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> ...we found that people familiar with the Actor Model actually expected something a bit different

I haven't done any programming with Actors per se but after skimming over its Wikipedia entry and other blog posts, Durable Objects does sound a lot like Actors to me.

Genuinely curious: What were some glaring differences that you were made aware of that led to not naming it Actors?

Thanks.
It was down for 3ish hours from about 9ish to midnight in Louisiana.
If I were offering a free (as in price) alternative to MS Office, I'd first recommend WPS Office over LibreOffice, even though it's closed-source. It has a much better interface out of the box. But I'd use something to block it from phoning home to its probably Chinese government-beholden servers, like OpenSnitch for Linux* or LuLu for macOS.

(*) https://github.com/gustavo-iniguez-goya/opensnitch
Siblings and friends work equally as well.
If you read my twitter (@spakhm) I'm about as anti-marxist, anti-woke, anti-oppressors vs oppressed as can be. (I do think Marx's writing is very interesting, but in a glass-of-wine-ponder-once-in-your-life kind of way, not in a lets-try-implementing-this-again kind of way). I grew up in a communist society, I definitely want marxism as a political force to be eradicated off the face of this earth.
The statement is basically meeting all of Epic's problems, they are solidifying that they will treat everyone the same (take the 30%) and promising to improve life for third party app store. Follow-through remains to be seen
The readings of this post is exactly the reason I loathe the whole drive to get promoted, instead of working to do what makes sense to improve your team, your teammates, and your company.

As a manager, my goal is to discern the difference between these two, and will do what I can to support those that focus more on improving the team vs. chasing a promotion by focusing more on showing how they’re better than everyone else.

Even if this is more effective strictly regarding getting promoted, I would much rather be — and work with — the type of people that care more about elevating the team.
US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate degrees
> We're going through a pandemic right now because a virus has successfully found a way to evade our robust immune systems.

Or, as likely, bio-engineered in a Wuhan lab. 50/50 as of today.
One thing that surprised me in the US while applying for credit card: private companies can get access to my past addresses and many other personal info of me. I don’t ever want these information provided to profit companies, joined with facebook’s ad network etc. Having the government as the sole guardian of credit history and other related data might not be a bad idea.
Yes! Always need screenshots even if it’s just a wm with an xterm.
Just as an anecdote, I recently had to generate some XLSX which, even for XML standards, is a horrible standard and the only library that seems to be able to accomplish this (for Java) consists basically of some autogenerated classes from the XML schema itself that have zero documentation.

But the worst part was when I tried to add an integration test for it. I tried comparing the generated file with a fixture file, but that didn't work, because XLSX are zipped XML files and zip isn't deterministic. But even comparing the two file directories of the unzipped files and then comparing XML files pairwise didn't really work, because apparently, XML can be serialized in different ways and it turned out that my CI somehow serialized it differently than my machine (somehow the namespaces were handled differently - not sure if it was an OS issue or some transitive dependency issue). In the end I was only able to solve it by using another library that can specifically diff XML files.
The DNA.
Nah, this is legitimate, even more than Operas complaints against Microsoft for bundling IE.

I try to not be biased here but Googles move here is brilliant from a bullys perspective.

And besides: The whole idea that they should be allowed to extract any money from this deal is questionable IMO.
Sure. It's just that, during the days that I had to do much with XML, JSON wasn't really a thing yet. I'm comparing XML to the binary formats that came before it (in wide use), not to JSON that came after it.
The machine generated captions would be hilariously poor if people didn't depend on them, and as such, they're tragically poor.
Making product names of what you use visible to people is generally a mistake
John McAfee is probably too far removed for investors to be the slightest bit concerned, outside of PR issues it might cause.

https://www.wired.com/2012/12/ff-john-mcafees-last-stand/

https://www.cnet.com/news/john-mcafee-released-from-confinem...

https://decrypt.co/27447/john-mcafee-virtual-blockchain-talk
Sounds like a way of ensuring that future applicants have no family obligations to take away from time spent working. A legally permissible way of saying "Married people need not apply."
The winners of the Q4 auction has a lot of companies I've never heard of like PrivacyWall, info.com, and GMX mixed in with Bing, Yandex and DDG, so it does seem like the way it's set up does introduce some variety. Like Yahoo is the #3 search engine, but doesn't even show up in the list.
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A truly damn stupid idea! Calculus is the darling bit of mathematics, it's [mostly] simple, sweet and truly wonderful. You can do so much with it. Just chuck in a function or two then utter the magic words In the limit and now you've got calculus to a tee. You can now:

- Do a few 'partials' with Schrödinger's wave equation—and, if you're lucky, you can simultaneously snuff the cat out of existence!

- With Euler's formula—the most beautiful† equation ever written—you can manipulate e, π and i then muck about in the complex plane—and if you so wish, you can even attempt to circularly-polarize some radio waves by applying aspects of said formula!

- Do some signal processing using the Hilbert transform, for instance you can now use it cancel out background noise on your smartphone, and,

- Even teach young kiddies some calculus and at the same time show them its true value and beauty by using Zeno's paradox. That's the one where a frog sits on a stone in the middle of a pool and attempts to jump across the water to the pool's edge. On his first hop he jumps half the distance to edge but the trouble is that with each new jump he only jumps half the distance of his previous one: 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + 1/32, ad infinitum, until his jumps sum fully up to one—that being the full distance. …However, Zeno says gloatingly that he never makes it as 'infinitum' gets in his way and stops him from ever achieving sufficient jumps needed to complete the full distance, which, in the limit, adds to a sum total of one.

Not to be defeated or vanquished, you wheel out calculus, utter the magic words In the limit and calculus springs forth with a loud proclamation "That frog made the full distance, as his feet are too big".

Here endeth Calculus Lesson One for six to eight-year olds!

Now, how many of you will vote to pillory the proposer of this mad suggestion to kill off calculus?

† Mathematicians, don't you dare even think about restarting 'that' argument here! ;-)
XML is hard to parse because they mixed compression concerns in with encoding, which is a security nightmare. What’s hard about JSON? There was some looseness around the spec for certain characters, but overall, it’s pretty straightforward.
As a simultaneous outage, not as the cause.
Well, we already have a social credit system that's far more Orwellian and 1000s of years old. Your bank account dictates where you can travel, what kind of education you can get, and where you can live. In fact, if it's low enough, you don't even get to eat. Keep your credit score high. To get uppity about China's social credit system you really have to ignore the elephant in the room.
Silly compliance checkbox perhaps? I'm vaguely aware that certain PCI standards require organizations to install anti-virus software with specific requirements.
That is certainly not true.

TSMC has always had a conservative culture. They dont aim at x% of improvement per process node like Intel. GAA for 3nm has long been known to be not ready for 2022. They actually mentioned this in 2019. But it was only confirmed later at a conference that Anandtech picked it up. Mainstream media being an echo chamber decide to copy each other and the news spread like wild fire.

So it was only logical to push those improvements to 2nm.
In my case, the NAS is a Synology server. I don't know how to determine authoritatively where the fault lies, but I trust it more than I trust Time Machine. (Although I am using btrfs on that volume so maybe it's a wash.) I'm sure I've disconnected my Mac from my Thunderbolt dock (and thus the active NIC) and/or put my Mac to sleep mid-backup many times, though. This is something that I would like it to be robust to but may be "the problem".

Interesting idea to reset the state. I think I can take snapshots with Synology. I'm unsure how to manage the details though:

* I let Time Machine starts backups automatically whenever it pleases. Does it have a hook to run a command to take a snapshot?

* Does it do the verification every time, or (say) 1 in 10? If the latter, going back to the most recent snapshot isn't enough. And if you do say 3 backups then get rid of #3, can it take incremental #4 on top of #2, or will it complain that the #3 state it expects is absent?

I really should just set up a different backup system. I do at least have Google Drive sync on most everything important. It's not a "real" backup as another poster pointed out, but it's better than nothing.
The founding of north korea predates the founding of communist china. And it's more like china helped north korea and vietnam defend themselves against invasion rather than help create them.

> Perhaps just to make some money or befriend the neighbors. Russia sells its technology to anyone who wants it. Why wouldn't china?

That's not the OP was talking about was it.
If you believe in the rule of law, there is substantial evidence that assange broke the laws of multiple countries, so you may just as easily be on the other side of this debate.
It’s as much self driving as me saying that my dog understands English because he’s excited when I say “walk”.
> on a platform that Google has invested so much money for years to reach to this place?

Because it is meant as a punishment for Googles abusive practices.

It is less of a punishment if Google can extract money from it.
I've worked for multiple Rails shops with high quality engineers. The trick is to interview them too before accepting any offer. The best teams I've been on have been small. Past a team/project size, maintaining high quality code becomes much more difficult.
Does anyone know enough about LaTeX/TeX or RTF to compare them to XML here?
if you smash the file permissions and dates on the file it can be deterministic.
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der8auer "14nm and 7nm are NOT what you think it is - Visiting Tescan" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kQUXpZpLXI

for reference "TESCAN is a leading global producer and supplier of scanning electron microscopes, focused ion beam scanning electron microscopes and micro-CT solutions."
One thing not mentioned in the article is the lossy nature of XML when coming from data structures with concepts of arrays and maps. A typical array in XML looks something like:

<foo>

<bar>First element</bar>

<bar>Second element</bar>

</foo>

which can lead to issues if the second element isn't in there: should bar just be a property of foo or should it be an array?
(I'm definitely open to correction on this if someone knows a better way; my experience with this particular issue is from writing a parser to take XML and turn it into a MUMPS-native data structure. I mostly had to have the parser take an educated guess and then let API users specify which elements were arrays if they wanted it to parse the same way against all inputs).

This is analogous to how saving Clojure sets (e.g. #{:a :b :c}) to a JSON document in CouchDB is also a lossy operation because JSON doesn't have sets, just maps and arrays.
Best Buy and similar retailers bundle AV with the computer, and IIRC it's often impossible to not have it pre-installed (since Windows installs it at the OEM's request). The only way around this is using recovery media (bootable usb/cd) and NOT the "reset to factory" setting in Windows 10's recovery settings.
Personally, I have a network Time Machine backup and use Backblaze. I also keep a USB drive handy and clone a bootable backup via SuperDuper periodically--especially before large changes like an OS update. I've had to dig into the nitty gritty of Time Machine every year or so (usually stuff I do, but in any case failed backups are concerning).

Relevant to you, earlier this year (using Catalina) I swapped computers. My usual process is to create a disk image (usually with Disk Utility or SuperDuper) of my old computer and these overlay systems are tripping me up.

I remember my first attempt only looked to clone the OS / root system--not my user data files. I can't remember exactly what I did next, maybe clone to USB drive then create an image of that? But I pulled it up the other day and the disk image size covered my whole hard drive, but when I mounted it I just saw the root system (I thought I lost all my backup data). Using DaisyDisk I saw a lot of "hidden space." I noticed Disk Utility mounted two disks; Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data, but Finder only showed the first on the desktop/sidebar and I had to hunt for the second under /Volumes/.

For simplicity I'm going to create a new disk image and pull out the relevant data. I never really had a need for a bootable backup on the network. I just figured I'd backup OS files in case I needed to pull up some oddball system hack I had on an old system.
He wasn't forced to buy stock. It was a PR move so that he was injecting cash equivalent to Tesla's portion of the fine. However, he got stock in return, diluting the rest of the shareholders, so it was quite bizarre.

Foregoing reimbursement for private jet travel for a few years would have made actual sense, if his intent was to not punish Tesla for his actions.
Twenty one things I've learned in 21 years
Android 12 will make it easier to install app stores
Our iPhone tends to work pretty well with our Chromecast Ultra as long as you are using apps and not safari. Most apps are cast enabled - Netflix, HBO, ESPN, YouTube, Hulu, etc. Hasn't been much of an issue at all.
As long as fed prints money...
this is something in clinical research called the dichotomy between pragmatic and explanatory trials. RCTs like this aren't useless even though they don't specifically answer the question YOU expect to have answered, which is essentially: "controlling caloric intake, what impact does restricted meal windows have on weight gain/loss/other measured outcomes?" This is an explanatory question--it seeks to isolate a variable (meal timing) and explain it's impact on people.

in contrast, the question the RCT is REALLY asking is essentially: "comparing ad libitum intermittent fasting (which is a very easy thing to suggest in a busy clinic) to a very expectably superior intervention like calorie tracking and restriction, does IF end up having some efficacy?"

it's a different question--more realistic of an intervention to provide and monitor (because you don't monitor it at all really...)--and so ends up being perfectly valuable if you interpret it for what it is, assuming the rest of your critical appraisal of the paper passes muster.
How do you jack a building up? For example how do you get that initial amount of space to put a jack underneath it? Do you excavate and somehow avoid a cave in or the building shifting?
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Maybe (didn't look into that), but that wouldn't have solved the "somehow, XML is serialized differently in some cases because of namespaces" issue which, honestly, I didn't even try to understand because it seemed like a pointless rabbit-hole.
I looked up DDR5 on Wikipedia, but it seems like ECC is just an option, which I understand was an option with previous generations too (at a much higher cost). Please elaborate on the ECC part, especially if manufacturers have committed to making only ECC versions.
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Why Flutter isn't the next big thing
This is exactly why I've focused on boring, mainstream tech skills. I'd rather be doing audio dsp or machine learning or fancy AR apps but I figure vanilla js/web chops are going to be in demand for the foreseeable future and pay well enough to support a decent lifestyle.
That video is titled

CppCon 2015: Sean Parent "Better Code: Data Structures"

Did you mean instead this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYrbivnruYw

Goals for Better Code - Implement Complete Types
That's kind of the same schtick that Meredith and her ilk love to trot out. I mean, they said Edison was wasting his time too, right? And there are always spin-offs, and unanticipated offshoots.

But that's a bogus argument. Just because a lot of really amazing technology once had it's naysayers or was called impossible, doesn't mean that when that happens for uBeam, it will necessarily, likely, or even possibly be the same outcome. Nor does it make it OK to invest in snake-oil because maybe the company might just "pivot" and make a zillion selling USB-3 ultra-sonic coffee grinders instead.

And that money can and should be invested in a much better way. The lines of distinction between uBeam, Theranos, and outright investor fraud are very, very thin.

You may as well defend an investment strategy of sending 10 million dollars each to random strangers on HN and seeing what happens. And I, for one, would definitely prefer this.
Link to bypass the paywall if you aren't a Medium subscriber:
https://medium.com/better-programming/why-flutter-isnt-the-n...
Are there any consumer M.2 drives with guaranteed data protection (with capacitor or battery to flush all volatile data at power loss)? I did not find that kind of information in specs.
I just memorize 3.14159265 since the following digits are 35 (I'll never be able to un-remember this now) my error is like 1 in 10e9 and I've never used Pi in any context where that was even close to mattering. The most accurate calculations I ever had to do in software needed about 1um in a meter accuracy... so I have 3 orders of magnitude of accuracy margin. Never tried to get a spaceship to the edge of the universe with any accuracy though ;) I prefer to use built in values usually since they are typically accurate to the full precision but on platforms where for some reason that wasn't available... Of course the specific calculations you're doing also matter since small errors can accumulate to larger ones if you're not careful...

Another personal anecdote is that in a company that shall remain unnamed we used to have a Pi from memory competition every Pi day (3/14). The president of the company always won. I don't recall how many digits he knew but it was some ridiculously high number (hundreds). I much prefer my family tradition of eating pie on Pi days.
I think the value of Android's relative openness is often understated on HN, but in this case I don't think it helps. There is a very substantial chunk of users for whom "a quick Google bringing them to an alternate store or apk" is a hard blocker in terms of interest and/or ability.
Out of curiosity, how long has it been since you switched to ext4?
I don’t give it much rank because it doesn’t matter to me. I’d rather have good, incremental progress toward a larger goal for sure. In my day-to-day I can use a Tesla. I have no use for Waymo so the progress isn’t relevant. Will Waymo map every street in hyper detail, or just Mountain View and New York? If I don’t care about the underlying goal, what reason do I have to care about progress toward that goal?

> “ Just before the crash, a large vehicle — a sport utility vehicle or pickup truck — changed lanes in front of him, the driver told the NTSB.”

And how does Waymo handle these scenarios?
I’ve seen too many TM corrupt itself (wifi). It’s nice for the TM “feature”. Quickly going back. But it’s not reliable as a backup solution.

Also, at a certain point it just can’t keep up with the changes.
Yes, James Clear is the real hero here for sure!
I was thinking about this as well. I assume you leave the foundation in place and jack up the structure. So you would remove sections of the structure to place a jack of some kind and then once enough jacks were in place crank them all at once.
I don't see it as a punishment. I actually see it as a fair practice ruling. So they can't ask a company to bear all the costs of raising and maintaining platform so huge and just "give it away" for free because some users think that's a better option for them and thus for the world as well. Why would they even run a business if that's the case?
FTA: "Google notes how developers are “free to communicate with [customers] about alternative purchase options,” but only outside of apps. Consumption-only reader apps are also allowed."

So, yes, it will have an impact, but potentially not as great as it might seem.
The ever-increasing ratio of bullshit to content in the data and visual footprint of the average web page. The amount of information per page I want hasn't increased since 2002 but the average page size has exploded.

The way half the authors I read use whatever topic they're discussing to push a political or social narrative. Nothing makes me doubt my opinions more than having them served to me apropos of nothing.
I've hit this on other filesystems and I think I ended up doing: echo "" > largefile

Then you can delete your files. Not sure if it'll work on APFS.
I don’t think the article makes it clear that the issue here is the use of an auction to decide what choices users have in search engine. Instead of just looking at user preference or market share.

That method naturally favors the bottom feeders in terms of privacy. It’s like awarding school lunch contracts to the company with the largest marketing budget. Probably not going to be many vegetables on that menu.

But I think google is making a long term strategic error here. They are feeding the privacy advocates free ammunition. Google could easily comply with the law and still have at least a token search provider that understands privacy.
If there is a stationary car and I turn on autopilot as I approach my car doesn’t ram into it. If I turn autopilot on when I’m stationary and the car in front of me is stationary it does not drive into the other car. If autopilot is on and a car is stopped at a red light in front of me my car does not slam into that car. I do this on a daily basis. Do you?