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FreeBASIC is a great descendent of QB, which is suitable for serious, even commercial projects. It has seperate "qb", "fb" and "fblite" dialects. "qb" is very highly compatible with QuickBASIC, while "fb" (the default) is a modern language which has almost all the features of C++98 except multiple inheritance and templates.

I'm co-maintainer of a large RPG creation engine written in FB.
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This is great. I especially like that it follows the protocol's implementation for the most part. i.e. you still have utxos and script verification even if it doesn't actually support the array of script op codes.

There is a fully compatible JavaScript implementation that you could use as reference to extend yours: https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin

With my post, I tried to boil down the concepts as much as possible to save some mental bandwidth and make understanding the overall easier. We will see how that turns out
BLM and #metoo are driven by impunity: a crime is committed by people in a powerful position, and the normal justice process completely fails to deal with it until an overwhelming number of people come forward.

They are also driven by real incidents: No sane person alleges that George Floyd isn't dead, for example. Whereas with witchcraft and many of the others the alleged "harm" was vague, nonexistent, or impossible to link.

BLM and metoo are also bottom-up movements, whereas most of the others were either initiated from the authorities or were authoritarian responses to popular demands (Prohibition is probably the latter).

The paedophile scare is complicated. There do appear to be fantasists and "recovered memory" incidents, but there is also a lot of historic child abuse that was institutionalised. Magdalene laundries, for example.

Mob justice is the weapon of last resort. The best answer to mob justice is an official justice system where justice is seen to be done. This requires tackling prejudice about whose crimes are investigated, whose are exonerated, and whose evidence is taken more seriously. How many women's testimony equals one man's testimony, for example?
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> Bullshit. Most of all because it's not a binary issue at all.

Parent comment doesn't claim it is binary, or rest on it being binary. Post good quality evidence to show that marks work.
Since companies embraced FOSS, most for cutting costs than anything else, there was an increase in POSIX clones with more interesting licenses.

IoT is full of them, NuttX, Zephyr, RTOS, MBed, microEJ, Azure RTOS ThreadX among a few others.

So after the generation that has created and groomed Linux moves on, its golden age will be most likely forgotten, replaced by endless forks and alternative POSIX clones.
On any given day, at least 80,000 people are held in solitary in the United States prisons and jails, either in supermax or other segregation units. Some will remain for months, years, or even decades in conditions that have been shown to cause deep and lasting psychological and physiological harm.

What the fuckity fuck - how is this allowed to happen, in 2020, in a democracy, in a rich/western country? Especially one that loves to preach values of freedom/democracy/equality etc to other countries around the world? This is awful
I agree, if we finally got a way to have working bundles on the web, that would be extremely useful. (And would also restore some of the capabilities of browsers to work without internet connection).

It seems to me, a lot of the security concerns come from the requirements to make pages served live and pages served from bundles indistinguishable to a user - a requirement that really only makes sense if you're Google and want to make people trust your AMP cache more.

I'd be excited about an alternative proposal for bundles that explicitly distinguishes bundle use in the URL (and also uses a unique origin for all files of the bundle).
As soon as you dive into what's offensive or not, you'll start discriminating ideologies and religions as well. Denying this request might be denying that persons religion/ideology, while accepting it, is offensive to others who don't belong to the religion/ideology. Don't think you can win here really.
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But the point of compression is, you wouldn't transmit a bunch of zeroes. You would transmit "here go 285 zeroes" or "here go 403ms silence". Which is far less data than the equivalent time in non-silence.

Really transmitting the zeroes as they are is just transmitting uncompressed PCM, which is the trivial solution. Adding filler is undoing most of the compression. The hard part is to add just enough filler, jitter and confusion for an attacker to be sufficiently blinded while maintaining an acceptable compression ratio.
> And the walkman is arguably one of the classic cases of “build it, and they will come”, where a product was well ahead of what consumers were already calling for.

I was born much after its release, but I have to say I find this surprising. Cassette players were popular with car commuters, why wouldn't it have been obvious that they would be with train or bus commuters?
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I worked in a company making warehouse management systems. After deployment on production for a new customer storing cheeses we found a lot of bugs (the system would say there should be 10 kg of some cheese at particular location but there was only 9.7 kg etc.)

Eventually we realized cheese is losing weight with time and we had to include that into all of our algorithms :)
What network instability recovery features are there in http and ftp? I thought that was all in tcp?
What public record? AFAIK, the association between war on drugs and targeting radicals and black is mostly based on hearsay.
The problem with this is it's extremely limiting and conflicts with interfaces. So it's not very useful: you can't define enumerations with no associated data, or enumerations with the same associated data types, without the syntactic overhead of explicitly wrapping and unwrapping those types. So you'd end up with

type thing1 int
type thing2 int
type foo either {
thing1
thing2
}

var f foo = …
switch v := f.(type) {
case thing1:
data = int(v)
case thing2:
data = int(v)
…

and frankly that's a bit gross.

I think `select` would be a better basis for dispatching than switch as it already supports getting data out of stuff, and it better represents the linear top-to-bottom dispatching.
Agree! Quote from another comment here:

> I’ve been held in isolative conditions for 17 years

How can this be legal, beneficial for anyone or even possible for other humans to execute on? One would think that prisons should at least pretend to try to make people better than just isolating them until they die. And if not that, one would think that prisons would make a cost/benefit analysis and find out that people generally get more twisted from spending long time in isolation.

And if neither of those two are applied, one would think that someone along the chain would see "17 years of isolation" and act to fix that or refuse the order of continue to lock them up.

The prison world is truly fucked up, and it's not because of the prisoners.
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Super boring answer, and this is not an admonition to you, but in general; shouldn't this lead to lawsuits? It needs to be tried in court.
So it is not about education, just about the money. When people started to call college education a massive scam I disagreed, but I start to understand some of their points.
>A heater has not been psychologically engineered

Maybe not your heater, but have you seen my Monster-Barbecue-Grill??
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What are your views on the curriculum at https://teachyourselfcs.com ?

I am new to this and will be documenting my experience here: https://www.rkpblog.tech/2020/07/following-the-teach-yourself-cs-curriculum/
I remember once signing up for Disqus (I think), or some other “combined” commenter SaaS.

After I had entered my info, but before completing the process, it said “We found all these comments out there. Are any of them yours?”

It displayed a list of ancient stuff; a lot of it posted anonymously (I thought).

I was horrified, and immediately binned the signup.

The Internet can be a downright creepy place.
The person doesn't need to be in a position of power. All someone has to do is tweet something you said a long time ago, out of concept, and then someone else in a position of power finds it. Or it gets signal boosted by other people until it comes to the attention of someone in a position of power.
It’s not about the Chinese people but about their government. Smart people don’t want to contribute to the regime and leave the country. This is where the comment “the Chinese can’t innovate” comes from - it’s about the political regime being unable to cultivate innovation, not the people lacking the faculties to do it.

The fact that China, the country, has to steal all their tech, while Chinese people contribute to innovation all around the world proves my point.
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And then you get what you measure for: people that can pass some very specific test. Not good employees, I guess.
It also makes signed exchanges completely unusable for delivering packages offline. (E.g. the USB stick scenario)

What a bummer.
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I would love a more rational approach to software pricing and security. We live in a time that makes clear that good software requires constant maintenance. Why shouldn't the pricing reflect the cost structure of companies. Once all you got was a few months of warranty. I can account for that. Decades of software fixes and yet unknown bugs - I can't account for that in advance. This goes for all machines connected: phones, cars, TVs, personal computers. No more planned obsolescence, but pricing-to-cost. I can even imagine tiering. One price for Android-security, another for Android-security+functionalities, etc (/s/Android/any software).
It would be entirely analogue in the signal path; radios didn't become digital until DAB. Although some acquired microprocessor front panel controls in maybe the 90s.
It's done on large scale: just split the projects into teams and each team can be on a time zone, so intra-team communication works well and inter-team is done as much as needed.

This is how companies have offices across the world, more and more in low cost locations. It this is what you want ...
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Breaking: Sacred texts from 680 B.C. are a simple alternative to high-budget Hollywood movies

JK, interesting read but the idealism is stronggg.
I guess he was referring to systemd.
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Taking online courses can be hard since you often don’t have the community or peer pressure that exists in eg university. Has anyone built a community where you can form study groups around a course or online resource?
Only for s-orbitals. Anything with a quantum number l>0 has 0 probability at the nucleus.
Plenty of people are throwing around inflated or manufactured accusations of racism. Or trying to publicly ruin private citizens for sharing forbidden thoughts among friends and even family. There have been a string a highly dubious rape accusations in the press. In many cases, gross exaggeration or outright fabrication of the claims has been proven. The climate we live in now is very similar to these previous purges. That you find yourself politically sympathetic to their cause only makes it easier for unscrupulous elites to use the mob to do their bidding.

You might think you're safe today, but you'd better hope that your moments of candor stay off camera, because no one lives life carefully enough to be immune to this angry mob.
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How is the issue not bloated websites? You can easily create a text only website in HTML which is compatible with every existing internet capable device. All technology can be misused, it isn’t necessarily a problem with the underlying technology. By introducing yet more standards and technologies, you end up creating bloat and fragmentation of a different kind.
That doesn't answer the question, and doesn't even make sense.
Satellite radio already exists, they can just compare.
There are a number of text-based diagram formats that could be supported, like PlantUml and such.
Once you've had actual root beer, it's such a disappointment to drink the modern thing called "root beer".
> Adding filler is undoing most of the compression.

Really? Would I not just get a not quite constant stream of (unencrypted) data that‘s small enough to send at a low bandwidth? And when that data arrives at less than the maximum bandwidth of the channel that I actually use, I just add some filler. And then I encrypt that now really constant stream of data.
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Basically all audio codecs meant for real time communication are built to maintain constant but rate — because even though it is nice to save a few bits occasionally when you can, you can’t use present silence to encode future speech (you haven’t heard it yet...);

So, no. The filler is part of the protocol and is not undoing any of the PCM compression; silence would let you compress the stream more than the plain voice codec would - and THAT would interact with encryption. But that’s quite unusual for real time systems.
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It’s seems a rather peculiar definition of capitalism, if it emerged so late.
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> Audible controls 90%+ of the audiobook market, and audiobooks presently account for about the same number of sales as hardcovers. That's an entire universe of literature that is under total control of a monopolist.
The author is probably thinking about HTTP partial/range requests ("resumable downloads"); they can recover even if the TCP connection is closed.
GSM is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/1 (over the AMR codec). The 3GPP docs are generally available if you want to get very, very technical about the mobile network.

Generally any combination of a constant-bitrate low-latency voice codec with a cipher in XOR stream mode should work. If the codec does "comfort noise" you should disable that to keep the bitrate constant during silence.
s-orbitals (l=0) have non-zero probability at the nucleus. Anything higher (p-, d-, f-orbitals) have 0 probability at the nucleus.
>Only prohibition, the war on drugs, #metoo, and BLM had noble goals.

That distinction is entirely in the eye of the beholder.

Some say McCarthy was vindicated with the release of the Venona papers and the declassification of documents from the Soviet Archives. Many of the accused were in fact spies for the Soviet. Also the stolen secrets for making the Atomic bomb almost brought the world to an end.

>I suspect that the fallout from virtue signaling and bad actors taking advantage of #metoo and BLM probably won't be too bad; certainly not on the same level as the rest.

It's sad to see how you have to walk on egg-shells to placate the BLM zealots and still get downvoted and somebody is probably already combing through your post-history.
Eh http://www.lemis.com/grog/recipes/measures.php#cups ^^ (didn't bring much traction when posted :( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23634019 )
Asking questions is not a sin. I will endeavour to answer where I can. :)

I'm no expert in this area myself (read as I've been educated by the internet and been too lazy to dig deeper), but I hope this reddit thread[0] leads you to some answers. Daniel Micay is the author of GrapheneOS, formerly CopperheadOS.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/bddq5u/os_secur...
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[citation needed] on these techniques, versus just using constant-bitrate mode?
Not sure why this is getting downvoted so heavily, there is another comment above which is asking about competition in this space and this comment is just sharing some links relevant to that discussion. Thanks parent.
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> fails at logic more than at poetry

This is purely subjective.

Your expectations in Poetry might be different from those of other people or even specialists. I am not particularly good in that domain, but I don't really like the results shown sometimes.
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The author of this article does not know what encryption is. He's mad that proprietary audio codecs can be used on amateur radio bands, but the codecs are documented in the patent applications (since expired) so no encryption is occurring. It's like not knowing that you need an MP3 player to listen to MP3s. That's not encryption, that's not having an MP3 player.
You could easily explain the basic principles in human-sized numbers (ie, less than 1024).
I'm using it since about 5 Years and I fully agree with you, it's great!
> Plenty of people are throwing around inflated or manufactured accusations of racism

Such as?

> There have been a string a highly dubious rape accusations in the press. In many cases, gross exaggeration or outright fabrication of the claims has been proven

Such as?

Are we back to finding the worst possible examples of a cause on twitter and using it to discredit the whole cause, just like McCarthyism used one or two actual pro-Stalinists to demonise everyone asking for more equality?
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Software is not a fast business, VA-API came around in 2007!
That first paragraph is a single sentence... Tried understanding what you are saying a couple of times and I just can’t.
Nice! - looking forward to the follow up articles.
Don't want to be political on HN but I see lot of parallels between now and then.

A plague effected region, ruled by conservative parties, opposing science and logic in the name of religion or freedom. persecution of people who either look or do something different from their own.

Printing press helped in spreading both lies and truth. Now a days, mainstream media and social media is being used to spread all kinds of gibberish.

I won't be surprised if our own version of witch hunts starts soon, either in the name of nationalism or something else.

Sorry about the rant
Link should be:
https://capitalone.com/tech/software-engineering/go-is-borin...
Bleach is not generally considered OK to eat. The flour is naturally whitened by ageing and there are naturally softer flours so no need to chemically alter them.
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yesterday I watched a youtube video about GPT3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yVOC4ciXc), and it showed two poems. One was human made, the other was from AI trained on that human's poems.

Both poems were pretty good. But one of them had a metaphor about the moon reflecting in ocean waves, being distorted and taking on monstrous forms.

I figured this had to be the human one, it was a novel description (because metaphor) of a very real experience (how the moon appears in reflection on the ocean).
also not really sure, how a protocol wants to be simpler than http (send bytes to port 80, get bytes, print bytes...) if it has baked in content limitations...
Yes, you are a malcontent.

You can buy a ton of iPhone battery cases and get exactly what you want.

As for ruggedness of the device itself - the current devices are way more solid than the first gen big screen devices. Most of them are even waterproof.

If you don't want a big screen, you can buy some phones that will survive anything - check out phones by CAT.
I just wish they had not insisted on TLS and closing connections. It defeats the purpose to me because you are going to be delayed constantly by new TLS startups.
Nestle and Goldman Sachs have merged? Missed that...
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I think that will be great for old hardware. I have a very old Thinkpad R50e here where Youtube did not work properly in the browser, at least not above 240p iirc, but you could download the video and watch it with vlc. The difference was the hardware acceleration, and I specifically remember VA-API (together with a second acceleration API?) as coming up at my research back then and being disappointed the browser would not use it. So this could be a nice improvement for a wide range of old devices.
If anyone is interested I have an idea along these lines under runvnc/noscriptweb on GitHub. https://github.com/runvnc/noscriptweb

Its probably going to stay as just an idea because other projects have priority.
> But to make CLOSOS actually useful, we need an abstraction for having multiple first class global environments.

This seems fine as a research concept but it wouldn't tempt me to use it.

IBM got on fine with CMS just being a single-user operating system.
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I think it's more likely that Airbnb is indeed virtue signaling. Pretty much every corporation is virtue signaling these days, so I don't see what conclusion you can draw from the use of that phrase itself. It's an accurate descriptor.

A user can care about discrimination and still object to policies that overtly erode user privacy at the same time as they show solidarity with a certain movement.

Ultimately it's my name and my likeness, and I don't want it to be shared without my knowledge and consent. A company can't say "but I'm fighting discrimination!" and expect me to be cool with the violation of my privacy.

Not to mention that the data will be used to classify users based on race, defining people by their appearance rather than their actions, beliefs, and character. There is no guarantee that such data will never be used against the very same users it purports to protect.
It would be a really good way to accelerate mobile pages, so I think HN might hate it.
I remember being on the old Sprint CDMA network, you could dial ##VPON# and it would encrypt your connection to the tower[1] but was disabled by default. Dunno if that still works (I no longer live in the US, and EVDO isn't a thing anymore).

I'm fairly certain Cell networks are not encrypted at all, by default. Or at least it's disabled completely by the towers in Afghanistan. :whistling:

[1] https://bestcellular.com/dial-codes/