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Expecting people to make meaningful even informed comments in an arena that is in no way suitable to the information your sending is not a failure of the receivers or the commenters. It is a failure of the sender.

Asking people to invest their time to actually read extensive information about what your try to say, with no perceived additional benefits to them is just hubris.

Pick your audience or tailor your message to your audience. Don't blame the receiver.
I've a bigger issue with the inheritance of this money. You look at the news globally and so much is driven by those who have inherited it yet seen to think it's been achieved thru their own hard work

This is where the Carnegie's, Buffetts and Gates are right about being custodian of wealth. It also adds a generational reset on great fortunes
/libexec is already on the root partition, at least on NetBSD, and that's why I wrote the paths that way in the article.

And that's why I also mentioned en passing that sourcing local files from a potential /usr/pkg/libexec/rc.d/ directory would be problematic.

In fact, even today, making rc.d files automatically work from installed packages is a problem precisely because of this: those files currently end up in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d/, and /etc/rc cannot use them by default because /usr/pkg/ might be in a different partition. There have been endless and repeated discussions about this issue on the NetBSD mailing lists.
It really shows, just like docs written by someone who hasn't actually understood what they're writing about yet.
You can, just compile sysutils/openzfs
Exactly. If you are developing a product you have to make sure that it reaches a sufficient number of people that would pay a certain amount. Number of customers times the price and you get your expected income. If that is too low then don't spend your time on it cause you'll just be losing money.

Consider, if your argument is taken to its absurd extreme, then you would have to pay for full development of any software you use by yourself. Just running Windows or MacOS would cost you millions if not billions of dollars.

Edit, addendum: you can also view it that the money needed for development is then covered distributedly among the customers. Nobody is expecting others to pay for them but the expense is too big for a few customers to cover it (at least for this type of software).
Stability is the result of smoothing out bugs the hard way. A new framework has bugs, you just haven't found them yet.
Will this pave the way for Firefox using the Gecko engine instead of Webkit in its iOS browser?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_iOS
They're trying to establish a precedent that would limit all monopolistic behaviour, including theirs. Obviously their motivations are to make it easier for them to compete, but it won't make it easier for them to become a monopoly.
Jeez. This should be HTTPS with HSTS.
You are just pushing the solution to the problem of relevance (which isn't actually a real problem) down the stack, into the body. How does the body magically create this new kind of relation called cause? You are mistaking the image in your mind for reality. The image you see in your mind is the product of an extraordinarily large neural network that has done all the statistical analysis for you.
Thanks for reminding me about this! I had seen it years ago, but forgot about it till now.
You missed the high-risk experimental South Texas Nuclear powerstation near Houston, which almost went off after the last hurricane. If the river levels swap over into the coolant ponds, the pumps get dirty and stop working. Last time it was something like 30 cm left.

This wouldn't be a simple radiation leak, more like a Fukushima meltdown. Just with double sized 1600MW vessels, not simple 800MW. The safety measures were always substandard. Palo Verde, which is an even bigger risk reactor, is much better protected and managed. Even if they have not enough cooling water.
Correct, it is documented. That's what documentation is - to list out and describe the API surface.

The entire documentation block for that is prefixed with a big yellow-box warning:

> using the style attribute as the primary means of styling elements is generally not recommended.

And then it links to https://reactjs.org/docs/faq-styling.html which just says over and over again "use class names"
> Read the paper? You're lucky if they read the article

I WANT to read the paper. Most of the time the article gives no link to it though.
The money is barely a drop in the bucket for Apple. I was more hinting at that this inflates the number of developers, since a chunk of them are actually people who pay to get early beta access.
> where the only software you could run has to be approved by the manufacturer.

My two reasons:

1. I bought cellphones before the iPhone. This is nothing new.

2. I don't need everything to run on my phone. The amount of things I can't run on my phone, but wish I could is incredibly tiny, compared to the perceived additional utility my iphone gives me compared to my last Android or dumbphone.

Moreover, I also own a Nintendo Switch and am considering buying a Playstation. I think as a consumer, I am not alone in accepting that certain devices will only run manufacturer approved software.
> In all honesty I can't understand why would anyone use anything other than zfs nowadays for important data.

In datacenters many probably do, however most home/soho NAS machines are severely limited wrt memory and CPU power, which could be a limit. My self assembled NAS uses a Atom board to keep power requirements low since it stays always on, and I can't complain about its performance, however that CPU doesn't support more than 4GB RAM which is considered the minimum to properly use ZFS (NAS4free). Many cheap commercial NAS boxes used in small offices are even more limited. I wonder if there are any technical reasons preventing ZFS to operate (or be adapted to) in low memory environments.
I thought that "pre-booking" means that you input all the available data related to a document into some computer system, but you do not finalize & accept the document yet -> so some of the data can still be changed in the future without consequence (for example: when some issue is explained with a supplier).

Pre-booking is the initial step before a complete booking.
Heck, you could easily imagine a system where software distributed outside the app store can only access a subset of perms if security is such a concern, and that'd still be less anti-competitive

I think this system is called the world wide web.

Apple would have a much stronger case if mobile safari were a first class PWA platform, instead of being almost useless for PWA's. Then the choice would be: make a PWA and live in the browser sandbox, or go through approval and be on the app store.
> Help humanity thrive by enabling the world's teams to work together effortlessly.

I have no idea what any of this means. It's grandiose and therefore, upsetting.
It does say to "Use everyday English whenever possible. Avoid jargon and legalistic words, and always explain any technical terms you have to use."
Aral: you go rounds and rounds to reinvent ideas that are solved, and it's been like this for years.

You could join any ActivityPub based project; even start one; build a Matrix client with a web frontent; dig into Scuttlebutt; start working with Beaker on dat://. Any of these choices are better, than starting yet another approach from scratch and wasting a lot of time and effort on it.

Now, for the other issue: please don't try to coin new term that is confusing to everyone. For example, there was a brilliant essay recently - https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/ - which used the same "small web" phrase in a very different context. This is just the tip of the iceberg with the problem of using something this generic.
Reaper has a billion actions you can assign to key combinations, and you can build your own toolbars from them. I think it's as close to a console application as I've seen a GUI get. It also has a scripting language you can use to make just about anything. GUI Emacs sounds like it probably influenced the Reaper people.
> I still wonder why so many people buy devices, where the only software you could run has to be approved by the manufacturer.

Because many of us feel that the alternative (The nightmare that is the desktop PC application ecosystem) would be far worse, especially on a smartphone.
This is a beautiful response, clear and to the point, perfectly addressing the parent comment... but do you feel like you're making any progress with the explanations?

It seems like every bitcoin thread on hacker news endlessly generates nothing but 2013/14 era FUD. I don't see people installing lightning wallets and playing around.
FRAND licensing for patents is also 'forcing'. In fact the two situations have a lot in common.
As a software developer, I tgi k maybe you misunderstand scientific reproducibility.

Other scientists should be building their own apparatus, writing and running their own code. That the experiment is actually different is what validates the hypothesis, which specifies the salient conditions leading to the outcome.

That an identical experiment leads to an identical outcome fails to validate the hypothesis, because the casual factors may have been misidentified.

Precise reproducibility still matters if generalized reproduction fails, however, because the differences in the experimental implementation may lead to new and more accurate hypothesis about causality.
Uncertainty is bad for the supply chain.

Saw mills aren't sure they are going to buy logs and living trees are better than rotting logs and so on.
> It's nothing more than a: you move and we'll move stalemate; you don't move, we won't move. It's unspoken and very common in business.

That sounds very much like the definition of collusion. An unspoken agreement that says "you don't move, we won't move".
> Do we want more square footage so we can cram another person or piece of furniture in

But is this what's happening? As far as I know, and particularly in the US, square footage is increase despite the reduction in the number of people per household. And are people really cramming stuff with furniture nowadays?

It feels really strange to hear the complaint that the US is optimizing on cost, when from my side of the pond, US lifestyle feels if anything extremely wasteful.
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It's worth reading the report. There's a lot more pieces to this puzzle. Another recent development is high off bore sight missiles, which drastically reduce the need/utility of high energy cost maneuvers.
I don’t have problem with platform setting some standards and mostly I am happy with Apple put out there (as a developer too)

Even though you can say mobile phones are general computing devices, actually for most of the people they are just media consumption devices.

I believe technical restrictions are not enough in this age alone.

As long as they have rules and it is applied fairly and equally, I prefer controlled and regulated market places.
> Another exception is Nushell

I was talking about production ready systems. Nushell is far from it ATM, and will certainly be so in the next half decade.
I was disappointed with the article for a different reason. It starts out by saying it's not just about Jeffrey Epstein, but then it's mostly about Jeffrey Epstein.

I mean, Jeffrey Epstein is a problem of course, and his example helps to illustrate the problem, but the core of the issue is that things cost money, so the people with money call the shots. This can undermine the honesty and independence and objectivity of science, of journalism, of politics, of democracy, or any other aspect of life.

Money is power, and that makes a very unequal distribution of money a problem. To science, but also to many other aspects of our society.
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Premium brands aren't helping by normalising this, maybe not to the same degree but every Android experience seems to come with vendor botnet stuff built in.
"solved" is overstating it, but are already being worked on by groups that have made good progress and a working base, and will continue to make progress.
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"Sense check" is one that infuriates me. Just say "check".

Every place I've worked with managers that speak like this has invariably produced crap.
In your examples, it's not the brackets signifying the multiplication. It's the adjacency that signifies the multiplication (as in e.g. 3x) and in they happen to need brackets to highlight the precendence which would be lost in e.g. 3x + 5.

The notation of the article logically follows because e.g. (4) = 4 but using that as a "cheat" to enable multiplication of numeric literals using adjacency is very rare I think.
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It amplifies meaningless shit into the stratosphere with its trending algorithms, aided by the fact that the largest userbase on twitter seems to be political extremists of both left & right. It's created an environment where making a comment like "mathematics is merely a white supremacist social construct" is now somehow acceptable to the left.

It is like unleashing a neural net that amplifies whatever it sees in a image but fed with white noise IMO. And then it just keeps on spiraling in on itself.
Author here, thanks for the feedback. This is v. much a work-in-progress, I'm in the process of trying to build something non-trivial with it. Just a couple of things to address in general from the comments so far:

- I'm aware of dhall, jsonnet and friends, I think they're cool, but I think the most important for me is this is just js - that means nothing new to learn + you can use it from front end code + free linters etc.

- I think the to-html bit is important, this is something I tangentially talked about in more detail here - https://leontrolski.github.io/dom-syntax.html. There was some discussion on hacker news about that one too, again, I think the important "feature" is that it's just js. Again, to me that's really important, so hiccup, jsx, etc don't cut it.
I don't think Epic use the same account on purpose -- I mean, why pay x2 the fees?
I had something like "If you have read this far, please mention Bananas in title of your Message" in the middle of my linkedIn profile to know which recruiters would read through the whole profile.

Good times when I got 'bananas' in my mailbox.
Why do those abstracts sound more and more like GPT-3 generated? Sokol would have a field day.

> Glacier extends Java to enable programmers to express immutability properties effectively and easily. Obsidian is a language for blockchains that includes verification of critical safety properties.

Java - check

Blockchain - check

Safety - check
Yes you were. You were talking about pacsave/pacnew. There are no such things on the operating systems discussed in the headlined article.
> If you don’t have the patience to digest the article, what give you the authority to write on the topic?

... your common sense, your sense of logic, your spidey sense to detect BS trained since long time ago, your previous experience, or the fact that you are yet a expert in the topic.

Or just your curiosity and desire to participate in the conversation, that is the correct motivation. To take a chance to improve your knowledge about a topic shouldn't be regulated by a pass.

Everybody wants their paper turning into a breaking new / symbol of authority or just cheat in the citations game, but this is not how it happens most of the time. Most of the time it is just published and nothing happens. Nobody will rush to read your hard work. Is just how it is
Every type of devastation, possible or not, has been "foreseen" by someone out there.
Thanks for the feedback. Some useful insight.

Yes, agreed that there's much more that can be done, but this is attempting to put a basic framework around the very early stages of validation (which should obviously be an ongoing process, anyway).

It's frustrating because obviously stuff like persona building should be in there, but at some point if you include everything it becomes too unwieldy to be a simplistic, quick process. I'd love to get to a point where this is both simple AND comprehensive. But I expect that's a bit of a holy grail.
EU west 2 AWS has been having issues this morning. We've had a load of outages ourselves, they could be experiencing something similar.
This has been a fun project - moving the camera around in games like Flight Simulator simply by slightly moving your head is really immersive. Not quite VR, but good enough! Happy to answer any questions.

(Coming soon - a version that will run without a TrueDepth camera.)
I usually only recall seeing it where it's the expansion or replacement of a variable with the actual value, when solving equations or similar. It's not great. I've seen it used in a text talking about programming, with letters: so a(x) was actually multiplication but looked exactly like a function. Ugh!
Thanks! I've read Running Lean, but will check out BMG.
What about child birth defects ?
Dunno, Ping me felt quite natural to me. It feels like a handy substitute for when there are multiple options for one person to contact another and person one does not care how he is contacted. As opposed to very formal communications that stick to email or mail.

Ping me => email/call/slack/whatsapp/zulip/telegram/meet-in-person me
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This put users through much unprompted and unsollicited change, Url bar at the bottom? etc

We should have a disconnect between the engine updates/security features and the UI.
The definition of "revert" has evolved, and even dictionaries are starting to acknowledge its alternative meaning as "reply". See: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/magazine/06FOB-onlanguage...

I personally love "ping me". It's even shorter and more punchy, compared to "message me".

Language evolves. Shakespeare would find our English today bewildering. Instead of complaining about it, I find it most helpful to keep up with the latest lingo, and focus instead on conveying my message most clearly.
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Google still uses ext4 for its servers, while Facebook uses mostly btrfs nowadays.
It is not so much about verbosity as it is about clarity in public communication. It is not about preventing a poetic turn of phrase but about avoiding the all too common business bullshit intended to deflect blame and shift responsibility by muddling the content to near incomprehensibility.
Yes but why?

Why not demand to be able to have control over your own devices?
libexec is not really BSD-specific, but yes, this article is about BSD.

However, I also mentioned that the same problem applies to pre-systemd Linux systems because of their /etc/init.d/ directory. systemd has actually done the right thing here (which is also mentioned in the article) by putting unit logic under /lib/.
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No, it's not rare. It's still quite common when you have people manipulating literal numbers. The literal numbers are what's rare.
> Education and health care?

I wish - I really do :/

When countries set their budgets for the year - they'll set aside, say, 15% for defense - if their DoD reports to the cabinet that none of the superpowers will sell them new toys then that government's cabinet is not going to suddenly craft a new budget and divert that money that would have gone to new fighter-planes or small-arms to other civilian areas - that money will certainly stay with their military who will find some creative use for it.

...and that's the best-case scenario - for a country that isn't expecting hostilities.

What I meant by that was that if NATO doesn't sell to a third-world (using the strict/classical definition of "third-world") nation who is looking to buy arms then a rival power or superpower will - they may even give-away some amount of arms gratis to sweeten the deal and to "thank" the country for leaving or even reconsidering the NATO/OEDC sphere-of-influence - obviously Russia isn't the Soviet Union and they don't have the same expansionist goals, but I believe we're seeing the PRC making its moves. The PRC hasn't yet fired-up its export economy for defence gear yet - but I believe it's inevitable.

I stress that I don't want to start-up any Sinophobic sentiment - but what I'm seeing the PRC do is exactly the same thing I'd expect to see from any rising superpower looking to preserve their unending explosive economic growth... history doesn't exactly repeat itelf, but it often rhymes: the PRC wants influence, apparently to benefit itself (and I am concerned about the signs of Han ethnonationalism being the motivation behind their foreign and domestic policy objectives - and the PRC doesn't stand for the same principles I do) - I'm concerned where it will end-up. So if it means having to sell arms to countries (as part of an socio-economic-military package) to keep them in NATO+OEDC (which _generally_ value the things that I value) with the view of keeping them out of the PRC's SoI then that's something I'll have to accept.
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> Don't make your readers hold parts of the sentence in their head.

Funny to read this as I'm learning German! In German the main verb of a sentence has to be at the end depending on the context (e.g: if it is a question, or following some prepositions such as "dass").

Let's say we want to build a question, it will be constructed this way:

1. question marker (such as "Was", "Wo", "Warum", etc)

2. subject

3. other details regarding the subject (adjectives and others)

4. the verb, with correct grammatical form depending on the subject

Something I find quite frustrating is that I have to keep in mind everything about the subject during the entire duration of the sentence just to be able to use the verb correctly. So because of this I always try to keep the distance between a subject and the verb as short as possible when trying to speak German, which results in very terse sentences that looks similar to what you described.

My life partner speaks native German and doesn't even realize that she does this buffering.
Yeah same here, and I'm also seeing troubles querying my Redshift cluster -- I'm guessing it is a more widespread issue, potentially with the datacentre itself (eu-west-2a).
Realistically, the changes will be the ones that have a minimum cost to implement: downsizing offices, working from home, movement out of expensive cities and back into suburbs, and offices retrofitted with cheap solutions like hand sanitizer dispensers, plexiglass dividers, and spaced out desks. Things that require a huge investment like copper surfaces, plant dividers, fewer people per square meter, simply won't be worth it when the alternative is not to invest in office space at all.
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But that doesn't mean they're legally adult. Or that it's fine to pressure them into sex with older men.
From what I hear twitter has become one of the more 'basic' social networks. the 140 characters force you to write quick sound-bite opinions without any nuance. Anonymity makes sure your opinions do not follow you around. I quit a long time ago.
When the purpose of written communication is to direct, instruct or inform, Plain English works wonders.

Other times, like when people write to demonstrate nuanced expertise, or to connect with a specific audience, or to place themselves apart from a specific audience, or to entertain, delight, uplift, transcend, prod, annoy, or console, Plain English can be too plain.