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The only outliers who didn't adopt Vulkan today are MS, Sony and Apple. MS and Apple have very lock-in minded people among those who decide this.

Not sure what stops Sony from doing it.

Things went better with OpenXR.
If by stories you mean written, surely nowhere. There are some 40,000 years between the last Neanderthals and the invention of writing.

Though I’m not even a history hobbyist, it seems incredibly unlikely for those stories to be passed down orally for that long in any distinct manner.
How many other root certificates are going to be expiring in the next 3 years that older Android won't have updates for as well? Probably more than 1.
How do you see absolute vote counts? I only see that for my own comments (and I have no way of knowing if it is fuzzed/obfuscated for me too).
I'm running into this problem now, trying to set up my laptop as a k3s node. I'm still exploring my options, but I probably have to hand-wire up WireGuard on the roadwarrior nodes manually, & I hope/think that might be sufficient, but haven't tried yet.

There is a great VPN mode[1] in Kilo, if I just wanted to connect my laptops or workstations to the k3s cluster.

[1] https://github.com/squat/kilo
That won't fix any other apps though will it? Anything that uses chrome webview for example.
EQ has already been co-opted as a term and rendered essentially meaningless. One job, there was a craze for it, starting at the top, so naturally we all eventually had to go to this wretched little one day course on it. I kid you not, everything was about either "fear" or "love." If that sounds familiar, if it sounds like Donnie Darko, you would be right ... almost everything we were "taught" in this emotional intelligence course was almost directly out of that mindset, done straight and not as a parody.

Fear and love are the only real motivators, apparently, and we don't want to be afraid of things, blah blah, it was such a wretched simplification and so absurd in its manipulative outlook ("do it, you wouldn't want to be ... afraid ... now would you?") that I began to wonder if this was some kind of larger test on who could keep from laughing.
That actually wasn't true when I bought a Canon MG6000-something. When the price of the printer went below the price of ink, I bought a second one and stuck it in the attic, which came in handy when the first one died. Both printers came with standard ink cartridges.

The HP laser printer I bought recently, on the other hand, did come with starter cartridges with a smaller amount of toner. My impression is that starter cartridges are more common with toner than ink.
I agree that the name Microsoft chose for this new Xbox is a bit ridiculous.
So they have the current gen- Xbox X, and the new GEN is called the “Xbox series X“
(I’m not a big gamer so I may have that wrong)
I worked for a company a few years back, for a short time, who bought engineers crappy Lenovo consumer laptops with a halfassed installation of Linux Mint and a resolution of 1368x768. They would not invest in appropriate processes/tools to run an agile development shop, but wanted to brag to investors and clients about all the usual buzzwords. Engineers spent forever shelling through machines to find logs in staging, production APM was half-implemented. Everything was a poorly-implemented open source project with no contributions upstream. The teams other than my greenfield team were mostly self-taught, previous college interns.

I say all of that to say this. Allow your engineers to save you money. The bean-counters frequently in finance/accounting working the balance sheet don’t know the first thing about saving money where it actually matters. Everything that company did was mired in technical debt and took easily 3x the time it should have taken with proper tools, processes, and staffing. It frequently cost them productivity towards reasonable deadlines all the time.
This sounds awesome, glad to hear it's working well for you.
One question that comes to mind for the business stuff is security. Basically, are you accepting Scheme code from untrusted users, or is it just a bundled part of the app?

The reason I'm asking is that that run-time flexibility can completely bite you in the ass if someone can submit code that does unacceptable, unanticipated things. For example, I had an engagement with a company to review their main application, that they host. The issue was that while the app was in Java, it accepted user templates in (IIRC) BeanShell. One quick System.exit() in a template as a proof of concept, and Tomcat came thundering down.

The concept still works of course if you restrict the language accepted to some minimal DSL.
Some think they are stupid but we know they had 1700 cubic centimeters of brain volume compared to 1200 cubic centimeters for an anatomically modern human.

It is possible that they were not that stupid and they were simply outbred by humans.
Malware Source Code in GitHub Public Repositories [pdf]
Religious death to religious death seems like a more reasonable comparison in the first place right?

Also you managed to miss the (in my mind) legitimate criticism of your characterization of their sacrifices as being 'for fun'.
Misleading because the solution did not provide reactive front ends, or misleading because the solution did in fact require extensive javascript?
Last time I checked, which was last year when I replaced our Brother printer/scanner with an HP inkjet, the linux drivers for brother were still only available in 32 bit format. I had put up with that for some time, mostly because Debian made it work, but that had to end somewhere.
>apparently the waste ink absorber (non-replaceable) can fill after a few years of use, shortening lifespan.

That is true, and correct for many Epson printers in my experience too. There's a program to reset the printed pages counter, AntiPampers, which makes a paperweight printer return to work for many years instead of having to deal with planned obsolescence, which that definitely is - entirely on purpose from a customer view. Printers market, inkjets in particular for their very low initial cost, have a lot of shady if not straight criminal practices that unfortunately are overlooked.
Finding ways to create jobs is probably a good way to help. Jobs give income, security, something to do. You can create your own culture based on your worldview and values. It’s hard to pull off though.
The original paper:

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/499/4/4605/5948140
> Most of the time, buying a whole new printer costs less than simply buying replacement ink.

Any time printers are brought up, someone says this.

And every time, I feel I have to point out that the cartridges that come with a printer are starter cartridges. They contain significantly less ink/toner than a replacement cartridge. If you are buying a new printer rather than new cartridges, you are NOT saving money.

This is not HP-specific, either. AFAIK, every printer manufacturer does this. I have a Dell laser printer and I'm fairly certain that the toner cartridges that came with it are rated for 200 pages, while replacements are rated at 800 pages.
TechDebt is CareerDebt.

More often than not, techdebt is added by somebody else (who got rewarded for their product impact) but is your careerdebt since organizations seldom reward clearing techdebt, even at the best of tech companies in SV.

The only time organizations reward clearing techdebt is when the sh*tshow gets so bad it either has visible velocity/infra/product impact that just can't be resolved without a dedicated 1 year effort to clear the crap. I have seen smart engineers pile on to the techdebt as there is no publicity or heroic story around taking a bit of time to clean up the mess on a regular basis. Sadly it is a game of visibility so engineers do what the management chain wants to see and knows is a problem
When the cheap money dries up, we'll find out what the real definition of bad management is.
That's interesting. OpenVZ (CC'd on the patch) and FreeBSD jails also pre-date mainstream containers on Linux. However, having been using Linux since the mid 1990s I feel confident in saying public use and development of container-like technologies on mainstream linux definitely dates from circa the LXC userspace and not before. This was ~2009-2010.
Neanderthals ARE our ancestors. Each of us likely have genes originating from Neanderthals to one degree or another. What an odd headline.
Except they have their own legal team already, and probably budget the incremental cost of additional legal needs for something like this into their product costs. Even if that wasn't the case, a settlement like this sort of coupon, which is common, simply helps them keep more of the customers they cheated. I can't think of many class action lawsuits around this sort of activity where the company was actually harmed by the outcome in any way that would have changed its behavior.
For inkjet printer, I think Epson's ink tank printer is great. The printer cost 3x compared to other cheap loss-leader inkjet printers, but the inks are cheap and you buy it by the bottle instead of by the drips in cartridges.
UK energy plant to use liquid air
Had a longer post, but realized I was splitting hairs and arguing finer details. The big issue in question is how fast the cost of batteries will come down. If battery prices keep coming down at the current rate or accelerates, it's likely demand for gas will crash hard. When that happens is hard to guess.

> I genuinely doubt that they’ll even sell gas lawn mowers by the end of this decade.

Yeah, I have a DeWalt and love it. It does burn through batteries fast though. Fortunately I have a bunch of batteries for a lot of different tools.
I haven't used scp in years, in favor of rsync.
In my experience the fields which are seen as critical and involve software, are quite regulated. For example finance. There are lots of various standards that are enforced, for example PCI-DSS for credit card processing and so on.

Yes, programming is not regulated, but many business areas which are basically result of programming, are.
I've met lots of anglophone Canadians (even from Quebec), which I confuse for Americans. It's very hard to reliably distinguish the two by accent.
Might be worth looking into zerotier if what you need is transparent mesh vpn with fairly smart routing (local lan traffic stays local). Never tried to combine it with k8s, so ymmv.
> Nobody wants patent-free medicine except

Except literally every single country on this planet because they all want to go out of lockdown and restart their economy
Still a private company. Still not a First Amendment issue. Still wrong and arguably illegal.
Next Generation of Algo Trading
If you have a reasonably sized/established code base, this may not work. My company is trying to deploy new things as microservices, but unless we actively make major efforts to pull things out of the existing monolith, it will grow faster than the sum total of the microservices.
I don't understand the motivation for making this change now. Why not keep the universally accepted root certificate as the default chain? Why does Let's Encrypt need to switch to their own root certificate now, and cause thousands of websites to break on older devices?

I don't even control the certificate provisioning process. We use Heroku and Webflow. This is frustrating.
It's uncharitable? It's untrue? It's hyperbolic because it's a counterfactual?

Then why did Steve Bannon's verified Facebook Page reiterate that he called for their execution without any of those caveats or counterfactuals or even the defense that it was hyperbole or parody?

Facebook post here: https://www.facebook.com/SteveKBannon/posts/376710023761776

archive.org snapshot here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201106185230/https://www.faceb...

Here's the text of that post in case it is removed:

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I think they have lost a lot of their best employees because their pay is not that great. They aimed for paying at the 50th percentile in wages and the top companies come in and can offer double or more their current pay.

Doesn't help they switched from large cubes with five-foot high cubicle walls which did a good job on minimizing noise and visual distractions to having cubicle walls with a height of about 3-4 feet high and much smaller. Plus they installed sit-stand desks and you have people stand and make phone calls that can be heard 30 feet away. Doesn't help for concentrating on problems.
In the big printer thread referenced, the consensus was that they do not work flawlessly with Linux.
Continuous localization 101: what it is and when it makes sense
> FYI, I just switched from a battery electric mower to a manual reel mower because of shrinking battery capacity and expensive batteries. An extra battery costs well over 50% of a battery and mower together. I still have the mower, I just don't use it much anymore. I do use the battery powered strimmer/weed eater.

Yep. The only reason I find it viable is because I built up a big supply of compatible battery powered tools. Prices for batteries are coming down though, hopefully this will trickle down to tool batteries as well because I want a couple more batteries for my chainsaw and really can't put out $300 for them right now.
Miami man invents robot to insert special contact lenses
Very nice, I'm glad to see it elsewhere. Maybe Elixir even took inspiration (or it's just a plain good idea). I'm really surprised that I had never heard of or encountered it, maybe it's just an accepted part of the ecosystem so no one talks about it and/or I assumed everything was written manually. Also haven't used Python professionally which doesn't help.
Agree. It's just tradeoffs.

Some projects don't warrant over engineering because the requirements are often not clear in the beginning. There's a cost in terms of resources and opportunity which often doesn't make sense to incur at an earlier stage of product development.

As the first few versions play out in the market, the requirements are better understood, the product starts fitting the market better. Obviously, a lot of the earlier choices don't seem optimal for what the product becomes at a later time. Yes, theoretically, "it could have been done better", but nobody could have known for sure. It should simply be refactored so that the design of the software better fits what it is doing at a given time... and this should be an expected way to develop products.

I think "technical debt" is often the wrong term for what is going on. I'm sure there is a better analogy in terms of business and finance to what is happening... but I'm not well-versed in finance to say what it is.
Rocket Lake is desktop. Apple already uses 10nm Ice Lake in it’s smaller laptops, and 45W Tiger Lake (10nm) is expected to be released with Rocket Lake.
Disagree. You're falling prey to savior complex, so instead you should "Get out and get powerful and come back to be a hero" Translation: Go make fuck you money and then change what you independently determine is important.
You're wrong, because you'll have no idea what barbells to move when you come back, you'll just throw them around without purpose, like a meathead in a gym. Even so, not many people can move a 500lb barbell by themselves, but you get a few people around you you can trust, and 500lbs is pretty light. Much lighter if y'all can work together to break it down and take some weight off the bar before you move it, too.
You go away and get powerful, make some fuck you money, sure, you can buy a few houses, or support a policy or something, be a savior. You can toss a few barbells around with ease.
But if there's no buy in from others who trust and understand your motives, your effort will die. You might get your name in the record books for the barbells you threw, but there wont be lasting impact.
> The low cost of starting a startup means the average good bet is a riskier one, but most existing VC firms still operate as if they were investing in hardware startups in 1985.

This has become more and more true over time, in particular as industrial-grade open source platforms, both software and hardware, have made super-scalable operations nearly free to implement. It is still difficult for me to grasp the magnitude of the fact that I can build a web-based service and make it immediately available to 5 billion other humans.
> How do you get promoted?

This is a great open ended question to uncover what really motivates someone rather than asking someone what feature(s) they use / care about.
It's so great that this article is about Ward Cunningham who coined the term technical debt. And, the "bad example" used as a metaphor for technical debt is the "out of date" Wiki. Ward Cunningham also invented Wikis.
A metaphor I like on technical debt is a reoccuring monthly power utility bill that is mailed to the team.

Everyone pays bills, so there is no abstratcion.

Teams prefer to keep it constant and portitonal to the utility of the structure standing and building.

Every so often it goes up and phoning it "in" to the company to pick up discounts.

If the bill is unchecked, eventually it will sap away all of the monthly expentiure.

When the rate is unmanageable, the team members look at each other in disbelief.
Shhhhhhhhhhh, don't give them any ideas.

It'd be way too easy to claim that the ink is past it's best-by date, and that they want you to have a trouble free experience with their ink, so they are disabling that bad expired ink.
I'm not so impressed with this article, and partly it's because of the rather bad news: There's not much to be done about bad management. Peter Drucker, well worth reading if you haven't, said that the thing that makes a manager is character. My definition of character is someone who takes action that may have serious negative personal consequences (extreme version: high-profile whistle blowing). Character can't be built by buying an app or taking a weekend workshop. It's formed early in life. It's an extremely rare commodity. Hence, good managers are scarce on the ground and likely to remain so.
Create communities or have a club house of sorts for people to congregate to feel a sense of ownership and responsibility for the place.
A submarine.
Victoria, BC?
/me waves from Quadra (Island, not Street).

Not job hunting, but always happy to chat with people doing cool stuff sort-of locally.
I especially like this metaphor! A codebase doesn't exist in a vacuum; a team of developers work on it and also produce auxiliary artifacts like configuration and documentation. The software only "works" so long as the whole system "works". When too much knowledge is held only by people, and isn't recoverable from the codebase and other desiderata, the whole enterprise (lower-case e) falters once that knowledge is lost.
>If I still cannot make you understand, please google "2008 MBS ABS". You'd be surprised at the similarity of what Ant's been doing and what caused the financial crisis.

blaming financial crisis on ABS/MBS is wrong. Some ABS/MBS may be very risky and it is just fine. The Ant's ABS sound like very risky and it is just fine. An informed investor may as well choose to play with such a risk for a high premium.

The true cause of 2008 was humongous amount of cheaply bought CDS because the underlying MBS were rated AAA which is several orders of magnitude higher then they should have been. It is like a somebody buying for $1 a $1M "life insurance" - basically betting - on a life of a 100 year old person. An insurer selling such insurance (ie. CDS) would quickly go bust like it happened in 2008.
That's mostly correct. :) We used `do-while` to demonstrate that we could replicate the behaviors of a normal assembly language within the dependency graph representation.

However, we do have a restricted version of `do-while` implemented as described in the Sequential Algorithms RFC[1]. We want to push people into writing parallelizable code by having the default constructs and data types encouraging that, but we know certain algorithms are only possible in a sequential form, and some of them (like the Newton-Raphson method) are not predictable in the number of sequences to run so we have an escape hatch in the language that lets you do the classic iterative programming, but all of them wrapped in a maximum iteration counter so we'll still be able to assign a maximum expected runtime to them (and be sure they halt, perhaps with an error).

[1]: https://github.com/alantech/alan/blob/main/rfcs/007%20-%20Se...
Eaters of the Dead by Michael Chrichton has Neanderthals as the monsters Beowulf fights. Cool movie as well.
Alternatively, get ahold of an older model that works with 3rd party ink and never connect it to the internet
I like it. And if I'd fallen for this scam, I'm pretty sure I'd be pissed enough to do that.
"Authority" can refer to wisdom & experience, e.g. "They are an authority on the subject". People like having leaders who are knowledgeable about the task at hand.
I use Oki units which also get cheap 3rd party toner replacements, have good OS support and need a simple PPD file for Linux CUPS. Worth checking out if they're available in your market.
> no sites with an "onion-only" presence

> no sites for tech with less than (arbitrary) 10,000 users

> no nudity, exploitation, drugs, copyright infringement or sketchy-content sites

Keep trying however you think best to convince people, but I don't see why this list would be very persuasive. With these rules, it's impossible to find anything that would make someone go "oh, that's something I want to use TOR for" if you're only considering sites that can be easily reached without TOR. In fact, I'd argue that sites on such a list are not really part of the "dark web" at all.
Yeah, I think you're right about the BSD jails point. This totally pre-dates the Linux piece. I was only chatting about the Linux piece.
Apple Watch sans cellular
Shakeup for 720-MW Nuclear SMR Project as More Cities Withdraw Participation
What sort of problems do you have with the 32bit drivers (beyond "I don't like it")?
I bought a new ink absorber when I got the error message on my Epson printer. Turns out the absorber is just a dumb piece of plastic and foam and the printer actually simply keeping a counter of how many pages has been printed and pop up the error when the counter exceeds certain threshold (the old absorber was still in a good shape). Simply resetting the counter with some apps clear the warning.
Sure. I remember a respectful burial of a 1/8 Neanderthal youth in a Cro Magnon site. So not only were Neanderthal worthy of sexual relations, their offspring were kept in the tribe, and their grand-offspring.
Sure, it's not impossible to get unencumbered funding.
Starting with Android 10, Google can push updates to lots of system components (media codecs, android frameworks, tzdata, …) https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/05/fresher-os...

But those on older versions are screwed. It's really a major fuck-up that Google didn't do this for root certs since the beginning of Android.
Also on slashdot :

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/20/11/06/0022211/several...
Definitely!

But I didn't get close enough with most of them to know if they too had kids whose paternity they denied. I only have so much time after all.
it won't dry up.
Agreed. Or: How do you get motivated? Some people (like me) don't care too much about promotion and only want to seek happiness from a technical world.
Plus, the no-name toner cartridges work perfectly fine for Brother printers (I buy 2-4 per month for work). However, do not buy the non-brand drums, they are a waste of money; the genuine Brother drums last 4x longer.