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I don't think Ultrix was ever ported on Alpha.
It was probably OSF/1 or Tru64.
State of the Gnunion 2020
> English law has always considered "exactly what is written down and nothing more" where some other systems tend to give weight to what is considered reasonable (with the ambiguity problems that comes with it) and the intent of the contract.

This isn't really a good description; English civil law leans on reasonableness a lot, and administrative law has "Wednesbury unreasonableness". And US constitutional law discussion goes on about the "intent of the founders" a lot.

No, the Frankenstein veto is a consequence of having a highly partisan system and multiple layers of government. So you can get situations where the govenor and the legislature are engaging in this kind of stupid warfare. I don't think that's actually possible in Germany? Possibly the powers and subsidiarity are distributed in more clearly defined ways in the (partly US-written!) federal constitution?
This puts the lie to the common claim that formatters end formatting decisions. Actually they only move the problem from "how shall I format my code" to "how shall I write my code so that I will like the way my autoformatter formats my code".
Has Pioneer been helpful for you so far? If so, could you elaborate a bit?
I hope you're wrong. The strength of Linux, Apache, and AGPL points the other way. It's almost impossible to get a chip from the likes of Rockchip or Mediatek without a Linux and/or Android bistro attached. GPL-style licenses on IoT systems may be an important part of the only way to avoid an apocalypse of compromised crapware IoT devices.

The more serious problem is the weaponization of open source by the big actors, using it to simultaneously generate a scorched-earth moat around their respective castles while hiding proprietary extensions behind a network connection. I do not consider this to have been good for the software world at all.

As I'm sure you know your prediction has been made for 30 years. Doesn't mean it can't come true but unlike you I don't see the tide moving that way.
You can do "taskset --cpu-list 0 make -j"
Google's high end phones, the Pixel 4, uses hand shaking to upgrade the resolution of some photos.

https://www.androidauthority.com/super-res-zoom-pixel-3-9149...
Currently there is a new wave of better transistor technology, that should hopefully make our power supplies better. For example, Gallium Nitride transistors in combination with System in Package technology and spintronic isolators could and should revolutionize consumer power supplies again. Unfortunately, this area is not considered too sexy and does not get too much investment.

But hopefully, they do get around to it. I can't wait to get rid of the power bricks.
What I found is that if the car battery is completely dead they don't work. So they aren't a complete replacement for jumper cables. But I've left the lights on, battery dead. And the hand held jumper got my van started.

I don't know how long the batteries last. I assume they use lithium polymer batteries. Mine I just keep it plugged in all the time.
What advantages does this have over say, just using pthreads and the Linux kernel to handle the scheduling? I guess you can hit higher performance by not making extra system calls, right? What other benefits would there be?
Just nitpicking - it's her (at least according to the linked page, second last paragraph).
Every time someone writes something like this, I just wish Google open sourced its Fibers - that thing is sublime. Unfortunately that's not going to happen as the niceties that implementation affords require a modified kernel. I think I saw a presentation describing Fibers a few years back by one of its authors, but it's darn near impossible to find because there's also "Google Fiber". If someone has a link, please share. Fibers sort of opened up my mind to what's possible in this space if you go deeper than people usually go. They're also a source of dissatisfaction with how this turns out when people don't go as deep as the authors of Fibers did.

https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/issues/5
Curious if it would be possible to do this setup with VR as well.
Does less efficient result in more total fuel loss, in this specific case, since the engine will be running for a different amount of time?
Enforced? Not, as I think you're pointing out, by prohibiting conversion. That is, if

char c = '\0';
void* p = (void*)0;
int a = (int)c;
int b = (int)p;

then

a == b

resolves to true. In that sense, they are the same - which I believe is your point. In that point, you are completely correct.

The difference is that I can't do

*c

In that sense, they are not the same - not in the sense of numberic value, but in the sense of type. Also, c is 8 bits, and p (at least these days) is 32 or 64. (I pity anyone who ever had to work in an environment where p was 8 bits!) So they are the same numerically, but they are different both in type and in memory footprint.
Those alerts can invoke a Lambda that shuts the service down, which is a ridiculously baroque solution but it's what you get.
School buses are only efficient with certain road/student layouts.
Thanks for the reply! Yeah, I was implying that I'll miss custom tags, so I'm glad to hear they are planned!

I was planning to do something similar myself (note-taking/blog-making system with good defaults and customization in a sane language), but you beat me to it. I'm looking forward to new updates!
I'm not really arguing with that. But there's a difference between being very comfortable and money basically being a non-factor even for expenses that the typical person would consider a complete extravagance/unaffordable and cost basically being completely irrelevant.
The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story (2006)
Google’s expansion means that Google is succeeding, not the scene around them. Their hiring more people doesn’t increase the number of tech-related companies at all. Maybe the number of banh mi shops will grow. It just means that Google likes the lower cost of running some operations up there.

The scene around might grow and might not. Wannabe Googlers might come on spec and work for a different employer if Google doesn’t work out. Xooglers will be emerge eventually, but if they’re not making googly money, it’s hard to see them staying to work in tech.
I'm in NL and have some experience and contacts. E-mail is in my profile if you'd like to have a coffee. Also, we're currently evaluating test automation tools and frustrated with most solutions so would love to hear your pitch ;)
that depending on your sites purpose and where your servers are located / where your main customer base is you might be opening yourself to extremely negative public relations by blocking this person as a bot, or even legal repercussions.
Thank you so much for sharing, Don!
Finding investors is easy (use AngelList), getting them to invest is harder.

At your stage, they will look at team, traction, and social proof. Generally being exceptional in 1/3 of the above criteria will give you a pass on any of the other 2.

My best advice is hustle your way to 10 users and if they're happy go raise a seed round.
I would think it was to reach London before they closed off airports due to the storm
It's wild to me that people expect computers to work, all the time. I just sort of shrug my shoulders and roll with it.

Then again, people freak out when their car or their lawnmower doesn't fire right up on the first crank, too.

I guess I've just dealt with so much broken, flaky stuff my entire life that it doesn't even faze me anymore.
You should check out mypyc

https://github.com/python/mypy/tree/master/mypyc

and this new recent issue that mentions targeting LLVM or other targets

https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/8373

https://github.com/mypyc/mypyc/issues/709
I'm not suggesting this in lieu of questions, but in addition to. The problem with questions by themselves is sometimes it's ambiguous if it applies to a small portion or a larger portion. Also, questions are not always a good way to indicate doing something right, and any good review will also highlight what was done well.

In the end, it's an additional channel of information, which may expose miscommunication on either side. I don't think it's that uncommon to have a comment next to something that the reviewer might think should cover a larger portion of the work than the creator thinks, either because it's unclear, or the creator slightly misinterpreted what the reviewer meant and didn't see how it applied.

Providing structure that requires active categorization of all of a work (or all of it that's being reviewed), even if it's just to mark it the equivalent of "eh, no real comment" removes ambiguity. If for nothing else than because different reviewers have different standards, and some will mark and question everything, and you can assume anything left unmarked is good or better, and some will only mark egregious stuff, and the rest can be considered to range from mediocre to excellent, which isn't as useful if you goal is also to foster improvement.

> The power of good questions work at every level, and you can drive a lot of good growth and progress via them.

Good questions means well defined questions, and I think anything that could make those easier to output by default (or reduce the minimum quality) might be extremely beneficial.
The irony of this blog entry is that Tim Ferris is a relentless self-promoter who continues that practice for the entire first half of this essay before finally getting to the drawbacks of being a successful self-promoter. I appreciate the thought, but I question the motives of the author.
In one case, sales & admin felt “uneasy” not having a real office where to invite customers and partners. I honestly don’t see how a crappy shared-space office is better than no office, but I’m not in sales... Another case, ISO-8000something about controlling infrastructure from which you access customer sites; which is kinda stupid in the third millennium, but there you go.

The problem is that, as soon as you have expensive real estate paid for, you get all sort of pressure about actually using it, so new hires are placed there 100% etc etc, until “grandfathered remotes” are effectively considered legacy.
> €1.4 an hour for the CPU/GPU alone, plus a couple more Euro for hard disk usage and long-term storage (usage was pretty high during setup, which accounts at least for half the amount)

The Azure solution sounds much more expensive than the prices quoted in the article
Ah, yessss, Cepage, or "seepage". At the very first talk I went to, to find out about Eiffel, in 1986, Meyer spent 3/4 of his alotted time talking about Cepage. Soured me.

It was an interesting language, in some ways, and could have been extended enough to be useful but, like Modula-3 and Oberon, even at the time obviously would not supplant C++. Rust could still suffer the same fate if it can't fix its compiler-speed problems. It's the only candidate on the horizon, with its Drop trait, for those places where nothing else will do.
Three command line games for learning Bash the fun way
What is the opposite of measurement, in a quantum circuit?
I asked similar question about angle of attack (both 737 max and AF447) - can't they just look at a glass of water to see they are at wrong angle.

But with planes it doesn't work that way - everything is relative to the air outside, not the ground. With good tailwind you still have to go with your cruising speed relative to the tailwind. Your ground speed will be insane. The opposite is with headwind.
Appreciated, I will reach out.
When my homework assignment required internet for research and the coffee shop was my choice for studying.
> I don’t think Meyer understood that the era of free compilers had begun.

It arguably hadn't. OOSC came out in '88, and that was probably the first big push of Eiffel. The dedicated book and the release of their IDE "EiffelBench" followed in '90. Free compilers weren't an issue for either commercial nor desktop customers.

But the market for the big OO language was still more open, so they would've needed to gain more ground in that era. Most of the other OO gurus of that time (and it was a fiercely personality-driven industry) favored either SmallTalk or C++. A few built other OO languages, like Oberon or Modula-3.
Maybe Meyer should've collaborated/marketed more, maybe having an European background was a big downside from the very start. Maybe the whole purism was a bit too strong for an industry that likes sequels more than Hollywood does.

By the time OOSC2 came out in '97, MS heavily invested in C++ and Java was all the rage. If you wanted something alternate, you used something like Delphi. It was over by then. Small/Smart-Eiffel actually was pretty good and could've been used for even commercial projects. But no programmer used it in their day job, no killer app was written in it.
What's the RAI?
To answer you, the key part of your reply is: "...that may compete with current r&d or future r&d".

It seems to me that they are afraid (or at least unwilling) to compete on even grounds, despite likely having more budget than a single random employee competing in their free time.
Software systems are meant to be totally consistent, both for the sake of being able to execute deterministicly on dumb machines, and for reliable performance in relatively static or funneled environments.

Legal systems operate in constantly evolving environments and in thick, untransparent cases where the truth of the matter is typically unknown and needs are conflicting.

You might be able to do this kind of thing in limited settings of organizational design or corporate policy – but you will not be able to completely replace federal law with software.
Videos and audio in Safari use the touchbar as a scrubber with controls.
basically I've written bots for scraping governmental sites, and fashion sites. I've never yet had a problem (although the code on one fashion site looked like all classes were randomly generated with implied some attempt to keep scraping from working), so what I'm wondering is - what kinds of sites actually go through the trouble of tagging you as a bot, since you've got experience care to share?
Agree that it’s a pain when it happens (the gate delay) but Heathrow closes at night so these are some of the first flights to land so it might not be much of a problem.
All the morning (evening departures) transatlantic flights I’ve been on west -> East have arrived suspiciously early too so I suspect there’s some schedule padding going on...
Had a good experience using boost::fiber https://github.com/boostorg/fiber
They called it “big iron” for a reason: Cray-1M site planning reference manual
Yes exactly. That’s what I meant to say with the word “particular” there. Thank you for making that clear.
Granfalloon
I wish they would upgrade the systems that serve the story. I’ve timed out (given up on it after 30 seconds) trying to read it on over 10 different occasions at different hours of day and night.
There was a python+LLVM talk last weekend as FOSDEM too (video is up)

https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/llvm_python/

"Python with LLVM has at least one decade of history. This session will be going to cover-up how python implementations tried to use LLVM such as CPython's Unladen Swallow branch (PEP 3146) or attempts from PyPy and why they failed. After that it will show what are the current python projects that use LLVM for speed, such as numba and python libraries for working with LLVM IR. In the end, it will mention about new ideas that would unite the powers of both LLVM and Python."
Debugging Embedded Linux Ethernet
Are you saying the governor's boss should fire him, or if he refuses to do so, should be fired by the state's CEO? The problem with your suggestion is that Wisconsin is not in fact a dictatorship; there is no CEO with whom ultimate responsibility rests. Instead, the various constituencies who might otherwise be shooting each other in the streets have agreed to abide by a fixed set of rules, known as "laws". Clearly in this case the rules turned out to favor the governor more than was intended, but the option of simply ignoring them as a result has significant downsides.
Tdo: Simple bash script for todo/notes
So you ignore all the things that you were clearly wrong on to pick a particular item you could criticize for. That doesn't sound exactly fair.

Furthermore your criticism is itself weak. You drew a parallel between what I said and a discredited version of the history. Well fine. But that discredited version of the history was not at all what I was saying.

What I was saying is that Christianity can't validly claim credit for the progress of science, and that as science progresses there will inevitably come to be conflicts with religion. A short list starts with the fact that the Earth moves around the Sun, the fact that there never was a world flood, the fact that the Earth is much older than the Bible accepts, and evolution. As well as many more minor conflicts.

This is not to say that there aren't people of good will on both sides. It is also not to say that religious people did not contribute to science. From Isaac Newton on down, they did. However the relationship is one where science continues to expand and eventually creates new conflicts with religious faith.

Also the early history of modern science is complicated by the fact that it coincided with the Protestant Reformation. A period where people were killing each other in large numbers over what should have been minor disagreements on faith. (As an example in the 30 years war, something like 1/3 of people living in what is today Germany got killed.) In this atmosphere it was very, very easy for what should be innocuous intellectual inquiry to draw the ire of local religious leaders. And it was also easy for people to self-censor if they got scared. This was not a permanent state of things, but it was a real problem in the 1600s.
While I don't have the expertise to know if it's right or wrong, I find Martin Vesely's answer to this question the most intriguing of the bunch:

Martin Vesely: "A measurement leads to collapse of a wave function describing qubits, they get to one particular state and remain in that state. To do reverse operation you have to repeat measurement many times. Based on resulting probability distribution you can reconstruct the state of qubits and prepare it again.

The reconstruction of probability distribution is done with quantum tomography.

Arbitrary state can be prepared with method in this paper: Transformation of quantum states using uniformly controlled rotations (https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0407010)."

Comments?
memcpy/memcmp
I mean Elsa and and PCC are cool, but who actually uses them? Clang and GCC are pretty much all there is, but regardless it’s nice to know what people have tried/are trying to do. These bullet points in particular make me want to tinker with PCC and see how much it is (and is not) capable of:

> The PCC source base is very small and builds quickly with just a C compiler.

> PCC doesn't support Objective-C or C++ and doesn't aim to support C++.
Just us out at [Ionic](https://ionicframework.com/) - a complete platform for doing just that. Write a web app using your framework of choice (or none at all!) then deploy as a PWA, iOS, Android, or Electron app.
The US have a system where the president has the power to start a nuclear war. Consequently, the presidency is an supremely powerful office only one party can control at a time. This is a winner-takes-all system where the stable optimum is a two-party oligarchy.
You wouldn't know if their destinies were any different, because if they were not famous, you'd never have heard of them.
Not really. The outage was fixed, the problem went away, and virtually no one remembers it now, much less is angry.

It’s true that an internet service failure shouldn’t affect local search. But at this point it’s a latent bug that just needs to get fixed soon.
This seems like a great place to plug smos: smos.cs-syd.eu

It's like emacs' org mode but without the emacs.
Politics isn't an engineering process, it's a knife fight carried out with pens.
Makes me think of the steradian. This is used in photometery for basic things like the lumen (1 lumen = 1 candela per steradian), where there's the concept of a light source emitting in all directions uniformly, and also what amounts of that arrive at what distances onto a surface, and what amounts are absorbed or reflected, and so on.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumen_(unit)
“This video is private.”
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet
If you have the power to approve or reject a bill, then the power to approve, reject, OR ALTER the bill is a stronger power, not a weaker one. In this case, a vastly stronger one.
One of the reasons for the imbalance is that the Canadian dollar has traditionally been weak compared to USD. Since a large portion of the Canadian economy is based on exporting natural resources this is an overall good thing for Canada to have. Balancing all of the competing interests in a national economy is hard.

From talking with people I know who are still in Canada it sounds like the FAANG companies expanding there presence is starting to fix the wage disparity for tech workers. Without the wage gap there is less incentive to leave. I'd rather just let this continue than rely on some knee jerk government intervention that is likely to have unintended side effects.
Not a great deal, the work is highly specialised and requires a few skills and qualifications that very few people I know have.

Without going into much detail, putting somebody through the required processes costs about $10k but also requires them to be decently skilled to begin with.

I'll be deferring work if I can, but not at the cost of losing clients - doing so would likely result in me losing them forever which will cost a huge amount more than not having a social life for the next six months.

For what it's worth, I'm not someone who requires a great deal of pleasure time. I enjoy my job - it's problem solving, with constantly unique problems, even when I'm not working I'm generally spending time problem solving either by coding or playing simple strategy games with massive game trees, so 80-100 hours / week coding isn't all that far out of the ordinary compared to a regular week for me anyway.