints about the command line you're typing such as

+ full path to an executable (including resolving symlinks) so you can be confident you're about to execute the program you think you are

+ it expands variables if any $VARs are used to give you a clue about how the final command line will be interpreted

+ it gives you descriptions about the application - parsed from man pages or the source code (if available)

+ it will display the code behind an alias so

The idea is to inform the user of any hidden traps behind shells that often lead to mistakes.

That's just the hint text. There's been some improvements in autocomplete suggestions that aren't available in most shells eg:

+ man page parsing,

+ suggestion descriptions,

+ the ability to use regexp to jump areas in a nested path (similar to fzf)

+ and it can also manages timeouts in dynamic suggestions better than bash.

I've tried to model the REPL environment of murex more on what tooling I'd expect from an IDE rather than what tooling I'd expect from a POSIX shell. That's not to say I've created a polished UI/UX nor that there isn't some Bash/zsh features missing from murex. There's still someway to go before murex will be out of it's beta stage. But that's the design inspiration behind the shell.
Pixel 3, 3a, and 4 phones can use tethering to share a Wi-Fi connection
The amount of money spent on nuclear reactor research is insane. It's very expensive, it takes very long, it requires so much security.
The whole private nuclear sector was heavily subsidized.

And nobody wants a reactor or storage facility in their backyard. Keep in mind Germany has a higher population density than France. And even France has problems to find locations for their new plants.

In the end after Fukushima, there just wasn't enough support left in the population.
How do you read data inside the secure enclave, then?
> I feel like chrome apps were actually ahead of their time and very much better than embedding a full browser per app with electron.

> Of course, they were not perfect but IHMO made much more sense than what we have today, at least on a technical standpoint and could have evolved into something truly great.

Killing Chrome Apps isn't about abandoning what they enabled, it's about moving it from Chrome App-specific capabilities to web platform capabilities.

https://developers.chrome.com/apps/migration

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/capabilities
No, Apple is using known technology that has existed for quite a while now. Secure enclaves aren't new or mysterious, they are established technology.
> There are features/patterns in Next.js that made sense 6 months / a year ago but are now not preferred

Do you have an example of what changed? We haven't really made any breaking changes for quite some time and have been improving on the existing feature set. Smaller bundle sizes with no code changes etc are part of this.

If you take the getting started readme of Next.js 3 years ago it still works today.
Note that Chrome Apps != Progressive Web Apps, which you can still install on desktop Chrome and the new Edge and hopefully will gain more traction.
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I'm of the opinion that nuclear reactors are generally safe when good engineering and operational practices are adhered to, and do understand that they're a reliable, significant power source.

The main two issues which lead me away from nuclear at the moment are:

- Externalities: even though I've read about various ways to store/dispose of nuclear waste long-term, I've yet to hear of a solution that seems clearly safe -- especially compared to the alternative of not producing nuclear waste in the first place.

- Cost: From what I've seen, Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) seems a standard measure for overall cost of energy production by source, and as of relatively recently, it seems that wind and solar are generally[0] now cheaper than nuclear.

If it's cheaper and externality-free to pursue renewables, that seems like a pretty strong anti-nuclear argument.

I'd agree there's also a larger real-world audience to convince one way or the other -- but I'd also be wary that they'll accept equally spurious arguments about wind/solar not being workable.

I think brief 'talking points' end up being pushed by industry a lot to try to influence people in one way or another - and that those end up flowing through communities and social networks and defining people's 'default' reaction in debates based on cherry-picked arguments even if they haven't had time to read further about the issues.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
Those heap objects are the configuration. Not the configuration input file, but the configuration itself.

It is then be a task to reverse engineer the coding file from the config data structures.
Another nail in the coffin of the Chinese Room. I hope we can finally bury that misconceived argument soon.
Who gets to decide who are terrorists and who are not? And based on what evidence? For very good reasons we have due process for that when it comes to our judicial system. As well the killings proceeded by the US are outside established international norms and even treaties sometimes.
It's a shame, really. I used to play Granblue Fantasy with their Chrome app. It was very convenient and accessible.
You're right, my bad. Sorry for the confusion.
Yesterday there was a link in HN regarding artificial intelligence, and a user raised an interesting question: if a ML algorithm can be considered conscious, could a group of people doing the equivalent calculations by hand be the same?

I think that ant example answers that question with a strong "yes".
Everyone's afraid to do anything on that machine at all. So even getting agreement to login or install software or run tcpdump or whatever is fraught.
We're very committed to introducing only the necessary changes and features. On top of that we have an extensive integration test suite to ensure no features are broken when upgrading.
The first link in that article has a lot of video of the incident I haven't seen before, including the missle launch, detonation, and a close-up of parts flying through the air after the plane impacts the ground:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/1000000069116...
Not yet, but Datteln 4 (i.e. the fourth block in the Datteln power plant) is set to open soon. The operator has committed to taking blocks 1-3 offline and argues that the new block will be more efficient than the old ones.
For those like me out of the loop, this resignation seems to be in response to the firing of two community managers in Stack Exchange.

An overview of the situation can be found at https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/342039/
Boarding first doesn't need to justify the full first class price difference. It's a small peel in a pricey bundle deal that includes much better perks.
As I know, VSCode, Iterm2, Jetbrains IDEs have ligatures option that we can turn on/off easily.
The "Single event" that people were reacting to would be Fukushima, recently beforehand.

IMHO it's not an "outlier" single event, not after Chernobyl. The track record matters.

But it is on the other side of the world. Unlike Chernobyl.
Doesn't explain hostile obituary from Ceo.
Indeed, the first part of his post was reasonable, it is true that other factors are extremely important or perhaps dominant in some of these cases, loss of habitat and insecticide use for the loss of insects, and for wildfires, suburban settlement into forests leading to suppression of regular burning and a consequent build-up on the fuel load.

But then he takes a totally unjustified leap into using a quote from an insurance executive to draw sweeping conclusions about academic institutions and climate science in general. Very strange.
It's going to be some mix of Lindy and bathtub. Lindy for the software itself and electronics, bathtub for fans, spinning disks, cables, other things that may physically degrade.

Also, unless the server is in a data centre with some serious redundancies, (and even then...) the power is guaranteed to go down one day.
^ This. The most chaotic part of the whole process is finding your number in the line-up to scan your boarding pass. They also set your expectations on seat-finding as you board, so if the plane is half empty or full up, you'll be able to make a good seat choice.

While the other airlines are announcing the 15th class of partner airlines rewards members being able to board and everybody's standing around watching, Southwest is loading planes.
Agree.

Attaching a debugger can cause multi-threaded processes to behave differently and/or deadlock if you are unlucky.

Also, some closed-source software components deliberately crash if they detect a debugger and since you don't have source code for the binary, there is a risk that one such component was used during development.
Comparing this to ant colony algorithms and considering ant colony as a network of actors; Can we analytically measure how much more information the network has compared to the aggregation of the individual entities in the network?
I think maybe you misunderstood me, the OP is being dismissive of the ocean cleanup effort because he thinks we should focus on prevention. My view is simply that prevention is important but it's too late to prevent the ocean from filling with plastic, so we still need to clean it. We need both.
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In some ways that's what collonialism is. It doesn't happen as much these days but if/when we start colonizing other planets, that would be a form of countries (or unions) reproducing.
Interestingly it's also a "flare star", so it occasionally gets 10 times brighter for a few minutes (over the whole spectrum, including xrays and gamma).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flare_star
Germany did have a thorium based reactor, it had multiple incidents and was never profitable.

It was only online for two years and was eventually torn down. Well, the cooling tower was, they still have to wait for the reactor to lose it's radioactivity.

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300
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Typical Google move. I have a Chromebook. It was listed on the models that would support Android app, this support never came (it's still "planned", 2 years later...). Support for Linux apps didn't come, either.

So now I suppose my Chromebook will be soon a useless brick. Thanks, Google. Got the message, I'll never use any product with your badge again.
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Ideas and technologies are actively sustained by external forces due to perceived merit in said ideas or technologies.

A computer program that is freewheeling along, by contrast, is not sustained by but dependent on external factors (software, hardware, electricity), all of which are prone to fail and some of which are more likely to fail with age.
Interesting this URL doesn't have lp and was what caused the duplication detection to fail.

I wonder why does lp stands for?
> There is something to your point about post-game hyperactivity, but that can be dampened with some parental intervention. The same behavior can be observed after sugary drinks, vigorous play.

Yes, but parent will still dislike the need for that "parental intervention" that did not had to be. Plus, younger sibling or friend or other relative do not deserve to be on receiving end of that behavior.

When I see my kids to turn into little assholes after sugary drinks, I would have limited or stopped them entirely too. Or be like "no the issue with sugary drink is not that they dont get exercise, it is how they act". (My kids dont have that issue with sugary drinks).
I'm not sure about ants, but with bees the males generally come from other colonies. A princess mating with males from the same colony may cause problems in the offspring.
I was under the impression that nuclear plants needed to be close to population centers anyway, or at least that it was ideal. The plant closest to my city is about 40km away, easily sighted from one of the city hills here in town.
> Looks like they'll still be on coal when most of the world will be moving off it.

That's only true if most of the coal-using world excludes the 2.7 billion people living in China and India, neither of which have any plans to phase out coal at all. The US is also only gradually phasing out coal, it'll still be a major coal energy producer 20 years from now (probably 15% of its power base at that point).

China is very aggressively expanding its coal use - despite using as much coal as the rest of the world combined already. It's presently adding more new coal generation than exists in the entire EU.
The anti-nuclear Movement has been very strong for decades.

Calling it a fad about a single event is uninformed indeed. Ever heard of Chernobyl and other nuclear accidents?
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Those 1–3 minutes can make a difference in a small amount of cases, like tight time spaces in connecting flights.

My ideal plane de-boarding strategy would be to separate everyone in a few groups depending on priorities (people with connecting flights, people without stowed luggage, ...) and mostly make sure that the ones that have to go down earlier do it.
> But my theory falls apart with the reproduction system. We don't really reproduce other 'countries'.

Sure we do. The UK has a whole lot of offspring, for instance.
OT, but "They obtained slices of brain tissue from layers 2 and 3 of the human cortex" has a slightly uncomfortable air to it.
You say that, but you got a Chromebook despite everything Google did in the past. If people had gotten any message they'd have abandoned Google back in 2008.
Please excuse this naive question, but what is the point of ChromeOS/ChromeBook then?

If everything is now WebApp what's the point of an OS that can't run native App vs any other OS that can do both?

I must be missing something???
This is the solution in my experience aswell.

Doing even minor things that could distrupt the execution for any time (attaching debugger, installing packet sniffer that blocks network traffic for a sec or cause a packet lost, etc) could deadlock the application.

Wouldn’t risk it.
With the current CO2 certificate price it's doable and that price is only going up. Germany reduced carbon emissions by roughly 10% over the last two years. [0] The German "Energiewende" is mostly an example that politicians and the coal industry are slowing down technological progress. From 2008 to 2018 there was a whole decade of stagnation and suddenly they manage to trim the fat in just two years? CO2 pricing works extremely well but only if the price is high enough and only if the government isn't actively trying to dismantle the green tech sector.

[0] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/p...
This raises another point of discussion since I would say for most normal people the answer is no.

In this scenario any companies that exist would have to work really hard to make the work fun and fulfilling, which is not a requirement in most cases today. It would be interesting to see a world in which employers actively try to make work an enjoyable way to spend your time
Not being able to explain it to the general public like they are three years old is one of the mayor flaws of nuclear.
OP is talking about a phyaical server. The Lindy Effect is for "some non-perishable things". A server that already has already been running for at least 55 monthes is definitely perishable.
Well, at least that's a plus for non-compiled languages (PHP, JS etc.): even if everything else fails, you still have the code on the server.

But I guess the bigger problem here is the missing config - as long as you still have the binary of the application, you should be able to restart it.
Something that irks me, someone working in the energy industry, is HN's (and reddit's) obsession with "baseload generation", throwing that term around without really understanding it.

It irks me because there is no such thing really. "Baseload" is the lowest point demand reaches during the 24 hour cycle. At all other points in time it is basically a number on a sheet.

What is needed, is enough dispatchable generation to cover lapses in renewable output, keeping blackouts to an "acceptable" level. Such dispatchable generation does not necessarily need to be large thermal plants.

The bigger reason why there is not much new nuclear, is not political reasons but rather the fact that nuclear is simply uncompetitive with other fuels, including wind. Given that wind power is only increasing, investors don't want to invest into a nuclear plant, then wait a decade for a plant to be built that ends up rarely selling power because other power sources always undercut them.