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> In the Ardennes region of France, large-scale citizen evacuations were necessary during MEC removal operations in 2001. In the forests of Verdun French government "démineurs" working for the Département du Déminage still hunt for poisonous, volatile, and/or explosive munitions and recover about 900 tons every year. The most feared are corroded artillery shells containing chemical warfare agents such as mustard gas. French and Flemish farmers still find many UXOs when ploughing their fields, the so-called "iron harvest".

These are WWI ordnances. Ardennes and especially Verdun was the theather of one of the largest battle of the western front. That's trench warefare at it's worth. The whole region was chock-full of shells.
Like the procdesc system on FreeBSD, which has some rather unfortunate semantics though. (Closing last open descriptors kills processes, by default.)

One could make a collection of bugs that are revealed by (quite normal) process ID re-use. One of particular note in this context is the bug that occurs when one is using Linux control groups in lieu of proper job objects (which Linux does not have) and trying to do what on an actual first-class job object would be a "terminate all processes in this job" system call.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/linux-control-groups-are-not-jobs.html

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6803
Not to mention that the idea that the US is the one good country and must be protected to the detriment of all other countries is massively unethical IMO.
I doubt that "each tier is it's own game" could ever really work: what about the different time scales? It's bad enough already in the Total War series where the strategy and battle compete more than complement.

What would be in it for the player extras on the tactical level? It's hard enough for level design and matchmaking to compose a match of random internet players when there are no further constraints, forcing the parameters of one players strategy session on top of that problem can only make it worse.

"RPG sim" would aim for the opposite, creating a uniform UX with consistent interaction pacing (even if on wildly different timescales) for all the off-screen sim layers.
This is word salad in a math-heavy field.
I'm always amazed that US banks are so behind the curve with this.

It's clearly possible to create a bank transfer facility that works quickly for zero cost. How come they don't?

Checks have always been a major source of fraud. The rest of the world stopped using them and feels no need to go back. How come the US still uses them?
To draw the example to the extreme you might as well put a brick in your pocket. You can't do anything with it so it's liberating!

Obviously I'm being facetious, but only to illustrate that there of course is a balance between features and mind liberating. There's nothing inherent to the device, or removing functionality that liberates you. You can do that regardless of device.
20 Years in the Industry working at one of the big 4 should I finish my degree
I got a co-op 20 years ago and ran with it. Somehow I have ended up at one of the big 4 as SR. Engineer. Is there any reason I should go back to school.
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We drove these electric cars until they died [video]
Everybody is focused on the superrich, it's a convenient target. But how many Zuckerbergean fortunes does it take to balance the books on medicare? What's to stop him from migrating to the EU if it saves a few billion dollars?

The real extractable money is in the middle class, whose wealth passes through government-controlled bank accounts. Of course, when the time comes the lefties will be all "well actually anyone making above 80k is superrich - have you seen the homeless lately? CYP!"

>They are advocating basic healthcare and education, not exactly consumer services.

You could either give them the money directly, in which case it'll go to consumer services. Or you can subsidize their healthcare, in which case they will use the money they save on consumer services. The difference is that the government has a long track record of inefficiency and waste when it comes to subsidies.
Well, you could always open the script.

It's magic in that it does everything itself, it's not a black box.

It's only 460 lines with whitespace and comments, including the files it's writing to the filesystem.
From what I've seen, the reality is that there are pretty clear conclusions that we can draw in those areas

The problem is this is circular: you reached your conclusions based on the output of the academic system (presumably).

I used to think like this, that if most scientists agreed on something it was very likely to be true, that mistakes by whole fields were exceptionally rare and remarkable events, and that groupthink wasn't very powerful.

Over the years I've been faced with evidence that I was wrong about those things, over and over again. Now I think if most scientists agree on a topic where you can't run extremely rigorous experiments then it's quite likely to be wrong, that mistakes by whole fields are very common and groupthink is extremely powerful.

I do think there's a culture at the edge of science ...

Science is almost entirely funded by governments. In some fields there's more diversity than others, but it's notable that the fields that seem to have the biggest problems and most controversies attached are the ones where there's little private sector involvement. If groupthink sets in, and due to the lack of any feedback loops from outside the academic system that is clearly a problem in academia, then almost by definition anything that's taboo will be at the "edge of science" even if it's right.
I /think/ I know what you're talking about, but just in case this gets derailed in a back-and-forth and lost, then feel free to contact me on Twitter @jstanier or my email is in my profile - we can chat more easily there.
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> Just keep bootable OS drive image for every project (set of projects) which builds offline.

Those images don't stay bootable, for different reasons:

* Media changes - Try booting from your tape, or your floppy disk set.
* Unsupported new hardware - Remember how your Linux boot partition needed to be at the beginning of the HDD? Or how Windows setup would not recognize SATA drives unless you added drivers from a special floppy disk?
* It boots, then gets stuck or goes blank on you - display driver issues being a common cause of this.
They don't have to with QR codes either, unless you're willing to enumerate all possible codes in their verifier.

Also the thing is not stopping anyone from providing a wrong code.
Unless every transaction concerning their shoes is recorded on the block chain, which it won't, and which brings privacy issues.
> leftists attack them as not only illegitimate to study at all, but to even talk about.

Conservatives love raising freedom of speech issues, if it aligns with their viewpoint. Where were the conservatives when extreme leftists were getting jailed for burning the american flag? Where were they when in the middle of the century when a bunch of music was considered being banned?

Conservatives don't care about free speech, they care about their own speech.
All I see is the Zillow study. It’s correlation, there’s nothing to imply causation. Obviously large cities have very high rents, and most of the homeless people. It’s also Zillow. I am uncertain why they are doing these studies.

The fact that you keep saying homelessness is primarily political and keep emphasizing that aspect kinda proves my point.

I’m curious if you’ve worked in homeless services, or know a number of homeless people?

In my experience, there is such a thing as suffering that shouldn’t be pinned on bad politics. Sometimes life is really hard, and it’s not the government’s fault, or corporations, or any of that.

I think ... ideally ... the default first reaction to suffering should be compassion?
It made sense in the early days when apps were $0.99 and credit cards charged approx $0.19 + 3% per transaction (Apple likely gets better rates, but just as an approximation).

There's still a lot of apps that fall in that range, but I'd agree with you that it's completely unfair for subscriptions and more expensive apps.

Steam is probably also overcharging with their 30% cut (once upon a time that was an amazing deal compared to boxed retail) and most games are $30+ so it's a pretty hefty chunk of change. I don't necessarily agree with the exclusivity tactics taken by Epic or EA/Ubisoft but having more diverse options for buying PC games is a good thing.
Understanding Bash (2018)
HN design is outstanding, both on desktop and especially on mobile. There's nothing "poor" about it.
The common trope is that European price controls hinder innovation in pharmaceuticals [1]. I've read that American pharmaceutical firms spend 4x in R&D per capita than European counterparts.

Counterpoints?

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd2293
<stdio.h> is part of the C standard library. It's been formally available since 1989 (if C can be used at all), and is one of the headers most likely to be available 30 years from now.
I appreciate your comment (and didn't downvote you). What I wrote does not enjoy the benefit of citations, which I don't have handy.

My point wasn't that these things don't happen, just that we maybe, just _maybe_ have slightly more compunction about killing tens of millions of people at the push of a button (which we can now do) than someone from 1665 would. Would Oliver Cromwell have just nuked Ireland? I imagine his hand would have been stayed only by the thought of all the ruined grazing land.

But, of course, I could be wrong. I don't think humans are inherently better now than 500 years ago. And the 20th century has a grab bag of atrocities to choose from.
That P-code was not (quite!) portable between computers, was a lost opportunity. How cool it would have been.
My son switches back and forth between Minecraft on his ipad and laptop regularly and with ease.
Been using command line more and more had no idea this existed. Looks much better, any downsides?
and yet the rest of the world manages to do this instantly
As a consumer who doesn't work in the banking industry, there seems to be tons of competition between banks. Almost every week I get a come-on from this or that bank asking me to move my savings or open a new checking account in return for a cash bonus, or some juicy (temporary) promotional interest rate.

To my mind, it seems like banks are competing for consumers, they're just not competing using the kinds of gimmicks that techies want: mobile apps, powerful APIs, faster money transfers.

Honestly, I'll take $300 cold hard cash over a flashy iOS app any day.
or some fancy chairs maybe :)
To paraphrase jwz: "Some people, when confronted with a
problem, think 'I know, I'll use PGP.' Now they have two problems."

More seriously, PGP is really hard. I think it has some potential for signing emails from your bank, Amazon, etc. but other than that ... it's just a pain. I'm not a crypto expert but a reasonably skilled IT professional, and even I struggle with it.
It seems that without regulation and legislation, if left to its own devices, the banking industry settles in a terrible equilibrium where you end up using cheques and signing for card transactions in 2020. This extends deeper into the technology that underpins the banks.

The USA has a _ridiculous_ amount of banking fraud compared to Europe, more than an order of magnitude higher for some types.

So, say what you want about government overreach but Europe has legislated lower fraud rates, better technology and even a banking API for interoperability. Not to mention fostering a lot of new fintech startups and challenger banks.
In 50 years they might be speaking Chinese though.
I would point out that there is nothing in the SMTP standard stopping anyone from sending stuff from any email address.
Reminds me of the Avrocar story.
What is your screen refresh rate? With Vsync on, you are capped to the screen refresh values. If you have a 144Hz screen and you're running 165FPS with VSync off, you will run 144FPS with VSync on. But if your GPU struggles to hit 144FPS, with Vsync on it will drop instantly to 72 FPS, then to 36 FPS (assuming no GSync/FreeSync).
> The discussion culture is what makes me read HN nearly every day. The comments are often more interesting than the articles themselves.

This. I often find myself going to the comments first, and then open the article.
I honestly can't see it.
Sure the kids may be fast at swiping, but ... it takes milliseconds for a professional with a mouse to already have aimed and shot against the head of an enemy player.

There is a reason why pros who play with controllers never play against pros on PC in shooters. And I can easily imagine the controller pros will be much faster than swipers.

So, for just building with blocks, I can see why parents just give the kids an ipad so they don't have all the running and screaming, but it probably won't be a competitive way of playing games. I only say probably because I just can't imagine me watching someone swiping on a screen.
> Everybody is focused on the superrich, it's a convenient target.

It's a convenient target because the super-rich have never had as much wealth and power in the entire history of the U.S. as they do now. Inequality is worse now than it has ever been.

Consider an extreme hypothetical, where one person in a country has all the wealth, and everyone else has zero. That obviously cannot sustain a functional democracy. Now consider the other extreme, where everyone is mandated to have exactly the same amount as everyone else. Both are distpoian, but we are far closer to the former than the latter.
As the service has just started, atm 'latest' shows all the postings. As soon as the list grows, more display options will be added.
They keep talking about access to data, but not what's happening to the data itself. Is it being deleted? Sold?
You probably live in a bubble, because people use the switch and the xbox to watch movies, and use their phones to play shooters and other games that could really use a mouse+keyboard.

Obviously not my thing but we can’t ignore the rest of the world.
1. But you won't need to port the bash script, it'll likely just work.

2. Bash is not that complex of a language; it mostly just has somewhat arcane shorthands, like `$@` and `-n` and such. So, yes, you need the manual, but it's not a lot of mental effort.
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> but your reaction to the word “Macintosh.” If you didn’t blink at it, you’ve probably been using Macs for over two decades

No I have never used a mac and I know what macintosh is.

Where is the interesting part of the article ?
Quantum computers can be perfectly simulated by classical computers (but only inefficiently, as far as we know). So at best, you could claim that computation in the brain may involve quantum effects and therefore it would not be tractable to simulate it on a classical computer. But a quantum computer is still a Turing machine.

Of course, we can not yet rule out the possibility that there exist more powerful models of computation than Turing machines. We just know quantum effects don't lead there.
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Perhaps they can hook-up with Vechain and learn a thing or two on how to combat counterfeiting goods on the blockchain.Just a thought though.
It would be just enough to allow people to install third party apps without having to use app store.
On single core without threading.

If you add multi-threading and multi-core, there is lock contention for every single memory access to update the related counter.

Additionally, if there is a big data structure in use, reaching zero will trigger a cascade deletion events reaching stop-the-world like effect.

Which, depending on how the deletion was implemented, might trigger a stack overflow in very deep structures.

Herb Sutter has a very interesting talk about the bad issues of reference counting and how to work around them.

CppCon 2016: Herb Sutter “Leak-Freedom in C++... By Default.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfmTagWcqoE

There are multiple ways to optimize reference counting, like deferred counting, cycle collectors and a couple of others, which when you are done with all them, ends up being quite similar to having a tracing GC anyway.
It's been open since 2017, and it took many waves of commenting before they took action. For a privacy-oriented browser, that's a bit late.
Are you talking about linux? I thought the kernel used refcounting?
I actually did this 3 years ago.. just to be at peace with working with somebody else was nightmare for me having been an entrepreneur for 20 years.. but once I accepted the idea that I can still do the things i love most while working full time for somebody was liberating. Whereas, it used to be work all the time when I was managing my own business.
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> What’s your internal drive called?

I've stopped renaming it because it's hidden away in the Finder and Desktop ️
Has this been proven?

If not, there's room for more research.
I highly doubt that will survive.
The point about customer service failure remains valid, and other countries do do it simpler and better.

Learning about the current system is likely to make outsiders more, not less, judgemental ("how has it been so bad for so long?!")
Having been a pro counter strike player back then, I can tell you that the difference in skill between pros playing with keyboard/mouse and other controllers is incomparable.
"Russia didn't want Ukraine to have nukes."

The most concerned party at that time was the US. Having multiple nuclear armed ex-USSR states was contrary to their interests.

The better example is the US not wanting Gaddafi to have nukes and later invading Libya.
You’re presenting as argument a non-issue and distracting from the real issue. They are researching climate. What GP seems to be referencing is that they’re coming to a different conclusion and are being assaulted for it.
None of those are elite schools.
I'd love to hear more about this.

I've been working as a dev for 3 years and looking at senior positions; do you think this course would augment my practical experience.

I wonder what level they teach to.
"App stores" were run by telcos back then. Usually a storefront selling J2ME apps via WAP and charging money to your phone bill. To be fair the most popular content was ringtones (of the MIDI type).

I think the BREW ecosystem had some solution to set up a store of this kind that they used to supply to carriers?
I'm not saying that it will be on par with PC or even console but check out this clip where you will see the touch in action to the left: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf9r5S-tnu4
Good lord, not a single mention of fake scarcity????

We don't have time because we are bidding against each other for a small pool of resources with respect to housing (and to a lesser extent, education and healthcare).

The formula is pretty simple:

* Restrict the amount of housing near good jobs (thanks Nimybs!)

* Make large amounts of debt available to purchase said housing

* Watch as everyone soaks up the debt in the pursuit of housing!

If 10 households live in a town with 5 houses, those 5 houses go to the people most willing to work themselves to the bone and take on a huge mortgage. The other 5 are screwed (in reality they just have gigantic commutes, share a home when they'd rather not, etc.)

Thanks to the large debt you took on, losing your income means losing the roof over your (and far worse, your kids') heads. So you check Slack at 11 PM, stay in the office until 8, go on pointless BS work trips that exist to serve the boss' ego and get 16 hour days out of you, and generally structure your entire life around income maximization so you can outbid your peers.

There is no reason you shouldn't be able to get a home for under 100k. Not a fancy one, but a home. If you run out of land, demolish the parking garages and put in more homes. If you run out of homes, demolish the townhouses and put in apartment blocks. If you run out of homes, demolish the 4 story apartments and put in 12 store ones. Also, let new cities grow instead of strangling them with NIMBYs, parking minimums, and zoning restrictions.

The above is how I wound up trying really, really hard (and succeeding) to find a dirt-cheap house I could own in cash - and it was only because no bank would be crazy enough to lend on a thatched cottage (oh, we moved to Europe too which helps with health care). Having no mortgage, and no rent, is AMAZING for your personal agency. Taking 6 months off to write a novel, fart around, whatever no longer is terrifying.
I've worked extensively with various luxury brands that do this (to be honest almost all of them do). The reason is almost always brand integrity, they don't want consumers to think of their brand as being cheap so they only ever discount to a point. Add to that that some brands will allow unsold stock to be returned - obviously this means the seller will only reduce the price to a certain point before it doesn't make financial sense. And finally in some cases it makes more sense from a tax perspective to write off the unsold stock as a complete loss than sell it at a low amount.
Could they simply use a different sbox? Or can specific implementations be written to avoid the vuln?

You have to also keep in mind,aes is class-b crypto, the only publicly known class-a ciphers are decades older than aes.
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> on real numbers
Multiple times, you just need to search for a couple of CS papers, including one I link below.
It's not elite. Doesn't carry same weight. Tech is also less "pedigree" driven. You would definitely have a hard time in Business tacks without elite schools.
Good point. Funny you mention that article: I remember encountering both that article and another one that provides some counterpoints! [1]

Also, both those articles are a bit old: RDF* ([2],[3]) is a new extension for RDF that makes it easier to accomplish the same kind of things you can do with property graphs. RDF4j has support for RDF* in the roadmap! [4].

To me, the fact that RDF is 1) a simpler and more general model and 2) an open standard with multiple free and commercial implementations; makes RDF a more a attractive option than locking into a single proprietary implementation like Neo4j.

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1: http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2018/04/reification-is-a-red-...

2: http://olafhartig.de/slides/RDFStarInvitedTalkWSP2018.pdf

3: http://blog.liu.se/olafhartig/2019/01/10/position-statement-...

4: https://github.com/eclipse/rdf4j/issues/1484
Double opt in required should be a law. When my email is given by mistake by similarly named people but I can't correct the mistake because only customers can contact them. Oh the iritating irony of getting security tips from the coop bank when I'm not the account holder.
Btw “playstation now” is a thing. I’m streaming games all the time with my ps4 and I have no issues whatsoever.