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I like Gavin Barraclough's entries, the first is

https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2001_anonymous

Which I believe was a runner up, and was a PPC to x86 binary translator

and his winning entry:

https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2004_gavin

Which was a protected mode multitasking operating system with a windowing system/gui.

because of course.
This is a bit inevitable. The UI of your usual screen based app has buttons for the things you can do. This has the effect of limiting your expectations to those features which have been implemented. A general voice query is open ended, though: there's no guidance around what exists, so it's very easy to invent a query that's 'off book' in one way or another... Things which haven't been implemented at all, or which have, but are requested in a way the machine does not expect.
It’s alarming that github is being used for this bullshit. 4chan is a pile of trash anyway, but GitHub is supposed to be different. This makes me fearful for the future and very sad that people are being harassed in professional platforms like this.
Does the number of app categories matter? They’re all apps, meant for casual content creation and consumption. Consoles have a number of game categories too.

> What are gaming consoles used for? Gaming.

PS3 has been used for multi core computing until Sony blocked it. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster

> it wasn't meant to be general purpose

I’m sure Apple would say the same about the iPhone.
Which gif, and where?
It's fairly important reminder that pretty much every program we write has huge numbers of contextual and environmental assumptions built in - not just the obvious OS and envvars but things like the business model, the assumptions about how other parts of an organisation will react to certain outputs - it is often amazing to me that any piece of code can be understood by "outsiders" - we all are writing obfuscated code.
It's been on my list for years now. I just haven't got around to reading it. Once I have I'll have to ask you about the quote.
Blogs like these are the main reason to use ad blocks.
And from their perspective: everyone using adblocks is the reason they need 5 ads on the site
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Title says it's 2 hours!
> Most wealthy people score very high on levels of conscientiousness

references?
a zip bomb?! that's sabotage
I‘m a huge fan of Ishiguro. I find it fascinating that through most if his books he stays very close to his main themes – memory, introspection, self-deception – while playing with and exploring various different genres: historical, dystopia, detective, fantasy... The Buried Giant for example is a quite unsual fantasy novel, one that really moved me.
All that is fine, but in this context you’re talking about placing gates over open source software. I hope the solution to this problem is much more well thought out that a simple comparison of free speech and hate speech.
> it's unfair to let people decide how much they want to work.

Why is this confined to only the people already working?
Monads are literally the simplest/smallest abstraction that makes all these examples compose nicely. It will be hard to come up with something clearer I think.

What is so unsatisfactory about them?
Developers will only have to pay a 5% Microsoft Store fee if a user installs their app through a campaign ID link. The same applies if the user finds their app through a web search.
However, if a user discovers the app through the Microsoft Store search or other “Microsoft-owned” properties, developers will have to pay a 15% fee, getting 85% revenue in return.

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/202038/microsoft...
You have correctly observed that children learning to walk is a frustrating process of trial and error. But weirdly, you seem to think this is an admirable property to be imitated.

How many say aeroplanes do you think the average airline pilot crashes during training? A few dozen? Maybe only a handful of big jets with passengers on them because presumably you'd practice stuff like "Not smashing an airliner full of people into a mountain" last?

No. We don't learn to fly aeroplanes this way because it'd be stupid. Aeroplane pilots learn from other people's mistakes instead. Even when they have an accident and they personally learn from that, every effort is made to also teach other pilots who didn't have the accident the same lessons. A guy will stand up and lecture other pilots about the time he did an Impossible Turn† and his point won't be "I'm fucking amazing" or "You should go do this and get yourself killed" but "Here's what I did wrong. Learn from my mistake don't make your own".

†Despite its name the Impossible Turn isn't actually impossible, it's just probably a bad idea and you almost certainly already did at least two things wrong if you're attempting it. It's an attempt to return to your takeoff runway by doing a 180° turn after engine failure in climb out. It probably won't work because you will consume too much of your residual energy. But sometimes people get lucky.
You can, and that's more bulk, mass, and design complication.
AWS has two competitors, so I'd make the same argument back to you.
OR this was a "vulnerability scanning", and not the actual attack. Perhaps they were a group of friends that wanted to shoot and see if sparks will fly (literally), like we see in the movies.

OR assuming it is a group of sleepers/terrorists doing a pen-test (not the actual penetration/assault). They now (back then) answered the following critical questions: How long does it take to incapacitate such an installation? Will readily available guns do to work? How many people/guns/bullets do we need to pull this through? What monetary value damage can we do? Who/where is the back of this place? What do we need to shoot in there to make more damage (time, money, both)?

So know "they" know that smaller boxes were replaced in a few minutes and larger boxes cost more and take 6 months (so large boxes it is!!!)

Exactly like a vulnerability scanning/penetration test. "They" now so much more on the target, it's vulnerability, it's protection, how to disable.

This said, they know that taking down one of these things is but a scratch. How about 3? 5? 10? Can a group of 50, broken down in teams.of 4, with 1 rifle and 20 bullets each, take down a station like that and be our of there in 5 minutes?

These are questions that anyone with security, military, project background will be asking (and I am not CIA, KGB, etc)(so imagine how these 'departments'(?)) must have thought of it further...

Unless.. this post was all about trying to identify criminal minds.. in which case.. guys.. I am in the good side on this!! The good hat!! (no more white-black hats)
I don't have to convince you or death-desirers of anything. I simply have to outlive you. (loosely quoting Cory Doctorow)
There is a small error in the text. When describing the opcache.jit setting it shows examples where the third flag is set to 5, eg 1255, but the table of possible values for the third flag, 'T - JIT trigger', goes from 0 to 4.
You might have just described an election.
Mobile is now the main computing platform for many people around the world[0]. It’s no longer a toy for yuppies or a console device. It’s time the platform grew up from being as limited as a car infotainment system.

[0] Today roughly one-in-five American adults are “smartphone-only” internet users https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/

Nearly three quarters of the world will use just their smartphones to access the internet by 2025 https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/smartphones-72percent-of-peo...
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> That means by eschewing it, you can take your pick among: a thinner phone, more components, or a larger battery. There's no way around this.

That's making a lot of unstated assumptions. To start with, that the battery needed to consume all available space. The width and length of the phone are determined by the size of the screen, and a certain minimum depth is required to prevent this:

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/5/24/17389220/a...

So then you have the dimensions of the phone already dictated by concerns other than the battery. At that point you could still use all of the available space for a battery, but if that's more battery capacity than you actually need, it makes the phone heavier. So you could very well already have some unused space inside the phone and not have any trade off with thickness at all, and in practice this is true for several phones that nonetheless have epoxied batteries.

Moreover, even if the trade off you're describing exists for a given phone, that doesn't prove it's significant. Do we have to destroy the environment over a fraction of a millimeter?
You don't need to impose a schedule change. People work all sorts of odd hours already. Just stop imposing a schedule change twice a year and people would happily work out any adjustments to hours. Those that truly need to adjust hours for sunlight will do so.

The EU is already planning to do this. The sky will not fall, and life will continue on but without the awkward twice-yearly clock change.
"throwing all the used batteries in a dump now then digging them back out in the future once recycling tech has improved"

The fact that there have been instances where this has occurred doesn't mean its a good plan. I agree that not all plans work out in retrospect, but neither does doing nothing. If we look at the balance of cases, we have done a lot more harm with a lack of environmental policies than we have with poor policies.

Overall the mechanism is solid enough. If a product has EOL issues, a recycling deposit builds the solution into the initial price. It doesn't even need to be recycling. Could be safe disposal.
As a concept, lots of industrial innovation are restricted due to lack of collaboration. Lots of University level innovation are restricted due to lack of lots of real world testing, open source can solve these two, but lacks lots of funding. Can all of specific industrial knowledge and technological knowledge be open source to the tune of making a viable product ?
You could argue immunity can always be obtained the 'hard' way, even for a virus that seems not to induce it, as when the last human succumbs the infection rate has effectively gone to 0.

We refer to those points as 'technicalities'.
Can't they do both? I personally find Google Assistant very helpful. I'm sure Google finds my personal data helpful. Seems like a fairly reasonable trade-off for me
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I don't get how what you are saying is related with either Seneca or what PG wrote.

Do you believe that we don't have much time (because we cannot do otherwise)?
(I grew up in India in the 90s and 2000s.)

As a sibling comment said, the history taught in schools focuses heavily on the freedom movement. In fact students learn basically nothing about World War 1 and 2, since the freedom movement lasted from 1857 to 1947, so there's no time to talk about what was going on in the rest of the world. Every educated Indian will agree that getting independence was better than staying under British rule.

However, contrary to what that comment says, I think you could safely get educated Indians to agree that the British rule was better than the fragmented mess that India was before the East India Company. British education infrastructure in general was responsible for the state of India today. Many of the leaders of the freedom movement had higher educations as a consequence of being British subjects, eg Gandhi and Nehru both studied law in England. So I would say the British rule definitely would be considered to be the source of modernity and education.

Edit: The British also did a bunch of uplifting to get rid of shit like sati (widows being forced to be cremated in their husband's funeral pyre for religious reasons) and child marriage, though it wasn't completely effective and also required a bunch of effort in post-independence India.
Depends if parent means a single stock (like the one given as salary) or a more diversified portfolio. While on aggregate the stock market had a rather stable growth, this is not the case of individual assets.
The entire article focuses on men as having dark triad, and how women are attracted and respond to them.

I am not a psychologist but I did take a Stress and Brain class in my Engineering School from a visiting PhD Psychologist who continually stressed the entire class how much scientific work did not account for both genders and how this degrades the quality of the study.

What would be much more insightful is to study women as well, and also see how attractive (or not) women with these traits are to men, if they on average make more money/how it impacts their career growth.

But no, this study is of course made with a predetermined jump and ignores half of the world's population as subject matter.

Boring.
The irony of "as fast as C" comparison, is that anyone doing 8 and 16 bit coding on home micros remembers how lousy C compilers used to be (like most other high level languages), to the point that any junior Assembly developer could easily write much better code.

Any language can eventually reach that point with enough money, time, and in C's case doing 200+ optimizations with unexpected results.
Could you share an opinion on using products like https://virgilsecurity.com?
Which shows how inadequate the statistic is for the discussion of the subject. The reduction of working hours applies only to a subset of work (industry full-time employment).

I would bet the average is so low because of a large part of low paying part-time jobs, which are heavily subventioned / pay no or low social security & taxes, saved likely also the disincentivation of pmarried mothers working full time (not by law, but in effect).
It seems all the fediverse apps are modeled on Twitter or Social Media - everybody posts stuff and then you consume a feed. To be honest, it feels like work for me to check Facebook or Twitter nowadays.

I wish there was an app more like MySpace or early Facebook [1]. You have your own page that you carefully curate, list your hobbies and favorite bands and whatever, and you can connect with friends and browse their pages and maybe leave a message there. I think this other model would also get around the problem of network effects - a landing page or personal homepage works even if you don't have connections yet.

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[1] Or, if you went to university in Germany in the 2000s, the learning platform Stud.IP. My classmates and I spent countless hours in the forums, decorating our user pages, and chatting. And it was heavily gamified, you got XP for every action and we were all trying to level up. I still think of this as close to an ideal "social network" app.
I had the larger T520 (with the expensive at the time 1080p IPS panel) for about a decade and it was and still is great. Heavy though, and with the original battery now lasting about five minutes, it's essentially a desktop.

I use a T480 now, which seems to be the new sweet spot, as it's the last model made that has the combo internal + hot swappable external battery, and has a really nice wqhd panel option. Models with this panel are super rare on eBay, but you can still find the panel and cable and perform the swap yourself (slightly terrifying, though).

With the big external battery, I get around 10-12 hours (idles at ~6 watts), and combined with the lighter weight I now have an actual laptop again.

One slightly annoying thing about battery management controller though... You have no control over which cell it's going to discharge first. It seems to try and preferentially discharge whichever cell it thinks is less degraded. This makes sense in principle to keep cell wear even, but it would be nice to have an override.

For example, If you have two external batteries but it chooses to discharge the internal battery first, then you may not be able to hot swap by the time the external battery is discharged. It switches batteries at 5%, but by the time the other one is dead, 5% may be closer to zero - another parameter that would be nice to be able to change... Why not switch over at 15%?

Anyway, maybe in a few years when cells for this model are no longer available, someone will figure out how to write custom firmware for the BMC to give us these features.
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I always hated voice detection in call centers. Happened about 20 years ago or so? And since then, nothing much has changed. I still have to control myself whenever I am greeted with "What can I do for you today" and the inevitable "I did not understand. What can I do for you today?".

I think the main problem here is that they are trying to build devices for which science is still decades away. What AI assistants would need is the capability to fully parse any normal utterance and then interpret what it really means in computer terms and execute on it and report back in a manner that the user understands. This is essentially general AI. However, we have to start somewhere, otherwise there will be no funding... Kudos to those people who use these devices and fund the technological advance :).
Really good! I use flexbox a lot and enjoyed it.
https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa06...
Presumably everything is more robust now that lessons have been learned and single-point failures shouldn't have that sort of effect. Coordinated multiple failures most certainly will take down huge swaths.
I thought I was making a rather obvious point, so here it is in plainer terms: you can't keep up a sufficient flow of new people in a field (especially a niche one) if everybody's response to "How do I start doing this?" is "No no no, this is only for a chosen few grandfathered-in greybeards and the rest of us are too stupid to even try". There's absolutely nothing wrong with people trying their hand at difficult things, even if the only thing it produces is first-hand experience/appreciation of how difficult they are. Black boxes and low bus factors don't aid progress, they hinder it.

Additionally, it's astonishingly not unheard of for people to, well, research the experiments and studies of those before them before trying their hand at their own; if you start all your own experiments by jumping headfirst in total ignorance, perhaps consider slowing down a little?

Then again you've chosen to go on a rant about speeding trams and fatalities when the literal third sentence in the linked article is "don't use [your crypto] in production until it's vetted by professionals".
Good work! My personal suggestions:

- Get rid of google-analytics.com

- When there is a syntax error do not shake the box, as you have to wait until it is done in order to fix it. (it also shakes the box when you close the help dialog if there is a syntax error)
Technically true for all moments in human history
>A lot of it simply comes down to how much you want government to police behavior.

Individual behavior: As little as is demonstrably necessary.

Corporate behavior: Every bit that shapes capitalism into being benign & overtly beneficial - including police intervention for those on the receiving end of law-changing campaign donations.
What is irrational? These batteries have been cloned cheaply so they're already reverse engineered. You can find them all over eBay.
If this works on the T430 and x230 it will be very impressive.

I don't think this generation had DRM on the batteries. The new ones did and they're not cracked.
> I tried to define ‘main’ as an array of shorts with a modern compiler and it did not like that one bit

He didn't even try to get it to work by changing that one bit!
Henry Ford introduced the 40hr work week in 1926, for productivity reasons.

That is likely already close to the sweet spot, at least for automotive workers.
Taking longer does not solve the byzantine generals problem. The difference here is that the role are asymmetrical: once the bank receive your order for a transaction it does not need to check that you know whether the order was correctly received; the bank can simply perform the transaction and them best-effort let you know of what happened.
Its important because there's at least 1 QAnon supporter that's going to be walking the halls of congress next year.
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There might well be a benefit in the lower back, but the scapula and trapezoids are particularly sensitive to desk work
, and running is not going to help them.
It also means there was no orchestration for the VMs. System should have recreated them 1 by 1 on a health check triggered restore action.
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyp...
Hey do you guys run a Facebook Instagram yelp white pages in California and a list of other communities and social media sites your run thank you
I knew someone that worked at WebEx in their FedRAMP environment performing vulnerability remediation, and most of the work was outsourced to China because the founders are from China. They posted screenshots of a conversation with their teammate saying that because of the convoluted process to install packages, they had concerns that they were installing some sort of backdoor. They reported this and had investigators constantly checking out their LinkedIn profile for months.
The world is not going electric, urban dwellers are.

Every german car maker has an electric car shipping.

They know the market better than you.
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I believe that those who make the choices think with their wallets, not their mind (and it's thereof peace). Imagine you got a $2bn worth of stock, that you need to maintain (even if it's just removing the dust from the box). Then an upgrade comes up on component ABZXYZ1B so now you need to fly someone from Germany, fly in the component, replace the thing, test the think, repack the thing. That extra cost and effort is considered. Do all stations use the same make/type/version of the thing? Or we need to stockpile 20 categories of them $500m-$2bn of each type?

A good and expensive side-gain would be repairing and/or upgrading some infrastructure (roads/bridges for the transportation, which is extra cost).

I had a quick read on the Report (thank you)
Just because they got the dates wrong doesn't mean that they got the trend wrong.
Ask HN: Why does Google search redirect links instead of using JavaScript?
I am sure you have noticed that google search results point to a google.com link first instead of the actual result directly. This comes with a heavy price in terms of speed and usability.

Why does google not instead silently track the link using JavaScript when JavaScript is available? Is it in case of link sharing? If so, is that not an overly heavy cost for an uncommon use-case?
This reads a lot like this blog post [0] that was shared here a while ago, the discussion is quite interesting as well [1]. Although I appreciate the additional background and citations.

[0] https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-researc...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24200764