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It's more honest. If climate change will kill millions, and I'm causing it, the reaction earlier was to say "The science of climate change is false".
Origin trials in Chrome don't necessarily have a breakage period any more
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Im not sure how many people thought this would _acctually_ happen. This is one of these things that seems cool from an Linux lover's point of view (because it somehow proves them right that Linux is the absolute best) but makes absolutely no practical or business sense. Two major groups buying windows are business clients (who would rather you not change things so that their 20 year old custom software still runs in Internet Explorer) and the average user (who couldn't care if the Kernel was NT, Linux, or a literal peice of Corn as long as things work).

Everyone who thinks that using the Linux Kernel is better than NT is already using Linux. Everyone who needs some sort of intermediary support uses Dualboot/WSL/etc. Windows would never sacrifice it's backwards compatibility. This is the company that won't change the bug that makes excel think 1900 is a leap year so that it doesn't break people's spreadsheets. [0] Not to mention porting windows would take a LOT of work.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/w...
I always thought Microsoft would simply make their own brand of Linux (somehow? who knows) that would be all sorts of Microsoftified, which seems easier and better than worrying about Windows backward compatibility by making Windows Linuxified.

But the success of WSL would seem to indicate they aren't really in the market for their own flavor of Linux.
> Isn't Wine more like a hack?

Not more so than Windows.

> Why would you want to have something like that when there's .NET Core? isn't it doing to solve problems that Wine tries to challenge once it supports crossplatform GUI?

No. .NET Core and Wine does not solve the same problem.
This is defeatism. There are widely differing attack footprints between BYOD, cloud services, managed devices, etc. Susan from accounting won't accidentally install spyware on EC2.
Wow, both Fox News and the Daily News as reference .... LOL. Thanks for the warning, bucko.
I work on a project where:

Patch - a build we do to be deployed to clients test environment that we don't control

Minor - a prod build for client

Major - reserved for when the client demands a complete redesign of the app

It works for us, for this project... And of course nobody else is depending on it
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> Why would you want to have something like that when there's .NET Core?

.NET Core only allows you to run applications written for .NET, which isn't most applications.
My economy prof told me Cadillac/Ford(back in the bigger days 70's ect)found that old people could not really perceive the depth of colors at their age and had major preference for white shades. Since old people have money it caused a major shift towards white/black scheme cars
That's really the most disturbing fact isn't it. That journalism isn't horrible because of media companies, it's horrible because of peoples' tastes.
Elon comments on the article: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1315609760402599938
> that cat is out of the bag

Not at all, this is a logical fallacy.

A small fraction of countries have nuclear weapons and yet they still engage in conventional warfare because they really don't want to trigger a nuclear holocaust.

On top of that, terrorist organizations, guerrilla fighters, criminal organization and so on never managed to launch an ICBM.
But that doesn't seem to be a question of being a better programmer, it seems to be either that you are better at knowing what people want, or that you are luckier because you chose parameters that are closer to what the market demands. You only get a few chances to find those parameters, so either you are really good at learning from what you've seen from other people, or your hunch that this-or-that shooter game is what will be popular.

I'm sure there's a lot of very competent makers in every field who don't get called up to make the thing they are good at, that people also want.
This seems quite concerning to me. It opens the door for Google to ship features without ever standardising -- or _intending_ to standardise -- them. I understand that it's only meant to be used in exceptional circumstances, but it feels like Pandora's Box.
Julia has multi-stage compilation: first it's lowered to the AST (all macros are resolved), then it is lowered to an IR, then types are solved, then it's lowered to an SSA form IR, then to LLVM IR and finally machine code [1] (and it's JIT will try to pre-compile as much code as it can, in some situations it might even compile the entire program in one go, which is the cause of the delay when starting the program). Everything that runs is always machine code as there is no interpreter or VM (though you might say that Julia's bytecode is the LLVM IR).

[1] https://blog.rogerluo.me/images/julia-compile-diagram.png
I have not published HTML PUT yet, fixed [1]. It is example of real life complexity — I have to work around Firefox bug, smartphones choose awfully small font without <meta viewport>, avoid quirks mode with <!DOCTYPE>, <textarea> does not reflect value in outerHTML, search engines asks for <h1>.

And demo now has Save, Load, Reset buttons to store changes in localStorage. There is also body.onload handler so it loads changes on page load [2].

[1] http://sergeykish.com/bookmarklet-put

[2] http://sergeykish.com/live-pages
No I understand the concurrency challenges with state, my point was that's not really a topic that's front and center.
Why are American programmers so much more "fairly compensated" than Europeans?
Yes to all this. I think such a system should basically be used like a spell checker. Whether you accept or reject individual propositions is private information, though anyone can edit the public database of propositions.

If it ever works at all, that is.
Fun to run the math sometimes.

As an engineering estimate the system wide COP of a peltier device is at most 0.05 vs pumped freon running around ten (to one sig fig). So with a solid state peltier device the 30 watt device sucks 1.5 watts of heat out of the fridge and dumps 31.5 watts into the heatsink (your room, eventually). A pumped freon unit like the one in your kitchen would suck 300 watts of heat out of the fridge and dump 330 watts into your room.

Anyway the definition of a BTU can't be more accurate than 1% for a bunch of boring thermodynamic reasons, but a good engineering estimate is one BTU is 1/3 of a watt-hour. So running your cooler will suck about 5 or so BTU out of the fridge every hour.

A BTU unit is very convenient as it changes the temp of one pound of water by one degree. And to one sig fig a 20 oz soda bottle is about a pound. So one bottle in an otherwise empty cooler should drop about 5 degrees per hour in your cooler. Figure a "few" bottles means they'll drop about one degree per hour. Yeah its gonna take "a couple hours" as you state to cool it down.

A pumped freon fridge could cool your soda close to 200 times faster than your cooler. That seems "about right" as a case of beer takes a couple hours to be drinkable.

I'm not sure if there are any residential "convection fridges" on the market. I'm sure the moving parts fan would increase future sales figures. Another interesting idea would be something like "NEST" thermostat to control the cooler temp while using as little power as possible. Might make some interesting startup ideas.
I think the point of wine is to have a Windows "runtime" that is open source and works on linux.

But I would gladly pay Microsoft to have a wine like thing that supports a broader range of software better, because I prefer Linux to Windows.
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Two thirds of iShares Core MSCI World is in US stocks [0]. That seems to me like a rather large proportion. But good point that many of those companies are international!

[0] https://www.ishares.com/uk/individual/en/products/251882/ish... (search for "Exposure Breakdowns", then choose "Geography")
Yeah, I know they have CSG now, for example, because I studied the code for a personal project.
Can this exercise be done with something other than PlutoSDR?
Not anymore. Anyone can install Windows for free (You will have the watermark).

AFAIK main revenue for MS is Azure and Office360, not Windows.
After reading this, I searched for and found this report on earthquake impact from 2018 (for both "the big one" and a smaller, 6.8 portland hills quake), I believe based on the OP referenced data:

https://www.oregongeology.org/pubs/ofr/p-O-18-02.htm

All I can say is: yikes!
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I have a tiny Sony trinitron (I think) CRT. The screen is the size of a banana diagonally. I specifically have it around just for practicing SSBM.

Many people nowadays do just use their PC with a good monitor. There are a ton of hacks that you can do to reduce the lag that you get from a monitor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6B4t5fCEbQ

The video above is from Hax, a prominent smasher who has been part of the SSBM scene for a very long time.
In one of my old apartments, I was able to hear modulating pure tone low frequency noise on some nights. I definitely could tell the noise was perceptible only during night. I think there could be many reasons for this noise from water filtration plants, power plants, to any other large industrial applications.
I'm using Linux on my desktop since 2003 or so. Migrated my mom (85 yo, mostly retired) around 2005. We are both quite happy with it.
Reddit is a composite of many subreddits.

Each subreddit is oriented around specific or a broad topic, a theme.

There is a subreddit for anything you can think of, some very niche subreddits are excellent sources of information.
They wonder sure. But tells us also what happens after you give them a budget of what its going to cost the org.
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Lots of complex applications have always been using state machines, this is not a concept that originated from web front-end development. You can find them in Delphi, Visual Basic, QT, etc.
Yes, but:

- Was there ever a moment like "Oh no, I should rewrite my story in german, because I could better express the ideas"?

- Have you ever left your pen on the desk, coming back the other day, just to find out it does not work if you write the letters z and I?

- After fixing said pen, you wife asks you to do the same with hers because she needs to write a notification for the kids?

- Coming back and after finding out what exactly you want to write, seeing that you can't buy paper anymore that works with that stupid pen, so you have to make your own?

Actually I was waiting for a writer to respond this ;-). All the problems you mentioned above are key points relevant to your idea/product. In my view, the things I listed are just annoying, irrelevant distractions.
No.

You'd have to go to a 3rd party that is licensed by the state. You can usually find the businesses around courthouses or jails. They are often open 24 hours a day and fairly brightly lit.
> has taken far stricter steps against #DDoSecrets journalism than they have against QAnon misinformation.

"Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown" -- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-bans-7-000-qa...

But I can see how it would be harder to ban something as diffuse as QAnon misinformation (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon#False_claims_and_beliefs - good luck detecting and banning all of that), compared to references to a specific leak.

Regardless, the tweet author should be more careful about accusing Twitter of bias, when Tweets like the following are not just allowed to stand, but come from verified accounts:

https://pasteboard.co/JviGynp.png

https://pasteboard.co/JviGX4Q.png

https://pasteboard.co/JviHc5X.png
In addition I would add the Dependency Inversion Principle [1] as a valuable tool for managing dependencies, specially for integrating third party code/APIs into the system. It will protect your application by reducing the surface area susceptible to change if/when that dependency needs to be upgraded or replaced.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_inversion_principle
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It's probably not a big factor. If we look at last time round, Ireland, a country of 5 million people, got 450 million in the LTE spectrum auction. Germany, a country of 83 million people, got 5.1 billion. So per capita the Irish spectrum was almost twice as expensive as the German spectrum, and yet mobile data is generally cheaper in Ireland (despite lower density, generally higher labour costs, and other factors that would lead you to expect it would be more expensive in Ireland if cost of data was actually determined by input costs).

When it comes to it, 6.5bn _sounds_ like a lot, but it's only 78 euro per capita, and that's buying the telcos permanent assets which will be useful for decades to come.
And in comparison, Wine does not try to be a .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR).
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Seriously? You haven't heard of Edward Snowden leaks?
Note that the actual quote from the intelligence officer is quite a bit more nuanced (directly translated from the current version of the original article):

"I don't think any board of directors of a large organization should be meeting on business secrets with a smartphone or iPad on the table," says [the officer].

(The original: "Ik denk dat geen raad van bestuur van een grote organisatie meer moet vergaderen over bedrijfsgeheimen met de smartphone of iPad op tafel", aldus Swillens.)
Applications that need to have state, surely have it.

Most applications store their state in sessions / memcached / redis / databases.

But, of course, some apps must have real time state management that is shared among thousands of users. Think high-traffic low-latency trading engines. Think multiplayer games.
In the US insurance is another issue.
The cost is massive if any company is willing to offer it.

So the people paying tax has to cover both the building,
the insurance, so if anything should go wrong, it si 100% on the tax payers.

Then the tax payer has to pay for facilities to store all the waste
for hundres of years. Something no Americans wants close to them.
Last I heard the The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository will not happen.

Presently the US does not have secure facilities to store highly radioactive waste. That still has to be built and that will cost
gigantic sums of money. If it has to be sized to accommodate an increase in the production of said waste, then it has to be even bigger.

Presently highly radioactive waste is stored on site where it is being produced. That far from an ideal situation.

At the end we have to pay for the decommissioning.

It is a huge sinkhole of tax money.
Of course Unity is ahead and of course Godot has lots of features people want to add in the future. The same applies to Unity and any game engine I've encountered.

I don't see anything so far to back up the claim that Godot isn't finished, which would mean it's not suitable for anything except for experimentation. Seems like it's at least fine for smaller games.
If you take a drunk driver to jail to wait out the night.. or a teen caught in a liquor store with a broken window at 3am... Or you pick up a domestic abuser and take them to jail to get them away from their victim while collecting evidence and statements...

Those are all people that are presumed innocent under the law... They may spend only minutes or hours in jail as police gather and verify their information... Run their prints to see if their given name is false and their a criminal with a warrant for their arrest... Etc....

So the commenter saying the stats might be misleading is very accurate ... Jails have revolving doors, and that's probably a good thing. It would also be a good thing to eliminate cash bond, without changing jails otherwise -- because jails serve a very real and practical benefit to society for less-than-a-day holding off individuals while their identity is verified and their information/case is reviewed to determine if a bond of any kind will be even offered.
If he is referring to people at the table illicitly recording the conversation then fair enough. This is a concern, and it's a big emerging concern.

Else, no. It's just a bureaucrat speaking mumbo jumbo security theatre.

GPS, I might believe. Analysing networks is an interesting area. And GPS I could see leaking.
And there are tens of thousands of football teams for which paying for Messi wouldn't be worth it (including many of the teams you refer to, in fact). I'm not sure what's your point.
In one of MLKJ's speeches, he laid out his calculations for a boycott strategy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23414101

He was cancelled the very next day, suggesting that economic sanctions might be a kind of nonviolence on which state level actors prefer to retain their monopoly.
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That 6 cases will grow exponentially if left unchecked, like what happened in Wuhan in early January. I thought people outside of China condemned it so vehemently for what they view as an lack of action by the government and in extension the country. They said china must pay, they must be sent back to the dark ages, they must be destroyed. Interesting that now being responsible to people's lives is also wrong.
The concern is not literally who owns the network, but whether or not the organization can effectively manage the traffic. There are secure ways to manage that setup, as opposed to, a personal phone where the organization has zero control.
The issue is not the fallout but the fact that a nuclear weapon cannot be targeted - it by its very nature and design harms innocent civilians. Compare that to a fierarm, which can obviously be directed one way or the other. It's the same reason I wouldn't load my concealed carry handgun with FMJ rounds.
Countries like Germany and Iceland, and some areas of the US like Washington DC, just release people freely on $0 bail, and get a pretty high (88-94% from different articles) number of people showing up to court through community jail support groups helping people understand the legal process and recover from being held in a cage.

If you want a place where you can help, look up mutual aid bail funds for your city. There’s probably one and they’re always looking for volunteers or donations.
I dont mind Windows but being able to simply run Windows apps in a consistent way on Linux would really make my life much easier. The only downside would be the driver situation still sucks on Linux depending on GPU or other peripheral hardware but thats another fight for another day. Hell even being able to run the official Office binary on Linux would be great, course its been a rumor that might happen but theres plenty of software targetting Win32 that is useful.
Windows had POSIX because a number of government contracts mandated POSIX compatibility. As soon as that was dropped, so was POSIX support. I was always a half-hearted thing designed to prevent any dependency on POSIX from Windows apps, which was seen as a threat.

Now the reverse is seen as advantageous: any app that moves from Linux to Windows is good for them, so things like WSL encourage that.
More details in this post they made in Facebook the 28th of August:

> It takes a lot of skill and expertise to place a suction-cupped data-logger onto a killer whale.

> The most difficult part of tagging a whale is piloting the vessel into the proper position next to the whales. Fortunately, we have a skipper with years of whale-watching experience to safely navigate near them. He starts each approach by analysing the behaviour of the whales to establish their swimming speed and heading. He will then parallel them and gently slide towards an individual until we are at just the right distance. Any harassment or sudden movements on our part, would cause the whale to avoid us. They are very aware of our presence and behaviour ---- they just don’t know our intent.

> Polarized sunglasses helps the tagger standing in the pulpit at the front of the Steller Quest to see the whales underwater. As he senses that the whale is coming to the surface to breathe, he will lower a very long pole (25.5 ft, ~8 m) and place the tag near the dorsal fin.

> The carbon fiber pole holding the tag only weighs about 10 lbs (4.5 kg), and the tag is about 2 lbs (0.9 kg). However as the pole is lowered to a horizontal position, the weight of this 2-lb tag (as felt by the tagger at the pivot point of the pole) increases to about 100 lbs (45 kg). The tagger’s front arm on the pole feels it is lifting 100 lbs, while his back arm pushes down against 100 lbs of force to counter balance the pole. It takes incredible strength and skill.

> All four suction cups need to be pushed firmly against the whale. To a person, it would feel like being pushed or shoved as the suction cups are pushed flat. However, to a 3,000 kg (~6,500 lb) killer whale, it appears to be a relatively soft touch. Some killer whales shudder briefly when touched, while others show no reaction. However, all of the whales we have tagged continue about their business seemingly unaware of the hitchhiker they just picked up. To a killer whale, the weight of the tag is like the weight of a wedding ring worn by a person.

https://www.facebook.com/marinemammal/posts/3426676784050634
You were unfairly downvoted. This is an important question.

Sometimes NFS is your only option. When you have legacy applications which nobody is going to rewrite, and you need to scale some operations on a set of files over many nodes, NFS works. Its failure nodes are well documented, so you can plan for and work around them.

It's also supported by most vendors as the default networked filesystem. Whether you're using a desktop PC, a million dollar NAS, or cloud storage, it supports NFS.

It's also acceptable when time is of the essence and you just need to get something working now and don't have time to build something better. I rather like "good enough solutions" as a way to get teams "shipping", with an agreed-upon plan to replace it later.

But as someone who's used it for nearly 20 years, internally I start screaming and throwing things whenever someone suggests using it. Externally I propose redesigning for a more efficient solution :)
> come up with something new in operating system design

Like CRLF newlines and "\" instead of "/" as path separator?

Jokes aside, MS is not the place I look for "something new" in OS design.
> But hey, if you still can’t properly support 4K scaling in 2020, it’s never going to happen.

I have a 4K Ubuntu laptop from Dell. The text and GUI automatically scaled to the right size (except for one old program). And I plugged in an external 4K monitor using HDMI and it just worked.

I'm sure there are hardware configurations that don't work as nicely, because Linux supports a ton of weird hardware. But it's easy to buy high-quality Linux systems.