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> But let's not forget that Opera browser earned its reputation for being blazing fast, its tiny size and its low memory consumption on the desktop platforms long before it became a popular browser on the mobile platform.

Just about all of the major browsers earned their reputation for being blazing fast, tiny, and using little memory. And those attributes are well-deserved at their launches. Then real-world pressures kick in -- it turns out that although people love small and fast, that doesn't do them much good without support for X (or being able to handle condition Y), and there are many, many values of X (and Y). Small and fast plus X would still be nearly as small and fast, but small and fast plus all X is decidedly not. Meanwhile, the other engines are evolving too, and everyone more or less converges on roughly the same performance characteristics. We [I work for Mozilla] end up mainly competing on different metrics, assuming we all keep up with "good enough" speed and size.

> It says a lot about Firefox that despite being older than both Chromium / Blink and Webkit, the latter are more popular in many open source and commercial applications because of the ease of use in coding and integrating it in their applications.

Indeed it does. Firefox abandoned embeddability long ago, and only recently decided to try again with GeckoView. And yes, it was a deliberate decision, but not for the profit motivations you're suggesting. It was based on maintainability and developer velocity, when we realized we were not going to out-compete Google with engineer headcount. We had to simplify and reduce our nonessential complexity overhead.

> Mozilla also made some developers sign non-disclosure agreements

Why throw so much shade? I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to, but Mozilla does indeed sign NDAs for stuff that people will only make available under NDA, and there is some insider knowledge that can only be released under NDA or not at all. That was far more common with FirefoxOS, because let's just say that the mobile industry isn't quite as open as desktop. (Massive understatement!) But generally speaking, we have very little to gain from keeping any technical or architectural stuff private, and quite a bit to lose. We're still a community-based project, and get very substantial contributions from non-employees, admittedly much less than in that past as a percentage (for a long time, we hired up many of the better contributors, which cut both ways.) The vast majority of our discussions happen in open forums (Matrix instead of IRC now, but still mailing lists + newsgroups + various other things). The only private technical stuff I ever deal with is security-related, and even there we're very good about opening up bugs after they've shipped.
Australia here. Universities consistently market their national ranking here. As a staff member I've found management consistently pushes things that will raise their ranking. As a student initially at a high ranked university, I found I got a better education by switching to a much lower ranked university.
Why “baking” damaged reel-to-reel tapes renders them playable again
If it's impossible to write anything you're guaranteed to not have any errors.
The language at an early development stage. So "How immutable should variables be?" is open to discussion. You might want to open an issue and propose this in the issues section: https://github.com/chaos-lang/chaos/issues
Given the enthusiasm for class action lawsuits in the US I am amazed this passed muster with management and the legal department.
> the degraded performance looks very much like a drive failure.

Sure, but given the choice between "During a rebuild, it looks like another drive isn't doing so well, so I should give up and trash the array"

and

"During a rebuild, it looks like another drive isn't doing so well, so I should notify the administrator and meanwhile try to maintain as much redundancy as I can"

which is the sensible choice?
Haha :)

I'll take this moment to say I appreciate how active you've been on HN responding to questions every time a Stripe article pops up.

I realize this can't be very fun for you to have this as the top result for the last however many hours.
> The response the original commenter got from barry-cotter was to "shut up and listen to your betters" because the commenter wasn't a "certified expert" followed by a rant that could have come straight from an episode of Coast to Coast AM.

I apologize for a lack of clarity in my writing but not for being very, very pissed off. I assumed it was obvious that I was paraphrasing kspacewalk in the bit about one’s betters, given that it directly followed a quote about the hubris of thinking that a mere peon’s opinion is worth anything or that what they do might matter.

If the people and institutions in which we have placed our trust fail us we have every right to be angry. The populace’s of Taiwan, Korea and Singapore should be showering their ministers, civil servants and CDC equivalents with rose petals. Everywhere else screwed up to varying extents and thousands to hundreds of thousands of people will die because they failed at their job.
In both Australia and New Zealand, the number of visitors from overseas is a red herring. The world didn't bring the novel coronavirus to us: we went there and brought it back.

For example, under the old normal, on the order of 1 out of 1000 people in Britain were Australians! I don't know exactly how New Zealand compares, but they wouldn't be far behind.

I think the differences between, say, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, France, Germany and Singapore are pure dumb luck. The virus spread through mega-churches in France and Korea; they were doing exactly the same things in Rooty Hill, but no one who turned up happened to be infected. New Zealand bogans haven't discovered cruise ships yet. Melbourne's international student accomodation got lucky, Singapore's guest worker dormitories didn't. And so on.

Don't get me started on Australian federalism. The Commonwealth decided to let the virus in and suppress it, ignoring the fact that the states were committed to blowing a trillion dollars on lockdowns the moment it turned up in volume. At least we can blame federalism; what excuse does New Zealand have?
Let's continue to engage because I want to screenshot this for posterity -
So if you want to video chat with your parents, you will buy them a server and a phone ? Then when the server will fail, you will go to their house to fix it ? (Remember you can't video chat now)
I suppose you could explain it that way.

But given that it's not an object oriented language, how could any variable be mutable given your example/definition?

How could you mutate a variable in a way that this language disallows?
It usually means that this vendor gets very small number of leads.

1. They could be in customer validation phase, where they are trying to "talk to users" to understand your need and build the product.

(or)

2. They want to handhold you to make you successful and covert the small number of leads like you into customers.
i wish that math and statistics were mandatory education
Aye. I've been trying to price out what's better essentially three tiny machines, a threadripper, or dual 7302s (until the higher core count ones drop in price).

The threadripper seems strangely more practical the more I think about any of them... but is also not as cheap and small as something like the 3300Xs and doesn't have quite the I/O available for really long-term usage like something outta the Epyc lineup. It is damn good for the now though...

I'll probably hold off buying anything until these come out just in case some righteous sales show up on them and some mini-itx motherboards.
Surprisingly easy! I was scared of building TUI like this because it seemed so complex, but it's actually not that hard. Or at least, with tui-rs[1], which is surprisingly easy to pick up. Once you read two or three examples, you'll gain pretty good overview of how to build applications with it. I can definitely recommend it, it does all the heavy lifting and leaves surprisingly little for you to care about. Just don't forget to unset terminal raw mode before your application exits, or else you'll start breaking people's terminals :-)

[1]: https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs
Amazon for sure has a game studio: https://amazongames.com/

They bought Twitch, they control a massive physical and digital distribution platform, and it's just a matter of time before they launch games that are exclusive to Prime/Twitch members. They literally control the whole pipeline. Yet another reason to break them up.
Postmortem: Gas Powered Games' Dungeon Siege
If that is a real Ad I love it.

I also think more mundane army portrayals like this helps to defuse US separatist extremist groups while visor down or active combat portrayals fuel that fire.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762028

TL;DR contact tracing shows numerous cases of asymptomatic people that have introduced the disease to people near them.
In cases like that (where they also span across brands) I usually check out which single one Costco sells or what something like Wirecutter recommends as the "base." My specific needs may vary, but it's a start.

If you can afford it and are willing to spend the money, the robot vacuum and handheld combination @malandrew mentioned is a pairing that has worked for our house for the past few years now.
I agree that it was completely misleading and that extending warranties solves nothing SMR related specifically for performance.

An advance ship program to swap drives with SMR is what should happen.
When I first moved to Seattle in the early 2000's I remember seeing signs on I-5 with a number to report people violating the HOV lanes. Call '764-HERO'. A local band started called '764-HERO' and I thought that was so clever given that only local people would get the joke.
You are implying that there are a lot of people that are on those margins. There's simply no evidence of that being the case.

In fact - the drastic rise of living costs in economic centers indicates that people will take that move, even if that trip back is several hundred dollars and takes many hours.
Inconclusive. It may be worth following this research group: https://project-evidence.github.io/
I'm assuming that you store the info for a length of time. Just a couple questions, if I may:

If Stripe is ever purchased or goes bankrupt, can you provide any reasonable assurances that this data won't be sold?

If your company ever receives a search warrant for those records, how will you respond?

Not really looking for in-depth answers! Thanks!
Isn't this chain of trust essentially what crev [0] tries to do? FWIW Rust implements cargo-crev [1], but I suppose you could extend this to AUR packages with a bit of work.

[0] https://github.com/crev-dev/crev/

[1] https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev
Writing udev rules for development boards (2016)
US bars new immigration green cards, not temporary visas
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Thanks a lot for finding the way Chaos language handles the decision making, interesting.

There are a lot of alternative keywords, especially for type safety and function definition related keywords, with the purpose of attracting programmers from other programming languages and making them feel at home. At least that was the intention.
I feel the same way. Hundreds of resources for learning programming online, but little else.
I would love to take a class on "Building plant based proteins" but can't find anything online.
I think the only difference for most use cases is cost. As soon as the $/byte ratio lines up between SSDs and HDDs the market for HDDs will basically be long term archival storage only I suspect.
SMR explained:

Be aware that this drive uses SMR technology (Shingled Magnetic Recording) to achieve such high density in a small package. If you don't know what that is, think of how shingles on a roof are laid out partially overlapping each other - that is how the data is laid out on the drive platters. While this allows significantly higher capacities, it creates some complexity to writing. If the drive needs to write data in the middle of existing data, it can't just "place" it there like a HDD using PMR technology because other data also overlaps it. What it has to do is put the data in a temporary location, then re-write all the shingled data afterwards to the end of the track break.
Oh it is, marketers would love to be able to tie you to your historic purchasing behaviour.
I'm mostly on board with the critique of university rankings, but I really don't buy this specific critique. It's a strawman.

Here's what they did: they took the top research universities and the top liberal arts colleges. They then observed that the rankings can't distinguish between the top institutions within each class, and that you can also flip which of those two classes is preferred.

But, in what sense is it even meaningful to compare Amherst College and Harvard [1]? Those are just enormously different types of institutions. It'd be like creating a ranking of "best cars" that includes the top 5 sedans and the top 5 trucks, and then observing that you can jiggle the rankings to get anyone on top. Is a Toyota Corolla better than an F-150? IDK. Stupid question. US News and World Report, for all its problems, does at least get this much right! they break down institutions by "type" and then rank within type.

Additionally, just because rankings are noisy and easy to game locally doesn't mean they are inaccurate or easy to game globally. Two institutions within 10-20 slots of one another are probably pretty similar and rankings aren't particularly helpful / are easy to game. But the #100 liberal arts college is probably not as good as Amherst, and the #78 National University is probably not as good as Harvard, and no amount of gaming is going to change that.

Rankings are indeed noisy and inaccurate and easy to game. But this particular article is not a compelling demonstration of that fact.

[1] For non-US readers: Amherst college (not to be confused with UMass Amherst) is in a class of peculiar institutions that are fairly unique to the USA as described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_college TL;DR: they're basically the diametric opposite of super-charged research universities like Harvard.
Facebook invests $5.7B in India’s Reliance Jio
At work we switched from zoom to https://team.video in part because when we tried it out, all of the sudden the quieter people were actually using the emoji reactions to register agreement or reservations, or whatever feelings about the point being made.

And so we could have a much richer discussion, because when someone would flag their concern, we could know to dig in and ask questions to understand the hesitation. Or even better, if we could see everyone is in agreement, then we get to stop talking about the thing and move on.

It was immediate for some people, and for others it took a little getting used to, but so far overall it has been a great equalizer for those who might have previously kept their good ideas to themselves.
Two days days ago this was on apod: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200419.html
> I don't suppose it's been open-sourced, has it?

No, it was leaked illegally. Opera filed a lot of DMCA complaints with many online Git repository services to get the code removed from them. But you can still find it if you Google hard. I also recall reading that some Russian developers were working on the leaked code and had also released a "newer" version with some patches (Opera presto was really popular in Russia) but I couldn't find it.

There is another little known open source browser project independent of Gecko, webkit and Blink currently being developed but I just can't remember its name, even though I tried compiling it on my system ... damn ... I'll post an update when its name comes to mind.
I would argue its headcount growth (not salary per employee), but admittedly I could not immediately find data for this.

Edit: Also upon looking through the Trinity College financial statements, a huge portion was categorized as "Other", which included consulting fees, travel, interest expenses and various other expenses.
This HDD is dead anyway
The worse performance is major part, but what makes it worse is that these drives regularly fail on RAID rebuilds when a lot of writing happens, which is a time when your data is most vulnerable and increasing risk of losing data.
Great idea!

One suggestion: don’t use Twitter as your support/contact system. I don’t have an account with them, don’t want an account with them, and so it’s a turnoff to think I might not have a good way of providing feedback or get support if I paid for this product.
>> They consist of countless small particles, ranging in size from micrometers to meters

>> The densest parts of the Saturnian ring system are the A and B Rings,

I don't see anything that says exactly how dense the rings are, though...
Seagate will happily brick your drives with bad firmware. Toshiba is it.
Kind of missing the point, it's not about the source code. It's about the authors willingness to cooperate just because an NSA agent implied "it's important".
US Energy interests did a really bad thing in the 70s, 80s and 90s that's lead to this bull-headed knee-jerk response from a lot of otherwise environmentally minded people.

At the same time... in Vermont the Vermont Yankee[1] plant destroyed anyone's ability to reasonably advocate for safe nuclear power by repeatedly violating the public trust to make a quick buck and saddling the state with a heavy burden, specifically:

> In December 2014, Entergy submitted the Post Shutdown Decommissioning Report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This report estimated that the total cost for decommissioning the reactor would be $1.24 billion. The same document reported that only $665 million had been collected in the 42 years of operations of this plant for this purpose. Entergy hopes to raise some of the shortfall funds through "external financing".

The sorta TL;DR here is that nuclear power, at the tech level we had in the 70s/80s/90s is incompatible with capitalism and the greed that goes with it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Yankee_Nuclear_Power_P...
CFOs: Covid-19 Work-from-Home Plans May Be Permanent
> How could you mutate a variable in a way that this language disallows?

I presume something like this:

array a = [1, 2, 3]
a.append(4)

Names are mutable, but the values they point to are not.
> From a legal perspective, isn't the burden of communicating privacy to the customer on the website/content provider, not Stripe?

They get the burden, but they wouldn't be able to know about evil activities from the third party provider.

In the unlikely case where Stripe was a bad player, the customer would sue the website, the website would countersue Stripe
So close and yet so far. You need to read section 69b of the German copyright code (§69b UrhG) asap.
How does this fare with the Apple Pencil via Sidecar? Would definitely try this out if it works well.
Right. It's even conceivable that a programmer's union would actively oppose side projects and/or open source. Possible reasons: first, developers who participate in them will have stronger resumes, which creates an unfair expectation that you should be doing uncompensated work outside of your job. Second, the existence of free software devalues the work of paid developers. Companies shouldn't be using your open source project for free; they should be paying for union-built software.

I entirely disagree with those arguments, but I could see them being appealing to "501 developers" (https://501manifesto.dev/), and they're the majority.
You made me curious. I can’t find any technical information how the pictures were made but I wonder. The rings are between 10m and 1km thick which is pretty thin.
There are some lines that seem to be borderline hyperbole (“You would have been better off just burning fossil fuels in the first place”) but it does highlight that as far as renewable energy goes solar and wind have some major shortcomings and difficult scalability problems. The percentages of the earth's surface that needs to be covered in solar panels to meet global energy demand ranges from 2-8% depending on whether the estimate factors in efficiency losses in storage, weather, and other factors. That amount of land consumption is going to have massive ecological impact. Solar's energy density and intermittency are such that it just takes up a huge amount of land.

Nuclear power remains the only renewable source of energy that demonstrated ability to provide the majority of a nation's electricity consumption, besides geographically limited options like hydroelectricity and geothermal power. Solar has a place on building rooftops to supplement electricity generation in otherwise wasted space, but it doesn't make sense to choose it as a primary power source.
Interview with Steve Walmsley, Creator of Aurora, the 4X Sci-Fi Dwarf Fortress
https://write.as/

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Oh, mostly the forest-y and nature-y states - Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arizona, Washington, Oregon, California...I would've liked to see more of Montana and Michigan, but it gets cold up there in the winters.

Mostly I drove through Texas to avoid Oklahoma (one of my least favorite states), but the Guadalupe Mountains were very nice.

I'm not sure I'd call it 'clean' though; the air seemed awfully smoggy and I saw almost as many flaring wells as I did in North Dakota. But there were lots of open spaces and the people were friendly.

Washington, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Utah get my vote for the best places to do a parks/forests vacation, depending on your interests.
As far as I understand after reading the docs for 5 minutes, this section is the core original idea behind the language:

https://chaos-lang.org/docs/11_decision_making

> Decision making(a.k.a. control structures) in Chaos language is only achievable on function returns for the sake of zero cyclomatic complexity.

This looks as original and language-defining as Rust's borrow checker. I really wish authors changed their docs accordingly. Everything else is pretty standard on a conceptual level, but this still has me thinking whether it's a work of pure genius, a joke language or both.
A lot (unanimous?) of hate for Google Shopping in here. I actually think it's great. Amazon no longer has the lowest price on all kinds of different goods. So I use Google Shopping tab to price-compare across every possible retailer for, say, a specific rain jacket or a TV. There is some junk but if you mentally filter for online retailers you trust/have heard of, you can get a great deal compared to just running to Amazon sometimes. And the filters/search works reasonably well.
Does YouTube generate a profit?
also do you want to clean with the lights out, in regular patterns... in which case botvac is worth a gander (lidar, square face [corners]). I dig irobot backend (camera recog) but eod consumer tech has one judge, does it work? and under what conditions.

ps. newer models of irobot are exploring the lidar space

pss. military applications are under a different irobot spin out/brand.
Interesting. I wonder how one would measure whether an institution changes student trajectories? Or if that data is available somewhere.
Facebook agreed to censor posts after Vietnam slowed traffic
That's true, but the data collection doesn't have to be this automated. It's a tradeoff for ease-of-use.

Everyone used to use Paypal, right? That doesn't track anything on your site in the default flow, but it requires sending the user to paypal.com, where they will have to enter even more information. But at least it doesn't collect mouse movements on all users on non-payment pages.
can they fix it so kids Family link account work without a dam phone number ffs Google Family link is a joke sometimes
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